Adonis

09/22/2025

Chugging water all day without the right electrolytes won’t properly hydrate you. Your body needs sodium, potassium, and magnesium for optimal hydration. Incorporating these essential minerals will help you feel more energized, reduce cravings, and improve overall health. 💧⚡

09/09/2025

Pythagoras touches the moon!
Monument to Pythagoras of Samos at Pythagorion, Samos.
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Ο Πυθαγόρας αγγίζει το φεγγάρι!
Μνημείο Πυθαγόρα του Σάμιου στο Πυθαγόρειο Σάμου.

από την Mattä


by Mattä

08/23/2025

Running is one of the best workouts for your heart.

Each run strengthens your most important muscle. Your heart pumps harder, circulation improves, and your cardiovascular system becomes more efficient.

Over time, this lowers your resting heart rate and reduces the risk of heart disease. It’s training that protects you for the long run—literally.

You don’t need hours on the road to see benefits. Even a few miles a week can keep your heart healthier and stronger.

Running is more than exercise—it’s an act of care for the engine that keeps you alive.

08/01/2025

🔥 Inflammation Has a Memory

How Your Body ‘Remembers’ Pain and Triggers Future Flare-Ups

Have you ever wondered why an old injury starts aching again out of nowhere… or why the same joints keep flaring up, even when there’s no obvious trigger? Science is starting to explain what lymph therapists and trauma-informed practitioners have seen for years:

Inflammation has a memory.
And your body remembers.

🧬 The Science Behind “Trained Immunity”

Unlike traditional immunological memory (like how your body remembers a virus), trained immunity refers to how innate immune cells—especially monocytes and macrophages—change their behavior long-term after a strong inflammatory event.

These cells undergo epigenetic reprogramming, meaning their DNA isn’t altered, but how it’s expressed is. This causes them to become primed—more reactive in the future.

🔎 Research shows that:
• Inflammatory triggers (like infection, injury, or trauma) leave “immunological fingerprints” on immune cells.
• These changes persist, increasing the risk of future chronic inflammation—even in unrelated tissues.
• This may help explain chronic pain, autoimmune relapses, and lymphatic stagnation after emotional or physical trauma.

📚 Source: Netea MG et al. (2020), “Trained Immunity: A Tool for Reducing Susceptibility to and the Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection,” Cell.
📚 Divangahi M et al. (2021), “The Trained Immunity Hypothesis and Covid-19,” Nat Rev Immunol.

💥 Why Old Injuries Flare Up Again

Many patients say things like:

“My car accident was 10 years ago… why does that same shoulder still swell?”
“My C-section scar aches when I’m stressed or hormonal.”

This is not in their head.
Research shows that inflammatory cytokines can be rapidly reactivated in previously injured tissues, even if the original injury is healed.

Lymphatic congestion often follows because the lymph system is the body’s drainage highway for excess inflammation. If the body “remembers” where inflammation once was, it may send immune cells and fluid there again—even when unnecessary.

🤯 The Emotional Link: Your Body Remembers Trauma

This cellular memory isn’t just physical—it can also be emotional. Studies in psychoneuroimmunology show that emotional trauma and chronic stress can leave lasting immune imprints.
• Cortisol dysregulation
• Persistent microglial (brain immune cell) activation
• Increased inflammatory gene expression in response to psychological stress

📚 Slavich GM & Cole SW (2013), “The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics,” Clinical Psychological Science.

This may explain why many lymphies feel flare-ups in times of grief, heartbreak, or stress. The body isn’t broken—it’s remembering.

🌿 What Can You Do?

Healing inflammatory memory takes a gentle, layered approach. It’s not about suppressing the body’s responses—it’s about rewiring them.

🌀 Lymphatic Therapy
• Manual drainage helps flush residual cytokines and immune debris.
• Supports better regulation of immune cell trafficking and drainage of trauma-related congestion.

🌿 Castor Oil Packs
• Shown to modulate prostaglandins and reduce localized inflammation.
• Excellent for scar tissue areas and old injury sites.

🧘 Somatic Release & Nervous System Work
• Vagus nerve stimulation, breathwork, and trauma-informed bodywork help calm the inflammatory reflex and teach the body a new baseline.

🍽️ Anti-Inflammatory & Epigenetic Foods
• Polyphenols (like turmeric, ginger, and green tea) can help reverse inflammatory gene expression.
• Methylation-supportive nutrients (B vitamins, magnesium, choline) aid in DNA repair and immune regulation.

🧡 Final Thoughts:

Your body isn’t betraying you.
It’s just remembering—and trying to protect you the only way it knows how.

