Your waist girth is equal or larger than hip girth?
An increase in weight even with a low-calorie diet?
An increase in fat distribution around the chest and hips?
If you are experiencing any of these situations, then you might be experiencing metabolic syndrome and might considered using Coleus forskohlii.
With the world population being obese or even overweight, especially in the United States. One of the most common disorders that mostly everyone has from being obese, and it is called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that happens to many individuals that can create many complications to the body, and most individuals who have metabolic syndrome would have an apple or pear-shaped bodies. With many supplements and natural foods helping the body, there is a supplement that can help the body combat metabolic syndrome and can be combined with a specific diet to make anyone who is obese or overweight lose the extra pounds.
What is Coleus forskohlii?
One of the supplements that have been known to help combat metabolic syndrome is Coleus forskohlii. Coleus forskohlii is a plant supplement that is found in parts of India, Thailand, and Nepal. While being part of the mint family, Coleus forskohlii has been used in traditional folk medicine that has been known to treat asthma and various ailments that the body may encounter. Studies have found that Coleus forskohlii extract may be able to aid in weight management; however, there have been limited studies on this extract. The Coleus forskohlii has been known to extract the critical markers for obesity and metabolic parameter for overweight and obese individuals who might benefit from this supplement.
The Benefits of Coleus forskohlii
With Coleus forskohlii, studies have found that this supplement can aid in weight loss by creating two enzymes to help the body burn fatty acids. These two enzymes are known as lipase and adenylate cyclase. Studies have found that these two enzymes help free fatty acids, and when that happens, the fatty acids can be used as fuel, while reducing body fat without affecting the lean muscle mass. Although this safely helps the body, coleus forskohlii needs to be accompanied by a calorie deficit.
There are benefits for individuals that are obese or overweight. When they take coleus forskohlii as a weight-loss supplement and do a calorie deficit, they can:
Suppressing appetite
Help reduce the efficiency of digestion
Increase the metabolic rate in the body
There are even more benefits of Coleus forskohlii that have been skyrocketing as this supplement been receiving in the public eye as people are looking for ways to lose weight. Some of the benefits of taking Coleus forskohlii are:
Treating asthma
Preventing the risk of cancer
Prevent congestive heart failure by improving the heart strength
Lowers blood pressure
Many studies have also shown that Coleus forskohlii can even help reduce body fat in obese men. There have been two studies that show the results of people taking Coleus forskohlii to help reduce their body fat and boost their hormone levels. One study showed how obese men took Coleus forskohlii for twelve weeks. The results show that Coleus forskohlii can alter the male’s body composition while increasing bone mass and testosterone levels in males.
While another study showed how the effects of Coleus forskohlii supplementation on the body composition of mildly overweight women, what is surprising is that with these two different studies, Coleus forskohlii needs enough evidence that requires more research. It shows that Coleus forskohlii does not cause weight loss for many obese individuals; however, Coleus forskohlii can help improve body composition in men and help prevent women from having weight gain. Many more studies have conducted different results, but the results almost have the same reactions on how Coleus forskohlii is the solution for weight loss. However, they all agreed that this supplement does help the body composition on individuals.
Conclusion
With more and more future research about Coleus forskohlii, it is essential to know that using Coleus forskohlii alone will not help losing weight. This supplement is just part of a massive lifestyle change for anyone with metabolic syndrome. By eating the right foods, taking supplements and vitamins, exercising regularly, and having a good night’s sleep, these changes can help anyone lose weight and make them feel good. When bad lifestyle choices and dysfunction enters the body, causing unnecessary illnesses, it can cause a person to develop chronic problems. By adding Coleus forskohlii into the body, it can help dampen the effects of metabolic syndrome. Some products can help the body’s system by providing support to the metabolic system while containing hypoallergenic nutrients, enzymatic cofactors, metabolic precursors, and phytonutrients that the body needs.
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Sacroiliac joint dysfunction and its symptoms can also be a cause for low back pain conditions and disorders.
This condition is also known as:
Sacroiliitis
SI joint inflammation
SI joint syndrome
Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
SI joint strain
It can make regular activities like sitting, standing, walking, and sleeping frustrating, difficult and unbearable. It has been found in around 30-35% of individuals.�Many individuals can spend months or even years dealing with symptoms but are never aware that it’s not the correct diagnosis. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction can sometimes be difficult to diagnose. These joints are so close to the hip and low back, that it is common for sacroiliac joint dysfunction to be mistaken for other causes/conditions of low back pain, like a herniated, slipped or bulging disc.
Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction Symptoms
When low back pain is present, it can be quite difficult for a doctor to figure out the exact source/cause of your pain.
These are a few recognizable symptoms of sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Low back pain is the most common.
Pain could also present in the hips, buttocks, thighs, and possibly the groin area.
The pain can be so severe that just touching the area is unbearable.
Other activities that can cause symptoms:
Common movements like climbing stairs, sitting down/getting up out of a seat, can cause pain. Pain can also be aggravated from standing or walking for extended periods but improve when relaxed or lying down. Stiffness or a burning sensation in the pelvis can also present.
Causes of Joint Dysfunction
A variety of conditions can cause sacroiliac joint dysfunction. The most common:
Arthritis
Joint pain can be caused by spinal osteoarthritis because as the cartilage around the sacroiliac joint wears down, the bones can start to rub against each other. Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory arthritis that affects the spine that can also cause joint dysfunction.
Pregnancy
Pregnant women can experience low back pain or pelvic pain from sacroiliac dysfunction because the joints get stretched and lose their elasticity during pregnancy. Hormone changes and added weight during pregnancy can place added stress on the sacroiliac joints.
Accident Trauma
High impact from an auto accident, slip and fall injury, or sports injury could damage the sacroiliac joint/s.
Viral Infection
Infections are extremely rare but could be another cause of joint pain.
There are a variety of treatment options that can help reduce and prevent low back pain.
Exercise/Physical Therapy
Exercise and physical therapy are therapies that doctors highly recommend before other treatments like pain medications or surgery. Exercise, chiropractic and physical therapy can help manage pain and other symptoms. Consult your doctor before starting any physical therapy or exercise program. Your doctor can recommend a chiropractor or therapist that can help get you started with the proper exercise treatment plan.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy can help reduce stress on the joints, that are strained and tight. It also helps maintain joint flexibility. A physical therapist will perform passive and active treatment therapies to help manage joint pain.
Passive treatments – the physical therapist does the majority of the work. An example of passive treatment applying heat or ice along with massaging the area.
Active treatments – the patient participates in the treatment with at-home exercise routines is an example of active treatment.
A combination of passive and active treatment provides the best outcomes and offers the most benefits, as the patient has the know-how of proper posture, exercises that they can do and injury prevention. A chiropractor and physical therapist can build a physical therapy program to help address your symptoms.
Exercise
With sacroiliac joint dysfunction, you do not have to do hard intense exercise. The benefits come from a consistent gentle exercise routine with an emphasis on consistency. Exercising stretches and strengthens muscles of the low back muscles and helps maintain joint flexibility.
An overall exercise plan should incorporate the three main types:
Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is known to cause low back pain, but diagnosing can be hard for some doctors. Especially those that do not have a great deal of experience in sacroiliac joint pain. However,�chiropractors specialize in this area as the SI joint is an important part of the musculoskeletal system.
[00:00:08] Welcome to the Dr. J. Hour with our crew here and our entire staff. We’re gonna be talking today about basal metabolic rate, BMI, and BIA. What does BIA stand for?
[00:00:33] BIA is a bioelectrical impedance analysis. Right. And we’re gonna be talking about weight analysis and figuring things out. We got a couple of guests online. We have Alexander Jimenez. Which is going to come in, pop him in, please. Let’s hear and as you can see him here on the line there. He’s on the corner side of the HDMI. So on the HDMI, you can actually see him. Hey, Alex, how are you doing? Where are you calling from? Where are we getting in with you?
[00:00:58] I’m doing good. I’m calling here from Lombard, Illinois. And what is it you do, Alexander? Right now I’m going to school for chiropractic and ND, which is naturopathic doctor, kind of doing a little bit of a dual degree program here up north.
