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21/08/2024

⏰ How long should a massage last?

The opinion that the longer the massage, the better, in fact, can negatively affect the health of the person being massaged.

There is a physiological norm for tactile influence on the human body - up to 1 hour 30 minutes. Exceeding this level leads to negative consequences for the body.

🙌 Skin receptors (mechanoreceptors) quickly adapt to tactile effects, sensitivity to massage techniques decreases by 30-50%, and the effectiveness of massage decreases accordingly.

You can lie there for another 3 hours, but this will not do any good to the body, but it can cause harm.

Compare your feelings from eating sweets: you ate one piece of candy and it was delicious, but a box of it was bad. Our brain has arranged everything in the best possible way to protect us from excessive sensations.

🧠 Humans even have specific nerve cells called novelty “detector” neurons. But the thirst for change and new sensations allows a person to move up the evolutionary ladder.

Remember the pun: “It’s better to undereat than to oversleep.” The body has taken care to protect us from an overdose of sensations by reducing sensitivity to them.

🥩 Muscle receptors (proprioceptors) are structured completely differently. With prolonged irritation, their adaptation and, accordingly, a decrease in activity do not occur. From fatigue caused by prolonged exposure to massage, muscles switch from aerobic energy production (using oxygen) to anaerobic (without oxygen), which leads to the release of metabolic products - lactic acid - into the muscle and underlying tissue, causing pain and swelling. After such a massage, a person will feel weak, tired and muscle pain. And you should feel a rise in vitality and lightness.

You yourself will understand by your own well-being whether the massage was done correctly or not. If there is a feeling of fatigue and “crushed” - this is an overdose, if you want to jump and gallop, then just right.

07/08/2024

A rather dangerous disease is cervical osteochondrosis. It appears with back pain, frequent dizziness and migraines, hearing worsens, and sometimes coordination is impaired.

All these symptoms can be prevented if you engage in prevention - light exercise.

They will not only prevent disease, but also maintain health. When doing exercises, you do not need to hold your breath, it should be smooth and calm. Do not overexert yourself; if you feel pain, reduce the load or postpone classes.

1. Lower your chin to the neck and slowly turn a head first 5 times on the right side, then 5 times on the left.

2. Slightly come back and turn again 5 times to the right, and then 5 times to the left.

3. Move your head to the right, trying to get your shoulders up. Repeat 5 times for every side.

4. Keep your face straight, hands put on the back of your head. Press the back of the head on the hand 3 times.

5. Press your forehead on your palm and tighten your neck muscles. Do the exercise 3 times.

6. Straight neck muscles, press your left temples onto your left palm (3 times ). Αnd now with the right hand – on the right palm (3 times ).

7. Hold your face straight. Against the tense of neck muscles, try to press the chin to the jugular pit. After the chin upwards, trying to reach upwards.

8. The hands, united in the fingers, move under the chin. Press it to the hands 3 times.

31/07/2024

What is kinesiology?

Kinesiology is an effective way to help a person improve their health by adjusting the correct functioning of the body using special techniques.

In kinesiology, human health is viewed from three aspects: emotions, structure and chemistry.

In my opinion, everything is clear with emotions and we will definitely talk about this in other posts.

Chemistry refers to the entire biochemical component of our health (vitamins, micro and macroelements, hormones, intestinal microbiome, etc.)

Structure is our musculoskeletal system and all internal organs.

In my practice, I observe that as soon as working together with all three components, the body heals. Kinesiology is not a panacea or an alternative to classical medicine, but it brings opportunities and results.

17/07/2024

Estrogens and excess weight.
Estrogens are female s*x hormones. They are produced in small quantities by subcutaneous fat.

Fat deposition in the thighs and buttocks is most likely the result of estrogen.

There is also a vicious circle here. Excess adipose tissue itself leads to an increase in estrogen and hormonal imbalance.

Estrogen levels also increase during pregnancy and when taking oral contraceptives.

Consequences of increased estrogen levels in women:
✅uncontrolled weight gain
✅menstrual cycle disorders
✅increased breast sensitivity
✅increased emotionality
✅frequent migraines
✅hair loss
✅memory problems
✅insomnia

10/07/2024

Cortisol and excess weight.
Cortisol (popularly called the stress hormone) is a hormone that is produced in the adrenal cortex.

It is, in general, not a bad “friend” and reduces the negative impact of stress on the body. But there is hardly a person who constantly lives in meditation mode.

If stress is your middle name, then expect troubles, such as high blood pressure.

Cortisol regulates metabolism and helps fats, proteins and carbohydrates turn into energy for cells, and also controls water-salt balance and fights inflammation. But most importantly, this hormone is involved in the formation of sleep and wake cycles.

The concentration of cortisol in the blood changes throughout the day in inverse proportion to the concentration of the “sleep hormone” melatonin. In the morning, after waking up, the level of cortisol increases, and in the evening it decreases, preparing the body for rest.
However, there are also exceptions. The fact is that the concentration of cortisol does not depend on the actual change of day and night, but on the individual circadian rhythm of each person. For example, in “night owls”—people whose active time of day is in the evening and night—cortisol increases not in the morning, but in the afternoon or evening, after actually waking up.

One of cortisol's most important jobs is to help the body respond appropriately to stress. Under conditions of unusual mental, physical or emotional stress, the body goes into “alert mode” and more cortisol is released into the blood.

