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Thursday, July 8th, 2010

3,200 Calorie Mac Is Worst For Kids - Read more…

“All Kids Should Have Cholesterol Tests, Docs Say“. Is it really about All Kids Having Cholesterol Tests, or is it more about adults and parents understanding what labels mean on the items that are shelved in grocery stores; expecting optimal nutritional food from our farms with an accurate representation of how animals are raised and what they are fed and a significantly higher standard of quality of food by our government that comes into our grocery stores? To reduce costs could our farms, our manufacturing processes, our grocery stores, our government be enabling illness and disease?

To read the article titled All Kids Should Have Cholesterol Tests, Docs Say please click on Read more…at the end of this sentence - Read more…

Hospital Bill Not Covered? Now You Can Appeal Denied Claims - Read more…

New Services: Massage Therapy & Inner Chi Theta Healing

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Alice Christensen - Teacher / Practitioner
Offering: Theta Healing - Conversational Hypnosis - Past Life (Crystal Journey) - Chakra Balancing - Reiki
Two Locations: 150 South 600 East - Suite 6C - SLC 84102 and in Stansbury Park
Direct Phone: 435-224-2195
Email: alicestouch@yahoo.com
Web: www.innerchihealing.com

Heather Johnson - Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)
Specialties: Thai Yoga Therapy, Deep Tissue, Swedish, Sports, Reiki, Four-Handed
Location: 150 South 600 East - Suite 6C - SLC
Direct Phone: 801-706-6497
Email: hjohnson1018@gmail.com
“A little karma goes a long way”

Kristal Klarr - Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)
Specialties: Thai Yoga Therapy, Lymphatic Drainage, Deep Tissue,
Swedish / Relaxation Massage, Sports, Four-Handed
Location: 150 South 600 East - Suite 6C - SLC
Direct Phone: 801-706-6092
Email: kristalklarr@gmail.com
“A little karma goes a long way”

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Health & Wellness ~ Lifestyle Issues News Research

