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Tate Arnett Janssen alias The pH Detox Chiro

running the vibes clinic at Chiropractor Lawrence, KS

Website · thejanssenclinic.com

Practice location

900 Indiana Street

Lawrence, KS 66044

Bottom line

Funnel-first framing that runs on persuasion, light on published evidence.

  • Of 25 health claims, 13 run counter to or conflict with the published evidence, and 8 were not independently checked.
  • Primary persuasion tactic: Doctor title used to launder broad medical authority.
  • Stated credentials look inflated relative to the advice given.
  • Profits from the products and labs they recommend, with no clear disclosure.
  • Gives advice beyond what their license covers.
Dr. Trust Me Bro says

Tate Janssen has the full doc-bro starter kit: DC title, functional-medicine cosplay, labs, supplements, detox devices, and a little autoimmune seasoning for extra gravitas. The clinic turns vague modern-life anxiety into a neatly merchandised care pathway, where the diagnosis is always 'need more of our stuff.'

87/100

High grift signals

8 critical1 high0 medium0 low

Score breakdown

0/100
Credentials
The license is real; the lane it is driving in is not. Public scope records flag this doc bro practicing well past what that license actually authorizes.
86/100
Manipulation
The page leans on fear of toxins, claims to 'normalize' pH, borrows Nobel Prize glamour, and sells a stack of services without a visible disclosure shield. That is a tidy bundle of persuasion tricks with a strong trust-extraction vibe.
87/100
Sales funnel
The funnel is blunt: broad symptom claims, an in-house evaluation, lab review, and then practitioner-only supplements plus device therapies. Add the Standard Process and MediHerb pitches and this is a classic clinic-to-cart conversion machine.
40/100
Grift map
Few outbound commerce links detected.
38/100
Evidence gap
6 of 16 literature-checked claims unsupported.
73/100
Bro energy
Tate Janssen presents as the all-purpose wellness authority for everything from autoimmune problems to concussions to detox, which is already very doc-bro. The score stays below the absolute ceiling only because there is no explicit affiliate-recruitment program on this surface.

Direct answer

Tate Arnett Janssen is licensed in Kansas as a chiropractor (DC), not as an MD or DO, and Kansas's chiropractic scope statute (K.S.A. 65-2871) limits that license to musculoskeletal care, not the diagnosis or treatment of systemic disease. Even so, they advertise diagnosing or treating The Truth About Cancer, Functional Medicine, conditions may be reduced or eliminated, normalize the body's pH, and Concussions, conditions that belong with oncologists. Those same pages route patients toward supplements, lab panels, and paid programs that Tate Arnett Janssen profits from.

Key findings

  • False Authority: The copy stacks a narrow chiropractic credential with vague 'advanced functional medicine doctor' language to sound like a general medical specialist. That is classic authority inflation when the page then moves into autoimmune, endocrine-like, detox, and internal-disease claims.see section ↓
  • Claim "The majority of the supplements used are whole-food supplements": not supported by peer-reviewed evidence.see section ↓
  • Claim "Dr. Janssen will evaluate your current condition, health history, lab results, and perfor…": only partially supported.see section ↓
  • NPI registry confirms TATE ARNETT JANSSEN as Chiropractor (DC) in Kansas (NPI 1427133321).see section ↓
  • Tate Arnett Janssen shows credential inflation relative to stated vs likely credentials.see section ↓
  • Dr Tate Arnett Janssen is marketed with a doctor title, but reviewed credentials indicate Chiropractor (DC) rather than an MD/DO physician license.see section ↓
  • Against Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) scope rules (K.S.A. 65-2871), these advertised activities appear outside Tate Arnett Janssen's license (including conditions they merely list as ones they treat): helped a wide range of people... autoimmune sufferers, The Truth About…see section ↓
  • 15 of 32 advertised activities fall outside permitted Chiropractor scope in KS.see section ↓

Claims & evidence

In their own published words, they present themselves as qualified to treat, or give advice on, 12 conditions or treatments. A chiropractic license covers the spine, joints and muscles, and the scope review placed each one outside it. Each box leads with state-board scope notation; literature cross-check follows when we matched a specific claim. Every card carries its receipts: the quoted wording, a live source link, and an archived copy.

