Diabetes Drugs Are Harmful

I just ran across this little article about Diabetes drugs. This world of drugs never ceases to amaze me. There are fantastic, natural options other than drugs to create health and healing in the body. But get a read of this…

6/28/2010 By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO – A new study led by a federal drug safety expert ties the controversial diabetes drug Avandia to a higher risk of heart problems, strokes and deaths in older adults, and says it is more dangerous than a rival drug, Actos. The study, a huge review of Medicare records, comes two weeks ahead of a Food and Drug Administration hearing on Avandia’s safety. The lead author, David Graham, is an FDA scientist who wants the pill banned.

“As many as 100,000 heart attacks, strokes, deaths and cases of heart failure may be due to Avandia since it came on the market in 1999,” Graham said in an interview with The Associated Press. Harms from Avandia are great enough to “put you in a hospital or in a cemetery,” he said.

Editors at the Journal of the American Medical Association rushed to release the study online on Monday, so the information would be available before the July 13-14 hearing, a spokeswoman said. Avandia is used for Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease and the kind often tied to obesity. Avandia and Actos are pills that help the body make better use of insulin, a key digestive hormone. The American Heart Association issued a statement reminding patients not to stop taking any medicine without talking with their doctors first. The new study is not definitive enough to prove harm but “deserves serious consideration” and should be discussed between patients and their doctors, the statement says.

Chiropractic Salem OR

Chiropractic and Personal Activity 2009

A One-Year Review

What began as an icy, storming 2009
turned into one of the most beautiful
autumns I have ever seen in Oregon.
Electricity at my house was gone for six
days, including Christmas day. I am more
thankful for things that go unseen.

PERSONALLY: I slipped and fell on the ice
last winter (remember the ice, which was
really 2008), and aggravated my fractured
back from eight months prior. We did our
magic at the clinic and I didn’t miss a
beat; thankful for that, it could’ve been
so much worse.

Our Siamese cat of about 14 years had
always been a feisty feline. She would
bite sometimes when petted, and usually
darted away when she was approached.
Every spring she would drop some animal,
usually a mole, off at the front door or
at some other place for us to see. In the
past 4 months she acted very clingy and
had other strange behavior that was not
like herself. I told my wife that she
wasn’t going to be around much longer.
About three weeks ago she went off to
die. I tried looking for her around the
place but had a feeling she went deep
under brush and laid herself to rest.
Life around here won’t be the same but as
one part ends, another begins…

POLITICALLY: After 20 years of having two
state chiropractic associations, both
merged. I was asked to be on the newly
merged state association board and have
now served my first year term.
Politics nationally: The health politics
has been more chaotic than ever. One
topic has been the Swine Flu/media blitz.
Like I said about the Avian Bird Flu
three years ago (do you remember?): “here
we go again, an invented disease to sell
a drug — Tamiflu, in this case.” No,
actually in both cases. I wonder what
megalo-company was behind that and what
politicians are on their board. Expect
two things: 1) “Swine flu” will go away
quietly and won’t be back, and 2) Another
“scary disease” will show up within two
years; in the fall, to be specific.
The other political health topic is
National Health Care. All I can say is
you can’t mandate health. Health care is
a personal responsibility.

MOTORCYCLING: I took four cycle rides,
that meant anything. Two rides were with
my regular chiropractor buddies and we
covered the state — the best. The ride
with the Harley dudes was hilarious and
left an indelible impression about what
it takes to be a Harley rider — I ain’t
got it. The most insane ride was when I
was riding alone, out in the middle of
nowhere central Oregon, on a dirt rode,
down into a canyon. I learned a lot about
myself out there and realized, yes, there
is a God who I promised I’d do anything
if I came out alive (I don’t recall what
exactly I promised). I might still be
there under my bike, with a broken leg,
eating worms, and fending off wild
animals. I won’t be doing that again.

CLINICALLY:
I did close to 100 hours of continuing
education (only need 20). This past year
I have been exposed to more exciting
FUNCTIONAL clinical protocols than I have
in the past 10 years combined. By
functional, I mean finding out how the
body is not working and assisting it
toward healing rather than letting a
disease process begin.
This year we added:
• Neurological Testing and Brain-
Based Treatments
• Concentrated Oxygen Therapy
• Glutathione Therapy
I will explain each of these incredible
procedures to you very soon. These will
help people with Chronic Fatigue,
Fibromyalgia, Dizziness, Chronic Pain…

Your Neglected Immune System (part 2)

COLON HEALTH — the four “R’s”
1. Remove bad food. You know what they are.

2. Reinoculate. You have to add supplemental
probiotics. Yogurt won’t do. We have a complete
array of billions of natural bacteria that comes in a
little capsule.

3. Replace. Digestive help comes as simple as adding
digestive enzymes for stomach and pancreas function
and a form of hydrochloric acid for your stomach. In
addition, your gall bladder may need support and it
definitely does need support if it’s gone (no, now your
liver does!) We carry all these nutritional
supplements.

4. Repair. You may have “leaky gut” where your
intestines are so inflamed that you leak food particles,
bacteria, and other substances through it. Big trouble!
We may use glutamine or a formula called “Total
Leaky Gut”. You will have allergies that need to be
cleared.

DIET — You may just have to change your diet again.
I’m going to bring this up the first of the year but get
ready: no grain, no gluten, no sugar, lots of fresh
vegetables, clean, high‐quality proteins and fats.

The very least you can do about diet is to reduce your
sugar intake! America has an addiction to sugar, fast
food, and a grain‐based diet that has made a nation of
carbohydrate‐addicts riding the highs and lows of
blood sugar swings. The average American consumes
200 pounds of sugar. Soon 1 out of 3 people will have
diabetes. Scandalous!

I see diabetes happen right in front of my eyes when I
watch kids ordering syrup in their coffee while having
a scone or French fries and sodas (for breakfast!!!)
Nothing could be worse. These kids are well on the
way to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.

When you have a daily sugar rush, your body cannot
maintain a stable blood sugar level over time. This is
called DYSGLYCEMIA. Dysglycemia weakens and
inflames the digestive tract, weakens the immune
barriers of the gut, lungs and brain, drives the adrenal
glands into exhaustion, sets the stage for hormonal
imbalances (premenstrual syndrome, polycystic
ovary syndrome, or a miserable menopause), clogs
the body’s attempts at detoxification, impairs fatty
acid metabolism, and slows general metabolism.

