Burdoc Nisson
Chiropractor and Memeber of the Eckankar Clergy
Location United States
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@saturninagreaves how could I become this suggested holistic doctor? I was holistic in the way I did chiropractic but couldn’t pass the boards. So which holistic profession doesn’t require passing an exam run by a corrupt monopoly?
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Burdoc Nisson replied to Tim Wilson
Chiropractors don’t fix bones in most of the USA. They do manipulate the bones to make the joints work correctly but mostly to make sure that they don’t interfere with the nerves. For example if a person feels pain in their foot but doesn’t really have a problem in the foot the problem is likely in the lower spine where the nerves are being compressed but...
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I use with every patient when I’m not sure of which thing to work on first or which technique to use.
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@RebeccaRedmond I am too old to consider going to a naturopath college now or I would be checking into their boards.
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I believe that if I had gotten a ND and then learned the stuff that I learned in the process of becoming a chiropractor I could practice as a ND but I did not. If I was younger I'm 74 I could go get an ND license, but reality is I can't practice because the NBCE is corrupt with no oversight.
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Burdoc Nisson replied to Tim Wilson
Much of the chiropractic manipulations could fall into the category of massage even though most have very specific goals.
If there is tension in the muscles it should be released for the patient's health.
If the bones are out of place even the tiniest bit it will affect the patient's health.
The main goal of most chiropractic is for nerve health as they... -
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Is the any disease that doesn't have dietary risks? My guess is no.
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Okay, time to address psychological health. Very few healthcare practitioners even begin to address psychological health. How many practitioners do you know that can actually address emotional trauma?
I know of one other than myself that can address non-physical trauma even though many professions admit that they a a main cause to illnesses. -
How can you call it healthcare if nutrition is ignored?
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Does anyone know of a good source of the information about the supplements that are dependent on each other?
For example: when a body needs more calcium taking calcium without several other supplements does little good. one needs at least glucosamine/chondroitin and Standard Process Cataplex or equivalent. On this note which form of calcium as it makes a... -
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I have hundreds of herbs and supplements in my cabinets and definitely need to search the internet to find suggestions and contraindications.
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In the case of herbs and supplements I have found it very important to ask each body which supplements and how many. Also to have the patient carefully watch for reactions between visits.
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Todays standard Medical practice seems to put manual therapy as something for other doctors to do, but it is top on my list followed quickly by spiritual therapy (not religious).
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Is naturopathic medicine really a new model or just the continuation of a approach to healthcare?
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The patient and I talk a lot while I am doing all of the treatments and determination of which things are working and which which are not working. The things that I do as treatments are mostly hands on which is one of the reasons that the session takes so long.
But how can working with bone positions, muscle tensions, Chinese meridians, be anything other... -
Integrative care makes sense to me but in practice it is often a big challenge for all of the practitioners to set aside their egos and center the care on the patient.
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What a nice idealistic video
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Did this procedure work the last time of 20 times for the patient and my fellow practitioners? Each individual is different so is this procedure the correct one for this client this time?
So much of healthcare is done assuming that one size fits all but it does not.
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Usually "Critically analyse accumulated knowledge" leans toward belief for most people because we evaluate current ideas in light of the most resent interpretation facts. One has to go into a spiritual perception to gain closeness to knowledge. once one has done something an observed that thing multiple time we begin to believe that we have knowledge.
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When I wake up in the morning and have done a spiritual exercise and a stretch and am joyfully looking forward to my day I thing I am well.
When I wake up and all I feel is pain I'm not well.
When my clients come see me I can figure that there is work to do, but the fact that they want to get better is a good sign.
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@RebeccaRedmond until I ran into this course I knew almost nothing about naturopathic medicine
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Prevention is something that can not be done without a system of education.
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The old saying about fishing or teaching a person to fish applies here. the patient must learn to take responsibility for themselves..
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When I help a patient with an energy blockage it doesn't matter what the trauma was, so diagnosis falls flat.
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So we should not do the 15 minute appointments mine are usually about an hour.
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Even though I call what I do innovative practical health, it is not yet practical as there is no regulation or legal recognition at this point.
One of the big problems with what I do is diagnosis, as I find what the body is ready for and do it paying little attention to western medicine. -
Is it suitable to leave out any part of the whole being in a health care practice? Obviously I believe not.
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What I practice is very much like Tim says. "everything is interrelated and interdependent"
I gently take care of bones being in the wrong position and then look to see why usually the tension of the muscles and why are the muscles tense, and then why are the Chinese meridians making the muscles tense. Following the chain of cause until the body says enough... -
I really liked your "everything is interrelated and interdependent"
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When we take "scientific" approaches to find how bodies try to heal with sometimes success and other time with making things worse we need to pay close attention to all of the details, but we miss a lot.
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I suggest that you look at Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.).
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The first principle of do no harm sound simple but is often a little challenging. How do you know if the procedure that you propose to do is going to be harmful? The effects are not always know even in the professional college. One needs to ask the body in front of you questions.
