Prana Chiropractic's Wellness Corner

Let’s face it, sometimes it is hard to get excited about adding more greens to your diet.  Yet, if you know the wellness boosting benefits that many of our green veggie friends provide, you might just find them a little easier to swallow. One such wellness boosting green power food is the leafy vegetable chard.  It’s often brightly colored stalk makes this little stand out in a crowd and hopefully after you learn the importance of adding it to your diet, chard will find its way on to the tip of your fork.  So here is the nutritional breakdown: (per one cup serving) -           35 calories -           4 grams of fiber (wonderful for digestive health) -           3 grams of protein (great for repairing muscles after workouts) Chard is high in wellness promoting antioxidants, which are important in the maintenance of healthy cells and avoiding the negative cell-killing effects of environmental toxins.  It contains a particular type of antioxidant called Betalains, w

Prebiotics are a certain group of food fiber that promotes that growth of healthy intestinal bacteria.  Similar to probiotics in their benefit, they differ in what they actually are.  Probiotics actually work to introduce healthy bacteria into the digestive system, whereas Prebiotics act as a fertilizer for the healthy bacteria that is already present in the stomach and intestines.   Approximately 75% of the immune system is in the gut mucosa!  ¢   Prebiotic Benefits Include: ¢   Decrease inflammatory conditions and allergies ¢   Helps with Irritable Bowel and other intestinal issues ¢   Improve absorption of Calcium, Magnesium and trace minerals ¢   Helps with Type II Diabetes by decreasing high blood sugar, decreasing high insulin, and improving insulin sensitivity ¢   Decrease LDL cholesterol ¢   Increase healthy intestinal flora ¢   Can help with HTN and Cardiovascular conditions I do not promote the general use of many nutritional supplements, but

There aren’t but a handful of nutritional supplements that I recommend to everyone, and a quality probiotic supplement makes the short list.  Probiotics contain active cultures of healthy bacteria that help to repopulate the intestinal flora in our digestive system.  Many of the toxins, poor choices in foods, and overuse of antibiotics have destroyed the healthy bacteria in our digestive system.  Because of the high amount of healthy bacteria needed for the first line of immune system defense are found in the gut mucosa, it is vitally important that we make certain to have the needed bacteria present.  ¢   Health Benefits Include: ¢   Boost to the Immune System ¢   Colonizes the Stomach, Colon, Duodenum, and Ilium ¢   Kills harmful bacteria and Candida (Yeast Fungi) ¢   Decrease Triglycerides and Bad Cholesterol ¢   Increase Vitamin B12 Production ¢   Benefits all Inflammatory Intestinal Conditions ¢   Helps to repair/restore the Intestinal Lining ¢   Increas