Dr. Chestnut’s revolutionary protocols for wellness and prevention are based on over 24 years of scientific research regarding the human genetic requirements with respect to nutrition, exercise, thoughts and emotions. He has spent over two decades researching and finding the answers to many of life’s puzzling questions in regard to expressing our health and human potential – we are in charge!

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A recent survey by the charity Mind found that a staggering 88% of people experienced improved mental health by simply altering their diet - who said we can’t be in control of our health?   Foods that can help you achieve this, include fruit, seeds, vegetables and oily fish.  A diet of chocolate, alcohol, sugar, caffeine and additives will not do the job and will hasten the aging process!  Drink plenty of water and herb teas but go easy on the wine.

Lifestyle is the key!  Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well!

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The lead up to Christmas can be challenging with all the shopping and putting the Christmas tree and lights up – make sure you don’t over do it and if you do – call the Professionals!

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Bernando LaPallo is one hundred and nine years old, walks a mile and a half every morning and eats mostly raw food.  He has never been sick in his life and has written a book  called Timeless Principles To Stay Young And Healthy. These principles are based on the Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well lifestyle approach which we at Chiropractic Life believe will help to ensure your health and vitality through to old age.

Consult Chiropractic Life to help you reach your true life potential.

Follow what he says here

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Most people who own a car have it serviced regularly.  Most people who drive a car put the correct fuel in the fuel tank.  Most people who own a car treat it like it must last forever, but most people give scant concern to the vehicle we were born to inhabit for the rest of our lives!

Imagine if you didn’t service your car, didn’t put the correct fuel in the tank and didn’t get the wheels aligned during an MOT!  Wheels come out of alignment and cause wear and tear on the tyres which if left uncorrected may even cause a blow out!

Misalignments of the spine left uncorrected cause wear and tear (degeneration) too and also prevent the body from working the way nature intended.  Misalignments prevent clear messages from travelling from brain to body and body to brain which over time begins to show as dis-ease.

Putting oil, or water or orange juice in the fuel tank of your car would have it’s problems too!  When we put food in our body which is not healthy our body won’t work so well either!

Washing and polishing the car and running it regularly to keep the battery charged up are also things that preserve our cars.  Our body is no different – it responds well to being cared for and taken for a run too!

When your car wears out you can replace it, but when your body wears out – where are you going to live??

Does it make more sense to service your car or your body?????

Call us for your MOT!

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Recently I was discussing a health issue with a patient who told me that her GP had said – “It’s just your age, my dear, and you will have to learn to live with it!”  The lady believed what she had been told!  We have heard this phrase mentioned many times by other patients and friends who on being told this go on believing it to be true.  Fortunately, this is rarely the case – that is is just age!  Weren’t both sides of the body born at the same time??  Why wasn’t the other side of the body hurting from old age as well?  It is more often and more likely to be the nervous system responding to interference.    It seems ridiculous to assume that “it is just old age” when both sides of the body are the same age!!!!

At Chiropractic Life we have many elderly patients who have discovered they “don’t have to learn to live with it” and if you or someone you love have been told to learn to live with it we urge you to consider getting the opinion of your Chiropractor!

Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out if your nervous system may be causing your pain.   Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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• If  we always do, what we always have done, we will always get what we always got! Not terribly good English – but it makes a whole heap of sense!  If you are tired of getting the same results with your health, perhaps it’s time to change your approach.  Chiropractic offers hope and has changed millions of lives and continues to do so. It is the only health profession that looks at the Nervous System as being the possible cause of your health problems.  Remember – the Nervous System controls and co-ordinates every other system of your body - including circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary. Wouldn’t you want that master control system functioning at peak performance?  Remember what it is like when the electricity shuts down and we have no power?  Well, that is what happens in our body when the power house of our body get’s overloaded.  It malfunctions!  Every day Chiropractors help people by removing nerve interference to allow their body to function and heal naturally.

• Renew your hope
• Restore your health
• Revitalise your life
• Recreate your happiness
• Reconnect to your purpose with the power of Chiropractic!

Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting your well and keeping you well.   Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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The purpose of the post is not to be a kill joy, rather, to illuminate some facts that perhaps have not been considered by those endeavouring to change their lifestyles, to recover their health.

Did you know that habitual consumption of alcohol (in high doses) seriously affects the central nervous system? It may affect such diverse body parts as bones, bloodstream, liver, stomach, pancreas, heart, peripheral tissues and the mouth and of course it is an actual depressant of the central nervous system.

A healthy functioning nervous system is vital to your good health – that is why your Chiropractor is so interested in your nervous system!.  Alcohol influences the nervous system by “dumbing” down the indicators between the spinal cord, spinal nerves and the brain.  Consumption of excess alcohol also predisposes people to heart attackes, brain strokes and dementia.   Alcohol behaves as a depressant on the central nervous system and can have a disastrous affect on the frontal lobes of the brain resulting in mineral and vitamin deficiences.

Does this leave any good reason to overindulge?  Life is about balance – remember next time when reaching for that extra glass of alcohol perhaps it should be a glass of water instead!

At Chiropractic Life we look at the whole person and consider all aspects of your health.  Eating Well, Moving Well and Thinking Well are all vital elements in helping you to regain loss of health. After years of abusing his body Chiropractic gave Dr Scott his life back – read his story here.

If you, or someone you love is looking down a black hole and there seems to be no hope for recurring health problems, take advantage of our Complimentary  Consultation Today! Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting you well and keeping you well too! Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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From the brain, down the spinal cord, out the spinal nerves, to every cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in the body

When you were at school you learned that there are five senses – touch, hearing, smell, taste and sight – all these senses allow you to interact with your environment safely. Your nervous system is in control of all these senses.  Your Chiropractor is interested in your Nervous System because it controls virtually every cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in your entire body!  Doesn’t it make sense to make sure your nervous system is free of interference so that every message from your brain to your body and back to your brain again can travel unimpeded to give your body the right messages to stimulate true healing and restoration? Consider if at the traffic lights something happened and the wires became crossed and there were red lights when there should be green, green when they should be amber, amber when they should be red – the roads would be in chaos.  That is what happens when there are interferences in your nervous system – your body is not getting the right messages, or is getting delayed messages and your body is not working as efficiently as it should and dis -ease occurs. This is the reason your Chiropractor is more interested in your nervous system than the pain or illness you are experiencing because your Chiropractor knows there must be an interruption to normal flow of energy from the power house of your body – the nervous system.  Your Chiropractor’s job is to remove those interferences to allow your body to heal itself naturally (as it was designed to do).

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Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting you well!  Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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B.J. Palmer

“I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.” BJ Palmer

The actual profession of chiropractic – as a distinct form of health care — dates back to 1895. However, some of the earliest healers in the history of the world understood the relationship between health and the condition of the spine. Hippocrates advised: “Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.”

Herodotus, a contemporary of Hippocrates, gained fame curing diseases by correcting spinal abnormalities through therapeutic exercises. If the patient was too weak to exercise, Herodotus would manipulate the patient’s spine. The philosopher Aristotle was critical of Herodotus’ tonic-free approach because, “he made old men young and thus prolonged their lives too greatly.”

But the treatment of the spine was still crudely and misunderstood until Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer discovered the specific spinal adjustment. He was also the one to develop the philosophy of chiropractic which forms the foundation for the profession.

“I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebrae, but I do claim to be the first person to replace displaced vertebrae by using the spinous and transverse processes as levers…and to develop the philosophy and science of chiropractic adjustments.” D.D. Palmer, Discoverer of Chiropractic.

D.D. Palmer was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1845, He moved to the United States when he was 20 years old. He spent the years after the Civil War teaching school, raising bees and selling sweet raspberries in the Iowa and Illinois river towns along the bluffs on either side of the Mississippi River.

