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Australian Medical Doctor Reveals The Truth About Deadly Vaccines

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By Dr. John L. Reizer

Editor at NoFakeNews

If you write a post or commentary that shines the light of day on the truth about vaccines and the damage they are doing to human beings, you will quickly be labeled a conspiracy theorist, quack, lone nutter, or a junk scientist. Medical science (Isn’t that an oxymoron?) and the pharmaceutical companies worldwide that underwrite and control the profession of medicine continue to promote the false paradigm that more vaccines equate to a healthier and happier population base.

The vaccine industry is big business and it produces astronomical profits for the most powerful corporations in the world. This is why we will not see a decrease in the number of vaccine products being manufactured in the foreseeable future. Instead, we will see additional vaccines being introduced and more innocent people being irreparably harmed over time.

Every year the number of children being seriously injured because of vaccines increases. The cases very rarely, if ever, make it into the mainstream news. Vaccine injuries reported to medical physicians are usually not recorded as such and get lost in an intentionally manufactured statistical abyss. Make no mistake about this subject matter, there is a concerted effort by medicine and Big Pharma to keep a lid on the biggest secret within the medical profession; vaccines are the lifeblood of medicine and the etiological cause of autoimmune disorders as well as many physiological expressions of cancer and other diseases.

Every once in a while a brave medical doctor will step forward and spill the truth about the serious and shocking dangers associated with vaccines. An Australian medical doctor, John Piesse has written the following open letter:

“I have been encountering cases of vaccine injury for over 40 years. In June it was a happy, healthy nearly 5-year-old whose parents were required to put her on a catch-up schedule, in order to get her into kindergarten. She won’t be going to kinder. She’s in a wheel-chair, brain-damaged. Her life ruined. Then came a friend’s father who died after a flu vaccine, and last week a 4 year old boy, made autistic by a catch-up schedule.”

“In 1988, the US National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created. It has paid out over US$3.5 billion to the vaccine-injured. The NVICP was set up to protect vaccine manufacturers from ruinous costs of litigation by vaccine-damaged people. It was deemed preferable to have ‘unavoidably unsafe’ vaccines than no vaccines. Unfortunately the protection provided to vaccine manufacturers also reduced incentives to develop safer vaccines in USA.”

“Vaccines contain health-damaging ingredients, not the least aluminium – a known neurotoxin…“ CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE LETTER

In addition to Dr. Piesse spilling the beans about vaccines, ABC News has recently reported and simultaneously downplayed an apparent connection between flu jabs and miscarriage in pregnant women.

If you want to label Dr. Piesse and others like him as conspiracy theorists, it’s your prerogative. Labels and names are not going to physically harm these brave professionals, but the vaccines we continue to distribute to healthcare consumers worldwide will undoubtedly destroy the lives of your children and loved ones. How many children have to die from vaccines before people wake up?

LAWSUIT COULD END WATER FLUORIDATION ONCE AND FOR ALL BY DEMONSTRATING ITS NEUROTOXICITY

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Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Waking Times

The practice of water fluoridation in the United States has been under growing scrutiny for years by a public that has become conscious of the fact that adding toxic chemicals which are proven to be harmful to human health and children’s development to public water is medication without consent.

Never-the-less, the effort to stop fluoridation of municipal water supplies has been an uphill battle against entrenched financial interests and against dated ideas about health. While each year we hear news of cities heeding the concerns of their citizens and stopping fluoridation, without a major victory at the national level, people will be fighting this for years to come, all the while consuming toxic chemicals in the one thing we cannot live without, water.

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is reporting on a major development to cut the head off of this snake, and an unprecedented lawsuit is now holding promise for a national reversal of municipal water fluoridation.

Based on neurotoxicity studies, the “EPA has been served with a petition that includes more than 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing the risks of water fluoridation to human health.”

As noted by FAN in a recent press release:

“This case will present the first time a court will consider the neurotoxicity of fluoride and the question of whether fluoridation presents an unreasonable risk under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

And, in contrast to most other legal challenges of Agency actions, TSCA gives us the right to get the federal court to consider our evidence ‘de novo’ — meaning federal courts are to conduct their own independent review of the evidence without deference to the EPA’s judgment.”

