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Geneva Chiropractic Clinic - Dr. Cecilia Duffy, 1953 S Broadway, Geneva, OH (2025)

09/04/2025

Final post in this series on how our emotional health relates to our physical health.

What do scientific studies tell us about what STRESS does to our bodies? A lot. Emotional stress has been linked in studies to:

-Anxiety and depression.
-Weakened immunity – more open to getting infection or auto-immune disease.
-More inflammation that leads to any of the inflammatory disease – arthritis, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and dementia, cancer.
-Makes the blood vessels tighter leading to high blood pressure and clots and contributing to heart conditions and strokes.
-Facilitates cancer growth.
-Thins the bones. Yes – emotional stress can thin your bones.
-Insulin resistance leading to diabetes.

If you have chronic stress in your life and are starting to develop some of these conditions, consider seeing a counselor to help with stress management.

09/03/2025

Continuing this subject of emotional traits being associated with certain illnesses – Multiple Sclerosis is an auto-immune condition whereby the nerves become damaged and results in visual problems, numbness and tingling, weak muscles and difficulty with walking, and more. The traits associated with MS are:

-A large stressful event within 6-24 months of onset of MS.
-History of childhood traumas, including physical and sexual abuse.
-Generally repressed with their emotions; stoic about their physical health, more concerned with the health of others than themselves.

09/02/2025

Last week I posted about how emotional states are associated with physical illnesses. Here is another example of this relationship with cancer:

-People who were abused, economically disadvantaged, difficult early family circumstances are at a higher risk of developing cancer anywhere in the body before the age of 50.
-Feelings of helplessness upon being given a breast cancer diagnosis is associated with lower survival rates.
-A reduction in depression in breast cancer patients is associated with higher survival rates.
-Even before a cancer diagnosis is made, a dejected attitude toward life is associated with more cancer diagnoses.
-Men with prostate cancer have a harder time responding to treatment if they tend to suppress anger.

This series is to facilitate the thinking that when we have a physical illness, we should also look to our emotional health and consider counseling.

09/01/2025

Today we celebrate Labor Day and the economic accomplishments of the labor force. Here are some fun tidbits about Labor Day.

-The first Labor Day was in New York and celebrated with a parade to honor workers.
-President Cleveland officially made Labor Day a holiday, but it was President Johnson who made Labor Day always on a Monday with the idea that it would a day off work to relax.
-Labor Day is always the first Monday in September.
-Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer.
-It is just fine to wear white after Labor Day.
-Third most popular day for a cook-out, behind Fourth of July and Memorial Day.

08/28/2025

Continued from yesterday’s post. I talked about the brain and the body as one unit and how the chiropractor looks at Structural, Chemical and Mental/Emotional factors when treating our patients.

Focusing on the Mental/Emotional side - psychological traumas are often associated with certain diseases. As I discussed yesterday, us chiropractors have always known this. We all have traumas; some large, some small; but no one escapes psychological traumas. Since your emotional health and stress impacts your physical health, consider that counseling may be a good idea as part of the well-rounded treatment of your health condition. I refer a lot of my patients to counselors as part of their well-rounded approach to managing their health.

Scientific studies have investigated the mental impact on physical health and have found associations. It is not 100%, but emotional associations are frequent enough that doctors look for these patterns with physical health issues.

An example: These physical conditions - fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, migraines, and endometriosis - are associated with these traits:
-More concerned with emotional needs of others over themselves.
-Rigid identification with a role.
-Muti-tasker, overdriven, hyperresponsibility.
-Represses healthy anger.
-Takes responsibility for how others feel by putting pressure on themselves to never disappoint anyone.

Anyone of my patients with these conditions is automatically referred to counseling. It is up to them to go, but I make the recommendation.

08/27/2025

Have you heard that emotional issues could manifest in the body as illnesses? The brain and the body are not two different things! It’s all the same thing, so it is obvious that something that affects your brain/emotions can also affect your physical body.

Chiropractic has known this since day one. The founder of chiropractic described the Triad of Health as an equilateral triangle with each side representing Structural, Chemical and Mental/Emotional. All health conditions can be placed on one side of the triangle in one of the three categories, but the other two categories can and will affect the first.

