Migraines and other types of headaches

Meridian Magazine posted the most amazing article on migraines that I have ever seen.  It was written by an MD who believes in and recommends chiropractic work, nutritional remedies, and other alternatives!

Having suffered from dreadful five-day, throw up sick headaches that have been out of control ever since September, I was interested to see that some of the directions that I have been impressed to take over the last 30 days (and I’ve been headache free for 24 days, now) are some of the actions HE recommends. 

• I had stopped a juice supplement due to the expense;  have restarted it (MonaVie). 
• I started seeing a chiropractor and massage therapist to work *carefully* on my neck. (Can’t do traditional stuff because of dissected arteries). 
• I am a vegetarian and do try to eat organic to get the nutrients, as I already know that traditional-grown fruits and vegetables are decreasing in nutrients. 
• I take a good multivitamin (Life Force). 
• Hypercoagulation is interesting.  The dissected arteries throw off clots so I take fish oil but have noticed that when I skip, I get headaches.  So for the last month I’ve been METICULOUS.  By the way, I take fish oil rather than Plavix, with my doctor’s permission.  As a vegetarian, I resisted until I discovered what it can do for you.  You really MUST look into fish oil!

Here’s an excerpt of what he says can be done to prevent migraines:

 

What can I do to prevent more migraines?  

I am currently using a unique format to help you in learning about healthy alternatives you have to drugs and surgery. I will share with you the traditional protocol for treatment that doctors use in the U.S. , as well as how I would work with the ailment using healthy alternatives. Now let’s talk about how you can prevent a migraine headache.  

1. Obviously, the first treatment is avoiding the cause. If medications or fatigue are part of the cause, then it makes sense to change medications and choose not to be physically or mentally fatigued. Those two tactics may reduce the migraine triggers. Recognizing the trigger is the first step to eliminating it, or even recognizing that there are triggers may be the first step in the detective process of finding and eliminating the cause.

2. Stabilize the hormones.

3. Avoid inflammatory ingestions. At a minimum, these include caffeine, aspartame, sugar and trans fatty acids, all of which are pro-inflammatory triggers within the body.

4. Avoid the vasoactive foods already mentioned.

5. Treat allergies and chemical sensitivities. A safe way to do this is with NAET — Nambudripad allergy elimination technique (you can email me at stan@stangardnermd.com if you need additional information). Food sensitivities may also be treated through Ellen Cutler’s food desensitization program.

6. It is very important that appropriate nutrients are ingested and nutrient levels are maintained. Processed food does not have the nutrients that are necessary to maintain the health of the body or individual cells. Real food—or food that has not been processed—is very important. Supplements are also very important, especially the B vitamins and essential fatty acids that specifically contribute to neurological control. Magnesium is specifically important for migraine headaches, as many migraine sufferers have a magnesium deficiency.

7. Chiropractic, osteopathic, or massage therapy may be quite beneficial for temperomandibular joint dysfunction and cervical neck subluxation, which have associated muscle tightness.

8. The herb feverfew is a vasodilator and has been found to prevent many migraine headaches.

9. Nattokinase is an enzyme extracted from soy. It is capable of interfering with the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, which is an important step at the very beginning of clot formation. Aspirin, 81 milligrams or the baby aspirin size, every other day, has the ability to reduce platelet aggregation. Both of these should be able to prevent the hypercoagulability that may be the trigger for some migraines.

10. Energy techniques, including Jin Shin Jyutsu, acupuncture, or craniosacral techniques may prove to be quite useful. If you have any pain or any dysfunction anywhere in the body, it means that energy flow pathways are blocked at that point. As those deep energy pathways are relieved, it often helps with the healing process at the physical level.

11. Biofeedback, relaxation therapy, and hypnosis have also been found to be quite useful in some patients with migraine headaches.  

You can read his full article at Meridian Magazine and his website is http://www.stangardnermd.com/

Watch out for these Tainted Weight Loss Pills

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 22, 2008

Media Inquiries: Rita Chappelle, 240-753-8603 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA

 

FDA Warns Consumers About Tainted Weight Loss Pills
Agency seeks recall of products that pose serious health risks

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting consumers nationwide not to purchase or consume more than 25 different products marketed for weight loss because they contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients that may put consumers’ health at risk.

