Madison Chiropractors Talk About Being Young, Feeling Young, and Looking Young

By: Dr. Justin Walbom, DC and Dr. Greg Millar, DC CCEP

Millar Chiropractic - Madison AL


We live in a youth-obsessed culture. Everyday we're bombarded with advertisements for lotions and potions that will supposedly help reverse or prevent the signs of aging. So many people believe in the power of the dollar. They spend vast sums every year on anti-aging, beauty, and cosmetic products in the false hope of being able to purchase remedies that will restore their fading youth.

Others hasten the loss of their youthful glow. Cigarettes, alcohol, and negative mental patterns such as resentment, jealousy, and anger all work to rapidly break down our health and vigor. Negative emotions are particularly insidious. Even if a person is healthy in other respects - eating a healthful diet and exercising regularly - stress, fear, anxiety, and ill-will relentlessly add invisible workloads to the day, sapping our vitality and aging us prematurely.

Most people who look and feel much younger than the age revealed on their birth certificates have learned how to create and maintain a positive mental attitude. It's amazing how much bounce you can add to your step when you purposefully set the intention to have a great day. Of course, this is not merely smoke and mirrors. Those who are intending to be young inside and outside also take the necessary steps to optimize their health and vigor. They don't regularly eat things like doughnuts and fried foods (except perhaps on their free food days). They make an effort to avoid eating fast food. Instead they eat lots of whole, natural foods, and organic fruits and vegetables, and make it a priority to exercise regularly, some even doing some form of vigorous physical activity five or six times each week.

These young-at-heart people get sufficient rest. They are willing to give up the attitudes, positions, and annoyances that do not serve their well-being. And many of them have discovered a natural healing method and philosophy that helps them to be well and stay well - chiropractic care.

Chiropractic is a smart, efficient form of natural health care. Chiropractic care helps remove physiologic obstacles to good health and helps your body learn how to maintain high levels of functioning.
The difference between people who have had a lifetime of chiropractic care and people who have never been to a chiropractor is usually striking. Dr. Greg Millar and Dr. Justin Walbom of Millar Chiropractic Clinics in Madison, Alabama say that those who have taken advantage of all that chiropractic offers will usually enter their advanced years with excellent posture and a normal, easy gait. Contrast this with people who have never taken proper care of their spine.  Too often they will become increasingly hunched over and stiff, walking with the type of gait associated with elderly people who are in poor health.  If you saw these two types of people walking down the street, it would usually be very obvious which one received regular chiropractic care over the years, and which one did not. 
After beginning chiropractic care many people comment that they feel as if they've let go of a big weight they didn't know they'd been carrying around. People say they feel lighter and they have more energy. They sleep better and enjoy increased vitality. They even feel as if they're taller.

Others comment that they've become more effective at work and in their personal lives. As a result of chiropractic care their bodies are expending much less energy in wasteful and unnecessary physiologic activities. The result is more available resources to do - efficiently and well - what is necessary each day out in the world.

One wonderful outcome is the ongoing recovery of the youthful appearance and outlook we always want to maintain.

Millar Chiropractic - Madison AL
1908 Slaughter Rd. 
Madison, Alabama 35758
(256) 430-2700

http://millarchiro.com/millarchiropractic-madisonal-chiropractor.html

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