Probiotics: What You Should Look For

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Finding the Right Probiotic for You There are many common questions I get asked when it comes to what to look for in a probiotic. My answer to those questions are the same: it depends. There are some factors that people should look for with every probiotic, and there are also some factors that are
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How Often Should People See a Chiropractor?

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How often should people get adjusted is a question I get asked on a regular basis, and the short answer is: it depends. Long answer: there are a few factors that influence on how often a person should be adjusted. Some of the factors you can control, while there’s others that you can’t. Generally, getting
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What is Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab (FAKTR)?

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Soft tissue therapy is one form of therapy that gets utilized quite often in my clinic, which deals with any pain or dysfunction of muscle, ligaments, tendons, and/or fascia. The times I utilize soft tissue therapy is when there has been some overuse or trauma to a particular area and when there is still a
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What is Applied Kinesiology?

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Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a system that assesses bodily function. It shows where there is potential dysfunction as a result of mental, chemical, or physical stressors. Muscle testing is the instrument that is used to assess the dysfunction. It should be thought of as a function of the nervous system rather than the power the
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Functional Medicine

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What is Functional Medicine and How is it Different from Conventional Medicine? One of the services I offer in my clinic is utilizing functional medicine. This is used to get people out of dysfunction and on their road to healing and wellness. A question I get asked quite often is, “What is functional medicine?”. Functional
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What is Functional Wellness?

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Being the owner of Functional Wellness and Chiropractic Center, I get asked a lot, “What does functional wellness mean?” To be honest, when I was trying to come up with a name for my clinic I was trying to show that my clinic was more than just a chiropractic clinic. Wellness was going to be
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What to do with Low Stomach Acid

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Are you someone who always has some sort of digestive issues going on? Chances are you have some degree of low stomach acid, also known as hypochlorhydria. Hypochlorhydria is a condition where the parietal cells of the stomach are not producing the correct amount of stomach acid to properly digest food. The absence of stomach
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Do you know about SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth)?

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One condition that is fairly common in my clinic and is starting to get a lot of attention by more practitioners is something called Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (also known as SIBO). SIBO is essentially a subclinical infection of translocated bacteria from the colon to the ileum (distal small intestine). This can cause a wide
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Bioelectric Impedance Analysis/Body Composition Readings

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Bioelectric Impedance Analysis Bioelectric impedance analysis, also known as BIA, is a quick and painless way to measure a person’s body composition. The BIA can measure and track changes in the amounts of body fluids, fat, bone mineral content, and lean body mass, which includes your muscles and organs. The way it is done is
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Foundational Five

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In my previous blog, I mentioned that there was only so much that diet can do in today’s society because food isn’t as nutritionally dense as it was even a century ago. To make sure that we are living optimally, there needs to be some supplementation to compensate for nutritional discrepancies. I don’t make generalities
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