[See original FDA notice at: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01933.html]

The tainted weight loss products are:

Fatloss Slimming	2 Day Diet	3x Slimming Power
Japan Lingzhi  24 Hours Diet	5x Imelda Perfect Slimming	3 Day Diet
7 Day Herbal Slim	8 Factor Diet	7 Diet Day/Night Formula
999 Fitness Essence	Extrim Plus	GMP
Imelda Perfect Slim	Lida DaiDaihua	Miaozi Slim Capsules
Perfect Slim	Perfect Slim 5x	Phyto Shape
ProSlim Plus	Royal Slimming Formula	Slim 3 in 1
Slim Express 360	Slimtech	Somotrim
Superslim	TripleSlim	Zhen de Shou
Venom Hyperdrive 3.0

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), and phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent). Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers’ health at risk.

These weight loss products, some of which are marketed as “dietary supplements,” are promoted and sold on various Web sites and in some retail stores. Some of the products claim to be “natural” or to contain only “herbal” ingredients, but actually contain potentially harmful ingredients not listed on the product labels or in promotional advertisements. These products have not been approved by the FDA, are illegal and may be potentially harmful to unsuspecting consumers. 

The FDA advises consumers who have used any of these products to stop taking them and consult their healthcare professional immediately. The FDA encourages consumers to seek guidance from a healthcare professional before purchasing weight loss products. 

“These tainted weight loss products pose a great risk to public health because they contain undeclared ingredients and, in some cases, contain prescription drugs in amounts that greatly exceed their maximum recommended dosages,” said Janet Woodcock, M.D., director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA. “Consumers have no way of knowing that these products contain powerful drugs that could cause serious health consequences. Therefore FDA is taking this action to protect the health of the American public.”

The FDA has inspected a number of companies associated with the sale of these illegal products, and is currently seeking product recalls. Based on the FDA’s inspections and the companies’ inadequate responses to recall requests, the FDA may take additional enforcement steps, such as issuing warning letters or initiating seizures, injunctions, or criminal charges.

The health risks posed by these products can be serious; for example, sibutramine, which was found in many of the products, can cause high blood pressure, seizures, tachycardia, palpitations, heart attack or stroke. This drug can also interact with other medications that patients may be taking and increase their risk of adverse drug events. The safety of sibutramine has also not been established in pregnant and lactating women, or in children younger than 16 years of age.

Rimonabant, another ingredient found in these products, was evaluated, but not approved by the FDA for marketing in the United States. The drug, which is approved in Europe, has been associated with increased risk of depression and suicidal thoughts and has been linked to five deaths and 720 adverse reactions in Europe over the last two years.
 
Health care professionals and consumers should report serious adverse events (side effects) or product quality problems to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail, fax or phone.

• Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
• Regular Mail: use postage-paid FDA form 3500 available at: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm and mail to MedWatch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787
• Fax: (800) FDA-0178
• Phone: (800) FDA-1088

Information for consumers can be found at:
http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/weight_loss_products.htm

To learn more about FDA’s initiative against unapproved drugs read FDA’s Compliance Policy Guide here: http://www.fda.gov/cder/Guidance/6911fnl.htm.

For drug safety information, read: FDA’s Drug Safety Initiative

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Give me advice on shrinking a tumor through prayer, diet, and exercise

This request was left through a comment on an earlier post.  I wanted to answer it here so that a larger audience can see it.

Here’s my answer:  You can’t.  You can’t shrink it through prayer, diet, and exercise.

Shocks you to hear me say that, right?  The whole purpose of this blog is to document my journey through these very things.  And I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, I totally believe in miracles and healing.  I’m a vegetarian, very organic and holistic, I totally believe we need to limit substances that can harm and increase nutrients that can heal.  But as I’ve said in previous posts, while I *LOVE* the effect that prayer, diet, and exercise have had on my overall well-being, and while my own tiny tumor hasn’t grown at all, I could not tell you that anything I did kept that tumor from growing.  I can’t tell you what God did or didn’t do in my life and that He’ll do the same in yours. 

