Not Drinking Alcohol in Social Situations:

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I am so used to not drinking alcohol that I don’t give a second thought to any possible “discomfort” when being in social situations and being the only person not consuming alcohol.

If you’re in my program, you know how and why I don’t drink alcohol.  Among other reasons, it is a toxic poison, period.  The liver had to detoxify from its consumption, and you either are going to take in the empty, nutritionless calories understanding you’re doing your body much more of a disservice than service, or you’re not.  All the ideas that claim a little alcohol each day is somehow good for you is a load of bunk.  What little resveritrol benefits derived from red wine are off set by the toxin your liver has to manage as brain cells are killed and the gut is imbalanced via yeast overgrowth.

It’s nothing for me to take a wine glass or one of those martini glasses and fill it with my spring water.  It basically passes as either vodka or wine if you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.

And, it’s rare anyone ever points it out.

At a restaurant recently, everyone around the table was ordering alcoholic drinks.  When it came to me, I just asked about the water selections (sometimes I’m stuck ordering purified water, but many restaurants are catering to spring and artesian water now) and I asked for a separate glass, and the waitress actually high-fived me for being the only person there not drinking.  (lol)

Not drinking has the added bonus of helping control the appetite, making sleep easy, and keeps depression and anxiety almost completely out of my life.  (I feel better now, having not drank for many years, than I did the 20 years previous of drinking.  So much so, that I know I”ll never drink again).

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………….Tim   🙂

Hamstring Injury: Surgery Helps Recovery.

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It’s always tough to decide on whether or not to go under the knife, and accept virtually any kind of surgery due to the complications that can happen either right after, or down the road.

In my program, I have a specific hamstring exercise I like to do, and there are new ones showing how to isolate the hams with large medicine balls, etc.  The latter seem more targeted towards women than men, but those who use the machines, or the extremes such as the dead lift whereby we’re bending over with a barbel (I like to suggest this exercise be reserved for the pro bodybuilders, etc) may be prone to injury if the movement is not performed slowly and with care.

An interesting new development has occurred in the area of hamstring injuries, whereby it has been determined by an Ohio State University study that hamstring injuries had a better chance at healing follwoing surgery, as compared to physical therapy.  The article found in the International Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that patients can literally get all the way back to pre-injury ability, when using this route to recovery.

With most lower back injuries, for instance, the general consensus is to go with physical therapy for as long as possible to help obtain results, over surgery that often requires maintenance after about ten years.  For the record, I have known a good number of people who have had great success with back surgery, without this disadvantage, but apparently stats suggest otherwise.  And I personally chose to use the physical therapy and/or supplement and time route, with great success as well.  My injury was a substantial herniation of the L5-S1, and on two different occasions; the first took three months and specific supplementation, the second time around took about a week with different supplements that dramatically and quickly reduced the inflammation.  Some of this info can be found on my youtube channel and at the Maintenance Motions site.

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………..Tim