Holistic Health Tips from NYC Chiropractor Dr. Louis Granirer

Growing up, I was a pretty skinny kid, and it wasn’t until college that all of that changed. I started weight training when I was 19 years old, and put on about 20 pounds of muscle within 9 months. I can’t say that my initial motivation was for health and the love of exercise. It was more for the desire to break free from my skinny kid complex. Back then, I did very little gym based cardiovascular exercise- for multiple reasons. One being a lack of inspiration; the treadmill, recumbent bike, and elliptical cross trainer bored me to tears. Another and even bigger reason was that I believed doing too much cardiovascular exercise would take away from my weight training gains. I liked all that muscle, and believed that I might lose it by doing calorie burning aerobic exercise. My extent of cardiovascular exercise was doing a 10 minute warm up before weight training (not enough!) and biking outside occasionally. Yoga entered my life when I was 26 and thought that was the per...

What is the hardest working system in the human body? Arguably, it might just be our immune systems. Our immune systems work every second of every day fighting and eradicating potential microbial threats that consistently bombard us. There are approximately 10 to the 28th power of microbial insults that we have the potential to come into contact with. That is a tremendous amount of microorganisms that our immune systems have to protect and defend us against. Our immune systems are divided into two parts: The innate immune system and the adaptive immune system. The innate immune system's primary mode of action is to "swallow the bad guys". The cells of the innate immune system include macrophages, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and mast cells. The adaptive immune system consists of T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes. This part of the immune system adapts to all of the immune challenges that we are exposed to. We each have approximately one trillion lymphocy...

A patient came into my office recently, and during our initial interview she indicated that she wanted to lose weight. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and has been on Glucophage for 4 years, which is a commonly prescribed diabetes drug. I discussed with her that I would be muscle testing for food sensitivities, and she interrupted me by exclaiming "the doctors said now I can eat whatever I want, that's the purpose of the drug I'm on." In my firm sometimes snarky fashion, I went onto explain that she may think she can eat whatever she wants, but it doesn't mean that the foods she is eating aren't causing a problem for her body, and this may be why she has no luck losing any weight. The drug may be lowering her blood sugar, but the cause of the problem is still there. The drug acts as a Band-Aid for her blood sugar symptom. We'll get back to her later.  A person with low blood sugar issues may have symptoms of feeling tired, restless, memory issues,...