Cardio and Weight Gain????

When you work out, do circuits or do short intense 30 minute workouts, your cortisol, test and other growth hormones rise. It has been shown that around 30 minutes workout, etc, your test and GH start to come down, but cortisol stays up. So that is why doing long cardio sessions just burns muscle and not fat. Cortisol is a fat storing hormone. As well, anytime cortisol goes up and your blood sugar drops from those long hours of cardio, your adrenals release adrenaline as well to help to balance your blood sugar issues. So not only do you cause adrenal stress, and store fat with long duration of cardio, but you as well create blood sugar handling issues.

With people trying to drop weight, I always recommend 2:1 ratio intervals, 30 minute circuit workouts and nothing longer. This will help to reduce fat storage, keep cortisol levels down, balance out their building hormones and balance blood sugar levels.

Unfortunately most think it is all about calories. But in all reality, it has very little to do with it. There is a lot of research, as well as documumentation by Poliquin, CHEK and other leaders in the field proving that by eating for their MT, taking in lots of calories, and just working out for short peroids without any cardio!

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

Headaches: Where do they come from??

From years of working with clients, I have found headaches to come from:

1. Straight cervical spine or forward head posture. The head weighs 8% of your body weight. With forward head posture, each inch the head migrates forward of the axis of rotation, the head doubles in weight. This puts chronic stress on your muscles at the base of your skull and spine in order to hold your head on your shoulders.
2. Chronically chewing on one side of mouth
3. Using a phone without an earpiece, carrying a bag on one side, etc, creating a side tilt and rotation in the cervical spine
4. Chronic computer use, creating forward head posture and neck tension
5. Lack of stretching or getting weekly massages
6. Dehydration
7. Poor nutrition leading to blood sugar handling issues
8. Inability to handle stress in one’s life and not adapting any principles to work through them
9. Altered amino acid sequences in the body = poor AA and NT formation
10. Taking Rx meds, as well as synthetic supps
11. Home and office toxins

In chinese medicine, headaches can come from:
1. Liver yang rising to the head
2. Heat in the blood from food or emotions
3. Wind pathogens getting into the body or being stirred up internally by negative emotions

What to do:
1. Review the side effects of the meds you are taking
2. Start drinking half your body weight in food per day
3. Begin adapting quiet time or meditation into your day
4. Watch your posture and get your workstation ergonomically checked
5. Eliminate gluten, sugar, NaCl, flour and pasteurized milk
6. Do a home and office toxic check list
7. Get regular trigger point massages
8. Get some acupuncture treatments

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com

Chronic Pancreatitis

Hi,I have a patient that is a sympathetic dominant for her metabolic type and has
been diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis.

This is a situation where I personally feel that Metabolic Typing is not the key. I know this statement will ruffle some peoples feathers, but you have to ask yourself if what she is doing is actually helping her or maybe facilitating the situation. You know what a Sympathetic type (more carbs than protein and fat) is supposed to eat and in my opinion it is going to ask more out of the pancreas, than lets say a fast oxidizer (more protein and fat than carbs).

Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas. The pancreas is a large gland behind the stomach and close to the duodenum. The duodenum is the upper part of the small intestine. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine through a tube called the pancreatic duct. These enzymes help digest fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in food. The pancreas also releases the hormones insulin and glucagon into the bloodstream. These hormones help the body use the glucose it takes from food for energy.

Normally, digestive enzymes do not become active until they reach the small intestine, where they begin digesting food. But if these enzymes become active inside the pancreas, they start “digesting” the pancreas itself.

So if the pancreas is being overworked and inflamed, the goal is reduce its activity at this time. Then in the future when physiology is balanced, then you can retest her MT. I personally would put her on more of a fast oxidizer diet, really increasing the protein and fat intake. This will help decrease inflammation, but reduce the work load of the pancreas.

As well, estrogen caused hypoxia of the cells, which causes hypoglycemia. Estrogen is also synergistic with insulin and aids in fat production and storage. So if one is estrogen dominant, you will see increased releasing of insulin, secondary to it being synergistic with estrogen dominance.

So here is what I would do:

1. Re-eval what she is eating and think about what is going to facilitate progess, not inhibit it. From my view, her MT is not working for her
2. I would go off all supps, as they are a huge stress for the body to break down. This might be facilitating some inflammation as well.
3. I would run a full female hormone eval on her to see if she is estrogen domanint. You can do the 207 from BioHealth
4. I would run the Comp Oganix Profile as well in the near future to see where there are kinks and bottlenecks within her metabolic pathways. This can create extra work for certain digestive organs, as well as creating biomarkers that create inflammation.

Joshua Rubin

www.eastwesthealing.com