Example: You throw your back out lifting a heavy box. The usual thought would be that this back pain is a Structural issue requiring structural interventions. You are not wrong. But the alternative doc, chiropractor, etc., will also make sure and look at the Chemical and Emotional/Mental sides to see where they may be contributing to the back pain, or preventing the injury from healing. What if that person drank 10 cups of coffee a day? Ate donuts and candy every day? What if they were going through a divorce at that time with emotional stress happening? These Chemical and Emotional factors play into how I would address this fictitious patient and their back pain; I would address the diet and emotions as well as treat their structural back pain.

More tomorrow.

08/26/2025

I have gone on record that I am unsure of the long-term effects that AI (Artificial Intelligence) will have on humankind; for now, I am not hopping full force on the AI bandwagon.

I write all my own copy with its occasional misspelled words and all, I never use AI to research what I need to research for myself. I broke down and am using the paid version of Firefly AI picture generator for a few months now because it was getting increasingly more difficult to find free images to accompany these Facebook posts. Not gonna lie, it’s cool that I can write a statement into the picture generator and it will bring up 4 pictures to choose from in a manner of 2-3 seconds. But currently that is where I am drawing the line, and I will continue to research and write my own copy based on MY thoughts and conclusions.

My apprehensions about AI:
1. Have you researched how much energy and water it takes to run an AI system and how large the building is? I have deep concerns over the environmental impact through the massive quantities of electricity needed to run the AI equipment and on farmers who need water for their crops.
2. I have concerns about AI dumbing us down. My concern has been validated by this recent study from MIT. Just the title alone caught my attention: “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.” Long story short – researchers had groups write an essay and monitored their brain activity to determine what different parts of the brain were being used. The three groups were split up into
-ChatGPT or AI assistance to write the essay
-Internet search engines help
-Brain only, no outside assistance

Frighteningly, it was found that the amount of brain engagement (how much of the brain the participants used during the essay writing) was the lowest in the AI written essay and highest in the brain only/no outside assistance written essay.

What was even more upsetting is that the ability to “learn” from writing this essay was drastically lower in the AI assisted participants compared to the brain only participants. “Learning” was measured by having the participant repeat back information to the researchers verbally that they wrote in their essay. 83% of the AI written essay participants were UNABLE TO PROVIDE A CORRECT QUOTE FROM THE PAPER THEY HAD JUST “WRITTEN.” Roughly 11% of the internet search assisted and brain only participants could not repeat back a quote.

What is this going to mean for our learning going forward if we come to rely on AI to “do the work for us?”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

08/25/2025

Air fryers. You love them, don’t you? Makes food yummy, crispy; fast, too.

Make sure that your air fryer does not have the inside fryer basket coated with Teflon. As a reminder, Teflon makes a very nice non-stick surface for cooking with lower fat needed but is terrible for your health. Teflon releases gases that are known to be carcinogens.

Make sure that your air fryer basket is either ceramic or stainless steel. It will require more fat to prevent the food from sticking but is healthier without toxic chemicals.

08/21/2025

What fuels a car so that it can run? Obviously, gasoline.

What fuels the human body so that it can function? Food. To get the energy we need to make all our body parts function, we need glucose.

Glucose or sugar that is made from the food we eat (and you know better than to think sugar from candy, pastries, etc.) enters our cells, goes through the mitochondria and forms ATP. ATP is energy that runs our cells, organs, muscles, brain, etc.

What happens when you run out of glucose from the last meal that you ate? The liver has a storage of starch just in case you don’t eat, yet you still need to make energy so that your body continues to do body things. Your adrenal glands are alerted by your brain that the body is running low on glucose as fuel, the adrenal glands release cortisone that goes to the liver and breaks down the stored starch into glucose and makes that glucose available for your use.

