"Believe It!" Health Challenge

Start your 30 day health challenge!
Next one begins: September 9.       Great Prizes !!!

Please make sure to register with me a few days before the start date.

Chose your challenge level at each step

Step 1                                Step 2               Step 3

Take the Neuro-              Shakeology             DVD fitness

Digestive stress                                                (e.g. turbo-fire)

Test  

                                                                         

Stress Pro-Active            Customized             Gym workout

Plan                                 Paleo Diet with

low-keyed detox              trace minerals            Walking

chiro spine tune-up                                             circuit

massage                           Anti-Inflamm                                

STAR session                  Supplements                                    

                                        As needed              

                                       

                                       

• Our goal is extreme energy and healed organs, not weight loss.  Weight loss is a side effect. 
•  Stubborn body fat is a sign of nutrient deficiencies.  Stressed organs do not retain nutrients (Neuro-digestive stress test). 

• Stubborn weight gain is a sign of improper nutrient intake or “competitive intake.” (Medications, e.g. for pain, block nutrient uptake.)
• No calorie counting.  Counting calories harms muscle.  This harms the body because muscles regulate health. We never fast.
• Calorie counting is now called: Diet Damage.
• You must burn fat at rest, so lean muscles are necessary.
• We never use the scale.
• You need a constant amino acid supply in the blood, so protein is required at every meal.
• Recent blood work is a plus because we can track “pain markers.”

Earn points for every positive activity!

	Optimal meal (3 pts. max)	Exercise 20 min. min.	Chiropractic adjustment	massage	acupuncture	Writing in the progress book, or online (1 pt. max)	Took my Recovery supplements today
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Being Human is Not Covered by Insurance

In the Citizen: 

Chiropractic: When all eyes are on evidence, key stressors get ignored

Published in Tuesday's Citizen.  Enjoy.

In practice, I’ve watched people make a total turnaround with their health. But I’ve also seen others who seemed to stay stuck in a cycle of perpetual stress that undermines their overall well-being.

It’s very hard to watch the folks who can’t seem to catch a break. Their bodies are riddled with the ignored effects of stress. And for the ones who have been on and off the health care merry-go-round, they lose interest in trying anything new.

I also have a beef with the so-called science crowd that's pushing for evidence-based medicine in health care. Insurance companies love this because adjusters can deny folks left and right and not blink an eye.

Statistics may be neat and tidy, but they should not be used to dictate how a practitioner orchestrates care. This is where very sick people stay sick because no one completely studies the many variables that make up a person’s life. Studies are so controlled that no one I’ve met resembles the volunteers in randomized clinical trials.

Researchers pose interesting questions, but they don’t deal with someone who just buried a relative or someone who can’t simply leave work stress at the door. Many life problems creep in and complicate healing. Whether you pay out of pocket or hope insurance shares the cost, insurance language does not make people aware of the very useful integrative approaches available.

The biggest issues I deal with are not back pain and neck injuries. Rather, I am working with people who have put their health on the back burner for much too long while they put the health of others ahead of their own.

But there is no insurance code for being human. So we start where we are, and work through the crying and venting as best as we can. The next step is to come up with a plan.

With chiropractic, the goal is to manually restore joint motion so new reflex patterns can be established within the network of nerves. This is important to health because healing patterns are disrupted by multiple injuries, emotional stresses and chemical damage from diet and the environment.

The other half of the chiropractic equation is to establish healing behaviors. While getting adjusted, the body and mind are more accepting of new habits.

There is a difference between people who find success with their efforts compared to others who seem to stagnate. Folks who understand the extent of damage in their bodies approach the work ahead of them with more patience.

This is where education matters. Understanding that the body reacts to stress in a logical manner helps alleviate anxiety. Knowing that that the healing process includes more than pain relief helps people look more objectively at the multiple factors that are in play.

The final message here is to put your health at the top of the list. Let your chiropractor help you construct a health building plan because your loved ones not only count on you, they want to share life’s joys with you.

Depression Behind the Smile

 How do you handle stress?

