Dr. Cliff Oliver's POWER WATER

An athlete can drink this ideal sports drink throughout the longest and most demanding athletic competition WITHOUT THE NEED TO DRINK ADDITIONAL WATER to maintain hydration, and with confidence that ELECTROLYTES ARE BEING REPLACED IN PERFECT PROPORTION.

24 oz. bottled water (pour off 4 oz.)

4 teaspoons dextrose

1/8 teaspoon sea salt

1/32 teaspoon di-potassium phosphate (obtainable from Dr. Oliver's office)

Mix and drink.

Buy a 6 or 8 pack of 24-ounce bottled water and within just a few minutes you can make 6 or 8 bottles of POWER WATER!

Cardio is a Must for Middle Aged Women:: Right or Wrong?

The Dallas Morning News published an article entitled "Fighting the fat: no easy task" with the tag line as follows: "As they age, women need an hour of activity a day, researchers say". This appeared in the Wednesday, March 24, 2010 edition, reported first by The Associated Press and linked to a study done by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Impressive, right? But what if it is wrong?

The gist is that, as women age, they require a least an hour of moderate activity every day if their weight is healthy and they aren't dieting. Overweight women - most of America - need even more exercise to avoid gaining weight without eating less. A great quote from the article says "The results (of the study) echo what gym-fuls of middle-aged American women see every time they step off the treadmill and onto the scale."

My question is this: if it is obvious that cardio workouts do not achieve the results desired, why do we continue to get on the treadmill? You can go into any gym in any city in the U.S. and see heavy people, not just women, who are on the treadmill for an hour at a time who never lose an inch, never shed a pound, never gain energy, never look healthy...are not healthy.

Why aren't results achieved?

There are so many factors that play into the answer. I will share a few with you.

In his book "Your Guide to Healthy Hormones", Daniel Kalish, D.C., writes that, "...excess cardiovascular exercise, along with a highly stressful lifestyle, can make hormone problems worse. It also can lead to more body fat by stimulating the stress response." I repeat: in a stressed individual, the additional stress of a cardio program can make a person fatter. This means that an unhealthy person increases the amount of cortisol - a fat storing hormone - in the body by exercising strenuously. A stressed body just cannot handle the additional hormonal stress of exercise. Exercise is a great way to reduce stress and get fit once a person has followed a period of healthy eating and stress management, and initial improvements have been made in balancing hormones made out of whack by an unhealthy lifestyle. It doesn't work the other way around.

Paul Chek, world renown fitness and wellness expert, cautions against the overuse of aerobic exercise. "How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy!" talks about Chunky Aerobics Instructor Syndrome. This is a term Paul learned from strength coach Charles Poliquin that refers to the adaptation to aerobic exercise. Over time, athletes and regular folk who build a fitness program around lots of cardio find they are unable to keep body fat off with aerobics alone. Poliquin concluded, as a result of extensive research, that the body adapts to any given stimulus very quickly so the best results come from frequently changing the fitness program. Paul also talks about aerobic training triggering the release of glucocorticoids, stress hormones which are catabolic. That means they destroy tissue and prohibit the creation of additional muscle tissue. Additionally, over-training (over exercising) suppresses the immune system, which results in infections and chronic fatigue. Stress hormones...fat storing hormones!

Andy O'Brien is an elite fitness trainer who has coached a slew of Olympic medalists in hockey and swimming. For Andy, nutrition is the key. If an exerciser corrects their metabolism - meaning delivering the right fuel to the body - they are empowered to make the physical changes they desire. Nutrition is the link to performance. When Andy works with a client, be it an elite athlete or a housewife, he is looking for a hormonal and metabolic response so that change and adaptation in the body can produce results, whether it be more speed, better endurance, better over-all health and wellness. Everything we do is movement...skating in for a goal on net, breaking the record in free-style, juggling a baby on one hip while loading groceries into the mini-van. Our bodies can adapt to every movement we choose to perform. So much time in the gym without change is due to poor food choices. What we do outside the gym matters. Andy feels training once or twice a week in the gym is better than every day. The professional teams he works with get no fried food, hormone-free, organic meat and organic veggies. And, as all these experts agree, Andy believes in a variety of exercise.

What should a middle aged woman - any person - do?