The lawsuit has been served along with a petition containing thousands of signatures of concerned and well-informed citizens, and includes more than 2500 pages of documents detailing the harm inherent in poisoning the pubic with fluoride.

In detail, the complaint is an attempt to demonstrate how this practice violates the Toxic Substances Control Act.

“The Fluoride Action Network (FAN), along with a coalition of environmental and public health groups has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to their denial of our petition under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) seeking a ban on water fluoridation.

We believe this lawsuit is an unprecedented opportunity to end the practice once and for all in the U.S., and potentially throughout the world, based on the well-documented neurotoxicity of fluoride. You may read the official complaint here.” [Source]

Read: 18 SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED REASONS TO END PUBLIC WATER FLUORIDATION

Final Thoughts

The negative effects of consuming fluoridated water are well-documented, and the body of evidence continues to grow. In 2012 a major Harvard study presented a study demonstrating water fluoridation lowers IQ. In 2016 a study demonstrated a link between increased diabetes and water fluoridation. In 2015 the EPA had to issue new guidelines for safe levels of fluoride, reducing the amount, citing the potential for fluoridated water damages teeth, which ironically, is the very condition which we are told is the reason we need fluoride in the first place.

Public water fluoridation is slowly being defeated, and this lawsuit may play a major role in this fight.

 

About the Author

Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and Offgrid Outpost, a provider of storable food and emergency kits. Alex is an avid student of Yoga and life.

This article (Lawsuit Could End Water Fluoridation Once and For All by Demonstrating its Neurotoxicity) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Alex Pietrowski and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.

The Foods We Consume Might Actually Be Killing Us

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Dr. John Reizer

According to many health care experts, it’s getting increasingly difficult to stay healthy due to the types of foods we continue to consume as a society.

Food additives such as Aspartame and MSG (Monosodium glutamate) are believed by many to cause irreparable harm to human beings. Despite the large number of warnings coming from scientists and doctors, large corporations continue to oversee the lacing of our foodstuffs with harmful chemicals.

Aspartame, a controversial artificial sweetener, has been classified by some doctors and medical researchers as a neuro-excitotoxin capable of causing harmful lesions within the human nervous system. Russell Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon and former professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, is one of the physicians that has publicly stated his views about the dangers of this product.

Aspartame was introduced into food products and soft drinks, around the world, by the pharmaceutical company, G.D. Searle during the same time frame that Donald Rumsfeld, former Defense Secretary of the United States, was the company’s acting CEO. Later, Searle was taken over by Monsanto, a corporation believed by many to have very close ties to the CIA.

Monsanto, a developer of many controversial products, is a major producer of genetically modified organisms/foods (GMO’s). The average human’s diet is thoroughly littered with GMOs. It is certainly reasonable to assume that the large increase in the number of autoimmune diseases throughout the general population is directly tied to the world’s population embracing so many attenuated foods.

Based on statistics that clearly demonstrate a decline in our nation’s health over time, and a core understanding, centered on common sense, that altering the genes of various seeds could preclude the human body from being able to discern between a food and a poison, one could connect-the-dots and come to the logical conclusion that GMOs are quite dangerous.

Unfortunately, the level of danger we face, when it comes to GMOs, is unknown. Genetically modified seeds are protected from all forms of scientific research or review. Companies that produce these products have licensing agreements that legally prohibit the testing of their seeds by any scientific body.

In addition to GMOs, it’s been stated by many experts within the farming industry that patented herbicides and pesticides are to blame for many of the diseases people around the world are now experiencing.

We are certainly a product of the foods we consume and so when one takes a closer look at the true lack of quality embedded within our food supplies, it’s easier to comprehend why modern society suffers with such a high number of health challenges. It’s time for people to understand that the foods we consume might actually be killing us.

What do you think about this subject?

Smartphone Addiction: It’s Like Electronic Heroin

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By Dr. John Reizer

Most people are well aware of the dangers associated with taking certain street and prescription drugs. We’ve all heard the horror stories about a particular person getting hopelessly addicted to cocaine or heroin. These chemicals as well as many others are, undoubtedly, very dangerous substances.

