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What Is The Connection Between Your Brain and Your Health? Your brain, believe it or not, is like plastic! Just as plastic can be molded to change its functionality, with the proper encouragement, the brain can change it’s functionality as well! It has only been in the last decade that 100 years of stubborn dogma, which stated that the human brain was unchangeable, has become changed itself. It was previously thought that the brains ...
The Fight Against Inflammation Inflammation is a natural and necessary part of our immune system...it alerts us to the fact that something is irritating or causing harm to one or more parts of our body. It can be uncomfortable and often painful, but it is attempting to protect us when something is not right. Nevertheless, if allowed to go untreated, inflammation can cause more harm that benefit. Research has shown that chronic inflammation can ...
Why Do I Have Dizziness, Vertigo and Balance Problems? Join us Saturday March 30th 2019 at 12:00 PM for a FREE Workshop on Balance Disorders Click here for the flyer 60 to 70 million Americans have Dizziness, Vertigo and Balance Problems! These are called Vestibular disorders. The Vestibular system of the body is designed to help you know where your body is in space (judge distance, direction, tracking objects visually, control upright posture , perform ...
Do You Suffer With Chronic Abdominal Pain? Digestive problems can be so painful, uncomfortable and embarrassing. They can become so bad that you may avoid going out in public for fear of having an “episode”. And if you do go out, especially to a restaurant, you have to make it a priority to know where the restroom is located. If you suffer with digestive disorders such as IBS, Gerd, Colitis or Crohn’s, I’m ...
Why It’s So Important to Heal Your Thyroid Why do I feel so bad, and why can’t anyone find out what’s wrong with me? These are all too familiar questions that I hear from patients when they have been to multiple doctors with little to no improvement. The symptoms, mostly women report, are these: Symptoms for Hypothyroidism Fatigue General feeling of cold all over…cold hands and feet Hair that is thinning ...
How To Live Long and Live Healthy July 29, 2018, a Seattle Washington man celebrated his 100th birthday by skydiving from a plane, and is planning on doing it again next year…pretty amazing! What’s even more amazing is that he is not the only one his age doing the same or similar things…a 101 yr. old woman jumped from a plane in 2018 and a 100 yr. old woman jumped in 2015 ...
How to Avoid the Common Cold Naturally Tis the season…for sniffling, coughing, sneezing and wheezing….not such a joyous time! It’s definitely that time of year when the cold and flu bugs are rampant, and everywhere you go, everything you touch, and everything you do opens you up to exposure to these everyday illnesses. One day you’re feeling just great, but by night time your symptoms have hit, and you are officially ...
How Can Your Thanksgiving Dinner Be Food Sensitivity Friendly? For many Americans, Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday of the year…good food, good friends, good times. But for a growing number of Americans, due to increasing food sensitivities and special dietary needs, the “good food” part of Thanksgiving is becoming more and more of a challenge. So many of the traditional foods prepared for “the feast” are no longer tolerable for people who need gluten ...
What is the Keto Diet and Why Should You Use It? People everywhere are jumping on the Keto Diet (Ketogenic Diet) bandwagon…never heard of it? It isn’t new, it’s actually been around since the 1920s…20 decades ago! So I guess that disqualifies it from being a “fad diet”, even though it is a fast way to lose weight. What is the Keto Diet and how does it work? The reason this ...
Is It Time You Found a Healthy Alternative to Coffee? Reuters was commissioned by the National Coffee Association (I didn’t even know there was one) to find out how many people drank at least 1 cup of coffee each day, and they found out that 64% of Americans fit into that category…the highest percentage since 2012. That’s a lot of Americans. So why do they do it? Some enjoy the buzz it ...