Ordinary people do this 23,040 a day, 8,409,600 a year but you will likely never notice it unless it is taken away or you can't seem to catch it. It can be taken away by something beautiful or the love of your life. It can calm you down when your anxious or you can pass out from doing it to fast!

Have you guessed what this is? Today we are talking about your breath. It is one of the things that we massively take for granted until you can't catch it.

Breathing is massively essential to life and optimal function. It's how we get oxygen to all aspects of our body. The problem is you don't have to be that efficient at breathing to get "enough" to survive. The problem is that "enough" isn't nearly enough to do the things you want to do.

Let's prove it to you that you aren't breaking enough, and it is affecting how you feel!
Rate on a scale of 1-10 how alert and energetic you feel

After your next exhale, breath in full (count to 4)
Hold your breath for a six-count
Let your breath out slowl...

The new trailer for the latest Star Wars movie dropped last week, and my inner geek got excited!

It is also a great segue into a post I wanted to write! Double score!

I’ve been listening to a bunch of podcasts of late one of them was with “humble the poet” who is publishing a new book Unlearn. When I heard the title, my inner nerd went straight to Yoda ~ “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

This got me thinking so much about our journeys into health, do we have to add one more thing to our lives or do we need to stop doing (unlearn) something that we thought was helping and health for us?

My experience is the latter in all aspect, structurally, chemically and emotionally.

For me, I vividly remember having “yelling” matches with one of my college roommates about wheat… and I was on the side of eating wheat. As many of may know I had a sugar starch and beer problem when I was in college. I have also fully indoctrinated in the FDA based nutrition and biochemistry “science.” I re...

I have a new fascination, podcasts... Yeah I know I am a few years late to the table on this one but eh what can I say I am not an earlier adopter!

I know when Erin reads this, she is going to roll her eyes and say I told you this years ago!  Well, I am a slow learner, but once I get it I am all about it! 

They are mini audio books!!!!! And I am geeking out!

The problem right now is that I am in a honeymoon phase and all over the place trying to figure out what and who I like, so I am listening to about 15 right now, and there are thousands of episodes to catch up on from them.  

One of these podcasts was Able James, Fat Burning Man where he interviewed a friend of his, who has written a couple of books (they weren't necessarily talking about writing) but they talked about process and productivity of busy people.  The thing that struck me was the interviewee is a teacher, coach, author, and father who takes 30 minutes every Thursday to write, edit, and publish one blog post no matt...

Water, Water Everywhere... But You're Probably Not Drinking Enough!

Your brain operates on two systems.

System 1: Fast, intuitive, automatic. This is autopilot. It handles everything you do without thinking—driving in traffic, brushing your teeth, scrolling your phone.

System 2: Slow, deliberate, conscious. This requires effort. It's the part of your brain you use when learning something new or making complex decisions.

Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow explores how almost everything starts as System 2 (exhausting, conscious effort) and eventually becomes System 1 (effortless, automatic).

Think about learning to drive. The first time, it was overwhelming—mirrors, pedals, steering, traffic. Now you can drive for an hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic and not remember how you got home. System 1 took over.

Here's the problem: your System 1 autopilot is programmed by mass media, advertising, and cultural defaults designed to keep you addicted to products that wreck ...

I tend to be a meat-based, by meat-based I mean totally a carnivore.  So, when I read Terry Wahls book "The Wahls Protocol" I knew I needed to change things up to fight the inflammation and aging that was creeping in on my body.

If you haven't read that book it is well worth the read, the gist of the book is that paleo is the way to go, but you have to add in a ton of veggies especially if you have inflammation.   Her goal is to get you up to 6-9 cups of vegetables a day.  

While that sounds like a lot all you have to do is make an effort to have some veggies with every meal!  Something like 2 cups with breakfast, 3 cups with lunch then 4 with dinner and you're good!  That being said I understand life is crazy and sometimes we need convenience, and for me, I needed to be on even the high end of this scale when I am recovering from workouts.  To make sure I got there I started adding in Green Vegetable based smoothies!

