The diaphragm is the second most important muscle in the body, second only to the heart. Yet the average person's diaphragm muscle is working at far less than 100% of its ability. Because the diaphragm is the pump that determines how much oxygen comes into our systems, anything less than 100% of normal function of this vital muscle means less oxygen to our brains as well as all our muscles and internal organs.
In my book, Your Inner Pharmacy, I explain more about the diaphragm and how its function can be improved to help you to be more healthy, whether you are an aspiring Olympic athlete, an average person with frequent heartburn, or concerned about and perhaps battling with dementia.
I am including a few exerpts from my book that may get you interested in optimizing the function of your own diaphragm muscle.......
Good diaphragm function is important for your health and vitality. Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, can be quite helpful. But the best antioxidant is oxygen itself. If you improve your body’s ability to deliver oxygen to its own tissues, you reduce oxidative stress and tissue damage throughout your body and slow the decline in body function that occurs with aging.
While I recommend that many of my patients take antioxidant nutrients, I definitely want to optimize the vital function of their diaphragm muscle. I test for it in almost every patient, regardless of their symptoms, because I know that by correcting it, I have a good chance of helping their digestion, mental function, and overall energy and well-being.
One reason for the recent increase in diaphragm-related problems in younger people is that a sedentary lifestyle generally means more sitting, poor posture, and shallow breathing. Like any other muscle, the diaphragm must be used. I turn on the switch through treatment, and the patient puts in a fresh bulb by breathing properly and exercising. If we each do our part, the light goes on.
Dr. Blaich is an internationally recognized natural healthcare expert, both as a physician and a teacher. Dr. Blaich has recently released Your Inner Pharmacy, a book which bridges the divide between traditional and alternative medicine; showing how patients can receive the best from all modalities of healthcare. For more information on his book and his philosophies on health and wellness, visit www.yourinnerpharmacy.com.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Why Take Nutritional Supplements, When You Already Have a Powerful Inner Pharmacy?
Which chemicals your inner pharmacy produces, as well as the quantity of those chemicals, is highly influenced by the raw materials available in your body.
In other words, the building blocks that you provide to your inner pharmacy through your diet and nutritional supplements greatly determines what chemicals can be created within your body that govern your physical and mental state.
Want to produce more anti-inflammatory chemicals of your own? Your body will naturally do it, but it requires specific building blocks including omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, niacin, vitamins B-6, E (although not too much E), C, magnesium, zinc, and calcium.
If you really want to get your body making more anti-inflammatory chemicals, my recent book, Your Inner Pharmacy, will guide you in the process.
Your lifestyle, including your exercise, can stimulate the conversion of these raw materials into good chemicals that can help to minimize the deterioration of your body. While everyone's body battles excesses of inflammation in the aging process, to a great extent, it is our genes that determine where we are most prone to inflammation. It could be joints (arthritis), the cardiovascular system (heart disease and dementtia), the digestive system, or the respiratory system, to take several examples. Regardless of its location in your body, the inflammation is a similar process, and your lifestyle (including your diet and the supplements you take) can either aggravate it or improve it.
Here's another huge reason for taking nutritional supplements.
The right supplements for you will bring you mental clarity, give you more energy, and help you to feel motivated to be more healthy.....all of which means you will be more inclined to persue a healthy lifestyle and to stay on a balanced track of eating and thinking "healthy" and exercising regularly.
It's true, and "the right supplements FOR YOU" is one of the keys. The other key is having and taking extremely high quality supplements.
This is pretty basic, but the two biggest reasons most people don't take supplements are: 1) they don't what to take or how much, and 2) they don't know the quality of various supplements or even how to tell if they contain what the labels say they do.
My website, yourinnerpharmacy.com, offers a solution to bothof these dilemmas.
The start2health section of my site contains a questionnaire that helps to match you to a set of high quality supplements that would be most beneficial for YOU. These supplements will provide your inner pharmacy with building blocks that it can then use to make more good chemicals that improve your health and well-being.
Remember, the supplements are only one piece of a healthy lifestyle, but they are an extremely important piece....especially if they help you to feel more naturally energetic and motivated, you will be much more likely to make healthy decisions about the rest of your lifestyle.
Dr. Blaich is an internationally recognized natural healthcare expert, both as a physician and a teacher. Dr. Blaich has recently released Your Inner Pharmacy, a book which bridges the divide between traditional and alternative medicine; showing how patients can receive the best from all modalities of healthcare. For more information on his book and his philosophies on health and wellness, visit www.yourinnerpharmacy.com.
In other words, the building blocks that you provide to your inner pharmacy through your diet and nutritional supplements greatly determines what chemicals can be created within your body that govern your physical and mental state.
Want to produce more anti-inflammatory chemicals of your own? Your body will naturally do it, but it requires specific building blocks including omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, niacin, vitamins B-6, E (although not too much E), C, magnesium, zinc, and calcium.
If you really want to get your body making more anti-inflammatory chemicals, my recent book, Your Inner Pharmacy, will guide you in the process.
Your lifestyle, including your exercise, can stimulate the conversion of these raw materials into good chemicals that can help to minimize the deterioration of your body. While everyone's body battles excesses of inflammation in the aging process, to a great extent, it is our genes that determine where we are most prone to inflammation. It could be joints (arthritis), the cardiovascular system (heart disease and dementtia), the digestive system, or the respiratory system, to take several examples. Regardless of its location in your body, the inflammation is a similar process, and your lifestyle (including your diet and the supplements you take) can either aggravate it or improve it.
Here's another huge reason for taking nutritional supplements.
The right supplements for you will bring you mental clarity, give you more energy, and help you to feel motivated to be more healthy.....all of which means you will be more inclined to persue a healthy lifestyle and to stay on a balanced track of eating and thinking "healthy" and exercising regularly.
It's true, and "the right supplements FOR YOU" is one of the keys. The other key is having and taking extremely high quality supplements.
This is pretty basic, but the two biggest reasons most people don't take supplements are: 1) they don't what to take or how much, and 2) they don't know the quality of various supplements or even how to tell if they contain what the labels say they do.
My website, yourinnerpharmacy.com, offers a solution to bothof these dilemmas.
The start2health section of my site contains a questionnaire that helps to match you to a set of high quality supplements that would be most beneficial for YOU. These supplements will provide your inner pharmacy with building blocks that it can then use to make more good chemicals that improve your health and well-being.
Remember, the supplements are only one piece of a healthy lifestyle, but they are an extremely important piece....especially if they help you to feel more naturally energetic and motivated, you will be much more likely to make healthy decisions about the rest of your lifestyle.
Dr. Blaich is an internationally recognized natural healthcare expert, both as a physician and a teacher. Dr. Blaich has recently released Your Inner Pharmacy, a book which bridges the divide between traditional and alternative medicine; showing how patients can receive the best from all modalities of healthcare. For more information on his book and his philosophies on health and wellness, visit www.yourinnerpharmacy.com.
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