We all love our hobbies, but some can be detrimental to our health! In this episode, we cover how some activities like bowling, Jiu-Jitsu, and golf may need a break in activity to allow your body to heal while under care. And since it is the holidays, we’re covering a little more on how to avoid it through food substitutions and HEALTHIER sugar substitutions.
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Activities You May Need To Give Up & Sugar Alternatives
One of the things I try to do at my office and in my life is focus on wins. That’s why a lot of you tuning in to the show have noticed that we start the show a lot of times with wins. I want to talk about why we start things with wins. Having a winning mindset is a choice because we could choose to be like, “The weather. The darkness. This patient bothered me.” We get into this habit of being negative and having thoughts that then wrap around other thoughts. Overall, we tend to be negative and miserable people. I choose not to live that way.
I used to live that way before I used to get adjusted. I had so many health problems and I focused on those health problems and was miserable all the time. Once I saw there was a light at the end of the tunnel, I stopped that. One of my wins for this week is this wonderful patient named Nathan. He’s in his 80s. His daughter did some searching on the internet and found this upper cervical thing. She lives out of town. One of his other daughters and son and a bunch of people started bringing him down. It’s about a 30-minute drive to our office from the north part of St. Louis.
When I first met him, he could barely lift his head. He could lift his head, but his face looked miserable. Honestly, I thought, “This is a grumpy old man and he’s going to be no fun to work with.” He was nice. He wasn’t mean, but he wasn’t very personable. Over the course of about 2 or 3 weeks of care, I started seeing a whole different person emerge. It was because he was dizzy. He felt foggy. He couldn’t think straight. I got a few smiles out of him. Months since he started care, he comes in more for maintenance-type visits. He comes in every 2 or 3 weeks. He is the biggest joy to be around.
I asked him this week if I could take his picture with me and him because we’re celebrating Men’s health this week in the office. I got the picture of him. He was holding a sign about how he had vertigo, and it’s gone. He doesn’t get on Facebook or any of the socials, but his daughters found me, and he told them to look. They posted, “Thanks for taking care of my dad.” It was such a sweet win. When we get to see that kind of change in someone, even a personality change, they know the guy. I just never knew how wonderful he was because he felt so bad. I’m happy they’ve got their dad back.
I will make a point to note that, yes, I may be a little bit negative about daylight savings time, but there are things you can do to keep moving forward as far as wins and keep that positive attitude. One of mine, as we’ve discussed in the past, is I have a very constant workout schedule. I do this all the time to keep my mental and my physical state moving the way they’re supposed to.
It brings me to my win for the week. I’ve got a young lady who was referred in by a couple of good friends and patients. In fact, we probably should have them on at some point in time to share the story of how they’re doing, especially since I’ve used their story and I’ve shared their story with other people and other research that I’ve done.
Anyway, they went out to dinner with this couple. The patient that I have has days where she can’t get out. Weather changes. She’s not leaving the house. They missed this new couple, my new patient’s wedding. They finally get out to dinner, and the new patient is sitting there. She’s shaking her arm trying to get blood flow and trying to get the tingling to go away. They say, “You got to go see Dr. Schurger.” She’s like, “Fine, I’ll go do it.” She comes on in and describes what’s going on with her shoulder, then down into the arm as a Clydesdale biting down on her shoulder.
That sounds awful.
That was my next question, “When did you ever experience a Clydesdale biting on your shoulder so you know what that feels like then?” In any case, she says, “It’s so bad.” We now have a small pony biting on her shoulder after two weeks.
Here’s the other thing that’s amazing. She’s also very focused on her physical training. We were joking about how she would rather lift weights than do yoga. She doesn’t mind yoga, but she’d rather lift weights. That was keeping her sane through all of this, but then she’s finding out, “Maybe I need to have surgery because things are a little screwed up.” She hasn’t slept through the night more than maybe a couple of hours in months.
