Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
What is SIBO? SIBO stands for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Simply put there is an excessive number of bacteria that are found in this part of your digestive tract that follows immediately after your stomach. The small intestine is a long narrow tube with...
Detox, Hot Topics, Symptoms
Exactly what is stress? Most of us will immediately think of something that would cause us mental/emotional stress like our job, spouse, family or other relationships. Well, that is true but, stress can come in several different forms that we might not think about or...
Detox, Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
What is Candida? It is a group of yeast organisms that are in the fungal family which are related to mushrooms. Candida is normally found in about 80% of all human beings. They are primarily located in the intestines, mouth and skin. Most of the time we are not even...
Detox, Hot Topics, Symptoms
Most people will automatically recognize the word stress and are aware of stress in their daily lives. We generally use the word stress when we feel everything has become too much, we are overloaded and wonder whether we can really can cope with the pressures/ demands...
Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
There are several different types of headaches, some major categories are, tension, cluster, sinus, hormonal and many others. However, we are going to confine our discussion to a major category of headaches called migraines. In brief, migraines would be considered a...
Hot Topics, Nutritional, Thyroid Health
Low thyroid function or hypothyroid affects approximately 15 million in the US. Hypothyroid is the most common thyroid disorder. It is five times more common in women compared to men in the US according to the Academy of Family Physicians in 2004.The generic form of...
Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
High blood pressure or in the medical field it is known as hypertension. There are basically two types of hypertension primary (essential) hypertension and secondary hypertension. About 90-95% of hypertension falls under the category of essential hypertension and...
Chiropractic Basics, Hot Topics, Symptoms
Your cervical spine connects your brain stem to your spinal cord. It is an area rich in blood vessels and other soft tissue, such as ligament and tendons. Neck pain is slightly less common than back pain, but no less important or treatable. Common causes of neck pain...
Chiropractic Basics, Hot Topics, Symptoms
Eighty percent of Americans experience one form of back pain or another during the course of their lives. More men over the age of 45 are disabled by back pain than any other condition. It is the third most common reason for surgeries. Because of this, people...
Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
We wish to make a distinction here between food allergies and food sensitivities/ food intolerances. The last newsletter addressed “true” food allergies which are caused by a protein produced by a certain white blood cell in your immune system called a plasma cell....
Hot Topics, Nutritional, Symptoms
Most of the time when we hear the word “cholesterol” we often think of fatty globules choking our arteries and causing heart attacks. However, there is another side of cholesterol that we often do not hear much about. Often we hear only the negative and none of...