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USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF HEALTH
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By Dr. David Walls-Kaufman
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s many of you already know, we are indeed ushering in a new era in the field of health and wellness, and maybe even medicine.
That new era is one in which we lead our health choices and strategies not with wishful thinking and going along with the crowd, but actually looking at the substrate of human health - DNA repair and oxidative stress. For more background, see my most recent short blogs at capitolhillchiropractic.com. As I’ve written prior, this DNA repair pathway was studied and identified by ecogeneticist Dr. Ron Pero in his landmark work at the University of Lund as the easiest method of assessing our health, rate of aging and disease risk. With access to this pathway, we have direct insight into the headwaters of human disease development, the top of the cascade where environmental stress accumulation first tips the individual’s scales toward health or the dis-ease and dysponesis at the top of the disease and health syndrome chain. For some, it can be scary to lift the hood of their own car and see what is ahead. However, when we look at our future farther up the chain of events that happen BEFORE we actually get sick - then we also have an easier time with prevention in changing the course of these events. The less drastic measures of holism and prevention can be conscripted to make important differences for us and the ones we love. As has been said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is easier to direct the growth of the vine the earlier in the growth process we begin. See my blog postings or call our office to find out more about how to do the test, the cost of the test, and what holistically can be done to alter the course of events. For the better health and life experience of you and your family – Capitol Hill Chiropractic Center 411 East Capitol St., SE 202.544.6035. Serving our neighborhood since 1984. ADVERTISEMENT
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