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

News ~

Malicious Adults Use Drugs, Alcohol To Abuse Kids - Read more…

Depression May Increase Alzheimer’s Risk - Read more…

10 Products To Always Buy Generic (or don’t buy at all > unhealthy!) - Read more

94 Charged In Medicare Scams Totalling $251M - Read more…

Anti-Clotting Drug Coumadin Recalled - Read more…

LifeSaving Chemo May Put Health Workers’ Lives At Risk - Read more…

Fish Oil May Lower Risk of Breast Cancer - Read more…

Diabetics Turn To Surgery To Tame Blood Sugar - Read more…

More Guidelines Urge More Women To Get Osteoporosis Screening - Read more…

Men Taking Viagra Risk Sex Diseases - Read more…

Expired Swine Flu Shots Amount To $260 Loss - Read more…

Millions Of Vaccine Doses To Be Burned - Read more…

Americans Are Still Getting Fatter, Report Finds - Read more…

9 in 10 Docs Blame Lawsuit Fears for OverTesting - Read more…

Capriati Recovering From Drug Overdose - Read more…

Merck Hit With $ 8 Million Fosamax Verdict - Read more…

Most Americans Consume Too Much Salt - Read more…

Organic Labels May Trick Dieters Into Over Eating - Read more…

Heavy Health Burden: Fat But Not My Fault - Read more…

Do Food Dyes Make Kids Hyper? - See Video…

Which Diet Foods Exaggerate Claims? - See Video…

Big Bummer! More of Us Exercise, But Still Fat - Read more…

1 in 5 Health Insurance Claims Wrongly Handled - Read more…

Biggest Radiation Threat Is Due to Medical Scans - Read more…

Insurer Sues Pfizer for Kickbacks to Docs - Read more…

Stop Texting Dad! I’m Talking to You - Read more…

Six Superfoods for Flatter Abs - Read more…

Six Superfoods for Flatter Abs (Green Tea) - Read more…

Six Superfoods for Flatter Abs (Blueberries) - Read more…

A Summer Ready Tummy Begins With Your Fork (Avocados) - Read more…

Belly Fat Linked to Dementia, Study Shows - Read more…

Dieting for Dollars? More Workers Trying It - Read more…

Unreported Complaints Gets Pfizer Warning - Read more…

Most Cans of Food Contain Controversial BPA - Read more…

Back Pain May Be Widely Over-Treated in U.S. - Read more…

Stress of Daily Grind Takes Toll on Teeth - Read more…

Flying Without A Net: Cheer Injuries on the Rise - Read more…

Feed Your Libido! Get the Better Sex Diet - Read more…

Cholesterol Drug Side Effects Need Watching: Study - Read more…

General Mills Reduces Sugar in Kids Cereal - Read more…

Pesticides in Kids Linked to ADHD - Read more…

Study: Coffee and Tea May Reduce Diabetes Risk - Read more…

15,000 Will Die from CT Scans in One Year - Read more…

Certain Fertility Drugs may Pose Cancer Risks - Read more…

Drug Resistant H1N1 No Major Change in Virus - Read more…

Popular Cholesterol Drug May Hurt, Not Help - Read more…

Drugs that Saved Lives, For Better or Worse - Read more…

Tylenol Caplets Recalled for Moldy Odor - Read more…

Antidepressants No Help in Milder Cases - Read more…

Millions in U.S. Drink Dirty Water, Records Show - Read more…

Omega-3 Deficiency May Be Hurting Our Hearts - Read more…

Menopause Brought to You from the Drug Companies - Read more…

Exotic Juice Health Claims: Pulp Fiction? - Read more…

Autism Seen as an Asset in Some Jobs - Read more…

Decoding Your Food Cravings - Read more…

Downside of Viagra, Possible Hearing Loss - Read more…

Incurable Gonorrhea May Be Next Superbug - Read more…

Too Much Exercise Can Lead To Overuse Injuries - Read more…

Salmonella Triggers Nationwide Sprout Recall - Read more…

Healthier Fries? Trans Fat Limits Are Working - Read more…

When You Lose Weight - And Gain It All Back - Read more…

Cancer Deaths to Double by Year 2030 - Read more…

Growing Obesity Raises Risks of Childbearing - Read more…

Zyrtec vs Zantec - Your Soundalike Drug Stories - Read more…

Antibacterial in Soap Comes Under U.S. Scrutiny - Read more…

Dr. Bob’s Health Blog & New Holistic Services

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Hello and Welcome !

First Read: Dr. Bob’s New Services at Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness:Taking It To The Next Level, Naturally and Holistically:
Second Read: Why I Became A Chiropractor?

First Read: Over my twenty-five years in the healthcare profession I’ve worked with many people with different forms and levels of pain from what I believe comes from the constant physical, chemical and emotional stresses that people unknowingly are exposed to, which in turn lead to oxidative stresses and free radicals in their bodies. These life-long stresses can erode the energy systems of your body and mind, which can eventually be displayed as symptoms, headaches, pain, obesity, different chemical-physical-emotional-mental aberrations / dysfunctions, chronic illness and disease.

Science and research have helped to alleviate many health issues, but before new solutions are discovered new problems are manifested. New antibiotics and drugs will be manufactured, but even the anti-resistant bacteria and our recent H1N1 virus still remain elusive and misunderstood. Such micro-organisms have an innate ability to defend themselves from caustic controls, and perhaps it’s time to employ more natural, less threatening means to enhance a more homeostatic, holistic, body-mind-spirit environment where nature’s reactions can be less provoking, and therefore, more amiable and supportive.

As a holistic chiropractic physician I feel that I can offer the best of all worlds of healing. I can use my hands, heart, intuition and mind to gently optimize the body and mind’s innate internal healing forces, and as a result I can naturally and holistically (that of body-mind-spirit) assist to lessen human pain, aberrations / dysfunctions, illness and disease.

Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness will continue to offer our multi-disciplined holistic approaches, and we will offer the following new services to maximize body-mind-spirit healing integration:

~ Holistically interpret blood-work, hair analysis, urinalysis, stool samples,
~ Measure your oxidative stress, free radical and pH levels to optimize your health and well-being,
~ Ascertain your optimal hormonal, fatty acid, mineral, vitamin D and Co Q-10 levels,
~ Determine optimal amino acid, enzyme, body temperature levels to maximize your health and wellness,
~ Detoxify and purify your food ingestion, and recommend the most optimal and quality of fish oils to maximize health and well-being,
~ New lab work can be performed at your home, or recent previous labs can be holistically re-interpreted,
~ Massage Therapy and Inner Chi Theta Healing is now being offered at our office!

