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Dr. Patrick Ess, 712 Main Street W, Locust, NC (2026)

09/03/2026

🧬 GENETICS LOAD THE GUN. YOUR ENVIRONMENT CAN PULL THE TRIGGER.

Having a genetic predisposition does not always mean you’re destined to develop a chronic disease.

Your genes may influence your susceptibility—but your health is also shaped by what those genes are exposed to every day.

🍔 Nutrition
😴 Poor sleep
🪑 Physical inactivity
😰 Chronic stress
🚬 Smoking
🍺 Excess alcohol
⚖️ Excess body fat
🌎 Environmental exposures

These factors can interact with genetics and influence inflammation, metabolism, hormones, immune function, and even gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms.

That helps explain why two people with similar genetic risks can sometimes have very different health outcomes.

🔥 Genes may load the gun—but environment and lifestyle can help determine whether the trigger gets pulled.

You can’t choose the genes you inherited.

But you CAN influence many of the signals your body receives every single day.

Your food matters.
Your movement matters.
Your sleep matters.
Your stress matters.
Your habits matter.

🧬 Your DNA is not always your destiny.

09/01/2026

🚨 WHAT IF THERE’S ANOTHER TOOL FOR KIDS WITH MILD ADHD?

A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial tested ashwagandha in 58 children and adolescents with mild ADHD.

For 56 days, they received either 300 mg/day of ashwagandha root extract or placebo.

The ashwagandha group showed significant improvements in:

🧠 Attention
⚡ Hyperactivity & impulsivity
🎯 Executive function
😴 Sleep
😌 Anxiety

Researchers also reported no serious adverse events or meaningful changes in safety labs.

But keep this in perspective: this was a small, short-term study involving mild ADHD.

But it DOES suggest something worth investigating:

🌿 Could supporting the stress-response system help some children with attention, focus, sleep, and anxiety?

For parents looking for additional options, this is promising early research worth discussing with your child’s pediatrician or healthcare provider.

📚 Journal of Medicine and Life, 2026 | PMID: 42602386

08/31/2026

If you plan on being a father, you should watch this short clip. This is interesting how our environment and our habits can affect our offspring.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6L__oKL8Q8w?is=aIxKPVC6iHOsnDTf

08/27/2026

🚨 NOT EVERY THOUGHT IN YOUR HEAD DESERVES YOUR AGREEMENT.

Your mind is a battlefield.

Fear. Doubt. Worry. Envy. Anger. Condemnation. “I’m going to fail.” “Nothing will change.” “God has forgotten me.”

Those thoughts may knock—but you don’t have to invite them in.

📖 Romans 8:6 — “To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44), but through Christ, we can choose which thoughts we believe and agree with.

📖 2 Corinthians 10:5 — “Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

When fear speaks—take it captive.
When doubt speaks—take it captive.
When condemnation speaks—replace it with God’s truth.

How?

🙏 Pray.
📖 Open God’s Word.
🙌 Worship.
🧠 Renew your mind.
✝️ Submit to Christ.
🔥 Resist the enemy.

📖 James 4:7 — “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

And remember—Jesus gave His followers authority over the enemy:

📖 Luke 10:19 — “I give unto you power… over all the power of the enemy.”

That authority isn’t ours—it comes through JESUS CHRIST.

You may not control every thought that knocks on the door, but you can decide which ones you invite inside.

🔥 Let God’s Word speak louder than the enemy’s lies.

Take every thought captive. Submit your mind to the Spirit. Resist the devil. Walk in truth, faith, peace, and a sound mind.

The battle may be in your mind—but you do not fight alone. ✝️🔥

08/24/2026

🚨 STILL TAKING GLUCOSAMINE FOR YOUR JOINTS? THE RESEARCH MAY SURPRISE YOU.

For decades, glucosamine + chondroitin have been the go-to joint supplements.

But large clinical trials found little to no meaningful benefit for most people with knee osteoarthritis, and the American College of Rheumatology now strongly recommends against glucosamine for OA.¹⁻⁴

So what DOES look interesting?

