The Harte of Health: San Francisco Bay’s Voice for Scientific Chiropractic, Defying Medical Tyranny

Don Harte D.C., Corte Madera Traditional Chiropractor
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Want REAL Health…no, not control of symptoms… REAL health? Tired of medical lies? Sick of those disgraceful, misleading drug ads on TV? Had it with those anti-science fear campaigns of our so-called “public health” agencies? Fed up with flakey, over-casual/under-scientific chiropractors? Tired of being sick/taking lifetime drugs/going through endless medical tests and getting more diagnoses? Listen to this doctor! Dr. Don Harte is a straight (traditional) chiropractor, med school refugee and a passionate chiropractic activist. He’s been serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1981. He was honored by the World Chiropractic Alliance as “Chiropractor of the Year” of 2006. Dr. Harte has written for OMNI Magazine, The Chiropractic Journal, Marin Independent Journal, North Bay Biz magazine, Pacific Sun, and San Francisco Chronicle. Recently, he was appointed to the Accreditation Committee of the International Agency for Chiropractic Excellence. He has been a speaker at Sherman College of Chiropractic and Life West Chiropractic College. Dr. Harte has been a steadfast (and loud) opponent of medical tyranny (including censorship), especially during the Covid-19 Plague, continuing to this day. The purpose of this podcast, THE HARTE OF HEALTH, is to educate and inspire as many people as possible, as to what real Chiropractic is, and is not. (It is NOT the treatment of back and neck pain.) Real Health Care is not what you think; it is not fighting disease. It is the pursuit of Health. You want straight information on getting Health, without equivocation, without compromise? Listen to THE HARTE OF HEALTH. CONTACT: Sure! Email me at harteofchiropractic@gmail.com. Or, call me at 415/460-6527. KEYWORDS: health, chiropractic, back pain, neck pain, medicine, big pharma, medical harm, diagnosis, medicine, medical tyranny, public health, back surgery, side effects, Dr. Harte, joint replacement, brain, nervous system, subluxation, mobility w podcast weblog

  1. Sep 24

    Spinal Subluxation: Medicine Is Sick Care, Chiropractic Is Health Care. Does Chiropractic Work? It Depends on What You Think It's For.

    The secret health profession... Chiropractic. You buy a Ferrari and never get it out of first gear. What's the point? Almost everything people believe about Chiropractic is wrong. Sadly, that includes plenty of chiropractors. You spend time and money... and you're cheated out of what you should have gotten. Chiropractic is about the spine, and inside the spine sits your master system, the nervous system. It runs your heart, your lungs, your organs... everything. When the brain-body connection breaks down, you get miscommunication. Dis-ease. Things don't function right, and over time, bad things happen. Most people come in for pain. Most get well from that pain. That's a nice side effect. The purpose is the correction of vertebral subluxation... interference to your nervous system... so you can pursue Health. People think Chiropractic ranks below Medicine. Hell no. Some call it alternative medicine. The operative word there is medicine, and Chiropractic is no part of it. Sick care vs Health Care. Medicine works outside-in... drugs in, surgeries in. Chiropractic works Above-down, Inside-out. We clear the junk out of the way. Chiropractic lets you express your genetic potential. That's why it belongs in everyone's life from birth to death, including kids and pregnant mothers, whose Health is the baby's Health. People fear a chiropractor's hands on their neck. The same people take drugstore chemicals nobody fully understands, and some look forward to surgery. That's the bigotry of a way over-medicalized society. Pain or no pain, when you're subluxated, you're expressing less Life... physically, mentally, socially. Virtually all eight billion people on Earth are subluxated. A world not working right. What if 10% were adjusted regularly? Even 5%, starting from birth? What would that do for human potential... for the future of the world? This is the Big Vision of Chiropractic. Come be part of it. This is biological truth. Listen closely. This will change you. Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  2. Sep 17

    Numb Arm and Sleepless Nights: A Knife in Your Neck, and the Chiropractor for Pinched Nerve Neck Who Checks the Nerve First

