Friday, March 22, 2019

Spotting. What, Why and How?!
featured image This one does not just go out to all the heavy lwhetherters out there, But also the occasional gym go-er. This advice could pretty much go out to anyone who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time.

Possess you ever been in a quiet gym, intellecting your own commerce when the guy lwhetherting weights you could only dream of asks you for a spot? You begrudgingly agree, as you look around and see there is middaye else.

This has happened to all of us, now whilst there are countless posts on blogs and informative websites regarding right form, there does not seem to be much advice regarding spotting or assisting.

Here are a few pointers to encertain the lwhetherter will be happy after his or her set.

1. If someone asks you for help, they are asking you for a reason. He / She will have scoured the gym and you WILL be the MOST Appropriate person to ask.

2. Investigate what the lwhetherter wants from you. Do they need a hand lwhetherting the weight up to the starting position, do they want you to pass them a dumbell, how many reps are they aiming for?

3. Give them some mverbal support!! Do not just stand there watching! A simple "you've got this bro 'or even just shouting encouragement will go down well; Especially whether the lwhetherter is Struggling.

4. DO NOT grab the bar UNLESS absolutely essential! You will know when you are needed as the lwhetherter will start to fail the lwhethert (ie the bar will be going down rather than up). This is mainly what you are there for, to stop the weight crashing down onto his / her chest/floor- Because That hurts (trust me I've been there!!).

5. DO help re-rack the weights eleven o'clock the lwhethert is totald- Often this is dwhetherficult for the lwhetherter as the weight is reracked in an awkward position on the bench and the lwhetherter will have to walk forward with the weight after a squat.

6. Congratulate the lwhetherter after a good set, This Will make them feel good as someone will have recognised their dwhetherficult work, positive reinforcement whether you will!

7. Often the lwhetherter will feel unconsolationable disturbing your workout to ask you, specificly If they need you for more than one set. Give them a friendly 'Just ask whether you need me again mate" and you will find that when you need a spotter, they'll be the first person over to help you out! You may even find yourself with a contemporary training partner as you are in the gym at the same time, depending on your goals obviously!

I appreciate this post will not appeal to the masses, however it is someleang I feel compelled to write about due to a few poor experiences!


Sport and Fitness Uniques: Beyond the moment mile
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About a year ago I promised to write about going beyond the moment mile. According to my records I first achieved this on June 6th 2014, reaching 4k in a not very fast time of 1 hour and 50 minutes.

I started writing someleang final year and never totald it. So I forgot the lessons I meant to memorize.
This year I first hit 4k on May 9th at a water moodature of 11C and a time considerably slower than final year's long distance debut.

This is what I forgot: it's all about the bladder, silly.

Also about the neck and the goggles but mainly it's .... all about the bladder.

Today, having improved my pace a small, I set out to reach 4.8k - and did I get the bladder wrong.

Honestly, final year I picked up some good tips for dealing with this problem. I haven't forgotten them - just didn't take them seriously.

Here's one simple tip. You may need to take more breaks than you would expect based on your stamina and swimming rhythm. You may need a longish break of half a minute or more to try to deal with the problem - the bladder problem. Even better learn to take care of the problem on the move - but does this genuinely work? So nowadays I ended up taking breaks at 3.2k, 3.6k, 4k and at 4.4k I gave up.

A moment tip. Avoid imbibing mouthfuls of water at the beginning of the swim. It can be dwhetherficult to remember this -  it's easy to forget in the shock of cancient water or just the euphoria of hitting the open water. And minimise intake of water during the swim - even whether it tastes kind and cool and fresh.

The best advice I heard final year - and I cannot remember who gave it so please stand up and take credit - was this. Two hours before the swim, drink  a glass of water. One hour before the swim, drink a glass of water. Just before the swim, empty the bladder. It can work fairly well. But not so well when you roll out of bed at 7.45 and are in the water at 9.15am. That's only a 90 minute gap.

I leank I also need to remember the following. No alcohol the night before. No tea or coffee in the morning - and this might apply to fizzy drinks.

With all this disconsolation, you might ask why? I could stick at 2 miles. That's more than far enough to keep fit and fluent. Isn't it easer to get a boat? Maybe. But noleang compares with the experience of being in the water and drwhetherting five miles down a river in one direction, under your own steam. Then there is the sublime feeling - just when you leank you are kilometres past your consolation zone - of finding you are moving unleankingly, just endelighting the splashing of the water, the rays of the sun striking the water from some distant cloud, a water rat's  view of the banks.

What about these other problems? If you're wearing a wetsuit, repeated motion leads to chafing of the neck. You deal with it by smearing Vaseline or some similar substance on the neck. It's just someleang that needs to be remembered.