In 1885, D.D. became familiar with the work of Paul Caster, a magnetic healer who had some success in Ottumwa. D.D. moved his family to Burlington, near Ottumwa, and learned the techniques of magnetic healing, a common therapy of the time. Two years later, he moved to Davenport and opened the Palmer Cure & Infirmary.

On September 18, 1895, D.D. Palmer was working late in his office when a janitor, Harvey Lillard, began working nearby. A noisy fire engine passed by outside the window and Palmer was surprised to see that Lillard didn’t react at all. He approached the man and tried to strike up a conversation. He soon realized Lillard was deaf.

Patiently, Palmer managed to communicate with the man, and learned that he had normal hearing for most of his life. However, he had been over in a cramped, stooping position, and felt something “pop” in his back. When he stood up, he realized he couldn’t hear.

Palmer deduced that the two events — the popping in his back and the deafness — had to be connected.

He ran his hand carefully down Lillard’s spine and felt one of the vertebra was not in its normal position. “I reasoned that if that vertebra was replaced, the man’s hearing should be restored,” he wrote in his notes afterwards. “With this object in view, a half hour’s talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. I racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever, and soon the man could hear as before.”

Over the succeeding months, other patients came to Palmer with every conceivable problem, including flu, sciatica, migraine headaches, stomach complaints, epilepsy and heart trouble.

D.D. Palmer found each of these conditions responded well to the adjustments which he was calling “hand treatments.” Later he coined the term chiropractic — from the Greek words, Chiro, meaning (hand) and practic, meaning (practice or operation).

Palmer College of Chiropractic

He renamed his clinic the Palmer School & Infirmary of Chiropractic. In 1898, he accepted his first students.

Although he never used drugs, under Palmer’s care fevers broke, pain ended, infections healed, vision improved, stomach disorders disappeared, and of course, hearing returned.

Often surprised at the effectiveness of his adjustments, D.D. Palmer returned to his studies of anatomy and physiology to learn more about the vital connection between the spine and one’s health.

He realized spinal adjustments to correct vertebral misalignments, or subluxations, were eliminating the nerve interference causing the patients’ complaints.

At first, even though it proved to be a successful way of healing the body, chiropractic adjustments were not readily accepted.

Years after Harvey Lillard’s hearing was restored, the news media delighted in vilifying the pioneer chiropractor.

The medical community, afraid of his success and discouraged by its own failure to heal diseases, joined the crusade and wrote letters to the editors of local papers, openly criticizing his methods and accusing him of practicing medicine without a license.

D.D. Palmer defended himself against the doctors’ attacks by presenting arguments against the medical procedures of vaccination and surgery. He also cautioned against introducing medicine into the body saying it was often unnecessary and even harmful.

In 1905, the medical establishment won a minor victory when they conspired to have D.D. Palmer indicted for practicing medicine without a license. He was sentenced to 105 days in jail and was required to pay a $350 fine. Only after serving 23 days of his sentence, did he pay the fine.

From 1906 to 1913, D.D. Palmer published two books, “The Science of Chiropractic” and “The Chiropractors Adjuster.” He died in Los Angeles at the age of 68.

Luckily D.D. has a son, Bartlett Joshua, who was as enthusiastic about chiropractic as his father and who continued his father’s work. Bartlett — or B.J. as he is now known — is credited with developing chiropractic into a clearly defined and unique health care system.

In 1902, B.J. graduated from the Palmer school started by D.D., and before long — with his wife and fellow graduate Mabel — was helping patients and taking on more and more responsibility for the school and the clinic. He also was instrumental in getting chiropractic recognized as a licensed profession.

Although the profession has advanced tremendously since the days of D.D. and B.J., the basic tenets and understanding of chiropractic as a drug-free method of healing, still stands.

Millions of patients have benefited from Chiropractic Care.  If you would like a different approach to drugs or surgery – take advantage of our Complimentary Consultation Today!

Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system may be the key to getting you well.  Chiropractic Life is passionately committed to your success and provides specialized care for many health problems not commonly associated with the spine.

CALL NOW to schedule your free (no obligation) consultation to see if we can help you.  You’ll be glad you did!

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