In terms of our health, I believe we live in a dangerous world today.  I think of people I have gone to school with or have met over the years, and I think of how many of them have life-changing diseases from cancers to neurological diseases to bizarre things that you never heard of in the 70’s and 80’s when I was growing up.   Maybe my hometown was a “bubble”, but when I was younger, I think my family could count on one hand the number of people we knew who had cancer.  Now, I figured out over 10% of my Facebook friends have battled it or are still battling it.  Then you look at food allergies.  If you’re a member of Generation X or older, can you remember people being allergic to things like gluten, soy, or eggs when you were young?  Sure, we all knew that occasional lactose-intolerant kid who couldn’t drink the milk we had for snacks in kindergarten, but I will venture to say none of us had ever heard of gluten at that time.  So I believe as a society, we are getting sicker.  We may be living longer (although I wonder if that will be the case for this new generation of kids) but I don’t believe we’re actually healthier.  Why is that?

I believe the answer is our environment.  Our world is full of chemicals and it’s full of stressors.  A good friend of mine recently had an extensive set of tests done to determine her allergies because she has had these symptoms for years that couldn’t be explained.  When the tests came back, her list of foods and other things she was allergic to was long and extensive.  When she and her husband asked the immunologist why so many people are having problems with allergies these days, the immunologist came back with “it’s our environment”.  We can try to eat healthy organic foods, use organic personal care items, etc.  But let’s face it, most of what we touch, breathe and consume has chemicals in it.  This immunologist believes that our bodies being exposed to these chemicals over the years has caused them to change or react, which is where all of these allergies and diseases are coming from.  To me, this makes sense.  If you look at the older generations, they ate most of their meals at home (which were made-from-scratch), and a lot of them even grew their own vegetables in their backyards; most of their cleaning supplies contained fewer chemicals than ours do; and they took far fewer drugs than we do.  If you look at a book of “home remedies” that’s how people in our grandparent’s generation lived.  I’m not saying that our medical advancements aren’t a good thing, quite the opposite.  I just think we are often too quick to pop a pill because we don’t have “time to be sick”.  We don’t think that maybe the reason we got sick to begin with was our bodies were too worn down to combat the person in the next cubicle sneezing or coughing in our direction.

I had a conversation with a dear, sweet elderly patient this week who was saying how many “young” people are sick these days, and in my mind I compared my own life with how this 80-some year old woman lived when she was young.  I especially thought of when I started living on my own in an apartment while in chiropractic school.  Because time and money were short and stress was high, my diet consisted of macaroni and cheese out-of-a-box, soup out-of-a-can, and eating out at less than high-quality restaurants (although I must admit, I still love those burritos from El Famous Burrito in Chicagoland).   Don’t get me wrong, I still ate my fair share of fruits and vegetables (I was entering a healthcare profession after all), but were they enough to counter the onslaught of other chemicals I was putting into my body?  Probably not.

I believe we need to consider these things when we look at the health of our society.  I do believe this is the whole crux of the problem with healthcare today in our country.  We do an excellent job at combating health crises, but what we aren’t doing so well is preventing people from getting to that point to begin with.   I am grateful that some things that would have killed people in the early 1900’s, we don’t bat an eye at anymore.  However, I believe we need to take a serious look at what we are doing to our bodies in other ways, in terms of the chemicals and other stressors we are exposing ourselves to.   That is just my opinion, I would love to hear yours.

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Yoga is often used for stress relief, increasing strength and flexibility, and promoting health.  It is utilized by approximately 6 million Americans as part of their healthcare / workout regime.  So what is yoga?  How does it work?  And what does it help?

Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “union”.  It is a spiritual practice that uses the body, breath, and mind to energize and balance the whole person. Originally it began years ago as part of the Hindu healing science known as Ayurveda.

How does yoga work?

Scientists don’t know exactly how yoga produces its healthful effects.  Some say it works like other mind-body therapies to reduce stress, and others believe that it promotes the release of endorphins (natural painkillers) from the brain.

