“Illnesses hover constantly above us, their seeds blown by the wind, but they do not set in the terrain unless the terrain is ready to receive them.” Claude Bernard

This morning I was reminded just how important it is to keep our bodies clean – on the inside as well as the outside! I was sweeping up the area at the back of our house and in a corner some rubbish had collected, old leaves etc.  As I swept, thousands of little slater bugs came running out of that little rubbish pile.  Yes, they feed on rubbish and rotting and decaying organic matter.  Blowflies look for rubbish too.  They settle there and wreak havoc on the rubbish bags piled up on the road verge.  Germs are like that too.  They are attracted to cells that are rubbish (unhealthy). Now, if you are thinking I have gone completely insane, consider this…………….  Would the slater bugs be there in the thousands if there was no decaying matter to feed on?  Would the blowflies be there in the thousands  if there was no rubbish to attract them?   No they wouldn’t and germs won’t be attracted to your body either if you keep it healthy - germs, like slater bugs and blow flies are all around us but are repelled by a healthy immune system.   That is why we have no fear of germs! Of course there are some genetic factors.  Interestingly new research proves that genetics only play approximately 1% part – that’s 99% we can do something about! Also, some people have experienced severe trauma which limits their immune function, but fortunately this is only such a minor percentage of the population.  For the rest of us it comes down to self responsibility

Your most precious resource is your immune system.  Germs are not attracted to healthy immune systems.  What governs the health of your immune system and every other system of the body?  Your nervous system!  Who helps you to keep a healthy nervous system?  Your Chiropractor!  Your Chiropractor  removes interferences to your nervous system to allow the body to heal itself naturally!  Interferences to your nervous system are caused by Thoughts (dwelling on unhappy, unhealthy thoughts), Trauma (birth, falls, accidents, bumps, etc), and Toxins (drugs, alcohol, environmental toxins, manufactured foods etc).  Your part of the equation is to Eat Well, Move Well and Think Well. Now you are well on the way to a vital and healthy body.

Be empowered to take charge of your health.  Let us help you get started on the road to true health and vitality.  Lifestyle support available. 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton

The Lighthouse Guides The Way

Over at the Atlas of Life Blog this morning Brandon Harshe records an interview with Dr. Arno Burnier – this is what he said was his most memorable moment:

“Of course I saw great outcome and many miracles like most Chiropractors in practice. Yet my most memorable experience came from a man nicknamed ‘Chick.’ He came in at noon on a Wednesday, without any appointment. He was in severe pain. There was no speaking to him as the pain was so intense that he was not available to listen. I adjusted his occiput and he broke down crying like a baby.

I later found out that my office was his last stop before committing suicide. He has passed my office countless times because we were on main street. He had seen the crowd in the waiting room and at the talks. He did not know anything about Chiropractic, had never gone to one. Something attracted him there as a last resort place to come to.

As it turned out he was a Vietnam Vet involved in the Mi Lai massacre. He could not live with himself any longer for having killed innocent babies, children and women.”

He still communicates with me regularly even though I left Yardley, PA 15 years ago to live in Colorado. Chiropractic saved his life.

Nerve interference could be causing your pain and distress too!

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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton



We are happy to announce that the winner of our clinic Facebook competition is Yvonne Greenwood.  Yvonne has been a patient of Richards while he was practicing at Mid Sussex Chiropractic Clinic in Burgess Hill and continues to have regular Chiropractic Care now at Chiropractic Life Yvonne and Karen are known to the clinic as the “7.30 girls” due to their desire for early appointments!!

Enjoy the delicious New Zealand Cloudy Bay wine, Yvonne, but don’t drink both bottles at once!!

Best Wishes Always – from the Staff at Chiropractic Life.

Pigs roll in mud to keep cool because they don't have sweat glands. It also helps prevent sunburn and protects from insect bites.

