Hogg Chiropractic Center Blog
Occasional articles about health, better living and the benefits of Applied Kinesiology.
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What is the Best Shoe?
I'm currently investigating this question and the answer may turn out, surprisingly, to be: "none". I've been aware, for about 10 years, of research showing that athletes had higher injury rates with the expensive, state of the art, built up shoes than they did with cheaper, simpler shoes. Now a number of athletes are moving [...]
Garlic Therapy Update
Since I posted the "garlic cough medicine" recipe, I've gotten some feedback from patients that have prompted this update. Some have reported that too much garlic gave them gas. Karen also suggested that I had over-estimated how much garlic I had given her. It turns out that what I was giving her (I just eyeballed [...]
Homemade Herbal Cough Medicine
Spring is coming and, hopefully, the severe cold and flu season we've been having this year will end as the weather improves. In the meantime though a new discovery I made last night may come in handy. Karen rarely gets sick. This year has been an exception and she's been sick twice this year. She [...]
Cholesterol, Part 2
Yesterday I wrote that, although my cholesterol has been high for a number of years, I wasn't surprised to find that it hasn't caused any plaque formation on my carotid arteries. This is because of a number of factors that are important to consider along with the total cholesterol number. BTW, there are some studies [...]
Does High Cholesterol Cause Cardiovascular Disease? Part 1
I have to warn everyone that this email will probably be surprising and also a teaser! Something not many of you are likely to know is that I've had high cholesterol for many years. In the last two years it's been around 300. Of course the common medical opinion is that high cholesterol (over 200) [...]
