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May 11 2020

Top Chiropractic Blog and Website Award to Freehold Chiropractor

We recently were notified of being named one of the top chiropractic blog sites on the inernet. The Top 75 Chiropractic Blogs and Websites was recently published. It is an honor to be able to help educate people on not only the amazing benefits of chiropractic but natural health and wellness.

Feedspot’s editorial team and expert review looked at several criteria:

Google reputation
Google search ranking
Influence and popularity on Facebook
Influence and popularity on Twitter
Other social media sites
Quality and Consistency of Posts

Dr. Brokstein’s website came in #5 of the 75 that were listed! This listed his site ahead of many major chiropractic associations and publications.

Dr. Brokstein has been in practice for 19 years and came back to his hometown of Freehold, NJ 12 years ago to give back to the community he grew up in. Helping people be more healthy naturally is one of his goals. Sharing health and wellness tips through his writing is an honor. His practice Hometown Family Wellness center is rated as the top Chiropractor in Freehold on google, yelp, ratemds, healthgrades and most ranking sites on the internet.

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May 11 2020

Natural Relief of Cervicogenic Headaches

Nearly 50% of the population suffers with headaches and up to 20% of those headaches are what are called cervicogenic headaches. These are headaches that originate in the neck and many times associated with neck pain. Traumas like car accidents, bad postures including poor sleep position, sitting at a computer all day, holding your head tilted down texting on your phone can be the cause. The vertebra in the spine get misaligned putting pressure on the spinal cord and nerves but also alters blood flow to the brain. Here is another study shows that chiropractic provides natural relief of cervicogenic headaches.

The study in The Spine Journal studied the dose response and efficacy of chiropractic for relief of cervicogenic headaches. 80 patients with chronic cervicogenic headaches were analyzed using pain and disability scales, number of headaches over a 4 week period and medication usage.

Patients were split into groups receiving either 8 or 16 treatments over an 8 week period using either chiropractic treatment or light massage.

The chiropractic group improved with clinical significance in all scores compared to the patients that received massage. Those in the 16 treatment group showed even more advantage in receiving chiropractic than the massage group. Patients receiving chiropractic were also more likely to achieve a 50% improvement in pain scale. Other benefits of chiropractic showed a reduction in medication use by 33% and headache frequency reduced by 50%.

Chiropractic is so successful in providing natural relief of cervicogenic headaches because it works to correct the cause of the symptoms. Adjustments to the vertebra that are misaligned from the traumas and stress remove pressure to the nerves, spinal cord and arteries. Improving range of motion, flexibility and function of the spine is important if you suffer with headaches.

Chiropractic is a safe, natural and effective way to help provide you relief of your headaches. Our chiropractor has been providing natural headache relief in Freehold NJ for the last 18 years.

Watch what one of our patients shares about her migraines that were actually caused by trauma to her neck:

May 11 2020

Dangers of Inflammation – Your Health Is At Risk!

The public is mislead to believe the causes of their health problems. One of the leading causes of health problems is Inflammation! There are many dangers of inflammation that you should be aware of.

First, lets get into “What is Inflammation?”

When your body is fighting infection, inflammation occurs where the body’s white blood cells and chemicals protect us from foreign substances like bacteria and viruses. Inflammation occurs also after trauma to help tissues repair themselves.

The body’s defense system, the immune system, sometimes reacts inappropriately by triggering an inflammatory response when there are no foreign substances to fight off. This occurs when people have diseases like arthritis.

Arthritis is a general term that describes inflammation in the joints. The body’s normally protective immune system causes damage to its own tissues in these autoimmune diseases. Some, but not all, types of arthritis are the result of misdirected inflammation.

Symptoms of Inflammation? You can experience redness, swollen joint that’s warm to the touch, joint pain, joint stiffness, and loss of joint function often.

Inflammation may also be associated with general flu-like symptoms:
Fever, Chills, Fatigue, Lack of Energy, Headaches, Loss of Appetite, and Muscle Stiffness.