    A Pinched Nerve. What is that? It's not a disease. It's a feeling. It's a sensation. A knife in your neck... maybe your mid back. Rarely, your low back. We don't go by symptoms here. A pinched nerve tells you something else: a hot, serious subluxation. A vertebra out of place, interfering with your Nervous System. The pain radiates. Numbness. Tingling. Weakness. Incoordination. Ants crawling down your arms... that's real, and it's got a name. You reach for over the counter drugs. That works, for a while. Then it doesn't. Primary care. Stronger drugs. Then medical specialists... orthopedists, neurologists, more testing, more drugs. It's in the name. Pinched nerve. They say it, and they still miss the point. A nerve doesn't need much pressure to shut down. The weight of a quarter on your hand, held five minutes, cuts nerve transmission by 40 to 60%. That's not new science. That's over 50 years old. Who really understands nerves? A chiropractor for pinched nerve neck problems does. Not the orthopedist's stronger drugs. Not the neurologist's testing. That's a truth Medicine won't tell you. We don't chase your pain. We find the Interference, and we correct it. Whatever's downstream of that nerve... your heart, your lungs, your thyroid, your immune system... starts to work right. Problems with your heart aren't random. They're connected. The side effect of a correction? Health. Real Health. Isn't that something. General health in this country is a mess. Chronic disease everywhere. Kids on asthma meds. That's not how it always was. Open your eyes. Open your mind. Get to the cause. Liberate your spine, your Nervous System, so your body can express health... whether it's a pinched nerve, or anything else.   Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  3. Sep 10

    Sciatica: Numbness, Tingling, and the Cause Your Primary Care Doc Never Checks

    Sciatica is not a disease. You've been told it is. It isn't. It's a description. Low back pain, radiating into one or both legs. Doesn't even have to be pain... Numbness. Tingling. Warmth, cold, any radiation down the leg. The medical road is discussed. Primary care doc, more drugs, the orthopedist, the steroid shots, the knife, and eventually the pain management guy... a new problem, addiction. What do they never consider? Cause. They look where it hurts. That's all. The spine works as a whole, but insurance only pays for the one spot, so the problems in the neck go unexamined. Not biological reality. And when they X-ray, they lay you down. Non-weight-bearing. Useless. Your low back works standing, under load. A standing X-ray is discussed... the only kind that shows the truth. The steroid shots are discussed. Relief for a month, maybe a year, because the inflammation gets zapped. That inflammation was your body trying to heal you. Zap it, and the damage keeps going underneath. Some of you know this pain by a different name. Legs that won't settle at night, that ache and crawl and won't let you sleep. Call it sciatica restless leg syndrome if you want. Same nerve, same interference, same cause nobody's looking for. And the psychology is discussed. Call sciatica a disease, and you become a victim. That victimhood serves nobody. None of this touches Vertebral Subluxation. What does Chiropractic do? We look for cause... history, exam, neurological scans, X-rays, the whole spine. We locate subluxation. We correct it, gently, specifically. We get out of the way. Innate Intelligence does the rest. So you have sciatica, or restless legs, or you know somebody who does. Search sciatica chiropractor near me, and find somebody who's actually going to check for cause. Get out from under the pain, and get Health while you're at it. Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  4. Sep 3

    Vertigo and Balance Problems: Feeling Dizzy When You Stand Up? Your Neck Problem Might Be Why

    Vertigo... Balance problems... You're spinning, you're shaky, you're afraid of the stairs. That's a signal. Something's interfered with, and it's correctable. Medicine wants to give you a name. BPPV. Meniere's. Labyrinthitis. A name and a few bucks gets you a cup of coffee. Getting better? Forget about it. Here's what they won't tell you: a lot of what's making you dizzy is sitting in your medicine cabinet. Antiarrhythmia drugs. Blood pressure meds. Antifungal drugs. Drug after drug, side effect after side effect, and nobody connects it back to you. Blood pressure norms? Nonsense. You've got a 90-year-old, and the MDs still want a teenager's numbers. They force it chemically, your pressure drops too low, and now you're feeling dizzy when you stand up. Cause and effect. Iatrogenic. Iatros is Greek for physician. Learn the word. You'll need it. So if you're searching how to get rid of vertigo, stop staring at the inner ear. Look at the spine. Look at the neck problem nobody's checking... upper cervical, right under the skull. Look at the coccyx too. Almost nobody looks there, and it matters just as much. Why the neck? Why the tailbone? Because they connect straight to cranial nerve number eight, the vestibulocochlear nerve, running right to your inner ear. Correct the interference, and the nervous system remembers how to do its job. This is Innate Intelligence. Millions of years of evolution, built right into you. You don't override that with a pill. You free it. You correct what's blocking it, and it takes it from there. Real Chiropractic doesn't chase a diagnosis. It finds cause. It corrects cause. That's the whole deal, and it's the only deal worth making.   Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  5. Aug 27

    Neuropathy: Burning Feet, Autonomic Symptoms, and the Chiropractor Near Me Who Checks the Nerve First

