When it comes to managing your overall health and wellness, a team of the right health professionals is paramount to helping you get healthy and stay healthy. This is why a Doctor of Chiropractic is an essential component of your overall healthcare plan. While many patients already know that Chiropractic Care can help with their headaches, injuries and back pain—did you know that chiropractic care actually has a lot to do with your nutritional health as well. Chiropractic Care also been helping patients understand the important role of diet and how it can complement their chiropractic care plan. Why Is Nutrition Related to Chiropractic? Most people already know that diet and nutrition are very important components for overall health hand well-being. The right nutritional diet can help you stay fit, maintain a healthy weight and give you a natural boost of energy. Your diet can also impact your mind, your mood and help you treat and prevent certain diseases. However, when you aren’t eating well and are filling your body with toxins, chemicals and unhealthy food, it can actually be working against you. Research shows that over time, poor nutrition can lead to serious health conditions, such as:

Chronic fatigue Sleep apnea Obesity

Heart disease High blood pressure Diabetes

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A poor diet will also make you feel sluggish, tired and even cause pain and inflammation in the body, exacerbating some of the pain you may be feeling and making it more difficult for your body to heal and recover following your adjustment and can get in the way of those results you’ve been looking for. How Chiropractic Care Can Help With Your Nutritional Goals If you are already on a journey towards a healthier diet and a healthier you, then adding chiropractic care to your health routine can make a major difference. Chiropractors don’t just treat back pain and headaches, they also treat the nervous system and make sure that it is up and running as it should be. But when your nervous system, in particular the enteric system, isn’t functionally optimally, it can impact your ability to digest food and absorb the important nutrients from your healthy diet. If you have a disrupted nervous system, then you may have a disrupted diet. When your nervous system is subluxation free and able to function as it should, you will start storing nutrients properly, breaking them down and using them as fuel to stay your healthiest. Chiropractic and nutrition go hand-in-hand, and we are always here to help guide our patients on what they can be doing to make the most of their health and of their chiropractic care. Background Food consumption and nutritional status affect an individual’s health throughout their life-course and an unhealthy diet is a major risk factor for the current global burden of chronic disease. The promotion of health and good nutrition through healthy eating requires the active involvement of all health professionals including chiropractors. Most chiropractors provided nutritional advice as part of their patient care and around a quarter provided specific dietary advice to their patients, including the use of nutrition supplements. Nutrition-related conditions most commonly encountered by the chiropractors were musculoskeletal, usually inflammatory in origin. Common nutritional assessment methods used included questioning patients to assess their nutritional and health status and physical appearance. Most of the participants provided nutritional resources to their patients in their clinics. Chiropractors often referred patients with nutrition issues to qualified dietitians and other health professionals when deemed necessary they exist.