Hoogeveen Chiropractic
Newsletter
“Improving Your Family’s
Health is Our Family’s Mission!”
OCTOBER/2011
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL THAT IS
HOOGEVEEN CHIROPRACTIC
At Hoogeveen Chiropractic our number one priority is
delivering phenomenal chiropractic care to our patients
on a daily basis, as well as making sure your
experience at our office is always a fantastic one. If
this sums up your experience at Hoogeveen
Chiropractic, that is great. However, are you aware of
all the opportunities for you to take advantage of at our
clinic? Some examples are the high quality nutritional
supplements we offer, our free foot scans and
affordable custom-made orthotics, our supportive
orthotic pillows, or our free consultation service that
allows your friends and loved ones to speak to one of
our doctors one on one about chiropractic and if it
could help them? How about this newsletter, our
monthly blog post, our facebook page, or Dr. Adam’s
twitter posts about health and wellness? There is
more to discover at Hoogeveen Chiropractic, so
please talk to us about it or visit the website!
HCWC BUILDING UPDATE
Plans have officially been submitted to the city for
our new building! A ground breaking ceremony has
been planned and will take place Thursday October
13th at 4:00 pm. If you would like to attend the
ceremony, we would be honored to have you join
us! The address is 1301 Fort Crook Rd S, and it is
across the street from the post office.
Please see our web page about the groundbreaking
ceremony at www.hoogeveenchiropractic.com/
groundbreaking.html. We are continuing to
finalize the details of the project, but it won’t be long
until you see and hear the contractors at work!
www.hoogeveenchiropractic.com
ARE YOU FOLLOWING?
Dr. Adam started a twitter account this past
month, and you can “follow” him at
www.twitter.com/DrAdamH. Even if you do not
have a twitter account you can still view his posts
by going to the above website. He will be
primarily posting interesting articles and research
focusing on overall wellness and healthy lifestyle.
Please keep in mind that we also have a
facebook page for Hoogeveen Chiropractic, and
you can find that at
www.facebook.com/hoogeveenchiropractic. We
use this page to post important updates and news
about the clinic.
Hoogeveen Chiropractic Wellness Clinic | 2206 Longo Dr Ste 208, Bellevue, NE 68005 | phone 402.291.2580 | fax 402.293.6436
DOCTOR BLOG
www.hoogeveenchiropractic.com/doctorblog.html
OCTOBER/2011
THE WELLNESS LIFESTYLE: TRAPPED IN
AN ALLOPATHIC WORLD
Why be so passionate about wellness? Isn’t a
wellness lifestyle really just a synonym for restrictive
lifestyle? I’ll grant you that living in today’s world does
not make “wellness living” or being passionate about it
very easy. Even our health care community, which
should be the bastion for healthy living, treats wellness
science like the crazy cousin in the family that
everyone acknowledges but nobody wants to talk to.
“Why care about wellness and health when we have
so many exciting diseases and conditions to treat?”
seems to be the mantra. The answer to that question
may be a little heart-wrenching for some, but here it is
nonetheless… 80% of western society dies from heart
disease, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic illness
and they are all on the rise in our population. More
money spent on research and disease care every year
has yet to stop any of the rises in chronic illness we
have seen over the last several decades. Chances
are that is your fate as well. I regret having to be so
serious to start this blog, but an occasional dose of
reality is healthy. Sometimes the crazy cousin is right,
and it would be wise to listen.
I saw a study yesterday that excited me. It
looked at blueberries, and their potential to stop the
progression of aggressive breast cancer as well as
decrease your risk for cancer in the first place.1 Isn’t
that incredible? To many that study is either incredibly
shocking or they won’t believe it. How could
something as simple as blueberries stop the ugly
monster that is cancer? What researchers will likely
do with this information, and what they have done in
the past, is try and isolate the specific property or
chemical in blueberries that may be responsible for
this and try to develop a drug from that information.
We see this when it comes to a relatively recent
discovery of a compound called BDNF, which many
scientists are referring to as “miracle grow” for the
brain. BDNF causes the brain to literally grow in size
and connections when it is present.2 It serves to
strengthen healthy connections for higher level
thought processing, stress and anxiety control,
and bolsters connections responsible for joy and
happiness. Guess what allows for the creation
and secretion of this compound in the brain?
Exercise. And guess what researchers are
trying to do with newly discovered BDNF? They
are trying to find a way to create a
pharmaceutical.
This is what I mean by the wellness
lifestyle being trapped in an allopathic world.