You are welcome to visit our updated website at www.drbobseiler.com, and click on the Chiropractic Community Education home page link, or any link to explore new natural, holistic ways of healing.

You may also call our office at 801.230.0166 to schedule a new patient appointment to begin a fresh new start!

To a wonderful Spring, finally!
Dr. Bob Seiler - Holistic Chiropractic Physician
Offering Holistic Solutions to Usual Health Concerns

As Thomas Edison said, “…The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease…”

Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness
Dr. Bob Seiler - Holistic Chiropractic Physician
150 South 600 East - Suite 6C
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102
Office: 801.230.0166

Second Read: Whenever someone asks a person why they became a chiropractor there is usually a health story associated with it. The chiropractor may have had some life threatening health issues, injuries, or maybe there were some life-threatening health problems in the chiropractor’s family. And for the person involved there was a decision to take the usual medical route with its medications, antibiotics, pills upon pills in all sorts of colors and shapes, medical tests, medical procedures, more medical tests and more medical procedures people, or for a person to begin to head in a new direction with their health and well-being, which involves making many better informed lifestyle health choices!

For me I had no specific health issues as reason for becoming a chiropractor, and I hope and pray that it continues to stay that way. While growing up I always liked to play sports and watch sports on TV.  They were the days of Kurt Gowdy commentating on The Wide World of Sports, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat;  Billy Martin of the New York Yankees always getting fired from his managerial position contesting with an uncompromising George Steinbrenner; Roger Maris hitting 62 home runs in a single year, Mickey Mantle switch-hitting and sailing fly balls to the center field monuments, seeing a double-header at Yankee Stadium, munching on some peanuts and a Yankee hot dog with a coke or a beer;  Bobby Richardson playing second base, Thurmon Munson’s heroics, Clete Boyer at third base, or anticipating the excitement of the New York Yankees being in the September play-offs against the Kansas City Royals with George Brett or the Baltimore Orioles with Brooks Robinson, or just the thrill of taking a day off from grade school to go to Yankee Stadium to see an afternoon play-off  game.

I was fortunate enough to go to Madison Square Garden (the old Garden) and at that time see my favorite team the Boston Celtics, Bill Russell, John Havlchek, Sam Jones and KC Jones, Larry Siegfried with his two hand set-shot on a Sunday afternoon, or seeing the Celtics being down by as many as 20 points going into the 4th quarter, and having the Celtics win seeing  Red Auerbach lighting up a victory cigar. There was Bill Russell blocking  Wilt Chamberlain’s dunk-shots on a Sunday afternoon or watching Wilt do his classical underhand foul shooting.  There was nothing like seeing Walt Frazier, Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley making some spinning moves on the court, or having Willis Reed coming out from the locker room hobbling onto mid-court the court with his knee bandaged and hearing the Knick fans roaring with excitement in the 7th game of a New York Knick basketball playoff game. It could be appreciating Bart Starr quarterbacking for the Green Bay Packers, watching Jimmy Taylor of the Cleveland Browns rushing hard to get five yards, seeing YA Tittle of the New York Giants throwing touchdown passes to Frank Gifford on those blustering snowy  Saturday afternoon play-off games in December at Yankee Stadium. Yea, and there were college hoops all day at Madison Square Garden. They were the glory days of sports…

I was lucky to be around then. And fortunate to be down at the Belleville High School stadium in New Jersey one day where my uncle was hitting some golf shots. He handed me a golf club and asked me to hit the ball…so I grabbed the club, swung the club and hit the ball…and with my natural athletic ability just hit the golf ball…that’s how my relationship with golf began. Which lead to getting up at 4 am during the summer months, walk a few blocks to our local golf course, throw our bagged golf clubs over the fence and start striking putts on the dewed-greens at 4:30 in the morning. After warming up a bit then headed over to the 16th tee box to pop some drives into the dawn. It was still too dark to see the golf ball so you had to rely upon how the ball sounded coming off the club head.  My friends and I were usually the only ones on the golf course at that time in the morning, so we’d get 18 to 27 holes in before the regular paying players,  started on the 1st tee about 7 am. The only time our early am golf was curtailed was when the city park cop on his motor-tricycle would motor around the golf course and would chase us off the course… for not paying (we were kids), but it was pretty cool even when we tried to out run the motor-tricycle.

