Something happened in the enabler’s childhood that makes them keep bringing food to the super morbidly obese (“My 600 Pound Life”) who can’t move much. Many of the “600 Pound Life” subjects are actually closer [...]
Learn everything imaginable about long femurs, short shins and long torsos and the BACK SQUAT. I’m a former certified personal trainer for a health club chain. When you look at me you won’t see a [...]
How often do you examine your poops? You may be amused at this question, or maybe you're thinking, "Ewwww." But so many things about bowel movements can tell a LOT about a person's health, about [...]
Why is it that a year, even two years after a grade 2 AC separation, an athlete can still have pain and struggle through weightlifting sets? “If the patient is still symptomatic it may either [...]
Since the ligaments are torn in a grade 2 AC separation, why isn’t surgery the treatment of choice? One day I was doing stool stepping exercise in my living room. Suddenly, it were as though [...]
If you have a full recovery from a grade 2 AC separation, is there any exercise that you should never try to do ever again, being that the ligament is no longer attaching two bones, [...]
If you suffer a grade 2 AC separation and are a bodybuilding enthusiast, you can expect to eventually resume your workout regimen once your injury heals. However, you must be patient. You must not rush [...]
Unfortunately, says Jonathan Oheb, MD, there’s no exercise that can prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Symptoms of CTS Tingling and/or numbness in the thumb, index and third fingers, and the thumb-side of the fourth finger. Pain [...]
Are you wondering if the pain in your shoulder is from carpal tunnel syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome starts in the wrist and involves a compression of the median nerve. “Carpal tunnel syndrome cannot cause shoulder [...]
If your food sometimes tastes soapy, there may be a perfectly benign explanation for this. Every so often I was noticing a soapy taste to my food. I had always suspected that it was due [...]
Cloudy urine can mean trouble. So can certain colors of urine like cola colored or tea colored. Cancer can cause urine to change colors. So can many other conditions including very strenuous exercise (dark color). [...]
Here is a non-drug way to instantly relieve muscle cramps from a clavicle fracture. One day I experienced a hairline fracture to my clavicle -- after having a freak fall while using an exercise stool [...]
Do the muscles around your shoulder cramp up since you’ve had a clavicle fracture? How does a bone break cause muscle cramping? While your clavicle fracture heals, you may be experiencing sudden cramping or deep [...]
Do you experience morning pain in your shoulder due to a clavicle fracture? The pain may be described as a deep soreness, and is evident when the patient gets up to exit the bed. It [...]
Ovarian cancer is a stealthy killer, creeping up without warning and murdering thousands of women every year. So creepy is this monster that there’s still no way to effectively screen for its presence. The Pap [...]
The coronary calcium score test is an excellent screening tool for heart disease. The calcium score number closely correlates to the likelihood of having coronary heart disease: mild, moderate or severe. It also closely correlates [...]
If you’ve been diagnosed with insulin resistance, you’re on a collision course with type 2 diabetes. Make no mistake, insulin resistance – though it may sound rather benign – is a setup for the No. [...]
Okay, you know it happens, but here’s WHY you’re freaking starving the day after a badass leg workout! You thrashed your legs in the gym, and usually a grueling leg workout includes at least one [...]
If you suspect you just had a transient ischemic attack (TIA), get to the ER stat (have someone drive you) so that a doctor can make a diagnosis. It's interesting to wonder just how a [...]
If you’ve ever had cloudy urine, you’ve no doubt wondered what’s causing the cloudiness and may have even been troubled by this odd symptom. After all, is cloudy urine a sign of cancer or some [...]
Yes, it CAN be safe to lose more than two pounds a week as long as you understand some really simple math. And the keyword is "can." Certainly, a "starvation" or "crash" approach to dieting [...]
Few gym-goers realize how wicked their workout breath smells to other exercisers. Yes, you read that right: Before stepping foot into your health club or gym, you should thoroughly brush your teeth. After all, you’re [...]
It's actually possible to be a ticking time bomb with severe coronary heart disease while also having a "normal" cholesterol (lipid) profile. This is why you shouldn't assume you're automatically out of the woods just [...]
Just one crumb of gluten may as well be an entire loaf of bread to someone with celiac disease. Celiac patients can't even have a tiny crumb; that's all it takes to trigger their immune [...]
What if the blood test for celiac disease is negative, but a stool sample is positive for elevated antigliadins? Was your celiac blood test negative, but a stool sample positive for elevated antibodies for gluten? [...]
An elevated resting heart rate is associated with an increased risk of death from all causes. This includes cardiovascular disease. Are you familiar with what your pulse normally is when you're at rest? If not, you'd [...]
If you have high cholesterol, statin drugs may come to mind as something you must necessarily take. As to whether or not high cholesterol is an automatic green light for taking statins: “Absolutely not! Since [...]
You know what an MRA is, but what exactly happens during an MRA – here is my firsthand account. I had an MRA – no, not MRI, but MRA, as in magnetic resonance angiogram. An [...]
Can drinking huge amounts of juice daily lead to insulin resistance? Are you a big juice drinker and wondering if this might cause insulin resistance, a harbinger of type 2 diabetes? We grow up hearing [...]
Have these 19 shoulder arthroscopy questions ready for your surgeon. Don’t wait until the day of your shoulder arthroscopy to ask these crucial questions to the surgeon. If you’re suffering from shoulder pain and have [...]
Find out what likely will happen with your knee if you don’t have revision surgery for a failed total replacement. You’ve had a total knee replacement and, over time, things have gotten worse, leading to [...]
Will insulin resistance make you gain weight? It’s easy to conclude that insulin resistance will lead to weight gain. Insulin resistance is when the body’s cells no longer utilize this hormone efficiently, resulting in blood [...]
One more reason to lift weights is that it will prove a mighty defense against insulin resistance. And you do not want insulin resistance. This is a precursor to type 2 diabetes. Normal fasting blood [...]
Some “diabetes hypochondriacs” test their blood sugar repeatedly with home tests, wondering what really is the right reading range right after eating. “It is not uncommon to have a one to two hour postprandial blood [...]
How young is too young to have measurable plaque buildup in the coronary arteries? A coronary artery calcium score exam has been proven to be very reliable at predicting the likelihood of a coronary event [...]
Here are the causes and solutions to that intense and insane hunger you feel after eating sugary junk foods or highly processed snacks. It's just so amazing that such crazy hunger follows wolfing down a [...]
Reactive hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, can indeed be triggered by processed foods. Reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar that can cause deep hunger) and processed foods are tightly linked. “Much of the ‘food’ that surrounds [...]
You know that shoveling snow can be dangerous for poorly conditioned adults, but are kids prone to any dangers from this kind of activity? Yes, they are. But not in the same way [...]
Insulin resistance or prediabetes can be successfully treated or reversed with T3, a bioidentical hormone, says Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, thyroidologist and founder of Holtorf Medical Group in California. Though a diagnosis of insulin resistance [...]
Is it really true that intense exercise can prevent you from ever getting insulin resistance? IR is when the body’s cells can no longer efficiently “take” the glucose molecules that are delivered to them via the [...]
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