Saturday, January 7, 2012

arthritis soup


Arthritis Super Soup

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Glucosamine-chondroitin is the top-selling nutritional supplement on the market today. The reason is simple: It halts the pain and discomfort of arthritis that makes life miserable for more than 40 million arthritis suffering Americans. And medical studies prove it works. In 2006, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted the largest study ever on glucosamine-chondroitin and found that the majority of study subjects with moderate to severe arthritis pain  experienced significant pain reduction with this supplement.
In the NIH study, the glucosamine-chondroitin supplement stopped joint pain and inflammation better than the leading COX-2 arthritis drugs or leading NSAID medications, without any of the mild to severe side effects of those drugs. Study participants reported dramatic improvement from the supplement within four weeks–and the longer they took it, the better they felt. However, it had little effect on people with earlier stage arthritis with less pain.
1. Homemade glucosamine for free. What if you could make the most effective arthritis pain-relieving supplement, instead of forking out $40 to $75 for a jar? You absolutely can! All it takes are a few bones from the butcher, some crustacean shells and your favorite soup kettle. That’s all you need to create a high-potency Arthritis Soup Stock full of glucosamine and chondroitin, which have been proven to soothe your chronic arthritis joint pain.
This soup stock was a kitchen mainstay throughout history. Every stove usually had a simmering stockpot into which homemakers tossed bones, shells and vegetable scraps. Later it was used as the base for soups, sauces and gravies. The stockpot has disappeared in the modern era in favor of convenience foods. But now you can still make your own super-soup at home for practically free. Some nutritional experts believe bone broth’s absence from our regular diet partially explains the current spike in arthritis rates. While it certainly isn’t the sole cause, the low levels of joint-protective nutrients in our modern diet, such as collagen, hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), glycine, proline (which helps create collagen), and sulfur compounds–all of which are necessary for the creation and repair of damaged joint cartilage–is an important factor. The Arthritis Soup Stock returns them to your diet.
2. The secret ingredients in glucosamine supplements. Here’s the shocker: this high-priced, in-demand glucosamine-chondroitin supplement is made from the same raw materials as bone broth, which are virtually free for the taking. Glucosamine, an essential building-block of the cartilage in our own joints, also comes to us from the shells of crustaceans such as crab, lobster and shrimp. Animal cartilage in soup bones is a rich source of chondroitin sulfate. Together, these two compounds help our bodies repair arthritis-damaged joints and keep existing joints well-lubricated by helping cartilage absorb more water.
3. Make arthritis healing soup stock
1. Fill a large soup pot with beef or pork knuckles, feet, back bones and/or joint bones. Add chicken bones and carcasses. These gelatin-rich animal parts contain the highest concentration of chondroitin.
2. Toss in as many crustacean shells as will fit. They are loaded with glucosamine.
3. Dump in eggshells. Vegetable scraps are great, too.
4. Splash in some lemon juice or vinegar to release the calcium and glucosamine-chondroitin from the bones and cartilage.
5. Cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover and let it cook on the lowest possible heat for hours, checking the water level and heat every once in a while.
6. If scum floats to the surface, skim it off with a spoon.
7. When the broth is done, strain the liquid through a colander. Chill and then remove the fat.
The liquid will keep in your fridge for up to four days–or freeze it to use later.
Use this arthritis super-soup as stock for a variety of soups by adding veggies, beans and herbs. Cook whole grains in this broth, too. Or you can simply sip a hot cupful to soothe and repair your joints.
An even easier method: Place all ingredients into slow cooker and let it simmer for a couple of days on low heat. You can also oven-roast raw bones with their meat to bring out their flavor, but it’s not essential. Or you can make a seafood-only broth. Slow cook until you arrive at a gelatinous brew.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

mrd ball

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

gunner shaw race

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

no to endurance exercise


We’re Not Made For The
Modern World
Today, we have succeeded in completely removing ourselves from our native world. What’s worse is our own powerful ability to adapt – our natural adaptive response to our surroundings – has got us into big trouble because we’re no longer faced with the same physical and metabolic challenges.
You see, we are still perfectly adapted for a life and death struggle between predator and prey. Yet we no longer have to hunt for our food, we grow it. And we no longer have to chase our food, or fight off predators, so we’ve become more sedentary.
We’ve traded bursts of intense exertion for constant “busyness” that causes constant stress.
It’s created the biggest epidemic the world has ever known.
Two out of three Americans are now overweight. Diabetes is ten times more likely than it was just 30 years ago. Heart disease kills over 600,000 each year in the US alone.
And the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently announced that for the first time in history, these non-communicable diseases surpassed all other causes of death worldwide.
These new predators may attack with sudden, deadly ferocity. Stroke victims rarely see it coming. In half of heart attack deaths, the first symptom appears with the beginning of the attack that kills.
Heart Disease
Chart
Or, they may nip at your heels until their cumulative effect brings you down or you find yourself too fat, weak and tired to do anything about it. This slow degeneration has become the “status quo” of getting older in the modern world – chronic disease.
To make matters worse, without an understanding of the cause of problem, pundits have advocated the wrong solutions. Many only take you further from your natural challenges and aggravate the problem.
Modern “Exercise” Worse Than A Waste Of Time
This is why the “cardio” so popular today is worse than a waste of your time. It’s not natural to repeat the same movement for as long as possible. Cardiovascular endurance exercises like “aerobics” don’t correct for what you are lacking. They increase your stress even more by mimicking it. And they won’t defend your heart from the modern predator of heart disease, stroke and heart attack.
Yet for decades, you’ve heard that if you could just make yourself do enough “cardio,” it would protect your heart. If this is true, why do very “conditioned” endurance runners drop dead of heart attacks at the height of their running careers? Their rate of sudden cardiac death is 50 percent higher than that of other athletes.1
Survival with Higher Peak Exercise Chart
Myers, J., Prakash, M., Froelicher, V., Do, D., Partington, S., Atwood, J.E. "Exercise Capacity and Mortality among Men Referred for Exercise Testing." N Engl J Med 2002; 346:793-801.
It happened twice last month in Philadelphia. One was a 41-year old, and the other was a 21-year-old Penn student who collapsed at the finish line of the half-marathon.
Three more died in October. A 40-year-old man died right at the finish line of the Los Angeles half-marathon. A 27-year-old died seconds before the finish line of the Toronto marathon. And another man – a 35-year-old firefighter – collapsed and died during the Chicago marathon.
This happens when there is a sudden increase in cardiac demand that exceeds your heart’s capacity. Unfortunately, adding “cardio” to our busy days and pushing for greater endurance produces the oppositeresult of what we need in the modern world. Forced endurance exercise forces your heart and lungs to “downsize.”
Your heart and lungs become efficient, but have less capacity. “Aerobics” and endurance exercises like running force your heart to operate dangerously close to the maximum of that reduced capacity. Giving up your heart’s reserve capacity to adapt to unnatural bouts of prolonged durational exercise only increases your heart risk and shrinks your lungs as well.
A Whole New Category
The good news is that reversing this problem is easier than you might think. You don’t need to force yourself through grueling monotonous “cardio” at all.