Wednesday night was the last night for her. She slept all the way through. Even Tuesday night going into Wednesday, she slept all the way through. One night, she got to go to the bathroom at 3:00 in the morning, comes back, and was back asleep for the rest of the night as opposed to being up and dealing with the pain and everything else. The pain is subsiding. She’s slowly making that progress but fast enough that she’s like, “This is a no-brainer. This is going to get me healthy.”
That keeps us going on in even negative dark days.
Especially with daylight savings time, at 5:00, it’s dark out, and I’m like, “I want to go take a nap,” but I have a waiting room full of patients that I got to take care of.
For the audience, I want you guys to tune in to that one of the quick things I do sometimes when I have those negative circular thoughts starting to form is to think of three things I’m grateful for. Right now, I want you to think of one. When you find one, you’ll be able to find the next one. I’ve got so many blessings, which I can be grateful for, and I know you do too, but sometimes we have to either write them down or at least think through them, number 1, number 2, and number 3. It changes your brain pattern. You all can do it, too. Speaking of Clydesdales biting on your arm, that’s probably not a great thing to do if you’re trying to hold an adjustment.
Given a choice, it’s not a great thing. There are other activities that are not great to do either that may knock you out of adjustment. I think I’ve spoken in the past about how I still am a little bit hesitant to do pull-ups. When I started doing pull-ups and I got good at them, I was like, “I like doing these,” and then I knocked myself out of adjustment. That was a constant thing that was always happening. I said, “I’m not going to do pull-ups.”
It’s funny. Dr. Blair, who developed the technique that Dr. Bagley and I practice, along with many others throughout the country, had a strict rule for his two daughters that they were never allowed to go bowling. Dr. Blair passed away around 1985 or 1986, I can’t remember exactly when. Kids being kids, they’re like, “Dad’s not around to nag me about it. I’m going to join a bowling league.” One of the two daughters joins a bowling league. She’s bowling, she’s having a grand time, and then all of a sudden, she starts having these weird symptoms.
We don’t have a definitive diagnosis on this, but the symptoms resembled multiple sclerosis. She ended up having all these problems. They never got to the MRI, which is actually the definitive thing for diagnosing multiple sclerosis. They got to look at your brain and see all the lesions through it. She ends up getting adjusted by the doctor who bought Dr. Blair’s practice. She gets adjusted, symptoms go away and she stops bowling.
Sometimes, things that you think look like a lot of fun, maybe they aren’t and maybe they are not of benefit to your health. This goes into the patient who came in trigeminal neuralgia case that has been, “She does great.” All of a sudden, things go South. She was doing great and then things went South. Her husband brings her in to get adjusted. Sure enough, her axis is out of place. What did she do last night? She went bowling. A lot of people, when they bowl, they let the entire arm and the shoulder extend out.
Sometimes things that you think look like a lot of fun may not be so fun, and they could not be of benefit to your health. Click To TweetMy suspicion is most people are doing that as part of the bowling form. The problem with that is that means your shoulder is more mobile than it’s supposed to be. Some people, I suspect, have no problems with this and have enough strength in their shoulders to move like that. A lot of people, especially women, will not have the upper body strength. As a consequence, and probably myself included, might have enough shoulder instability that when that happens and you go into that full extension, it will pull on your neck because of the muscles attached from your shoulder blade to your upper neck, knocking you out of adjustment.
I don’t bowl that often or get invited to bowling, but 2 times in 2 weeks, there have been bowling things with our church. Both times, they’re like, “You can bowl too.” I said no. It’s not that I’m afraid of bowling. It’s not that I’m trying to be antisocial. I still went, talked, and had fun. It was that I knew that if I did that, and that’s because I don’t have good bowling form and I’m not a bowler, I would’ve thrown myself out of alignment and maybe hurt my shoulder. I need my shoulder and I need my alignment. It was worth saying, “No thanks, but I’ll have fun sitting here and talking.” I still had fun and ate some chicken wings. They were delicious.
I was going to say that that’s half the fun, eating the wings at the bowling alley.