LOW BLOOD SUGAR — Hypoglycemia happens
when your pancreas pumps out too much insulin to
reduce the sugar in your blood (from your cereal,
pastries, pasta salads, and sugary lattes). What’s left is
a drop in your blood sugar. When this happens you
loose your short‐term memory, become grouchy and
explosive, and if you don’t eat too soon, become
fatigued and sleepy.

HIGH BLOOD SUGAR—Hyperglycemia happens
when you have too much sugar in your blood. This
condition is serious because now even when your
body pumps out insulin, your cells can’t take the
sugar. They may have become resistant to insulin. We
call this Metabolic Syndrome, Syndrome X, or Prediabetes.

There has been a chronic release of insulin
to battle your constant sugar intake but the cells are
so exhausted they refuse any more. You may feel like
you’re hungry all the time, even after a meal. People
will turn the extra sugar into fat and carry it around
their belly. I’m guessing that we’re close to 50% of the
population is in this category. You must repent of
your dietary ways or face more health challenges
because you are making the way for chronic diseases
to take hold.

With either hypoglycemia or insulin resistance, you
must change your diet! No exceptions! You cannot
continue eating what you please when you please.
You cannot continue missing meals or snaking on
sugar and starch. The worst thing you can do is eat
more carbohydrates. And do not, under any
circumstances, think you can eat sugar substitutes!
These are poisons and toxins to your body! You must
eat real foods that stabilize your blood sugar. It may
be challenging because of your sugar cravings and
addiction to certain foods, but after a few weeks your
body will change and you will start craving good
foods that are healthy for you. Stick with it!

STRESS — I talk about stress all the time. If you are
experiencing chronic stress you are overworking your
adrenal glands and profoundly affecting your
gastrointestinal system—weakening it. If your
chronic stress is not dealt with, you cannot heal your
leaky gut, indigestion, and other gastrointestinal
conditions. Most of us need adrenal gland support in
the form of some kind of adrenal supplement. Support
to your adrenal glands will in turn help take a load off
of the rest of your body. But, you must deal with the
stress. Stress is only of two origins: internal and
external. Sounds easy. What is going on in your life
that you can reasonably change to reduce your
external stress?

CHIROPRACTIC and IMMUNITY — A practical
application in an office visit.

Let’s go back to the clinic. Nerves relate to muscles.
Muscles relate to organs. Everything is interconnected.
Even teeth are related to muscles and
organs. So far so good? Now get ready for some
amazing applications to all that we have discussed.
Here is the magic of muscle testing. If you have been
bad to your adrenal glands, asking them to pump out
more adrenalin than they should reasonably do in a
day or year, the muscles related to this gland are
probably not going to work as well. The gland has a
direct relation to its muscle. So if I test your gracilis
muscles and they are weak on both sides of your body
I might say to you: “You are under stress because
your adrenal glands are overworked because your
gracilis muscles are weak.” And if I test one of your
immune related muscles, the infraspinatous (related
to your spleen), and your lower trapezius (related to
your thymus), and they are weak on both sides of
your body, I might say to you: “You have an immune
system problem.” I won’t know how deep‐seated the
problems are but you are either under an infection
attack or beginning one. At this point I don’t know
what kind of shape your gut is in but if you are like
most people, it’s not great.

Back to the weak muscles. And by weak I don’t mean
I’m stronger than you. I mean when I test your muscle
it goes mushy. What has happened is that your muscle
circuit has blown. The muscle is a circuit breaker for
your glands and organs. When the muscle circuit has
blown, it has to be re‐set. Exercise won’t do this,
thinking about it won’t do this, pills won’t do this. It
has to be re‐set manually or with a laser on the
specific muscle point.

Before I re‐set the muscle I will test for a specific
nutrient or nutrient compound to help the circuit hold
and tell you to stop doing the things that you are
doing that have made this problem in the first place.
Is it possible to have multiple muscle circuits not
working? Yes, this is the way most of us are and why
we have all kinds of health problems. These muscle
weaknesses are the body’s clues that something isn’t
right.

During an office visit, after the muscle reflexes are reset,
the glands and organs involved literally come
back to life and begin taking on their functions again.
Many times however, the circuits, muscles, glands and
organs have not been working for so long it takes
multiple times to re‐set and allow the body to heal.
Yes, you get to come back.

IMMUNITY SUMMARY
Your immunity begins with your digestive tract. It
doesn’t come in an antibiotic or vaccine. You have a
great built-in system for dealing with all the germs in
the world!

There are several other specific glands/organs that
help with immunity—spleen, thymus, adrenals, brain,
lymphatics to name a few.

The way we can check your immunity is to test the
correlated muscles. If we challenge a muscle while
asking the right questions your body will almost always
tell us what is wrong. It gives signs and symptoms that
we use to help you get better.

The most important thing you can do is live a lifestyle
that is helpful for your body to heal and repair.

Lindwellness.com

Your Neglected Immune System (part one)

60% of Your Immune System is Found in Your Gut!

“All diseases begin in the gut”, said Hippocrates. And back when he said this they didn’t have all the junk we have today. Gastrointestinal problems are the most overlooked and most common health problems today. Who do you know that doesn’t have digestive problems? How many TV commercials talk to you about digestion offers?

Billions of dollars are spent every year on digestive aids. While the drugs offer temporary and sometimes immediate relief, the underlying causes of the problems go ignored, and people end up far worse down the road.

Problems with digestion lead to immune system problems. The lining of the gut is an important immune barrier and poor gut health leads to autoimmune diseases, thyroid problems, immune problems…

GUT FLORA — One of the first things to go in a poor digestion is your gut flora or bacteria. Normally, you have 3-4 pounds of natural bacteria in your gut designed to help your digestion and immunity. But how many antibiotics have you taken that kill off your natural bacteria? How much food do you eat that has antibiotics added?

One of the very first things we do to help people is get them on PROBIOTICS. You have to replenish your natural gut bacteria and stop killing them off. A good source of Probiotics is one of the best things you can do for your overall health.

