Pelvic Floor Therapy

Pelvic Floor Therapy What is the Pelvic Floor? The pelvic region consists of several bones, ligaments, and muscles that essentially hold the abdominal organs, bladder, uterus, and bowels. The bony pelvis is made up of the sacrum (where your tailbone extends from), ileum, ischium, and pubis. The muscles that attach from the front of the…

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Blue Zones: Creating Habits for Health and Longevity

Blue Zones: Creating Habits for Health and Longevity Advances in technology, preventive medicine, and our understanding of health have played a part in extending the human lifespan considerably. Currently, the maximum life expectancy in developed nations is approximately 90 years.1 However, we are beginning to take a turn, with longevity decreasing specifically in the United…

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Is Inflammation Bad? An Analogy

What is Inflammation? If you prefer to watch rather than read, click here for my YouTube video about inflammation! You typically hear about inflammation as being bad, like in the case of chronic inflammatory diseases, including arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, and cancer. Baseline inflammation, however, is a good thing. Inflammation is an indicator, as…

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