Life Essentials

 Posted on September 22, 2014 by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, BS, DC, ND

                                         Life Essentials

                                              By Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, BS, DC, ND

The essential requirements for survival have not changed. There are four key factors that determine how long and how well you survive. Theses are unchangeable, and essential to life: air, water, food and motion.  Posted on September 22, 2014 by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, BS, DC, ND

You need oxygen to survive, which you get from breathing the air. Most people do not breathe deeply, but breathe shallowly. Without deep breathing, you can have difficulty getting sufficient oxygen. This is why exercise is important. You breathe deeper during and after exercise. Without sufficient air, you cannot survive more than 3 minutes.

Your body is 70-75%. Without sufficient water you cannot survive more than 3 days. It is estimated that over 80% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Dehydration has been linked to most major common conditions like allergies, headaches, back pain, digestive disorders, fatigue, depression, arthritis, skin issues, degenerative diseases and more. The type of water that you consume influences the efficiency of your hydration. You lose ½ your weight in ounces daily through normal body function. If you do not replace this amount with water that can get into your cells to hydrate and flush out toxins, you become dehydrated.

Water that cam actually get into the cels to hydrate the body is essential. Not all waters are created equal. All the man-made chemicals, toxins, pesticides and cleaners end up in our city and well water. 

The most efficient way to get the best water is to use a water processor to remove these contaminants. A good water system not only filters the water, but it also changes the water so it is more hydrating.

You cannot survive more than 3 weeks without food. Food is an essential component to life, but the type of food consumed matters. Food in its whole and raw form is the most natural food for the body. Processed, manmade food with chemicals and preservatives, composed of artificial ingredients, cannot nourish and rebuild your body. Nutritional supplements made from foods are most utilized by your body, compared to synthetic manmade products. The type of food and nutrients consumed determines the quality of your survival.

The last ingredient essential for survival is motion. Your body was designed to move daily. Current cultural habits require people to sit 80% of the time. Sitting with little motion decreases the mobility of spinal joints, and body fluids. While the heart pumps blood, lymphatic fluid needs body motion. Both spinal joints and lymphatic fluid rely on your movement and exercise for health. Without sufficient motion, joints become stiff and arthritic, and lymphatic fluid flow becomes sluggish, weakening your immune system.

Exercise moves the muscles. If there is stiffness and soreness with movement, it indicates that the joints are fixed in their motion. Chiropractic is the simplest. safest and most effective way to gently mobilize stiff and limited joints, allowing freer motion, and reducing joint pain while exercising. 

If any of these 4 essentials are non-optimal, your body experiences stress. The stress response is an inherent body reaction that releases hormones to deal with stress. This results in a hormonal imbalance that creates physical indicators like fatigue, unwanted weight gain, pain, digestive issues, allergies and more.

The solution to longevity is to decrease the stress on the body by ensuring that the 4 key essential ingredients to survival are at optimal levels. By fixing the cause of your body stress, the stress response reduces, your body can repair, and survival is enhanced. 

Visit www.TLCHolisticWellness.com for more information and free public workshop dates on Life Essentials, or call (734) 664-0339.

Stop Buying Bottled Water 

Posted on September 8,20141 by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer

Attention all Novi, Bloomfield Hills, Farmington, Livonia and other  bottled water drinkers: there is a better way to support our personal health and Michigan's beautiful landscape and lakes. 

Our body is 70% water, so the type of water consumed definitely influences health, as well as our Michigan environment. 

Problems With Commonly Used Waters

Tap water

Tap water is a healthier option than soft drinks. But according to the Environmental Working Group, there have been 315 pollutants found in America's tap water since 2004, and over half of these pollutants are completely unregulated and can legally exist in any amount.

At the current levels of contamination, the public is starting to question the quality of tap water and wonders if it is safe enough to drink. Based on these facts, it's no wonder that the demand for Kangen Water® is constantly increasing.

Reference - EWG

 The best-selling bottled waters in Livonia like Fiji, Dasani, and Aquafina are not as pure as you might believe. Many brands of bottled water available in Detroit actually come from municipal water sources from the Detroit River.