Yoga includes three major techniques: breathing, exercise (asana), and meditation.  These three techniques have been shown to improve health in many ways:

• Breathing lessons - in yoga, breathwork is known as pranayama.  Pranayama increases blood circulation, which brings more oxygen to the brain, and enlarges lung capacity, as lung tissue becomes more elastic and the surrounding muscle more flexible. Getting ample air into our lungs helps us to feel alert and focused.
• Asanas - known to enhance strength, flexibility, and balance.  Some asanas are designed to massage the internal organs, improve circulation, hormone function, digestion, and other body processes.  The Plow, for example, is a basic posture used in Hatha yoga in which you lie on your back (arms at sides, palms down) and stretch your legs overhead until your toes touch the floor.  This posture is believed to stimulate the thyroid and parathyroid glands, enhance the flexibility of the back, stretch the nerves and muscles of the back and legs, improve posture, relieve constipation, and reduce body fat.
• Meditation - has been shown to reduce blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety, cholesterol levels, and substance abuse.

What does a yoga session entail?

Hatha yoga sessions are usually group classes that last from about 45 minutes to an hour.  Each session begins with a gentle warm-up exercise and proceeds on to the three yoga disciplines: breathing lessons, asanas, and meditation.  The therapist will first focus on breathing technique and he or she may guide you through several breathing exercises.  The therapist will then direct the class through a series of yoga postures.  Each posture will be practiced from one to three times.  As you hold postures, you may be instructed to perform certain breathing techniques.  After three or four different postures, you’ll be allowed to rest.  Once you’ve completed the exercises, there is usually a period of physical relaxation combined with meditation.

How many sessions will I need?

Classes may be taken once a week (or more, if desired) for as long as it is helpful to you.  Your yoga therapist may also ask you to practice asanas at home to improve your flexibility.

What is yoga good for?

Yoga improves fitness, lowers blood pressure, promotes relaxation, and reduces stress and anxiety.  People who practice yoga tend to have good coordination, posture, flexibility, range of motion, concentration, sleep habits, and digestion.  Yoga is a complementary therapy that has been used with traditional therapies to treat a wide range of conditions, including cancer, diabetes, chiropractic-health/arthritis-relief/” target=”_blank”>arthritis, asthma, heart disease, migraine, and AIDS.  Yoga alone is not an effective cure for any particular disease.

Is there anything I should look out for?

When done properly, yoga is not stressful or tiring, but some people may experience stiffness as their bodies adapt to different postures.  Avoid yoga if you’ve had a recent back injury and be sure to check with your doctor before trying yoga if you have high blood pressure, heart disease, or arthritis.  Some postures are not recommended during pregnancy, but special classes are available for pregnant women.  Some postures should not be practiced during menstruation-ask your instructor.  Be sure to tell the instructor and contact your doctor if any exercises cause headaches, muscle cramps, dizziness, or severe pain in your back, legs, or joints.

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Like I discussed in the previous post, autoimmune conditions can have a number of contributing causes.  Some of these causes include heavy metal toxicity, vitamin D deficiency, food allergies, and chronic infections.  But even if you don’t know if any of these things are contributing to your autoimmune condition, there are certain things you can do to help improve your overall health which will help with your condition.  If you can make changes to your diet and lifestyle, the stronger your body will be.  The greater the changes, the healthier the cells and cell membranes will become.  The more you can build antioxidant reserves and reduce inflammation, the healthier you can become.  By building your foundational health, you can make great progress in re-building and repairing cells.

So first and foremost, you want to make sure you have a good diet.  You want to make sure your diet contains foods that are dense in nutrients and low in dietary toxins.  You may also want to eat a diet that to low in food allergens.  This means you will have to stop eating grains and dairy.  Your gut won’t ever heal if you have food sensitivities or allergies.  The fact that your immune system is attacking your own body, it is very likely that something major has gone awry in your gut.  You also may want to start using a good probiotic that will help increase the amount of good bacteria in your intestinal tract.  This will help improve your digestion and gut dysbiosis that was discussed in the previous post.

