A Unique, Multidisciplinary Approach to Pain Management
Childhood is the ideal time to build strong bones. However, there are always things you can do-even as an adult-to help keep your bones healthy. And it's particularly important to do these things as you age. Our bones are in a constant state of being broken down and rebuilt. Until the age of about 30, bone buildup exceeds bone loss. Then bone density slowly begins to decline. If you're a woman,...
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If you've ever noticed that the car ahead of you in traffic seems to be driving itself, there's a good chance that the person driving it is elderly. Shrinking in height as we age is normal, and some people start to get shorter starting at the age of 30. Only about 20% of the population does not noticeably shrink, which is due to a combination of good genetics and a healthy lifestyle. Not onl...
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While many of us struggle to keep the amount of fat in our bodies to a minimum, there is one type of fat that we may want to encourage more of. Brown fat (also called brown adipose tissue) is our friend. It has the ability to burn calories at a great rate, particularly when it is stimulated by exposure to cold temperatures. As opposed to white fat, whose purpose is to store calories, brown fat ...
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Butter's gotten a bad rap. Until the 1950s, butter was a traditional staple on everyone's dinner table. But then a professor named Ancel Keys published research that tied the consumption of saturated fat to heart disease. In 1956, American Heart Association representatives appeared on television warning people about fat and the danger of coronary heart disease. Butter consumption took a nosediv...
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If you find yourself becoming depressed, increasingly irritable and suffering from more bouts of insomnia as winter approaches, you may have seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Your risk of having this condition increases the further you get from the equator. The prevalence of SAD is estimated to be only 1.4 percent in Florida, but jumps to 9.7 percent in New Hampshire. Although it is not listed as...
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There has been considerable controversy over the past few years about whether or not exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) is harmful to our health. Given the conflicting studies, we are not likely to have a definitive answer any time soon, particularly until studies on the effect of long-term, low-level EMFs have been completed. However, the current bottom line on EMFs according to the World ...
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Chiropractic care has become such an indispensable tool for athletes to keep performing at their best and to reduce the time that it takes to heal from injuries that 28 Doctors of Chiropractic (DC) were employed in the Olympic polyclinic during the 2012 Olympic Games in London. This was in addition to 27 other team DCs who traveled with their nations' teams, not to mention individual athletes' chi...
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While chatting with patients recently about their families' meal schedules and eating habits, I noticed a disturbing pattern that's worth writing about. It has to do with kids and the way we're teaching them to approach food. Whether we call it "grab-and-go" or "fast food at home", there are clear signs that our children are adopting the same bad habits as their time-pressed parents. The story us...
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Steroids are organic compounds that are produced naturally in the human body. They're also produced by other animals, plants and fungi. Within humans, steroids are used to produce several different hormones that are important to the body's proper functioning. Outside of natural human physiology, there are also drugs called anabolic steroids, whose purpose is to increase muscle mass and improve...
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It was Plato who said "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Play is important not only for children, but for adults too. All work and no play may "make Jack a dull boy", but it also makes Jack a worse corporate manager. According to a number of studies, those whose lives don't include play have an increased risk of mental health issues, diseases ...
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