I want people to know you could still go have fun. If you misalign easily, you’re not a professional bowler, and you haven’t built up that strength, maybe it’s not worth it for your health to have bowling as this every so often. I have a professional bowler as a patient, and he has had chronic migraines for years. He used to work with my husband. My husband said, “You got to go see Beth.” Years passed, “You got to go see Beth.” Finally, he came and saw me, and his migraines went away.
You can still go have fun if you misalign easily. Click To TweetNow, he does occasionally get adjusted; maybe once every two months, he needs an adjustment. He bowls once or twice a week. Nine times, I think he’s bowled 300. He is a good bowler. He does not throw himself off every time he goes bowling because he would have migraines all the time. I’m not saying everyone has to quit bowling. I’m just saying there are certain people, me and maybe you, that it’s not worth it to us. There are a lot of other things that are like that, too.
That’s not the only activity that’s going to knock you out of adjustment. I’ve shared my story in the past. I got into chiropractic because I was having a blast doing kung fu and martial arts. Part of the school that I went to, we did a lot of rolling what is now considered jiujitsu, probably not to the same level that people at the Gracie Jiujitsu School were doing, but we were certainly doing some of that. One of the things that I would love to do is to join one of the jiujitsu gyms here in town and practice and learn how to do that. Except I don’t have someone to check me on a regular basis. I will need to get adjusted just with some of the choke holds alone.
Choke holds are not as dangerous as they sound. It’s like, “They’re going to choke you out.” No, you tap out and you say, “You got me. I don’t need to pass out for a chokehold to be applied.” Repetition of that will probably knock me out of adjustment. Me out of adjustment is a bad thing because then I usually lose a day, if not more, which means more productivity that doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. That’s one of the reasons that as much as I’d love to, unless I have an associate coming in on a regular basis, it’s not going to happen that I get to go roll.
It’s not worth it to us because we know what our bodies do and what our patients’ bodies do when they’re out. I’ve got a fun one and a terrible one. Roller coasters. I used to love roller coasters. I still love the idea of roller coasters, but to actually go on a roller coaster, I tell patients, if you go to Six Flags or Universal, it’s like getting into 4 to 6 car accidents in one day. That is not okay. My body can’t handle that.
There’s a picture on my Facebook and Instagram of my kids and husband and I went to Universal. I did not go on any of the bad roller coasters. I went on a couple of easy ones. All three of them needed to get adjusted. I brought a little table piece and everything, but I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get adjusted when I was there, so I did not go on the crazy roller coasters. I won’t for the rest of my life because I know what it’s like to feel so bad.
Technically, what we need to do is when you say, “Jason and I are going down to X, Y, and Z place, you and Jean need to come with me so that you can adjust me.” That’s how it’s going to have to work.
We need to go on vacations, the whole family together. We can go on rollercoasters and get right back on track.
I think I’ve told this story as well. We might be running out of my good stories. When I was out interning with Drew Hall, Space Mountain was all inside in the dark. You can’t see where the turns are coming from. The standing joke was that everyone who went to Disney and got on Space Mountain ended up being out of adjustment the next day. I had the one day that it knocked me into adjustment and I lucked out. That morning, I’m like, “I feel miserable. I’m out of adjustment. Might as well get on the ride.” It worked out. I didn’t need to be adjusted on the next day.
However, if you don’t have your chiropractor and upper cervical doc going on vacation with you, you’re like, “I want to go on this rollercoaster. My kid, family member, or spouse wants to go with me.” The first choices that I would definitely do are the metal roller coasters that have a full harness that you can brace your head strongly. You’re not going to. You will not brace your head. The G’s hit and you’re flopping around, but you can definitely tuck your chin and hold better on that. That said, the ones that are more fun are the wooden rollercoasters. They have a special place in my heart. What’s the one down at Six Flags Down Your Way that’s the old wooden rollercoaster?
Screaming Eagle.
That’s it. The Screaming Eagle is screaming for a reason because it will jar you and you might lose some fillings along with that.
It’s awful.
If you lose fillings, don’t come to us. Go to your dentist for that.
