What Smartphone Addiction Actually Does to Your Brain: The Science
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
We decided early on that we were not doing electronics at the dinner table.
No judgment if you do. But Erin and I made that call and we held it. Our kids read books at the table while we wait for food. Lily does crochet. We talk. It is, apparently, a spectacle. Servers comment on it. Other parents stare. Like we brought exotic animals to Applebee's.
I say that not to be smug about it. I say it because every single time it happens, I think: this is what normal used to look like.
We have decided, as a culture,
...The 72-Hour Reset: Why This Window Is Real and How to Actually Use It
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
Who are you following?
Are you letting the tech giants lead you? Are you outsourcing your brain power to an algorithm? Are you letting AI drive your decisions, your attention, your imagination? Because here is what I know after 24 years of watching people get healthier and watching people stay stuck: the people who get better are the ones who decide what they are following. Not what they are reacting to.
This is a post about your phone. But it is really about that question.
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Herion addicts like heroin... Just like we like our phones...
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
Every generation thinks it's the worst. We are, as a species, constitutionally Chicken Little. The sky is always falling.
The meme at the top of this post makes that point better than I can. We look at people glued to their phones and declare the death of real human connection. And then you see the photo below it: a train car full of people in their Sunday best, every single face buried in a newspaper. Not one of them talking to each other. Not one of them present.
Socrates (or Plato, one of the two) reportedly...
What Getting Present Actually Does to Your Body
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
So what the hell does it really mean for your health when the angry dictator of your thoughts (the guy with the German accent and the shitty little mustache, you know the one), that petulant little toddler of a hypercritical internal dialogue, rears his ugly little attitude?
One post wasn't enough. Learning why something works helps you figure out how to unplug it and unwind it.
In the last post we talked about the default mode network: the internal dialogue running old programming, generating anxiety about thi...
The Angry Little Dictator Running Your Life
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
We've all seen it. Or if you have kids, you've had the humbling experience of living it.
There's a kid at Target absolutely losing it. Full meltdown. They want a toy, a piece of candy, some form of dopamine hit, and when the parent says no, the little turd erupts into a torrent of crying, wailing like a banshee, kicking, screaming, and becoming a menace to everyone within a thirty-foot radius. And in a moment of pure exhausted embarrassment, the parent just gives in.
When my son was about two or three, he had o...
I've Been Through 9/11, 2008, and the Pandemic. This Feels Different.
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
I've been doing this for 24 years.
I started my first day of clinic on September 11th, 2001. I made it through the end of the dot-com bust. The housing crash in 2008. I had two kids 13 months apart (that stress was personal, not global). The pandemic. Riots. All of it.
This week feels different.
I don't know how else to say it. It feels deeper. Spiritual. Subconscious. Almost like a universal subconscious shift that everyone's picking up on whether they realize it or not.
And I don't like it.
What's Differen...
Why Everyone's Adrenals Are Getting Destroyed Right Now (And What To Do About It)
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
Everyone is stressed as hell right now and they're getting their ass kicked.
Every person. Every appointment. Every conversation.
Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Sitting in the chest. Crushing. I wrote most of this after teaching at ICAK's winter meeting in Orlando. What became clear in the days after confirmed what I was already seeing in the clinic: everyone, and I do mean everyone, is getting crushed by adrenal exhaustion right now.
Almost all of my patients this week said some version of "I don't know what's wrong ...
Can TMJ Cause Other Problems?
Educational Content Disclaimer: This article provides educational information only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The content discusses general health topics and should not replace consultation with your licensed healthcare provider. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to your diet, supplements, or medications. Dr. JJ Gregor is a Doctor of Chiropractic licensed in Texas and practices within the scope of chiropractic care.
Most people say "I have TMJ" when describing jaw pain. That's like saying "I have knee" instead of "I have knee pain." TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint: the hinge connecting your jaw to your skull. We all have two of them. What people mean is TMJ dysfunction: the joint isn't moving correctly, muscles aren't firing in proper sequence, or structural compensation has developed.
Why does this matter? Because TMJ dysfunction doesn't stay isolated to your jaw.
The Neurological Reality of TMJ Dysfunction
Your...