Midwest Upper Cervical—Sooley Chiropractic Health Center

02/02/2026

01/12/2026

1. Glucose → Fructose → Pyruvate
This is glycolysis — the breakdown of glucose into pyruvate for quick energy.
Example: Eat bread, glucose enters your cells, and is converted to pyruvate to start producing ATP.

2. Pyruvate → Acetyl-CoA → TCA Cycle
When oxygen’s available, pyruvate becomes Acetyl-CoA and runs through the TCA (Krebs) cycle for sustained energy.
Example: A post-lunch walk taps into this aerobic pathway.

3. TCA products → NADH → Electron Transport Chain → ATP
The TCA cycle generates NADH, which powers the electron transport chain to make ATP — your cellular energy currency.
Example: Your brain uses that ATP to keep you sharp while studying.

4. Glucose-6-Phosphate → Pentose Phosphate Pathway → NADPH + Ribose
This detour from glucose creates NADPH (for antioxidant defense) and ribose (for DNA/RNA synthesis).
Example: Immune cells use NADPH to neutralize pathogens.

5. Pyruvate → Lactate
In low-oxygen conditions, pyruvate shifts to lactate.

6. Pyruvate → Oxaloacetate → Glucose)
During fasting, pyruvate is turned into oxaloacetate, then glucose, to maintain blood sugar.
Example: After 10+ hours without food, your liver makes glucose for your brain.

7. Acetyl-CoA → Fatty Acids → Triglycerides
Excess energy is stored as fat.
Example: Too many sweets? Your body parks the surplus as belly fat.

8. Fatty Acids → Beta-Oxidation → Acetyl-CoA → TCA
When carbs run low, fat becomes your fuel.
Example: After 14 hours of intermittent fasting, fat breakdown kicks in.

9. Amino Acids → Pyruvate or Acetyl-CoA or TCA)
Amino acids can feed into different energy pathways, depending on type.
Example: In prolonged starvation, muscle protein is converted into energy intermediates.

12/14/2025

Depression isn’t always “just chemical” or purely psychological. Nutrient status matters. Low vitamin D, B12, folate, B6, and magnesium can influence energy production, inflammation, and neurotransmitter balance in the brain. These factors do not always cause depression on their own, but they can quietly undermine mood and resilience.

12/08/2025

Many common medications quietly drain nutrients your body depends on for energy, mood, detoxification, and recovery. These effects are real, well-documented, and often ignored in routine care. Supporting nutrient status while taking these drugs isn’t “alternative”—it’s physiology.

12/05/2025

A recent umbrella meta-analysis in Current Therapeutic Research reviewed ten previously published meta-analyses spanning nearly two decades and included more than 8600 participants. When the combined data were analyzed, magnesium supplementation produced a measurable reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The overall average effect was modest, around a 1 to 1.5 mmHg decrease, but the details showed a far more meaningful picture. Dose and duration were key drivers of effectiveness.

When people supplemented with more than 400 mg per day, the reduction in blood pressure became clinically significant. Systolic pressure dropped by 6.38 mmHg and diastolic pressure by 3.71 mmHg. These numbers matter because a reduction of just 5 mmHg in systolic pressure has been associated with approximately a 10 percent decrease in the risk of major cardiovascular events, even in people who are not hypertensive.

Magnesium influences blood pressure through several mechanisms. It behaves somewhat like a natural calcium-channel blocker, it competes with sodium on vascular smooth muscle cells, it supports healthier endothelial function, and it helps regulate vascular tone. The study also highlighted the magnesium depletion score, a marker based on risk factors for low magnesium status, which has been linked to higher mortality in adults with hypertension.

Magnesium alone is not expected to fully control high blood pressure, but it can make a meaningful difference when combined with nutrition, lifestyle changes, and other appropriate therapies. One issue the study does not directly address, but is crucial in real-world application, is the form of magnesium used. Magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate are poorly absorbed and mostly remain in the intestines, where they act as laxatives rather than raising meaningful magnesium levels in the bloodstream. The therapeutic benefits seen in research are far more likely when individuals use well-absorbed forms such as magnesium glycinate, malate, taurate, or magnesium l-threonate.

Quality matters. To reach the effective doses documented in this analysis and to support healthier blood pressure, patients need forms of magnesium that are actually absorbed and utilized by the body.

11/15/2025

Glymphatic drainage is essential to brain 🧠 health and prevention of many brain diseases. See the link for latest study!

10/20/2025

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www.SOOLEYCHIROPRACTIC.com
Danville Chiropractor
Atlas Orthogonal Technique
11 E Fairchild Street Danville, Il

10/13/2025

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Dr. George Sooley
www.SOOLEYCHIROPRACTIC.com
Danville Chiropractor
Atlas Orthogonal Technique
11 E Fairchild Street Danville, Il

10/01/2025

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Dr. George Sooley
www.SOOLEYCHIROPRACTIC.com
Danville Chiropractor
Atlas Orthogonal Technique
11 E Fairchild Street Danville, Il