I remember being a kid and thinking, “This is so much fun.” I rode it, I don’t know how many years ago. It was my sister and I. We went to Six Flags as adults. It was so fun to go with her. We rode that and I regretted it immediately. I regretted it after the first turn, and I couldn’t get off because it still had a long way to go. If you are under upper cervical care or have chronic health conditions, maybe rollercoasters aren’t for you anymore.
The nice thing is they have lazy rivers. Do the lazy rivers.
Lazy river, every time. Beautiful.
You have options when you go to these parks and you’re like, “I would love to.” We have to ask the question, “What is better, your long-term health, your enjoyment with your family, or that 45 seconds?” Screaming Eagle, in fact, we went while I was still in chiropractic school with some friends. My now wife Jean got on it and she regretted it afterwards. She’s in the same boat. She went back to the hotel for the rest of the day, but the rest of the day was miserable for her. We’ve got those. What else do we have? What other activities? Obviously, I’ve talked about things that are bad for me.
Currently, what I’ve seen a lot of issues with at least six patients is raking leaves. I’m going to put vacuuming with that, too, because there’s a very similar motion that happens with both of those things. For raking leaves, there’s also bending and lifting because you’re putting leaves into a bag or something like that. In general, pretty much, people rake one way and they don’t turn the other way. When I rake, I try to turn both ways.
I do, too.
Most people go one way the whole time. That twisting and turning will cause back pain, but there’s a relationship. Obviously, the whole spine is this kinetic chain that can cause your upper cervical to go out, but it also can cause acute low back pain and has with six patients.
To the point, most folks are tuning in the Midwest and they’re like, “When was everyone raking leaves?” It was on beautiful days. The weather here was at least 60 degrees during the day. They’re perfect leaf-raking days. What do you want to do? You want to get all the leaves raked off your yard. You’re doing more work than you would normally do. You’re fatiguing. You’re not taking the breaks that you need to take to say, “I’m going to take five. I’m going to grab a bite to eat and drink some water.”
Maybe stretching would be good.
People power through it. Even if you raked one side with good posture, now your posture’s starting to falter. Some of those stabilizing muscles aren’t working as well as they’re supposed to because most of us are not on our feet all day long doing that kind of activity. You don’t have the strength to do it as well as you would like to. Take the breaks. Leaves should be done by the time this one comes out.
Take the breaks. Click To TweetYou’d be surprised. Here in St. Louis, they’re still falling sometimes in December. Vacuuming is another one that bothers people a lot. There is a way to vacuum where you’re not hurting your back. How I tell people to do it is you’re holding the vacuum straight out in front of you with the stick vacuum type thing or with a rolling vacuum. You walk with it. Rather than bending forward and twisting, you walk two steps back, and then turn your whole body. It looks a little weird and hard to get used to. The whole thing of twisting, pushing the vacuum and pulling, and you’re twisting, that’s where people get in trouble. It’s the twisting of their back with the pushing and pulling.
It’s not that vacuums generally aren’t that heavy, but the twisting over and over again. It’s a motion you don’t do on a normal basis. You add that and maybe some chronic low back stuff, you are going to tweak your back and that can cause your whole spine to be upset. Definitely, when you’re vacuuming, try not to twist your back.
Those hit most of the big ones right there.
I got two more. Same thing with twisting your back is stomach sleeping.
There is no redeeming quality for stomach sleeping. I’ve seen the pillow out there that suggests, “You can put your arm through and now you can sleep on your belly. I’m like, “No, you are putting your head into a position that is going to knock you out of alignment every time.”
Nobody sleeps like this, but on a massage table, if your head is straight down.
Where they’ve got the cut out.
I think you would not lose your alignment as long as your head’s not too far back or forward. I think you could be fine. If you have to sleep on your stomach, sleep like that. Otherwise, you’re not stomach sleeping. Your head’s twisted and your leg’s up. Nobody sleeps with their stomach straight face down. Your head’s twisted, legs up. That’s bad for your neck, which is our bread and butter. We want your neck to be good, but it’s also bad for your back because you’ve got one hip twisted. Stomach sleepers, I know you’re going to be mad, but it is time. You’re not a baby anymore. I know babies like to get all curled up on their tummies, even though they tell you’re not supposed to, but they still do it. Stop stomach sleeping. It’s killing you.
