Present information on normal placement of the upright spine reveals the importance of head position in relationship to your body. It is of extreme importance that the position of the cervical spine allow for your head to sit back atop of your shoulders.Sadly, the effects of gravity, poor posture, the weight of the head, or past trauma will cause neck and skull misplacement leading to something called “Forward Head” syndrome, meaning the forward displacement of the head where your chin is out in front of your shoulders and chest that causes pathological tension on the spinal cord and brain stem.

Rene Cailliet, M.D., director of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Southern California, wrote about the effects of forward head syndrome in his book “Rejuvenation Strategy.”

1. Incorrect head positioning leads to improper spinal function.
2. The head in forward posture can add up to 30 pounds of abnormal leverage on the cervical spine.
3. Forward head posture results in loss of vital lung capacity. In fact, lung capacity is depleted by as much as 30 percent. Loss of lung capacity leads to heart and blood vascular problems.
4. The entire gastrointestinal system is affected, particularly the large intestine. Loss of good bowel peristaltic function and evacuation is a common condition that comes with forward head posture and loss of spinal lordotic curves.
5. Forward head posture causes an increase in discomfort and pain. Freedom of motion in the first four cervical vertebrae is a major source of stimuli that causes production of endorphins in production many otherwise non-painful sensations are experienced as pain.
6. Forward head posture causes loss of healthy spine-body motion. The entire body becomes rigid as the range of motion lessens. Soon, one becomes hunched.

As the above comments by Dr. Cailliet show, it’s incredibly important to restore the skull and cervical spine back to their normal position, which can be done by focusing on four areas:

• Correcting the position of the skull
• Adjusting pertinent cervical vertebrae
• Rehabilitating the musculature in the back of the neck and upper shoulders
• Correcting any imbalances in posture i.e.: high shoulder, torso rotation, lateral head flexion or rotation

Such treatments can only be offered by highly trained chiropractors. Remember, standard manipulation and physical therapy will not resolve forward head posture, and neither will taking medications or having surgery for the resulting effects of this condition.
Seek out chiropractors who are able to measure the degree of forward head posture and provide a care plan designed to correct it. The problem and the correction of the problem can be measured through postural evaluation as well as a re-x-ray.

Dr. Jason Gerard is trained with a technique that aggressively and quickly removes forward head posture and thus plays a major role in restoring your health

By Dr. Ben Lerner

The autonomic nervous system is hardwired into the lymphoid organs such as the spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, and bone marrow that produce the body’s immune response. Growing evidence is showing that immune function is regulated in part by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system.

Subluxation is the term for misalignments of the spine that cause compression and irritation of nerve pathways affecting organ systems of the body. Subluxations are an example of physical nerve stress that affects neuronal control. According to researchers, such stressful conditions lead to altered measures of immune function & increased susceptibility to a variety of diseases.

Inflammatory based disease is influenced by both the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Nerve stimulation directly affects the growth and function of inflammatory cells. Researchers found that dysfunction in this pathway results in the development of various inflammatory syndromes such as rheumatoid arthritis and behavioral syndromes such as depression. Additionally, this dysfunctional neuro-endo-immune response plays a significant role in immune-compromised conditions such as chronic infections and cancer.

Wellness based chiropractors analyze the spine for subluxations and give corrective adjustments to reduce the stress on the nervous system. A 1992 research group found that when a thoracic adjustment was applied to a subluxated area the white blood cell (neutrophil) count collected rose significantly.

In 1975, Ronald Pero, Ph.D., chief of cancer prevention research at New York’s Preventive Medicine Institute and professor in Environmental Health at New York University, began researching the most scientifically valid ways to estimate individual susceptibility to various chronic diseases. He has conducted a tremendous amount of research in this area that includes over 160 published reports in peer reviewed journals.

Pero and his colleagues discovered that various DNA-repairing enzymes could be significantly altered following exposure to carcinogenic chemicals. He found strong evidence that an individual’s susceptibility to cancer could be determined by these enzymes. Lack of those enzymes, Pero said, ‘definitely limits not only your lifespan, but also your ability to resist serious disease consequences.’

