How often do you hear the advice to drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water throughout your day? The 8×8 rule is pretty easy to remember and seems like a pretty reasonable goal. Most healthy people have an easy time staying hydrated by drinking water and other liquids whenever they are thirsty. But every one of [...]
Pregnancy wellness. Welcome to the last post of this three-part blog series on chiropractic care during pregnancy and the year to follow. So far we have covered the Webster technique, which is a series of adjustments made to get your baby into the proper position for delivery. The week before that we discussed the structural [...]
Pregnancy: The Webster Technique Last week, we launched this three-part blog series on chiropractic care during pregnancy and the year to follow. Last week, we shared three reasons to try newborn chiropractic care. We found that it elongated the newborn’s spine, which is crucial because it is during these first few months that the spine [...]
Welcome to our new three-part series regarding chiropractic care during pregnancy! Over the next few weeks, I want to share with you reasons why regular appointments with a chiropractor can help you both physically and emotionally throughout this magical time. Your body is going to drastically change over the next 9 months as it prepares [...]
Newborn chiropractic care. When you think of someone going to the chiropractor, the first people that come to mind are athletes, the injured, and the aging. Newborn babies most likely come to mind last or perhaps don’t come to mind at all. As adults, we associate the chiropractor with a lot of pressure, cracking, and [...]
Lyme Disease – are you suffering from Lyme disease? It’s summer. Here are the long days of enjoying the outdoors. But summertime fun can also come with some summertime woes. The Center for Disease Control has found that roughly 300,000 people a year are diagnosed with Lyme disease. Many doctors say that Chronic Lyme disease [...]
Massages are often marketed as a form of self-care. A 30-60 minute shortcut to calm down, relax, ease anxiety, tension, and even sleep better. But can it do more than just help a person relax? After such positive results with mental health, scientists have been wondering if massage therapy does anything to our physical health [...]
Avoiding the Season of Sickness: The Importance of Vitamin D and the Immune System The Christmas Season is famously known as the “most wonderful time of the year.” The air is fresh and crisp and holiday lights illuminate in the dark night. As the snow starts to fall, we can’t help but envision sugar plum [...]
Being an expecting mother is much more difficult than it may seem. Your body is rapidly changing in a physical manner. Hormones seem to run wild as you begin to feel more emotion than before. You may feel like your existence comprises of hunger, soreness, and aching. Many expecting mothers feel they have to just [...]
Sugar slavery – the historical record speaks about the relationship between the sugar trade in America and human slavery in the US. But real sugar slavery is our addiction to processed foods in the US. Lately, it seems that sugar, high fructose corn syrup and other variants of sweeteners are all over the news. Sugar [...]