Increasing the level of this hormone in a tense situation from the point of view of the brain allows you to release the supply of glucose and provide the heart, brain and other organs with the energy they need above normal. In addition, high cortisol levels increase your heart rate and blood pressure. This allows blood to flow faster to the brain and deliver the nutrients it needs for active functioning.

This is why it is so important to remain calm.

Negative effects of cortisol in chronic stress:
✅ feeling hungry
✅ headache
✅brittle bones
✅memory and attention disorders
✅increased blood pressure
✅suppression of immunity
✅neuroses
✅increased blood sugar levels
✅muscle destruction
✅digestive disorders
✅obesity
✅sleep disturbance

03/07/2024

We continue the topic of hormones and excess weight.
Leptin and insulin are the most common hormones responsible for excess weight.

Excess estrogen leads to increased deposition of subcutaneous fat, which forms leptin.

Excess leptin leads to impaired cell sensitivity to it - leptin resistance.

What does leptin do? It:
✅helps synthesize and regulate thyroid hormone levels
✅suppresses glucose-stimulated insulin secretion
✅increases blood pressure
✅increases heart rate
✅activates immune cells
✅affects bone mass and strength
✅regulates appetite, metabolism and energy homeostasis
✅regulates the menstrual cycle

Why is cell sensitivity to leptin impaired? To:
✅excess of pro-inflammatory foods in the diet (simple carbohydrates, trans fats, fast food, alcohol, etc.)
✅chronic stress
✅chronic inflammation
✅frequent meals with plenty of snacks
✅prolonged overeating
✅lack of physical activity
✅hungry diets with calories below 1200 kcal.

Consequences of leptin resistance:
✅slowing down metabolism (the body saves and stores energy)
✅obesity (the body does not feel full)
✅metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus (the sensitivity of cells to insulin and the glands that form insulin is impaired)
✅menstrual cycle irregularities (possibly infertility)
✅osteoporosis

The level of leptin decreases with prolonged fasting and malnutrition, severe physical stress, and lack of sleep.

26/06/2024

Hormones and excess weight.

“Somehow you’ve gained weight. Probably a hormonal imbalance. “Probably every person, and especially women, have encountered such a phrase at least once in their lives.

The slimness of our body depends not only on sports exercises and diets. First of all, in order to understand the reasons for weight gain, you need to examine your body for the presence of certain diseases.

One of the reasons why people gain excess weight actually has to do with hormones.

Therefore, before starting sports training (and I am silent about diets), it is best to pass all the necessary tests to determine the state of your hormonal levels. If there are problems in this area, then sport may not only not help, but also harm.

Let's talk about the relationship between hormones and weight loss and step by step, in a small series of posts, we will analyze each of the hormones that can play a role in weight gain.

19/06/2024

Pain in the foot.

The foot deformity comes from childhood. The cause may be flat feet, which leads to gout. One of its manifestations is a heel spur.

Gout is a metabolic process caused by the accumulation of uric acid in the joints and lack of protein. Physical inactivity and hypokinesia also lead to the disease, when the foot muscles refuse to work. The simplest movements cause terrible pain. And that's not all - a sore foot leads to arthrosis of the knee and hip joints.

Therefore, it is necessary to force the idle muscles of the foot to work as quickly as possible.

There will be an exercise to restore them. It will be quite painful at first, but the results will be worth it.

To perform this exercise, you will need a step, a stack of books, or just a threshold. Stand on the edge of the step so that your heel hangs down. Hold your hands on something, for example, the edge of a table. As you inhale, rise onto your toes. Repeat at least 20 times in 1 approach. Do 3 approaches in total.

This exercise is done through volition, through pain. Therefore, after its implementation, either local cryotherapy, for example, with pieces of ice, or general cryotherapy with a cold shower is desirable.

Be healthy!

12/06/2024

Is it necessary to work with the body through emotions?

Absolutely yes. Psychosomatics influences the occurrence of most diseases and conditions. Of course, injuries, fractures, bruises and sprains will not go away until you contact the appropriate specialist.

Also, if your diet is faulty and the body has been living in a deficit for a long time, then it is impossible to restore the body without correcting the biochemistry.

There are clients who noticed that after they worked through their psychosomatics with a psychologist, some bodily symptoms disappeared. You can and should work with the body through emotions.

But, through the body we can work with emotions. There is such a mechanism. Unresolved emotion (for example, anger, resentment) goes “to live” in the body. This is how physical tension arises. And when the massage therapist begins to work with the body, some of these tensions begin to be resolved. After this, emotional blocks go away much easier.

There is another way - simply by maintaining the body in good physical condition, loading it moderately. Exercise itself triggers many changes in the biochemistry of the body, which clearly affects the emotional background. Endorphins (hormones of happiness), which are released during exercise, also help process current stress. It’s not for nothing that they say that in a healthy body there is a healthy mind.
And Holistic (holistic approach) rules the processes here from all sides.

23/04/2024

In many eastern languages, including Chinese, the concepts of “mind” and “heart” are expressed in one word. Once you reach a point where you are no longer bothered by personal ambitions, when you can forget about yourself and develop your heart, you have the means of liberation from disease.

16/04/2024

Think less about the future and the past, as these are the reasons for worry, and worry creates stress.

Instead, try to concentrate when you can. Remember that concentration comes on its own, without special techniques, when you develop the ability to help and forgive.

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