Pay for disease or invest in health?

This weeks article is from the Maximized Living Blog. By Dr. Ben Lerner and Megan Rall One of the most POWERFUL aspects of Maximized Living is that it helps you totally transform how you view and understand your health.  Let me give you an example: Think about your car.  Imagine if all you were ever [...]

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Back Pain Causes

Your back is an intricate structure composed of bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons and disks. Disks are the cartilage-like pads that act as cushions between the segments of your spine. Back pain can arise from problems with any of these component parts. In some people, no specific cause for their back pain can be found. Strains [...]

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How Crash Diets Harm Your Health

Bryan Miller, Health.Com Linda Bacon, Ph.D, dreads swimsuit season, but not because she has anything against the beach. Instead, the California-based nutritionist fears what the season brings: scores of otherwise health-conscious citizens who subject themselves to deprivation diets (like the Master Cleanse) or intense exercise regimens, often in blazing hot weather, to look slimmer in [...]

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Exercises For Neck And Shoulder Pain

As you can probably imagine, I have a lot of patients who struggle with neck and shoulder pain.  Many people who work in offices and on computers complain of frequent neck pain and tightness. Here’s a way to target the neck and shoulders: dumbbells. Strength training using dumbbells not only reduces pain, but also improves [...]

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Do You Ever Feel Off Course?

Do you ever get the feeling that there’s something you are supposed to do but can’t remember what it is?  I think that happens to all of us at one time or another, but did you see the story this fall about the plane that flew past its destination? I wonder if the two pilots [...]

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