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Antibiotics shouldn’t be taken lightly. Besides the well-known effect of disrupting gut health and therefore one’s immune system, there is a less well-known phenomenon of potential damage to one’s tendons when taking a particular family of antibiotics….
Did you know that total knee replacement surgeries are estimated to grow 673% to 3.5 million procedures per year by 2030? Wow! If you’re an orthopedic surgeon, that’s job security. For the rest of us though, that initially sounds like a total knee replacement is an inevitable part of aging. In fact, most conventional health practitioners would assume that knee degeneration and arthritis are part of the normal aging process. Fortunately, there are things we can do.
There is plenty of proof that although osteoarthritis is common, it is definitively not normal! Today’s research has clearly established that osteoarthritis (OA), sometimes referred to as degenerative joint disease (DJD), needs to be categorized as a disease of the cartilage not a normal part of the aging process. If we all thought of it as an actual disease, we might think differently as to how to treat it.
Okay, you’ve done your research and have decided that it really would be a good idea to add a fish oil supplement to your daily health routine. Armed with the knowledge of how important the fish oils can be to support your brain & heart health, lower systemic inflammation and a myriad of other benefits, you walk into your local health food store and are assaulted by the choices and options….
Your participation in your chiropractic treatment can potentiate the beneficial effects. Maximize the effects of your chiropractic treatment using these suggestions from Dr. Gosselin.
I frequently hear from many of my clients that “I tried the elimination diet and it didn’t help me at all…” or “I’m still confused about what foods might be bothering me even after 3 months on the elimination diet.” And while there are some situations where identifying food reactions may not be part of the solution, I frequently find that the elimination diet, when done correctly can reveal a lot of useful information.
Known food reactions of all kinds affect at least 5-10% of the population. I suspect that the actually number is much higher for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the lack of clarity about the meaning of the terms to describe the different types of food reactions. In this blog I’d like to clear up the confusion around the meaning of these different terms.
