Sarpy Chiropractic Blog

Most standard Thyroid panels do NOT test enough metrics to help you make the best decisions around your health. If you’ve only tested 1-3 metrics - usually TSH, T3, and T4 - then this isn’t enough information to decide to go on medications. You need a bigger picture, mainly because the vast majority of Thyroid issues are actually being caused by something else underlying anyway. In this episode I discuss the full Thyroid panel that you need tested, and what the results mean. Check out this episode!

I hear you - it’s overwhelming trying to be healthy! It feels like everything can kill you. And things that you thought were healthy are apparently bad for you! It’s so difficult to know what to do and easy just to throw up your hands and say who cares!  But I made this video to help you break it all down and give you a game plan to be able to build stronger health over time without the overwhelm and stress! Check out this episode!

In this episode I discuss how the different types of diets can affect your health, and address whether Keto diet is the best diet for preventing and managing cancer or not. Check out this episode!

Eggs truly are nature’s superfood, full of so many important micronutrients that we need to live a healthy life. However, not all eggs are created equal thanks to the living conditions of the laying chicken. When a chicken is able to live it’s natural lifestyle, foraging and scratching for bugs, outside in the sunlight and fresh air, while also not being injected with any hormones or antibiotics then their eggs will be amazing for your health. But a chicken that never sees sunlight and only eats a highly inflammatory diet of chicken feed made from corn and grains, then the eggs will not just be of lower quality, but might even be damaging to your health. So please be willing to invest a little more time and money into buying eggs that are of great quality so your entire family can reap the benefits! Check out this episode!

Anyone who is suffering from any kind of chronic health issue - from autoimmune problems to cancer, or just any lingering symptoms - needs to undergo some root cause testing if they really want to heal! What are the most common underlying root causes you should test for? Start with mold, Lyme disease and its coinfections, gut infections including candida, and heavy metals plus environmental toxins.  In this episode I share my favorite companies and tests so that you can be your own best doctor and get the tests you need to finally uncover the reasons for your poor health! Check out this episode!

If you’re suffering with IBS then your symptoms are very real. But the diagnosis itself is BS, and here’s why. A diagnosis of IBS says nothing about why you’re suffering, it’s just giving a label to your collection of symptoms. The same thing happens with Fibromyalgia. If you’re suffering with any kind of gut issue, then you need to get to the underlying root cause (or causes) so that you can actually fix the problem and truly heal! If you’ve been diagnosed with IBS then ask your doctor “So what’s causing the IBS?” If their response is we don’t know, or nothing, or that IBS is the cause and diagnosis, then either find a new doctor, or understand that you’ll forever be trapped by your symptoms until you decide to investigate deeper! Check out this episode!

Obviously we all need to be exercising daily, and 99% of us could be doing more than we already do. But there’s some common mistakes beyond not doing enough exercise that keeps people trapped. If you want to lose weight, cardio is not the best exercise for you. Cardio is great for mental health, as well as lung and cardiovascular health. But it’s really not very useful for weight loss. Instead, you need to be lifting weights to put on muscle if you really want to speed up your weight loss. Another common mistake is doing too much high intensity interval training if your body is stuck in a stress response. Now don’t get me wrong, HIIT is one of the best forms of exercise out there. But if your body is pumping too much cortisol and other stress hormones every day because of too much emotional stress, or because you’re dealing with chronic illness from underlying biotoxins like mold toxicity, then the HIIT training can be too much of a good stress and will not only prevent you from l...

While it’s true that the majority of people will have a run-in with some kind of cancer in their lifetime, we need to remember that no 2 cancers are the same, and your overall metabolic health has a huge impact on how your body will manage the cancer and what your survival rates will be, plus which treatment path you should go down. To test your body’s current metabolic health status when dealing with cancer, there’s a number of simple blood tests you can run that will show how well (or poorly) your body is handling the tumor load.  You’ll want to run the following tests: CBC and specifically look at WBC, Platelets, and the Neutrophil to Lymphocyte ratio Comprehensive Metabolic Panel - Creatinine, Liver enzymes, Alkaline Phosphatase Inflammatory markers - LDH, ESR, hs-CRP Check out this episode!

One of the most common questions I get asked is “what are the best tests for gut health?” My answer usually surprises people… None of them! What do I mean? Well, our gut microbiome literally changes every second in response to our stress levels, our toxic burden, what foods we eat and so on. So GI mapping and similar tests don’t really tell us much about what’s actually happening. Instead, I recommend that people do more “root cause” testing to find out what’s actually causing the gut symptoms in the first place so we can address that/those. Check out this episode!