Naturally Treat & Prevent Knee Pain
This post is a video, one I recently posted on the Sock Doc site, but it’s as important to have here because a lot of people have knee pain and either live with it every day, take medication to deal with the pain, or resort to surgery when it’s unnecessary. So – check it out. It’s a bit long, (15 minutes), but the length is necessary to describe how the knee is affected by other areas of the body and how different areas of the knee can refer pain elsewhere. read more…
Get Out in the Sun
It’s still a couple of months away before we can officially say it’s summer, but it sure does feel like it already. Winter pretty much passed us by and spring has already been very hot. Your diet and how you care for your skin can promote health, as well as seriously hinder it. Your diet also plays a huge roll in how the sun affects you, for better or for worse. read more…
Flat feet, also known as “fallen arches” are often viewed as problematic simply because they look abnormal – the main arch of the foot, the medial longitudinal arch, has collapsed. Though flat feet are by no means normal, they are often the result of some other underlying condition or weakness rather than a problem with the actual arch itself that has collapsed. Conventional treatment involving foot support either via supportive footwear, orthotics, or some other bracing system is usually more disadvantageous than beneficial and surgery is rarely the answer.
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Here’s a list of ten questions I often get asked from patients as well as sources I use for certain products. Enjoy!
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The Next Worst Thing: Pepsi Next
Are you a passionate soda drinker? Do you stockpile your cans of Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, or other tasty delight to appease your sweet tooth at its every beckoning? Do you get irate in a restaurant when you demand Coke but they only serve Pepsi, or vise-versa? Or are you just not sure what type of sweetener best fancies your metabolism? With so many choices, it’s hard to make an educated decision. Well Pepsi has come to your rescue – with Pepsi Next. Just one easier choice you have to make in life.
Love Your Chocolate on Valentine’s Day
Ah Valentine’s Day and we get to hear all about how chocolate is so good for us – it’s loaded with healthy antioxidants and is the nectar of the gods. Well, actually those who were once sacrificed to the gods were given chocolate mixed in blood before their hearts were ripped out, but I digress. So how good for you is chocolate? Well, that depends exactly on the type of chocolate you’re eating and how often you consume it too. After all, stuffing your face with chocolate cake isn’t going to provide any health benefits, even if the levels of free radical fighting phytonutrients are comparable to some blueberries. But hey, I like chocolate too so read on and I’ll share the love. read more…
Yeah so time for a little Hollywood tabloid time here at DRG, for our health-learning experience of course.
Alec Baldwin seems to have broken his sugar addiction and dropped 30 pounds of weight in just four months. At just under two pounds a week average, that’s a healthy way to lose weight. Baldwin claims he cut sugar from his diet and began to exercise more regularly. That’s pretty much as deep as my sources go on this one. Pathetic I know, if you’re looking for some good trash gossip on celebrities, but it’s good to see some high profile people lose weight and become healthier and more fit at the same time – no “Hollywood Grapefruit Diet”, or some other gimmick, or drugs.
Sugar can act just like a drug in your body though, which is why it can be so hard for so many to break the addiction and get sugar out of their diet. Too much sugar in your diet over time leads to higher and higher insulin levels which eventually makes your tissues resistant to insulin – they no longer pay attention to it. read more…
I recently wrote a very long post, (over 14 pages), regarding training principles and philosophy for any person who wants to not only become more fit, but also improve their health. It’s divided into five parts and can be found right here at the Sock Doc site.
Just some of the topics covered are:
- What exactly is “cardio” exercise?
- How to build your aerobic system correctly and efficiently
- HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training
- Strength conditioning for endurance athletes- it’s a good thing if done correctly
- Improving your health and fitness without sacrificing one or the other
- Can a training for a half or full marathon kill you?
It’s interesting when I see a patient and go over their blood work. They’re always most concerned about one thing – their cholesterol. Other blood levels could be significantly out of normal range, but typically most are worried if their cholesterol level is high, or not. Medical doctors, the media, and of course the pharmaceutical industry has ingrained in each person (including children) the notion that cholesterol is bad and if you don’t lower it, you’re gonna die. Really? I’m doing everything I can to raise mine.
Every year we hear the same thing regarding turkey at Thanksgiving – it makes everybody sleepy because of the high tryptophan levels. Turkey, tryptophan (an amino acid), and sleepiness are so closely linked you’d think the birds would come with one of those, “Don’t operate heavy machinery” warnings you see on certain medications. Interestingly though is that the feeling of physical and mental fatigue so many get from Thanksgiving dinner has nothing to do with the turkey. Actually, tryptophan levels in turkeys are pretty much the same as in other meats, such as beef and chicken. Eggs have close to four times the amount of tryptophan but you don’t hear anyone talking about an “omelet coma.” (For the record I’m taking credit for coining that false term.) read more…
