by Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you’re anything like me, your taste buds love the flavor of sweet. The sweeter the better! Anything that is sweet, by law has to have sugar. Unfortunately, sugar is harmful to our bodies. Even in smaller amounts, sugar can affect us in a negative way. It doesn’t matter if it’s processed sugar, which tends to be thousands of times sweeter than the natural form, or just plain old fruit. Sugar is sugar. The reason sugar is so harmful to our bodies is that it causes inflammation in our cells and hijacks our nervous system. Inflammation has been discovered to be at the root of every chronic disease we know, whether we’re talking about heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. Sugar also affects our nervous system negatively. It causes the same sort of reaction that cocaine does. We become hooked on sugar just like we would become hooked on a street drug. Sugar has been found to be just as addictive. It creates a loop. After we have some sugar, a few hours later we crave more of it. This process will continue and grow stronger and stronger. It’s even harder to break the sugar addiction because of how commonplace it can be found. It’s literally everywhere. In fact, if you pick up a box, package, or can at the store, chances are extremely high that you will find sugar somewhere in the ingredients. Companies have become smarter about how they label sugar in their products. They know people have started to look for it. Instead of calling it “sugar” they label it things like, “natural flavors” or “fructose”. If...
by Admin | Mar 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Life is movement. Think about it… Anything that’s alive has movement. Sure, animals are easy to see move, but it’s not always crystal clear, like with a plant. However, if you look long enough and deep enough, you will eventually find the motion. For example, plants grow and sway in the breeze. They also have a chemical/neurological system inside that sends nutrients and messages throughout. Without this movement, the plant would surely parish. Humans and animals are no different. Movement is key, and a major sign of life. Without movement, humans would not be able to get the blood to circulate the body. It would pool, and it often does when you look at someone who has been on bed rest in a hospital, or at home in bed for long periods of time. Movement helps hormones circulate around the body properly. It builds and tones muscles. It allows the heart to work better and the lungs to pump more oxygen and carbon dioxide. All those processes are essential for your body to function at its highest level. However, there’s one process that is more important than anything else that I’ve spoken about…getting energy to the brain. Did you know the brain uses about 80% of all the energy supply in the body? Pretty incredible, huh? Did you also know that about 80% of the energy the brain gets to run comes from spinal motion? That’s right, movement of the spinal bones creates energy that helps the brain function properly. Without it we would die! Chiropractic plays a vital role in the brain getting the energy it needs. Especially...
by Admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Do you feel good? This is the question we often ask ourselves to determine whether we’re healthy or not. Sometimes we look in the mirror and wonder, “Do I look good?” If that question is followed with a “Yes”, then we most likely conclude that our health is also good. Why would we think that? Because, years of reading magazines, watching commercials, listening to our friends have conditioned us to think this way. But does that make it true? Far from it. In fact, our health should never be based on how we feel or how we look. The health in our body is dependent on thousands, if not millions of variables, and how we look or feel is just one very small piece of the pie. Currently, heart disease is the number one killer of all Americans. If you did some research to find out what the number one sign that lets you know a heart attack is imminent, what do you think you would discover? The answer will probably shock you. The truth is, when you suffer a heart attack, you much more likely to collapse and die without any prior warning. That means no crushing in the chest, no numbness and tingling down the arm, etc. The most common sign of a heart attack is death. So, there you go. We feel great, but what does that mean? We may be out mowing the lawn tomorrow and collapse/die due to heart disease. This is because we don’t feel the plaque building up in our arteries. That happens deep in our bodies, unbeknownst to us. The only...
by Admin | Mar 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
If we lined up all the papers detailing what good diet and nutrition is from end-to-end, we could probably stretch the papers around the earth a few times. It’s an immense topic, with a lot to still be learned. We know artificial flavors aren’t good for our body. Neither is sugar, dairy, wheat, or hormones in the meat supply. There has been lots of evidence come out lately supporting a diet that’s high in fat, like avocados, olive oil, coconut oil, etc. All this new research plays an incredibly important role in more people having a healthy body and having a better quality life. One facet that underlies all this research and doesn’t get the notoriety it clearly deserves is the nervous system. The nervous system runs everything in the body. It ‘s the master controller. It determines what foods will be broken down and used as tissues and cells, what nutrients will go to building hormones and enzymes, and what needs to be discarded because it serves no purpose, or has already been used. Without the nervous system functioning correctly, there’s no way our body can digest and break down foods properly. It won’t be able to assimilate the nutrients and use it in any productive way. If the nervous system wasn’t working, our food would just sit in our bodies, rotting us from the inside. This is not the problem for most humans. However, occasionally, there will be stresses in our life that can tax the nervous system like, anxiety, a car accident, loss of sleep, a night of drinking, etc. When this occurs, our nervous system...
by Admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
As chiropractors, we see miracles happen everyday. We don’t need validation for what we do. However, sometimes the public needs a little more help to be brought up to speed. So, it helps when research comes out supporting the importance of the adjustment in keeping people well. This was recently done by researchers at Harvard. The topic of the article was migraines and what causes them. According to the article, the number one reason for migraines is misalignment of the top bones in the neck. These bones happen to be the most important bones in the entire spine because the brain stem sits where they are located. If there is any misalignment in that region, there’s a vast amount of symptoms that can result due to pressure at the base of the brain. One of these symptoms is, as mentioned before, a migraine. The other two causes of migraines aren’t specifically a misaligned vertebrae. However, they both have to do with the vertebrae altering vasculature in the brain, which eventually leads to a debilitating migraine. This happens because the misaligned vertebrae put pressure on the blood flow to the brain, thus causing a chain reaction by the vasculature to try and restore the movement of blood back to normal. At the same time, this can cause intense pressure in the head and set off a migraine. Misaligned bones don’t always cause migraines, but they definitely can. If a problem like this goes undetected for long periods of time, then the symptoms will tend to get worse and also multiply. The purpose of the work we do with the less...
