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Oct 10 2022

If Your Gut Health is Not Healthy, YOU Are Not Healthy

Gut health affects your overall health. So if it’s not healthy, YOU are NOT healthy!

Did you know 70-80 percent of your immune system is located in the gut and helps protect us from colds, cases of flu, and viruses?

Did you know that 90 percent of serotonin and up to 50 percent of dopamine are made in the gut and can affect conditions like depression and anxiety?

Did you know that people with neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s actually show signs of degeneration in their gut 10-20 years before they show signs in the brain?

Did you know our gut serves as a protective barrier to keep unwanted food particles out of circulation which can help prevent joint pain, skin issues, chronic inflammation, and autoimmune diseases?

Gut Health Affects Overall Health — Gut Heatlh Affects Many Areas

Did you know that the balance of bacteria in our gut is connected to certain diseases like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and heart disease?

Did you know that 20-30 percent of our thyroid hormones are processed in the gut and when our bacteria balance is off, it can contribute to thyroid disease?

Did you know that the balance of bacteria in the gut can affect reproductive and fertility health in both males and females?

Plain and simple: if your gut is not healthy, YOU are not healthy. Addressing gut health may not be the single solution for what ails us, but it is a huge (and often overlooked) piece of the puzzle for many health conditions.

The majority of people have destroyed their gut with processed foods, coffee, not drinking enough water, toxicity, antibiotic use, cooking foods are too high temperatures and much more. One of the simplest things to heal the gut and improve digestion is with our whole food, plant based digestive enzymes with stabilized probiotics. You can find out more and order yours on my website: Supplements

If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired and would like a basic step by step guide to improve your health and wellness, get a copy of my book in the office or you can order it on Amazon, just click: The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness

May 11 2020

To Improve Health We Must Find a Cause to Correct It

Many people are looking to improve health. They are suffering with pain or have other types of symptoms like low energy, high blood pressure, headaches, fibromyalgia, can’t sleep, stiffness, tight muscles, digestive issues, allergies, PMS, the list goes on and on. Most treatments are based on taking a pill that masks any of those symptoms. But there is a better way to improve health!

Our top rated Chiropractor in Freehold NJ discusses to correct your problem we must find the cause. Watch this short video:

We take a different approach to health and wellness. We do a complete, thorough exam starting with a computerized test that shows where there are imbalances in your nervous system. Your nervous system controls all functions of your body. If there are misalignments in your spine called subluxations, it interferes with the messages going from your brain to ever muscle, organ, tissue and cell in your body. This causes disease and dysfunction.

We do a state of the art computerized test that helps find the cause to improve health of a patient.

Once we see your imbalances, we look for the cause with orthopedic and chiropractic tests. Checking your range of motions in the neck and back tell us if the joints aren’t moving properly. The other tests help show if you have disc problems, nerve problems, muscle imbalances, tight muscles, problems with the ankles, feet, knees and hips.

After we complete these tests we can then work to correct each imbalance to correct your symptoms! Your health issues and pains didn’t occur overnight. They will take time to correct. Balancing your spinal joints and supporting tissues is like a person getting braces to straighten the teeth. IT TAKES TIME! If you remove the braces too soon, the teeth will go back out of alignment. If you don’t complete a corrective treatment plan, the symptoms will return.

So, don’t base your treatment and health on the symptoms only. Symptomatic relief is only temporary and if it’s with medication can cause harmful side effects. Chiropractors evaluate patients to find the cause to get results that most other practitioners fail to deliver.

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May 11 2020

Freehold NJ Chiropractor Reviews How Stress Affects Your Health and Body

Do you experience stress? Do you know how stress affects your body? Do you know stress comes in multiple forms: physical or trauma, chemical and mental?

Stress is listed by the American Medical Association as the leading basic cause of more than 60% of all illness and disease. It is known to be the cause of many illnesses and symptoms ranging from high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, anxiety, ADD or ADHD, digestive problems like Chron’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and acid reflux, immune deficiency, allergies, headaches, musculoskeletal disorders, fibromyalgia, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, breathing problems and much more.

Stress can also lead to many addictions like smoking and alcohol and even lead to suicide.

Many people reach for different medications to fight many of these conditions and symptoms that result from stress. Unfortunately most don’t realize the drugs are just covering up the symptoms and resulting in other symptoms due to side effects. This is a vicious cycle currently used by most medical doctors in treating their patients.