Blueberries and exercise are found to have
incredible benefits and cause incredibly positive
changes in our body physiology and function
beyond what we previously thought. And what
do we do with this information? Do we launch
pricey and expansive campaigns aimed at
encouraging people to exercise and eat healthy
fruits like blueberries more often? Nope, we
make some more drugs. Another temptation is
to take the information about blueberries and
exercise and believe that these are great
treatments for anxiety or cancer. Once again,
that is trapping wellness lifestyle behaviors in the
allopathic system. They aren’t treatments at all,
but rather genetically congruent lifestyle choices
that our bodies require to express health.
Healthy lifestyle choices aren’t treatments to be
used for combating illness and disease. Chronic
illnesses like heart disease, cancer, or diabetes
are not mysterious outside forces that afflict the
body; they are expressions of adaptive or
exhausted physiology. Don’t trap wellness
lifestyle in the allopathic world. Decide today to
make it a consistent part of your world!
References:
1. Adams, LS et al. “Whole Blueberry Powder
Modulates the Growth and Metastasis of MDA-MB-231
Triple Negative Breast Tumors in Nude Mice.” J Nutr.
2011 Oct;141(10):1805-12. Epub 2011 Aug 31.
2. Ferris, LT et al. “The effect of acute exercise on
serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels
and cognitive function.” Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2007
Apr;39(4):728-34.
Hoogeveen Chiropractic Wellness Clinic | 2206 Longo Dr Ste 208, Bellevue, NE 68005 | phone 402.291.2580 | fax 402.293.6436
RELEVANT RESEARCH
CHIROPRACTIC AND NATURAL HEALTH CARE
OCTOBER/2011
INFANTILE COLIC HELPED WITH
CHIROPRACTIC
DR. ADAM AND DR. GREGG
HCWC Case Study of the Month
 Female in her 30s with
moderately severe neck and
headache pain occurring on a
daily basis and gradually
worsening for several months.
 After one adjustment
improvement in her pain was
evident, and after one week of
care the patient was reporting
almost no headache symptoms.
 Continued improvement is
expected as care progresses.
This month’s study focused on the
consumption of anti-oxidant rich foods like
fruits, vegetables, nuts, and olive oil and if it
was correlated with waist circumference and
body inflammation or oxidative stress.
The results indicated an inverse
relationship between the amount of antioxidant foods consumed and central adiposity
(waist circumference). Not only that, but they
found that those with the highest intake of
anti-oxidant rich foods had improved glucose
and LDL (bad cholesterol) metabolism.
Something else the study found was the
higher the intake of anti-oxidant rich foods the
lower the concentrations of ox-LDL, which is a
form of LDL that is implicated in
cardiovascular disease. This suggests a diet
high in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and healthy
oils such as olive oil will decrease ones risk of
developing cardiovascular disease. Another
interesting piece of information is that this
study was performed on young adults
meaning you can start to alter your blood
profile and inflammation levels at a young
age.
This is just one more study confirming
the impact of diet on disease and illness. So,
here is to plenty of fruits and veggies!
Hermsdorff et al. “Dietary total antioxidant capacity is
inversely related to central adiposity as well as to
metabolic and oxidative stress markers in healthy
young adults.” Nutrition & Metabolism 2011, 8:59.
Hoogeveen Chiropractic Wellness Clinic | 2206 Longo Dr Ste 208, Bellevue, NE 68005 | phone 402.291.2580 | fax 402.293.6436
HOOGEVEEN CHIROPRACTIC WELLNESS CLINIC
IMPROVING YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH IS OUR FAMILY’S MISSION!
What Can Chiropractic Do For You?
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Neck/Back/Arm/Leg pain?
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Bad disc?
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Headaches?
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Just interested in moving and feeling better?
All of the above are helped with chiropractic everyday!
So many are finding out how chiropractic
can be a significant part of their wellness
strategy. It’s never too late to begin
making better decisions when it comes to
your health. Making your health a higher
priority will result in a better functioning
body, a healthier mind, and the ability to do
the activities you want to as you age!
Chiropractic is an essential component of a
well-functioning you!
PRODUCTS WE OFFER IN ADDITION TO CHIROPRACTIC CARE
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Hoogeveen Chiropractic Wellness Clinic
NUTRI-WEST
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Nutritional supplements
2206 Longo Dr Ste 208
Bellevue, NE 68005
Phone: (402) 291-2580
Fax: (402) 293-6436
Email:
[email protected]
www.hoogeveenchiropractic.com
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