Newer research points toward several different approaches:

🦴 UNDENATURED TYPE II COLLAGEN (UC-II) — 40 mg/day

In a 6-month randomized trial of 191 people, just 40 mg/day produced greater improvement in overall knee symptoms than placebo **and glucosamine + chondroitin.**¹⁰

🥚 EGGSHELL MEMBRANE — 500 mg/day

A randomized controlled trial found significant improvements in knee pain and stiffness, with measurable changes appearing in as little as **10 days.**¹¹

🌿 BOSWELLIA — 100 mg/day

A 2025 randomized trial followed people with knee osteoarthritis for 6 months. Boswellia improved pain and function, while MRI measurements also showed improvements in **cartilage thickness, cartilage volume and joint-space width compared with placebo.**¹²

And a 2025 network meta-analysis comparing several nutritional supplements for knee osteoarthritis found **Boswellia among the strongest performers across measured outcomes.**¹³

💥 THE BIG LESSON?

Joint degeneration isn’t simply a matter of being short on the “building blocks” of cartilage.

Modern research is looking at the interaction between:

🔥 Inflammation
🛡️ Immune signaling
🦴 Cartilage and connective-tissue integrity

That may explain why simply swallowing more glucosamine hasn’t delivered what many people expected.

And don’t throw away your collagen powder.

Research involving thousands of participants suggests collagen derivatives can improve joint pain and physical function, while other studies suggest benefits for bone and connective tissue.⁸⁹

👉 The emerging joint-support strategy may look more like:

UC-II + Eggshell Membrane + Boswellia

…with collagen peptides providing broader connective-tissue support.

But remember: supplements are supplemental.

🏋️ Strength training
🚶 Regular movement
⚖️ Healthy body weight
🥗 Anti-inflammatory nutrition

still form the foundation of long-term joint health.

Sometimes the problem isn’t that supplements “don’t work.”
It’s that we’ve been targeting the wrong biology.

08/23/2026

🙏 WISHING YOU A TRULY BLESSED WEEK AHEAD 🙏

Before you go to bed tonight, whatever burdens you’re carrying—give them over to Christ.

The worry. The stress. The pain. The fear. The disappointment. The things you cannot fix and the answers you don’t have.

Lay it all down. You don’t have to carry it alone.

May God quiet your mind and calm your heart tonight. May you wake tomorrow with renewed energy, renewed faith, and a renewed spirit.

Where there is pain, may there be healing.
Where there is fear, courage.
Where there is anxiety, peace.
Where there is exhaustion, strength.
Where there is brokenness, restoration.

May your heart overflow with:

❤️ Love
🕊️ Peace
😊 Joy
🙏 Patience
🤲 Kindness
💛 Generosity & goodness

And may God strengthen and restore you—BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

Remember: yesterday’s burdens do not have to become tomorrow’s burdens.

Whatever this week brings:

God is with you.
Christ is for you.
You are not walking into this week alone.

Tonight, give it to Jesus.
Tomorrow, rise renewed. 🙏

Praying that God blesses you and your family with healing, strength, peace, joy, and a truly blessed week.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. ❤️🙏

08/20/2026

🚨 **Your bloodwork says "normal" — but you could still be magnesium deficient.**

Less than 1% of your body's magnesium lives in your blood. The rest is in your cells and bones — which means a "normal" lab result doesn't rule out a tissue-level shortage. Researchers call this subclinical magnesium deficiency.

The current recommended intake is about 400–420 mg/day for men and 310–320 mg/day for women — and roughly half of American adults don't even hit that. Some researchers argue it's set too low to begin with: those numbers date back to 1997 and were based on average body weights of 166 lbs for men and 133 lbs for women. Americans are considerably heavier today, and a 2021 paper recalculating requirements for current body weights estimated actual needs could be 60–235 mg/day higher for men and 70–210 mg/day higher for women.

**Clues worth paying attention to:**
⚡ Muscle twitches or cramps
😴 Restless sleep
😩 Fatigue that won't quit
🤕 Headaches or migraines
💓 Heart palpitations
😰 Anxiety or low mood
🩸 Blood pressure or blood sugar that's hard to control

None of these alone means you're deficient — they're clues, not a diagnosis. But magnesium is involved in over 300 processes in your body, from energy production to nerve signaling to muscle function. That's hard to ignore.

**Common magnesium drains:** long-term acid reflux meds, certain diuretics, alcohol, chronic stress, and a diet low in leafy greens, nuts, seeds, and legumes.

**Start with food:** spinach, almonds, pumpkin seeds, avocado, black beans, dark chocolate.

If these clues sound familiar, it's worth a real conversation with your provider — not a guess with a supplement bottle. 💪

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08/19/2026

🙏 A PRAYER & PROCLAMATION OF HEALING — IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST 🙏

Father God,

I stand today on Your written Word and the authority Jesus Christ gave to those who believe.