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I am not surprised by any of the principles but I had to search for them. I found them easier than the chiropractic principles.
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I am impressed by the fact that naturopaths periodically gather to update the naturopathic principles.
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Amazing the bravery of these early naturopaths.
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It is interesting that Chiropractic, Osteopathic, and Naturopathic healthcare developed in close proximity to each other with so much combative competition.
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It is amazing that Eclectic practitioners created such special things yet as regular medicine evolved to leave so many good ideas behind using whatever form of treatment, or combination of treatments, has been shown to be most effective for a particular problem.
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What would think if you were trained as doctor of chiropractic which included much about high blood pressure and even more about pain and all 14 of your patients that high blood pressure no longer had high blood pressure?
Then throw in a well respected MD pain specialist tells you that his 20 years of practice as a pain specialist shows pain causes high blood... -
So far this course makes me wonder if I should have become a naturopathic doctor instead of a chiropractor.
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When one studies healthcare and finds a method or procedure that works better than everything else that you and others have tried you want to share it but almost always other groups of healthcare practitioners will block you as they are insecure in their on postitions and legal standings.
I am a doctor of chiropractic by training but have not been able to... -
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The link entitled Whorton, 2003. is fascinating. I call that which I do I call Innovative Practical Health have dealt with much of the same stuff other than I am the only partitioner at this point in time.
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That is new to me but not surprisingly.
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@MariaCristinaBourdainJácomeAlbuquerque yes, but why are they overworked? I am certain that is not to give their patients better care.
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Kneipp's 5 pillars: water, plants, exercise, nutrition, and inner balance are great even in todays ways.
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Medical and chiropractic doctors and make more at least pretend to follow the Hippocratic oath.
I very much am for fixing the causes of illness but that covers a very broad spectrum. I lean further into spiritual causes than most medical and chiropractic doctors but do not go for most religious approaches. -
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I like that naturopathic medicine includes Chi and such, I work with energy much more than most of the other chiropractors that I know.
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The primary approach for naturopathic medicine is a lot like chiropractic but quite a bit different on diagnosis and treatment.
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By education I am a doctor of chiropractic and am always trying to learn more as well as refreshing the things that I learned along the way.
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I will keep learning things to help my patients as always.
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The way most doctors are trained is to hurry, to not take more that 12 minutes per patient visit. I usually take at 40 minutes at the very least.
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As a chiropractor most of my patients are more likely to want nutrition information than medical doctor patients.
Any doctor should work on nutrition with their patients but one very important concept that few know is how to customize each patient's care. -
All of the healthcare practitioners should work together to the greater benefit of the patients.
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Moving away from meat diets could only happen slowly but definitely would could help the environment. Small bits of all of us moving in this direction could be helpful but have you looked at the ingredients for the highly processed plant based foods?
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Milk, particularly cows milk is not good nutrition especially compared to the environmental cost, but it is there in the EAT-Lancet proposal.
I haven't seen much here in the discussion of high fructose corn syrup which has negative value as nutrition and pushes bodies toward diabetes but a huge percent of products sold as groceries contain it because it is a... -
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No, I live in the USA.
Of course there is a link.
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Until we start fixing the wage gap between the workers and the very rich we are not likely to accomplish much. The food prices and the cost of farming for the little guys food insecurity will continue in major ways.
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In Mexico I found that there are many flavors of tortillas because they grow non-gmo corn.
My favorite foods are too many to list but eggs, bacon, peas, and anything Asian. -
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In the USA anyway the company with the largest advertising budget wins.
In grocery stores the self space for actually healthy foods is small compared to the unhealthy foods. -
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Many of us health professionals have watched "evidence based" be manipulate by the big corporations that it is hard to find trustworthy sources of information to share with any that might listen.
Governments making and enforcing laws to help the world be better is always based on which emotional based group screams the loudest rather than rational though. -
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Few restaurants are able to be profitable when the only serve healthy foods and there don't seem to be any near me to try.
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@BarbaraK-S --- Sorry but the closest that I got to a study was that my supervisor noticed that all 14 of my high blood pressure patients had been taken off their meds by their MD's while I was doing my post graduate internship. All of them had been in significant pain for several years before I started seeing them and at the time they all reported that they...
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@BarbaraK-S--- Like any health information one can find any answer for or against any opinion. A local friend that is a MD with a pain specialty told me of his experiences and then I compared them to my experience with my patients.
I don't just do the standard chiropractic adjustments but I have reduced the pain of many people that had their MD take them off... -
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An internet search will reveal at least 3 versions of a clean diet.
They are mostly natural foods vs. processed foods -
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These figures don't work for people that have food sensitivities.
I can't have gluten, dairy, nightshades, alcohol beverages and chocolate -
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This is planet Earth so there are too many things that need to be fixed but each of us likely can keep doing little bits to make things better.