What Causes Inflammation and what are its Effects?
When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body’s white blood cells are released into the blood or affected tissues to protect your body from foreign substances. This release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury or infection and may result in redness and warmth. Some of the chemicals cause a leak of fluid into the tissues, resulting in swelling. This protective process may stimulate nerves and cause pain. The increased number of cells and inflammatory substances within the joint cause irritation, swelling of the joint lining, and eventually, wearing down of cartilage.

Can Inflammation Affect Internal Organs?
Dangers of Inflammation can affect organs as part of an autoimmune disorder. These types of symptoms depend on which organs are affected:

• Inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) may cause shortness of breath or fluid retention.
• Inflammation of the small tubes that transport air to the lungs may cause shortness of breath.
• Inflammation of the kidneys (nephritis) may cause high blood pressure or kidney failure.
• Pain may not be a primary symptom of an inflammatory disease, since many organs do not have many pain-sensitive nerves. Treatment of organ inflammation is directed at the cause of inflammation whenever possible.

Chronic Inflammation Statistics- From the Centers for Disease Control [CDC], each of the following diseases has been associated with Chronic Inﬂammation.
• Chronic inﬂammation once believed to be a disease associated with aging. Now we know its also associated with obesity and overweight. Its estimated by the Centers for Disease Control [CDC], that 66% of the American adult population is overweight or obese; at this rate by 2048 obesity will reach 100%.
• 24,000,000 people have diabetes, by 2025 its estimated to exceed 50,000,000!
• More than 5,000,000 Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s and Dementia! According to the Alzheimer’s Association the cost of care exceeds 148,000,000,000 per year!
• 43,000,000 suffer from Arthritis and Joint Disease, by 2020 its estimated to exceed 60,000,000!
• 25,000,000 suffer from Asthma. More people in America died from asthma in 2000 than 1970!
• 18,800,000 American Adults suffer from Depression triggered by Chronic Inﬂammation
• Allergies rank 6th among all chronic diseases!
• Hay Fever doubles every 3 decades

Many herbs naturally are Anti-Inﬂammatory and can Reduce the Dangers of Inflammation! Our Natural program contains these benefits below:
1) Boswellia Serrate (Boswellia serrata) – Boswellia extract is best known among herbalists as an anti-inﬂammatory agent. In addition to its anti-inﬂammatory properties, boswellia extract is said to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood.
Potential beneﬁts may include – Practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine also use boswellia extract to promote a general sense of wellness and as a mild sedative. Numerous clinical trials have found that the herb is also effective in treating asthma, Chrohn’s disease, and colitis.
2) Yucca Root (Yucca ﬁlimentosa) – The saponins in yucca root make it an excellent herbal remedy to treat problems associated with inﬂammation, including: arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism, and colitis.
Potential beneﬁts may include – In one study done by Dr. Robert Bingham in 1975, most of the 149 participants had less pain, swelling, and stiffness in their joints. Some people noticed additional beneﬁts as well, such as migraine relief and a decrease in blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglyceride counts.
3) Devils Claw Root (Harpagophytum procumbens) Devil’s claw is approved as a non-prescription medicine by the German Commission E and is used to relieve arthritis and lower back, knee, and hip pain. Today devil’s claw is used as an anti-inﬂammatory for pain relief and joint diseases.
Potential beneﬁts may include Great news for pain sufferers who have grown dependent on pain killers for relief: recently published double blind studies have shown that devil’s claw can relieve pain from arthritis in as little as ten days of use (lower back, knee and hip pain included). It is also used to treat osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, bursitis, tendonitis, and soft tissue pain (muscle aches).
4) Hops Flowers (Humulus lupulus) – Hop ﬂowers are best known as a nerve tonic.
Potential beneﬁts may include- Anxiety and insomnia
5) Fenugreek Seed (Trigonella foenum-graecum) – Has been found to contain protein, vitamin C, niacin, potassium, and diosgenin. Other active constituents in fenugreek are alkaloids, lysine and tryptophan, as well as steroidal saponins.
Potential beneﬁts may include – In India and China it is used to treat arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, improve digestion, maintain a healthy metabolism, increase libido and male potency, cure skin problems (wounds, rashes and boils), treat sore throat, and acid reﬂux.
6) Hyssop Herb (Hyssopus ofﬁcinalis) – Hyssop has been used for cleansing rituals and as medicine since biblical times. Nowadays it is known that the volatile oil and other ingredients that are contained in the leaves and green stems indeed have anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-inﬂammation, and other beneﬁcial properties. Potential beneﬁts may include – Bringing relief for the symptoms of lung and upper respiratory problems like the common cold, bronchitis, catarrh, and asthma, as it is anti-spasmodic, sweat inducing, and an expectorant.
7) Ginger Root (Zingiber ofﬁcinale)- The beneﬁts of ginger root have been well researched as modern science is discovering more and more therapeutic applications for this powerful herb.
Potential beneﬁts may include – Ginger is a powerful anti-inﬂammatory herb and there has been a lot of recent interest in its use for joint problems. It has also been indicated for arthritis, fevers, headaches, toothaches, coughs, bronchitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, to ease tendonitis, lower cholesterol and blood-pressure, and aid in preventing internal blood clots.

