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JAN. 13, 2019, BROOKLYN WEEKLY
“The power that made the
body, heals the body.”
Those words, inscribed on a
wall just inside the front door of
Live Holistic chiropractic offices
in Bay Ridge, are not a biblical
passage, but they are the credo
of lead practitioner Dr. Vincent
Adamo.
For eight years, Dr. Adamo
has run his practice adhering to
the concept that the human body
is “a self-healing organism,” and
that patients can get healthy and
pain-free with chiropractic care,
and natural vitamins and remedies
— and without potentially
harmful prescription drugs.
“Holistic medicine is about
finding the cause of pain or illness,
rather than just treating
the symptoms,” Dr. Adamo says.
“Most doctors have the wrong
approach; they chase pain rather
than preventing it in the first
place. If you come in to a doctor’s
office complaining of pain
in your knee, it may actually be
that the pain is being caused by a
problem in your back.”
At Live Holistic, everything
starts with the spine.
“I will not work on a patient
without first taking an X-ray,” he
explained. “X-rays of the spine
are a tool to see how your system
is functioning. We check to see if
your spinal cord is in the proper
alignment. It’s always amazing
to me that medical professionals
will stress the importance of
checking your teeth, your heart,
your liver, or other organs, but
they’ll never say, ‘check your
spine.’
“It’s a scientific fact your
brain, spinal cord, and the rest
of your nerves control every aspect
of your body,” Adamo said.
“Your spinal cord is your body’s
‘information superhighway.’ ”
The medical term for a spinal
cord that’s out of alignment is a
“subluxation,” he said, adding
that subluxation can lead to a variety
of health problems.
“If you have a pinched nerve
in your lower back, that can distort
nerve messages between
your body and your brain,” Adamo
said. “That pinched nerve
can result in high blood pressure,
or it can affect the performance
of your prostate gland.
What would a doctor usually do
to treat a prostate problem? He’d
prescribe drugs. But instead of
prescribing drugs to control the
problem, the bigger question is
why is the prostate not working
right in the first place?”
Dr. Adamo received his chiropractic
degree from a graduate
of New York Chiropractic
College in upstate Seneca Falls,
then traveled the world for five
years exploring healing techniques
and developing his holistic
approach to medicine. During
his educational journey, he
said, he became convinced that
rather than cure, prescription
drugs can, in certain cases, kill
a patient.
“In this society, people are
abusing drugs,” he said flatly.
“Why? Because it’s so easy to
take drugs to treat pain or illness,
and most people don’t
change anything. When doctors
prescribe medicine, the intention
is that you’ll be taking the
medication for the rest of your
life. If your doctor prescribes
medication for high blood pressure,
or for high cholesterol,
does that doctor ever take you
off that medication? Chances are
they don’t. There are elderly patients
who are taking six, seven,
eight, nine, 10 pills a day to treat
various ailments. What they’re
doing, and they don’t realize it,
is dying a slow, painful death.”
The shelves of a glass display
case near the front desk were
lined with white bottles of vitamins
and supplements, which
Dr. Adamo dispenses in lieu of
the prescription medications he
so strongly warns against.
“We give our patients nutritional
support in the form of vitamins,”
he said. “The vitamins
we prescribe are all natural,
doctor-prescribed FDA-approved
vitamins, that are a much higher
quality than what they sell at
CVS or GNC, or other pharmacies
or vitamin stores.”
Live Holistic 446 Bay Ridge
Pkwy. between Fourth and Fifth
avenues in Bay Ridge, (718) 921–
5483, http://www.liveholistic.net.
Open Mondays and Wednesdays,
9 am–noon and 3 pm–6:30 pm;
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1–6:30
pm; and Saturdays, 8:30 am–
noon.
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