You also want to make sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D.  You want your blood levels of vitamin D to be around 50-100 ng/ml.  If you don’t know what your blood levels of vitamin D are, it is recommended to take between 4,000 to 6,000 IUs per day. Vitamin D has a profound effect on gut health and a calming effect on your immune system.

You also want to use an essential fatty acid blend that will reduce inflammation and support healthy cell membranes.  There are at least five health-promoting fatty acids commonly found in the human diet.  These are alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) from flaxseed oil, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) from fish oil, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from fish oil and algae, gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) from borage oil, and oleic acid from olive oil, flaxseed and borage oils.  Each of these fatty acids has health benefits that cannot be fully attained from supplementing a different fatty acid.  The goal here is a balanced intake of all of the health-promoting fatty acids; using only one or two sources of fatty acids is not balanced and results in suboptimal improvement, at best.  You want to use a combination fatty acid therapy comprised of ALA, EPA, DHA, and GLA.

Granted, this may not “cure” your autoimmune disorder, but it should help improve your overall health and help your body repair its damaged cells.

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Patients with autoimmune diseases often find themselves between a rock and a hard place.  If they do nothing, their condition usually gets worse.  However, if they follow traditional medical treatments, the side effects of those treatments are also a concern.  Before we discuss lifestyle modifications and changes in diet, you may want to make if you have an autoimmune disease, let me give you a simplified explanation of autoimmunity.

Normally your immune system recognizes what is “self “or what is “not-self.”  Anything which is self (things that are normally found in your body such as your organs, skin, nerves and blood vessels) is tolerated.  However, anything in the body which is identified as “not self “is attacked.  Normally the body does a great job of differentiating which is which.  But sometimes the line gets blurry and the body thinks “self” is “not self” and tries to destroy it, which means it tries to attack itself or at least a part of itself.  The key is something goes wrong and your body starts to identify its own tissues as being a foreign substance.

So if the tissue that is being attacked is thyroid it might be called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.  If the tissue is skin, it might be psoriasis.  If the attacked tissue is joint tissue, it may be called rheumatoid arthritis; nerve tissue, we call it multiple sclerosis; connective tissue, we call it lupus.  The big question is what causes that line of self vs. non-self to get blurry?

Some of the things that trigger that “blurry line” are heavy metals like: mercury, lead, cadmium, excess iron, and aluminum.  Many doctors look at heavy metals as a contributing cause of Hashimoto’s, but they may be a factor in a number of different types of autoimmune diseases.

Another theory for the blurry line of autoimmunity revolves around chronic infections and chronic inflammation.  One of the ways that white blood cells work is to neutralize the bacteria, yeast, or virus with free radicals.  However, the body needs antioxidants to neutralize the excessive free radicals and prevent them from damaging the body.  If you are deficient in antioxidants, the tissue surrounding the area where the infection is breeding will suffer.  Antioxidant depletion can be caused by old age, stress, lack of sleep, hydrogenated oils, physical trauma, junk-food diets, and heavy metals.

Other researchers discuss that pesticides, plastics, food allergies, low cholesterol, vaccines, or vitamins-supplements/teen-vitamins/” target=”_blank”>vitamin D deficiency trigger the lack of discrimination between self vs. non self.  But regardless of the ultimate cause, poor digestion and gut dysbiosis play a huge roll.  If you don’t know, gut dysbiosis is a condition where the good bacteria and microorganisms that are normally found in your intestines are outnumbered by unhealthy bacteria, parasites, and yeasts.  This can lead to an increase in permeability of the intestinal wall, also known as leaky gut.   If the intestinal wall is “leaky”, things that should not be getting through it are.  Because 50-70% of your immune system either originates or is located around the gut, this can cause your immune system to go into “overdrive”.   The body can make antibodies for the things that “leak” through your gut and then attack other structures found naturally in your body that are similar.  This process is called molecular mimicry.   Basically molecular mimicry means that part of a given protein can resemble a part of another totally different protein.

In the next post, we’ll discuss a nutritional approach to helping some of these underlying causes of autoimmune conditions.

