The Jacket

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Recently I gave my pastor (Faith Family Church) a note in the suggestion box. 


In the past year or so I've noticed something.

I've been watching jackets and coats.  Is it possible to think of Keanu Reeves without the Matrix jacket?

So much of the time the lead character in a role has some sort of jacket.

Even the villains have jackets.
The women sometimes do not but can you imagine Angelina Jolie in action without a coat?
(She has pretty cool looking jackets by the way)

Church pastors have the jacket - even the laid back type of pastor in the seekers area.  One guy I saw pull anything off in clothing was Eastman Curtis - only coat I ever remember seeing him in was a leather riding one.  The coat also helps with anyone overweight.  A large basketball paunch can be well overlooked with the cover.

When I met Kiyosaki his shoes were a bit worn....but he sported the traditional blazer when he could have been wearing anything he wished.
See my don't need no stinkin' shoes blog archived April, 2009:  

http://drsmoller.blogspot.com/2009/04/1000-thread-count-dont-need-no-stinkin.html

The Don wears the jacket.  'Nuf said.

So, anyway, I did a little research on the coat and now try to go with one on going out.  Next one I get is another doctor jacket thing (monogrammed and tailored navy long sleeve, not white).   My research was first in movies, then advice on clothing sites like Tom James. 
In school we were made to wear coats most of the time and they were mandatory for examinations and tests.  The reason behind it was that testing scores were markedly higher once the rule was implemented.  President of my school was always dressed immaculately.
I ran across a website which suggested that the proper coat stated strength, power and wisdom.  I thought that was goofy.  I once was told by an instructor that your style of dress should be that of your best-dressed patient/client - that's pretty much what I have realized in most businesses.


So that is the non-comprehensive beginning of doing the jacket/coat/blazer.  The next thing I've done in the past couple of years was testing.  Networks, business to business, meetings, restaurants, outings.  The sportcoat has gotten me more Respect and Recognition.  In the business climate today and also in a quirky profession called chiropractic, those two R's are somewhat of a need. 
I've seen goofy looking kids in coats and the appearance creates a goofy to not-so-goofy transformation (i.e. the prince of Wales kids - you know, Diana's boys).  Rare to see a politician out of a coat, isn't it?


Okay.  Out of school, I strayed from the clothes.  I even showed up at my office in running shoes, t-shirt, shorts - probably a few times in flip-flops.  I was comfortable.  But as a doctor I probably looked like a schmuck to anyone who did not know me and my accomplishments - about 99% of all the people you run into during a day's time.  After about two years in business I hired a consultant after we became friends.  Dr. Kats would personally come to my office and help me out.  His first thing he said?  "Until you are at forty plus per day I will never catch you without a tie."  (No mention on the coat, though).  After his statement I remembered the days at ORU wearing a sweater with a cut-off tie and a knot showing at the neck so we could eat in the cafeteria - oooooooh, sweet rebellion in a tie mandatory school.  I did what Dr. Kats ordered.


You know, I don't really care for the whole dress-up thing.  Its a pain.  I even pre-knot my ties so I can just slip them over my head and I have a large lot of neck extenders for collars so my shirts have stretchy room.  The wardrobe is kept pretty basic and interchangeable. 
In our culture today - following social mores - we can now get along with some scruff and, with the coat, I don't care about the matching aspect and different colors.  I just now make sure I have the things on.  If I were to go with just one style, I would have to defer to the basic blue sport blazer which you can go anywhere with.  I'm not a fan of suits.  Suits are just not my cup of tea.


There isn't much more for me to say on this subject that I can think of.  I'm sure there is a lot more, but those are my basics.  I guess I could say this:  The coat/jacket goes well with the ladies.  This is true.  I've tested the fact.  80% of my business is female.  At the club/bar/restaurant/billiards/bowling - probably have general ratio of 8:1 male-female.  Hmmm, what is going to set you apart exclusively?  Probably not your lucky socks and extra generous personality.




