Our body is such a beautiful vessel that is capable of greatness and all works in synergy and harmony. When areas are tight or weak then the workload isn’t distributed evenly and other body parts have to do more work to make up for the other body parts not working optimally. When certain body parts
Most people do not know about sleep apnea, but millions of people suffer from it. As with all common things, it was not noticed until it started to become a problem. Sleep apnea is a life-threatening disorder. If you sleep alone all the time, it may be not easy to catch it. Dr John Remmer,
In addition to breathing, temperature regulation is one of the most pressing issues for many animals. Thermoregulation is the ability of a person to maintain body temperature. The hypothalamus is part of the brain and plays a vital role in regulating body temperature by acting as an internal thermostat. The body is an open system,
People often ask questions concerning how our sleep went the night before. When you wake up in the morning, feeling refreshed can give you a very satisfactory answer. However, if we wake up feeling tired or depressed, it may be that we have not yet entered deep sleep or even the REM (rapid eye movement)
What is the hypothalamus? Start by drawing a picture: Your stomach begins to churn. It’s been long since you last ate, and you can feel intensely hungry. You start craving for all the food available, and it starts to get harder to focus on. The only thing you can think of is food, which makes
In Australia, it’s estimated that 45 per cent of people will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. 1 In any one year, around 1 million Australian adults have depression, and over 2 million have anxiety. We want to shine a light on mental health and make sure that people aren’t afraid to talk about it
When we go to bed to sleep that is the time that our body recovers and repairs, where our memories are consolidated and toxins are flushed from your system – we want to make sure that we are priming our body to be able to get into the most restorative sleep so when we wake
You might have heard the terminology breathe into your belly or belly breathing. Have you ever stopped to think what does that actually mean? We aren’t actually breathing into our belly what we are doing is we are trying to activate our diaphragm our Dia……..what you might ask? I want to introduce you to your
Lets talk about your nervous system we have your somatic nervous system which is your voluntary muscle movements via your skeletal muscles then we have our autonomic nervous system which is our broken in to two parts the Sympathetic nervous system known as our Fight or Flight and then we have our Parasympathetic nervous system
When I tell people that I teach people how to breathe the initial reaction is always the same “I know how to breathe I would be dead if I didn’t breathe”. Although there is merit in that comment as we would die if we stopped breathing. As humans, we have developed some terrible habits in