These ingredients have a history of proven results! Eliminating the dangers of inflammation is so important to your health. We now have a natural protocol to improve remove inflammation to improve your health! You can experience natures power with our new Inflammation supplement to combat the effects of inflammation!

Another beneficial product we now offer helps reduce inflammation and reduce pain naturally! This new CBD crème works great alongside the Inflammation supplement discussed above. CBD is fantastic topically for pain but with the Liposomal Delivery System you also get the benefits internally as it can help stimulate bone growth. This makes it ideal for patients suffering with arthritis! View the picture to see other benefits of using CBD!

Patients report greatly reduced pain within 10 minutes of applying the CBD crème.

If you have interest in our new Inflammation and CBD products, contact me or talk to me at your next appointment.

In our next blog, I will discuss foods that help work alongside our natural supplement and other foods that you are likely eating that are increasing inflammation in your body! Avoiding certain foods and eating others can help reduce the dangers of inflammation on your health.

Helping patients one at a time be more healthy naturally!

May 11 2020

Chiropractor in Freehold NJ Provides Hope to People Suffering with Headaches and Migraines

So many people suffer unnecessarily with headaches of many types, including migraines. I have been treating headache patients for the past 13 years and unfortunately most people are pushed onto so many medications that if they are lucky, the meds cover the symptoms temporarily. There is a huge problem though: the medications all have side effects, usually do not give you your life back and doesn’t actually correct the cause of the problem.

My name is Dr. Russell Brokstein and as owner of Hometown Family Wellness Center in Freehold, NJ, I feel it is so important for people to be educated on many health problems, including headaches. For this reason I started a series of blogs about headaches for home care recommendations to take back control of your life.

In our last post, we went further into habits and diet that are commonly linked to headaches. You can read this post by clicking here: Headache and Migraine Sufferers Have Hope with Freehold Chiropractor.

There are many other factors that contribute to headaches and migraines. So, lets start to discuss these:

Food allergies can cause a headache or migraine and they will trigger the headache quickly. If you’re allergic to a food, whether it’s yeast, milk, peanuts, wheat, or sugar, it’s possible that you will have a headache after eating that food. In children suffering from migraines and epilepsy, eliminating offending foods will result in a reduction of seizures.

Food allergies are more complicated because food essentially stays in the body for four days so you could be reacting to a food eaten four days ago!

Food allergies can easily be tested, simply by sending a blood sample to the clinical lab for ELISA testing. Now it’s possible to test for allergies to 99 different foods by ordering a test kit online. Google “Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory, Kent, WA” for the ELISA test and order one if you think there’s a possibility you may be allergic to foods. The laboratory will send out your kit, which you’ll take to a local lab that draws blood. The hospital outpatient lab may even draw the blood for you. T hen you’ll send the blood to Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory and they will send you your results. You can find out for sure if you’re allergic to foods; there’s no point in eliminating foods from the diet if they aren’t causing you headaches.

