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Greetings,
For many of you, this may be your first issue of the
MAP Newsletter, the companion newsletter to
the Optimum Health Report. While the Optimum
Health Report covers general health topics, The
MAP Newsletter provides you with practical,
easy-to-follow tips for nutrition, exercise, and
healing. More than anything else, eating right and
getting exercise are the most important components
of good health! Below you'll find articles about free
radicals and antioxidants, what to do for knee pain,
and why "prolotherapy" can heal damaged tendons
and ligaments. Enjoy!
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| Question for the Doc — "A strain in my right knee?" |
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"Question for the Doc: Last weekend I felt a
strain in my right knee while doing my long run (22
miles). It doesn't feel like a tear, but if I go hard on it
during the run, it recurs. As you know, I'm in
the 'high-volume' phase getting ready for Kona, so I
don't have the luxury of resting for three weeks.
"Can my doc prescribe something to make it heal
faster (cortisone, pretisone?)? What else should I be
doing?"
- S.K.
My advice: I'd cut back the miles for a
week. Better to heal it and be slightly undertrained
(which I don't believe would occur) than to have it
progress. You could switch to . . .
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| Lipoic Acid: The Ultimate Antioxidant for Athletes |
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Free radicals are unstable chemicals that can
damage many types of cells in the body.
Unfortunately, working out causes increased free
radical formation.
These free radicals are chemicals missing an
electron, which makes them unstable. They will
actually "steal" an electron from another entity in
your body, leaving that entity damaged by the
reaction.
While our body produces its own free radicals as part
of metabolism, many other free radicals enter our
system from chemicals, polluted air, heavy metals,
pesticides, and radiation. Aging is thought to be due
in large part to . . .
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| Foundation Factors for Athletic Health |
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I know that many of you are doing the final
preps for your late season races. At this time of year,
it is so important to watch for overtraining and to
keep your nutrition optimum. It takes 25 grams of
quality protein to keep up with daily losses of protein
for someone who is a couch potato. It's probably 6
times that for an active triathlete. For men, 20-30
grams of MAP, and for women 14-21 grams, will
keep you repaired and ready for the next day's
workout.
In addition to protein nutrition, which is the most
important factor for building tissues and organs as
well as repairing muscle, toxic influences in the
environment must also be constantly removed so the
body's tissues are not contaminated by heavy metals
and chemicals.
Toxic factors actually block enzymes needed
for the body to make energy and protein. When the
body is under toxic stress, it will not perform or
recover properly. Fatigue, lack of energy, inability to
recovery, or injury can result.
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For Chronic Injuries, Prolotherapy Can Help |
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Do you have a chronic injury? Tried everything?
A couple of years ago after an acute groin pull, I was
still laid up after 6 weeks of rest, ice, compression,
elevation, massage, heat, etc. Then I got a
treatment called prolotherapy. In 10 days, I was
running pain free.
Since that time I had a chance to work with Dr.
Ross Hauser and learn the technique. For many
athletes it has been a godsend.
Here is a basic introduction from Dr. Hauser
for those who have never heard about it. (For more
information go to www.getprolo.com.)
"What is Prolotherapy?"
by Ross Hauser, M.D.
Prolotherapy is a simple, natural technique that
stimulates the body to repair the painful area when
the natural healing process needs a little assistance.
Notice I said "a little assistance." Because often,
that's all the body needs, the rest it can take care of
on its own. In most cases, commonly prescribed anti-
inflammatory medications and more drastic measures
like surgery and joint replacement may not help, and
often hinder or even prevent the healing process.
The basic mechanism of Prolotherapy is simple. A
substance is injected into the affected ligaments or
tendons, which leads to local inflammation. The
localized inflammation triggers a wound healing
cascade, resulting in the deposition of new collagen,
the material that ligaments and tendons are made of.
New collagen shrinks as it matures. The shrinking
collagen tightens the ligament that was injected and
makes it stronger.
Prolotherapy has the potential of being 100 percent
effective at eliminating and chronic pain due to
ligament and tendon weakness, but depends upon
the technique of the individual Prolotherapist. The
most important aspect is injecting enough of the
solution into the injured and weakened area. If this is
done, the likelihood of success is excellent.
Read the rest . . .
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