Pero was fascinated by the relationship cancer-inducing agents had on the endocrine system. Since the nervous system regulates hormone balance, he hypothesized that the nervous system had to also have a strong influence on one’s susceptibility to cancer.

To support this argument he found a substantial amount of literature linking various kinds of spinal cord injuries and cancer. Pero found that these injuries led to a very high rate of lymphomas and lymphatic leukemias. This understanding led Pero to consider Chiropractic care as a means of reducing the risk of immune breakdown and disease.

Pero’s team measured 107 individuals who had received long-term Chiropractic care. The chiropractic patients were shown to have a 200% greater immune competence than people who had not received chiropractic care, and a 400% greater immune competence than people with cancer or serious diseases. Interestingly, Pero found no decline with the various age groups in the study demonstrating that the DNA repairing enzymes were just as present in long-term chiropractic senior groups as they were in the younger groups.

Pero concluded, ‘Chiropractic may optimize whatever genetic abilities you have so that you can fully resist serious disease…I have never seen a group other than this show a 200% increase over normal patients.’

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By Dr. David Jockers
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Recently United Healthcare began making a huge push to have all children vaccinated before the age of two by making the vaccinations free. They have even made it public by sending out letters to parents notifying them that their child or children are not up to date with their current vaccine schedule.  Included in this letter is the opportunity to receive a twenty dollar gift card to McDonald’s, Rite Aid, Target, or Meijer, once your child receives their missing shots. Yes, you read correctly: In exchange for poisoning your child or children you will receive a gift certificate so that you can get a Big Mac and a happy meal as a reward.

This is crazy! Not to mention that insurance companies are so desperate to inject your children with poison that free rides are also available to the hospital or “health care” facility of your choice.  Come get your poison and in the near future, your obesity. That’s ultimately what the advertisement should say. The kicker is they are not responsible for any reaction that your children could have from either.

“A U.S. Supreme Court decision has just given drug companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused by government mandated vaccines. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) called the decision a “betrayal” of the American consumer.  The court decision leaves parents with no way to hold vaccine makers accountable and no feasible way to get compensation for the injuries suffered by their children; furthermore, the decision removes all financial incentive for multi-national drug companies to make vaccines as safe as they can be.”¹ There would be no reason to give liability to the vaccine companies or provide exemption forms if these things were safe in the first place.  Now there is no need for these companies to try to keep the vaccines relatively safe at all so it’s open season to see how cheap and lucrative they can be at the same time.

The Supreme Court has now given the drug industry a green light to lobby legislators to require every American who lives to be 78 years old to get more than 130 doses of government recommended vaccines starting on the day of birth through the last year of life.²This is exactly why they got into that profession, knowing that people will continue to get sick and that they can require us to continue getting the shots because of the delusional sicknesses that they are suppose to protect against.  It’s a never ending deadly cycle.

Thank God for the chiropractic principle and the 5 Essentials of Maximized Living.  I want all of you to know that the greatest doctor lives within each one of you and if you follow the principle that healing comes from within and do the things necessary to facilitate that healing there is no reason you or your children need to rely on anything from the outside to get you well.  If health comes from within, how do we get healthy and stay healthy?  Provide a stress free environment, 100% nerve flow from above-down, eat God foods, flood your body with oxygen by burst training, and get rid of the toxins. That’s the only way to get healthy!

Source: MaximizedLiving.Com

I experienced this personally as a child growing up with chronic ear infections, receiving tons of antibiotics and several rounds of tubes. None of which corrected the cause of the problem. Also, my sister has a 2 year old girl that has been getting sick regularly and been coughing for the last month.  My sister gets adjusted, but was nervous about getting little Kailey adjusted even though I was telling her to take her in because it will help.  So finally while I was home I adjusted her anyway and the very next day she wasn’t coughing anymore and was running all over the place because I took pressure off her nervous system so she could heal.
If you want to discuss danger, look at the common drugs that are given to small children.  The least toxic is “baby aspirin.”  However, because all drugs are toxic, the fact is that aspirin interferes with digestion, the formation of body starch, the production of tissue proteins, and the ability of the cells to absorb sugar; it slows the clotting of blood, increases the need both for oxygen and for every known nutrient, and a accelerates the urinary losses of calcium, potassium, vitamin C, and all the B vitamins.

