Work-In the Work-Out

By Cari Junge

You get to work just in time; however, you forgot your phone at home. Your daughter already text you she doesn’t like school today. You have a client waiting. And all you can think about is a frothy iced light (wouldn’t want to forget that) mocha that you didn’t have time to get on your way in. This is the beginning of the long line of excuses to not work in the work out.

Is this starting to sound familiar?

You also know won’t pen it in like you would a client. You will stay at work an extra 15 minutes if it means you can head out now for that frothy, icy brain-pleaser … sounds crazy, right?

Well, I’m writing about a friend of mine who could really use some help here. How do we get her to work in the work out? We all need these opportunities to share our battles and gain some support so here goes ...

How does she pull it all together. Being a single mom, with a history of chronic stress, a pleaser and doer, al-knowing she truly needs to stop. She needs to stop wearing her glasses with the cracked lens and using her phone with the cracked screen.

The Sweat of the Matter is just this:

Whether you’re a single parent, a student balancing study and work, a traveling professional that spends more time in the air than on the ground, or simply one seeking that higher level of peace and health, it seems impossible to try and find time to stay in shape. I want you to start by taking your ‘Awareness Pill’ (referenced last week). The best part is that it’s not an NSAIDS (over the counter anti-life enhancer) and you don’t need health insurance for a prescription. Here’s how:

STEP 1: Has got to begin with a good breakfast to get the brain fueled and body firing after your overnight fast. Clean, nutritious and consistent with your two other meals across the day.

STEP 2: Remind yourself what it means to be “aware.” You can head off the stress that you could typically build in the next few hours by simply realizing it’s coming, or could be.

STEP 3: Establish clear intentions early in the day so you don’t move through carrying stress, guilt, question or any other way you rationalize your habits.

STEP 4:   Keep handy your ‘Movement: Rest Tool Box’ which doesn’t have to involve hitting the gym or the sack. It could be a resistance band in the shower, paper plates for glides under your desk, core breathing exercise in the car, or kid crunches and pushups giving hugs later.

So, if I plan ahead to have the 24oz mocha and the 24oz water, and I work 6 hours, play mom another 4, and prioritize sounds and scents during my least favorite home chores, I can rationalize an hour on the trail because it deserves me and I deserve it.

Kudos to our Nation (slight sarcasm) for mastering consistency and growth with our obesity epidemic and #1 killer heart disease. Don’t you give in!

When in doubt just say Yes to Work-In the Work-Out , and then do it! See you next month, if not sooner on the trails~

Cari Junge

Nutrition & Therapy Director

www.utahsportsandwellness.com

Self-Treatment Tool

By Cari Junge
 
Spot of the Week: Lifestyle                                                                                                                               

PART 1:         

As we close out a 9-month Life-Cycle, this is the perfect time to introduce a Self-Treatment Tool you can begin to use from here on out (that means every September for the rest of your life).

If you’re like me, some of you may need to take the same pill for the rest of your life or at least until sciences find another remedy. That’s a tough one to swallow from my perspective but this forever dose doesn’t weigh on me nearly like that pill does.

Your first step in accepting this tool is to go in knowing it won’t taste bad. It may stuff you up a bit going down but by simply addressing and feeling it doing its work; shifts will happen. 

The pill is called Awareness.

I promised last week I would share with you the impact clutter or chaos in our environment can have when order is needed for optimal performance and healthy lifestyle. I’d be doing you a dis-service if I jumped right into sharing experience and guidance without providing you the tools for successfully ridding residue before your mind starts to force.

Let’s start today with reference to our dictionary, thanks to Encarta, of common terms so we begin at the same starting line:

“LIFESTYLE”

1.      Manner of living; the way of life characteristic of a particular person, group, or culture.

Using the “mini-word” approach:

 “LIFE”

1.      Existence in Physical World.

“STYLE”

1.      Way of Doing Something- a way of doing something, especially a way regarded as expressing a particular attitude or typifying a particular period.

