Rebuilt U: A Show About Unlearning

If you ever thought life was tough, this will inspire you. If you thought you were strong, this will make you stronger. If you need hope, this is it. If you think America is bad, you absolutely will want to listen to this. This is not a typical interview about health, but it is about perseverance and human endurance and an unbending will to survive. This was an inspiring interview for me. I hope you enjoy it. -Dr. Altman

Are you over 30 and getting REFLUX? PART 2: Digestion Part 2 is on digestion and getting this right can make everything else you do better. So why is digestion second on the list? Your nervous system is first because it controls everything. Digestion is next because it controls whether or not nutrients get into your body. Since, nutrition is one of the cornerstones to your health, you need good digestion to utilize the good food you're eating and the whole food supplements you're taking. Take a look at the symptoms ABOVE. These all represent some kind of digestive problem, but the most common, the most insidious, the most over looked, and the most dangerous is acid reflux. So, if you get the burning after supper, we should talk. It is alarming to me when I walk down the grocery store aisles and look at the empty shelves of acid blocking products. There are countless people, unknowingly, slowly, killing themselves and it doesn't have to be that way. This is physiology 101. #1 You were born with, and need

Why 30? This is the magic age. I thought it was all BS too, but once I crossed 30 years old, I noticed more aches, more pain, less energy, and in general, a feeling of not being quite the same. If you feel terrible and you aren't 30 years old, you have more trouble than you realize. Why? Because every decade after that gets harder, degeneration accelerates, nutritional deficiencies compound, and your ability to heal, in general, declines. Take advantage of youth. If you are like me, and well north of 30, then life can still be great, it just takes a little more work. Hence, this 6 part series. We are going to walk through a basic plan to get most health conditions resolved. -----------------Quick office update------------------------------------------ We have officially moved to Murray, Utah. Hours, directions, pics Check online SLCSAW.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take a quick look through the list above. If you have no problems in this section, c

Yes, it's the 1980's all over again. It seems unbelievable, but this is a reality. Let's say your kid falls and need stitches -$10 Let's say you break an arm -$10 Let's say you need a strep test -$10 If you participate in the regular healthcare system, those could be $100's to $1000's of dollars. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Rachot pulls the curtain back on medical care in America. We have been forced into a health (sickness) system that is unsustainable. Copay's are at an all-time high. Deductibles are at an all-time high. What do you get? Basically nothing but a big bill. I speak from first hand experience. The system exploits patients, it's wrong and it needs to change. But, it can't until you and I do something. If you are tired of paying obscene amounts of money for nothing? You can change that. That is today's podcast. If I get my way, you'll be able to use chiropractic care to prevent problems and basic medical care for 90% of the other problems that pop up in life, all for less than you are pay

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof, but on the basis of what they find attractive. - Blaise Pascal I've had 2 instances in my life that made me stop and question my beliefs. The first one was when I hurt my back. I was just playing volleyball and instantaneously my back went into a crippling spasm. I spent the whole night on the floor (literally I couldn't get into bed). I was 21 and thought I could do anything. I could do anything, until that day. It was so humbling. Heck, I'd even broken my leg 7 years earlier and that didn't phase me like this back pain. I think it was because I was debilitated. I realized I could be taken down at a moments notice. That chiropractor changed my life forever. I saw scoliosis, I had been accumulating for years and didn't know it. I changed my behavior and I've had adjustments almost weekly ever since. I didn't know what I didn't know. My beliefs about myself, life, and health were completely upended. The other time, I was sitting in

The great thing about this job, is that I get to meet a wide variety of people. I think every one has something to teach me. The super healthy and the super sick both offer lessons. A couple of months ago I had someone come in that was "too late", much too late. Advanced neurological destruction and severe liver problems. Those are hard ones, because there is a point of no return for the body. One of my pet projects over the last 20 years has been to find as many ways to prevent problems as I can. I think it's important because it can keep you from jumping the rails and going off course. Yesterday was Fathers Day and I took the day to read, and read, and read some more. I'll admit, I was very lazy. I had some interesting things jump out at me. Health is a nebulous concept, like wisdom. There is no end point to arrive to. But, we definitely know what unhealthy is. That's pretty easy. You have pain. You are over weight. You are chronically tired. You have diabetes. You have XYZ disease. There are more tha

9 Secrets of Energy Production (+Memorial Week Hours) -------Memorial Day / Week Crazy Hours----- -Monday (Memorial Day) -Closed -Tuesday -10-6pm -Wednesday -12-6pm -Thursday -10-12:30pm --------------------------------------------------------- Is energy is in short supply for you? Today, we're not talking about the basics, I'll give you a little more to think about. And...don't even think about an "energy" drink. The shear popularity of these drinks is a indicator of the need for real energy and not stimulants. Just to refresh.  The basics of energy are function and nutrition. So look to these and check yourself. If you have these down, then the 9 secrets will kick you up a notch or two. #1. Nutrition. Energy is a fundamental byproduct of food being broken down into the useable form called ATP.  ATP is the bodies gas. Think of it like raw oil coming from the ground and being refined to a useable gasoline. If you put bad gas in your car, it'll run poorly. Your body needs good whole foods, not cereal,