Side is okay. Back is okay. Just don’t do the stomach sleeping.
“The only way I can sleep is by stomach sleeping. I can’t sleep any other way.” That’s what they say.
Two things that I have found that have helped people who are like, “I started on my side or I started on my back and I found myself on my stomach.” The two things that I do, first off, I have a pillow between my knees. That actually helps as you’re side sleeping so that your hips don’t get screwed up. The other one, this is one of those things that sits in the back of my brain. This is some sort of deep-seated reflex that we will do naturally to protect the young. If you hold a pillow across your chest or if you want, it could be a teddy bear. Nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of plushies out there that apparently my wife needs to buy.
Is that one of her things?
Yes, she has a bunch. She likes little pillows. In any case, you could use that and hold that, so that when you lay on your side, it does two things. 1) I found that it causes your shoulders to sit back a little bit instead of having a shoulder rolling forward. 2) Your brain will think, “I must have a child embraced here so that I won’t roll onto them and crush them.” That will help set your body in a position where your body says, “I’m cuddling a child. I’m not going to crush them. I’m not going to lay on my stomach.” I found that to be very beneficial for my shoulder. The more I thought about this, the more I’m like, “That’s probably one of those deep ingrained things that we would’ve done back in the day.”
Also, if you turn onto your back that pillow, you can sleep flat on your back, which is fine, but you want a pretty flat pillow for that and maybe a pillow under your legs, like a little bolster. If you’re a back sleeper, it does help take a little pressure.
Especially if you’ve got some low back pain, that helps for a lot of people. If you can’t lay completely flat because it gets into the low back, probably start strengthening your hamstrings because that’s a big part of what’s going on there. That’s going to let you have a good night’s sleep almost every time.
The last thing I’m going to talk about is golf. Golf is not a heavy sport. I guess if you’re carrying your bag, it’s heavy, but typically people have carts and stuff. It is one-sided and can be a violent hit if you’re not doing it correctly. As you’re learning how to golf, those things can throw you off. If you’re just starting upper cervical care, it might not be the best time to learn golf. If you are under upper cervical care, I’ve had patients who haven’t been able to golf in years and then got back to being able to golf. There’s this cool piece of the puzzle there where you might not have been able to do something for a very long time.
When you get your life back, it’s one of those times where you get to say, and I love when patients come to me and they say, “I played eighteen holes. I didn’t feel bad afterward.” It’s such a good feeling because you could tell that it was something that they gave up, and then they got it back. They never thought they’d be able to have that again. The guy I’m thinking of it was post-neck surgery. I met him a couple of days after he was released from neck surgery. He still had a brace on. He was miserable. He couldn’t breathe. Literally, there was some diaphragmatic stuff going on, but he had given up golf years ago. The last time I saw him, he was golfing like a champ.
In fact, one of the funniest stories that I’ve ever heard about golfers, it was one of Dr. Drew Hall’s patients out in LA. The entire family was under care except Dad. Dad wasn’t under care. Mom drags Dad in. I think at this point in time, one of his daughters is already enrolled in chiropractic school. That’s how excited the family is about chiropractic and the upper cervical work. Dad’s not. Dad’s like, “Nothing’s going to touch my lower back pain.” He hasn’t played golf. He could barely play nine holes. For a golfer, that’s a good start to a day.
In any case, Dr. Hall sees him. His wife pays for all the care up-front. He’s like, “Really? He barely did anything.” This was on a Friday, I think. It’s how the story goes. Saturday, he’s still a little miserable. Sunday, the guys call up and say, “Do you want to do nine?” He’s like, “Yeah, sure.” They do 9 holes, and another 9 holes, and then does a third set of nine. Dr. Hall had a patient testimonial dinner. He tells this story and he’s like, “Doc, I don’t know what you did. I’m still not sure you did anything, but I will see you on Monday so I can go play golf this weekend.”
