Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

LOVE YOUR DISEASE IT IS KEEPING YOU HEALTHY!   There are many modalities you can do in health care and disease care to fix your injuries, ailments, symptoms or distress. Whether something is natural or artificial, a drug or an herb, a therapy or a form of bodywork the goal is still to return you to the state you were in before you had the injury, disease, symptom or problem that has disrupted your life. The problem is that this is returning you to the state that developed the problem! Your symptom, condition or problem didn’t make you sick, trying to eliminate it won’t make you well. Your symptom or distress is the end result of the life you have lived up until it happened! It is the messenger that is letting you know to pay attention, to change course, to do something different, to wake up. Fixing the condition will not make you well, it just delays you learning something from your body about the life you have lived. Symptoms and diseases are the chaos to take us off the track we are on. Rather than follow their cue we have been taught to eliminate the chaos and return to life as we knew it before the problem arose. But that is not good enough anymore. When the alarm goes off you can only hit the snooze button so many times before it causes another problem. We don’t want to be another attempt at a quick fix for you that simply keeps you on the same path your health and life is going. There are plenty of these options out there. Network care is your long term solution to develop new internal strategies for a whole new you. As your spine and nerve system gets healthier a new you is built. As opposed to fixing individual structural distortions or injuries we are helping your body develop the ability to better support itself, protect your nerve system and adapt to life stresses. A stronger healthier internal environment is created as your nerve system evolves with internal tools for healing from within. This allows you to better hear that voice inside. To receive the subtle messages of your body that are directing you before they get so loud and severe that you want to silence the messenger. Taking the path of silencing the messenger is ok… but you must remember that the next messenger that comes will speak even louder, be more toxic and more disruptive to your life as you know it. As your spine and nerve system gets healthier you are more connected to your source. The subtle cues of your body mind become more apparent so you are self directed to make healthier choices and to direct your life. The goal is not to feel nothing, you can do that with a number of things from aspirin to alcohol. The goal of becoming healthier and more whole is to FEEL EVERYTHING! There’s Magic in a Healthy Spine! Featured Articles Are you normal? Healthy Children and Chiropractic Love Your Disease it is keeping you Healthy Most Viewed Are you normal? Healthy Children and Chiropractic Love Your Disease it is keeping you Healthy

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Monday, August 16th, 2010

According to a study published in the August 1, 2010 edition of the scientific journal , SLEEP, getting seven hours of sleep is optimal for maintaining heart health. Getting too much, or too little, sleep can increase a person’s chances of developing cardiovascular disease, according to the research. What the researchers discovered was that people who sleep only five hours a day, with naps included, have TWICE the risk of suffering from angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack or stroke, compared to people who sleep seven hours a day. In addition, it was reported, that people who sleep nine or more hours a day have a ONE AND A HALF times the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Those that slept either six or eight hours had only an “elevated but less dramatic risk” according to the report. More findings included a sub-group of people over the age of 60. Researchers found that people over the age of 60 who sleep five hours or less a night are at the highest risk of developing cardiovascular disease.  People in this category are at THREE TIMES higher risk than those who sleep seven hours a night.  And, women who get only five hours of sleep a night are at TWO AND ONE HALF TIMES the risk compared to those who get seven hours a night. Why 7 hours seems to be the magic number is anyone’s guess so “get a good night’s sleep.”

We have always maintained that many factors can contribute to or detract from one’s health and quality of life including rest, exercise, diet, clean air and water, a healthy nervous system and positive mental attitude.  In this sleep study, an explanation was provided about how sleep duration affects metabolism and how too little sleep can impair glucose tolerance, reduce insulin sensitivity and increase blood pressure, increasing the risk of  heart disease.  Get your 7 hours!

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