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Two Reasons You Should NOT Supplement with Vitamin D
I can only think of 2 reasons why a person should NOT supplement with Vitamin D.
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COVID and Flu Prevention That You Need to Know
For most of this year, your life has been inundated with the most important things that you need to know for COVID and the FLU. Things like social distancing, lockdowns, hand sanitizer, face masks. All of these things...
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Temporary Closing of Straight Chiropractic
On March 24, 2020 Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Cabinet Secretary Kathyleen M. Kunkel issued a Public Health Order for the state of New Mexico. In order to be in compliance, Straight Chiropractic and The Neuropa...
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The Most Important COVID-19 Information
Arguably, the most important COVID-19 information is probably not what you have been inundated with during the last few weeks.
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How to Reduce the Risk of Cancer and Heart Disease But NOT Stroke
In November, 2018 the New England Journal of Medicine released a study that attempted to debunk the plethora of other studies that have shown the effectiveness of Fish oil and Vitamin D3 supplementation. In hopes to a...
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Five Reasons to Quit Sugar Now
Why it's so important to cut back on your sugar intake, and take back control of your health.
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3 Habits to Improve Your Core Strength
There are 3 fundamental daily habits that will improve your core strength. But first it is important to discover why you should even be concerned about the strength of your core.
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So You Want to Feel Better?
So you want to feel better but you don't know where to start. Perhaps it would be a good idea to do what Stephen Covey taught us, begin with the end in mind.
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Are You Heading Toward an Early Death?
Is the path you are on taking you toward health, longevity and quality of life or toward an early death?
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Please Don't Make This Same Mistake…
I have a patient who came to see me the first time in February of 2005. He had never been to a chiropractor before. He was having some minor back pain. He had visible arthritis beginning but it was in the early stages...
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8 Ways to Improve Your SHA Score!
Your Spinal Health Assessment (SHA) score is directly related to your level of health and wellness. If your SHA score is less than 90 it would be wise for you to work diligently at improving it. It can take 3 months o...
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Why You Should Do Spinal Hygiene
Why should you do spinal hygiene and how often should you do it?
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The Healthiest Chocolates Ever
Can chocolate really be healthy? It depends on the ingredients that go into them. Our ValenSpines chocolates are so healthy and tasty that you should eat several every day.
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The Number One Reason to See a Chiropractor
It is more than just a "pop", it is an on-going lifestyle of healthy choices!
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Symptoms or Causes, Numbness or Functional Restoration
It is easy to accept that when you have a tooth ache that you have a problem that is causing pain and that the pain is not the problem. The problem, whether it be a cracked tooth, decay or whatever, is the CAUSE of th...
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Should I Get the Flu Shot?
The Flu is a respiratory infection that produces chills, fever, a sore throat, muscle aches and lasts about a week.
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Vaccines: Are They Safe and Effective?
The topic of vaccines and if they are safe and effective comes up quite frequently in my office. For some, this can be a very sensitive subject. Some parents claim that their child was indeed harmed by vaccines. Other...
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It's Not About the Score
Do you remember what your most recent SHA (spinal health assessment) score is?
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Should We Trust the Drugs We Take?
Some governmental organizations are pressuring the FDA to approve drugs faster, but researchers at Yale found that nearly a third of all drugs approved between 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues after they were...
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Should You Take Cholesterol Lowering Drugs?
I frequently get asked the question, should I continue to take cholesterol lowering drugs, known as Statins?
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Do Painkillers Work for Back Pain?
Painkillers such as aspirin, Aleve and Advil don't help most people with back pain, a new review finds. The researchers estimated that only one in six people gained a benefit from taking these nonsteroidal anti-inflam...
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Do you Have Movement Deficiency Syndrome?
If you don't exercise regularly you will have movement deficiency syndrome. But what is so wrong with that?
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Will Exercise Make you Smarter?
"A study led by researchers at Columbia University provides the first evidence in humans that a structured exercise training program increases neurogenesis (the birth and development of new nerve cells) in a memory hu...
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Should a Chiropractic Adjustment Hurt?
Should a Chiropractic adjustment hurt is one of the most common questions asked of me from new people in my office. Truthfully, sometimes a chiropractic adjustment can hurt. However, just because it hurts it does not...
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Should Your Chiropractor Prescribe Drugs?
The question of whether or not your chiropractor should prescribe drugs may seem like a legitimate question to some. After all, you probably see your chiropractor more frequently than your MD. You probably have a bett...
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Feeling Good Does not Mean you are Healthy
I apologize in advance for the length of this article. Reading it to the end will help you determine if you are healthy or not.
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New Year, New you Challenge
Do you hate New Year's Resolutions? I do too. But in 2016 I celebrated my 50th birthday. My health is very important to me so I set some health and fitness goals so that I could measure and then preserve my health for...
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Did Chiropractic Care Cause Katie May's Death?
Was the death of Katie May the result of Chiropractic? Numerous people have brought this to my attention and I felt it necessary to shed some evidence based light on the subject.
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How to Make Your Core Strong
It is important to understand how to make your core strong. The last couple articles I discussed the importance of a strong core. This article will discuss functional exercise and lifestyle as a means to create the st...
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Would you Shoot a Cannon from a Canoe?
Would you want to shoot a cannon from a canoe or from a battleship? Seems like a silly question but work with me as I draw an analogy to your spinal health.
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How Many Pushups Can you Do?
You know that exercise is good for you, but do you know where to start? Maybe you're self conscious about going to a gym and having people watch you. Pushups may just be your answer. They are perhaps nature's best exe...
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How Long Does It Take to Brush?
