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Need a gift idea for Father's Day this Sunday.......👇👇👇

Did you know as your Chiropractor we are happy to do a full workout plan for you?

We will either create one based on your function and what equipment you have

OR

We are happy to work with your PT (or recommend a great one) so that you get the best results the fastest.

Who needs one?

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

Chronic pain (pain more than 3 months) is a decision your brain makes to protect yourself.
There is often no tissue damage on an MRI. The medical approach is to dull your brains response to pain.
Chiropractic stimulates your brain and nervous system to realize the pain response isn’t needed.

For some people with chronic pain Chiropractic can be like magic. Literally like nothing else.

🥳 Happy Birthday to our lovely Chiropractic Assistant Steph!!!! 🥳

You truly are a wonderful part of our team, we'd be lost without you!

🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! 🥳

18 years ago we opened our doors in the Platinum Building. We have had some amazing years filled with some amazing patients. Here's cheers to the next 18 years!

What a fantastic couple of days we have had at our seminar. We have learnt so much and are really looking forward to sharing it with you all!

Thanks so much to The Remarkable Practice for running such an informative and fun seminar!

Better function is about leading a better life.

I love it when I get this sort of message.

Hi Matt, 5 Lands Walk today and done it, that’s now all 3 of the 2024 health goals you asked me to set back in January all ticked.
Big one the 5 Lands as missed last year as wasn’t up to it - huge thank you to yourself for the help, advice and support in pointing me in the direction for better long term health - no chance I’d have achieved today or other goals this year without it - now onto the next goals

I love it when people take immediate action.

Just got this photo from someone I saw today. We recommended LSA as a source of omega 3 and protein in the mornings and the tissue salts to help reduce congestion in the sacral ligaments.

Send us a DM to secure your spot now. Places are limited!!!

I've just put together this 5 minute morning mobility routine.
If you want it just put the word FLEXIBLE below and I will get it to you.

Which slices of cheese are you great at?

🥳 Happy Birthday to our Chiropractic Assistant Becky! 🥳

❄️ Winter is here… Are you ready to beat this years flu season? ❄️

There are many myths about winter…

- Being cold gives you a cold.
- Everyone needs to get a flu injection at the start of winter.
- At the first sign of a cold take medication to reduce your symptoms.
- Its best to get a cold at least once a year to build your immunity.
- Exercising in the cold is bad for you.
- Antibiotics are best for flu.

But did you know…

- Your susceptibility to getting flu has nothing to do with temperature or even if you are surrounded by others who have a flu. The flu virus looks for susceptible hosts. These are people who have a lower immunity.
- Chiropractic has been shown to increase your immunity by 200% compared to people who are not under Chiropractic care!
- Taking medication at the first sign of flu at best will lower your temperature (which should be higher to help fight it off) and at the worst may cause other symptoms.
- Antibiotics don’t work on viruses only on bacteria. The only thing that helps with a virus is to strengthen your immune system.
- Greater than 60% of people who get a preventative flu injection develop the flu!!! These injections are the cause of what we now call super viruses (they don’t respond to known medications!).

I love this quote.

We are born looking like our parents, but we die looking like our decisions.

(Neve in her Elton John phase).

Movement trumps diet for longevity.

By Marcus Pearce

For more than a decade I’ve been fascinated with people who defy the ageing stereotype. The septuagenarian who still runs marathons. The octogenarian who is walking the Camino. The person in their 90s still working or dancing or contributing to society in some meaningful way.

One of the questions that I ask these people in an interview is about their diet. What do they eat? Are they on special diets or do they eat everything in moderation? One interview I remember more than most, was with an incredible centenarian, Ruth Frith.

Ruth became famous for two things – winning gold medals at the World Masters Games, and not eating vegetables! In this month’s article, you’ll not only learn about Ruth’s inspiring story, but how regular movement seems to trump the best diet when it comes to ageing well.

“Another gold medal for Australia!” Ruth Frith (b. 1909) had just won one of her six gold medals in athletics at the 2009 World Masters Games in Sydney. Sitting down to do an interview with the ABC shortly after, Frith was asked about her workout routine.

“Monday I do weights, pushups, ride the bike and do some stretching. Tuesday I do that again; Wednesday I do practical training on the field. Thursday I do the same again and Friday I do weights again.” Asked if she thought she had an advantage over her competitors because of her workout regime, Frith replied: “Well when I’m with them I find out they don’t do anything. A lot of them don’t even train!”

When asked her recommendations for movement, Frith insisted: “Even if you only do three days a week. You must, you can’t expect to keep going forever doing what you did. I started (athletics) when I was 74. What I did when I was 74 you can’t do when you’re 84.”