Bottled water

Bottled water is not necessarily healthier than tap water and yet it costs much more! Although associated with healthy water, bottled water is not guaranteed to be any healthier than tap water. Often the only difference is the added minerals which have no proven health benefits.

A four-year study by the Natural Resources Defense Council shows that 1/3 of the bottled water tested contains levels of contamination which exceed allowable limits. Bottled water can also be slightly acidic, which may affect your body's pH balance. Finally, the environmental impact caused by the production and disposal of plastic bottles is harmful to our ecosystem.

Reference - NRDC | Contaminants Found in Bottled Water

Reverse osmosis water

Reverse Osmosis is a filtering process which may be effective in areas that do not receive municipally treated water and is commonly used in bottled water facilities. The problem with this process is that dangerous chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, and chlorine are molecularly smaller than water and can pass freely through the filter. Reverse osmosis removes healthy, naturally occurring water minerals. These minerals not only provide good taste, they also serve a vital function in the body's system. When stripped of these minerals, water can be unhealthy. Also, 2-3 gallons of water are wasted for every gallon of purified water produced.

Enagic USA manufacturers Kangen Healthy Water machines that transform your Bloomfield HIlls, Farmington HIlls, Livonia, Novi and all city tap water into healthy alkaline water.

Michigan bottled water drinkers buy a disposable container that clogs Detroit landfills. The bottles that never make it to Michigan landfills clutter Livonia streets, Bloomfield HIlls sidewalks, and Novi, Farmington Hills and others parking lots.

Cleaning up our beautiful Michigan communities is a great reason to create your own healthy Kangen water® using your Bloomfield HIlls, Farmington HIlls, Livonia, Novi and city tap water, but your family’s health and well-being is equally important. You can process your own water with this device, turning tap water into the best drinking water for our health. 

Call TLC Holistic Wellness today (734) 664 - 0339 to learn why Kangen's alkaline water is the healthiest water for Michigan water drinkers, and how you can try this water FREE for 30 days. Call (734) 664 - 0339 to find out when you can get some of this healthy water. 

Is Your Water Safe?

The chemicals chlorine and fluoride are added to most municipal water supplies. These are both known as endocrine disruptors. This means that they disrupt the way the hormones work in the body, especially the thyroid.  Tap water is also contaminated from pesticides and fertilizers on farms, factories, and metals from storage pipes and tanks. Water treatment plants from Super-storm Sandy are still dealing with the torrential rains washing tens of millions of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage into waterways.

This is one of the reasons that our cities add chlorine. However, when chlorine reacts with rotting organic materials, a deadly chemical called trihalomethanes (THM) result (chloroform is one of them), which are implicated in thousands of cases of bladder, colon and rectal cancer, plus birth defects, miscarriages, and low birth-weight babies.

Recent studies show that the pharmaceutical drugs are dumped in the water supply. They are also excreted into the water through human waste. There is currently no technology that can effectively remove these medicines, so steroids, antibiotics, and worse, end up in the drinking water.

The solution is to filter out the contaminants in the tap water. The question is, what is the best filtration system? After years of research, analysis and study, Dr. Fischer has found the answer. Contact TLC Holistic Wellness in Livonia to learn more or attend a special water presentation. Please call TLC Holistic Wellness at (734) 664-0339 for specific dates and times and to register. Seating is limited to the first 10 people. 

Yours in Health Naturally,

Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, BS, DC, ND

Snow Shoveling Tips Back Pain Help

Snow Shoveling Tips Back Pain Help

As you might expect we see a lot of patients for back pain here at TLC Holistic Wellness. In fact, back pain is one of the most commonly reported injury and type of pain in our chiropractic office. This is because of how easy it is to hurt the back, whether from whiplash after a vehicle accident or due to improper posture form everyday activities.

But this time of year another common cause of back pain occurs more often when patients are shoveling snow, usually incorrectly. This is a hard job, and can take it toll on the body, particularly when you aren’t used to shoveling snow regularly or shovel snow improperly.

Thankfully, we provide treatments to help patients find relief from snow shoveling back pain, including adjustments and manipulations, massage therapy, and acupuncture.

Aside from these services, we also want our patients to understand the ways they can prevent back pain when shoveling snow. This includes the following tips:

• ·         Stretching properly before and after.


