I get asked this question a lot, and the simple answer is, yes!  Babies and children respond amazingly well to Chiropractic care.  I even adjusted my daughter, Lilly, within the first hour of her birth. In my opinion, it is essential to adjust newborns at birth because, quite simply, birth is by far the most traumatic event you will go through your entire life.  It makes sense considering the baby, which is roughly the size of a watermelon, is squeezed through a hole about the size of a lemon during birth.  That has to be traumatic!  The beautiful part?  We are designed to do just that, but it does create problems with the cranium and spine.   In my perfect world, every baby would be adjusted shortly after birth. There are so many reasons to adjust a child.  First, it helps the immune system.  My son, T.J., was sick a few weeks ago and was running what I considered to be a highish fever, around 101 degrees.  We didn't freak out, though.  Instead, I gave him a few Homeopathic remedies a...

Well it’s hot as hell outside, and pretty much miserable.  Summer is in full swing! I can’t help but wonder how people ever managed to live without air conditioning.  With temperatures well over 100 this week, make sure you’re drinking a ton of water, even if you’re not outside a lot.  It’s this time of year that we have to really be careful about not overdoing it.  In addition to water try some zucchini, (it’s great for the adrenal glands, which help keep you hydrated), and make sure you’re resting as much as possible.  Also, don't forget to salt your veggies and meats with a good sea salt, this will go a long way in keeping you hydrated as well. Signs of dehydration:

• Dry sticky mouth, thirst
• Lack of energy or fussiness (usually in children)
• Hunger
• Dark yellow urine
• Headache
• Dizziness
• Rapid heart rate for no good reason
• Symptoms are worse first thing in the morning but get better throughout the day

How much water should you drink?  At least 1L per 50lbs of body weight and...

Medical Care for Your Back Pain is Possibly Doing More Harm Than Good

There was an interesting article published last Monday that claimed current medical interventions for back pain are wrong.  It went on to say that doctor's are over prescribing painkillers, MRI’s, CT scans, and providing needless surgeries.  I have to say, none of this is news to me at all.

The Emperor has no clothes!

This reminds me of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale , “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” where a  vain Emperor cares for nothing except wearing the finest clothes. He hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for their position.  The "tailors" making clothes for the Emperor convince him that if he cannot see the clothing being made he must be unfit or stupid. All of his ministers fearing to look as if they are incompetent pretend that they can see the clothes along with the Emperor.  Once the “suit” is finished the tailor’s mime dressing the...

The Proteins We Should Eat: A list of High Protein Foods

Most health problems we have today can be traced back to the foods we eat and choose not to eat. Honestly, most of those problems are linked to not balancing blood sugar.  When I tell patients they need to clean up their diet and stop eating bread, pasta, cakes, cookies, candy, rice, potatoes, soda, brownies and doughnuts, they respond with one of two choices:  They cry, or, say there's nothing left to eat. It really isn't the end of the world!  There is, in fact, plenty to eat. If it grew out of the ground or used to walk on the ground, fly in the sky or swim in the sea, you are pretty safe eating it. Most people are still overwhelmed by this, so here's a list of high protein foods you should be eating.

Mammals 

Most of our American diet comes from this group.  Personally, I'm a huge fan of beef, bacon, and lamb.  We still have to be somewhat careful with what we choose to eat off this list.  Concentrate on eathing these thin...

 This is a basic guide that will assist you in determining what foods to eat that will be most beneficial in supplementing the vitamins your body needs.  With so many choices it won’t be difficult to maintain a healthy diet and make it much easier to avoid the foods that are causing you problems. Foods that contain Vitamin A, include:

Foods that contain Vitamin B1 (Thiamine), include:

Foods that contain Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), include:

Foods that contain Vitamin B3 (Niacin), include:

I hear it almost every day in practice, "I was helping a friend move, and now my back is killing me!"  With more than 1/3 of all moves happening during the summer, I've heard it a lot!  If you're anticipating a move this summer or even if you just got suckered into helping a buddy move, you will be lifting, bending, packing, reaching, climbing.  You need to ensure you don’t hurt yourself by lifting correctly. 

