The Role of High Intensity Interval Training & Weight Loss

Dr. Stephen Boutcher has been working very hard at NSW Uni, examining the ability of exercise and diet to decrease body fat and to normalize metabolic syndrome factors such as insulin and inflammation. He has  shown that high intensity intermittent sprinting exercise (LifeSprints), compared to steady-state exercise, results in significant fat loss in women. He has also shown that LifeSprints reduces fasting insulin levels to a greater extent compared to steady state exercise.

I interviewed him asked him his top secrets for fat burning.  They are;

1. Fast for 4 hours prior to exercise.  (best to do it first thing in the morning)
2. Do 20 minutes exercise three times a week
3. Do what he calls Life sprints on a cycle.  8 secs flat out then 12 secs easy.  This results in much more fat loss than 40mins of steady state cycling.
4. Fast for a further hour after exercise
5. Drink green tea after work out
6. Drink cold water

For this you can expect from his clinical trials;

• Aerobic power to increase 24% in 15 weeks
• Fat mass loss 2.5kg in females after 15 weeks
• Visceral fat decrease 17% in males after 12 weeks sprinting
• Muscle mass increase 1.2 kg in males after 12 weeks sprinting
• Insulin 34% decrease in females after 6 weeks sprinting, fish oil and Mediterranean diet

Give it a go and let me know how you go.....

Kids Guts and Behavioural issues

In this blog I'm going to answer the questions put to me by one of my clients. Do you have the same questions?

 I worry about John's behavioral issues (and don't like to discuss this in front of him) and am seeking what can be done to improve these.
Often kids behavior will improve with digestive healing. There are two big areas outside the brain to look at with kids behavioral issues; The digestive walls and the blood brain barrier (BBB) 
The digestive wall is influenced by the microbiome, the integrity of the gut wall, toxins and allergies. John is on a program to improve the first three. If we suspect allergies I have a Food dectective test to help work out what they are.
The BBB is a new area of research but what they have found is that inflammation causes the BBB to become more porous and chemicals that would normally be stopped by the BBB leak into the brain. There is a description of this as the “brain is on fire”. We see this often is kids with gross behavioural issues where if we can stop this whole reaction the kids behaviour improves dramatically.  

I am interested in what process you will undertake with John and what will be done to eliminate the heavy metals in John's system.
John is on a program called Clean Within for kids.
Step one is to improve the microbiome. 
Step two is to use supplements to help bind out the heavy metals.
With good compliance these 2 steps usually take about 6 weeks but each case is different.

I presume the supplements for John are to eliminate parasites and improve his gut function.
The supplements in Step one are all about getting the right Microbiome.  The testing indicates that John has unbeneficial bacteria.  The drops will kill unbenefical bacteria, parasites and protozoa.  The powder is all about binding these all up and taking them out of the system.

Would it be beneficial to treat my daughters ( not sure if the supplement is like a probiotic).
Do they have similar symptoms? I’d only recommend the anti-parasite drops if their Urinary Indicans testing came back at level 2.3.or 4. Otherwise a good probiotics like Flora Care for kids would be great.

Are there a wide variety of metals that are all treated differently?
I usually treat them all similarly for the first 6 weeks, in most cases the symptoms go and all goes back to normal.  Sometime rarely where we don't clear the toxicity, I either order hair analysis or urine analysis at a pathology lab to find out more and then we can make the treatment more specific. If you would like a referral at any time for these, it's easy for me to provide.

How do the metals get into the system?
We live in a chemical soup. I doesn't take much research to find that all our food sources and tainted with something. The air that we breathe is not as clean as we would like. It’s not hard to find sources around the house in pipes, on walls in the water supply. Kids also tend to put lots of stuff in their mouths. On the other hand our bodies are great detoxifiers. WE break down and eliminate all day long. Sometimes we just need to help the body in this process to keep up.

Would you advocate a hair analysis test. I was speaking to someone recently with an autistic child who had some hair analysis done and saw great results after treating the child.
I can give you a referral any time you would like. I usually hold off a little and see if we can clear it without spending further money on testing. 

Do I need a pathology request from a doctor to be tested for pyrrole or can you issue one?
Pyrroles I can issue a referral. We'll get a bit more of an interesting result if we hold off to after the digestive healing program otherwise we may test him and he is high and them want to test him again after the program.

