March 2018

March represents a special season of change at The Rouge. With spring just around the corner it brings softer colors in cosmetics. There is a sense of transformation and awareness; a time of renewal and an opportunity to reinvent yourself with a new palette of cosmetic colors. When thinking about Spring this season, try new colors that will bring new freshness and softness to your beauty wardrobe.

Welcome to the season of self-expression. Customize like never before with multiple new ways to showcase your creativity by mixing and matching soft shades. Spark your imagination with a relaxed mauve tone followed by a fresh navy liner or use a balmy soft pink with an impressive army green liner. Play with colors using soft iridescent peach eye shadow colors with a hint of a spicy olive-green accent, followed by a scrumptious peachy pink lip color. Blend in by using a soft pink highlighter sheen on the cheeks accenting with a shimmery peach fusion blusher. It’s make-up made your way and we can help you take advantage of your best assets and enhance your best features with new colors by Fleur Visage Cosmetics. Fleur Visage offers an exceptional, modern, edgy vibe that works for teens and beyond to give everyone that youthful current freshness we as women deserve.

Meet Your Favorite Mate. Our poreless, perfected and impeccably superior custom foundation by Fleur Visage with flex guard goes on effortlessly, leaving the skin looking beautiful and smooth with instant coverage, giving the complexion a second skin look, while blending to perfection. It’s like you don’t look like you have anything on at all, only your skin looks more youthful and flawless. Blend in and love your complexion by using our state of the art custom blended foundations, blended to give you exactly what you need and want.

The Rouge Cosmetics is offering Complimentary spring Trend Make-overs through April 15th. You will discover the new trends for spring, while amping-up your fashion wattage. Please call for an appointment or drop by to sample their Custom Blended Foundations to discover a more flawless, beautiful, and smoother complexion.

Does your baby or child have trouble sleeping? Are you running on empty because you are only getting a few hours of sleep at night? A rested child is a happy child and a rested parent is a patient parent. Trust me, I know! My son had the hardest time sleeping until we started implementing these six quick, simple changes around the house. It will be life changing for not only your child, but for YOU as well!!

1. Stop their screen time at least 2 hours before bedtime. Blue light emitted from electronic screens can delay the release of melatonin (which helps to induce sleep) and can throw off your child’s internal clock to a later schedule. Create a new bedtime routine that doesn’t include TV, tablets, or cell phones. Instead try a warm bubble bath and family story time.

2. Hang blackout curtains for their room. Light entering a child’s room can also decrease melatonin production. The darker the child’s room, the deeper they will sleep.

3. Turn off your computers, routers, and Wi-Fi at night. The radiofrequencies from these devices will also impair melatonin production and could possibly cause other sleep related issues. My 13-month-old son finally started sleeping through the night as soon as we started turning our Wi-Fi off at night. Go to my website www.emf-detox.com to see my video on this topic and learn the EASIEST way to do this!

4. Make sure your child’s bed is as far away from gas and electric meters, power lines and breaker boxes. Kids absorb and are affected by electromagnetic radiation at a much greater rate than adults. Check the surroundings of their bedroom to be sure that there isn’t a smart meter or any other electronic wiring that could be impacting your child’s brain and therefore their sleep.

5. Move all of the electronics in your child’s room to at least 3 to 4 feet from their bed. This includes baby monitors, sound machines, humidifiers, plug in alarm clocks, lamps, night lights, or any other electronic devices. The electromagnetic frequencies from these items become much less concentrated at a distance of around 3 to 4 feet. Therefore, helping your child to sleep with less electrical disruption.

6. Get your child checked by a gentle chiropractor. If there is tension in your baby or child’s spine or neck, they will often toss, turn, and be restless throughout the night. Just as us adults can when we are uncomfortable. A well-adjusted spine will promote relaxation and therefore better sleep.

Sleep deprived kids have trouble with memory, attention, and ability to learn new things. Give your child the best leg up possible and give these six quick tips a shot! Trust me, you’ll start sleeping like a baby too.

If you are curious to see if I can help your family to sleep better, I offer complimentary 15-minute consultations. Give my office a call and schedule a time to chat.

To work together, go to: www.alignhealingcenter.com

For more information about how to minimize the harmful effects of electromagnetic frequencies, go to: www.emf-detox.com

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Dr. Kristin Moore, DC is a prenatal and pediatric chiropractor at Align Healing Center in Danville, CA. She offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation to the readers of ALIVE magazine. Call Dr. Kristin at (925) 362-8283 to schedule your appointment.