You can build muscle mass, increase bone density, and improve your balance with physical challenges that are much shorter, but more intense – the same way our ancestors did.

Your body will be naturally strong and resilient. You’ll feel energized, motivated and ready to take on any challenge. Your muscles will be their intended size – no bigger or smaller. Your breath will be deep and focused.

The key is to build back the reserve capacity our modern world has taken away. You do this by incrementally challenging your heart and lungs, and then accelerating the challenge.

Choose any exercise that will make you stop and pant for breath. It could be as simple as going up and down the stairs, jumping rope, or performing traditional body weight exertion.

I design conditioning programs for my patients with this goal in mind. And it’s how I designed this new program. It has specific instructions and ready-made, fun workouts to get you fit and lean in a relatively short time.

You’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the next few weeks, but let me show you how using its principles can get you noticeable results by doing the opposite of what all the fitness “gurus” have been saying for years.

First, keep your total exertion time to no more than 12 minutes. Endurance exercises that last for an hour at a time or more mimic stress. In your native environment, this would signal your body that times are not good, and you have to conserve energy, store fat and slow your metabolism.

By keeping the challenge brief, you tell your body that the environment is healthy, and it’s OK to melt off the fat and build lean muscle.

Second, copy natural movement as much as possible. Forced, man-made exercises like training for endurance or individually training one muscle at a time with weights won’t rebuild your heart and lung capacity. They rob you of it.

And running on a treadmill is worse. It undoes your neuromuscular wiring because you’re not moving, it’s moving under you. It’s not natural. Instead, use body weight movements, sprints, or swimming to exert yourself. Even an elliptical machine is better than a treadmill. It more closely resembles sprinting or climbing.

Exercises that put your body through natural patterns of movement train your body from thought to action. This is essential if you want that new muscle to be capable of doing anything. When you call on your muscles in real life, they move against the resistance of your own body weight. They are the best way to build functional strength.

Body weight exertion is also much more effective in strengthening ligaments and tendons. Bottom line – nature didn’t build your muscles to lift weights or run for hours. To build strength that you can use, work against your own body weight.

Third, incrementally increase the intensity of the challenge. When you focus on how intensely you’re exerting yourself, and increase it bit by bit, you’re forcing your heart and lungs to adapt to what you’re asking of them. You’re using your body’s natural adaptive response.

Just like our bodies adapted – for the worse – to an environment without predators, you can change it back by mimicking the challenge our predators presented. Brief periods of exertion followed by rest. We’ve discovered that three sets of exertion is best.

As you get more fit, your capacity will increase. What felt like moderate intensity for your first set a little while ago will become easy fairly soon. So you have to be progressive with your intensity to keep building capacity and power in your heart and lungs.

Fourth, accelerate the changes. When you’ve regained your native capacity, it’s time to get more energy and retrain your metabolism so you melt fat off naturally.

You can accelerate in a few ways. You might rest and recover between exertion sets for 30 seconds less than you’re used to. Then a minute less. Eventually, you’ll need little recovery time at all as your heart and lungs regain their power.

And when you accelerate and get to your target level of intensity faster, you send your body the signal to store energy in your muscles for quick use. Especially in your heart. It’s energy you can feel – horsepower on demand.

Even if your current lifestyle is relatively inactive, my new program will help you dramatically reverse the effects of our modern environment. Just use these simple techniques and you’ll recreate the naturally fit and lean state of health you were designed for. No matter what today’s world throws at you.

It’s the best product I’ve ever created, and the best workout program ever made because it mimics the challenges of your natural environment.

In fact, I’m ready to take it global. We wanted to get the word out to as many people as possible as fast as possible, so I’ve been traveling back and forth to Los Angeles to create a TV show all about it.

It’s six DVDs with beginning to end workout routines and advice, plus two more DVDs full of bonus workouts. It also includes the interview I did with the producers.