I was sitting in my homemade heat lamp sauna a couple days ago when an interesting thought/picture came into my head. It was a visual of what looked like a tachometer gauge on a car dashboard. If you have spent your life in automatic transmission cars, you may not have much experience with a tachometer, […]
A surprisingly large number of the low back cases I see each week are because the patient’s back is simply not strong enough to support them during stressful activities. Very small percentages are due to actual injuries like slips and falls or auto accidents. About 30% are not even a back problem, but a gut […]
Several years ago I was introduced to the idea of brain fog as a consequence of brain inflammation. At the time the concepts were new and floating around in my brain as fairly complex biochemical pathways that produced nasty consequences. Over time I have been able to relate these concepts to real world experiences and […]
This may seem like a challenging question because it is one of those feelings that we use a lot of energy to avoid encountering. Yet it is usually hovering around in the background of our life. It covertly runs a lot of the decisions we make in our life because of the desire to […]
Your body manages its health through two basic mechanisms – facilitation and inhibition. Facilitation means the body makes more of something happen, while inhibition means it makes less of something happen. Facilitation adds information and activity, while inhibition subtracts or decreases information and activity. This reality is most clearly expressed in the brain. These are […]
Vitamin S – what is it? Without it your chances of heart disease, cancer and dementia go through the roof. It is vital for every man, woman, and child. Every system in your body is desperate for it, but it is something your body can not chemically manufacture on its own. Like all vitamins, it […]
There comes a point in the recovery process of each patient with low back pain where we have to address the stabilizer muscles of the low back. Address is a gentle way of saying we have to work those muscles and make them stronger. Most of the time it was weakness or imbalance in these […]
The purpose of life is to discover who we are and then bring who we are into harmony with life. The two halves of this journey involve very different skills. I want to focus on the second half today and offer a very simple understanding that makes harmony much simpler to achieve. The understanding involves […]
SIBO, what’s that – a new app for my phone? If only, no SIBO stands for Small Intestine Bacterial Overload, and it is becoming a serious problem for us. Last week I wrote about bloating. At the end of the article I talked about a bloating pattern that happens 3 to 4 hours after you […]
I hope you were better to your body than I was this last holiday season. I managed to skip over the first leg of the self-abuse cycle that starts at Halloween with the candy bags two weeks before Halloween that seem to have to be restocked the day before the ghosts and goblins arrived. I […]