Health-Fit ChiropracTIPSJanuary 2016

1. You Feel “Blue” - Serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood elevation, rises with exposure to bright light and falls with decreased sun exposure. In 2006, scientists evaluated the effects of vitamin D on the mental health of 80 elderly patients and found those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 11 times more prone to be depressed than those who received healthy doses.

2. You’re 40 or Older - As mentioned, as you get older your skin doesn’t make as much vitamin D in response to sun exposure. At the same time, your kidneys become less efficient at converting vitamin D into the form used by your body and older adults tend to spend more time indoors (i.e. getting even less sun exposure and therefore vitamin D).

3. You’re Overweight or Obese (or Have a Higher Muscle Mass) - Vitamin D is a fat-soluble, hormone-like vitamin, which means body fat acts as a “sink” by collecting it. If you’re overweight or obese, you’re therefore likely going to need more vitamin D than a slimmer person -- and the same holds true for people with higher body weights due to muscle mass.

4. Your Bones Ache - Aches and pains, especially in combination with fatigue, end up being misdiagnosed as having fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Many of these symptoms are classic signs of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia, which is different from the vitamin D deficiency that causes osteoporosis in adults. What’s happening is that the vitamin D deficiency causes a defect in putting calcium into the collagen matrix into your skeleton. As a result, you have throbbing, aching bone pain.

5. You Have Gut Trouble - Remember, vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, which means if you have a gastrointestinal condition that affects your ability to absorb fat, you may have lower absorption of fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin D as well. This includes gut conditions like Crohn’s, Celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Optimizing your vitamin D levels can help protect against:• Cardiovascular disease. Vitamin D is very important for reducing hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. One

study showed that vitamin D deficiency increased the risk of heart attack by 50 percent. What’s worse, if you have a heart attack and you are vitamin D deficient, your risk of dying from that heart attack creeps up to nearly 100 percent! • Autoimmune diseases. Vitamin D is a potent immune

modulator, making it very important for the prevention of autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease.

• Infections, including influenza. It also helps you fight infections of all kinds. A study done in Japan, for example, showed that schoolchildren taking 1,200 units of vitamin D per day during winter reduced their risk of getting influenza A infection by about 40 percent. I believe it’s far more prudent, safer, less expensive, and most importantly, far more effective to optimize your vitamin D levels than to get vaccinated against the flu. • DNA repair and metabolic processes. One study showed that healthy volunteers taking 2,000 IUs of vitamin D per day for a few months up-regulated 291 different genes that control up

to 80 different metabolic processes, from improving DNA repair to having effect on autoxidation (oxidation that occurs in the presence of oxygen and/or UV radiation, which has implications for aging and cancer, for example), boosting your immune system and many other biological processes.

Health-Fit is proud to work with Biotics Research to provide you with top of line dietary supplements and now carry one of the best Vitamin D products on the market called Bio-D-Mulsion Forte. This product supplies 2000 IU of vitamin D per drop as a micro-emulsion product for increased absorption and utilization.

If you have any additional questions about Vitamin D or would like to come in for treatment, please feel free to stop by during office hours to set up an appointment or call our office at 561-997-8898 to schedule.

THESE ARE COMMON DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBE YOU?

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Research and experience has revealed that chiropractic care reduces healthcare utilization and cost, and increase patient satisfaction. Further evidence has shown that corporate on-site chiropractic clinics have improved those param-eters even more significantly. The Corporate Chiropractor® program will fully implement a chiropractic physician into your corporation to provide chiropractic care, soft tissue therapy, ergonomics/work sta-tion consultations and strain/sprain preventative pro-grams. Our on-site care program reduces recordable rates and worker’s compensation claims by focusing on soft tissue discomforts and injury preven-tion. In 2006, OSHA provided a ruling and documentation

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At Health-Fit Chiropractic & Sports Medicine, we treat many pain conditions and injuries combining chiroprac-tic care with the latest techniques and technologies in conservative sports medicine. This combination of care is what makes Health-Fit a leader in sports chiropractic. What makes sports chiropractic preferred by many pa-tients is that the evaluation and treatment protocols are evidence-based and trusted by professional athletic teams, major universities and large corporations. Health-Fit treats all of its patients with the same high level of care, no matter if you’re a NFL player, auto accident patient, or suffer from a desk related pain syndrome.

You may have heard of whole body cryotherapy in the news recently, regarding athletes and celebrities using this therapy and endorsing its use. You may have not heard of cryotherapy at all. Either way, you want to be informed about its use and function and whether or not this therapy could be beneficial to you.

Whole body cryotherapy involves standing in a 360 partially enclosed chamber that is pumped full of nitrogen gas which lowers the temperature of the chamber to approximately -240 degrees F. Your body goes into a hypothermic state and shunts blood to the heart and lungs. For the duration of the three minute session your blood is constantly being saturated with oxygen since while it stays in the heart and lungs. After the session is over, your body returns to normal temperature and this newly enriched blood is redirected to the rest of your tissues.

Who does this help? This can help people with a variety of issues. Some of the most popular usage is for recovery of fatigued and stressed tissues in athletes. Training everyday can take its toll on the body and whole body cryotherapy helps restore peak function in tissues that have been affected, such as muscles, tendons and joints. People with chronic pain have also found value in this therapy to help manage pain. The therapy can release endorphins which act as your body’s natural painkillers. Interested? Find out today if cryotherapy can help you.

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