Chiropractic takes a natural approach at addressing the cause of all of these conditions: STRESS!

The nervous system coordinates all functions of the body and when under stress, the body has a difficult time regulating the organs, tissues and cells of the body. The best method of correcting the problem is addressing the nervous system to bring it back to balance. This is what chiropractic does for you!

Chiropractors work with your nervous system because it is like a circuit breaker system through which the spinal cord and nerves send their messages. Messages from the brain go to all parts of your body via the spinal cord and at every level of your spine between the vertebra, nerves go to their destination either a muscle, organ or other tissue of the body. If the messages from the brain are uninterrupted, the body can handle stress more easily and function optimally to bring you natural health and wellness. But due to the different daily stresses we experience from birth til death, the spinal bones that protect the nervous system can move out of place therefore interfering with the nerve messages and causing dysfunction, disease and symptoms.

Chiropractors detect and correct the misalignments (subluxations) of the spine by adjusting the vertebra to remove the nerve irritation which helps release muscular tension, increase circulation and improve function of the body.

Everybody experiences stress! You have to learn to manage stress including exercise, proper nutrition, do activities you enjoy, meditate, get adequate sleep and most importantly get your spine checked and adjusted by a chiropractor. Don’t wait for symptoms like headaches, digestive problems, daily aches and pains, high blood pressure, weight gain or other issues to show up as the symptoms are the last sign to show up. Prevention and maintenance with chiropractic care helps keep stress at bay and your body functioning optimally to maintain your health and wellness so you can enjoy your family and normal daily activities.

In our Freehold NJ office, Hometown Family Wellness Center, we take a multi-pronged natural approach to reducing your stress and improving your health naturally. Freehold NJ Chiropractor reviews stress with state of the art technology we will measure how your nervous system is functioning, what sensitivities you are experiencing due to stressors, and analyze how your adrenal glands are functioning. Your adrenal glads are also called the stress glands as they regulate the 4 main hormones that help the body deal with stress.

To find out more information about our practice go to www.ChiropractorFreehold.com. Call our office at 732-780-0044 to have your spine and nervous system checked.

May 11 2020

10 Reasons Why Chiropractic Is REAL Health Care!

Do you know chiropractic is more than just pain relief? It is great many people get natural relief of pain when going to the chiropractor without risks of medications or surgery. BUT… many people are missing out on the true impact of what chiropractic is all about: HEALTH and WELLNESS!

Are you ready to experience real Health?

Your entire body functions because of your nervous system. Your brain sends messages down the spinal cord and out through all the nerves to control every muscle, organ and tissue in the body. You can move your joints and muscles because messages pass through your nerves. You can feel sensations because messages go up to your brain. Your heart beats, lungs breathe, stomachs digest all without you having to think as messages go from the brain to these organs and back to the brain.

Chiropractic is about restoring your nervous system so it functions optimally allowing your body to be healthy and active. Chiropractic is REAL Health and Prevention!

Every day you subject your body to stress that causes the spinal bones to move out of place putting pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. What stress? Think of the accumulation of traumas: from when you learned how to walk how many times did you fall, sitting at desks at schools and carrying heavy books for years, poor postures, playing sports, sleeping in bad positions or even car accidents (just a small 3 MPH bumper hit causes whiplash!) Even poor nutrition, being overweight and chemical toxicity can cause the spine to misalign. The chiropractic adjustments realign the vertebra to remove interference from the nervous system so your body is optimally functioning.

Check out the research that shows chiropractic can help you improve your health naturally!

1 – Chiropractic Improves Immune Function

Studies show that chiropractic patients have a 200% stronger immune response than people who don’t receive chiropractic care, and a 400% stronger immune response than people with cancer or serious diseases. Read the full article: Chiropractic Boosts Immunity

Another study from 2010 found there is a boost in blood serum levels of some important antibodies in patients that get adjusted. These antibodies help fight off infection and disease. A strong immune system improves your health.

2 – Chiropractic Reduces Inflammation

A 2010 study in the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine shows short term chiropractic treatment of chronic low back pain sufferers can help reduce inflammation naturally.

