THIS BOOK IS PRESENTED IN THREE SECTIONS: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Essays on Personal Dr. Heather Hunt, D.C. Strengthening Exercises to and Planetary Health (THE “MOM SECTION”) Help Prevent Injury and (THE “ESSAYS SECTION”) Pages 299-310 Promote Healing Pages 1-298 (THE “STRETCH SECTION”) Pages 311-419 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 — ESSAYS ON PERSONAL AND PLANETARY HEALTH Page Profile of Dr. Dale Jacobson.............................................................................................................1 Essay Comments ..............................................................................................................................6 Chiropractic and General Anatomy Information .............................................................................8 A Brief History of Chiropractic............................................................................................ 8 Old Chiropractic Philosophy .............................................................................................. 8 Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation ..................................................................................... 10 What Is “The Pop” Sound? ................................................................................................ 12 Development of Spinal Curves ......................................................................................... 13 Questions People Incessantly Ask a Chiropractor .........................................................................15 Simple Back Anatomy ....................................................................................................................20 Spine Bones ...................................................................................................................... 20 Joint Function and Disc Herniation .................................................................................. 21 Sequence of Joint Breakdown .......................................................................................... 24 How We Deteriorate: The Collagen Connection ..........................................................................26 The Nervous System In Briefs .......................................................................................................29 Simple Joint Neurology and “The Pop” ............................................................................ 30 Whiplash in Brief ............................................................................................................... 31 Human Composting for Beginners ................................................................................................33 The Story of Your Bowel Bacteria ..................................................................................... 33 How Babies Acquire Immunity and Flora ......................................................................... 41 Good Things About Natural Yogurt—Particularly Goat-Milk Yogurt ............................... 44 German, Surinamese, and Egyptian Microbe Stories ....................................................... 46 Amazing Yet Mildly Interesting Facts of Digestion, Microvilli, Gut Microbes, and the Origins of Disease ........................................................................................................48 Food Your Good Gut Microbes Love ................................................................................ 50 Digestive Anatomy ............................................................................................................. 50 General Gut Microbe Information .................................................................................... 53 Dr. Albert Schweitzer Meets Normal Bowels .................................................................... 55 TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED) Page Comments on Fiber and Constipation ............................................................................. 56 Non-Fiber Gut Problems ................................................................................................... 57 The Importance of a Healthy Gut: From Birth and Beyond............................................. 59 What Hurts Your Gut Flora? .............................................................................................. 59 How Do Bad Microbes Hurt Your Body? .......................................................................... 61 Gut Problems from Grain and Milk .................................................................................. 62 How You Digest Certain Foods: Carbohydrate Digestion ............................................... 63 Protein Digestion .............................................................................................................. 64 Fat Digestion ..................................................................................................................... 64 Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 65 “Lacto-Fermented Foods” — Particularly Sauerkraut and Yogurt .................................... 66 Lacto-Fermenting .................................................................................................. 66 Brief Technical Interlude ...................................................................................... 67 Sauerkraut Ingredients: ........................................................................................ 67 Partially Interesting Facts Regarding Lacto-Fermentation .................................... 68 What About Milk? Its Benefits and Dangers ...................................................................................69 History of Milk and its Nutritional Downfall .................................................................... 69 How Milk Has Been Degraded ......................................................................................... 70 Pasteurization .................................................................................................................... 71 Homogenization and Its Dangers ..................................................................................... 71 Non-Fat and Skim Milk ..................................................................................................... 72 Lactose Intolerance, Ear Infections, and the Like ............................................................. 75 Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) .............................................................. 76 Raw Milk vs. Cooked Milk ................................................................................................. 78 Milk Overview ................................................................................................................... 79 Why Goat Milk Products? ...............................................................................................................81 Consumer Guide to Buying Dairy Products ..................................................................................84 Milk ................................................................................................................................... 84 Cream ................................................................................................................................ 84 Cheese ............................................................................................................................... 84 Yogurt and Kefir ................................................................................................................ 85 Butter ................................................................................................................................ 85 Eggs ................................................................................................................................... 85 Good “Non-Oxidized” Cholesterol Is Good for You ........................................................ 87 Don’t Eat Soy (Unless It’s Fermented, and from Organic, Non-GMO Soybeans) .........................88 Soy Milk ............................................................................................................................. 91 Soy Protein Isolate (SPI) ................................................................................................... 92 Soy Infant Formula ........................................................................................................... 92 Textured Vegetable Protein .............................................................................................. 96 Soy a Cancer Fighter? Dream On ..................................................................................... 96 General Soy Information .................................................................................................. 97 Big Soy Business Stuff ....................................................................................................... 97 The Soy-Monsanto-Bush Gang Connection ...................................................................... 98 The War on Dietary Cholesterol: How Corporate Medical Quackery Is Rapidly Degrading America’s Health ............................................................................................102 A Discussion of Fat, Oil, Cholesterol and Heart Disease ................................................ 102 The Three Kinds of Fats .................................................................................................