On December 20th we lost a true revolutionary: Robert Ader, the experimental psychologist who pioneered the
study of psychoneuroimmunology (don't let the big word scare you), or how our thoughts influence our immune systems.
Nowadays mind/body interactions are accepted as basic and almost self-evident, but as recently as 1985, the
New England Journal of Medicine dismissed interactions between the mind and the immune system as "folklore." 

But the truth is that the human organism is spectacularly complex; we assume simplicity because it's easy for us
to understand, not because it reflects reality.  And as I've said before, chronic stress causes or worsens almost
every disease.  Why, I...

No, I'm not channeling your mother/teacher (old school only).  Good posture really is its own reward -
you will look and feel SO much better.  Still, insidious forces are at work, destabilizing and misaligning
your body, which on the other hand are keeping countless chiropractors and physical therapists busy.
And we call those forces by many names: computers, desks, chairs, inattention, repetitive motions, etc.

Yes, the world is a dangerous place if you partake of the modern lifestyle, and as you're reading this email
I'm guessing you fall into that category, unless someone printed it out and bestowed it on you.

So here's a really cool exercise that I used to retrain my back to prefer good ...

When I started coaching Track and Field, I suddenly become quite interested in how the human body works.
And the more interested I got, the better my teams got.  (Or was it the other way around?)  

And then, when the chronic stress of coaching one of the top division teams in the state year 'round jump-started
an autoimmune disease that had previously been under control and my life got very painful, I became yet
more interested.  Because pain is even more motivating than competition, at least for me.

So anyway, I come by my expertise honestly - it became a necessity.  One of my favorite quotes, from the
TV show Barney Miller, says "The years force a certain amount of wisdom on a man, ...

A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine
found that yoga and stretching ease chronic low back pain equally.  As a result, they discounted yoga's "mental
components" and attributed the improvements of "at least several months" to the stretching and strengthening components.

Well, I certainly won't argue with the effectiveness of targeted stretching and strengthening.  In fact, that's what I do, and
I and any number of my clients have experienced considerable, often dramatic relief for all kinds of pain.  KI-Hara Resistance
Stretching  http://www.humanhyperformance.com/page/page/2606882.htm is not only the most effective form of
self -administered ...

I've been trying to keep up with the e-news about the state of health care these days and I have to say that
there's a bunch of scary stuff out there.  The first article  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/751336?sssdmh=dm1.725211&src=nldne  is entitled "Vitamin E Supplements May Raise the Risk for Prostate Cancer".  Well, I suppose they might, especially
if you take the "dl" or synthetic form of the tocopherols, rather than the "d" or natural form.  In fact, they didn't call it "dl",
they used the technical name - all-rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, in their study. 

But your intrepid anti-aging expert - that would be me - chased it down, ...