Well it’s no secret what menopause is. Luckily there’s an increasing body of information widely available out about it these days. Among other hormonal shifts, the primary change in menopause and peri-menopause occurs with estrogen levels. …
Biochemistry of Pain
One Thing People Don’t Tell You About Peri-Menopause…
…is that it can be a highly inflammatory time for your body! All the things you used to be able to get away with like strange sleeping positions, eating the wrong thing, or taking on too much at work; suddenly you start to experience critical mass …
Are You Eating Your Inflammation?
If you’re in pain, you are inflamed. No question. Inflammation is your body on fire (read more about that in this post on my blog-to-book project site Stop Everyday Pain). To put out this fire, you need to first of all, stop throwing kindling on the …
What Can You Do to Avoid “Sleeping Injuries”?
In my previous post I introduced the idea of how ridiculously injured we can feel after a night of what was supposed to be regenerative sleep. This is just one but a popular example of everyday pain. This is the kind of pain that has us wondering: …
Have YOU Had a “Sleeping Injury”?
No joke. Sleeping can seem like the most dangerous activity we do and especially for anyone who has ever had the experience of waking up with a “crick” in the neck. More often than you would think, when people show up in my office with searing and …