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At Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center, we specialize in providing chiropractic treatments to our diverse patient base which set them up for living long and healthy lives. Another part of what we do over here is to provide education to our patients that help them live, feel, and look better.

Below are a few quick and easy ways to improve your lifestyle. It’s the little things that add up!

1.) Take a Service-Style Attitude

Start thinking in terms of how you can be of service and how you can bring a certain amount of light to each situation. You’ll be surprised how much more often people think of you when you start putting others first in your life.

2.) Cross Your Ts and Dot Your Is

Don’t leave things that can be done today leftover for tomorrow. When you accomplish all that you set out to do in a day, you’ll feel… well…  accomplished! You’ll rest that easy sleep that comes along as a benefit from taking care of business.

3.) Get and Stay Well

Exercise your body and your mind. Take on new challenges and push yourself to start making healthier decisions moment to moment, whether that’s going for a hike instead of binge-watching television, eating that kale salad instead of french fries, and reading a more difficult book instead of scrolling your normal news feed.

Chiropractic treatments are another great way to quickly boost your wellness for a healthier lifestyle. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center to schedule your one-on-one consultation.

As we go about our days, we might start to hit the proverbial wall at some point in the late afternoon. For many of us, by the time we get home, even though we still have a few things to cross off our to-do lists, we’re ready to crash hard after the day’s events.

Read on for a few tips to boost your daily energy.

1.) Eat Well

Eat foods designed to fuel the body — clean, whole foods like veggies, protein, fruit, walnuts, etc. Stay away from processed carbs and refined sugars, which might give you an initial boost, but will make your crash. You want to be eating things that your body can digest easily, so you have more energy to burn.

2.) Stress Less

Our thought life spends a lot of our energy, so it’s important to remain focused on the important things in life. Try not to sweat anything that is out of your control — which is pretty much everything besides yourself.

3.) Exercise

Staying physically active will help boost your energy throughout the day. Make sure you don’t push yourself too hard before a day’s work, though.

4.) Sleep 7-9 Hours

Sleeping the requisite 7-9 hours each day is pivotal in maintaining your mental and physical health. You’ll notice your energy levels rise and your times of fatigue start to decrease.

5.) Drink Half Your Body Weight in Ounces of Water

Staying hydrated is hugely important, and over 80% of the population does not hydrate enough. Drinking the right amount of water will help keep your body balanced and give you better mental clarity.

These tips mentioned above are mere suggestions. If you’d also like to learn how chiropractic treatments can reduce your fatigue, life depression, and help treat pain the drug-free all-natural way, contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation.

Living a longer, better life is the goal of many people in today’s health-conscious society. Even though technology and medicine have advanced much, the average life expectancy still lingers around the 70-80 range, which means many of us aren’t exploring the possibilities of optimizing our health.

Follow the tips discussed below to increase your longevity. 

Get Your ZzZs

Make sure you get 7-9 hours of sleep each 24-hour period. Not getting enough sleep means your body isn’t getting the regenerative time it needs to cleanse the body and brain of toxins and charge your mental and physical batteries. 

Eat Clean, While Foods

Shopping along the edges of the grocery store means you’re shopping for veggies, fruits, and clean proteins. Stay away from sugar and processed carbohydrates whenever you can. A prolonged poor diet will certainly decrease your lifespan.

Stress Less

Find a way to let go of resentment. Find a way to quiet your mind and you’ll experience untold health benefits. Meditate daily if you can build that practice. Do yoga. Workout until your body gets tired. Doing all of these things will boost your mental wellness and has been shown to help you live a longer, happier, healthier life.

Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center to learn more about the many benefits of chiropractic treatments.

Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center helps our patients stay healthy and well long-term, and a lot of that has to do with providing education and materials that will help our patients achieve a better mind/body balance.

Below are a few ways easy lifehacks you should consider to cultivate a more positive mindset.

1.) Reframe Negative Beliefs

Your strengths can become your weaknesses and you can certainly work on your weaknesses until they become strengths. If this is true, you can reframe old negative thought patterns that no longer serve you.

2.) Help Other People

One of the best ways to feel amazing is to extend yourself to help another person out — no matter how simple the task at hand is. As you get more active in your community you’ll feel connected, fulfilled, and, in a way, protected. 

3.) Visit Your Local Chiropractor in Milpitas, CA

Visiting your chiropractor regularly will help you achieve a better mind/body balance, help you avoid injury, and has also been shown to reduce anxiety and boost cognitive function and mental wellness. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation and learn more about how chiropractic treatments can benefit you. 

The summer months are times when we might be more inclined to hit the beach and show a little skin. With so many fun events happening around the summer season, events like Memorial Day Weekend and Fourth of July, it can be easy to slip out of our fitness and wellness routines.

Read on for a few ways to make sure that you get your reps in this summer to ensure optimized wellness.

Stick to the Script

If you have a fitness and wellness routine, then now is the time to stick to it. Try not to skip any workouts, runs, climbs — whatever you do to get your cardio and strength up. You can even try to get your workouts in before the beach to make sure you earn your fun in the sun.

Take A New Class

Take a new fitness or yoga class — you’ll end up learning something new, doing something good for your health, and joining a community of like-minded, goal-oriented individuals.

Stay on Top of Your Game

Try to push yourself to new heights. Maybe plan a marathon around the summer time to ensure you’re getting your training in.

Try Chiropractic Care

Even while you’re out there pushing it hard, it’s important to take care of your body. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to be extremely effective in drug-free pain treatment, treatment of injury, and even prevention of new injuries. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation.

