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Sleep is the time when we rest and recover. Good sleep helps all systems in the body. Good sleep can be hard to come by, both quality and quantity matter. When I think about falling asleep and staying asleep, I think about how an airplane lands — an airplane goes through a four stage process from flying to landing - it is a gradual thing.  Here are tips to help improve and optimize for good sleep:  Beginning to create a wind down routine  ~ what activity signals to your brain

Today, we will be taking a deeper dive into the Vagus Nerve.  What is the Vagus Nerve?  We have a total of 12 cranial nerves. These nerves come off our brain and brainstem and they give us our major senses - our sight, eye movements, smell, taste, movement of our tongue, sensation of the face and jaw, and hearing.  The Vagus nerve is our 10th cranial nerve, also the longest one of all the nerves. ‘Vagus’ meaning ‘wanderer’ , it wanders very far in the body, all the way down i

It's now becoming mainstream, with Aura rings, Woop devices, Garmin watches all tracking so many things - but what it is exactly? HRV short for - Heart Rate Variability Is one measure of the health of our nervous system, and it measures the reserve or depth of our nervous system.  Our nervous system is composed of two parts  - The central nervous system (CNS) - which is composed of our brain and spinal cord (which are protected by our spine), which house our autonomic system,

The journey into this world isn't always smooth, and even the most natural birth can create stress on a newborn's delicate spine and nervous system.  Think about the multiple forces at work during delivery - the contractions, the pushing, the pulling and the twisting that helps bring baby into this world. Add on other interventions such as forceps, long labor, or vacuum extraction, and you can start to see why some babies enter this world with an already stressed nervous syst

Life is full of stressors — ugh just the word stress can put one’s teeth on edge.  When we break this down, stress can be put into different categories. Chiropractors refer to this as the 3 T’s - (Traumas, Thoughts, and Toxins).  Traumas refer to physical stress, Thoughts refer to emotional/mental stress, and Toxins refer to chemical stress.  On top of the 3 T’s we also have daily life - or the day to day stuff…ie: getting to school and work, appointments, finances, relations