For many people, summertime can be a time of frustration because they perspire, which they find annoying. Summertime is the time to sweat! It’s a natural process for the body to respond to the outside environment, and adjust itself through the constricting of blood vessels and nerves. Unfortunately people have been taught through the media to see sweating/perspiring as something objectionable – hence the introduction of anti-perspirants.  By regularly using anti-perspirants – which suppresses the healthy action of sweating and getting rid of toxins – your body is forced to find an alternative outlet which automatically adds to the burdens of your body which is constantly struggling against the onslaught of environmental chemicals. By applying anti-perspirant underarms (which are also loaded with unhealthy chemicals) toxins are being introduced to the body via the lymph system which spreads throughout the breast area. Very dangerous indeed! Sweating from the hot,summer heat is a natural part of keeping your body healthy, and by trying to suppress this most natural of events, can lead to future health problems. The skin is the body’s
largest elimination organ which is used to throw off waste and toxins and should never be suppressed – Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, explains this in her book Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements.

We recommend using a natural salt deodorant which can be bought in good supermarkets or natural food stores. You can also make your own by making a solution of mineral rich sea salt and bathing the underarms after your shower. Sea salt contains up to eighty four different minerals which will be absorbed into your body, helping you to get a regular supply of vital nutrients.

By choosing “natural first” you are well on the way to helping your body heal itself naturally.

We believe in Natural First in every area of health.  Take Advantage of our Complimentary  Consultation Today to have your Nervous System checked for interference.

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 helping to get you well and stay 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton



They Look Harmless. Don't Be Fooled!!

Hot on the heels of the information from Natural News about “pill popping” I came across the following article written by Dr James for The Lady magazine 20th July, 2010 and if you have any doubts about the effects of prescription drugs, please refer to Kerrie’s testimonial where she writes about the debilitating effects of drugs on her health – pills that were supposed to give her health!

“Many people nowadays find themselves taking a whole raft of different medicines, each of which will have its own side effects.  When retired microbiologist Derek Baxby left hospital following a heart attack, he discovered he was expected to take no fewer than seven drugs a day.  Being a conscientious sort of person he read the comprehensive information leaflets that came with each one – and calculated they offered him a choice of 130 different side effects.  All of them could cause nausea and vomiting, he writes in the British Medical Journal. Most could cause kidney or liver problems; a rash or itching, diarrhoea or constipation; headaches chest pains or palpitations and dizziness and low blood pressure.

Indeed there is no more reliable and useful rule of thumb than that medicines are much  the most likely cause of any symptom for which there is no obvious explanation – as illustrated by the experience of a woman prescribed Zestril for raised blood pressure.  Six months after starting her pills she began to have episodes of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pains which were extremely debilitating.  She consulted a gut specialist who did all the usual tests and, finding nothing wrong, told her she had a congested colon and commended the ever fashionable high-fibre diet.

Another six months elapsed during which she had a further dozen attacks before waking one night with a badly swollen tongue, later diagnosed as an allergic reaction which she was told was due to sensitivity to the house dust mite.  This did nor ring true, she writes, so she did some research with the help of the internet and ‘imagine my surprise on discovering that both the bowel symptoms and tongue swelling were known side effects of Zestril – but not one of the doctors I consulted had made the connection.”

You will know from reading this blog that we promote the idea of self responsibility for our health by paying attention to Lifestyle practices – Eating Well, Moving Well and Thinking Well and by keeping the spine free of interference so that the body can heal itself naturally as it was designed to do.  Before taking any medication we urge you to check out the side effects, and the effects of taking different drugs together by going to www.medicines.org.

Visit our clinic for a personal consultation with one of the Doctors of Chiropractic  to find out how your nervous system could 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton

The following information has been sourced from http://www.naturalnews.com/Index.html

There’s a pervasive (but false) idea in western medicine that the more pharmaceuticals you take, the healthier you’ll get. That’s how pharmaceuticals are marketed, in fact:   Take these pills if you want to be healthier! If you take one pill, the ads claim, you’ll have a healthy heart. Another pill gives you healthy moods. Yet another pill claims to give you healthy bones… or pancreas function… or blood pressure.. or even a day-long erection. If you believe all this, it stands to reason that the more chemical pills you take, the healthier you’ll become, right?
But hold on a second. Think of the people you know who are taking five, ten or even over a dozen medications. Are they the healthiest people you know?
Probably not. Not by a long shot. In fact, if you really look closely at this issue, you’ll find that the more pharmaceuticals you take, the WORSE your health becomes.
Pharmaceuticals destroy your health in the long run. That’s because prescription medications are synthetic, non-natural chemicals that all have negative side effects. Most medications cause liver damage, kidney damage or brain damage of some kind when taken over a long period of time. Even common over-the-counter drugs like Tylenol can destroy your liver (http://www.naturalnews.com/026565_d…). Heck, even the FDA now admits that. In the real world, the game of pharmaceutical pinball is destroying people’s health and lives. People get put on one drug for one symptom, and then that drug causes three more symptoms. Then the patient goes to the doctor who medicates those three new symptoms with three more drugs. This silly cycle of drug “treatments” leading to yet more side effects continues until the patient either runs out of money or dies from the side effects of the medications (heart attack, liver failure, stroke, etc.).That’s how the game of pharmaceutical pinball really works. Except no matter how much medication you take, you never win. Only the drug companies win, and the longer you play, the more they win (and the more you lose).  Say no to Big Pharma’s dangerous medications and look to foods, nutrients, herbal remedies and informed lifestyle choices to take care of your health naturally.

