The Power That Heals the Body Almost everyone has an inner knowledge that mental and emotional “stresses” can cause illness in the body. However, the question has always been how and why? To understand the inner workings behind stress-induced symptoms, we need to understand and learn about the way the body responds and adapts to
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Keep Calm and Carry On this Holiday Season – 5 Reasons to Visit Your Chiropractor With the holiday season upon us, more people than ever are facing the stresses that often come with this time of year. While you may be running around shopping, cooking and preparing to travel, it is important that you are
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Resolution of Symptoms Associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Following Chiropractic to Reduce Vertebral Subluxation: A Case Study & Review of the Literature Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research, Volume 2024 Shawn Martin, DC & Sydney Martin, DC Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research ~ May 6, 2024 ~ Volume 2024 ~ Pages 33-40 Abstract Objective: The purpose
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Eat Well – 5 Best Principles to Eat By Balance is key to living a better quality and quantity of life. Maintaining balance in the body is known as ‘homeostasis.’ Learn the 5 best principles you can incorporate into your day to teach you and your family how to eat well. Principle #1) Make Your
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Chiropractic Sleep Posture Tips Have you ever woken up with back or neck pain and don’t understand why? Do you often find yourself waking up sore several days of the week? Well odds are it’s your sleeping posture that is at fault. This post from our experts at Great Life Chiropractic aims to provide you
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Chiropractic’s Role in the Chemistry of Our Bodies & Our Health By weight, the average human adult male is approximately 60% water and the average adult female is 55%. There can be considerable variation in body water percentage based on a number of factors like age, health, water intake, weight, and sex. In a large
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Chiropractic, Stress & Anxiety Studies Show Benefits of a Hands on Approach Anxiety and stress related disorders are the 9th leading cause of nonfatal burden as measured by years lived and disability. It is estimated that 1 in 9 adults have experienced an anxiety disorder in their lives. In the United States it is estimated
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Importance of Restful Sleep We know that physical activity and a good diet go hand in hand when it comes to our health. We also understand the importance of personal hygiene practices, like brushing our teeth and bathing. But do we place a similar emphasis on our sleeping patterns? Sleep plays an important role in
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Healthy Sleep for Kids When our older son Max was 3 years old, he faced health challenges with his breathing at night. He was not sleeping well. He was breathing through his mouth, not his nose, snoring loudly, and would regularly stop breathing, wake up with a start, then inhale a deep breath and fall
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Dads Building Resilience What if fatigue, irritability, allergies, sensory overwhelm, and frequent illness aren’t the brain doing something wrong, but actually part of an intelligent and adaptive response? In all these health challenges, the body’s own built-in mechanism for coming down from the fight-or-flight response has been largely overlooked. A chronically elevated fight-or-flight response is
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