Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Good day Natural Health Family. I imagine everyone had a good weekend. As we all know, winter is coming. With winter comes more times of darkness, celebrations, cold, etc. However, we are in fall and with fall comes change. It’s interesting to see that as the seasons change, we also may be going through changes with different aspects of our life. Whatever season we are in it is important that we can stay healthy and focus on what we can do to help ourselves through what can be seen as challenging times.     Have you ever wondered how people were able to make it through certain times in history? Imagine times where people may not have had enough food, water, or shelter. The times where many didn’t know if they would make it through the winter. Or when wars were spread across countries and nations. We may forget about these times because of how our society is built now. However, it helps us to see relatively how blessed we are and what all we have in our lives. Jus...

 Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-                 I hope that you enjoyed the nice weekend and got a lot of things done outside. I heard some people talk about putting up their Christmas lights already and it was a good weekend for that, as well as raking the yard and all the usual fall chores. It’s gotten dry again and the dust is everywhere. The farmers are still hard at it with harvest and that’s adding more dust and pollen into the air. We doing a lot of work with sinus and allergy symptoms here at Natural Health. We do it the right way, though, by helping the body to detoxify itself from this dust and pollen and not suppressing the body’s immune system with medication. If you want to be healthy, it’s important to work with the body and not against the body.                 The article that I’m sending along looks at t...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE The European Commission has proposed a ban on dental amalgam as of January 1, 2025. This includes not only the use but also the manufacture and export of dental amalgam. The European Parliament and Council must ratify the proposal for it to become law Once amalgam is banned in the EU, it’ll be difficult for the U.S. and Canada to hold on to the barbaric and archaic practice of loading neurotoxic mercury into people’s mouths Countries that have already phased out or banned dental mercury include the Philippines, New Caledonia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Moldova Countries that have banned the use of amalgam in children, pregnant women and breastfeeding women include Tanzania and Vietnam. Mauritius has banned it for children. Bangladesh has ended its use in the Armed Forces, Indonesia has stopped using it in government programs, and the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Railway, the world’s largest employer, have also ended its use Please support the mission of Consum...

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-                 I hope that you enjoyed your weekend and have found your winter coats. It looks like this cold weather won’t stay with us for long but it’s a wake-up call that winter is coming. Of course, the stores have Christmas stuff out already-even a month or two ago. That seems to get earlier every year. At Natural Health, were gearing up for the winter season and helping folks prevent nasty bouts of colds and flu. I always look at the trees and they still have their leaves on so were not headed into winter quite yet but it will be here soon. If you haven’t been in lately for a health check, now is the time to make sure that we get your immune system strengthened and get your energy up for all the upcoming holidays. They seem to always cause lots of stress and wear people down.              ...

  Hi Natural Health Family. I hope everyone is doing well. So we are wrapping up Chiropractic month this October. I think we can all agree that society and the life around us has changed substantially in the last couple of years. It seems like we are in a world where many people are becoming more aware of different aspects in life and how we view health, economics, technology, education, politics, etc. has started to make shifts. It appears that we are resonating more with the understanding that our health is our responsibility and to be informed as much as we can individually. When there are so many difference of opinions and the statistics showing the decline of our health as a nation we have to look at why this could be the case in the first place. We are more powerful than we know and it is up to us to work together to help us realize our own potential for health.  Have you ever heard “the best defense is a good offense?” Think about the best sports teams in the world if y...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE Vitamin D is a potent immunomodulator, influencing both your innate and adaptive immune responses. As such, vitamin D deficiency has been linked to health conditions such as osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer Vitamin D is also crucial for the maintenance of healthy bones and nervous system function Sun exposure is the primary source of vitamin D, and while sunburn needs to be avoided, this risk needs to be balanced with the need for vitamin D production In the critically ill, vitamin D deficiency has been shown to increase infection and mortality rates, and is associated with longer hospital stays Chinese researchers concluded that vitamin D status can predict your risk of death from COVID-19, as well as the severity of your symptoms in the acute phase. Having a vitamin D level lower than 36.04 ng/mL was predictive for death For decades, the conventional medical establishment and media have downplayed if not entirely ignored ev...

  Welcome back everyone at Natural Health! Over the past weekend I got the privilege of celebrating a friend's wedding day and had a great time. It is still chiropractic month and wanted to keep the discussion directed in regards to chiropractic. It is great being adjusted and one aspect of living a healthy life is our ability to adjust ourselves to the many activities of life.  Patience can take on many aspects and be used in various ways. It doesn’t always have to mean waiting for something in the future. It can also be practiced by being grateful for all we have now. We can even utilize it everyday by being observant with what life offers us rather than bemoaning certain conditions. It can be enjoying the process more and making peace with where we are now. Sometimes we are given more direction to do or not to do something which helps us to realize that what we wanted before may not be exactly in our best interest. It is a practice that when used can help others see that th...