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If you would like to perform better at your sport of choice or simply address a nagging pain that has been hanging around, chiropractic adjustments along with Active Release Techniques are a winning team to help you accomplish your goals. I use these together to help my patients experience the quickest and most direct relief and the results they are looking for.
Additionally, I often recommend Acupuncture as a great adjunct therapy for my patients, for decreasing pain, improving energy, and addressing other specific health concerns that they have.
A local acupuncturist that I refer my patients to is Rebecca Cates, M.S., L.Ac. Rebecca's knowledge and professionalism come across in her expert care, using gentle and effective needling. She knows all the right points to treat to restore balance, reduce pain and invigorate health. I have enjoyed and derived much benefit from her treatments over this past year. Her beautiful office is conveniently located at 770 Page Street in North Berkeley. She can be reached at 415-573-6168 for appointments. Her website is: http://rebeccacates.com/
In order for me to be able to help more people stay fit I have opened a second location in Walnut Creek. It is located at 1280 Boulevard Way, Suite 211, just off highways 24 and 680 at the Mt. Diablo Blvd exit. I am currently there on Wednesdays.
Our main office's new location is 6330 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609. Our new Chiropractic Center is a spacious and beautiful building located between Alcatraz and 63rd Street. You can reach us at (510) 601-6330.
With You In Health,
Dr. Richard Burg, DC
Your Inner Ecology
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| Water Balance - Essential for Life |
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Every gardener knows that her plot of land needs sufficient water to enable the flourishing of the plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables under her care. Likewise, the human body needs sufficient daily watering so that health and well-being can continue to flourish. Most authoritative sources recommend daily consumption of eight glasses of water per day. But most people don't come close to approaching the recommended minimum. Some don't even drink one daily glass of water. The result of failing to maintain proper water balance is a toxic internal environment. Biochemical processes break down and chronic disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and allergies, and arthritis develop. Drinking water is a simple and very cheap method of helping maintain good health. If you don't usually drink water, start with two glasses a day. From there build up to four glasses and then eight glasses per day. You may notice some surprising and very gratifying results, including more restful sleep, reduced levels of stress, and a healthier glow to your skin. |
In April 2010 the BP Deep Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in a catastrophic offshore oil spill. Millions of barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf since the explosion, representing an unprecedented environmental disaster. Many complex ecosystems are affected by the oil spill, ranging from the Louisiana bayous and associated wetlands to as-yet-unexplored deep ocean ecologies.
The Deep Horizon explosion has focused public attention on ocean, gulf, and wetlands ecologies. The grave threats posed to these environmental ecosystems can also focus attention on our own internal ecosystems.
Human blood is composed of approximately 90% water by volume. Your body attempts to control certain characteristics of blood very closely. For example, the acid-base balance of blood is maintained within a very tight range - a pH between 7.35 and 7.45. Blood levels of calcium are also tightly controlled, within a range of 8.5 to 10.5 milligrams for every 100 milliliters of blood. Lower calcium levels will cause calcium to be leeched out of bone to restore blood levels to within the normal range.
Similarly, high levels of blood glucose (as in diabetes) can cause these simple sugars to wash up on the shores of small blood vessels in the kidney, retina, and nerves. Serious damage to kidneys, the eyes, and nerves can result.2,3
Failure to take appropriate precautions and heed warning signs is the likely cause of the Deep Horizon explosion. In order for us to ongoingly maintain a healthy inner ecology, we need to do what was not done in this oil-drilling operation. Making proactive lifestyle choices is a key to creating and supporting an inner ecology that will reward us with long-term health and well-being.
Engaging in regular chiropractic care is a one such lifestyle choice that helps support a healthy inner ecology.
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