Lifestyle & Nutrition Counseling

Sadly, yes. “All children & adults are gluten sensitive. People are sensitive to its inflammatory properties – it is only a question as to what degree? Gluten (an anti-nutrient) & poor digestion relate to all disease. 9 out of 10 people feel remarkably better reducing or eliminating Gluten from their diets. Gluten appears to affect all of the body’s systems via the Nervous System not just the gut. Society’s digestion capacity is malfunctioning!! People are at an all-time low on the health scale and their digestion just cannot keep up with all the insults! What follows in the gut is big time inflammation which results in tissue damage and reduced absorption. Then comes malnutrition of valuable nutrients like B12, setting the stage...

CAM popularity is worldwide and it is growing. Standard care is what medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, and allied health professionals use. Alternative medicine means treatments that you use instead of standard ones. Complementary means nonstandard treatments that you use along with standard ones. CAM is a broad term that covers a range of healing therapies, including chiropractic. Back pain is the most common reason Americans use complementary and alternative medicine. Chiropractic care is one of the alternative medical methods often used. American women in midlife, between 45 and 57 years, are the primary users of CAM. Chiropractic ranks as number one in treatment for back pain. Chiropractic care is one the top 3 CAM treatments Americans choose for...

Reducing pain and having functional fitness goals can change your life.  If you are in pain you may feel a little fear and anxiety about exercise.  It is possible and likely you are unsure of your ability to perform certain tasks or movements.  You realize exercise is something you need in order to get through your day feeling your best but the thought of lifting weights or running and then getting injured is overwhelming. Finding out what you need and starting slow can give you the knowledge and confidence to begin a safe and effective exercise regimen. Every exercise can be regressed to your specific needs and then progressed when the time is right.   Contact Lisa Moellering to get started on a path of better health with exercise. Lisa takes pride in...

“Discover your body’s best weight loss plan. Now for the first time ever, listen to your genes and cut through the clutter of weight loss advice. People are different. What works for other people may not work for you. Thanks to a breakthrough in genetic science, discover which weight loss plan may work best with your personal genetics – diet and exercise more properly matched to your body, so you can improve weight loss and enjoy results.” It’s not a fad diet – it’s science. You can get your test done at Rettay Chiropractic. Contact our office and talk to Lisa today to find out more details. 859-525-7117.

We all get so much busier this time of year that we let our exercise routine fall off our schedules. It is so important to keep exercising during this crazy time of extra eating, tempting desserts, lounging around with family, dining out, and drinking alcoholic beverages. Just make the decision to exercise and stick to it. Put it on your schedule. You’ll can feel so much better, be less stressed and get through the holidays feeling happy and blessed! It doesn’t have to be a major decision or a huge commitment. I made the choice to exercise at least 30 minutes each day by walking, lifting weights, or both. Anything that will get my heart rate and burn calories and stress. It doesn’t have to be 30 minutes at one time. You can do 10 minute bursts 3...

We are all so rushed during the holiday season, trying to squeeze in as much as we can in as little time as possible. Even getting one hour less of sleep per night will compromise your thinking and responding abilities, in addition to cardiovascular health, energy balance and immune function. Staying up late one night because you needed to catch up on work so you can be off on Friday to meet your out of town guests and then sleep in on Saturday morning sounds like a good plan. Trying to make up for lost sleep on the weekend is not a good strategy. Sleeping later on the weekends will affect your sleep-wake cycle and potentially make it harder for you to go to sleep on Sunday evening and to get up on Monday morning. It is good to know that a short nap in the...