What Has Dr. Hagebusch Been Up To Recently?
My beautiful dog, Bella, had been having greater problems with her back and hip at 13 years of age.
We had a scare in August where she couldn’t get up for a full day.
I was able to help her back by working with it to improve her mobility. This helped immediately. I also added some supplements to her diet including cod liver oil. Both of these things helped.
Fortunately she’s doing better right now… I even took her for a walk a couple of days ago.
Injuries Happen, Even To Me!
I mentioned last month that I had increased my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and strength training. I managed to injure my 52 year old hamstring by pushing it too hard.
Even your chiropractor who knows better still does dumb things sometimes. A good lesson you can learn from me, it’s better to slowly ramp up exercise rather than doing too much too quickly.
It is healing up though!
I did a talk for Texarkana Yoga on “How To Get and Stay Healthy” by looking at the 5 primary factors that move you towards (or away from) better health without drugs or surgery.
By the way, for many people, yoga is a very helpful way to improve their health with it’s focus on movement, posture, and breathing.
Texarkana Yoga is a great option for many people to start an exercise program that improves flexibility, strength, and reduces stress.
Health Talks For Your Group, Church, or Workplace.
If you have a church or another group where you would like me to give a health talk, just let me know by emailing me here.
I have given talks about everything from chiropractic to arthritis, fibromyalgia, childhood developmental disorders, headaches/migraines, car accidents, concussions, Parkinson’s disease, weight loss, diet, exercise, and many other health related topics.
I spent last month taking another program from Dr. Datis Kharrazian, “Gastrointestinal Clinical Strategies and Treatment Applications.”
This was a follow up to the brain inflammation course that covered many functional brain based problems related to things that can be very often with the right lifestyle recommendations and conservative treatments.
The two, brain and gut, are intimately related as is everything else in our body.
We don’t have any spare parts that aren’t doing anything. They’re all doing something important. We’re seeing some surprising inter-relationships between all our various parts in current research.
The last decade of research has revealed so much about the gut microbiome, the gut-brain axis, and gut health in general. Problems in these can lead to so many chronic gastrointestinal issues, as well as depression, changes in cognitive function, chronic autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, and many types of brain-based disorders.
We went through how to evaluate the health of the gastrointestinal tract and the micriobiota, their relationship to the brain and their impact on many common health disorders.
It’s not simply taking probiotics and thinking we’re good.
It’s MUCH more complex than that.
We covered brain rehabilitation strategies in addition to dietary, nutritional, and lifestyle factors that influence the gut-brain-
body relationship.
These are things based on research over the last 10 years that won’t make their way into healthcare practices for probably 40-50 years from now if ever.
Yes, sadly there is that long of a lag time between what we learn in research and what is done in practices.
Dr. Kharrazian is the leading clinician and educator in the field of functional medicine.
Functional medicine as I’ve mentioned in previous newsletters has nothing to do with medicine or medical doctors.
Functional medicine, although poorly named, is about looking at the cause of underlying functional health problems in people and addressing the cause of the problem rather than the conventional thinking to simply treat a symptom which often leads to other problems including side effects and a worsening of the actual problem over time.
I’m really fortunate to be able to learn from the top person in the field.
Next month I’m doing another course with Dr. Kharrazian on managing autoimmune conditions.
I see many people that have autoimmune problems, some didn’t know it until they came to see me.
I also help them feel and function much better with some specific recommendations and treatment…
Even though there is no cure for autoimmunity, there are things that can be done to help people with autoimmunity both feel and function much better that the vast majority of both doctors and patients don’t know about.
…and really that’s what everyone really wants is to just feel better and be able to function better in their daily lives.
When I was giving the talk at Texarkana Yoga, a question came up about Hashimoto’s hypothyroiditis (an autoimmune condition that is the cause of 90%+ hypothyroid cases in the US).
She said she asked her Medical Doctor and specialists about what she could do with diet and autoimmunity. She was told to eat whatever she wants and it made absolutely no difference.
This is absolutely wrong…
A huge amount of published research tells us that he did not know what he was talking about.
This happens far too often. A trusted professional gives advice outside their area of expertise with no evidence to support their opinion.
This isn’t about any one profession, it’s everywhere.
But in healthcare, when a person seeking help is only given an unsupported opinion that is presented as fact, they are giving dangerous advice while using their position of perceived expertise.
It would be much better to frame their idea saying in their opinion and why they have the opinion. This is rarely done in healthcare though.
Really if you think about it, giving harmful advice violates the ‘Hippocratic Oath‘ first do no harm which is something we should all take seriously as health care practitioners regardless of degree type.
By the way, the Hippocratic Oath is a crazy writing by Hippocrates that is from a distant time.
He talks about the various Gods and all kinds of crazy things.
Anyway… totally unrelated but I thought you might find it interesting.
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