[00:01:11] All right. That sounds good. We also have on the line here we have Kenna Vaughn, who is the senior health coach over at our domain. We also have two wonderful individuals. We have Truide who is basically the director and the patient flow analysis individual. And we have Astrid, who is the chief editor at Injury Medical Clinic, where she writes and documents everything according to that. Can everyone hear okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We’re all live. All right. So what we’re gonna be discussing today is the basal metabolic index. Okay. And one of the things that we do here is we’re gonna be able to assess the findings. Ok, so our goal today is to determine exactly what the primary assessment is and the assessment. So stay on me. Stay on me. You know you got that. And what we want to do is we want to see what BMI is and why is it useful? Ok. The main topics are what we’ve used to assess body fat analysis and determine the indications and the reasons…
[00:02:11] We use BMI alongside BIA, along with we got waist circumference variables allows also with waist-hip circumference variables and what it means because what we’re finding today is that these are great analysis tools that can be used to determine nature’s kind of a healthy cadence. It’s like blood pressure. We can kind of assess it. Then as long as we have other assessments and other evaluations, we can come up with a plan to kind of comparative. Now, all of them have their issues and we’re gonna discuss each one of them in the costs and what’s the easiest and most cost-effective methods that we can use. But one of the things that we can do is to see, why would we do this and what are the purposes. Now, there are quite a few reasons for this now in terms of it, what I’ve noticed is I’d like for you to, let’s look at the HDMI, we have the assessments here and we can actually see on the live the origination of this. We can see that there are different types over the history of BMI. We’ve gone from calipers that were just a method of measuring behind the arm, behind the waist, along with kind of in the thigh region. We would come up with a measurement of which we were probably about five to 10 percent away from accuracy. But in that process, even using those as long as you did use it on a consistent basis, you had a comparative accuracy and a method of kind of determining a change in your body dynamics and composition. It may not be accurate, but it was accurately inaccurate if that makes sense. Right. So what we did here is we’ve looked at here on our graph here. We have one thing that’s called the underwater way. But that was the standard. It is a research method. It is one of the most important things. And to determine actually what your body metabolism is we have to use things of oxygen consumption because that’s what determines the great spot of metabolism. The metabolism is controlled by the amount of cellular activity that is happening in the body. So calculating how much oxygen debt and how much oxygen use is a great way of researchers finding it out. But we don’t always have a laboratory that has I’d say, you know, one hundred million dollars of stuff and like a university. So it’s pretty much used in a research setting, the DEXA test, you may have heard it because it’s used as the clinical standard to look at bone density specifically on the hip side and the lumbar spine. We use that to determine things such as osteoporosis, osteopenia. We get a variable number and based on that number we can calculate the changes in bone density. There are certain types of medications we use to determine a better outcome for those that have estrogen deficiency. Some people have radical hysterectomy where they do remove all of both ovaries at a young age for whatever the reason is and the estrogen level is changed at that point a DEXA test every few years is determinable. The standard of care for the DEXA is one every two to three years after the age of about 50 to determine the changes in bone density. Now the skin fold that we just looked at here and you can actually, as I kind of draw it out, forgive me that I’m not drawing this, but we can actually see that the BIA and the skin fold tests are other tests that are easy to find, but as we discussed, are inaccurate. The Body Pod test, as you see here, you can see the cost of it, it’s about thirty to forty thousand. It’s extremely accurate and it allows for your body to relax. Each one of these tests has certain standards. One of the things that we have to do is prep for a BIA test or a BMI test. Now, the BMI is something that calculates an easy way of figuring out just height versus weight. However, someone like Alexander, you are how tall Alex? I am 5′ 8″. So a 5’8″ individual. How much do you weigh when you were at your deep competition and you were at your healthiest. Probably around 195 to 197. If you have a person that is 5′ 8 and 187 and I’ve seen him range from 210 and he’s still shredded as can be, he would be having a very high and he would characteristically show as minimally obese. Now you can tell that he’s not obese. So in essence, the BMI has flaw issues and bone density issues. Also, there are other disorders that sometimes fool you like sarcopenia, which is muscle wasting, and you wouldn’t be able to see the differences between those on the BMI. So what clinical assessments have determined is that the BMI and the BIA can be used together. But we have led a new technological world where we actually measure impedance. Impedance is kind of like the filtering or the kind of slowing of electrons or how fast and how quickly they go through. If electrons travel faster or something, there is low impedance or if it goes slowly through it or takes a longer time, there’s higher impedance or actually a lower flow, which allows us to understand that fat is not good a good conductor.
[00:07:03] So the more fat you have, the indirect relationship is, the slower the electrical current goes, therefore it’s less healthy. So using these electronic methods and what we have used in recent technology, we’ve used different companies such as Tanita, also InBody has an awesome system. We will be discussing those that assess the BIA in a way that it’s the most accurate if the most accurate is underwater weighing. And let’s give that relative value of 1.0 the actual BIA test are so accurate they are at .98. OK, so once we see that ratio, we can see that we’re the closest with the BIA test, specifically with an eight-point contact. Now any point contact means with your fingers, your palm of your hand, that’s two, both hands before. And then you have two points of the foot that can actually hit on each foot and that would be four from the feet if you can send that electrical current through the body. In that way, the BIA assessments such as done by the InBody design, we can actually determine a much more accurate assessment. So as we look at these tests, we can actually see what’s actually going on. So one of the things is we’re going to start looking at different companies and we can actually look at what a BMI is looked at. So BMI is used so you can look at it from a relative number. And it’s measuring kilograms per meter squared. And it’s measuring basically the height of the body, base of the body weight. Right. So the higher the number, as you can see, 25 to 29, you’re going to notice that the person is pretty much overweight. OK. I would venture to say that Alex would just because he’s in a situation where he would actually rate because he’s a much more muscular guy. He would not be healthy. He would basically almost reach close to 30 just because he has a large size and weight. But it’s clearly measuring only height and weight. So in order to determine the true health, that’s where the BIA and its bioelectrical impedance analysis, okay. Right. I should remember the words. So this is very typical. So one of the things is I like to show you here on these things, what kind of, Astrid, show a copy of what a BIA, kind of machine would look like. Okay. We have like here, here we have bioelectrical impedance analysis and this is what it looks like. If you notice, you’ll be able to see. And I’ll kinda take you through here and we can kind of see the ability to look at this particular region. You can see that the palm of the hand has one and you’ll notice the two points on each foot. What we’re missing is the final contact, but it’s eight and it takes only 15 seconds to be .98 versus one. Accuracy is a pretty efficient way.
[00:09:48] It also takes seconds to do this and not 45 minutes to do something like the Body Pod. So one of the things that we have to do is ask ourselves, why would someone do these kinds of things? Why would we do this? There are more accurate, more powerful ones, such as the 550 model, which we do not have in our office. And the model that we have is the 770 in our office. So you can see it’s much more accurate and we’re gonna discuss exactly what goes on. But one of the things we want to do is how could someone do something at home that is logical? Kenna, you got some thoughts on how someone could check out their basic health by doing some measurements? What are those measurements?
[00:10:25] Right. So one thing that’s really easy to do at home is gonna be to check your waist circumference, which is relatively cheap. You just need one of those flexible tape measurers you can get at the dollar store or it comes in almost all your basic sewing kits. And what you’re going to do is just gonna stand up nice and straight and you’re going to take that tape measurer, you’re going to want to make sure that you have no bulky clothes on. It’s best done just right on the skin. And you’re going to take it and you’re gonna fold it around where your belly button lies because that’s generally the largest part of your waist. So you’re just gonna wrap it around. You don’t want it to be too tight where it’s squeezing you or anything like that, because that’s going to give you inaccurate results. Take a deep breath in and on your exhale. That’s when you’re gonna get the best measurement and it’s best to do it about three times that way you make sure you’re really getting that accurate read.
[00:11:12] And what is that going to give us in terms of, what’s the circumference going to give us in terms of the assessment?
[00:11:18] What will we get from measuring our girth. That’s gonna help to see if you’re high risk for cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes. If you hold more of your fat around your abdomen, it shows that individuals are at higher risk for developing these later on in their life.
[00:11:34] Got it. Got it. There’s another one that we’ve used that most people can use at home.
[00:11:40] It’s a really simple one, which is that one? That one’s gonna be the waist to hip ratio. So you are going to start with that waist ratio that I just explained. But in addition to that measurement, you’re going to go ahead and also take your hip circumference.
[00:11:53] Alexander, one of the things that you did when you did your competition, when you were doing your stuff as a competitor, one of the things that you were doing is you were competing and weight was very important. Tell us what how that kind of stuff affected you and how could the BIA be useful in the world of, let’s say high-performance collegiate wrestling?
[00:12:15] So when it came to wrestling, there were a couple of different things that you just do to strategically approach the season, so the season is around six months. Most of the time wrestlers tend to gain weight in the offseason. So you do a couple of different things at the beginning of the season, they would have you use a caliper by a trained individual and they would measure your body fat and do a pretty much a calculation to see how much weight you could lose in a timely manner that was considered healthy for an average individual. And these individuals were allowed to cut a certain amount of weight within that time frame. So you kind of they pretty much gave you a plan of what you could and could not cut. I think the lowest I was ever allowed to cut was 184. And kind of just showing you kind of what’s going on here. So what they would do is kind of show you what your BMI is. I’m going to switch over to my screen here and you can kind of see just kind of just the reference ranges here. So below 18.5, they have underweight 18.5 to the rest of this kind of going into those reference ranges. And like Kenna was saying, they were doing an analysis depending on what type you had. So there’s a couple you have, your android, which is more of that apple-shaped and then your pear, which is gynoid. So they would measure for females and males completely different. So as your approach, you would either take a couple different dietary regimens and kind of approach to a different aspect of how you would go to cutting weight. So whether it was certain people did better just doing fats and protein. Some people did better just managing their carbs. Some people did better just lowering their caloric intake. So by having that BMI, you can see what your total calorie output for the day for living costs is a good way of saying it. So what’s the cost of living for every day for all your cells to function and what or how much exercise you would do. So most of us were burning between 1000 to 1800 calories between running in the morning or working out and then a two and a half hour to three-hour wrestling practice, which is all cardio intensive training. So as the month went on, we were allowed to cut weight and they would measure the weight that we were cutting at each tournament. So we were kind of scanned in, in a way to allow for us to cut weight correctly. One thing that they did start implementing when I joined, when I started wrestling in high school, was morning weigh-ins, which prevented people from really cutting weight the wrong way and not having a good benefit, because before you could cut all this amount of weight and you’d still have a 15, 16-hour window to replenish all those glycogen storages and gain 15 to 20 pounds depending on how dehydrated you are. So it was not a very healthy approach to cutting weight in that sense. So now with everything that’s going on, athletes are training smarter.
