Evolve Chiropractic Cumberland

11/27/2025

Wishing all of you and yours a from all of us here at 🦃 😍 🍁 🤗

11/19/2025

Early Onset of Cognitive Challenges

Cognitive problems like memory loss, poor focus, & brain fog are rising sharply among younger adults, nearly doubling between 2013 and 2023. "Brina fog" is showing up in people who are studying, working, & raising families, those in what should be the sharpest years of their lives.

Cognitive struggles like these don’t appear overnight. They build slowly through a combination of metabolic stress, environmental exposure, poor sleep, & emotional overload.
If your mind feels slower, more scattered, or harder to focus than it used to be, it’s not a personal failing; it’s a signal that your brain’s energy systems need repair.

Lifestyle & metabolic factors, such as poor diet, stress, sleep disruption, & exposure to seed oils and environmental toxins are likely fueling this decline in brain health.

Improving gut health, restoring metabolic energy, & managing daily stress through light exposure, breathing, & balanced nutrition are key to protecting your brain.

5 Ways to Protect & Rebuild Your Cognitive Health
1.Repair your brain’s energy supply by healing your metabolism - Choose easy-to-digest options like fruit & white rice to start if your gut is compromised. Avoid seed oils, which contain linoleic acid (LA) that clogs mitochondrial function.
2.Protect your brain from metabolic & environmental toxins - To protect your brain, avoid unnecessary iron supplements, limit fortified processed foods, & donate blood periodically if your levels run high.
3.Rebuild gut health to strengthen your gut-brain axis - Once your gut is healthy, support beneficial bacteria such as Akkermansia muciniphila by including foods that feed them, like pectin-rich apples & cranberries, nourish your colon & protect your brain from inflammation.
4.Balance your hormones & stress response - Make it a daily habit to get morning sunlight on your skin & eyes, it resets your circadian rhythm & promotes nighttime melatonin release.
5.Reclaim mental focus by managing digital & sensory overload - If you work indoors, use short movement breaks, stand up, stretch, or step outside, to reset your focus.

doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214226
doi.org/10.1002/alz.70322

11/17/2025

Patient of the Month

⭐️Monika⭐️

Favorite part of your chiropractic journey?
🔸️My favorite part of my chiropractic journey is natural therapies without surgeries or medication to achieve relief from pain.

What are you able to do now that you were unable to before your chiropractic care?
🔸️I am able to stand taller and straighter without help, sleep better and have less pain.

Most interesting adventure/place?
🔸️My life has been full of challenging adventures, for me it's the journey not the destination.

Favorite food/restaurant?
🔸️I am a picky eater, I like to cook my own food that's health and tasty. That's my favorite food.

Favorite therapy in the office?
🔸️Stretching, Chiropractic adjustments, massage.

What quote do you live by?
🔸️With God, all things are possible.

11/07/2025

11/05/2025

Research Shows Permanent Standard Time Is Healthier Than Daylight Saving Time

▶️️Staying on permanent standard time instead of shifting clocks twice a year could prevent millions of cases of obesity and hundreds of thousands of strokes across the U.S.

▶️Your circadian rhythm, your body’s internal clock, works best with early morning light, which helps regulate sleep, energy, metabolism, and immunity

▶️Permanent daylight saving time still offers health benefits, but standard time provides stronger protection for the majority of people

▶️Research shows only 15% of people, called morning larks, align better with daylight saving time, while the rest of the population benefits more from standard time

Simple Steps to Protect Your Body's Natural Clock

1. Start your day with real sunlight 🌞 - Step outside within the first hour after waking. Morning light is the strongest signal to reset your circadian rhythm.

2. Limit bright light at night 💡 - Use dimmer, warmer lights in the evening and avoid scrolling on your phone before bed.

3. Keep your sleep schedule consistent 🗓 - Your body prefers routine. Going to bed and waking up at roughly the same times every day keeps your rhythm locked in. Focus on anchoring your sleep around as much natural morning light as possible.

4. Support policies that prioritize standard time 🕑 - The Stanford Medicine analysis showed standard time provides the strongest health benefits. If you're interested in long-term change, reach out to your local representatives and share your support for adopting permanent standard time.

5.Spend more time outside during the day 🏞- Most people spend far more time indoors than out. Even if you live in a sunny area, you probably aren't getting enough light exposure to keep your circadian rhythm strong.

doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2508293122

10/31/2025

Costumes, Candy, and Chiropractic!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Stay warm in your awesome costumes. Enjoy your sweets in moderation. And don't forget to get your spine checked!

You are always welcome here at Evolve Chiropractic Cumberland.

10/29/2025

Fat Content in Fast Food Rapidly Impacts Your Gut's Defense

Ultraprocessed foods - While convenient and tasty, chronic consumption eventually wrecks your health, and the first place that's affected is your gut.

Eating ultraprocessed foods weakens your intestinal lining:

High-fat diets (around 36% fat content) reduce protective IL-22 immune molecules by 50% within just 1 week, weakening intestinal barriers
Excess palmitic acid shuts down gut immunity, setting the stage for pathogenic bacteria to overwhelm beneficial ones, promoting harmful strains to cause inflammation
Short-term consumption of ultra-processed foods dramatically reduces protective bacteria within days of exposure

To restore gut health:

1.Ditch ultraprocessed foods immediately: These are loaded with unhealthy fats, emulsifiers, and other additives that strip away your gut's protective lining, promoting inflammation and weakening your immune defenses. Take stock of fried foods, and foods cooked in vegetable oils such as soybean, corn, and canola oil, then ditch them entirely from your diet
2.Cut out vegetable oils: The processed oils and oleic acid used to cook fast food damage your gut's immune function by shutting down essential protective molecules like IL-22
3.Limit overall fat intake: Getting more healthy fats (while minimizing linoleic acid) is important for optimal wellness. However, remember to limit your total intake, excess oleic acid creates many of the same problems as linoleic acid. That's because it will integrate into your mitochondrial membranes, which displaces cardiolipin, a special fat required for energy production
4.Repair your gut barrier: Collagen is key to healing your gut lining by providing necessary building blocks for your gut's protective mucus layer. Include high-quality collagen daily by making your own bone broth at home from grass fed meats
5.Slowly reintroduce healthy carbohydrates: If you've previously relied heavily on processed foods, your gut bacteria will need to adjust to healthier carbs

An analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

doi: 10.3390/nu17050859
doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.861664
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.03.017

10/15/2025

Meet 2 new teammates at Evolve Chiropractic Cumberland
They both have extensive knowledge of anatomy and muscle work.

Gian, our Rehab Tech, is stretching Caitlin, our LMT, just like how taffy is made, lengthening her muscles.

See Caitlin work out the knots in Gian's midback.