As gyms and classes start opening up again after being closed down for almost a year, I am getting more questions about what exercises folks should do to recover from a year of not exercising. I am getting more people coming in with minor injuries from getting more physically active since the last couple of […]
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 […]
I have been writing for years about actions you can engage to improve your health. This has generally been focused on specific topics that I hear as complaints from patients, but most of my patients are generally already health-oriented. Today the question is how to start the health improvement journey from ground zero. I am […]
We are into the second week of the new year. Many folks have already started on their resolutions for the new year. Exercise is a common resolution for many of you. But the question comes up – how much exercise should I do? Do I go to the gym for an hour three times a […]
About a week ago I read a book on vagus nerve function and clinical applications. The vagus nerve has been described as the rest and digest nerve that comes out from the base of your skull and travels down to most all of your internal organs like the heart, lungs, and digestive system. This would normally be […]
A significant issue we all get to face as we age is the loss of the strength of our bones. I have written about the physiology of our bones and the nutrition necessary to support their continued strength. The focus of that information was that our bones are primarily made of protein. As such we need to support […]
One of the favorite engagements this time of year is a renewed commitment to improving health through physical activity. While this is a noble effort, it rarely works. Generally within two months the daily visits to the gym have dwindled down to once a week as the reality of our busy life shows us why […]
In my last newsletter I mentioned the idea I had that osteoporosis is really a collagen disease rather than what the mainstream medical community is telling us. I have been continuing to dig into this subject and I am finding more information. My initial hit that collagen formation was a critical aspect of osteoporosis appears […]
A couple weeks ago I wrote about little movements that can make a world of difference in our health. Three minutes, two or three times a day, of vigorous, but very simple movement triggers a flood of nitric oxide into our blood stream opening up our blood flow throughout our body. It is good blood […]
Ours is a country of extremes, and nowhere do we see this more than in our relationship to exercise. We approach exercise like so many other things – “If some is good than more must be better.” The flip-side to this extreme is the other end which says, “If I can’t have it all, then […]