Many of you have heard me rail over the years to not drink your m...

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” ~Thomas Edison

Fundamental Human Movement: The Squat (Sit down and Stand up)

The number one thing outside of trauma (A fall and breaking bone, Heart attack, Stroke, and possibly dementia) that puts people into assisted living is the inability to take themselves to the bathroom.  i.e., getting themselves off the toilet.  

Now full disclosure I don't know how accurate that is today, but it provides an amazing framework for thought.  

First off let's think about what it takes to get on and off the toilet.  The total act of getting down to and off the toilet is just one repetition (full cycle of a movement) of a BODY WEIGHT or "Air" squat.  So, the inability to get off the toilet is just the inability to do 1/2 of a bodyweight squat!  

Not to be harsh (well maybe just a little) but that is ridiculous. Look we are as h...

There is a very famous quote that has been attributed to Thomas Edison it goes like:

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

I as Chiropractors especially those of us that utilize Applied Kinesiology LOVE this quote I feel we alone are the example of what Mr. Edison was describing. 

Since I have some mental space to blog I am going to do a series of post starting this week talking about the things in this quote, and I'll add one more the to this illustrious quote, and it is care of the mental condition. 

You see as enlightened as this quote is it leaves off an essential part of humanity, which is to be mentally balanced (as much as we can be anyway).  The mental habits that can cause our health to nose dive or us to never get our stuff together.

So, over the next few weeks and months, I will be covering the "Triad of Health" (above) as we call it in AK (App...

As most of you know, I fly by the seat of my pants with most things... Usually not in a good way... 

I have let way too many small fires burn to try to put out bigger fires or more "important" fires.  Which, usually aren't that important, but I have let them go long enough that they have become pressing and painful.  This could be things like you know you need to move or eat better, and you know how but the kids or the job or the commute or insert reason here______ has stopped you.

For whatever reason, this has been the story of my life.

I have known forever that daily mantra's and focus/intention work can do amazing things. but I haven't used them in a long time.  I got overwhelmed in the day to day of trying to live life.  Without these essential parts of being present and in the moment, it has been HARD!

I've been mailing in the meditations, praying sporadically (at best), and really just been off my "game" for a long time. I honestly can't remember the last time I had it all to...

I am literally at my happiest and my best when I am studying learning and teaching.  If you want me to be depressed, make me so tired, so busy (usually with non-sensical things) that I can't learn, grow, expand or teach someone something new.  

I found myself in that position a few weeks ago.  A change needed to happen! I was, well truth be told probably still am, exhausted, burnt out and restless, full of anxiety and angst.  As is my nature, I kind of turtled up and dug in for a few days trying to figure out what was going sideways in my life why I was feeling this way.  

For me to dig in I prayed, I meditated I sat quietly trying to figure out why I was ... just blech ... and nothing came.  The clinical side of my brain took over, is it my adrenals? Maybe my thyroid is off? Ya know my digestion has been a bit sucky. Lately, I wonder if that is it?  All the things were pouring through my clinical mind.  Problem is none of them was the answer.  

Then on one of my drives home just si...

I have seriously tried to shoot this video and write this post for about for about six months.  

The past few months... let's be honest the last few years, have been some of the most trying in my life as a parent, a husband, a teacher and a Doctor.  I have been spread much to thin with my family, with my practice and my patients.  

To shorten this story up a bit and get to the point, back in March I signed a long-term lease at my office in Addison, this means I will be in that office for the next few years, and I got one a reduction in my rent over the long hall.  But there was a significant increase in the rent over the past lease.  I guess that is a good sign for the economy, but it has substantially increased the cost of me doing business.  Which translates to me having to raise my rates from $110 / 30 minutes of treatment to $130 / 30-minute and $75 for a 15-minute treatment.  

I know this is a bit of an increase, but it is needed for my practice to continue to deliver the stand...