Ha!  Things are good.  Second office location in Scottsdale coming next week.  Hayden/Raintree - AZBodyTherapy.  Sweet.


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Oral Roberts Dead and Alive

Wow.  I can't believe it.  First Billy Joe Daugherty and now Oral.



"God is going to strike me dead unless I get two million bucks and I ain't coming down from this prayer tower until one or the other happens."


Yesterday, I was actually thinking about Mr. Roberts and wondering if he was dead or not.  Its funny how some things happen when you are thinking about how people are doing or where they are at.  Before you know it, they are at your front doorstep.  My morbid thoughts were not that, but, rather ----- Oral was just plain old and I wondered.  I forgot to Google him yesterday.

This morning I almost didn't go to the early CIC meeting.  Woke up late, felt groggy and just went anyway.  The one guy I do not really care for in the group brought up the news of Oral's death and I was shocked.  Almost started crying during the meeting.  I couldn't believe it and I was just thinking about Oral yesterday.

You know, a lot of people will remember him by that goofy fiasco in the prayer tower and that's how it is.  I will always remember other things much greater and realize that, sometimes, we are all human and capable of great stupidity.  Heck, maybe the tower thing was true- I don't know - but it sure was widespread and goofy.  We all do stupid stuff and the higher the profile the worse and bigger things are.  Tiger Woods is our latest great example and no one will take his golf prestige and achievements away in the history of it all.  This tangent can go on and on with other historical figures but I am here to tell you the great things of Oral Roberts.

This is it - Famous Tower Incident Location!

I went to school at ORU pretty soon after the Tower Incident.  Fall of 1990.  ORU changed my life directly and Oral indirectly through his instruments.  My stay at school was the best.  I attended in order to discipline and learn about myself.  It was definitely a selfish matter between me and God.  I didn't like what I was doing in Colorado and met many ORU graduates whose lives had changed because of their experience.  So I went.  Tulsa was a journey and it is now in the past.

I stayed in EMR on fourth floor north, Allied wing.  I hung out with another wing of guys - Am Herratz.  Am Herratz was disbanded after I left because the name fit the description of the guys there and administration didn't like it.  It was good fun and, compared to state school, not all that bad.  Chapel I always looked forward to on Wednesdays and, out of all the world-renown religious leaders/speakers, the very best sermons I ever received were one from Oral and then Richard and also Larry Lee.  Oral was gifted and, I tell you what, he turned that place on.

Small story.  Billy Joe has also passed.  I had an apartment which bordered his Victory properties.  Around 7am many mornings I would see BJ jogging around his land.  All dressed in black and just running on his own keeping up the faith in ORU style of mind, body, spirit.  I enjoyed waking up and going out to see him digging in out there.  I am very sorry to see that he has passed prematurely.

Back to ORU.  Had it not been for Oral, my life would probably be extremely different, I don't know.  Firstly, I would not have met so many great people in the college experience.  Probably never would have worked with Youth for Christ.  Actually, Tulsa never would have been on the map for me.  My spiritual life would possibly be bereft.  Maybe would have never thought of chiropractic as a career.  My ex-wife may not have ever been and my son, Josiah, would maybe not exist.  Former practice in Tulsa would not have happened and sports teams and families I have had privilege to treat would possibly have never reached the radar of Dr. Scott.  Looking at the perspective of things, about fifteen years of my life would have been completely altered had it not been for Mr. Roberts.  Thats over 1/3 of experiences in this short thing called my life.  I really can't imagine the many different turns that may have been taken in my life had it not been for Oral.

Oral Roberts has touched millions directly, indirectly and all in-between.  I know many personally and I also know myself intimately.  Its crazy. 

