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Byron Bay Chiropractic Centre

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Hi There!

We are Drs Regan and Megan Osborne - qualified Chiropractors. A husband and wife team at Byron Bay Chiropractic Centre.

Our favourite things are making coffee, swimming at the beach and adjusting people. As Chiropractors, our greatest joy is working with people to achieve their health goals.

Both of us have enjoyed Chiropractic care for many years, and are continually inspired by the power of the nervous system and the body. It was Hippocrates who said “the greatest of human blessings is health” and we couldn’t agree more. We consider your health to be your greatest asset.

Have a little scroll around, to find out a bit more about what we do.

We look forward to seeing you in the clinic!

Regan & Megan

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where we share our life by the sea

Is your body in Toxic Overload? 🌺 This post is brought to you by the clever people at @loveyaguts – they’ve been kind enough to share this info and we think you’re going to love it. 🌺 How do you know if your body has been over exposed to toxins? Do you have any of the following symptoms: ✔️fatigue ✔️overweight ✔️sore joints ✔️skin issues e.g acne, psoriasis, eczema ✔️poor digestion (bloating, has, cramps, nauseous, constipation, diarrhoea ✔️lack of focus ✔️anxiety or depression 🌺 Many of these symptoms can be linked to your environment and potentially toxic overload!! 🌺 What is a toxin? Anything that causes irritation, harm or destruction in the body. 🌺 Where do they come from? External and internal sources. We ingest them, breathe them in, absorb them through the skin. 🌺 How to overcome them? De-toxification...but not the typical 7 day juice cleanse. Nope... detoxification needs to be a process that the body does ALL the time! 🌺 There are some specific things that definitely assist this process BUT the goal is to get your body to efficiently and effectively complete this process on its own. 🌺 I like to describe your body as being like a garden. In times of illness, an unproductive garden that you are trying to restore. 🌺 Detoxification is like taking soil that is not producing plants and work it to produce a healthy harvest. How? By adding minerals and nutrients to the soil to get the good microorganisms back in action. You have to constantly weed out the pests that are trying hard to destroy it! 🌺 It takes a bit of work to produce the harvest. Which takes time, and is definitely the long game, but is so rewarding!
Toxins are everywhere, there’s no denying it. They have a large impact on our health, and can accumulate in the organs, soft tissue and skin and result in various symptoms. But what exactly are toxins, and what can we do about them? We’ll be answering these Q’s over the next few posts. We have been lucky enough to be posting information from the awesome team at @loveyaguts_box who are Byron Bay locals, with gut healing products. They know all about how toxins impact our health, and even better- they have solutions for helping the body deal with it! Check out their Instagram for recipe ideas, products and golden information about how you can love your gut ❤
So far we have talked about how blue light can influence your health. 🌙 It’s not always easy to avoid the use of devices and blue light, but there’s some things you can do to help! 🌙 There are several popular methods you can use to reduce nighttime blue light exposure. These include: • Wear glasses that block blue light – can be found at an optometrist. • Download a blue light blocking app such as f.lux to block blue light on your laptop or computer. • Install an app that blocks blue light on your smartphone (Android) or switch to ‘night mode’ (for iPhone). • Stop watching TV and turn off any bright lights two hours before heading to bed. • Switch out any ‘cool’ tone light bulbs for warm/yellow/orange tones. 🌙 📷 @saltglow.id Campbell, S. S., Dawson, D. and Anderson, M. W. (1993), Alleviation of Sleep Maintenance Insomnia with Timed Exposure to Bright Light. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 41: 829-836. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06179.x
Exposure to light during the day is beneficial, but night-time light exposure has the opposite effect. 🌚 Especially artificial and blue light that is emitted from phone and ipad screens. 🌚 When you have blue light exposure at night, your circadian rhythm and brain thinks it’s still day time. This means that the sleep and nighttime hormones such as melatonin are reduced and it takes longer to relax and get to sleep. 🌚 An imbalance in circadian rhythm can lead to: - sleep difficulties - appetite changes - hormonal imbalance - heart health - weight gain - diabetes - anxiety and depression - heightening stress responses 🌚 Reducing blue light exposure at night can help the circadian rhythm find balance. We’ll discuss how you can do this in the next post! 📷 @camcam307