...EAT RIGHT for your metabolic type and NEVER DIET. Dieting disrupts hormones and enzymes. We respond to a missed meal with an elevation in stress hormones. Stress hormones are fat storing hormones.

...Find a way to MANAGE THE STRESS of everyday life. If daily stress is lowered, the body is able to handle day to day activities with a higher level of competence and is better prepared for a crisis, should one occur.

...Eat high quality food. Organic, organic, organic. Hormone free, gluten free, sugar free. CLEAN FOOD IS KEY. Water is as important as food. Hydrate with PURE WATER.

...Move, move, move. VARY YOUR EXERCISE to stave off boredom and to tax your body to continually adapt, which creates strength, agility, weight loss, health and makes for fun. Going outside the comfort zone physically and emotionally provides an opportunity to experience life and your body in ways you never dreamed about. Aerobic movement mixed with resistance training (better than a calcium pill) and energy building exercises hit most of the bases.

...Get enough SLEEP. Irregular sleep/wake cycles create stress on the body and can lead to weight gain. Broken record? Stress hormones are fat builders.

...Don't believe everything you read. Test it, try it out, BE OPEN to many opinions.

Resources you might want to check out:

"Your Guide to Health Hormones" by Daniel Kalish, D. C.

"How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy" by Paul Chek

www.chekinstitute.com

http://www.livingfuel.com/Andy_O'Brien.aspx

http://claudiazelazny.blogspot.com

March 11, 2010 Entry

It's Never Too Late - My Journey to Wellness

POWER TEA RECIPE

We would like to thank Dr. Cliff Oliver, DC, RN, Wellness Consultant, for this recipe.

1-2 Tablespoons Gelatin dissolved in room temperature water - use a high grade, organic gelatin

Add

1 Cup boiling water

1/4 to 1/2 Teaspoon Coconut Oil

**Ginger/Peppermint Tea

**Ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory herb. Fresh ginger may be used.

Peppermint herbal tea may be mixed with the gelatin for flavoring.

Drink a cup of POWER TEA three (3) times daily. POWER TEA builds powerful ligaments, tendons, and cartilage, as well as muscle. It also enhances the athlete's mental and emotional power as well. The stuff is truly amazing. The supplement is 100% protein, is 100% absorbed and utilized, and is extremely high in the amino acids glycine and proline, that are notable deficient in most other sources of protein.

For more information about Dr. Oliver go to www.drcliffoliver.com

His office is in the DeAnza View Medical Center

3737 Moraga Avenue, Suite A102

San Diego, CA 92117

858-272-2333

And the man plays a mean flute, among other things!

Asthma...Meds, Inhalers, and Options

Asthma is most common in children and the rate of asthma among children is rapidly rising in the United States.

Reasons given to explain this rise include increased stress on the immune system due to greater chemical pollution in the air, water, and FOOD...earlier weaning and earlier introduction of solid foods to infants...food additives...genetic manipulation of plants, resulting in food components with greater allergenic tendencies.

The first step in a natural approach to asthma is to reduce the allergic threshold. The two main ways to do this is to reduce exposure to airborne allergens and to reduce the intake of food allergens.

Home air purifiers have been analyzed by Joseph Mercola and information on the various models is available at www.mercola.com. His recommendation is Way Healthier Air Purifier, but you can research this for yourself to determine if and/or which purifier you might wish to install in your home.

Simple changes can produce very profound improvements. Following a nutrition plan is one of the first things to try and can make all the difference to a young child (or adult) in decreasing the impact of asthma and increasing the ability to breathe. Avoid GRAINS, PASTEURIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS, SOY, SUGAR, and FRUIT JUICES. If you can buy raw milk where you live, make this change. Just be sure the cows are grass-fed. Normally, the inability to digest dairy is a result of the loss of the enzyme in the milk that allows human stomachs to process the milk. Pasteurization kills this natural enzyme and contributes to lactose intolerance. Soy is one of the most genetically modified plants and should be avoided. Think about all the infants put on soy formula because they show lactose intolerance. The incidence of this is extremely high in the African-American community, where almost all babies are diagnosed as lactose intolerant. Grains- the inability to digest the protein gliadin - can create inflammation in the body and that inflammation will appear in the weakest, most compromised part of the body. A weakened adrenal system can produce a weakened immune system. The activity of the adrenal gland is important in asthma due to its hormones cortisol and epinephrine. These compounds activate receptors on the bronchial muscle, which leads to relaxation of the muscle and opening of the airways. It is thought that during asthmatic attacks there is a relative deficiency of cortisol and epinephrine. So if the adrenal system is compromised due to the stress on a child's system by bad air, bad water, and bad food, this deficiency is even greater. It is important to be sure that enough long-chain omega-3 fats (DHA and EPA) from fish oils are included in the diet. Mercola recommends Carlson fish oil and cod liver oil due to strict standards for purity and freshness. With spring in the air, more exposure to the sun is a given. If that is the case, it is important to switch from cod liver oil to fish oil in order to prevent Vitamin D toxicity. Essential oils of peppermint and frankincense are therapeutic for treatment of asthma. These oils are used sparingly and should be initiated with the help of someone well versed in the use of essential oils. The Maker's Diet is a good source and Mercola's web site is also helpful.

