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I’ve discovered some amazing things...

Things that have helped my clients and me benefit immensely...

I am so truly excited that I wanted to share them with you....

Time is flying by and I’ve been so busy with my focus on helping our clients achieve maximum results in their health and life. I needed to take a little breather to review the files of the many wonderful clients like you that I have been blessed to work with.

It has always been my desire to have a positive impact on my little area of the world. I believe the greatest impact we can have on others begins with our own health and wellness. To that end, it has been my mission to provide my clients with the most advanced and effective ways of improving their health and well being.

In order to deliver the most cutting edge natural and holistic healing methods, I have studied and traveled to attend the most incredible seminars taught by the leaders in the wellness field.

This past year, I’ve been blessed to discover Nutrition Response Testing, a system that will help me handle ninety percent of the cases I'll see. I’ve been so impressed with this system and the results I have seen with others and for myself. I'm committed to refine my skills and knowledge so that I can help even more people.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander....

Stress Adaptation and Increased Quality of Life have been the norm in our office for years. Even though I’ve experienced amazing results in receiving chiropractic care and in using nutritional supplements, there was an essential component missing.

For years I’ve suffered the experience of neck and back pain, and sometimes a low energy level. To get to the bottom of it, I’ve had to explore every modality I could to find help. After medical misdiagnoses and trying what seemed like an endless list of alternative methods, no one could help me. I was beginning to think I would never get my own body healthy.

Finally, after years of searching, I found a way to solve the puzzle of my own health. Naturally, I want to help others, like you, solve their problems, too.

Because of my quest to find the most effective ways of healing and improving health, I am NOW able to help our clients get the results they need!

Can you imagine how it feels to have such a wonderful way to pinpoint the challenges my clients' health, and a method to resolve those chronic issues once and for all? And that's in addition to my reputation of already getting great results.

Even if you have achieved great results in some areas of your health and wellness, you may have some chronic issues that you thought I couldn’t help you with. Guess what? With what I now have available, I can probably help you!

Because these new methods and technologies are helping me get to the root of so many tough problems — much faster, easier and cheaper, in so many cases — it's important for you to call today and set up an appointment to come in for an update and recheck of how everything is going in your body.

In fact, it's so important that, we're not even going to charge you for the visit! That’s right — you are being offered a TOTALLY FREE VISIT.

I know you're busy. I know you're probably juggling so many things in your life right now. But this is so important, and the potential benefits are sooo great, and I want to share this with you so badly, I'm going to eliminate every excuse you have for not taking the steps you need to fully investigate such a crucial part of attaining your optimal health.

How? I'm going to make your check-up absolutely and totally free. This is a $150 value. But because we want to do everything possible to help you improve your health, this one is on us!

Why are we going to do this?

For six very special reasons....

#1: I don’t treat symptoms.

We are only interested in finding the real underlying causes of symptoms and health problems. Then, by addressing the problem at its cause, our clients routinely experience excellent results. If you still have your symptoms, or if they came back, never went away, or simply continued to get worse, we may be able to help you now in a way we were not able to earlier.

#2: Most clients routinely achieve excellent results on our programs.

We’ve always had great results. As long as our clients follow our recommendations long enough to help their body correct the underlying causes of their health problems, they routinely achieve results.

But, despite our best intentions, and even with good compliance, occasionally there are one or two clients who don’t always achieve the level of results we were hoping for.

It is this small group of patients that keeps me awake at night, burning the midnight oil, traveling to attend workshops and trainings with a few geniuses who have solved this or that, and are willing to share some of their answers with those of us who are persistent enough, are willing to make the trip, and of course, willing to pay the fee.

#3: I am feeling better than I have in years.

I have less pain, more flexibility, and more energy. Friends and clients have been commenting on how vibrant I look and want to know what I’ve been doing. I want to share the good fortune of my discoveries with you!

#4: Many conditions that people routinely experience are a direct result of improper autonomic control and imbalance of their endocrine system.

Menopausal and premenstrual symptoms, bone density loss, digestive issues, arthritis, depression, elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are just a few symptoms we see affected by this. We now have the ability to address this most fundamental cause of illness.

#5: In my eight years as a naturopathic doctor and 17 years in natural health care I've noticed a disturbing trend.

People are losing their health at younger and younger ages. Our country's chronic health problems have become our children's health problems. It is essential that we begin to get this handled. We want to help provide the resources that you need to be and live a healthy and happy life.

#6: We care about you!

If you are not experiencing your highest level of health and wellness, we take it personally. We are committed to join you in your commitment to better health and the many rewards that go with it.

You need to call us today! 706-529-1149

You will be receiving a comprehensive Nutrition Response Testing evaluation. Because my schedule is very busy and limited appointment times are available, call today to get first pick. (And don't think for a minute that I won't check to make sure you've called me! I'm proud to say I'm a "positive nag" when it comes to keeping you in good health, as long as you're a client of ours.)

We will do our best to fit you in our schedule as soon as possible. We care about you and your health. We care about you as a person and we care about you as a patient. But most importantly we care about you staying healthy!

Your health is so important to us, that this new, expanded health analysis/check-up is going to be FREE. No charge.