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As I discussed in my previous post, food allergies can cause health problems without you knowing it.  There are many foods that can cause an allergic reaction.  However, there are some that tend to be more common than others.  Here’s a list of foods that commonly cause health problems:

• Gluten-containing foods such as wheat, rye, oats and barley.  The most common allergies are caused by this group of foods.  You may not even know you have an allergy to these foods because the symptoms may be so subtle.  By avoiding these foods for a few weeks your system gets a chance to relax and clear itself out.
• Alcohol, caffeine (coffee, black tea, sodas and soy milk), soda and fruit drinks that are high in refined sugars.  Both alcohol and caffeine are hard on your liver.
• Pork, cold cuts, bacon, hot dogs, canned meat, sausage and shellfish.  Meats like these are typically high in things such as estrogens, antibiotics and others typical of processed foods.
• Corn and tomatoes.  These vegetables are common allergens and can contribute to pain and inflammation.
• All dairy (milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, etc.)  Dairy products are most likely to cause allergies and increase pain. Stay away from creamy salad dressings (ranch, creamy garlic, etc.) as they contain dairy.
• Foods high in fats and oils, including peanuts, refined oils, margarine, & shortening.  These foods are just bad for you so it’s a good idea to avoid them.
• Eggs.  Use range fed chicken eggs only as they are generally fed less hormones & antibiotics, and pay attention to see if you react on days when you eat them.

Once you go on a low-allergen diet for at least a month, start to introduce some of the common allergen foods back into your diet to see if/how your body reacts.  Continue on the low-allergen diet, but every few days add one high-allergen food to your diet for that day only.  Take gluten (wheat) for example; on that day have toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and pasta for dinner.  Evaluate how you feel that day, how you sleep that night, how you feel the next morning.  Then go back to the low allergen foods for two days.  Now have a day with dairy, and so on.  Follow this diet until you determine which foods affect how you feel.  You may notice changes in the way you think, way your body works, sleep changes, energy loss, emotional intensity, increased inflammation in joints, pain, food cravings, concentration problems, etc.  If you question whether a food makes you “sick”, you can always try it again in higher quantities to see if it is causing you a problem.

Food sensitivities are rampant in our society and they can be the underlying cause of your health challenge. The problem is they are difficult to detect. Yes there are some very innovative labs that are using saliva and blood spots as well as the traditional tests, but the testing can be expensive and often times not 100% effective.  This may be a way you can find out if you have any food allergies that are affecting your health without having to go through all of the tests.

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The foods you eat can have a dramatic effect on your health.  Most people don’t realize it but many people are “mildly” allergic to many of the foods they eat.  These “hidden” food allergies can result in systemic inflammation and last for up to 4 hours after eating the offending food.  This mild but systemic inflammation can then manifest as fatigue, pain, mental fog, and even anxiety and depression. Avoiding the most common food allergens for a period of time can remove food “stressors” and allow the body to spring back to health and vitality.

It is likely that anyone with a chronic health challenge has a contributing mild food contributing to their health challenge.  Unfortunately, mild food allergies are too subtle for us to recognize the offending food.  Instead of breaking out in hives after eating a food, we may just feel slightly spacey, or our joints may hurt just a little bit more. The bad news is that the most common food allergens are many of the foods most of us eat every day; wheat (gluten), dairy, and peanuts.  By eating foods we are mildly allergic to every day (or even every meal) we contribute to a continual state of mild inflammation, and therefore poor health.  For example, a person allergic to wheat (gluten) could have toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and pasta for dinner…. and they would have eaten foods they were mildly allergic to at every meal.  By getting off of all common food allergens for 20 or 30 days, people can often feel dramatic changes in their health.

