Health Articles

Allergies

Why are most allergies not cured?  An allergy can be considered a condition in which the body is susceptible to a substance that is harmless in similar amounts to the majority of people.  It is estimated that 10% of the United States population suffers from some form of allergy.

An allergy can be so severe that it is life threatening, or mild enough to be merely irritating. It can manifest itself as colitis or some other digestive disturbance, commonly considered a food allergy.

Applied Kinesiology in Chiropractic Examination

“Amazing” “Incredible!” “I can hardly believe it but it works!” “ Fascinating!” These are some of the remarks by patients who have experienced an Applied Kinesiology examination.

During the 1960s Dr. George Goodheart, found that evaluation of normal and abnormal body function such as evaluation of the nervous, vascular, and lymphatic systems, nutrition, acupuncture and cerebrospinal fluid function could be accomplished by using muscle tests.  This system is called “Applied Kinesiology”

During the examination some muscles test strong and others test extremely weak.

Arthritis

“Arthritis” is often used as a wastebasket term; it seems to hold everything, and may be inappropriate to describe what is wrong.  This statement is misused and misunderstood by the public.  Even doctors sometimes used the term too much and too loosely. 

Let’s consider the term “arthritis” and what it means.  The word comes from the Greek “arthron” meaning joint and “itis,” a word termination denoting inflammation; thus, “arthritis” means inflammation of a joint.

Inflammation can be a very mild or a very severe process.  In the true meaning of the term “arthritis,” the condition is present

Digestive Disturbance

Most people have some form of digestive malfunction.  Unfortunately, most people assume their digestive problems are not important.  S/he usually thinks along these lines: “I just have heartburn,” or “It’s too bad that I had to be born into a family who’s always constipated,” or “ Certain foods always give me gas.”  Digestive disturbances should not be ignored in the early stages when they are the easiest to correct, because they can lead to more serious problems.

Many people who develop a burning in the pit of the stomach take antacids to “neutralize the excess acid.”  This approach accepts

Headache

The key to correcting a headache is to find its exact cause, and there are many reasons for headaches.

Your body is designed to be healthy and has mechanisms to keep it healthy.  When the body cannot cope, it has warning systems, usually pain.  When you have a headache, you should consider the pain a friend because it warns of some health problem needing attention. Some approaches to headaches are designed to override, or numb out, the pain.  However, overriding the symptom of pain with medication may only attack the problem at a superficial level.

Migraine Headache - The true migraine

Hormones and their Functions

Estrogen

Estrogen is secreted by the ovaries.  Estrogen protects against heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's Disease and memory disorders.  It protects against vaginal atrophy, urinary incontinence, and prevents symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, and temperature disregulation.  Estrogen deficiency results in urogenital atrophy, incontinence, sagging skin in the breasts, increased skin wrinkles of the face, increased fatigue, repression, mood swings and decreased libido.  It is of extreme importance that the estrogen prescribed be a natural estrogen and not a synthetic estrogen.  The synthetic estrogens have been shown to be harmful.  We only prescribe natural hormones and never use the cancer causing synthetic hormones.  For optimal protection, natural estrogen supplementation should be balanced by natural progesterone supplementation.

Hypoglycemia & Sugar-handling stress

Blood sugar is basically the fuel that runs the body.  The nerves and the brain depend upon normal sugar levels to function properly.  When blood sugar is out of normal balance, many types of symptoms develop.

There are two conditions of abnormal blood sugar levels that interfere with normal health and can even be life threatening.  Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the blood sugar level is too high; hypoglycemia is a condition in which the blood sugar level is too low.

Liver

A Very Busy Organ!

The liver has over 500 known functions.  Without the liver a person would die in a very short time.  A liver that is overloaded and incapable of taking care of bodily needs, can cause a wide variety of symptoms, because the liver has so many separate and distinct functions affecting health in many ways.

The liver plays a very important role in digestive functions, especially in fat metabolism.  An abnormally functioning liver or an overworked one can create a weak digestion.  The liver eliminates poisons in the body by dumping them into the bowel via the bile.

Lymphatic System

Between nearly all of the body’s cells, there is interstitial fluid that bathes the cells with substances vital for its life.  This is a clear colorless liquid carrying microscopic particles such as white blood cells, food, protein and nutrients necessary for the cell’s health.  The interstitial fluids drain into the lymph system then drains into the blood vascular venous system.   The lymphatic system is paramount to optimal health. 

Nearly all tissues of the body depend on lymphatic drainage.  Contained within the lymph fluid is protein that has escaped from the blood vessels, bacteria,

Stress

"For Health's Sake Avoid Stress"

Doctors often tell their patients to avoid stress in order to improve their health.  This is usually excellent advice.  But how do you avoid stress?  And is all stress bad?  Not only are most people unfamiliar with controlling stress, they don’t know what it is in the first place. 

There are two types of stress: distress and eustress.  “Distress” is harmful to the body; it cannot be totally avoided, but it can controlled. “Eustress” is a pleasant, beneficial stress that helps the body.

The direct effect of stress occurs through the “fight or flight” mechanism

The Colon's Effect on Health

The colon, or large intestine, is an organ very much neglected until trouble begins, usually first recognized as constipation or diarrhea.  The symptoms are often treated with over the counter preparations frequently advertised on television and in magazines.  This approach does nothing to get at the basic underlying cause of the problem; more important, it allows the condition to progress and cause very serious health problems.  Most of the serious health problems resulting from colon dysfunction take years to develop.  The two primary things that happen in the colon are (1) colon stasis,

Thyroid

The thyroid gland is made up of two lobes, one on each side of the windpipe just under the voicebox.  The lobes are joined by a small interconnecting mass of tissue.  If for some reason the thyroid gland enlarges, it is known as “goiter”. 

The thyroid is one of the endocrine glands, which secrete chemical compounds into the body. These compounds are known as hormones, internal secretions, or chemical messengers.  The endocrine glands are also known as the ductless glands of the body because their secretions are put into the general circulation, rather than sent to a specific area.

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