Some things I really enjoyed at ORU there in one short semester.  With my mom's credit card (got in trouble for using it) I purchased an hibachi grill, love lamp and food.  I got people together on the mid-east lawn by the big tree to cook out in the middle of campus quite a bit.  We got a lot of looks and made friends.  My love lamp was a fancy lantern thing I would hang out with on the front lawns and study or take a girl out and it was a cheap date reading and talking on a blanket.  The gardens were a great place for this as well.
On Fridays I figured out that one of my favorite teachers, Mrs. Ruth Sexton, liked to hang out on the steps by the fire fountain leading to the library.  The first time I caught her I just kind of watched and figured out that she was just looking at the students and faculty and taking things in.  So I joined her every Friday afternoon I could.  Mrs. Sexton was a good conversationalist and she gifted me with a "B" in one of her courses. 
Many late nights I would go out to the praying hands or by the fountains in front of the City of Faith and just sit silent with no one in sight and nothing else around.  There was something I enjoyed while doing this and I do not know what it was that was so enjoyable.  It was just the quiet and, at the same time, simply the listening to nothing that may have been there.  Can't say if that makes sense.  So it goes.

At ORU a large amount of my time was gym time.  I worked at the AC, went to class there, and worked out there.  I shifted times up in the gym over the semester.  Morning workouts I would associate with the swimmers and that got boring real quick.  Sometimes would go at night and it was so crowded.  I ended up at my standard noonish workouts.  I guess it was about halfway through the semester that Oral decided to get in shape and that is also when I decided on the noon hour workouts before and after I was supposed to work and clean the place.
The first time that Oral showed up with his trainer, everyone cleared out of the lifting area as they felt that they were not worthy to be in the presence of the guy.  It was nuts.  A Wayne's World/Aerosmith/Alice Cooper moment.  Oral steps in and ten guys clear out.  I thought this was way too good to be true.  The whole place to me, Oral and his trainer, Coach Johnson.  Too cool, curling, squatting and benching alongside Oral Roberts.  WhooHooooo.  Totally got me stoked. 
Coach Johnson is probably gone now too.  But, anyway, I thought Coach was going to kill Mr. Roberts.  Johnson was the old basketball coach and had to be at least fifteen years older than Oral.  Their training was so sporadic and it looked like some backs were going to break due to totally bad form.  Neither one looked like they knew what they were doing and it was so fun to watch these old men trying to heft some weight.  Everything was so old school.  Something strange I did notice with Oral was that his presence definitely brought something new to the place.  An energy which could not be defined.  I guess it would probably be called his anointing - either that or the air was being hyper-oxygenated (right).  I will never forget lifting with Oral Roberts - even if it was just in the same room.

I am going to miss Oral Roberts.  In a way, his passing sort of symbolizes the final closing of the door to my Tulsa adventure - a symbol for me, anyway.  Its maybe a closing but its no closing to the seeds planted by many many many deeds/avenues Oral brought into so many lives over years of diligent service in Jesus' name.  Oral Roberts is dead and alive.

San Diego Kurt

KURT and his wife, Alex...and the Spyder

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Recently I was treated to a visit with my old friend, Kurt, in San Diego. I tell you what, he and his wife were so gracious. I just had a really neat time and wish we had been in touch over the past 20 years. He picked me up at the airport, carried baggage, fed me. I was truly amazed and touched that they are both true and genuine people. Makes me think of moving to SD.

Kurt and I went to high school together and it wasn't until right around graduation that we really got to spend time doing stuff. He had this idea getting us into business together making shirts called S3, like S-cubed where it stood for surf,ski,skate. Simple design and easy business. After we did that together he went to school and I did the same and thats it. Out of about 450 high schoolers, Kurt is one of maybe five that I always wondered about. Well, we got in touch through facebook and I just had to visit. So I did. Its beautiful being in Phoenix where you get on the freeway and see exits for LA, San Diego and Flagstaff. It only takes a few minutes to get to the airport and costs nothing to fly out of here.

So, anyway, Kurt has two beautiful Ferraris, 911 and fun BMWs that he kicks around in. The Ferraris were just classic driving and the convertible BMW was just plain fun. Had a much different feel than my Saabs. All the cars were just solid. The Ferraris, Kurt drives around in and treats them like gold, not parking just anywhere and they are mostly garaged. I think he takes them out for a brief thrill. Prestige condition on all the vehicles. Kurt is what I would call a perfectionist. His house is exemplary of this, his websites, his vehicles. Crazy.

