Back Clinic Health News El Paso Functional Medicine Team. Chiropractor Dr. Alex Jimenez brings the latest articles, blog posts, technology, and advancements in health for the El Paso, TX. community. Dr. Jimenez follows health science, which is the protection and improvement of the health of families and communities through the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Combined with this comes research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases. In addition, we take a global functional fitness treatment approach to regain complete functional health.
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Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and his staff, health coach Kenna Vaughn, and chief editor Astrid Ornelas, discuss the role of inflammation in metabolic syndrome. The following podcast offers a deeper look at understanding how inflammation can ultimately cause metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors that can increase the risk of developing a variety of health issues, including diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. The risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome can also include, waist fat, high blood pressure, high blood sugar or glucose, high triglycerides, and low HDL or good cholesterol levels. Inflammation is the immune system’s natural response against injury, infection, and environmental toxins. Although inflammation is necessary, too much of it can ultimately cause a variety of health issues, including metabolic syndrome. Dr. Alex Jimenez, Kenna Vaughn, and Astrid Ornelas discuss how nutrition, diet, and fitness, as well as getting good sleep, can help regulate inflammation to prevent further health issues. Smoothies are also a good way to add extra nutrients. Dr. Alex Jimenez, Kenna Vaughn, Astrid Ornelas, discuss what type of foods, nutraceuticals, and supplements, you can eat, drink, and take to regulate inflammation and promote overall health and wellness to prevent health issues like metabolic syndrome, among others. – Podcast Insight
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Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Dr. Mario Ruja, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, discuss chiropractic care and sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. Sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain, is a collection of symptoms, rather than a single type of injury or underlying condition, that includes several common symptoms, such as pain, discomfort, tingling and burning sensations, and numbness. Severe symptoms can also include muscle weakness. Sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain, can be caused by a variety of health issues, including a bulging or herniated disc, DDD, piriformis syndrome, spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis, among other health issues. Personal injuries like sports injuries, work-related injuries, automobile accident injuries, and slip-and-fall accidents can also cause low back pain and sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain. Dr. Alex Jimenez and Dr. Mario Ruja discuss the causes and symptoms of sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain, in further detail as well as the treatments. Chiropractic care is a safe and effective, alternative treatment option that utilizes spinal adjustments and manual manipulations to diagnose, treat, and prevent injuries and underlying conditions associated with the musculoskeletal and nervous system, including sciatica. Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Dr. Mario Ruja, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, demonstrate how chiropractic care can help relieve sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain, by carefully restoring any spinal misalignments, or subluxations, that may be affecting overall health and wellness. – Podcast Insight
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In the following podcast, Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Dr. Mario Ruja, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, discusses what metabolic syndrome is in more depth. Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions that can ultimately increase the risk of developing a variety of other health issues, including diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), a person may be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome if they have at least three of the following five risk factors, including abdominal obesity of more than 40 inches in men and more than 35 inches in women, fasting blood glucose levels of 100 mg/dL or above, blood pressure of 130/85 mm/Hg or above, blood triglycerides levels of 150 mg/dL or higher, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels of 40 mg/dL or less for men and 50 mg/dL or less for women. Having three or more of these risk factors can ultimately increase the risk of developing a variety of health issues, including diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. Dr. Alex Jimenez and Dr. Mario Ruja discuss in more detail how eating a lot of carbohydrates and sugar are ultimately associated with the risk factors of metabolic syndrome. � Podcast Insight
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Dr. Alex Jimenez, chiropractor in El Paso, TX, discusses BIA, BMI and basal metabolic rate with staff. Dr. Alex Jimenez, health coach Kenna Vaughn, Astrid Ornelas, Truide Torres, and biochemist Alexander Isaiah Jimenez all take part in a round table podcast discussion of the importance of measuring BMI, BIA, and basal metabolic rate. BMI or body mass index is frequently utilized to determine an individual’s relative weight according to their height. Healthcare professionals commonly utilize BMI, however, BMI may not be accurate for athletes because their body mass according to their height may demonstrate that they have excess weight or obesity utilizing BMI. BIA is the preferred analysis tool used to determine an athlete’s relative weight according to their height. Excess weight and obesity is a well-known risk factor that can ultimately increase the risk of metabolic syndrome, among other health issues, including diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. Dr. Alex Jimenez, health coach Kenna Vaughn, Astrid Ornelas, Truide Torres, and biochemist Alexander Isaiah Jimenez ultimately discuss in further detail how determining an individual’s BIA, BMI, and basal metabolic rate can help promote overall health and wellness as well as support weight loss for the general population and athletes alike. – Podcast Insight
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Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Dr. Mario Ruja, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, discuss how chiropractic care can help with personal injuries, especially automobile accidents. Personal injuries can also include work injuries and slip-and-fall injuries. Auto accidents can cause a variety of injuries and underlying conditions, including neck pain, whiplash, back pain, low back pain, and sciatica. Sports injuries can also cause a variety of health issues. Chiropractic care is a safe and effective alternative treatment option that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of health issues associated with the musculoskeletal and nervous system. Dr. Alex Jimenez and Dr. Mario Ruja discuss how spinal adjustments and manual manipulations are commonly utilized to treat neck pain and back pain associated with personal injuries. Whiplash-associated-disorders are the most common types of health issues resulting after an automobile accident. Chiropractic care can carefully restore the original alignment of the spine, treating neck pain and whiplash caused by personal injuries, especially an auto accident. Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Dr. Mario Ruja, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX further discuss how it’s fundamental for people who’ve been involved in a car crash to seek chiropractic care to treat soft tissue injuries that can cause neck pain and back pain. – Podcast Insight
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In the following podcast video article, Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, and Daniel (Danny) Alvarado, owner of PUSH Fitness Center in El Paso, TX, discuss the three points of weight loss. Excess weight and obesity are associated with metabolic syndrome and a variety of other health issues. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that can ultimately increase the risk of developing diabetes, stroke, and diabetes, among other complications. Dr. Alex Jimenez and Daniel Alvarado discuss how weight loss can be a safe and effective way to improve metabolic syndrome as well as overall health and wellness. Decreasing or eliminating sugar and carbohydrate consumption, increasing the consumption of proteins, �good� fats, and vegetables, as well as engaging and participating in exercise and physical activity can ultimately help promote weight loss to improve metabolic syndrome and a variety of other health issues. Furthermore, Dr. Alex Jimenez and Daniel Alvarado discuss how they can help people with excess weight and obesity achieve their weight loss goals by encouraging and motivating them through every step of the way. Weight loss is essential for people with metabolic syndrome to achieve overall health and wellness. � Podcast Insight
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Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that can ultimately increase the risk of developing a variety of health issues, including heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, among other problems. Central obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides, and low HDL or good cholesterol levels are the 5 risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome. Having at least three of the five risk factors may suggest the presence of metabolic syndrome. Dr. Alex Jimenez, Alexander Jimenez, Truide Torres, Kenna Vaughn, and Astrid Ornelas explain the 5 risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome, in further detail, as they recommend diet and lifestyle modification advice and guidelines, such as the ketogenic diet or the keto diet, as well as demonstrate the biochemical and chemical pathways that the body goes through during ketosis to help people with metabolic syndrome improve their overall health and wellness. From eating good fats and staying hydrated to exercise and better sleep, Dr. Alex Jimenez, Alexander Jimenez, Truide Torres, Kenna Vaughn, and Astrid Ornelas discuss how diet and lifestyle modifications, such as the ketogenic diet or keto diet, can help improve the 5 risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome to prevent the risk of developing a variety of other health issues, including heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. � Podcast Insight
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