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to advertise helped a wide range of people... autoimmune sufferers as within their scope of practice.

helped a wide range of people... autoimmune sufferers

Supports
The claim is extremely non-specific, but there is some evidence that certain structured, evidence-based interventions can help people with autoimmune diseases in defined ways, mainly by improving quality of life and symptom control rather than curing disease. For example, a self-evidence-based digital care program using personalized dietary and non-pharmacological interventions in adults with autoimmune diseases and related conditions was associated with statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in health-related quality of life across multiple domains, and was feasible across a variety of autoimmune diagnoses, suggesting benefit in a "wide" autoimmune population, but this was not a randomized trial. Lifestyle interventions including diet, exercise, and stress management have shown benefits in systemic lupus erythematosus in at least one randomized controlled experiment, with significant reductions in disease activity scores and improvements in quality of life and inflammatory markers, indicating that structured lifestyle programs can help some autoimmune sufferers. Systematic reviews and randomized trials of specific adjunctive interventions (e.g., dietary patterns, microbiota-based therapies, immunotherapies) show that some targeted interventions can improve symptoms, biomarkers, or disease activity in certain autoimmune conditions, but these data generally apply to clearly specified treatments under medical supervision, not to generic influencer programs. Major nutrition guidelines for inflammatory bowel disease emphasize clinical nutrition as an adjunct to standard care, recognizing that tailored nutrition support can improve outcomes, but they do not endorse broad, unspecified influencer-style interventions.
Contradicts
The influencer’s claim is vague (“helped a wide range of people… autoimmune sufferers”) and does not specify any intervention, dosage, disease type, or outcome, which makes it impossible to directly verify against high-quality evidence; major guideline and evidence frameworks emphasize that claims must be tied to clearly defined interventions and outcomes to be credible. Established guidelines for autoimmune-related conditions and for clinical nutrition stress evidence-based, disease-specific management (e.g., ESPEN guideline for inflammatory bowel disease), and do not support generic, one-size-fits-all influencer interventions as stand-alone or primary therapy for autoimmune diseases. Where high-quality randomized data exist on lifestyle or complementary interventions in systemic lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune diseases, effects on core disease activity are often modest or absent, with benefits mainly in quality of life and mental health, suggesting that broad claims of substantial help across a wide range of autoimmune diseases overstate what current evidence shows. Reviews of complementary and alternative medicine in autoimmune disease report heterogeneous, often low-quality evidence, frequently without robust randomized trials, and emphasize that efficacy and safety vary and that many approaches lack strong proof of benefit, which contradicts blanket claims that such programs reliably help a wide range of autoimmune sufferers. Major guideline frameworks such as GRADE highlight that when evidence is imprecise, heterogeneous, or at high risk of bias, strong, general claims of benefit should not be made, implying that sweeping influencer statements about wide-ranging autoimmune benefit are not justified.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medical and scientific opinion is that autoimmune diseases require condition-specific, evidence-based management guided by established clinical guidelines, usually centered on immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive drugs, with diet, exercise, stress management, and other lifestyle measures used as adjuncts rather than primary therapies. For lifestyle and complementary approaches, the mainstream view is that they can improve quality of life, mental health, and sometimes disease-related symptoms in some autoimmune conditions, but evidence for large, consistent effects on underlying autoimmune pathology is limited and variable, so such interventions should be individualized, monitored, and integrated into conventional care rather than relied on alone. Major guideline and evidence-rating systems (e.g., GRADE) require precise definitions of interventions, outcomes, and patient populations; vague claims that a nonspecified influencer program "helps a wide range of people... autoimmune sufferers" do not meet these standards and are not considered evidence-based.

Papers listed for this claim:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“autoimmune sufferers”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to advertise Claims to manage autoimmune sufferers and 'fight off' immune deficiencies, which is internal-disease management rather than chiropractic care as within their scope of practice.

