If there is one thing in clinic with babies and kids that makes me nervous, it is when they are floppy with low tone. The implications are not good, but one thing that is more common now than before as a cause, is our old friend vitamin B12 deficiency. The reality is people’s diets are awful, loaded up on highly processed junk food. Plus, we…
Vitamin B12 is the toughest thing to lecture on because there is no definitive way to rule it out as an issue. Blood tests can rule it in, but not out. The symptoms can be so varied from persistent vague pain, numbness, tingling to fatigue (usually in the absence of anaemia) to health issues and more. So the clinical symptoms are KEY to diagnosis. Even…
Many years ago a young Chiropractic college 2nd year student came to me for assessment at home with severe dizziness, headaches, panic attacks, neck pain and nausea. This had come on after she was manhandled by a slightly enthusiastic classmate during motion palpation. Sudden onset severe dizziness, nausea and neck pain, lead to a rapid referral to hospital to rule out a stroke. Thankfully there…
There’s an old saying that there are only 2 things guaranteed in life: Death and taxes. In the chiropractic world, I like to say that the only 2 guarantees are: We all achieve amazing life-changing results for our patients through neuromechanical intervention. We all have patients that do not respond as anticipated to our intervention. And while we can proudly celebrate the first one, it’s…
It may be the building block for your sex hormones, your vitamin D and more but, dammit your unruly liver keeps making so much that it might give you a heart attack! Thank goodness for those benevolent souls at big pharma are here to provide highly expensive drugs to correct your own endogenous cholesterol issues that seem to defy any logic. If we didn’t have…
You’ve been at work all day, you’re tired, you have managed to get to bed early, you’re asleep and then……. Your legs decide to go for a walk. Restless leg syndrome is no laughing matter. Good quality sleep is critical for healing and energy in the day. Tired in the day = poor food choices (too much sugar and carbs plus caffeine), less exercise and…
hese simple videos help you understand why our supplements are not your average supplements compared to high street and other practitioner brands that do not understand the needs of the Neuro-mechanical practitioner. And even on top of that, I wanted to give practitioners who have not yet joined the Core Concepts in Chiropractic Nutrition (launching 1st week Feb, it is looking sooooo good), to understand…
You’ve been at work all day, you’re tired, you have managed to get to bed early, you’re asleep and then……. Your legs decide to go for a walk. Restless leg syndrome is no laughing matter. Good quality sleep is critical for healing and energy in the day. Tired in the day = poor food choices (too much sugar and carbs plus caffeine), less exercise and…
Welcome to 2023, this week we are going to kick off with all things vitamin B12 and methylation, to celebrate the upcoming launch of Active B12 sublingual and Methyl B Hero. But maybe you are thinking, well I don’t even know what methylation is or when, how or why I would want to give vitamin B12? Fear not my friends, for next week will see…
Welcome to 2023, this week we are going to kick off with all things vitamin B12 and methylation, to celebrate the upcoming launch of Active B12 sublingual and Methyl B Hero. But maybe you are thinking, well I don’t even know what methylation is or when, how or why I would want to give vitamin B12? Fear not my friends, for next week will see…