When it comes to healing and recovery, protein plays a crucial role. Whether you're bouncing back from an injury, surgery, or intense workout, understanding your daily protein needs for body repair can make all the difference. Unfortunately, one of the common threads I see in my practice are patients who do not consume enough protein in their diet for optimal healing, recovery, and body function.This guide will help you determine how much protein you need to support optimal healing and body … [Read more...]
Is Your Vegan or Vegetarian Diet Causing Your Low Back Pain?
You have felt great for months or even years when you gave up eating meat. You developed some low back pain awhile back and it’s not going away or it keeps coming back. You have tried physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, and acupuncture with no luck. Even your yoga practice is longer helping it. In fact, you are no longer able to do intense exercise because you get sore and it takes you longer to recover. Could it be that your lower back pain is due to something more than a … [Read more...]
Red Meat Will Give You Energy
Are you tired and exhausted? Do you have blood sugar problems? Trouble losing weight? Memory loss and hard to focus? Red meat is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. It provides you with many of the essential nutrients to give your body and mind increased and sustained energy. In the previous articles I wrote about the myths surrounding red meat. We learned that eating red meat, in fact, doesn’t cause high cholesterol or inflammation. In this article, we’re going to … [Read more...]