Q: What is Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness?
A: Holistic Chiropractic Wellness is a lifestyle that enhances the chemical-emotional-physical-spiritual well-being for children, adolescents, parents, adults, grand-parents!
Q: What’s involved in a Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness Lifestyle for children, adolescents, parents, adults, as practiced by Dr. Bob Seiler, a Holistic Chiropractor in Salt Lake City, Utah?
- It begins with the quality of sleep that you, your children, your family experience,
- Do you or your family get enough of restful sleep so that when you awake in the morning you feel refreshed and energized, or do you or your children toss and turn when sleeping? Do you have what is called Restless Leg Syndrome? Do you or your partner snore or have sleep apnea, which interferes with restful sleep and which leads to high blood pressure?
- If you or your family are not getting quality sleep what changes can be made? You can have dinner earlier, have fewer sugar snacks before going to sleep, reduce the amount of sugar (cookies, pastry, cakes, soda pop) , eat fewer items that have preservatives, which is anything that is on a shelf in a grocery store. Preservatives prolong the longevity of food on shelves, but don’t prolong your quality of life. Sugars lead to short bursts of energy, but longer term fatigue, which leads to adrenal gland exhaustion, which creates a multitude of inefficiencies in your physical, chemical and emotional functioning.
- Are you and your family eating enough of protein (organic chicken, meat (grass fed & no pork), fish (in deep moving cold waters), eggs (with omega-3′s) , vegetables (without pesticides), fruits that ripened? Are you vegan or vegetarian? If your vegetarian or vegan are you taking nutritional supplements to help balance your diet and nutrition? Are you drinking enough of alkaline fluids? Are you eating enough alkaline foods?
- Do you or your family have allergies to any foods, toxins within your environment (at home or at your workplace)? Would you like to find out?
- What are you or your children having for breakfast? Warm oatmeal with flax, low acidic nuts and fruit or a boxed cereal (containing preservatives – not healthy), fruits ( with a spectrum of colors), yogurt or kefir, fruit juice low in sugar? What kind of bread do you or your family eat? Are you or anyone in your family allergic to grains? Would you like to find out? If you eat eggs what are the chickens fed? If you eat meat what are the animals fed, because what the animals eat is what you eat!
- Do you or your family drink milk and what kind of milk do you drink – pasteurized, 2%, organic? A lot of people are allergic to milk, to dairy products and don’t know it. Would you like to find out what dairy products that you’re allergic to? Do you or your family take quality vitamins? What brand of vitamins do you purchase? Where do you buy your vitamins, minerals, supplements? The vitamins that you buy are they the least expensive, most expensive , average price? Are the supplements of good quality? Are those supplements absorbed by your body or just eliminated from your body? Do you have healthy gut bacteria to convert good, healthy food into useful nutrition for your body? If you or your family don’t have time in the morning for a sit-down breakfast could you make a protein shake (smoothie) with a favorite fruit, flax oil, wheat germ, quality fish oil? There are different ways to ingest fish oils. Please call our office today for a free 10-15 minute consultation at 801-230-0166 if you’d like to learn what are good foods to eat and good beverages to drink!
- Can you bring a nutritional mid-morning snack with you to school or to the office rather then buy something from a vending machine (preservatives & processed- not healthy) ?
- What do you or your family have for lunch – a white bread sandwich with lunch meat (preservatives & processed – not healthy) or something more nutritional with protein? What is the school or office cafeteria serving for lunch? Are the meals that the school prepares of good nutrition with good sources of protein or are they prepared from preservatives, boxes, bags of flower, sugar? Can a group of parents get together to help change the schools lunch menu? No hot dogs, less bread, no chips, soda or diet soda; more fruit, vegetables, fish!
- Children or adults who get headaches in the afternoon are usually not eating enough of protein in the morning, late morning and at lunch; what are you eating for nutrition?
- Do you or your family have an after school snack? Are the snacks of protein or are they consisting of chips, cookies, candy, soda pop (all preservatives – not healthy)? Are the beverages nutritional (water or a low-sugared fruit juice), or are they cans or bottles of soda? Look at the labels on the fruit juices that you buy. Sugars in fruit juice can range from 15 grams of sugar per bottle to 58 grams of sugar per bottle – the lower the amount of sugars the better for you, your children or your family!