What I *can* tell you is that the actions I took completely turned my overall health around, COMPLETELY, so much so that I ran in the Denver Marathon this year.  As one of my friends wrote, “What happened to your being on death’s door a few years ago?”  The transformation that I’ve undertaken through diet, prayer, and exercise have been that remarkable for me.

But if, as this writer wrote, you have been advised by your doctor to have surgery or to take immediate action, don’t just turn off the MDs and seek these holistic remedies.  Get a second opinion if you need to.  But don’t just immediately turn to alternative treatments.  You only have one brain!  No one in the holistic realm can say they do anything for you and the alternative treatments certainly — with the exception of a miraculous healing — don’t act quickly.

Someone I know had a meningioma and opted for the stereotactic radiology that is sometimes offered.  It worked for her.  So you may want to consider that option if it’s right for your particular tumor.

Take-home message:  Do EVERYTHING you can for yourself, ask God what He wants you to do, and consider ALL of your options, including and especially the ones the doctors offer.  If you have to go into surgery, try to take the time to prepare with prayer, diet and exercise so you can go into it as healthy as you can possibly be.

Bless you.

Meningioma diagnosis that really turned out to be Chiari Malformation

ABCNews is reporting on an interesting story today.  It caught my attention because you never read about Meningiomas in the news.  This was a young man with headaches that didn’t go away for weeks.   Thought you might like to read it.  The ultimate condition is quite rare but you never know, perhaps you will learn something that will lead you in a different path.

He had a tiny speck on an MRI that they said was a meningioma but his pain and symptoms were so extreme, he kept looking for an answer.  Ultimately, he went to the Mayo Clinic and was diagnosed with a very rare constriction of his skull and spinal cord.  Surgery to correct the problem gave him near immediate and complete relief.

You can read the article here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5492234&page=1

And learn more about Chiari Malformation from a special institute dedicated to this disordere here:
http://www.chiariinstitute.com/

How is my experiment going?

It’s been just over a year since I fell off a truck and hit my head and in the resulting CAT scans and MRIs, discovered I have a small, benign brain tumor, a meningioma.  Someone wrote recently to ask how my experiment of natural healing is going.

I also have a uterine fibroid, and multiple meningiomas. Please tell me how the experiment went. I would really love to know.

So I’ll tell you.

Last year, I was 50 years old and I looked and felt it.  I had about 40% body fat and was at the high end of weight for my height.  I was tired all the time, didn’t sleep well, had no energy.  My lifestyle was so busy I no longer took time for my beautiful home and garden, which means, I started getting zero exercise.  And I had this little 6mm (pea-sized) brain tumor that nobody could say would be one of those that grew quickly or would never be a problem.

This year, I am 51 years old and I look 10 or 15 years younger.  Truly.  When I have good photos I’ll show you. 

I sleep much better and awaken refreshed, full of energy throughout the day.    

I’ve lost 15 pounds and expect to drop another five or ten before I stop.  I’ve lost four inches off my waist and five inches off my hips and am close to hitting a size eight.  My body is youthful and muscular, even throughout the core (midsection).  The five-months-pregnant-look pot gut is GONE and I have a lovely waist again!

This year, it’s all about me.  Oh, I still work long hours and do plenty of church and community service and look after my family members, but this year, I also make time and budget dollars for ME. 

I now have a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness and I work out 15 times a month.  Plus I train with a marathon running group twice a week.  Two months ago, when I started official marathon training, I couldn’t run half a block.  Yesterday, I ran-walked 10 miles and am doing my first half-marathon in three weeks!  

Oh, yes, the brain tumor.  Zero growth in the last year.  My doctor says that’s because I have one of the kinds that doesn’t grow at all, so he thinks nothing I did made any difference in terms of the tumor.  God bless ‘im!

I will say, I don’t care why it did or didn’t grow.   Because the result of discovering that I had that little guy kicked my preservation instinct into high gear. 

I avoid xenoestrogens and parabens.  I eat VERY healthy.  I’ve way cut down on the sugars and I take the right supplements.

I DARE a brain tumor or a cancer or a fibroid to grow in this body. 

You want proof that what I’m doing is effective.  I had shoulder surgery three weeks ago.  Before surgery, the anesthetist told me I looked fantastic on paper.  My blood work is the work of a much younger woman.  My heart rate and blood pressure are those of an athlete.    