You'd be silly to pass this by. Especially considering all the new things we have learned and the new insights we might be able to give you into what is going on.

We're trying to make it as easy as pie for you to come in for your check-up. I know people put off what's most important for things that are considered urgent. But from my perspective, taking your health into consideration, this really IS urgent.

I can’t wait to share this amazing system with you! Our phone number is 706-529-1149. I’m looking forward to seeing you in a few days.

Your friend in health,


Dr. David

David Ross, N.D., CNHP, AHG
Clinical Nutrition
Wellness Education

PS: Our office is getting very busy… so this offer is being made to you on a limited time basis only. You need to contact us in the next 10 days to guarantee your spot for this very special FREE OFFER.

And, as the truly last final thought before I send this off:

Maybe you are currently doing great. I sincerely hope so. But maybe you have a family member whose health situation is worrying you. Well, as long as we are at this, I am going to include them in this invitation as well. As long as you call within the next 10 days to make the appointment, their $150.00 initial visit will also be FREE.

Don’t delay. We look forward to seeing you soon.


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The one-step informational system for health: How to encourage your patients to use nutritional supplements

An open letter to medical doctors, chiropractors and naturopaths from Dr. Gerred Popejoy, D.C., Q.M.E.

Dear Healthcare Professional,

Why do we still use outdated, inefficient ways to sell nutrition to our patients? Why are we still required to stock and retail nutritional products? Why are we spending time to physically show and sell products to patients which takes up our attention from what we do best? Why do patients stop using products when they stop seeing their doctor? Why would your nutritional income stop when you retire or become disabled? Doctors have stopped recommending nutrition because of these reasons, and they, at times, feel like a sales person, not a doctor. I know I did.

Then why are the latest journals and practice management consultants telling us to add nutrition into our practices? Maybe nutrition should be a part of our patients' daily healthcare, and as their doctor, you should be making those recommendations. Maybe they know you can create a new profit center in your office.

Problem #1 – Nutritional companies sell us products to stock and sell at retail.

Problem #2 – They don't provide us with any program to efficiently make recommendations.

For over twenty years, I have been asking when they are going to correct these problems. In 2001, I found an international nutritional company based in Batesville, Arkansas, with a history of selling quality products to doctors since 1936. Since 1992, patients have been able to order directly with a 30-day money-back guarantee; this solved the problem of carrying products. After two years making recommendations to my patients without carrying products, I still was left with a problem. How could I make a nutritional recommendation in less time than it took to write a prescription with all the necessary information to my patients? I spent the next five years creating and testing a new program to solve this problem.

The One-Step Nutritional Information System allows you as a healthcare professional to integrate nutrition into your practice with an uncomplicated, simple delivery system of customized nutritional information sheets in over 20 areas: daily nutrition, whiplash, DJD, fibromyalgia, weight loss, anti-aging, etc. The sheets are available in five languages — English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Japanese — on CD at no cost to you. There is the added benefit of a financial return, or not if you choose, without carrying products.

Now, with the One-Step System and a nutritional company with great products standing behind you, you can create a new profit center in your office. I want you to take this opportunity to try the One-Step Nutritional Information System in your office before you make a final decision.

We can provide your office with a complete nutritional program. Email Dr. Ross at david@drdavidross.com. You also will receive a DVD for your waiting room on nutrition and the products.

I’m sure you will have some questions on how to get started, so please call.

Sincerely,


Gerred L. Popejoy, D.C., Q.M.E.
Director of Healthcare Integrative Professionals International

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Improving diet 'could cut crime by a third'

It has been known for well over a decade that the lack of certain minerals, such as zinc and iron, as well as an overabundance of copper, can lead to acts of aggression and violence (see bibliography of research).

Now researchers in England and Scotland are going to prove it once again, this time in a prison setting. A three-year study is about to be launched to examine whether young criminals, including murderers, behave better in prison if they are given vitamins and other nutritional supplements.

Researchers believe that the results of the study, which will follow 1,000 youthful prisoners in three different facilities for the next three years.

Scientists think the results will have a profound impact on the criminal justice system, in the U.K. and elsewhere.

John Stein, a neurophysiologist from the University of Oxford, said, "We are not saying that nutrition is the only influence on behavior, but we seem to have seriously underestimated its importance."

Bernard Gesch, honorary director of the charity Natural Justice, said, "It may seem a little strange that what we eat has got anything to do with criminal justice. The law tends to assume that criminal behavior is entirely a matter of free will.

"I wonder if that is entirely true? I wonder how you can exercise free will without involving your brain and how your brain functions properly without a good nutrient supply?

"In that sense, this is potentially something that is very simple, very humane. It is likely to be very cheap and it has been largely overlooked."

Smaller studies have been done in the past, but this is the largest study of its kind. A previous study at Aylesbury young offenders' institution in 1998 found that prisoners who consumed vitamins and other supplements committed 25% fewer disciplinary offenses and 37 per cent fewer violent offenses.

Don't wait for the outcomes of this and future studies. If you have your own little droogies who occasionally get out of hand, try vitamins and minerals and other supplements — before they commit offenses that may hurt themselves or others, and get them locked up.

