Diet plan or Gym?… Health, it’s what you eat

It’s 2013, and we all have to make that big decision, do we want to be healthier than we were in 2012, or not?

New Year has come and passed, and most of us have made a resolution to get healthy, so we sign up at the local gym, go to GNC and get the latest and greatest fat loss miracle, and get started. It is not news that exercise is a vital part of becoming a healthier person, but we often look over the fact that it only accounts for about 20% of weight loss and health. The vast majority of our health is based on what is at the end of our fork. This is why most resolutions fail. This is why we never see the results we desire from the hard work at the gym. Each time you go to the gym you burn about 200-300 calories.

This is a good start, but if you eat one cheeseburger, drink one fountain drink, or eat one Snickers bar, you are going to negate every bit of that workout. I am guilty of this just as much as anyone is, if I go to the gym and get a good set in, I feel like I am allowed to reward myself with something. That reward is always a food that will negate the great benefits I just got at the gym, and it is back to square one the next day.

A wash on the day for health is better than the average American, because statistically the majority of Americans gain weight every single day, so if you are able to maintain a weight and not gain you are actually showing benefits. But this is not was we want, is it? We want to lose a ton of weight in a hurry. We want a six pack by spring.

The hardest part of my position is to try to put rational goals in place for each patient. Weight loss greater than 3 lbs per week is too much and will shock the body and cause health damage. So, it is important to be patient and set a goal of about 10 lbs per month. Eating a reduced calorie diet is effective, but it is important to take some focus away from just calorie in calorie out and remember that without adequate levels of vital nutrients, the body will not allow you to lose weight.

Here are some quick tips on how to maximize your weight loss results:

1. Do not drink your calories
2. Avoid all grains
3. Make vegetables your primary food
4. Eat only foods with ONE ingredient
5. Avoid processed food

Remember…

If you live the common American lifestyle, and eat the Standard American Diet (SAD), chances are, your health will worsen this year, just as it did last year and the year before that. We are living in a way that has led to a decline in our health and an incline in our waist line. The New-Start Solution is a plan that will work very effectively to restore your health and help you reach your New Year’s goal.

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Disc Derangement, New-Start Health Center's Approach to Low Back Pain

Lumbar disc derangement is the most common cause of organic low back pain and in a chiropractic office, it is commonly misdiagnosed. Studies have shown that nearly 40% of patients suffering from low back pain have had symptoms that are consistent with lumbar disc derangement. The catch is, no standard chiropractic “adjustment” will help resolve this type of pain. Instead, to restore the body’s function, a different therapy must be applied, Mckenzie Protocol.

 

We have all been trained to be scared of the infamous “herniated disc” or “slipped disc” and we know that if you get one of those, surgery is needed. Well I am here to give you a bit of a sigh of relief. Studies have been done on patients with absolutely Zero low back pain, and yet a large percentage of these patients had evidence of a “herniated Disc” on their MRI. What does this mean? Disc bulges, or minor disc herniation can be pain free. This is great news,  but the condition can worsen and go down the road of disc prolapse or sequester, and if you have a weak core, your chances of these conditions is greatly increased. The pain syndrome does not start until the disc bulge or herniation starts to tear the outer fibers of the disc called the annulus fibrosis. This is the definition of disc derangement.  The outer fibers of the disc are much like the enamel of your teeth. It is designed to protect you from the very sensitive nerve fibers. When these outer disc fibers tear, it is like a cavity in the disc. The inner part of the disc (nucleus pulposus) starts to migrate into the outer fibers and affects the nerve endings much like sugar on a cavity.

Luckily the disc is slightly different than your tooth’s enamel, because it can actually repair itself. The current protocol in the medical world is to a disc bulge, herniation, or derangement is also similar to the dental world.  When we get a severe cavity, it is pretty common to use a synthetic metal to fill the void in the too, or even put a crown on the tooth. The surgical intervention of lumbar disc disorders is to but a spinal block in the segment, meaning they remove the disc and put a metallic disc between the two spinal segments. The concept is great, but studies have shown that spinal disc surgeries have a 60% fail rate, and there is actually a diagnosis for it called, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. Scar tissue and the blocking of a joint in the low back causes so many alterations in the biomechanics of the spine that further disc injuries are inevitable. Instead of surgery, allow us at New-Start to help your body restore itself.

Disc derangement is a result of weak core muscles, repetitive motions, and lumbar spine instability. Getting adjusted by a chiropractor is very effective in restoring motion in to fixated segments in the spine, but if a condition is caused by instability, or too much motion, it seems pretty clear that an adjustment to increase motion will be of no benefit, and could possibly worsen the condition. If this condition is misdiagnosed, your chiropractor could potentially make it worse.

At New-Start Health Center, We pride ourselves on staying on top of the most current treatment protocols to allow us to get patients to a PAIN FREE status as quickly as possible. This starts with Proper Diagnosis of the pain syndrome.

Disc derangement pain can be very elusive. If you suffer from low back pain when sitting for long periods of time, increased pain in the morning, pain when moving from a lying to a sitting position or a sit to stand position, or have pain in certain movements such as leaning back then you may have a disc derangement. The pain can be local to the low back, or can also travel down into the buttock and all the way to the knee.

