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Stress And Pain – 9 Tips to Overcome Your Stress

When stress and pain strike, our first instinct might be to recoil. But if you’re experiencing a lot of stress or chronic pain on a regular basis, it’s important to learn how to manage it effectively in order to prevent it from negatively impacting your life. Stress is an inevitable part of life that can creep up at any time. Chronic pain, however, is a different beast altogether and requires a more aggressive approach to management than occasional stressors. If you’re living with chronic pain or have experienced recent stressors in your life—such as the end of a relationship or the loss of a loved one—it may seem like an uphill battle right now. However, there are lots of small things you can do every day to help manage your stress and reduce its impact on your overall well-being.

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Read more about the article What B vitamins support nervous system function and how do they work? – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

What B vitamins support nervous system function and how do they work? – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

There are eight B-vitamins that benefits overall health, including keeping your nerves healthy. But three of these vitamins – Thiamine (B1), Pyridoxine (B6), and Cobalamin (B12) are mainly known to support nervous system function. Continue reading to find out how these three B-complex vitamins help support your nervous system and keep it in tip-top shape.

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Read more about the article Things You Should Need To Do For Stress Survival

Things You Should Need To Do For Stress Survival

Stress is a universal phenomenon that affects everyone, at all times, and in all walks of life. It’s not something that anyone is immune to, nor is it something that is easy to deal with. Constant stress can take a toll on your mental and physical health, and can even affect your relationships and friendships. However, there are things you can do to reduce your stress and help you handle it better. Here are useful tips to help you survive stress and keep you smiling:

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Read more about the article Solutions for TMJD – Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

Solutions for TMJD – Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

We all want to smile, talk, eat and laugh every day without issues. But if you have temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJD), those facial movements may cause you a lot of pain. Your temporomandibular joints (TMJ) are where your lower jawbone and skull meet. When you have TMJDs, including dislocation, arthritis, infection of injury in your TMJ, you may suffer painful clicking and locking in your jaws, neck pain, headaches, and ringing in your ears. Although most symptoms of TMJD resolve in a few weeks, some persist and can be aggravated by certain actions like chewing, swallowing, and clenching, which causes a strain your jaw and neck muscles. In this article, however, we shall be showing you solutions or remedies for TMJD and how you can manage this condition from the comfort of your home.

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Read more about the article Top 6 ways to reduce chronic inflammation (#2 and 3 are Key!) – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

Top 6 ways to reduce chronic inflammation (#2 and 3 are Key!) – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

Inflammation is known to help fight illness or heal injury, but it goes beyond that sometimes. A chronic inflammation state may slowly be damaging your body it won’t even show. This form of inflammation goes into action without an infection or injury. This way, the immune system cells that are meant to protect you will start to destroy your healthy organs, arteries, joints, and other body parts. Several kinds of research have shown that when you don’t eat healthy, rest adequately, or get enough exercise, your body responds by triggering inflammation. The bad part is that chronic inflammation has a long-term damage on the body. If left unchecked, it can contribute to chronic disease conditions, such as blood vessel disease, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and more.

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Read more about the article Top 7 sources of inflammation (#7 is key to avoid) – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

Top 7 sources of inflammation (#7 is key to avoid) – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

Inflammation is simply our immune system’s natural response to illnesses and injury. This involves the release of inflammatory chemicals in the bloodstream to protect the body from foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. In the case of an injury, a localized inflammatory response helps in the healing process. There are two types of inflammation: The acute and chronic form. Acute inflammation helps us heal, so you can think of it as the “good” kind of inflammation. But the chronic inflammation is associated with chronic conditions or diseases, so you can describe it as the “bad” kind of inflammation.

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Read more about the article What is chronic inflammation? How does it damage the body? – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

What is chronic inflammation? How does it damage the body? – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

When you hear the word inflammation, what comes to your mind? Most people probably think inflammation is all about redness and swelling that follows an infection, wound, or injury. But this is only “acute inflammation” – a beneficial response by the immune system that encourages healing, and usually goes off once the injury improves. Chronic inflammation is another form of inflammation that is less obvious. While your immune system becomes activated, the inflammatory response stays on all the time at a low level. This is unlike the acute inflammatory response that is intermittent during an acute injury or infection. In other words, chronic inflammation may begin even when you have no injury. Worst still, it does not end when it should. Several factors could trigger chronic inflammation, from lifestyle factors such as poor sleep, obesity, or exposure to environmental toxins.

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Read more about the article The Ultimate Guide for Addressing Inflammation – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, NC Chiropractor

The Ultimate Guide for Addressing Inflammation – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, NC Chiropractor

At our Chiropractic Office at Elizabeth City, NC, we see a lot of people come in every week with chronic inflammation. Most cases of internal inflammation are often associated with a high level of stress, lack of proper nutrition, and chronic diseases such as heart disease, digestive problems, and cancer. Inflammation has also been implicated in many autoimmune diseases. In this case, the immune system triggers an inflammatory response that attacks the body like it’s an enemy.

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Read more about the article Why seed oils/manufactured oils drive inflammation and what oils you can use instead – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, NC, Chiropractor

Why seed oils/manufactured oils drive inflammation and what oils you can use instead – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, NC, Chiropractor

You might have seen some posts warning people about the dangers of seed oils. Well, Millions of people today consume seeds oils in their diets. But these seeds oils, such as canola, soybean, and corn oil have been studied to cause a lot of damages to our bodies. In fact, they’ve been confirmed by research to drive inflammation, which triggers a lot of chronic health ailments. Basically, industrial seed oils or manufactured oils are extracted from corn, soybeans, cottonseed, rapeseed, and safflower seeds and refined, bleached, and deodorized to get the final product. Seeds Oils and Inflammation The rise of seed oils have caused a dramatic change in the diet of most Americans, but the bad part is that these oils contain a high amount of a type of fat called Omega-6 PUFA.

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Read more about the article Best/Worst foods to eat that drive inflammation – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, Chiropractor

Best/Worst foods to eat that drive inflammation – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City, Chiropractor

Inflammation is one of the ways your body protect itself from foreign invaders. More so, it helps defend the body from illness. But, sometimes, you may experience inflammation even without a foreign invader, and that’s when it is linked to an increased risk of diseases like heart diseases, diabetes, and obesity. So you can easily say, inflammation can be both good and bad, depending on the situation. However, one interesting thing is that your diet influences inflammation in your body. Some foods have anti-inflammatory effects and you can add them to your diet to reduce your risk of illness. But some other types of food can trigger and worsen inflammation. Hence, it is important to note these different types of food so you can combat inflammation effectively, especially when it persists day in and day out. Best foods to fight inflammation

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