Tune Chiropractic From the Doc

Dad Bod                 I intended on writing about “dad bod” again in this post and I still will in a way.   As I noted on Tuesday, the post I uploaded was written almost 18 months ago.   I hadn’t posted it sooner because I was embarrassed.   In my profession, health is incredibly important.   We have extensive instruction in nutrition and physical rehab and anatomy, physiology, aging, biochemistry; the list can go on and on.   I am fully aware of the importance of health and being “a little overweight” was embarrassing.                   So I waited.   I waited to post it until I could write a follow-up about how far I’ve come.   Plans and real life sometimes don’t agree.   Yesterday morning, I ran into a newer acquaintance.   He asked me what my plans were for the day.   I...

The Case for “Dad-Bod” (by someone who over-shot it) *Written 1/2/2017                 There is some controversy surrounding the term “Dad-bod” and I think it is well-founded.   Many people hear that term and they envision this guy who has given up on themselves.   They imagine a dude right around 40 with a beer belly, sitting in his recliner.   My vision of dad bod is different.   I see a dude that no longer has 6-pack abs, is ten to twenty pounds overweight and doesn’t have time to maintain what society tells us the ideal male physique should look like.                   On that subject, more than 10 million males will deal with an eating disorder in their lifetime, according to National Eating Disorder Association.   Our societal ideals are hurting our youth.   Both males and females are tryi...

Simple Dietary Changes That Can Have an Enormous Impact on Your Health             We all want to be healthier.   Some want to live to the age of 117; while others just want to get the most out of the life they are given.   This has been a universal aspiration probably since man has attained self-consciousness.   Incredible breakthroughs have been brought about with the goals of longevity and quality of life as the sole motivator.   What if I told you, that while these breakthroughs in health have had an amazing and positive impact, the same headlong spirit that carried these brought with it dietary changes that have sabotaged our health and wellness?   The following changes can be made in your life relatively easily and may have profound results.                           Stop dr...

A real breakthrough with meditation                 Last week I posted an article that I had written in April of last year.   In it, I explained how my new journey in meditation was going and described what I thought of as a breakthrough.   In it, I explained that I had started with only a few breathing cycles and was building up duration and was up to 3 minutes.   I was really proud of myself, and I had every right to be.   Now, almost a year later, still working on improving my meditation I had what I can sincerely describe as a true breakthrough.                 I am currently up to 12 minutes almost every morning.   If I am unable to meditate before my girls are up and my opportunity for focus has evaporated, I take the time to meditate at the office.   I sit on my adjusting table and do the same t...

*Note:   This was written in April of 2017.   I will post the update to this next week. I have been contributing to this non-existent blog, knowing that in due time I will actually need content for a blog.   I have been trying to meditate for about 3 months now and I have found some struggles with it.   I know I need to take a class and will do so likely before I actually publish this entry, but as it is I am self-guided in my meditative journey.   Three months ago I had read that just 5 minutes to start will be a good beginning.   For the next week, I decided I was going to practice meditation (or what I understood as meditation) at 5 minutes a time each morning.   I did it and it seemed fine, but it was hard to quiet my mind and I stopped for about a week.   I hadn’t given up, however.   I was listening to a podcast and the guest explained that some find 5 minutes to be too much at first and that you can literally start with 3...

My Lesson from watching High School Gymnastics                 This last week I got to bring my 3 oldest daughters to watch the Elk River gymnastics team compete against Moorhead.  I have watched gymnastics on television and watched my children participate in child gymnastics, but I had never taken the opportunity to watch talented athletes participate without the magic of editing and choosing what to and what not to show.  The Elks did a fantastic job, and aside from my 5-and 4-year-olds becoming too tired to continue, we had a very enjoyable time.                 There was an incident, however, during the vault.  One of the girls missed the spring-board and slammed into the vault chest-first.  She was clearly shaken, and her shoulder was sore.  Her coach and her mother (who happened to be sitting right beh...

How to use Chiropractic                 Have you ever heard that once you go to a chiropractor, you have to go for life?  This is a very common misconception held by the public.  While, it is true that everyone is better under chiropractic care, what that means for each individual varies.  My grandfather passed away this last summer at 95 years old.  He was a tough old farmer, carpenter and entrepreneur who never utilized chiropractic once in his 95 years.  To add to that, he was very strong and physically capable his entire life.  I cannot look you in the eyes and tell you I think his life would have been better or longer had he been under chiropractic care.  On the other hand, that statement is absolutely true for other people.  There are people who would not have been able to enjoy as healthy a life, nor live as long without chiropractic.  So how does one navig...