As an adult I should have memories from 45 years ago of my parents or siblings brushing my teeth and helping me with my dental hygiene, but I don't. My children have those memories but I grew up in a time when the emp...
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How Your Spinal Health Stacks Up: Patient Results at Synergy Spine
When I show people the results of their first Spinal Health Assessment they are often curious to see how much improvement is possible and how they compare to others. I do not believe it is healthy emotionally to compa...
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Are you Fit Enough to be President?
Back in August on his late night TV show, Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton to open a jar of pickles in order to prove to Americans that she is fit enough to be the President of the United States. This article is in...
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What's Better than a Flu Shot?
There is so much controversy regarding flu shots. There are people and organizations on both sides of this controversy that are ready and eager to share their compelling "evidence" to support why they believe as they...
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What Will be the Cause of Your Death?
Earlier this year the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) published a paper that stated that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease and cancer. The article was...
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The Most Evidence Based Spinal Healthcare Protocol
For decades, the standard medical protocol for back pain is drugs or surgery. Yet medicine claims to be "evidence based" and many in the establishment are quick to report that Chiropractors are quacks and that nothing...
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Will Calcium Cause Heart Problems?
Our society has been told that taking a calcium supplement is necessary in order to have strong healthy bones, especially if you are female and over the age of 50. Recent research shows that this path we have been on...
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Should I Take a Calcium Supplement?
Calcium supplementation is still a rather frequent prescription for people over 50 years of age, especially women. The thought is that older individuals tend to be at a higher risk of bone fractures, and since bone is...
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Use the Hra to Change Your Life
The last article I wrote gave some New Year's Wisdom. You may recall:
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New Year's Resolution?
As we will shortly be embarking on a New Year it is a time to reflect on what we have accomplished in our lives and what we still want to accomplish. Unfortunately, many New Year's Resolutions are set with good intent...
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How I Earned $60 Selling Worms As a 9-year-old
You may recognize that line from one of your favorite movies. In the movie it was intended to be much funnier than it has been in reality for me. Allow me to explain.
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Sitting is to the Spine As Sugar is to the Teeth
We have been taught that eating sugar will cause tooth decay. The health of your teeth will improve when you eat less sugar. On the other hand, most of us are going to eat sugar so in order to keep our teeth healthy w...
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Toothache Symptoms Vs Causes: Identifying the Root Problem
It is easy to accept that when you have a tooth ache that you have a problem that is causing pain and that the pain is not the problem. The problem, whether it be a cracked tooth, decay or whatever, is the CAUSE of th...
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Health Tip of the Day: Should I Get the Flu Shot?
What is the Flu? The Flu is a respiratory infection that produces chills, fever, a sore throat, muscle aches and lasts about a week.
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Liquid Vs. Gel Cap Fish Oil Which Should I Take?
Is there really a difference in taking liquid verses a gel capsule fish oil supplement? Trying to decide which one you should take can be a difficult dilemma.
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Try Eating This Healthy Dessert…for Breakfast!
I eat in a manner that will build my cells and help me express great health while allowing myself to not feel guilty when I occasionally deviate.
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Happy Birthday Bj Palmer
Monday, September 14th would have been B.J. Palmer's 133rd birthday. B.J. is considered the developer of Chiropractic. His father D.D. Palmer was the founder and with his first adjustment restored the hearing of Harve...
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Will Calcium Prevent Osteoporosis?
So many people supplement with calcium in hopes to prevent osteoporosis. Is this something that is necessary?
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Why Would you Want to Take Fish Oil?
There is really only one reason you would ever want to take fish oil….
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Do You Need to Take Vitamin D?
There are folks today that say you do not need to take vitamin D. This is surprising to me given the mountain of evidence that points the other way.
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Are Multi Vitamins Essential?
The most common supplement taken by people are multi vitamins. Are they really essential for good health? In other words, can you be healthy without taking a multi vitamin every day?
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Why do you Take That?
The majority of people that come into our office are taking supplements, some sort of multi vitamins being the most common. However, most people don't really know why they are taking them and unfortunately, some are e...
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Get Rid of Your Pain
You want to get rid of your pain, right? The information in this article will help you get rid of pain sooner and help it stay away.
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Claim Your Health's Yellow Jersey with Synergy Spine & Nerve Center
The Tour de France is far from a casual ride through the park. 198 riders lined up this year on the 4th of July to race just under 2,100 miles in 3 weeks. Out of those select 198 racers, only one will rise to the top...
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Drug Free Chiropractic Sb376
There are a few outspoken Chiropractors in our state that would like to change the scope of Chiropractic to include the ability to prescribe medication. There is currently a piece of legislation that if it passes woul...
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Are you the Special?
I am a fan of the Lego Movie. It was fun, entertaining and taught positive moral values.
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Why Eat Grass Fed Beef
Grass fed beef costs more than grain fed beef. So is the health difference between the 2 types of beef really worth the cost? The answer for me is an emphatic yes but you shouldn't take my word for it.
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3 Annoying Workplace Habits to Kick
Lets face it: The groove we fall into at work can often be less than perfect. When you're spending more than 40 hours a week at the office, it's no wonder you've developed and overlooked some of your workplace habits....
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Griego Family, Thank You
There is absolutely no excuse for the actions of a 15-year-old boy killing his own family. This has been more than just a shocking event for our community.
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Here's to a Great 2012
It's a brand new year. Have you taken the time to reflect on what you want in 2012?
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Wishing you a Merry Christmas from Synergy Spine and Nerve Center
We at Straight Chiropractic wanted to take a moment and share our gratitude for you in trusting our office with your health. We recognize that your health is your greatest asset and you take it seriously and so do we.
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