This is a guest post by Dr. Kristen Accardo, D.C.
As the holiday season comes to a close and the new year begins, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and feel stressed. There’s extra bills coming in and changes to make if you want to keep up with those new year resolutions.
But stress is not just caused by […]
Are you having trouble sleeping? Here are some ways to improve your sleep.
Give yourself 8 hours of sleep to ensure you’re actually sleeping at least 7 to 7.5 hours.
Develop a healthy bedtime routine. Allow your body to slow down and prepare for sleep.
Reduce your caffeine intake. It takes your body 7 hours to clear half […]
How much stress do you carry? Most of us don’t realize it, but stress can have a greater impact on pain that we think.
Stress shuts down the systems in our body that needed for long-term health. That prevents our bodies from healing and curing our pain.
The stress response shuts down the functions you need to reduce pain. Stress decreases circulation, […]
What’s an easy way to beat stress? Grab some fruit or take a short walk.
It’s easy to forget about the link between the mind and body. A huge body of scientific research backs this: take care of your body and your stress levels will drop. It works the other way too – the less stress […]
If you’re having a particularly stressful moment, here’s some wisdom from a Chinese philosophy text: “Let things ripen, and then fall. Force is not the way at all.”
Be gentle with yourself when you try to de-stress.
It sounds odd, perhaps, but I see patients becoming more stressed as they try to relax. They are trying hard cope […]
Most of us spend the entire day fulfilling the needs of someone else. We check our emails. Rush to work or rush around at home, if that is where we work. Grab a cup of coffee (or two, or three) to stay awake.But we often neglect the most important person in the picture.
This blog is […]
Chances are what you’ve heard about detox could be wrong.
The detox methods most of the internet buzzes about are fads. Before the recent craze, medical professionals did detoxify the body. Here’s the difference: detox was only used for getting rid of immediate life-threatening drugs, alcohol, poison. Now there seems to be a new smoothie detox plan each week.
Your […]
Here’s something I encourage all my patients to try: be mindful.
I’ve talked about mindfulness and stress before, two large factors of happiness. I’ve had patients come in who are generally fit and eat healthy but are in […]
Mind doesn’t dominate body; it becomes body. –Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion
For centuries, we’ve known that the mind and the body are tightly linked. Ever had a gut feeling about something? The gut produces 80% of the body’s serotonin, a chemical believed to improve our mood. We’ve also found that the heart releases norepinephrine and […]
We’ve known that the mind and body are linked. Research now tells us that the link is far deeper than we imagined. Here’s how to become healthier through that mind-body connection.
Ever had a gut feeling about something? We now know that the gut produces […]