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I would also make note that although eccess regular salt can be bad sea salt is better.
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Although of course it is good to suggest a better diet, 90% of headaches have factors that are better treated by a chiropractor or similar practitioner.
Also if there is a blood pressure problem there is most likely pain that is causing it and so again chiropractors are the most likely choice. -
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I encourage my patients to make one small change and then once that change is in effect make another small change.
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Do you want to feel better and function better?
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a few years ago in-spite of eating better that 90% of the people that I know my genetics kicked in and told me that I needed to be even pickier and resume more exercise.
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I have a 36 feet long raised bed garden in my backyard and the fruit and and mostly vegetables are read to eat a different times making my diet change through the growing seasons.
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A few years ago I spent a few months in the Netherlands, I was working as a chiropractor and none of my patients where overweight but most did a lot of bicycling, I road my used bicycle to and from work every day and that fit right in with the social norm for the area. I put over 600 kilometers in 2 months. It was very good for me.
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All diseases are influenced by what you eat unless you are already dead.
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From the transcript "Any dietary intervention must be designed by the patient's primary care physician or specialist."
So choosing your doctor is a very important factor, very few doctors will teach you how to ask your own body what custom diet do you need.
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I recommend reading about eating clean diets.
Something that I have not run into that I personally experience is work and break schedules usually influence what a a person eats and even the speed of chewing your food. -
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I work part time at a hardware store and of like most retail stores at in front of the registers there is a big selection of junk food. So if you are hungry after shopping you can buy higher priced junk while you are buying the lumber and tools etc. The most common sales are the candies for the children and high sugar and caffeine soft drinks for the adults.
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Throughout my life I have found that if I am gaining weight it is likely that my work and school arrangement has taken away the amount of exercise that I have been doing.
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Burdoc Nisson replied to Nova Brockbank
My wife is a server at a restaurant and she notes that many older couples including she and I find that older people can avoid the problem of large portions can be handled by sharing a single meal between two people.
when I was younger my wife and I would share 2.5 meals but now we usually share just 1, -
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For most of my life I have had to control my blood sugar with my diet otherwise I will be hypoglycemic sometime to the point of passing out.
All of my life until age 60 I was hungry no matter how much that I ate until when I turned 60 when I discovered that every time that I eat if I have some protein, some vegetable, and some fruit I can stop being hungry.... -
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Although I am aware of the fact that I and the world would be better off without so many ultra processed foods I like sausages and eat them frequently. The same goes for Rice Chex.
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Somehow is it possible that a grocery store could make a profit while not selling food with added sugars, etc?
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Because most grocery stores are there to make profit they sell lots of unhealthy products as "food"
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The general population is heavily influenced by the marketing of food and the production of food is all too often done for maximum profit which means less nutrition.
One very big problem is that most people believe any one of the one size fits all nutrition pitches.
There are few doctors of any kind that know how to find the most correct diet for an... -
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How we produce and sell our food creates climate change as well as individual body changes.
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Most everybody in this course agrees that more nutrition information is needed in the medical professions and that would be a good start.
I graduated from the first chiropractic college but could not pass the corrupt monopoly NBCE (USA required boards). Because of boards the colleges have lost being innovators. to address health one should integrate all of... -
I had a single course in nutrition while in chiropractic college. It was better than nothing but not enough.
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In the USA the big corporations versions of break times does not help the employees to have good nutrition.
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The longer I live the more I find that there is no one size fits all for nutrition needs.
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I was always hungry no matter how much I ate until I found that if I eat a protein, a vegetable, and a fruit each time that I eat. The grains can make my meals last longer but can also make me gain weight.
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I’m strongly influenced by my food sensitivities but when I watch others shop it seems that they are mostly buying the things that have been marketed to them also impulse buying.
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I live in the USA where chiropractic licensing is controlled by a corrupt monopoly
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So far in this course I have not seen anything about finding individual nutritional needs verses the one size fits all.
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Burdoc Nisson replied to Анна Шулакова
goji berries are also another nightshade which many people are allergic to.
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I mostly shop with my blood sugar and my food sensitivities in mind.
I was hungry most of my life until I discovered how important it is for me to eat a protein, a vegetable, a fruit, and usually a starch each time that I eat. If I skip any of these I will remain hungry.
My food sensitivities are dairy, nightshades (potatoes, red and green peppers, also... -
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Personally I and my children have observed that chocolate affects us poorly. even the smallest piece of less sugar and no chocolate causes depression.
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Why is chocolate in the title?
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I find that I do not like the effects of Caffeine and since it takes about a month of no caffeine before it is all gone from the body I avoid all caffeine drinks
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Buckwheat has been popular for adding to pancakes in the USA while a gluten free version of pancakes has been slowly working its way in availability.
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In the Netherland and Belgium teff was readily available.
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Kumquats are not usually commercially available in the USA but growing up in California many of the older houses have them growing in their yards. They are delicious.
