Over the last several years, probably more than 10 years now, professional athletes have been using Hyperbaric chambers to improve healing from bruising and injuries and it has worked fantastically for them. Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber therapy works by a person breathing near 100 percent oxygen intermittently while inside the hyperbaric chamber that is pressurized to greater than 1.4 times sea level pressure. Why Does HyperBaric Oxygen Therapy Work? The reason that this works is because the … [Read more...] about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Health Issues
What Is A Bulging Disc?
My family have all been going to a local Structural chiropractor Cheltenham for the last few months and finally a few weeks ago I dove in too. She took some pictures and aligned my body, and sent me for X-rays and finally after all this let me know that I had some real back problems that she is working on aligning. Although I don't have bulging disks I do have a lot of decay and thinning in the discs which is causing pain and mobility problems. A bulging disc, also known as a herniated or … [Read more...] about What Is A Bulging Disc?
Free Book on how to avoid stress
Tick tick tick The number of days until Christmas is counting down pretty quickly and the stress at this time of year for many people is quite overwhelming. I know it and you probably know it too. I know that when I write to you about fitness it is usually diet and exercise but today I wanted to offer an ebook to you for nothing. There is no catch of course (I hate catches) but the ebook offers a lot of great tips not only for this time of year but otherwise as well to handle stress … [Read more...] about Free Book on how to avoid stress
Fasting may help your heart
This is about a month old study but I thought that it would be a good idea to give out this info on a study that had to conclude that fasting seems to lower the chance of heart attacks in people that fast one day a month. The anti-fasting people will not like this and I can not seem to fast for any length of time but this study was not looking for this result as some studies seem to do but instead just concluded that this was the only possible result to their study. Mormons and heart … [Read more...] about Fasting may help your heart
FDA says OK to Prilosec and Nexium
Earlier this year there were some stories around about fears that Prilosec and Nexium may not be quite as healthy as they should be for people taking them for dealing with acid reflux disease and that they increased heart attack risk. The FDA is now saying that there are no increased risk of heart attacks with these drugs in the long term Long-term use of Prilosec (omerprazole) and Nexium (esomeprazole) is not likely to be associated with an increased risk of heart problems. FDA has … [Read more...] about FDA says OK to Prilosec and Nexium