We surely get more flavor with the “mini-word” combinations as we move into Step #2 in just a moment. A few more definitions:

“CLUTTER”

1.      Disorganized Mess- a condition of disorderliness or overcrowding or chaos or confusion.

“QUALITY”

1.      Standard- the general standard or grade of something or someone.

Use the above definitions and your years of Living Life to take the following personal assessment on your Current State of Clutter (CSC Levels) in your life. It may take you a few weeks to clearly establish confidence in these rankings, so I’m giving you until the 4^th week of October to live, listen and feel before I provide feedback for your results- the Sweat of the Matter (PART 2: Why Clean House with Shades On?!) …

NOTE:

1.      Don’t rush this.

2.      Give yourself time to relax and clear your head before you jump in.

3.      Cross-check your answers at different days, times and moods. You’ll be amazed at how that last one has an effect on the big picture.

Question #1:

On a scale of 1-10 (1 being low, 10 being high quality), apply a quantitative measure to your feel for your Quality of Life here and now       ________ (ie. 7 of 10)

Question #2:

Using the same rating system, apply a quantitative measure to your feel for each of the following life attributes relative to quality, comfort and wellness:

a.       Home  (physical environment)              _______       

b.      Work   (environment, satisfaction, balance)  _______

c.       Other Environments (if you spend more than 2-hours per day in one place)  _______

d.      Car or Means for Transportation  _______

e.       Purse or Carry-all  _______

f.       Technology (voicemail, email inbox, etc…)  _______

g.      Brain (overall confidence, clarity, effectiveness)  _______

h.      Body (overall health, performance, diet)  _______

i.        Social Circle (those you spend time with outside of work)  _______

j.        Time (overall quality of time spent when out of work)          _______

k.      Sleep (balanced between hours you get and quality of sleep)  _______

l.        Conviction or religion or belief system  _______

m.    ‘You’ (how you see yourself managing the above)  _______

Other (iconic impacts in your life that cause a physical or mental response)

n.      ___________________

o.      ___________________

Until next month’s Sweat content, please join me for next week’s In the Spot-Light feature, given our 5^th week of the month. Take advantage of the bonus time to clutter-clear before October- see you then a little lighter!

Cari Junge

Nutrition & Therapy Director

www.utahsportsandwellness.com

Squeaky Brakes and Procrastination (I’m still learning)

By Dr. Michael Cerami

True confession time; sometimes I don’t pay attention. Yes, your doctor is far from perfect. The latest example of this happened on Monday with my car. Allow me to explain.

Way back in February the brakes on my car started to squeak when I applied the pedal. I initially assumed it had to do with the cold weather as I’m a seasoned motor head from my youth. In the back of my mind I kind of had a brief through that the noise may indicate that I needed new brakes but I reasoned that I don’t put that many miles on the car so I felt “nah, that can’t be it.”

As the months passed, the noise came and went and so did my thinking about the problem. I eventually knew I would need new brakes but the symptoms weren’t acute enough to have me take action. Sounds like the same behavior I’ve experienced with patients and their injuries or complaints. Pain interferes with their activities; but since it only happens while they are exercising (the brakes only squeaked while I was pushing down the brake pedal!) and goes away later, it’s not important enough to fix.

Well as these things usually go, the symptoms got worse in two additional stages. First the brake light lit up on the dashboard (intermittently of course) which by adding brake fluid the symptom went away (similar to taking ibuprofen?). And the on this past Monday, as I was backing out of the garage, I could very clearly hear the grinding noises coming from the back of the car.

I knew at this point my luck had run out and it was time to pay the piper. Luckily my procrastination hadn’t caused any severe damage except to my wallet.

It’s funny how our brains rationalize the decisions we make. Intuitively I knew I needed to get my car repaired or it would become damaged and possibly even un-useable. But…somehow I convinced myself that putting things off would allow the damage to miraculously “repair itself”. As silly as that sounds it’s true. It’s not what we do with that knowledge and how we rationalize our decisions later.

My rationale at this point was that I had the car inspected in July and it passed with no indication of needing brakes.” Hah! See I told you it was all good” I said to myself while actually knowing it wasn’t.

And on Monday evening, I was really laughing myself when I told my wife that I had to get the cars brakes repaired. Another friend who was listening heard me and said, “That’s funny, my car makes a squealing sound when it needs brakes.” At this point we all laughed and I said tongue in cheek, “Why should I take responsibility for my ignorance when it’s easier to blame the guy at Jiffy Lube who did the inspection!” J

Here’s hoping you listen to your body’s signals and take the appropriate action; or at least laugh at yourself when you don’t.