But healing is possible. With every lymphatic flush, every breath, every act of nourishment and rest—you’re not just managing symptoms. You’re gently teaching your body a new story:

One of safety. One of peace. One of release.

📚 Research References:
1. Netea MG et al. (2020). “Trained Immunity: A Tool for Reducing Susceptibility to and the Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.” Cell, 181(5), 969-977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.042
2. Divangahi M et al. (2021). “The Trained Immunity Hypothesis and Covid-19.” Nature Reviews Immunology, 21, 75–76.
3. Slavich GM, Cole SW. (2013). “The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics.” Clinical Psychological Science, 1(3), 331–348.
4. Arts RJ et al. (2018). “Trained immunity: consequences for the heterologous effects of BCG vaccination.” Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 112(1), 1–5.

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07/27/2025

Understanding yourself is Power. Loving yourself is Freedom. Forgiving yourself is Peace. Being yourself is Bliss.

07/26/2025

Most runners spend hours obsessing over their pace, shoes, and mileage but very few think about their breathing. Yet how you breathe might be the hidden key to unlocking faster, longer, and more enjoyable runs.

The truth is, poor breathing mechanics can sabotage your performance and even lead to injury. When your breathing is shallow and erratic, your body enters a mild stress response. This ramps up your heart rate and increases fatigue even at moderate paces.

Now, picture this: you're running your usual 10K route, but instead of gasping through the last 3K, you're calm, controlled, and cruising. That’s the power of proper breathing.

The first step is diaphragmatic breathing, also known as belly breathing. Instead of lifting your chest when you inhale, you allow your belly to expand. This activates your diaphragm, pulls in more oxygen, and keeps your body relaxed.

Next, sync your breath with your stride. A simple pattern to try is 3:2 inhale for 3 steps, exhale for 2. This rhythm reduces impact stress on your body and creates a meditative flow. It might feel awkward at first, but once it clicks, your runs will transform.

And here's the kicker: nasal breathing (inhaling through your nose instead of your mouth) can increase your endurance over time by boosting CO2 tolerance and improving oxygen efficiency. It's tough at first, but trainable.

Most runners are overlooking this low-hanging fruit. If you’re putting in the miles but not getting the results, your breath might be what’s holding you back.

06/07/2025

05/25/2025

Fasting has been shown to result in dynamic changes in the human brain:

A recent study has uncovered striking connections between intermittent fasting, gut bacteria, and brain function.

Participants who engaged in intermittent fasting lost an average of 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds), but the benefits extended far beyond weight loss.

Brain scans revealed changes in regions that regulate appetite and addiction—especially the left inferior frontal orbital gyrus, a key player in food intake control. At the same time, stool and blood samples showed shifts in gut microbiota, with increases in beneficial bacteria like Coprococcus comes and Eubacterium hallii.

These changes suggest a powerful gut-brain connection: fasting appears to promote specific gut bacteria that produce compounds influencing brain activity tied to cravings and impulse control.

This bidirectional communication may help explain how dietary habits reshape not just the body but also decision-making related to food. Published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, the findings add to growing evidence that intermittent fasting can enhance metabolic and cognitive health—not simply by cutting calories, but by reprogramming the gut-brain axis.

learn more https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1269548/full

05/05/2025

Interesting!

When you lose weight, 84% of the fat you lose leaves your body through your breath as carbon dioxide.

Not through sweat, urine, or waste like many people think.

Researchers found that even among 150 health professionals, 98% didn’t know this. Most believed fat turns into energy or muscle, but that’s not the case. Fat is broken down into carbon dioxide and water. You breathe out the carbon dioxide, and the water leaves your body through urine, sweat, or other fluids. If you lose 10 kilograms of fat, about 8.4 kilograms are exhaled and 1.6 kilograms are lost as water. The idea that you can just breathe harder to lose weight is also wrong.

You can only breathe out more carbon dioxide by moving your muscles. Simple activities like standing, walking, cleaning, or cooking increase your metabolic rate, meaning you burn more energy and lose more weight.

For example, walking triples your resting metabolic rate, helping you exhale more carbon dioxide. The food you eat—whether carbs, fat, or protein—breaks down in your body into carbon dioxide and water, and this chemical process doesn’t change no matter what diet you follow. In simple terms: you lose weight by eating less "fuel" than your body needs and by moving more.

It’s not about special pills, fancy diets, or breathing tricks. It's basic chemistry. Every kilogram you gain or lose can be tracked by looking at what goes in, such as food and oxygen, and what comes out, such as carbon dioxide, water, and a little bit of waste. To lose fat, eat sensibly and move more so your body can break it down and remove it through breath and fluids.

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When weight disappears, the fat has to go somewhere. Our endocrinologist explains exactly where that is.

04/19/2025

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