Chronic Stress and Illness

Concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries are fairly common in the United States and the most important thing is to realize how common they are. Even though 90% of concussions are resolved within one year, many people go on to have debilitating problems from concussions that they forgot about. Concussions not only cause problems with thinking and emotion regulation, they can also cause sleep disorders, menstrual disorders, digestive problems, immune dysregulation, and hormone disorders.

Nutrition plays a huge role in healing concussions. Many people are unaware that small impacts to the head, even whiplashes with no impact to the head, can result in concussions.

Brain fog often refers to symptoms of fuzzy thinking, lack of clarity, inability to concentrate and poor endurance with thinking tasks. This is a generalized symptom that can be caused by many things. 

Food is one common area to explore to determine what is causing yours to occur.  There are also all kinds of toxicities that contribute to brain fog and problems with concentrating. The positive thing about healing through food is that it brings a ton of hope to your situation.  Between food choices themselves to elimination diets and toxin cleanses, there are many specific food-based solutions to explore.

The limbic, or emotional system of the brain, plus the cerebellum are the regions of the brain that control your hormone and immune system. That means that brain injuries can cause hormone imbalances. It’s also true that hormone imbalances from other causes can also contribute to brain problems.

We find that there’s a hierarchy in the body of prioritizing different types of hormone and other imbalances of body chemistry. This means that the body will heal in its own order, not necessarily the order that we choose. Knowing how to interpret these signs is not terribly difficult. It just requires observation and a little reflection.

There are many causes of headaches and migraines that are food related. Inside of both your gut and your brain are two distinct barriers designed to protect these vital organs.These barriers can be destroyed by processed foods plant anti-nutrients, medications, commercial industrial toxins, food additives, alcohol, tobacco additives, excess carbohydrates, and altered gut organisms that are supposed to live inside of our bodies in harmony.

Exploring headaches and migraines through alternative medicine is a great way to unearth the sources of your pain and find workable solutions.

Burnout affects many people and is often a sign of too much stress in combination with not enough nutrition. Sometimes a bit of toxicity is sprinkled in there too. There are scientific ways to assess burnout and adrenal function and to measure its correction using food and supplements. You don’t have to wait until your burnout is at a critical point. If you’re feeling run down for a consistent period of time, that is enough to explore what your body might be experiencing and what you can do to reverse the effects.

Indigestion is a huge problem in the western world because of processed food and excess carbohydrates, calories, and additives. We often experience either gas bloating or fluid bloating which is expansion of our tissues in response to imbalances in our chemistry caused by what we eat or and by imbalances in our gut flora caused by habits that our body doesn’t like.

We don’t always get to choose what kind of diet our body likes but we can Discover it if we keep an open mind. Sometimes this is not the diet that our mind wants but that our body does.

Mechanisms of joint pain and inflammation are different than you might think.

One theory of inflammation and joint pain is based on the chemistry of joint fluid called synovial fluid. This theory states that those who have Painful joints have altered chemistry of their synovial fluid inside the joints and this is caused by diet or toxins. strangely the natural world has lectins and oxalates and other food molecules that can drive irritation in our joints and make us hurt.

The night shades have also been known to do this too.

We also don’t really talk about the effects of carbs on gout. Our culture seems to think that rich foods like chocolate, red meat wine and cheese cause gout and yet much literature points to the role of excess carbohydrates in promotion of gout chemistry and swelling of joints. There are many types of arthritis but many of them can be traced back to food-based causes.

One reason there are so many kinds of arthritis is that there’s so many kinds of people who respond differently to the same Foods. One person may have osteoarthritis from food and another person may develop an autoimmune arthritis from food and yet their cause may be the same food.

Does that mean that avoiding these foods can lead to reversal of arthritis pain? Sometimes, yes, it does take a while to remodel bone so if bony changes have occurred in joints it could take longer to heal.

One thing the radiologists have always taught us in medical school and chiropractic school is that joint pain is caused by synovial fluid inflammation and not by how bad the joint looks on an X-ray. This means there’s hope even for people who have fairly advanced arthritis on an X-ray.

America has a health crisis and epidemic of weight gain. This is largely from excess carbohydrates and lack of healthy fats in the diet in addition to lack of minerals. Remember that minerals don’t show up on a blood test very accurately so we can’t test for them readily.

We have to take a medical history and have clinical knowledge which is a disappearing thing these days. Obesity is not just the obvious problem of overweight looking people, but it also includes visceral adiposity which is essentially hidden liver fat that you cannot test for with blood. You have to do an imaging study to find it.

This leads to inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the brain and heart and blood vessels and is entirely preventable. Consider imaging of your abdomen to see if you have fatty liver and we can begin reversing it immediately.