    Neuropathy. Neuro is nerve. Pathy is disease. A sick nerve... the word defines itself. So where does everybody go? To the neurologist. Or to primary care. Either one is useless here. Totally. Absolutely. Without doubt. Why? They're outside-in. They're covering up, managing symptoms, never dealing in cause. The symptoms are discussed. Sensory... pain, burning, tingling. Motor... weakness, incoordination. Then the autonomic symptoms nobody traces back to the nerve. Blood pressure drops. Digestion. Bladder function. Bowel function. I want you happy. I want you healthy. And what's blamed? Diabetes. B1, B6, B12, vitamin E. Alcohol. Chemo. Infections. Autoimmune disease.  Medicine's arsenal too... spinal cord stimulation. The scrambler. Gabapentin, which will make you dull. And then... my own profession. Decompression tables. Cold laser. TENS units. Hydrowave. Massage. Shiny toys, sold with a promise of how much money you'll make. Disgraceful. Just as outside-in as the medical stuff. Less dangerous, maybe. Just as useless. I'm angrier at the chiropractors than the medical doctors. The medical doctors think the way they were trained. The chiropractors ought to know better. They've forgotten above-down, inside-out. They've forgotten that the body heals. They don't understand subluxation. They don't understand Innate Intelligence. The word is neuropathy. So we deal with the NERVE. One profession does that. Chiropractic. That's it. Subluxation, a vertebra out of place and/or not moving properly, interfering with your nerve. The adjustment corrects that interference. Then the body heals, functions higher, gets better. That's Innate Intelligence, once nothing stands in its way. Enough of what's been done TO you. Enough. Time to pursue Health. Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Email: harteofchiropractic@gmail.com    Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  6. Aug 20

    Blood Pressure Med Side Effects: Big Pharma, Preventive Medicine, and Why You're a Customer for Life... or Death

    The cardiologist. The good, the bad, and the ugly. The good? Emergencies. You have a heart attack, a stroke... go to the ER. They can keep you alive. That's a wondrous thing, and it's the ONE thing they do well. The bad? Everything else. Medicine runs on the basic wrong principle of outside in. Your body is a dumb piece of meat, they say. Drugs in. Surgeries in. It's the only way they think. But who controls the heart? Your nervous system... the sympathetic and parasympathetic, the vagus nerve, the brain itself. Interference at the upper cervical spine, and at the sacrum and coccyx, is discussed. A blood pressure of 260 over 180, dropping 50 points with one adjustment, is discussed. This is Health. This is Life. The ugly? Where the cardiologist's "knowledge" comes from: Big Pharma, faked research, and what I call normal creep. The numbers keep shifting... blood pressure, cholesterol... so they get more customers. 40 percent of American adults classified as hypertensive. There you are, a customer for life. Medical patients are made, and they're never made well. The heart damage caused by their own drugs is discussed. Blood pressure meds. Diabetes meds. ADHD stimulants. NSAIDs, decongestants, chemo. Their drugs cause damage, then the damage gets more drugs. What madness. And the grand shtick of it all: preventive medicine. It sounds so nice. It creates victimhood... help me, doctor, help me, doctor... and it prevents Health. Just about everybody over 50 is on their pills. What's still the #1 killer? Heart attacks and stroke. Their stuff doesn't work. You want Health? Make sure your nervous system is right and free. Get adjusted. Be under regular wellness care, real Chiropractic. And pass this on to someone with a cardiologist. You just might save a life. Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Email: harteofchiropractic@gmail.com Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  7. Aug 13

    FAUCI FOLLIES: What Public Health Agencies, the Fake News, and the Whole Cult of Medicine Don't Want You to Question

    Fauci. The man who told you he was Science. Think about the arrogance of that... criticize the man, and you're criticizing Science itself. That's not how Science works. Science demands evidence. It rejects what's wrong, accepts what holds up, and stays open to being disproved tomorrow. It was never written on stone tablets. The moment a man crowns himself the final word, he's abandoned Science and started a religion. And what got defended in his name was medical tyranny wearing a lab coat. The masking. The social distancing. The lockdowns. All of it useless, all of it damaging. Public health agencies and a media that pushes narrative over fact went whole hog with censorship, and they buried cheap drugs that worked so the gene therapy could get its emergency approval. Follow the money. It was always about the money. This is scientific tribalism. You pick your side and you defend it to the death, even with the bodies stacked in front of your face. Millions dead. Millions injured. Liberty crushed. And still the tribe shrugs... we did the best we could. Medicine is always doing its best. George Washington was bled to death by his best. The man who invented lobotomies won the Nobel Prize for his. Medical mistakes like these aren't accidents, they're the pattern of a system that laughs at its last century of idiocy while worshipping this one. They actually told you natural immunity was inferior to their shot. Already had the disease? Get the shot anyway. This is medical breakthrough worship... the cult that promises the cure is always right around the corner, no matter who dies waiting for it. And the beagle experiments? The aborted-scalp horrors? Sit with the kind of man behind them, and the kind of society that called him a hero. You want Health? Look in the mirror. Chiropractic adds nothing and takes nothing away. We correct subluxation. We correct interference to the nervous system, so you can express more life... in your immune system, in every system. That's biological truth, and it comes from within you, not from the pharmaceutical-medical-governmental complex. Be vigilant. Be smart. Don't take any crap. Fauci locked us down. Now it's time to lock in and think for yourself.   Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