I do not ask You to give what You have already given.

I do not pray as though Jesus never gave His followers authority.

Jesus said:

📖 “Whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do.” — John 14:12

Jesus commanded His disciples:

📖 “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons: freely ye have received, freely give.” — Matthew 10:8

And Jesus declared:

📖 “I have given you authority… over all the power of the enemy.” — Luke 10:19

So today, I stand upon that authority—not in my own name, not through my own power, but IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

🔥 TO EVERY PERSON READING THESE WORDS WHO RECEIVES THEM IN FAITH:

Whatever your affliction…

Cancer.
Disease.
Pain.
Inflammation.
Injury.
Weakness.
A damaged joint.
A failing organ.
A troubled mind.
A broken heart.
Or an illness that has been called impossible…

I SPEAK HEALING OVER YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

🔥 Pain — LEAVE.

🔥 Disease — LEAVE.

🔥 Inflammation — SUBSIDE.

🔥 Damaged tissue — BE RESTORED.

🔥 Nerves — FUNCTION PROPERLY.

🔥 Muscles and joints — BE STRENGTHENED AND RESTORED.

🔥 Every system of the body — RETURN TO THE ORDER GOD CREATED IT TO HAVE.

I do not make this proclamation because I believe there is power in me.

The authority belongs to Jesus Christ.

Peter understood this when he encountered the man who could not walk.

He did not beg God to heal him.

He said:

📖 “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” — Acts 3:6

And the man walked.

That same Jesus Christ is Lord today.

Therefore, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, I PROCLAIM HEALING OVER EVERY PERSON READING THIS WHO RECEIVES THESE words IN FAITH.

Jesus said:

📖 “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it.” — Mark 11:24

So do not pray and immediately take it back with doubt.

Do not declare healing and spend the next hour asking:

“What if it doesn’t work?”

Instead, stand upon God’s Word.

🔥 BELIEVE.

🔥 RECEIVE.

🔥 SPEAK WITH THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS’ NAME.

🔥 AND GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY.

📖 “By His stripes, we are healed.” — Isaiah 53:5

In the name above every name—JESUS CHRIST—I proclaim healing over you.

BE HEALED.

BE RESTORED.

BE MADE WHOLE.

And let every bit of the glory belong to GOD.

AMEN. 🙏🔥

If you receive this in faith, type AMEN and send this prayer to someone who needs healing today.

08/18/2026

🚨 STOP PRAYING LIKE GOD DIDN’T HEAR YOU THE FIRST TIME.

What if the biggest battle in prayer isn’t getting God to hear us…

…but what happens IN OUR MIND AFTER WE PRAY?

We pray:

🙏 “Lord, I trust You.”

Then five minutes later:

What if God doesn’t answer?
What if nothing changes?
What if this is impossible?

And suddenly we’re mentally taking back everything we just placed in God’s hands.

But look at how Jesus operated.

He didn’t beg the storm to stop. He didn’t negotiate with demons. He didn’t hope Lazarus might wake up.

He spoke with AUTHORITY.

🌊 “Peace, be still.”
👿 “Come out of him.”
🪦 “Lazarus, come forth.”

And then Jesus gave His followers something extraordinary:

🔥 AUTHORITY IN HIS NAME.

📖 John 14:12–14 — Jesus said those who believe in Him would do His works and taught them to ask in His name.

Peter demonstrated it.

A man who couldn’t walk was begging outside the temple. Peter didn’t say:

“Hopefully God heals you.”

He said:

🔥 “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

And the man WALKED. — Acts 3:6–8

But Peter immediately made something clear:

The power wasn’t Peter’s.

It was faith in the name of JESUS CHRIST that made the man strong. — Acts 3:12–16

🔥 That’s the balance:

Authority without arrogance.
Faith without pretending we control God.
Confidence without claiming the power is ours.

Scripture repeatedly tells believers to pray boldly:

📖 Luke 10:19 — Jesus gave His disciples authority over the enemy.

📖 Mark 11:23–24 — Pray believing rather than doubting.

📖 Acts 4:29–30 — The early church prayed for boldness, healing, signs and wonders through Jesus’ name.

📖 James 1:6–8 — But James warns us about becoming divided by doubt.

And maybe THAT is where many of us lose the battle.

The enemy doesn’t necessarily have to stop you from praying.

