“Here’s a small tip for weight loss, one that should be obvious, but is not. If you are not hungry, don’t eat. Your body is telling you that you should not be eating. After indulging in a large meal, such as we do at Thanksgiving, we feel paranoid about skipping the next meal because of an irrational fear that missing even a single meal will wreck our metabolism. So we circumvent the protective effect of incretins by rigidly scheduling three meals a day with snacks, come hell or high water.”
Read More“The more you eat, the more you metabolize. The bottom line is that excess fructose is changed into fat in the liver. High levels of fructose will cause fatty liver. Fatty liver is absolutely crucial to the development of insulin resistance in the liver. “
Read MoreThis should be a wake-up call for us all to triple down in our efforts to treat our bodies in the best ways possible to keep our immune systems 100% prepared and robust.
Read More“It is simply not necessary to eat the minute we wake up. We imagine the need to ‘fuel up’ for the day ahead. However, our body has already done that automatically. Every morning, just before we wake up, a natural circadian rhythm jolts our bodies with a heady mix of growth hormone, cortisol, epinephrine[,] and norepinephrine (adrenalin). This cocktail stimulates the liver to make new glucose, essentially giving us a shot of the good stuff to wake us up. This effect is called the dawn phenomenon, and it has been well described for decades.”
Read More“Losing weight triggers two important responses. First total energy expenditure is immediately and indefinitely reduced in order to conserve the available energy. Second, hormonal hunger signaling is immediately and indefinitely amplified in an effort to acquire more food. Weight loss results in increased hunger and decreased metabolism. This evolutionary survival strategy has a single purpose: to make us regain the lost weight.”
Read MoreDoug Simpson, MPT
Meridian Physical Therapy
Month 1, Week 3 of our 13 weeks of training:
Culminating with our Level Method Strength and Conditioning Assessments on 11/8 through 11/19.
Month 1, Week 2 of our 13 weeks of training:
Culminating with our Level Method Strength and Conditioning Assessments on 11/8 through 11/19.
Congratulations to all at IMA! It was a fun-filled and hard-working 2 weeks resulting in all kinds of achievement!
The previous 12 week training cycle definitely paid off in improvements in our overall fitness and health!
We had 90 Individual Category Level Up’s among 16 of us who took part in the Assessments this go around.
That is an average of 5.625 Individual Category Level Ups per person!
Month 1, Week 1 starts for our next 13 weeks of training, culminating with our Level Method Strength and Conditioning Assessments on 11/8 through 11/19.
Read MoreWatch this great video on some education and instruction on how to solve that shoulder pain by addressing your rotator cuff muscles and even your lats.
Read MoreFrom running 19 minute 5K's to contracting coronavirus, and barely being able to walk from the living room to the kitchen, to working on his breathing, to now back to running!
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Breathing is the most important thing we humans individually do. It is the foundation of life. If we do not breathe, then we cannot use oxygen for our metabolic processes to live. Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, we should be able to modulate how (much) we breathe at a moment's notice. Depending on what kind of tasks we are carrying out, we need to match our use of our breath to them. Breathing technique is the beginning, middle, and end of being able to do that.
Read MoreCongratulations to all at IMA! It was a fun-filled and hard-working 2 weeks resulting in all kinds of achievement!
The previous 12 week training cycle definitely paid off in improvements in our overall fitness and health!
79 Individual Category Level Up’s among 16 of us who took part in the Assessments this go around.
That is an average of 5 Individual Category Level Ups per person!
Freedom to do anything you want, when and for however long you want, where you want, with whoever you want, for any reason you have, without hesitation and limits.
Read MoreWe experience pain and disease if we do not do what our bodies were designed to do.
Read MoreYou have the power to change all that and be free of those band-aids.
You do not have to rely on others to not fix your chronic issues.
You can learn, empower yourself, and put in the effort to help yourself to be an independent and healthy human being.
Free yourself from tight hips and even low back pain.
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