Frith wasn’t lying; she really did begin her Masters athletics career at 74. Her daughter, Helen Searle, is a Commonwealth Games silver medallist and represented Australia at the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games, and continued on into Masters athletics when her professional career ended. For years, Frith would go along and mind the bags of Helen and her fellow club members until one day she had her epiphany, as she told me on 100 Not Out: “Enough of the bag minding, it’s my turn to give this a go!”

Frith, who lived to 104, was so exceptional that she won some of her gold medals purely because she was the only competitor in her age group, and she still holds some of the 25 world records she set. Like many centenarians, Frith was regularly asked the perennial question, “What’s your secret?” to which she replied, “It’s not diet, because I don’t eat vegetables. So it doesn’t have anything to do with the diet!”

Frith’s comments can come across as flippant and some health professionals might be squirming at the idea that movement trumps diet for healthy longevity. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that whilst a great diet is wonderful for improving quality of life and can be a great healing aid, it doesn’t contribute to longevity in the same way movement does.

Countless Exceptionals have shared with me their daily diet on 100 Not Out. Lavinia Petrie (b. 1943) runs 10km in 40 minutes on her way to gold medals for Australia. She celebrates with a “hamburger with the lot” and a trip to the bakery.

Sister Madonna Buder is partial to a pastry, whilst octogenarian Ruth Heidrich (b. 1938) is a vegan athlete who’s run over 60 marathons and multiple triathlons. Alan and Janette Murray ran 366 marathons in 366 days in barefoot runners, eating nothing but raw fruits and vegetables.

Longevity cultures all have a wholefood-based diet with considerable differences. The Okinawans thrive on rice and fish and consume very few fruits, whereas the Loma Lindans are largely vegetarian or vegan. Corn is the staple of Nicoya, Costa Rica (the South American Blue Zone), whilst the Greek Blue Zone of Ikaria enjoys a Mediterranean diet that differs to the Sardinian version. And of course, Australian Ruth Frith didn’t eat vegetables! If you’re looking for anything in common food-wise, Blue Zones founder Dan Buettner says the only food all longevity cultures have in common is the consumption of beans. While The Exceptionals may not share the same diet, they all have a love of moving their bodies.

👀 Have you seen our new priming discs? 👀

Research is now showing that priming discs with circular movement stimulates the nerves in a way that improves how your body responds to the adjustment. This movement helps stimulate the joint receptors (that sense of where your joints are) in a way that makes them more receptive to change. We want to help you enhance the effects of your adjustments.

So next time your in the clinic, why not give it a try for a few minutes before your adjustment.

Consuming highly processed foods may be harmful to the aging brain, independent of other risk factors for adverse neurologic outcomes and adherence to recommended dietary patterns, new research suggests.

Observations from a large cohort of adults followed for more than 10 years suggested that eating more ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) may increase the risk for cognitive decline and stroke, while eating more unprocessed or minimally processed foods may lower the risk.

"The first key takeaway is that the type of food that we eat matters for brain health, but it's equally important to think about how it's made and handled when thinking about brain health," study investigator W. Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD, with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, told Medscape Medical News.

"The second is that it's not just all a bad news story because while increased consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with a higher risk of cognitive impairment and stroke, unprocessed foods appear to be protective," Kimberly added.

The study was published online on May 22 in Neurology.

Food Processing Matters
UPFs are highly manipulated, low in protein and fiber, and packed with added ingredients, including sugar, fat, and salt. Examples of UPFs are soft drinks, chips, chocolate, candy, ice cream, sweetened breakfast cereals, packaged soups, chicken nuggets, hotdogs, and fries.

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods include meats such as simple cuts of beef, pork and chicken, and vegetables and fruits.

Research has shown associations between high UPF consumption and increased risk for metabolic and neurologic disorders.

As reported previously by Medscape Medical News, in the ELSA-Brasil, higher intake of UPFs was significantly associated with a faster rate of decline in executive and global cognitive function.

Yet, it's unclear whether the extent of food processing contributes to the risk of adverse neurologic outcomes independent of dietary patterns.

Kimberly and colleagues examined the association of food processing levels with the risk for cognitive impairment and stroke in the long-running REGARDS study, a large prospective US cohort of Black and White adults aged 45 years and older.

Food processing levels were defined by the NOVA food classification system, which ranges from unprocessed or minimally processed foods (NOVA1) to UPFs (NOVA4). Dietary patterns were characterized based on food frequency questionnaires.

