Health and Nutrition Articles

A Physician’s Personal Remedies for Beating COVID

By Dr. Steven Horwitz, DC, RKC, PCC, CSCS, CCSP

So how am I preparing my body and mind for COVID? Full disclosure: I have a very strong (yes, pun intended) bias toward functional medicine and the general health approach discussed in the fantastic book: Strong Medicine. Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice.

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Discover The Healing Power of Liposomal Vitamin C

By Dr. Peter Stephens

Thanks to its purity and small molecular size, your body absorbs Liposomal Vitamin C efficiently without irritation, immediately strengthening the immune system and gut biome. The liposomal compound structure makes this easy absorption possible.

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Sleep: Don’t Fear The Sleeper

by Michael Krivka, Master RKC

Let me tell you a little secret—sleep is one of the key factors for losing fat, gaining muscle, staying sharper, and living longer.

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The Ki to Kettlebell Pressing Power

By Thomas Maloney, PCC, HKC

How to utilize internal energy to lift heavier weights, do more reps, recover quicker and supercharge your results.

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Intention—Distinguishing Champions from the Ordinary

By Dr. Christopher R Holder DP, DMQ(China), Senior RKC

When I wrote this, I wanted to step away from the norm. I could write article after article about swings and get-ups, but wanted this piece to be about something I hold near and dear.

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How Kettlebells Helped Reverse Aging, Restore My Strength, Reduce Pain and Revitalize My Tai Ji Practice.

By Allison Helm

I am a newcomer to kettlebell training. Some years ago I bought an instructional video, but quit after a few weeks. I practiced in my living room in front of the tv, and spent each session in fear of whacking one of my cats in the head as I wildly swung the bell in my attempts to follow along with the video.

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Dragon Door Interviews Elliot Newman

Interview by Adrienne Harvey, RKC II, CK-FMS, Primal Move Nat'l Instructor

Feb 16, 2013 11:30 AM

Dragon Door: How did you get started with health and fitness? Elliot Newman: Ever since I was about 15, I’ve been very interested in training and health. Over the years, I’ve tried a lot of different things. From a training perspective, I started out with bodybuilding but discovered it wasn't fulfilling for me, so I moved onto powerlifting a few years later. I've also tried many different approaches to eating. In the past few years I’ve educated myself greatly on the subjects of nutrition​

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Dragon Door Interviews Master RKC Thomas Phillips

Interview by Adrienne Harvey, RKC II, CK-FMS, Primal Move Nat'l Instructor

Feb 16, 2013 11:30 AM

Dragon Door: When did you first become interested in fitness? Thomas Phillips: I've been an athlete since I was eight years old. So fitness and competition have always been a huge part of my life. I still compete in natural bodybuilding, power lifting, and jujitsu.

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Manly and Organic are NOT Contradictions in Terms

Want to take your performance and athletic abilities to the next level? Improve the quality of your nutrition

Marty Gallagher, IPF world champion Master Powerlifter

Sep 06, 2011 06:58 PM

Say “organic” around a group of hardcore lifters, MMA fighters, Spec Ops operators or elite athletes and watch as the sneers appear and listen to their derisive, obscenity-laced comments. Organic brings to mind visions of effete, well-heeled urban and suburbanite female and metro-sexual males purchasing tofu and $18 a pound sockeye salmon at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s on their way home from Bikram Yoga or Pilates class. Organic food purchases at one of these...

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Excess Estrogen and Weight Gain

Estrogenic Chemicals: The Hidden Cause for Belly Fat Gain and Other Disorders in Men and Women

Ori Hofmekler

Dec 11, 2009 03:53 PM

The Solution - Certain Compounds in Plants Can Help Counter Attack the Problem, Get You Leaner and Healthier Can certain food compounds be the secret weapon to destroy [...]

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Eliminate the Curse of Migraines from Your Life

Sergey Dzugan, MD, PhD

Oct 02, 2006 08:33 PM

Would You Like to FINALLY AND FOREVER Eliminate the Curse of Migraines from Your Life?And Do It Naturally, With Absolutely No Drugs? Now, For the First Time in History [...]

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The Final Frontier of Diet: How to Get Rid of Stubborn Fat

From Chapter Seven of The Warrior Diet

Ori Hofmekler

Feb 23, 2006 09:10 PM

Stubborn fat is a major problem for many people today. It doesn?t matter if they are trying to get rid of it through various diets or different exercise routines?the fact [...]

