Health Maintainence Prevents A Health Crisis

Actively taking part in maintaining your health through exercise, managing your stress, eating a healthy diet, getting enough sleep and receiving a regular chiropractic adjustment gives you the best chance of avoiding a health crisis. If however you do not take this advice, you open yourself up to a health crisis in which you will be forced to subject your body to further trauma through necessary treatments such as drugs and surgery. If you survive this incident, you will have a second chance to take the doctors advice of maintaining your health again. Unfortunately, for many people, they do not get a second chance. For example, did you know that 40% of people who suffer their first heart attack actually die! What about cancer? Do you know of anyone who has passed away from their first bout of cancer? What about a stroke? Same thing right? We cannot wait any longer to begin taking care of ourselves on a regular basis. To find out exactly how to do this and to learn more about the effectiveness of wellness care please go to www.sheafamilychiropractic.com

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Survival of The Fittest Inside Your Body: Who Is Winning?

Did you know that Darwin's theory regarding evolution in which he spoke of survival of the fittest actually applies to your digestive tract??? Sounds crazy doesn't it. However, this is what takes place every minute inside your body. Bacteria, either healthy or unhealthy, line the digestive track and provide vital help in many different bodily processes. Things like vitamin and protein synthesis, fiber breakdown and most importantly immune system function are all carried out by these tiny creatures. Healthy bacteria are known as Probiotics. These probiotics literally outcompete the harmful viruses, fungi and yeasts in our digestive tract. Did you know that the number of bacteria in our gut actually outnumber the number of cells in our body's 10 to 1! Unfortunately, in modern society, due to industrial farming techniques including pesticides and herbicides, as well as organophosphates we currently take in 1,000,000 times less probiotic than our hunter/gatherer ancestors. Couple this with our incessant use of antibiotics which completely wipe out our probiotic populations and you end up with chronic disease. In order to combat this problem please supplement with probiotics and eat as much grass fed, free ranged meats that are hormone free and anti-biotic free. Your body will thank you! For more information on Probiotics or to purchase probiotic supplements please go to www.sheafamilychiropractic.com

Shea Family Chiropractic New Office Location!!!

I am so excited to share with each of you the new office location of Shea Family Chiropractic! Please click on the respective videos below to preview each of the rooms within the clinic! Enjoy.

Nutritious and Delicious Paleo Receipe

My buddy and fellow wellness family chiropractor Dr. Nicholas Araza has been kind enough to allow me to add some videos he has created to my blog to give you a sense of how to actually implement some of the lifestyle changes I talk about so often. Here is a video about how to create a really great all Paleo soup! Enjoy!

You do not GET sick, you DO sick!

Every year people seem to get sick around the holidays. What is it about these festive months that makes us begin to cough, sneeze and become congested? The answer is not that there are more sickness creating viruses or bacteria in the world. It is that during these, sometimes trying months, we as a population submit ourselves to more stressors from our environment than any other time of the year. This choice to attend too many holiday parties, eat too much fruit cake and turkey, and get totally stressed out about our gift giving encourages an increased susceptibility to illness. I always tell all of my patients that you do not GET sick, you DO sick. This year, make it a high priority to focus even more on getting enough sleep, eating a healthy diet, managing your stress, not overextending yourself, exercising daily and getting your chiropractic adjustments to maintain your immune function all the way to 2010! For more information about how to do this please go to www.sheafamilychiropractic.com

You Cannot Feel Subluxation!

A subluxation is the misalignment of a joint in the spine or pelvis that leads to restricted motion at that joint and to nerve dysfunction. Unfortunately, you cannot feel when these misalignments take place. Just like you often cannot feel when you have a cavity in your teeth, subluxations can exist without you knowing. In fact, unless the misalignment has been there for many years or it has become severe enough, you may never feel anything. However, when your spine or pelvis is misaligned, just like the tires of your car, it tends to wear out faster. This comes in the form of degenerative joint disease AKA "osteoarthritis". In order to protect yourself from skeletal problems as well as from pain you must have a check-up by your chiropractor. For more information on the devastating effects of subluxation please go to www.sheafamilychiropractic.com