A little over a hundred years ago a hormone was isolated from the brain that was found to cause contractions of the uterus for promoting the birthing process. Because of this function it was given the name oxytocin, from the Greek for “swift childbirth.” About 50 years later a way was found to synthesize this […]
Well, here we are finishing out our seventh month on lockdown. Being stuck at home is having some serious consequences on our health. In some ways it is like being on vacation: we don’t commute to work every day, we don’t go to the gym, we catch up on lots of Netflix or get lost […]
You are laying in bed asleep. It is about 2 in the morning and all of a sudden you are awoken by a sharp stabbing pain in your thigh or foot or maybe even in your forearm and hand. The muscles in the stabbing area are tight as can be and nothing you do seems […]
Obesogens are as nasty as they sound – obesity generators. They sound like a secret elite force of fat causing ninjas. In many ways that is exactly what they are. These are chemicals commonly found in our industrial environment that trigger our bodies to gain weight regardless of what we avoid eating or how much […]
Back in the old days, a head forward posture was the sign of a serious nerd or other types of bookworm or the special province of people over 60. Since the development of computers, and now even worse the cell phone, the head forward posture is a modern epidemic. Whatever posture we assume a lot […]
PUFA’s, what’s that? It sounds like a new line of cuddly toys for preschoolers. What if I told you that they are the number one cause of chronic disease in America today? Now it starts to sound a little more interesting. So what are PUFA’s? This acronym stands for Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids. For practical […]
Well, here we are at the 6-month point with this Covid 19 scare. Nothing has gripped the American attention this strongly on personal levels since the threat of imminent nuclear destruction in the early 1960s. Possibly the brief hullabaloo over Y2K causing the collapse of technology-based civilization may have grabbed some people’s imagination as strongly […]
Sleep, the subject sounds like a totally boring topic. After all, everybody sleeps, no big deal, right? Everybody eats also, but how many books and articles, podcasts, and websites are dedicated to the subject of eating? Sleep is just as profound in its importance to our health. There is a ton of research on the […]
Take a deep breath in and just hold it in a relaxed manner for a while. What makes you want to exhale? Now try the opposite, exhale all the way and just hold that state at rest for a bit. What makes you want to inhale? I don’t find any thinking involved, just a strong […]
Over the last couple of months,s I have been working on a lot of people with odd back problems. The oddity is that these back issues come on without any apparent cause. I see this normally a few times each week, but now most of the back issues I see are of this type. I […]