April is coming to a close. The temperature has been up and down and the rain has been coming pretty steady this month. But they say those showers bring May…
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As a lot of you may have seen, its mushroom season here in Missouri! People are running in the woods and running out with 5-gallon buckets full of morels and…
There has been a shift in worker culture over the past few years. With the lockdowns and restrictions happening, a lot of workers were forced to work from home. Some…
Allergies are a result of a foreign substance entering your body’s system. This foreign substance alerts your body’s security guards, so they call in their friends to help take care…
Protein: the essentials of life If I had to pick ONE thing to focus on when trying to change your health (and your waistline), it would be proteins. Protein is…
Carbs: we love them, we need them, but WHAT are they? Carbs are our body’s favorite source of energy supply! Your body breaks these carbs down into their most basic…
The skinny on fats Fats are the most concentrated source of energy. Whereas carbs and proteins produce 4 calories of energy per gram, fat contains 9 calories per gram. That’s why…
It is getting to be spring out now! That means lots of rain and lots of sunshine as things start to warm up. Our bleak and barren fields will be…
Low back pain is a very common condition. Anywhere from 58%-84% of adults will have an incident of low back pain at some point in their life. It’s the most…
Splenda, was at one time, America’s favorite diet-sugar. It was sold and marketed as peoples answers to having their cake AND being able to eat it without the guilt. But…
What really is exercise-induced asthma? Asthma comes in a couple of different forms, but this article looks at the exercise-induced kind. Like the name suggests, it is a narrowing of…
This is a good question! A lot of people get intimidated by the idea of going to get supplements and when it comes to the idea of vitamins. There are…
Pregnancy is a huge event in the life of many of our patients. Unfortunately, it has been synonymous with muscle and joint aches and pains for pregnant women everywhere. Up…
The amounts of people smoking traditional cigarettes are declining, which is great news! However, 34.1 MILLION people still have their daily smoke in the U.S. alone. And nearly half of…
Serotonin seems to make the news every other day. There’s constantly new and changing opinions about what it is and what is does. One question that has been on people’s…
Are Those Daily Sodas Killing You? Tips from the Doctors of Family First Everybody enjoys a good soda occasionally, right? I remember being a kid growing up and seeing all…
This is a question we get asked quite often as chiropractors. You may have even heard us talk about that one little movement being, “the straw that broke the camel’s…
Our active-duty service members push their bodies to the brink when fighting for our country, it comes as no surprise that low back pain is one of the most likely…
There are 2 types of people in the world: those that have been in a car accident, and those that are going to be in a car accident. I know…