Seeing his perfectionism made me wonder a bit. Just like I decided on cars that I don't mind parking anywhere and do not treat them in any other way than fun rides. They are not in the best shape and I don't mind. Kurt's vehicles are showroom condition.  At home I have become the sloppy semi-bachelor type and have stuff still in the sink. Kurt's kitchen is spotless and the only messy areas are the works in progress. 
What is really neat in seeing how Kurt and Alex work is that everything is basically simple. Although complex as well. The complexity comes with their making sure things are complete prior to unveiling.  I think of this as semi-complex because of the stress in getting there.  Kurt and Alex make the journey to completion in what seems a flawless fashion and they appear as if the process is stress free.

I truly appreciated the amazing stay with my great friend.  I can't wait to see his next great adventure and hope to be a part of it.

Good things and God's blessing.

New Happenings

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The black dog to the right or, dereche, for those spanish speakers out there. It's Cody, JP's dog. Looks kind of mellow, but I bet the guy's got some fire in him. Don't let him fool you. Look at those eyes - he's thinking up mischief.

Recently I've been pretty busy and have not gotten around to writing on blog. Patients are sort of picking up and/or steady. Can't figure out which it is - increase or just steady. Time will tell.

So, let's make a list:

Finally got glasses (again)

Had dental work and received crown

Wearing sportcoats and ties often now
Getting pretty ensconced in church and CIC (Christians in Commerce)

Enjoy eating with a bunch of men on Wednesday nights

Recent movies watched are Marley & Me, Wolverine, Charlie Bartlett, The Wrestler

Developing a couple good friendships

Enjoying settling into new home

Started swimming at nights

Made solid 215 - 220 pound mark and am fairly strong although concentrating on movements

Using Sport Bionic Band and living very well on 5 hours sleep with increased energy

Light a candle at St. Francis and pray in courtyard now

Am contemplating attending catholic church at St. Timothy's

Enjoying football season

Updated website

Eating a lot and not getting fat

Organizing garage and getting closer to figuring out backyard

Lost car keys to Saab

Lost wallet

Found wallet

Fixed one car to have another one break down

Weather in the valley has broken (OH YEAH!)

Think my hair is now staying intact


Mostly, I'd say life is beginning to smooth out after many trying transitions.  That is good.  Check out the new facelift on website.  I tend to think it is simple and good. But I'm partial and enjoyed programming it.  That took half a day to do.  I looked at other people's sites and just decided on making sure there was not a bunch of headache information (TMI) on my website.
Remember that good news is all around you.  Sometimes you have to do the Ferris Bueller thing, though, and look around you in order to find the good stuff.

bionic scott revisited

I've received some inquiries recently which are building up surrounding results with bionic band:

www.bionicdoc.com

Here's the latest cool one. (I haven't actively marketed product - just so you know - I just tell people when they ask). So, my latest fun one, tell you what, this lady is sitting at pc all day and sometimes night. She is the same one who has me all fired up to purchase the Kindle. Well she is surrounded by electronics and gadgets and all this stuff and EMF. I hope she doesn't live under power lines!

M purchased a band and I think she is also interested in pendants with the proton technology. She wasn't aware of other products offered when she purchased. Her sleep and dreams have really intensified. I've noticed that her energy levels are also severely increased and that it looks to me like she has lost about seven or so pounds in about one week. M first came to me with LBP and that has dissipated much faster than I anticipated in my professional experience. Also she did not have much energy which has increased. Her speaking subjects have gotten much more positive and there is greater expression in her eyes when we talk. She confirmed the energy increase today on visit. I guess she is having hormones checked recently and had to fill out questionnaire of about 250 Qs and one question was about her dreaming habits. Since her dreams have intensified the wonder is about hormone response during the deep sleep many experience when using the proton technology.