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Wu Qigong

(Chinese Shamanic Qigong)

Master Zhongxian Wu

Jan 18, 2006 02:50 PM

1. Introduction When I was a child in China, I was curious about the way that local Wu (Chinese shaman) treated patients. How could an acupuncture needle release the p [...]

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How to Use GLYCOGEN LOADING to Avoid Getting Flat or Fat

Ori Hofmekler

Jan 10, 2006 07:40 PM

Glycogen replenishment is a key to full muscle recuperation from prolonged or intense exercise. Any failure to replenish glycogen stores is typically associated with ?fla [...]

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Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong (Laohu Gong)

Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong

Master Zhongxian Wu

Dec 19, 2005 10:56 PM

This article can be downloaded as an Acrobat PDF File Laohu Gong (Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong) is from the Emei Zhengong (Mt. Emei Sage Style Qigong) school. Mt. Eme [...]

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How to Use The Reticular Activating System to Make Your Qigong Practice Stick

John Du Cane

Sep 26, 2005 04:25 PM

I just attended an excellent one-day seminar on Getting Things Done by the productivity guru David Allen. See www.davidco.com for more information on David Allen?s progra [...]

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Diet Fallacy #10: “Your diet should consist of a certain fixed ratio of protein / fat / carbs”

Ori Hofmekler

Sep 20, 2005 02:18 PM

Diet Fallacy #10: ?Your diet should consist of a certain fixed ratio of protein / fat / carbs? The suggestion that there is one nutritional ratio of protein /fat/carb [...]

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Diet Fallacy #9: “To build muscle, you need to consume a fixed amount of protein per pound of bodyweight”

Ori Hofmekler

Aug 23, 2005 01:58 PM

Do You Really Need To Pack In The Protein? In Order To Pack On The Muscle? And If So? How, When and Why? The Top Ten Diet Fallacies ? Separating the Facts from the [...]

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Diet Fallacy #8: “Low-carb products will help you lose weight”

Ori Hofmekler

Aug 15, 2005 06:16 PM

Never fatter, never so unhealthy?why we are living in the Dietary Dark Ages The Top Ten Diet Fallacies ? Separating the Facts from the Fantasy We?re living in a [...]

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Diet Fallacy #7: "It's OK to eat everything, but in moderation."

Ori Hofmekler

Jul 19, 2005 02:07 PM

?To Be Really Healthy? Be Extreme. If You Want To Be A Loser, Be Moderate?? says iconoclastic diet guru, Ori Hofmekler, author of bestselling The Warrior Diet The Top [...]

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Diet Fallacy #6: "Count Your Calorie Intake to Control Your Weight"

Ori Hofmekler

Jul 01, 2005 12:34 PM

Are You At Risk? You May Be Compromising Your Health ? If You Count Your Calories These Popular Ways The Top Ten Diet Fallacies ? Separating the Facts from the [...]

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Fashionable Diet Fallacy #5. CARBS are your enemy

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 13, 2005 12:32 PM

author of The Warrior Diet What?s the Truth Behind the Hype?The Top Ten Diet Fallacies ? Separating the Facts from Fashion and Fantasy Fashionable Diet Fallacy #5. CARB [...]

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Diet Fallacy #4. FAT makes you fat

Ori Hofmekler

May 30, 2005 05:50 PM

author of The Warrior Diet Exposed: The Top Ten Diet Fallacies - And The Truth to Set You Free Diet Fallacy #4. FAT makes you fat Can Correct Use of ?Primal Fat-Rich F [...]

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Diet Fallacy #3. Eating late will make you fat

Ori Hofmekler

May 12, 2005 05:25 PM

author of The Warrior Diet Exposed: The Top Ten Diet Fallacies - And The Truth to Set You Free Diet Fallacy #3. EATING LATE will make you fat It has been commonly assu [...]

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Diet Fallacy #2: Eating Before Exercising will provide your muscles with instant energy

Ori Hofmekler

May 06, 2005 01:39 PM

author of The Warrior Diet Exposed: The Top Ten Diet Fallacies - And The Truth to Set You Free Diet Fallacy #2. EATING BEFORE EXERCISING will provide your muscles with [...]