He just has to get you doubting AFTER you pray.

“What if God doesn’t answer?”

“What if nothing changes?”

“What if God didn’t hear me?”

🛑 STOP DIGGING UP YOUR PRAYER WITH DOUBT.

When your mind says, “But what if…?”

Answer:

✝️ “I’ve already placed this in God’s hands.”

When fear says, “Nothing is changing…”

Answer:

✝️ “My faith is in Jesus, not in what I can currently see.”

Then take that thought captive. — 2 Corinthians 10:5

🙏 PRAY BOLDLY.
🔥 BELIEVE DEEPLY.
✝️ USE THE NAME OF JESUS.
🧠 THEN SILENCE THE FEAR AND TAKE THE DOUBTING THOUGHT CAPTIVE.

This isn’t manifesting.

It isn’t positive thinking.

And it isn’t commanding God to obey us.

Sometimes His answer is YES. Sometimes NO. Sometimes WAIT.

Our confidence isn’t that God must give us exactly what we demand.

Our confidence is in WHO HE IS.

The power was never in perfectly chosen words.

The power was never in us.

🔥 THE POWER IS IN JESUS CHRIST.

Stop praying like a powerless beggar desperately hoping heaven hears you.

Pray like a child of the King who knows where the authority comes from—and once you’ve placed it in God’s hands, stop letting fear talk you out of the faith you just prayed with.

✝️ IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. AMEN.

🙏 Share this with someone fighting the battle between faith and doubt.

08/17/2026

🚨 GOUT ISN’T JUST ABOUT EATING TOO MUCH RED MEAT…

That sudden, excruciating pain in your big toe at 2 AM?

🔥 Red
🔥 Hot
🔥 Swollen
🔥 So tender that even a bedsheet can hurt

That’s what happens when uric acid forms needle-like crystals inside a joint and your immune system launches an intense inflammatory response.

And that brings us to the modern gout epidemic.

🚨 IT’S NOT JUST PURINES.

Yes, high-purine foods can contribute:

🥩 Organ meats
🥩 Some red meats
🦐 Certain seafood

But two other major players often get overlooked:

🍺 ALCOHOL — ESPECIALLY BEER

Beer can deliver purines while alcohol can also interfere with the kidneys’ ability to eliminate uric acid.

🥤 FRUCTOSE

When large amounts of fructose are rapidly metabolized, ATP can be depleted and uric acid production increases.

That makes sugary drinks and foods containing large amounts of added fructose particularly interesting when we’re talking about gout.

And here’s another important piece…

💧 GOUT ISN’T ONLY ABOUT HOW MUCH URIC ACID YOU MAKE.

Your kidneys have to get rid of it.

That means hydration, kidney function, medications, metabolic health, alcohol intake, genetics, and diet can all influence your uric acid level.

So what can potentially help?

☕ COFFEE: Regular coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of gout in observational research.

🍒 CHERRIES: Some evidence suggests cherries or cherry products may be associated with fewer gout attacks.

🥛 LOW-FAT DAIRY: May have a uric-acid-lowering effect and is generally associated with lower gout risk.

🍊 VITAMIN C: Can modestly increase uric acid excretion in some people, although supplementation isn’t a substitute for appropriate gout treatment.

But here’s the number I want you to remember:

🎯 6.0 mg/dL

For most people receiving urate-lowering therapy for gout, the goal is to maintain serum uric acid below 6 mg/dL.

Why?

Because controlling uric acid isn’t simply about stopping today’s pain.

Over time, keeping urate low enough allows existing crystals to gradually dissolve and can help prevent future attacks and joint damage.

During an acute attack, treatment may include medications such as NSAIDs, colchicine, or corticosteroids when medically appropriate.

And for recurrent or chronic gout, medications such as allopurinol may be needed to control uric acid long-term.

⚠️ Allopurinol hypersensitivity can rarely be severe, and HLA-B*58:01 testing is recommended before starting it in certain higher-risk populations.

🔥 THE BIG LESSON?

Gout isn’t simply the punishment for eating steak.

It’s a metabolic problem involving uric acid production, kidney excretion, genetics, diet, alcohol, fructose, and inflammation.

If you’ve had gout—or your uric acid keeps creeping upward—don’t just wait for the next painful attack.

Know your number. Understand WHY it’s elevated. Then address the factors driving it.

— Dr. Patrick Ess
Stanly Wellness Center
🏆 Best Chiropractor in Stanly County for 2026

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