C-reactive protein (CRP) is a globular protein that increases in the serum as a response to injury or inflammation.  It also turns out to be a good predictor for cardiovascular disease.  A study appearing in the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association (2005;8(1):43:44), involving 27,000+ women, found that CRP was a better predictor of cardiovascular disease than LDL (bad) cholesterol.  High CRP levels have actually been associated with mortality from all causes.  A CRP level greater than 3 mg/L in men was found to increase the likelihood of death by almost 2 fold according to Clinical Chemistry (2008 Feb;54(2):335-42).  The high CRP levels increased the likelihood of a heart attack by a factor or 2.15 and increased the likelihood of cancer by a factor of 1.65.  A  recent study appearing in Free Radical Biology and Medicine (Oct.

C-reactive protein (CRP) is a globular protein that increases in the serum as a response to injury or inflammation.  It also turns out to be a good predictor for cardiovascular disease.  A study appearing in the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association (2005;8(1):43:44), involving 27,000+ women, found that CRP was a better predictor of cardiovascular disease than LDL (bad) cholesterol.  High CRP levels have actually been associated with mortality from all causes.  A CRP level greater than 3 mg/L in men was found to increase the likelihood of death by almost 2 fold according to Clinical Chemistry (2008 Feb;54(2):335-42).  The high CRP levels increased the likelihood of a heart attack by a factor or 2.15 and increased the likelihood of cancer by a factor of 1.65.  A  recent study appearing in Free Radical Biology and Medicine (Oct

Study Says 74% of Chronic Whiplash Patients Improved with Chiropractic A new study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine1 not only points out the superiority of chiropractic care for chronic whiplash patients, but also examines which chronic whiplash patients respond best to chiropractic care. The authors begin the paper by explaining that: “Conventional treatment of patients with whiplash symptoms is disappointing.” “A retrospective study by Woodward et al., demonstrated that chiropractic treatment benefited 26 of 28 patients suffering from chronic whiplash syndrome.”2 The question was not whether chiropractic was beneficial for acute whiplash patients, but to determine “which patients with chronic whiplash will benefit from chiropractic treatment.” The authors interviewed “100 consecutive chiropractic referrals for chronic whiplash symptoms,” seven of which were “lost to follow up.” They were able to divide the remaining 93 patients into three symptom groups: Group 1: patients with “neck pain radiating [referred pain] in a ‘coat hanger’ distribution [or pattern], associated with restricted range of neck movement but with no neurological deficit”; Group 2: patients with “neurological symptoms, signs or both in association with neck pain and a restricted range of neck movement”; Group 3: patients who described “severe neck pain but all of whom has a full range of motion and no neurological symptoms or signs distributed over specific myotomes or dermatomes.” These patients also “described an unusual complex of symptoms,” including “blackouts, visual disturbances, nausea, vomiting and chest pain, along with a nondermatomal distribution of pain [pain was not distributed along “normal” nerve supply pattern].” The patients underwent an average of 19.3 adjustments over the course of 4.1 months (average)

What Every Sufferer Should Know. . . If you’ve ever had a pounding headache that ruins your day, makes you unproductive at work, or gets you sick to your stomach, than this letter may be very important to you.