Exploring Class IV Laser pain relief for injuries and post-surgical healing

In 2004, Align Healing Center began using laser therapy to help patients relieve their muscle, joint and nerve pain. Due to the near miraculous results that laser can provide to a sprain, strain or chronic pain, our patients began to ask: “What else can laser help heal?” Wondering the same thing, we began to branch out and use laser on any and all injuries and wounds that our patients were presented with.

We have literally watched the healing process occur right before our very eyes. We have treated scars that are 18 years old that are bright red and have never healed properly begin to flatten and become less noticeable after the first treatment. Swelling reduces within minutes, severe bruises dissipate with no visible sign within a day or two and surgical wounds become painless, with minimal scarring and redness. We have had patients that have had knee surgery and hip replacements, shoulder surgery, spinal surgery, breast augmentation and reconstruction, rhinoplasty, face-lifts and c-sections that heal in a fraction of the time typical without the use of laser therapy. If you are intending on having surgery or have a stubborn injury that has taken longer to heal than you would have expected it is worth your while to explore the benefits of Class IV K-Laser therapy.

How Laser Therapy Speeds Tissue Healing and Reduces Scaring

Injuries and surgery cause tissue damage and inflammation, which reduces the circulation to the injured tissue thereby impeding the nutrition and energy available to the damaged area. Laser therapy is the application of low levels of laser light to areas of the body that have been injured or damaged. Therapeutic lasers do not cut or burn, but instead, supply energy to the body in the form of photons of light. Light is transmitted through the skin’s layers (the dermis, epidermis and the subcutaneous tissue under the skin). The wavelength of the Class IV Laser allows these photons to travel deep into the body up to 8-9 inches. When laser light penetrates the body, it stimulates damaged cells to start producing ATP. ATP is the “fuel” or energy source that all cells need to function and repair. When damaged cells have the energy they need to function properly they can immediately start the repair process. Laser therapy accelerates the healing of injured tissue, decreases inflammation, minimizes scarring and eliminates pain, allowing patients to quickly return to normal activities.

How long does it take to work?

Roughly 95% of our patients notice improvement after the very first treatment. However, some conditions may take a few treatments to respond. Each laser treatment is cumulative, meaning that each successive treatment builds on the previous. The doctors at Align personally work with patients at each visit to ensure that they are progressing as quickly as possible.

For more information about how laser therapy may be helpful to you contact Align Healing Center to schedule a free consultation with Dr. Niele Maimone, at (925)362-8283. Visit us on the web at www.AlignHealingCenter.com.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain. ~ Louis Pasteur

In his final years, Louis Pasteur made the above statement emphasizing the importance of focusing on our inner terrain to improve our health rather than focusing on the germs around us. How ironic that Pasteur was the founder of the germ theory of disease, which our modern medicine clings to. Too bad we didn’t listen to his final words.

The reason I began with this this famous quote of Pasteur’s is that we all have the ability to make our “terrain,” once again into what out Creator gave us. If you have been reading my articles, I have mentioned that it is not the “Flu” season, but the season of obnoxious eating, which extends from Halloween through Easter. These traditions can lead to obesity that can create or exacerbate OSA, as well as increase inflammation. Since inflammation leads to a lower immune system, then, yes, untreated OSA can give you the flu.

Several years ago, in one my first articles in ALIVE Magazine, I stated that one of the primary causes of many of our diseases is inflammation. If inflammation is added into the equation of the body’s “terrain,” it becomes a flashing sign, inviting any number of diseases and germs that are always waiting in the wings to do as much damage as possible.

There are many factors that create inflammation including inflammatory foods (like sugar, starch, and lectin), destructive habits and lifestyles, stress, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). A medical test that should be routinely given called a CRP (C-Reactive Protein) can let the doctor know whether a patient has been creating a terrain that either invites disease or fights disease. The CRP level is usually quite elevated when OSA is not treated and even more so when the patient is overweight. To add insult to injury, OSA can stimulate the release of several cytokines, immune system poisons, which when out of control can cause several serious diseases including toxic shock.