It seems everyone has something different happen with the bionic band. Some say nothing is different and I do not understand this but I do know that some are more or less sensitive with their bodies. Some of us are just not aware of our health and some of us are keenly aware. Also, as a physician, I realize that many patients do not reveal total history and just take a lot for granted regarding health. Like an example would be a patient who comes in for low back pain and they don't tell me anything about their headache or car crash two years ago. Its as if they think the headache is normal but the low back pain is most aggravating. No headache is "normal". So they come in, the headache leaves first and then the patient reveals this and, as physician, I say, "What the heck, you never told me about headache." Well, cool, we got rid of one problem and get to take care of the primary complaint. I think the bionic band works in much the same way while aligning our protons to electrically balance our systems.

So there is the one update. I wish everyone I knew would take in this technology and use it. You can lead a horse to water.....

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Facebook

Already May. Before you know it - Holidays

Okay. Finally got around to updating some of Facebook as well as searching for people I think about at times. Memorial Day and its straggling patients. I tried something different on this day and scheduled everyone for the same time. Lets see. One showed up on time. Two were over an hour early. A couple were over an hour late. And then walk-ins. Have gotten to eat like a maniac.

Was on Amazon ordering a couple things and ran across these download deals and couldn't figure it out. Didn't know what they referred to. This lady I treat started talking on a visit a couple days ago and she mentioned Kindle. I had no idea the thing existed. It is now my quest to find a Kindle 2 for less than $300 on ebay. Retail is $359 w/free shipping.

For those who are in a cave like me, Kindle is a reader's dream come true. I really don't know how I missed this one. My journey to buy one would have been said and done quite a while ago had I known about the product. Items I recently ordered on Amazon go for 99 cents and a brief download. I spent quite a bit more. S/H and all that. The Kindle saves on bookstore runs, expense and is so easy to read - its amazing. I've given some thought to trading the 360, but that is unreasonable. More fun to find the 2 on a total deal.

http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=topnav_storetab_kinh?ie=UTF8&node=133141011

On my patient's Kindle wonder G3 machine, I looked up titles off the top of my head. Had 'em all. Got me twitter-pated. More fun than a new car, new house, the DS, new board, you-name-it. Makes me drool. After work today I decided that its workout and then a cigar at the Salty to contemplate moves to acquire this genius contraption. Cigar, iced tea, taco, patio will probably get my brain to formulate the ultimate plans. If I just get four new patients in the next three days, then I would be meeting up with the next day FedEx guy and reading all the stuff in the instruction manual. Four new intakes would mean no waiting for insurance funds to satisfy my craving. Its either that or just sell one of the cars. I'm already tired of one of them and want a truck anyway. Have a few things to think about there.

So the Kindle2. It holds like 1500 books and Amazon stores that which you don't currently want on the unit. It is no-fail that I run by a speaker and a book suggestion will be made. Lets say that I have my K with me and am at church or listening to Kiyosaki or something and, there we go again, oh, "Grunch of Giants" - wait a second (or two)- downloading on K2 - got it! Simple as that. Tell you what. Well, yes, I am a book junkie. One of my Rand copies has sand on it from probably five different beaches. I have a few sauna books which have dried sweat all over them. I'm on my tenth or eleventh copy of Hill's "Think and Grow Rich". Can't tell you how many titles I've given away just to replace them. My favorite Bible is a cheap $5 NASB which I don't mind abusing when I flip through the thing. Current one is kind of torn up - and the covers don't go flat since I fold it all up and over and stuff. I have boxes and boxes of books, I have lists of "wants", bookcases, coffee table reads, bedside reads. Kindle takes care of all that stuff. This is just really crazy for me to think about. All the possibilities.

