Gentle Reader, You’re too busy, you say, to exercise. Here I am at the Shaklee convention in Las Vegas where it is too hot to breath outside and too stale to breath inside the air conditioning. I’m one of those Northwesterners who lives and breathes in and out nothing but fresh air. We are sitting in large auditoriums all day […]
Steps you can take to stop Plantar Fasciitis pain.
Gentle Reader, Has this happened to you? You make a goal to step up your fitness training to prepare for a back packing trip. Maybe, like me, you have a big hike in your future and your friends are suggesting that you need to train harder for it. After all, the Alps are high mountains. You start at 5000 ft […]
Eat to eliminate inflammation
Eat to Defeat Inflammation Gentle Reader, At a picnic last night there was a lot of talk about pomegranate for lowering pain and inflammation in joints affected by arthritis. I have posted about this before, and wanted to bring this post to you from the health sciences department of Shaklee. The Shaklee corporation scientists and medical staff work to develop […]
How to have good posture
July 18, 2012 Gentle Reader, Posture makes a difference when it comes to managing arthritic pain. I was surprised by a chapter in book I’m reading for business growth and development called The Other 90%, How to unlock your vast untapped potential for Leadership and Life, by Robert K. Cooper. The book contains four sections or Keystones: Trust, Energy, Farsightedness […]
Do Well Business
I want to be one of the 3%-5%, the people who have enough for their retirement without having to depend on Social Security. I’m getting there. Do you worry about having enough money to match up with your life expectancy? Does that time seem so far away you don’t have to think about it yet? This 3 1/2 minutes video […]
How about Stinging Nettles?
Gentle Reader, If I could tell you why some days I wake up with no pain whatsoever– like today– and catalog the food I ate yesterday, the stretches I made, the delicious sleep, the supplements, the aerobic activity—why surely I would have a recipe for a pain free life. I cannot. I cross country skied on Wednesday; stayed up too […]
Go ahead and dig in the garden
Dear Gentle Reader, With the strains of Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons setting the tone, spring has finally come to Seattle. While so many of you are enjoying unseasonably warm weather, we have seen snow flurries, much rain and the thermometer has not climbed into the upper 50’s. Until the last couple of days. The parking lots at the nurseries were full […]
It comes down to what we eat
Gentle Reader, A friend sent me a TED talk by Dr.Terry Wahls on MS this past week. In the 5 minute screening she recounts her productive life as a research scientist up to the debilitating onset of MS. Seeking the best care medical professionals had to offer, her condition worsened. Driven by her inquiring mind to know as much as she […]
But I have to have an operation!
Gentle Reader, I was talking with a guy last night who had to have an operation for his hip. The osteoarthritis had become so advanced into the hip joint that various movements were impeded. A long time supplement user, he fortified himself with various supplements in order to tolerate the operation well and heal quickly. He is a little disappointed […]
Nicaragua: How it went from the body perspective
Dear Reader, From yoga to Central America and back. I am happy to report that I needed very few of my Shaklee herbal Pain Relief tablets. I packed about 18 in my little emergency pill-box, plus 6 Aleve. In the airport back here in Seattle after sitting on the airplane for 10 hours and hauling the 2 rolling suit cases […]