https://youtu.be/gSCGoOxvQyQ Part 3 of a series on reflux, acid, and whole-body health. Part 2 ended on a question: if disordered breathing helps drive reflux, could better breathing help settle it? This post looks at what the research says and how we teach breath control. Reflux Is a Stress-Mode Problem Your body runs on a survival
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https://youtu.be/tRxLqYZrfVg Part 3 of 12: The Sleep Hygiene Series In Part 1 we looked at caffeine and the narrow window where your best sleep lives. In Part 2 we covered alcohol and why it isn’t the sleep aid it appears to be. Screens before bed are the third habit on the list, and they affect
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https://youtu.be/6YLify1_MDI Part 3 of a 3-part series on anxiety, depression, and PTSD In Part 1, I described anxiety as a stress response that spreads through the body and can loop when anticipation never resolves into behavior change. In Part 2, I described depression as what can happen when that kind of chronic activation draws down
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https://youtu.be/36GaObkDGis Part 3 of an ongoing series on Osteoporosis Part 2 covered what bone actually does beyond structure: manufacturing blood cells, signaling to the immune system, buffering acid load. This post stays with that same idea, bone as living, dynamic tissue, and turns to osteoporosis exercise, the part people can actually act on through movement.
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https://youtu.be/_sHgpvsTDrY Part 2 of a series on reflux, acid, and whole-body health. Part 1 ended on a loose thread worth pulling: long-term acid suppression can feed bacterial overgrowth and a disrupted gut. That disruption doesn’t stay in the gut. It reaches the lungs through what researchers call the gut-lung axis. Here’s where that thread leads. If you’re
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https://youtu.be/nPjCa21qdeQ Part 2 of 12: The Sleep Hygiene Series Last time, we covered caffeine and the specific ways it fragments deep sleep, even when you don’t remember waking up. Alcohol and sleep have a different relationship, but the end result is the same: less restorative sleep than you think you’re getting. The half-truth Alcohol does
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https://youtu.be/XQohLWSc_gQ Part 2 of a 3-part series on anxiety, depression, and PTSD In Part 1 of this series, I walked through anxiety as a nervous system state: a stress response that spreads through the body, and one that can loop when anticipation never resolves into behavior change. Here’s where that leads. The dominant model for
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https://youtu.be/YkBnO7l4Wig Part 2 of an ongoing series Part 1 covered how osteoporosis gets tested and diagnosed, and closed with a look at bone’s connection to brain health through the research I co-authored. Part 2 stays with that same idea: bone as more than structure. It goes further into bone metabolism, what bone actually does, and what
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https://youtu.be/FTZ5dMEJfLk Part 1 of a series on reflux, acid, and whole-body health. If you deal with reflux, you’ve probably been handed the same story: your stomach makes too much acid, it splashes up where it shouldn’t, and the fix is to block the acid. That story is so common it feels like settled fact. It
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https://youtu.be/bhk_g72U4Fk?si=HChMGEdDYle8YSXD Part 1 of 12: The Sleep Hygiene Series This is the first in a 12-part series working through the sleep hygiene factors that matter most, one at a time. We’re starting with caffeine because the relationship between caffeine and sleep runs deeper than “it keeps you up.” Caffeine has a half-life of roughly five
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https://youtu.be/bCem1CT54Gg Part 1 of a 3-part series on anxiety, depression, and PTSD If you live with anxiety, you already know it doesn’t stay in your head. It can show up as a racing heart before you’ve even registered what you’re worried about. Tight shoulders that never quite release. A stomach that won’t settle. Sleep that
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https://youtu.be/q02SnhPvXbc What is Osteoporosis, Really? I’ve been present for more bone density studies than I can count, and I’ve watched the same osteoporosis myths repeat in exam room after exam room. As the chiropractor and neuromusculoskeletal lead on a research team, I was responsible for the clinical assessment side: examining patients and correlating what a
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https://youtu.be/DIVVODNwFI0 The IBS gut-brain connection describes a disorder of gut-brain interaction. The tissue itself looks normal on a scope or scan, but the communication between your gut and your brain is disrupted. IBS involves dysfunction in the enteric nervous system, the network of nerves that controls muscle contractions, fluid balance, and blood flow throughout the digestive
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Most people with insomnia don’t know they have it. Not because the signs aren’t there — but because the signs have become so familiar they no longer register as signs. The TV stays on until midnight. The phone comes to bed. Sleep gets pushed later and later until late becomes the schedule. Waking at 3am
I had one of those conversations recently that reminded me why I do this work. My friend and co-host David Fugal and I were recording our podcast — and what started as a casual riff on clarity turned into something much deeper: a real, honest look at the effects of chronic stress on the body,
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If you’ve been told you have a “frozen shoulder,” I want you to notice something about that phrase before we go any further: it describes what your shoulder is doing, not what’s actually happening inside it. Stiff. Not moving well. Frozen. But that description applies to almost any joint in the body that’s in trouble.
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If you’ve spent any time researching digestive health, you’ve probably come across the term “leaky gut.” It gets used constantly — often as a catch-all diagnosis. But in clinical practice, that’s exactly the problem with the term. It’s not one condition. It’s an umbrella that covers several distinct patterns of intestinal permeability and digestive difficulty,
What’s Really Behind Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment — and What Nobody Is Prescribing If you have obstructive sleep apnea — or share a bed with someone who does — you know the pillow ritual. The stacking, the adjusting, the folding. The search for the position that makes breathing feel easier, that keeps the snoring quieter,
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By Dr. Anish Bajaj | The Clarity Podcast with David Fugel Something David said in one of our conversations has stayed with me ever since. We were wrapping up, laughing, talking about how much ground we still had left to cover — and he paused and said: “Clarity isn’t a destination. It’s a process. We
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What Peer-Reviewed Research on Physical Activity and the Microbiome Tells Us About Chronic Inflammation, the Stress Response, and Why Movement Matters More Than You Think There is a relationship most people haven’t thought much about: the link between gut health and exercise, and how physical activity shapes the ecosystem living inside your gut. A 2019
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The Science of Circadian Rhythm — and Why It Touches Every System in Your Body Before we talk about sleep supplements, sleep studies, sleep disorders, or sleep hacks, we need to talk about something more fundamental. Something that was governing your biology long before any of those things existed. The sun. Your body runs on
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