There is great news. OSA, when treated by highly qualified doctors, can be corrected. Last week, a well-respected pulmonologist came to my office excited to report the successful sleep study results of her patients that I had fitted with oral appliances. In my office, Advanced Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Center, we design and adjust our oral appliances in order to get optimal results. Each patient’s airway is unique. Some patients benefit from having their jaw positioned forward, while others need to be slightly open as well. We don’t guess at it; we use an in-office device to find the optimal position. Also, because we specialize in TMJ, our patients can have the added security knowing that they will receive a properly fitted appliance.

For more information, please visit our website: www.aodtc.com.

The Eternal Appeal of Beer

March has arrived and with it come thoughts of St. Patrick’s Day and naturally, of beer. Beer is the customary accompaniment to classic Irish dishes like corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. Its zippy flavor refreshes the palate and adds spring to one’s step.

Years ago, the selection of beers available in the USA was rather small and uninspired. Today, with the burgeoning craft beer movement, there seem to be as many varieties of beer as there are stars in the sky. How can you choose just one when the possibilities include hefeweizen, milk stout, sparkling pilsner, porter, and fruit lambic? It’s all a matter of taste.

Beer has been a favorite drink of the populace for thousands of years. One of the world’s oldest drinks, a form of beer was produced in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago. Beer was enjoyed as a common beverage and also included in religious ceremonies. Nowadays, almost all countries manufacture some version of beer including traditional wine-producing countries such as France and Italy. From north to south, east to west, beer is found from North America to the Pacific Rim, Europe to South Africa.

Beer is made from grain (usually barley, but also wheat, corn, and rye)), yeast, hops, and water. From this humble beginning come beers replete with a complex symphony of colors, aromas, and flavors. The glorious tradition of beer making in Europe is a source of great pride.

Germany is known for its incredible beer gardens featuring massive steins of wonderful German beer. Great Britain is celebrated for its flavorful and robust stouts and porters. Belgium is the master of fruit beer lambic, offering splendid flavors of fresh fruit and locally sourced spices, flowers, and herbs. The Czech Republic perfected the art of mashing, creating world-famous pilsner-style beer, golden and clear, which eventually became the world’s dominant style of beer.

The USA is the brave new world of beer, taking the science perfected in Europe and pushing the boundaries—producing new and different beers, darker, more bitter, and hoppier than ever before. Beers today are an innovative avenue of creative expression. Beer-makers often experiment with unusual ingredients like honey, coffee, chicory, saffron and licorice. Pairing beer with food is all the rage and many restaurants proudly display their beer lists alongside their wine lists and recommend beer pairings with their culinary creations.

And where does the Emerald Isle fit into all of this? With Guinness, of course. Often referred to as “the black stuff,” Guinness is the world’s most recognizable beer. Actually a dry stout, Guinness is a hearty brew made from barley, hops, and yeast. The addition of dark roasted barley and flaked barley contribute to the deep color, smooth bitter quality, deep fruity flavors, and an aroma akin to slightly burned coffee, while tiny, surging bubbles of nitrogen create the noteworthy white, creamy head on a glass of Guinness.

Guinness was first brewed almost 250 years ago in Dublin by Arthur Guinness. By the advent of the 20th century, Guinness was world famous and producing over a million barrels a year. Guinness is now brewed in more than 40 countries around the world. Commonly sold on tap in the UK and Ireland, Guinness is sold in brown bottles in other parts of the world in a variety of different strengths, from 4.1% to 8% ABV.

Whichever beer of the world might be your favorite (even the obligatory “green beer” seen at so many bars this time of year), be sure to fill your glass high in honor of the good St. Patrick. May the luck of the Irish be with you, and as the Irish say, “Slainte!” or Cheers!

Life returns as baseball season has begun once again. It is hard to believe that the Giants are celebrating the 60th anniversary of their first year in San Francisco. Almost as hard to believe the A’s are celebrating 50 years in Oakland. Let’s look back at those first years in our Bay Area.

1. The Giants played their first game at home. Candlestick Park had not be built yet. Where was the game played that day (and all home games that year?)

2. Reuben Gomez threw the opening game, but who was the leading pitcher for the Giants that year with 16 wins?

3. That was a period prior to homerun onslaughts. The Giants s leader hit 29 dingers (had to use that expression). Who was he?

4. The A’s opened on the road in 1968. They played their first home game on April 17,1968. Who was their starting pitcher that day?

5. Now, it gets tough. Who was their first baseman that day (or should I say night?)

6. If that one was tough, who was their second baseman that night?