[00:15:01] They’re cutting weight better. They’re managing pretty much themselves a lot better in that aspect.
[00:15:07] So this is a great example of when you use these assessments. I remember as we’ve done a lot with the wrestling, one of the way that the university got involved and they do BIAs for people, but for the athletes, they start them out with the standard specific gravity test and that’s a urine test to determine which protein is within their urine. Also, there are electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, calcium. If the person is highly dehydrated, what happens is the specific gravity rises and they also measure specific gravity. In the beginning, it’s something to be able to measure. And we can say that the kid who weighs 200 pounds, his specific gravity is a certain amount. Right. So we don’t want a kid cutting down with the specific gravity of their body concentration. Blood constriction is too high because that means they’re dehydrated. Those individuals can, once we got that number, we can assess the person, not just with body weight, but we can use BIA to follow them through the season in a much more accurate way. So that allows a very expensive test, which is a specific gravity to go through the BIAs. We also have issues and we’re going to touch upon these. But there are other special dynamics that parents can be involved and parents like Truide, you’re a parent of an athlete. What would you want to know in a BIA?
[00:16:22] Well, I have two athletes. Well, basically, I guess at what point is it safe with children to start watching, you know, and being concerned about, you know, BIA? Because certainly as young adolescents, you don’t want them prone to having eating disorders or being so self-conscious about their body composition that then you have other types of side effects of psychological approaches. So that will be one of my concerns. When is it safe from a parental stand to be watching about BIA and BMI?
[00:16:59] You know, that’s a very good question. And I guess what we would want to know is that we know that our kids are healthy when they’re with us, but when they’re going through certain dynamic changes. We want to follow up. We want to see when is it getting too concentrated? When is the kid losing too much protein? When is the child running the risk of hurt because we do have the stories of the 180 pounder cutting down to 135. That individual is not only running themselves at risk. But in the world that they’re wrestling someone, their own body weight, they’re running the risk of being injured. So as a parent, I see that very important. The BIA offers us the ability to be able to quantify and to see the measurable changes as the child goes through the process. Now, if you can look at these areas, now there are other areas. And one of the things that we have here, our chief editor has found out some really interesting dynamics, specifically how assessing BMI actually has other consequences and things that we can assess for those things. Astrid, one of the things that you’ve seen in the process when you have gone through the process, tell us a little bit about what you’ve found out about the BMI and BIA in terms of brain health.
[00:18:09] OK. So there are actually quite a few research studies that have been conducted on pretty much the importance of BMI and BIA and why it’s, you know, we all want to know these, I guess, these values so that, you know, because obesity or having excess weight, you know, which you use BMI and BIA to determine, you know, it can affect a variety of functions. And like you said, research studies have actually found that obesity can actually affect your brain health. And there’s actually like probably one of the biggest things like there are several things that obesity, can affect brain health because it increases inflammation in your body and it could even speed up the neurodegeneration process like your brain ages a lot faster.
[00:19:09] Wait a second. Wait a second. So, it actually makes your brain kind of lose its intelligence.
[00:19:15] I wouldn’t say it makes you lose your intelligence. It just makes it work slower. Slower. Yes. Ok.
[00:19:21] So brains that get smaller. Or let’s say dementia. Well, let’s say the brain becomes, loses its size and dimension.
[00:19:29] So those things we could, are correlated to BMI as well.
[00:19:34] Well, you want to know your, it’s important to know your BMI or your BIA.
[00:19:39] You know, interchangeably like depending on what would it be more important to know or the person? Because like research studies have found that if you have excess weight or if you have obesity, that it can actually change the size of your brain and it can decrease or just alter the gray matter and the white matter of the brain and that can age your brain a lot faster and it can slow down your cognitive functions and it can even affect your memory. And you’ll have a harder time remembering things simply by having excess weight.
[00:20:25] I read something today that said even dopamine is affected by, the production of dopamine potentially is correlatable or associated with BMI values.
[00:20:36] Ok. So what scientists have found is that if you have a lot of excess weight, you know, if you’re overweight or if you have, you’re a person with obesity.
[00:20:49] The thing is that.
[00:20:52] Excess weight or obesity, it can go as far as affecting what’s known as your pleasure and reward center of the brain. And that is, it’s pretty much the region of the brain that controls the release of dopamine. Just being like having obesity in itself could even cause your brain to release less amount of dopamine. And that can cause a variety of mental health issues. And it could even lead to depression just by having excess weight.
[00:21:26] So BMI, you know, let’s pop it up first to Alexander, make his screen bigger, let’s go to the HDMI. He’s noticed some things here. Alex, can you tell us a bit about what you’re actually putting up on there?
[00:21:36] Perfect. So you guys can see my screen right there? Yes, we sure can. Awesome. So like Astrid was saying that adipose tissue does have an effect on certain things.
[00:21:46] We have to take a look at adipose tissue at the cellular level. Normally, adipose tissue, large amounts in certain areas were meant for producing hormones and not all adipose tissue is created equally. So we could see that, here’s the average individual that would have what people call a beer gut. And here’s the pear-shaped as what a normal individual would have as well, for most females. So we could see that we have pear, which would be gynoid, and android, which would be apple. But we could see that males who tend to have these tend to produce a little bit more estrogen, affects the males differently. We can also see the ratio of significant health risks. So males have a 95 percent increase in percentage for developing other health risks while females are different. Now, when it comes to losing this type of way, we have to keep in mind that not all adipose tissue is created equally, as my professor likes to say. So we can see that even though we have the same amount of adipose tissue in both areas, they’re in completely different areas.
[00:22:48] So most of the time you’ll hear the saying that some women have trouble losing weight, which is correct because of their adipose tissue located in different areas. It’s not as metabolically active, which is good for them because they don’t produce as much hormones from it. They don’t get much stress from it. Now, on the other hand, the visceral fat releases hormones and this is the one that is problematic to individuals but can also be reduced a lot quicker. So when you’re kind of coming down to the breakdown of the main macromolecules of the bodies, we could see there were 5 percent minerals, calcium, 15 percent fat, 1 percent carbs, and 60 percent water mostly. So we can kind of see what the reference ranges are here for the reference man aged 20 to 24 years and the reference woman 20 to 24. And coming back to Mrs. Truide when she was mentioning what is the safe and recommended way? Well, it’s hit and miss. It’s different from males and females. For males you want to keep anywhere between always stay above 3 percent body fat, anything below that becomes detrimental and your body starts to break down. But for females, on the other hand, we can see that once they start dropping below 15 percentage, they actually will miss their period if it drops below that. So if a female athlete or a tri triathlete does this, it will, honestly. So there’s been cases where female athletes develop osteoporosis just because they produce less estrogen, only because they drop below that 15 percent body weight. And females need more adipose tissue than men. It’s just the way we came through evolution and we were designed and it’s just the way it is and needs to be. So for females, as long as they’re above 15 percent body fat, they’re always gonna be healthy. For males, it’s a long as long as it’s above 3 percent, they’re always going to be healthy. It’s very hard to attain 3 percent for males, but as long as they usually stay between this, you can kind of see what body masses, lean body masses muscle on kind of the breakdown of everything from there.
[00:24:48] Answering the question regarding Truide’s particular question, cause that’s the bottom line is, what is the 25-year-old mom? What is the mom that’s 27, 28 years old with a five year old little boy, with a 10 year old little boy. What is she got to do? Go ahead and put up the 550 up there for me. What we’re looking at here is we want to be able to quantify these things. And one of the things I’d like to show you that is available in today’s research is the ability to determine certain things. Body composition analysis takes a lot of different studies and a lot of different dynamics in its research. We’ve been able to look at questions that are more specific for someone like Truide and her child to be able to assess the variable changes, body composition. And we’re going to follow up with the follow up videos discussing this particular issue. But the studies today, we can actually see in this particular area that we can assess muscle body fat analysis and the ranges versus the total body fat. We can look at obesity analysis and we can measure the ranges, Ok? We can look at percent body fat. We can look at extremity segmental lean body analysis versus one arm versus the other. This particularly comes in and true because let’s assume someone has an ACL injury on the right leg or left leg. You’ll notice that there will be a variation of body mass changes and to be able to determine if the body protein in that leg is getting more developed, in a leg that has noted atrophy there will be obvious changes in terms of the amount of protein or the amount of difference in percent body fat as well as water retention in that area. If someone has a swollen knee, you can also see the difference. Now the total area and the body weight, we can start measuring and just start noticing this. This is what helps mother Truide’s around the world understand the continuous. You’ll notice down here on the bottom that there are reference dates here where we can actually see the changes as time goes by. And once you see the changes as time goes by, it gives you a lot better tools. Now, the other thing that we’ve noticed here in terms of this particular area is the awareness that we can actually do visceral body fat that Alexander referred to. We want to be able to see what is inside the body. Now, visceral body fat is if you open a body up, there’s fat that surrounds each area, like the liver, the intestines. We call it the peritoneal area, Pernille, area that basically holds the body fat and holds the amount of tissue to protect it. And that’s how nature has done it. But we want to know how much it is. And if it does produce hormones that are bad like cortisol or produces hormones, that we know about that for a different video, we can see that that would mean not good. So the person with fat that’s around the viscera is at higher risk. So that analysis and to be able to give a point and see the changes is very important. So one of the things is that we can do. And as we talked about here, you can actually see the impedance by the individual depending on which extremity it is. So the tests on a regular basis, those simple as that may be standing on a thing. They’re very complex and very accurate. So it does bode well for someone that really needs it, that has a family that is going through these kinds of techniques so that we can reassess. Initially, you can start someone with a, to be real detailed and to be accountable to the individual by specific gravity to determine the concentration of body, metabolites in the body, and the proteins, and the level of dehydration the person may have. Then you can follow up with a BIA repetitively through the history of a season and you can really get a lot of information as to how your child is going if it’s a healthy form of weight loss. So, Alex, I notice that you put up some things up there. Can you open that up? And you’re putting up some interesting dynamics there. What is it that you’re noticing there? What did you put there?
