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Simplifying and Maximizing Immune Health
As we know, our bodies require light, water and nutrients for energy. Our intelligent body knows how to convert each of these into exactly what it needs in order to heal. When we give ourselves the building blocks for optimal health, our body knows exactly what to do with them. Red light therapy is a powerful technology in that it concentrates the naturally occurring wavelengths of red and near infrared light, to optimize bodily functions.
Begin your health optimization journey with Optimyze
All elements of nature are essential for balance and healing. Let’s take a look at why each of these were specifically selected by the Optimyze Center and how they will take your health to the next level.
PEMF Therapy: What is it?
PEMF or Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields use electricity to support the body in a natural recovery process as it essentially treats our cells like batteries and “charges them up”. A common misconception is that these electromagnetic waves (EMFs) are dangerous, but they are not the same as EMFs from things like microwaves or x-ray machines, as they differ in how quickly the wavelength of electricity moves (the frequency) and how long the waves are exposed to the body (duration), making them healing instead of harmful. Just like wavelengths of electricity in nature, PEMF works at a low and slow rate, in short bursts.
InBody Analyzer
The InBody Analyzer uses safe, low-level electrical currents that run through hand and foot electrodes to measure body composition which gives us a lot more information that just measuring your weight, or even measuring your BMI using your height, weight and age. The more information you have, the better. The simple difference between weight and body composition is that weight is a measure of muscle, fat, and bones in the body, but body composition gives you the percentage of each which gives us much more information.
An Introduction to Red Light Therapy
As we know, our bodies require light, water and nutrients for energy. Our intelligent body knows how to convert each of these into exactly what it needs in order to heal. When we give ourselves the building blocks for optimal health, our body knows exactly what to do with them. Red light therapy is a powerful technology in that it concentrates the naturally occurring wavelengths of red and near infrared light, to optimize bodily functions.
The Science of Compression Therapy
Compression therapy uses consistent pressure created by air inflating the Normatec Device to apply pressure to the arms, legs or hips, depending on the device used. The Normatec segmentally compresses from the hands or legs, up to the torso to increase the flow of blood and lymph to heart.
An Introduction to Cold Therapy
In today’s world, cold therapy has gained increasing interest with athletes, doctors, health nuts, and general society due to its various benefits, and yes the science does live up to the hype! Not only does cold therapy support the basic foundational needs of the body, such as reducing inflammation, detoxing the body and flushing out cellular waste, but it also supports in reducing stress, improving mood and overall alertness.
Do you Know the Benefits of Infrared Sauna?
Infrared saunas have been Scientifically proven to improve many areas of health and well-being, everything from sleep, mood, muscle growth, metabolism, fat burning to heart health. In this article you will learn about the difference between saunas, their unique benefits as well as how infrared sauna use creates profound affects in your body.
The 5 Tibetans
One of the things that I look for in health and wellness practices is efficiency. Although in certain respects advertisements of quick fixes and shortcuts can be misleading, I do believe that there are certain tools and practices that have such efficiency that I consider them true shortcuts because of the value they provide. These are the practices that grab my attention and are the ones that I feel may best fit given the current state of most humans I know.
Benjamin Button Effect
The Benjamin Button effect. A 2008 movie featuring actor Brad Pitt is born looking like a 70-year-old man as he grows old in years, his body becomes younger. There is a lot more to the movie with a very intriguing sequence of events but ultimately let’s focus on the idea of growing older and our body becoming younger. The title is catchy and hopefully it enticed you to stop, click and listen. I’m a wellness advocate, biohacker, health coach, wellness center founder and consumer of all things related to maintaining vitality, youth and slowing down the aging process.
Radical Self Acceptance
Every time I’d travel, the farther away I went, the closer I felt to myself. I collected one epiphany after another, and each time I did, I was able to shake off a layer of prejudice that I usually lugged around with me.
The Science of Gratitude
If any one of us was asked if we knew the true meaning of gratitude, we would nod our heads… but do we really know what is it is? Do we really feel what gratitude feels like and receive it’s benefits, or do we operating out of an unconscious, robotic pattern? How do we hack the brain and body to truly FEEL gratitude and thereby receive all of its potent benefits? This article is going to be different than other “positivity or affirmation” based articles as we get into the hard science, the nitty gritty and breakdown the blockages to feeling gratitude.
Benefits of Compression therapy & Promoting Lymphatic Drainage
What is the Lymphatic System and why is it so important for our immune system?
We’ve all heard of lymph nodes, but that may be all of our knowledge of the lymph system. To give glimpse, think of how lymph nodes tend to swell when you are sick, this is because they are a major part of the immune system and a minor part of the circulatory system 1. When a lymph node is swollen, it has accumulated foreign pathogens (bacteria, virsues, parasites, etc.), proteins and cellular debris from the “bug” that has infected the body and the immune system’s response to this foreign invader.
Everything you need to know to start fasting
Fasting refers to the deliberate abstention from food and/or fluids for a period of time, for therapeutic purposes. Many people don’t know that fasting has been used for thousands of years in various religious and spiritual practices throughout human history, and in a sense, fasting is part of everyday life. The term ‘breakfast’ is the meal that breaks the fast, which is done daily. The recent increase in scientific research around fasting has allowed us to understand just how fasting positively affects our physiology, cells, aging, disease and overall health.
Full Spectrum Infrared Sauna
Just about everyone has experienced the relaxing qualities of a sauna. You feel the heat on your skin instantly, which may make you assume that all saunas warm the body up from the outside, inward, but full spectrum infrared saunas are unique from traditional saunas in that the infrared wavelength of light deeply penetrates the body and warms you from the inside out (2). Because of this, infrared saunas stimulate the detox process of the body very efficiently as it works at the cellular level of the organs and sweat glands (2).
Cold Water Therapy, a Training Ground for the Mind and Body
Cold therapy a new fad or ancient tool? These days it’s not hard to find a social media post being shared by someone sitting in a horse trough of ice-cold water or a person doing jumping jacks in a -230 degrees Fahrenheit cryotherapy room.
What is RLT and why does it matter?
As we know, our bodies require light, water and nutrients for energy. Our intelligent body knows how to convert each of these into exactly what it needs in order to heal. When we give ourselves the building blocks for optimal health, our body knows exactly what to do with them.