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Cerami   

Training for the A-Race While Living the Human Race

By Cari Junge

A few weeks ago I settled into my groove on a beautifully sunny and quiet morning in the outdoor 50-meter with the pool nearly to myself. This is a rare occasion at a County facility so I was that much happier I got up early to go. It’s funny how un-natural it is for me to gift myself the critical release mechanisms that make the most difference.  No matter how many times I feel that ‘ahhhh’ moment, reinforcing what I know to be as important for me as brushing my teeth, the training methods that produce the greatest gains are not always 1^st on my schedule.

You can think, ‘So what? You went out for a swim workout, probably on your training plan, just another to-do like every other posted for the week’.  Well, I’ve come to realize that there are moments during the monotony that can leave lasting progression (neuro, psycho, physio, etc…) and I am never ever the same, far beyond the structure on my plan.  I went for a swim early morning, which is big for me as some of you know, since for many years my training in the pool has been far from rewarding.  I had lost the drive to robotically use my arms and legs to glide from one end to the other over and over- which for some is the definition of insanity, especially during periods when my technique purely sucked (no laughing John!).

My Life-Type is something that changes often, with the seasons, the stars and my life cycle. From years of study in Feng Shui and Ayurveda, I’ve developed some unique systems for driving the success of an athlete, whether in life or sport. Through this abstract process, we can gain an understanding of and an appreciation for our Mind-Type (Behavior | Emotion Profile), our Body-Type (Physique | Chemistry) and our Sport-Type (Fitness | Mechanics), as well as many other qualities that relate.

That day I had my workout protocol in my mind and props with me, ready to put in a solid training session with a race approaching. Once I felt how peaceful the environment was for me as I settled into stroke, my workout structure gradually turned improv, like the meandering stream my mind tends towards naturally. How valuable would that session be, given my current swim fitness? For that matter, should I care?

It’s taken decades for me, personally, to align my natural way with my Mind.Body.Sport-Type, while still battling wounds of poor past performances. It’s taken this long to resolve the concept for structuring training to best meet my psycho-physiology, my lifestyle and my goals. I’ve finally learned to gain foresight into what may arise as an A-race beyond my Multi-Sport event calendar, where I will likely be exerting physically, mentally and all the other ‘ally-ies’. Some of the Life-Races take on the systems usage of an Ironman or longer, requiring a 24 to 48-month training plan, and even a solid 4 to 52-week transition period to rejuvenate.

That’s me today, hundreds of races including 8 Ironman-distance triathlons later. I have finally accepted that first and foremost, I’m a Life-Athlete, say versus a Tri-Athlete, and I need my training plan for Sport to layer on top of that for Life, if and when it can. I benefit in life-changing ways after a peaceful improvised swim in a beautifully sunny and quiet 50-meter pool like I do from an Epsom Salt soak after a hard brick workout.  I’m OK- I think- managing my passion to feel the way my soul fires sprinting down the chute for an Ironman finish, not knowing if or when I’ll get the opportunity to love that way again.

The SWEAT of the Matter is that, who knows. You just may be facing similar conditions as me, in your toughest race this cycle, your Human Race, I call ‘Life’.  (thanks to Jason Bateman in the movie ‘The Switch’ for this incredible concept).

As a leader in performance coaching, it’s my duty to support the Life-Athlete (namely myself) in recognizing who, what, where, when, why and how. Fitting an IM into the toughest period of your training cycle is not wise. It’s like racing a sprint-distance tri when peaking volume for long-course. Different energy systems, strategies and loads can be highly detrimental if not timed appropriately.

It’s also my duty to support you authentically, as I do myself. With that commitment, live by the mantra a friend shared when I was in need, ‘Flow before you Force’ (thanks GH). It took a while for me to live by it but now I do innately as I did that day in the pool. By simply letting go or flowing, my mind gave my body the freedom to move naturally. And I now, in this moment get why I can feel that therapeutic sensation inside, from such an uneventful experience that has hopefully provided some incite for you and your training. Thanks, again, for letting me SWEAT on you. Time to take a shower!

Please join me next week when I share with you the impact clutter or chaos in our environment can have when order is needed for an optimal performance and healthy lifestyle.

Cari Junge

Nutrition & Therapy Director

www.utahsportsandwellness.com

Is Your Training 30 Years Behind the Times?