Within 18 hours of the surgery, I was up shopping and running errands and getting  a pedicure!  No laying around, and I was off all pain meds within 36 hours.  

So, wow, I think what I’m doing is hugely effective.  

My health is so visibly improved that people stop me to ask my advice when they have similar health problems.  Four friends have joined Team in Training with me this year and another handful workout with me at the gym.  We’re all slimming down and feeling better than we have in years.

I just want you to know that you don’t have to be a victim to your brain tumor or other health issues.  You don’t have to just “watch and wait” until you have your surgeries and adopt a passive, unhealthy lifestyle. 

By all means, do what the doctor says.  BUT, don’t expect to get well while holding onto your unhealthy lifestyle. 

I’m so thrilled for what is happening to me and will love to hear how it all goes for you.

Teresa
Meningioma and Me
http://meningioma.wordpress.com

Free Hugs

Just a little something to brighten your day.  Share it with a friend. 

The original Free Hugs, the most watched YouTube video, with over 28 million views

Free Hugs in Hollywood

Music is Somewhere Over the Rainbox, ukele version, from Hawaiian singer  Israel Kamakawiwo`ole.

From Meningioma and Me
http://meningioma.wordpress.com

Strengthening your body and shoulder after arthroscopy

It’s now one week since I had debriding of significant rotator cuff fraying and acromial decompression to remove a bone spur .  I’m recovering very well, in fact, I worked out at the gym three hours on Thursday and just got back in from a 2.4 mile walk-run with my Team in Training (Leukemia Society) marathon group.  Nobody can believe I’m recovering so quickly!

In case you are planning on a similar surgery, let me tell you what we are doing to rehab the shoulder and speed its healing.

First, while I very quickly got full range of motion back with passive-assisted exercises, the strength is going to take at least two months and it will only come up to 30% by that point.  My surgeon pointed out that with so much debriding of the various frayed tendons, they removed an entire layer of tendon.  ”You don’t have the tendons you were born with”.  So, it’s VERY IMPORTANT not to be too aggressive on lifting.  2 pounds, that’s the restriction at this point.  We don’t want to snap or tear what’s left.

So all we are doing for the first two weeks in terms of rehab are very passive motion exercises, no weights.  It’s bad enough that I open the car door and lift my laptop out of the bag with that weak arm! 

Second, my trainer is also a chiropractor and that turned out to be a huge advantage.  He was very aware of protecting me from impingement while giving me pre-surgery exercises to strengthen the biceps, triceps, pecs, shoulders, back… everything.  We even did the little stabilizing exercises with TheraBands.  If my shoulder “clicked” (that’s the tendon moving out of the way of the impingement), we didn’t do that exercise.  For six weeks, we worked to strengthen and stabilize my entire upper body so that I could recover quickly.  I presume that, going into surgery, it helped that I had good musculature, so maybe that takes a load off the weakened tendons post-surgery?

The tendons can grow back slowly BUT they need really good blood flow.  That’s already hard to do with tendons but as we get older, the blood flow to the tendons is even worse.    I’m wishing I’d gotten the impingement fixed much sooner.  I used to always wake up with numb hands and fingers on that side.  This has been going on for YEARS and I just blew it off! 

Anyway, you don’t really want to use exercise as the means to increase blood flow to a weakened tendon.  You need any of the following, all of which we’ll do at the chiropractic clinic but you can also do them at physical therapy:

• Infrared Laser Light Therapy – Can start within a few days of surgery, we started mine while I still had my stitches
• Deep tissue friction massage – The incisions need to be completely healed
• Graston Technique – The incisions need to be competely healed

All of these techniques break up adhesions and cause some level of inflammation.  The inflammation response is actually quite healing, it brings blood to the area along with all the white blood cells and other components that come to help heal, and it takes away dead cells.

After these techniques, you want to do ice 20 minutes on, 60 minutes off, in as many cycles as you can do (maybe three or four times).

The infrared technique is really intriguing.  I’ve looked into purchasing some handheld devices, they run $40-$100.  We used the big expensive machine at the chiropractic clinic on an injured knee and over five or six treatments, it was really apparent how well it helps with muscle and tissue healing.  Since I’m training for a marathon and will likely suffer even more muscle strains, I think I’m going to find a really good home therapeutic infrared laser to use on myself.

