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1. Does your wrist, hip or neck start hurting for no
reason?
2. Cure Your Cravings by Ignoring this Widely Followed Conventional
Advice
3. What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health.
People Ask – “Why is that hurting?”
People often ask themselves why their wrist, hip or neck starts hurting. This question usually appears when the person asking can’t recall doing anything to their body but it started hurting anyway.
The answer to this is simple. In various ways, the person has picked up physical counter efforts. These can build up unnoticed. Poor posture is a chronic way to enter these counter efforts into one’s body. Picking up something a little too heavy or doing significantly more physical work than a person is used to or doing different physical activity than a person is used to doing are common ways that a person picks up these counter efforts.
Pro football players get adjusted everyday during practice and playing season. Obviously, immense physical counter efforts are part of the game.
Poor diet such as too much refined sugar tightens up muscles that can pull a bone, locking a joint. Deficient nutrition causes counter efforts at the biochemical molecular level. So many of the supplements sold on the market are not or are only slightly metabolizable by the body. Being highly absorbable means nothing and may present metabolic problems, yet it is promoted as a benefit. Chromium picolinate is promoted as a supplement as it is highly absorbable. I won’t sell the stuff. It does not muscle test well unless the tester himself is taking it and can’t detect the problem as a result. Carbon monoxide is highly absorbable, yet kills people when inhaled in large amounts. Ever get caught in traffic on the freeway and you get sleepy? That is excess carbon monoxide. Not enough to kill, but enough to cause an unwanted effect.
Aches, pain, discomfort, stiffness, physical fatigue are all manifestations of a buildup of counter efforts that chiropractic adjusting and muscle release techniques release. Also, do not forget nutrition. People are often amazed how much better they feel overall following an adjustment or even a few. That overall not feeling great is often just a buildup of numerous slight physical counter efforts. The chiropractor locates the areas of counter effort buildup and adjusts them out of the body.
For how posture helps with alignment, go to Posture
Cure Your Cravings by Ignoring this Widely Followed Conventional Advice
Should you eat after dinner, or eat a big meal at night at all, if you want to lose weight?
Opinions do differ on this subject, and below are two experts' takes on this controversial topic
What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health.
A deficiency is basically
a nutrient that your body does not have enough of to function properly.
What if you forgot to put
enough oil in you car? Despite
the fact that it was getting the air, gas, functioning spark plugs and good
combustion, the car wouldn’t work properly.
Sure the piston would go up and down and the car would move forward –
just like normal. But soon the
engine might run a little hot. Down
in the engine different things might start happening.
The rings around the piston that stopped oil from getting up into the
combustion area might be giving way. The
normal straight camshaft might start to bend a little.
The engine just won’t work right. Perhaps the car will need a small
repair, or maybe a major overhaul – or ignored the engine will just seize up
and “die”.
It’s the same with your
body – except that you can’t just buy another engine and repairs made to a
damaged body might not put things back together again.
Let’s look at some of
the many varied things that can happen when you don’t put the needed nutrients
into the body, and wind up with a deficiency.
Gingivitis is created when
plague (sticky deposits of bacteria, mucus and food particles) adheres to the
teeth, hardens and irritates the gum. The accumulation causes the gums to become
infected and swollen. As the gums swell, pockets form between the gums and the
teeth and act as a trap for more plague. Irritated gums bleed and
eventually start to recede.
This irritation can be
fought by introducing Vitamin C, which fights the formation of plaque.
Now gingivitis, untreated, can progress to periodontal disease, which
means loose teeth and false teeth. Seems
like it would be easier just to get enough C.
C would have fought the formation of plaque to begin with.
Does that sound too easy?
Remember in the fast food lifestyle that we live in, we need a Vitamin C
to fight the many problems in that lifestyle – processed foods, polluted air,
etc. You need enough so that your gums get enough.
Vitamin B12 comes from
meat, eggs, fish and milk, but not everyone eats these and they do not eat
enough to fight the depletion that happens from day to day living.
Alcohol, coffee, tobacco to name a few can also deplete the body of
vitamin B12.
What happens when you have
a deficiency of Vitamin B12? It can
bring about nerve degeneration. Vitamin
B12 supports the sheathing that protects nerve cells. Damage to the nerve
sheathing can produce numbness, tingling and the pain. It’s called neuropathy.
Neuropathy can be a side effect of cancer treatments, certain
medications, toxins, diabetes, and many other things.
And the funny part about it is that all reasons one can get neuropathy
could have been prevented in the first place with the proper nutrients.
We have all heard the
problems from someone smoking, but even if you smoke, you can still take
vitamins to compensate for the depletion of vitamins that it causes.
There are a lot of
problems that deficiency causes. One
of the reasons for the website is to help you understand those deficiencies and
allow you to fix nutritional deficiencies and build good health.
Remember when you build good health, disease tends to fade away.
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