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The 100 Year Lifestyle Defined

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Centenarians, people who are living to 100 or more, are one of the world’s fastest growing age groups. Living to 80, 90 and above has become the norm. Will knowing that you may live a century or more lend urgency to your desire to change the way you approach your lifestyle? Will you choose a 60 or 70 year lifestyle and suffer the consequences along the way or will live your ideal 100 Year Lifestyle and make the most of every day along the way?

The 100 Year Lifestyle Defined

WHAT IT IS…

  • Living a healthy, passionate, prosperous life, every day of your life, for 100 years and beyond
  • Great relationships with multiple generations and multiple circles of people
  • Lifelong learning, activity and adventure
  • Keeping your nervous system functioning without interference so you can adapt to your environment and function at your full potential
  • Financial freedom, abundance and independence
  • The perfect balance of exploration, play time and fun combined with meaningful work
  • Maximizing your innate capabilities and making the most of your time, energy and talents
  • Keeping your spine and nervous system working without interference so you can adapt to your environment and function at your full potential,
  • Keeping your body functioning at full capacity and keeping your mind sharp
  • Accepting challenges, embracing change and adapting to the unexpected
  • Balancing the need for immediate gratification and a secure future
  • Trusting yourself. Yours to customize.

WHAT IT IS NOT…(The 60-70 year lifestyle)

  • Rotting away as a human preservative in a nursing home
  • Abusing your body, masking symptoms with drugs, and then continuing to abuse yourself until one organ after the other has to be removed or replaced
  • All work and no play
  • Abusive relationships or isolation
  • Financial survival for 35 years and then barely squeaking by on Social Security and Medicare
  • Insignificant retirement where you become a meaningless number in a long line of an outdated system
  • Wearing out your body in the first 50 years and then suffering the consequences during the second 50 years
  • Accumulating wealth in the first 50 years and destroying relationships along the way, leaving you nobody to share it with
  • Creating wealth at the price of your health
  • Denying yourself the good things in life

Everyone deserves to be healthy and express their full potential from the time they are born through their last breath of life. Having a healthy spine and nervous system is crucial to living your ideal 100 Year Lifestyle. We are proud to provide this for you.

Make the changes you know you need to make today, and make them your new lifestyle.

The Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis

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Prescription drug abuse is out of control. Every day we hear stories in the news about celebrities, adults, and kids who have experienced the consequences of prescription drug abuse and have either died, been injured, or had to be admitted into some form of rehabilitation center.

It is hard to believe that those little pills can grab such a powerful hold on your mind and body and spin your life out of control. A recent report by the Executive Office of the President of The United States entitled “Epidemic: Responding to America’s Drug Abuse Crisis” revealed that prescription drug abuse is the nation’s fastest growing drug problem. Nearly one third of people age 12 and over who used drugs for the first time in 2009 began using a prescription drug non-medically.

In Canada, 54% of participants in a study reported misusing their prescription drugs at least once. 52% diverted the use of their drugs to a non-prescribed usage and 42% of the participants deliberately used their prescription with alcohol or another drug.

Drug ads on television, and in every other type of media, do not help the situation. Through beautiful scenery and highly paid actors, the commercials promise relief while disguising the side effects. Have you ever noticed how many drug ads come on during the popular time slots? One after the other we get hammered by them. Listen carefully to the side effects and do extensive homework before you ever put yourself in a position to get hooked. The highly addictive nature of some of these chemicals can own you for a lifetime once they get in you.

Seeing someone who is abusing prescription drugs, or any drug for that matter, is scary. The withdrawal symptoms can turn the calmest person into the image of a wild dog searching for food. A drug filled lifestyle can be dangerous. The side effects are many and are not communicated thoroughly. As time goes on, people often add a second, third, and sometimes many more drugs to their daily routine to offset the side effects of the one that they started with. Nursing homes are filled with individuals who, over the years, increased the number of prescription drugs that they use and abuse on a daily basis. 45% of Medicare beneficiaries are on more than 5 drugs.

If all these drugs were good for us and contributed to greater health and longevity you would think that the statistics would show it. But this is not the case. The World Fact Book ranks the United States 49th in life expectancy and Canada as Number 9.

If you think that you or someone you love is in the middle of a prescription drug crisis then you are probably right and you should trust your instincts. Consult with your doctor and get on a plan to change from a drug-oriented lifestyle to a drug free one. You can do it. Chiropractic offices everywhere are filled with individuals who have taken charge of their health and made this critical transition.

While the purpose of chiropractic care is not to take you off a drug it is very common that when people begin to get adjustments on a regular basis they find their need and dependency on both prescription and non-prescription medication goes down dramatically or disappears altogether. No wonder more and more individuals and families are taking the drug- free approach to healthcare that chiropractic delivers. Now it is your turn.