Connect Wellness

This is what real wellness professionals do! (And they WON’T try to sell you some specialized and expensive products, packages or devices to do it.) Demand integrity from your team, and require them to advocate for the inherent strength your body and mind have to heal themselves. If they can’t offer that level of honesty and humility to you, then find someone who does. Call me, and let’s set up a plan to get you back in gear as quickly as possible. I’m happy to coordinate with your healthcare team to craft a multidisciplinary approach to your best outcome.

Please, PLEASE, before you load up your cabinets with costly supplements and organic superfoods, before you chew out your doctor for refusing to prescribe ant...ibiotics for a cold, or pain medication for a longstanding issue, before you try to detox your perfectly healthy liver, before you restrict your diet to be keto, alkaline or sugar free, before you assume that your friends who are taking truly necessary medications are just not living their best lives, check your sources. Double check them. Then, check them again. Are the studies cited of a large, cooperative experiment, or did they include less than 100 subjects? Were the subjects all otherwise healthy 22 year old college students? Were they all male? Or, did the study include females, and humans of multiple age ranges & socioeconomic levels? Were the experiments run by a company or organization that would receive financial gain by a positive result? Was the data collected from in vivo results, meaning they were tested in a living organism, or were results limited to Petri dishes? If the trial proceeded to in vivo, how large scale were the results, and again did they only skew to male subjects of a youthful age? If the trial proceeded to human study, were there a large or small number of subjects? (There is a big difference between a study citing 6 grad students, where half dropped out and two had incomplete data, with no controls for placebo, and one that studied 72 subjects of varying sex, income level, culture and age, each adhering fully to protocol to the conclusion of the work, with at least one control for placebo, another for a standard care protocol, and another for the proposed new protocol.) Are other articles this source prints also sensationalistic or offer exciting solutions that your doctors aren’t telling you? If so, they are probably not a credible source. Are you 100% confident in your statistical analysis skills? If not, do you trust that the author of the link you’ve clicked through to has perfected theirs? Did the author even cite their sources? If not, and they are using vague, useless language like scientists say or nutritionists recommend with no specifics, move along and dump that garbage in the trash. Most Science and Health articles are unfortunately written by people who either have NO EXPERIENCE in science or healthcare, OR, their experience is limited to one path of thinking that creates a heavy bias in their articles. Also, most of these pieces are treated by editorial staff as fluff pieces to be used for filler, to make their publications seem more complete. Most publications and media rely on ad sales to pay their staff. Thus, the more sensational their articles appear to be, then the more traffic they will drive to their sites or sales, making their advertisers very happy. If you’re getting your science and healthcare information from a blog, be even more wary. If you’re thinking about starting a new regimen or wondering about some stuff you’ve always believed to be true, please check with your doctor. If you’d like to run it past me, I’m happy to give it a quick Quack Test to see if it’s worth your money and time. And, hey... remember this kind of inquiry doesn’t take much time, and applies to everything you see in the news or hear in conversation that gives you an emotional response. If we are all better informed, and stop paying attention to the BS, they WILL stop trying to sell us this crap. Love you!

I’m very interested to see if this new understanding might also be targeted to affect other neuroimmune and neuroinflammatory diseases and disorders, in additio...n to MS. Chronic pain is complex, always. While we also must attend to the psychological and social impacts of pain, we must also be on the lookout for biomedical and mechanical contributors as well. This may also give us a clearer picture of why dietary changes often flare, sustain, allay or diminish symptoms of many chronic pain conditions. I’m looking forward to seeing where this research takes us! See more

Remember this, always: You are not a bad person for having chronic pain. You are YOU, and you are hurting. That is all.

After a biking accident, Finnish free diver Johanna Nordblad nearly lost her leg to necrosis. As part of her treatment, she began free diving under the freezin...g Arctic ice. The pain was agony when she first started; now she holds a world record for the sport she grew to love. British director Ian Derry joined her on a dive in this short documentary for an experience he describes as ‘literally breathtaking.’" ************ What is your ice? What is the thing that teaches you mastery through agony? What is the object (or action, or person) you initially hated and have since grown to love? Physical Therapy can come in many forms. At its best, it can transcend its original purpose, torque into itself with a new purity, and be born again as art.