What is Plantar Fasciitis? Plantar Fasciitis is an injury to the fascia at the bottom on the foot. It extends from the heel, all the way to the toes. You know that it's plantar fasciitis when it's chronic pain that doesn't go away easily. When you first get up in the morning is when you typically have the most pain. Most of the pain is in the heel, but it can be all throughout the foot. How Does it Develop? Plantar fasciitis usually...
What is Diabetes? There are actually three types of diabetes. Type 1 is something your usually born with, and is classified as not producing enough insulin. Sense your pancreas is not able to produce insulin, you need to take it as an injection. Type 2 is classified as producing too much insulin, and the cells becoming resistant to the point that insulin can no longer do its job. Scientists actually classify type 3 diabetes as Alzheimer's. A big cause of Alzheimer's...
What Actually is the Skin? The skin is the largest organ in your body and the outer most portion of the nervous system. Because the skin is part of the nervous system, stress can have a major impact on it. The three layers of the skin are the epidermis, dermis, and the hypodermis. Some roles that the skin plays are absorption, elimination, receiving light. Your skin does not operate in a vacuum. This means that the health of other organs effect...
What is the Circadian Rhythm? The Circadian rhythm is the biological clock that we have that is sinked up with the planet. It's in everyone of our cells, and influences biological processes. Some of these processes include releasing certain hormones and neurotransmitters based on what time of day it is, digestive function, our microbiome, blood pressure, cognition, and thermoregulation. The suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus regulates this whole system and initiates the process. This is one of the most studied areas...
Overcome Your Story Most of us in the industry got in to this do to our own health struggles, or that of a family member. Although you don't need to be completely well in order to help someone; overcoming your own health struggles will give you tremendous power and authority to help others do the same. When you overcome your story, you will learn so much in the process, and the most important form if knowledge is through experience, not what...
Earthing is the practice of being connected to the earth. It involves being connected via the skin, usually the feet. Standing in conductive sources like grass, sand, water, snow, and asphalt can have a tremendous amount of health benefits. Up until recent times, our ancestors were connected the the earth 24/7. Now, we are pretty much disconnected from the earth 24/7. Humans are conductive beings because of our mineral content. This is why we can be shocked, and why...
How our Beliefs Create our Reality A belief is created with through events, emotions, and meanings. Some beliefs that we have are deep rooted from childhood and may not be serving us. Some of them may be empowering, but ultimately, we choose what we believe. It's up to us to shift disempowering beliefs and rewrite our story. Our beliefs shape our reality because they are the foundation of our thoughts and habits. To shift a belief, we first have to become...
We generally can't control what happens in the middle of the day, but if we have solid morning and evening routines, we can create a great day. Having a routine can eliminate decision fatigue and free up energy. It's good to adopt your routine based on your goals. The Power of Habit When we set out to create new habits, there is a wonderful structure in our brain that allows this to happen. This structure is called myelin. Myelin is a fatty...
History of Massage Clay tablets have been shown in Babylon to demonstrate the use of massage. Around the same time, Chinese medical manuscripts from the Zhou dynasty describe massage as being one of the 5 main treatments of the era. They used a technique called Amma, which involved rubbing and finger pressure on the meridians. Egyptian artwork in the tomb of Ankhmaor show hand and foot massage being performed. In Japan, they used the Amma philosophy to develop Shiatsu, which means...
What is Freedom? Freedom is the inherit state of all human beings. It is not given by man, but by the universe. Freedom is the ability to express ourselves in the highest possible capacity. How We Have Outsourced Our Freedom All of these organizations were designed to be centralized, which means all the power is in one place. In this framework, the truth doesn't always win, but the story does. Social media- The first generation of social media is social media as we know it....