Many asthmatics are on inhalers and often need antibiotics. If you feel it is necessary to put your child on an antibiotic, then absolutely do so. They should not be relied upon all the time, however, and often they are widely overused. It is very important, after the antibiotics are used, to recolonize the GI tract, for antibiotics kill the good bacteria we need in the gut as well as the bad we are trying to eliminate. Children can take probiotics to help with this recolonization process.

There are several different types of inhalers, the most common being the pressurized metered-dose inhaler. Recently, the FDA banned the use of inhalers that utilize Chlorofluprocarbons as propellants for the more environmentally friendly HFA inhalers. Some groups feel that the HFA inhalers are not as effective and there is a higher price due to the lack of a generic version at this time. The medications in the inhalers are anti-inflammatory drugs of which there are two types: mast cell stabilizers and corticosteroids. Mast cell stabilizers can be used for mild asthma. Inhaled corticosteroids are the most effective means of control. One side effect to be concerned about is Candida (thrush) in the throat. Other side effects are said to be a non-issue if the meds are used appropriately. Candida can become an deep-seated infection which contributes to myriad gut-related digestive issues.

Recently, the FDA issued warning covering the drugs Advair, Symbicort, Foradil and Serevent, stating that these meds should only be used if nothing else works on a person's asthma and then only for the shortest time possible. Long term usage can mask a serious asthma attack due to the medications ability to relax the muscles around stressed airways. While some don't think this is a big problem, experts do believe there is a tendency among asthmatics to overuse their meds.

So, in review:

...Asthma is a growing illness, especially in children

...The first step in control should be a natural approach regarding air purity and food purity

...Diets that eliminate offending allergens are quite effective in treatment

...Omega-3 fatty acids can relieve asthma

...Essential oils are helpful

...Vitamin B6 helps with stress and can be beneficial

...Antioxidants are highly recommended, especially Vitamin C, in dealing with environmental stressors

...Magnesium can help open airways and relieve asthma

...DHEA levels are typically low in asthematics

...Inhalers may create Candida, an overgrowth of common yeast in the GI tract (or throat) which can then become a cause of allergic conditions, like asthma

In severe cases of asthma, the best treatment is a combined approach, using natural measures to reduce the allergic threshold and prevent more acute attacks, along with proper drug treatment of acute attacks.

Having a physician you trust, who understands your concerns about more homeopathic remedies, is key.

Good, clean food is critical.

Guy Voyer, DO - Teacher and Mentor

For those of you unfamiliar with Guy and his work, he is a classically-trained European osteopath whose clients include dozens of professional athletes who fly from all over the world to work with him.

He has worked with the Paris ballet, teaching ELDOA, in order to prevent injury. Hundreds of people who have suffered from low back pain and other body ailments seek his expertise and see the results in how their bodies feel and move.

His is teaching a one day seminar in New York state on March 14th. to address ending low back pain without the use of surgery.

In June, Guy travels to Los Angeles to teach a three day course on the abdominal muscles.

Legacy Sport and Wellness in Dallas is the first integrated facility of its kind with practitioners who have studied under Guy Voyer, offering group exercise classes and seminars to compliment his work.

Scott Herrera and Claudia Zelazny has traveled outside the US in order to work with Guy specifically on issues not remedied by a classic system.

For more information, please contact us at our email address:

legacysportandwellness@gmail.com