During pregnancy, a woman’s body goes through tremendous changes. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help make pregnancy easier on your body. Understanding the changes you will experience during pregnancy will help you see the benefits of regular chiropractic care.

Effects of Pregnancy on the Spine

The most obvious physical change – the development of a ‘baby bump’ – begins to occur during the second trimester. As the uterus grows to accommodate the growing fetus, the lumbar curve of the spine increases. As a result, the pelvis shifts position and the pelvic ligaments soften.

In order to counterbalance the growing belly, many pregnant women leaning slightly backward as they stand or walk. This posture modification can place additional pressure on the pelvis, the sacroiliac joint and the ligaments.

Effects of Pregnancy on Other Joints

Pregnancy can also affect the knees, ankles and feet. Increased body weight and changes in posture may lead to sciatica and swelling in the ankles and knees.

Effects of Pregnancy on Sleep

Pregnant women should sleep in a fetal position, with a pillow between their legs. But many women report difficulty in finding a comfortable sleeping position during their second and third trimesters – especially back- or belly-sleepers.

Chiropractic Care Can Help

There are no known contraindications to chiropractic care during pregnancy. In fact, all chiropractors are trained to work with pregnant women. Regular chiropractic care during pregnancy can help alleviate pain, strengthen your nervous system, and contribute to the overall health of you and your little one. Contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to learn more.

Inflammation has been linked to all sorts of health problems you don’t want, chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and yet even more serious conditions like cancer and dementia.

Inflammation is your body’s response to injury and to outside invaders like bacteria and viruses. Inflammation also happens when you eat bad foods loaded with refined sugars and processed carbohydrates, both of which are showing to be more and more linked to the health conditions mentioned above. Not only can inflammation attack your physical wellbeing, it can also affect your state of mind, inducing states of anxiety, depression, or even worse.

Below are a few foods that have anti-inflammatory effects that you should try incorporating into your diet. A healthy diet, after all, is the cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle.

1.) Blueberries

Start eating blueberries, whether in your oatmeal or in your salad. Blueberries are loaded with antioxidants that produce anti-inflammatory effects.

2.) Leafy Greens

Leafy greens, especially spinach, are loaded with vitamins and help reduce your risk of getting serious health conditions, like heart disease. They also have anti-inflammatory agents.

3.) CBD

CBD is being shown to provide numerous health benefits, including attacking inflammation in the body and brain without producing the psychoactive effects that its counterpart THC produces.

If you have any additional questions about how you can hack your diet to achieve maximum health benefits, contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today.

One of the silent predators in and out of the workplace is improper lifting technique, which can, after repeat offenses, take a serious toll on your back.

Since back injuries are a common reason many people end up calling in to work, we thought it would be worthwhile to go over some of the hallmarks of textbook proper lifting technique as a way to help our patients and readership avoid injuries that can keep them away from work and play, hurting our paychecks and our well-being.

Lift with Your Legs

Instead of bending over to grab and lift objects, make sure that you perform a squat and rise up with your legs, keeping the pressure off your back and spine.

Grab a Friend

Don’t be a hero, whether you’re at work or home, because you might end up being sorry and looking foolish. Instead, grab a friend, partner or coworker to help you lift a heavy object. Show your friend proper lifting technique to help them avoid injury, too.

Keep a Sizeable (Wide) Base

Keep your feet shoulder-width apart from each other with one foot slightly ahead of the other to establish a strong base to work from.

Remember to also keep whatever your lifting and carrying close to your body to reduce undue strain on your back. If you have any additional questions about how to demonstrate proper lifting technique or if you yourself experience a back injury due to improper lifting technique, please contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation.

Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center specializes in chiropractic care treatments that help our patients achieve a better quality of life — in more ways than one! Below we go over a few ways that chiropractic adjustments that you might not know about.

Chiropractic Helps Your Digestive System

Your GI tract can get out of whack just like your spine, which creates all sorts of problems with the rest of your body and your brain. Studies are consistently showing that your gut health is directly related to your state of mind, too. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to benefit the GI system, improving the digestive tract.

Chiropractic Boost Neurofunctionality

Chiropractic adjustments also benefit your mind/body connection. When our neck and spine get tweaked from everyday activity this can seriously affect the way our brain is able to communicate with the rest of the body, creating a “Dim Bulb” effect. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to boost mental clarity.

Chiropractic Reduces Stress and Improves Your Mood

Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to improve our patients state of mind, reduce anxiety and stress, and help patients achieve more restful sleep.

If you have any additional questions about how chiropractic care can benefit you contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today. We have a long track record of keeping our patients in prime health.

When you visit Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center for a spinal & postural screening, it’s a very important step in the establishment of your new wellness protocol. This serves as an initial discovery phase which provides you and your doctor with facts regarding issues you might be having in a neuromusculoskeletal sense.

After a quick spinal & postural screening, we can identify problems that might have gone previously unnoticed. Early identification with treatment will help you prevent experiencing chronic problems.

Here’s Our Screening Process:

We make sure that your pelvis, rib cage, and head are properly aligned and balanced upon each other. When the body is out of balance and out of alignment, this means good posture likely isn’t being practiced and the spine has deviated from healthy placement and position. 

Signs of Poor Alignment:

– Injury
– Disc Pain
– Scoliosis
– Neck and Back Pain
– Arm and Leg pain
– Pain in Your Buttocks
– Numbness or Tingling Sensation in the Arms, Legs, Hands, or Feet

If you’d like to schedule you spinal & postural screening, contact Family Chiropractic and Natural Healing Center today to schedule your consultation.