Quest For Connection: A Journey through Memory Formation

Imagine cozying up on the couch to close out a long day of online lectures and asynchronous learning. A steaming cup of Organic Nighty Night tea with a splash of […]
Muscle Memory

“Practice makes perfect,” is a saying that we have all heard at one point or another. It is the idea that repeating the same process over and over ingrains it […]
Memory and Learning

We know that having a healthy diet and eating good food is important for having a healthy body, but it is also important for having a healthy brain! Eating food […]
Vagal Tone

The vagus nerve is cranial nerve number ten. It is one of twelve nerves that arise from your brain. Although this vagus is different than the Vegas in Nevada, the […]
Tone: The Importance of Sagittal Alignment

Over the years, there have been many meanings of the word “Tone”. It can be used to describe the sound of music, the hue of many colors, or the quality […]
Subatomic Influences

B.J. Palmer once said, chiropractic was founded on tone. I haven’t exactly read all of the green books, but I wonder what thought process he went through to make such […]
Tone

D.D. Palmer stated “Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of chiropractic.” How does the nervous system play a role in postural tone? The […]
Q&A with Dr. Tayal

For this topic I went directly to one of the people who knows it the best, Dr. Ankur Tayal. Dr. Tayal is a graduate of Life West, President of the […]
Age Related Risks and Benefits of Spay/Neuter in Dogs

Like most surgical interventions, spay and neuter, or collectively “castration”, has both benefits and risks associated with it. The procedure is most often performed prior to puberty, around 6 months […]
The Cytokine Storm

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome – coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is often compared to two other serious viruses we have seen in the past, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV, […]