3 – Chiropractic Can Help Hypertension

High blood pressure is suffered by approximately 30% of adults. The Journal of Human Hypertension did a 2007 study of patients with hypertension. During the 8 week study, half of the patients received upper cervical adjustments while the other half received fake adjustments. There were marked and sustained reductions in high blood pressure equivalent to the use of 2 drug combination therapy commonly used. 85% of the patients that received the adjustment treatment showed improvement after just one adjustment. Even better this improvement is without the harmful side effects of the medications usually prescribed for high blood pressure.

Good Morning America even did a feature segment on the positive affects of chiropractic on hypertension. This is a subject more people have to be made aware of!

4 – Chiropractic Helps Stress Reduction

A small study in 2011 done by Japanese scientists was to examine the effects of chiropractic on the autonomic nervous system. Your brain shows altered activity when under stress. This affects pain processing and reactions to stress. Cortisol levels also increase when stress, which can cause weight gain, increased allergies, diabetes, joint problems, decreased immune responses and sleep problems.

PET scans and blood tests showed that those patients that got adjusted showed improvement in brain activity in areas associated with pain processing and stress reactions. Corstisol levels also significantly reduced indicating decreased stress. Added bonus was lower pain scores and improved quality of life reported by the chiropractic patients. You improve your health by reducing stress.

5 – Chiropractic Improves Balance

As we get older, we are more likely to have serious injuries from falls due to loss of balance. One of the many roles of your spine and nervous system is balance. Nerves in your body relay information for balance to your brain. If there is pressure on these nerves there can be dizziness and a loss of balance.

A 2009 study showed patients who get adjusted had a reduction in dizziness, balance and neck pain. Another study in 2015 provides evidence that adjusting the neck improves balance which can help prevent falls and injuries.

A small study from 2009 found that people who received chiropractic adjustments had reduced dizziness and improved balance. A 2015 review of the literature suggests that chiropractic care might be an effective, natural way to help prevent falls in elderly patients.

6 – Chiropractic Provides Relief of Colic

From October 2007 to November 2009, 104 infants suffering with colic were split into 3 treatment groups at a chiropractic clinic in the UK. Findings showed chiropractic adjustments provided relief of colic. Reducing crying helps a baby sleep better and improve their health.

7 – Chiropractic Relieves Asthma and Bronchial Conditions

A 2013 preliminary study reported an improvement in moderate COPD following a course of chiropractic treatment for 4 weeks. Another study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reviewed research which shows there is benefits of manual therapy for childhood respiratory disease like asthma. Health relies heavily on lung capacity.

Our Freehold chiropractor, Dr. Russell Brokstein, suffered with a bronchial condition for 10 years. As a competitive soccer player it made it difficult at times to breathe while playing. Medical doctors prescribed one inhaler after another with no relief. Upon entering chiropractic college at the age of 24, Dr. Brokstein started to get adjusted. Since that time he has not had one incident of a bronchial attack. This is not uncommon as your nervous system has control of all functions including your lungs. By removing pressure to the nerves that control lung function, it is possible to get natural relief of asthma-like conditions.

8 – Chiropractic Benefits Wellness Programs

Some chiropractors implement wellness programs to include diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and one-on-one coaching. Patients that participate in a chiropractic 18 weeks wellness program show improvements in weight loss, heart rate, blood pressure, strength, body-mass index, and forced vital capacity.

9 – Chiropractic Reduces Missed Work Days and Disability

Back pain is one of the leading causes of missed days at work. This costs not only the companies money, but the employee too if they are missing work. Research shows that chiropractic patients have fewer disability incidents than those under conventional care. Those who aren’t under chiropractic care are twice as likely to miss work. Access to chiropractic care is important to decrease disability claims and lost productivity.

10 – Chiropractic Reduces Medical Costs and Utilization

When chiropractors are used as a primary contact providers there is a significant decrease in utilization of medical services and the costs that go with them. A 7 year study by an Independent Practice Association allowed patients to choose chiropractors are their primary doctor. There was a 60.2 percent decrease in hospital admissions, 59 percent drop in hospital days, 62 percent decrease of outpatient surgeries and procedures, and 85 percent reduction of pharmaceutical costs when compared with traditional medicine.

Are you ready to experience REAL Health Care with chiropractic?

May 11 2020

High Blood Pressure? Chiropractor in Freehold NJ Shares Research You Need to Read!

Over the past couple of years, the media is starting to share important information that the public needs to hear. Your medical doctors will rarely share this material with you.

