Dr. Justin Lee

12/19/2025

12/19/2025

Adjusted athletes between events… then competed right alongside them. 🏋️‍♂️💪🩻

That’s a pretty solid Saturday !

Another successful year at Santa Bash !!! Always a blast being around people who care about training, health, and pushing themselves……while actually enjoying the process!

Ran a dead hang competition on the side (because why not?). Some of these kids hung for multiple minutes without dropping. Impressive!!!
And here’s something most people don’t know: grip strength is one of the strongest predictors of longevity in older adults….

It’s not just about holding onto a pull-up bar ….. it’s a direct marker of nervous system health, muscle function, and your body’s ability to stay resilient as you age.
The people who can still move well, stay strong, and adapt to physical demands? Those are the ones thriving into their 70s, 80s, and beyond.

Holiday PSA: 🎄
I practice what I preach.
If you want to keep training, stay active through the holidays, and still feel good doing it ………..whether that’s crushing a workout, playing with your grandkids, or carrying all the groceries in one trip 🛒🛒 taking care of your body matters.
Injuries don’t need to be the norm. Movement shouldn’t feel hard.
Grateful to be SISU’s official partner in health. If you or someone you know could use some support, you know where to find me.

📞 (952) 229-8750🔗 Link in bio

12/17/2025

Santa’s been doing this for 1,700+ years. He knows EXACTLY what needs to happen before traveling 40,000+ miles in one night. 🛷🎅🏻

Step 1: Make sure Rudolph’s nose is charged.
Step 2: Make sure the reindeer ate their carrots.
Step 3: Get adjusted.

Think about it:
    •    Zero lumbar support in that sleigh
    •    Hauling a bag that weighs more than the sleigh itself
    •    Going up and down 2 billion chimneys
    •    Eating enough cookies to put him in a sugar coma
    •    Operating on maybe 3 hours of sleep

His spine doesn’t stand a chance without proper maintenance.
The guy who knows whether you’ve been naughty or nice also knows something else: you can’t perform at your peak when your nervous system is struggling to keep up.
Whether you’re delivering presents worldwide or just surviving holiday travel, shopping marathons, family gatherings, and sleeping on your in-laws’ 40-year-old guest bed.……🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

Your body needs to be functioning at its best.

Don’t wait until January when you’re already broken down, exhausted, and three colds deep into the new year.

Get adjusted now.Santa’s already on the schedule. Are you?
📞 (952) 229-8750
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12/01/2025

11/25/2025

"Testing your functional age instead of just counting birthdays gives you a real roadmap for improvement. These aren't just numbers—they're feedback from your body about how well you're adapting to life."

-From my latest post

Check it out!
Some fun ways to test your FUNCTIONAL AGE.
MUCH more important than the age that is on your drivers license.

Here’s something that might surprise you: your birth certificate doesn’t tell the real story about how you’re aging.

11/24/2025

When we do our Metabolix testing - we're looking for all of these things!! Nutrient deficiencies, particularly micronutrients, run rampant in today's world of processed foods, nutrient depleted soils, stressful lifestyles, poor gut and microbiome health, etc etc etc.

Micronutrients are essential for optimal functioning of every 37 billions cells of the body! Serving all sorts of various functions. When we test, we can be much more specific on approaching your health effectively and efficiently.

Let me know if you want me to send you info about our Metabolix testing kit!!

Your body is running a micronutrient-powered energy grid that keeps every cell alive.

Most people think carbs, fats, and protein become energy on their own.
But this diagram shows something far more important:

Without micronutrients, none of your macronutrients can be used at all.

Inside every cell, vitamins and minerals are:
⚙️ Activating enzymes that break down carbs, fats, and amino acids
⚙️ Converting food into acetyl-CoA, the gateway to ATP
⚙️ Driving the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain
⚙️ Recycling lactate back into usable fuel
⚙️ Supporting detox pathways like the urea cycle
⚙️ Protecting mitochondria from oxidative stress so energy stays stable

And all of it is happening continuously. Thousands of reactions per second.

Looking closer at what this single diagram reveals:

🔹 Glucose → Pyruvate → Acetyl-CoA
Every step requires B-vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5), magnesium, and lipoic acid.
No micronutrients → no carbohydrate metabolism.

🔹 Fatty acids → β-oxidation → Acetyl-CoA
This depends on B2, B3, B5 and carnitine to move fats into mitochondria.
If you’re low here, fat oxidation simply slows.

🔹 Amino acids feed directly into energy pathways
B6, manganese, magnesium, biotin, and iron convert amino acids into Krebs-cycle intermediates and neurotransmitter precursors.

🔹 The Krebs cycle only turns if micronutrients are present
B2, B3, B5, magnesium, manganese, iron, cysteine, glutathione - all essential.
Without them, ATP production drops even with enough calories.

🔹 Electron transport chain = the final step
Requires B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, vitamin C, CoQ10, zinc, iron, copper.
This is where oxygen becomes usable energy - or where it fails if cofactors are missing.

This is why micronutrients influence EVERYTHING:
energy, fatigue, metabolism, mood, focus, exercise capacity, mitochondrial health, aging.

Your macros are fuel.
Your micronutrients are the keys, the wiring, and the ignition system that make that fuel burn cleanly.

You’re not just eating food.
You’re feeding the biochemistry that powers your entire life.

11/13/2025

Before you go and subscribe to (which, you should, and join his new comprehensive fitness program 😉)

Read this::

Erks me every time someone chalks up chiropractic & taking care of your spine to just palliative “pain” based necessities. YES, we do great at that, and you’re far better off going down this route, rather than taking drugs, relying on Dr Google, and then just “living” with it.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Elite athletes like Nick don’t get adjusted because something hurts. (I mean, ya , sometimes…😅) but more importantly they get adjusted because at this level, EVERY advantage matters.

The numbers that separate good from great:
• 16.7% faster reaction time - milliseconds = medals
• 30% quicker recovery between sessions
• 50% fewer injuries over a season
• Enhanced proprioception and coordination
Not to mention endless benefits that come with a regulated nervous system when it comes to stress, immune function, etc.

Pain is the LAST symptom to show up. By the time something hurts, you’ve already been losing performance for weeks.
Your nervous system controls the speed your brain communicates with your muscles, how efficiently you recover, and how well your body adapts to training stress.
Small dysfunctions in spinal mechanics = interference in that communication = slower reactions, delayed recovery, and eventually injury.

Whether you’re top 20 in the world or just trying to keep up with your kids - optimizing your nervous system gives you the edge.
Your body is your vehicle. You don’t wait until the engine breaks to maintain it.

Regardless of the sport, the difference between levels is usually the 1-2% gains that compound over time.

This is corrective chiropractic care - not crisis management, but performance optimization.

How are you maintaining YOUR master control system?