You do not need to have all of these symptoms to have disc derangement. If you ever suffer from Low Back Pain, it is important to find out with a quick physical exam if you do have any derangement. It is important to remember that 40% of all people with low back pain, suffer from disc derangment, and you do not want it to progress to a disc prolapse or sequester.

Call New-Start (812) 799-0668 if you want to have your Low Back Pain further inspected and to find out if we can help you Become Pain Free.

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Fibromyalgia, Scoliosis, GERD, etc.One Cause. A Chiropractor Can Help

This term refers to a condition called brain laterality, meaning one side of the brain’s cortex is over stimulated in regards to the other side. The most common form of brain hemisphericity is right brain dominance. The left and right brain are associated with two major hormones in the body, testosterone and estrogen respectively. The female sex is more susceptible to being effected by emotion or fear is because estrogen and the right brain are associated with emotional control. When the brain is constantly stimulated by emotion, it activates the right cortex, causing an overstimulation and leads to right brain dominance.

Other causes of brain laterality are lack of activation of the cerebellum. Cerebellum is the part of the brain that is responsible for our motion detection and balance. If there are fixated joint segments on the left side of the body, the cerebellum will not receive any motion information, leading to a decrease in cerebellar function. The trick is, that all sensory information that comes from the body, goes to the opposite side of the brain. So any lack of motion in a joint segment on the left side of the body, will shut down activation on the right cerebellum. This can lead to activation of the right cortex, leading to right brain dominance.

Muscle control is also stimulated by the opposite side of the brain, so your left arm is controlled by the right cortex. This is important because when a person falls into right brain dominance, the muscles on the left side of the body are over activated. This doesn’t affect every muscle in the body, mainly just the postural muscles that are fired automatically, meaning they fire without any of our control. The majority of postural muscles are the ones that support the spine. When the body becomes right brain dominant, there is an over activation of the left side spinal muscles in regards to the right side, leading to idiopathic spinal scoliosis. This is why the spinal curvature is always to the left.

Prolonged durations of right brain dominance, brain hemisphericity, brain laterality, can lead to many more common symptoms. As the right brain becomes over stimulated, it starts to build more neuronal ties to the brain’s limbic system. The limbic system is what controls our response to a stimulus, and controls our sympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for our Flight or Fight response to a stimulus. When we over activate the sympathetic nervous system, we shut down the parasympathetic nervous system.

The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for our digestive function. When you over stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, and shut down the parasympathetic nervous system, you inhibit the body’s ability to digest food, leading to number of conditions, IBS, GERD, ulcers, diverticulitis, Leaky Gut, Crohn’s, and even colon cancer. Poor digestion also leads to a deficiency in nutrients, most importantly, B-vitamins. Deficiencies in B-Vitamins can be linked to fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, infertility, depression, chronic fatigue, and even insomnia.

Common signs and symptoms of right brain dominance is someone who uses feelings as a way of describing things, someone who has a big imagination, someone that draws and is more interested in art than math. 

This can be treated, and alleviated with controlled care. Stimulation of the nervous system on the left side of the body will increase cerebellar function on the right side of the body, inhibiting the right cortex from being over stimulated. Also, lifestyle changes, that allow us to cope with stress with also decrease the emotional stimulation of the right cortex. This therapy takes time, but is very effective.

If you know anyone who demonstrates any of these symptoms, seek a natural treatment plan.

Sincerely,
Dr. Trent Mozingo

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The Cure for the Common Cold

We have all heard the rumor that there is no cure for the common cold. The repetitive notion that there is no cure has left all of us in a frenzy to alleviate the symptoms. There are thousands of cold/flu medications that claim to treat every symptom of the Common Cold. These synthetic medications have many alleged benefits ranging from; cough suppressing, sinus decongestion, mucous dissolving, fever reducing, pain relieving, sleep improving, and many more. This is a multibillion dollar market, and no pharmaceutical company wants you to believe there is any other way to treat the common cold, because as we all know, there is NO Cure for the Common Cold.

The thing that bothers me is, if there is no cure for the common cold, why is it that we all don’t suffer from the cold all the time? I, like 100% of Americans, have suffered from the many symptoms of the Common Cold many times, but I am not suffering from them right now. So, seemingly, something has made the Common Cold go away. How is this possible? There is NO Cure, right?

Contrary to popular belief, there IS A CURE for the Common Cold. There is a cure for many common diseases/viruses. That cure is the human body’s immune system.  The most common methods of transmission of the common cold are airborne and direct contact. Bacterial and viral strands are the most common culprits of causing the common cold, and as soon as these pathogens enter the human body, the immune system instantly starts working. Mucous in the nasal and oral pathway start to bind to these toxins and limit the amount of penetration in to the body. This is why we become congested. The ones that get through then have to enter the lung so they can be up taken in to the blood stream. Any foreign particle in the blood stream is considered a toxic material and the body instantly starts making its personal army against it, called antibodies.  After these antibodies are produced, they scour the body, searching for trace remains of these foreign particles, and destroy them. Anytime you involve white blood cells, you can expect a fever to be present. Fever is the body’s natural process to destroy infectious particles. Fever, to an extent, is a very good, natural process that allows the body to rid itself of infection.  Coughing is a bodily response that tries to expel the foreign or toxic particles from the lung tissue, similar to sneezing.  The human body is designed to maintain a healthy status, and it has many facets to restoring a healthy body. We just have to let it.

