💙Improving Your Health Through the Chiropractic Lifestyle🤚

We strive to maintain a healthy lifestyle, which can sometimes be confusing given all the different information available online. Many fad diets and trendy exercises can baffle many health seekers. So, let's go back to basics and talk about the components of the Chiropractic Lifestyle.

What is the Chiropractic Lifestyle?

The Chiropractic Lifestyle is a healthy way of life that helps balance health and wellness and saves money and time.  Follow these seven wellness practices listed below to maintain a healthy lifestyle and help reduce future health issues:

1. Receive regular chiropractic care
2. Take pharmaceutical-grade supplements daily
3. Maintain a healthy diet
4. Exercise constantly 
5. Hydration
6. Receive regular massage
7. Get an adequate amount of sleep

Regular Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic adjustments can help improve your overall health and well-being and remove interference in your nervous system, allowing your body to self-heal and self-regulate. The interference is referred to as a "subluxation," a misalignment in the spine. When under regular chiropractor care, subluxations are corrected, allowing the brain and body to communicate to their fullest.

The benefits of Chiropractic Adjustments are:

• Reduces pain, inflammation, and injury recovery time.
• Improves posture and range of motion.
• Reduces migraines and headaches, stress, and anxiety.
• Improves athletic performance.
• Helps with sciatica pain, TMJ, digestive and sinus issues.
• And more!

Pharmaceutical Grade Supplements

Taking quality Pharmaceutical-Grade Supplements is crucial to add to your daily routine. Our bodies are deficient in essential nutrients due to processed foods and the lack of minerals in the soil from overproduced farms. Pharmaceutical-grade supplements can replenish our bodies with essential minerals.

Why take Pharmaceutical-Grade supplements instead of nutraceutical-grade (over-the-counter) supplements?

It all comes down to the quality of the supplement. Pharmaceutical-grade supplements are certified and must exceed 99% purity. They also can't contain fillers, binders, dyes, or other inactive ingredients. Pharmaceutical-grade supplements are tested and have earned accreditations through organizations such as the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to verify that their systems align with best practices and stay ahead of regulatory requirements. These supplements are also tested in third-party facilities to confirm their purity.

Pharmaceutical-grade supplements are more expensive, but you're investing in the purity and safety of the supplements you use to nourish your body.

Professional Strength: Not for resale through Amazon.com!

It is hard to resist Prime shipping and the countless supplement options available on Amamzon.com. But are you aware that some customers are receiving counterfeit supplements and may not even know it? 

Many Pharmaceutical-grade supplement companies, like Ortho Molecular Products, do not sell their supplements on Amazon. They have a team of employees whose sole job is to find and buy all Ortho Molecular Products listed on Amazon. When they receive the purchased product, they test the supplements to verify whether or not they are Ortho Molecular's or a counterfeit product.

They often discover practitioners trying to pass along expired supplements to earn some of their money back. Other times, they find different brands of supplements in Ortho Moleculars bottles. Ortho has learned that some sellers buy old Ortho Molecular bottles and fill them with other brands of supplements. So, you think you are paying for a certified and pure supplement, but you are actually receiving a $10 bottle of vitamin D from Walgreens. This is unacceptable, and we are thankful for companies like Ortho Molecular Products that invest in the safety of their products and customer's health. 

To help resolve this issue, Ortho Molecular has printed on all its labels in red letters, "Professional Strength: Not for resale through Amazon.com." 

Remember, before buying any supplement product from Amazon.com, call the company first to ensure you are purchasing from a reliable source.

Diet

You can follow many diets, such as Keto, Atkins, Zone, Paleo, and more. These are fad diets that claim to help you lose weight fast, but most people tend to regain the lost weight since these diets are not meant for the long term. 

Start reducing or eliminating processed, sugary, and fatty foods for a long-term solution. Add more grains, fruits, and veggies to your diet to help you lose weight and keep it off. Many calorie-counting apps can help you watch what you eat and maintain a healthy weight. Remember, it takes 21 days to form a habit, so stick with it to support your long-term results. 

Exercise

Exercising for 30 minutes at least three times a week will help you burn fat, maintain a healthy weight, lower stress, reduce your risk of high blood pressure, developing diabetes or high cholesterol, and keep your heart muscle strong. Combine cardio and strength exercises to improve flexibility and mobility, build muscle, and stabilize and protect joints. 

Hydration

Your body needs water, as does a vehicle also requires fluids to operate. Not drinking enough water can lead to severe dehydration and other health issues. The Mayo Clinic suggests drinking about 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of daily fluids for men and about 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women. 

Benefits of Drinking Water:

• Nutrient transport
• Curbing your appetite
• Lubricating your joints
• Organ and tissue protection
• Clearer skin
• Waste removal

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy can reduce stress, increase relaxation and energy, reduce pain, muscular soreness, and tension, improve circulation, decrease blood pressure and heart rate, and much more. Coinciding massage therapy with your chiropractic care will help maintain your adjustment by reducing muscle tension from pulling your vertebra out of alignment, allowing your body to hold the adjustment longer. 

If massage isn't your thing, try other related therapies, such as Reflexology, Myofascial release, or trigger point therapy, for a deeper touch with the same benefits. 

Sleep

According to Healthline.com, the amount of sleep required changes throughout life. Below are sleep guidelines for your age to help you get the appropriate amount of rest.

Sleep guidelines by age:

• Birth to 3 months: 14 to 17 hours
• 4 to 11 months: 12 to 16 hours
• 1 to 2 years: 11 to 14 hours
• 3 to 5 years: 10 to 13 hours
• 6 to 12 years: 9 to 12 hours
• 13 to 18 years: 8 to 10 hours
• 18 to 64 years: 7 to 9 hours
• 65 years and older: 7 to 8 hours

Start Today

Implementing the Chiropractic Lifestyle will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle by reducing pain and stress, enhancing your immune system, and improving your mental health and sleep, along with many other benefits. 

Clairpointe Family Chiropractic can help. Call (313) 886-8030 or request an appointment on our website at www.clairpointe.com.

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