We have a genetic requirement to eat well.  The further we move away from this genetic requirement, the closer we move toward disease.  The quality of our health and the quality of our foods are directly proportional.  Tomas Edison said “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food”.  

We had friends over for dinner a short while ago.  It came up in conversation that apparently, we should be eating a MINIMUM of 35-40 different plants per week.  

Over the past several years, our kids have largely been “removed” from their lives. Although we’re grateful for the slow pace and the one-on-one time, there is great concern over the impact that this has had on the brain development of our kids.

Our neurodevelopment depends on critical windows of time in which certain life experiences will act as a trigger for brain maturation. We are genetically designed to express appropriate brain development in response to specific interactions with our environment. These critical windows exist in age-specific clusters from birth until our early to mid-twenties.

Time to get out of our seats!

The arrival of summer inspires us to want to do it all, to get it all done, to make the most of the day and to seize it while we can. Many of us are coming out of hibernation and after months of perhaps not moving as much as we know we should, it’s time to take a deep breath and to raise our expectations by doing something (s) that inspires us.

“Above all, try something” – FDR

When I was a kid, my mother, who learned from her mother would tell me (sometimes daily) to suck in my belly and stand up straight.  It was usually uncomfortable to do and I didn’t understand why the suggestion regularly begot the exaggerated and dramatic rolling of eyes. 

Her perspective was that when you stood up tall and straight, you looked and behaved like a “lady”.  She never seemed to mind the worms in my pockets or the fish guts under my fingernails as much as she minded - my slouching.

This correction highlights a sweet 7 years old vibrant, engaging and fun loving boy. He was brought in for care by his mother, who is also an Advantage Chiro practice member. He began care in November 2022, following an injury, where his arm was fractured in two places. His mother was observing that the weight of the cast and the compensation from the injury was creating changes in his posture, where one shoulder was significantly lower and he had had a slumped posture since the time he was a toddler.

Spring time awakens and re-births so much sleeping beauty, this innate grace goes unnoticed until everything starts to bud, until the most delicate greens begin to stretch their bodies from the ground and …. until the dormant trees come back to life and start to release their pollen.

The amazement of Spring, for a lot of people turns into the brain fog and watery gaze of counting the days until the pollens, molds and dust mites transmorph into anything that can show up as different and “could the next month and season please get here”…..because breathing from the nose and not gauging at our itchy eyes is not too much to ask for.

Why is it that some of us go through spring in la la land like chirping birds and some of us are afraid to go outside because we can’t stay on top of our allergies and we live in Spring misery?