Dr. Lou’s Kitchen – The Maine Chiropractor Cooks Too!
How does Dr. Lou eat? Here’s an inside look at what happens in his kitchen. Dr. Lou likes the principle spoken of by author Michael Pollan. “If you don’t make it, don’t eat it.” If you aren’t willing to churn the ice cream or bake the pie, you don’t get to eat them. Eating well is critical to your overall health. Dr. Lou wants to help you by showing you how easy it is to “do good” by your family and provide them with exciting, healthy meals. “Dr. Lou’s Kitchen” is a new playlist on Dr. Lou’s youtube channel (Mainechiropractor). High quality, easy to understand cooking lessons will be posted regularly for your enjoyment. This is exactly how Dr. Lou eats. Chiropractic is about optimizing nervous system control and healing and diet affects these in a positive or negative way, depending on what you eat. Maine is over 60% overweight or obese. Obesity in Maine kills more Mainers than anything else. Eating well is a life saver, eating poorly will kill you. Dr. Lou is not only a Maine chiropractor, he is also a pretty good cook. He’s taught cooking classes for years here in Maine and in Kansas City. The...
read moreWhat’s The Difference Between Like And Love?
The difference between like and love will make you or break you. If you like something, you may go out of the way to get it. I’ll certainly drive to town, 15 minutes one way, to get Graeter’s Ice Cream from Whole Foods, even though there are other ice cream brands within 3 minutes of my house. I like the feeling of eating a good meal, so from time to time I’ll drop a good chunk of change on a dinner for three. I like it. It’s good. I love my family. I will work endless hours, walk through fire and eat snake guts for them. Nothing will stop me from being there if they need me. Nothing will stop me from trying to give them a good life. This includes the necessity of me being alive and thriving in order to help and provide for them. How do you view your health and ability to function? Do you like it or do you love it? Will it drive you to take action? It’s not really as much about health as it is your ability to have fun and love the ones you love, right? What are you willing to do to...
read moreWhy Do I Have Back Pain? Wallet Breaking Your Back?
Why do I have back pain? The problem. The cause. The solution. “In a field of horses, don’t look for zebras” they told us in school. It’s usually an obvious cause to a common problem if you look closely. And indeed, but for the few odd cases, people and their problems are pretty predictable. In my 15 years of practice the majority of folks who haven’t had a clear cut trauma have suffered because of a long term accumulation of one or many of the following causes: Mental stress. Too much sitting or standing. Heavy physical labor. Sleep position on the stomach or side with a leg up. Being overweight or obese. Lack of exercise. Repetitive motions over long periods of time. Lots of driving or commuting. Bending over for long periods of time at work (hygienist, dentist). Sitting on a wallet in your back pocket Time + Stress = Problems. Many men keep their wallet in their back pocket for years and then fail to figure out that it’s the cause of their back problems. Imagine a car with 13″ rims on one side and 20″ rims on the other. Or maybe a woman who wears a 5 inch heel on one foot...
read moreLawn Care Destroyed My Life. Maine Lawn Care Lessons. Dr. Lou the Lawn Care Safety Man!
The Event That Changes Everything. It’s a little frightening to know that without an absolute knowledge of your body, at any given moment, you could have “the event that changes everything.” Now, to be fair, most of us will not experience this type of life altering subluxation or other meltdown. Lawn care and maintenance in the summer can be one of those activities that sticks it to you. Why lawn care? Because lawn care involves the “3 T’s”. The three T’s are thoughts, traumas and toxins. Thoughts: The mental stress that accompanies doing something you dread doing (Yard work) Traumas: The physical labor and stress of holding equipment, mowing, blowing, weeding, hedging, etc. Toxins: Gasoline fumes, stress hormones, inflammation chemicals and the like. Heavy, cumbersome equipment, the fact that you’d rather be hanging out with friends and family and the uptick in stress hormones all make you more vulnerable to a physical melt down. Sciatica, disc herniations, sprain strains, frozen shoulders and the like can be the result of overstressed yard work. Hold your leaf blower close to your body and use both hands to hold it. Don’t ever hold anything cumbersome and heavy, far away from your body....
read moreWhat is the problem with my back?
Back pain is one of the most common ailments in the U.S. It affects 80% of Americans Some sources say it costs Americans as much each year as cancer treatment. Wait a second, as much as cancer? It is such a common problem and it is so poorly managed by medicine, that yes, it’s that expensive. So what’s wrong with your back? Most commonly back problem areas boil down to joints, bones, muscles, nerves and discs. Very often it’s a combination of any of those and all of those. The spine and back are complicated because of the duties they perform. Upright posture, mobility and protection of the spinal cord. These are the big ones. All of these are critically important for normal human existence. Without them, life is really tough. REALLY TOUGH. If your problem is not more serious, like cancer or serious trauma (fracture), there is almost no doubt that the pain and dysfunction is from those aforementioned sources. How do you deal with joints and bones? Joints and bones become stressed through physical activity combined with poor alignment. This causes inflammation, degeneration and immobility. The key with joints is to keep them mobile, well lubricated and not inflamed. Joints...
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