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Geneva Chiropractic Clinic - Dr. Cecilia Duffy, 1953 S Broadway, Geneva, OH (2025)

11/13/2025

Long time readers know that I am a huge fan of taking a probiotic supplement daily or including some raw sauerkraut in the diet daily as a source of the good bacteria. As a reminder, our bodies contain billions of good bacteria collectively called our microbiome. Most is contained in the gut – where we have 3-4 POUNDS of bacteria living there. Cell for cell, our microbiome outnumbers our body cells by a rate of 9:1. This means that 90% of our body is made up of bacteria and the other 10% is our own body cells, your skin, liver, brain, heart, muscles, etc. Science is still only scratching the surface of knowledge on our microbiome and how important it is to our health and wellbeing.

An important bacterial strain in our bodies is the Lactobacillus strain. There are a couple hundred individual strains within Lactobacillus. An analogy would be that Lactobacillus is like the category of Fruit. Fruit is a category and contains these specific types of fruits – cherries, apples, pineapple, mango, etc. There are way more Lactobacilli types than fruit! The most common one you have heard of is Lactobacillus acidophilus.

How does taking a probiotic supplement or eating probiotic rich foods work? It’s not a simple strategy of take this probiotic pill and it will repopulate your gut and keep you healthier. If only that worked, we’d only need to take one pill of a probiotic and voila, you are repopulated. Oh no…..

What happens when we take the probiotic? A small percent of that pill (or the sauerkraut) will populate the gut, but most of the beneficial effects of the probiotic is what the bacteria are doing in our gut for us as they pass through until we p**p them out. That’s why we have to take the probiotic every day.

How can you make your gut more inhabitable by these good bacteria? It needs to be healthy in the first place. Eating lots of fiber rich foods (fiber is what feeds the good bacteria). Avoidance of alcohol, sugar, smoking and stress are prime helpers here. These all cause damage to the gut and make it harder for the gut to be populated.

The take home message here is twofold:
1. Keep your gut healthy through the proper diet to allow for the colonization of the good bacteria.
2. Take the probiotic everyday or eat raw sauerkraut every day to assure that there are some good guys going in for at least part of the time before they are p**ped out.

11/12/2025

Did you know that it’s not a great idea to wear sunglasses all the time when you are outside? Why? Two reasons shared here.
1. Blocking some of the ultraviolet rays of the sun from getting into the eyes slows down the production of vitamin D in the skin.
2. Melatonin is the sleep hormone made by your pineal gland. When it gets dark at night, there is less light entering your eyes and this allows melatonin to ramp up and make you sleepy. When the sun is out and the eyes are not blocked with sunglasses, the melatonin production is way down, makes sense, you are supposed to be awake in the daytime/light.

You should use sunglasses for driving or if you work outside and sun glare is an issue for your safety. I also have my concussion patients use sunglasses inside the house and if they go outside all the time for a few weeks after their injury to help to rest and heal the brain injury.

Otherwise, I am not a big fan of sunglasses. I have a pair in my car and rarely use them over top of my prescription glasses only if the sun glare is such that I cannot drive safely.

If you think about it from an evolutionary perspective, we have adapted to the sun and all the good things the sun does for us. When you disrupt the evolutionary progress we made as humans to use the sun to our advantage by using sunglasses to block the sun from our eyes, something is bound to pay the price. Be reasonable and use common sense.

11/11/2025

Veterans Day is celebrated in the US on Nov. 11. Initially it was called Armistice Day and represented the beginning of the end of World War I on the eleventh month, the eleventh day and the eleventh hour. It was changed to Veterans Day by President Eisenhower in 1954 to honor all veterans of all American wars. It is traditional to wear a red poppy flower on the right chest in the vicinity of the number 11 as though a clock is placed on your chest. This represents the origin of Veterans Day with the eleventh month, day and hour reference.

