Boost Your Energy Levels by Keeping the Power On

We have learned that we can triple our energy levels through how we eat, drink, and breathe.  Today, we'll look at how to keep the power flowing through our bodies so that we will have more energy!

Our brains generate electrical impulses that flow through the spinal cord and nerves.  The different cells, tissues, organs, and systems in the body are controlled by brain through these impulses.  The activity of the cells of the body generates electricity to send impulses back to your brain, a feedback loop, providing information to your brain on the status of the body.  Through this information cycle, every function of the body is controlled.  Dr. Terry Rondberg estimates that the total energy in the brain at any given time is equal to that of a lightning bolt!

The functions controlled include breathing, blood pressure, hunger, pulse rate, movement, and all of the millions of other functions happening in our bodies all of the time.  Our brains are very busy!  This is why only 10% of our brains are available for conscious thought.  In fact, Dr. Sperry, a medical doctor and Nobel Prize recipient, said, "90% of our brain's energy is used for posture alone."

Problems occur when there is interference in the nerve flow.  Misalignment of the spine, called segmental dysfunction or vertebral subluxation, result in nerve irritation and this interferes with the flow of the nerve.  In fact, Dr. Chung Ha Su did research at the University of Colorado and found, "Subluxations can reduce nerve flow up to 60%."

Wow!  Think about that.  If the nerves controlling your legs are only getting 40% of the impulse through, then the muscles are contracting accordingly and walking takes two and a half times more effort.  Removing that interference would make walking tremendously easier!

Frequently, my patients report to me that after their adjustments, they have increased energy, the lights seem brighter, colors appear richer, and even their sense of smell is better.  The most effective way to Increase Your Energy by 300% is to remove nerve interference by getting regular chiropractic adjustments!

And increasing your energy will help you

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Increase Your Energy by Breathing

Now, this is not as silly as it sounds!  Sometimes, we find ourselves oddly fatigued, especially those with office jobs.  The monitor seems to be lulling us to sleep.  Often, we combat that by getting up and moving around to wake ourselves up.  That is valid, because our bodies were made to move and our brains were made to move them!  There is an additional tip that I can offer.

When we are sitting still for long periods, our muscles are not requiring much oxygen, so we don't breathe as deeply or as frequently as when we are active.  However, when working our brains are consuming oxygen rapidly.  This leads to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide levels in the blood, and that leads to drowsiness.  So here is the answer to that.

Deep abdominal breathing will increase oxygen levels, decrease carbon dioxide levels, and stimulate the immune system.  This is a simple breathing exercise that will increase your energy levels.  Inhale slowly, taking 2 seconds to fill your lungs.  Hold your breath for 8 seconds and then exhale slowly taking 4 seconds to empty your lungs.  Repeat this for a total of 10 breaths.

Do this 3 times a day (at 10, 2, and 4) to increase overall energy levels.  Add extra sessions when you find yourself tired or yawning.  When you are sick and can't exercise, do this 10 times per day.

This will increase your energy levels dramatically and help you

Live Healthy, Stay Active, and Fulfill Your Dreams!

Have More Energy Than You Know What to Do With

Last week we learned about increasing our energy levels by eating certain foods and keeping them up by avoiding others.  This week we’ll talk about how to increase your energy by drinking!

I’m not talking about energy drinks; I’m talking about water!  It’s the third most crucial necessity of life.  We can survive less than a week without it!  Water comes in many forms, some good and some bad.  Let's sort out some of these.

First, let's look at soft drinks, which are mostly water; however, you can’t use them for hydration because all of the sugar and salt in the drink will actually draw water out of your body. With their sugar content, they’re really liquid candy. “Diet" soft drinks with artificial sweeteners have the same effect.  

So, soft drinks aren’t for hydration.  Unsweetened iced tea is a hydration drink, though I don’t recommend it as your sole source of water.  Many people enjoy the flavor of tea without sugar.   I have advice for those who don't.  First, avoid sweet tea at restaurants. Many restaurants mix 5 pounds of sugar into 3 gallons of tea.  That comes out to 379 calories per 16 ounce glass!  That’s more than a soft drink, and you’ll be thirstier than before you drank it.  So, sweeten it yourself. Even if you put four teaspoons of sugar into a 16 ounce glass of tea, you still only have 64 calories and it won’t have enough sugar to dehydrate you.  You may go “stir crazy” getting the sugar dissolved, but you’ll be healthier and have more energy.

Coffee is very similar.  If you use creamer, use cream instead.  That's much healthier and keeps the hydration qualities intact.

Now for milk, which is a hydration drink. It is a solution of bubbles of proteins and fats floating around in water.  Here’s the best news of the whole post:  Chocolate milk is the ideal recovery drink after a workout!

Now water:  Well water is best; filtered city water is next.  After that is reverse-osmosis water.  Avoid distilled water because it can dilute your electrolytes and cause problems with your heart.  There are many exotic waters out there from glaciers and whatever.  The important thing is that you drink water.

Overall, you need to drink about 1 ounce of water for every 2 pounds of body weight.   Less than half of that should be tea, coffee and milk.  Nothing else counts!  By changing your drinking habits, you will be able to Increase Your Energy and

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How to Increase Your Energy by 300%

There are four necessities of life: Food, Water, Air, and Nerve Supply.  We can live about a month without food, a week without water, an hour without air, and less than a second without nerve supply.  So, to increase your energy by 300%, you have to maximize each area.  Over the next few weeks, you will learn the four key components to maximizing energy:

1. Power Meals
2. Power Drinks (no, not energy drinks)
3. Power Breathing
4. Power Release

Let's start with Power Meals.  We learned about this earlier this year and for an in-depth discussion of this topic look back at earlier posts on this topic.  To recap, we want to stick with low-glycemic foods.  Those are foods that do not cause huge spikes in our blood sugar. So, we want to avoid potatoes of any kind, white or wheat flour, sugar, and white rice.  Stick with fruits, vegetables, dairy and meats.  Remember that corn is a grain, not a vegetable, so eat it sparingly.

