tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81851350321764958972024-03-13T08:38:41.695-07:00Docs Body Shop ChiropracticUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8185135032176495897.post-69604181503617438332011-03-24T09:36:00.000-07:002011-03-24T09:47:04.028-07:00Can coffee make you fat?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hey Gang; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sorry for the slow update.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this point on the blog will be updated on the 15<sup>th</sup> of every month.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That being said, let’s get down to business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This month we’re going to discuss the Hot topic of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Coffee </b>and its effects on your metabolism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Pun very much intended)</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6Q8lnd4X1UI/TYtz8eUMvAI/AAAAAAAAAgk/MxFriUNoMeQ/s1600/coffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6Q8lnd4X1UI/TYtz8eUMvAI/AAAAAAAAAgk/MxFriUNoMeQ/s1600/coffee.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lately there has been research suggesting that coffee may be hindering your progress in the battle of the bulge. Ok, it doesn’t just suggest it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It outright confirms it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s why…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zC-pHPUVbKc/TYt0UZvsC1I/AAAAAAAAAgs/1khIq2AHTR8/s1600/diab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When you consume caffeine first thing in the morning it wakes you up and gives you a little extra boost to get out the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That boost fires off the sympathetic nervous system (your fight or flight response).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any time this system is fired it turns up the adrenal glands, moves blood away from your trunk and into your arms and legs, pupils dilate, heart rate increases and digestion essentially shuts down so it suppresses your appetite. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" style="height: 195.75pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 195.75pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\KRISTI~1.DEN\AppData\Local\Temp\OICE_8FF86D04-BEC6-456C-97B6-72307378775D.0\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></imagedata></shape></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-pk8WCRm_ytA/TYt0N8mhHtI/AAAAAAAAAgo/oZlRKrXNxjc/s1600/fat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-pk8WCRm_ytA/TYt0N8mhHtI/AAAAAAAAAgo/oZlRKrXNxjc/s320/fat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You initially burn more calories and fat stores from the night before, but there is a rebound effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your body now thinks it has to replenish the fat stores you burned previously because you’re now in starvation mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To complicate matters, caffeine causes disruptions in glucose metabolism which trigger fat storage hormones like Lipoprotein Lipase and insulin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To make matters worse coffee will also cause uncontrollable cravings for sweets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This all has to do with the fact that your body is incredibly efficient and smarter than you or I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you stress the body, it will respond according to a caveman’s needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have only been eating the way we do and taking in stimulants like coffee for a few hundred years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s nowhere near long enough for the human body to adapt to what we’re doing to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, we’re under more stress than we ever have been in history coupled with the fact that we’re taking in more caffeine than ever before.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zC-pHPUVbKc/TYt0UZvsC1I/AAAAAAAAAgs/1khIq2AHTR8/s1600/diab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zC-pHPUVbKc/TYt0UZvsC1I/AAAAAAAAAgs/1khIq2AHTR8/s320/diab.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" style="height: 184.5pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 215.25pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="" src="file:///C:\Users\KRISTI~1.DEN\AppData\Local\Temp\OICE_8FF86D04-BEC6-456C-97B6-72307378775D.0\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></imagedata></shape></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Taking in caffeine at any level triggers an acute insulin resistant environment in the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This response over time can lead to type II diabetes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s look at the effects of coffee on a diabetic.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 41.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It has an adverse effect on glucose (sugar) metabolism.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 41.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Produces a higher average of glucose concentration for that day.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 41.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Exaggerates post prandial (after nap) glucose responses.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That being said, I still love coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if you’re trying to lose weight and failing, coffee, caffeine, energy drinks and sodas may be a big culprit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’ll cut coffee out of your day for a week, and you can get past the caffeine headache, you’ll see results in the waistline.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If this post was helpful to you, please share it with someone you love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God Bless-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Doc-</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8185135032176495897.post-7475691086969369832011-02-26T05:36:00.000-08:002011-02-26T05:36:40.877-08:00Interesting studySome of you may have seen my post on Facebook this week about this study. If not, you may want to take a minute to read this. This is probably one of the best studies being done with regard to childhood development.<br />
