Welcome to my first effort in a good while to put out useful information for my wonderful patients! And thank you for providing me your email so we can stay in touch. These first few newsletters may be a bit wobbly as I lean how to be a better self-publisher. All of this content will be original, and exclusive to you! I will give you tips on spinal health, and heath in general - once or twice a week, and I will be honored if you give these emails a good look! NOTE: You may get the same email more than once initially as I work to fully populate my list. Please bear with me! Also if for any reason don’t wish to get this newsletter, there should be a place at the bottom where you can unsubscribe.

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Before we move on to self help, here is a brief reminder of a few of the things we have drug-free, natural solutions for:

• HEADACHE/MIGRAINE

• NECK/BACK PAIN

• NUMBESS

• SCIATICA

• DISC HERNIATION

• SINUS PROBLEMS

• HIATAL HERNIA

• CARPEL TUNNEL

• ARM/SHOULDER PAIN

Self-Help - Sitting Is The New Smoking?

Smoking used to be the most common and widespread damaging health habit. As smoking declined over the years, the amount of time we spend sitting has increased. Sitting upright in a chair for prolonged periods while looking down at a computer screen or smart phone has become the postural norm for most of us. The problem is that this posture does not match the design of the human frame, and the postural stress and distortion it causes can be damaging to our health in many ways.

Forward Head Posture

Prolonged sitting while looking down will eventually produce a forward head posture, as seen above, where the skull is no longer centered over the shoulders. Here is a list of thing commonly attributable to this postural distortion:

• headache

• neck and shoulder pain

• sinus problems

• loss of mobility

• arm/hand numbness/carpel tunnel syndrome

• degenerative joint and disc disease

• decreased lung capacity

One study went so far as to say this postural problem can reduce the lifespan of the elderly.

What can we do?

In this and subsequent newsletters I will outline self-help for this condition. To begin with the most important thing you can do obviously is to limit sitting while looking down. If you have an occupation that keeps you seated at a desk - please adopt the habit of taking micro-breaks.

Micro-Breaks

Set a timer in your work station. You can use your cell phone, or a cooking timer, or download a countdown timer from YouTube. Set to 20 minutes. When the timer goes off get up! Walk around. Take deep breaths. Arch your body gently backward and look up at the ceiling for the count of ten. You only need to spend a minute doing this (hence micro break!). Then sit back down. Repeat every 20 minutes. Make this your new habit. This is the way to start. More tips to come.

SN. Have you kids do this too. This problem is affecting our youth as well.

Lose Weight and Reduce Inflammation Caveman Style - The Beautiful Promise of Intermittent Fasting.

Our earliest pre-agricultural ancestors were free of obesity, and all the degenerative inflammatory diseases we suffer today. They lived in compete harmony with nature. This lifestyle according to anthropologists was the longest period of human culture. Perhaps as long as 200-300 thousand years. You and I still have their genetics. And when we adopt primal behaviors like theirs, we can experience dramatic health benefits.

Our earliest ancestors had no supermarkets or refrigerators. When they woke up with the sun they went in search of food. There was activity, often vigorous before eating. And when the sun went down there was no late night binging. Our early ancestors had what we call today a ‘narrow eating window.’ As such, they likely did not started eating until the time of day we call lunch - late morning early afternoon. And eating ended shortly after sunset.

Adopting this same behavior will give you a period of fasting every 24 hours. For example if you eat your first meal at 1 pm and your last meal at 7 pm, you will have an 18 hour fast each day. This will resonate better with our genetic programing, digestive system, and immune system, producing some wonderful benefits:

• weight loss (your body will burn fat while in a fasting state.)

• reduced inflammation (inflammation is involved to one degree or another in all chronic disease processes from chronic joint pain, to heart, diabetes, and cancer.)

This is definitely a positive lifestyle hack! Certainly worth adopting. And to begin with, you don’t have to change the foods you eat to get some of these benefits. Nor do you need to count calories. However, once you have made this a habit you can then move on to eliminating the wrong foods from your diet. Then this process can become miraculous. We will look at specific food to eliminate in a subsequent newsletter.

So try pushing your first meal as late as you can (late morning/early afternoon) , and don’t eat at all after 7 pm. Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day, by the way. That is all ‘Big Food’ propaganda!

Closing Comments

Thanks for reading! Please consider giving this stuff a go. It’s all On The Level! Meanwhile if it’s been six months or more since you’ve seen us, or if you have a new condition and and you can use our help, when you call ask about any “re-connection” specials we may have. (727) 787-3991

Blessings to you,

Dr. Seiler