The so-called ‘western’ or industrialised nations of the world have long struggled with high levels of preventable illness. According to World Health Organization statistics the majority of population death occurring in these countries results from a very particular cause. What is responsible for 75% of all deaths in Western nations? What is responsible for the … Read more
Sickness / Illness
Lifestyle choices, not genetics are by far the most profound causes of illness, sickness and dysfunction affecting our society today. It is useful, in fact necessary, to begin to look at genes with different eyes – to see them as a cause of health and ideal function (if given the biological needs to achieve this) … Read more
A primary concept we want to myth-bust through Health & Wellness coaching is the impact of genetics on both our health, our illness and more broadly, our lives! Commonly, our society assumes that genes control our lives and the risk of genetic illness is high. This reliance on genes-as-cause of illness and on family history being … Read more
At Noosa Junction Chiropractic we argue that all stress can be classed as either a toxicity or deficiency (or both) – children’s health now suffers from such high levels of these stressful stimuli that the impact as individuals and as a population segment to stark. We know the impact of obesity. We know that what … Read more
It is a common belief in our society that as our average life expectancy has gone up across our wider population, that we are living longer, better lives as individuals; this has produced a myth that says we are living longer because we have better illness protection or “health” interventions keeping us alive. This assumption … Read more
Chiropractic subluxation leads to immobilisation of spinal joints. These joints are richly concentrated with the nerve receptors that ‘instruct’ the brain where the body is in space – the literally give the brain perception of YOU. When we think of immobilisation the image in our mind is usually something related to the larger joints or … Read more
Appropriate movement levels can promote a cancer-free functional state – a level of health in the body where the likelihood of the development of cancers is significantly reduced; this is more evidence of the critical role movement plays in an ideal life. Elsewhere on this site we have shown the impact of a chronic ‘stress’ … Read more
What is sickness? What is disease? How do stressors lead to sickness? Every health profession agrees that ideal health or function is a state called ‘homeostasis‘. The way we’ve described it elsewhere on this site is a state where all cells of the organism are operating at 10/10 on the continuum of health. Remember the … Read more
Working toward reducing toxicity in our lives definitely means (in part) cleaning up our nutrition – the food, additives and chemicals we regularly consume are often toxic to our bodies. The toxicity may not be obvious because of our remarkable detoxification and storage systems that work hard to adapt to these pressures – but imagine … Read more
Healthier amounts, types and proportions of fats in our blood can be developed with appropriate levels of movement. A ‘Lipid’ is the technical name for fats and oils. Blood lipids are the relative amount and proportion of fats, cholesterol, and other molecules that they form which are found in the blood. Clearly this is a … Read more