Easing Your Tension Headaches: 7 Tips from a Chiropractor Combine stress, repetitive activities and poor posture, and what do you get? Tension headaches. They encircle your head like a too-tight crown. “Fortunately, you can do a lot on your own to prevent or relieve tension-type headaches,” says chiropractor Andrew Bang, DC. “You don’t always have […]
How many times have you heard it’s unhealthy to eat a certain food or food group. Then a new study comes out telling you that the food group or food is healthy. You have to be confused by now. I’d like to clear up the issue about fats. In 1988 the Department of Health and […]
Your environment is likely the most important predictor of your overall health and wellness. Your health is a microcosm of your environment. Your health is essentially a distillation of how your body responses to the environment. A good way to address this is to become more aware and start making some small changes in your […]
With the hectic pace of day-to-day life, many people don’t get the recommended amount of sleep each night. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adults typically need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night in order to function at their best. Getting a few less hours a night for a couple days in […]
The World Health Association (WHO) has announced a review into potential risks of plastic in drinking water after a new analysis of some of the world’s most popular bottled water brands found more than 90% contain tiny pieces of plastic. A previous study also found high levels of micro plastic and tap water. In the […]
It’s well documented that 70 to 80% of our healthcare dollars are spent on chronic disease. The medical treatment for chronic disease, you can say, is treatment by numbers. If your blood pressure is up, we have to lower that number. If you cholesterol is up, we have to lower that number. Diabetes is […]
John Ellis M.D., an orthopedic surgeon has written extensively about treating carpal tunnel with vitamin B6. He suggests that 400 to 600 mg of B6 taken 1 to 3 times a day for 1 or 2 months can reverse the condition. B6 is useless if you are deficient in Zinc. Zinc deficiencies are created by […]
Anti-Aging. It seems like every new product related to health is some sort of antiaging pill potion or lotion. Guess what, we are all aging. The real pursuit should be aging gracefully, with full function of mind body and soul. There are ways of predicting your aging process. There’s a number of tests used in […]
Everybody needs a community. Research shows that the risk of chronic disease and mortality is directly related to high social stress. The feeling of being isolated has a risk for chronic disease higher than physical inactivity, alcohol consumption of over 6 drinks a day, and smoking 15 cigarettes daily. This social isolation is heightened by […]
One of the 1st things that breaks down in getting a leaky gut is a change in the bacteria of the gut. So what do these bacteria do? They do a lot, you can’t live without them. · They protect the body from foreign invaders such as bad bacteria (C-Dif), parasites, yeast (Candida) and […]