September 2010 Newsletter

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:46:04 +0000

What you know can determine how long you live and how healthy you and yours will be.

There are standards for everything in your body. There are parameters for normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar levels, normal cholesterol levels, normal non-cancerous cells, normal spinal and nerve system health. There is normal spinal range of motion, normal balance, normal alignment, normal posture and normal coordination. Knowing this could be one of the most important keys to your longevity, ageing youthfully and staying active, healthy, drug free and disease free. Not knowing could result in your health deterioration including arthritis, degeneration, fatigue, pain, illness and disease.

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Feel Better at Work

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:00:21 +0000

If possible, set up a standing work station to minimize the physical strains that sitting puts on your back and neck. If you can’t stand consider an exercise ball as a chair, which keeps you moving and balancing all day instead of sitting stagnantly.
Set the top of your computer monitor just above eye level, about an arm’s length away.
Set up a document arm on each side of your monitor so that you can equalize the side you look to, as well has keep your head in a neutral posture eliminating the strains of hanging the head forward and to one side.
Tilt your keyboard away, not toward you – angling it toward you bends your wrists back leading to carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.

Upper Body Strengthener

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:02:55 +0000

Here’s a new 3 minute upper body series that I designed for Straighten Up, an international spinal hygiene program. You can use a medicine ball or almost anything that has some weight as resistance. See the video here

Osteoporosis Drugs Cause Brittle Bones

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:42 +0000

With the staggering increases in use of cholesterol medications, many people will suffer with deficiencies in function involving other organs and tissues. For instance, according to Cosima T. Baldari, PHD, a professor of molecular biology at the University of Siena, Siena Italy, Cholesterol drugs lower immunity. For those of you who do take cholesterol medications, a natural non-drug based approach to improving immunity is chiropractic adjustments. Studies have shown that those who receive chiropractic adjustments have measurable and “significant increases” in the white blood cells that fight off infection and disease. (J Manipulative Therapy 1991; 14:399-408). Another study on Chiropractic, disease, and immune system showed that un-adjusted subjects experienced a drop in immune cells (Chiro Research Journal 1994; 3:1) compared to subjects receiving chiropractic care.

Taking osteoporosis drugs may cause brittle bones, warns Joseph Lane, MD, Bisphosophonates such as Actonel, Boniva, Fosamax and Raclast can lead to deterioration in bone quality and increased hip fractures. The drugs are extremely effective in the first year of use, but after four or five years, when bone density is no longer improving, talk to your doctor about taking a “drug holiday” from bisphosphonates. (Joseph Lane, MD, is chief of Metabolic Bone Disease Service, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, and leader of a study of women and long-term bisphosphonate use).