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DocUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8185135032176495897.post-46473646081383460842011-02-08T06:47:00.001-08:002011-02-09T06:44:05.693-08:00Fibromyalgia<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">I would first like to say thank you to those who inspired me to start this blog. We’ll be covering several topics from nutrition, to exercise. We will also have a condition of the month covering everything from how it occurs to treatment options that are available. My goal is to give you the big why. Why things occur, what led up to the problem, and is there hope once you’ve got the problem.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Our mission here is to give our patients the same quality of care that we would give our own families.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">This month…</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Fibromyalgia.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">The Mayo clinic’s definition is as follows.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain processes pain signals.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Ok, so what does that tell you, other than it hurts?</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Not much. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Let’s start with pain itself. Pain is the brain’s response to an injury or perceived injury. The body is trying to protect itself. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">There are 2 types of pain, The sharp stinging fast pain and the slow deteriorative nagging and throbbing pain.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Think of when you burn yourself on a stove, you pull back immediately out of reflex.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">You feel pain and react, but it’s momentary, then you wait for a few moments to find out how bad it’s really going to hurt. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">This is an example of the nerve fiber types you have in your body.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><ul><li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Type A Thick mylenated fiber that conducts joint position sense, pressure, temperature etc. </span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Type B Thick mylenated fiber that conducts joint position sense, pressure, temperature etc.</span></div></li>
</ul><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Both of these require a great deal of oxygen to function and are very fast conducting</span></div><ul><li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">T<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">ype C Thin unmylenated, slow conductors that have a primary purpose of conducting pain (these are the ones causing slow aching, nagging body ache type pain.)</span></div></li>
</ul><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">So let’s say a person is in a high state of stress, and is overloaded with home duties, taking care of a family, work functions, traffic, the cleaners etc. This means that the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight nervous system) is already ramped up as well as the pain pathways. (Pain is stressful) </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">With higher levels of stress, shallower breaths are taken, which will cause fatigue, will starve the larger A and B fibers that diminish and help regulate pain levels, and will cause a person not to be able to think clearly. (becoming more emotional)</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">This happens because the brain only eats three things, sugar, water, and oxygen.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Now let’s say there is a trauma to the body, a sprained or broken ankle for instance. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Now the pain reflex is going strong with an added stress of daily life, coupled with the worry of expense, time off of work, ability to pay for the work done at a medical facility. Pain and stress go hand in hand until there is a tipping point in the brain.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Due to all of the stress placed upon the body, it gets a case of give up. Now all incoming stimulus is interpreted as pain. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">There is no A and B fiber stimulation to diminish pain levels.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">The IML has been stimulated to a point where it fires immediately upon any stimulus. (think in terms of a deer trail being run on so often that it becomes a superhighway)</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">There is a high level of stress that is now being exacerbated by incoming pain levels, which is in turn causing more stress.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Less oxygen is getting to the brain and musculature so there is a great deal more depression anxiety and muscle atrophy.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">It now hurts to move so the exact thing you should be doing to help decrease your pain levels is the last thing you want to do.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">So now you’re in a mess. </span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">How do you turn this around?</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Thankfully, there are options. Unfortunately none of them are a quick turnaround.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">The answer is to:</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><ul><li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Increase oxygenation to the tissues of the body and brain.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Stimulate the A and B fibers to diminish pain.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Retrain the neural pathways of the spinal cord to accept input as things other than pain.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Decrease stress.</span></div></li>
<li><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Exercise.</span></div></li>
</ul><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Some of these things you can do on your own, some of them require assistance. I don’t care who you see to get the help you need, but I would urge you to see a chiropractor, a neurologist, or a pain management specialist.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Take care of yourselves the best way you know how and I promise to do the same.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you so much for your time and attention.</span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at 972 722 2500 or <a href="mailto:drdent@docsbodyshop.com">drdent@docsbodyshop.com</a></span></div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="tahoma" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Doc.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8185135032176495897.post-20295090736793573032011-02-02T11:10:00.000-08:002011-02-02T13:09:38.598-08:00Up and runningWe're off! Thank you for visiting Docs Body Shop Chiropractic blog. I am excited about this idea and hope to publish some interesting and thought provoking information on this site. You can sign up to follow me and be in the "know".<br />
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