I really like the Graston Technique, as well.  I like it so much I was begging my chiropractor to get started on it but he’s holding me back until the incisions are a bit more sturdy.

And finally, I use two natural supplements that are anti-inflammatory and seem to have other natural infection-fighting and cell-strengthening properties, Fish Oil and an acai drink called MonaVie.  There is no question in my mind that the use of these two things, in particular, have helped me to bounce back so quickly.   I had been told I’d be on pain meds for two weeks, laying around.  I was on pain meds for 36 hours, Tylenol for two days, and nothing but my supplements ever since.  Do they help with pain and inflammation?  Apparently!

MonaVie is expensive but absolutely essential to me, I’ve used it for about 2 and a half years to control very bad throw-up-for-five-days migraines.  Coincidentally, it brought my blood pressure under control so that I am no longer on bp meds.

I use the two-ounce gel packs mainly because they keep me from drinking so much of it!  They’re only $54 a month (I get them from a friend who buys them in bulk, you pay much more if you only buy one case at a time).  But as a treat to myself and because I’ve heard so much about it helping with pain and swelling following surgery, I bought a case of the drink and I give myself permission to drink as much of it as I want in this post-surgery phase, 6-8 or even more ounces per day.  I went through the first bottle in only three days!

I guess I should say, MonaVie does not market themselves as any kind of medicinal product.  Neither do the fish oil companies.  They are merely “supplements” or food products.  But if you ask me, they are as effective for certain health issues as Cheerios and bran muffins are on reducing cholesterol.  I’m not advertsing them or providing links on this article so I can say what I want!

The improvement in energy and my shoulder was hugely obvious on day five, when I spent three hours at the gym, half of it with my trainer and half on the treadmills.  I wasn’t running, I was walking with some short bursts of running, but that’s amazing considering I’m recovering from surgery. 

I guess the real key to recovering quickly from any kind of surgery is to go into it prepared, to get the right kind of nutrition and rest, and then afterwards, to be very proactive on your therapy.  Keep it all within reason, be compliant with all the doctor’s orders, but don’t just lay around.  If you can do the laser light therapy, Graston, massage, and even supplements, all the better.

Note:  Since this is a brain tumor blog, I should state that that laser light therapy is NOT to be used on your head!

Off-topic but we need a laugh: MomSense and DadSense Videos

Too funny!  Anita Renfroe giving us a William Tell condensed version of what Mom’s say in a day, MomSense, and in response to Dad’s wanting their version, DadSense.

MomSense

DadSense

How to have a speedy recovery from shoulder surgery

It’s been four days since having arthroscopic surgery on my shoulder. I have been out of the house since 9 this morning, just got back, and it’s now 5 p.m. Among other things, I spent one hour at the gym with my personal trainer and one hour on the treadmill. As I’m typing this article, I confess, I AM hooked up to the “perpetual ice machine”… but no pain, no pain pills.

Everybody is asking, How in the world are you recovering so quickly from this surgery?

1.  An attitude and plan for getting better quickly

I’m training for a marathon so from the first visit with the surgeon, I made plans to get better with as little downtime as possible.  For the last six weeks, my trainer has been giving me specific exercises to strengthen the stabilizing muscles within my arm and to decrease the movement inside the shoulder.  It worked, there was no crepitus or excess movement when they examined me in the operating room. My arms, back, chest, and shoulders were in as good of shape as they could be, given the limitations of the shoulder impingement.

I also wanted to be as physically strong as possible, so naturally, I’ve been doing my run-walk training and taking good supplements.  My doctor noted a bit of anemia so I added iron the week before the surgery. 

The first night, I was druggy and rested, but dang, the next morning I had my friend take me to a salon so I could get a pedicure!  After an afternoon rest on the ice machine, I took a one-mile walk and found a different salon where I could get my hair shampooed and blown out. 

In other words, I had a plan for “rewarding” myself after surgery and I did it!

I didn’t push too hard but I didn’t lay around all day, a one-mile walk was just 20 minutes and kept me moving.  I’ve walked every day and really, by day two, I was off the pain meds and just taking Tylenol.  I’m not pushing so hard that I’m running but I did walk a full hour today.

