Bad BP! I’m not talking about the company that spilled all this precious oil in the Gulf, although I should be talking about this topic in the future. I’m talking primarily about extremes in blood pressure. That’s high blood pressure as well as low blood pressure. High blood pressure is not an illness or disease …
Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! I’ve been distracted with the cares of life such that I wasn’t able to persist with my new-found hobby, blogging. Anyway, I thought that it might be a good time to discuss a few of the basics in healthy aging. I’d say let’s start with one of the …
I believe that one of the reasons behind the sad state of our health affairs nowadays is because of the “one-size-fits-all” or cookie-cutter approach in health care. We are all biochemically unique or different and because of that, one thing that may work for one person may not work for another. Thus, the saying, one …
There are a number of reasons why we age. Among them include the genetic theory , neuroendocrine theory, free radical theory, wear and tear theory, telomerase theory and waste accumulation theory. Let’s first discuss the genetic theory behind aging. What this means is that we all have a set number of years to live (predetermined). …
Our hormones decline because we age. We age because our hormones decline. Just two different ways to look at the same thing. The first statement makes us feel helpless whereas the second statement puts us more in control. If we can slow down aging by addressing hormonal imbalances, then we’re “off to aging gracefully”. A …
“Chi”, otherwise known as “prana” is what we all know as energy. Energy, being intangible, is sometimes a very difficult concept to accept in modern society. However, we see all the evidence of energy all around us. This is even evident in allopathic medicine in the form of ultrasound machines, EKGs, CT and PET scans, …
