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Your Immune System: Healthy and Aging

The aging process described by Deshaun Hammer in the 1950′s are manifesting at earlier ages.  Metabolic Syndrome – high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, cancer and heart disease have drastically increased in the last 20 years.  Many observational studies … Continue reading

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Happy or Joyful or Grateful Living… For No Reason

In her book, “Happy For No Reason”, Marci Shimoff shares stories of various individuals from what she calls “the happy 100″. In our practice one of the primary points of focus in care is to create a paradigm shift.  If … Continue reading

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Can Sleeping Better Help You Loose Weight & Heal Deeper?

In the last few years there have been a number of studies that implicate poor sleep in many disease states: type II diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and impaired immune function.  What is interesting is that sleep is one of … Continue reading

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Chronic Stress: You May Want to Consider Thyroid & Adrenal Support

What is chronic stress?  It is work, kids, spouse, the economy, the middle east? No, a stress response is a reaction by our subconscious mind of perceived threat.  Seeing a tiger, a burning building, hearing a rattlesnake, these are all … Continue reading

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Resistance: The Only True Cause of Dis-ease

Dale Carnegie wrote ” I find that 50% of my worries vanish once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another 40% usually vanish once I start to carry out that decision.” There is a part of our being … Continue reading

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Adrenal Exhaustion: The Single Greatest Link To A Dis-Ease (lack of ease in life)

The adrenal glands are our fight flight glands; the stress glands.  They are closely associated with the adductor muscle group; gastronemius, gracillus, soleus and satorius muscles.  So any pain, dysfunction, mechanical injury to the lower back and extremities needs to … Continue reading

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Understanding the Fight-Flight Reflex, “Where is the Tiger?”

Most of us have heard of the fight or flight reflex, a natural survival response of the sympathetic nervous system. It triggers internal changes in physiology in response to stimulus from external sources in our environment. If I see, smell, … Continue reading

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