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TRX – The whole body strength training you can do at home, at work or on the road.
TRX or suspension training is a great way to strengthen muscles and improve posture.
Love Yourself Enough to Live a Healthy Lifestyle
If you don't take care of yourself, who will? There are some things we can't control, but so much of health comes down to the choices we make. And realizing that, ultimately, it's up to you, is the first step. To some people it may seem self-centered, but staying...
Shoulder Pain – Solutions that work without drugs or surgery
Shoulder pain can make you miserable and keep you from doing the fun things you want to do. Worst of all, it can keep you from getting sleep. Believe me, I know. I've had shoulder pain for years - until I found the answers. I tried every kind of therapy and treatment...
Stomach Acid
Between 20 and 30% of Americans have gastric reflux, also known as GERD. This means that food and/or stomach acid flows backward up the esophagus. The typical treatment in conventional medicine is to give drugs that shut down stomach acid. Stomach acid is there for a...
Strength training is the most effective and efficient exercise
“Strength training is the most effective and efficient exercise to improve the biomarkers of health that best represent youthfulness, including muscle mass, bone density, body fat percentage, cholesterol/lipid profiles, metabolism, and aerobic capacity.” You can get...
Use It or Lose It! – Your HSA or FSA account may expire soon!
DON'T LOSE UNUSED FSA/HSA FUNDs The clock is ticking! Many Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) expire at the end of the year. Chiropractic treatments, functional medicine appointments, labs, acupuncture, supplements and more, are HSA...
This Simple Device Saves Lives
A Pulse Oximeter is an uncomplicated device available online or at any pharmacy without a prescription. It measures the amount of oxygen in your blood and your pulse rate. It's easy to use and completely painless and it could save your life or the life of someone you...
The Heartbreak of Psoriasis Drugs in the age of Covid-19
Like many of us, I'm seeing more television commercials than usual. I am struck by how many of these are ads for treating psoriasis. Now, I understand that having psoriasis can be a serious problem for many people. It is an autoimmune...
The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History
The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History This piece in Foreign Policy, March 25, 2020, makes the case that this pandemic was widely predicted but those predictions were ignored. This article goes into detail about how this happened. It...
A Little Town in Italy May Hold the Key to Overcoming Covid-19
How mass testing can stop the Pandemic. Vo Vecchio is the town where the first death from Covid-19 was recorded in Italy. It's a town of 3,300 inhabitants about30 miles west of Venice. After that first death, the city was quarantined and every inhabitant, whether...
Exercise May Protect You Against Covid-19
Low to moderate activity may help protect you from influenza infections. A study of almost 25,000 people from China suggests that exercise was protective against the H1N1 influenza. Heavier, or more frequent, exercise was no more protective. Nevertheless, it is...
Loss of Sense of Smell Is One of the First Signs of Covid-19 Infection – The Peanut Butter Test
Doctors from around the world are reporting that sudden loss of smell may be the first sign of Covid-19 infection in patients who have no other symptoms. This is especially important since early detection can stop the spread from these asymptomatic patients. The test...
Your Knee Pain May Be Coming From Your Back
This study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found an increase in knee pain of 65% over the past 20 years. This correlates with an increase in knee replacement surgery. Interestingly, most of the knee pain did not show changes on x-ray leading me to...
The enemy within: gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
Gut bacteria should stay put, but when the balance of microbes is disturbed, the gut barrier can become leaky. When bacteria and their toxic products enter the blood stream this triggers an immune system reaction in which your defense system turns on you and can...
Autoimmunity is often a key part of chronic disc problems
I see a lot of disc herniations in the spine, causing pain anywhere from the neck on down, from knee and shoulder pain to severe sciatica and more. Most of these will heal with proper treatment– the full protocol I have developed. When these conditions do not heal as...
Human Longevity Project Documentary
Do you want to live longer? I know… silly question right? The obvious answer, of course, is yes! However, if you think about it, what’s the point of living longer if those last several years are filled with illness, disease, pain, or conditions like dementia? Not only...
Gut and Sleep
The bacteria in your gut have a major impact on all aspects of health. The natural ecology of our intestines is constantly assaulted by stress, antibiotics, chemical toxins and unnatural diets.Repairing your gut biome is one of the most important things you can do to...
Bipolar Disorder and Anti-Thyroid antibodies
Dysfunction of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis has been shown to play a role in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. Autoimmune thyroiditis is the most common cause of thyroid function alteration. Thus, auto-immune thyroiditis is likely associated with...
The Danger in Green Smoothies?
The potential danger in green smoothies is that for some people they can lead to high levels of oxalic acid which can cause kidney stones and many other health problems. This can be a genetic issue. It can be caused by low levels of certain nutrients such as vitamin...
