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May 15 2023

Stress Awareness Month

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. In April we celebrate both Earth Day and Stress Awareness Month and there is a link between the two.

Eco Anxiety is important to address during Stress Management Month — Stress Awareness Month is a great time to be Eco-Anxiety

As always I like to share articles from one of my favorite sources and we start with the topic of Eco-Anxiety or Climate Anxiety. Please read more by clicking the title:
Eco-Anxiety

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance, but by our disposition.” Martha Washington

Read The Happiness Curve

Food is indeed medicine and you know the saying, “You Are What You Eat.” Did you know that what you eat can improve your brain?
Read: Brain Food

More Healthy Recipes:
Grilled Lime Steak with Spring Vegetable Salad
Baked Lemon Tilapia with Cashew-Yogurt Sauce (I personally would replace Tilapia with a healthier white fish in this recipe)

I must share this great post by my colleague:

The addiction is real!!!!

Great post by my colleague Dr Clum
A MUST READ!
156 lbs.
The average woman today weighs 167, up from 141 in the ’60s, and the average man is 195.5, up from 167.
156 lbs……that is how much sugar the average American eats per year, according to the USDA.
That is 70,760 grams per year or 193.8 grams a day, or 775 calories which is 38.7% of a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet……in sugar.
The World Health Organization says we should limit our sugar consumption to 25 grams daily. So most Americans eat almost 800% of the WHO sugar intake guidelines. And that is for adults.
Kids eat 50% more!
While this sugar intake has increased dramatically, our fat intake has lowered.
What else went up beside our weight? EVERY chronic disease and certain ones exploded, like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic pain, depression, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, Alzheimer’s, and autoimmune disorders.
Yet people still have to have what they “like,” don’t they?
I don’t think most people like their weight or health status or poison their kids.
And I wouldn’t say I like paying higher insurance premiums to cover unhealthy people.
If sugar is on your list of things you eat because you just “like” it, or because you always ate it, or your parents ate that way, you could be fueling everything you don’t want in life.
We can do better.
Sugar detoxing is no joke. Some report it as a stronger addiction than cocaine. It is definitely more available and socially “pushed” everywhere.
Give up all sugar, and read your labels to be sure, for 5 days and see what happens.
Helpful tips to get through:
1. Drink lots of water
2. Use lots of whole sea salts in your food
3. Up the fat intake with each meal
4. Take apple cider vinegar 30 minutes before each meal (1 tsp-1 tbsp in water)
5. When you feel anxious, take a 5-minute or longer walk
And as always, tell us how it goes!
We can do better!
Dr. Don

One last topic of this week’s blog….

Stress Awareness Month topics of sunlight — Sunlight and Vit D are important topics of Stress Awareness Month

There are endless health benefits that take place with natural sunlight each day!

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Boosts cognitive function
Fights depression
Supports better sleep
Enhances immune health
Promotes bone health
Promotes longevity
May help fight cancer
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▪︎ Daily dose of sunlight is vital to your overall health and well-being! Just 10 minutes of sunlight can boost blood flow, reducing blood pressure, enhancing endorphin release, reducing stress, and calming your nervous system. Get your sunlight to help during Stress Awareness Month!
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▪︎ How to tan without burning:
– Morning sunlight exposure and gradually increasing throughout the day.
▪︎ Eating an animal-based diet high in healthy fats/proteins will allow your skin to absorb the sunlight without burning. This also increases your Vitamin D internally, which helps you absorb sunlight!
▪︎ Staying hydrated with + !
▪︎ Lose the shades … this reduces the production of melanin (makes your skin tan).
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▪︎ Despite what you have learned throughout the years, sunlight is NOT bad for you. Sunscreens are loaded with chemicals and many of which have high amounts of carcinogens, increasing the rates of skin cancer. What feeds this? Junk from the inside out…seed oils, sugars, oxalates, and lack of sun exposure. Diet is key, and truly what you put in will reflect out.
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▪︎ Go get your Vitamin D boost going! Your body and mind will thank you.
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Please remember, I take a different approach to optimizing your recovery and overall health, not only correcting the musculoskeletal imbalances but providing the body with the nutrients it needs. It’s time to help friends and family wake up and gain their health back too. How many times do you hear them complain about how they feel, pain, tired and just sick and tired of being sick and tired? Stress Awareness Month is no better time to share our unique, natural approach to optimizing health naturally.