11/10/2025

This is a study out of the United States that looked at children’s health between 2007 and 2023 and compared it to the results of children’s health in 18 other countries. There is a movement in the States to look at what is causing these chronic childhood illnesses. This study is one that documents that there is indeed an issue with the health of American kids.

The distressing stats:
-Infants died before the age of one 78% more often than the other countries and is attributable to premature birth and SIDS.
-Children up to the age of 19 died 80% more often. Deaths in this age group from car accidents rose 145% compared to previous studies.
-Children with a chronic illness increased in this study time frame by 6%.
-There were over 300,000 more American children deaths compared to other countries.
-The conditions that were noted to be the largest increase were: Depression, Anxiety, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Obesity, Disorders of Lipid Metabolism and Developmental Disorders. These were all increased between 105% and 220% than previous studies.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40622733/

11/06/2025

This study is a head scratcher to say the least. Hang with me here. The study sought to find out what the percentage positive effects of pharmaceutical drugs really is.

We all know what the placebo effect is. This is a true and studied effect. When a person is given a placebo (inert, having no effect on the body, “sugar pill,” etc.) there is a known number of people who will improve with their issue even though the placebo is not to have any effect. The numbers are usually in the 30%ish of people who improve with placebo. This is due to the impact that the brain has on the body. If a person believes that a medicine will help them, even a placebo will make an improvement.

This study was to determine what the placebo effect is of the actual medication that is to be studied. Head spinner. In other words, those people who were given the real medication and showed improvement, there is a certain amount of people that will improve due to the actual medication, and a certain amount of people who will improve based on the placebo effect, their own brain made them better because they wanted the medication to work.

In the case where the people in the study receive the actual medication (not the placebo), the absolutely staggering number of this is 72% of the time that taking a medication improves the person, it is considered to be placebo and only 28% of the time the improvement is due to the actual effects of the medication on the person’s issue.

People will obviously associate that their improvement was due to the medication and not consider that the placebo effect may be the reason. Patient expectations and the doctor-patient interaction can positively affect the patient and be the reason for the improvement.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39733973/

11/05/2025

THIS STUDY: “Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age: A Global Policy Imperative.”

Do you have a nagging thought that maybe cell phones and social media are not all that good for children to be exposed to? If you do, this study (and many others) supports your view.

This study clearly brings the receipts to show that cell phone and social media usage in children under age 13 are detrimental to their brain health.

*Smartphone usage before age 13 is associated with poorer mind health outcomes in young adulthood, particularly among females, including suicidal thoughts, detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation, and diminished self-worth.
*These poor outcomes are due to social media access, cyberbullying, disrupted sleep, and poor family relationships. It is predominately in English speaking nations but is worldwide.
*Across the board, having a child under age 13 have access to smartphones is associated with a profound shift in mind health and well-being in later as they age into early adulthood.

Just like we don’t give children a driver’s license or allow them to consume alcohol or smoke ci******es, we need to protect them from the perils of smartphones and social media. The authors give advice and recommendations for policies to be enacted to protect our kids’ emotional health. Restriction of smartphones and social media under age 13 is a start utilizing the precautionary principle.

Is this scary enough for you to reconsider giving your pre-teens a smartphone and access to social media?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19452829.2025.2518313

11/04/2025

“Because you are here, the world is a ____________________ place.”

Fill in the blank about why the world is a much better place with you in it and share here if you would like to.

My answer:

More loved and cared for.

11/03/2025

Many of you know that I paint rocks and leave them at the entrance of the clinic for patients to take and pass out into the world. The rock painters’ objective is to spread a little joy. I am so swamped with work that I don’t have as much time as I used to for painting rocks, so I have less available to me to give out when I am out and about. What few rocks I do have, I leave for patients to take. In place of the painted rocks, I have started carrying these tiny ducks with me everywhere as my way of spreading a little joy. They are in my purse, car and jacket pockets.