- Do you or your family participate is any exercise and what kind? Is it the right exercise for your body, or is it worsening your condition? You may feel that your body looks better, but is your body actually better? You just may not be feeling a problem, but actually your condition may be worsening,
- Lifting weights at the gym isn’t good for every-body. Do you do pre- and post- warm-ups with your exercise routine? Increased muscle-bulk doesn’t make a body healthy. Muscle-bulk can reduce flexibility, which is not what you want to have in your up-coming years. You want more flexibility!
- What do you or your family have for dinner? Is it nutritional or does it come from a box, jar, a packaged TV dinner (all with preservatives – not healthy)?
- Is television watched after dinner? For how long? Which programs are watched? Watching the evening news before going to sleep isn’t conducive in having a restful sleep? Unpleasant news programs prior to going to sleep usually disturbs and interferes with quality sleep,
- Are any sugars, cakes, sweets, popcorn, candy, soda pop taken before going to sleep?
- Is there any kind of pre-sleep routine to help you or your child sleep better? A sea-salt or essential oil bath, candles, incense in the bathroom with an adult present?
- Are there any kind of beverages, herbs, teas, supplements that can be taken to make your sleep more restful and invigorating?
- Is the bed in your bedroom just for sleep? Or is used for television watching which interferes with quality of sleep? Watching television in your bed before going to sleep isn’t conducive for restful sleep,
- These are just a few things to be aware of as part of a Holistic Chiropractic Wellness Lifestyle as practiced by Dr. Bob Seiler, a holistic chiropractor in Salt Lake City, Utah,
- Dr. Bob, a holistic chiropractor in Salt Lake City, Utah, can discuss these topics more in detail taking into consideration your current lifestyle and introducing new and better ways to improve your or your families health & well-being. Feel free to call our office at (801) 230-0166 to schedule your initial chiropractic appointment. Our office is located just behind the Oasis Cafe & Golden Braid bookstore at 150 South 600 East, Suite 6C, Salt Lake, City, Utah.
Q: Can a Chiropractic Wellness Lifestyle help reduce headaches, as practiced by Dr. Bob Seiler, a Holistic Chiropractor, in Salt Lake City, Utah?
A: Yes.
Q: What kind of lifestyle changes are involved in living a Chiropractic Wellness Lifestyle to help reduce headaches as practiced by Dr. Bob Seiler, a Holistic Chiropractor in Salt Lake City?
A: Let’s begin by asking some questions:
- How much sugar do you eat during your day? Do you eat complex carbohydrates? What about simple carbohydrates? Do you eat foods with preservatives, additives, food colorings? The more a food is processed the more nutrients it looses, and the less benficial it is for your body, your health and well-being. Do you drink fruit juices? How many grams of sugar do they contain, which you can see on the back label ? What kind of breads do you eat? White bread is the worse. Do you eat cold cereals, candy, sweets, cookies, crackers, chocolate, drink too much red wine?
- Are you taking any nutritional supplementation? Is it a quality brand? Is your food helping you feel more energized or do you feel more fatigued, lacking energy? When you eat more nutritional food, you will eat less food. People eating “junk” food tend to eat more food, which can increase weight, can lead to obesity, can lead to diabetes or peripheral neuropathy. How long have you been taking your particular supplementation? If your body & mind isn’t responding to the food that you are eating, the supplements or medications that you are taking perhaps it’s worth re-examining how you’re going about your life from a holistic wellness lifestyle perspective as practiced by Dr. Bob Seiler, a holistic chiropractor in Salt Lake City, Utah? As a holistic chiropractor Dr. Bob Seiler of Salt Lake City, Utah will make “natural” recommendations for your healing & well-being. A medical doctor will probably recommend medications, chemicals, which could have some benefit, but they are also toxic with many side-effects. The side-effects may out-weigh the benefits. So when you see all the advertisements on TV suggesting that you call your doctor to see if a particular medication is good for you even with its 10-20 side effects, whyu not consider calling Dr. Bob Seiler, a holistic chiropractor in Salt Lake City, Utah?
- How much water are you drinking a day? Do you drink fruit juice, soda pop, caffeinated teas, coffee, diet energy or those power drinks (not very healthy)?
- Are you exercising? What do you do for exercise? Are you doing the right exercise for your body? As a holistic chiropractor Dr. Bob Seiler of Salt Lake City, Utah can help you determine what exercises are good for you and which exercises may be hurting your body without even knowing it! Lifting weights, doing stationary bike, cardiovascular, elliptical, tread-mill, running, swimming, walking, yoga may not be the best form of exercise for your body-mind-spirit?
- How is your spine, joints, body responding to the form of exercise that you are doing – chemically & emotionally? Are you or your child perhaps increasing the scoliosi that is i your spine without even feeling it?