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Diet Fallacy #1: Why you shouldn't eat breakfast

Ori Hofmekler

Apr 26, 2005 04:44 PM

author of The Warrior Diet Exposed: The Top Ten Diet Fallacies - And The Truth to Set You Free Diet Fallacy #1. BREAKFAST is the most important meal of the day Whe [...]

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Agent Orange Survivor Reveals the Best Way to Beat Chemical Poisoning

Harvey Diamond's 10 Tips for Keeping Your Body at Maximum Health

Harvey Diamond

Jan 12, 2005 07:13 PM

Best selling author Harvey Diamond served in Vietnam and is a survivor of exposure to the Agent Orange herbicide used to defoliate the jungles of Southeast Asia. Whe [...]

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The Life-Threatening Secret Behind Our Government’s Cholesterol “Goals”

Al Sears, MD

Dec 03, 2004 04:02 PM

The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) sounds like a good thing. They want your LDL cholesterol at 100 or lower ? or they want you on drugs. But wait until you [...]

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The Longevity Secrets of Qigong

Using Qigong to Protect and Enhance Our Life Systems as We Age

John Du Cane, qigong author and teacher

Oct 26, 2004 04:33 PM

After thirty years of personal experience and research, I have yet to find a practice that more completely offers me a way to protect and enhance my life systems, than [...]

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How Qigong Can Help You Relax Out of Stress

John Du Cane M.A.

Oct 20, 2004 07:18 PM

Our birthright is to swim in an ocean of pleasure and harmony, luxuriating in the rolling swell of life. As young children?if we are fortunate?we live that birthright. We [...]

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How Qigong Can Help You Recover From any Addiction

John Du Cane

Oct 20, 2004 07:15 PM

What are the hallmarks of addiction? How can you tell if you are addicted to something, be it drugs, work or some other compulsion? Essentially, addiction happens whe [...]

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Will dinner at 8 lead you to a Warrior

Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Sunday, April 14, 2002

Ori Hofmekler

Oct 20, 2004 07:15 PM

It may sound like a dream come true for those who've been starving themselves on diets, or driving themselves crazy trying to eat six small meals a day: Don't eat durin [...]

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The Amazing Life-Saving Health Benefits of Ionic Coral Calcium

Harvey Diamond

Oct 20, 2004 07:13 PM

For immediate supplement information go to: Feeling Fit Coral Complex WORLD-CLASS MINERALS Your body is able to make vitamins but it cannot make minerals. To have [...]

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Exploding the Myths:
Revealing the Truth About What it Takes to Build and Maintain a Powerful, Disease-Free Heart

Al Sears, M.D.

Oct 04, 2004 05:56 PM

For decades, we?ve worked to follow the advice of the American Heart Association for heart health. We?ve sacrificed taste, given up simple pleasures, pounded out the mile [...]

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An Introduction to Qigong—The Chinese Art of Being

John Du Cane

May 12, 2004 02:50 PM

Transcribed and edited from a talk delivered at a class on the nature, origins and benefits of qigong. What is the relationship between Qigong (Chi Kung) and Tai Ji (T [...]

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Critical Proteins PART I:

How to Evaluate Food Protein Quality in Real Life

Ori Hofmekler

Apr 27, 2004 08:21 PM

It has long been suggested that proteins are different in their ability to promote growth. Most methods that measure protein quality are related to the efficacy with whic [...]

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Hyperventilation & Health

Anxious? Irritable? Stressed Out? Maybe You're Breathing Too Fast

Dennis Lewis

Dec 22, 2003 07:57 PM

You?re walking along a beautiful beach and you find yourself filled with tension and anxiety. You?re sitting at home trying to relax and you find yourself fearful and app [...]

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The Impulse to Heal—Movement, Dance, and the Ancient Art of Qigong

John Du Cane

Dec 17, 2003 03:20 PM

Our natural healing impulse Everything carries a purpose, including the impulse to heal. The healing purpose is intimately related to our life purpose. We live to grow [...]

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The Health and Martial Benefits of “Reverse Breath”

Tim Heuertz

Dec 16, 2003 05:18 PM

The average person can survive 30 days (give or take) without food, 3 days without water, but only 3 minutes without oxygen. If you believe everything you read on the int [...]