Lifestyle choices gives you back control of your health, not leaving it to chance.  By paying attention to Eating Well, Moving Well and Thinking well you give your body the very best chance to heal itself naturally.  Your Chiropractic care is part of “moving well”.  Modern sedentary lifestyles (sitting, computer, tv etc) means your spine does not move as it should and it becomes stuck.  Chiropractic care helps to keep it moving freely as it was designed to do, thus allowing full flow of nerve messages to every cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in the body giving it the opportunity to heal from the inside out, as it was designed to do!

Take Advantage of our Complimentary  Consultation Today to have your Nervous System checked for interference.

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 helping to get 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

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Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton



Especially to Helen

To All At Chiropractic Life – You are enormously thanked and endlessly appreciated.  There are a few absolute gems in this world.  They are the people who make a tremendous difference in other people’s lives…….with the smiles they give, the blessings they share, and the way they warm the hearts of everyone around them.

These rare and remarkable people are so deserving of every hope and happiness.  They are the people who are incredibly unique, enormously thanked, and endlessly appreciated for everything they do.

Lots of love to you all – Glenda xxx

Today’s Guardian talks about Depression – the causes (lifestyle) and remedy (lifestyle).   Steve Ilardi – a respected Clinical Psychologist and university professor from the University of Kansas has been testing his system – known as TLC (Therapeutic Lifestyle Change) in clinical trials and the preliminary results show that everyone who put the full programme into practice got better!  Throughout our series of blog posts we have regularly spoken about Lifestyle as being the solution to most of the health problems experienced in this modern age.

Depression is the nervous system under extreme stress.  All negative thoughts, physical traumas and chemical toxins have an impact on our nervous system.

Up to 20% of the UK population will have clinical depression at some point, says Ilardi – twice as many as thirty years ago.   Where does this depression epidemic come from?  The answer Ilardi suggests, comes from our lifestyle.  “Our standard of living is better now than ever before, but technological progress comes with a dark underbelly.  Human beings were not designed for this poorly nourished, sedentary, indoor, sleep deprived, socially isolated, frenzied pace of life.”  (We have regularly written on this blog about these issues attacking our health).

Our environment may have evolved rapidly but our physical evolution hasn’t kept up.  Thousands of years ago our ancestors were hunter-gatherers.  “Biologically we still have Stone Age Bodies and when Stone Age body meets modern environment, the health consequences can be disastrous”.    Apparently there is zero depression in places where there are still primitive lifestyles. Ilardi says “they are too busy to sit around brooding.  They get lots of physical activity and sunlight.  Their diet is rich in omega-3, their level of social connection is extraordinary, and they regularly have as much as ten hours of sleep.  The current average for the western world is 6.7 – not enough!!  We have also regularly written about sleep deprivation.

Steve Ilardi’s Recommendations:

• Take 1,500mg of omega-3 daily with multi vitamin and 500mg of Vit C
• Don’t dwell on negative thoughts – instead of ruminating start an activity; even conversation counts
• Exercise for 90 minutes a week
• Get 15 – 30 minutes of sunlight each morning in the summer.  In winter, consider using a light box
• Be sociable
• Get eight hours of sleep

We believe in a healthy Natural Approach too, and understand that the nervous system controls and co-ordinates virtually every other cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in the entire body.  Thoughts, traumas and toxins (results of unhealthy lifestyle) can cause interferences in the nervous system, housed in the moving bones of the spinal column.  Chiropractors remove nervous system interference.

Take Advantage of our Complimentary  Consultation Today to have your Nervous System checked for interference.

