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Jul 17 2021

The Next Health Revolution Published by Your Top Rated Chiropractor in Freehold

More people than ever are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Americans are the most over prescribed on medications and pushed into surgeries than any other country. The United States is in a snowball decline of health relying on these measures that do not improve health nor make up for poor lifestyle choices. In my 23 years in practice I have seen so many patients that were mislead and turned their health around naturally so I had to put it all in one place for others who would like to have a simple guide on how to take back their health with: The Next Health Revolution – A Natural Path to Revive Your Health and Maximize Wellness.

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

People are looking for an answer to improving their health, rather than running to doctors that just prescribe medications and surgery. I wanted to set up a simple protocol to follow for people to finally take back their health, have more energy and start enjoying life again.”

Have you ever wondered why more and more people (and our society in general) continue to suffer with sickness and disease even though we are the most medicated society in the world?

Have you ever considered that if you could get “health” from a pill… no one would get sick?

This book is all about how to get AND stay healthy WITHOUT relying on medication for the rest of your life.

What you will learn from this book:·

Why the current medical system is failing society·
5 Tenets of Health to optimize your health naturally·
Natural, non-invasive treatments that revive your health·
Why your nervous system is the KEY to maximum health and function·
How to lose weight without dieting·
Why your gut health is crucial to your overall health·
What supplements are necessary to heal, support and maintain health·
The MASTER system that coordinates all other physiological systems – and how to use it to achieve health, vitality and wellness for life.

If you would like a copy of Dr. Brokstein’s book and start a path to improved health, prevention and wellness, click: The Next Health Revolution

To find out more about Dr. Brokstein and his practice, check out our website: www.chiropractorfreehold.com

May 11 2020

Sickness, Disease and Pain DOES’T Have to be the Norm

Sickness, disease and pain or health and wellness? So many people just accept to live with the pain, discomfort and being sick. Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?

Like many others, I grew up in the Medical society. Told if you don’t have symptoms and feel fine you are healthy or run to the doctor when you are sick or hurting to just be prescribed medications and popping pills. I remember my

Sickness or Health — What do you choose?

philosophy classes during my time in at Life Chiropractic College when my awareness was challenged from accepting Sickness and Disease as the norm to realizing that there was a greater force and intelligence driving this machine….our body. One of my professors still sends chiropractors and myself emails and I wanted to share his most recent message:

“I realized that what I was taught from elementary to college may have brought sense to the masses but little to those searching for answers. Why would the body randomly deteriorate when it was meant to be well in wholeness. Why would the body be overcome with illness when it was meant to weather the storm. What force separated the psyche from the soma enough to break the bonds that hold us together. In fact, why would this body, grown from two half cells, germinate and blossom within and succeed to exit on time leave all to chance on the day it makes a bow. It made no sense. As with all nature’s bounty, the newborn is not left to chance. It has a host, a mother and father and a connection with family that along with natural nurturing and love blooms and grows.

My mindset transformed during these early years challenging my belief that relief was found in a pill and that the medical doctor’s word was indisputable. Like military boot camp, the first year of chiropractic school ground down my holistic beliefs toward wholistic. It gave me the ammunition to question and advise from outside the proverbial box for those seeking another answer. I began to appreciate the relationship between structure and function and how every visceral part was attuned to the whole and our dear and delicate nervous system was the power and intelligence putting it together. Nature knew what needed without a book, computer or lecture series to sustain this new life. It just needs nourishment, cuddling, support with no interference to make things right. How many of these basic ingredients do we lack as we grow, most have been techno manipulated, and compromised.”

I thank Dr. Margolies for his way with words and explaining things!

Chiropractic has a role in this cycle of life and improving health. Chiropractors like myself take philosophy of life and health in a serious vein to approach you with this in mind and educate you to the ramification of the subluxation complex, where joints in the spine are misaligned and put pressure on nerves affecting the function of all your organs, tissues and cells. This interference to the nervous system is a leading factor to the sickness epidemic. We have a responsibility as a structural science, where posture and tone play a crucial part in wellbeing, also appreciate the impingement of life force via structural distress. Wellness starts with spinal health! It is here where the network of energy generates and where protection of life’s fibers extends to the whole. Nutrition is no longer left to chance! I want to help you through the multitude of misinformation and poor choices. I discuss exercise and ergonomic health with the understanding that life with no movement is no life and spinal segmental health is crucial to the whole. The wear and tear of daily living and each segment of life needs to be met with conservative alternatives to your grind at work, play and home.