On an average bookstore outing I will have one title in mind and leave the place with five. I've figured out 1/2 Price books and, I don't know, the library just isn't that fun for me. The reason why I don't like the library is because I read around ten things at once. When I am in the mood for one book, the others stay idle until the next swing. Sometimes a book may last months this way. Library doesn't like this kind of thing too much. The late fees aren't that bad, but the ladies there are kind of scary. Just makes you feel like a bad person to be late on a book. This may have to do with problems had in elementary school. I never did have late return problems, but the reason was due to being afraid of the librarian probably.

Kindle2. 'Nuf said. Wow, some new titles just came to mind. Geez, nerd. Okay. Hope the mail is good news tomorrow. Should be since the long weekend.

Okay. Out of the office in a minute with my new and great Pretenders download and I'm back in the middle of the road.

God bless all you Kindle readers.

Scott

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Sweaty.....Palms

Hyperhidrosis

For years I had it. Schweaty you name its - Everything always sweaty. I have always run hot and a/c is my best friend as well as any cold body of water. Roommates have called me a polar bear since I freeze 'em out due to my always being hot. The heater doesn't go on until late December and goes off in February. My last three cars had the heaters disconnected and I never noticed. The Saab has a heater but I don't know how to use it. One girl I went to San Diego with froze over the large mountain pass when I had the top down. She kept begging for the top to go up and I refused. Its a convertible, why does the top need to go up?

From about age thirteen to age twenty-six I suffered from the condition. I've learned how to make sure I do not go sockless and my feet never smell. Haven't ever, actually. Never really been smelly but the "wet" look was always "in" for me. And now I'm in Phoenix. During summer tendency is to wear wick shirts. Winter is anything, really. I just figure, dry heat, it will dry. Humidity - good luck.

I can wear jackets and it is covered up. As far as sweaty pits.......

Party Like a (Catholic-girl) Rockstar

Tell you what. I had sweaty pits. Sometimes it would be so embarassing that I would change shirts two to three times per day. A semi-cover-up would be to wear darker colored shirts. Didn't really work, though. I knew they were there and if someone were checking things out, they knew they were there. Also, the sweat would just be there. Didn't matter if I was sitting around or running around. If I were nervous, calm, comfortable, stressed, relaxed - didn't matter.

When I worked in restaurants by the end of a shift sometimes there was extreme chafing and I would be all red and sore under the arms. If I walked the Vegas strip for hours, same thing. I was lucky that it wasn't smelly B.O. but, still, it was terrible. No complexes or anything, just dislike for the situation. Shoot, it could have been something way worse, you know?

I tried every anti-perspirant out there. Mitchum a-p worked best and I stuck with that. Mitchum stinks, by the way, like your grandpa's aftershave which is old school spicy something or other. They may have come out with some cool scents by now, I don't know. I tried these other things which shocked the crap out of you. They are these pad things where you moisten some conductors and stick them over these battery operated deals which you place in your pits. You turn them on and the feeling is so.....invigorating. I think they are made to scare you straight into having dry come right out of you. I think you can use them on your feet and hands as well. I only had the sweaty pits. The shockers sort of worked, but were a real pain to use daily. They were a bit expensive also.

Those are about the only things I ever attempted - switching around on anti-perspirants and the "shockers". A lot of little kids have trouble with sweaty feet. If their shoes stink and you can't seem to figure out why, its probably sweaty feet. The goofa-scientific term for it is "hyperhidrosis". I say goofa because hyperhidrosis means nothing except increased moisture in any good old area. Its just a diagnosis like arthritis which is completely non-specific. It identifies no source and offers any good-old-boy solution to a problem. Throw the paint around and see what sticks kind of word.

Well. So I walked around with this hyperhidrosis thing through my adolescence and into my graduate studies career. Probably close to fifteen years of carrying this burden around. I finally got fed up with it. One day I ended up with a bunch of free time after running clinicals in 1996, maybe 1997. I got to thinking about this hyperhidrosis on a particularly humid day in Kansas City and decided to give some meds a try. There had to be something the MDs had right?

