Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “recover”
Christmas is finished and you’re now in the recovery phase. Hopefully you had a great time, though right now you’re probably just: I call this the recovery phase of Christmas simply because it’s normal to feel like this after all that fun so there is no point in beating ourselves up about it. Good health is just about restoring balance …
Workouts are how you get strong right? Wrong!!! Yep, despite all the emphasis on lifting weights, running and all manner of ways to push your body not one of these things actually makes you stronger.
The overwhelming feeling I get when reviewing all I’ve learned about the benefits of exercise is that the most important benefit you get is the ability to recover from any risk you take or damage or injury you incur. Take this tweet Kimberly Stein, PhD @kimwhitestein 11 hrs FFA transporters move to the plasma membrane during endurance exercise to bring more fat …
There is growing evidence that our own immune systems are key to many of the common illnesses of western society. They’re even implicated in the aging process itself. An overactive immune system is starting to be considered a problem in itself and thus finding the right balance is becoming key. When working at a gym I found the healthiest people …
Why animals sleep remains one of the enduring mysteries of biology, but new research suggests the primary reason might be to allow cerebrospinal fluid to wash all the gunk out from between your brain cells. Read more The researchers interpretation is that this is literally a cleaning process after a busy day. I would wonder if it’s also a restocking …
If we don’t sleep we simply don’t work properly. So what does it do for us, how much do we need, what types are there and many other questions are answered.
Inflammation is quickly becoming linked with just about every major disease and for good reason because it is the bodies natural response to injury and disease making the inflammation mechanism the bodies rapid response unit. Inflammation is the bodies equivalent of the army, police, health and fire services rolled into one. Once you realise that the bodies most natural response to infection is …
I understand that our brains can only obtain energy from sugar. The can’t get it from protein and fat like the rest of our body. So when I found an article considering How much glucose does your brain actually need? I knew I needed to make a record for future reference. This is something I learnt through bio psychology and my PE …
I am active therefore I get injured. That’s probably the best way to think about it. So injury is part of life and something I need to learn about and overcome. To that end I have started to document what I have learned from my injuries The other posts focus on specifically treating that injury including: wrist sprain, ankle sprain, toe …
This year for me has been about injuries, their treating, rehabilitation and prevention. Thankfully I’m pretty much healed and now on the road back to full fitness but I couldn’t help but wish there were more simple and clear tools and advice out there to help prevent these injuries in the first place. So I thought I’d start my own …
I found this a while ago and just came across it again. A study has found evidence that exercise can produce chemicals which suppress cancer. We all kind of know it can help but it’s really powerful to find evidence showing real protective benefits. Of course more research is required but this is extremely promising. Learn more about Fitness v …
Just came across a fascinating bit of research suggesting that exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain development a head start. It is just one study but it is promising research. A randomised controlled trial in humans, reflecting previous results on animals. It is just nice to find more evidence to support being active through pregnancy and essentially throughout life. The …
Ongoing health is about regular challenges making you strong enough to resist the pressures you face and having fast enough recovery to prevent ongoing problems.
I just came across Game theory and the treatment of cancer. A fascinating article considering the ecosystem within a cell and organism as relevant to the understanding of Cancer. I much prefer this more holistic view because much of what I’m learning shows cancer and the viruses and bacteria which cause it to be involved in the same kinds of …
following on with the theme that sleep is far more important than many of us realise. Here’s an analysis of things we can do better asleep than when we’re awake. Essentially there seem to be three main areas that we do better asleep: Lets summarise each area: Forming accurate memories Most neuroscientists agree that sleep is when we organize memories …
I’m excited to have just discovered Neural Darwinism through an interview with Gerald Edelman on all in the mind. The idea that our brain constantly adapts to our environment using the same evolutionary principles described by Darwin is what I’ve been coming to believe. It’s clear that we create and remove connections every day during sleep and that our brains are constantly evolving from the …
Deep stuff eh. Again I’m just trying to make the point that balance is everything. Sleep is a big part of life and it needs to be. Western culture doesn’t really value sleep that much. There are so many things to do with your time. Sleep is so often considered a waste of it. So could the amount of sleep …
So I sprained my ankle quite badly way back on August 10th this year. I’ve sprained my ankles a ton of times before and recovered fine so I know the rehab drill. A bunch of years had passed since my last sprain so I thought I’d check out how the advice had improved. Unfortunately it hadn’t improved much at all. …
I believe strongly in the need for balance between work rest and play. I just heard about a study that has linked too much or too little sleep to a chance of an early death. Thought I’d log it hear as a reference I want to build on in time. It’s not the first piece of research to show this …
It occurred to me recently how to express my experience of how I learn and how our brains are capable of providing lightning fast access to so much of the info we hold in our heads. I think the process might be similar to the methods used in hardware and software mainly because I think they evolved for the same …