What happens when you run out of glucose from your last meal AND your liver’s storage of starch has run out? The body has all these back up mechanisms to make sure that we survive. This is not a good situation to be in. You will survive, but at a cost. We have two other ways to make energy to run our bodies. One is that we break down muscle tissue; the protein in the muscle tissue can be broken down into glucose and be used to make energy. This is not desirable. We need our muscles to stay intact and not be cannibalizing ourselves just to make energy. The second way is that we burn fat for energy. The issue here is that we don’t make nearly as many ATP energies from fat as we do glucose; glucose is superior for energy production than fat.

This is why I stress eating regularly to my patients. Don’t run out of fuel for your body. If you want to intermittent fast on a regular basis, keep it to 10-12 hours of fasting only per day.

08/20/2025

Yesterday’s post discussed all the different types of post-graduate degrees that chiropractors can achieve with the point being made that chiropractors are not just for back pain, we manage a wide variety of human ailments.

The state of Ohio law governing me states that I am a chiropractic physician responsible for diagnosing and treating conditions of the human body. It is a very broad and liberal law, and I am grateful that I can use the tools I was taught to do just that.

I mentioned yesterday that I have a postgraduate degree in applied kinesiology. What does this mean? Applied Kinesiology or AK for short, is a system of manual muscle testing for the purpose of assisting in the diagnosis of the patient. As part of the AK system, I have learned some unique ways to address illness and pain, and AK has made me a much better general doctor.

I explain to my patients the difference between a GP and a specialist. A GP knows a little bit about a lot of topics, whereas a specialist knows a lot about a specific topic. We need both. The GP acts as the gate keeper to help to figure out what is happening to the patient and then either care for the patient themselves or funnel on to a specialist.

I advertise myself as being in the general practice of chiropractic. I always refer to myself as a GP and have taught my patients that they can see me for anything. My job is to be compassionate with their health conditions, listen to them, run appropriate tests to diagnose what is wrong and then decide if I can manage that health condition, if they require referral to a specialist, or co-management between a specialist and myself.

I am going to list for you one typical day of patient complaints that I experienced:

Fatigue/malaise/brain fog; right knee pain; menstrual irregularities; depression; constipation; neck pain; malnutrition; back pain; knee pain; migraines; chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic Lyme disease; anxiety and abdominal pain; neck pain; PTSD with chronic spinal pain; diarrhea and vomiting; concussion; vertigo; wellness check; sinusitis; eating disorder. As you can see from this list from one day – I am all over the place with what comes in to see me.

Examples of patients where I will refer to specialists:
*A bad back pain patient that is clearly a herniated disc – I will send to a chiropractor who does spinal decompression therapy.
*I manage a lot of thyroid issues and Hashimoto. I will co-manage with an endocrinologist when the thyroid ultrasound that I order has some large cysts on them that require a biopsy.
*If a patient is in with an upper respiratory or lower respiratory infection, a urinary tract infection, a skin infection, basically any infection that requires an antibiotic, I will examine them, adjust them, give them appropriate immune boosting supplements and then have them go on to urgent care to obtain the antibiotic. They also are sent home with a probiotic and instructions on how to take it to buffer the effect the antibiotic will have on their gut microbes.
*Patients with abdominal pain with a positive ultrasound or CT scan indicating something pathological, like gall stones, diverticulitis, etc., these are sent to the gastroenterologist.
*Skin lesions, moles, etc., that I think need a biopsy are referred on to the dermatologist.

08/19/2025

Do you think that chiropractors are only back doctors? That all we treat are maladies relating to back pain? Not so. While we are very good at back pain, no doubt of that as proven in studies, it is not the only thing we focus on.

Chiropractic as a profession was founded in 1895 as an alternative to medical practice of the time. Chiropractors did not come into being to treat back pain, we were designed to treat the human body and assist the body so that it could heal itself from maladies. All maladies. The first chiropractic adjustment made a deaf man hear again.

Like medical or osteopathic physicians, chiropractic physicians are trained in aspects of the whole human body. Due to this, you will see many different types of specialties in the practice of chiropractic. Us chiros have similar paths that we can take in our education to pursue a certain type of patient or treatment protocol. In chiropractic, you can take post-graduate classes and attain diplomate status. What is a diplomate? That is the term that chiros use to designate that you have reached the highest education in a specialty. In my case, I am a DC = Doctor of Chiropractic and a DIBAK = Diplomate in Applied Kinesiology. You can throw in my undergrad degree if you like, BS = Bachelor of Science, Human Biology.