To illustrate this point, there was a study published a number of years ago that showed that pain and headaches can be dramatically affected by food allergies.  Granted, the study pertained to pain and headaches, but the ramifications are true for other conditions such as autoimmune conditions, asthma, chiropractic-health/arthritis-relief/”>arthritis, digestive problems and more. The study appeared in “The Lancet” journal and pertained to 60 patients with frequent migraine headaches.  The average number of years that the participants had been experiencing the headaches was 18 years for the women and 22 years for the men – these were people who were definitely familiar with pain.  With everyone combined, they experienced 402 headaches per month before the study.  After the study, the number of headaches dropped to 6.  So here’s what they did with the study:  the 60 participants were asked to eat 2 low allergen foods a day for five days; for example, lamb and pears.  Most of the headaches were gone after 5 days.  On a side note, there were 15 patients with hypertension at the beginning of the study and yet all 15 had their blood pressure return to normal once they discovered and removed the offending foods. After the participants removed all possible allergens for 5 day, they started introducing 1-3 foods a day looking for reactions.  Reactions included lethargy, depression, anxiety, flushing, dizziness, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea or rashes.  The foods causing reactions were not surprising:  wheat (78%); orange (65%); eggs (45%); tea and coffee (40% each); chocolate and milk (37% each); beef (35%); and corn, cane sugar, and yeast (33% each).  Each participant had an average of 10 offending foods.   The results of this study were dramatic.  In fact, 85% of the patients became headache free. No drug has ever, been able to match that kind of result.

In my next post I will discuss how you can look at removing common food allergies from your own diet.

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If you are a headache sufferer, there are a few things that you can do naturally to help the headache:

•  Headaches are often caused by triggers.  Triggers can include foods, environmental stimuli (including noise, light, stress, smells, etc.), and behaviors (such as lack of sleep, exercise, posture, etc.).  Learn if your headaches have any triggers and avoid them.
• If you spend a lot of time in one position during the day such as at a computer, on a sewing machine, or hunched over a desk, you may want to take a break and stretch and move positions every 30-45 minutes.
• Avoid clenching your teeth.  This puts stress on your chiropractic-health/tmj-disorder/”>temporomandibular joints (TMJ) that connect your jaw to your head.  I see a number of patients in my office whose headaches are coming from problems with their TMJ.  If you clench or grind your teeth at night you may want to seriously consider getting a mouth guard.
•  Make sure you stay well hydrated.  Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
• Conversely, avoid drinking alcoholic beverages which can dehydrate you.  Certain alcoholic drinks such as wine are also known to be triggers of migraines.
• Avoid caffeine including chocolate, coffee, sodas, and non-herbal teas.  Caffeine can dehydrate you, and it is also a stimulant which can cause headaches.  Caffeine withdrawal is also a contributor to headaches so save yourself some agony and just avoid it all together.
• Avoid foods with high salt or sugar content because they can also trigger headaches.
• High protein foods, processed meats, dairy products, and some nuts are also known to trigger headaches.

As I covered in my previous blog post, chiropractic care has been proven to be effective in treating headaches.  If you do decide to try out chiropractic to see what it can do for your headaches, typically what chiropractors do to treat headaches is perform spinal manipulation (you can check out a previous blog post if you want to learn more about that).  Spinal manipulations or adjustments are designed to improve the function of your spine and alleviate stress to your neuromuscular system.  Chiropractors also provide nutritional advice and may recommend a change in your diet or perhaps the addition of vitamins such as a B complex.  Finally, chiropractors can offer advice on posture, ergonomics, and exercises that might help alleviate stress to your neck and upper back.

Talk to your doctor of chiropractic about other ways to improve your lifestyle. Doctors of chiropractic are trained and licensed to examine and treat the entire body with specific emphasis on the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. They can also help people lead healthier lives by focusing on wellness and prevention.

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If you are like most of us, you’ve experienced a headache or two in your lifetime.  In fact, studies have shown that 9 out of 10 Americans suffer from headaches.  However, your headache can be as unique as you are.  For some, they are occasional, for others they are more frequent.  Some people have dull or cramping headaches, others are debilitating to the point of nausea.

So what do you do when you have a headache?  Do you pop some pills and hope the pain quickly goes away?  Do you go home and turn all of the lights out and go to bed?  Or do you just deal with it and carry on with your day?

