Health Blog – Dr. Kelly Gallagher

10 Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Children

10 Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Children November 10, 2015/ by The WM The spinal cord is the first part of the body to form in the womb, and the nervous system is the “chief controller” of the body. If its communication channels become damaged, distorted, or fuzzy, the body experiences all sorts of symptoms that may not be obvious they are from the nervous system. While it is important for adults to have chiropractic care, it is equally important for children. Promotes Healthy Brain and Nerve Development A baby’s nervous system controls everything from breathing, digestion, thinking, sense of touch, and playing. Any damage or disruption can seriously impair his/her ability to function in the best way. Chiropractic helps stimulate a child’s brain and nerve activity which creates a balance and a feeling of well-being. Assists with Asthma, Allergies, and other Breathing Difficulties When neck muscles become tight, [...]

By Lauren Wasserman| 2018-02-14T21:05:54+00:00 February 7th, 2018|Health Blog|0 Comments

Better Eating for Better Aging – 10 Steps to Healthy Eating!

Better Eating for Better Aging - 10 Steps to Healthy Eating! Listen to the Experts The key to healthy eating is balance, variety and moderation. That means eating a wide variety of foods without getting too many calories or too much of any one nutrient. These 10 tips can help you follow that advice while still enjoying the foods you eat. 1. Eat a Variety of Foods •You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. •Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. 2. Whole Grains, Fruits & Vegetables •Most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. •Eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains. •Eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of [...]

By Lauren Wasserman| 2018-01-30T17:04:03+00:00 January 30th, 2018|Health Blog|0 Comments

Osteoporosis and Bone – Building Up

Osteoporosis and Bone – Building Up Mineralization of bone matrix is essential to living a healthy life. 99% of the body’s calcium is contained in the bones and the teeth creating two thirds of the bones weight, with the remainder coming from the water weight of bone. Bone cells called osteoblasts produce 85% of the collagen contained in the bone from which hydroxyappatite is created as a crystal-like matrix. In fact, it is this protein matrix that is much more essential to the health of the bone than calcium that most everyone is aware of. The remaining 1% of calcium is involved in multiple functions, one of which is acid buffering mechanisms that assist in keeping the pH in neutral range. This is important because if lifestyles are too acidizing creating a net acid excess, the body will attempt to neutralize the acid by dumping calcium from bones stores [...]

By Lauren Wasserman| 2017-12-20T20:10:27+00:00 December 20th, 2017|Health Blog|0 Comments

Maintenance Care – Sustainable Metabolism

Maintenance Care - Sustainable Metabolism When an individual has achieved foundational health (defined as sufficient detoxification to unburden the body’s cleansing systems, and cellular/tissue fortification to the extent of trophic repair and strengthening of specific gland/organ/tissue systems, and the harmonification of individual functions toward a whole body symphony), then efforts must be turned toward maintaining the body’s balance and long-term actions. Lifestyle and stress consume body stores of minerals and hormones eventually causing the stores to become depleted and resulting in toxic accumulation, metabolic imbalance and hormonal inadequacy. Reasonable maintenance strategy entails chronic reduction of toxic and metabolic body burdens, and ongoing repair and fortification of chronic weaknesses, some of which we have inherited genetically or acquired in early life due to various exposures or stressors. For some who have an advanced biological age, maintenance care represents the long-term chronic care required to gradually correct the body’s processes of degeneration. [...]

By Lauren Wasserman| 2017-11-29T20:41:19+00:00 November 29th, 2017|Health Blog|0 Comments

Cancer – A Nutritional Strategy

Cancer - A Nutritional Strategy It is said that with cancer in the best strategy is prevention! The truth is, according to Boyd a famous pathologist, the body is in and out of a cancerous state 40 times each day. There is function of the normal body that is able to identify and control the development of cancer on a cellular level. When this function stops working there is the possibility of developing a focus of cancer called a tumor. A tumor is a much more difficult challenge for the body to resolve than the singular cancer cell. Prevention can be achieved by reducing the risk factors, especially those which create a chronic immune burden, toxic burden and especially estrogen concentration. This is accomplished by lifestyle modification and by nutrient supplementation to support the body’s innate ability to detoxify, specifically phase I and II liver function and lymphatic and immune [...]

By Lauren Wasserman| 2017-10-25T19:09:07+00:00 October 25th, 2017|Health Blog|0 Comments

Autoimmunity – A Nutritional Strategy

Autoimmunity - A Nutritional Strategy Until recently the issue of autoimmunity was not even accepted within the scientific community. Although initially introduced in late ?O's, the mechanism of autoimmunity was considered radical until the late 1980s. Throughout the '90s autoimmune diseases proliferated until it seemed almost common to know a person with an autoimmune disease. Autoimmunity literally means that the immune system has developed antibodies to attack its own tissues. There are many theories as to why this may happen. This paper wi II present three of the main theories behind this event. Traditional medical approaches seem to concern themselves only with trying to control the secondary symptoms of autoimmunity instead of addressing the underlying causes, which are still enigmatic and mysterious. One possible mechanism of autoimmunity concerns the integrity of the cellular and nuclear membranes. When these membranes begin to lose their integrity leaking minute amounts of nuclear genetic [...]

By drkelanp| 2017-10-11T21:10:09+00:00 August 21st, 2017|Health Blog|0 Comments