DR. BRAADT’S START-YOUR-YEAR HEALTHY TIPS
GET AND STAY OUT OF PAIN
personally helped many of you get healthy to lose weight , not lose weight to get healthy . Eating healthy fats, reducing sugar, not eating between meals, and balancing hormones naturally has been the key for me, my wife, and many patients I’ve worked with. Be sure to schedule your Personalized Nutrition Assessment ($75) to learn more about this approach to eating: Healthy Keto/Intermittent Fasting.
Chronic pain is a public health crisis addressed by increasing amounts of strong and dangerous drugs. The American Medical Association (AMA) has mandated that pain is a “vital sign” to be reduced at its most extreme with opioids, which, according to the New York Times, killed 72,000 Americans in 2017. That’s more people per year than auto accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40 percent of these deaths were from taking a prescription as directed. Chiropractic has been recommended in both the Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the British Medical Journal as a safe and effective alternative, with higher patient satisfaction than drugs and surgery for spine pain and sciatica. Ordinary medical practice has not caught up to the science of Chiropractic. Blue Shield studies demonstrate that chiropractic patients use medical services 80 percent less often.
GET GOOD SLEEP
I try to get 7–8 hours of sleep every night. Going to bed and getting up at the same times is a great way to get into a healthy habit and condition your body into a rhythm. Turn off the media — especially the news — an hour before sleep to relax your mind, and don’t eat heavy foods a few hours before bed. Ask me to test you for an effective whole- food supplement called MIN-CHEX that has a mild calming effect on the body.
SCHEDULE YOUR MAINTENANCE CARE
MOVE YOUR BODY
Once your pain is under control, maintenance care is like seeing your dentist regularly or changing the oil in your car. Taking the “mileage of life” off your spine makes you move better, resist disease, and reduce stress with less expense.
You don’t have to train for the Olympics to benefit. Walking, stationary biking, stretching, and some resistance exercises like light weightlifting, are really all you need to maintain basic fitness. Do something you like, and you’ll likely stick with it and have fun. Keep It Simple is our overall strategy. I’m here to partner with you, so let me know if you need help. Let’s all avoid being a statistic in 2019 and focus our attention on chasing our dreams, big and small!
NEVER DIET AGAIN
Just eat right! I just returned from the first Healthy Keto Summit in Washington, D.C., where top medical researchers discussed the science of this approach. When 70 percent of Americans are pre- diabetic, and a growing number of people are put on drugs, including statins for cholesterol, it is becoming normal to expect disease. I’ve
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