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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP119-Mental Health Awareness Month · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with balance Life Chiropractic. We
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  have doctor Harley joining us. How you doing, doctor Harley? Hey John,
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  I'm doing fantastic. Man. Is the weather nice? Oh? Oh
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  yeah? This? And we had like rain we had Canada. Our April
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  showers came late, which was nice because I planted some grass and I'm hoping
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  that will that'll grow. But when the weather is nice, that makes people
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  happier and more cheerful in it, more positive mental health, doesn't it?
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  Right? Yeah? So May is mental health Awareness month, so I fege
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  we should talk a little bit about how chiropractic can help with mental health.
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  A lot of people might not necessarily associate chiropractic with mental health issues, but
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  there's a mind and body connection because if you've got pain in all kinds of
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  places in your body, then your mind is going to be thinking about that,
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  and that really makes everything else difficult, doesn't that right? You know
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  when a lot of mental health, like depression anxiety, can stem from some
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  sort of physical injury or chronic pain that you're in. Because when you don't
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  feel good, you know, you're, like you said, you're gonna be
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  focusing on that you're you're not going to be thinking very positively, and that's
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  it's just going to kind of continue to get work. So that's one way
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  we see by helping someone improve their physical ailment, it's going to drastically improve
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  their mental health. But there are some people too that it's like, you
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  know, they weren't necessarily here for their mental health issues, or they had
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  a lot of aches and pains, but their mental health improvement, like,
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  well, how did that work? You know, the nerves in our upper
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  neck, you know, they go back up into our heads, so that's
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  like our brain talk into our brain, and if there's issues up there and
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  our brain is not communicating very well with itself, it's going to lead to
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  some distortion. It's going to lead to more issues. So that can lead
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  to mental health issues. If our brain's just not functioning like it should,
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  it's going to be harder to overcome the stress you have in your everyday life,
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  and a lot of stress is what leads to a lot of anxiety depression
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  type issues. And there are some people who think the answer is, oh,
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  you need medication, because if you have medication for all of these things,
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  it's going to fix everything. Well, that can actually cause more problems,
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  really can it. There are some medications that a side effect is mental
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  health issues or it will say don't take this medication if you are diagnosed with
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  anxiety, depression, whatnot. And then you know, so make sure that
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  if you are, you know, suffering with some of those things, talk
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  to your doctors. Make sure your medication is not having any of those side
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  effects. But medication isn't always going to fix the problem, right, A
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  lot of hands just kind of covers it up. It's not really addressing the
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  issue. Or what we find with chiropractic is we're helping your nervous system to
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  function better, helping your brain to function better. Your body's working better.
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  It's going to help heal itself. We're gonna able to handle our stress better.
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  We're not going to get so over reactive to our everyday normal stressors.
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  Anxiety is going to start to be reduced. You know, we're gonna start
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  feeling better, so then our depressions start. You know, we have a
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  better mood you're talking about, like the nicer weather, that kind of stuff,
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  Like all those things you'll really start adding up helping to boost our mute
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  our mood. Absolutely, and one of the things I would encourage people to
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  do before jumping on a medication of some kind, see if there's a better
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  plan. And I think one of the things that's nice about chiropractic it's a
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  very much a holistic way where it's very aware that you talk to a chiropractor
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  that's going, oh, hey, I think you need to be on all
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  of these drugs to fit it, because there's most of the time, probably
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  not all the time, but a lot of the time, there's an answer
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  that's not including drugs, and there's a way for you to maybe get that
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  mental health back in check in a natural way. So chiropractic it really does
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  help people heal without the use of drugs or surgery, helping your body to
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  heal itself from the inside up. Now, yes, of course, there
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  are definitely cases where you should be taking your medication. I'm not going to
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  tell you what medications to take or not to take. That's a conversation between
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  you and your primary But if you're looking for other answers, looking for a
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  way to manage your health issues without drugs or surgery, chiropractic is a fantastic
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  way to help your body, help itself. If somebody listening is maybe have
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  questions and are going hen, I'd like to maybe chat with doctor Harley and
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  find out if this chiropractic thing is for me. How do they get a
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  hold you know, what's the first step in that process. The first step
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  is, yeah, getting a hold of us and setting up a new patient
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  appointment. So you can give us a call at six zero five to five
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  one seven eight five. You can reach out to us on our Facebook page
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  at Balance Life car product. We'd love to chat and let you know how
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  we can help you know the new patient appointment. We are doing like a
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  thorough health consultation. We're using self exams at our office to really pinpoint where
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  your underlying issues are coming from. It's a great system and you can find
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  them online as well, and they've got the phone number there and I'll link
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  to the Facebook page there as well at balanced lifesd dot com