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Nevada City Chiropractic Better Than Exercise For Long-Term Improvement A new study evaluated the effectiveness of chiropractic care utilizing a flexion/distraction table versus physical therapy one year after treatment was completed. If you’ve been to my office you’ll most likely have been on my flexion/distraction table–it’s the fancy table in room 2 that moves up…

Nevada City Diet Foods, Cancer, and Getting Fat Aspartame, an incredibly popular food in the diet industry, has been shown in a recent, large, government–funded–and–published study, to increase ALL types of cancer. The authors of the 2006 study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, concluded that “The results of this mega-experiment indicate that aspartame…

Bacopa Boosts Brain Power in Nevada City One of the best herbs you can use to protect your brain as you age is Bacopa Monniera. Research has shown that Bacopa helps you to remember newly acquired information–people’s names, reading material, a new musical instrument, etc. This is significant since this is usually the first aspect…

Chocolate for Health in Nevada City! Cocoa is a hot topic in research these days. Cocoa contains a complex array of compounds that have been shown to increase blood flow to the brain (important in delaying/preventing age-related dementia), improve blood vessel function (important in prevent heart disease and strokes), improve sensitivity to insulin (preventing/treating type…

Chiropractic for Low Back Pain in Nevada City A new study in the journal Manual Medicine compared exercise only to exercise plus chiropractic adjustments for people suffering from low back pain. Astonishingly, patients doing exercise only were eight times more likely to get worse than patients receiving adjustments plus exercises! The reason for this is…

Fruit Every Day for Healthy Bones in Nevada City Researchers recently set out determine if there was a relationship between fruit and vegetable intake and bone density. Surprisingly, fruit intake was more powerfully associated with healthy bones than was vegetable intake. This relationship was true for both young and older women. It is interesting to…