The New Year has arrived, and with it comes a renewed commitment to improving our lives through behavior changes. This is the brief time of the year when we admit that we can not keep doing the same things and expect different results. The desire for better health requires us to show up in another way […]
Ellen and I spend a lot of time wondering about things that some people call psychological or spiritual. Like, I was making lunch today and I thought, “Wow, when we die and don’t have bodies anymore, we won’t have anything to worry about. It seems like it will be all about connecting.” Ellen said, “No […]
I have found that digestive issues and back pain are the most common reasons patients seek medical care. However, what most people and doctors don’t know is that each of these can and do create the other. For example, a patient’s reflux can cause a sharp stabbing pain in their mid back, and another patient’s […]
Did you know that we human beings are like hybrid cars – part of us runs on chemical fuel and part of us runs on electricity? Just like some hybrid cars our chemical fuel constantly runs to turn a generator called the electron transport chain inside our mitochondria to produce electrical energy which is stored […]
Scoliosis is a classic Chiropractic subject because many cases of scoliosis respond excellently to Chiropractic adjustments. I have treated many cases over the years. Some of these cases resolved nicely while others didn’t change at all yet the symptoms improved. So today I am going to look at several causes of scoliosis and discuss which […]
Imagine you are laying there in bed all cozy and comfy and you shift your leg or foot a bit when bam, your leg or foot suddendly goes into an intense spasm. What do you do? You try moving the leg around to see if a different position will make the spasm disappear. Sometimes this works, but […]
Self-love is the most significant factor in your life that determines your happiness and sense of fulfillment. Yet, we must be taught how to achieve this deeply needed relationship with self in this culture. Other cultures in other times have focused heavily on this inner relationship. However, American culture has been focused on outer accomplishment […]
The most basic and important piece of nutrition you need to know is that we are made of protein, water, fat, and a few minerals. All of them are essential for our health and survival. Protein is generally the most difficult to get enough of of those four. Yes, water may be a problem in […]
This newsletter had to wait until after Halloween. I didn’t want to throw shade on the joy of running door to door gathering small bundles of sugar for mass consumption later. After all, how often do we get people we hardly know to tell us how wonderful we look and reward us just for coming […]
Fat is a subject that everyone thinks they already know all about, but which in reality is a huge area of information most folks don’t know anything about. Like so many things in this world, the modern world of fat has been split into two camps – the saturated fat camp and the unsaturated fat […]