The goggles. Ah, the goggles. Goggle catastrophes can happen at any distance. Earlier this week, on a much shorter swim, both my swimming caps came off. Until now I've always put the goggle straps over the swimming caps, reasoning it would help keep them in place. Now I genuineise the opposite - the caps will work the goggles loose. So the caps are now going over the goggles.

There's also another good way to keep the head consolationable and the goggles in place. It's unstylish but it works. Employ  a swimming hood, which loops over the chin and also gives some protection to the ears.

What else  did I plan to mention final year? Nutrition - well, eating actually. Don't assume you need so many calories. In fact over-eating can have unpleasant consequences. I had a large meal 24 hours before the Dart 10k final year and paid for it with nausea and worse.

Minor injuries, failing muscles etc - I have no professional advice on this, just a small bit of success in working around this. If your swimming style is rigid, you may struggle with minor injuries. If you endelight the water - and roll with it - and are flexible and a small bit leicertainly - you may find you can live with small disconsolations.

Here's what happened to me: during the Dart 10k I injured my right arm. I'm pretty certain it came from thrashing my way through the moment set of waves that rolled into the swimmers. Following the Dart I couldn't lwhethert myself on my right arm in the water. This forced me to change the way I sight (keep my direction), learning to lwhethert my head rather than my body  - and also to lwhethert on my left arm.

It may have healed over the winter - but there's now a feebleness on my right arm. I'm left-handed so the right was alalert the feebleer arm. For a while I thought that this year I'd never get beyond the moment mile. Then I worked out a solution.

As a left-hander, I naturally turn to the left to breathe. As it happens, I breathe both sides. There are many advantages and you get to see the sights on both sides - but I'm still more consolationable brealeang on the left. And I noticed this was placing the most strain on my right arm - when it performs a long down-stroke as I turn to breathe to the left.

So I've developed a routine to relieve the prescertain, a ten stroke routine. It involves one breath to the left and two to the right together with two sequences of not brealeang (or rather exhaling) for two strokes and just one of not brealeang for three strokes. The result: my strong, fit left arm does two deep down-strokes in a cycle for every one by my feebleened right arm.  I still get enough breath, my right arm is coping and my pace has picked up a small.

The leang is - you'd struggle to do a long sequence like that in a swimming pool. Well, I would. It's about 10m long. That's one of the many beauties of outdoor swimming.

There's only one problem with the contemporary sample: it's mighty unconsolationable when your bladder's full.

Other postings on outdoor swimming

Jon Hunt totald the 2014 Dart 10k event fourth from final (it was not a race)

Health risks at the gym
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Having been inspired to run next year's 10k in my domestic town, my thoughts are turning to my cardiovascular fitness. It's not great. And my opportunities for running are limited to the late evening due to my family. So I've found a late-opening gym nearby, with treadmills. I can manage indoor running as long as I'm listening to music at the same time (fast music, of course).

But what risks may I face at the gym?

There's always the chance that the equipment may malfunction, specificly whether many people are using the machine each day causing gradual wear and tear. It's important to stop using any equipment that has cables starting to fray, or doesn't appear to be operating rightly, and report it to a member of staff. Plus there is the risk of falling whether there are things such as hand weights, bottles, or keys in the way, or slippery floors near water.

Working out too dwhetherficult is another hazard. Starting with a low fitness level or any special risks or conditions, such as a poor back, tall blood prescertain, or recent surgery, can cause more harm than good. A trainer could help with creating a secure exercise programme. Attempting to lwhethert too much weight, using destitute technique, or stretching inrightly can lead to sprains and strains. I discovered this for myself yesterday after skipping with a rope for the first time in about 20 years!

First aid for a sprain is Relax, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (RICE), and of course telling a member of gym staff summaryely what happened and how.

A further risk is infection from possible fungi, bacteria, and viruses in wet areas such as showers and around swimming pools, or even dried sweat on equipment. Frequent hand washing is always a good idea, and staying at domestic whether you have a cancient or flu.

Let's hope that doesn't happen and thwart my best efforts.