Claims to manage autoimmune sufferers and 'fight off' immune deficiencies, which is internal-disease management rather than chiropractic care

Supports
No high-quality evidence in the listed papers supports the broad claim of immune deficiencies. The listed studies are unrelated to immunodeficiency and do not test whether immune deficiencies are present or caused by the influencer’s claim.
Contradicts
The listed papers do not provide evidence for immune deficiencies, and several are clearly unrelated clinical studies, so they cannot be used to substantiate the claim. Because the claim is nonspecific, it is not possible to verify a medically meaningful assertion from the evidence listed. The evidence base here is effectively absent rather than supportive.
Mainstream view
Immune deficiency is a specific medical diagnosis that requires clinical context, laboratory evaluation, and sometimes genetic testing; a vague claim of “immune deficiencies” is not medically interpretable without specifying which deficiency, in whom, and by what evidence. In the absence of direct clinical or peer-reviewed evidence, the mainstream scientific position is that this claim is unsupported.
In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“immune deficiencies”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scopeListed service

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure Functional Medicine.

Functional Medicine

Supports
There is moderate-quality evidence that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy is about as effective as other recommended therapies (such as standard medical care and physical therapy) for short‑term pain relief and small improvements in function in adults with chronic low back pain. Some randomized controlled trials show clinically meaningful reductions in pain and disability with structured courses of chiropractic spinal manipulation (around 12 sessions over 6 weeks) in chronic non‑specific low back pain, with benefits sustained up to 52 weeks. A Cochrane review and other systematic reviews indicate that for acute and subacute low back pain, combined chiropractic interventions can slightly improve pain and disability in the short and medium term compared with other treatments, though long‑term differences are minimal. Overall, high‑quality evidence supports chiropractic care as a reasonable option for musculoskeletal spinal pain (especially low back pain), broadly comparable to other conservative treatments.

Papers listed for this claim:[13][14][15][16]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“Functional Medicine”

Archived screenshot of this wording on the source page
Their wording, preserved on the Internet Archive

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to advertise conditions may be reduced or eliminated as within their scope of practice.

conditions may be reduced or eliminated

Supports
No high-quality evidence in the listed papers directly supports the broad claim that “conditions may be reduced or eliminated” as a general statement. Some clinical guidelines do support substantial symptom reduction or disease control with specific treatments in specific conditions, such as hypertension management strategies, clinical nutrition support in inflammatory bowel disease, and colchicine reducing recurrences in pericarditis.
Contradicts
The claim is too vague and overbroad to be supported as written. The listed guideline and review papers address condition-specific management, not a general promise that conditions can be reduced or eliminated across diseases. Evidence appraisal guidance emphasizes that effect estimates can be uncertain and limited by imprecision, which weakens any sweeping elimination claim.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medical and scientific opinion is that some conditions can be improved, controlled, or sometimes put into remission with evidence-based treatment, but many cannot be eliminated, and outcomes depend strongly on the specific diagnosis, severity, and treatment context. Broad claims of reducing or eliminating “conditions” are not medically reliable without naming the condition and the intervention.

Papers listed for this claim:[1][2][3][5][6][7][8][17]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“conditions may be reduced or eliminated”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue, decreased muscle function and much more.

fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue, decreased muscle function and much more