Another common kid-drug is an antibiotic.  Very common side-effects are yeast infection, diarrhea, and skin eruptions.  However, far more severe reactions are also common.As the drugs get more intense like vaccines, Tylenol, and antihistamines, they get more toxic and side-effects are no longer just common, they’re likely.

There have been several studies looking at the safety of chiropractic for kids such as one in the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics published in Dec 2009. It showed that over a 59 year period and over 30 million adjustments, there were only 8 reported incidents.  That’s only 1 incident every 7.4 years and one adjustment problem every 3 million, 750 thousand adjustments.¹ Nothing, including walking, swimming, driving, visiting a dentist, getting a haircut, or going to the movies is as safe as that!  That’s why chiropractors often pay less for malpractice than car insurance – because there’s no safer way to heal and stay well.

So get your child checked as soon as possible because the risk is much lower than the alternative of drugs or surgery, and your child will experience a healthy, vibrant life.

By Dr. Brian Wickstrom and Dr. Ben Lerner

An estimated 50 million Americans have some type of allergy. In most people, allergies first appear during infancy or childhood and rank first among children’s chronic diseases.¹

A new paper published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found a link between low vitamin D levels and the onset of allergies in children. The study of over 3,000 children concluded that among children with low or deficient levels of vitamin D, sensitivity to allergens was present in more than half of those for which they tested.² Not only do allergies cause itchy eyes, runny nose and headaches but they also add a level of discomfort and misery to a person’s life.

Even in a place like Florida where there is no shortage of vitamin D because of the sunny weather, there is a disconnect between children and their physical presence outside. There is no reason for a child to go outside because of the new technology today that keeps them occupied on the couch. That is not only leading to a startling deficiency in vitamin D, but also an alarming rate of childhood obesity and other chronic diseases. Caucasian skin produces approximately 10,000 IU vitamin D in response to 20 to 30 minutes of summer sun exposure. This is over 16 times higher than the US government’s recommendation of 600 IU per day.³

There are two types of this vitamin that you need to consider. Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and D3 (cholecalciferol) both of which are good sources, but one of them is far better than the other. When sunlight hits your skin, D3 is absorbed far deeper into the body which is called bioavailability. Research shows that D2 (ergocalciferol) has lower bioactivity, poorer stability, and shorter duration of action, resulting in approximately 33% lower potency compared with vitamin D3.⁴ In other words, when supplementing with Vitamin D products, make sure you take high quality D3. Supplementation is safe for children, but the best source for them is natural sunlight aquired from being active outdoors.

Other Good News On Vitamin D For Those Looking To Lose Weight!

New research shows that vitamin D may help.  While vitamin D has gained acclaim for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, researchers at the University of Southern California and McGill University recently discovered that insufficient vitamin D levels were also associated with increased fat levels.⁵ What’s more is that 59% of the study’s participants had insufficient amounts of vitamin D.

Are you and your children getting enough vitamin D? Here are ways to ensure that you are:

• Regularly get midday sun exposure in the late spring, summer, and early fall, exposing as much of the skin as possible for 20–30 minutes (being careful to never burn).Those with dark skin will need longer exposure time — up to six times longer
• Eat foods rich in vitamin d such as, eggs,  grass fed meat, and fatty fish.  Cod liver oil, mackerel, salmon and sardines are the best Vitamin D fish
• Take 5,000 IU’s of Vitamin D3, due to our natural deficiencies, per day for 2–3 months, especially during those months with less sunlight (amounts will very with age)

If you and your children are not taking all of these steps, then you are putting them and yourself at risk for a number of potential health problems and not just allergies. Don’t forget to nurture your body with one of the most readily available vitamins because you’re stuck inside and don’t eat properly. If you need an extra boost,which research shows most adults and children do, pick up Maximized Living’s vitamin D3 today.