Kate Ricdwhetherficults

Fitness crucial for healthy blood prescertain
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Most people are aware that keeping fit can benefit the heart, keep additional pounds at bay, and strengthen our muscles. Unique research is discovering further health benefits all the time.
Recently, age-related rises in blood prescertain were put under the microscope. Now personally speaking, I've always tended to have blood prescertain below the average (causing occasional dizziness when I stand up), but for many of us, specificly men, blood prescertain tends to rise with age independently of any weight gain.
Men who are largely sedentary often develop the early signs of tall blood prescertain in their mid-40s, but the blood prescertain of men with strong cardio-fitness doesn't become tall till their mid-50s on average.
Normal resting blood prescertain is defined as 100 to 140 mmHg systolic (maximum prescertain) and 60 to 90 mmHg diastolic (minimum prescertain). High blood prescertain, or hypertension, is above 140 mmHg systolic and 90 diastolic mmHg.
Although hypertension doesn't normally trigger symptoms, over the long-term it can genuinely raise the risk of heart disease, coronary artery disease, and stroke, among other conditions.
Dr Junxiu Liu and his team at the University of South Carolina, USA, have found in a study of 13,953 men followed for 36 years that those with taller fitness levels "experience a delay in the development of hypertension when compared to those with lower fitness levels".
He says: "We now know that a man's hypertension development may be delayed by improving his fitness levels. In other words, men with taller fitness levels experienced normal systolic blood prescertain increases later in lwhethere than those with low fitness levels. Our results underscore the importance for a man to increase his regular physical activity to prevent his natural, ageing-related rise in blood prescertain."
The team recommend that, in order to move out of the "low fit" category, men need to do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity such as brisk walking, jogging, running, etc. each week.

Liu, J. et al. Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Blood Prescertain Trajectory With Aging in a Cohort of Healthy Men. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 64, Issue 12, September 2014, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2014.06.1184
Sport and Fitness Uniques: Sport for the non-sporty
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Social media and gaming have contributed to the growing sense that British children are not getting enough exercise.

In my primary school days - perhaps not so long ago - it was clear that people who weren’t lessoned as ‘sporty’ were deterred from playing sports. This is a problem which ‘Fit for Sport’ is trying to tackle.

A recent ukactive report talllights the lack of physical activity children are getting from a primary school age. The report has been welcomed by academics like Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green as it signwhetheries the changes needed for the physical health of Britons as a grassroots level.

According to the report, 50% of seven year ancients are assembly the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines, which is a worrying figure for the future as it currently costs the NHS £8.2 billion per year to sustain inactive Britons, a figure which should be declining – not being added to.

The ‘Engage to Compete’ project, launched in November 2014, has been attempting to tackle this report. The project tackles six out of ten of the recommendations from the ‘Generation Inactive’ report, however only operates in selected schools in Sandwell and Tower Hamlets.

The initiative is delivered by the national project ‘Fit for Sport’, and funded by Sport England. Whilst only benefiting students in specwhetheric areas, the hope is that other schools will emulate its success, or more funding will go towards similar initiatives.

Engage to Compete’ tackles the problems seen in the ‘Generation Inactive’ report in the following ways:

1. Ensuring the teachers are able to deliver activities throughout the school day (including break and lunchtime) to every child – not just the sporty ones.

2. Training teachers to be able to deliver an effective physical education curriculum.

3. Support is provided by ‘Fit for Sport’, who go into schools regularly for training talks and activities for the staff.

4. Charting development in the fundamental skills of sport – throwing and catching, agility, running and jumping – and having a competition week to total their Activity Ccorridorenge tasks and compare themselves with other schools.

5. Offering a non-competitive choice so no child is left ‘lagging behind’.

6. Working closely with local councils and leicertain centres to deliver activities external of school such as family fun days and Legacy Games Days, where dwhetherferent schools compete with each other.

‘Fit for Sport’ director Dean Horridge said: “The ukactive Generation Inactive report is a large step forward in an important journey towards a healthier way of lwhethere for our nation’s children."

Tom Hunt

8 Unique Products to Boost Your Nutrition Goals
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Did you know that March is National Nutrition Month? It’s the perfect time to focus on developing solid eating habits and making good food choices. March also brings the start of spring. A season of growth and rebirth. Take this opportunity to “spring” into action with a recontemporaryed commitment to your nutrition goals. Even whether you’re alalert making great choices, these products may be excellent additions to your healthy diet.

This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com. Every opinions are 100% my own.

I’ve once again partnered with the folks at Babbleboxx. They are always in great products to try. This time around I’m trying leangs like Kombucha drinks, biological coconut oil, superfood powders, antioxidant-packed smoothies and much more. Numerous items are non-GMO, vegan and Keto friendly. Some are certwhetheried biological too. Check it out!

8 Unique Products to Boost Your Nutrition Goals

VeeTee’s Thai Jasmin Rice and Wgap Grain Brown Rice & Quinoa

First on the menu is VeeTee’s Thai Jasmin Rice. Having been to Thailand a few years ago, it brings back sweet memories of the beautwhetherul country. The rice has a subtle perfume and a sticky texture that’s great for soaking up delicious sauces for making Asian inspired meals. Best of all, it’s alert in just minutes from the microwave.