I will leave these little ducks as a kindness calling card at gas pumps, grocery stores, on the checks for the waiters, at cash registers of businesses I patronize, the assistant at my chiropractor’s office, with a thank you note and tip for the cleaning staff at hotels I stay in, with a thank you note and snack for Door Dash deliverers, etc.

What do you do to show a kindness?

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! Halloween has a mix of influences that has brought the holiday to where it is today. It is thought that the Celtic festival of Samhain was the start. Samhain marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of the winter. Christian influences added it in as the eve of All Hallows Eve, where the dead are remembered. The current tradition of dressing up in costume and going door to door demanding a treat or else the homeowner would receive a trick started in medieval times when people dressed in costume and went from home to home serenading and partying.

Be safe. Avoid the sugar.

10/30/2025

By 2060 a large portion of the US population is expected to have dementia and Alzheimer's. I’ve reported on many interventions that have been shown to reduce this risk, like not drinking alcohol, not eating sugar, exercise, keeping your brain active, etc.

This study tackled whether taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement influenced reducing the risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s. It did.

Two groups were followed and tested cognitively through the study period. One group had a multi-vitamin and mineral, the other group had placebo. The group that took the multi-vitamin and mineral supplements were shown to have two positive effects:

1. Global cognition was better than the placebo group. This means your ability to understand information and learn, reason and make decisions.
2. Episodic memory was also better in the multi-vitamin and mineral group compared to the placebo group. Episodic memory is the ability to call up memories from your past without difficulty.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38244989/

10/29/2025

Tension headaches are the most common headache at 26% of the causes of headache. These headaches usually start at the back of the head and upper neck and can progress along the sides of the head and into the forehead when they are severe. Tension headaches are generally thought to be of structural origin, for instance, tightness of the muscles in the upper neck and on the scalp.

Using medications to treat tension headaches is discouraged due to the side effects of the mediations resulting in a medication overuse headache (this is exactly what it sounds like), the risk for abuse as the headaches worsen and more medication is taken, and issues with withdrawal symptoms.

This study examined whether the participants in the spinal manipulation (chiropractic adjustments) group had less usage of medications for tension headaches. The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is that the group that received chiropractic manipulation therapy had lower use of medication intimating that they had less headaches or less intensity of the headaches. This study helps to reinforce that spinal manipulation as the preferred clinical guideline in the treatment of tension headaches is the right call.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39619084/

10/28/2025

I thought I’d share a story that I tell patients all the time to illustrate how certain foods can impact your health.

Since I was an undergraduate, I have known that when I eat chocolate it makes one of my finger joints hurt for about 6 weeks. I didn’t realize it right away; it was a gradual noticing and understanding how it was working inside my body. The interesting thing is that it is not always the same joint. As I have aged, the joint that hurts with chocolate ingestion has changed. It’s gone from the base of my thumb to the tip of the index finger, from one side to the other. Most recently when I slip up and have some chocolate, the middle joint of my left pinky finger swells and hurts.

I have tested this hypothesis in the “laboratory of one” (my body) many, many times through the years. I will go for years without eating chocolate and have my hand joints blissfully pain-free. Then I will succumb to the temptation of the chocolate and the delusional thinking that just a little chocolate won’t hurt me. It still floors me that when I do eat the chocolate, how in a few days one of my fingers will start to hurt. And I am stuck with the consequence of my choice for 6 weeks or so. Every time this happens, I swear that it will be the last time I eat chocolate. Maybe I will learn someday!

I’ve been tested for food allergies and while I have quite a few food allergies, chocolate is not among them. Just because I don’t have a diagnosable allergy to chocolate doesn’t mean it can’t do some damage, since it clearly does. In alternative medicine, we refer to that as a sensitivity.

Have you ever paid close attention to your body and how it feels when you eat certain foods? Do you have a suspicion that you may be sensitive to a food? If you think you do, stay away from the food completely for three months and then try eating it again and note any changes in your body. You may be able to be a detective for yourself.

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