Dr. Lou’s 2015 Weight Loss Challenge Winner Announced!
Dr. Lou’s 2015 Weight Loss Challenge And the winner is……. It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce the winner of Dr. Lou’s 2015 Weight Loss Challenge! This year’s champion, winning both the greatest percentage of body weight lost and the greatest transformation is… Rich Bateman of Windham, Maine who lost 42 pounds and lost 16% of his starting body weight. His hard work and commitment over the past 3 months has been inspiring to say the least. His check ins at the gym at all hours of the day, frequently twice a day, were unmatched. His focus and unwavering determination while also owning and operating a very busy business, Minuteman Press in South Portland, was equally inspiring to watch. There is no doubt that Rich will continue on his path and reach his goal of being under 200 lbs in the next couple months. GO RICH! The following participants also made the top ten in Dr. Lou’s 2015 Weight Loss Challenge: James Durgin – 12% lost Peter Dow – 11% lost Gail Curtis – 11% lost Ed Oakes – 11% lost Paula Storey – 10% lost...
read moreDrugged For Normal – The Medical Matrix
Drugged For Normal – The Medical Matrix Our bodies are designed for perfect function. Indeed, there are genetic failures of this system due to what many blame as environmental factors, which is certainly a huge part of the problem. We’ve been conditioned however to view health function as illness. Inflammation Vomiting Diarrhea Fear & Anxiety High Blood Pressure Pain Insomnia You see, all of these (and many other) responses to the environment are normal. A recent article in the New York Times highlights the state of managing women’s feelings, emotions and normal responses to the world, with medication. Used to divert thousands of years of genetic and evolutionary programming to protect women, these medications are being prescribed and taken without thought of the implications. If a woman is sleepless at night and her days are filled with anxiety because her partner is behaving suspiciously, denying that feeling, alters her ability to “trust her instinct”. If you take painkillers for your injured back and then feel better, allowing you to shovel more, you override your body’s warning signal and often create more damage. Sometimes things we don’t like are here...
read morePain Can Be Deceiving – Portland, Maine | Bucuresti, Romania
Pain Can Be Deceiving Nearly every European patient that I see or have seen have x-ray, MRI, or CT scans. Patients come in with a variety of complaints ranging from foot pain from running to hemi-paralysis from a live polio vaccine at age 1 1/2. I came to an interesting conclusion after my latest trip. Symptoms and underlying problems don’t always match up. People with no pain have major underlying issues on MRI that are just waiting to manifest. Herniated discs, massive osteophytes and degeneration, compressed vertebrae, flattened discs, none of which they were feeling at the time of their checkup. Others came in with tremendous pain and discomfort and their xray, MRI and CT scans showed nothing. Surface EMG (sEMG) and spinal nerve thermography did show tremendous dysfunction in some of those cases. Bottom line. Pain can be deceiving. It can also be caused my something minor or you can have a major problem with no pain at all. In either case, it’s good to know what is going on in your body and have time to correct things for a healthier, happier future. Spinal hygiene and maintenance, whether we like it or not, is critical for...
read moreSlow aging with a little effort.
Slow Aging With A Little Effort. Have you looked in the mirror and seen an old person before you are old? Changes in skin, posture, hair and other visible changes with aging are signs that you may want to be more proactive with your healthy lifestyle. Bad news. We all get old and there’s no potion that will let us live forever. Darn. Good news. If you do a handful of positive things among a list of thousands, you will be healthier, happier and live longer than you would have otherwise lived. You can slow aging! 1. Eat Clean. Obvious. Simple. Just a matter of self control. More veggies than meat, fewer liquid calories, organic. 2. Exercise a little. A little bit goes a long way and you don’t need to be a gym rat to benefit. Walk outside. Do some sit ups, push ups, lunges and squats in your living room. Dance around the bedroom for 20 minutes. 20 minutes a day should add measurable time to your life. It’s a matter of planning and self control. 3. Sleep. Easy one. Too little sleep makes you weak and more susceptible to health issues...
read moreOsteoarthritis And The People Of Maine.
Osteoarthritis And The People Of Maine. Degenerative Arthritis or Osteoarthritis (OA), is your body’s response to instability and is also associated with a transmission of forces through joints rather than successful absorption of forces through those joints. Ever wonder why we have curves in our spine or legs that are straight and not bent inward? Shock absorption. When your body and brain sense instability in a joint or another it has an innate wisdom that says “these bones need to grow together to create stability”. Bone spurs form and connect to the neighboring joint to become stable. (See picture below). When joints misalign and no longer absorb shock normally, they often end up transmitting shock through the paths of least resistance. Transmission of shock stimulates osteoblastic (bone cell growth) activity in bone cells. This is the same activity that increases bone density in osteoporotic people except that it’s creating new bone on the edges of the bone and they form bone spurs. Arthritis is a result of instability and misalignment, wear and tear and your body’s response to it. Many say there is no known cause for OA, but that there are many factors involved...
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