This is a fun, quick episode. This is really and episode to get you moving.    With today's topic, I'm going to give you some insider perspective. I see all aspects of health every week. Some people are struggling to rebuild their bodies and some are setting new records for strength.   Talk to any doctor and they'll ask about your exercise and tell you it's good for you and you might even need more.   What if you didn't exercise for a year?  Did your heart just stop? Would you be relieved?   Ask yourself this... What do you ultimately want from exercise?   Do you want to be healthier?      -Great, exercise can usually do that. Do you want to look better?      -Exercise might help, you might need something else. Feel better?      -Exercise might help, you might need something else. Lose weight?      -Exercise is definitely the slowest way to do this. Maintain your strength?      -Exercise is your ticket. Gain strength?      -Gotta go with exercise again. (Really just free weights are the way to go) Yes, I real

I have 2 teenagers and I am fully aware of the increase in stress. Being a parent could be one of the most stressful things in life, especially now.   Todays guest will impart 35 years of wisdom on parenting and as a pastor he sees all manners of family dysfunction.    If you improve your skills as a parent, your life will be much less stressful. As a chiropractor for nearly 2 decades, I can tell you stress is one of the primary causes of poor health.   So when I hear patients saying their kids are killing them, they are actually speaking the truth.    If you get a lot out of this interview, you can get hours of more free info on his churches website.  Smccutah.org

Just do a little today and every day. Would you rather fill your house up with garbage and take it out once a year? Or Would you rather take it out daily? If you answered with number one, I think we can get you on a guest appearance of "hoarders". Many people actually never take the garbage out...of their bodies that is. Your body has the ability to take the garbage out with it's own detoxification mechanisms. But, it needs certain nutrients to do that. Popcorn and chips don't qualify. If you've never done a detox program or do something to improve your liver daily, this is for you. Ideally, helping your liver daily is the best thing you can do. Why? We are surrounded by a toxic soup. Toxins rain down from the sky, are in the water, and on the food you eat. You can not escape them no matter how hard you try. No matter if you live in a cave in the mountains. If you don't believe me, we can get you tested for about $250. National geographic paid more than $10,000 to have a journalist tested for everything they

What happens when Dr. Altman's date night turns into a nightmare? I was sitting in a restaurant with my wife having a nice date night 6 weeks ago. We got a phone call that instantly altered our life. You think bad things will never happen, until they do. It was loud in the restaurant so we didn't hear the phone in time and just got the voice mail from my son. "Hey, Grace (my daughter) was in a ski accident and broke her leg"...CLICK. Of course calling him back didn't work. As a parent, having one of your kids seriously hurt is one of the worst feelings. Then having to wait...and wait...and wait for news is like the air being sucked out of the room. The ski patrol called me back and told me she broke her femur and would likely need surgery. What !!! My nightmare kept getting worse. So my evening started on a date and 5 hours later, we were in a deserted waiting room at 12:30am while my daughter was in surgery. Life has so many twists and turns. When people hear "femur fracture", the cringe face always shows up

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." Desiderius Erasmus I was riding the train in to the office last week and I listened to this profound podcast. This particular podcast was by a business coach, who has been helping teach for more than 40 years. He said there is only one thing that separates success. It's your habits We've talked about this many times, but I think it is so important to getting healthier and then maintaining that. If you've ever done a "diet" and lost weight, then gained it all back, probably more too, then your habits weren't changed. If you've done a boot camp fitness program, lost weight then proceeded to go back to your old ways, then you really haven't changed. If you even go to the chiropractor, feel better, then quit going for a few months and your symptoms return, you haven't changed your habits. If you start an exercise program and get derailed easily, then it isn't part of your regular routine. That habit hasn't stuck. We could go on for a while, and i

This post is very time sensitive only because the last free class (from today’s guest) of the year is Tuesday Dec. 8th. Since this is an interview, listening to it will be much better. It’s in iTunes under SLCSAW #27 Eliminate negative emotions. Today I have a very special surprise guest for you. This is William Wood. He has a very unique talent, and there is something that I think you guys will benefit from a lot. He teaches some very special classes, and he has some free classes for you that will help you with emotions. I just got done talking to him, and he’s got some very powerful insights for you, your future, and your health. So, I’m just going to let him talk a little bit more about what he does. William Wood: Hey, thanks for having me on the show today. I am a certified hypnotherapist, and what I do for a living is I help people with their mind and their heart. My main job is to help you get your mind set- right, so that you can achieve your goal, so that you can lose weight, so that you can feel good

It's often said physically and metaphorically that to combat darkness you need just the smallest amount of light. Last month, I was mad to hear about the DARK act. Deny Americans the Right to Know. Once I got a glimmer of knowledge about it, I was mad and taking action. So were many patients. Last week, I showed you why you can't avoid heavy metal toxicity, especially aluminum. Today, my intent is to shine a little light under your door and show you things happening right in front of you. So here is my major concern for myself and for you. Aluminum is a neurotoxin and it can accumulate in your brain. This study took nanoparticles of heavy metals in the air and exposed rats to them and watched where the metals accumulated. Results: Aluminum- Brain Lead- liver, lung, brain Arsenic- "prominently" in the brain and blood Cadmium- no specific organs So take a wild guess at which disease is a destruction of your brain? It's also running rampant and increasing every year. There is no "known" cause. There is n

