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May 8, 2012 - Volume 6, Issue 10

Talking Natural Health With Dr. Weil

Dr. Andrew Weil's name is synonymous with integrative medicine; he is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2005. Recently, Dr. Weil took time to answer a few questions about topics central to chiropractic care, including the innate power of healing and dealing with modern life using a drug-free approach. Here's some of what he had to say:

"At the root of good healthcare is an acceptance of each person's responsibility for her or his own health. Identify and work with a good primary care physician with whom you can engage in a healing partnership and get credible assistance with developing a personalized healthy diet and lifestyle program to prevent illness and optimize health. Then maintain that program as best you can for the rest of your life."

"Practitioners of conventional medicine are perhaps even more fed up than patients with the drug-only approach to preventing and treating illness. Most doctors today are hungry to learn more about the mind-body continuum and how they can better help patients access their innate healing capacity. I define integrative medicine as healing oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind and spirit), including all aspects of diet and lifestyle."

"Mind and body are inseparable. Most experts now believe that longstanding emotional disturbances can elicit inflammatory changes in the physical body, and chronic inflammation is the root cause of many serious illnesses, especially those related to aging."

Dr. Weil is among a growing number of health care practitioners, including doctors of chiropractic, advocating a holistic approach to patient care that moves beyond the medication-only conventional medical model and recognizes the power of the human body in health and healing. Talk to your chiropractor about the power of the human body and how they - and you - can optimize its potential.

After a Fall, Get Back Up

It's safe to assume that each of us will experience some type of fall in our lifetime. Every fall impacts body function, movement, mechanics, and efficiency. Even a minimal fall transfers energy from the ground through the body potentially causing severe injury. Here's how to recover using chiropractic care.

Steps to Better Health

Remember the last time you had to do something complicated, like assemble a piece of furniture with limited directions? That's what it's like for many people who want to be healthy, but have to navigate all of the information out there. Here's the simple way to do it.

Move to Live Longer

If you are like most people, you spend most of the day either sitting at an office desk, sitting in traffic or watching television on the couch for hours at a time. Has it ever crossed your mind that these sedentary activities might not be good for your overall health? You're right.

Make Fiber a Friend, Not a Foe

Even though most of us know that fiber should be an important part of our daily diet, why is it that so many of us don't get enough of it? The overall health benefits far surpass the trickiness of it being incorporated into our diet, don't they? The answer to that question should be a resounding yes, and here's why.

3 Ways to Prevent Arthritis Naturally

Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting a staggering 50 million adults and 300,000 children, and the numbers are expected to continue rising. What can you do to reduce your risk of developing arthritis? Here are three simple lifestyle tactics you can incorporate into your daily routine today:

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