[00:28:32] So we can see that these are some of the graphs that I just got from classes here so we can see that correlation is not cause for causation, but it does correlate to the data of many individuals. This was taken from a study. And what they found is that people with a higher body mass index tend to have a higher risk for certain diseases, such as cardiovascular disease or cancer or all other causes, just illnesses in general. And we also have to keep in mind that women do have more receptors for those hormones produced by adipose tissue. So they are more susceptible to cancers. So we have to ask ourselves, what is the point of, you know, losing weight besides just the cancer thing? So we come down here, we can just see the correlation of the lifestyle of individuals just if they lose 10 percent body weight. So if their obesity is decreased, their life expectancy increases for about seven years. But not only that, but you can see where the circle of lifestyle changes for this individual who not only begins to change their lifestyle but also operates those healthy choices into their daily environment.
[00:29:42] Makes sense. So these are very, very important things to assess on a regular basis. So what I’ve learned is the BIA, BMI, in general, is a very important method to be able to assess the overall health and the progression of health. So we want to get a better BMI and we want to get a better, be able to assess the regions of the body and to assess the dynamics of what someone can do to monitor their true health. We’re going to be following through with follow-up studies and the follow-up information and on these follow-up programs to teach about what we use here in our little town of El Paso, which is a big town. But we’re gonna be bringing families. We’re gonna be bringing athletes to discuss those things. We’re gonna get real technical right on the screen right now. We have a real interesting dynamics to the level that we’re gonna be pushing the knowledge of. Can you pull back to the screen? You actually can see it right there. You can actually see biochemistry. And we have our resident and biochemistry expert right there. Alexander, tell us what we’re looking at there.
[00:30:46] So here we’re kind of going through the synthesis of cholesterol and what it takes to actually produce cholesterol. So it’s kind of a very complex pathway. But we can also see that it takes your body a lot of stress to really produce high cholesterol levels as well as cortisol levels. So kind of coming into the main breakdown of what kind of goes down, if you have a very increased dietary cholesterol intake, not only are you putting more stress on the liver, but you’re also increasing more LDL. LDL just tends to be bad in general because the LDL is…
[00:31:23] I’m sorry, Alex was is LDL?
[00:31:25] Low-density lipoprotein. Got it. So the problem with the low-density lipoproteins is that their main job is to drop off the correct cholesterol to the proper levels. Now if they turn into LDLs, the problem is that if they don’t get reabsorbed by the liver or a good way, I think of it as, they are thought of as a suicide bomber. Pretty much so. What they do is they deposit. If they don’t deposit and don’t get absorbed by the liver because the liver is being bombarded by too much cholesterol, they will actually deposit themselves into other tissues, specifically the epithelial lining of the extracellular part of capillaries. Then at that point macrophages will actually try to eat them up and create these things called foam cells. Foam cells tend to aggregate and they’re really large cells that have no purpose other than to aggregate within the layers of the capillaries.
[00:32:24] Is that what the protective mechanism, is that what the body does?
[00:32:27] It pretty much just tries to seal it off so it can’t affect anything else. But in doing so, it clogs arteries.
[00:32:33] Okay. So BMI would be able to determine the overall health of the body and fat. So it would tend to, we would tend to say that a person with a, let’s say a high BMI, extremely high BMI and the obese level would have more of this action happening. Right?
[00:32:49] Exactly. But we also have to take a look at a different thing. So let’s say this person is already morbidly obese and their cholesterol is high. So they go to an M.D., their M.D. gives them a statin. So statins are good to an extent. So, yes, they’re going to decrease the level of cholesterol, but they’re also going to decrease. See if I can find it here. The levels of all these other hormones being produced because cholesterol is the driving force for all these hormones. So if you are decreasing your cholesterol, you are decreasing for women their progesterone for men, their testosterone, their dihydrotestosterone was kind of what people describe as the old man’s strength. As you get older, you produce more DHT, but you’re also decreasing these. Not only are you decreasing cholesterol, but you’re also decreasing by 50 percent coenzyme-Q. Coenzyme-Q it was the main electron transporter for the electron transport chain and it transports electrons that certain parts in the pathway which we won’t go into. But if you decrease that by 50 percent, most of these people feel tired all the time. And what’s the tissue that has the most mitochondria in the entire body? Muscle. The heart. Oh, okay. So the heart. So not only are they decreasing their energy levels, they’re decreasing the ability of their actual lifeline, pretty much, their heart to produce and pump blood and get energy. So by just decreasing body weight, decreasing cholesterol intake in a moderate amount because cholesterol is good, we need it for everything. Too much of one thing can kill you, though. So within moderate amounts, exercise, dietary regimens, you won’t need to be put on statins and you can be weaned off of those in time as your cholesterol levels get to an appropriate level.
[00:34:37] That’s amazing, Alex. So that’s at the microscopic level. At the macroscopic level, we can assess that by visceral fat. So the more visceral fat you got, the more hormones you got going haywire. And it’s fair to say that we have a situation where you’re less healthy with visceral fat. Ok. So does anyone else have any input in here? Any other questions that you would want to know about Mrs. Truide as a mom of athletes?
[00:35:02] No, I guess just the woman on a side note, if all of this is very complex. The bottom line is if you’re having to lay down in your bed to tie your jeans, you’re not having a healthy BMI.
[00:35:14] That’s very true. Right. So basically, if your gut hangs over, you’re in trouble, right? So that’s where you can use the simple tests of the waist circumference or the waist-hip balance. And if pretty much the belly is three inches bigger than the hips, you are probably at a BMI that you shouldn’t have. So I hope. OK, go ahead. Astrid, you want to say something.
[00:35:36] So essentially, it’s just super important to find out your, I guess, your BMI or your BIA interchangeably pretty much for overall health, because just having excess weight, as we’ve found out here, it can affect a whole variety of functions. Brain health, cardiovascular, health, and finding your BMI and your BIA seems like such an easy, you know, like an easy way to kind of find out if your weight is like at a healthier range. And it all kind of goes like hand-in-hand with all these things, as you’ve explained and as Alex explained. Pretty much like being, having obesity or excess weight, it can just disrupt our entire body, our entire system.
[00:36:37] Exactly. Kenna. Any other comments in terms of specifics on questions?
[00:36:43] Not for questions, just for that waist to hip ratio. We’re gonna want to make sure that for women, they’re under one. And the same thing for males. So you’re gonna divide your waist by your hip ratio to get that number. Right.
[00:36:58] So the numerator hopefully won’t be too bigger than the denominator, right? Yeah. So that would be the numerator would be the waist and the denominator would be the hip. Right. So we want to keep those in line. So all those kinds of things are very important. We’ve learned a lot today. We’re going to come back with a much more elaborate and we’re gonna splice this up in many ways. I want to thank Alexander for coming in from Illinois at the National University of Health Sciences way out there. This probably about 2000 miles away. We have Truide, Mrs. Truide who’s giving us a point of view. We have Astrid who’s given us the scientific approach of the brain and dopamine connection. But we also need to know that there’s a lot of reasons why the BMI. As we learn every day through the NCBI research institutes of information, that there are lots of reasons why to keep a BMI low and also to make sure you watch your BIAs in time. So we look forward to bringing it to you. And we thank you for watching us and we look forward to giving more information. Alexander, thank you so much for coming from a distance and making it real cool for us all.
[00:38:01] Ok, thank you. Thank you for having me. You’re welcome. Appreciate it. Thanks.
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[00:00:10] You know what keeps them moving and growing and living? Tell me. It’s other catfish or that predator. So, if we never had predators in our lives. We’d stay stuck and we progress nothing. So every time we ask, “God, take away the stress, God, take away this issue,” we’re asking God to make us weaker, not stronger.
[00:00:33] Because instead of asking like, “Hey, God, make me more creative, make me more passionate, make me more patient”. We ask, “Hey, take away this”.
[00:00:45] But then we still want everything else that comes along with it. How does that work?
[00:00:49] It’s easy. I don’t know. I mean, if you think about it, you know, from the first time we’re born, Danny. It’s not easy. Right. You’ve got to be one in a trillion sperm, really, and only to God, it’s very, very clear that, if you don’t get to that egg first? Done. Right. You’re done. So from the moment we’re given a chance, we’re on the point of destruction from the beginning. Exactly. So, in essence, why did that sperm get to that egg? Right. So you asked. It fought through. Fought through, right.
