Weight Training, Do Your Squats!
This is a video about the importance of weight training even for runners. In older people squats, as shown, can be modified to strengthen, not hurt the knees. The strength of the muscles around the knees are very important to keep strong, for safety and stability. One doesn’t need to do heavy weights,…
Read MoreIron Supplements and Fatigue in Women
I’m glad to see an article on the use of iron supplements, something underutilized in medicine in my opinion. In Chinese Medicine, womens’ “blood,” the quality and quantity is of primary importance. The premise of this article is a bit odd, in that it is not a myth that iron CAN cure fatigue if the…
Read MoreAcupuncture and Weight Loss
A patient of mine sent me an acupuncture email from a local practitioner touting the benefits of acupuncture for weight loss. The email was a mass produced type email that acupuncturists send out instead of writing their own. It had some basic information in it and I warned my patient that you have to…
Read MoreCalcium, No Longer Recommended
I’m personally happy about this, since I never could figure out a good way to take the Calcium. The chewables left a sugary taste and the regular pills were hard to digest. So the bottom line of the article is that you get enough from food. Yay! But don’t forget your weight bearing exercise!! This…
Read MoreNo More Physicals?
We’ve discussed the Less Is More trend in traditional medicine over the last year. I have a sort of synopsis in this newsletter, with links though I’ve written numerous posts on the topic. June 2, 2012 Let’s (Not) Get Physicals By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL FOR decades, scientific research has shown that annual physical exams — and…
Read MoreH.I.I.T. High Intensity Training: Benefits in 20 minutes
There is a trend towards higher intensity, shorter workouts. Timothy Ferris has been touting this approach for strength training for a few years. Here is an article explaining the theory and practice of intense one minute segments interspersed with moderate ones for a total of 20 minutes “Recognizing, however, that few of us willingly…
Read MoreSitting too much may kill you
I referenced the study on the hazards of sitting too much in this post. Here is a link to a business which has tweaked their office to facilitate movement throughout the day. I love the idea of the treadmill standing desk while taking phone calls
Read MoreJust stand there
A very interesting blog post from the NYTimes about recent studies on sedentary activity. The upshot was that if you sit at your job, if you can get up every 20 minutes and just walk for 2 minutes, your insulin levels remain steady and other healthy measures. Also, if you stand instead of sitting, even…
Read MoreExercise Fueling the Brain
From the NYTimes an article on how exercise improves brain functioning. This could be part of the anti-aging aspect to exercise. (More info on my practice here.) How Exercise Fuels the BrainBy GRETCHEN REYNOLDSMoving the body demands a lot from the brain…This increase in brain activity naturally increases the brain’s need for nutrients, but until…
Read MoreTale of Two Articles: Migraine and the Gut
Consider the article yesterday in the SF Chronicle “UCSF doctors see colic-migraine link.”And an elaborate study out of China looking at different acupuncture treatment approaches for migraine prophylaxis. Acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis: a randomized controlled trial (full text at link.)What is of interest between the two? The UCSF study finds that mothers with migraines are…
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