Supports
High-quality evidence supports the idea that correcting specific nutrient deficiencies or providing targeted nutritional support can modestly improve some aspects of fatigue and muscle function in defined populations, but not broadly “fight off” allergies, arthritis, or immune deficiencies as a general claim. Guidelines for clinical nutrition (ASPEN, ESPEN) emphasize that appropriate macro- and micronutrient provision is important in patients with serious illness and can help preserve muscle mass and function, and they recommend vitamin supplementation within parenteral nutrition to meet requirements and support immune function in critically ill patients. A systematic review of nutrient therapy for fatigue reports potentially significant benefits from certain nutrients (e.g., CoQ10, L‑carnitine, vitamins C, D, B) in reducing fatigue in some healthy and chronically ill individuals, based on randomized and nonrandomized trials, though effects vary by nutrient and population. A randomized trial of essential amino acid–based multi‑ingredient supplementation in healthy elderly subjects found improved muscle mass, strength, and power, indicating that targeted nutritional supplements can counter age‑related loss of muscle function. Multiple randomized trials and reviews show that correcting vitamin D and B12 deficiency and providing adequate protein and multi‑nutrient support can improve biochemical status and sometimes muscle mass or strength in selected groups, such as sarcopenic dialysis patients or older adults at risk of protein deficiency, supporting a narrow claim that nutrition can help decreased muscle function in deficiency states.
Contradicts
There is no high‑quality evidence that generic supplements or nutrition “fight off” allergies, arthritis, or broad immune deficiencies in the way implied by the influencer’s sweeping claim, and existing data on fatigue and immune enhancement are mixed or modest. Major clinical nutrition guidelines focus on meeting requirements and preventing deficiency; they do not claim that routine supplementation in otherwise well‑nourished individuals will cure or substantially prevent allergies, arthritis, or immune deficiency syndromes, and they stress evidence grading and imprecision when benefits are small or uncertain. A randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation in older adults showed improved 25(OH)D levels but no significant effect on measured immune parameters, indicating that correcting deficiency did not meaningfully enhance immune function over 12 weeks in that study. Another randomized trial in children found that vitamin D supplementation improved vitamin D status and prevented deficiency but had no effect on muscle function, cognitive outcomes, or immune markers, contradicting simple claims that vitamin D alone restores muscle function or broadly boosts immunity in otherwise healthy, mildly deficient children. A prospective population‑based study found no consistent association between use of vitamin/mineral supplements and fatigue status; multivitamin–multimineral users tended to develop greater fatigue, arguing against the idea that routine supplement use reliably alleviates fatigue in the general population. Narrative reviews of immune nutrition and exercise note that, beyond avoiding frank deficiencies and meeting basic macronutrient needs, well‑powered randomized trials showing clinically meaningful reductions in infection or robust improvements in immune outcomes from additional supplementation are lacking, which weakens claims that supplements reliably “fight off” immune deficiencies in otherwise adequately nourished people. Evidence for multi‑nutrient products and herbal mixtures (such as HemoHIM or similar) often shows safety and some signal for immune or fatigue outcomes but is limited in size, duration, and clinical endpoints, and does not justify broad disease‑level claims like preventing arthritis or allergic disease in the general population.
Mainstream view
The mainstream medical and scientific position is that appropriate nutrition, including adequate protein and correction of specific vitamin and mineral deficiencies, is important for maintaining general health, supporting normal immune and musculoskeletal function, and reducing disease‑related malnutrition, but it is not a stand‑alone treatment to “fight off” diverse conditions such as allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, and fatigue in the sweeping manner described by the influencer. Major clinical nutrition guidelines (ASPEN, ESPEN, and related evidence‑based statements) recommend individualized nutrition support for patients with defined medical conditions, emphasize careful risk–benefit assessment, and base recommendations on graded evidence, focusing on preventing and treating malnutrition rather than promising cure or prevention of unrelated diseases. For healthy or

Papers listed for this claim:[1][2][3][4][6][5][7][8][18][19][20][21]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue, decreased muscle function and much more”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to advertise normalize the body's pH as within their scope of practice.

normalize the body's pH

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“normalize the body's pH”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not approved to offer Balancing the body's pH is critical in assisting the body in every aspect, from it's ability to detox to it's ability to fight infections within a Chiropractor scope of practice under Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic).

Balancing the body's pH is critical in assisting the body in every aspect, from it's ability to detox to it's ability to fight infections