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 helping to get 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

Join Chiropractic Life on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/chiropracticlife

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Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton

Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton



Putting Nature First!

This may be really late notice but hopefully some will see this fabulous opportunity.

We love to support such healthy endeavours…………

Learn about organic gardening, sustainable housing, green woodworking, permaculture, sweatlodges, tree nurseries, environmental art and education.

Products such as plants, herbs, trees, yurts, comfrey products, organically grown fruits and vegetables will be on sale throughout the day.

Refreshments and storytelling.

When people meet we usually hear the kind of greeting like – “How are you”, “How Have You Been” etc which would indicate that health is, and has been a major preoccupation of people for as long as we can remember – second only to the weather if you live in the United Kingdom!!

Life seems quite futile without good health to enjoy it as we are not able to derive pleasure from anything, or anyone –  including work, recreation and relationships.  Without good health it is impossible to enjoy life, and then pleasures really become of little importance.    We expect to have energy, enthusiasm, happiness, and the ability to be successful in our jobs and our lives, and it certainly is possible if we enjoy good health, however despite the many advances of science and medicine in dealing with problems of health and disease, there are startling facts which indicate that the health of people in the western world is steadily worsening and that more and more people are suffering from some disability which interferes with their normal daily activities. Although improved nutrition, better hygiene and better living conditions have cut down many of the old-time contagious diseases, they have been replaced by many new degenerative diseases caused by poor lifestyle practices, over prescribing of drugs and the stress of modern living.  It has been proved scientifically that our early ancestors were much healthier than we are today, due to the fact that they had the Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well aspects of life in balance. They ate what was in season and available, fresh, not manufactured or fast food – they either had to catch it or collect it which required them to be active.  They had to hunt for their meat and search and collect for berries, roots, herbs etc, which meant that they were always active and on the move.  Stress was an unknown factor except at certain times like when their lives were threatened, so their fight or flight mechanism was not constantly being triggered, unlike ours is today.  The fight or flight mechanism in our body causes the body to be flooded with hormones at times of stress and unfortunately our continuing stress means that the mechanism rarely gets switched off resulting in the body becoming flooded with stress hormones on a daily basis, which causes toxicity and inflammation.

There are many natural approaches to healing which have been overlooked or ignored by the medical profession in its overwhelming concentration on drugs and surgery. Here at Chiropractic life we concentrate on the Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well paradigm of living as advocated by Dr James Chestnut.  Keeping your spine free of interference and keeping it mobile is included in the “Move Well” part of living.  Now, more than at any other time regular Chiropractic Care is necessary because of the sedentary type of lifestyle that modern man (and women and children) live.  We experience the world through our nervous system, and the spine houses our nervous system, which controls and co-ordinates virtually every other cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in the entire body. Our body will be healthier if our nervous system is free of interference so that it can do it’s healing work unhindered.  Chiropractors are Spinal Nerve Specialists – their job is to remove the  interferences (spinal misalignments – caused by thoughts, traumas, toxins) to allow your body to function as it was designed to do – naturally!

Chiropractic (pronounced “ki-ro-prak-tik”) is the fastest growing natural healing art in the world.  Science, art and philosophy all rolled into one!  People are fast losing faith in modern medicine for their every day ill’s and diseases which have become prevalent through the over prescribing of drugs.  There is even a name for these diseases! It’s called “Iatrogenic Disease – simply meaning – doctor induced – the dictionary gives the following description -  “A malady induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures”.

Drugs and surgeries are for emergency care.  Diseases are not emergencies.  They are the end result of poor lifestyle practices and medicine would do well to educate patients about taking responsibility to Eat Well, Move Well and Think Well as it has now been proved scientifically that these lifestyle practices influence our health by up to 99%!  We can’t ingest rubbish, live a sedentary life and fill our minds with unhealthy thoughts and images and still expect our bodies to respond with vibrant health.  If we filled the petrol tank of our car with oil, allowed it to sit and rust and/drove it onto off road surfaces, eventually it would just stop!  Our bodies will too, unless we look after them as they were intended to be looked after.

We can help you get back on the road!  We believe in a Natural Approach to Health!  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 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!

Chiropractic Life, 88 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DL  -  Phone 01273 208188

Join Chiropractic Life on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/chiropracticlife

Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton

Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton

Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton