Category: General Health

  • Pilates for Toning, Core Strengthening and Back & Extremity Rehabilitation

    Pilates can be utilized for many varied benefits. These include core strengthening, overall toning, back and extremity rehabilitation, improving bone density and helping to prevent osteoporosis, as well as improving sports performance and overal health and wellness. Thanks to Bridgit Frank at Village Pilates www.villagepilates.net.

  • Cultured Vegetables for Allergies, Digestion and Gut & Immune System Health

    Randy Schwartz of Heart-Lock Health Coaching discusses the health benefits of cultured vegetables with Dr. Greg Chappell of Chappell Chiropractic Wellness Center in Traverse City,MI. Randy relates how these fermented foods contain probiotics which can have a significant positive affect on gut and immune system health and reduce inflammatory conditions in the body. These positive…

  • Sunscreens May Cause More Harm than Help

    This video discusses the negative health effects of chemical and mineral based sunscreens. These include chemical toxicity and decreased production of Vitamin D. It also gives suggestions on how to reduce sun exposure without the use of dangerous chemical sunscreens.

  • Epigenetics & Neural Image: The Key to Health & Wellness

    Your state of health & wellness depend on how your lifestyle choices activate “switches” on the cell walls turning on or off gene potentials for healthy function or disease processes. Furthermore, how well the lifestyle signals get to the cells has major influence over genetic expression and perception and adaptation to our life stresses. One…

  • Stress Reduction Through a Mini-Mental Vacation

    By engaging your five senses in a virtual “vacation”, you can quickly reduce your experience of the stress response. This will help reduce the negative effects that can diminish your state of health and wellness.

  • Fluoride Bad for Your Teeth & Health

    The Jour. of American Dental Association and the Center for Disease Control now are saying that fluoride is bad for your teeth. It can also have devastating health effects due to it’s source being primarily industrial waste products.  

  • Are Your Skin & Hair Products Affecting Your Health?

      Synthetic chemicals in everyday skin & hair products may be harmful to your health. Studies have shown that everyday use of make-up can lead to absorption of up to 51/2 pounds of these chemicals per year. Side effects may include skin irritation, premature aging, and cancer.

  • Neck Extension Exercises for Improved Posture and Health

    &nbsp Your posture, health, and state of wellness will be improved with doing these exercises regularly. They will help reverse the effects of daily physical stresses that cause our shoulders to round and our heads to jut forward and the resulting negative effects on the spine, nervous system, and overall health.

  • Warmups: Condition Your Body & Stimulate Your Brain

      Simple exercise that if practiced regularly will condition the spine and body to handle the stresses of the day more effectively and help prevent injury. These movements also activate signals to the brain which stimulate different brain centers to up-regulate body functions for improved health, wellness, and mental focus.

  • Alternative Look at Scoliosis

    Scoliosis may be the result of past childhood accidents and injuries. These cause spinal imbalance resulting in nerve interference and may have no obvious symptoms. If the interference is in the nerves to the muscles, imbalanced pulling on the sine could cause it to form a scoliotic pattern.