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Stretching: The Important Element of Exercise You Forgot About
Our muscles can do two things-contract (shorten) and extend (lengthen). Most folks tend to get hyper focused on either the strengthening part or the extendability part, usually depending on what they are good at. You will see people who build muscles well in the gym lifting weights. Alternatively, people with excellent flexibility generally enjoy yoga…
Read MoreHow Knowing My Farmers Changed the Way I Eat Forever
Last summer my household went in on one share of a membership in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). I was chomping at the bit to sign up for one of these after learning about them the summer before. After just one summer as a member, I need to spread the word! So what exactly…
Read MoreCoordination: You’re Not Just Born With It
Many people believe that as we get older we begin to lose our ability to balance. This may have been the case for previous generations, but I would say they just didn’t practice. Our nervous system is worthy of our attention because it is infinitely trainable. The different movement systems interact with each other and…
Read MoreHow I Learned the Importance of Breathing Well
The Life Changing Day As an aspiring young fitness professional in the early 90s, I stumbled across a gentleman named John Douillard from Boulder, CO. He was a presenter at a convention in Copper Mountain and I was fortunate to get some one-on-one time with him. He took me out to the running track and…
Read More6 Health Reasons Not to be a Mouth-breather
It turns out that our nose is on our face for more reasons than sneezing, smelling the roses and blowing! It also gets the job of being our primary breathing apparatus. Here are six reasons to focus on using your nose for most of your breathing. Hydration– When we take in oxygen through the nose,…
Read More3 Reasons Cardio is Essential
Cardio is breathing efficiency and effectiveness. It’s ingesting and expiring oxygen into and out of the lungs. There are two places through which we ingest oxygen, the mouth and the nose. The nose is the most efficient and effective thing to use for breathing. Hydration, thermo-regulation, circulation, nervous system integration and filtration are the primary reasons it…
Read MoreWhat Does it Mean to Be a Mindful Meat-eater
More and more people are becoming more conscious about how their food is affecting their environment and health. The understanding of our conventional agricultural and farming practices are becoming more widely known. This is great! Education and awareness is the first step in making changes because if you don’t know if anything is wrong,why would…
Read MoreInsomnia: What is Sleep Anyways?
As a physician, I get asked frequently about insomnia. I also get to see what happens as a result of sleep deprivation and the multitude of opportunities for suffering that accompany this increasing problem. Many resources are available for attempting to find the cause of why you are having trouble falling asleep and/or staying asleep.…
Read MoreUse this ONE Simple Breathing Technique to Ignite Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
Do you ever feel your brain behaves like a runaway train? Anxiety, depression, and stress are reaching unprecedented levels today and all three of these are the by-product of addiction to compulsive thinking. This mental dis-ease is caused by an overactive mind that is not coherent. Unfortunately, in our society, there has been no one…
Read More5 Things About Europe’s Food Culture That Got Me Thinking
I cracked open my book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, en route to my trip to Spain and Portugal. This non-fiction book is about a family who makes a commitment to being as close to their food as possible by either growing and raising whatever they would eat, and if they couldn’t, then they’d…
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