Using Mindfulness Every day to become Painfree Within

Mindfulness reduces the emotional and cognitive aspects of pain, and these, in turn, decrease your experience of pain.You can do this by learning ways to “get to know” your pain, and allow it to reduce. Rather than trying to push it away, Mindfulness encourages you to sit with the experience. As you just sit with the pain, so the usual emotions and thoughts that are triggered by it get quieter. Your experience of the pain decreases as it is now no longer amplified by your thoughts and feelings about it.

This is a technique you can learn, and is a great addition to your pain reduction toolbox. Constant physical pain can be exhausting. It can take up all your thinking as you try to push it away, and you are reminded of it every time you go to pick something up or walk up stairs. However, as the saying goes, “while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Your degree of suffering can be reduced through changing your relationship with your pain. This change is achieved through what is called Mindfulness. It works like this...
An experience of pain consists of three aspects:

1. There is the physical aspect. This is the physical sensation of pain, plus the
   changes in physical movement that occur because of it (for example,
   difficulty in lifting, sitting, walking).
   
2. There is the emotional aspect. These are the feelings you have about the
   pain – perhaps sadness, anger, resentment.
   
3. There is the cognitive aspect. These are the thoughts you have about the
   pain including the stories you tell yourself about it. For example, “I’ll never
   have a normal life now”, or “I don’t know how I can carry on like this.”
   

Mindfulness addresses the emotional and cognitive aspects of pain, and these, in turn, can decrease your experience of pain. Mindfulness encourages you to sit with the experience. As you just sit with the pain, so the usual emotions and thoughts that are triggered by it get quieter. Your experience of the pain decreases as it is now no longer amplified by your thoughts and feelings about it. This is a technique you can learn, and is a great addition to your pain reduction toolbox.

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Your Anti-Aging Plan

We have financial plans, renovation plans & plans for the kids education

Where is the anti-aging plan?

How do we check its effectiveness?

How do we feel on it?

We can notice that there are people who reach the age of 85 in a very good physical and mental condition. There are others who have extensive cognitive difficulties and physical disorders already by the age of 60. This is why it is logical to think that a persons biological age is more indicative of their health than their chronological age. This is  definitely a reason to have a good anti aging plan that gets reviewed regularly.
We measure biological age with what we call Biomarkers. Biomarkers (short for biological markers) are biological measures of a biological state. By definition, a biomarker is "a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes or pharmacological responses to a therapeutic intervention."

It's important to consider when we talk about anti-aging is that not only consider life span but the degree of wellness along the way.  Presently in Australia we may live longer but not necessarily weller. Aging biomarkers monitoring allows not necessarily to diagnose various diseases, but to create real goals to prevent their development or prevent their progression.

I always like to say "Health is your most Important Asset"  so it figures if I'm sitting on an asset I need a plan to conserve it.  This plan needs to incumbent many different areas.  The areas that I think are most important to plan strategies around are health goals,  nutrition, lifestyle, mindset, exercise, medications and supplements. This month in the clinic is all about creating strategies around anti-aging. And the best news of all, how do you feel? The answer is vital, powerful, energetic and in control.

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12 Hormone-Altering Chemicals and How to Avoid Them Written by Therese Kerr

BPA

Some may say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but do you really want a chemical used in plastics imitating the sex hormone estrogen in your body? No! Unfortunately, this synthetic hormone can trick the body into thinking it’s the real thing – and the results aren’t pretty. BPA has been linked to everything from breast and others cancers to reproductive problems, obesity, early puberty and heart disease, and according to government tests, 93 percent of Americans have BPA in their bodies!

Dioxin

Dioxins are multi-taskers… but not in a good way! They form during many industrial processes when chlorine or bromine are burned in the presence of carbon and oxygen. Dioxins can disrupt the delicate ways that both male and female sex hormone signaling occurs in the body. This is a bad thing! Here’s why: Recent research has shown that exposure to low levels of dioxin in the womb and early in life can both permanently affect sperm quality and lower the sperm count in men during their prime reproductive years. But that’s not all! Dioxins are very long-lived, build up both in the body and in the food chain, are powerful carcinogens and can also affect the immune and reproductive systems.

