How to use your Heart-Rate to gauge Exercise Intensity

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Ok dig out your calculator, a piece of paper and a pencil! Time to do some math to figure out how to use your heart rate to gauge exercise intensity: Step #1- Find your maximum heart rate. 220 – (your age)= Your maximum Heart Rate Example: If you’re 30 years old your maximum heart rate [...]

Indications of Lymph Drainage Therapy (LDT)

Lymph, the water of life

Before you read this blog, I recommend you to read our previous article “The Lymphatic System: A Hidden Key to Health and Longevity”. LDT is widely used to treat lymphedema. Lymphedema is caused by impaired  lymphatic flow.  Protein rich fluid accumulates in the extracellular space (Space between cells and due to trauma ( surgical or [...]

The Lymphatics System: A Hidden Key to Health and Longevity

The Lymphatics System: A Hidden Key to Health and Longevity

WHAT IS THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM? The lymphatic system is a second pathway back to the heart, parallel to the venous system. Lymph is a fluid that originates in the connective tissue spaces of the body. Once it is in the first lymph capillaries, the interstitial fluid is called lymph. This systems transports large proteins, foreign [...]

Soda: More Than Just a Refreshing Drink

Soda: More than just a refreshing drink

Everything that moves in and out of our body does so through fluids, and anything that must move around within our body does so within fluid. Even the air we breathe enters our body after passing across a thin layer of tissue inside our lungs and diffusing directly into our blood. Without the fluid of [...]

Foot pain

foot pain

Guess what? Many people in America have suffered from some sort of foot problem. From athlete’s foot to a torn Achilles’ tendon, it seems like there is no escape.  Foot pain does not discriminate, it will get you whether you are a world class athlete or “professional” TV viewer! I am going to talk about [...]

Headaches

headaches

Have you ever felt like your head was in a vise? Have you experience an intense pressure that feels like your head is going to explode? Many Americans have this kind of experience, and no one should have to live with it. Headaches often come packaged with neck and shoulder pain, but regardless of their spectrum [...]

What are the causes of low back pain?

lower back pain

You know what? Lower back pain is like the annoying IRS. It will get you no matter who you are; man, woman, American, Canadian, athlete, couch potato, actor, banker, I could go on.  Just like people pay money to get the most out of their tax return, why not learn more about lower back pain [...]

Why movement is so important- the big picture.

Movement

Movement is life.  When we stop moving, bad things happen.  The different systems of the body rely on movement to deliver nutrients and to whisk away waste products.  From the cardiovascular with the blood or the lymphatic with it’s own flow, to the nerves with their axoplasmic flow.  There isn’t a system in the body [...]

Whiplash: How it happens and what you can do about it!

whiplash

Have you ever been involved in a car accident or fallen on ice?   You may be a victim of a whiplash injury. A whiplash neck injury is caused by an accident that stretches your neck beyond its normal limit. It often happens in motor vehicle accidents, contact sports, falls, and assaults. The most common symptom of whiplash is [...]

Yoga

yoga

We believe that Yoga is an effective method of body movement that can help to maintain a healthy spine.  By keeping your muscles long and flexible, it places much less strain on your joints.  This will help maintain better posture through the aging process. Now, do we expect you all to be able to turn [...]