  8. Aug 6

    ARTHRITIS: Before the Cortisone Shot: Joint Inflammation, Calcium Deposition, and Your Body Healing Itself

    Arthritis... what is it, really? The word itself: "arth" means joint, "itis" means inflammation. That's all it is, joint inflammation. And why is the joint inflamed? Because your body is attempting to heal it. Inflammation is the healing. This is the great secret hiding inside a word that everybody uses and almost nobody understands. So consider what Medicine does with this. Anti-inflammatory drugs, pain drugs, corticosteroids... their entire arsenal is aimed at shutting down the very process of your body healing itself. It may quiet the pain for a while, sure. Meanwhile the joint gets worse. Much worse. The medical explanation of arthritis is discussed... you're getting old, learn to live with it, there's nothing anyone can do. The same tired story whether it's arthritis in feet, arthritis in hips, arthritis in elbows, hands, knees, shoulders, spine. The famous "bone on bone," which everybody seems to get told, and the joint replacement that follows, are discussed. So-called spinal arthritis is really subluxation degeneration, and this is the heart of the episode. Subluxated vertebrae stop moving right, abnormal forces build, and your body, because it's alive, defends itself... inflammation, scar tissue formation, and finally calcium deposition. Those frightening calcium deposits on your X-ray? That's your body protecting a vertebra from fracture. Intelligent. Purposeful. And Medicine calls it a disease. A joint needs proper motion and proper nerve supply, and it gets neither while subluxation remains. With correction through the chiropractic adjustment, over time, like stopping a speeding train, degeneration slows, stops, and yes, to some degree can reverse. I've seen it with my own eyes, whatever Medicine says is impossible. You're alive. Therefore you can heal. The question is whether you have the will. Medicine says impossible. Your Innate Intelligence never got that memo. Listen.    Be well, Don Harte, D.C. Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!   For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.  Connect with me: Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/  Email: harteofchiropractic@gmail.com Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family! 21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/460-6527

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Want REAL Health…no, not control of symptoms… REAL health? Tired of medical lies? Sick of those disgraceful, misleading drug ads on TV? Had it with those anti-science fear campaigns of our so-called “public health” agencies? Fed up with flakey, over-casual/under-scientific chiropractors? Tired of being sick/taking lifetime drugs/going through endless medical tests and getting more diagnoses? Listen to this doctor! Dr. Don Harte is a straight (traditional) chiropractor, med school refugee and a passionate chiropractic activist. He’s been serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1981. He was honored by the World Chiropractic Alliance as “Chiropractor of the Year” of 2006. Dr. Harte has written for OMNI Magazine, The Chiropractic Journal, Marin Independent Journal, North Bay Biz magazine, Pacific Sun, and San Francisco Chronicle. Recently, he was appointed to the Accreditation Committee of the International Agency for Chiropractic Excellence. He has been a speaker at Sherman College of Chiropractic and Life West Chiropractic College. Dr. Harte has been a steadfast (and loud) opponent of medical tyranny (including censorship), especially during the Covid-19 Plague, continuing to this day. The purpose of this podcast, THE HARTE OF HEALTH, is to educate and inspire as many people as possible, as to what real Chiropractic is, and is not. (It is NOT the treatment of back and neck pain.) Real Health Care is not what you think; it is not fighting disease. It is the pursuit of Health. You want straight information on getting Health, without equivocation, without compromise? Listen to THE HARTE OF HEALTH. CONTACT: Sure! Email me at harteofchiropractic@gmail.com. Or, call me at 415/460-6527. KEYWORDS: health, chiropractic, back pain, neck pain, medicine, big pharma, medical harm, diagnosis, medicine, medical tyranny, public health, back surgery, side effects, Dr. Harte, joint replacement, brain, nervous system, subluxation, mobility w podcast weblog

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