I stopped in a local office which accepted me as a walk-in and got this fiftiesh little snot of a lady who told me to just choose different shirts so the sweat would not show as much. I told her that wasn't good enough. She begrudgingly left the clinical room and came back with a book ten minutes later. Obviously she had not encountered this prior. She read to me out of the book and told me I had what's called...........hyperhidrosis - - NO KIDDING (WOW, genius)! But....she did offer solution. Cool, what I want finally. The med prescribed was this roll-on bottle called Drysol. Roll it on underarm and it stings like a little needle poking you all over the place for a while and it only costs about $7 per bottle. Great price and small sacrifice for no more....sweaty pits. Party like a rockstar!

I was stoked. It completely eradicated problem within four days and then I maintained it about once every four to five days. But my problem was still there. Hmmmm. The drug either clogged me and stopped the sweat or had to be doing something like putting heavy metals in or something. So this got me to thinking. I checked the ingredients of Drysol and there were massive amounts of aluminum - can't be good, right? I checked anti-perspirants and there are certain metals in those as well. If I remember, the a-p's have mostly forms of zinc. I think. Anti-perspirants are all I had used for years. So I kind of thought, that, what if I took out the products with the metals and simply went with regular ol' deodorant? Can't hurt. If they fail, I already have the heavy metal Drysol on my side (or underarm, I guess).

I went to only deodorant. Wanna know what happened? No more sweaty pits. No more Drysol needed. The word "anti-perspirant" was a lie. I was intoxicating my system and it had been fighting back what is supposed to be a natural release valve in the system for heat release. I was and am now able to wear any color shirt I want.

You want to know something else? Its kind of difficult sometimes to find simply deodorant. 80 to 90% of any underarm shelf is anti-perspirant. You really have to search for deodorant-only product. This must mean that 80 to 90% of the population is applying toxic metal product to their pits. And they probably do not even realize it. Think about it. Many people are going to great lengths to get mercury out of their teeth because of old fillings, but then are applying all sorts of similar stuff to the porous underside of their arms. Think this metal may go systemic? You bet it does. I've never looked too closely into chelation therapy, but I wonder if they give any advise on underarm deodorant? I don't know. If I run into a naturopath who does chelation therapy, I might ask. Did you know that we are all running around with cancer cells? We are all one chromosomal mutation away from expression of oncogenes. Its fact. Oncogene expression is probably mostly regulated by hormonal action and this is why you find preponderance of cancers with sex organs - prostate, ovarian, breast. I think the chromosome is #69 or somewhere thereabouts.

The more polluted any given system is, I surmise the greater the risk of a cancer expression to occur. Let's say we are tipping a boat. There is good and bad in the boat. Okay, we eat the occasional vegetable and fruit. But here we go: Let's see, I have years of smoking in me, years of metals in the form of teflon coating, tooth fillings, anti-perspirants, diet sodas (how does something taste good and have zero calories- chemicals), pollutants in the environment, birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, and I live under a bunch of power plant wires coming out from the base next to my house. Occasionally I exercise but sit in front of two monitors ten hours per day before watching three hours of television in front of the LCD while my food is microwaving and I am talking on the phone while playing with my IPOD after the trip to Wal-Mart with a bunch of LCDs screaming at me about the latest anti-perspirant and I even got to pump gas while watching the screen in front of me telling about the latest Diet Coke I can purchase in the convenience store. Lunch time was fabulous at my favorite, McDonald's and I'm looking forward to Jack tomorrow. And Friday is pizza day - but its healthy pizza with spinach on it. So that's okay. I tell you what, do you suppose that with all this stuff that we may just be pushing a certain envelope which has the words mutation of oncogene all over it? It only takes one little lead ball to tip that boat. I can't say if that one little ball is anti-perspirant, but, if one can do without, then that part of the matter is taken care of.

Just a thought, anyway. I do know that I conquered hyperhidrosis and it was kind of by mistake - mistake with some thought put into it. Well, anyway, this is just one more goofy thing that I've gone through and its off my to-do list.

Thank you. Take care and God bless.

Dr Moller