Atrazine

What happens when you introduce highly toxic chemicals into nature and turn your back? For one thing, feminization of male frogs. That’s right, researchers have found that exposure to even low levels of the herbicide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that produce completely viable eggs. Atrazine is widely used on the majority of corn crops in the United States, and consequently it’s a pervasive drinking water contaminant. Atrazine has been linked to breast tumors, delayed puberty and prostate inflammation in animals, and some research has linked it to prostate cancer in people.

Phthalates

Did you know that a specific signal programs cells in our bodies to die? It’s totally normal and healthy for 50 billion cells in your body to die every day! But studies have shown that chemicals called phthalates can trigger what’s known as “death-inducing signaling” in testicular cells, making them die earlier than they should. Yep, that’s cell death – in your man parts. If that’s not enough, studies have linked phthalates to hormone changes, lower sperm count, less mobile sperm, birth defects in the male reproductive system, obesity, diabetes and thyroid irregularities.

How to avoid it? A good place to start is to avoid plastic food containers, children’s toys (some phthalates are already banned in kid’s products), and plastic wrap made from PVC, which has the recycling label #3. Almost all personal care products also contain phthalates, so read the labels and avoid products that simply list “fragrance,” and avoid perfume since the catch-call “fragrance” more often than not means hidden phthalates.

Perchlorate

Who needs food tainted with rocket fuel?! That’s right, perchlorate, a component in rocket fuel, contaminates much of our produce and milk, according to EWG and government test data. When perchlorate gets into your body it competes with the nutrient iodine, which the thyroid gland needs to make thyroid hormones. Basically, this means that if you ingest too much of it you can end up altering your thyroid hormone balance. This is important because it’s these hormones that regulate metabolism in adults and are critical for proper brain and organ development in infants and young children.

Fire retardants

What do breast milk and polar bears have in common? In 1999, some Swedish scientists studying women’s breast milk discovered something totally unexpected: The milk contained an endocrine-disrupting chemical found in fire retardants, and the levels had been doubling every five years since 1972! These incredibly persistent chemicals, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDEs, (sometimes found in cosmetics and personal care products) have since been found to contaminate the bodies of people and wildlife around the globe – even polar bears. These chemicals can imitate thyroid hormones in our bodies and disrupt their activity. That can lead to lower IQ, among other significant health effects.

Lead

Lead harms almost every organ system in the body and has been linked to a staggering array of health effects, including permanent brain damage, lowered IQ, hearing loss, miscarriage, premature birth, increased blood pressure, kidney damage and nervous system problems. But few people realize that one other way that lead may affect your body is by disrupting your hormones. In animals, lead has been found to lower sex hormone levels. Research has also shown that lead can disrupt the hormone signaling that regulates the body’s major stress system (called the HPA axis).

Arsenic

Arsenic can interfere with normal hormone functioning in the glucocorticoid system that regulates how our bodies process sugars and carbohydrates. What does that mean for you? Well, disrupting the glucocorticoid system has been linked to weight gain/loss, protein wasting, immunosuppression, insulin resistance (which can lead to diabetes), osteoporosis, growth retardation and high blood pressure.

Mercury

Pregnant women are the most at risk from the toxic effects of mercury, since the metal is known to concentrate in the fetal brain and can interfere with brain development. Mercury is also known to bind directly to one particular hormone that regulates women’s menstrual cycle and ovulation, interfering with normal signaling pathways.

Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs)

The perfluorinated chemicals used to make non-stick cookware can stick to you. One particularly notorious compound called PFOA has been shown to be “completely resistant to biodegradation.” In other words, PFOA doesn’t break down in the environment – ever. That means that even though the chemical was banned after decades of use, it will be showing up in people’s bodies for countless generations to come. This is worrisome, since PFOA exposure has been linked to decreased sperm quality, low birth weight, kidney disease, thyroid disease and high cholesterol, among other health issues. Scientists are still figuring out how PFOA affects the human body, but animal studies have found that it can affect thyroid and sex hormone levels.