Here is a list of chiropractic post-grad specialties: applied kinesiology, family practice, radiology (reading x-rays, MRI, CT, ultrasounds, etc.), orthopedics, neurology, internal medicine, psychology, pediatrics, women’s health, geriatrics, nutrition, acupuncture, pain management, rehabilitation, sports medicine, clinical research, anatomy, occupational health, forensic professionals, neuromuscular medicine, electrodiagnosis, philosophical chiropractic standards and Gonstead.

As you can see from this extensive list of post-graduate specialties, chiropractic covers a wide range of diagnosing and treating the human condition.

More about my practice tomorrow.

08/18/2025

ALERT, INCOMING - YET ANOTHER FAKE BUTTER ATTEMPT.

Recent news advertising excitement over another fake butter that "tastes just like butter but without the cows, plants, farmland or energy waste." This fake butter is literally made from the elements carbon and hydrogen combined with lecithin, an emulsifier to smooth out the waxiness, natural flavors and colors. I don't need any studies showing that it is good for this or that or how wonderful it is for the planet. I will never say it is ok to eat a frankenfood. Humans have not evolved on eating frankenfoods; these fake foods have been added to our diets only over the past 100 years or so.

Let's break this down:
1. You may be thinking, but Dr. Duffy, carbon and hydrogen are natural elements. Yes indeed, our entire earth is made up of various combinations of carbon and hydrogen, along with a lot of other natural elements. But there is a huge difference between carbon and hydrogen combined within nature vs. a laboratory combination.
2. Fats in nature are not just chemical bonds of carbon and hydrogen, there are also other nutrients contained within those fats, nutrients like vitamins and minerals. These vitamins and minerals are not going to be in the frankenfood fake butter.
3. Natural flavors? This could mean a lot of different things. The list of chemicals that are allowed to be referred to as natural flavors is long. The biggest reason I tell patients to avoid products labeled with natural flavors is that it is simply a euphemism for monosodium glutamate (MSG). See past posts for why this chemical is so bad for you. I don't know that this fake butter has MSG, but I don't know that it doesn't, because the term natural flavors is too ambiguous.
4. Natural colors? Same as above for natural flavors - not sure what exactly they are using because the category of natural colors is so broad, I cannot know if it is a safe or unsafe version.

The simplest answer as to why I will not ever recommend a frankenfood like this fake butter is that it did not arise naturally from the earth. Whether you think God placed us here, or you are an evolutionist, or somewhere in between, all can agree that we have continued to survive through thousands of years eating food as it exists in nature. As. It. Exists. In. Nature.

Take the naturally occurring food, butter, that this frankenfood is supposed to replace. On the plus side for butter:
1. Occurs in nature, it is the fat from cow milk.
2. It contains the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K as well as vitamin B12, and trace minerals like iodine and selenium. Yes it is in small amounts, but it is naturally present.
3. Contains truly natural flavors and colors! LOL.

The Big Food Industries have tried over and over again to sell us on man-made fake foods as being better for us than food occurring in nature. We are smarter than this. Haven't we learned our lessons from the past yet? Margarine came in around the 1880's made from beef fat, seed oils started in the 1930's, with seed oil margarines replacing beef fat margarine soon after. Today these seed oil margarines are advertised as plant spreads, as though putting the term "plant" in it makes it somehow healthy.

Other frankenfoods to avoid:
Margarines, plant spreads
Artificial sweeteners like Splenda, NutraSweet, the "pink" stuff
Any food that contains preservatives or chemicals that you cannot pronounce

IF WE DO NOT BUY IT, THEY WILL NOT MAKE IT. Ask if your favorite restaurants use real butter or fake butters. Refuse to buy any meal made with fake butters. VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS. JUST SAY NO.

DON'T FALL FOR IT.

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