March 16, 2020

5 Proven Steps to Boost Your Immune System 

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As we navigate life and the health challenges that we might encounter, maintaining a healthy immune system is essential to staying healthy and overcoming potential health challenges in the most efficient and effective way.

Here are 5 proven steps to keep yourself as healthy as possible:

  1. Manage stress. Stress impacts us at multiple levels. It has been proven to weaken the immune system and increase the stress hormone, cortisol.  A simple way to effectively manage stress is mindful meditation. Most recent research shows that mindfully spending time breathing for 12 minutes or focusing on a mantra helps mind tranquility. In addition, journal what’s troubling your mind — writing it down, will help you stop thinking about it, and get it off your mind so you can relax.  As we manage and improve our stress level, it will naturally improve our quality of sleep. 
  2. Sleep. Sleep is an essential step in our health to allow us total body recovery.  A variety of functions along with neurotransmitters and proteins that are essential for recovery are handled during our sleep.  For a better night’s sleep, I recommend turning the temperature of your home to about 64 degrees, refrain from any screen time an hour prior to your bedtime, take a warm bath, and consider reading book preferably an easy fiction. I would also highly encourage if possible to take a twenty-minute nap during the day. 
  3. Diet. Assisting the immune system by eating whole fresh foods along with eliminating sugar preservatives will help optimize your health. Consider starting your day with  lemon juice, squeezing a fresh lemon in a cup of warm water and drink it with a straw.  Augment your diet with natural antibiotic and anti-inflammatory foods such as ginger, turmeric, garlic, and kiwi to name a few.  Fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kombucha and kimchi are fantastic sources for healthy bacteria to assist with your immune system.
  4. Practice good hygiene. It goes without saying that practicing good hygiene will expose you to less potential harmful elements and organisms.  Washing hands for an extended period of time. Washing your fruits & vegetables especially when you are eating them raw. Wiping surfaces with disinfectant will definitely reduce your exposure to harmful organisms.
  5. IV Nutritional Therapy.  IV therapy is a fantastic source of hydration and will boost your system with nutrients. The advantage of IV therapy is the direct delivery of helpful and effective nutrients, minerals and vitamins directly to the system which allows immediate availability and an immediate boost to your immune system.
November 11, 2016

7 Natural Ways to Relieve Pain

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Holistic Approach to Pain Management

Do you find yourself with new aches and pains on a regular basis? Maybe it’s from an intense work out, a long drive, or perhaps you’ve chalked it up to just simply part of this glorious thing we call aging. Whatever the reason, before you pop a pill to dull the pain, take into consideration the damage medications can cause. Ibuprofen, which is the go to for many, can trigger ulcers and increase blood pressure; and even low doses of aspirin can cause intestinal bleeding. It’s very well known that prescription painkillers are highly addictive, and can even be lethal. So, before you grab a bottle of meds from the medicine cabinet, (or drawer…I don’t know where you keep these things) consider an alternative approach. Here you will find 7 simple remedies to ease your pain:

  1. Use meditation or deep breathing to relax. These techniques send messages to your muscles to release tension and tightness. Like hey, deltoid, chill the hell out. If you notice an ache or pain during the day, take a moment and find a quiet location, relax your body, ignore distracting thoughts, and focus on deep breathing. Meditation will help calm the mind and the body while delivering powerful pain-relieving chemicals to the brain.
  1. Exercise to release natural endorphins. While a strenuous workout may not be doable if you’re in pain, movement and exercise will help diffuse your symptoms. A low-impact workout will help gently stretch and strengthen the muscles. Endorphins released during exercise help improve your mood while also blocking pain signals.
  1. Release natural painkillers with acupuncture. Regular acupuncture treatments help prevent pain and are an excellent treatment alternative during flare-ups. Thin, essentially painless, needles are strategically placed to encourage better circulation of blood and nutrients throughout the body, helping to relieve pain and inflammation.
  1. Reduce stress. Stress can be the cause of so many of our ailments. Negative feelings can increase the body’s sensitivity to pain. We are not suggesting you quit your job, or tell your mother in-law how you really feel, but learning to take control of your stress may help you find relief from your pain. There are several techniques to reduce stress and promote relaxation; we highly recommend flotation therapy as the ultimate stress reliever.
  1. Watch what you eat. Avoid eating inflammatory foods, such as sugar, processed foods, sugary drinks, etc. Fresh, whole foods from organic sources have pain-taming nutrients. Pain and inflammation go hand in hand, so adjusting what you put on your plate, may help ease your pain. For more information on anti-inflammatory foods, check out our Guide to a Healthier Lifestyle.
  1. Heal with heat. A few weekly sessions in an infrared sauna can help relieve pain, and provide many other amazing benefits. Infrared heat is more than just hot air. It penetrates tissue, joints, and muscles—relieving pain from injury and chronic conditions.
  1. Freeze yo self. Whole Body Cryotherapy stimulates circulation, and as blood flows through your body it brings with it healing agents like oxygen and other nutrients. By purifying your blood, soft tissue healing is accelerated, and most patients report reduced pain after just one session.

Taking a more holistic approach to pain management, will not only help you find relief from your pain, but will also help you avoid the adverse side effects of medication.
November 17, 2015

Meet Our Newest Member: Ms. Floatie

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Experience Our New Flotation Pod

Ever have one of those days where everything seems to be going against you and you have no control over your day’s outcome?

I know, right! Sounds like most of our days.

Sure, you are still breathing but are you really living? What does that even mean? If you are nodding your head right now, then we can both certainly relate.

Stress is in both of our lives and I will be the first to admit it. There is no gain in hiding it but only in exploring ways to become in control of it instead of letting it control us. We both know stress is inevitable and there is only so much we can handle solely.  

What if I were to tell you there was a simpler solution? And what if you weren’t alone?

Wouldn’t it be divine for your mind and body to slow down for a change with restless thoughts fading out and reaching exhilarating feeling of emptiness.

Now, let’s try something together. Let’s take a journey together into the galaxy far- far away to Mars or Venus…depending on who is reading.

Imagine we are floating through space, weightless. All sensations of sight, sound, temperature, even the light stress of supporting your own body has simply slipped away.

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Are you with me? Ok… just checking!

Now, imagine that all you have to do to get into that space is to step into a flotation pod. As you slip into the pod, dense magnesium-sulfate water inside the pod supports you so profoundly that you float in perfect suspension. Soon the water and air temperatures adjust so that you can no longer tell where one stops and the other begins, leaving you in a place where you’re peaceful, serene and calm.

This is the point where you are relieved of the responsibility of maintaining yourself in three-dimensional space you’ve been confide in as you know as your reality. Instead you begin living in a place of perfect relaxation free from your thoughts with full control of your life. You are now breathing and living once and again and ready to conquer and reach your full potential!

Did you know this mystery device by the name of Flotation Pod has been utilized over the last 60 years that has been clinically researched with immense benefits? If not, need not worry. You’re not the only one.

This device helps sustain control over one’s stress caused by external factors in many cases and has been known to contribute to one’s various physical and psychological wellbeing.

No matter who you are, where you’re from or what your life is like, chances are you’ve got some stress from time to time. It’s no coincidence that you pondered on this letter from me today.

I hope today’s video brings you a solution and you enjoy meeting the newest member at our clinic whom we know as Ms. Floatie. 

Now… click away to learn more about this amazing and unique experience and the specific revelation of the benefits for you.  See you here soon!

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P.S. I’m certain you know someone who is currently stressed out. Please help them and spread the love by sharing this post with your best friends, clients and colleagues. They’ll thank you for it, and you can take full credit.

About Integrated Health Solutions

Dr. Charbel Harb is a licensed chiropractic physician and the Medical Director of Integrated Health Solutions. Our core belief is that each patient who walks through the doors is a person, not just a medical record or chart. Our greatest pleasure is bringing joy to our patients and helping them to fully embrace life, allowing them to enjoy each day: active, healthy and pain free.