I want to help you as much as possible to enjoy your holiday season. Whether that's Christmas or another holiday, I hope that it is as happy and healthy because we are entering it into one of the most challenging times of the year in...
It is that time of year again when the weather in Toronto is all over the place, there is less sunlight, the barometric pressure is like a see-saw, the stress of Christmas, other holidays and year-ends at work are looming and the conditions are just right...
You show me someone who is a “natural” and I will show you someone who has just practiced a lot. This is something that I have come to believe through reading about neuroplasticity, epigenetics, which is the study of how the environment determines how your genes...
From Ep.018 of The Better Ever After Podcast How I am hoping that this blog is going to help you is by adding a small pause to your day where you step outside of your body and take a broader perspective. What I hope it might help...
The Mindset That Will Help You Achieve Your Biggest (Health) Goals And Enjoy The Process Of Doing It If there is something in your life that you are working towards, whether it is weight loss, running a half marathon, graduating from a school program, a competition...
Whether you are a professional, parent, or entrepreneur that feels busy and low on time or someone that just would like to have better energy, sleep, immune function and feel better, today we are going to be talking about specific strategies that you can use...
So let me ask you, and take a second to think about it, what in general is required by the body to be healthy? In general, you probably would say good food, movement or exercise, you might even say something about mindset and maybe even a...
I am a big believer in the tenet that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. I really hope that you have heard this Jim Rohn quote before because I am convinced that it is true. The idea is that...
Something that I have struggled with for as long as I can remember is the tendency to expect the world of myself. I know I am not alone in this. I know there are other people reading this right now that do this as well. Especially...
I always believe in identifying first principles and moving outward from there. Trying to identify the point - the why - behind choices and actions and answer the question - "Why am I actually doing this"? It is just who I am , I am a...
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Sometimes The Biggest Health Changes Come From The Mind Whenever you watch a sport I think that you invariably end up comparing yourself to the professional...
5 Things To Know About Your Shoulder Pain And The Exercises To Fix Them 1 - SHOULDER INJURIES RARELY OCCUR IN ISOLATION The nervous system is the mediator of pain in the body. Anytime that there is a painful tissue, it is the nerves that communicate this...
Whether you are 18 or 65, shoulder pain is equally likely to have affected you. If it has not, let us keep it that way! [caption id="attachment_17781" align="alignleft" width="300"] While shoulder "A" on the left is a lot more perfect looking, it can be just as...
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Your neck has been a little sore lately so you decide to book a massage, which usually fixes it. The massage is a little more...
From now on feel free to put your feet up on your desk instead of sitting upright. It would be better to move from one mediocre posture to the next regularly than to sit in the same "perfect posture" all day. Even if your posture is perfect but...
Odds are that you have experienced one: throbbing headache, worse on one side more than the other? Visual disturbances, nausea, sensitivity to sound? A tight belt squeezing your head in? An estimated 20% of North Americans will experience migraine headaches in their lifetime. Odds are you...
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Let's get the big things out of the way first: Fats do not make you fat. Oh yeah, and Cholesterol is required to be healthy. And do not forget, Fat...
[caption id="attachment_17666" align="alignright" width="351"] The structure of the CN Tower is far better than that of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa. We can't have Drake sliding off of it could, right?[/caption] Have you ever had the experience that when you try to stand up with the...
Your Knee Pain Is Not A Knee Problem [caption id="attachment_17613" align="alignright" width="300"] Unspecific pain over the knee cap or the inside of the knee can have any number of diagnoses - but what is the actual cause and source of the pain?[/caption] If you are active and...
I want you to imagine yourself sitting in the Emergency Room experiencing tremendous chest pain. But consider this, the only problem is that the doctors have run all their tests and have told you that there is nothing wrong with your heart. You can likely imagine...
In 1983, Dr. Ottar Sjaastad, a Norwegian medical doctor nearly changed the game when it came to managing and helping you with your headaches. Why nearly? The scientific knowledge that we have know for decades about headaches has never become part of the mainstream approach. Poor management...
It is almost unfathomable to think that the Earth is ripping around the sun at about 30 kilometers per second. Perhaps less scary, the Earth rotates at a measly 460 meters per second or about 20 times the speed you travel down the 401 if...
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE I almost guarantee that your scalenes are tight. How do I know? Because almost every single patient I see that works at a desk has this...
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE The One Thing Holding You Back From Better Health, Weight Loss & Feeling Your Best...
A SITTING ANTIDOTE TO YOUR DESKLIFE Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE What weighs more, a 16-pound bowling ball or a 12-pound human head? Hint - it is a trick question because That...