Supports
There is some evidence that dietary acid load can influence metabolic processes, low‑grade inflammation, kidney workload, and possibly long‑term health outcomes, which are indirectly related to detoxification and immune function, but not through changing or “balancing” systemic pH. Narrative and systematic reviews describe that diets high in animal products and low in fruits and vegetables increase dietary acid load, which is associated in observational data with metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk factors, and higher all‑cause mortality, suggesting that reducing dietary acid load via more plant-based diets may be beneficial for overall health and organ function involved in detoxification and immune responses. Some mechanistic and cellular work shows that acid–base equilibria can affect molecular pathways involved in metabolic stress and inflammation, which are relevant to both detoxification systems (liver, kidneys) and immune responses, but these effects occur despite very tight regulation of blood pH and do not depend on meaningful shifts in systemic pH. Overall, the supportive evidence is about diet quality and acid load influencing disease risk and metabolic/renal burden, not about clinically altering the body’s pH or showing that “pH balancing” itself is critical for infection resistance or detox capacity.
Contradicts
High‑quality physiological and clinical evidence shows that in healthy people, systemic blood pH is tightly regulated within a very narrow range (about 7.35–7.45) by buffers, lungs, and kidneys, and is not meaningfully altered by diet, alkaline water, or typical lifestyle measures. Reviews and expert commentaries on alkaline or pH‑balancing diets consistently report that while diet can change urine pH, it does not materially change blood or tissue pH, and claims that one can “balance the body’s pH” to treat or prevent disease are not supported by randomized trials or robust epidemiologic data. Clinical acidosis or alkalosis substantial enough to alter infection risk or detoxification capacity is a medical emergency caused by serious underlying disease (renal failure, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, respiratory failure, certain toxins), not by ordinary dietary patterns, and in these states the priority is treating the underlying illness, not lifestyle pH manipulation. Major reviews of the alkaline diet hypothesis for conditions like osteoporosis and cancer have found no causal evidence that making the diet more “alkaline” prevents or treats these diseases via pH changes, and no randomized trials show that deliberately trying to alter systemic pH in otherwise healthy people improves detoxification capacity or immune function. The influencer’s framing that “balancing the body’s pH is critical” overstates what diet can do and misattributes any potential benefits of healthier, plant‑rich eating to pH shifts rather than to well-understood mechanisms such as improved nutrient intake, reduced saturated fat, better glycemic control, reduced inflammation, and improved kidney and liver health.
Mainstream view
The mainstream medical and scientific position is that systemic pH is one of the most tightly regulated parameters in human physiology, kept within a very narrow range by robust buffering, respiratory, and renal mechanisms, and that in people with normal organ function, diet and typical lifestyle choices cannot meaningfully “rebalance” or shift body pH. Diets high in fruits, vegetables, and plant-based foods and lower in processed foods and certain animal products are recommended because they improve metabolic health, cardiovascular risk, kidney function, and overall well‑being, not because they substantially alter blood pH. Dietary acid load is a real and measurable construct, and high dietary acid load may be associated with adverse outcomes, but the current evidence is mostly observational and mechanistic, and the relationships are modest, with no proof that deliberately targeting “pH balance” is critical for detoxification or infection defense in otherwise healthy individuals. In clinical practice, meaningful deviations in systemic pH are treated as serious complications of underlying disease and managed with medical interventions; for the general population, emphasis is placed on evidence‑based lifestyle factors (balanced diet, physical activity, avoidance of smoking and excess alcohol, appropriate vaccinations, and management of chronic conditions) rather than on attempts to “alkalize” or micromanage body pH.

Papers listed for this claim:[22][23][24][25][26][27]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“Balancing the body's pH is critical in assisting the body in every aspect, from it's ability to detox to it's ability to fight infections”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure immune deficiencies.

immune deficiencies

Supports
No high-quality evidence in the listed papers supports the broad claim of immune deficiencies. The listed studies are unrelated to immunodeficiency and do not test whether immune deficiencies are present or caused by the influencer’s claim.
Contradicts
The listed papers do not provide evidence for immune deficiencies, and several are clearly unrelated clinical studies, so they cannot be used to substantiate the claim. Because the claim is nonspecific, it is not possible to verify a medically meaningful assertion from the evidence listed. The evidence base here is effectively absent rather than supportive.
Mainstream view
Immune deficiency is a specific medical diagnosis that requires clinical context, laboratory evaluation, and sometimes genetic testing; a vague claim of “immune deficiencies” is not medically interpretable without specifying which deficiency, in whom, and by what evidence. In the absence of direct clinical or peer-reviewed evidence, the mainstream scientific position is that this claim is unsupported.
In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“immune deficiencies”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to diagnose, treat, or cure fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue.

fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue

Supports
The broad claim is that some unspecified intervention can “fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue.” No listed paper directly supports a single intervention having clinically meaningful effects across all of these heterogeneous conditions. Major guidelines and evidence reviews instead show that these conditions are managed with targeted, condition-specific therapies rather than a universal remedy. Allergic diseases (such as allergic rhinitis) are typically treated with allergen avoidance, pharmacotherapy like intranasal corticosteroids and antihistamines, and in selected cases allergen immunotherapy, which can be disease‑modifying, but this is specific to allergy and not a general cure for arthritis, immune deficiency, or fatigue. Fatigue can sometimes be improved by structured exercise programs, psychological interventions, or appropriate disease‑specific pharmacologic therapy in chronic conditions, but these are tailored approaches rather than a single broad “fatigue fighter.” Overall, high‑quality evidence supports multifaceted, diagnosis‑specific management rather than a single approach that reliably “fights off” all of allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, and fatigue simultaneously.
Contradicts
High‑quality guidelines emphasize that hypertension, inflammatory bowel disease, tension‑type headache, and other chronic conditions require evidence‑based, condition‑specific management and do not endorse generic remedies capable of reversing multiple unrelated diseases such as allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, and fatigue together. The ASPEN‑FELANPE and ESPEN nutrition guidelines stress that clinical nutrition is an adjunct tailored to specific illnesses (e.g., critical illness, IBD) and do not claim that nutrition alone broadly cures immune deficiencies, arthritis, or allergic disease. The guideline on parenteral nutrition explicitly confines parenteral nutrition to clearly defined indications and warns against its use outside appropriate clinical contexts, contradicting any suggestion that it is a general treatment to fight off immune deficiencies or fatigue. The EFNS guideline on tension‑type headache, and the evidence‑based approach to blood transfusion therapy and colchicine in pericarditis, similarly present targeted therapies with defined indications and risks, not universal disease‑modifying tools applicable to allergies, arthritis, immune deficiency, and fatigue together. This pattern across guidelines and evidence reviews contradicts the notion that one broad, unspecified approach can reliably “fight off” this wide cluster of conditions; instead, it shows that each requires specific diagnostic workup and tailored management based on pathophysiology and high‑quality evidence.
Mainstream view
Mainstream medical and scientific consensus is that allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, and fatigue are distinct entities with different causes, mechanisms, and evidence‑based treatments, so they are not effectively or safely managed by a single generic intervention. Allergic conditions are treated with allergen avoidance, pharmacologic therapy, and sometimes allergen‑specific immunotherapy; arthritis is managed with diagnosis‑specific approaches such as disease‑modifying antirheumatic drugs, NSAIDs, physical therapy, and sometimes biologics; immune deficiencies require specialist evaluation, targeted treatments (such as immunoglobulin replacement or antimicrobial prophylaxis) and often genetic workup; and fatigue is a symptom that must be evaluated for underlying causes and managed with condition‑appropriate interventions. Major guidelines and GRADE‑based frameworks emphasize assessing each condition on its own merits, rating the quality of evidence for specific interventions, and avoiding over‑generalized claims that are not supported by robust data. The mainstream position therefore rejects broad influencer claims that one approach can “fight off” allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, and fatigue in a global way, and instead endorses individualized, evidence‑based care for each diagnosis.

Papers listed for this claim:[1][2][3][4][6][5][7][8][28][29][30][31]

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue”

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Outside scope

Tate Arnett Janssen is not licensed or approved by Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) to advertise functional medicine / root-cause internal medicine style care as within their scope of practice.

functional medicine / root-cause internal medicine style care

No specific health claims of theirs were cross-checked against the literature.

In their own wordsView sourceArchived copy

“Functional Medicine”

Archived screenshot of this wording on the source page
Their wording, preserved on the Internet Archive

Rule: K.S.A. 65-2871

Manipulation

Critical

Cherry-Picked Evidence

transcript · cited

The page drags in a Nobel Prize reference to suggest the therapy is scientifically settled, but the cited concept does not validate the clinic's sweeping treatment claims for concussions, migraines, arthritis, or wound healing. Likely motive: Borrow prestige from real science while sidestepping the actual clinical evidence standards.

“This is called cellular amplification, whose demonstration earned the Nobel Prize in 1994.”

Archived screenshot of this wording on the source page
Page capture preserved on the Internet Archive
Critical

Lab Test Upsell

transcript · cited

This is a classic diagnostic-to-product funnel: get labs, interpret them in-house, then turn the findings into a supplement purchase. That setup creates a built-in incentive to find 'needs' that map to retail products. Likely motive: Convert uncertainty into supplement sales through clinician-branded interpretation.