A new study marks the first time that the number of chemicals to which pregnant women are exposed has been counted. Virtually all pregnant women in the U.S. carry multiple chemicals in their bodies. This chemical load includes some banned since the 1970′s, as well as others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products.

Researchers analyzed data for more than 160 chemicals and detected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), phenols, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate in 99 to 100 percent of pregnant women.¹

Chronic childhood diseases linked to exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment have been surging upward, costing the U.S. almost fifty-five billion dollars a year. There are three thousand high-volume chemicals used today; for roughly half, there is no basic toxicity information publicly available. For the past six to eight years, national surveys have found these chemicals present in the blood and urine of practically everyone in the U.S.² If a baby is exposed to numerous toxic compounds in utero, changes may occur that either directly cause cancer, or lengthen the period of sensitivity to carcinogens, therefore making the child more susceptible to cancer, and other diseases, later in life.

Babies today, are actually born at considerable risk due to the toxic load of their mothers. One study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides, and Teflon chemicals. 180 of those toxins cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to your brain and nervous system, 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests.³

About seventy-five thousand chemicals are regularly manufactured and imported by U.S. industries, three thousand of which are high-volume chemicals, meaning over one million pounds per year are produced. In short, chemicals are virtually everywhere, and we’re all exposed, pregnant women being no exception. It’s disturbing to know that humans are being bombarded with toxins at all, but it’s even more concerning when it’s revealed just how extensive the exposure is to those carrying our most precious cargo.

Toxicity reveals another piece of the autism puzzle.   On January 31, 2011, researchers at the International Child Development Resource Center reported that autistic children showed a five hundred percent increase in mitochondrial dysfunction compared to children without autism. Mitochondria, the “powerhouse” of your cells, generate the ATP necessary for cellular signaling and growth, processes that must take place in order for you to function properly and express health.⁴ What’s causing this mitochondrial damage linked with autism?  “Toxins, oxidative stress, inflammation, and decreased levels of antioxidants,” says Dr. Daniel Rossignol, M.D., the study’s head researcher.⁵

So what is a practical way to reduce this toxic load? Use glass containers for food, use natural cleaning products, eat organic pesticide free produce, buy natural hygiene products, drink filtered or bottled water, limit the use of medications and vaccines as much as possible due to the toxic ingredients, and get adjusted by your chiropractor.

Because these newer chemicals cannot be metabolized by your body, it’s also necessary to do something every day to boost the body’s own detoxifying pathways and processes.  The body’s own natural detoxifying agent is glutathione.  Gluthione is also a super anti-oxidant that reduces oxidative stress and inflammation in the body.

Under the kind of intense exposure you get today, you get what’s called “glutathione wasting.”  For example, children with autism were shown to have only fifty percent of the normal level of glutathione in their blood stream.  To rebuild glutathione and support your cells, we’ve made available Daily Detox.  You’ll need this or similar products to truly fend off today’s toxic onslaught.

As all function and detoxification is ultimately under control of the central nervous system, your Maximized Living doctor will also recommend an evaluation of your spine and nervous system to get the effects of a toxic world under control.

Schedule an appointment for you and your family on Monday February 14th for our ValenSpine’s Patient Appreciation Day evaluation.

Millions suffer with disc problems every day. Many just suffer with the problem or take a medication to cover up the pain and agony that associates the problem – low back pain, sciatic pain, and numbness and tingling. A herniated disc is a disc in the spine that pushes out and puts pressure on the nerves coming out of the spine.  The question almost never solved nor uncovered is what caused the disc herniation in the first place!  The accident or fall or injury forces the disc to herniate, but what physically happens to cause this?

If you were to look at your spine from the side it should have three 45 degree curves in it: one in the neck, one in the mid-back, and one in the low back. The three perfectly symmetrical curves help to support and hold up your body and to absorb the impact of everyday life. Without these curves, your spine becomes unstable. The most common area of disc herniations, the low back, should have a 45 degree curve.  If that curve starts to straighten out it is like straightening out a banana with it’s peel on. What happens to the banana? It smashes. That is exactly what happens to the discs, which are in between every vertebrae in your spine.  A slip or fall, or constant bad posture, or too much improper lifting, etc. cause that curve in the low back to decrease and straighten out.  As the curve straightens, more and more pressure is put on the discs. Eventually the discs cannot take it anymore and finally one will give. The discs bulges out like a squeezed balloon. This bulging presses into the near by nerve and makes it extremely irritated, hence all the pain.