Although most users begin taking said drugs voluntarily, it doesn’t take long before they have become full blown addicts. Chemical drug dependency is a serious problem that takes many months, and in some cases many years to successfully conquer. Most people are unable to kick a chemical drug habit without the help of a fully trained medical staff.

The human nervous system is wired in such a way that when we take part in pleasurable activities, certain chemicals are released inside the brain that cause us to want to continue the pleasurable experiences. One of those chemicals is called Dopamine.

The neurotransmitter Dopamine allows us to feel very happy and the more the chemical is released inside the brain, the happier we will feel. Pleasurable experiences like eating and having sex cause Dopamine to be released inside the brain. The taking of certain drugs like heroin also causes a lot of Dopamine to be released inside the brain and this in turn causes a very euphoric state that drug users often report experiencing.

With continued drug use, the brain eventually reduces the amount of Dopamine that is released and it becomes more difficult to feel the same level of pleasure that was initially experienced by the user. In order to reach the same level of pleasure, more of the drug is required each time and the cycle goes on and on.

It is easy for most people in today’s world to understand that a chemical modality, like heroin, could cause a person to become hopelessly addicted. But it’s not so easy for members of society to understand that the same mechanisms that are causing people to become drug addicts are also capable of causing people to become addicted to computers and Smartphones.

Electronic addiction is very real and millions of people are becoming electronic addicts even as I write these words. And if you believe that this is all taking place because of some unfortunate accident – think again! The telecommunication corporations are well aware of the fact that their products are habit forming. They know that when you first start off, your data package will be small. But just like a nicotine junkie increases the number of cigarette packs they smoke a day each year, the Smartphone user will also increase the amount of data they require over time.

Smartphone users repeatedly stimulate pathways inside the human brain that cause the release of Dopamine which rewards the user with a pleasurable experience. This scenario recurs over and over again and eventually more electronic stimulation is required to reach the same level of pleasure that was present initially.

In this situation the modality used to trigger the Dopamine release is electronic in nature and not a chemical product. Chemical modality or electronic modality, it doesn’t matter; the same addictive result is accomplished. Smartphone users can become so addicted that they cannot go more than ten minutes at a time without checking text messages, emails, Facebook, Instagram and other social media applications. When a Smartphone user picks up his or her device, it’s similar to a nicotine addict picking up a cigarette and taking a puff.

Are you a Smartphone addict? How many hours do you spend on one of these gadgets? Do you get stressed when you put your phone down? Are you afraid you’re missing something important online? Do you get stressed when your phone battery is getting low?

What do you think about this subject?

Quick Ways to Prep for an Economic Collapse

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By Dan Sullivan

Guest Writer

I think we can all agree that, regardless of who’s in the White House, an economic collapse is more than likely. The US as well as the entire world are more divided than ever, which means any law that would be good for the economy could be blocked, repealed and so on.

Whether the almost $20 trillion debt, Russia or some other factor will trigger an economic collapse, you have to be prepared. Keep in mind that Venezuela collapsed recently because of the drop in oil prices coupled with their Government’s socialist agenda, of course. This is proof that the drop that fills the glass can fall at any time.

In this article, I’m not looking to point fingers. Instead, I want to give you sure ways to prepare and make sure that, no matter what happens, your basic necessities will be met.

#1. Pay Your Debt

I’m sure you’ve heard this advice before, but let me ask you this: are you really sacrificing things in order to do this? Are you eating out less, using less fuel and reducing your carbon footprint? Getting out of your comfort zone can be challenging when you’re used to a certain lifestyle, but how else are you going to pay off your debt?

I know it’s hard… The trick is to do it gradually. Make it a weekly goal to use less, say only twice a week. This way you’ll be forced to ride a bike or a bus to work, or even to walk to the grocery store. It’s good for your health too.

You can make an entire list of things to slowly give up and save. Don’t give up on them completely, that’s only going to cause you to bounce back to where you were initially. Instead, let your body get used to the idea of eating out less or always buying the latest iPhone. YOU DON’T NEED IT!

#2. Get Financially Smart

It doesn’t matter where you live, you’re sure to find laws that will help you save or earn money, even in small amounts. While those laws may not amount to much in case of an economic collapse, they’ll fit perfectly into your new financial disciplinary program.

