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Episode 24:7 How Mardi Gras, Lent, And Valentine's Day Can Improve Your Health Believe it or not… There are health lessons you can learn from Mardi Gras. There are health lessons you can learn from Lent. There are health lessons you can learn from Valentine's Day. Each of these lessons are important. Each of these lessons are health-promoting. Unfortunately, none of these lessons were taught to yo...

Episode 24:6 The Key To Successful Prayer: Understanding The Difference Between Your Spirit, Your Soul, And Your Body   The past two episodes of the Get Healthy Alabama podcast focused on how to use prayer AS a treatment.   Emphasis was placed on shifting your focus AWAY from your ailment and towards the perfection of God.   A perfection that resides within you!   Several listeners have already ta...

On last week's episode we talked about how to use prayer AS a treatment. The topic created quite a stir as people aren't used to using prayer AS a treatment. Instead, they are only accustomed to using pray FOR another form of treatment. For example, people are only familiar with praying…  1) For God to heal them. 2) For God to give the doctor wisdom. 3) For a specific treatment to work. Certainly...

  Episode 24:4 Need A Healing? Here's The BEST Way To Pray   When it comes to healing, most people believe in the power of prayer.   And, when we pray, we typically pray for three things:   1) For God to heal the person.   2) God to give the doctor wisdom.   3) For a specific treatment to work.   Praying like this is certainly good.   Unfortunately, it's not Biblical!   That is, nowhere in the Bib...

Episode 24:3 The Roadmap For "Not Getting Sick" Imagine having a roadmap you could follow. A roadmap that would help your body heal from chronic disease and get you off of prescriptive drugs.  Would you be interested in it? Of course you would. Now, imagine that this same roadmap, if followed, would also PREVENT you from getting sick. Would your interest be even greater? Once again… of course it w...

Episode 24:2 How To Detox The Right Way: Part Two There's a lot of talk this time of year regarding "doing a detox." On this episode we teach you the right way to do one. Specifically we share six topics you need to know if you want to get the most out of a detox program: 1) It's NORMAL for there to be toxins in your body. 2) It's NOT normal to have an abundance of them. 3) An abundance of toxins...

Episode 24:1 How To Detox The Right Way: Part One What better way to start the new year than with a "detox?" While that certainly is a good idea, most people make a BIG mistake when it comes to detoxification programs. Specifically, most people limit their "detox" to the use of nutritional aids to cleanse their physical body, And, while that's helpful, it's not enough.  You see, your health is det...

Episode 23:52 Want To Know The Future? Here's Our Predictions For 2024 With 2023 coming to an end, a lot of people are wondering what to expect in 2024.   We, of course, have the answers. Or so we think. On this episode we share 7 health-related predictions for the year 2024. Some of these predictions are encouraging. Others are not. In fact, a few are quite depressing. However, there IS a silver...

Episode 23:51 Viruses and Bacteria: What You Need To Know And WHY You Need To Know It What's the difference between viruses and bacteria? There are several answers. One is that bacteria are "living" organisms. Viruses are not. Another difference is that bacteria reproduce… viruses do not. They replicate. And because viruses replicate, they need a "host"… an entity they can attach to and use as a "...

Episode 23:50 The Forgotten Factor Of Health Ask anyone what it takes to be healthy and you'll probably hear the following response: Exercise and eat right! That's certainly a good answer, but it's incomplete. Incomplete because there is MORE to being healthy than just diet and exercise. Specifically, there are Mental and Emotional factors that play a huge role in determining one's level of health...

Episode 23:49 Whole Food Supplements To Help Prevent And Treat The Flu  Welcome to December... time for cold and flu season! Unless, of course, you choose NOT to participate. How? How can you NOT participate in the upcoming cold and flu season? It's easy: Stay healthy! On this episode we share natural, whole-food supplements you can take to help keep your body healthy over the next few months.  Su...

Episode 23:48 The Ultimate Health Quiz How much do you know about health? Specifically, how much do you know about the principles of health… and of health care? On this episode we dive into some very important questions regarding the basic fundamentals of health. Questions EVERYONE should be able to answer correctly… yet few do. Questions that will open your eyes to what's wrong with modern medici...

Episode 23:47 Want To Be Healthier? Make EVERY Day Thanksgiving What if EVERY day was Thanksgiving? Not for the turkey, dressing and sweet potato pie. Instead, what if we took time each day to give thanks for all that we had? That is, what if, on a daily basis, we practiced having "an attitude of gratitude?" Would we all be healthier? Of course, we would. We'd sleep better… fight off colds better…...