By Dr. Michael Cerami

CHECK OUT THE LINK TO SEE IF YOUR TRAINING IS 30 YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES.

http://running.competitor.com/2012/07/training/are-you-overemphasizing-the-marathon-long-run_55719

I think the author makes some good points:

• If your marathon is going to be 3:45:00 or above you may not want or need to run longer than 3 hours.
• Why the 20 mile training run is so significant to us.
• Are your muscles and joints up to handling your run?
• You don't get much aerobic development beyond a 90 minute run.

Take a look and let me know your thoughts!

Thanks for reading,

Dr. Michael Cerami

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Eating Disorder or Dis - Ordered Eating

By Cari Junge

To stick to our theme from last week’s Health Spot of analyzing the macro and micro meanings of terms that can make up a diagnosis, I am beginning our monthly Nutrition Spot with one of my favorites. I first heard reference of a re-engineered approach to working with ‘dis-ordered eating patterns’, as opposed to the term ‘eating disorders’ from a masterful Sports Dietitian about 10 years ago. She bluntly shared the stat that nearly 85% of her career-long client base has had a ‘dis-ordered eating’ pattern noticeably harmful to lifestyle and/or sports performance. No kidding?! That’s high, I remember thinking, though today I’d likely see that as a low percentage.

The National Eating Disorders Association (1) provides the following definition:

“Eating disorders -- such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating – include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening consequences for females and males.”

I am not a credentialed expert in this area though have experienced close association across my personal and professional career. I have explored what tends to come first when studying the onset of eating disorders, the emotional or the physical problem. If we get down to brain chemistry driving physical response, there’s rationale for the psycho- to physio- process dictating emotion as the catalyst.  If a physical condition is diagnosed at birth or early onset that limits the body’s ability to perform a healthy nutrition pattern like absorbing a specific mineral which may eliminate a food group from diet, there’s reason to believe that physiology drives.  While some behaviors (that show harmful patterns of managing caloric intake and output) may not be clinically considered a ‘full syndrome eating disorder’ (as the NEDA categorizes), they can still be physically dangerous and emotionally draining. Today, however, it’s important to recognize that irregular patterns appearing dis-ordered are actually healthier for us given the scope of change we experience across a 12-month cycle.

The play on words between ‘Eating Disorder’ and ‘Dis-Ordered Eating’ resonated with me instantly as an athlete and coach back then, just as the relationship between ‘Disease’ and ‘Dis-Ease’ hit home when I first heard the term.(2)

“Disordered eating” has become a prevalent term in Lifestyle and Sports Nutrition today. It’s used to describe eating habits or patterns that are irregular. Many different types of disordered eating habits exist, but for the most part these habits or diets do not add up to a diagnosis of a full syndrome eating disorder. Some examples include: excluding whole food groups (for example, all fats or all carbohydrates), eating only at particular times of the day, eating only specific foods, colors or textures, not eating certain foods together in a sitting, building our life (and workouts) around our meals, etc…  

Sometimes these patterns have formed in childhood, say from being labeled a picky eater or fighting siblings for your ration at the dinner table. These boundaries or restrictions, a.k.a. relationships, can also develop as a means for losing weight, filling a hole (and not meaning a doughnut), managing performance, or as a coping mechanism against emotional stress. The implication is that they are un-healthy, which I have learned to leave room for assessing otherwise. And it’s an assessment that’s important to differentiate the constructive vs. destructive nature.

Let’s reference the phrase ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. This habit-forming protocol can drive some minds to nearly will upon themselves symptoms of illness on a day they don’t get to eat one. I remember when I’d purposely force an apple down because of that mantra, even if it wasn’t in-season. Now well-educated on the ‘why’, I prioritize the pattern when I know my body needs it to maintain or gain homeostasis, and it actually tastes better in that case. We can buy yummy tasting apples year-round here in the States, but it’s most important to eat them when they are in-season (be sure to read reference #3). Apples can cause some distress in the gut, which they do for me outside of their harvest-period, because they’re actually not good for my body then. I can right now hear my mom saying ‘Why, not?! It’s so good for you’ when I say ‘no thanks’ during the chill of winter.

With every new diet that hits the tabloids, reference to the primitive hunting and gathering days, and continuous re-evaluation of potential toxicity or carcinogen levels in nearly everything we touch that’s influenced by man, chances are we all move through life with dis-ordered eating patterns.