The perfect example are those laws that give you tax cuts if you pay your taxes early, but you’re sure to find more. Some call them loopholes, and many are controversial, but you don’t know until you research.

#3. Start a Stockpile

If you looked at what’s happening in Venezuela, you probably read about people eating their pets to avoid starvation. It’s important to look at other countries to see what items are going to become valuable in times of crisis, as well as to notice the behavior of those who become desperate.

Food should be at the top of the list so, instead of blocking large amounts of money in gold and silver, why not start a stockpile? I’m not saying you should disregard precious metals, just to set your priorities straight.

#4. Buy Property in a Secluded Place

Not just to live there if things get bad at your current location, but to be able to live off the land when your food stockpiles will diminish. You can start a garden and set up a rainwater harvesting system, but make sure it’s legal to gather that much water. Some states forbid it, which is why doing your due diligence is important.

Another problem you need to solve from the start is security. Since you won’t be there most of the time, it’s possible that someone will eventually steal your crops or your harvest. The obvious thing you can do is pick a place that’s away from the main road and to make sure the entire place looks deserted form the outside.

Another thing you can do is start a permaculture garden, which is a self-running ecosystem that works with a lot less human interaction. The big benefit is that from a distance it looks like bush, meaning the veggies are hidden under a layer of weeds and herbs. Permaculture principles are definitely something to look into, particularly since some people report higher yields compared to traditional gardening techniques.

#5. Don’t Forget the Other Basic Necessities

Once you’ve taken care of food, don’t forget water (which is actually more important because, if your water supply is contaminated, you’ll quickly dehydrate), clothes, home protection (from thugs, looters etc.), self-defense (firearms), as well as knives, tools to fix your home and ways to communicate.

Although prepping still has a bad stigma attached to it, I think we can all agree it is now mainstream, and for good reason: people are starting to realize that, just because things seem ok today, that might not be the case tomorrow.

#6. Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome

There are many financial presentations out there, convincing us to invest in this or that stock, or to buy this or that precious metal.

See, what happens is that most people fall for these presentations and, I’m not trying to say they’re wrong, just that they’re OPINIONS. These opinions may be right or wrong, and the guys who formulate them don’t necessarily put a lot of thought into. Once they have something marketable, they then focus on how to make the presentations more appealing.

If you want to make money as an investor, the surest way to do it is to specialize on one thing and not give up until you figure it out. For example, if you want to invest in tech companies, forget everything else and start reading all the tech news you can. Not for a week or a month, but for years on end. Become an expert on that financial aspect and you’ll surely see long term profits.

This applies to business as well. Don’t try to start 3 businesses at once in 3 different niches, and don’t give up on them after a couple of months. Start one and stick to it. I started my website at www.SurvivalSullivan.com 2 years ago and the first 12 months were horrible. But I knew I had a mission and I didn’t quit, and now things are working much better.

So long as you see people in that niche that are successful, it means you can be too, you just have to put in the work and, if need be, some money (maybe from a partner, so you don’t go into debt).

Of course, if you want a business that will also work in case of an economic collapse, anything related to food, water and basic services is probably a good idea: organic food production, rainwater harvesting installments, personal security systems, clothing stores and outdoor stores. Basically anything that could provide things people will be interested in post-collapse (whether they’ll pay in cash or barter for).

All of This Sounds Easy, but How Should You Go About It?

Easy. Sort of. Start with #1 and make plans to pay off mortgage and other outstanding debt. After a week of nothing but focus on this one thing, start focusing on having a basic food and water stockpile. Again, make a plan, use an online spreadsheet to estimate costs and only purchase things you’ve thoroughly researched.

Once this is taken care of, you should look into buying some land, as well as to improve your stockpile. Now, I realize that you may not have the money since you’re still in debt, but this should only motivate you to pay it all off faster.

Dan Sullivan

OxyContin: Profiting from the Pain of Others

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Dr. John L. Reizer

It’s been estimated by some sources that 80 percent of all drug addicts begin their habits by taking prescription painkillers. For far too long, aggressive drug campaigns, pushing addictive painkillers, have been marketed by pharmaceutical companies directly to healthcare professionals and hospitals.

Lavish vacations to exotic destinations for medical professionals that included seminars on how to control the pain of patients through the use of prescription drugs have contributed to an epidemic number of people becoming helplessly addicted to opiates.