Should you see a chiropractor for back pain?
Duke says YES! Maybe, or maybe drugs or physical therapy. Neither of these alternatives is actually supported by research compared to chiropractic (Manga and others)! Still, one small step forward. This article is pretty generic but was written by a chiropractor, who...
Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs to Possible Alzheimer’s Disease and Kidney Problems
"Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs to Possible Alzheimers: Doctors and patients are grappling with the unsettling finding that chronic use of popular heartburn medicines may be riskier than was thought. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 2/17/2018Perhaps the biggest surprise came last...
Astaxanthin and Computer Eye Stress
Astaxanthin - ASTA ZAN THIN. Never heard of it? It's the red stuff in seafood - think salmon. As an antioxidant, it's 6000 times more powerful than vitamin C. Studies have shown it to be effective in relieving the symptoms of eye stress from too much computer use....
Taking NSAID Pain Meds Blocks Vitamin B6
Cyclozygenase (Cox) inhibitors include all the anti-inflammatory drugs including aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil), naproxen (Aleve), and celecoxib (Celebrex). Vitamin B6 is absolutely critical for hundreds of necessary chemical processes including detoxification, making and...
Sneeze into Your Elbow, Not Your Hand. Please.
Colds and flu are spread by sneezing and this is excellent advice. Sometimes we forget that the other side of the story is host resistance– meaning not everyone exposed to infections gets the disease. It is pretty clear from studies that things like having enough...
Sugars, the Crystalline Lens, and the Development of Cataracts
Both my parents developed cataracts late in life–but then by most measures "later in life" now includes me! At my last eye exam, I asked whether cataracts were caused by high blood sugar. The opthamologist didn't know. So, I did some research (Pintor J (2012) Sugars,...
Vitamin K2 and Arterial Stiffness
Manaquinone-7 is Vitamin K2 (MK-7). Vitamin K1 is important for good blood clotting, but K2 has a wide range of other important functions, You’re going to hear a lot more about this remarkable vitamin. It is one of those nutrients, like omega-3 fatty acids and...
Greens and Cognitive Decline
Folates are the starting point of the methylation cycle. Methylation is needed for hundreds of key processes in the body involved with brain, heart, immune function, protecting DNA, detoxification and on and on. A large number of people have mutations, we call SNPs...
Methylation and Muscle: Creatine is the Key
Your body makes creatine. It's important for building muscle. Creatine is found in meat and is also available as a supplement. It's been declared a legal bodybuilding supplement for athletes. But under the right circumstances your body should be able to make what you...
Methylation, MTHFR SNPs and you
Join me at my genomics workshop, February 20th, 6:30 pm. Space is limited, so please email to reserve your spot gmanlove@gmail.com
The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s
Alzheimers (and other dementias) have been called Type III diabetes. Even moderate blood sugar elevations can damage the brain. Sugar is addictive. Kick the habit! Check out this article recently published in The Atlantic The Startling Link Between Sugar and...
BRCA Gene Mutation for Breast Cancer is Completely Neutralized by Selenium – Eat a Brazil Nut!
Did you hear this on the Morning News? The BRCA gene mutation has caused many women to undergo radical mastectomy surgery. This study shows that the effects of this mutation can be completely reversed by daily oral selenium supplementation. The BRCA gene normally...
Vitamin D and Flu Season
Vitamin D takes part in over 600 chemical processes in your body. One of its key roles is in balancing the immune system: it enhances the part of the immune system that helps you fight off infections and lowers the parts that are involved in autoimmunity and allergic...
Vitamin D and Breast Cancer Prognosis
Ginger Turmeric Honey Spread
The Ginger Turmeric Honey Spread is a delicious treat that doubles as a natural medicine.Turmeric is an amazing medicinal herb and the basis of much traditional Indian cooking. By itself it is antibacterial and an major antioxidant. Ginger and turmeric together are...
It’s Pollen Time – Itchy eyes, sinus headache and fatigue
The Bradford Pears are blooming here and the pollen is in the air. I have been seeing lots of itchy eyes and noses. Here are some ideas of what you can do if you are feeling the itch… Physically remove the pollen from your face, eyes, nose and sinuses. and your...
New Study Gives Hope For Reversing Diabetes Through Diet
Animals with Type I Diabetes can regrow missing islet cells after limiting carbohydrate intake for relatively short periods. This may hold hope for diabetic humans. The ketogenic diet – the low carbohydrate and high fat diet that I follow – has much the same effect...
Major Medical Journal Recommends Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic diet has become something of a fad because so many people are discovering that it is effective for weight loss and most people feel more energy and well being while on the diet. The diet is very low in carbohydrates – sugars and grains of all kinds – and...