Share the info I give to you and have your friends and family Give us a call 732-780-0044
Or schedule online www.chiropractorfreehold.com

Apr 30 2023

Staying Hydrated Benefits Your Health

One of my favorite topics is staying hydrated and drinking enough water. Too many people are dehydrated from not only not drinking enough water but consuming too much coffee and other caffeinated products. It’s important to drink half your body weight in ounces of water. More recently I read even up to 70% of your

There are many benefits of staying hydrated — Benefits of Staying Hydrated

body weight in ounces of water. If you drink a cup of coffee, some studies show that one cup negates up to 4 to 8 glasses of water. I challenge you for the next month to drink the right amount of water and see how you feel in 30 days.

Read this great article to find out more about keeping hydrated: Drink Up!

Read about a combination of breathing exercises, cold exposure, and developing a proper mindset and commitment: The Wim Hof Way

Growing old is a part of life…. read more: Desired and Feared

Healthy Recipes:
Stir-Fried Beef, Asparagus & Green Beans
Slow Cooker Pulled Chicken

Are you sick and tired of not being healthy? Great message from Dr. Tim… I love his educational videos:

Dr. Tim’s kids talk about how they stay health naturally…. smart kids and they were taught from birth. It’s not a coincidence that his kids have never been medicated. Children in the USA are more sick now than ever. For the first time, children will not outlive the lifespan of their parents. It’s a sad state of US health and medical care. It’s time parents step up to the plate and make their childrens’ health a priority
Watch this cute video:

Over the last 5 years I have learned a lot from Dr. Tim. He runs a huge chiropractic and functional medicine practice in Arizona. Functional medicine is working with whole food, plant based supplements to assist the body’s ecosystem. Getting rid of the bad stuff, put in the good stuff and because your body is an intelligent system – it does the rest.

He introduced me to his whole food supplements nearly 5 years ago and it has taken my health to a new level. I have been able to assist many patients over these last years by incorporating these products into their lifestyles. By giving your body the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants it needs, you can transform your health too.

To find out about the basic formulas we have, go to my website and watch some of the short videos: Supplements Freehold.

Lets transform more lives and health with chiropractic. Make sure you share these blog articles and tell your friends and family we can transform health naturally!

Mar 19 2023

Explore Yor Longevity Potential

Did you know only 20 percent of our longevity potential is genetically determined? The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise. David Andrew Sinclair

Longevity potential has many factors — There are many things to improve your longevity potential

Now is the time to Explore Your Longevity Potential! Read this great article by the 100 Year Lifestyle: Explore Your Longevity Potential

I always discuss the importance of the core and it’s a topic of many health professionals. Hare are more reasons you need to work on your core and it’s not just about the muscles: The Core of Your Core- There’s More to it For A Healthy Core

Health Tip of the week: Most people are taking medications to solve problems that are in majority cases caused by their diet and lifestyle.

Recipe of the week: Mastering the Fabulous Frittata

Are You Feeding Your Children Cancer?
“Red #40 may contain the carcinogenic contaminant p-Cresidine and is thought to cause tumors of the

Food additives can be causing cancer in children — Are the food you are feeding your children causing cancer?

immune system,” according to “Rich Food, Poor Food”. “In the UK, it is not recommended for children,” the Caltons write, but it is approved for use in the EU.
If red dye can cause tumors in the immune system, could it be causing the massive increase in immune system diseases we are seeing?
Thoughts?

You have to be your own health advocate. Take a look at these 15 common food additives that we are exposed to every day…
1. Sodium nitrate: Added to processed meats to stop bacterial growth. Linked to cancer in humans. (Worst Offender)
2. Sulfites: Used to keep prepared foods fresh. Can cause breathing difficulties in those sensitive to the ingredient.
3. Azodicarbonamide: Used in bagels and buns. Can cause asthma.
4. Potassium bromate: Added to breads to increase volume. Linked to cancer in humans.
5. Propyl gallate: Added to fat-containing products. Linked to cancer in humans

Toxic ingredients are approved for your foods all the time — The FDA approves toxic food additives that you are consuming!

