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02/06/2026

02/05/2026

What is your favorite wintertime activity? 🌨️☃️🏂❄️☕

02/04/2026

Your heart doesn’t work alone.
It’s controlled by your brain and nervous system.
Reduce stress → support heart health.
That’s where chiropractic comes in.

02/03/2026

Here are 4 Tips to help you better manage stress ✨

1) Start each day focusing on 3 things you are grateful for. Write them down and then spend a couple of minutes visualizing those things. It is hard to be stressed when you’re feeling grateful, and this exercise sets the tone for your day. Each time you feel the stress rising throughout the day, think about the things you wrote down that morning that you are grateful for. It will cause an interruption in your thought patterns and help calm your nervous system down. ❣

2) Incorporate 15-20 minutes of stretching into your day. When you are stressed, the muscles in your body get tight, for example, knots in your shoulders. Stretching will loosen your muscles and increase blood flow which will help your body relax. 🧘‍♂️

3) Break negative thought patterns. Take note of your thoughts; you would be surprised how often throughout the day negative thoughts enter your head. Change them to positive thoughts instead. 💭

4) Get adjusted. Chiropractic adjustments reduce stress on the nervous system so that your body can better adapt to stressors. 💪

02/02/2026

Heart Disease: The Truth

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.

Many people believe heart disease is caused by genetics, diet, or smoking.
While these can increase risk, they are not the root cause.

The Real Cause: Chronic Stress
At the core of heart disease is ongoing stress on the nervous system.

Stress comes in three forms:

▪️Physical stress – poor movement, posture, spinal dysfunction
▪️Chemical stress – poor diet, smoking, toxins
▪️Emotional stress – anxiety, fear, worry, pressure

Of these, emotional stress has the greatest impact.

How Stress Affects the Heart ❤️‍🩹
When the brain perceives stress, it shifts the body into fight-or-flight mode.

This response:

🚨 Raises blood pressure
🚨 Increases inflammation
🚨 Changes blood chemistry
🚨 Stresses blood vessels and the heart
🚨 Short-term stress is normal.

Chronic stress is damaging.

Over time, it contributes to high blood pressure, arterial plaque buildup, and increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

Why the Nervous System Matters
Your heart is controlled by your brain and nervous system.

If the nervous system is stuck in stress mode, the heart never gets the signal to fully relax and heal.

How Chiropractic Helps
Chiropractic adjustments help restore proper communication between the brain and body.

Research shows adjustments can:

✅ Reduce stress patterns in the nervous system
✅ Improve brain regulation of the heart
✅ Help normalize blood pressure
✅ Reduce inflammation
✅ Support healthier cardiovascular function

The Bottom Line
Heart health isn’t just about genetics or cholesterol.
It’s about how well your nervous system handles stress.

Supporting your nervous system supports your heart.

Schedule a consultation today to learn how chiropractic care may help.

01/29/2026

What do you plan to do to increase your Vagal Tone?

01/28/2026

🧠 Your Nervous System’s “Calm Switch”

The vagus nerve is part of your body’s healing system.

It helps regulate stress, digestion, mood, heart rate, and immune function.
Vagal tone describes how quickly your body can relax after stress.

Higher vagal tone = better recovery
Lower vagal tone = higher risk for inflammation, fatigue, and chronic disease

The good news?
✔️ Vagal tone can be improved
✔️ Brain-based care supports nervous system adaptability

More tips coming soon 💙

01/27/2026

Yesterday, we shared information with you about the importance of high vagal tone and its role in helping keep you healthy.

Here are 7 things you can do to improve your vagal tone.

1. Slow, rhythmic, diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing from your diaphragm, rather than shallowly from the top of the lungs, stimulates and tones the vagus nerve.

2. Humming. Since the vagus nerve is connected to the vocal cords, humming mechanically stimulates it. You can hum a song, or even better, repeat the sound ‘OM’.

3. Speaking. Similarly, speaking is helpful for vagal tone due to the connection to the vocal cords.

4. Wash your face with cold water. Cold water on your face stimulates the vagus nerve.

5. Meditation, especially loving kindness meditation which promotes feelings of goodwill towards yourself and others. A 2010 study by Barbara Fredrickson and Bethany Kik found that increasing positive emotions led to increased social closeness and an improvement in vagal tone.

6. Balancing the gut microbiome. The presence of healthy bacteria in the gut creates a positive feedback loop through the vagus nerve, increasing its tone.

7. Get adjusted. Research shows that chiropractic adjustments improve heart rate variability (HRV) by boosting the health function of the vagus nerve.

01/26/2026

What is All This Talk About Vagal Tone and How Can It Improve Your Health?

“Vagal tone is the activity of the vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve, and a fundamental component of the parasympathetic nervous system & #40;your healing nervous system& #41;.”

The vagus nerve oversees a number of crucial bodily functions such as mood regulation, immune response, digestion, and heart rate. It establishes one of the connections between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract and sends information about the state of the inner organs to the brain via afferent fibers.

Vagal tone is measured by tracking your heart rate alongside your breathing rate. Your heart rate speeds up a little when you breathe in and slows down a little when you breathe out. The bigger the difference between your inhalation heart rate and your exhalation heart rate, the higher your vagal tone. A higher vagal tone means that your body can relax faster after stress.

Lower vagal tone is associated with cardiovascular conditions and strokes, depression, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, cognitive impairment, and much higher rates of inflammatory conditions and many other chronic diseases.

The good news is you can improve your vagal tone, which will help keep you healthy and allow your brain to better adapt to stress.

Chiropractic adjustments also help the brain and nervous system better adapt to stress, so get adjusted.

We will be sharing more information with you this week about vagal tone and what you can do to improve it.

Sources:

Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders https://ecs.page.link/MV1f4

01/22/2026

Poor balance doesn’t mean decline is inevitable.

🧠 The brain is adaptable.
⚡ The nervous system can improve.
⚖️ Balance can get better.

With the right care and simple daily habits, you can support balance, coordination, and long-term brain health at any age.

🧪 Try this quick test at home:

✔️ Stand near a chair or wall
✔️ Lift one foot
✔️ Balance for 20 seconds
✔️ Switch legs

How did you do?

Difficulty balancing can be an early sign that the brain and nervous system need support.

Schedule an appointment today!