“Dr. Janssen will evaluate your current condition, health history, lab results, and perform a detailed physical exam to determine which supplements you need.”

Critical

Fear Mongering

transcript · cited

This is classic toxin panic language: it creates a vague but omnipresent danger that the clinic's detox services supposedly solve. The claim is broad, non-specific, and designed to make normal life feel dangerous. Likely motive: Make patients anxious enough to buy detox sessions and related products.

“Every day your body is under constant assault from an endless array of toxins in the air you breathe, the water you drink, even the food you eat.”

Critical

False Authority

transcript · cited

The page uses scientific-sounding language to sell an ion foot bath as if it were a real systemic balancing intervention. 'Normalizing pH' through a foot bath is not mainstream physiology, and the claim is being used as sales copy. Likely motive: Use science cosplay to justify a cash-pay device treatment.

“The EB Cellular Cleanse Therapy has also shown in clinical trials to normalize the body's pH.”

High

Proprietary Product Funnel

transcript · cited

The page steers patients toward practitioner-only products, implying exclusivity and superior quality while keeping the purchasing path inside the clinic ecosystem. Likely motive: Control the shopping cart and capture margin on in-office or practitioner-channel supplements.

“The majority of the supplements used are whole-food supplements that provide nutrition though natural organic sources, as opposed to synthetic manufactured vitamins. These supplements are only available to healthcare providers”

Commerce & grift map

The money flow looks like scare-and-soothe marketing: vague toxin and chronic-symptom fear, then an in-house 'functional' evaluation, then a tailored supplement stack and device-based add-ons. Standard Process and MediHerb are explicitly pushed, while lab-like interpretation tools such as hair analysis and heart sound recording deepen the funnel from worry to purchase.

Critical

No FTC-style compensation disclosure

compensationDisclosures · scan

High

Practitioner-facing supplement brands are sold through the clinic, creating a likely product-margin relationship.

supplement_brand

Supplements pitched

  • whole-food supplements / targeted nutritional supplementation

    “specific targeted nutritional supplementation”

  • Standard Process

    “Order Standard Process”

  • MediHerb

    “Order STANDARD PROCESS and MEDIHERB”

Labs pitched

  • hair analysis

    “I've been receiving questions about the benefits of hair analysis. Let's go over the benefits of having a hair analysis done.”

  • heart sound recorder

    “Heart Sound Recorder at The Janssen Clinic of Natural Medicine in Lawrence, KS.”

How the money flows

  • Supplement brand dealUndisclosed Practitioner-facing supplement brands are sold through the clinic, creating a likely product-margin relationship. “Order STANDARD PROCESS and MEDIHERB”
    Kickback quoteView source

    “Order STANDARD PROCESS and MEDIHERB”

  • Lab testing referralUndisclosed Hair analysis is promoted as a diagnostic service that can drive downstream recommendations and sales. “benefits of having a hair analysis done”
    Kickback quoteView source

    “benefits of having a hair analysis done”

  • Other financial tieUndisclosed Clinic-branded functional medicine and nutrition evaluations are used to route patients into paid services and products. “Functional Nutrition Exam”
    Kickback quoteView source

    “Functional Nutrition Exam”

Sponsors and advertisers

Brands, advertisers, and agencies connected to this content, based on what it promotes and discloses.

  • Standard ProcessBrand

    Promoted commerce partner

  • MediHerbBrand

    Promoted commerce partner

  • whole-food supplements / targeted nutritional supplementationBrand

    Named on a surface without a compensation disclosure

  • hair analysisBrand

    Named on a surface without a compensation disclosure

  • heart sound recorderBrand

    Named on a surface without a compensation disclosure

Credentials & scope

Glossary: Chiropractor (“Dr.”)

Learn: Is a chiropractor a medical doctor?

Stated: CHIROPRACTOR · Likely: Chiropractor

Verified against the federal provider registry: D.C. · Chiropractor · KS license 4565.

Tate Janssen appears to be a chiropractor, not an MD/DO, yet the page markets him as a functional-medicine authority who evaluates lab results, chooses supplements, and addresses autoimmune, fatigue, migraine, concussion, and detox-style complaints. That is credential inflation: a narrow musculoskeletal license being used to imply broad internal-medicine competence.