Letting the body take over and cure itself is the most effective way to treat and cure the common cold. Whenever we take prescription or over-the-counter medications to stop the symptoms of the Common Cold, we are actually just prolonging the sickness and inhibiting the many functions that the body has designed to fight the pathogen.

What about the flu vaccine?

The vaccine has a very effective idea. It introduces a pathogen to the blood and allows the flu shot and the body to produce antibodies and immunity from a particular strand of cold/flu pathogens. The problem is, there are more than 200 different types of flu causing particles, and the flu vaccine only has attenuated strands that are similar to the previous year’s breakout. What if there is a new strand, a new pathogen. If this is the case, the flu vaccine will do absolutely no good. It will only put unnecessary stress on your immune system, and introduce the body to a foreign toxic particle, and an unhealthy level of toxic vaccine preservatives like mercury and aluminum. Another major hiccup in the idea of flu vaccines is this. The primary point of entry for all major flu/common cold causing pathogens is the nasal and oral cavity. These areas are the primary first defense for the body’s immune system. This is the major road block for most foreign particles. When the flu vaccine is administered subcutaneously with a needle, it bypasses this very important, primary immune response center and doesn’t allow the body to build an initial response to the particular foreign object, leaving the entire nasal and upper respiratory tract vulnerable to infection.

The only way to prevent and cure the Common Cold is to utilize the many complex body functions that were designed to do this job. Our diet and our lifestyles can play a major role in the strength of the immune system. Many antioxidants and immune supporting nutrients can be found in fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C for example, can be found in most plant products, the big one we know is oranges. Vitamin C is a potent antioxidant, so flooding our body with Vitamin C is a good protocol for preventing cold and flu symptoms. Vitamin C is NOT ascorbic acid, sorry, but do not think getting a generic Vitamin C supplement will benefit in any way. You have to get vitamin C from food, not a factory. Stress plays a major role in supporting or suppressing the immune system as well. Stress level can play a role in quality of sleep, level of immune suppressing hormones in the body, and even digestive function. All three of these need to be in proper working order to improve your chances to avoid the Common Cold. Exercise is proven to increase internal temperature, cause sweating, and improve cardiac function, which are all also effective in preventing disease.

Decrease your stress, improve your diet, and do some mild/moderate level of exercise, and you can be Common Cold Free forever. The New-Start Solution is designed to treat many forms of disease in a very simple way. Strengthen to body to fight disease with its own immune system. There are many different ways to improve the function of a body’s immune system, and the New-Start Solution uses many natural approaches to Improve Your Health, and Change Your Life.

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease”
-Thomas Jefferson

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Lose weight, Feel Great, Become Pain Free!!! The New-Start Solution

It is pretty clear to see that the health of America is declining. You can look around and see the changes in every generation. There is a staggering increase in diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, dementia, ADHD, Autism, etc. throughout the country. Recent studies have shown that by year 2030, 56% of Indiana residents will be diagnosed as ‘Clinically Obese.” This includes the youth, down to the age of 6 months old. I hope that each of you wonder… WHY? The answer is very simply, Our LIFESTYLE.

We go to restaurants and seek the largest portions of foods at the cheapest price because we are getting “more for our money.” We consume, on average, 150 pounds of added sugar each year. We are trained that if we have any symptom of disease, then we should seek the most current pharmaceutical medication that is advertised all over the television. More importantly, we have fallen into a digital world that allows us to sit at a desk, or on a couch and experience the world, WITHOUT ANY physical output. All of these things are the melting pot for an epidemic. That epidemic is now, and it is destroying the health of Americans.

What would happen if you decided to water down the gasoline that you run in your car to get more quantity for your money? Your car might run, but it would run poorly, you would lose fuel economy, and eventually the health of your car would become damaged. This is the same concept as to why our health is crashing in America. The common food system that we are exposed to is the same as watered down gasoline.

The food that you consume is your body’s fuel, and also, your body’s medicine. Our body requires many vitamins and nutrients to ensure that it runs efficiently, and if we don’t provide these vital ingredients to the body, our health will pay the price. Each food or drink that we consume is one of two things, medicine or poison. You are making this choice at each and every meal; provide to body with nourishing food, or provide poisonous food that drives inflammatory disease…

The New-Start Solution is an innovative approach to health. It is clear to see that the health care system in place is not working. There are many conditions that are becoming more prevalent in America, and no medication has a chance at helping. The New-Start Solution can.

The New-Start Solution is a 12 week program, designed to teach each individual how to modify their diet and lifestyle to improve their health, and change their quality of life. There are many food options in the program, and if eaten correctly, your diet will become the fuel and medicine you need to lose weight, feel great, and become pain free. After many hours of research, I have completed the New-Start Solution with one goal in mind, to Improve Your Health, and Change Your Life.

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