Not only does it look bad it also has other health factors associated with it like rounding of the shoulders which can cause a 30% decrease in breathing capacity, headaches, problems with your nervous system, digestive system, hormone system and more.

According to www.NeckSolutions.com, for every inch that your head is held forward from perfect alignment, its weight on the neck increases ten pounds. That puts a lot of stress on your neck and facial muscles, which is transferred back to your head in the form of a headache or migraine as these muscles grow fatigued.  Read more:

What can cause poor posture? Injuries to the back that where never treated  or not treated properly. Sitting at the computer for hours on end (sound familiar) sitting there looking down and texting (for hours on end), lack of exercise, kids carrying to heavy of a back pack and not fitted to the properly, poor mattress or sleeping on your stomach, and the list goes on.

So what can you do about it? make sure your work station is set up properly for YOU, schedule stretch breaks when at the computer, start to exercise and strengthen the muscle in your upper back, neck and shoulders the right way. A really good website with stretches and exercises is www.straightenupamerica.org Go to a Chiropractor who can help restore the normal alignment to the spine while you are strengthening the surrounding musculature. There is even computerized programs out there like the one we use in our office called Posture Pro(tm) that allows use to measure your posture and monitor if it is getting better.

I came to Dr. Yaeger to head off all the symptoms that my older friends were having with menopause. They all said they wished they knew to get healthier before it’s onset. I was starting to experience sleeping difficulties and didn’t like the grogginess that even low doses of over-the-counter sleep aids caused. I just assumed this was my “early signs.” Little did I know, my adrenal system was extremely off balance. After about a three weeks of natural supplements to support my body’s self-healing, I began sleeping like a rock. Even if I wake in the night, I can go right back to sleep now.

Additionally, I always thought that stress was “who I am” and it couldn’t be avoided running my own business and a busy family. Getting my over-active adrenal system under control has been eye-opening. Now, I wonder how long it’s been this way. While I still have a very busy life and growing business, I can weather unexpected challenges a lot better.

If you are “stressed out” or “not sleeping” you need to see Dr. Gary.

Paula

“In 2005 I began to feel very tired for no apparent reason; at least nothing was apparent to me.  I didn’t notice my fatigue until I started training for my first marathon.  After each training session, I would go home exhausted and take a nap.  My naps would last for 3+ hours!  I would wake up feeling fatigued and often take another nap.  Also, I noticed that I was gaining weight!  The gain in weight made no sense; after all I was training for a marathon and since when does Marathon = weight gain?

Finally when I went to see PCP (primary care physician), I mentioned the unusual weight gain (and we aren’t talking about one or two pounds, try 15 to 20) and that I was tired all the time.  His solution: exercise more and get to bed early!  I bought into it and didn’t press the issue any further because he was my doctor.  Unfortunately, I only continued to suffer from fatigue, weight gain, and abnormal menses well into the next year.  I wasn’t until I saw my nurse practitioner at my gynecologist’s office that I felt heard!  She ordered the appropriate blood tests and the results were that I had hypothyroidism!  I was relived because I knew that I could finally get a drug to make me feel better.

When I told Gary, he mentioned that there were other solutions that were safer and healthier.  I started taking my prescribed medication and did notice a difference; however it wasn’t until I started treatments with Gary that I began to feel great! I admit the whole hold your arm up and apply pressure muscle/organ stress test is a little weird but it works!

Gone are the days marathon naps, waking in the middle of the night to polish off a couple of bottles of water, and absent menses!  My naps are no longer than an hour and – the best part – I wake up feeling rested and awake!  My hair is softer, and I’m starting to lose the weight!!!!!!!  There was a period of time while I was first taking the medication that I thought I’d never lose the weight and I’d continue to be tired; however taking the organic supplements Gary has suggested is actually working!

As my body heals the amount of supplements I need reduces.  The supplements enable your body to be self sufficient without drugs.  As children we instinctively knew when we weren’t feeling well and as adults, we tend to let our bodies and health suffer.  Not anymore, thanks to Gary I feel like me again!”

Tabitha

“My doctor recommended that I start medication for high blood pressure, why I asked?  I was already on medication for cholesterol!  In 2002 my blood pressure was 196/108; the cholesterol medicine had caused my levels to go from 235 to 265.  I decided to change my medication.  By doing so, I started having severe muscle aches.  I refused to take my cholesterol medication any longer as I was at 217.  I always felt extremely tired in the early afternoons and needed naps!

I started the Nutrition Response Testing program and my cholesterol level has dropped to 195 and seems to be staying there!  I no longer take high blood pressure medications and my blood pressure has dropped to 105/72 – 118/81.  I no longer feel the need to take an afternoon nap.  I have also lost several unwanted pounds and I have started eating healthier!”

Tony

“I began to see Dr. Yaeger for Nutrition Response Testing after receiving a diagnosis of Hypothyroidism. Even though I was taking medication for my slow thyroid, I was still experiencing constant fatigue, weight gain, inability to concentrate and many other symptoms that I was not even aware were related to my thyroid.

The doctor that diagnosed me with hypothyroidism also broke the news to me that I would have to try a number of different medications to try and get pregnant and that it might not even work so he prepared me for the possibility that I would need to seek help from a fertility specialist and do IVF.

After taking the supplements Dr. Yaeger prescribed for me in only three days, I began to notice drastic changes!  I had slept through the night for the first time in years.  I had energy and better yet I quickly walked up two flights of stairs and was not winded!  I didn’t even realize that any of these nuances that I grew accustomed to were related to my thyroid.

The best news of all… the first month of treatment I GOT PREGNANT!  No change to medications, no IVF, nothing except for the help that Dr. Yaeger blessed me with and now in April of 2008 we will have our first beautiful baby!!!

THANK YOU!!!”

Stacie