Maybe, the most important article I’ve ever written. I’m dead serious. It certainly has taken me the longest, and by that I mean, it’s been 1 year in the making. This article has been the culmination of one years worth of work on MYSELF. But in actuality this article has been brewing for 14 years. Do NOT take this lightly, like I did that many years ago. I’ve been in practice 17+ years and in that time the world and healthcare has changed a lot. What would you say if I told you, I could do a lab test on you, and I could guarantee you’d fail? I have 100% of patients with this problem. No one has ever passed. Not even ME. Now, what if I told you that same test could reveal a major risk factor for a disease with NO cure, none. 1 out of 9 of us will get this disease and the rates double about every 5 years. The one and only solution is to try and prevent it. Would you want to know that? That question will separate the healthy from the sick. If you are overwhelmed by that possibility of knowledge, it’s best to sto

The vanity quiz...Even Cosmo won't print this one. Keep track of your score 0=never 10=always 1. How many selfies on your social media? 0-10+ 2. Do you consider spray tan a BFF? 0-10 3. Would you be OK with looking AMAZING, but you have to feel like roadkill? 0-10 4. Do you look to cosmetics to change the appearance of your skin? 0-10 5. Do you forget to look at ingredients labels of Bathroom products? 0-10 6. Do you use perfumes to smell "pretty"? 0-10 0-19: You can skip to the end and start shopping online at Thrive Market. 20-39: You will want to skip to the end and go to the online cosmetic checkers. These are the best databases for info on toxicity. The FDA is worthless in this arena. 40-60: Keep reading. What's the largest organ in your body? Ding...Ding...Ding...Correct, your skin. This is an area most often over looked by nearly everyone. You are going to learn a lot about toxicity over the next few months so lets start big. If you are eating organic (good job), and cooking your own whole food meals (

This is a new company that I've been asked to help with on a nutritional and chiropractic performance level. But, I think if you have an athlete in the family, you need to listen to this podcast.  They are doing amazing things. Your athlete can be getting sponsors at a very early age. Your schools team could be getting custom uniforms for free. Your athlete and team could be getting a mineral water for free to stop dehydration problems. They could be getting school tutoring to help with grades. They could be getting free chiropractic care to improve health and performance.  I saw the jersey's they made for a local High School team and they were awesome and custom and half the price of what the team paid for them last year. There are many, many possibilities. Just listen to the podcast and reach out to us if you need more info. 

She does yoga, exercises almost daily, she eats better than you do, lectures on health to 1000's of people, she's written a book on health, all doctor's should read. Heck, I even contributed to the book. She runs a health food store. She's spent most of her life dedicated to health and helping others when no one else will. This lady may be one of the healthiest ladies in the Salt Lake Valley. What can be wrong? She has a severely degenerative spine and she suffers from a common human trait, procrastination and a little bad luck. Oh, yeah I forgot, she doesn't have any pain...until I touch one spot on her spine. So walking around she feels great. But, she knew chiropractic can improve health, so she has been going for years and years. Now, you might be thinking, why the heck didn't a lot of chiropractic adjustments help, or the yoga, or the exercise, or the rockin' diet? Actually, I'm pretty sure they did. I think she'd be in very serious trouble and possibly in a wheelchair if she hadn't. That's how severe so

The point of today's class is to highlight some of those lesser known things that can interfere with your ability to lose weight, or maintain your homeostasis (body balance). Dysfunctions of the body aren’t always obvious. Have you ever heard of someone with thyroid problems? They most likely have a lower metabolism because of it. It makes it hard to lose weight. The nerves that go to the thyroid come out of the neck. Hmmm. Now, thyroid problems could be also be from iodine depletion, adrenal fatigue, soy consumption, tap water, common tooth paste, eating bread can drop thyroid output, and dieting too much and resticting your calories too hard. You may have just read that last paragraph and thought, “what are you talking about?” toothpaste? water? soy? Healthy metabolism and healthy weight is a reflection of lifestyle. Quick fix celebrity trainer diets don’t work in the long run. If you’ve neglected your body for 20 years, it’s going to take you some time to recover it and hard work. What I want you to learn

In part 1 of Weight Loss we talked about the basic fundamental that "you can't out exercise a bad diet."  After that email, I got a reply from an old patient from Minnesota. She was kind enough to let me share it. "Hey Doc! How’s it going? I enjoyed this article and what I find even more surprising is that as much as you tell people that you should do more weight training if you want to see results, 90% of the people will still kill themselves on step machines, treadmills and ellipticals. You can also tell them what to eat but if they are not specifically training for a purpose – something they have for a goal, they will never stick to that diet. It’s exactly what it took me to be serious about what was going in my mouth. It’s all about clean eating and weight training. Not Jenny Craig, not trive, Not Isagenix or whatever it’s called, just the all natural eat what you should be eating that wasn’t created by some company to force your body to drop the pounds. Just saying…I’m off my soap box now. Hope you’re d