In our office we have another option that is only offered in around 100 offices in the country. We provide biofeedback and stress reduction therapy. Where the blood test previously mentioned can only test for around 100 items, our technology can test for over 50,000 foods, chemicals, stress, emotions, organ and system imbalances. We have had over an 80% success rate with many stress induced conditions like headaches, allergies, digestive problems, immune problems, skin conditions, anxiety, depression, ADD, ADHD, smoking cessation and weight loss.

Another issue that can cause headaches is faulty elimination. For a minute, think back to a time when you were constipated. How did you feel? Miserable! I must tell you how important it is to have a bowel movement at least twice daily. If you don’t, you are constipated!

What happens inside the body when you are constipated is not pretty! All that waste matter sitting inside your intestines is rotting! Forgive me for being so graphic, but I want you to understand this. There is a process in the body called diffusion that happens inside the cells that works like this: wherever you have a higher concentration of something, it will flow to an area of lower concentration. When you have a high concentration of wastes in the intestines, they start “polluting” the rest of the organs in your abdomen. This is part of the reason why so many men have prostate problems!

Those wastes in your colon are in such a high concentration that they start “flowing” to other places in the body. Countless patients have told me over the years that part of the reason why they got headaches was because they were constipated.

So stop carrying around those old meals as a suitcase in your colon and start feeling better. You will clearly have fewer headaches as a result. Some simple ways to do this:

a. When you get up in the morning, drink two to three 8-oz glasses of water within five minutes. This will result in a bowel movement within about 30 minutes.

b. Obtain slippery elm bark powder from the health food store and mix 1 to 2 tablespoons in 1/3 cup applesauce. Eat once or twice daily. This works for diarrhea or constipation and is gentle enough for babies.

c. Obtain a full body cellular cleanse program. Colon and liver cleanses only do a small portion of the job. In our office we use a full body cleanse that removes toxins down at the cellular level of the entire body. We test your body first for toxicity by measuring the acidity. The more acidic you are, the more toxic you are.

d. Start eating celery or carrot sticks with lunch and dinner, or add 1 cup cooked vegetables to every meal.

e. Add 3 oz. aloe vera juice to every meal. Our cleanse program includes the most pure form of aloe vera juice.

By now if you are making changes recommended in our home care blog series, you should be seeing changes in the intensity and frequency of your headaches to start being able to enjoy your family and social life again.

If you would like further information, make sure you watch for the last 2 posts on this topic. For a full headache elimination consultation, contact our office at 732-780-0044. We can test for your toxicity and perform the advanced biofeedback analysis to find what stressors your body is reacting to. You can be headache free without harmful drugs with our approach!

May 11 2020

Your Gut Health Affects Overall Health

Your gut health is so important to be healthy overall. They say around 80% of health problems originate in the gut. Most people have destroyed the normal healthy bacteria and enzymes in the digestive system. Eating processed foods, overcooking foods, having been on antibiotics several times during your life. This prevents the body from breaking down foods into the nutrients it uses throughout the body.

Poor gut health can also lead to many symptoms: fatigue, acid reflux, IBS, colitis, diverticulitis, constipation, diarrhea, inflammation, allergies, headaches, aches and pains, brain health and much more. I’m sure most of you experience a lot of these symptoms.

So, the question is, how do you get a healthy gut? In most cases it is quite simple!

Enzymes and Health

Without the life of enzymes we would be nothing more than a pile of lifeless chemical substances—vitamins, minerals, water, and proteins. In both maintaining health and in healing, enzymes and only enzymes do the actual work. They are what we call in metabolism, the body’s labor force. They are the workers responsible for every activity of life; even thinking requires enzyme activity.

Gut Health Affects Overall Health — Take care of your gut to improve your health!

In order to fully understand the importance of enzymes in health, we need to point out that each one of us is given a limited supply of bodily enzyme energy at birth. This supply, like the energy supply in your new battery, has to last a lifetime. The faster you use up your supply without replacing them, the shorter your life. The habit of cooking foods, eating processed chemical ridden foods, the use of alcohol, drugs and junk food, all draw out tremendous quantities of enzymes from our limited supply. A body in such a weakened, enzyme-deficient state is a prime target for cancer, obesity, heart disease and other degenerative problems.