Coming in for adjustments only when you are hurting is like running to the medical doctor for a pill for a quick fix. It’s just masking the symptoms temporarily. At least the adjustment doesn’t have the dangerous side effects of all those meds. BUT.. why not get all the benefits of getting adjusted for the health and life of it? Many studies show these benefits.

21 Benefits of Chiropractic you might not have known:

Improves joint mobility, function and health.
Makes tight muscles loose and loose muscles tight and improves the contractibility (thereby strength) of the muscle.
Decreases degeneration of the joint and connective tissues (arthritis).
Decreases the on--going inflammatory process associated with the subluxation.
Improves circulation taking stagnant blood out and bringing new blood in.
Speeds up the recovery process.
Improves nerve system function and the individual nerve’s ability to carry nerve impulses more efficiently.
Strengthens the immune system.
Improves individual organ system function (heart, lung, sinuses, digestive, etc).
Improves a person’s disposition (they’re more FUN to be around).
Calms a hyperactive mind and energizes a depressed mind.
Increases energy, vitality and improves sleep.
Relieves/Improves Prenatal Discomfort
Decreases length of labor and associated back pain.
Decreases the adverse effects of stress.
Improves athletic performance (for ANY sport).
Improves Quality of Life by enhancing the enjoyment/fulfillment of a person’s Key Values
Prevention ability for sickness, disease and pain.
Improves overall health and wellness for infants and children.
Improves cognitive ability (ability to THINK more clearly).
Oh…and it DECREASES PAIN!

Are you ready to go from sickness to health? Who wouldn’t like these health benefits? Who doesn’t deserve these benefits?
Add better nutrition, improving hydration, exercising more and health goals can be obtained. You have to give your body the chance to thrive! Ask us about our nutrition programs, weight loss programs, plant based natural vitamins, enzymes, collagen and give your body what it needs.

May 11 2020

Freehold Chiropractor Helps Relieve Stress Induced Symptoms without Drugs or Surgery

Many people “surge” their way to sickness and illness due to overwhelming stress.

Think of your body like a house with a circuit breaker system. If you overload a circuit with too much “stress” by having too many appliances plugged in, it will blow. Now, if the circuit was going to your kitchen and the refrigerator wasn’t working, the food would spoil. How would you resolve the problem? Would you just remove the spoiled food and put new fresh food in it? We all know that wouldn’t work as that new food would spoil too unless you reset the circuit that goes to the kitchen so the refrigerator works properly.

Going one step further, even if you reset the circuit, if you don’t address the stressors tripping that circuit (overloading it with too many appliances running at the same time), the circuit will keep tripping.

Well, the same thing happens in your body if you surge your nervous system with too much stress. Imagine your nervous system as the circuit breaker system for your body. If you add multiple stresses to your body and nervous system, your body gets overloaded, you “blow a circuit” and destroy your health. Chiropractors call this a subluxation. Each circuit in our body controls different organs, muscles, tissues and functions of the body. If too much stress builds up and you get a subluxation affecting a “circuit”, you can experience many symptoms ranging from pain, aches, headaches to more serious problems including digestive problems, frequent colds to even high blood pressure (Journal of Human Hypertension 22,1 G Bakris, MD et al).

Stress occurs in many variations. There is physical stress or trauma which could be from an accident, carrying a pocketbook on one shoulder all the time, typing or using a mouse at a computer all day, slouching, etc. Then there is chemical stress which could be from smoking, eating poor quality foods, taking medications or other pills, pollution, drinking caffeine and other poor quality fluids, the list goes on and on. Finally there is emotional stress… do you know anybody not suffering from this?

So these physical, chemical and emotional stresses build up in your body and cause circuits to trip, which we call subluxations. This will greatly affect your overall health and wellness, leading to many symptoms and illnesses. They didn’t occur from lack of drugs or surgery.

So, how can you avoid the dangers of stress?