We tend to hide a lot of our life, such as the  parts we are ashamed of, or the parts we dislike about ourselves.  We don't want it to appear we are crumbling under stress.

What is worse: the stress or how we deal with stress?

It is very easy to become depressed, but we have to hide it don't we?  Should we?

And what does that do to our overall health?  It's not ideal.  Your thoughts create patterns that can disrupt or enhance your health.  

Along with your chiropractic care for better brain health, I recommend mind-centered approaches for healing, as well.  That is why we have a Hidden Gems mentoring group here at the office.  Also, I have a short ebook available on Depression Behind the Smile to address this other side of stress.  Check it out here.    

The spine coordinates your healing response and that includes your mental/emotional healing.  Chiropractic is your ON-switch. 

--See you at the table...the adjusting table.

--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Know the Difference between Good Pressure and Bad Pressure

Published in this week's Citizen.  Enjoy!

There is a saying that pressure makes diamonds. Since that only applies to coal, pressure is not always a good thing. In the chiropractic world, however, pressure can be good or bad. It just depends on the situation.

A quick teaching point regarding spine health is that the weight of a dime pressing on the nerve root as it exits the spine can reduce its function by 60%. This is like a 100 watt light bulb working only at 40 watts. Studies performed by neurophysiologists in the early 1970’s showed how nerve function can be restored in a short amount of time but the damage becomes irreversible after a number of hours.

Other studies have demonstrated that nerves are the most fragile right at the point where the nerve is leaving the openings between two vertebral bones. It is very common for small veins in the same area to become compressed leading to inflammation and nerve injury. This can lead to radicular pain but the damaged area remains pain free for quite a long time before you notice it.

Researchers have noted a strong correlation linking Sudden Infant Death Syndrome with a misalignment of the first vertebral bone in infants. Traction and rotational stress of the spinal cord at the skull during the birth process are seen as common causes.

Mechanical distortions of the spine change how sensory pathways alert the immune system. This can interfere with the body’s ability to respond to infectious pathogens.   Since much of this spinal pressure does not illicit pain, autoimmune symptoms such as rashes, fevers, and fatigue may be the first warning signals.

These are examples of what bad pressure can do to your health. So to fight fire with fire, chiropractic uses good pressure to release the tension placed on these spinal areas. The ironic question is how can it be so beneficial if too much pressure can damage the body?

This is where the art and science of chiropractic merge. Every person has lived with a lifetime of stress. The chiropractor chooses an adjusting technique based on each person’s state of health and tension level at that moment.

Tension levels can be assessed by moving the joints passively, observing the patient’s active motion, and palpating spinal areas to note muscular differences.  An adjustment is a mild force applied to spinal joints in order to reset the mechanical receptors that influence how the brain controls nerve patterns and muscle reflexes.

Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to modulate pain perception, improve relaxation and reduce brain wave activity to more functional levels that induce healing and appropriate cognition.

The brain, spinal cord, nerves, and skeletal system perform many sophisticated tasks that keep us going throughout our day. While the body can take a licking and keep on ticking, we don’t want to let injuries, postural habits, or other stresses weigh us down.

Leave the diamonds to Mother Nature, but remember how heavy a dime feels in your hand.  Let chiropractic help you stay healthy.

--See you at the table...the adjusting table.

--Dr. Lisa

Hidden Gems Healing Retreat

Hidden Gems Healing Retreat

 “Believe In Your Healing”

Saturday August 3, 2013

9:00-12:30

□ Group Health Coaching Session

□ Individual STAR Session with chiropractic, massage, essential oils

□ Hidden Gems Group Mentoring Session

Feel Refreshed and Recharged!

8:45 Check-In

9-9:30 Intro Session: Determine Your Health Gold Mine

9:30-11:30 STAR Sessions, group discussion, &  quiet reflection

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-12:30 Hidden Gems Mentoring Session

1-4 people $80 per person

5-8 people $60 per person

$30 Deposit by July 26^th                 Dr. Lisa Ann Homic  277-1362