Episode 23:46 A Natural Approach For Balancing Hormones   Symptoms are messages from your body that something is wrong.   That something is "off."   The key to healing, TRUE healing, is to identify and correct whatever is CAUSING the symptoms.   To identify and correct whatever is "off."   We talked about the importance of symptoms… and natural ways to correct them… in the past two episodes of the...

Episode 23:45 How To Heal Your Body Naturally Please answer the following Yes/No questions. Thanks! - Is your blood pressure high? - Is your bodyweight higher than it should be? - Is your A1C (blood sugar) level high (above 5.6)? - Do you often go a whole day without having a bowel movement? - Does your stomach often feel bloated? - Do you need caffeine to "get going?" - Does your back, or any oth...

Episode 23:44 Seven Messages Your Body Is Constantly Sending You Regarding Your Health We live in a hi-tech world.  A world filled with gadgets and gizmos… all created to make life easier and better.  This is especially true with regard to health care.  Technological advances have given us diagnostic and treatment tools that were only dreamed about in the past. However, despite all of the "new and...

Episode 23:43 The Interesting Role Vitamin D Plays In Low Testosterone Levels, Infertility, Osteoporosis, Restless Leg Syndrome, Itchy Skin, Hives, And Canker Sores On the last episode of the Get Healthy Alabama podcast we talked about the role sunshine and Vitamin D play in helping you look better, feel better, lower your cholesterol levels and boost your immunity. On this episode we take that co...

Episode 23:42 The EASIEST Way To Look Better, Feel Better, Lower Your Cholesterol and Boost Your Immune System Each year, people spend billions of dollars trying to look and feel better. They spend billions more trying to lower their cholesterol levels and strengthen their immune systems. On this episode we share with you the EASIEST, and most inexpensive, way to accomplish these goals. Let me say...

Episode 23:41 Natural Alternatives For The 10 Most Prescribed Drugs: Part 2 The following are the ten most prescribed drugs in the United States: Lipitor Lisinopril Albuterol Synthroid Norvasc Gabapentin Prilosec Metformin Amoxicillin Prednisone While the use of prescription drugs certainly has its place, NONE of the drugs listed above do anything to correct the underlying CAUSE. Not only that, AL...

Episode 23:40 Natural Alternatives For The 10 Most Prescribed Drugs There are 330 million people living in the United States. That's a lot. However, that number (330,000,000) pales in comparison to the number of prescription drugs filled each year in the United States. It's 4.83 Billion. Yes, that's Billion with a B. 4,830,000,000 4.83 Billion prescriptions filled for 330 million people. Do the ma...

Episode 23:39 Two Powerful Influences On Your Health: Morning Sun and WHEN You Eat Did you know that your body has an internal "clock" that helps it control all of its functions? Actually, that's not true. Your body doesn't have ONE internal "clock" that helps it control all of its functions… It has two! Hormone production, neurotransmitter production, insulin production, digestive enzyme producti...

Episode 23:38 Considering A Booster Jab For Your Child? PLEASE Listen To This First The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently recommended that everyone get the new Covid Booster vaccine. This includes infants, children, and adolescents. WHY??? Needless to say, the topic of vaccines is controversial, but WHY would a booster be recommended for anyone under the age of 21? Will it prevent death?...

Episode 23:37 Genetics And Your Health - Everything You Need To Know Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, anxiety, depression, Alzheimer's, arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Parkinson's, alcoholism, eczema and psoriasis. You probably know that your genes play a role in these and virtually every other chronic disease. However, you may not know what that role is. On this episode w...

Episode 23:35 Happy Anniversary Atlas Chiropractic - Lessons Learned These Past 30 Years 30 years ago, on September 1, 1993 Dr. George Burroughs opened the doors to his office, Atlas Chiropractic. On this episode, BetyLou Pierce and a special guest sit down with Dr. George to ask him questions regarding this 30 year journey. - Some of the questions were easy, such as "Why did you name it Atlas Chi...

Episode 23:34 "82 Looks Good On You" - Happy Birthday BetyLou On this episode we celebrate BetyLou's 82 birthday (August 28) by getting her to share with us her secrets for living a long and healthy life. Specifically, we get her to expound upon the five principles that make up her KISS system. KISS, according to BetyLou, stands for "Keep It Simple Sweetie" and it's a philosophy that she has alway...