[00:01:27] So, when you think of everything else as far as people complain, how people say, “oh, you know, I want more money, I want this”. But they don’t look at everybody’s backstory, the back end. And then behind the curtains, they think, “oh, man, Dr. Jimenez, you’re a doctor”. Sure, you don’t know how many times you’ve lost and rebuilt your practice or you’re a gym owner and you have it made. You don’t know how many times you have to go in at 4:00 in the morning to get a work out because you have to train people all day long to ensure that this business stays afloat. You know? Right. People don’t see that back end. Right. You know, they’re quick to say, “oh, it must be easy”. No, it’s not easy until you step into the person’s shoes because you’re the one that has to sign the checks. You’re the one that has to stay up at night and figure out payroll. You’re the one who has to be creative and figure out how you’re going to make ends meet. You’re the one that constantly has to be on it. You know, as much as you want to kick back and say whatever and do this. Well, I would love to work out four to five hours a day. That my passion. Is it your passion? It’s my passion. And do we? No, no. Right. What do we have to do? We have to be meticulous. We have to be disciplined. And we have to keep, I’m sure, we have to keep a proper order to ensure that we stay on top of schedule. Yes or no? Absolutely. Exactly. You know, so I’m saying at the end of the day is, if you don’t have something chasing you, you become fat and dormant and you become lazy.
[00:02:54] I think nature is designed to eliminate you. Alex would say, you know, it’s survival of the fittest limiting the species or whatever he’d call it when he’s in biochemistry. You know, I got to tell you, it’s not easy to be a business owner. It’s not. It’s not easy when you have no sleep.
[00:03:15] Ever since I’ve known you, you’ve put time in from early hours and you’re here from 430 in the morning and here. What time is it now? You’re here. You’re here. And we’re here sharing some stories. You know, it’s one of those things where it’s going to be nonstop all our lives.
[00:03:29] But here’s the thing. If you don’t do it, it doesn’t stimulate you to become good at what you do. Right. You become lethargic and everything goes bad. Literally, you slowly begin the process of ceasing to exist. Right.
[00:03:45] So, we all need rest. Right? Right. To rejuvenate. Get creative. It’s scientifically proven. You need that to reset. You have to. Otherwise, you burn out. Right? Right. But after how many days of rest? One. Two. Where you just get, disconnected, spastic. You know, you’re kind of like, “All right, cool. I rested enough. I’m good”. You don’t stay stuck there.
[00:04:12] No, no, no, no. And I pray for vacation. Right. And when I get it, after about three days, I’m like, OK. Right. All right. I’m done. Let’s go. Yeah, OK. What am I going to break? What am I going to do? That’s how we are. Exactly. But that’s what makes you so successful, right? Yeah, well, it drives us. And it drives us in creating who we are. And it also gives us a vision as to what we’re going to do. You know, Danny, when we start these podcasts, we want to get a little bit or tell the people a little bit about the story of what you do. And tell them about, you know, where you’ve been and what’s been happening with you. OK. So for me, it’s very important to share with the people what is actually happening.
[00:04:59] I’ve always been one to say, you know, I see how hard you work. And I see how much effort you put into things. But I’d like to know a little bit about you as to what actually made you and what kind of makes you click a little bit. When I actually discuss these things, I want to ask you what made you begin PUSH, what made you start this massive, massive organization.
[00:05:25] I want to reach the masses of people and help people.
[00:05:33] So, in all reality.
[00:05:39] My sister, my brother-in-law, my brother. We’ve all come from platforms, as far as, speaking, preaching, singing. Whatever it is. I was always, kind of the black sheep, so to speak, and I mean that like in a good way because I wasn’t treated differently. I just was very much a rebel. If that makes any sense.
[00:06:00] I wanted to create my own. So if my family went right, I’d go left. The people go right. I’d go left. I was always trying to find a different way. And I was just stubborn like that. But I think that’s what allowed me to become the most successful. But that’s what allowed me to create this place so I can reach the masses of people and have my own platform of changing people’s lives.
[00:06:23] Let me ask you. When you first started PUSH. What was the reason you started it out? You know? Did you? You were always in the fitness. Ever since I’ve known you, you’ve always been into a deep understanding. You know, I love sharing that story with people about when I first met you. You were driven. I mean, you were this kid, it’s just like you were hunting for knowledge. You were trying to figure out what it was that made people tick. And you wanted to teach people. A little cocky. I’d say. But being 18 years old, I mean, who isn’t? Right. At that age? You haven’t even thumped in the head a couple of times, but you did and you shared it with people and you did that. But what made you, what drove you? Because I got to tell you, I’m a big believer, Danny. About like, when you evaluate families, I see how hard your dad works. I see how your mom is incredible in terms of what she does. She just, she wins these crossfit competitions just on mere, literally, you have to turn off the lights to get her off the wall because she just keeps on going. Right? I mean, what is it that you feel drove you and what started the whole philosophy of trying to help people out?
[00:07:32] I mean, like you put it, in my my parents work ethic. They just never stop. They still don’t stop. They still try to move forward despite what life throws at them and they’re successful in their own way. They never stop working towards their marriage, towards their love, towards serving each other. The biggest thing they showed me is that, well, we always have to serve people and they serve each other. They serve at the church, they serve wherever they go. My dad, it doesn’t matter where it is. He’s always trying to, if it’s not your house. It doesn’t matter. Try to take out your trash, clean your table, whatever it is. You’ve got to tell him, “Hey day, just chill. But that’s where I learned it from. You don’t just go anywhere and just be. Wherever you go, you always serve. And that’s my sense of faith mentality. You know, it’s biblical. You know? Wherever you are, we are supposed to serve people. As husbands and wives, we’re supposed to serve each other. That’s what makes us so successful. You know, you look at Jesus in the Bible and he’s, “What do you do? You serve people.
[00:08:44] He helped people.
[00:08:47] Not the norm. The most unorthodox non-religious people, you know, other people that needed the most help, not the most religious. And I think that’s what I love to do. I love helping the people that need the most help. The unconventional. Not the people that are already athletic. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I do love helping them, but I guess I like helping the unorthodox, so to speak.
[00:09:17] Yeah. You know what? When you mentioned that about your dad, one of things I noticed is that I came here to work out around 6:00 in the morning and it was freezing outside, literally freezing.
[00:09:29] You had a flat tire. Your dad was lifting the car by himself to get that tire up. Yeah. It was crazy. I go, you know, by the time I got there, I was like, there’s this guy working on that. There was no jack. He’s actually picking up the car himself. He’s pushing that thing up and lifting the car to fit the tire on. I was like, you gotta be kidding me. You didn’t even know. I told you and you go, man, my dad never asked or, you know, he just does it. That’s one of the things you said. And that’s who we are. We are our parents. We eventually become our parents to some extent. And that’s very much how you are. Your philosophies that have guided the PUSH fitness, you know, entourage and the people that come here have been like extreme athletes. Tell me a little bit about that. In terms of what actually drove you to pick athleticism as your way of serving.
[00:10:20] I think seeing the potential of.
[00:10:24] Well, what people can be pushed to if you believe in them. A lot of times people, you know, do believe in themselves but it’s amazing what you see people become or individuals or athletes when you say, hey, I believe you. Someone that, not your mom not your dad, because it’s kind of like, it’s expected, sister, relatives, you know. And you know, not that they have to tell you that but, you know, it’s kind of sometimes expected. Yes, exactly. But then you have this stranger saying, I believe in you genuinely, wholeheartedly. And it brings out that much more of you. I know. That’s how I was. I still remember various times where you tapped me on the shoulder and said, you know.
[00:11:15] What are you doing? You can, and I’m very different.
[00:11:20] I don’t need someone to preach to me. To tell me how to run the place it’s kind of like a little, just a little hug. A kick, a get going. And that gets you going to move on to the next level of the mountain. And that’s what allowed, that’s what I love seeing as a potential that you could bring out in all individuals. When you see that pretty much you’ve been able to see everyone crack.
[00:11:45] What is it you look for when you see them kind of hit that wall? When you start working with an individual with a specific set, whatever sport they’re in or whatever their dreams are, a weight loss or whatever it is. What is it you look for?
[00:11:59] To see the reason why they’re quitting. They’re genuinely tired or have they’ve been?
[00:12:07] Babied so much by society that they don’t know how to push themselves anymore, and it’s really a sensitive society nowadays you can’t, you know, push kids because they get their feelings hurt or they feel this way or that way, and sometimes it’s like.
[00:12:25] Dude, you got to wake your ass up.
[00:12:28] If not, you’re not making it in this life. Nothing comes easy. And then we’re all expecting for things to become easy because we’re, you know, a microwave generation, everything we do we want to do so quick. So I look for the reason as to why they’re quitting. This genuinely like, the why, they’re tired and they’re gonna throw up. Oh, alright. But you remember firsthand when I worked out with you, I went to go to the restroom, threw up. I came right back. Why? Because it’s what you build with that person, that respect. You know, why would you want someone to quit on you when it gets hard, you know? Yeah. That’s exanctly right. How are you gonna count on them. I know you depend on them. No, when it gets tough. You know, they’re just gonna jump the wagon. That’s it. You’re left alone.
[00:13:18] You know, you’re given a responsibility, a huge one, with a lot of the El Paso kids in whatever sports they do, in whatever the sport, whether it be agility sport based or just some sort of sport based system where where they’re just kind of, you know, let’s say hockey or even things like tennis or golf.
[00:13:37] But they all have a moment of trying to reach within. I love the way you do that in terms of, you can go ahead and see the depths of what is wrong with them and you can actually connect with them like no other. I’ve seen that every single time, my own kids too when you train them. You asked why? So really like that boats to the point? No one cares what you know. They care that you care. And that caring really allows them to open up, huh?
