Healthy Living is all about maintaining and taking care of your health. Your nervous system is so important as it plays a huge roll in keeping you healthy and feeling great! The nervous system is involved in every part of your health. It is the signals to every process in your body to tell it how to function.We truly believe the first step to taking care of your health is through a good functioning nervous system.
When the spine is brought into balance and alignment with chiropractic, the body’s nervous system, movement and posture are maximized.
If your body is in a state of dis-ease or your nervous system is stressed out it is not able to get to a state of good health. Specific and detailed chiropractic care at Balanced Health is not only aimed to reduce pain but to get the nervous system free of interference, inflammation and stress to be able to heal and provide full function to your body.
Everything in wellness world is aimed at working out or nutrition or taking supplements while all these things are great and truly benefit your health too but if your body is not functioning the way that it needs first at the nervous system it will not be able to reap the benefits of these other healthy living practices.
After you start physically feeling better many patients do like to add in daily healthy lifestyle changes so they can truly feel the difference to getting on the path to living a healthy lifestyle!
Neuro-Structural Chiropractic Care and Your Health
“Degenerative changes begin to occur after 4 weeks of reduced mobility. That is why monthly spinal check ups are essential for everyone.”
One way to look at how your nervous system is doing is through your spine with specific chiropractic techniques. Each spinal area has nerves that go out to send signals to every area in your body. To your skin, muscles and organs everything needs a signal for how to function from your brain and that is the main job of the nervous system to carry those signals to their specified place.
It is so much easier to maintain the health of your spine at a young age rather than fix it later after months or even years of having an underlying issue.
Most of the time, people wait to see if a problem will go away on its own, in the meantime degeneration in the spine is happening! We can check your phase on an X-ray and one of many reasons why we take an X-ray of your spine before you are adjusted.
Check out the stages of degeneration below.
- Normal
- Phase 1 – the disc starts to get smaller
- Phase 2 – Bone starts to change shape
- Phase 3 – NO disc left and it is bone on bone = OUCH and there is not a very good prognosis of regeneration/healing to happen
Crispy Bang Bang Salmon Bites Bowls
Ingredients
Bang Bang Sauce:
- 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt or mayonnaise
- 4 Tbsp sweet chili sauce
- 2 tsp sriracha
For the Salmon Bites:
- 1 Tbsp avocado oil for cooking
- 1 lb salmon filet chopped into bite-sized chunks
- 1/2 cup coconut aminos *
- 1 Tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 large cloves garlic minced
- 1 tsp sriracha optional
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil optional
For the Bowls:
- 1 cucumber sliced
- 3 cups cooked brown rice
- 1 large head broccoli chopped into florets
- 1 large ripe avocado sliced
Instructions
- Prepare the cucumber salad by adding all of the ingredients to a small bowl and allowing it to sit for at least 15 minutes (ideally at least one hour if you have the time).
- Cook the rice according to the package instructions. Gauge the amount of rice you make based on how many people you’re serving. For two people I usually make one cup of dry rice, which cooks to about 3 cups of cooked rice.
- While the rice is cooking, prepare the bang bang sauce. To do so, stir together the ingredients in a small bowl until everything is well-combined. Refrigerate the sauce until you’re ready to use it.
- Steam, saute, or roast the broccoli according to your preference. I sauté the broccoli in about 1 teaspoon of avocado oil and ¼ cup of water in a nonstick skillet.
Prepare the Salmon:
- In a small bowl, combine the coconut aminos (or soy sauce + pure maple syrup), rice vinegar, minced garlic, sriracha and sesame oil and stir together until the sauce is well-combined.
- Place the raw salmon filet on a cutting board and use a sharp knife to cut it into bite-sized cubes. If you don’t like salmon skin, you can remove the skin but I absolutely love it so I leave it on. You can also purchase skinless fillets.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of avocado oil (or your favorite high-temperature cooking oil. I don’t recommend olive oil because it burns easily at high temperatures) in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Wait a few minutes for the oil to heat up and become sizzling hot.
- Carefully place the salmon chunks on the hot skillet skin side down (if the skin is still on). Allow the chunks of salmon to cook undisturbed for 2-3 minutes, or until the skin is golden-brown. Use tongs to carefully flip the salmon to another side and continue cooking another minute or two. Pour the sauce for the salmon into the skillet. I should immediately boil – this is normal. If it appears as though the sauce is evaporating too quickly at any point, reduce the heat to medium as you want the boil to be under control. Continue cooking and flipping the salmon every few minutes until it is fully glazed and cooked through, about 4 to 5 minutes. The exact cooking time depends on the temperature of the salmon going into the skillet and your desired level of doneness.
- Salmon is fully cooked once it has reached an internal temperature of 145 degrees F. You can use a meat thermometer to verify the temperature by inserting the thermometer into the largest chunk of fish. You can also tell salmon is fully cooked when the center is fully light pink without any darker pink rawness to it.
Make the Crispy Salmon Bowls:
- Add your desired amount of rice to two large bowls. Add desired amount of cucumber salad, sauteed broccoli, and avocado. Divide the cooked crispy salmon bites between each bowl and drizzle with bang bang sauce. You can also drizzle the bowl with coconut aminos or teriyaki sauce if you like your bowls to be saucy. You can also sprinkle chopped green onions and sesame seeds over the bowls if you like them.
- Enjoy this flavorful, nutritious meal!