What is an anti-inflammatory diet? An anti-inflammatory diet promotes fresh fruits, leafy green vegetables, meat, and seafood with little or no intake of processed foods. Often referred to as the Mediterranean diet, the purpose of this style of eating is to eat highly nutritious foods. Healthy carbohydrates, proteins, and fats high in vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants support the growth and repair of your body. Not only that, but these foods tend to also be lower in …
Sarcopenia, Why the disease affects all of us
Sarcopenia (in Greek, sarx for flesh and penia for loss) is considered, “poverty of the flesh” (Rosenberg, 1997). The term is sometimes used interchangably with frailty and cachexia in the geriatric population ito describe the loss of skeletal muscle and progressive weakness that occurs with aging. Sarcopenia can also be used to describe the phenomenon in of the loss of lean body mass in younger individuals who have this constellation of features. The description of sarcopenia is also used to …
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Dehydration is ruining your health and you don’t even know it
Water is critical to your well-being Research into the basic concepts of dehydration still leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Your body is a giant bag of water The billions of biochemical reactions your body needs to function normally are vitally dependent on the efficient flow of water. Water comprises up to 75% of the total body weight in infants and falls to 55% in the elderly (Hooper 2014). Water makes up 85% of the total weight of the brain (Kleiner 1999). More than half of the water …
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The Future is Now with Regenerative Medicine
What is regenerative medicine? Your body is constantly focused on the repair, replacement and maintenance of tissues in your body. Tissues such as nerves, bone, tendon, muscle, ligament and connective tissue need constant maintenance to function properly. Long-standing disease, injury or poor lifestyle and dietary choices can overwhelm your body’s natural repair mechanisms creating a cascade of breakdown. At first micro-injuries can occur which go unnoticed. Overtime repeat injury at the same …
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2016 Year End Statistics
I had time to review our year-end statistics for part of 2015 and 2016 and was pleasantly surprised by the results. …
Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy Propels Dot Back To The Pool
Dot is a New Yorker whose passion is swimming. She has a long history of shoulder pain that never got in the way over decades of swimming. In early September of 2013 she had a severe attack of right shoulder pain that went on for several months. Her diagnosis was shoulder impingement syndrome which lead to progressive fraying and tearing of the supraspinatus tendon. She attributed the pain to more frequent swimming sessions. Her pain was so bad that it impacted her ability to carry items …
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