In simple terms, there are nerves that go to muscles, organs and skin, and nerves that go from your muscles, organs and skin back aot your brain. The nerves that go to your organs are also divided into your parasympathetic and your sympathetic...
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Zone Therapy Part 7: The Circulatory System
Your Circulatory System: Supporting Heart Health, Blood Flow and Everyday Energy Your circulatory system includes the heart, blood and a vast network of blood vessels. Together they deliver oxygen and nutrients, carry hormones and immune cells,...
Zone Therapy Part 6: The Muscular System
Why Strength, Movement and Muscle Matter More as You Get Older Your muscles do far more than move your arms and legs. They help you stand upright, balance, breathe, produce heat and carry out everyday tasks. Muscle tissue also helps the body manage...
Zone Therapy Part 5: The Digestive System
The Gut–Brain–Stress Connection: Why Digestion Changes When Life Gets Difficult Digestion is not an isolated process. What we eat matters, but so do appetite, sleep, movement, medication, illness, stress and the speed at which we eat. The gut and...
Zone Therapy Part 4: The Nervous System
Why Your Body Can Stay on High Alert After Stress Has Passed The nervous system helps you sense the world, move, think, feel and respond to challenge. When demand is brief, the body can usually activate and then recover. When pain, poor sleep,...
Zone Therapy Part 3: The Elimination System
The Elimination Zone: How Your Body Processes and Removes Waste Your body already has sophisticated systems for processing substances, maintaining fluid and chemical balance, and removing waste. The liver, kidneys, bowel and lungs do most of this...
Zone Therapy Part 2: The Glandular System
The Glandular Zone: Hormones, Stress and Everyday Health Hormones are chemical messengers that help coordinate many of the body’s essential processes, including growth, metabolism, reproduction, sleep, blood-sugar regulation and the response to...
Zone Therapy Part 1
Understanding Zone Therapy: A Six-System Approach to Health and Recovery Health rarely depends on one joint, one muscle or one isolated symptom. Pain, energy, sleep, digestion, stress, movement and daily habits can all influence how well we feel...
Poor Nutrition and Back Pain
https://youtu.be/XHgymX_i0sQ Over the past 30 years I have found many cases of back pain only improve once diet and nutritional causes are worked on. Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Fiona, a local Hertfordshire GP, who found her own chronic...
A Stoic Stay In Hospital
This is the first time I’ve posted for a while, as I’ve been in hospital for 7 weeks. For those of you who wish to know – it was an infected spinal disc. A rare form of excruciating back pain that needs huge amounts of antibiotics to treat. I had...
High Blood Pressure?
https://youtu.be/fAoMhTFuEDg?si=0375JQh9BMpRl9xY I discuss: The link between high blood pressure and the risk of dying from COVID-19…and how Dr. Pickard is using this knowledge to help his patients What high blood pressure is actually trying to...
Health Benefits of Chocolate
How to Live Longer: Eat Chocolate Yes, I thought I should start with the best overall benefit of eating chocolate – you will live longer! A study of 7,800 men by researchers Dr. I-Min Lee, and Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., of the Harvard School of...
True Wellness with Dr James Chestnut
Dr James Chestnut was an early influence on me in practice. He has recently been on a series of podcasts with my colleague Ari Whitten on the Energy Blueprint. If you are a patient of ours and you’ve read the ‘Chiropractic Wellness’ pamphlet, or if...
Happy Healthy PeriMenopause Hormones
In the Menopause Masterclass I cover: • Overview of female hormone cycle, menopause and peri-menopause• Symptoms of hormone imbalance• What causes the imbalances- Is it literally a ‘Man Made’ problem???• Why brains are at risk• What to do about it•...
Healthy Hydration
https://youtu.be/D4fq3Zbb-mU Healthy hydration is more than water. In the masterclass I cover: Water Beyond water! Are you drinking too much? What is deuterium? Is this why drinking tap water is so unhealthy? How much water should you really be...
Holliday Survival Guide
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Blood Test Analysis
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Jiddu Krishnamurti Normal blood tests that GP’s run are about the most important, and scientifically valid tests that can be done. Unfortunately the ranges doctors look...
Blood Pressure Basics
What do the numbers mean? And what can you do about them? https://youtu.be/a6EU48J_aJY For more information about treating high blood pressure naturally: https://beatbloodpressure.com/understanding-blood-pressure-readings And what is the pulse...
Gifts Galore: Energy, Anxiety and Gratitude
In today’s post: What is the greatest predictor of anxiety? What to spend time doing instead that will increase your happiness by 25% AND increase how much you exercise? … and are you working on your Energy? ENERGY Starting with energy, have you...
5 Good Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvNYE4C3bek You can join the Facebook Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehealthlab7/ Check out the '5 Things Clear' litter clean up campaign page (while it's still up)https://www.facebook.com/5ThingsClear...
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