Research continues to build an even stronger case for how important our microbiome is for health and well being, affecting everything from brain function to cancer survival rates. ‘… gut microorganisms have been shown to play a role in a wide range of human diseases, including obesity, psoriasis, autism, and mood disorders.’
What about the information regarding your family’s health? The ‘science’ behind a doctor’s recommendations – can it be trusted? Where does your doctor they get their information and can it be trusted?
The science is clear on what makes a healthy human. There’s no mystery, there’s no unique formula for all the unique humans – we all need the same thing.
Vitamin D has long been known as an essential nutrient, mainly for its critical role in calcium and phosphate homeostasis. Now, more recently, vitamin D is being shown to be a significant hormone involved in many endocrine functions including the induction of cell differentiation, inhibition of cell growth, immunomodulation, and finally, regulation of other hormonal systems
How have chiropractic patients had miraculous recoveries from such diverse conditions as infertility, high blood pressure, hearing loss, and enuresis (bed wetting)? By freeing the master system of the body – the nervous system – from interference, that’s how.
If your nerve system is not functioning fully free of interference, it is impossible to be truly healthy. The master control system for your body is your nerve system; consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. Chiropractic is dedicated to restoring the body’s ability to regulate and heal itself through normalized nervous system function. Rather than treating sickness with drugs or surgery, chiropractors examine and correct interference to the nervous system (called vertebral subluxation), ensuring that their patients have a healthy, functioning nerve supply to the body.
Don’t have time to read this? Want the bottom line, the take away? Artificial sweeteners are extremely toxic and should be one of the foods you never, ever eat. Stay away from artificial sweeteners like you would a drunk driver waving a gun out the window. Yes, they’re that bad for you.
Picture a world without buildings, automobiles, cities, factories, gyms, schools, freeways, airports, shipyards, yes, even electronics. Try to visualize the different landscapes: the jungle, with its huge trees and intense animal noises, a vast savanna, with many types of prairie grasses growing and different big game animals roaming in huge packs, and the desert, with its own unique geography and animals, specifically adapted to its seemingly inhospitable climate. These are all places that throughout time humans have called home, and it was the selective pressures in these places that shaped our genome, our heredity, what makes humans humans.
The current Western diet, characterized by foods that are highly processed, deficient in nutrient quality, and high in energy density, has Americans fatter and sicker than ever before
The choices you’re making each and every day at each and every meal with each and every bite, are determining your health, not only now, but years down the road.