STOMACH ACID — Another common problem is low stomach acid. When food is not digested it putrefies, ferments, and becomes rancid in the stomach (gas—eek!) The small intestine won’t accept the rotting mess so it backs up into the esophagus irritating the delicate tissue causing heartburn. But eventually this rotting mess does pass through the small intestine where it causes inflammation, infection, and intestinal permeability called LEAKY GUT — this is an intestine so sore it has tiny holes in it.

In any case you need a hydrochloric acid supplement so your stomach gets to a more acid state to digest your food. Also, stop drinking sodas and energy drinks, taking Tums, and eating poorly digestible foods like pizzas. These cause pH imbalances!

FAT DIGESTION — We’re talking about your gall bladder, and if you happened to lose it along the way — pay even closer attention. The fats you eat-and you need fat in your diet-have to be coated with bile so they don’t become rancid and produce inflammation and infection in your gut. Guess where bile is made—in your gall bladder. If you have pain after meals someone may suggest that you have your gall bladder removed. You do and wa la, you can eat anything now. But has actually happened is that you have had such a poor diet that your poor gall bladder doesn’t work well so it doesn’t release enough bile. You get symptoms telling you this. Amazing! A sluggish gallbladder causes your liver’s detoxification pathways to back up so you cannot detoxify hormones, toxins, and other metabolites.

If you have had your gall bladder removed or have chronic pain under your ribs on your right side you need gall bladder support now and probably forever.

For more great info go to
LINDWELLNESS.COM

H1N1 ALERT!

This is a newsletter is from a buddy of mine Dr Tim O’Shea; well worth reading.

1. NEW UPDATE AND PREDICTION 26 OCT 09

addendum to 2 previous articles on swine flu
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com

Although the H1N1 panic is at a fever pitch at this time, it’s a safe bet that by summer 2010 the swine flu issue will have faded off into the boneyard of vaccine memorabilia.

Remember you read that here.

Policymakers have well discerned that this particular illusion has a finite shelf life, due in no small part to the ever-shortening attention span of the collective American mentality.

We must recall that the commotion in recent years over smallpox, anthrax, SARS, and Avian flu lasted only as long as necessary for the drug and vaccine funds to be allocated. Once that happens, there is no longer any motive to continue to fan the flames of pandemic hysteria – a media campaign like that requires so much effort, and costs so much money to maintain, especially for a disease that never existed in the first place.

The template for this type of disease diversion is now firmly established – so why tamper with a working model? Our textbook refers to the abrupt media blackout which routinely signals the end of the line for these creations – we call it The Case of the Disappearing Threat.

Once it becomes evident that the vaccine and the drugs assigned to the current pandemic du jour, that these are dangerous and completely ineffective, the global threat itself, which has been hawked incessantly for months and months as the disease threat may bring the human race to extinction – is suddenly gone. Poof. Like it never existed. Just like.

And no one ever asks where it went, or thinks it odd that something presented so urgently suddenly vanished. And then magically no more cases of the horrible global killer are ever heard of again – not even one. This is precisely what took place not only with smallpox, anthrax, SARS, and avian flu phantasms of recent years, but with the 1976 swine flu vaccine disaster as well. Remember? One might be grateful for the good manners of these individual pathogens who were gracious enough to simply disappear just because we were unable to come up with any drugs of vaccines that actually worked. Such politeness.

Anyone paying even moderate attention to the parade of emergencies that have been making their appearance lately with almost routine regularity, might begin to be desensitized to the urgency of these situations, vaguely remembering that since they survived the last one, well they’ll probably survive this one as well. The slightly more vigilant might begin to notice that most of the programs result in a viable vaccine being developed, and thereby the threat to themselves and their families will eventually be neutralized.

LICENSED AND UNTESTED

This is exactly wherein lies the clear and present danger of the current swine flu vaccine program. This swine flu vaccine is actually being brought into existence for dissemination among the general public, starting with children. With 5 manufacturers having begun clinical trials only in August 2009, none scheduled for completion until next April, it is an astounding lesson in vaccine politics that the FDA approved the untested H1N1 vaccine on 15 Sep 09, just one month after the testing began!
[ http://www.sanofipasteur.com] Licensed and untested.

We see precisely the same sequence of events that led to the last swine flu fiasco in 1976 – 50 million were vaccinated with that untested vaccine. 21 deaths 565 paralyzed, withdrawn in 10 weeks. And never replaced. Never replaced – that’s the point. Why not? If the threat was so urgent that we had to start vaccinating before the vaccine was even tested, then where did that threat go? Why didn’t we just withdraw the toxic vaccine and then continue with researching and testing to develop one that worked?

CHANGE THE DEFAULT

With just a little research, independent of the popular media, a cognition begins to take shape in the mind of the discriminating reader, that there may be an ulterior agenda here, one that is not necessarily directed toward the overall well-being of children. If such a reader is a responsible parent, the next realization might be to change the default setting with respect to the decision to vaccinate. At present most parents default in favor of – when in doubt, vaccinate.

Many today are changing that default setting: no more vaccines until it is proven to me beyond a doubt that

– the vaccines have been tested and found to be 100% safe with no chance ofharming the child

– that the child absolutely needs the vaccine for optimum immune development

– there are no economic or political agendas involved in the vaccine being recommended

Change the default. It is becoming increasingly clear that natural selection will favor the lines of those parents who take these extra precautions to protect and safeguard the inner immunity of their children.

Who else is going to come forward?

The FDA, who does no testing of their own before making a decision, but relies entirely on the research submitted to them from the companies who stand to make billions in profits if the vaccine is approved?

The vaccine manufacturers, who have been granted 100% immunity from liability for any deaths or injuries? The other regulatory agencies – NIH, CDC, HHS – whose political connections to the vaccine companies are a matter of public record?

But that’s exactly what all the hurry, all the hyperbole, all the outright misdirection is about. They know that they don’t have time to come up with a fully tested vaccine – that would take a year. But by that time the imaginary disease will be gone, with no hope of raising it from the dead. The market is here and now. And everyone – the clinics, the manufacturers, the regulators, and the media – all want their share of the rewards.

