Dr. Wayne Coghlan: Chiropractor - Locum tenens

Dear Gentle Reader: I have edited/condensed this posting from the original which you can explore at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-microbiome-change&print=trueBugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? By Katherine Harmon Bacteria, viruses and fungi have been primarily cast as the villains in the battle for better human health. But a growing community of researchers is sounding the warning that many of these microscopic guests are really ancient allies. Having evolved along with the human species, most of the miniscule beasties that live in and on us are actually helping to keep us healthy, just as our well-being promotes theirs. In fact, some researchers think of our bodies as superorganisms, rather than one organism teeming with hordes of subordinate invertebrates. The human body has some 10 trillion human cells—but 10 times that number of microbial cells. So what happens when such an important part of our bodies goe

Resolutions, anyone? From: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/are-we-outgrowing-war-a-car-park-for-women-fruit-fly-smack-down/article1414451/   The reason so many people fail to keep their New Year's resolutions is that they took the wrong approach – and were led astray by self-help books, according to British psychologist Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire. By comparing the techniques of successful and unsuccessful resolution makers, The Daily Telegraph reports, he noticed some differences, including: People who failed tended to dwell on the “bad things” that would happen if they did not achieve their goal. They were likely to remove temptation from their surroundings, adopt role models, fantasize about being successful and rely on will power. “Many of these ideas are frequently recommended by self-help experts but our results suggest that they simply don't work,” Prof. Wiseman said. “Because of the widespread nature of this advice, m

Dear New neighbor: I imagine you're in the midst of establishing your home and finding your way around our beautiful community. Welcome! And thank you for visiting my web-site. I'm Dr.Wayne Coghlan. A chiropractor. A different sort of chiropractor. If you're feeling the effects of unpacking, lifting and the general stress of moving, give us a call. You'll find our approach refreshingly down to earth: Same day appointments . By the time many people call a chiropractor, they're in bad shape. We keep openings in our schedule so we can easily accommodate new patients just about any time of the day. I usually treat on the first visit. Complementary consultation . If you're truly interested in your health, I'm happy to discuss it with you at no charge. It's a great way to get to know each other and see if we "click." That's as important to me as it is to you. If you are comfortable, we can proceed with examination and treatment. If you h

This is a reprint of an article about vitamin D... good thorough paper.  Martin Mittelstaedt From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Saturday, Mar. 08, 2008 9:32AM EST Last updated on Monday, Mar. 30, 2009 3:13PM EDT I n the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave. The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced. Counties with high death rates were red; those with low rates were blue. Oddly, the nation was almost neatly divided in half, red in the north and blue in the south. Why, they wondered, was the risk of dying from cancer greater in bucolic Maine than in highly polluted Southern California? The two had arrived at Johns Hopkins a few days earlier, having dr