Exercise
The lack of sunshine and shorter days take a toll on so many of us. My patients in the dark of winter suffer more with depression, they are more tired, their PMS is worse. In addition, I see more issues with sleep, with unwanted weight gain, with stress. And as you know if you’ve been reading my emails or work, I hold that increased stress…
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Even though spring is on the way, we are still dealing with our shorter, darker winter days. More darkness. Less sunlight. Although I don’t mind winter, the turning inward, the quiet, the darkness, around this time every year my body and mood start responding to the long winter. Even if my introvert self likes the season, my body is ready for the sun. Ready to…
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You’ve heard it time and time again: “Exercise is good for you!” “You have to exercise to stay healthy.” And although any exercise is better than no exercise, it is becoming more and more clear every day that strength training is more beneficial with a greater range of benefits than cardio. What is strength training? Strength training, also known as resistance training is using some…
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Jeremy and I have been working together off and on for decades. He’s a rockstar personal trainer here in PDX and truly knows his stuff. I asked him to put together a short post with some ideas about home strength training. It turned out he already had a few downloadable cut sheets so we just linked them here! Each exercise includes a modification but please,…
Read MoreJust the other day, I remembered a “technique” I had in my first year of medical school. In order to memorize long lists of information, I would make myself flash cards and test myself on long walks. (Yup, I was the strange girl walking down the street with flashcards…) I don’t know when I first had this idea, but I’m guessing that I was just…
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I just watched a twenty-minute YouTube video about the single most important thing we can do for our health. Exercise. There are 1,440 minutes in every day. Can you schedule 30 of them for physical activity?
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