How do injuries happen and what is the best way to avoid them? As Tim Gabbett, one of the leading sports coaching consultants of our time says, it

What is the cause of heart disease, or is cholesterol really the bad guy?

Cardiovascular disease is rampant in America today. Over 65 million people are affected.

When given the right fuel and the right stimulus your body has an amazing ability to heal itself. The right fuel does not come in a pill and the right stimulus is not a knife. Yes there are times for drugs and surgery, but that usually comes when you have ignored and neglected your problems for so long things have gotten out of hand. The right fuel is healthy food and the right stimulus is proper exercise. If you are consistent with that you won

You are what you eat!

As modern science finds out more and more about what goes on in the ecosystem that is our gut, it has become clear that what we put in our mouth is crucial to our health. And our bodies are an ecosystem, a combination of our own cells and billions of outside microbes all living together in a symbiotic relationship. Scientists have discovered in the past several years that our bodies contain more foreign microbes than actual human cells.

Functional Medicine

In the New Year, Baer Chiropractic will be adding functional medicine to its list of services provided. As powerful as pain relief is, we are no longer satisfied with just getting people to feel better. Yes, it is the first step toward a healthy lifestyle. People have to move better before they can take control of their health. But that alone doesn

In my opening blog I encouraged you to just move.

Stability or mobility? That is the question. For our bodies to move optimally we have to display the perfect combination of mobility and stability, having the ability to move fluidly from a stable platform. Every physical task we perform requires a delicate ballet between our ease of movement and our ability to stabilize ourselves in anticipation of that movement. Pain-free and injury-minimizing movement requires both. As a chiropractor and a movement specialist it is my job to help you strike that balance.

As far as the chicken and egg argument, mobility came first. When you were born your body was nothing but a floppy mass in search of ways to fulfill its needs. Lack of mobility was not an issue. You had to earn stability to develop purposeful movement. To look up and find your way you had to first stabilize your head on your neck. That is why to this day it is more important that your neck, especially the middle part, be stable. Then you learned to reach and roll and stand up and ambulate, all through trial and error until finally your brain and body worked as a team, and you learned how to stabilize enough to make the movements necessary to get what you wanted.

So through a maturation process, early on, we become a perfect union of stability and mobility. Then we go about mucking it up. We sit on our butts too much or we experience physical traumas or we do ill-advised exercises which either compromise our movement ability or sacrifice stability. There are hundreds of ways for us to screw up. Just eating a fast-food diet or not drinking enough water can compromise our body

This is the opening entry of many blogs to come. My intention is to guide people to a healthier lifestyle, and to do so with a new paradigm. I consider myself part of a growing movement of chiropractors and other physical health specialists who are going old school and trying to encourage people to be healthy through diet and exercise, not to become dependent on drugs or long treatment plans to feel better. Being an active participant in your health is the only way to feel better and stay better. It