Imagine for a moment you hurt your shoulder in an auto accident and require surgery followed by a lengthy amount of rehabilitation. Due to the clever marketing strategies that have been previously implemented by pharmaceutical companies in the direction of healthcare practitioners, you might unknowingly become a drug addict.

Patients are now routinely prescribed highly addictive painkillers for extended periods of time in an effort to control their levels of discomfort and improve their chances of making a better functional recovery in therapeutic scenarios. In other words, improving joint range of motion in an affected part of the body is thought to be unlikely without the proper management of pain through the use of prescription painkillers. And one of the most dangerous painkillers that healthcare consumers are prescribed and have become addicted to is OxyContin.

According to Forbes,  the Sackler family (Purdue Pharma) is the 16th richest family in America. Purdue Pharma is responsible for introducing the highly addictive painkiller,  OxyContin to physicians and hospitals throughout America.

Read more about this interesting story at the link below:

https://www.thefix.com/content/oxycontin-cartel-billionaire-family-16th-richest-us-according-forbes

The Truth Will Set Us Free

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Research that links Vaccines and Autism:

Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism

Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: Implications for environmental toxicity

Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review

Uncoupling of ATP-mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated IL-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar Thimerosal

Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal

Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant monkeys exposed to Vaccines Containing Thimerosal

Increases in the number of reactive glia in the visual cortex of Macaca fascicularis following subclinical long-term methyl mercury exposure

Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism

Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the Brain?

Activation of Methionine Synthase by Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Dopamine: a Target for Neurodevelopmental Toxins and Thimerosal

Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using Home Videotapes

Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set

Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism

Oxidative Stress in Autism: Elevated Cerebellar 3-nitrotyrosine Levels

Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality

Evidence of Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Insult in Autism

Oxidative Stress in Autism

Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors

Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice

Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas

Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the SF Bay Area

A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic Encephalopathies Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorder

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and blood mercury level: a case-control study in chinese children

The Changing Prevalence of Autism In California

Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient Endophenotype in Autism

Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity

Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on Mercury

Evidence of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism and Implications for Treatment

Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence

Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorder in Portugal: prevalence, clinical characterization, and medical conditions

Obamacare: It’s Not The Only Thing That Needs To Be Fixed Regarding Healthcare

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By Dr. John L. Reizer

Founder of NoFakeNews

One very hot topic that continues to be debated in the mainstream and alternative news is Obamacare. For most Americans it is an important goal to be able to secure affordable health insurance for family members. Serious health problems requiring a stay in a hospital for a few days or longer can create financial havoc for lots of people. Everything that a family has managed to save over the course of their lives can be wiped out from a single trip to an emergency room followed by a need for extended medical services.

President-Elect Donald Trump has pledged to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better and more affordable for American families.

While I believe it is important to secure adequate protection against potentially devastating medical bills through the acquisition of affordable health insurance, I also believe it is important for healthcare consumers to understand what traditional healthcare objectives really offer members of society. In addition, it is important for people to become cognizant of what health insurance products allow healthcare consumers to have access to in the way of traditional healthcare services.

When I write about traditional healthcare services it is important to understand that the large majority of products I am referring to fall under the category of “suppression” based therapies. In other words, the therapies/treatments are designed to suppress the natural healing tendencies that are innately attached to human physiological systems. For example, a patient that has high blood pressure is commonly given a drug that blocks a portion of the nervous system that increases blood pressure in the individual. Regardless of whether or not the increase in blood pressure is physiologically beneficial to the patient (and in many cases the increase in blood pressure is very beneficial to the body as it prevents the person from having a loss of vital blood flow to important organs, tissues, and cells), the suppression based therapy is almost always administered to achieve the desired result, a lowered blood pressure reading.

Millions of people are walking around with artificially suppressed blood pressure readings due to their consumption of synthetic medicines that suppress the human nervous system. Artificially manufactured low blood pressure readings in patients do not always make them healthier. The standard practice of suppressing human physiology (allopathic medicine) is dangerous and certainly not a pathway to better health.

Another example of a suppression based therapy is the common practice of fever reduction. Traditional medicine offers healthcare consumers drugs that artificially eliminate fever. The ability of the body to successfully destroy bacteria and viruses naturally is routinely accomplished through its innate ability to create fever.