I had the pleasure of listening to Ken Venturi as a golf analyst describe PGA player’s golf-swing, how to do a chip shot or demonstrate a bunker shot. I learned how to play sport by watching it and then emulating it. It’s how I do my holistic chiropractic service. I can feel, understand what a person needs to optimize their health and well-being, and then put it into action. I only regret when about eight years not knowing too much about Ben Hogan, and not having seen him play too much golf. The British Open still remains my favorite golf event, but The Masters is a very close second, and the US Open Championship on Father’s Day weekend, and then the PGA.

Going to Scotland in the Spring of 2008 to play golf was a dream come true. You have no idea what it’s like to play golf in Scotland until you’re there! To walk those courses, fairways, hills and mounds, to use your imagination, which you are challenged to do, to create a golf shot to get closer to the hole. You don’t hit wedges from 100 yards out up in the air, but  you punch and run a shot short of the green and have it hopefully roll up to the flag. You don’t win against mother nature or the winds of the the Irish seas, because it’s too unpredictable! The tourist golfers would have their flasks in their golf bags and you would think that they would only celebrate a zwig of single malted scotch after a good golf shot, but the Scots and tourists have a zwig after every golf shot…maybe that’s why it’s an experience like none other.

Becoming a chiropractor for me was a rising to the occasion like these described athletic moments and special sporting events. It was choosing an unusual life path…in this case offering people possibilities and options to explore natural, holistic, non-traditional ways of healing…

Where to Begin? Recommended Books On Amazon

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Try amazon.com or your community bookstore:

Abramson - Overdosed America

Adams - Natural Health Solutions

Allport - The Queen of  Fats

Amen - Change Your Brain

Amen - Making A Good Brain Great

Angell - Truth About The Drug Companies

Appleton - Rethink Pasteur’s Germ Theory

Avorn - Powerful Medicines

Baker - The Body Toxic

Barnard - Foods That Fight Pain

Barry - The Great Influenza

Blaylock - Excitotoxins

Blaylock - Natural Strategies for  Cancer Patients

Blaylock - Health & Nutrition Secrets

Braly - Dangerous Grains

Braly - Hidden Food Allergies

Braly - The  H  Factor

Calder - Nutrition & Immune System

Campbell - The China Study

Carlo - Cell Phones

Carper - Miracle Cures

Carper - Your Miracle Brain

Carroll - Lab 257

Cave - What Your Doctor May Not Tell You

Chilton - Inflammation Nation

Cohen - Overdose

Colbert - Seven Pillars Of  Health

Colborn - Our Stolen Future

Cooper - Antioxidant Revolution

Cordain - Paleo Diet

Crayhon - Nutrition Made Simple

Critser - Fat Land

Critser - Generation Rx

Deyo - Hope or Hype

Ellison - Health Myths Exposed

Erasmus - Fats That Heal-Fats That Kill

Farkas - DNA  A-Z

Fuller - Healing Power Of Enzymes

Gertz - Neurology  Made Easy & Understandable

Glemullen - Prozac Backlash

Graveline - Statin Drugs Side Effects

Greider - Big Fix

Gutman - GSH

Healy - Endangered Minds

Healy - Failure To Connect

Hyman - Ultra-Prevention

Kassner - On The Take

Katz - Keep Your Brain Alive

Kelley - One Answer To Cancer

Kolata - Flu

Kremer - Medicinal Fatty Acids in Inflammation

Maroon - Fish Oil: Natural Anti-Inflammation

Mead - Slim, Sane & Sexy

Midkoff - Meat You Eat

Moynihan - Selling Sickness

Murphree - Treating & Beating Fibromyalgia

Newmark - Beyond Aspirin

Oshman - Energy Medicine

Packer - Antioxidant Miracle

Peet - Phospholipid Spectrum Disorder In Psychiatry & Neurology

Perlmutter - The Better Brain Book

Perlmutter - BrainRecovery.Com

Perlmutter - Raise A Smarter Child By Kinder

Pert - Everything You Need to Know To Feel Good

Pert - Molecules of Emotion

Pollan - In Defense Of Food

Pontinen - Low Level Laser Therapy

Rabin - Stress, Immune Function & Health

Richards - Fight For Your Health

Richards - The Leptin Diet

Rogers - Detoxify Or Die

Rogers - High Blood Pressure Hoax

Rogers - Pain Free In 6 Weeks

Ruebush - Why Dirt Is Good

Schaefer - Mind Over Matter

Schlosser - Fast Food Nation

Schmidt - Brain Building Nutrition

Schwartz-Nobe:  Poisoned Nation

Schwarzbein - The Schwarzbien Principle

Schetter - Generations At Risk

Seaman - Clinical Nutrition

Sears: Anti-Inflammation Zone

Sears - Omega Rx Zone

Shaw - Trans Fats

Simontacchi - Crazy Makers

Skinner - Brain Lipids

Sompayrac - How The Immune System Works

Stoll - Omega 3 Connection

Stordy - LCP Solution

Strand - Death By Prescription

Strand - What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutritional Medicine, May Be Killing

Tribole - The Ultimate Omega-3  Diet

Tuner - Low Level Laser Therapy

Vanderhaeghe - Healthy Fats For Life

Vasey - The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health

Walsh - Food Allergies

Walters - Six Modern Plagues

Weil - Eating Well For Optimum Health

Willett - Eat, Drink & Be Healthy

Wilson - Adrenal Fatigue

If You Don’t Have Chiropractic - Medical Insurance?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

If You Don’t Have Chiropractic Insurance?

With the current situation of our economy there are many people unemployed or who cannot afford chiropractic care or medical care.  Dr. Seiler will work with you on a sliding-scale basis, or work with you or your family on a giving-back to our community program to pay for your chiropractic care. Perhaps it’s time for you, a family member or loved-one to have an opportunity to be  less dependent on medications and their side-effects and be more pro-active rather than re-active in improving one’s lifestyle. If you, a family member or a dear friend, or if your business doesn’t have medical or chiropractic insurance and you would like to receive holistic chiropractic care and know more about the benefits of natural, on-going, hands-on, holistic chiropractic wellness care and lifestyle education you may call Dr. Seiler for a Holistic Wellness Chiropractic Lifestyle consultation at 801-230-0166! There is probably nothing more healing in a person’s life than the power of touch.

More people and businesses today are discovering that waiting for a health problem to be treated when it has reached its critical stages is significantly more expensive to manage, then to begin to make the appropriate lifestyle changes as soon as possible in order to increase ones resiliency to pain, injury, illness, disease, and to maximize quality and longevity of  life!

Receiving 15 yearly chiropractic treatments from your insurance company cannot give your body or life the quality of care that it needs!  Insurance companies don’t believe in health & wellness! Insurance companies only and at times reimburse for pain, illness and disease! So if more people took care of their bodies and minds at an earlier age insurance companies would be less profitable, which would force the insurance companies to change their philosophy and system of reimbursement! If people took better care of themselves they could also be less dependent on drugs and wealthy drug companies! Maybe it’s worth re-evaluating to see if paying for chiropractic care from your employer is worth it and instead make better lifestyle choices! The choice is always yours!

More than $1 billion was spent last year for out-of-pocket alternative healthcare!  More than $2 billion was spent on over-the-counter pain relievers!  Over $86 billion was spent on low back pain! Choosing to be resilient to pain, injury, illness and disease is possible if one begins soon enough! The best time to begin is with our children, or if you may be pregnant!

We look forward in helping you!

You can reach us at 801-230-0166!

Lifestyle Wellness Presentation at The Goldenbraid:

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Thursday evening January 28th from 6 to 7:30 pm, Dr. Bob Seiler, a holistic chiropractor in Salt Lake City will present at The Goldenbraid bookstore at 151 South 500 East:

There is a new Wellness Care consciousness developing world-wide, where people, educational institutions, small business & corporations are realizing that healthcare costs have become absorbently expensive, and rather than wait for an illness and disease to develop in our lives or in the lives of our loved ones, and then attempt to medicate, excise or chemo it, we need better informed Wellness Lifestyle choices in this moment!

