Posts tagged: Health & Wellness

Can Vitamins Make You Run Faster?

One of the most important ingredients a runner must stay informed about in his training is vitamins. This is even more so with the long-distance runner. A lot of iron is lost in sweat and urine. Vitamins are one thing in your diet a runner can control through proper nutrition.
 
Some of the aspects you can [...]

Monday July 12th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Most Common Causes Of Back Pain

Back pain is one of the most commonly occurring abnormal health complications in the people.  Nearly everybody of us suffers with the back pain more than once in a life. Previously, back pain was mainly associated with old age, but nowadays even the young people or even teens are found to be facing the problem of [...]

Adrenal Stress: 10 Patient Types to Test

One of the questions I get frequently is what types of patients or patient conditions would be a good candidate for testing.  The adrenal salivary testing that we’re using (ARK protocol) would be good for about ten different patient types that we see commonly in most practitioner’s offices.
 
The first and foremost is fatigue.  Fatigue is [...]

Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Definition of Health

The World Health Organization defines health as being “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. [ 1 ]
Given this broad definition of health, epistemological constructs borrowed from the social sciences may demonstrate health benefits not disclosed by randomized controlled trials. Health benefits, such as [...]

Monday January 4th, 2010 in , | 1 Comment »

Choosing The Best Mattress For Your Back

Benefits of a good mattress
Sleeping on the wrong mattress for your body has detrimental consequences for low back pain. A mattress that does not have the correct back support reinforces poor sleeping posture, strains muscles and does not support spine alignment, which eventually can lead to an increase low back pain. If the wrong mattress [...]