Combining Alternative Therapies to Your NeuroSpinal Chiropractic Care: Help or Hinderance?

 The short answer is yes and no. There are a myriad of therapies, practitioners and modalities out there that promise benefit to you and your body. Some practices and modalities, in our professional opinion are of benefit, others don’t help or even hinder while others can be detrimental in relation to our goal of NeuroSpinal Correction.

 The solution: while under our care, we recommend that you inform us of all the other practitioners/modalities you are utilizing so Dr. Ahmed can sit down with you and discuss as to whether it’s going to help or hinder our goals and how. Dr. Ahmed can also contact the other practitioner(s) in order to coordinate protocols to ensure there is nothing contradicting the work we are doing in the office.

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Importance of Omega 3's

From brain function to heart function. The importance of a clean reliable source of Omega 3 is, in this day and age is no longer an option, as addressed in our previous blog posts here and here, but a necessity. The average person today has an overwhelming imbalanced ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 due to the modern day diet which leads to inflammation amongst other issues. 

Omega 3's don't only improve brain and heart function, reduce inflammation, but it also aids in weight loss as shown in studies as well helps with, but not cure, depression. It doesn't end there! In a study, animals consuming EPA have experienced death of leukemia cells in their bodies. Such claims however, haven't reached the human trials yet and no claims can be made on human benefit till such studies are to be performed.

The average adult needs to consume 1,000 mg of EPA (Eicosapentanoic Acid) per day and getting this amount per serving is not guaranteed from any bottle of fish oil that’s off the shelf at your local supplement store for varying reasons: species of fish, source of fish, and bottling practices of the product’s manufacturer. 

Many companies tend to utilize practices where the fish oil after extraction is shipped in barrels to the bottling site, which in most cases tend to be in a different country altogether. (e.g. oil extracted in Norway, then bottled in mainland USA.) Such practices predisposes the oil to oxidize during its long commute. When an oil is oxidized, it becomes more of a health detriment than a benefit. A higher quality fish oil, like the ones we provide in our office, is extracted and bottled at the source. 

This process is more costly but the superior results and benefit to our patients is worth the price and cannot be replicated by getting off‐brands or something from your local store.

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Why Supplement? A Modern Day Guide to Health

The supplement industry has turned into a billion-dollar phenomenon that is out to sell you every possible pill, potion and lotion in the promise of better health.

What does this mean for you, the consumer? Are you being sold on things that you truly need or are you being simply being duped?

A common argument against supplementation is that our ancestors didn’t use it and still survived. This is, however, a poor argument since it doesn’t take certain factors into consideration. 

First, the state of the planet has been drastically altered in the past few decades, let alone centuries and millenia. The top soils have been depleted of its minerals while the air and water have been polluted. Simply put, food does not carry the same nutritive value that our ancestors enjoyed.

Second, food has been over-processed, making it even more nutrient-deficient and forcing our bodies to work harder than ever before in order to expel toxins and nourish the body. This creates a need to supplement one’s diet in order to power through the day while, simultaneously, do the extra work in the detoxification process.

Lastly, our bodies have been pushed to a near constant fight-or-flight (sympathetic) mode leaving us both deficient and toxic. Being in fight-or-flight through most of the day puts the body in a catabolic state (breakdown) rather than anabolic state where it’s repairing, detoxifying and nourishing itself.

Picking a proper supplementation regimen should focus on two things: creating sufficiency in place of deficiency and purity in place of the toxicity. Anything else can be seen as an adjunct rather than a necessity, depending on the individual’s unique needs.

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