At Kirkland Health Institute in Kirkland, WA, we strive to educate our patients on chronic health conditions and the ways that natural healing can help them. Our blogs provide reliable information on how you can lead a more active lifestyle and take steps toward healthy living.
Healthy Lifestyle – Consistent or Roller Coaster? I’ll start eating healthy again tomorrow…I’ll start going to the gym again next week…I need to start flossing my teeth again soon! Is this you? You start a pattern for a healthy lifestyle, but then somehow you get off track, the good habit is broken, and you’re back to square one…you need to begin again! It can be a vicious cycle. Why you ...
Is Stress Adding to My Chronic Health Condition? If I can remove the stress, will my chronic illness improve? The American medical association estimates that 80% of all health conditions have a stress component to them. “Stress doesn’t only make us feel awful emotionally, it can also exacerbate just about any health condition you can think of.” – Jay Winner, MD, author of Take the Stress Out of Your Life I have been a holistic ...
A New Study Links Processed Food Group to Cancer If you were given information that would help you predict whether or not you would get cancer, would that encourage you to make changes in your lifestyle to avoid it if possible? Well, there is new information, information that links processed foods to cancer. The study, by researchers in France, did not find that processed foods cause cancer, but that they are closely linked to cancer ...
Bad Back Health Linked to Earlier Mortality in Seniors – by Guest Blogger Jenni Oscar Although back pain can affect people of all ages, it is particularly prevalent in people aged over 60, who are more likely to be facing issues caused by the degeneration of the joints in their spine. Osteoarthritis and spinal stenosis are just two conditions that can interfere with daily life by causing pain and stiffness, especially in the morning and the ...
Recognizing Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury – TBI We are hearing more and more about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) everyday…it can be a devastating injury that can totally change a person from what was “their normal”. One of the best examples of how a person can receive a TBI can be observed on a weekend afternoon, watching your favorite football team crash into their opponents. Oftentimes when a player is injured, you will hear the ...
What You Don’t Know About IBS There’s an old saying “What you don’t know won’t kill you”, but with IBS, “what you don’t know” is causing your chronic pain and discomfort. IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, is a condition that involves various symptoms such as constipation, diarrhea, bloating, excessive bowel gas, vomiting and sharp abdominal pain. You may have all or a combination of these symptoms. This painful, common condition ...
What is the Difference Between Organic and Non-GMO Food? by Guest Blogger – Jenni Oscar The organic boom has hit the US as hard as it has the rest of the world. With research carried out over the past decade showing that organic foods are healthier (because they contain higher levels of antioxidants and lower levels of metals such as cadmium), more and more families are keen to fuel up on fresh, seasonal, organic fruits and ...
Fighting High Blood Pressure Naturally New guidelines regarding high blood pressure have recently been released, and the new highs are lower than ever…if you consistently have readings higher than 130/80 you are considered to have high blood pressure. Previous to this new guideline the tipping point was 140/80 with the normal range (which hasn’t changed) being 120/80. This means that millions more Americans will be diagnosed with Hypertension or High ...
Which Brain Foods Can Help Prevent Depression? Just as your heart, your lungs and every other part of your body needs the right kinds of food to function optimally, it’s important that your brain receives nutrients from the right kinds of foods also. Many people don’t think about eating particular foods for the brain, but almost everything we take in affects it and how it acts or reacts. Everything in your body works ...
What is the Deadly Truth About the Opioid Epidemic? How Chiropractic is a Big Part of the Answer to the Problem There was an interesting news headline the other day…”Opioids could kill nearly as many Americans in a decade as HIV/AIDS has killed since the epidemic began in the early 1980s.” In fact, death from opioid use has tripled over the last 15-18 years…it is no respecter of persons…not age, sex ...