Why Great Lab Results Don’t Always = Feeling Great If your lab test results are great but you’re still experiencing low energy, anxiety, insomnia, and/or weight gain the answers might be hiding in your long-term health history. Lab tests are helpful because they can help you avoid disease and give you insight as to why you aren’t feeling great. […]
Why Gut Health is So Important
Why Gut Health is So Important We have so many references to our gut when we’re talking about thinking and emotions: “My gut tells me”, “I feel sick just thinking about it”, “that’s just nauseating”, and “gut-wrenching pain”. And science is showing that there are good reasons for these phrases. My gut tells me I […]
Worry – How to Stop the Habit
Worry – How to Stop the Habit Habitual worry does not serve us. It causes a poor quality of life and leads to chronic mental and physical imbalance and eventually disease. Worry blinds us from real opportunities and prevents the ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. It stunts our life experience in terms of career development, new exciting […]
What’s the Deal with Intermittent Fasting
What’s the Deal with Intermittent Fasting? Have you tried fasting? Most of us have done it by accident. Have you ever gone 12-16 hours without eating? Of course, you have! If you finish dinner at 6:30 and have a late breakfast or even skip breakfast, you’ve done it. Maybe you had breakfast or brunch at […]
Insomnia – Here’s How You can Sleep Better
Insomnia – Here’s How You Can Sleep Better “Don’t lose sleep over it”. How many times have you heard that phrase? Yeah, we’ve all had incidents in life that cause enough emotional upheaval that we can’t fall asleep or we toss and turn in the middle of the night. That’s incidental sleeplessness and it may […]
Finding Motivation to Improve Your Health
Finding Motivation to Improve Your Health If you receive my email letters, you know I harp on the power of productive habits. Well, this is about how to finally remove excuses and create solid habits. Because after all you can have all the good intentioned desires in the world but if you just can’t seem […]
Tennis Elbow Anyone?
According to the Mayo Clinic the definition of Tennis Elbow is, “a painful condition that occurs when tendons in your elbow are overworked, usually by repetitive motions of the wrist and arm.” The medical term for Tennis Elbow is Lateral Epicondylitis. Pain usually occurs at the origin of the forearm tendons right where they attach […]
I Wish I Didn’t Do That Last Back Squat
I am no expert in weight lifting but I often see and treat the painful results of lifting heavy weights with compromised form. These injuries range from minor muscle strains to herniated inter-vertebral discs. You don’t want to experience these, especially the disc injuries. They cause permanent damage to disc cartilage and/or nerves and often create intense […]
Athletes Get Sick Too
Training Your Body to Kill Cold and Flu Microbes We have arrived in the season when our exposure to powerful microbes that cause cold and flu increases and our ability to fight off infection decreases. Consider the holiday party. We tend to eat more unhealthy foods and imbibe tasty drinks that reduce immunity. We do […]
It Doesn’t Hurt Because You’re Old, Tenderfoot!
Mysterious Tender Feet Could be Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. I’ve heard a few patient’s blame tender feet on getting old. Well aging is almost always a factor related to chronic pain. However if you feel like there’s not enough padding on the bottom of your feet with numbness and tingling you might have Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. That’s […]