About Dr. Michael Polsinelli, DC

I really enjoy my work. It is a combination of listening, analyzing, and the skill of performing my craft. I love the expression on my patients faces when I puzzle out a long standing problem of theirs, or when their pain leaves after gently adjusting them. Read more about me

Healing Properties of Sea Salt

In Salt: Your way to Health, author Dr. David Brownstein, M.D. states that regular table salt (iodized and non-iodized) is actually harmful to us. Refined salt is devoid of minerals and co-factors that are essential for health. Table salt can also contain anti-caking agents and dextrose that some people react to. At the same time, […]

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Chemical stress and the Upper Cervical Misalignment

Chemical stress is one of the five stressors than can cause us to go out of alignment. Previously, I have written about physical injuries, physical stress, emotional stress, and lack of sleep. When we are overloaded chemically, our bodies naturally will detoxify. In order for our bodies to do this work, nutrients are needed. Some […]

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Anti-Vitamin Supplement Legislation Sneaked Into Financial Reform Bill

I was just alerted that the congressional version the banking financial reform bill has an amendment to increase regulation of nutritional supplements. Long time natural health foe, Henry Waxman (California), inserted language into the legislation before congress passed it. (A quick search at opensecrets.org shows that Waxman’s main donors over the years has been allopathic […]

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The Ileocecal Valve and Chronic Pain

This weeks Topic of The Week.   One of the things that I look for when people are in chronic pain is an open (or sometimes closed) ileocecal valve. The ileocecal valve is the valve between the large and small intestine. The small intestine absorbs nutrients from food and brings it into the blood stream. […]

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Health Benefits of Coconut Oil

This weeks Topic of the Week is on the health benefits of coconut oil. I was introduced to coconut oil several years ago by my mother, also a bodyworker and naturopath. (I followed her out to massage school in 1991 where I met Jordan, but that is another story.) One visit, she asked me if I […]

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Vitamin D Lab test

I’ve written about vitamin D, and how 75% of us are deficient in it.  While I use muscle testing to find out if a person needs vitamin D, a blood test is necessary to find out how much a person is deficient.  Unfortunately, if you don’t have the “right” insurance, this blood test can be […]

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Lack of Sleep and the Atlas Misalignment

This weeks Topic of the Week. Previously, I’ve talked about certain stressors that will knock our atlas out of alignment causing a deep twist in the spine and nerve irritation. Among the things that this twist and irritation can cause are headaches, neck and back pain, herniation of discs, weakness, fatigue, high blood pressure, and […]

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Emotional Stress and the Upper Cervical Misalignment

This weeks Topic of the Week. Initially the atlas bone will shift out of alignment after a physical injury. After we get the atlas back into its proper position it can go back out of alignment. Emotional Stress is one of the major causes of the atlas going out of alignment. (Other major causes are […]

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Better Than Organic Milk?

This weeks Topic of the Week We’ve stopped buying organic milk. The reason is that the organic milk that is locally available are all homogenized and ultra-pasteurized. Pasteurization is the process of heating milk to kill off bacteria found in raw milk. This kills off all lactase producing beneficial bacteria as well as any possible […]

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Drugs That Deplete Vitamins

This weeks Topic of the Week When taken regularly, some frequently prescribed medications can diminish or deplete your body’s stores of important vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. If you take any medications, talk with a nutrition-oriented medical professional about whether you should add certain supplements to your daily regimen. TYPE OF DRUG EXAMPLES – NAME […]

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Product of the Month: Ubiquinol 20% off

For 2010, I’ve decided to highlight different products each month. Ubiquinol is the activated form of Co-enzyme Q-10.  Supplementing with it is much more effective at raising blood CoQ10 levels than supplementing with CoQ10. CoQ10 and Ubiquinol is an essential nutrient and antioxident needed for the electron transport chain. The electron transport chain and Kreb’s […]

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Physical Stress and Spinal Misalignment

This weeks Topic of the Week Previously, I wrote that if we have a misalignment of the spine, it initially comes from a physical injury. A force tears loose the connective tissue (ligaments) that hold the bones in place. Of all the bones in the spine, the first one (the atlas) is the most vulnerable […]

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Osteopenia: How Merck Manufactured An Epidemic To Sell Fosamax

OK, so while the actual title of the piece over at NPR is How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription, they could have easily used my title. Here are some choice excerpts. On defining what is Osteoporosis: “Ultimately it was just a matter of, ‘Well … it has to be drawn somewhere,’ ” […]

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Gardasil Maker Hires Ex-CDC Head To Run Vaccination Program

The revolving door of politics and business: Merck Hires Dr. Julie Gerberding to be president of their vaccine division. During her tenure as the head of the CDC, Gerberding was criticised by autism activists as a corporate shrill that pushed vaccines and ignored links between them and autism.  Here is a good overview. This is […]

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Largest Nurses Union Criticizes Senate Health Care Bill

From the article: As the NNU has said in its statement on the bill, the loopholes include: Provisions permitting insurers and companies to more than double charges to employees who fail “wellness” programs because they have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol readings, or other medical conditions. Permitting insurers to sell policies “across state lines”, […]

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Topic Of The Week: Sugar and Mid Back Pain

This week, I’ve had many patients come in complaining about mid back pain. Many of you have heard me talk about mid back pain and sugar consumption. With the holidays upon us, many of us (myself included) will eat more sugar than normal. This stresses our pancreas. Applied Kinesiology discovered decades ago that the Latisimus […]

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