To those living with a clinically diagnosed (or not yet) full-syndrome eating disorder, please utilize the amazing support systems readily available today that work. Life is and you are worth it.

And those who battle disordered eating patterns that clearly leave harmful residue, you too have incredible resources available to you. Research shows that by seeking out professional guidance, you will be successful resolving healthy eating habits.

Finally, those with irregular intake patterns conscientiously implemented for optimal lifestyle and health management, I commend you. I’ll refer to you all as our ‘C-Cubed Control Group’. (4) It’s far from easy to make this process work, and there’s not a plethora of support out here for you- which is one goal of ours in creating The Utah SWEAT Spot. So, if this classification resonates with your lifestyle, share a tip that works for you and/or ask a question for us to support.

I hope you enjoyed a good SWEAT Session today- next week in the ‘Sport Spot’, we will focus further into the concept of controlled chaos as it relates to fitting sport into life, and vice versa. Until then, I wish you well~

Cari Junge

Nutrition & Therapy Director

www.utahsportsandwellness.com

SIDEBAR:

(1)   (www.NationalEatingDisorders.org)

(2)   ** Check out my September Health Spot post on this topic as well as read my initial exposure to this concept I didn’t share in that blog as follows:

I attended a weekend retreat in the late ‘90s called ‘Natural Chi Movement’ which focused on meditative techniques. The agenda included the option to observe a natural healer perform a Pranic Healing technique to energetically move phlegm up and out of a young boy’s lungs who battled Leukemia. There was no touch whatsoever from the point of introduction, through a process to instill a sense of ‘Ease’ in the patient mentally and physically, and then to guide the waste-removal of disease from his body into a bowl. WOW

(3)  Apples are harvested in abundance at the end of the summer, as if nature is sending a message to eat a lot of them during that time. And this is how smart nature is that many don’t realize. Our bodies don’t manage the heat of summer that well for that long without building toxic residue, inflammation and dis-ease. In peak harvest, an apple a day will help eliminate waste as a purgative or natural heat-removing agent. You’ll know it’s needed and working if your following it up with ‘#2’ in the bathroom.

(4)  ‘C-Cubed’ which may be written as 3 x (three times) ‘C’ stands for ‘Comfortably Controlled Chaos’ . Controlled chaos to me is reality, it’s the way today and the more we go with the triple decker sandwich, the less we feel the impact of the meat inside.

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Bran Muffin Experiment

By Dr. Michael Cerami

As some of you know, my race season has been up and down. The year started with a shortened race at the Boise ½ Ironman and went to hell in Boulder (see previous post) so I scheduled this Provo ½ Ironman distance as a hope to recover my season.I went into this race with a somewhat casual attitude that came back to punish me as you’ll see.

I headed to the Provo Marriott Friday afternoon after office hours and picked up my race packet on the way. I made a list of everything I needed that I could get from Smiths near the hotel later that night. Once I got unpacked and settled in I took a walk from the hotel and figured I could get breakfast makings at the supermarket.

This proved to quite a challenge. Being a vegetarian presented some real problems in that I neglected to bring anything to hotel for food prep. Combined with the fact I needed to get out of the hotel to be at the transition area by 4:30am meant that there wasn’t going to be anything (food or coffee) to get me started in the morning. After walking up and down the aisles 5 times, I eventually settled on some day old bagels, and avocado and almond butter. “I can make this work,” I thought. Wrong.

4am came and I couldn’t stomach anything I bought. The bagels were stale; the almond butter was not mixed and was totally dry (even after attempting to stir it with the end of my toothbrush) and the avocado? For breakfast? What was I thinking?

Side note: Friday evening I pleaded with the hotel staff asking if the Starbucks located in the lobby would be willing to open up a little early for us triathletes staying at the hotel. I never heard anything back so didn’t know what to expect. But, sure enough, someone was opening early when I took my bike down to the car (THANK YOU!). The woman was nice enough to try and get me something to eat but the only thing she had was yet another stale bran muffin. I tried to get it down on the ride out to Utah Lake, but man, this thing was bad.

So after all this I didn’t quite realize I hadn’t consumed much if anything for my long day. I ended up eating a Trio bar I had stashed and figures everything would work out. Well it kind of did until mile 9 on the run…

The swim went ok as I’m not the fastest guy out there by any means (think winter improvement) and the bike was spot on what I anticipated at came in with a 20mph average. I consumed all my food and drink on the bike so I was feeling good.

