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Dr. Katie Sokolski, Healing Arts Chiropractic
187 40th Street Way
Oakland, CA 94611
United States
ph: 510-356-7832 (textable)
fax: 510-350-8552
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What Can I expect at my first visit?
When you arrive I will hand you a few intake forms. These should take you about 10 minutes to complete. I will then show you to the exam/treatment room where I will review your medical history with you and ask you questions about your chief complaint.Then we will start our physical exam which includes taking your vital signs and performing orthopedic, neurological and chiropractic tests. These tests help me determine your diagnosis. We will then make the chiropractic adjustments. This whole process should take between and hour and an hour and fifteen minutes. Before you leave we will determine whether further care is necessary and schedule appropriately.
- What is Designed Clinical Nutrition?
- In order for our bodies to function, much less kill unwanted organisms, detoxify and eliminate toxic chemicals or heal itself, we need a correct compliment of nutrients. Unfortunately, most of us today are not getting what we need from the food we eat, and our health is compromised by nutritional deficiencies.Your vitality and energy are derived from live food. Most foods today are all dead—or are not really foods at all—as in boxed cereals, canned vegetables, soda pop, etc. There is a huge difference between dead, devitalized pseudo-foods, even with added synthetic or isolated vitamins, and a diet of real foods that are capable of nourishing your body.“Designed Clinical Nutrition” is exactly that: designed (especially prepared based on a specific plan) clinical (pertaining to the results obtained in clinical use or actual practice on large numbers of patients over many years) nutrition (real food, designed by nature to enable the body to repair itself and grow healthfully).First of all, Designed Clinical Nutrition is not ‘over-the-counter’ vitamins. Over-the-counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not “whole food.” Just like pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical synthetic vitamins can cause serious side effects and other problems (to put it mildly).Because they are not made from whole foods, “over-the-counter” vitamins lack the essential synergistic elements normally present in WHOLE foods and that make the vitamins work. When you give your body a synthetic, partial vitamin, the first thing it will do is attempt to complete the whole complex by using its vitamin stores. In this way, synthetic vitamins can make you even more deficient and nutritionally out-of-balance.An example of a whole food could be carrots. Carrots are high in Vitamin A Complex. A “complex” is something made up of many different parts that work together. Synthetic vitamin A does not contain the whole “Vitamin A Complex” found in nature. So, if we were looking for a food high in Vitamin A, carrots might be one of our choices.If one actually were deficient in any of the components of Vitamin A Complex, one would be wise to seek out a supplement that was made from whole foods that were rich in this complex—not from chemicals re-engineered in a laboratory to look like one little part of the Vitamin A Complex and erroneously labeled as “Vitamin A.”And just because a vitamin label has “natural” on it doesn’t mean it is whole food. Commercially-available vitamins need to have only a small percentage of their content derived from natural sources to be labeled “natural.”In fact, the reason why scientific research on vitamin therapy results in so many conflicting findings is that most of it is done with these shoddy synthetic substitutes.Designed Clinical Nutrition utilizes whole food in tablet, capsule, or powder form, made using a process that preserves all of the active enzymes and vital components your body needs. We create a program designed for you that gives your body exactly what it needs to address the dysfunction found using Nutrition Response Testing.
- What is the "Standard Process" method?
Standard Process nutrients are derived from plants grown on their own farms, in soil free of pesticides. No chemicals are ever used. Ph.D.’s check the soil before the seeds are sown, to make sure of the fertility of the soil. The weeding is even done by hand.
The machinery involved in the processing of these products is made of glass and stainless steel only.
The temperature used in processing harvested plants is never raised above the point of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, so that the active ingredients are not cooked; they remain active and alive, and have a very long shelf life.
Your vitality and energy is derived from live food. Most foods today are all dead - or are not really foods at all—as in boxed cereals, canned vegetables, soda, pop, etc. You can readily understand the difference between dead, devitalized pseudo-foods, with the synthetic or isolated vitamins, and “Designed Clinical Nutrition” and a diet of real foods.- Still have questions?
Please contact me anytime! I look forward to hearing from you.
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Dr. Katie Sokolski, Healing Arts Chiropractic
187 40th Street Way
Oakland, CA 94611
United States
ph: 510-356-7832 (textable)
fax: 510-350-8552
dr