I plan to do a sodium bentonite clay detox tonight, avoiding the shoulder area, just to see if it really does pull the anesthesia and stuff out of my system.  And I started drinking as much acai juice as I wanted this morning; I’ve heard very good things about how it helps inflammation and pain after surgeries.  I did the gel packs all weekend and finally got the juice version yesterday.  And finally, I started back on all my supplements ASAP.  The ones I think have helped the most are the fish oil, which has a natural anti-inflammatory effect, and the Life Force vitamins.  Oh, and the bioflavonoids with high dose Vitamin C. 

2. Spiritual component

I’ll probably blog about this in detail in a Sunday Sermon post, but I did go into this with a James 5:14 blessing of healing from the elders in my church.

James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

3.  An incredible surgeon and medical team

Diagnosis:  Right shoulder subacromial impingement with rotator cuff tendinopathy.

Procedure:  Right shoulder arthroscopy with extensive debridement;  arthroscopic subacromial decompression (they removed a bone spur that was cutting into the rotator cuff).

My surgeon only does shoulders and is an expert at arthroscopy.  He teaches and writes chapters of instruction in medical books and has people travel from miles around to learn the techniques from him.  I had to sign a release form that my surgery could be videotaped and/or that there could be observers (this was a standard release, don’t know if this actually happened).  My Primary Care Physician only refers me out to the very best in their field and this surgeon is, indeed, that. 

It’s not that you need money to seek out the best.  You just need the awareness that this can be done and it helps to have a PCP who doesn’t just want someone who’s “good” but someone who’s the “expert”.   Gads, after the surgery, they sent me home with three pages of snapshots and a video of the scraping and smoothing inside my shoulder and today they gave me the Operative Report.

Two different people with shoulder problems, seeing how I’ve been recovering, have asked me for his name so they can go see him.  The difference in what he was able to do for me is that obvious.

By the way, you can tell how expert the entire clinic is just by my office visit today.   In the 30 minutes I was in the office, I saw a technician, the Physician’s Assistant (who was at the surgery and closed the incisions), Dr. Hatzidakis, and had three X-rays taken, plus had my stitches removed and had a post-op exam.  No messing around and no amateurs.  No co-pay, it was part of the surgery followup.  He has an amazing team and I loved the way I was treated. 

Summary

It helped to have the love and support of my friends, whom I drove crazy because I wouldn’t let them do anything for me!  And my job was very accommodating, I’ve been off work for three days and can work from home for the next two.

Undoubtedly, readers of this blog will have some kind of surgery in the future.  I hope you will be able to plan for as speedy a bounce-back as your type of surgery can allow!

Over 60 and out of shape in Denver?

My neighbors are involved in a clinical trial at the University of Colorado related to age, muscle mass, bone density, and the use of ibuprofen.  They are VERY excited about it because it essentially gives them a gym membership and personal trainer for free! 

This is for healthy but not-currently-exercising men and women aged 60 to 75 here in the Denver area.  Please pass this along to people you know who might be wanting an exercise program but don’t have the money for a gym membership or don’t really know how to get started. 

By the way, if you live near a large university hospital, check to see if they have a similar program near you.  I am bouncing back astoundingly fast from a shoulder surgery and we’re all convinced it’s because of the nutrition and exercise program I’ve been on over this last year.  I would love to see everyone have these advantages!

You’ll want to read the details and fine print, but this is  basically a free, supervised weight training and exercise program, although the researchers certainly will be studying the affect of ibuprofen on muscle building.   They do all kinds of blood tests, stress tests, etc. so you basically get a free physical. 

In exchange, you commit to nine months of supervised or structured exercise, have access to their exercise facility, and receive, I believe, very modest compensation at the end of your nine months.

 

It sounds wonderful!  Hope someone will be able to take advantage of this program.

 

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00462722?recr=open&cond=aging&rank=33

 

 

It has the contact info for the University of Colorado and indicates that it is “currently recruiting participants”.  Please note their inclusion and exclusion criteria. 

 

Teresa Holladay

“50 is not too old to train for a marathon!”

http://SheCanRun.com
http://meningioma.wordpress.com