As a primary healthcare physician, as a holistic chiropractor and healer in Salt Lake City, Dr. Bob Seiler, with his 25 years journeying in the healthcare field, having worked with some of the best chiropractic healers in the country and from having attended the renowned Life West Chiropractic College in Hayward, California, Dr. Bob will present the cutting edge benefits of Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids from fish oil, the Acid-Alkaline and Paleo Diets. The food that we, our children or grandchildren eat, or don’t eat will determine our quality and longevity fo life.

If you or a friend may have stereotyped chiropractors as just treating low back pain, or who may have relinquished the belief in the healing-power-of-touch-through-chiropractic- hands please attend this special evening!  Children, teenagers, parents and grand-parents are welcome!

Recommended Reading:

1). The Omega-3 Connection by Andrew Stoll, M.D., Faculty, Harvard Medical School.

2). The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health - Restore Your Health by Creating pH Balance in Your Diet by Christopher Vasey, N.D.

3). The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain, Professor in the Health & Exercise Science Department at Colorado State University, Member of the American Institute of Nutrition & the Amercian Heart Association.

4). Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels. Ray Moynihan is one of the world’sleading health writers specializing in the business of medicine, and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Alan Cassels is a pharmaceutical policy researcher at The University of Victoria, British Columbia, and dedicated to the improving the quality of Canadian medical reporting.

Recommended Visiting:

http://www.drbobseiler.com

Chiropractic Community Education Healing ~ Links

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Local Community Resources:

SLC Downtown

Buy Local First

Whole Foods

Oasis Cafe

ievolve.org

Goldenbraid Books

Kirkham’s - Outdoor Products

Kanzeon Zen Center

MYO Therapy - Myotherapy Institute of Massage

Massage Therapy Programs

Utah Pride Center

Chiropractic Resources:

Dynamic Chiropractic - Everything you want to know about chiropractic and wellness. The perfect starting point for chiropractic patients and consumers.

Life West Chiropractic College

Neuromechanical Innovations

Welcome to Nordic Naturals

Standard Process, Inc.

Home Metagenics Genetic Potential Through Nutrition

Foot Levelers, Inc.

the Super NanoGreens10, NanoProPRP, & NanOmegaPro Supplements

Metametrix Clinical Laboratory

ZRT Laboratory - Hormone Test, Vitamin D Test

National / International Resources:

Shambhala Mountain Center - An Environment Where Habitual Patterns of Body~Mind~ Spirit Can Undergo Change

Shambhala Community

shambhala.org/community

Sonoma Mountain Zen Center

San Francisco Zen Center

Green Gulch Farm

Meditation Center

Karme Choling - Shambhala Meditation Center

On the Ducati

Friday, August 14th, 2009

A Week in July…Summer 2009,

Even after having two motorcycle accidents (and having recovered…) , which I attribute to my learning curve (not recommended though:) in riding motorcycles, that there is not much that I have experienced that compares to the exhilaration of being on a motorcycle particularly a fiery-red, Ducati GT-1000. My previous accidents have educated me about paying attention to our weather; like when’s the best time to take a motorcycle trip. So I wanted to take a process-work oriented psychology workshop in Portland, Oregon. Getting there by Southwest Airlines in 80 minutes sounded too boring. So why not take the “DUC”?  Going shopping for rain gear, SmartWools, face weather protection, extra motor oil and different riding gloves was like preparing to play golf in Scotland last Spring. One doesn’t know what the weather will blow in…I must say I was a little anxious leaving on that Wednesday morning, packing up the bike with two bags on the back seat with netted bungie cords. Boots, leathers, safety-vest, gloves and helmet on, imagining and visualizing my route and off I go to I-15 North merging with the morning traffic, watching all the people rushing to go who knows where. The further I was from Salt Lake City the more comfortable it was to ride, but just had to watch out for those semi’s slowing down in the slow lane. One could pound into one of those babies…not recommended:). Through Boise, Idaho Falls and onto Highway 20 into Oregon and onto Burns. Stopped in a small town, can’t remember it’s name, had a taco and brew while talking to some welcoming servers. After having my “butt rest” then it was onto Burns. While riding at dusk one needs to make sure that you see the deer before the deer see you. Safely found the “Silver Spur” motel, checked-in and had some dinner and drink. Although I thought of camping out a bed sure did feel real good.

