Optimum Vitality Blog

Before You (Literally) Lose Your Mind, Try This What a strange time we are currently living in right now. The stress and emotions you are feeling are valid. While most stress is unavoidable, it is possible for you to still feel strong, happy and healthy during stressful times. At Optimum Vitality, we are invested in…

5 Reasons Why Most Diets Fail Have you ever wondered why most diets fail? Perhaps you’ve tried every diet out there, only to be disappointed over and over again. You work so hard, you’re so hungry, and you spend hours in the gym, all for just a few lost pounds. Or, maybe you’ve even gained…

Monday Motivation in Middleton “Shape Works, When Nothing Else Has” Most of us have stories. We’ve been through, well, a lot. If I challenged you to name one person you know that hasn’t struggled, sacrificed, or endured a hardship, could you? I can’t. In each of us, there’s a fire that keeps burning. There’s a…

Monday Motivation in Middleton “Plateaus- A Cry For Help” Most of us have stories. We’ve been through, well, a lot. If I challenged you to name one person you know that hasn’t struggled, sacrificed, or endured a hardship, could you? I can’t. In each of us, there’s a fire that keeps burning. There’s a desire…

Monday Motivation in Middleton “My wife told me to come.” Most of us have stories. We’ve been through, well, a lot. If I challenged you to name one person you know that hasn’t struggled, sacrificed, or endured a hardship, could you? I can’t. In each of us, there’s a fire that keeps burning. There’s a…

Why Do I Need to Supplement with Vitamin D? Last year I explained how Vitamin D isn’t a vitamin but rather a “pro-hormone” (precursor to our hormones). You can find that article here. That information amazed quite a few of you. It amazed me as well when I learned how it all worked! It’s the…

Vitamin D: A Prohormone Before we fully transitioned the clinic from Teff Chiropractic to Optimum Vitality, I consulted with healthcare practitioners across the state, helping integrate nutrition into their care. I often heard them tell their patients they needed Vitamin D in the winter here in Wisconsin, but why? The canned response was always, “We…

Why Shape Reclaimed? Since nutrition was added to the clinic 27 years ago, many have approached us with a request for a weight management program.  We don’t believe in a “one program fits all” or “one product fits all” and that’s why we test everything we use here. We need to experience such product or…

Allergies: They Start in the Gut This time of year can be painful and unpleasant because of those stubborn allergies! But what are they? How do they start and what do the symptoms mean? Let me explain. An allergy occurs when the body’s immune system identifies a substance as being harmful and overreacts to it.…

Are We Too Toxic To Detox? When is carrying excess weight helpful? In short, only when the body cannot safely detox. Have you ever started a detox program and gotten sick? Not the typical detox reaction but really sick? If so, the detox more than likely only enhanced the first part of detoxification. When our…