- When was the last time your spine was examined by a holistic chiropractor, a true holistic chiropractor? Do you know if your shoulders, hips, legs are in alignment? If your shoulders, hips and legs are not in alignment then the exercise that you are doing can be worsening your condition! There are only 30% of pain cells in the body, which means that a problem has to reach about 70% before you can feel the pain. That means from the 70% to 100% level of pain you may not be able to walk, raise your arm or hold your head up! So you really ought not wait until you feel pain in order to determine that you have a problem.
- Have you ever seen what your spine looks like on x-rays? Are the lordotic and kyphotic curves of your spine symmetrical, straight, degenerating, eroding, irregular, scoliotic? Your exercise program may be making your spine worse? You may just not yet see or feel how gym work-outs may be hurting you!
- Even though you may not see or feel any pain does that mean that your body is healthy? A problem could already exist, but you don’t yet feel it,
- What type of work do you do? How many years have you been doing your work? How much sitting, bending, twisting, lifting does your work involve? There are physical pressures to take into consideration like standing on tile or carpet which have cement underneath them. Are there emotional & physical stresses, chemically environmental health hazards to take into consideration in your workplace? Breathing in the chemicals at a beauty salon is one example, which oftentimes can lead to headaches.
- Are you taking any medications? Which ones? For how long? Are they helping? Or are you adding more medications & more chemicals to your body?
- When was the last time that you had any lab work done by a holistic chiropractor with a holistic natural perspective rather than from a medical doctor which wi;; more than likely lead to taking more medications. The typical person at 65 years old these days is taking about 15 medications! Have you considered changing your lifestyle, what you eat, how you go about your day?
- How is your digestion and be honest? Do you have any belching, burping, passing of gas? Which foods upset your stomach? Are you taking anti-acid medications or over-the-counter anti-acids? How long have you been doing that for? How often do you have bowel movements? Daily, every two days, every three days? Increased stress usually leads to constipation? Constipation can be harmful and bleeding can result!
- How is your quality of sleep? Do you toss & turn? Are you a restless sleeper? Do you experience Restless Leg Syndrome? Do you sleep with a person who snores? Is it difficult for you you to sleep? Does he or she have sleep apnea? Sleep apnea can lead to increased blood pressure? Do you wake up in the morning tired or energized?
Q: Can a Chiropractic Wellness Lifestyle help woman’s health in regard to menstruation, infertility, pregnancy, peri-menopausal, menopausal and post-menopausal processes?
A: Yes. As a Holistic Chiropractor, Dr. Bob Seiler of Salt Lake City, Utah, helps to educate children, teens, parents, adults, that the nervous system of the body “naturally” regulates every function in the body. It’s the nerve impulses from the brain that are relayed to the spinal cord that conveys neuronal messages to every function of the body, which in turn can optimize the menstrual, reproductive, menopausal and post-menopausal processes. If these nerve pathways are interfered with then those respective organs to which those nerves travel to can be compromised. It’s like a watering-hose in your backyard. If the water is flowing from the hose and you step on the hose the water won’t continue to flow. The same is true for the nerves in your body. Depending on where the nerves are pinched (compressed) that’s where the energy will not flow to and those specific nerve pathways can lead to decreased chemical, structural and emotional health. It could take 5-10-15-20 years before you feel any compromise. That’s where x-rays can help to see what’s going on in your body.
Q: What can cause the nerves of the sacral plexus (located in your low back above your buttocks) in a female to be compromised which could interfere with menstrual, reproductive, peri-menopausal, menopausal, post-menopausal processes?