The run went well until I hit the last few miles when the lack of a decent breakfast came back to haunt me. My splits were going up every mile and I was struggling to keep a decent pace. Add to that it seems the run was about ½ mile longer than 13.2 hmmmm.

I did finish and came to find out hours later I won my age group. It was about 20 minutes slower than expected because of my run falling apart but I’ll take it. The lesson for me: don’t start experimenting with unknown factors on race day. You can bet I’ll be prepared for all future events whether Starbucks is open or not!

When Disease Means Dis-Ease

By Cari Junge

Don’t you love those words that are created by mini-words that describe what they mean? You break down the term and find its syllables have micro-meanings that define the macro-word. And sometimes the macro-word means so much more after you study the perspective from the mini-words.

It’s kind of like getting to the lowest common denominator of a number or two fractions being added together, being the root number. Then the simplicity of the equation becomes instantaneous.

Or …

When the gluten-free, vegan pizza systematically made of holistically digestible nutrition appears unappetizing next to The Pie until your mind allows your body to feel the sensation of swollen fingers and cheeks like last time you chose immediate satisfaction. The health-za vs the pit-za suddenly wets the lips knowing the parts comprising the sum won’t leave residual affect

Or …

An individual, bringing specific layers of ‘Technique, Endurance, Attitude, Momentum’ as she integrates into the T.E.A.M. as a whole.

And you’re thinking ‘really?!’ Not seeing much correlation here, huh? Here’s my train coming into the station.

The dictionary term, dis·ease (noun):

‘medical condition… specific disorder… a condition in humans, plants, or animals            that results in pathological symptoms and is not the direct result of physical injury, …    with recognizable signs and often having a known cause’

… can be built on …

The combined dictionary terms, #1 Dis (pro-verb):

‘put down… attack…something is not ’

Plus, #2 Ease (noun):

‘comfort… free from worry, problems, restrictions’

… which equals together …

                “attacked comfort … something not free from worry … a problem or restriction”

The word ‘disease’ to me feels permanent. The essence of the word implies finality, as it’s unchangeable. It’s a given that something is wrong and I just may die if I can’t fight it harder than its fighting me.

As a health professional, I went through periods of what some may call hypochondria, when I would project what I was studying on my own mind and body. I could convince myself I had the symptoms as easily as I could rid them away.  There’s no doubt that pain exists on a range of levels, more tactile and tangible for some than others. Wearing a yellow t-shirt certainly can radiate a tint of jaundice. And a pain in my chest is never something to purely ignore like I do a pain in my butt. 

Does Mind take over Matter in these cases, including how the mere addition of the ‘-‘ (dash) can change the whole meaning, and possibly the diagnosis when we see it in writing?

I’ve felt pains in my butt develop even if just a play on words by simply doing for someone without feeling valued, and after I control them coming back by simply saying no. I’ve also felt panic lead to chest pain where the diagnosis was so far from the signs and symptoms, which didn’t stop until I knew there was no ‘disease’ but only ‘dis-ease’. What was happening inside or amongst the parts was in no way causing the lasting effect the sum equaled, to me at the time.

There are lots of chemical jargon and big medical terms I can share for what happens when. The message here, or rather the SWEAT of the Matter is that there’s that which is within our control, and that which is not. My ability is far different than yours, etc… In order to move through ‘Disease’ or a state of ‘Dis-ease’, the same action plan is needed.

Take control of what you can to the ‘nth’ degree. And rehearse it with solutions to gain your power and/or back.

For that which you cannot control, which is often the majority rule, cover the scope of that which can affect your health, which is psycho-physical. Ease the mind to heal the body, and vice versa.

To those of you that swell after one of my favorite indulgences, a thickly loaded greasy cheesy pit-za, have the meal and feel it. Then remove all gluten and dairy from your diet for a week. Go back and have the same meal. How do you feel?

To those of you that experience panic and/or chest pain, call your doc and check the Stress Test results off your list.

It’s amazing just how quickly you will regain control from ‘dis-ease’ like panic or poor food choices, and heal the body from the impact of ‘disease’.

I hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful summer season and will give your body and mind time for a healthy cleanse before the winter sets in. Clean your gut, recharge your brain and love your life!

Cari Junge

Nutrition & Therapy Director

www.utahsportsandwellness.com

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