  • DC, Chiropractor

    A state-licensed chiropractor who may use the title 'doctor' in some jurisdictions, but that title does not equal medical physician training.

    State chiropractic boards generally limit practice to musculoskeletal/spinal evaluation and treatment, authorized adjunctive therapies, and advertising that does not imply MD/DO-level general medicine.

    Confirmed against the federal provider registry

Permitted scope vs advertised

Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Chiropractic) · Confidence: high

Kansas chiropractors may examine, analyze, and diagnose the human body and its diseases using physical, thermal, manual, and X-ray methods; adjust misplaced tissue; manipulate or treat the body by manual, mechanical, electrical, or natural methods; use physiotherapy (light, heat, water, exercise); and use foods, food concentrates, or food extracts. Chiropractors are expressly prohibited from prescribing or administering medicine or drugs, performing surgery, or practicing obstetrics.

What this license permits

  • Spinal adjustment and manipulation
  • Musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment
  • Soft-tissue and rehabilitative care
  • Headache care within musculoskeletal scope

15 of 32 advertised activities fall outside permitted scope.

AdvertisedVerdict
helped a wide range of people... autoimmune sufferers
Managing autoimmune disease is systemic internal disease management, which falls outside the chiropractic scope limited to musculoskeletal manipulation, physiotherapy, and foods/food extracts.
Outside scope
Listed service The Truth About Cancer
Advertising or promoting cancer-related content or treatment falls outside chiropractic scope, which does not authorize diagnosis or treatment of systemic diseases like cancer.
Outside scope
Claims to manage autoimmune sufferers and 'fight off' immune deficiencies, which is internal-disease management rather than chiropractic care
Management of immune deficiencies and autoimmune conditions constitutes systemic internal disease management, which is outside the scope of chiropractic practice.
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Listed service Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a medical specialty focused on systemic disease management and root-cause internal medicine, which is outside the chiropractic scope of musculoskeletal and physiotherapy care.
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conditions may be reduced or eliminated
This broad therapeutic claim of eliminating conditions suggests treatment of systemic disease beyond the scope of chiropractic manipulation and physiotherapy.
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fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue, decreased muscle function and much more
This claim encompasses systemic disease management (immune deficiencies, allergies) and internal disease treatment beyond the scope of chiropractic manipulation and physiotherapy.
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normalize the body's pH
pH normalization is a systemic biochemical intervention that falls outside the scope of chiropractic manipulation, physiotherapy, and food-based treatment.
Outside scope
Balancing the body's pH is critical in assisting the body in every aspect, from it's ability to detox to it's ability to fight infections
Claims about systemic detoxification and immune function (fighting infections) constitute internal disease management outside chiropractic scope.
Outside scope
Concussions
Concussion management is a neurological condition requiring medical diagnosis and treatment, which falls outside chiropractic scope.
Outside scope
immune deficiencies
Immune deficiency is a systemic disease requiring medical management, which falls outside the scope of chiropractic practice.
Outside scope
fight off allergies, arthritis, immune deficiencies, fatigue
This claim encompasses systemic disease management (allergies, immune deficiencies) and internal disease treatment beyond chiropractic scope.
Outside scope
functional medicine / root-cause internal medicine style care
Functional medicine and root-cause internal medicine are medical specialties focused on systemic disease management, which falls outside chiropractic scope.
Outside scope
hair analysis
Hair analysis for nutritional or systemic assessment is not an authorized diagnostic method under the chiropractic scope, which limits diagnosis to physical, thermal, manual, and X-ray methods.
Outside scope
heart sound recorder
Heart sound recording is a cardiac diagnostic tool outside the scope of chiropractic diagnosis, which is limited to physical, thermal, manual, and X-ray methods.
Outside scope
cold laser for systemic complaints and multiple diseases
While cold laser is an authorized modality, advertising it for systemic disease management and multiple diseases suggests treatment of internal diseases outside chiropractic scope.
Outside scope

Sources: K.S.A. 65-2871 - Persons deemed engaged in practice of chiropractic (official), K.S.A. 65-2802 - Definitions (official), Doctor of Chiropractic - KS Board of Healing Arts (official), Kansas Statutes (official)

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