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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP162 - Fatigue · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time off. We're back to the basics and healthcare with Balanced Life Chiropractic.
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  We have doctor Harley with us. How you doing, doctor Harley? Hey
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  John, I am doing fantastic, maybe a little less on the sleep things.
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  Daylight savings this time last week was not this time last week. Everybody
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  changed for whatever reason. We just changed our clocks randomly every once in a
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  while. I'm sure there was a reason for it at some point, so
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  it made sense at one point, but I don't know that it does.
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  But it's here. I don't know if it's here to stay. People are
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  saying they want to change it. I don't know how we do that.
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  Where do I vote on that? It should be on the ballot? Maybe
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  I don't know, but it's here. We went through it this weekend and
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  there's probably a couple of people that are a little bit tired. So let's
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  talk about fatigue, right, We're gonna talk about fatigue, chronic fatigue.
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  We see daylight savings definitely makes us think of fatigue more because we lose an
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  hour. We're more tired on Monday. But if that fatigue is lasting more
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  than just like a day or two, when you're noticing this fatigue all the
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  time. There could be some things that are causing that, and one of
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  those things are privy getting more sleep, right right, having good qualities if
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  you're waking up tired is going to be a big one. Now, if
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  you're middle of the afternoon you're feeling really tired, it could be some other
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  things going on with that. So let's talk about sleep first. So are
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  you sleeping well? You know, do you get a full seven eight hours
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  of sleep? You know, most people probably don't anymore. They get off,
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  they toss and turn around. They're not getting a full, you know,
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  night's rest, and they're waking up tired. I've been drinking a lot
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  of water, so I get up in the middle of the night for other
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  things. So that that does happen as you get older. Unfortunately, your
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  bladder doesn't like to hold as long as it used to. It's like,
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  oh hey, it must be almost three. So some of it could be
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  that maybe you're not able to fall asleep very well. And part of it
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  is all our screens, our phones, our TVs, our computers. Most
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  people right before they go to bed, they're watching TV, they're on their
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  phone, you name it. You know. The problem with that is blue
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  light. So that backlighting in all our technology actually stimulates our brain waves.
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  So when we're supposed to be going to sleep and our brain's going into power
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  down sleep mode, that blue light wave is still triggering your brain to keep
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  it running versus going into sleep time. And that must be a little different
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  for everybody because like, I don't think it affects me as much. I
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  fall asleep watching TV, so but it can be falling asleep but then also
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  staying asleep too. You know, if you're a light sleeper, or you're
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  waking up tired all the time because your brain is running through normal ax.
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  So that's why I fall asleep watching TV because I'm so much fatigue. That
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  can be part of it too. So a simple thing that you can do
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  is, like on your phones and your computers, there's a night light mode
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  or a night time mode. It gives your phone like a CPO or kind
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  of an orange color. It actually helps block that blue light nice. So
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  that's a good thing to turn on about an hour before you go to bed,
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  or you know, getting a blue light lens in your glasses, or
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  you can get a non prescription blue light blocker. So like if you're watching
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  TV in bed, you'll wear those before you go to bed. That's a
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  good idea that helps with fatigue, but also eyestrain during the day. If
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  you sit at a computer all the time, Oh yeah, I have some
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  special glasses for that. When I wear them, I do when I'm on
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  the computer. I don't hedi's laughing in the background. I don't wear them
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  when I'm on my phone, though I probably should, right because I have
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  bad eyes even when I'm not on the computer. So that can be that
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  part of it. You know, as your mattress six five to seven years
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  old, by that time, they say it's about time to start looking for
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  a new one, So it could be comfort wise with that as well.
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  So some of the things that you could do, like we said, get
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  more sleep, all of that. And then I suppose your diet makes a
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  difference too, because if you eat a bunch of stuff that's going to keep
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  you away, it can make you not feel so great. That probably also
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  adds to the fatigue. Right, If your metabolisms, you know, you're
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  eating a lot of junk food, your metabolism is going to slow down,
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  versus if you're eating you know, fresh fruits, veggies. You know,
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  eating more balanced diet, you're going to have a little bit higher metabolism,
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  You're going to be naturally more tired, and it's going to be easier to
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  fall asleep because you're burning through your energy in a natural way versus stress burning,
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  which is different. Absolutely, and since we're talking to a chiropractor,
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  we should also talk about it could also be an adjustment issue. If things
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  are not communicating properly, that can make you uncomfortable, and I'll bet that
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  also leads to fatigue, right, you know, we actually chiropract can help
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  with your sleep centers, so it can help your nervous system get out of
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  fight or flight easier. So then you do get that turned down, rest
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  digest part of your nervous system going easier to fall asleep, as well as
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  helping with your aches and pains that maybe while you're not comfortable and can't stay
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  asleep. Absolutely, if somebody listening is going, okay, you know what,
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  I could probably use some help with one or two or all of the
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  things you guys just talked about. If you're checking the boxes and you got
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  them all, I encourage you to get some help. If they would like
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  to get help from you. How do they reach out to you here at
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  Balance Life Chiropractic. There's no better time than the present to get started on
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  your health concerns. I was thinking, like, you know, the things
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  you have going on now, the best time was six months ago. But
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  if you didn't do it, then do it now. Don't wait another six
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  months. Yeah, things don't usually get better, they get worse over time.
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  So you can give us a call at six year O five two one
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  five one seven eighty five, or shoot us a message on our Facebook page.
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  We'd love to chat and let you know how we can help you with
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  your health concerns. Very nice. You can also find them online and that's
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  got the phone number there. It's also got a link to their Facebook page.
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  The website is Balanced lifsd dot com