Charleston Spine Institute

01/09/2025

06/18/2024

We treat degenerative, bulging, protruding and extruding lumbar and cervical discs. No medication, no injections and no surgery. If you have serious back pain, leg, arm pain or numbness, call or text. You deserve to get your life back!
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Phone/Text (843)571-5366
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11/22/2023

Happy Thanksgiving! May you be surrounded by friends and family.

06/30/2022

We treat bulging, protruding, extruding and degenerative cervical and lumbar discs. We do that with special decompression technology that requires no surgery, no drugs and no injections.

07/13/2021

FYI

In our society, magnesium deficiency is a huge problem. By conservative standards of measurement (blood, or serum, magnesium levels), 65 percent of people admitted to the intensive care unit — and about 15 percent of the general population — have a magnesium deficiency.⁣
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But this seriously underestimates the problem, because a serum magnesium level is the LEAST sensitive way to detect a drop in your total body magnesium level. So rates of magnesium deficiency could be even higher!⁣
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The reason we are so deficient is simple: Many of us eat a diet that contains practically no magnesium — a highly processed, refined diet that is based mostly on white flour, meat, and dairy (all of which have no magnesium).⁣
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When was the last time you had a good dose of sea vegetables (seaweed), nuts, greens, and beans? If you are like most Americans, your nut consumption mostly comes from peanut butter, and mostly in chocolate peanut butter cups.⁣
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Much of modern life conspires to help us lose what little magnesium we do get in our diet. Magnesium levels are decreased by excess alcohol, salt, coffee, phosphoric acid in colas, profuse sweating, prolonged or intense stress, chronic diarrhea, excessive menstruation, diuretics (water pills), antibiotics and other drugs, and some intestinal parasites. In fact, in one study in Kosovo, people under chronic war stress lost large amounts of magnesium in their urine.⁣
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Stop Draining Your Body of Magnesium⁣:
Limit coffee, colas, salt, sugar, and alcohol⁣
Learn how to practice active relaxation⁣
Check with your doctor if your medication is causing magnesium loss (many high blood pressure drugs or diuretics cause loss of magnesium)⁣
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In addition to all of this, make sure you are taking Magnesium supplements. The most absorbable forms are magnesium citrate, glycinate taurate, or aspartate, although magnesium bound to Kreb cycle chelates (malate, succinate, fumarate) are also good.

06/24/2021

FYI

Our bodies normally produce insulin in response to food in our stomach, particularly sugar.⁣⁣
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We once thought that insulin’s only role was to help sugar enter the cells to be metabolized, combining stored energy with oxygen and creating the energy we use every day to run our bodies. Now we recognize insulin as a major switching station, or control hormone, for many processes. It is a major storage hormone – fat storage that is.⁣⁣
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Here is what too much insulin really does to your body and health:⁣⁣
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Try as you may, as long as your insulin levels are high you will fight a losing battle for weight loss. It acts on your brain to increase appetite and specifically an appetite for sugar.⁣ It increases LDL cholesterol, lowers HDL cholesterol, raises triglycerides and increases your blood pressure. Insulin resistance causes 50% of all reported cases of high blood pressure.⁣⁣
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It stimulates the growth of cancer cells.⁣⁣
It increases inflammation and oxidative stress and ages your brain.⁣⁣
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It also causes s*x hormone problems and can lead to infertility, hair growth where you don’t want it, hair loss where you don’t want to lose it, acne, and low testosterone in men and more. It also leads to mood disturbances.⁣⁣
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Balancing blood sugar and correcting insulin resistance is well within our reach. ⁣⁣
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My goal is to make your metabolism more efficient, to make your cells more intelligent and cooperative, not resistant. In other words, you will need much less insulin to accomplish the task of balancing your blood sugar.⁣⁣
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While I want to tell you how to balance your stress hormones, thyroid function and all your s*x hormones, and all your brain and mood chemicals that will take a few more lessons! For now I want to show you how you can reset your metabolism of sugar and insulin by stopping the things that knock you off balance, and providing the things that put you balance in balance allowing you to thrive.⁣

06/15/2021

FYI

Great reminder
https://twitter.com/drjamesdinic/status/1403648684030676998?s=21

12/08/2020

Thanks for sharing, Dr. Fucinari!