[00:14:04] Right. Yeah, definitely it does. You know, it makes them see like I do have it in me. I, you know, need to quit babying myself. Right. And I need to get up and get after this because no one’s gonna give it to me. I gotta get up after it and work for it, period.
[00:14:20] When I would tell my daughter, when they would come in, I’d say, you know what? You know, I’m not coming and, you know, I’m not going today. Right. I’d say, all right let me call, Danny. No, no. They’d feel like they have a, well.
[00:14:34] They sense the obligation that and the trust that you have put into their hearts like no other. Because that’s what they want. They want someone to believe in them. Exactly. You know, push them. That’s why the push. Push. You know, there’s the added edge of the push. You know, these are very important points. What got you into, do you have to deal with, like the mind-stuff and like work? How do you work on developing a child or working them through their own mental impediments or their own mental kind of dynamics to make them better of who they are? If that makes sense.
[00:15:13] You have to build a foundation with them first. You have to build trust with them. You can’t just go in and yell at them. Hey, let’s go, let’s go. Like, move your ass. Don’t be a little, bitch. You know, you can’t just do that. You have to build a relationship first, have them trust you and have them understand why you’re pushing them. And then when they’re at the brink of giving up, you yell at their ass and they know why you’re yelling at them. A good parent, after they discipline their kid or ground them, they’ll tell them the reason why they did that. But they don’t stop loving them. They appreciate because they know they’re wrong.
[00:15:48] Same concept here. Obviously I don’t hit them. But I do yell at them after they know like hey. Yeah, I was sucking and I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and get after it. Right?
[00:16:01] You know, in my own experience with what you did. You know, you have a lot of moms watching you train their kids. Moms are really sharp. There’s nothing smarter than a mother in this world. Right.
[00:16:14] And they intuitively understand and they feel the depths of the change in the child. Right. So when they see the depths of the change in the child, they trust you. And this is in mass because I have like a whole wall of families of moms, dads. They bring their kids no matter what. Tired, cold, sleet, rain, snow. They bring their kids here to train with you and the entire crew with the philosophies of pushing to those limits. You know, how does that feel when you see those kids, you know, kind of, excel?
[00:16:54] Proud.
[00:16:57] Completely, pretty much over the moon because you see the hard work that you took to instill that time into them and make sure their full potential came out. So it’s well, it’s rewarding. It’s inexplicable.
[00:17:11] Let me ask you this. You’ve been now, you know, you’re not young, like 16 years more. You’re in your 30s, which is a very young age. However, you’ve lived long enough to see some of these kids go on and do their their thing.
[00:17:27] Tell me how that feels in terms of you watching them develop, in terms of who they are and what they are, what they develop because of the foundation or at least influenced by the foundation of just don’t give up and keep on pushing through it. How does it feel? What do you think?
[00:17:45] It feels very, in a lot of sense, a lot of pride, because you can see what they could have been and what they couldn’t have been. A lot of times some kids do come from poor or poor extremities. And so to see them excel, believe in themselves, to go to college, to get a successful job, to be something of a higher profession, that other wise they thought they couldn’t build or settling for less and not letting them settle for less is really amazing. It’s of most, that’s why I keep doing what I’m doing.
[00:18:26] These kids keep on calling you? They talk to you personally?
[00:18:30] Yeah, they do. They still kind of keep up with me as far as like what they’re doing, how they’re doing, the’ll come in work out. Still, you know, to chat with me, everything. It’s fun. You build that long lasting relationship.
[00:18:43] If you could come up with a couple of words vindicating what makes PUSH unique and you can look deep inside your heart and figure out what it would be. Say you were to had an obituary being read about you. What would they say about PUSH and you? What would you want them to say?
[00:19:04] Honestly.
[00:19:06] That they have somebody other than their parents believe in them.
[00:19:11] That’s amazing. That’s really a huge component to everything that’s going on. When do you think someone should actually be coming out to this place and enjoying the kind of lifestyle that this place, you know, helps enhance their lives with? When is that time?
[00:19:29] Whenever. Whenever you want to be a better version of yourself.
[00:19:33] Ok. Ok.
[00:19:34] What do you think people sometimes think about, you know, why shouldn’t they come in? What should not be an impediment? Of them coming in here?
[00:19:43] Their image, that they can’t do it. That they’re not athletic enough. That they’re obese. That they have any problems, low back problems. That they look foolish. You know, the whole thing is that at the day, we all look foolish to one extent or another.
[00:19:56] But the point is that if I always assume what others thought and paid attention to how I felt, as far as being embarrased and not being good enough, then I wouldn’t be where I’m at.
[00:20:11] I tell you, I’ve learned a lot from you, and if anything, my kids have learned a lot from you by just your persistence. You know, I can honestly tell you that my son is better as an athlete because of his relationship with you.
[00:20:29] But let me ask you, in terms of what kind of physical changes as well as emotional changes have happened with you in terms of watching your clients attain their goals?
[00:20:43] Hearing people say you saved me from.
[00:20:48] From diabetes, medications, diabetic medications, I mean you hear people say like.
[00:20:55] I would have died being in this obese state. You saved my life. Man. How do you not get emotional with things like that?
[00:21:04] How do you not get emotional? People saying like, you know, I thought I couldn’t walk or had this muscle imbalance or muscle type of. How do you say?
[00:21:18] I have this one client that couldn’t build muscle. I can’t remember terminology, but the fact that she can build muscle now where the doctor told her she wouldn’t be able to squat a bar and now she’s squatting over one hundred and thirty five pounds, that’s phenomenal.
[00:21:31] How does that not keep you motivated and getting up every single day when you don’t feel like getting up, you know, and I’ll say it again. I am in the King David. You know, when you had to encourage yourself, because somebody is not always going to be there to encourage you. You do have to encourage yourself so you can be the best or somebody else that needs it more than you. Ultimately, at the end of the day, someone has it harder than you and you can always help somebody under you.
[00:22:01] Oh, Danny, you’ve basically said it in very short and very important keywords. You know, we appreciate you. We’re here at the PUSH Fitness Center. You know, we’ve got some information there that you can use to find Mr. Alvarado, the PUSH Fitness Center is a monster center with a lot of people that care and make changes in people’s lives.
[00:22:25] If you guys have any questions, any comments, any ideas in terms of what we do for people, let us know. And we’re here to serve as Danny is. Danny, thank you very much, brother. And I appreciate everything you’ve done.
[00:22:38] And God bless, brother. God bless. Thank you.
Additional Topic Discussion: Chronic Pain
Sudden pain is a natural response of the nervous system which helps to demonstrate possible injury. By way of instance, pain signals travel from an injured region through the nerves and spinal cord to the brain. Pain is generally less severe as the injury heals, however, chronic pain is different than the average type of pain. With chronic pain, the human body will continue sending pain signals to the brain, regardless if the injury has healed. Chronic pain can last for several weeks to even several years. Chronic pain can tremendously affect a patient’s mobility and it can reduce flexibility, strength, and endurance.
Neural Zoomer Plus for Neurological Disease
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate neurological diseases. The Neural ZoomerTM Plus is an array of neurological autoantibodies which offers specific antibody-to-antigen recognition. The Vibrant Neural ZoomerTM Plus is designed to assess an individual�s reactivity to 48 neurological antigens with connections to a variety of neurologically related diseases. The Vibrant Neural ZoomerTM Plus aims to reduce neurological conditions by empowering patients and physicians with a vital resource for early risk detection and an enhanced focus on personalized primary prevention.
Food Sensitivity for the IgG & IgA Immune Response
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate health issues associated with a variety of food sensitivities and intolerances. The Food Sensitivity ZoomerTM is an array of 180 commonly consumed food antigens that offers very specific antibody-to-antigen recognition. This panel measures an individual�s IgG and IgA sensitivity to food antigens. Being able to test IgA antibodies provides additional information to foods that may be causing mucosal damage. Additionally, this test is ideal for patients who might be suffering from delayed reactions to certain foods. Utilizing an antibody-based food sensitivity test can help prioritize the necessary foods to eliminate and create a customized diet plan around the patient�s specific needs.
Gut Zoomer for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate gut health associated with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). The Vibrant Gut ZoomerTM offers a report that includes dietary recommendations and other natural supplementation like prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols. The gut microbiome is mainly found in the large intestine and it has more than 1000 species of bacteria that play a fundamental role in the human body, from shaping the immune system and affecting the metabolism of nutrients to strengthening the intestinal mucosal barrier (gut-barrier). It is essential to understand how the number of bacteria that symbiotically live in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract influences gut health because imbalances in the gut microbiome may ultimately lead to gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms, skin conditions, autoimmune disorders, immune system imbalances, and multiple inflammatory disorders.
Formulas for Methylation Support
XYMOGEN�s Exclusive Professional Formulas are available through select licensed health care professionals. The internet sale and discounting of XYMOGEN formulas are strictly prohibited.
Proudly,�Dr. Alexander Jimenez makes XYMOGEN formulas available only to patients under our care.
Please call our office in order for us to assign a doctor consultation for immediate access.
If you are a patient of Injury Medical & Chiropractic�Clinic, you may inquire about XYMOGEN by calling 915-850-0900.
For your convenience and review of the XYMOGEN products please review the following link. *XYMOGEN-Catalog-Download
* All of the above XYMOGEN policies remain strictly in force.