Well, we all know it’s impossible to avoid all stress from your life, but you can stay ahead of the negative effects that accumulate over time by having regular chiropractic care. Just like an electrician would come to your house if you had problems with outlets and circuits, a chiropractor is the only specialized health professional that skillfully checks your nervous system for overloaded circuits in your body and turns them back on so you won’t experience an interruption in your state of health and wellness. When it comes to basic, preventative care, nothing beats keeping your circuits on with chiropractic adjustments.

In our office we not only address the subluxations, but we also address the stressors that keep overloading the body. We are 1 of 4 offices in NJ that utilize the only FDA cleared biofeedback device that will analyze your body for over 160,000 stressors that your body could be sensitive too. It is scientifically proven that internal and external stressors contribute to many symptoms and illnesses including: headaches or migraines, digestive problems like IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) or acid reflux, skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema, allergies, food sensitivities, pain, weakened immune systems, fibromyalgia, depression, ADD, ADHD, autism, sleep disorders, anxiety, arthritis, weight loss and gain… just to name a few.

It is also known that your adrenal glands help regulate stress. When the adrenal glands aren’t working, you might have a condition called adrenal fatigue or adrenal failure. Consumption of coffee and other caffeine products as well as refined carbohydrates like pasta, rice and bread will result in adrenal dysfunction. Some common symptoms of this condition are heart conditions, digestive problems, weight problems, immune problems, arthritis, diabetes, allergies, PMS, menopause, libido issues, lack of sleep, lack of energy and so much more.

Finally, everything we eat, breath and drink have chemicals in it that are toxic to our body. This stress causes your body to be toxic and your overall health declines. The more toxic your body is the more acidic it is resulting in more short circuiting of your body.

At Hometown Family Wellness Center, located in Freehold NJ, Dr. Russell Brokstein, DC analyzes you for the different levels of physical, chemical and emotional stresses that cause the short circuiting of your body. Where most chiropractors only address the short circuit or subluxation, Dr. Brokstein addresses the causes of the short circuits. We have been helping patients from Freehold and other surrounding towns in Monmouth County, NJ of Marlboro, Manalapan, Howell, Colts Neck, Morganville, Jackson for 10 years and many patients have found our 4 pronged drugless, non-sugrical approach different than any doctor they have gone to which has gotten patients to drive from as far as NYC and Philadelphia.

If you would like to finally gain optimal health and wellness without drugs or surgery so you can once again enjoy your normal daily activities, make sure you call for your complimentary consultation.

May 11 2020

Do You Choose Sickness or Health?

Do you choose sickness or health? I want to help educate you on health and wellness so first we’ll discuss health and sickness. Then at the end of this article there are 3 great articles that I recommend everybody should read.

You choose sickness or healthy with almost every thing you consume, put on your skin like lotions or cosmetics, detergents you wash your clothes in, if you get tattoos (many have toxic inks), the list goes on and on. Every thing you consume you are choosing your path to sickness or health. I am not saying to not enjoy life and eat things you enjoy but you have to counter balance things. Some foods are very unhealthy and the more we eat them it causes a spiral downward effect on our health.
There are certain things we can do to help combat the damage these bad choices do. Many of these foods you eat lead to increased inflammation in the body and makes your body more acidic. This all leads to increase risk of disease, cancer, bacteria and viruses. It also causes you to be fatigued, stiff, achy and increased stress. The foods you choose also either help you recover from the pains you are experiencing or slows down your recovery as I work with you.

One thing I recommend all patients do is a full body cellular nutritional cleanse 3 to 4 times per year. It’s something I do myself. I practice what I preach. For those of you who would like to do this, let me know as we have the program in the office.

I want to share with you 3 great articles I just read the last 2 days. We are mislead about health:
1) Some estimates say that close to 70% of all cancer is preventable. Not eating these 14 foods is a good first step. For produce I recommend checking out the dirty dozen and clean 13 for more information about which ones are safer to buy: 10 Cancer Linked Foods You Should Never Put in Your Mouth
2) 45 NJ Towns Have Harmful Pollutants in Drinking water: click here
3) Sadly, because most health “experts” continue to recommend this diet that you could be eating, there are dramatic increases in disease: Scientists Confirm There is ZERO Connection Between Cholesterol and Heart Disease

Please share this information with people you know. We have to make health a priority! It’s your choice: Sickness or Health?
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To your health and wellness
Dr. Russell Brokstein, your top rated Chiropractor in Freehold NJ

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