Optimum Vitality Blog

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…

Why We Need to Supplement For optimal well-being, we can no longer get all of our nutrition from diet alone and here’s why: The food we consume today is not as nutrient dense as it was decades ago. Industrial farming has depleted our topsoil, and toxic waste has polluted our air and water. To receive…

Ayurveda: Living in Harmony with the Seasons In the most basic terms, Ayurveda is a health system by which balance is achieved by first living in harmony with nature. Some of this depends upon location and what nature has to offer where you live. For instance, in the northern climates, winter is cold! For those…

Immune Check-Up For New Clients! Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired!? I know that’s usually the case when dealing with an illness of any kind. That’s why we’re offering our quick immune check-ups to anyone who isn’t already a client. The latest round of sickness is the ever-persistent cough, lasting three…

Digestive Foods That Feed Our Healthy Bugs Over 60% of the U.S. population has indicated they have some form of digestive symptoms or dysfunction. However, only in some instances of gut disturbances, are probiotic supplements needed. We’re the only country to recommend a probiotic daily, forever. We seem to do this with everything, don’t we?…