The Effect Of Sugar On The Body

That chocolate cupcake has been calling your name all afternoon. Yes, it’s time for your sugar break before you hit “the work wall”, and you know what? It’s fine. There is, believe it or not, an allotted amount of sugar your body can consume each day, but the problem is we love excess, don’t … Read more

Crack Stress Before It Cracks You

Studies have shown that stress not only contributes to weight gain and weight loss but also causes a process of overeating that can lead to imbalances and spikes within the body. For example, cortisol and insulin are the two most common hormones that can do real damage if left unchecked. These hormones contribute to fat … Read more

Always Challenge Your Healthcare

Once upon a time it was unheard of for a doctor’s opinion to be challenged, but today’s patients are getting second and third opinions, seeking out alternative health care solutions and pursuing natural options to find out the best course of action for their health. And recently, the medical system is now being challenged by … Read more

Which Road Will You Take

The Holistic Road or The Traditional Medical Model The typical approach to “health,” hasn’t worked for years. To most people, “health” means, “I’m not in pain” or “I’m not sick often.” That isn’t true health! Our society isn’t changing its perception of health, we’re simply looking for different ways to pay for it! Yet, … Read more

Natural Foods To Keep You Full

People eat food for many reasons, not just when they’re hungry, but that’s typically the most common one. It’s nothing to feel even a tiny bit hungry and immediately hop to the fridge to snack or chow down on a full meal even when we’re not super hungry. Obesity has taken much of the country … Read more

Good Vibration Therapy

Long before the Beach Boys were crooning about pickin’ up such Good Vibrations in their board shorts and flip flops, a Russian physician in the eighteen sixties was creating actual vibrations as a way of physical therapy. Didn’t think this was gonna be a history lesson did you? Don’t freak out, the test won’t be too difficult. … Read more

Weight Loss

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Weight Loss – It’s Achievable! It’s no secret – obesity has hit epidemic status with more than 2/3 of all American adults currently labeled as overweight or obese, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (read here). What many people don’t realize is that the problem with … Read more

Pediatric Chiropractic

Kids Have Spines Too! Many people in the greater Akron, Ohio community often ask us if we provide chiropractic care for children, to which we answer a resounding, “YES!” There’s a famous quote by the great Frederick Douglass that goes, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” That’s the exact … Read more

Laser Therapy

What is Laser Therapy? Laser therapy – sounds kind of futuristic, sci-fi, right?! Well, it’s here NOW at Advanced Health and Wellness Center in Wadsworth, Ohio, and our patients couldn’t be more excited about it. Often times, when patients learn that we use laser therapy, they have visions of a powerful, steel-cutting beam of light. … Read more

The basics of functional medicine

Functional medicine Functional medicine is a healthcare approach based on science, that treats illness and enhance wellness by focusing on unique, biochemical aspects of the patients. It is capable of restoring psychological, physiological and structural balance. Functional medicine targets the understanding of environmental inputs, fundamental physiological processes and other genetic predispositions that interfere with disease … Read more