More and more research is showing that spinal manipulation, the primary form of care provided by doctors of chiropractic, is an effective treatment option for tension headaches, migraines, and headaches that originate in the neck.  A 2011 article in the Journal of Headache Pain (J Headache Pain. 2011 (Apr); 12 (2): 127–133) found that a review of randomized clinical trials showed that chiropractic spinal manipulation, as well as other manual therapies, was equally as effective in treating migraines as some of the commonly used drugs such as propranolol and topiramate.   Another study published in The Spine Journal (The Spine Journal 2009 (Feb): 10 (2): 117-128) found that chiropractic care significantly improved chronic headaches that were originating in the neck.  And a report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, NC, found that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for those headaches that originate in the neck, and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headache than a commonly prescribed medication.

Those are just a few of the research studies showing the chiropractic care can help different types of headaches.  Only 5% are caused by health problems; so for the other 95% of the population, the headache is the primary problem and not caused by some underlying disease.  So if you are one of the many headache sufferers, you may seriously want to consider consulting a chiropractor for your headaches.  If your headache is symptomatic of a health problem that needs the care of another discipline, your doctor of chiropractic will refer you to an appropriate specialist.

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For your chiropractor to offer proper care for your whiplash injury, it’s essential for you to remember the details of your accident. Were you wearing your seat belt?  Was the car moving or stopped?  What type of impact was it, rear or frontal?  Did pain occur instantly?  It’s challenging for chiropractors to care for whiplash injuries because of the variables they must consider.  Answering your chiropractor’s questions as best you can will help with your care.

Some chiropractors categorize their diagnosis according to four stages.  If you complain of some neck pain and stiffness, the injury falls into the category of grade one whiplash.  If, however, you have lost motion in the neck and can’t flex, bend, extend or rotate it, your injury will fall into grade two.  Grade three whiplash covers any injury that involves neurological symptoms such as numbness, weakness, tingling, or hot and cold sensations.  Grade four is reserved for trauma that causes any sort of fracture in the spine.

After your chiropractor has diagnosed and classified your whiplash, he or she will get you started on a program of care. Initially, he or she will probably recommend that you apply ice to your neck.  This will prevent further swelling and reduce pain, by constricting blood vessels, numbing pain receptors and decreasing blood flow to the affected area.   It may also be necessary for your chiropractor to perform an adjustment, also known as spinal manipulative therapy, to the affected areas of the spine.  This will return joints that are out of place to their correct position, increase the joints’ range of motion, relax tight muscles, increase blood flow and decrease inflammation.

In the initial stages of whiplash injury, your chiropractic-health/what-is-chiropractic/” target=”_blank”>chiropractor may also care for you with physiotherapeutic tools like ultrasound,  interferential current (IFC), and cold laser therapy.  Ultrasound refers to any sound wave that has a frequency above the range the human ear can perceive. Depending on the frequency, this can increase blood flow, decrease pain, reduce muscle spasm, lessen nerve root irritation, break down scar tissue and speed healing.

IFC works in a similar way, but sends electrical waves through the body instead of sound waves. These painless, mild electrical waves penetrate the skin into nerve fibers below, which causes the body to produce endorphins, its natural painkillers. By aiming the impulses at the cervical spine, your chiropractor can cause endorphins to interrupt the flow of pain signals from the affected tissues to the brain. IFC also helps decrease inflammation and speed up the healing process.

The goal of cold laser therapy is to deliver light energy units from infrared laser radiation, called photons, to damaged cells.  The consensus of experts is that photons absorbed by the cells through laser therapy stimulate the mitochondria to accelerate production of ATP.  This biochemical increase in cell energy is used to transform live cells from a state of illness to a stable, healthy state.

After a whiplash injury, you should also avoid sports that put your neck at risk, like football, soccer and hockey, until your injury has fully healed.  But that doesn’t mean you should be inactive.  As soon as your pain decreases, your chiropractor will probably recommend that you perform a number of activities, including stretching, strengthening, proprioceptive, postural and aerobic exercises.  These will help restore motion in your neck and strengthen muscles so that they are better able to provide support and stability.

By combining regular adjustments and therapy with an exercise program, you can overcome the symptoms of whiplash and avoid chronic symptoms that might otherwise linger for years.

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