So, most of the time the problem isn’t the herniated disc, it’s the loss of the structure in the spine.  A surgeon will go in, scrape off the bulging disc so it stops irritating the nerve.  But, does that fix the problem? No, the banana is still mashed, you just cleaned up the banana mush that was spilling out of the peel.  This quick fix type of patchwork is why up to 50-90% of back surgeries fail within 5 years, and then new patchwork needs to be done!¹ If you constantly patch the holes in your car’s tires and never realign them, what happens?  A blow out!  Now that’s a dangerous way to live.

Too many people in agony from herniated disc pain learn about this condition the hard way: after the suffering has already began.  The pain is so debilitating at times that many feel the only pathway to relief is to cut. But surgery is not the answer. The majority of back surgeries fail.² The return of the pain after back surgery is so common it has a special name: Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS). FBSS often entails chronic pain, sleeplessness, anxiety, depression, and de-conditioning.³ In addition it also increases one’s risk of developing peripheral artery disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. These people are left with a further damaged spine, additional pain, less money, and the original unresolved problem. Most devastating of all, if not properly addressed, disc herniations keep people from doing the things they love to do with the people they love to do them with.

Maximized Living doctors have an excellent track record with herniated disc sufferers. Why? Because rather that masking the signs and symptoms of the problem, we address the root cause, by using the latest techniques available to correct spinal curves, straighten the spine from front to back, and strengthen postural muscles.

From Maximized Living Blog.

People often associate chiropractors with the aches and pains of adults, and rarely think of very young individuals as potential patients. More and more young people are being introduced to this practice, however, and not only to relieve an aching neck or back. Chiropractic for children is often a good way to prevent or avoid certain kinds of physical problems that can follow them into adulthood.

The main focus of this treatment method is proper spinal alignment. Because the spine houses our primary pathway for nerves, bones that are not sitting properly can pinch those nerves, leading to pain and dysfunction in various areas of the body. Infants can experience spinal misalignment as early as the day they were born.

From the beginning, the process of being born can put a great deal of pressure on the neck and spine, and compresses the bones. This is all a natural part of being born, but is not without hazards. Early stresses on the spine can lead to discomfort later. In addition, babies learning to crawl and walk have the opportunity for injury or spinal stress due to falls and other common childhood factors. A chiropractor can help correct these problems.

An infant who cries excessively can not explain exactly where he or she hurts. Often, the cause is colic, which may be relieved in some instances by spinal adjustment. Successful treatment will allow the child to sleep more easily at night, and can reduce crying during the day.

Parents sometimes worry that an adjustment for a young child will be painful. While it is true that some adult treatments can be vigorous, a chiropractor treating children will use much less aggressive methods specifically tailored to the needs of a small child, not simply a smaller adult. An office visit will be not be risky or painful, and in fact will likely reduce the discomfort a youngster may already be experiencing.

By the time kids are in elementary school, many already suffer from adult-sized problems such as back pain, headache, chronic irritability, nervousness and excess fatigue. When these problems can’t be avoided or eliminated by lifestyle changes, a spinal adjustment will often help the pain. In addition, the physical stress of carrying a heavy backpack full of books and supplies may cause misalignment.

Early visits can also catch some problems before they have a chance to develop into something more serious. Scoliosis, or curvature of the spine due to misalignment of the vertebra, is one example. When caught in its early stages, it can be corrected more easily, and early visits to the chiropractor may pay dividends in good health later on. Chiropractic for children is an excellent addition to early health care and pain prevention.

It’s a new year.  January calls many back to a workout routine for the first time in months.  On average only one in three Americans exercise regularly, but this month that number annually increases.¹ So to help you this year, remember this:  When you exercise may have as much to do with your results and reaching your goals as much as anything else.

Fact: Exercising first thing in the morning gives optimal benefit!