Organophosphate pesticides

Neurotoxic organophosphate compounds that the Nazis produced in huge quantities for chemical warfare during World War II were luckily never used. After the war ended, American scientists used the same chemistry to develop a long line of pesticides that target the nervous systems of insects. Despite many studies linking organophosphate exposure to effects on brain development, behavior and fertility, they are still among the more common pesticides in use today. A few of the many ways that organophosphates can affect the human body include interfering with the way testosterone communicates with cells, lowering testosterone and altering thyroid hormone levels.

Glycol Ethers

These are common solvents in paints, cleaning products, brake fluid and cosmetics, personal, skin, hair, baby, beauty and oral care products. Studies have shown that glycols have caused genital malformation in rats.

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Discover How. Be Educated, Empowered and Chemical Free by Therese Kerr

Chemical transfer from mums to baby’s in utero:
Is it possible to transfer chemicals from my body to my child in utero, and if so, to what degree? Is it possible that my baby boy’s genitalia hasn’t developed properly because of the chemicals I put on my body and/or on him?  What really is the impact of the mostly untested chemicals used in everyday skin, hair, beauty, personal, oral and baby care products? Do we really know?

So, why should I be concerned about hormones? How can they possibly harm my baby?

Our children’s endocrine and detoxification systems are not developed enough to be able to deal effectively with chemicals and toxins.

Professor Marc Cohen of the RMIT University in Melbourne states that one of the quickest ways a woman will detox is through pregnancy, another is through breast-feeding.  Breast-feeding is by far the absolute best start you can give your child and I personally encourage all mums to breast feed and to also breast feed for as long as they can. What I wish to bring awareness to is that it is becoming increasingly apparent that detoxing prior to conception to avoid transferring fat soluble chemicals onto our babies in utero and then continuing to do the same through breast-feeding is one of the best steps you can make to give your child a healthy, vibrant start to life.

Physiologically undeveloped –

Baby’s and young children’s bodily systems are generally underdeveloped compared to those of adults, in fact research is showing that it takes up to the age of seven for a baby to develop the ability to detoxify to the degree of an adult.

Babies have a larger ingestion of food, fluid and air per weight measurement than adults, the effect of toxins has a much greater ability to inflict harm.

Rapid development and growth – Growth and development occurs most in the first few years of life and as a result, any toxins which interfere with systems that are still being established in the human body can greatly impede development and destroy cells such as those of the brain and nervous system.

by Therese Kerr

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Do we know what we are putting on our skin?

Why is it so important to be clear on the difference between Conventional, Natural and Organic?

Sadly in the food industry 'conventional' implies the food is grown normally. But if you reflect on your grand parents day the use of pesticides and GMO was not normal, so conventional which means food grown using synthesized (man-made from chemicals) fertilizers, possibly genetically modified seeds, and possibly growth hormones & regular antibiotics (in the case of meat) so is in fact anything but conventional.

Natural generally means no chemicals, genetically modified seeds, or hormones/antibiotics. As there is rigorous testing and expense involved with becoming organic. it is very common for small, local producers to market themselves as natural, non-certified organic, spray free, because they generally aren't doing enough business to justify the time and expense to become certified organic. Natural is not regulated so it's not a guarantee of anything.

Certified Organic is the customer's guarantee that all products manufactured by a company adhere to strict and rigorous criteria defined by an appropriate certifying body. Organic food is produced without using conventional pesticides; fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients, antibiotics and growth hormones.

Some people lean away from conventionally grown food because they are concerned about putting chemicals in their bodies, while others are motivated by environmental concerns.

The certification criteria, i.e., Certified Organic encompasses every step of the process from pre-planting of the soil through to dispatch of the end product to the consumer via the warehouse.

 Is there a simply way of perhaps looking at the difference? 
Many people think ‘organic produce’ and believe it is just about the things that are ‘added’  to the process that defines organic, it is not until prompted that the penny drops that it’s also about what is ‘missing’ with organic produce – that being pesticides, herbicides and toxic synthetic chemicals.  It is only then that organic & certified organic becomes meaningful.
If we take the cosmetic industry as an example The Australian Certified Organics (ACO) has produced a criteria against which certified organic products are assessed.  When you review the criteria or Certified and Natural, it is easy to see the differences. Amongst the difference Natural allows ingredients to be sources from genetically modified plants.

Written by Therese Kerr