Modern Integrated Medicine
The National University of Health Sciences is an institution that offers a variety of rewarding professions to attendees. Students can practice their passion for helping other people achieve overall health and wellness through the institution’s mission. The National University of Health Sciences prepares students to become leaders in the forefront of modern integrated medicine, including chiropractic care. Students have an opportunity to gain unparalleled experience at the National University of Health Sciences to help restore the natural integrity of the patient and define the future of modern integrated medicine.
Neck pain prevention can go a long way as long as you take proper care of your body, exercise, and practice healthy habits. Here are a few tips to help prevent neck pain before it begins. Neck mobility is a marvelous thing. The neck can move the head in various directions:
90� of flexion forward motion
90� of extension backward motion
180� of rotation side to side
Almost 120� of tilt to each shoulder
A lot of us are very familiar with a stiff neck or a crick in the neck. This stiffness prevents us from moving comfortably. A crick in the neck can cause the neck part of the spine to feel stiff, rigid and immobile. Fortunately, prevention and various treatments can help.
Prevention:
Standing and sitting properly maintains proper posture and keeps muscles working/healthy. If you begin to hunch over, correct it immediately as it can quickly lead to pain in the neck. Pay attention to how you stand and sit and the more you do this it will become a healthy habit.
Do neck and body exercises regularly and try for a 30-minute cardio workout 3-5 times week.
Staying within a healthy weight-range will keep your spine in top form as it carries the weight of your body, and not overstrain it, which can lead to all kinds of pain.
With healthy weight comes a healthy meal plan, not just for proper weight but to strengthen muscles, bones, enriching the blood and getting to optimal health.
Smoking can affect the bones and muscles in your cervical/neck area of the spine, as well as all the other areas of the body. Therefore it is time to quit.
Sleep with correct head and neck posture. Sleeping with your head in an awkward position is an easy set-up for a strain and pain.
Stress and tension reduction.�Tense muscles in the neck and shoulder often lead to pain in the neck. A few effective ways to reduce stress can be writing, talking to friends, exercising, walking, listening/playing music, art/crafts, cooking, reading,� and turn to these when the stress begins to build.
Driving safely and wearing seat belts can help prevent whiplash.
Using the proper equipment to protect your neck while participating in sports that can lead to neck injuries like football, skateboarding, wrestling, soccer is a must.
Taking care of your body is a complex process. Lifestyle changes pave the way to wellness and making these changes will benefit more than just the neck.
Don’t worry about the list and try to check everything off. Look at the things that apply to you and try to implement a few of these tips one at a time. Keep the bigger changes like quitting smoking/losing weight in the foreseeable future. It takes time, patience and commitment. With a little hard work, it will pay off, and you should have a healthier life with less neck pain episodes and remember prevention is key.
Massage
This is a popular therapy that relieves:
Aches
Fluid retention
Inflammation
Muscle tension
Pain
Spasms
Stiffness
Other benefits include improved blood and lymph circulation, flexibility, range of motion, and increased tissue elasticity.While increasing circulation the muscles are warmed along with other soft tissues like tendons and ligaments.
Swedish
It is one of the most popular massage types in the US. Usually, therapeutic muscle lotion or oil is used to reduce friction and relax the area/muscles as the therapist performs light stroking in one direction with deep pressure in another to relax and loosen the muscles and surrounding ligaments/tissues.
This takes the blood flow and flushes lactic acid, uric acid, and other waste products from the muscles. The ligaments and tendons get stretched, which increases their soft but firm/strong feel. The nerves are stimulated and relaxed, with any stress in the muscles taken away. Relaxing the muscles is the overall goal.
Deep Tissue
This technique aims at chronic muscle tension. The strokes are slower, using more intense direct pressure to release the built-up stress, knots, and tightness. Depending on how deep the muscle and tissue stress maybe, the therapist will adjust their hand positions, strokes, and intensity periodically to work the tissues releasing tension.
Relaxing the Muscles
The therapist using their hands or tools to rhythmically knead, rub, and stroke muscles, circulation begins muscle stimulation. This blood flow brings needed oxygen and nutrients and helps the muscles eliminate waste products, like lactic acid, that can collect in the muscles brought on by spasms, which cause pain.
El Paso, TX Neck Pain Chiropractic Treatment
NCBI Resources
Individuals with chronic neck pain that don�t seem to have a cause, could be trigger points. A doctor will refer you to a�physical therapist, chiropractor or another spine specialist�to conduct an examination for trigger points.
Nutraceuticals can help relieve several different types of chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. Stephen DeFelice, MD, coined the term in 1989, which is a combination of the words nutrition and pharmaceutical. He defined nutraceuticals as food that offers a variety of health benefits as well as prevention and/or treatment of health issues. Although these foods are considered to be natural products, it’s essential to discuss nutraceutical options for chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain, with a healthcare professional to avoid any side-effects or interactions with drugs/medications.
Several nutraceuticals are also considered to be dietary supplements. According to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) is a product that is taken orally in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form which is made-up of any chemical ingredient that adds to what a person normally gets in their diet, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs as well as substances made from organs or glands and enzymes. Dietary supplements can also be an extract or concentrate. Several examples of dietary supplements include vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, and fish oil, best known as omega-3 fatty acids.
Nutraceuticals aren’t only limited to dietary supplements, as Dr. Stephen DeFelice previously described. It can also include genetically engineered food, such as food with added antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Nutraceuticals offer people extra nutrients that the body needs to use as fuel for energy. Nutrients, such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are broken down by the body’s metabolism, a process that uses energy to regulate breathing and heartbeat, among other essential bodily functions. In the following article, we will discuss how nutraceuticals can help improve sciatica or sciatic nerve pain.
How Nutraceuticals Can Help Improve Sciatica
When people have chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain, the body will generally require more nutrients to repair itself. Nutraceuticals can help supplement the nutrients people are already getting from their diet by giving the body more nutrients to use. According to several research studies, nutraceuticals can help reduce pain and inflammation associated with low back pain and other health issues. Sciatica or sciatic nerve pain is a collection of symptoms, rather than a single condition, which is caused by a variety of health issues, including a bulging disk, herniated disk, or degenerative disk disease.
“Nutraceuticals, as well as dietary supplements, work best when used in combination with proper diet, regular exercise or physical activity, and stress management”, stated Carrie Bowler, DO, a physician with One Medical Group in New York. Although these foods are considered to be natural products, it’s essential to discuss nutraceutical options for chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain, with a healthcare professional to avoid any side-effects or interactions with drugs/medications. Below, we will discuss several nutraceuticals that can ultimately help improve sciatica or sciatic nerve pain.
Nutraceuticals for Sciatica
Vitamin D
According to researchers, vitamin D deficiency can make sciatica or sciatic nerve pain worse. One research study published in Pain Physician in 2013 found that chronic pain may be associated with an increased prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in people with spinal stenosis in their lumbar spine or low back, a common cause of sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. A healthcare professional will determine an individual’s recommended dosage of vitamin D based on their individual needs and requirements. Sunlight exposure and vitamin D-fortified foods, such as vitamin D milk, may also help supply the nutrient.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Healthcare professionals recommend increasing the intake of omega-3 fatty acids to help reduce inflammation that can ultimately cause chronic pain. Many dietary supplements are available in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form. Make sure to talk with your healthcare professional about the proper dosage of omega-3 fatty acids because increased doses of this nutrient can increase the risk of bleeding and other complications. It can also interfere with any blood-thinning drugs and/or medications. You can also increase the intake of omega-3 fatty acids by eating tuna, salmon, sardines, and dark leafy greens.
Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Glucosamine and chondroitin are organic compounds that are naturally produced in the body. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, glucosamine can be found in the fluid around the joints while chondroitin can be found in the cartilage surrounding the joints. Navid Farahmand, MD, an interventional pain management physician with the Brain and Spine Institute of California in Newport Beach, stated that, although there aren�t many research studies on the effectiveness of glucosamine and chondroitin for people with back pain, others have shown a meaningful impact on chronic knee pain.
Turmeric or Curcumin
Turmeric or curcumin, the active ingredient in the yellow-ish plant, is one of the most recommended dietary supplements for chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. The spice, which is commonly used in Indian curry dishes, can be taken as a powder in capsules, mixed into tea, or as a liquid extract. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCAAM) reports that turmeric is considered safe for most adults but prolonged use could cause an upset stomach. As a dietary supplement, it’s not recommended for people with gallbladder disease because it can make the condition worse.
Nutraceuticals can help relieve several different types of chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. Nutraceuticals are foods that offers a variety of health benefits. It’s essential to discuss nutraceutical options for sciatica or sciatic nerve pain with a healthcare professional to avoid any side-effects or interactions with drugs/medications. Several nutraceuticals are also considered to be dietary supplements. Several examples of dietary supplements include vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, and fish oil, best known as omega-3 fatty acids. Nutraceuticals can also include genetically engineered food. Nutraceuticals offer people extra nutrients that the body needs to use as fuel for energy to regulate breathing and heartbeat, among other essential bodily functions. In this article, we will discuss how nutraceuticals can help improve sciatica or sciatic nerve pain.�- Dr. Alex Jimenez D.C., C.C.S.T. Insight
Nutraceuticals can help relieve several different types of chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain. Stephen DeFelice, MD, coined the term in 1989, which is a combination of the words nutrition and pharmaceutical. He defined nutraceuticals as food that offers a variety of health benefits as well as prevention and/or treatment of health issues. Although these foods are considered to be natural products, it’s essential to discuss nutraceutical options for chronic pain, including sciatica or sciatic nerve pain, with a healthcare professional to avoid any side-effects or interactions with drugs/medications.