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Steroids Versus Personalized Nutrition - Part 1

Dr. Gregory H. Tefft

Dec 02, 2003 03:41 PM

Lately the steroid problem amongst professional athletes has been bantered about in the media, now centering on professional baseball. Having worked on the sports medici [...]

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What Is Your Metabolic Rate

Dr. Gregory H. Tefft

Oct 22, 2003 08:55 PM

Breaking News - According to the American Heart Association there is more morbid obesity, (not to mention borderline obesity and marginally overweight individuals), than [...]

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Critical Carbs

How Dietary Carbohydrates Play a Vital Role in Building Tissues, Igniting Energy and Improving Your Survival Capabilities

Ori Hofmekler

Sep 30, 2003 05:50 PM

Dietary carbs are currently regarded as the culprit for most modern human diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases. Indeed, nume [...]

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Revitalize Your Health with the Healing Power of Probiotics

How Probiotics Can Combat Our Two Greatest Killers: Cancer and Heart Disease

Dr. Mark A. Brudnak

Sep 19, 2003 07:22 PM

Saying No to Cancer The body has a limited number of cells. If one dies, it's replaced with an exact copy of itself in the exact location. The whole body works like th [...]

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Igniting Your Survival Engine

To Burn Fat, Build Muscle and Boost Brain Power

Ori Hofmekler

Sep 01, 2003 05:21 PM

The fear of getting weak, fat, sick or old makes people shove all kinds of stuff into themselves, which more often than not provides little benefit. In fact, some nut [...]

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Diet Gamblers Vs. Nutrition Detectives

What's Really at Stake?

Dr. Gregory H. Tefft

Jul 22, 2003 02:32 PM

Hello again, I've got some great news to report to you. The world's very first Personalized Nutrition Center is having its grand opening in the Century City Mall in L.A. [...]

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27 Tips to Optimize Your Brain Power

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 30, 2003 08:51 PM

1. Avoid a big breakfast. Breads, muffins, bagels or pastries block your brain barriers. 2. Avoid eating big meals during the day. Big meals slow you down, and make yo [...]

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30 Major Diet Secrets for a Successful Love-Life

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 30, 2003 08:50 PM

What You Absolutely Should and Shouldn?t Do To Boost Your Sex Drive and Enhance Performance Eat meat. Meat is high in the amino acid Arginine and the minerals Zinc and [...]

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Have you become an unsuspecting victim of Toxic Cocktail Syndrome?

--How to best protect yourself from deadly environmental toxin-attacks and other invasions of your private health freedom

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 30, 2003 08:48 PM

The recent devastating terrorist attacks on American cities have created an increased awareness of the dangers of environmental toxins. The threat of future attacks and a [...]

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How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat on the Warrior Diet

The Principles of Growth

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 30, 2003 08:47 PM

?How can I keep gaining muscle mass while losing fat on The Warrior Diet?? ? I am asked this question all the time now ? by people who have reached a plateau, with no [...]

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Your Warrior Diet Questions Answered - Part 1

Ori Hofmekler

Jun 30, 2003 08:46 PM

Maximum performance is the ultimate goal of individuals who wish to excel. Being the strongest, fastest and toughest you can be is a virtue that goes far beyond athletic [...]

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Six Powerful Qigong Secrets for Generating Greater Strength

John Du Cane

May 08, 2003 05:07 PM

Over many centuries, Chinese internal martial artists developed numerous skills for cultivating immense strength and formidable endurance, with or without the use of weig [...]

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Stress, Vitamin C, and Colds

Dr. Gregory H. Tefft

Dec 18, 2002 04:46 PM

Here are some answers to the many questions I?ve received lately about stages of stress, colds, and their relationship to Vitamin C. Being the cold and flu season in com [...]

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Why Personalized Nutrition Testing is Crucial for Optimal Health

Dr. Gregory Tefft

Sep 24, 2002 03:36 PM

This topic may stimulate a fit of prolonged laughter for those of you who have read For Your Body Only, and I?m sorry for this, although as they say, laughter is good for [...]

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Using the secrets of qigong to live a more effective life

Calming the busy mind, healing the wounded heart and cleansing the toxic body

John Du Cane

Aug 23, 2002 01:35 PM

QIGONG PRACTITIONERS INSIST there are three central intelligences in our beings, all equally important. There is one in the head, one in the heart area, and an intelligen [...]

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