Navigating Healthcare: A Guide to Modern Medicine and Wellness

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6 Natural Ways to Stop Snoring

There are several natural techniques you can use to naturally stop snoring. Snoring is boring and can lead to making people close to you miss out on precious sleep.

Natural Ways to Prevent Snoring
Natural Ways to Prevent Snoring

A healthy person should breathe smoothly without any noise. If you snore in your sleep, it can be a telling sign that something is going wrong and you should get it checked out.  Don’t ignore snoring, as it could be a sign of something very serious.

There are several causes for snoring.  Here are a few of the most common causes of snoring:

Can Inversion Therapy Reduce Back Pain?

Inversion Tables
Inversion Tables

Back pain is a frustrating thing to live with and it can seriously detract from your quality of life. But a lot of the time, people with lower back pain do not or cannot undergo huge surgeries to fix it. However, there are other ways to treat lower back pain. One popular way to do so is through inversion therapy.

Inversion therapy involves being tilted or hung upside down, usually via an inversion table. The idea is to decompress the spine so the disc in your lower back it is not being pressed down and pinching nearby nerves. By taking the weight off the bones and the joints, a traction force will be created in your body which will relieve back pain. It is used to treat people with herniated discs and degenerated discs as well as people suffering from sciatica. So, do inversion tables work? Let’s first discuss the risks.

This is What You Need to Know About Back Pain and Chiropractic Care

Back Pain
Back Pain

Nobody likes to be in pain especially when every move you make aggravates a sensitive lower back. With up to 80% of the community expected to experience back pain throughout their life, we should be thinking about back pain as more of a modern day health epidemic than just that old ‘pain in the back’.  Supporting this line of argument are recent studies and reports that make the case for problems caused by back pain and the need for better pain management solutions.

‘The Global Burden of Disease Study’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO) labelled back pain a major cause of disability, affecting performance at work as well as overall levels of health and well being.   The study also placed back pain amongst the top 10 conditions that contributed to ill health, disability or early death.

Health Benefits of Growing Your Own Food

Freshly Grown food
Freshly Grown food

Why organic and why freshly grown? With corporations producing most of our food, these days profit comes before quality. Most fruit and vegetables grown rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) are widely used in crops these days to improve yield and obtain certain qualities in the crops. It is a very hot topic these days with many arguing the negative effects on our health.