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“You don’t need a weatherman to Know which way…”
[NOTE: This message is from an ex-medical student, who left med school to be a better doctor.]

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HEALTH. HEALTH CARE. Getting better, or getting worse?
Some things are obvious, or should be. It gets complicated when tradition… authority… the whole culture, gets in the way. This kind of thing can STOP critical thinking and reason. But it gets way too important, way too critical, when health is involved. Life-long, closely-held belief systems about heath are now getting CHALLENGED. The winds are blowing. A REVOLUTION in health care, that began back in 1895, is now coming into its own!
Can the new MAHA movement, “Make America Healthy Again,” benefit you, directly and in a short time!
What should be obvious, by now, a couple of years after three and a half LONG years of irresponsible science, out-and-out faked science, gross losses of liberty and dignity, non-stop panic porn, capped by so many dying not just from the virus (that Fauci and the gang had a hand in creating), but also from forced bad therapeutics and then untested, dangerous gene therapies that they labeled “vaccines,” that sickened and killed so many? You cannot trust who you used to trust for your health. The government “public health” agencies, Big Pharma and Big Medicine have not helped us; they have harmed us, greatly. People are beginning to wake up. The wind is blowing in the direction of reason, of REAL science, now.
I’m meeting more and more people who are beginning to realize that Health comes from within, not from a vaccine or any other drug.
You won’t see this concept pushed in all those weird TV drug ads, with the 60’s, 70’s music in the background, making it look like fun(?) to have congestive heart failure, diabetes or any of the now-popular auto-immune diseases. If you’re smart enough to “know which way the wind is blowing,” you’ll laugh at these attempts to “ask your doctor if Scungex is right for you.” Or you might just get mad!

I used to believe all their nonsense. As a kid, I used to watch the old “heroic” medical TV shows, “Dr. Kildaire” and “Ben Casey,” with a notebook, a medical dictionary and a Merck Manual at my side. I was hooked from a very early age! I went off to college, Biology pre-med. I worked in a hospital as an orderly.
Hurt my back, badly, lifting a very heavy, very agitated patient. I went straight to the orthopedist. He did his little 3-minute exam, X-rayed my low back (only), and told me that I had spondylolisthesis, which means that one or more of my lumbar vertebrae are in two pieces instead of on. (In my case, it involved THREE vertebrae, L3, L4 and L5, with L5 hanging forward, three-quarters into space. Very unstable!) He put me on Darvon 65, the Oxycontin of that time, and told me that it would get worse, and I’d be back to him by the time I was 30 or 40, for a TOTAL LUMBAR FUSION. I certainly didn’t know which way the wind was blowing, then, so I said, “Yes, Doctor!”
The extreme pain episodes would come and go. Once I had a “drug incident” with the Darvon. Not fun! I finished pre-med and went on to medical school. Home from the second year, it all HIT THE FAN! I wasn’t 30. I wasn’t 40. I was 23 years old… bent over in excruciating pain, the pain shooting down both legs. I was even beginning to lose control of my bladder. I knew that it was time for The Knife.
I was taking folk guitar lessons. (It was the early 70’s.) My instructor told me to go to a chiropractor. I said: “What are you kidding? Those guys are quacks. I’m a medical student.” He told me that he goes. I replied: “You’re an artist. You’re supposed to be strange.” When he told me that he takes his wife and young children, I was floored! But finally, he convinced me to go.
I went, the very next day. I was amazed! This office was totally different from any other doctor’s office I had been in. It was warm and cozy. People actually talked to one another. And the doctor actually cared! He did THE most thorough exam I ever had in my life. He X-rayed me. He told me how serious my subluxation was. (If you’ve been to one or more chiropractors, and are not familiar with that word, subluxation, you’ve been to the wrong chiropractor!) He gently adjusted me. I stood up straight and pain-free for the first time in months! I forgot about med school, and went on to chiropractic college.

