Endurance Athlete Rich Roll Using Asea
August 22, 2011 at 4:00 pm | Posted in Wellness Product Reviews | Leave a comment
Rich Roll is an extraordinary endurance athlete. For example, he has completed the EPIC Challenge – 5 ironman distance triathalons on 5 Hawaiian islands in a week. He was also a top finisher in the Utltratriahtalon World Championships, a 3 day 320 mile double ironman distance triathalon. He is now using Asea to improve his endurance, performance and speed recovery.
Self Care is Key to a Wellness Lifestyle
June 2, 2011 at 10:59 am | Posted in Complementary Care, Wellness and Well-Being, Wellness Industry | Leave a commentTags: Myofascial Release, Self Care
(Guest Blog Post from Jessica Queller Katz, CMBT, Birth Doula – Essence Myofascial Wellness Center)
The World Health Organization defines self-care as “activities individuals, families, and communities undertake with the intention of enhancing health, preventing disease, limiting illness, and restoring health. These activities are derived from knowledge and skills from the pool of both professional and lay experience. They are undertaken by lay people on their own behalf, either separately or in participative collaboration with professionals.”
Women, men, and children of all ages have come to me in search of relief from a wide range of symptoms, from the occasional tightness in the back, neck, or shoulders, all the way to daily chronic debilitating pain. In either case, they are all seeking the same…for the pain to go away! Continue Reading Self Care is Key to a Wellness Lifestyle…
New Video Explains Breakthrough Science Behind Asea
May 24, 2011 at 5:12 pm | Posted in Complementary Care, Nutrition, Wellness and Well-Being, Wellness Product Reviews | Leave a commentTags: Asea, cellular repair, Dr. Gary Samuelson, optimum cellular health, redox signaling molecules, stabilized redox signaling molecules
Check out this new video that explains the breakthrough science behind Asea. – posted by Peter Rowe
Leaders are Readers – con’t.
May 19, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Posted in Inspirational Quotes, Recommended Books and Publications | Leave a commentTags: advice, Apolo Ohno, CBS Evening News, inspiration, Jim Rohn, Jimmy Kimmel, Katie Couric, Michael Bloomberg, self-help books, The Today Show
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Many years ago I remember Katie Couric launching her career on the Today Show. For many years The Today Show has been a part of how we start our day in the kitchen over a quick breakfast, catching up on the news, weather and current events. We have followed Katie through the challenges of her life, her stint as the news anchor on CBS and how she saved the country by exposing how ill-prepared Sarah Palin was to be Vice President. Two of our children have on a few occasions hung out with Katie and she is as real in person as she is on TV.
Now Katie has written a book, THE BEST ADVICE I EVER GOT, Lessons from Extraordinary Lives. Whether your opinion of Katie matches ours or not, we recommend that you read this book.
Here are a few excerpts from the book’s dust jacket Continue Reading Leaders are Readers – con’t….
The Medical-Industrial Complex
May 17, 2011 at 3:44 pm | Posted in Entreprenurial Opportunity, Wellness and Well-Being, Wellness Industry | Leave a commentTags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Farewell Speech, inflammation of the lining of the abdomenal tissue, Military–industrial complex, peritonitis
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On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell speech upon leaving office gave a dire warning about what he described as a threat to the economic health of our country. Eisenhower called the threat the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of defense contractors, political forces and the armed forces.
My wife, Grace, had an experience last week that made me relate Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex to what I would call the medical-industrial complex.
Myofascial Release Therapy Benefits Patients with Fibromyalgia
April 18, 2011 at 9:23 pm | Posted in Complementary Care, Wellness Industry, Women's Health | Leave a commentTags: mind/body, Myofascial Release, natural
(Guest Blog Post from Jessica Queller Katz, CMBT, Birth Doula – Essence Myofascial Wellness Center)
In a recent evidence-based article on pain, anxiety and depression, Myofascial Release techniques were shown to improve the level of pain and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia. The full article and study by Adelaida María Castro-Sánchez, et al can be viewed online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018656/
Myofascial Release (MFR) is a manual therapy that uses gently deep, hands-on pressure to release restrictions in fascia. Fascia is connective tissue spread throughout the entire body, head to toe. It is similar to a spider’s web interconnecting every cell, structure (muscle, bone, nerve, organ, etc), and system of the body.
Healthy fascia is relaxed, fluid, and stretches freely. However when we experience trauma, inflammation, scarring, repetitive stress, etc., fascia loses fluidity, becoming tight and tender. These restrictions can feel like living in a knotted, twisted straight jacket. They do not show up on many standard tests (x-rays, MRIs, CAT scans), but can be felt and often seen under the skin and into the body.
Those that suffer from fibromyalgia and chronic pain are experiencing tightening of the fascia daily. Because the fascial web interconnects every system of the body, this means everything under the skin and inside the body is being constricted and interrupted from its normal function. Nerves, blood vessels, lymph nodes, glands, and such are functioning in an environment similar to that of a Chinese finger trap. Muscles and bones are working too hard in a ‘stuck’ environment that is being literally shrink-wrapped from rigidity. The digestive system, circulatory system, vascular, endocrine, etc., are all thereby inhibited from their proper function.