Just a couple of years ago, it was released that chiropractic adjustments can help lower blood pressure naturally. Those patients in one study had a dramatic drop in their high blood pressure by an average of 17 points. That’s an equivalent of giving a patient 2 blood pressure medications at once….oh, and that’s WITHOUT all the side effects of medications!

Watch one of the many news reports here:

I must admit I laugh at the MD who says they have seen MIRACULOUS changes but to stick to proven methods for now, that it’s not available to everybody, that’s it’s still investigational? Proven methods? Prescribing medications that just cover up the symptoms and you need to stay on forever, with many side effects? The medical way of treating conditions is a vicious cycle of treating one symptom with a drug that causes other problems so they can prescribe more for the new symptoms that will show up.

Another study done in 1988 took 75 patients in a double blind study. In this study, one group of patients with high blood pressure received adjustments to the thoracic spine area. Another group received placebos (movements that seemed to be adjustments but were not), and a final group received no treatment. The adjusted group experienced decreases in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure while no change was noted in either the control or placebo group.

Chiropractors have been stating this information for well over 100 years and have explained why it works:

Chiropractic is more than just neck or back pain! It is about the optimal functioning of your body by removing nerve interference. When the brain can communicate with the rest of the body, the signals are unimpeded, and the messages can get to all the organs, muscles, tissues and cells. The medical profession will admit that if you have a “pinched” nerve in the neck or lower back, that you can experience numbness and or tingling of the hands or feet. Well what about the nerves that go to your heart, lungs, kidneys, bladder, stomach, ears, thyroid gland, pancreas and every other organ in your body? You are not going to get numbness and tingling, but you will get decreased functioning of these organs and that will decrease your overall health. Chiropractors detect and correct the spinal vertebra that are misaligned and putting pressure on the nerves. By getting to the cause of the problem, chiropractic helps correct dysfunction and return optimal health to your body.

My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein, DC and my very first patient while in chiropractic college had severe hypertension. He was a 50 year old gentleman with blood pressure of 200/140. His medical doctors said it was genetically high because not one medication on the market lowered his blood pressure and it had been high for over 20 years. After a thorough evaluation, we found that several segments associated with high blood pressure were present. We took his blood pressure before his first adjustment and immediately after the adjustment took his blood pressure again to find it had dropped around 20 points. That’s an immediate response.. not taking medications over several weeks or months to determine if it’s going to work.

I have been in practice the last 13 years and helping patients at our Freehold, NJ office Hometown Family Wellness Center. While helping most patients that come in for aches and pains, I educate them about the full benefits of chiropractic and helping them be more healthy without drugs or surgery. I have many other patients who I have not only helped with high blood pressure, but other health problems. Does it help for everybody? No.. but isn’t it worth your health to try something that can return you to optimal health and wellness without the harmful affects of medications? One thing I can say, no matter what, your body will be more healthy and optimally functioning under chiropractic care by removing nerve interference.

If you are ready to experience health and wellness without medications, call our office to schedule a consultation. To find out more information about our practice go to www.chiropractorfreehold.com. We have been helping residents of Freehold and surrounding towns of Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell, Jackson, Morganville, Colts Neck and other communities in Monmouth and Ocean County, New Jersey.

References:

McKnight ME, DeBoer KF. Preliminary study of blood pressure changes in normotensive subjects undergoing chiropractic care. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1988 Aug;11(4):261-6.

G Bakris, M Dickholtz Sr, P M Meyer, G Kravitz, E Avery, M Miller, J Brown, C Woodfield, B Bell. Atlas vertebra realignment and achievement of arterial pressure goal in hypertensive patients: a pilot study. Journal of Human Hypertension. March 2, 2007.

Yates RG, Lamping DL, Abram NL, Wright C “Effects of Chiropractic Treatment on Blood Pressure and Anxiety: A Randomized, Controlled Trial” J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1988; 11(6): 484-488.

1 – Chiropractic Improves Immune Function

2 – Chiropractic Reduces Inflammation

3 – Chiropractic Can Help Hypertension

4 – Chiropractic Helps Stress Reduction

5 – Chiropractic Improves Balance

6 – Chiropractic Provides Relief of Colic

7 – Chiropractic Relieves Asthma and Bronchial Conditions

8 – Chiropractic Benefits Wellness Programs

9 – Chiropractic Reduces Missed Work Days and Disability

10 – Chiropractic Reduces Medical Costs and Utilization

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