Billions of dollars are earned annually by pharmaceutical companies that own patents to fever reducing drugs. Although the suppression of fever in human physiology is admired and thought beneficial by most laypersons, it is, in actuality, a pharmacological induced process that allows a viral or bacterial microbe to thrive in a given human system and this scenario ultimately creates an impediment to the natural healing tendencies of the human immune system.

While it is true that traditional medical services can help save a person’s life in an emergency situation, it is also true that the same medical objectives can harm people and make them less healthy when the services being applied are being done so to manage patients over extended periods of time.

Many alternative healthcare professions are significantly more successful in keeping people healthy than traditional medicine because the practice objectives of these professions are based on expression based therapies.

Expression based therapies are designed to remove interferences within human beings that preclude the body’s physiology from functioning properly. In the end, expression based therapies allow a better expression of human physiology which improves the overall health of people. Unfortunately, most of these professions and their practice objectives are not covered by health insurance plans.

Although it’s important to have a system in place that offers all Americans a way to have access to affordable healthcare, it’s more important, in my opinion, to have a healthcare system in place that makes the population healthier. In the United States this is currently not a reality and the situation needs to change. We need to Make America Great Again but we also need to Make America Healthy Again.

What do you think about this subject?

TECH NECK: IT CAN BE A LOT MORE SERIOUS THAN PEOPLE THINK

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By Dr. John L. Reizer

Founder of NoFakeNews

If you’re like most people in the modern world, you probably have a mobile phone and spend a good portion of your daily routine looking down at the device’s screen. Nowadays, most mobile phones are actually handheld computers that provide us with numerous apps that make our lives a lot easier to manage.

We use handheld electronic devices to communicate with people, manage bank accounts, pay bills, accept payment from others, entertainment purposes, and so many other things that I am leaving out for the sake of keeping this post reasonably short. The point I am making is that the average person in today’s world is regularly staring down at a mobile phone. We’re using handheld devices for far too many hours each day and certainly a lot longer than anyone could have ever imagined.

As a practitioner of chiropractic, I have been seeing a large number of patients each week that have a condition known as Tech Neck. Tech Neck is simply pain and stiffness experienced in the cervical spine and it’s caused from constantly looking down at handheld electronic devices. Common symptoms of this condition are neck soreness, decreased range of motion in the cervical spine, headaches, shoulder pain, and numbness and tingling in the arms.

Looking down at a handheld device for countless hours during the course of a day can lead to serious damage to the cervical spine. When the spine is set in a fixed position for extended periods of time, the paraspinal muscles that surround the neck and upper back can go into spasm. This can cause individual vertebral segments to become slightly misaligned from one another which can cause impingements of the cervical spinal nerves that control the functions of human physiology.

Many people falsely believe that pain and loss of range of motion in the neck and upper back caused from constantly staring down at a cell phone is not a serious problem. Truth be told, spinal misalignments in the neck and upper back can lead to degenerative arthritis in the same spinal regions as well as systemic diseases throughout the body. In addition, the intervertebral discs that exist between the various spinal segments can also become permanently damaged as a result of prolonged spinal misalignments.

Spinal nerves that run up and down the length of the human backbone are extensions of the brain and spinal cord. Electronic messages that run through delicate nerve fibers in afferent and efferent directions (to and from the brain and its targeted physiological endpoints) are placed in a compromised situation when pressure is exerted upon them from misaligned spinal bones. Nerve fibers can quickly lose their abilities to transmit the brain’s messages properly and this can lead to a state of poor health from a physiological standpoint.

Remember to set and respect time limits with regards to using handheld electronic devices. Take plenty of breaks during the course of each day and if your neck is getting sore and you feel tense, turn off your device and stretch for a few minutes.

Every person should also make an appointment with a qualified doctor of chiropractic to have a spinal examination performed several times a year. Spinal misalignments that can be quite devastating to any person’s health can be corrected in a matter of minutes by a spinal adjustment.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

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The health information that has been written on this website is not intended to replace a professional relationship between a patient and a health care specialist nor is it intended as medical advice. Readers are encouraged to make health care decisions based upon their own independent research!