Life By Design Podcast
Germs are a part of the world we live in and are necessary to a healthy productive human life.
 
Bacteria plays a vital role in our normal physiology and not all types should be feared or avoided.
 
It's one of those things that belong in the 'optimize' category.
 
This means you want to avoid deadly or harmful bacteria while maximizing the 'good' or beneficial bacteria that you want.
 
It's one of the reasons that probiotics are a Life By Design recommended supplement; many of us have been on countless antibiotic prescriptions and have not given our body the time to recover and regrow our normal, natural flora.
 
This can play out in many ways.
 
See the attached study where probiotics given to women with recurrent urinary tract infections, helped the rate, and intensity subside to the point where probiotics are being considered as a potential treatment option for recurrent urinary tract infections in women.
 
But that's not the point of the podcast.
 
The naysayers will say, and rightly so in this case, that we need more research and that more study is required to make a decision.
 
But that's not the point, which is exactly the point of the podcast
 
What We Cover:
  • The study and why it's cool and important for you to understand.
  • Why treatment protocols are not the purpose of supplements and why you shouldn't judge your health by symptoms.
  • Strategies and requirements and why that's so important for you and your family.
 
Direct download: 407.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Does vitamin D have any positive direct effect on the immune system?
 
That's the question we seek to answer this week on Life By Design.
 
We are using direct to mean, if you take Vitamin D, is there any data pointing out that you may have a decreased chance of contracting the flu?
 
There is already data and professional hypotheses on how people with "pre-existing" autoimmune diseases have an increased risk of developing the full-blown autoimmune disease if they are Vitamin D deficient.
 
This week we present a study, and randomized controlled trial, from Japan. The researchers followed school-aged children through flu season (December - March), giving half of the 340 student sample size Vitamin D while the other half received the placebo. 
 
What We Cover
  • The study, it's results, a general discussion, and what those results could mean for you and your family's health.
  • Why we think you should be taking Vitamin D...don't think the real reason is the avoidance of disease. Avoiding disease only gets you to zero; we're hoping you can be so much more than just that.
  • We don't guess we test - how much Vitamin D should you be taking, despite the conflicting data and how you know you're taking enough?
  • What are the best sources for Vitamin D and how to get it.
  • The difference between a food and a supplement and why it's important to know the difference.
Direct download: 406.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Despite a growing body of evidence, the peanut gallery still repeats the mantra...
 
"There's no evidence to 'prove' Chiropractic works."
 
Of course, when asked what is meant by 'evidence' and 'works', there is no clear response, yet the same tired rhetoric continues.
 
In this episode, we will review these claims, discuss what does and doesn't exist in Chiropractic, and review a newly published study.
 
A Randomized Control Trial (remember, they tell us these ones are the best) study, performed at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, Florida found that soldiers who had Chiropractic care for 4 months had:
 
Improved strength
Improved balance
Improved endurance
And short term improvements to low back pain.
 
The study involved 110 active military personal, 86% of those had low back pain for greater than three months, and 66% of which had back pain for longer than one year.
 
The soldiers were divided into two groups the active group and the wait list group. The active group received chiropractic care for four months.
 
It's always nice to see documented evidence of 'other' nerve system related phenomenon (strength and balance) improving. 
 
Yet, more evidence to support the idea that Corrective Chiropractic is more about keeping your spine and nerve system healthy and all the benefits that brings.
 
What We Cover
  • The study and its results.
  • Possible mechanisms for the results.
  • Where the study falls short.
  • How you can apply this information to make you and your family's life better.
  • What conditions chiropractic can treat.
  • Why we believe there is so much hate for chiropractic... still!
Direct download: 405.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:20am EDT

There was, and maybe it's still being circulated on your social media feeds, a meme that goes something like this:
 
"Losing weight is hard; being overweight is hard; choose your hard."
 
"Being broke is hard; Becoming rich is hard; choose your hard."
 
"Change is hard; staying the same is hard; choose your hard."
 
You get the idea.
 
There was just something unsettling enough about this meme that warranted us to have a conversation and discussion about it and this podcast is the result of that conversation.
 
So what, who cares, right?
 
We believe you'll care because your ideas and beliefs literally dictate your life, your happiness, what you believe is possible for yourself and all else.
 
So to accept or dismiss an idea without properly thinking about it and breaking it down is extremely detrimental to your life.
 
What we cover
  • Why context is king and why before accepting any slogan, no matter how it makes you feel, it must be especially considered and analyzed.
  • Why ideas matter and why your beliefs will literally dictate, over time, the quality of your life and your level of happiness.
  • In what ways this quote is true and what value we can take from it.
  • In what ways this quote is false and where, we believe, it could be dangerous to your life.
Direct download: 404_.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

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