All Articles from: Dr Chris Pickard

Nerve Charts

In simple terms, there are nerves that go to muscles, organs and skin, and nerves that go from your muscles, organs and skin back aot your brain. The nerves that go to your organs are also divided into your parasympathetic and your sympathetic...

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Zone Therapy Part 6: The Muscular System

Why Strength, Movement and Muscle Matter More as You Get Older Your muscles do far more than move your arms and legs. They help you stand upright, balance, breathe, produce heat and carry out everyday tasks. Muscle tissue also helps the body manage...

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Zone Therapy Part 5: The Digestive System

The Gut–Brain–Stress Connection: Why Digestion Changes When Life Gets Difficult Digestion is not an isolated process. What we eat matters, but so do appetite, sleep, movement, medication, illness, stress and the speed at which we eat. The gut and...

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Zone Therapy Part 4: The Nervous System

Why Your Body Can Stay on High Alert After Stress Has Passed The nervous system helps you sense the world, move, think, feel and respond to challenge. When demand is brief, the body can usually activate and then recover. When pain, poor sleep,...

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Zone Therapy Part 2: The Glandular System

The Glandular Zone: Hormones, Stress and Everyday Health Hormones are chemical messengers that help coordinate many of the body’s essential processes, including growth, metabolism, reproduction, sleep, blood-sugar regulation and the response to...

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Zone Therapy Part 1

Understanding Zone Therapy: A Six-System Approach to Health and Recovery Health rarely depends on one joint, one muscle or one isolated symptom. Pain, energy, sleep, digestion, stress, movement and daily habits can all influence how well we feel...

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Poor Nutrition and Back Pain

https://youtu.be/XHgymX_i0sQ Over the past 30 years I have found many cases of back pain only improve once diet and nutritional causes are worked on. Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Fiona, a local Hertfordshire GP, who found her own chronic...

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A Stoic Stay In Hospital

This is the first time I’ve posted for a while, as I’ve been in hospital for 7 weeks. For those of you who wish to know – it was an infected spinal disc. A rare form of excruciating back pain that needs huge amounts of antibiotics to treat. I had...

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High Blood Pressure?

https://youtu.be/fAoMhTFuEDg?si=0375JQh9BMpRl9xY I discuss: The link between high blood pressure and the risk of dying from COVID-19…and how Dr. Pickard is using this knowledge to help his patients What high blood pressure is actually trying to...

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Health Benefits of Chocolate

How to Live Longer: Eat Chocolate Yes, I thought I should start with the best overall benefit of eating chocolate – you will live longer! A study of 7,800 men by researchers Dr. I-Min Lee, and Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., of the Harvard School of...

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True Wellness with Dr James Chestnut

Dr James Chestnut was an early influence on me in practice. He has recently been on a series of podcasts with my colleague Ari Whitten on the Energy Blueprint. If you are a patient of ours and you’ve read the ‘Chiropractic Wellness’ pamphlet, or if...

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Happy Healthy PeriMenopause Hormones

In the Menopause Masterclass I cover: • Overview of female hormone cycle, menopause and peri-menopause• Symptoms of hormone imbalance• What causes the imbalances- Is it literally a ‘Man Made’ problem???• Why brains are at risk• What to do about it•...

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Healthy Hydration

https://youtu.be/D4fq3Zbb-mU Healthy hydration is more than water. In the masterclass I cover: Water Beyond water! Are you drinking too much? What is deuterium? Is this why drinking tap water is so unhealthy? How much water should you really be...

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Blood Test Analysis

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Jiddu Krishnamurti Normal blood tests that GP’s run are about the most important, and scientifically valid tests that can be done. Unfortunately the ranges doctors look...

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Blood Pressure Basics

What do the numbers mean? And what can you do about them? https://youtu.be/a6EU48J_aJY For more information about treating high blood pressure naturally: https://beatbloodpressure.com/understanding-blood-pressure-readings And what is the pulse...

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5 Good Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvNYE4C3bek You can join the Facebook Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehealthlab7/ Check out the '5 Things Clear' litter clean up campaign page (while it's still up)https://www.facebook.com/5ThingsClear...

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