How Your Diet Impacts Joint Pain As a Functional Medicine Doctor, I’ve seen incredible results with patients who were able to successfully implement changes in their diet (alone) and eliminate many of their chronic pain symptoms, whether they were suffering from Neck Pain, Back Pain or some severe autoimmune disease, such Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogrens, [...]

The Hierarchy of Human Movement Before you can understand why I'm not a fan of the following movements, you need to understand the hierarchy of human movement. I almost have to stop myself from going to a fitness center at the beginning of the year because of "crash exercises" that absolutely cause harm to [...]

Can Your Gut Cause Joint Pain? Even Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said all healing begins in the gut! And more than 2,300 years later, we are just beginning to unravel the importance of the microbiome (collection of bacteria in your gut) and it's relationship to weight loss, brain chemistry, hormone balance, autoimmunity [...]

Doctors Are Reversing Recommendations on Baby Aspirin For years, medical organizations, pharmaceutical companies and physicians have all recommended that taking a daily dose of aspirin (baby aspirin) would help prevent a heart attack or stroke. But this week, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association just reversed that idea. This recommendation [...]

Do You Have Rounded Shoulders? Hunched, Slouched or having Rounded Shoulders are all signs of poor shoulder position that can absolutely cause headaches, neck pain, mid back pain and even low back problems. Over the last few weeks I've shared a few articles that detail my 6 Minute Morning Movement Routine. This entire routine [...]

Rotation is Important for Optimal Spine Movement A major benefit of getting weekly Chiropractic Adjustments is ensuring the efficient movement of each segment of your spine. Movement is one of the pillars of health and having the inability to rotate contributes to injury and pain. The spine is divided into 3 main sections: Your [...]

Lateral Bending Can Help With Back Pain Over the last few weeks I've discussed low back spine extension and flexion exercises for back pain. While extension (back bending) is one of the best exercises you can do for low back pain, the reality is... all movements are important. As a general rule... you only want [...]

Spine Flexion and Extension Matter I cannot tell you how many times someone has told me their 'doctor' told them to not perform spine flexion or extension movements because they have a 'bad back'. This is just dumb advice. If you don’t know who Stuart McGill is, you should google him right now. The [...]

Best Exercise for Lower Back Pain The first movement that I do in my daily movement routine, consists of the back extension exercise.  Not only has this movement been clinically validated as one of the best exercises to eliminate back pain, but it also helps to reverse the adverse effects of sitting or bad posture. [...]

Last week I shared with you my morning movement routine. This is a series of movements aimed at moving every single major joint in my body in a little time as possible. Like many of you, time is of the essence and I try to squeeze every bit of it, all in a way [...]