6. BHA/BHT: A fat preservative, used in foods to extend shelf life. Linked to cancerous tumor growth.
7. Propylene glycol: Better known as antifreeze. Thickens dairy products and salad dressing. Deemed ‘generally’ safe by FDA.
8. Butane: Put in chicken nuggets to keep them tasting fresh. A known carcinogen.
9. Monosodium glutamate (MSG): Flavor enhancer that can cause headaches. Linked in animal studies to nerve damage, heart problems and seizures.
10. Disodium inosinate: In snack foods. Contains MSG.
11. Disodium guanylate: Also used in snack foods, and contains MSG.
12. Enriched flour: Used in many snack foods. A refined starch that is made from toxic ingredients.
13. Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH): Geneticially-engineered version of natural growth hormone in cows. Boosts milk production in cows. Contains high levels of IGF-1, which is thought cause various types of cancer.
14. Refined vegetable oil: Includes soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil, canola oil, and peanut oil. High in omega-6 fats, which are thought to cause heart disease and cancer.
15. Sodium benzoate: Used as a preservative in salad dressing and carbonated beverages. A known carcinogen and may cause damage our DNA.
Thanks Dr. Mike Gruttadauria for this info!

Lots of research shows the connection of inflammation in the body to many health problems including depression.
Most Americans diets are highly inflammatory, poor gut health and dehydrated. Read More of the article: How inflammation in the body may explain depression in the brain (yahoo.com)

To decrease inflammation, change your lifestyle, take whole food, plant based proteolytic and gut enzymes and watch your health transform.
Check out on my website under services…supplements for all your natural, organic, whole food plant based supplements: www.ChiropractorFreehold.com

Before I go…..
A lot of people say “I hope I never need a chiropractor” … that’s like saying “I hope I never need a dentist.”
Let me tell you something. Everybody needs a chiropractor since birth! Waiting until there is a problem is too late and we are working on more than just pain, but removing pressure from your nervous system so your body functions optimally. Chiropractic helps your longevity potential!

Share chiropractic with others who would like to optimize their health naturally! Share our website and they can schedule right online: www.chiropractorfreehold.com

To Your Health and Wellness
Dr. Russell Brokstein
Hometown Family Wellness Center Where Health is a Lifestyle

Jan 14 2023

Best Chiropractor in Monmouth County NJ 2022 Awarded to Freehold Chiropractor

The Best Chiropractor in Monmouth County NJ for 2022 was awarded to the top rated chiropractor in Freehold, NJ. For the 25th year, the Asbury Park Press held its annual reader’s choice awards. The local paper asks readers to vote for businesses in several categories.

Best Monmouth County NJ Chiropractor — Freehold Chiropractor Awarded the 2022 Best Chiropractor in Monmouth County NJ

Dr. Russell Brokstein received the 2022 honor of Best Chiropractor in Monmouth County. This is the 6h time in the last 7 years that Dr. Brokstein has been honored with this award.
Dr. Brokstein has also been chosen by the National Consumer Advisory Board for the “America’s Best Physicians” directory since 2017, Best Chiropractor in Freehold NJ since 2021 by the Freehold Award’s Program and NJTOPDocs since 2019.

Dr. Brokstein grew up in Freehold, NJ. After graduating Penn State with a BS in Biology he attended Life Chiropractic in Marietta, Georgia. Upon completing his studies, he returned to his hometown to give back to the community and opened Hometown Family Wellness Center over 17 years ago. He strives to educate the public about regaining their health naturally to enjoy normal daily activities and authored the book, “The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness.” Every year he holds the annual holiday food and coat drive, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” to help those in need during the winter season.

Dr. Brokstein says, “I strive to provide a different experience in our office. I value our patients’ time so I will

The Next Health Revolution to take back your health — Dr. Brokstein wanted to help people revive their health with the next health revolution

not overbook appointments. Patients should not be waiting in an office for the appointment they scheduled in advance. I also give the time patients deserve. Each slot is spaced out so there is enough time to perform treatment, show home stretching and exercise and discuss any health and wellness goals. I try to remove all hurdles for patients to receive the care they need by being in as many insurance networks as possible. Health care is getting out of hand and when doctors aren’t in network, it makes care too expensive. I would like to help as many people as possible regain their health and live a long, vibrant, enjoyable lifetime.”

