Healing Explored: Nurturing Your Recovery + Wellness

Hydration: When You Should Pay Attention

For many years, it was common practice to limit food and water intake before most types of surgery. Recent recommendations have been revised to encourage preoperative hydration with a carbohydrate drink up until 2 hours before surgery. Research indicates that this approach has metabolic benefits and reduces anxiety, nausea and vomiting.

How Does Your Body Heal During Sleep?

Quality sleep and sufficient amounts of sleep is critical when your body is healing. During sleep, your body undergoes a number of changes that enable healing and restoration that is critical to your overall health.

The Benefits of Grape Seed Extract

The antioxidant properties of grape seed extract are particularly important when it comes to everyday health and wellness, as antioxidants destroy free radicals – harmful compounds in the body that damage DNA.

Frozen Shoulder – One Woman’s Experience

Frozen Shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis is a condition that often begins with stiffness, pain, and then at some point; stiffens or freezes resulting in complete loss of mobility in the affected joint. 

Foods to Eat and Avoid with Arthritis

Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. Around 23% (54 million) of all adults in the United States have arthritis. More than 1 in 4 adults with arthritis experience severe joint pain and about half of the adults with arthritis report they are limited in their activities due to their arthritis.

Muscle Science: How to Work with Your Body to Repair Muscles

Skeletal muscle is one of the most commonly injured tissues of both athletes and non-athletes alike. [1] Although it can be debilitating and limit our daily activities, there is much that we can do to help our bodies recover from these injuries. 

Glutamine— Essential to Your Recovery

Glutamine (GLN) is one of twenty amino acids the human body uses for a variety of purposes. Unlike most amino acids, and other nutrients, glutamine’s importance in our diet fluctuates. Likewise, our nutritional goals should reflect this fluctuating need. Which is why glutamine has become a popular dietary supplement, so it can be added to a healthy diet when our bodies require more of it.

Protein and Arthritis

More studies are needed to understand how protein impacts joint health, and whether supplementation with specific types of amino acids can lead to improvements in arthritis symptoms. However, those with arthritis should focus on getting enough protein from a variety of sources.

Jerusalem Artichoke: What is It and What are the Benefits?

The Jerusalem artichoke is actually not an artichoke at all, but a variety of sunflower with an edible tuber, similar to a potato. The root vegetable, also called a sunchoke, resembles a ginger root with a nutty, sweet and crunchy taste.

Minimize Bruising and Scarring After Surgery

Muscle Atrophy and How to Prevent It

Muscle atrophy can occur for various reasons, but it always has the same result—a smaller, weaker muscle. In fact, each muscle cell will shrink individually making for a collectively weaker muscle. 

How Your Diet Can Impact Inflammation and Healing

Controlling the level of inflammation in your body is the key to improving and shortening your recovery. There is a reason you constantly hear about inflammation; it is involved in so much of what happens in our bodies.