There are two huge benefits of exercising first thing in the morning:

1. It gets done!  Obstacles get in the way as the day goes on, and many put off exercise for other responsibilities.

2. The benefits of exercising before your first meal of the day are numerous.

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Physiology, working out on an empty stomach puts your body at a huge advantage. The report concluded that participants who exercised in a fasting state, or with no food, helped them burn fat and become more resistant to weight gain.  Other participants of the study did not see the same results.  In fact, those who ate a carbohydrate rich breakfast and exercised later actually gained weight instead of becoming weight loss resistant.²

One of the explanations for how this fat burning process occurs involves your nerve system.  More specifically, your sympathetic nerve system controls all fat burning.  The sympathetic nerve system is activated by exercise and lack of food. Additionally, it’s been shown that working out this way will improve the secretion of good hormones – just like our Maximized Living type of exercise is designed to already do.

A small percentage of people may experience negative symptoms including dizziness, nausea, or fatigue from working out on an empty stomach. When starting this routine, it may be necessary to eat something small before a workout.

Along with exercising first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, the right type of exercise is just as important.  Start exercising smarter, not longer.  Maximized Living doctors are trained in cutting edge information on the right type of exercise – pure surge training, also known as burst training.  Not only is it the right type of exercise to lose weight, it also takes literally minutes to do.

Exercising and the right type of exercise routine is only one piece of the puzzle when losing weight.  Register for the upcoming Maximized Living Makeover on January 15th in your area to learn more about this type of exercise.  You can also go to your Maxinized Living doctor’s website and watch about Surge Training.

Source: Maximized Living Blog

Many people suffer from Sciatic pain. What is Sciatica? Sciatica refers to pain, weakness, numbness, or tingling in the leg. Sciatic pain can start in the low back and travel to the buttucks and legs. It is caused by injury to or compression of the sciatic nerve. Sciatica could be caused by a bulging/herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, piriformis syndrome, pregnancy, spinal stenosis, a spinal tumor, spinal infection, spondylolisthesis, or trauma. Since sciatica originates in your low back, the lumbar spine, chiropractors have been the doctor of choice for that reason alone.

Many cases of Sciatica can be helped with chiropractic care. When a person has sciatica, the first step is to identify the cause of the sciatic pain pattern. Orthopedic exams, neurological testing, x-rays, and other diagnostic testing such as MRI’s can help determine if the Sciatica is cause by herniated discs or other reasons. Many times, Sciatica is caused by what has been coined Piriformis Syndrome. The piriformis muscle is located in the lower part of the spine, connected to the thighbone. The sciatic nerve runs under the piriformis muscle, so muscle spasms can compress the sciatic nerve causing leg pain.

Through chiropractic care, we can diagnose the cause of the sciatic pain and properly correct the Sciatica. If the Sciatic pain is caused by Piriformis syndrome, certain chiropractic treatments are utilized to relax the piriformis muscle and lessen the nerve root irritation. In my experience as a chiropractor over the last decade, I have found many cases of chronic sciatica healed over a relatively short period of time once the piriformis muscle spasm had been addressed and corrected.

If the Piriformis muscle is not involved, and the cause is L4-S3, it is possible that a malposition of the vertebrae in the lower spine is causing impingement and nerve root irritation on the nerves that form the Sciatic Nerve. We call this a subluxation. A subluxation is the malposition of a vertebrae causing interference to the nerve flow hence creating nerve irritation. Another possible reason for Sciatica could be from a bulging, protruding, or herniated disc. This is when a disc has pushed outside its normal boundaries and pressed against the spinal cord or spinal nerves causing nerve irritation.

After determining through neurological and orthopedic exams, and using diagnostics such as x-rays and MRI’s, we can find the possible cause that is contributing to the Sciatica, and restore proper alignment and biomechanics to that vertebrae and the adjacent one to relief the nerve irritation. Freeing up the subluxation many times helps the sciatica in relieving the pressure off the nerve. Incorporating chiropractic adjustment with physical therapy and spinal decompression is often very effective in restoring the integrity of the disc, allowing the body to heal itself.