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3 Ways To Prevent Your Brain From Aging

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1. Strength Training! Not only does weight training improve mood, and lower anxiety and stress but it has also been shown to prevent cognitive decline. (Source)

2. Eat healthy fats! Your brain is 70% fat. Adding Omega 3 and Fatty Acids can help preserve your brain function. Not all fats are bad! (Source)

3. Try something new! Play a new game, learn a new language, or order something new on the menu at your favorite restaurant! Trying something new creates new neural pathways that keep your brain active and nimble. (Source)

The Scariest Thing That Can Happen To Your Body

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The scariest thing to happen to your body?!

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

Research has shown that chronic inflammation is associated with heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. 

Signs of Chronic inflammation include:

  • Body pain
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Frequent Infections
  • Depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders
  • GI complications like constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux

Furthermore, the latest research (click here for an example) indicates a possible link between chronic inflammation and Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions that lead to dementia. 

Let’s talk about a few things you can do right now to control Chronic Inflammation:

  1. Eat more fatty fish or supplement with a high-quality Omega 3 Fish Oil supplement (like the one we sell in-office!) DHA and EPA found in fish oil help your body regulate the inflammatory process. This could be one reason why diets with a lot of fish such as the Mediterranean diet are so successful.
  2. Speaking of diets… Limit foods that cause an inflammatory response such as processed or fried foods. In addition, make sure you eat a diet that is gut friendly. The lining in our gut is a barrier that lets nutrients into the blood while preventing harmful substances from entering. Poor diets can disrupt this barrier allowing nutrients to leak out and for harmful substances to invade the blood. These harmful substances are what elicit your body’s inflammatory response!
  3. Exercise. This one might seem a little counterintuitive. A single workout session can increase inflammatory factors in the body. HOWEVER, long-term exercise decreases the inflammatory factors and brings down systemic inflammation. Remember how sore you get after your first workout? Luckily we don’t feel that way in our 12th or 20th workout session.

5 Pieces of Nutritional Advice I Would Give My 21-Year-Old Self…

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1. Quality over quantity. When we count calories, it is important to factor in the quality of the calories, aka the types of food we are eating, not just the sheer amount we eat.

2. You are what you eat. When you eat like crap, you will feel like crap. When you eat well, you will feel well.

3. Eat more protein. Protein gives you the building blocks to get stronger while also helping you feel fuller for longer. 

4. Drink water instead of soda and fruit juices. This simple change keeps you properly hydrated and saves calories. 

5. Eat your food to 80% fullness so you can improve energy, digestion & appetite regulation.

Keeping It Simple

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In the current climate, it is hard to find answers about how to be healthy. You can always find competing ideas and opinions on just about every issue. If you go to “Dr. Google” to look for a simple and concise answer, you are more likely to be overwhelmed by information and leave confused and frustrated.

There is also the question of authority and whether an institution has gained and earned our trust. Not only is it challenging to sort through the information, but it’s also hard to trust those distributing the information. Furthermore, the pandemic has created a greater sense of urgency. Have you noticed that people are paying closer attention to their physical well-being? I have. This actually might be the silver lining of the pandemic: the reprioritization of our health.

So, where does this leave us? I think it leaves us with hope. 

Sometimes the simplest answers are usually the correct ones. In our dizzying information age, it’s important to remember the basics. Eat nutritious foods. Drink water. Exercise daily. Sleep well.

Take care of your body. Be proactive. Too often we get consumed and distracted by disease. It is more worthwhile to focus on what makes us healthy. 

Focus on improving your heart rate variability, a measure of your body’s adaptability. Measure your body composition. Track and measure your resting heart rate. Buy yourself a fitness tracker. 

It is not very sexy or earth-shattering to say you need to eat a well-rounded diet or to exercise routinely but it’s nevertheless essential. The answers are simple, so keep it simple. 

Doing the next right thing over a long enough period of time will get you the results that you are looking for. 

Keep it simple for as long as possible!

Curves in The Right Places

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The arch or curve is one of the most stable shapes found in nature and architecture—for example, the great Roman aqueducts (see above!).

Our spines also have curves.  These curves are really important because our spines have to hold up our bodies against gravity, the constant force bearing down on us. The curves distribute these ever-present downward forces from gravity and prevent wear and tear on spinal joints and discs.

There are four curves in the spine and, like the springs in your mattress or the shocks in your car, the curves provide cushioning for our day-to-day physical activities. 

Unfortunately, these curves can be lost due to misalignments in the spine, especially the ones in the upper cervical spine. The atlas misalignment causes a chain reaction where the spine has to compensate for the head being off-center. This creates situations where the normal, healthy curves in our spine are lost and unhealthy curves develop. See below for an example of unhealthy curves!

The loss of healthy curves leads to accelerated joint and disc disease in the spine and the spinal canal’s narrowing, leading to neurological symptoms. 

Protect your spine! Get it checked! Don’t live with unhealthy curves in your spine!

The One-In-Sixty Rule

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If you’re not a pilot of an aircraft or a ship, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of the one-in-sixty rule. It states that for every 1 degree a plane veers off its course, it misses its target destination by 1 mile for every 60 miles you fly. This means that the further you travel, the further you are from your destination. This might not seem like that big a deal if you’re walking across the street to grab lunch, but if you were on a flight from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., you’d end up on the other side of Baltimore, 42.6 miles away.

When we think about our health problems we tend to think of them as these large, complex issues but they didn’t start that way.  A lot of times something along the way knocks you 1 degree off course and in the beginning, it didn’t seem like much. But as time passes the two paths can diverge a great distance.

There is a fine line between health and disease. An accident. A fall. A single and seemingly small incident can cause a domino effect that can create multiple problems. This is when it seems like everything is falling apart. Don’t give in to that because health is right around the corner.  Identify where the root of the problem is and start correcting the trajectory that you are on. That fine line goes both ways. I see it in the office all the time. People can go from feeling terrible all the time to feeling good. From suffering to thriving.

It’s not too late to chart a new course! Is there someone in your life that popped into your mind while reading this? Forward them this blog post and have them schedule a complimentary consultation with us so we can help them get back on track.

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