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Top 5 Tips for Managing your Body’s ‘Fight or Flight’ Response
Welcome to the fourth and final blog in our series on the body’s natural ‘fight or flight’ response, which is in honour of Stress Awareness Month. 1. Dampen artificial light input - Reducing the amount of artificial light input your brain receives -...
Why does Alba Spinal Health Centre care about ‘Sympathetic Dominance’?
Living in a state of ‘fight or flight’ is actually very bad for us, and this week we want to talk about why on earth Alba is interested in all of this… After all, don’t we just do backs?! Over the last fortnight, we have shared a couple of blogs about our...
Stress Awareness Month: How 21st century life messes with the intricate balance of our ‘fight or flight’ system
We are looking further into how the extremely well-designed system of ‘Sympathetic Dominance’ can actually have a negative impact on our bodies and wellbeing.In a state of ‘fight or flight’ (as the tiger jumps out at you), a part of your nervous system...
Stress Awareness Month: What is ‘Sympathetic Dominance’?
As part of Stress Awareness Month, we are going to be sharing a series of short weekly blogs looking deeper into something called ‘Sympathetic Dominance’. We hope you’ll find these interesting and informative – and please feel free to share them with your...
The Final Countdown: Our Top 10 Tips for a Healthy and Happy Christmas!
1) Sleep well and laugh; it's the best medicine after all! 2) Be kind to your liver by drinking plenty of water (not the flavoured kind, with artificial flavours and sweeteners in it)3) Burn off some of those extra calories by getting the whole family...
Three Ways to Reduce those Stress Levels this Christmas
A recent study has shown that over the festive period, stress rises by more than 30 percent. During times of stress, your heart rate increases; breathing quickens; muscles tighten; and blood pressure rises - posing big risks towards your general health and...
Motion is Lotion!
Here are four reasons to move more! 1) More oxygen reaching our muscles: If you are experiencing tight muscles, you are restricting blood flow and, therefore, oxygen to your muscles - leading to soreness; moving more means more nutrients for our muscles2)...
Take a Deep Breath…
We don't give much thought to our breathing patterns, as they are automatic (we breathe around 20,000 times a day), but breathing is really important. It supplies our body with oxygen – including our muscles and brain – which allows them to work at their...
Make Afternoon Slumps a Thing of the Past with a Delicious Chocolate Smoothie!
Do you ever get that mid-afternoon energy slump? You know the one, where you are tempted to have another caffeine hit and reach for the chocolate?Well recently, we discovered an alternative which is just as tasty: a chocolate smoothie packed full of...
The Benefits of an Alkaline-Friendly Diet: Top Five Tips
The Benefits of an Alkaline-Friendly Diet: Top Five TipsFri 15 Dec 2017Did you know that an alkaline diet can reduce the risk of suffering from a variety of chronic diseases that are plaguing our aging population? An alkaline-friendly diet can benefit bone...