That’s the truth. Although we’ve been talking in this show of things to avoid, we also help people get back to the things they love to do.
Honestly, if I had somebody who gets themselves knocked out on a regular doing jiujitsu, and I’d love to have a couple of those folks in because I can identify with them because my personal background and things I did, they might not hold it for a week or two at best. In fact, one of the sad things about how I train, I oftentimes get adjusted every two weeks or so. I’m lucky that we’ve got Dr. Shiloh in the area now so that she can check me on the regular and vice versa because she still trains as hard and sometimes she doesn’t hold her adjustment very well either.
Sometimes, you have to understand that the activity that you’re doing, you might need to take a break from it for a short period of time, but as we get you back into it, you’re still going to be able to do it and maybe not have all the side effects and all the symptoms that you were having when things got bad that was preventing you from doing your activities. As you said, the gentleman who had migraines, who doesn’t have migraines but still can bowl, that’s a huge win. If you’re like, “Yeah, but I’m not going to stop doing what I do,” I get it.
You don’t have to.
I got into this to take care of the people that were passionate about their thing and they want to keep doing their thing even at a detriment to their health. Are there better ways to pack your shoulder and lock it in deep so you can go bowling? Probably. Is it going to screw up your game? Absolutely. You have to relearn the skills that you need to be stable, and sometimes it takes some time.
Some of the times that you need a break from is being at the level that you thought you were. Some of it is letting your body heal so that you’re not having your symptoms kick up. Sometimes, it’s a matter of, “I’m not going to lift 50 pounds, so I’m going to lift 30 pounds because that’s what I’m capable of doing without hurting.” You then rebuild that strength, that adaptability, and that functionality that you may have lost because you were damaged and you kept on pushing through the damaged injury.
Sometimes, it’s a matter of don’t do that activity right after you get adjusted, too. I tell people, “If you’re going to work out the day of an adjustment, please work out before coming in. I don’t care if you come in stinky.” Maybe not too stinky, but don’t leave. If you want to go for a walk, I’m not concerned about that, but don’t leave and say, “I’m going to go do a CrossFit workout or I’m going to go do a kettlebell workout.” Any of those intense workouts right afterward. A lot of our patients in the first two weeks of care ask that you take it easy on your workouts.
Within about 24 hours, you should be able to be back to normal functionality. At the very least, a good overnight, we will take care of everything you need. It’s a matter of saying, “What is my priority? Is my priority doing the thing that I’m not a professional at?” Nine out of ten times, these activities that we’re talking about, you’re not a professional. For professionals, different category. We are doing things completely different. If you’re a semi-professional bowling patient, you were going towards a more professional gear and were having problems. Every time he bowled, the migraines kicked in. You would be checking him not only immediately after, but sometimes you might be checking him during an event.
That is why all professional teams and any sport have chiropractors on staff. Now, do they have upper cervical chiropractors? Probably not.
Some of these doctors should or some of these sports should, but that’s another story.
Especially football.
Football. Hockey. All of them. For lack of a better way to describe him, he is a nephew of sorts, we were watching his hockey game. He’s got control of the puck. He’s coming along the area where the penalty box is. The kid who was in the penalty box from the other team pops out right in and Lucian runs into the guy coming out. Lucian ends up getting the penalty for controlling the puck, even though the guy came out and was in his way directly. It was a bad situation.
The good news is, afterward, at dinner, we were like, “Dude, you got robbed.” He was like, “Yes, I sure did.” We checked to make sure he wasn’t concussed. Those are little potential spots where those things can happen. In any case, there are all sorts of ways that we can injure ourselves doing the things we love to do. Quite honestly, make sure your head’s on straight so that you can keep on doing that.
There are all sorts of ways that we can injure ourselves doing the things we love to do. Just make sure your head's on straight. Click To TweetYes. Your head on straight is the one-way ticket to having a way better life.
Let’s wrap up talking. We were going to talk a little bit about sugar one more time to remind people.