In the cognitive impairment cohort, 768 of 14,175 adults without evidence of impairment at baseline who underwent follow-up testing developed cognitive impairment.

Diet an Opportunity to Protect Brain Health
In multivariable Cox proportional hazards models adjusting for age, s*x, high blood pressure, and other factors, a 10% increase in relative intake of UPFs was associated with a 16% higher risk for cognitive impairment (hazard ratio [HR], 1.16). Conversely, a higher intake of unprocessed or minimally processed foods correlated with a 12% lower risk for cognitive impairment (HR, 0.88).

In the stroke cohort, 1108 of 20,243 adults without a history of stroke had a stroke during the follow-up.

In multivariable Cox models, greater intake of UPFs was associated with an 8% increased risk for stroke (HR, 1.08), while greater intake of unprocessed or minimally processed foods correlated with a 9% lower risk for stroke (HR, 0.91).

The effect of UPFs on stroke risk was greater among Black than among White adults (UPF-by-race interaction HR, 1.15).

The associations between UPFs and both cognitive impairment and stroke were independent of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, and the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet.

These results "highlight the possibility that we have the capacity to maintain our brain health and prevent poor brain health outcomes by focusing on unprocessed foods in the long term," Kimberly said.

He cautioned that this was "an observational study and not an interventional study, so we can't say with certainty that substituting ultra-processed foods with unprocessed foods will definitively improve brain health," Kimberly said. "That's a clinical trial question that has not been done but our results certainly are provocative."

Consider UPFs in National Guidelines?
The coauthors of an accompanying editorial said the "robust" results from Kimberly and colleagues highlight the "significant role of food processing levels and their relationship with adverse neurologic outcomes, independent of conventional dietary patterns."

Peipei Gao, MS, with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Zhendong Mei, PhD, with Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, noted that the mechanisms underlying the impact of UPFs on adverse neurologic outcomes "can be attributed not only to their nutritional profiles," including poor nutrient composition and high glycemic load, "but also to the presence of additives including emulsifiers, colorants, sweeteners, and nitrates/nitrites, which have been associated with disruptions in the gut microbial ecosystem and inflammation."

"Understanding how food processing levels are associated with human health offers a fresh take on the saying 'you are what you eat,'" wrote Gao and Mei.

This new study, they noted, adds to the evidence by highlighting the link between UPFs and brain health, independent of traditional dietary patterns and "raises questions about whether considerations of UPFs should be included in dietary guidelines, as well as national and global public health policies for improving brain health."

The editorialists called for large prospective population studies and randomized controlled trials to better understand the link between UPF consumption and brain health. "In addition, mechanistic studies are warranted to identify specific foods, detrimental processes, and additives that play a role in UPFs and their association with neurologic disorders," the editorialists concluded.

Funding for the study was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Health and Human Services. The authors and editorial writers had no relevant disclosures.

Each neuron has over 6000 synapses

Your brain has over 80 million neurons and trillions of synapses that attach to them.

How can we even consider that we are smarter than the human brain?

Trust that your brain makes the right decision based on the information it’s given.

If you want better health give your brain different stimulus.

Eat well, move well, think well.

Be different.

What a huge week we have had. We just wanted to say a quick thank you to all of our wonderful patients for their understanding during this transition to a new computer program. It's been a huge learning experience but we are starting to feel much more confident and are looking forward showing you all the exciting plans we have for the future! 😊

🍎 Fresh Fibre First 🥦

One of the simplest ways we can help our bodies thrive and prevent over-eating is to change the order in which we eat our food. Reaching for the bread basket or bowl of crisps at the start of a meal results in a quick increase in blood glucose levels and a subsequent insulin response. This will likely leave you feeling tired, hungry and irritable just a few hours later. This is because glucose is quickly absorbed from starchy foods, and this is even quicker on an empty stomach.

So, why not start your meal with a grilled vegetable platter, a selection of crunchy veggies or zesty fresh chopped herbs with a simple extra virgin olive oil and vinegar or lemon dressing. The extra acidity can reduce overeating on your next course, by reducing hunger signals and may also reduce harmful blood sugar spikes.

🥳 Today is the day!!! 🥳

At the beginning of the year we mentioned that we will be getting a new computer system, well today is the day for us to launch! We are beyond excited to have this new program as it will help us with efficiency within the clinic for both patients and staff. As you can imagine this will be a huge change for our office and we appreciate your understanding during this time.

❤️HAPPY MOTHERS DAY ❤️

🥳 Happy Birthday to our lovely Lorna! 🥳

Thank you for all you do for the practice, your the BEST!!!