Please consider all options
~Dr Peter Lind
lindwellness

Vaccine Ingredients

***URGENT SWINE FLU UPDATE***

In 1976, health officials in US announced that 1 million would die from swine flu but it ONLY killed 1 person. Instead the vaccinations used caused the immune system to attack the nervous system causing “Guillain-Barre Syndrome” or GBS (French Polio). The result: 500 were permanently paralyzed, 52 immediately killed from the vaccinations at a cost $93 million in government payouts to US citizens.

In England, the UK’s Health Protection Agency head of Immunization, Professor Elizabeth Miller warned 600 neurologists that vaccines can cause paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal with death by suffocation. She stated “more people died from the vaccination than from swine flu; some 500 cases of GBS were found; vaccines may have increased risk of GBS by 800%; the US vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when Government scientists confirmed the link with GBS…”

But, this wasn’t the only false scare: In 2003, health officials announced SARS would kill millions and it only killed 251 and in 2005, they scared us with the Avian Bird Flu saying it would kill 150 million and only 257 died (the truth of death in these individuals is questionable as they could have died from pharmaceutical treatments and not the influenza).

All this hype is strange since 500,000 die annually from the annual seasonal flu! Some experts are saying that Swine Flu is just another mutant seasonal flu. Award-winning UK journalist Lynne McTaggert stated: “By sheer coincidence, the US and UK have millions of dollars and pounds worth of Tamifu to hand, which they bought up to combat the avian flu that never arrived. And again, by sheer coincidence, the stocks of Tamiflu are very close to their sell-by date.” Scientists say Tamiflu has never been proven safe for those under 18 years nor can it or Relenza conquer today’s mutating viruses (New Scientist 2009 & Vaccine, 2002:20)? Even the prestigious JAMA journal stated this about Gardasil vaccine “No significant evidence of a vaccine therapeutic effect was observed in analyses….” In essence, it was exposed as nothing more than a grand medical hoax.

Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. proved that 50 to 60% of parents with autistic children were damaged by vaccines and Russell L. Blaylock MD, a world renowned neurosurgeon says the truth is published but – “Much of this information is buried in highly technical scientific journals beyond the reach and understanding of the average person. We are hearing the same cries of alarm from a similar lineup of virology experts. The pharmaceutical companies are busy designing a vaccine for the swine flu in hope that this administration will make the vaccine mandatory before another vaccine-related disaster can ruin their party…. Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense.”

Vaccination: The Deadly Ingredients Formaldehyde is oxidized to formic acid which leads to acidosis and permanent nerve damage — Mercury (THIMEROSAL) – 2nd most poisonous element known to man (next to uranium) — Ethylene Glycol; (AntiFreeze) leads to kidney, liver, blood & CNS disorders…fatal – Aluminum – neurotoxin and dozens of other toxins are in vaccinations –Squalene – Gulf War Syndrome and mutant and genetically engineered infections like mycoplasma were proven to be in vaccinations and the proof was published in medical journals.
Scientific Proof of Vaccination Dangers – A Harvard Certified Medical Education Instructor, Jeffrey Bradstreet, MD evaluated over 2000 children with neurological disorders and along with some of the most highly respected professionals in the country, including Dr Jane El-Dahr of the Tulane University Medical Center; Dr V.K.

Singh of the Utah State University Biotechnology Center; the University of Michigan Department of Pharmacology; Dr Vas Aposhian of the University of Arizona; Dr Anne Connolly of the Washington University Hospital; Dr Walter Spitzer of McGill University; the Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Dr Jim Adams of the University of Arizona; and Dr Jill James, a former FDA researcher, now with the University of Arkansas, Department of Pediatrics has linked mercuryTHIMEROSAL to autism and all sorts of neurological disorders in children.

Yet, the FDA, CDC, and vaccine makers expect us to believe that this long line of highly respected University research is all fraudulent. Dr Boyd Haley, a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry with a joint appointment in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky published more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed literature on the toxic effects of mercury. Since 1989, he has researched mercury and neurological diseases (thimerosal).

Yet, his research is ignored. One has to ask: Why would he spend 25 years of his life conducting bogus studies, rendering fraudulent results and authoring 100 dishonest articles? Dr. David Ayoub, MD on the link between autism and thimerosal, stated, “I can state that the certainty of the science supporting mercury as a major cause of autism is probably more overpowering than the science behind any other disease process that I studied dating back to medical school.”

Lead researcher and pediatrician, Leonard Trasande, said annually, between 316,588 and 637,233 infants are born with umbilical cord blood mercury levels linked to IQ loss and about 4% of babies are born with mercury levels between 7.13 and 15 micrograms per liter which at that level, causes an IQ loss of 1.6 points.

Don’t let the Status Quo become your Status Woe

Lindwellness.com

Health Statistics

“Women who walk 4 hours/week lower the risk of breast cancer by 33%.”
Thune, I. et al., “Physical Activity and the risk of Breast Cancer,” New England Journal of Medicine 336 (1997): 1269-1275.

“The four countries that have the highest consumption of dairy products, are also the 4 nations with the highest rates of Osteoporosis: Finland, Sweden, United States, and England.”
McDougall, John, McDougall’s Medicine . (Picataway, NJ: New Century Publishers, 1985) p. 67
“Approximately 33% of cancer deaths are related to physical inactivity, poor nutrition and excessive weight.”

American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society; 2006.

Makes you wonder what’s going on in society.
Dr Peter Lind
www.lindwellness.com

Protein Shake Rage

Protein drinks have become popular in our fastpaced
society, but aside from offsetting high carbs
or saving time, what are the health benefits to look
for in a protein powder?

Before you go to the local store and buy protein in
a can make sure to read the ingredients. The
protein powder should provide the amino acids
(the building blocks) for cell receptors, enzymes,
hormones, neurotransmitters, antibodies, muscle
tissue, signaling peptides, cell repair and the
necessary precursors for thousands of other
biochemical reactions. Some protein powders have
SPROUTS from cruciferous vegetables that have 50-
100 times the amounts of disease-fighting
phytochemicals than actual plants themselves!

These are the best!

Some other benefits to look for: anti-inflammatory
support, weight support, detoxification support,
bone support, immune support and overall health
support.

Here is how I make a shake for two people:
¾ glass filtered water
2 spoonfuls Stonyfield yogurt
½ cup frozen blueberries
¼ cup coconut
2 bananas
1 spoonful flax seed
Grind this in a Vitamix for 45 seconds then add:
2 scoops Total Green Protein
2 scoops UltraMeal

Then I grind again for about 20 seconds.

This is a great general health protein shake. I make
it about 3-4 mornings each week. The other days of
the week its eggs.

Now depending on what you want to accomplish
you can add any nutritional support that we have
in the clinic. For example, to increase immune
support add Total Bac-T or Total Multimune. For
inflammatory support add Total Inflam. For weight
support add Total Trim. For detoxification add Total
Systemic Detox. You get the idea.

See, you get it all and that’s just in the morning!
Total Green protein is $42 and gives 53 scoops.
That’s $0.77 per scoop of some of the best
concentrated nutrition on the planet. (It comes
from Wyoming)

I wouldn’t dream of offering you what I’ve seen on
the shelves in town. Some are like eating plaster.
Some are so overloaded with amino acids, to get
the ripped effect, that your muscles will go into
catabolism. Most protein powders have an
unconscious amount of fillers.

Total Green has whey which helps heavy metal
detoxification and is loaded with cruciferous sprouts
which protect against cancer. It has fiber and
suppresses appetite helps control blood sugar, and
weight. It has kelp that helps the thyroid and
adrenal glands. It helps support the immune system.

Do this a few times a week and enjoy good health.

HEALTHY DIET – Chiropractor Salem OR

Getting Through the Holidays NOW!

Let’s begin with Halloween. You have two choices: 1.
Eat candy 2. Don’t eat candy

To make this more palatable, before you eat any Halloween
candy do this: READ THE INGREDIENTS FIRST! If you find high
fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, processed
molasses, processed honey, malto dextrin, soy lecithin,
aspartame; please remember if these are not toxic they are
fat makers. Your body does not have natural metabolic
pathways to break these chemicals down correctly.

If you want to play the Halloween game decide now what you
want to have on hand for yourself; raisins, apples, almonds.
For the little tykes—do the best you can (why do we feed
them all the junk?). You may want to limit their intake to a
small bowl—that’s still too much. But this is you we’re talking
about.

Thanksgiving. Oh the feasting. This is my favorite holiday.
I always try to think about being more thankful and I will try
again this year. I hope you have some things to be thankful
for.

But the food! And the football! And the shopping! (I admit to
shopping a little but can take only so much then I have to find
a coffee shop and read a book).

Thanksgiving meal is usually way overdone. There are foods
that only come out on this Thursday. The problem here is the
food combination. We have carbohydrates mixing with all
other kinds of fats and proteins. Sweet potatoes, cranberry
sauce, applesauce, breads, stuffing…you name it, it shows up
at the table. Then add some kind of pie or fantastic dessert
and you are in for it.

Think about what you are doing to yourself. The turkey
(protein) is trying to digest with all the carbs you’ve
overloaded on. You have created a war zone in your digestive
system and there’s no chance of being unscathed. You fight it
out until all you see is the floor to which you succumb to,
with a pillow. And it doesn’t matter what game is on or what
store is open—you’re finished.

A rational approach to Thanksgiving. Decide before you
even sit down, like today, that you are not going to stuff
yourself, no matter who made it, whose house you are
invited to, or how good it looks. You can’t eat it all and you’re
going to regret eating too much. So decide now that you will
have a little of this, none of that, and a larger portion of live
salads (Jell‐O, pistachio salad, cranberry salad, and the like
are not real salads). One or no bread. A small portion of
yams. A little drink of water (juice is artificial sugar—read the
ingredients, a little wine, never milk). And if you need
dessert, wait an hour or two. It will taste better if you really
want it (I will have a little pumpkin pie—mom’s coming).
Help clear the kitchen and an hour later take a walk. What
could be easier! A good meal and no regrets.

Christmas Season. If we make it through Halloween and
Thanksgiving without a hitch we begin the Christmas
season…a month‐long assault of all kinds of goodies that
people come out of the woodwork to offer. Some of these
kind people decide that they will take up cooking and baking
during December and stand grinning wide, holding a plate of
their “goodies” for you to test. Be careful. They mean well
but it is not in your best interest. (This of course does not
apply to you who bring in your wonderful works to us.)
Getting through December is the toughest. But MAKE YOUR
RULES now about food and goodies before it comes uponyou.
Don’t wait for New Year’s resolution which is nothing more
than public repentance for ending the year badly.

As New Year’s approaches you will not feel guilty, you will
feel better, and you will have a much better beginning of the
New Year. Do this for yourself this time around.

The following list comes from MY LAST DIET. If you want the
entire handout please email us and ask for it. If you follow
this list you will stay mostly on track.

III. DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT
• Soft drinks and Diet soft drinks (they’re worse!)
• Splenda/Aspartame/Nutrisweet (blue or pink
packs = poison!)
• Glutamate as in monosodium glutamate, MSG
• French fries
• Doughnuts
• Potato chips
• Refined protein powders
• Margarine, Crisco
• Trans-fats, partly hydrogenated fats/oils
• Hydrogenated oils, all low-cost vegetable oils:
soy, corn, canola
• cottonseed (not even edible)
• Mayonnaise (not the ones advertised)
• Iodized salt (its inorganic)
• Soy in any form: milk, meat, protein, formula, tofu
It blocks minerals and enzymes.
• White flour, white bread, and all flour products
• White sugar
• Evaporated cane juice
• Organic cane sugar
• Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup

There you have it. You’re on your way to making it
through the end of the year.

Dr Peter Lind
Chiropractor

Chiropractor Salem OR

Seattle Wellness Conference 2009
This is an update of the latest wellness information:

Wellness Update

Your Newsletter is in the press and about to be delivered via mail to the comfort of your home any day. There is another motorcycle story that is going to be reprinted in the Oregon Triumph Newsletter next month. Also, a couple of other health insights and a wellness contest we’re all going to get involved with. This has never been done and I’m looking forward to it—a great way to get through the holidays and New Year, healthy. I know it’s too early to think about it but we’re all going to begin this next month.

The Flu:
It used to be that the flu season came and went without so much as a media blurb about it. Some people got sick, some didn’t, but we all got over it.

(The CDC lists 36,000 people die every year from the flu—what they don’t say is that most of these people die from complications of pneumonia and respiratory problems–the real number is less that 1,200 and those are the severely imununologically compromised).

Now, thanks to the media we all know when it will arrive—around the middle of September. Hey, that’s now. And you know people in masses run out and get the flu shot.

But here’s something they don’t know. When anyone questions you about you not getting a flu shot, have them read this article that just came out from Science News: “Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu”

I know I sound like a broken record but when you understand vaccines you either understand health or sickness.

In health,
Dr Peter Lind
lindwellness.com

A Rare Motorcycle Ride

I had the rare opportunity to go on a three-day motorcycle ride with about 20 other bikers. What was rare about it was that most of them were Harley-Davidson riders. Now, if you know anything about the biker culture, we (sport bikes who want to ride) and them, have a friendly feud.

This group was from the church I attend with the pastor riding one of the biggest, baddest, and loudest Harleys. I have no problem with loud as long as I’m in front and don’t have to listen to them.

We started from Salem, Oregon, in one long line and rode together out toward the coast until I and my group of sport bikes riders couldn’t take it any longer and pulled away. We met in Pacific City for lunch. My group had time to get a cup of coffee at the corner café and rested awhile before the group rumbled into town.

Now, you’d think when it’s lunch time, well, that it’s time to eat. But not Harley guys. No. They all pulled out a rag and their cleaning chemicals and went to work on their bikes. Chrome, it gets dirty. A couple of guys had to get out their tools and make some “minor adjustments”. Oh brother.

So off we went, ahead of them to Tillamook. Tillamook Creamery is one big tourist site. Many other bikers were there on their own trips and we all looked at each other’s bikes pretending to be interested in them while we had the famous Tillamook ice cream. You can get the ice cream in the store for a fraction of the price but there’s something about someone scooping it out for you, especially while you’re on a bike.

We left Tillamook after an hour break and since we were going to Seaside the Harley guys thought we’d ride as one big group again. Slow going because they’re Harley guys but also we were trying to stay together.

Some of us managed to break free which wasn’t a great idea because none of us knew where we were going.

Again bikers parking illegally

A small group of us are parked here in Seaside because we are lost. Notice the “No Parking” sign. Bikers think they can park anywhere. My bike is the second one in. The first guy you see in the photo is the sheriff.

Now the sheriff was an interesting guy. He rode with us in the fast bike group and I carefully studied some of his riding tactics. See, once you’re on a bike it doesn’t matter if you are a servant of the law, like him, or a chiropractor, like me. Speed limits are only suggestions. One time him and I took off quite fast and his bike is light and his front wheel kept coming up. That’s too fast. Mine didn’t so I’m thinking I had more control — two wheels safely on the ground. Also, on this particular run, I missed a gear going into 6th (still ahead of him) just as I noticed a friendly policeman coming at us. No worries, we hadn’t gotten into speeds high enough to register on radar. (I think that’s what the sheriff told me).

Harley guys like to ride around most towns very slowly and rev their engines. This makes quite a scene for pedestrians. I’m not much for it because for one, my Triumph Sprint overheats when I’m going too slow. For another, there’s no sense to it. The other thing is — get this — their bikes vibrate like nothing I’ve ever seen. The entire thing shakes violently. I wonder how many teeth are chipped by a Harley vibrating at a stop.

Harley guys wear these caps on their heads. They call them helmets but I wear a helmet, not a cap. They say the need to feel the wind in their face…whatever, ride your bike a little faster and get out of the fast lane, you’re holding up traffic. I might wear one of their caps some day, maybe after I go down so I can feel my ear peel away from the pavement.

Harley guys will form discussion groups around one bike and they’ll point and touch and make profound comments about a new chrome part the owner had just put on — maybe a cover to a spare part. It’s cost is always between $300-$400. They’ll all nod their heads and agree that that particular chrome bolt was worth it.

Harley guys always have rags in their bags. In fact, I believe they have one bag devoted to rags. With this they will stop every moment and polish something that just got dirty or that they missed the last time they stopped. Which leads me to the most troubling notion about Harley riders…

Harley riders don’t like to ride. It’s the honest truth. They like to sit in easy chairs a short distance of their bike and just look at it — staring. They don’t really want to ride it. They want to stop every 15 minutes for some kind of excuse: water, restroom, food, or whatever just so they don’t have to ride. I can’t stand it: “hey you’re supposed to ride the dang bike.”

On the way home my group of six lead the way. Now traffic on the highway from the coast was very busy when we came back. Makes for an exciting ride. I did have a close call as I passed between two cars that the sheriff told me later it reminded him when Indiana Jones just barely pulled himself from a room just as the door about closes on his leg. I didn’t think it was that close. It was rather exciting.

In all, it was a pretty good trip. I learned how to stop more often, look at my bike and talk about parts, and rag the thing down. I guess that’s all helpful sometimes. It’s always good to get away from your normal surroundings and around people that have a different take on life. That’s good.

I usually take a sport cycle ride over Labor Day weekend and cook for the guys on my birthday, but didn’t go this year. There will be other times and more rides.

Is there a point to this motorcycle madness? Yes, if you look for it and it is to say this: it’s important to take a new and different view from normal patterns in life. Every new experience adds to your versatility in life and increases your experiences. But you don’t have to get behind a Harley.

Dr Peter Lind
Lind Wellness

Wellness Care Salem OR – Press Release

Wellness Care Salem OR – A complete description of wellness care for chronic health problems.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sep 3, 2009 – Chronic health problems are increasing at an insurmountable pace in the United States with no slowing in sight. The proliferation of pharmaceuticals and other drugs has caused a deep dependence on the companies that supply them. There are few programs in the health and wellness industry that offer natural protocols and procedures to help a person healing and wholeness.

A new chronic wellness program of care has been designed for the person with a chronic health problem. It is specifically for the complex, multi-system health conditions that a person has had for years. Qualification of care is based on:
A. How serious the health conditions are presently.
B. The number of health conditions a person has presently.
C. How long a persona has had the health conditions.
D. How many drugs a person has taken for the conditions.
E. Life history including stresses and traumas.
F. What is found in the wellness evaluation.

