San Francisco Sports Massage & Performance

11/06/2022

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Click the linktr.ee/thedrivepodcast link in my bio and then click the “Most Recent Newsletter Article” link to read the full, in-depth article.

10/26/2022

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The biggest development period of a human child’s life happens between ages 6-12.⠀
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From age 6, a child sheds their 20 milk teeth to make way for 28 adult teeth. Then 7-10 years later the wisdom teeth grow.⠀
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At 5-6 the lower central incisors get loose and fall out. Then until age 12-13, the arch is growing and expanding to accommodate the huge explosion of space required for the adult dentition.⠀
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Crooked teeth occur when the jaw bones don’t grow enough to accommodate adult teeth. The adult teeth will jostle and move with what space there is. If their time comes, and there isn’t enough space, they move into whatever position they can.⠀
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Sometimes if there really isn’t enough space, they will get stuck up in the bone, buried under the gums and may only be found with xray. One of the most common ‘impaction’ teeth, are the upper canine teeth.⠀
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At around age 11, these last teeth begin to move into the dental arch. The dimensions required include width, and forward growth.⠀
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As you can imagine, this is a hungry engine, and lots can go wrong. The jaws and teeth make the skeletal system hungry for nutrients. The fat-soluble vitamins, centred around vitamin D ‘drive’ this growth. When the body is deficient in vitamin D, long bones can be deformed in children, due to inadequate placement of calcium.⠀
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In old age, osteoporosis is the shedding of calcium from bones, also a nutrient deficiency.⠀
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Children born with vitamin D deficiency are lacking the nutrients needed to grow this system. It’s written on their faces.⠀
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You can spot the early warning signs. Slow growing jaws create functional habits that further stunt growth.⠀
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Warning signs include:⠀
• Open lip posture⠀
• Mouth breathing⠀
• Forward heard posture⠀
• Narrow palate (roof of mouth)⠀
• Overbite (lower jaw too far back)⠀
• Cross bite (lower jaw stuck in front of upper teeth when biting)⠀
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Today we’re learning that this system can be diagnosed, corrected, and compensated for.
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Has your child shown any of the signs?

If you are a professional who addresses this, let's discuss in the comments, lots of parents need help with this.

10/25/2022

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One of the main reasons we scream for people to lift weights.

New review paper by my friend & colleagues showing clear evidence that preserving muscle with aging is almost exclusively a FAST-TWITCH fiber problem.

Lifelong aerobic exercise (while obviously very good for you) does NOT preserve these fast fibers.

This jives with our twins research and our paper in lifelong skiers in Sweden.

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Quote from paper:

"several studies observe profound age-related decrements in function – namely force and power – of the MHC II fibres. The decrements in MHC II fibre function are primarily attributable to fibre atrophy, rather than age-related alterations in the intrinsic contractile mechanics, per se. Since MHC II fibres can generate greater force and power than MHC I fibres, these findings implicate fast fibre atrophy as an important therapeutic target for attenuating age-related decrements in whole-muscle strength and power."

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We should promote all forms of physical activity, and everything has a risk, but progressive strength training simply has to be a part of the equation for most people.

PMID: 36268622

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10/17/2022

Getting ready for opening night…Ring Night Tomorrow
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“Prepare Like A Champion”
“Every Day I Chase The Dream”

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09/17/2022

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The benefits of youth resistance training go far beyond gains in strength and power. Get strong, think big.

09/14/2022

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just published a fascinating paper beautifully outlining the argument that late-age dementia and Alzheimer’s are likely causally driven by a lack of cognitive challenges. Swipe through to see some of the cool figures for more detail, as well as some of my favorite quotes. Basically, they draw parallels between the need to exercise your muscle for physical health and the need to work your brain for it’s health as well.



They neatly describe how our cognitive demands drops markedly as we move from early life to mid-life, then stabilizes, and drops massively again at the onset of late life. Other people have described this as “the quickest way to die is to retire” – and there’s something to that. Another figure I love was how they showed how mentally challenging tasks fight those of degradation:

Positive Tasks:
✅️ Physical Exercise
✅️ Education
✅️ Music (playing or learning)
✅️ Language (learning new)
✅️ Social interaction
✅️ Brain training
✅️ Skill Development (sensory input)

Detrimental Activities:
👎Retirement
👎Sensory Loss
👎Social Isolation
👎Sedentary Behavior
👎Routine

Note: This has almost nothing to do with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease – which appears to have very little (if any) environmental influence. This is arguing for >60 yr old onset (swipe to see table).


Swipe for title, it’s open access, so anyone should be able to grab and read it.

09/14/2022

09/04/2022

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This past July, a news article published in Science sent shockwaves through the scientific community when it reported that one of the most influential and frequently-cited publications in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research was evidently based on fraud. I’d like to offer some thoughts on how these events fit within the broader context of AD and the culture of scientific research.

Click the linktr.ee/thedrivepodcast link in my bio and then click the “Most Recent Newsletter Article” to read the full, in-depth article.

08/26/2022

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Via .inc: With the uprise in missing persons reports and s*x trafficking cases ; we find it incredibly important to share tips on safety for all of you. This is happening EVERY day. Please take in this information and stay safe out there. 🙏🏽 sending our prayers and condolences to anyone affected by the recent news or latest abductions. - Massiel Nunez
Source of screenshots: *xtrafficking

07/18/2022

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves neurocognitive functions and symptoms of post-COVID condition | Nature
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“In recent years, evidence has been accumulated about the neuroplasticity effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). It is now realized, that the combined action of hyperoxia and hyperbaric pressure, leads to significant improvement in tissue oxygenation while targeting both oxygen and pressure sensitive genes. Preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated several neuroplasticity effects including anti-inflammatory, mitochondrial function restoration, increased perfusion via angiogenesis and induction of proliferation and migration of stem cells”

“Growing evidence shows that new HBOT protocols can induce neuroplasticity and improve brain function even months to years after the acute injury. These protocols, including the one used in the current study, utilize the so called “hyperoxic-hypoxic paradox”, by which repeated fluctuation in both pressure and oxygen concentrations induce gene expression and metabolic pathways that are essential for regeneration without the hazardous hypoxia. These pathways can modulate the immune system, promote angiogenesis, restore mitochondrial function and induce neurogenesis in injured brain tissue.”
Link in our bio to article

07/12/2022

Sure take care of other countries health care workers but not your own!!

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Makes sense to me. I guess when you have horrendous leadership with no business IQ, no sense of family structure where you should try and take care of the people who pay your salary and support you first. This is what you get. But we are the dumb one’s. You, me, us, we, they……we allow this to happen. We have a demented president who can’t read or speak properly and would 100% fail the mental aptitude test to be of any significant job, and an administration behind him who is more useless. We are worried about social issues when it really won’t matter soon enough. Cause you won’t have the opportunity to worry about them. You don’t know what you got till it’s gone!!!!

Hope you are essential and your skill set of value!!!