I met my wife, Carole, in the health food store she ran, “Mother Nature’s.” I was just beginning chiropractic college. We moved to Marin in 1981, after I graduated.
1984. I checked and adjusted my son, Abraham, five minutes after he was born. Medical childbirth can be tough on mom, but it is far tougher on the baby. Subluxation, interference to the nervous system, often occurs. So, I took care of it right away! Chiropractic is not really about pain; it’s about a better expression of human potential. Abraham did OK. He dropped out of the 6th grade, and started College of Marin when he was 11 years old. Graduated at 14, with more credits than I had in college. Graduated Cal Tech, in Pasadena, with honors, at 17. He got his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Penn State at 22. Abraham spent some years at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany, and is now a professor in Dublin, Ireland. Back when he was in school with kids his age, and they’d all get colds and flu in the winter, he didn’t. If he felt a little sick, a little off, he’d say, “Daddy, adjust me please,” and he’d be OK in 20 minutes.*
Long before, and during (and whatever it is now) The Plague, people, like you, have come to see me with horrible back pain that they were told they had to "live with," or face very risky surgery, like I faced. They also come to see me with SERIOUS difficulty walking, getting out of chairs, etc., rheumatoid arthritis, brain fog, neuropathy, sciatica, insomnia, problems walking, tremors, anxiety, breathing problems, post-stroke, IBS, urinary frequency/control issues, migraines, out-of-control blood pressure and/or diabetes, Parkinson’s, depression, “bone-on-bone” knees and hips, spinal stenosis, heartburn, fatigue, sinus, foot problems, dizziness, even FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME, and now… side effects from the Covid “vaccines,” just to name a few. (I know, this doesn’t sound like the typical stuff that a chiropractor handles. Well, I do handle these things, in a sense, because I don’t treat anything. I correct CAUSE.)
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Outstanding care at a fair fee... Please, I hope that there is no misunderstanding about quality of care just because of this Amazing Offer. This is THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC. I am Dr. Harte (D.C.). I’ve been serving the entire Bay Area for 44 years! I was honored as “Chiropractor of the Year” by the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA) in 2006. I served on their board, as well as the board of the Council on Chiropractic Practice. I’ve been a speaker at Life West Chiropractic College in Hayward, and Sherman Chiropractic College in South Carolina. I’ve had articles published in the Chiropractic Journal, the Journal of the California Chiropractic Association, OMNI Magazine, North Bay Biz, Marin IJ and the SF Chronicle. Recently, I was appointed to the Accreditation Committee of the International Agency for Chiropractic Excellence.
“It has been my good fortune to find the brilliant and dedicated Dr. Harte. At 77, my walking had deteriorated, gradually, until I was unable to walk without cane and pain. Neither other doctors, nor exercises, acupuncture or medication helped alleviate pain running down my inner legs, from hips to ankles. Finally, I called Dr. Harte. I was impressed that he answered the call on a weekend and patiently explained his way of gentle manual chiropractic.
Dr. Harte is a confident man, with decades of experience in helping people heal themselves. Since my second adjustment by Dr. Harte, I have been able to walk without cane and can go for leisurely one hour walks again. The excruciating pain is gone, my balance, strength and energy have improved and I am so delighted that I signed up for a series of gentle spinal adjustments to restore good brain/body communication by adjusting misaligned vertebrae. Who knows, Dr. Harte's adjustments may even cure my AFib, as Kaiser calls it. In the meantime, it is a pleasure to visit Dr. Harte's office. - Helga Fleishman, Sausalito

“Neuropathy… steady improvement.” Jeff Walker, Ross
“No stomach cramps.” - Rob Short, Fairfax
“My sleep has improved. Emotionally, I’ve been able to stay afloat during a very difficult time.” – Angelica Pinochet, Sausalito
“IBS improved!” - Scott Elrod, Belvedere
“Physically, my arthritis is not bothering me. My leg pain has diminished substantially. Improved sense of well-being!” – Tief Jensen, Novato
“Hand numbness gone. Grip strength improved.” - Mark O’Dell, Corte Madera
“More clarity of thought. More insights. Somewhat more energy. Less pain. Less stiffness.” - Michael Deutch, Belvedere
“Less pain. Generally, less tired. More alert. Better memory.” – Mariel Claxton, San Rafael
“I’m finally the way I was INTENDED to be. No more Prozac!” - Nancy Spottiswoode, Larkspur
“Decrease in pain… knees, back, hips” - Jim Philbin, San Rafael
“Dr. Harte helped my mother and I immensely! I came in with a back injury, from a horse accident when I was a child. I had difficulty standing and sitting (without back support) for long periods of time. After my first few sessions I already saw improvement! Now, after about 3 months all my pain had vanished and I finally feel normal again. My mom also had a series of back and neck issues that made it difficult for her to go about her everyday activities. She been through pain management, pain meds and had multiple surgeries. Dr. Harte's work is the only thing that relieved the tension and numbness in her back, neck and limbs. He is professional and pricey, but he's worth it.” – Hailey Gerrans, San Anselmo
DON’T LIKE THE TWISTING, CRACKING, ETC.? The core of how I adjust, the HARTE METHOD, is Directional Non-Force Technique, which is very gentle, and specific, by hand, only. This includes checking and adjusting extremities (hips, knees, feet, shoulders…) and TMJ (jaw).
My office is friendly and warm. I’m perfectly situated in Corte Madera, down the street from the DMV. There are a lot of reasons why people, like you, travel real distances (San Francisco, Lafayette, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Berkeley, Hercules, Windsor, Vallejo, San Mateo…), regularly, to THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC. You’re in Marin. Easy! Now is a good time to find out why, for yourself. Call me now 415/460-6527. I will speak to you, personally.

PS: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We live in a time of not just medical hegemony, but medical tyranny. “They,” with their sibling-in-poor-science, Big Pharma, protected and promoted by Big Government, tell us that we are weak and helpless, that we need to be constantly monitored and modified, by drugs and surgery. Have “They” learned from their gross mistakes during the Crazy Covid Catastrophe? No! SO LOOK TO THE OPPOSITE? In (real) Chiropractic, we recognize that you have the power to heal, to flourish, to achieve Health, even if The Doctor said that you couldn’t. Find out how. Call me! 415/460-6527
PPS: Under the care of a NEUROLOGIST? (Could be for migraines, balance problems, post-stroke issues, tremors, memory and cognitive problems, neuropathy…) I can just about guarantee that you’ve gotten nowhere (except the dismal line at the pharmacy counter). Essentially, they’ve got nothing. I’ve always said that if a neurologist truly understood the nervous system, he or she would go back to school to become a chiropractor.
PPPS: Undocumented M.D.’s?: I am amazed, and disgusted, with chiropractors trying to play medical doctor, treating this and that, relying on cold lasers, disk decompression, shock wave treatment, etc. (Real chiropractors do not treat anything!) The most confused, in my opinion, are those advertising that they do “functional medicine,” whatever that is. Hey, I left med school to change lives with real Chiropractic. The difference is HUGE!
*It seems that there are “comedians” on staff at the chiropractic board, who think that you will think that, if you bring your child here, he or she will be guaranteed to get a Ph.D. by 22. I am supposed to tell you not to expect that.
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