The cooking of foods is the primary reason for such an enzyme depleted population in the U.S. Prolonged heat, over 118 degrees, kills 100% of the enzymes contained in foods. This means that if we are not consuming the enzymes needed to run our bodies, we will deplete our own supply and become deficient and contribute to the disease process. If we run out of the enzyme lactase, we become lactose intolerant. If we run out of the enzymes to digest carbohydrates, we become hypoglycemic or even diabetic. If we run out of the enzymes to digest fat, we become overweight or obese.

Whales, which carry a layer of fat up to six inches, yet have completely clean arteries, free of cholesterol; and the Eskimos, who sometimes eat several pounds of fat per day. Yet, medical officers in exploration teams unanimously found clean arteries and no obesity among them. The reason for this is because they both eat raw foods with a full complement of lipase, the fat digesting enzyme found in abundance in uncooked animal or vegetable fat. The repercussion of not eating enough raw foods and getting enough enzymes are endless, even if we “feel fine”. Some have dental carries, thin hair, approaching baldness, acne or allergies, headaches, impaired vision, constipation, fatigue, decreased brain function and so on for infinity. There are three classes of enzymes. Metabolic enzymes, which run our bodies; digestive enzymes, which digest our food; and food enzymes from raw foods, which start food digestion. Since good health depends on all of these metabolic enzymes doing an excellent job, we must be sure nothing interferes with the body making enough of them.

Probiotics and Health
We have all heard of antibiotics. The word means “against life”. Probiotics means “for life”. Antibiotics kill all of the bacteria, good and bad. So many times women can get a yeast infection, due to not having enough friendly bacteria to fight back. The easiest way to explain bacteria in your gut is to compare them to cars in a parking lot. Lets say your gut has 3 million parking spots. If all of those parking spots are not filled with the friendly bacteria that assist us in digestion and absorption of nutrients, then bad bacteria can take up spaces causing digestion problems. If the friendly bacteria take up all of the parking spots, then the bad bacteria will not have anywhere to park and cause problems. We should have up to 3 pounds of friendly flora if we are to be healthy. Most Americans have only half of this.

How Do I Find a GOOD QUALITY Enzyme Supplement?

If we are not eating enough raw foods that supply us with an adequate amount of enzymes, we will deplete our bodies own supply. Most supplements only contain enzymes that breakdown the major bonds in a food. They may only contain amylase, which breaks carbohydrates down to smaller forms such as maltose and lactose. But we also need the enzymes maltase and lactase to break them down completely to a form the body can use. Just as most supplements contain only protease, which will break down protein into only peptides. We also need peptidase though to fully break proteins down to amino acids, a form the body can use more easily.

We also need to look for certain characteristics when looking for a good probiotic. First, and most important, is to make sure you are getting stabilized bacteria, so they are able to get passed the highly acidic stomach. DDS-1 Lactobacillis acidophilis is a strain that should also be present in your probiotic choice. This is the most extensively researched and highly regarded strain of acidophilis in the market place today.

DDS-1 L. acidophilis also does the following:
•      Inhibits the growth of 23 toxic producing microorganisms
•      Produces enzymes such as proteases and lipases
•      Produces B vitamins, particularly folic acid and B12
•      Produces significant quantities of the enzyme lactase, alleviating lactose intolerance
•      Enhances calcium absorption
•      Helps reduce serum cholesterol levels
•      Reported to be resistant to several common antibiotics

So, lets make sure your gut health is at its best!

We are now offering you the best formulas on the market to improve your health. This includes the best digestive enzymes and pre/probiotics. If you are ready to improve your health, email or ask us about the new functional medicine program we have. We have a symptom survey that you can fill out, then a Dr. Tim in Arizona will analyze it to recommend which formulas would benefit you the most.

Dr. Tim has used these with many people in many situations so allow us to help you get the best experience and results possible!

I am looking to help you, your family and friends be the healthiest without harmful medications or surgery. We have to make our health a priority. They say the greatest wealth is health!
Help our movement to educate others by sharing these emails, our posts on facebook and videos. This is so important as for the first time in our generation, life expectancy is lowering and more people are on prescription drugs. It’s not a coincidence.

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