Most often patients with fibromyalgia and chronic pain present with a posture that is unbalanced and pulled off center due to this web compensating in different directions to support the body upright when standing. A skilled MFR Therapist will treat the entire body so that it can begin to normalize and return to its free-flowing state. If you or a loved one have been told to “live with the pain”, Myofascial Release is often the missing link in treatment of fibromyalgia and chronic pain conditions.
For more information or to find a qualified therapist in your area, please contact our center at (732) 539-8141 or visit www.EssenceNJ.com.
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Jessica Queller Katz is an Advanced MFR Therapist with 300+ hours of continuing education in this discipline. She has trained directly with the authority on Myofascial Release, John F. Barnes, PT, at his seminars and treatment centers, as well as attended seminars as an Assistant Instructor. Her own healing from pain through MFR has awakened her passion for pregnancy and childbirth, which she blends into her practice as a Birth Doula, supporting woman through labor and all stages of motherhood and beyond.
HRT, Hot Sweats and Redox Signaling Molecules
April 8, 2011 at 8:03 pm | Posted in Complementary Care, Wellness Product Reviews, Women's Health | Leave a commentTags: grace rowe, Peter Rowe, Asea, redox signaling molecules, Redox signaling, hormone replacement therapy, HRT, hot sweats
Today on an Asea conference call we heard a very articulate 60-year-old woman share her experience of how Asea enabled her to get off hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescription drugs. Listening to the call my wife, Grace, suddenly realized that she decided for the “umpteenth” time to get off her HRT at about the same time as she started to use Asea on a daily basis back in November 2010. For the first time ever the hot sweats didn’t return after stopping the HRT. Until hearing the woman’s testimony, we never linked the timing of Asea to this very positive change.
Was the positive health result due to Asea or just a coincidence? Who knows, but just maybe Asea’s redox signaling molecules were the reason.
Since a comprehensive study has shown that there is no toxicity in the use of Asea, why not give it a try as an alternative to HRT? Since this is an important health decision, always consult your doctor before making this change. - posted by Peter Rowe
Stressed From Work, From a Long Run??
March 30, 2011 at 3:36 pm | Posted in Performance and Fitness, Sleep | Leave a commentTags: Asea, cellular repair, emotional stress, performance, physical stress, recovery from stress, sound sleep
We were introduced to Asea last October. My first test was to see if my running endurance and recovery would improve and as reported in a previous post it did.
Since then a number of my running buddies have been using Asea and two pieces of feedback
have been unanimous – one, is that at the end of a race or long, hard run they feel surprisingly strong and, two, that their recovery is amazingly fast and they can repeat the physical stress again the next day. Conclusion – recovery from stress is linked to the repair and regeneration of cells prompted by the Asea signaling molecules.
The other thing that seems to be unanimous is that every one reports sleeping more soundly through the night after using Asea, not getting up as frequently or at all to respond to the call of nature. Deep, sound sleep, getting undisturbed through the sleep cycles every night is a key to recovery from stress of all kinds.
My conclusion is that after using Asea regularly every day, 2 ounces in the morning and 2 ounces in the evening, recovery from physical and emotional stress is much improved. And from better recovery comes better performance and health.
If you are stressed and aren’t sleeping well, please contact us. – - Posted by Peter Rowe
Allergy Relief Testimony
March 25, 2011 at 7:26 pm | Posted in Complementary Care, Immunity, Wellness Product Reviews | Leave a commentTags: allergies, Asea, sneezing allergy
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For the past 10 years my wife, Grace, has suffered with an allergy – for no reason at all she would start sneezing, sometimes hundreds of times a day. It could happen at home, in the car hundreds of miles from home, at the beach, in another country, in the ocean in the Caribbean. There was neither rhyme nor reason for it.
A respected allergy doctor did tests and cited mouse droppings and mold. We had our home tested for these issues and there was no mold to speak of and every five years a mouse invades, but no mouse droppings anywhere. We tried to link the sneezing to foods, but no matter how carefully we tracked food sources, we could link nothing to the problem.
The only thing that seemed to work to stop the sneezing was a prescription inhaler, which had the side effects of a dry nose and sometimes a bloody nose. After 10 years the solution was truly elusive until……..
Bone Health and Prescription Drugs
March 15, 2011 at 6:13 pm | Posted in Bone Health, Wellness Product Reviews | Leave a commentTags: Bisphosphonate, bone density, Bone Health, Boniva, Fosamax, nikken, Osteodenx, osteopenia, osteoporosis
There have been a number of articles and papers published recently about
serious side-effect issues with bisphosphonate drugs, such as Boniva and Fosamax. Atypical fractures of the jaw and femur have been reported. There are risks with all prescription drugs as we see and hear with the fast talk at the end of television ads. Yes, sometimes a prescription drug is absolutely necessary and needed quickly. However, if there is a warning, such as osteopenia, that there is the onset of a more serious problem, osteoporosis, why not look into a wellness alternative? We have a wellness alternative you might want to consider before getting on a bisphosphonate.
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