Today I want to talk about an easy way to build muscle. Why? There are many reasons, but the one I focus on the most is blood sugar control. High spikes of blood sugar damage so many aspects of our health. They are very inflammatory, particularly damaging the walls of our blood vessels. Throughout […]
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Muscle Bracing
Last week I spent 12 hours in front of my computer taking a continuing education class on muscle rehabilitation. Zoom is a wonderful thing in small doses, but 12 hours is a bit longer than my posterior appreciates. The essence of the class revolved around a physiologic fact that I have appreciated in the […]
Aging
I have been reading the new book just released by Jason Fung, The Longevity Solution. Jason is the kidney specialist from Toronto I have mentioned to many of you that have blood sugar problems because he has been reversing diabetes through fasting. Now he has written a book with Dr. DiNicolantonio expanding the amazing results on […]
Balance coordination
An issue that has been coming up for a lot of patients lately is how to keep their adjustments in place. They will come in to see me for some complaint, I put things back together, and they are fine for several days to a couple weeks. Then for seemingly little reason their back, or […]
Slow Squats
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 […]
Getting Up
As you may have noticed, if you have been reading this newsletter for any length of time, I have an obsession with maintaining mental and physical functionality as I age. Why am I obsessed? I obsess because it is my story. I work diligently to maintain my mental and physical functionality as I age. I […]
Lifestyle Pain: part 1
I see a lot of people in pain. The first thing they usually want to know is what they did to cause the pain in the first place so they can avoid it in the future. A few of them know what they did, like lifting something too heavy or being in some sort of […]
Referred Pain
As I am sitting here on this toasty day, I am experiencing a stabbing pain in my lower mid-back that radiates around to the ribs on my right side. This pain has been my companion for the last three days. Like most pains it seems much stronger at night as there is nothing to distract […]
Strengthening your back
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 […]
Jekyll and Hyde Sugar
Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it – one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body. When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness. But when you look at the chemical structure of […]