The following protocols are used but not limited to:

I. The Adjustment: A) The five-sense reset. This adjustment mode enhances the five senses and retrains the brain and nervous system. Once the senses have been reset there is improvement in feeling, seeing, hearing, and the sense of smell and taste improves. B) Balancing the peripheral nerves. This is an adjustive procedure that improves the nervous system function and literally reprograms it to work better. C) Emotional stress. This adjustive procedure will improve reactions to stress, whether past or present, and allows a person to deal with stress in the future.

II. Therapeutic Procedures: Active procedures are introduced to increase range of motion, improve strength, improve flexibility. These are preformed with modalities such as low level laser, ultrasonic frequencies, vibrucussion, and active and passive movements.

III. Nutrition and Homeopathy. Specific nutrition and homepathy is carefully chosen to target the faulty parts of the body and nerve system to allow it to repair and heal from the inside out.

IV. Oxygen Therapy. Supplemental oxygen is supplied to the oxygen-starved brain and muscles. Oxygen stimulates brain activity, increase memory, boost concentration, raise energy, improves strength, detoxifies blood, alleviates muscle tension, improves cardiovascular activity, help irregular sleeping patterns, strengthens immune system, and helps healing. Oxygen supplies fuel to the brain.

V. Microcurrrent Therapy. There are points on the outside of your ear (auricular) that directly relate to parts of the brain and body. A very mild current on these points can help improve health conditions in other parts of the body and mind.

VI. Detoxification and Ion Cleansing. Ion cleansing and other detoxification methods are implemented to reduce toxins.

These new procedures are designed to offer a solution to the massive chronic health conditions that are plaguing the people of the United States. More are being developed currently. Only a limited number of people are accepted into this wellness program. Other home-instruction courses are being developed for people who are immobile and these will be available in the near future.

For further information please review the website at http://www.lindwellness.com or call 503-581-6846.

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Forced Vaccines

After more than 30 years US District Court issues injunction to stop compulsory vaccination Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 – For Immediate Release:

30 years after compulsory vaccination became US Law: US Court issues an injunction to stop it and to hold the the government and drug companies responsible for reactions.

A Preliminary Injunction to stop mandatory vaccinations has been issued in the United States District Court of New Jersey. This comes after a federal lawsuit opposing forced vaccines was filed in that court by Tim Vawter, pro se attorney, on July 31st with the federal government as defendant. When the judge signs the Preliminary Injunction, it will stop the federal government from forcing anyone in any state to take flu vaccine against their will. It will also prevent a state or local government from forcibly vaccinating anyone, and forbid any person who is not vaccinated from being denied any services or constitutional rights. Vawter’s filings included a Complaint, and several pages of evidentiary Exhibits.

Vawter’s legal papers have been written not only for filing in federal court, but additionally so they can be looked at by activists around the world for ideas on filing lawsuits in their own countries to help stop forced vaccinations. Vawter believes that as the truth of the dangers of flu vaccines continues to become known, banning the forced use of them will eventually succeed on a worldwide basis. He cautions people to avoid fear and keep themselves focused on the task of blocking forced vaccination.

Preliminary Injunction will immediately halt mandatory vaccinations in the U.S.

The Court, having heard the Motion for Preliminary Injunction and read the papers in its support, states in the Preliminary Injunction that it appears the federal government has engaged in some amount of negligence with regards to failure to properly investigate the safety of the flu vaccines scheduled for use in late 2009-2010, and the evidence submitted does warrant a more thorough investigation into the safety of the flu vaccines.

The Court ordered that the government shall be forbidden from forcing any person to be required to take any influenza vaccination against that person’s free will and free choice. The government will not allow any state or local government, or any party, to force any person to be required to take any influenza vaccination against that person’s free will and free choice.

U.S. government sued for gross negligence and violation of the Constitution. In his Cause of Action, Vawter charged that the federal government has engaged in gross negligence by funding and promoting flu vaccines that are proven to be dangerous and manufactured with little oversight. The vaccines scheduled for use in late 2009 and 2010 contain heavy metals including thimerosal mercury, which have been proven to cause autism in children with lowered immune systems, and other dangerous and toxic ingredients. The federal government has stated it will force these flu vaccines onto the American public against their will, under a document signed by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

He further charged that the vaccine makers stand to earn billions of dollars selling vaccines, and are already spending tens of millions advertising a “Phase 6 Pandemic” that the evidence shows does not really exist. The federal government has not required the World Health Organization (WHO) to show evidence of such a pandemic. There has been no collection of facts, sworn testimony, witnesses being questioned, hearings being held, or lie detector tests being given when preposterous statements have been made. The WHO declared a massive “Phase 6 Influenza Pandemic”, even though only a few hundred people worldwide had so far died of this swine flu virus, and when far more people die each year of regular flu.

Vawter noted there is a preponderance of evidence to show that the federal government so poorly trained its employees that they eagerly agreed with the unsubstantiated claims of the WHO in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Forced vaccination would violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing the government to enter homes and force people to be vaccinated, or to forcibly remove people to another location for vaccination. It would also violate Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights by depriving people of liberty without due process of law.

Vawter charged that the federal government has engaged in gross negligence by failing to properly investigate factual evidence submitted by esteemed medical professions over many years which proves flu vaccines have caused serious damage to people. The CDC has stated that thimerosal mercury is being used in the new flu vaccines being prepared.

The government has failed to investigate profiteering. Billions of dollars in vaccine sales can cause organizations to falsify threats so as to cause unwarranted public hysteria leading to forced vaccinations.

The government is guilty of gross negligence because its employees failed to properly investigate the release of a case of live swine flu virus. One of the main companies the government deals with, Baxter Vaccines, was apparently involved in the transporting of live bird flu virus that was released on a public train earlier this year. A lab technician with the Swiss National Center for Influenza in Geneva had traveled to Zurich to collect eight ampoules, five of which were filled with the H1N1 swine flu virus. However, failure of the dry ice in their container allowed pressure to build up, and the ampoules exploded as the train was pulling into a station.

