Welcome to my thoughts...

Just wanted to say hello, my name is Dr. Molly, and I'm glad you're here. The majority of Americans have grown up with an allopathic mindset on health care. The fact is that an allopathic mindset on health care, is actually disease care - focusing on symptoms rather than causes and killing disease rather than preventing it. This way of looking at the world is both expensive (it's always more expensive to catch problems on the backend) and it is a dangerous philosophy. Thrive is committed to being a voice for another way of looking at the world. Chiropractic philosophy differs with allopathy (traditional American medicine) in a myriad of ways, and I hope this blog can be a voice for those differences.

We've all grown up with the idea that we were born difficient, prone to disease, and therefore, from birth, we require anti-biotics, vaccinations, surgeries, and the like. While I disagree with that mindset, I disagree stronger with the focus that we have placed on the drugs and surgery, rather than the environment we are creating on a daily basis by the food we eat, the movement we perform (or lack of movement), our sleep patterns, the toxins we allow around us and in us, etc.

We are more concerned these days with our children having dirt on their hands, than being exposed to bleach or drinking beverages that are packed with sugar and excitotoxins..

Wellness is about caring for your frame, your mind, and your environment that YOU are creating each and every day, with each of the thousands of choices you make in a day.

I'd like to say upfront in this blog, that allopathic medicine has performed many miracles in prolonging life and handling emergency health care. There are brillant people that work in the medical field, who have designed brillant tools to help them in their trade.

But as Dr. James Chestnut (an physiologist and chiropractor) illustrates, if the fish in Lake Michigan where dying by the truck load with sores and cancers, and all things gross, we would not think, "We need to dump drugs into the lake, and we need more fish hospitals with more fishy medical equipment to perform more fish surgeries." We'd be crazy if we thought that. We would instead ask, "What is in these fishes' environment that is killing them?"

Why don't we ask the same question about our own state of health? Maybe it is not for lack of drugs that kids have ADHD, or that people ache with rheumatoid arthritis, or that cancer rates continue to climb. Maybe it is the environment we have created for ourselves, and maybe if we change that, we can solve 90% of our problems - not all, but a chunk.