Sciatica and Conservative Treatment
Sciatica is pain that stems from pressure on the nerves through the sciatic nerve. If you’re experiencing radiating pain in the lower body – specifically the back, butt, and into the leg – you’re in the right place.Sciatica doesn’t need to be surgically intervened with all the time; often, sciatica can be dealt with on your own terms. It’s an uncomfortable condition and it can seriously affect your quality of life, but you can take...
What Is The Big Deal About Deep Breathing Anyway?
If you don’t breathe, you don’t live.It doesn’t get much clearer than that. The number one thing ALL human beings must do every minute of every day is breathe. But has breathing become ‘too’ second nature to us?Do we take our breath for granted? I think it’s safe to say absolutely yes, most of us do. I know I do. Since we don’t have to consciously think about our breath, it doesn’t get our full attention.It’s like blinking. If we...
Why Digestive Enzymes are Important for Optimal Health
Digestive enzymes are the specialized proteins your body makes, that help to break down the food you eat into smaller, digestible nutrients that are more easily absorbed by our cells. When we eat, what ever we eat has to be broken down into it’s smaller nutritional components, because our body does not absorb food. Our body absorbs the nutrients in the food we eat, and it’s those nutrients that can then be absorbed and utilized by our...
Does Coffee Help To Improve Memory?
Being a self-proclaimed “coffee connoisseur,” I was really interested in getting to the bottom of this often debated question and I was really hoping for profound, unarguable scientific proof! Yup . . . I was ready to insert graphs, pie charts and all the evidence to prove that my intense love for this, in my opinion, magical beverage was giving me super powers beyond my wildest dreams. Why are you laughing?Well . . . I do not have...
Back Pain in the Hips and Core
The relevance of back pain is never far away – especially since 80% of us will experience debilitating lower back pain. This is a huge problem and it is also very preventable for most people – which is why we’re writing about it today.The majority of back pain does not originate in the spine itself, but occurs in response to mechanical dysfunction elsewhere. Today we’re going to outline the contribution of the trunk muscles and the...
5 Day Keto Jumpstart
The ketogenic diet has become much more than a buzz word. This diet has become almost it’s own religion in the multi-billion dollar diet and weightless industry. And with good reason! There is an infinite amount of success stories as well as scientific research data to support most of the claims that this diet promotes. And while this diet program can boast an impressive reputation, there are still many questions as to whether it...