An example menu for this type of eating would be:

Breakfast: 

• Bacon - 2 strips
• Eggs - 2 or 3
• Tomato slices
• Fruit slices

Lunch:

• 6 oz. meat
• 1/2 cup green vegetable
• 1/2 cup red or yellow vegetable
• 1/2 cup cruciferous vegetable (broccoli, kale, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage)

Dinner

• 6 oz meat
• salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, carrots

That will keep your energy constant through the day and keep you from crashing!

Eating Power Meals is part of how you increase your energy by 300% and will help you

Live Healthy, Stay Active and Fulfill Your Dreams!

Garbage In Garbage Out

Viscero-somatic Reflex

How a toxic life can cause subluxation and bad health

Viscero

Pertaining to the soft tissues and organs of the body, such as the stomach, lungs, liver, gallbladder, etc.

Somatic

Pertaining to muscle and bone, such as vertebrae (spinal bones) and spinal muscles.

A viscero-somatic reflex occurs when irritation of an organ or tissue due to toxins sets up a reflex action/reaction where muscles of the spine spas and cause spinal misalignment (subluxation).  The resulting spinal misalignment (subluxation) then blocks or interferes with the nervous system and causes further damage to the organ or tissue.

Toxins Include

Alcohol

Caffeine

Artificial sweeteners

Food additives

Preservatives

Food colorings

Drugs (prescription, over the counter or recreational)

Smoke

Air pollutants

Water pollutants

Soil pollutants

Pesticides

Parachuting Cats

Parachuting Cats

In Borneo in the early 1950s, the World Health Organization (WHO) was faced with the problem of Malaria.  They found an answer that was short and simple… and wrong!  They sprayed DDT throughout the area, killing the mosquitoes that carry the disease.  As the mosquito population declined, the incidence of malaria declined.  Everyone declared the program a success!

Soon, they had a new problem; the roofs of houses were collapsing.  It seems that the DDT had also killed wasps.  The wasps had been eating caterpillars.  Without the wasps, the caterpillars proliferated.  And they ate the thatch on the roofs, so the roofs collapsed!

Yet, the WHO found it also had a worse problem: the DDT was now in the food chain.  Geckos ate the poisoned insects and cats ate the geckos.  When the cats died, rats flourished.  The WHO was now faced with an outbreak of rat-borne diseases, sylvatic plague and typhus, which it created itself!  The solution was to PARACHUTE CATS into Borneo!

The lesson?  The cause of problems could be solutions to other problems that were not thought through well enough.  All things interact, often in ways we don’t understand.  But at the same time, if we understand interactions better, our solutions will go further than we might initially have thought.  The solutions can then beget even more solutions, not problems.

“More than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year from toxic reaction to correctly prescribed medications taken properly, and 106,000+ die from those reactions.”

                                                                                                Journal of the American Medical Association

“The solution to good health lies in eliminating interference from the body, not creating it.”

Want a Simple and Safe Answer to Allergy Problems?

Although allergies are a problem almost everywhere (I even know someone who has allergies to the pollen of desert plants), the San Antonio area is Allergy Central.  We have so many common allergens in our environment that some of us are suffering allergies at all times of the year.  We have one really "hot" allergy season, which is Mountain Juniper (commonly known as Cedar) coming soon to sinuses near you!.



Most allergy sufferers use the over-the-counter medications to control their symptoms.  Certainly, when the symptoms are severe this is the course of action to take; however, this is not without risks.  I am amazed when watching at the drug commercials the side effects, or toxic effects, that are listed.  Anti-depressants, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, may cause erectile dysfunction.  Seems like that would make the depression worse!

Allergy medications can cause drowsiness, dizziness, constipation, upset stomach, blurry vision, dry mouth/nose/throat, difficulty urinating, stomach problems, nasal dryness or irritation, nosebleed, throat irritation, headache, nausea, vomiting, coughing, and fungal infections!  Eek!  I am not saying that you should never take medications; I am trying to illustrate that pharmaceuticals have dangerous side effects.  If we can avoid them, we should. So, how do we avoid them?

The allergic response is an overreaction of the immune system to a foreign protein.  If your immune system considers, for instance, cedar pollen to be a potent threat (when it's not), then it launches a full-on attack on the proteins in the pollen.  In this offensive, the immune system releases, among other chemicals, histamine.  And that is a chemical that makes you feel awful!

So, the key is to desensitize your immune system to the pollen.  How do you that?  Interestingly, this is done by exposing your immune system to low levels of the pollen, much like with a vaccine but without the risks.  This can be done in one of two ways.  An Allergist/Immunologist can give you a series of allergy shots.  This normally requires repeat injections and repeat office visits to monitor progress.  This is expensive and time-consuming.

Equally effective and also FDA approved is a homeopathic allergy spray.  This has low levels of pollen in it as well as having remedies for the symptoms.  With no known side effects, this is convenient, inexpensive, and safe.  You can find these sprays in many places, including our office.

These approaches are most effective when administered before the allergic response starts.  You probably know what time of year you normally have allergies.  Come in a month or more before you expect it to begin and we can get you started on a therapy that will help you Live Healthy, Stay Active, and Fulfill Your Dreams!