What Is Carbonation? Carbonation is the fizz you experience in drinks such as sodas, Pellegrino bubbly water, seltzer water and other fizzy drinks. Carbonated water or soda water contains dissolved carbon dioxide gas either artificially injected under pressure or because of natural geologic processes. Carbonation causes small bubbles to form in the water, giving it […]
How are you doing on creating a new health habit in the New Year? If already stumbled in not achieving the first step….go back to our blog titled “A New Year A New Health Habit”. Remember positive energy is contagious; make getting back your health and your families health the #1 priority. The goal is […]
How To Start Forming Better Habits You Love – Part 2 What is the best way to get your spouse to stop turning into Santa Clause or Mrs. Clause? Absolutely do not guilt them into it! Clinical research shows “guilting” is the totally wrong approach. It is as bad as asking your uncooperative kids to […]
How To Start Forming Better Habits You Love – Part 1 Would you like to form healthier habits that you would grow to love this year? As you start to set new goals for this year think of these things to keep you on track. We are going to do our best to send you several […]
Why Cleanse? ‘Tis the season to think about detoxifying your body or maybe you have heard your physician or a friend mention “cleansing”. They both mean the same thing…why do you want to consider this for the New Year even if you have been eating all organic and grass fed meat all year? Without a […]
When a patient experiences depression, loss of pleasure in life, internal anger, and or unable to fall into a restful deep sleep, sometimes that is due to a decreased firing of a part of the brain called the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe has receptor sites for serotonin, a neurotransmitter that is predominantly produced in the […]
What Are Phthalates? For several years now we’ve been hearing about the mysterious, ubiquitous, and hard-to-spell chemical compounds know as phthalates (pronounced f-THAL-lates), which are used to make plastics flexible and as lubricants in cosmetics. There are many types of phthalates, among them DBP (di-n-butyl phthalate), DEP (diethyl phthalate), DEHP (di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate or bis (2-ethylhexyl) […]
Patient Education On Drugs Lyrica…Chronic Pain This article is to educate patients on commonly prescribed drugs as they specifically relate to soft tissue complaints which lead to chronic pain or brain dysfunction. Lyrica, a drug initially prescribed for controlling seizures has been prescribed for fibromyalgia, diabetic neuropathy, shingles, and spinal cord injury. Lyrica works by slowing down […]
Why We Get Fat Book Review These clinical thoughts are a summary of the book Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It by Mr. Gary Taubes. If you want a more detailed explanation of what he is suggesting about why we get fat, check out his site www.garytaubes.com. Below are the nuts and bolts in understanding the whys. […]
When training versus recovery has a severe imbalance, the athlete will experience a burnout and can result to depleted adrenal hormones. Short overtraining periods are beneficial in a healthy training program, but when they are over the extended period of time, it becomes what’s commonly known as “chronic overtraining”. And an “overtraining” syndrome can have […]