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Running bad for your cartilage?

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MRI Shows Joints Recover Even Under Extreme Duress

This article was sent to me by a patient who is a ultra runner.  Ultra running entails races from 50-100 miles and beyond!

Dr. Uwe Schutz performed MRI’s on ultra runners twice during the Trans Europe Foot race.  One MRI was towards the beginning of the race and then again later in the race.  The first MRI found changes: significant degradation (inflammation ) in cartilage.  The later MRI’s showed improved cartilage inflammation indicating the ankle and foot cartilage have the ability to regenerate under ongoing endurance running.

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Pretty cool stuff.  The body is amazing.  One study is not the be all end all but it’s cool to see the body has the ability to repair it self even under extreme conditions.

Source:Schutz U, et al, “The TEFR Field Study: Results of Continuous Biochemical and Morphological Cartilage Analysis of Hindfoot, Ankle, and Knee Joints in Course of a 4,500 km Ultramarathon Race throughout Whole Europe Using T2*-mapping on a Mobile MRI Truck Trailer” RSNA 2015; Abstract SSC07-04.

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How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer

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Here’s another great article about gut microbes (probiotics). Probiotics are a hot topic these days.  It seems likemnew information is being discovered about gut microbes each day. Our gut microbes are affected by what we eat and environmental factors (toxins).  What we put into our mouth or on our bodies can effect gut microbes.  If the research continues to point that our intestinal health can effect our overall health and maybe even help in fight cancer, it’s a good idea to eat healthy and take care to protect gut microbes.

“Cancer has been a late bloomer in the microbiome revolution that has surged through biomedicine. Over the past few decades, scientists have linked the gut’s composition of microbes to dozens of seemingly unrelated conditions — from depression to obesity. Cancer has some provocative connections as well: inflammation is a contributing factor to some tumours and a few types of cancer have infectious origins. But with the explosive growth of a new class of drug — cancer immunotherapies — scientists have been taking a closer look at how the gut microbiome might interact with treatment and how these interactions might be harnessed.”

If you have any question about probiotics please call or stop in.  Dr. Steve would love to answer any question you have.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05208-8?utm_source=Dan+John%27s+Wandering+Weights&utm_campaign=9f0cd584cb-DJWW186&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d663067162-9f0cd584cb-37015289&mc_cid=9f0cd584cb&mc_eid=52a146f87d

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Exercise Can Help Your Brain

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Strength Training Can Relieve Depression

A meta-analysis of 33 trials involving nearly 2,000 people showed that strength training led to a significant reduction in depressive symptoms

  • The greatest improvements were seen among people with symptoms of mild to moderate depression, as opposed to those without depression, which suggests strength training may be most effective for people with greater depressive symptoms
  • While strength training may not provide an all-out cure for depression, it may improve depressive symptoms as well as antidepressants and behavioral therapies
  • Strength training is a simple, accessible and side-effect-free intervention that could help drive down rising rates of depression and improve quality of life

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2680311?redirect=true

If you have pain preventing you from exercising call Dr. Steve to see if he can help.  Don’t let pain stop you from exercise and improving your health!

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Advice to live by

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  • Be a healthy weight
  • Be physically active (Weight lifting and aerobic cardiovascular exercise)
  • Eat a diet that’s rich in vegetables, fruits and beans
  • Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day
  • Floss your teeth
  • Healthy personal relationships are a must
  • Sleep at least 8 hours a day as many days as possible
  • Limit your consumption of fast food and other processed foods high in fat, starches or sugar
  • Limit your consumption of processed meats
  • Limit your consumption of sugar sweetened drinks (soda, sports drinks, energy drinks)
  • Limit your consumption of alcohol
  • Limit your consumption of saturated  and trans fats
  • Don’t smoke and limited your exposure to smoke
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Vertigo

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Do you know anyone or are you yourself suffer from vertigo but can’t find help or a cause?

Have them make appointment with Dr. Steve to see if chiropractic can help!

World Neurosurgery Journal: “Studies found that cervical vertigo seems to originate from diseased cervical intervertebral discs. Abnormal neck proprioceptive input integrated from the signals of disproportionate Ruffini corpuscles in diseased cervical discs and muscle spindles in tense neck muscles is transmitted to the CNS and leads to a sensory mismatch with vestibular and other sensory information, resulting in a subjective feeling of vertigo and unsteadiness.” Peng B. Cervical Vertigo: Historical Reviews and Advances. World Neurosurgery, Volume 109 , 347 – 350

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Gut Microbe Drives Autoimmunity

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The human gut harbors a complex community of microbes that affect many aspects of our health. Known as the gut microbiota, these bacteria help with metabolism and maintaining a healthy immune system.

  • Scientists found evidence that a certain gut microbe can trigger autoimmune disease in mice that are prone to such disease and identified the same microbe in people with autoimmune diseases.
  • The results suggest new avenues for treating debilitating and potentially lethal autoimmune diseases.

Come and ask Dr. Steve about probiotics and how they can help your health!

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gut-microbe-drives-autoimmunity

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Why 6-8 Glasses of water a day?

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Do you ever wonder why this is the recommendation?  Well here’s the reason why.

A person loses water constantly with exhaled air ( about a pint or .473 liter a day), through skin (one to two pints a day) and an average person losses three pints through urine.

That’s a lot of water lost everyday not including water lost during exercise.

To function well a person needs to drink 5-8 8oz glasses of water per day. There is a possibility that you need to drink over 10 glasses if you work out hard or work out side when it hot. Spreading out the water evenly through the day will prevent you from going to bathroom too much.  Another trick to reduce bathroom trips is adding a very small amount of sea salt to the water. This will add minerals to the water.  Cutting back on water in the evening will help prevent you from waking up and going to the bathroom.

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You’re probably under hydrated if your urine is not clear (has some color to it). Vitamins such as the B-vitamins and some foods (beets) can change the color of urine. This should be taken into account.  But generally the darker the urine the more dehydrated you are.

If you have more questions please call Dr. Sikorsky or stop in the office..

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Low Back Pain on the Rise

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Almost everyone will have low back pain at some point in their lives. It can affect anyone at any age, and it is increasing—disability due to back pain has risen by more than 50% since 1990.

Low back pain is becoming more prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) much more rapidly than in high-income countries. The cause is not always clear, apart from in people with, for example, malignant disease, spinal malformations, or spinal injury.

Treatment varies widely around the world, from bed rest, mainly in LMICs, to surgery and the use of dangerous drugs such as opioids, usually in high-income countries.

”Focusing on key principles, such as the need to reduce unnecessary health care for low back pain, support people to be active and stay at work, and reform unhelpful patient clinical pathways and reimbursement models, could guide next steps..”

http://www.thelancet.com/series/low-back-pain