Several nutraceuticals are also considered to be dietary supplements. According to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) is a product that is taken orally in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form which is made-up of any chemical ingredient that adds to what a person normally gets in their diet, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs as well as substances made from organs or glands and enzymes. Dietary supplements can also be an extract or concentrate. Several examples of dietary supplements include vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, and fish oil, best known as omega-3 fatty acids.
Nutraceuticals aren’t only limited to dietary supplements, as Dr. Stephen DeFelice previously described. It can also include genetically engineered food, such as food with added antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Nutraceuticals offer people extra nutrients that the body needs to use as fuel for energy. Nutrients, such as proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are broken down by the body’s metabolism, a process that uses energy to regulate breathing and heartbeat, among other essential bodily functions. In the article above, we ultimately discussed how nutraceuticals can help improve sciatica or sciatic nerve pain.
The scope of our information is limited to chiropractic, musculoskeletal, and nervous health issues or functional medicine articles, topics, and discussions. We use functional health protocols to treat injuries or disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Our office has made a reasonable attempt to provide supportive citations and has identified the relevant research study or studies supporting our posts. We also make copies of supporting research studies available to the board and or the public upon request. To further discuss the subject matter above, please feel free to ask Dr. Alex Jimenez or contact us at 915-850-0900.�
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References:
Tennant, Forest. �Nutraceuticals for Chronic Pain.� Practical Pain Management, 18 July 2016, www.practicalpainmanagement.com/patient/treatments/nutraceuticals/nutraceuticals-chronic-pain.
Mosenthal, William P. �Sciatica Pain, Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment.� SpineUniverse, 9 Jan. 2020, www.spineuniverse.com/conditions/sciatica/sciatica-pain-symptoms-causes-diagnosis-treatment.
Theobald, ByMikel. �Photo Gallery: 7 Supplements That Help Back Pain.� EverydayHealth.com, 22 Jan. 2015, www.everydayhealth.com/pictures/best-worst-supplements-help-back-pain/.
Additional Topic Discussion: Chronic Pain
Sudden pain is a natural response of the nervous system which helps to demonstrate possible injury. By way of instance, pain signals travel from an injured region through the nerves and spinal cord to the brain. Pain is generally less severe as the injury heals, however, chronic pain is different than the average type of pain. With chronic pain, the human body will continue sending pain signals to the brain, regardless if the injury has healed. Chronic pain can last for several weeks to even several years. Chronic pain can tremendously affect a patient’s mobility and it can reduce flexibility, strength, and endurance.
Neural Zoomer Plus for Neurological Disease
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate neurological diseases. The Neural ZoomerTM Plus is an array of neurological autoantibodies which offers specific antibody-to-antigen recognition. The Vibrant Neural ZoomerTM Plus is designed to assess an individual�s reactivity to 48 neurological antigens with connections to a variety of neurologically related diseases. The Vibrant Neural ZoomerTM Plus aims to reduce neurological conditions by empowering patients and physicians with a vital resource for early risk detection and an enhanced focus on personalized primary prevention.
Food Sensitivity for the IgG & IgA Immune Response
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate health issues associated with a variety of food sensitivities and intolerances. The Food Sensitivity ZoomerTM is an array of 180 commonly consumed food antigens that offers very specific antibody-to-antigen recognition. This panel measures an individual�s IgG and IgA sensitivity to food antigens. Being able to test IgA antibodies provides additional information to foods that may be causing mucosal damage. Additionally, this test is ideal for patients who might be suffering from delayed reactions to certain foods. Utilizing an antibody-based food sensitivity test can help prioritize the necessary foods to eliminate and create a customized diet plan around the patient�s specific needs.
Gut Zoomer for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Dr. Alex Jimenez utilizes a series of tests to help evaluate gut health associated with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). The Vibrant Gut ZoomerTM offers a report that includes dietary recommendations and other natural supplementation like prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols. The gut microbiome is mainly found in the large intestine and it has more than 1000 species of bacteria that play a fundamental role in the human body, from shaping the immune system and affecting the metabolism of nutrients to strengthening the intestinal mucosal barrier (gut-barrier). It is essential to understand how the number of bacteria that symbiotically live in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract influences gut health because imbalances in the gut microbiome may ultimately lead to gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms, skin conditions, autoimmune disorders, immune system imbalances, and multiple inflammatory disorders.
Formulas for Methylation Support
XYMOGEN�s Exclusive Professional Formulas are available through select licensed health care professionals. The internet sale and discounting of XYMOGEN formulas are strictly prohibited.
Proudly,�Dr. Alexander Jimenez makes XYMOGEN formulas available only to patients under our care.
Please call our office in order for us to assign a doctor consultation for immediate access.
If you are a patient of Injury Medical & Chiropractic�Clinic, you may inquire about XYMOGEN by calling 915-850-0900.
For your convenience and review of the XYMOGEN products please review the following link. *XYMOGEN-Catalog-Download
* All of the above XYMOGEN policies remain strictly in force.
Modern Integrated Medicine
The National University of Health Sciences is an institution that offers a variety of rewarding professions to attendees. Students can practice their passion for helping other people achieve overall health and wellness through the institution’s mission. The National University of Health Sciences prepares students to become leaders in the forefront of modern integrated medicine, including chiropractic care. Students have an opportunity to gain unparalleled experience at the National University of Health Sciences to help restore the natural integrity of the patient and define the future of modern integrated medicine.
Eating sweets does not relieve the craving for sugar?
If you are experiencing any of these situations, then you might be experiencing an imbalance of your blood glucose. Why not try adding berberine into your daily diet and lifestyle.
For many individuals reclaiming their health, the incidence of metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes along with many other conditions that can be related to insulin resistance. Many local healthcare practitioners need all the tools to inform their patients as a powerful supplement that has been receiving recognition for its efficacy in improving the multiple parameters for metabolic health and improving glycemic control. This supplement is known as berberine, and the studies have shown that berberine is as effective as metformin and can help patients who have type 2 diabetes.
What Is Berberine?
Berberine is an alkaloid compound that is found in several plants like goldenseal, barberry, and tree turmeric. When berberine is crushed, it has a yellow color hue that is similar to curcumin and has been part of Chinese and Ayurvedic traditional medicine that has been used for thousands of years. Surprisingly berberine has worked in multiple ways and has been able to make some changes within the body�s cells and metabolic system. There has been research showing that berberine can transport in the bloodstream once it has been ingested and can activate the AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) enzyme. Once this happens, the enzyme is referred to as a “metabolic master switch” and can help regulate the significant organs and regulating the body’s metabolism.
The Health Benefits from Berberine
Research shows that berberine can provide many health benefits to the body, especially those who have been affected with type 2 diabetes and have metabolic syndrome. Here are some of the health benefits that berberine has to offer.
Bacterial Infections
Studies have found that berberine is an active antimicrobial agent. Studies have shown that berberine can enhance the inhibitory efficacy of antibiotics against the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. This type of bacteria can cause many health problems in the body, like sepsis, pneumonia, and meningitis. There is even another study that shows that when a person consumes a high concentration of berberine could kill the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria more quickly. The berberine effects can dissociate the bacteria protein into individual chains and separate them into their molecular weight.
Regulates Blood Glucose
Type 2 diabetes is a common disease that can make a person’s blood sugar to either rise or fall, causing them to DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis). With berberine, it can help regulate blood glucose in the body. Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes has become a worldwide health threat for people, and finding treatment for this disease is limited due to the availability of effective medications that can help control the blood glucose levels. With berberine, it can help reduce insulin resistance and surprisingly, regulate the blood glucose to healthy levels like metformin. The research even shows that berberine can also help regulate the body�s lipid metabolism as well.
More results showed that berberine could do the following:
Lower the insulin resistance to make the blood sugar to lower the hormone insulin more effectively.
It helps increase the glycolysis so the body can break down the sugars.
Decease the sugar produced in the liver.
It helps break down the carbohydrates in the gut microbiome.
It helps increase the beneficial bacteria in the gut to prevent inflammation.
Help Losing Weight
Studies have shown that berberine is an effective weight loss supplement for anyone who may be obese. There was a twelve-week study that showed that the participates took about 500 mg of berberine, and they lost about five pounds of body fat. While another study stated that about 37 participants that have metabolic syndrome took about 300 mg of berberine, and the results showed that the participants have dropped their BMI (body mass index) levels go from obese to overweight in three months. The participants even improved many of their health markers and lose their belly fat.
Many researchers believed that when people take berberine and see that they are losing their excess weight, it can help improve their fat-regulating hormones like insulin, adiponectin, and leptin in their body. There is still more research being done about berberine and how its beneficial weight loss effects can help anyone with metabolic syndrome and might be overly obese.
Conclusion
Berberine is a compound that is found in plants like tree turmeric, goldenseal, and barberry. It has a yellow color cue and has many beneficial properties. Berberine can help anyone who has type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. For the beneficial properties, berberine can help regulate the body�s glucose hormones and has the same effects as the pharmaceutical drug, metformin. When people consume berberine, their metabolic system will begin to function correctly and begun to live a healthier life. Some products can help the metabolic system and the immune system by supporting sugar metabolism as well as reducing the glutathione for providing more excellent stability, bioavailability, and digestive comfort in the body.
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