Upon waking up having some morning coffee hit the spot, packed the bike, checked all the securing and off to Bend, Oregon and the McKenzie Bridge Highway. Probably saw about five cars in an hour and had the whole road for myself just whizzing along seeing the McKenzie River, forests and infinite blue sky along with our sun. It was just glorious. Then had to stop at Paradise Campground, which was an ol’ favorite place to recline when I attended the University of  Oregon. By that time it was about 4 o’clock, “butt rest” and brew, which sure tasted good. Back into the saddle and onto Portland. I was aware of the time of the day that I was arriving in Portland with their rush hour traffic. I was always interested in avoiding cars, traffic, road congestion (learned that from one of my previous motorcycle accidents). Arrived at my destinationed Portland youth hostel. Did some unpacking, had a delightful shower and explored where dinner was going to be. Portland is such a great town, fun to walk with many cafes and they even have a Trader Joe’s.

The Process Oriented Psychology Workshop was wonderful. There were about eight of us from different parts of the country…great sushi & sake lunches….it’s all about that “process”…

I was excited about the workshop, but equally excited to get back on the bike. I had been off it for three days and it had three days to rest. Monday morning arrived, had my coffee and in some light rain headed back out onto the Freeway heading West to Tillamook, Oregon (cheese town), although I wasn’t in the mood for sight-seeing a cheese factory, but found it pleasurable having a hommade cheeseburger, fresh soup and some tea. After my respit I was now riding along the Oregon coast, breathing in the Pacific Ocean air, seeing the waves crashing on the surf and wathcing where I was going. Weren’t too may cars and what a rush to see the ocean. Past Newport and Waldport Beaches and headed to Yachats, one of those special places on this earth. To the Drift Inn (a great place) for lunch…salad, another cheeseburger and Oregon’s pinot noir. Yummy,  followed by a walk over to the beach, ocean-waves  and viewing the houses for rent. Maybe we’ll do that some day…

Seeing the Oregon coast was just so beautiful while slowly zooming along on the “DUC”. Being on the bike it another way of being “out-there”, feeling the air in my  face, smelling baked goods at the local bakery or visualizing and smelling that next Italian dinner.

Stay tuned for the next trip…

Trip #2 was pretty short - rather embarrassing to share, but what the hell!  Have you ever done one of those real clutsy things? Well, see if you can top this one!

After attending a chiropractic workshop in SLC about a month ago or so, and I was so excited to have a chance to get out in the sun. So I thought let’s go for a DUCATI  ride, and to enjoy simple pleasures, why not put some gas in the bike. Well, have you ever not paid too much attention to those different colored gas pump handles, sometimes they’re on the right side and sometimes on the left side, and these particular ones usually don’t fit into your car gas tank, but these do fit into a motorcycle gas tank…yea, I put diesel fuel into my motorcycle. I never experienced that before, and I found out first-hand after three blocks what happens to a motorcycle running on diesel fuel. At first it coughs and chokes. The the coughs and chokes become stronger, then it starts to buck like a horse. Luckily I was only a few blocks from home, where the bike laid to rest. After syphooning out as much diesel fuel as I could, and adding extra lawn mower high test, and after taking the bike for a ride with the hopes of burning out the diesel fuel and stopping at a gas station to put real gas into the bike, the bike and I made it home…with sadness and disappointment there lay my motorcycle only to be picked up the next morning by Salt Lake Motor Sports - Ducati dealership. After 2.5 hours of surgery with fuels lines cleaned with new spark plugs and filters, the DUC is a s peppy as ever and did it’s inaugural 2K10 ride passing Hogel Zoo and heading up and over immigration canyon to 80 East - and excited for bike riding this up-coming Spring…

A Zen Koen: I  will always be more mindful of what color the handle is of those gas pumps…

Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness   150 South   600 East   Suite 6C   Salt Lake City, Utah   84102   Office Phone: 801.230.0166

Dr. Bob Seiler - Chiropractor