Holistic Health Tips from NYC Chiropractor Dr. Louis Granirer

At some point in life, a form of surgery may be necessary. Surgery is extremely taxing on the body, and depending on how invasive, it can keep you off your feet for days, weeks, if not months. Healing from surgery can be challenging, but there are important and effective natural ways that you can take to speed up your healing time dramatically. For many surgical procedures, it is recommended that you do not take any supplements that thin the blood for a week or more before the surgery. Beyond that, recommendations on how to best prepare your body for this immense challenge it is about to face, are usually not addressed. Pre-surgical Recommendations (At Least 2 Weeks Before Surgery) 1. Eat a strict anti-inflammatory diet. Cut out all sugar, eat a maximum of 2 servings of fruit per day. Berries are the best as they are super high in anti-oxidants, and they are very low in sugars. 2. No processed foods or starchy foods. This includes not having bread, white rice, nor white pota...

CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases and relieves pain and tension in the body and nervous system to bring about wellness and health. As a Doctor, I have been working with the cranial bones, sutures and the craniosacral system of my patients for many years. More recently, I have taken Upledger's CranioSacral Therapy and have been drawn to diving deeper into this system and the potential it offers to help people get well. Many people believe that the skull/cranium is one solid bone and structure. Actually, the cranium is made up of multiple and separate bones connected by sutures. These bones/sutures can shift and cause tension in the meningeal membranes, which consist of the dura mater, arachnoid mater and the pia mater. These membranes surround the brain and spinal cord. Cerebrospinal fluid is found in the meningeal membranes, and its proper flow is essential for immune, brain and nervous system function. The craniosacral rhythm is a cyclical mo...

Every one of us will experience inflammation at different times in our lives. Every disease, condition, and injury produces some form of inflammation. Patients often tell me that they feel inflamed and don't know the cause. I want to share some tips and steps to take to reduce inflammation without having to resort to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which can cause many problems for the body over time. There are two types of inflammation; acute and chronic. Acute inflammation occurs when blood vessels dilate, and immune cells release cytokines in response to a pathogen, injury, wound, etc. Certain immune cells like neutrophils will go to the area in the body where there is an injury or pathogen. These immune cells and cytokines bring inflammatory factors to heal the injury, pathogen or infection. This can be seen as redness and/or swelling and felt as pain. Acute inflammation ceases when the injury or problem has been resolved. In the case of chronic inflammation, simi...

Foodies hate me, or at the very least, they see me as their frenemy. Why? One of the many tools in my tool kit is to create awareness about food. Most patients that walk into my practice have a deep-rooted belief that they "eat VERY healthy." Whether they are vegetarian, paleo, keto, no fast food, or a no processed foods, they are eating "VERY healthy," but come in sick and tired, and tired of being sick and tired. My definition of healthy eating involves one primary notion: Not to consume the foods that you are sensitive to, nor those which create an autoimmune response. When we consume foods to which we are sensitive, the body produces inflammation, and inflammation causes disease in the body.  I use nutritional response testing to figure out whether a food is a problem for someone. If a food weakens a muscle during a reflex test, it is causing an imbalance in the body. The abnormal reflex response that a food can elicit in a muscle test works with the aut...

As a kid, I reluctantly brushed my teeth. I can remember giving my mother a super hard time about having to brush. I admit that there were occasions when I would put some toothpaste in my mouth, swirl it around, spit it out, and call it a night. It wasn't until my first cavity that I decided that the discomfort of having my mouth pried open for 45 minutes with the needle piercing my gums, the drilling of my tooth, and the hours of facial and lip paralysis from novocaine, were hands down less desirous than my daily teeth hygiene exercises. Yes, it is important to brush your teeth. However, oral hygiene should go beyond just brushing twice per day. Many of us harbor dangerous microbes, such as spirochetes, in our mouths and under the gums. Specifically, pockets can develop where the gum meets the teeth that can harbor bacteria and other microbes, which can be released into the bloodstream and travel to other parts of the body. It is well documented that gum disease is linked to ...

About two weeks ago, I received an email from my apartment building in Manhattan. The email read that the electricity would be turned off in my apartment on a particular Monday for approximately 15 minutes. Con Edison was planning an upgrade for our hallway electric meters. As I read this email, the dots were slowly connecting in my brain, and the anxiety-producing realization of what “upgrade” meant set in. They were very likely going to install microwave radiation emitting “smart meters.”  My apartment is directly across the hall form a large electrical utility closet that houses about 20 analog electric meters. These “old school” (safe) Westinghouse analog meters are read each month by a Con Edison worker who has to come out to the meters to read them physically. Smart meters transmit the meter information directly to Con Edison. Smart meters save the utility company money because they don’t have to come out to their customer's residences each month. The cost savings for t...

On October 23, 2018, a California judge rejected an appeal from the company Monsanto to overturn a jury verdict, which found its pesticide "Roundup," or glyphosate, causes cancer.  In August 2018, Dewayne Johnson was awarded 289 million dollars (this award was later reduced to 78 million dollars) for asserting that his exposure to glyphosate, as a former groundskeeper, caused his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Glyphosate is the number one herbicide used in the United States. Over 300 million pounds of this herbicide is applied to US farmland each year. It was introduced in the 1970s, and its usage has increased by 200-fold in the last 40 years. More recently, farmers have been spraying it on nonorganic crops to dry them out, so they don't have to wait the extra two weeks or so to naturally dry out. This process is known as desiccation. One of the problems with glyphosate is its motility in our environment and the lack of biodegradability. It is sprayed on nonorganic and GM...