Category: Health

Gravity Is Your Posture’s Friend!

I’ve always found it remarkable how common it is for people to behave as if gravity is the enemy, and yet we’re entirely evolved to interact with it as part of the way we function, no less so than with the air we breathe. Russian scientist and academic P. Anokhin phrased it thus:  “The most

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Flip Flops – Are They Any Good For Your Feet?

Book in your complimentary flip flop check to make sure you are Flip Flop Fit for summer! Summer is here, we’ve been basking in a scorching heatwave in the UK and the schools break up this month so many of us will be heading away on holiday. Time to get out the shorts and dust

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Chiro Kids – Checking future adults today!

Chiro Kids – Checking future adults today! Last month we wrote about Chiropractic care for pregnant women and so it would be a natural progression to talk about the health benefits of adjustments for a newborn baby. From 15th-19th May N8 Health is taking part in Spinal Awareness Week and since we love to care

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High Heels and Health

High Heels and Health How high heels affect you and your health We are often more concerned with fashion rather than function. We do not take into account the toll routinely wearing high heels will take on our body. The simple process of getting dressed in the morning has the potential to create significant musculoskeletal

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What Hypnosis is & its 6 Levels

What Hypnosis is & its 6 Levels Most people who are unfamiliar with hypnosis think that it is  – “like what they see on the telly!!”  – well it’s not. Let me explain.  Hypnosis is similar to daydreaming or meditation, in essence an altered state of awareness, or indeed a lovely state of relaxation, which

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Change is the Only Constant

Why are some people so resistant to taking responsibility for their own health? The expectation is for someone else to “fix” them. So much of what ails us is down to the way we use ourselves, locked in tension and poor posture can affect breathing, digestion, stress response, musculoskeletal pain, as well as performance in

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Sitting Is The New Smoking

Sitting Is The New Smoking Have a think about the amount of hours you spend sitting at your desk during the day. Now add on the time you spend relaxing in front of the TV on the sofa in the evenings and perhaps the commute in the car or train on the way to and from work… More than 5 hours? You’re

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Jaw Clenching during Abdominal Exercises

Jaw Clenching during Abdominal Exercise A great question and was asked by one of the football players when working with them at the M606 football camp earlier in the year. Have you seen those guys in the gym clenching their jaw so tight or really pursing their lips when lifting heavy weights? Or have you seen people

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Why You Really Need To Cut Down On Sugar

  Why you REALLY need to cut down on sugar! Yes, we know we’ve posted previously on limiting sugar for children, but this subject is so important that we felt the need to post again about the dangers of the  addictive white stuff.   Far from being healthy, the Western Diet is leading to a

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