✨ Light exposure ✨ It’s true that exposure to light during the day, impacts your sleep at night. ☀️ This is a pretty popular topic at the moment, especially as device and technology use is on the rise! ☀️ There is a fancy word for the cycle of energy/waking/sleep our body follows throughout the day. It’s called the circadian rhythm. ☀️ It is a loop that regulates itself by sunrise and sunset. Natural sun exposure during the morning tells your brain it’s time to wake up. And the sun setting, and sky darkening tells the brain that it’s time for resting. ☀️ Having a few minutes of early morning sun helps to set your circadian rhythm for the day. ☀️ Get some natural light throughout the day. Especially if you work indoors! ☀️ In people with insomnia, daytime bright light exposure improved sleep quality and duration. It also reduced the time it took to fall asleep by 83% Reference: Campbell, S. S., Dawson, D. and Anderson, M. W. (1993), Alleviation of Sleep Maintenance Insomnia with Timed Exposure to Bright Light. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 41: 829-836. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06179.x 📷 @saxonkent
Light exposure is a pretty popular topic at the moment. Light wave lengths have different impacts on our health. We obviously have natural light sources from fire 🔥, the sun ☀️ and moon 🌙 . But increasingly, we are exposed to other sources of artificial light. This could be: House lights Street lights Phone screen lights iPad or computer screen lights Television lights Lamps/bulbs Saunas All of these have impacts on different parts of our health, which we’ll explore in the next few posts!
Setting up your bedroom for restful sleep: - Noise reduction, whether this means closing doors or windows or using ear plugs. Background noises can disturb sleep, even if we aren’t completely waking because of it. - Silence can also keep some people awake, white noise machines might help - Reduce artificial and external light, coming in to your room - Bedroom temperature of around 20 degrees Celsius seems to improve duration and quality of sleep (there are now cooling gel pillows/mattress underlays which help with this) - Devices, such as alarm clocks, phones, computers and televisions should live outside the bedroom - Reduce clutter, if it keeps your brain busy/anxious - Use your bedroom for restful, relaxing activities so that when you spend time in there, your brain knows it’s sleep time - Relaxation techniques such as meditation, deep belly breathing, or visualization - Aromatherapy with essential oils, such as lavender has research to show it may help sleep - Bed, mattress and pillow are supportive and comfortable. - Change out cool/blue light for warm/orange light. 📷 @organicme References: J. P. Libert, V. Bach, L. C. Johnson, J. Ehrhart, G. Wittersheim, D. Keller, Relative and Combined Effects of Heat and Noise Exposure on Sleep in Humans, Sleep, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 24–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/
How to get better sleep? There’s definitely things we can do, throughout the day and pre-bed to make sure we are getting restful sleep. ☕️ Caffeine can stay elevated in the blood for 6-8 hours, try reducing caffeine intake in the early afternoon. ☀️ Wake and sleep at consistent times. As the sleep/wake cycle is determined by the ‘circadian rhythm’ which acts as a loop- making sure that your sleep schedule is regular helps with sleep hormone production. 🥘 Along with this cycle is eating, making meal times regular helps the circadian rhythm. 🍶 There are some supplements that can help with sleep, make sure you are consulting with a Nutritionist or health care professional who can guide you. ♥️ Magnesium in particular is involved in 600+ processes in the body. It can help with brain, heart, and skeletal muscles and relaxation for sleep. Reference below. 🛁 A warm, relaxing shower or bath can help. As the body cools down (on exiting the bath/shower) this is the same physiology of cooling that the body stimulates to go to sleep- it can trick your brain into relaxing and preparing for bed. If you don’t have a bath, a foot soak can elicit the same response. 🏃 Exercise is one of the most research supported ways of improving sleep. Just not too late in the day. References in comments. 😴 Next post: setting up your bedroom for a good night’s sleep 📷 @tatjanas_world_