It is a reminder of you now have more sugar in your house, at work, and everywhere you go, then all year round. It is okay to pass the donut. It is okay to say, “No, thank you.” It is okay not to put it in your mouth. If you have a piece or two, please stop before eating too much of it because it is highly inflammatory to your body. If you notice that you have more aches and pains, that’s why.
That’s common. It’s funny because I tuned in to another podcast where he suggested, “Get off of all sugar and wheat. Just do it for a month.” This was at the beginning of November. He had done it for a couple of weeks, and he’s 65 or 66. All of his aches and pains went away and a lot of people are subscribing.
I’m like, “Yeah, sure. That’s absolutely going to happen. I haven’t had high levels of carbs in a long time.” Sure enough, a lot of other people basically said the same thing. What’s coming up? It’s the holidays. I have weird and bad places in the back of my brain for flavors that I associate with the holidays. One of those flavors is an eggnog. I do prefer Oberweis.
We just make our own eggnog. I don’t eat any of that stuff.
If I was going to get it, I would get the Oberweis, but I think you’re right. It’s better to make it. I’m going to share a supplement that is not only is it as sweet as sugar but it does everything that sugar does opposite. It reduces your insulin response and improves your sugar usage.
You’ve told me this before and I don’t remember what it is. What is that?
It is the amino acid glycine. It’s a one-to-one replacement for sugar, but I would definitely highly recommend you cut that down even more because it is very sweet. It is the most abundant amino acid in our connective tissue, so all of our collagen. If you buy collagen protein and look at all the amino acid profiles, the one that’s going to be the highest on that list is going to be glycine. It is not an essential amino acid because we make about ten grams of it per day.
What’s interesting is we are finding that there are groups of people, and you don’t know which group you’re falling into, this is the problem, that needs anywhere from 10 grams a day to upwards of 60 grams a day. That’s a huge disparity, especially if you are not consuming foods that are glycine-rich, which would be a lot of bone broths and soups, connective tissue things. All of this other stuff is very valuable. You can make your eggnog with glycine. You can make your pies and cakes with glycine potentially. It’s a little pricey. It’s not as cheap as sugar.
I’m looking at it right now. On Amazon, a 1.1-pound pack is $21.94. As a supplement goes, it’s not that bad. Thinking of a little thing of supplements, I often spend $50 on that.
Some of them are $50. I’ve got one that is 30 grams and it might’ve been $25 for a two-pack. A lot of this stuff is not inexpensive, but it’s simple and it’s very sweet. That might be how you get to fix this.
I’ll put that in my Amazon cart because I want to make some things. Can you bake with it?
You can absolutely bake with it. as I said, it’s a one-to-one replacement for sugar.
I’m going to try a few things out because a lot of times, I’m wondering what erythritol is doing to people.
If you’re going to do erythritol which comes from pine bark, is that right?
I don’t know, but okay.
You want to get the Canadian one, not the Chinese one. The Canadian one is superior, so if you’re looking at an erythritol-type substitute, it’s toxic to cats, which is why we don’t have cats in the house.
Xylitol is toxic to dogs.
If I didn’t have animals in the house and I was going to choose 1 of those 2 for a sweetener replacement for sugar, I would choose xylitol. Xylitol is a better replacement, but I haven’t tried making cookies with glycine yet.
I’ve got a couple of recipes I want to try, so good information. Thank you.
I think that’s a great place to wrap it up. Get your glycine for your sweets. Don’t overdo it. Make sure your head is on straight. We’ve got one more episode coming up.
That’s going to be a good one. When you get to that one, that is a radiologist named Dr. Latrell. She is amazing.
She is. We’re excited to have her on board. Guess what? We might have an episode come out during Christmas week, but I will be on vacation. I think you’re going to be on vacation most of that week as well. Make sure you get in, get checked, and adjusted before the Christmas holiday because we’re going to go, like you all should, and spend time with our families. In any case, Dr. Bagley, where are they going to find you?
You can find me at PrecisionChiroSTL.com. I’m in the St. Louis area on the West side.
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We’ve got one that we’re going to start working on for the future that one of Dr. Bagley’s patients suggested. We will see you next time.
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