Lifting correctly Can HELP but it's not all!

Most of us already have some abnormal body function taking place.  If we lift and something ‘snaps,' the damage was most likely already there, just brought to the surface by the effort.  Your back doesn't slip while trying to pick up a pencil; it's simply not a sudden injury that occurs.  There has been a tremendous amount of research done over the past few years about why these seemingly random injuries take place, particularly during innocuous tasks. Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology uses muscles to determine different movement ...

If you are interested in warding off dental health problems before they begin and improving your overall dental health, you have to think about what you are putting into your body.  What we eat impacts our entire body, and that, of course, includes our teeth and gums. 

As you know, following a Paleo Diet means avoiding processed and packaged foods and Food allergies like wheat, corn, dairy, soy, legumes and increasing your vegetables, fruits, seafood and lean meats. Not only do these foods lack the vitamins and minerals your body needs, they contain little to no nutritional benefits. 

This directly impacts the health of your teeth and gums.  By staying away from processed foods, your teeth and gums will benefit, just like the rest of your body. Far as your dental health is concerned, sugar is the big bad guy here.  Toxic bacterial byproducts eat away teeth structure and bone and cause cavities and periodontal disease. They create a highly acidic environment.  

Tooth decay is caused ...

Digestive Problems Hidden Component:

By Dr. J. J. Gregor D.C.  

Digestive problems affect about 70,000,000 people every day. There are billion dollar drugs that have been concocted to treat the myriad of problems that can be associated with the Gastrointestinal tract, not to mention the innumerable amounts of surgeries that are performed every year on the gut. There as so many causes and different symptoms that can be labeled as a digestive problem, everything from Chron's and

There as so many causes and different symptoms that can be labeled as a digestive problem, everything from Chron's and Gluten sensitivities and food allergies, hyper (too much) or hypo (too little) stomach acid, Gas, Belching, Bloating, Constipation, Diarrhea to nausea and vomiting. 

There is a much overlooked and potentially major accomplice in these symptoms/conditions, the ileocecal valve. First, let us talk about your digestive tract, which absorbs nutrients and the building blocks for your cells.  Your d...

By Dr. J. J. Gregor

In 2009 I was lucky enough to travel to Munich, Germany to take an advanced certification test (Diplomate in Applied Kinesiology) and was able to take my mother, who had never been to Europe.  We shared a room, and the trip was amazing.  However, my mom did manage to scare the hell out of me in the middle of the night the first night when she would just stop breathing for a breath or two, several times.  If you've had the misfortune of ever witnessing this, you understand what a disturbing experience it is. I made her go to a sleep center when she got home, and they officially diagnosed her with sleep apnea.  

This is a common chronic disorder, which disrupts the sleep of close to 25% of the population in the U.S.  And if left untreated, is extremely dangerous. There are two types of sleep apnea.  The first and most common type is obstructive sleep apnea, where your airway becomes blocked or even collapses. Most of the time the cause of the obstruction is an inhib...

Eat Local to Improve Your Health and the Environment

Dr. J. J. Gregor DC

One of the main tenants of the Ancestral Diet (Paleo or Primal) is to eat locally.  As we were 'growing up' as a species, before the advent of agriculture, we could only eat what we could find growing wild or what we could hunt.  Hence, we were hunter-gatherers.  We did this for around 200,000 years.  

Not to eat locally means that our genes are designed to eat a variety food that can be walked to in less than a day. Unfortunately, today our diets can't be considered local. In fact, they are far from local.  The average distance an American meal travels from farm to fork is about 1500 miles! 

This is the distance from my office here in Dallas, TX to Boston, MA.  There are significant problems with this in regards to the freshness of the food.  Usually, it takes three to five days after harvest to get to your local grocery store, so these foods were harvested five to ten days before they were ripe or when our a...