A: Here are possibilities:
- While a child is in the womb the mother could have had an injury, an accident and could have fallen on her sacral plexus (on her low back), which in turn could put pressure on the nerves from the sacral plexus, which could affect the chemical or structural health leading to menstrual and menopausal imbalances,
- The mother could have been in a car accident and could have compromised the nerves of her sacral plexus (in her low back),
- The mother could have experienced physical abuse , which could compromise the health of the female menstrual, reproductive, menopausal cycles,
- The child at early age could have fallen out of bed, down some steps at home, at school, fallen off her bicycle, fallen from swings, monkey-bars, see-saw at the school playground, repeated dismounts from gymnastics could compromise the nerves of the sacral plexus, therefore, affecting menstrual, reproductive health,
- Oftentimes in the school playground kids are just playing, and even adults don’t understand the consequences of what may appear to be a small fall,
* The child, teen, adolescent could be involved in the forceful contact of sports like basketball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, sliding into another girl playing softball, falling on the ice while figure-skating, skiing or snow-boarding, wiping-out into some trees or have a whiplash-like bicycle or car accident, - You or your daughter could have accidentally fallen on some black-iced driveways, in parking lots or on side-walks,
- Maybe the child experienced physical abuse in the areas of her low back, shoulders or head,
- The child’s body chemistry could be imbalanced from what he/she eats, from too much sugar, cookies, sweets, candy, chocolate, fruit juices and not enough of the right complex carbohydrates and protein,
- Having experienced any of the above incidents once or over a repeated number of times throughout life could cause nerve dysfunction, chemical imbalances within a body and could affect menstrual, reproductive, menopausal health,
- You or your daughter could be using prescribed medications. Medications have side effects and those medications, birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy may already be interfering with body’s natural reproductive chemistry,
- Medications taken over a long period of time can lose their effectiveness and can be harmful,
- Sacral plexus (in your low back) injuries, falls, whiplash, pinched nerves, from sitting at school or at your desk over time could affect the menstrual, reproductive, peri-menopausal, menopausal (hot flashes, irritability, moodiness), post-menopausal health
Q: What can a parent do for a child or what can an adult do to check to see if there is any nerve compromising of the sacral plexus?
A: You can call Dr. Bob Seiler, a holistic chiropractor, located at 150 South 600 East, Suite 3B, Salt Lake City, Utah at (801) 230-0166 and schedule an initial chiropractic appointment. The initial paperwork, consultation, chiropractic exam and chiropractic treatment takes about an hour.
Q: What can cause the nerves of the male sacral plexus (located in your low back just above your buttocks) to be compromised, which could affect men’s sexual health / dysfunction?
A: A compromised male sacral plexus could be a result from:
- A birthing process which could have placed nerve pressure on your low back (a delivery by forceps),
- The child could have fallen from a tree, from his bicycle onto a sidewalk, in the school playground onto his sacral plexus leading to nerve dysfunction,
- The child could have received a forceful blow from playing football, soccer, basketball, hockey, from repeated dismounts from gymnastics of being on the cheering team, landing on hardwood floors underneath which is usually cement, which could lead to sacroiliac injury (SI joint dysfunction/instability)
- There could have been a whiplash, accident or injury from a car, motorcycle, moped, ATV,
- The sacral plexus nerve dysfunction could be from winter sports, skiing, snow-boarding, figure-skating or from landings in extreme sports,
- Being thrown from a horse, falling off a cliff onto your back, being catapulted from a motorcycle, falling from a ladder onto a driveway,
- You may have been standing, bending, twisting, lifting, working on a cement floor for months or years (cement floors are the hardest of surfaces to stand on) can put large amounts of compression on nerves to cause sacral plexus nerve dysfunction, which can lead to numbness or tingling in your buttocks, legs or feet,
- You could have been done masonry, brick laying, putting up dry wall, which could put nerve pressure on the sacral plexus
- Sitting on a chair while in school or at the office for 5-10-30-50 years can pinch nerves in your low back (while also taking into consideration body weight) has a tendency to increase nerve pressure. The increased the body weight, the increased the nerve dysfunction can affect male health,
- From a lack of exercise or doing the incorrect exercises,
- From not eating well, too many carbohydrates, soda pop, sweets, candy, chocolate, french fries, chips, fast-foods could affect male libido,
- Eating from vending machines at the office or at school (preservatives – not healthy),
- Eating too many preservatives, products in bottles, jars, containers, boxes which are on shelves in grocery stores (the preservatives prolong the longevity of the shelved product, but the preservatives don’t support biological and chemical health),
- Men driving large tractor trailers for thousands of miles, the compression of sitting long periods of time and from the vibrations of a truck could lead to sacral nerve dysfunction,
- From the vibrations of jack-hammering cement; from lifting heavy cartons over years (in a warehouse or a loading dock),
- Being emotionally or physically abused,
- Medications to support male libido; ingesting what is unnatural,
- Drinking energy drinks (which could be caffeinated),
- Feel free to call our office at (801) 230-0166 or leave a message to schedule your initial chiropractic appointment.
This information is solely given for the purpose of general information / education and is not intended to be used for any kind of self-diagnosis or self-treatment. If you have any questions about your health and well-being you can Dr. Bob Seiler, a Salt Lake City holistic chiropractor at (801) 230-0166 or your physician.
Holistic Chiropractic & Wellness 150 South 600 East Suite 6C
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 Office Phone: 801.230.0166