Prana Chiropractic's Wellness Corner

Well, here we are.   It is almost the beginning of a New Year, and with that comes our lists of resolutions for the New Year.   One of the most common resolutions that folks make at the beginning of the year is to lose weight and get in better shape.   Although the statistics point out that almost 80% of people give up one their resolutions within 4 weeks, I am going to share with you some simple ways that you CAN achieve your weight loss goals for this year!   Sound good? So here is the basic breakdown of what it will take to lose weight.   There is nothing complicated about the process, but it does require some planning, disciple, and more than anything, consistency.   The ONLY way we can lose body fat is to consume less calories than we burn, or vice versa.   Your best means of achieving this is to scale back on the calories you consume each day, while at the same time increasing your activity level (aka exercising).   By doing so, you increase your ability to lose body

We see a lot of new Practice Members that come into PRANA taking all sorts of over-the-counter and prescribed sleep aids.  While we definitely need sleep, these synthetically produced sleep aids certainly don’t add to our overall health.  One thing that I explain to our Practice Members is that for every positive benefit provided by a medication, there is an equal or greater negative side effect(s) that it also causes.  Now don’t get me wrong, I will never encourage a patient to get off of any medications that their Medical Doctor has prescribed.  Pharmacology isn’t my area of specialization, and in many cases prescribed medications have saved lives, but I will say this, there are many people that take prescription medications for “conditions” in which they could control themselves through diet, exercise, and natural healthcare options such as Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology.  So I have compiled an easy list of steps that you and your family can take in order to improve sle

An area of debate in the health and wellness community is that over whether taking a multivitamin is beneficial to a person’s health.    It is my position that the best source of nutrients that we need in order to thrive is from good quality food sources, but one of the dietary supplements I do use is a quality multivitamin.    My view on using a multivitamin is the same as Integrative Medicine’s rock star, Dr. Andrew Weil, MD.    Dr. Weil states that the best possible source of micronutrients is food, yet because we are not realistically able to eat optimally each day, multivitamins are an “insurance against gaps” in the diet.    A quality multivitamin provides essential vitamins and minerals that our bodies need in order to function properly.    Another important health benefit that multivitamins provide is improved cognitive functioning.    A study detailed in the Nutrition Journal reports that consuming a multivitamin on a daily basis improved cognitive functioning in test s