Complementary Medicine | Natural Health | Nutrition | Herbal Supplements | Nutritional Supplements | Dr. David Ross, ND, CNHP | DrDavidRoss.com

Nutritional supplements teach old dogs new tricks: Acetyl-l-carnitine and alpha lipolic acid improve memory in dogs

Exciting new research shows that two nutritional supplements, acetyl-l-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid, can improve the memory, ability to learn and cognitive function of old dogs, and might be able to do the same thing with humans.

Acetyl-l-carnitine and alpha lipoic acid may provide a new approach to the neurodegeneration and cognitive decline common with aging, scientists say.

The study was recently published in FASEB Journal, produced by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, by researchers from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, the University of Toronto, University of California/Berkeley, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, and Juvenon, Inc.

The study found these two antioxidant compounds, which are believed to play a role in slowing mitochondrial decay in the cell, significantly increased the ability of aged beagle dogs to learn a new task.

"The prospects for cognitive improvement from use of these supplements is both fascinating and exciting," said Tory Hagen, an associate professor in OSU's Linus Pauling Institute, and recognized expert on the biological processes of aging.

"This is the first time these two compounds, by themselves, have been tested in canines, which have brains that are more biologically similar to humans than some other animal models," Hagen said. "The results should be relevant to what we could expect with humans, and are very encouraging."

The research suggests that long-term supplementation "may be effective in attenuating age-associated cognitive decline by slowing the rate of mitochondrial decay and cellular aging."

Enhancing the function of mitochondria — which provide almost all of a cell's energy — could literally be providing animals with more "mental energy," leading to improved memory and learning, the study indicated.

The compounds may also cause increased synthesis of a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.

Source: Oregon State University news release via Salem-News.com

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How to choose what nutritional supplements you really need

Four billion people use herbal medicine to treat health conditions and improve their overall health, according to the China News Service.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is practiced in over 160 countries. Britain and Canada each have 3,000 TCM clinics; Australia has 4,000.

One billion dollars changes hands yearly just for raw ginkgo biloba leaves, according to Medical News Today.

People know about the benefits of using Nature as their source of medicine, and finally, more and more members of the scientific and medical communities are taking notice, as my previous articles about scientific studies on ginger and the African violet Viola yedoensis point out.

It's no longer a case of a professional health care provider saying "herbs don't work." It's now simply a question of "What is the best natural product to use for a specific patient's needs, and does the product I'm using have the quality I expect?"

Here are a few tips on choosing a quality nutritional supplement:

• Choose products from an established manufacturer that's been around awhile.


• Choose a company that produces their products using Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), a standardized set of manufacturing practices established by the National Nutritional Foods Association (now the Natural Products Association).


• Look for expiration dates on vitamin products. Vitamins easily oxidize.


• Make sure all herbal ingredients listed on the label specify what part of the plant is used. There is no law against creating a product that utilizes parts of a plant that don't contain the active bioactive properties that you're buying the product for. Plants contain many parts — for example, roots, leaves, berries — but not all parts of any specific plant are therapeutic.


• Avoid low-priced, mass market and store brand herbs, vitamins and other nutritional products. Priced cheaply to make them attractive to shoppers, these low-priced, high-profit products are often really incredibly expensive, when you realize that their potency is usually so low that a recommended serving provides you with only a tiny percentage of the traditional dosage or recommended serving of a quality product. I recall finding a mass-market gingko biloba product on sale at a "dollar store" a while back. When I compared it to a $25 bottle of a quality product, I discovered that the cheaper product would have to cost over $300 to actually equal the potency of the quality product.

Don't jump onto every new fad that comes along. Don't simply "try" a bottle of whatever herbal product is in today's news.

Back in my days in health food stores, I had such mixed feelings seeing a customer come in for the latest trendy herb, expecting one bottle to cure a health problem he or she had had for years. I was happy the customer was there, and was willing to try herbs, but their expectations were often too high, and they wouldn't maintain their enthusiasm for the herb or for even the general concept of natural health. Herbs work, but they don't necessarily work overnight. We live in a "right now" world, and sometimes our expectations are askew.

Your health care professional can guide you to a set of simple lab tests — a finger prick for blood and a urine sample — that will show you exactly what bio-processes in your body aren't functioning properly. Test results will recommend specific nutritional supplements that will improve your health and get your body's chemistry and metabolism back on track. Take the time and spend the money; it's smarter than just popping capsules of the latest herbal product, hoping they will quickly fix what ails you, and in the long run, it's much less expensive than repeatedly "trying" new supplements.

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Air Force to fly high on protein supplementation

The U.S. Air Force is currently conducting studies into the benefits of whey protein for their pilots and commandos, reports the Daily American.

After an initial study led by Col. Breck Lebegue faltered for lack of participants, a new study is taking off, led by Maj. Thomas Walker.

Participation in the research is open to both military personnel and civilians, and seeks to find out if protein supplementation will prevent combat fatigue.

Walker said he hopes to study between 70 and 80 people between the ages of 19 and 44 by the end of the year and issue a report early next year, he said.

Image: Tom Cruise in "Top Gun"

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