To find out more about Dr. Russell Brokstein and Hometown Family Wellness Center, go to www.ChiropractorFreehold.com

Feb 07 2021

Super Bowl Message: Age is as Limited as Your Mind

As we roll into this evening’s Super Bowl I read a couple great messages from colleagues. I reflect on the NFL’s GOAT, Tom Brady:

First, Dr. Margolies wrote an amazing email and I wanted to share his message:
“Today is Super Bowl Sunday and Tom Brady, the 43 year old quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will prove that age is as limited as your mind. He is the oldest quarterback to play in the Super Bowl. Today is his 10th Super Bowl. He’s been in 18% of every Super Bowl! He has already won 6 of the previous 9 he has been in.

Many NFL fans disliked him continually winning with his former team New England Patriots. After last season he

Super Bowl Great and Chiropractic — Super Bowl GOAT Tom Brady Uses Chiropractic

made a move to Tampa Bay and he took with him his winning attitude, work ethic and leadership navigating Tampa, a team that last played in the Super Bowl back in 2003, to the Super Bowl this Sunday after beating three strong competitive teams with their superstar quarterbacks to get to the party.

We are a product of choices and Brady never looks back just ahead. He takes care of his body and mind with a special diet and physical and mental regime. Granted he has a personal chef and can afford whatever he needs to succeed but many like him never reach their goals as he has. Message to take away, don’t let age get the better of you, strive to keep your mind and body sharp and win your own Super Bowl.”

Another colleague, Dr. Jeff Roistacher writes, “If you don’t respect the greatest of this man than you are simply a hater. His entire day revolves around his fitness, preparation and family. It’s not an accident on why his body continues to function for him.
How would your body function if you put even 10% of the effort he does?
Think about this.. 92% of the cause of Cancer, Diabetes and Heart disease are your diet and lifestyle!! It’s not your genetics or bad luck.
I don’t understand why YOU don’t take your health seriously BEFORE you become sick. Do you think the MD’s will save you by giving you meds to mask your horrendous lifestyle?”

I have been in practice over 22 years and will be 50 this year. I value and make my health a priority. Around 10 years ago I had a patient come in who was 25 years old and he said, where’s the doctor? I responded by saying, “right in front of you” and introduced myself. He says, “What? Did you start when you were 14?” I asked, “What do you mean?” and he then says, “You can’t be much older than me.” When I told him I was turning 40, he asks me, “What’s your secret?”

I told the patient that I work out 4 days per week, do my daily spinal hygiene stretching, take my multi vitamin with omegas, antioxidants, minerals and telomere support, get adjusted 1 to 2 times per month and do a 11 day nutritional cleanse program 4 times a year. When I told him this, he says, “THAT’S NO WAY TO LIVE!”
Really? I was holding in my laugh and responded, “well that’s why you feel and look like that at 25 and I look like this at 40.”

Turn the clocks forward 10 years, he returned to the practice after 9 years being away and when he sees me, he says, “Wow, you don’t look a day older than you did last time I saw you.” I said, “I am still living the same healthy lifestyle I always have.” He just laughed and continued on with the visit.

We all have a choice. If you are sick and tired of looking and feeling sick and tired, then it’s time for a change. It’s time to make your health a priority! Health is a responsibility. Are you ready? If not now, then when?

My goal is to help as many people as possible to make this shift in lifestyle and turn health around. You know what the definition of insanity is? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

I have programs and systems for anybody to follow, but you have to want it! Feel free to message me or discuss further on your next visit.

The project is almost complete: The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness
I cannot wait to share it with you and all who are ready to be healthy to enjoy all life has to offer.

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Enjoy the game this evening and be safe in the snow!
I look forward to seeing you soon!

To Your Health and Wellness
Dr. Russell and Jen
Hometown Family Wellness Center Where Health is a Lifestyle

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