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NUCCA Chiropractic Adjustment

NUCCA Chiropractic in Northbrook is a unique and gentle approach to chiropractic health care designed to restore balance to the nervous system and the entire body.

Less than 250 chiropractors worldwide, and very few in Chicago, have the specialized training and education to provide NUCCA care.

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NUCCA and Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia in Northbrook is a debilitating condition characterized by widespread pain, inability to sleep well, fatigue, headaches, facial pain, digestive problems, and foggy thinking. Many people with fibromyalgia are unable to work or function normally.

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NUCCA Chiropractic & Migraines

In order to understand what NUCCA Chiropractors in Northbrook can do about Migraines, we need to understand that there are different types of headaches. There is no such thing as just a headache. There are more than 200 types of headaches, so no one headache can be called just a headache.

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Is Your Body Trying to Tell You Something?

Your mind and body know exactly what they need for perfect health and well-being in Northbrook. The instructions for maintenance and repair of this magnificent machine are built in. And the system is really very simple: Body Balance. That's the key.

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Four Reasons You’re Not Losing Fat

Despite what you might hear, fat loss is NOT just about diet and exercise. Physiology plays a very important role. If your diet and exercise program is not working for you, do yourself a favor and tend to your garden. The better your physiology works, the healthier you will be and the better your program will work for you. 

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Hashimoto’s

The immune system is composed of white blood cells, which are then differentiated into five types of immune cells. One of those is a group of cells called lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are then broken down even further into B cells, as well as T cells, which have their own subset of cells called T Helper cells, T Regulatory cells, Cytotoxic T cells and T Suppressor cells. 

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Fix Your Gut

The gastrointestinal system is one of the most underappreciated systems in the body. It has a profound impact on our health, function, and well-being — all of which affect our ability to achieve our physical goals. 

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Female Hormones: Achieving Balance

When it comes to female hormone testing, I believe the only option is salivary testing. Reason being, you can inexpensively take multiple samples throughout the month and evaluate the entire month of hormones, rather than simply taking a single blood draw and making assumptions about what hormones are doing the other 27 days of the month.

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Blood Sugar

Looking healthy, having a muscular body and exercising regularly, is not an indication that you have normal blood sugar management. In fact, researchers have started using new terms like “non-obese insulin resistance” and “atypical metabolic syndrome” because normal-looking people are having blood sugar management issues. 

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Anemia and Sub-Clinical Anemia

Mitochondria are the primary producers of energy in our body. They create something called Adenosine TriPhosphate (ATP), which is the main fuel source for much of our body’s machinery. Mitochondria are so important that if enough of them are not working properly, nothing in your body will be including: organs, glands, muscles, our brain, etc.

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The Adrenal Glands

The adrenal glands are small, triangular-shaped glands that sit atop your kidneys. The adrenal glands regulate our body’s response to stress in several ways. 

There are two main sections of the adrenal glands: the outer adrenal cortex and the inner adrenal medulla. 

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