• ·         Using the right shovel. Ergonomic shovels are best.


• ·         Lifting with the legs.


• ·         Switching sides frequently while shoveling.


• ·         Pace yourself.


• ·         Stay hydrated.


• ·         Get regular exercise year-round.


• ·         Push the snow, rather than lift whenever possible.

If you are having back pain from snow shoveling, call Dr. Carol Ann Fischer at 734-664-0339.

Live Blood Cell Analysis

Live blood cell analysis is a type of test that is conducted to determine the overall wellness of a patient in a variety of ways. It can tell us if a patient has an allergic reaction to substances, if they have conditions that are weakening their liver or other organs, or if they have certain deficiencies in vitamins and minerals, for example. When a patient is ill and can’t figure out why, the live blood cell analysis offers us a lot of information to help determine the best course of treatment.

Dr. Carol Ann Fischer provides this simple test for patients who are looking for more answers into their health and wellness status. It is performed simply by getting a drop of blood from the fingertip and putting that blood on a microscopic slide. This is then viewed with a dark-field microscope under high magnification, where the blood cells are analyzed. By magnifying the blood by about 30,000 times, we can look at how the patient’s body is getting along in their environment.

Some things we look for in the live blood cell analysis may include:

• ·         damage to the blood cells


• ·         if antioxidants may be needed


• ·         the condition of red blood cells


• ·         prevalence of bacteria or parasites


• ·         proteins or fats that are undigested


• ·         the balance of acid and alkaline in the body


• ·         deficiencies of iron, folic acid, and B12


• ·         oxygenation levels


• ·         and many other factors

Call us here at TLC Holistic Wellness at 734-664-0339 to find out more about the benefits of live blood cell analysis.

Yours in Good Health,

Carol Ann Fischer, D.C., N.D.

Creating New Healthy Traditions - Happy Holiday Eating

During the holidays, it is not unusual for people to begin following unhealthy eating habits. Not only can these habits lead to weight gain, but also affect the person’s bodily system, including their digestive system. Here at TLC Holistic Wellness, Dr. Carol Ann Fischer encourages her patients to create new healthy traditions that involve beginning a habit of healthy eating during the holidays.

Some tips we offer for creating a new healthy tradition are:

1. Eat a small, healthy snack before holiday meals.

2. Be realistic in your goals for happy holiday eating.

3. Help cook some of the holiday dishes and control what ingredients you use.

4. Socialize during holiday events to avoid overindulgence in food.

A common problem we see in our patients is that they often skip meals before holiday meal time in order to eat what they want during their family dinner. But this doesn’t help them with weight loss or maintenance, because the body goes into starvation mode, holding on to the additional calories. It also provides for an imbalance in the digestive system.

We offer many holistic wellness services aside from chiropractic care, including whole food nutrition education, herbal supplements, and diet help for patients looking for assistance with their new healthy traditions. Contact us today at 734-664-0339 to learn more about creating new healthy traditions for the holidays and beyond.

Yours in Good Health,

Carol Ann Fischer, D.C., N.D.

Reducing Holiday Stress

Stress and the holidays seem to go hand-in-hand for many of our patients. As a chiropractic and wellness center, TLC Holistic Wellness wants our patients to find stress relief in any way they can. We not only provide many treatments right here in our clinic for reducing holiday stress, but offer easy stress-relief methods that patients can carry out at home to make the holidays easier.

Chiropractic care is an ideal way to reduce your holiday stress, whether that means getting an adjustment for improved circulation and restored balance or receiving a therapeutic massage for released muscle tension. This alone can do wonders for your holiday stress levels. An added benefit is that it helps reduce the risk of getting an illness, which is common during the holidays. Other tips Dr. Carol Ann Fischer offers for reducing holiday stress is being sure to get regular sleep, exercising, drinking plenty of water, reducing caffeine and sweets consumed, and taking vitamins, herbals and supplements -- which we also offer. Learning to think positively can also be a big reduction in holiday stress.

If you are in the Livonia, MI area and looking to get chiropractic or wellness care for reducing your holiday stress, contact us today.

Yours in Good Health,

Carol Ann Fischer, D.C., N.D.