Blood sugar. The higher your blood sugar, the more your blood is like syrup. Like the type of syrup Starbucks puts in your vanilla latte.

“Compensatory mechanism: An action taken by the body to continue physiological function despite an alteration in natural function.”

A few posts back I mentioned a bit about the intensity of exercise (over sixty percent of peak) increasing turbulent flow, a precursor for arterial plaque accumulation. Big deal. Huge deal. Especially for those of you out there who think that the more you work your heart, the healthier your heart will be. Nope. This is not correct, and it is really

I go on and on about alignment, but I don’t want you to think it’s about aesthetics, or appearance, or even the macromechanics like muscle function and joint health. Even though it is about those things too. It’s really about the micromechanics. The fact is, if you are not aligned correctly, you are creating damage on the cellular level.

Although it may feel like tightness is your “natural” state, the reasons for tight muscles can go back all the way to your time in utero, which is why many people have always felt tight! When your body goes through oxygen deprivation, the brain begins shutting down different parts of its function. Motor function (communication between nerve and mus

If your lower belly bulged out when you coughed (and it DID, didn’t it!!?) then your constant sucking in your stomach has smashed everything up against the bottom of your diaphragm so now when you cough it isn’t pushing a hundred percent up any longer, but has a downward component. (Which is why a lot of people pee their pants when they cough or la

2. Please explain that osteoarthritis is not the autoimmune disorder arthritis, but a self-induced condition of inflammation in the joints due to minimal joint space caused by tight musculature. No treadmills or ellipticals for anyone with OA. The backward-moving belt on a treadmill requires a hip-flexing gait pattern, increasing tension within the

For more reading: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471015308000962 Eat Behaviors. 2009 Jan;10(l):68–70. Men, muscles, and mood: the relationship between self-concept, dysphoria, and body image disturbances. McFarland MB, Ka-minski PL.

When you are having any (and I mean ANY) type of health problem, create a list of all the things you are asking your body to do and ask yourself—How many of these things are natural to the human being? Your ailments will start to be less of a mystery when you look at yourself as an engineer looks at a machine. The remedy is usually not in what to d