The highly reputable UK newspaper “the Telegraph” reported on July 2nd that flu vaccines tested on homeless people caused twenty-one of them to die. Vawter charged there is a preponderance of evidence to show that government will not provide people being vaccinated with a list of the vaccine ingredients and possible negative side effects before they are vaccinated. Most of the public will not know this flu vaccine contains thimerosal mercury.

Vawter submitted an Order to force the government to publish vaccine ingredients and side effects, and to give this information to everyone who takes a flu vaccine, and do so at least 3 days prior to their vaccination. A denial of this order would violate Plaintiff’s rights to demand the government obey the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by requiring it to engage in freedom of speech. The First Amendment not only allows a citizen to have freedom of speech himself, but it allows a citizen to demand his government engage in freedom of speech when it is promoting the use of such as these vaccinations to the public.

The government proclamation stating a person cannot sue for any damages he receives from the flu vaccine, completely bypasses the congress and the court system in violation of the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution which grants the right to sue to recover for damages. Vawter submitted an Order to deem unconstitutional any proclamation, rule or similar law that forbids people from suing for damages resulting from the vaccines of 2009 and 2010.

Protect Us From Compulsory Pandemic

Dear Peter,

Thank you for writing to us on this important topic. At this time in
Oregon, there are exemptions allowed for mandatory vaccines. In the
case of a pandemic emergency, the Governor’s declaration would override
the exemptions. We understand how this is disturbing when one considers
Constitutional Rights. The executive decision would be for the good of
the public health as determined by evidence and science. Currently, the
H1N1 vaccines are still in trial. I have read that the neurological
side effects that were discovered in association with the Swine Flu
Vaccine in the 70’s are not evident in this vaccine. It also appears
that the virus is fairly benign for most of us except children and
pregnant women in addition to those who have prior respiratory
conditions. Given the facts that the virus is fairly benign and only a
third of the actual needed number of vaccines will be produced by
October, it does not appear that there will be a mandatory vaccination
on the horizon for now.

We appreciate your active citizenship on this issue. Please feel free
to contact us again. We will be watching the issue closely.
Representative Cameron is very concerned about public health/safety and
your Contitutional Rights.

Sincerely,
Mattie Day
Legislative Assistant
Rep. Kevin Cameron
OR

Prevent Pandemic Vaccines!

Take Action! Help Prevent FDA from Approving Pandemic Vaccines for Use on All of Us Absent ALL Safety Testing

1. Say “NO!” to Forced Vaccination
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

Join the New Citizens Petition! Stop FDA Approval for Untested Vaccines
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

At last! An effective and powerful legal action with the potential to stop the FDA’s planned approval of Swine Flu Vaccines without any, repeat ANY, safety testing. Three far sighted health freedom leaders have banded together to take action to protect us all and invite your help, and your organization’s help, too.

2. Join in: Demand FDA NOT Approve Vaccines Before Completion of Safety Testing
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

Remember: Take Actions 1 and 2 Once for Each Member of Your Household

Dr Peter Lind
http://www.lindwellness.com

Health Care?

Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Wellness Clinic Salem OR

Wellness Clinic Salem OR

An introductory release from Lind Chiropractic Wellness describes each component of there wellness protocols. People new to the clinic are explained the six interferences and then they are evaluated on a multiple day series to determine their specific interferences. Steps then are taken over a period of time to remove them. Specific and individual protocols are used depending on the faults found.

The interferences are listed as:

1. Structure: The Body’s Electrical Lifeline
The nervous system is the body’s electrical system – it controls and manages all functions of the body. If a nerve is pinched by vertebrae that are out of place, then it is not functioning — it is subluxated. It is located in faulty brain and body patterns, and trauma in the muscles and joints. They are corrected through a series of gentle Chiropractic Adjustments. These adjustments address painful conditions and will allow the nerves to heal and an environment will be promoted that will help regain optimal health.

2. Electromagnetic Pollution: Introducing a New Stress
Electrical pollution is everywhere. Power lines, air wave communication, florescent lights, and computers – even hair dryers – are affecting the society’s health and energy. Many people feel weak, have headaches or just feel ill when they work in front of computers or under florescent lights. It is often electromagnetic pollution causing these feelings. There are new techniques that can reduce and eliminate the harmful effects of electromagnetic pollution.

3. Allergies: Clogging the Channels
Allergies are very common such as gluten, pollen, dust, and mold. Allergies may interfere with health. The root cause of allergies can be determined and a new protocol called Allergy Elimination Reprogramming Technique is often very successful to reduce and rid allergies. These new methods are effective and are completely natural.

4. Detoxification: The Toxins, Poisons, and Debris
Toxins are everywhere now more than ever before. They often can’t be seen, tasted, smelled, or felt. 100% of people on earth have been found to have to have heavy metals, pesticides, dioxins, PCBs, or styrene in their body fat waiting to cause cancer and other diseases. Today there are medications in community drinking water. Detoxification is on everyone’s list. Cellular cleanse foot bath, homeopathic heavy metal detoxification, and powerful nutritional chelation are used in this clinic to rid toxins, cleanse, and restore body health.

5. Nutrition: Repair and Rebuild the Body
Nutrition is the soil for health. If a person is sick, the body is not rebuilding itself from the inside out. To heal the body needs the right nutrition and supplementation to the diet. This wellness clinic offers Specific whole-food based Nutriceuticals to give a correct combination of minerals, vitamins and enzymes that is optimal for each individual body’s chemistry. Unlike the typical commercially available products these supplements are formulated to guarantee results. Each person is specifically tested for the specific combinations their particular body needs to return and maintain an optimal state of wellness.

6. Emotions: Mind is More than Matter
Every physical condition has an emotional component. Stress, thoughts, and emotions are pure energy; some are high and intense and some are low and depressant. Health problems will reoccur over and over unless the underlying emotional components are discovered and corrected. Emotional Balance is paramount for wellness and may be one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy life. New protocols are used to safely reduce and remove a toxic emotions.

In addition to these more protocols are being developed that enhance the clearing of each particular interference. More chronic health problems are developing in the United States than ever before so new and natural wellness protocols are fast on the scene to help rebuild health and well-being.

For further information go to lindwellness.com or call 503-581-6846