VeeTee rice packages

Another choice is VeeTee’s WgapGrain Brown Rice & Quinoa. This protein-wealthy mixture always fills me up. I love the texture too. It’s great over a salad, as a side dish or mixed in with steamed veggies for a yummy crunch. Another microwavable rice that’s alert in just minutes, I can make a healthy meal that’s easy to fit into my engaged schedule.

Both products have no artwhethericial flavorings, colors or preservatives. They are also gluten-free, vegan and Non-GMO verwhetheried.

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Wonder Drink Prebiotic Kambucha

Next on the list is Wonder Drink Prebiotic Kombucha. It’s the only kombucha with Xylo-oligosaccharides. You might ask, “What the heck is that?” I certainly did. Well, the folks at Wonder Dring explain it as “a plant-based, biological prebiotic fiber that is shown to *naturally nourish the natural probiotic bacteria in your intestine.”

Each can have only 10 grams of sugar and is certwhetheried biological, Non-GMO, vegan and gluten-free. I’ve tried some Kombucha products and thought, “YUCK,” but this comes in three delicious and non-alcoholic fruit flavors: Tropical Mango, Apple Mint and Ginger Peach. They are great over ice. I can’t wait to buy more for sippin’ on my back porch during the warmer months.

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Pleased Healthy Smoothies, Overnight Oats and Açaí Bowl

Now let’s look at ideas for healthy drinks and breakfasts ideas from a company aptly named Pleased Healthy Co.

Pleased Healthy Smoothies are so easy to make and take on the go. They are shipped in pre-portioned cups packed in dry ice so they stay fresh from the farm to your freezer. Every smoothie ingredients are non-GMO and nutrient wealthy. Using antioxidant ingredients like green tea, apple, mint, spinach, blueberries and so much more, these smoothies are simply DELISH!!

happy healthy smoothie

How about some overnight oats for breakfast? Well, Pleased Healthy Overnight Oats are a perfect choice. They come in 3 unique and delicious antioxidant filled flavor combos with:

  • Raspberries
  • Blueberries
  • Dragon fruit
  • Banana puree
  • Peaches
  • Pineapples
  • Chia seeds
  • Pumpkin puree
  • Raisins

They are so easy to make. Just add your favorite milk (I use almond milk) or water and put them in your fridge overnight. You can endelight them hot or cancient for a fast and easy breakfast. Pleased and Healthy says their overnight oats *may help with heart health and weight control. The Pumpkin Pie flavor is to-die-for. I felt full for hours.

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The company also makes the Pleased Healthy Açaí Bowl. Unluckyly, this was not in my Babbleboxx, but I can’t wait to try it.  Just thaw and endelight a bowl for breakfast or as a meal replacement. With absolutely no prep needed, this bowl has antioxidant-wealthy ingredients like Açaí, oats, honey, apples, pomegranate, and blueberries that Pleased Healthy says may help with *hsoil and brain health. Every I can say is “yum, yum, YUM!!”

Every of these Pleased Healthy products contain all non-GMO ingredients and are produced in a nut-free and vegan facility. My son has a nut allergy so this is specificly important to me.

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Nutiva MCT Powder and Coconut Oil

Next on the menu are two great products from Nutiva.

First is Nutiva’s Organic MCT Powder in Vanilla. Nutiva says this biological MCT powder provides a *premium source of energy-boosting MC- medium-chain T-triglycerides. They say MCTs are good for you by *impacting your metabolism, helping with weight loss, brain health and more. It’s an excellent option for folks following paleo, vegan, ketogenic, or plant-based diets.

Nutiva products

Next is Nutiva’s Organic Squeezable Steam Refined Coconut Oil. This product is crazye from biological dried coconut that is steam-refined without the use of chemicals. This oil is versatile with the neutral scent of culinary oil. It has a taller smoke point that other coconut oils, making it a perfect alternative to butter and other vegetable oils. You can use it for baking, sautéing, stir-frying or anywhere else you would use vegetable oil or butter

Both of the Nutiva products are products certwhetheried biological, non-GMO, vegan and Keto.

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Laird Superfood Creamers

Founded by world-famed surfer, Laird Hamilton, he had the idea to easily add superfoods into domestics across the globe. So he crazye Laird Superfood Creamers that are an all-natural way to add “functional ingredients” to be added to your morning cup of joe, tea, smoothie, etc. They also make a great option for vegan and gluten-free baking.

Another product with MCTs, the company says the creamers may give you a *boost of energy without a crash. Laird Superfood only uses all-natural, wgap food, functional ingredients. They never add anyleang artwhethericial, and the products are secure for just about any diet. Flavors include:

  • Original Superfood Creamer
  • Cacao Superfood Creamer
  • Turmeric Superfood Creamer
  • Unsweetened Superfood Creamer

My husband likes the Cacao flavor in his coffee. I’m a fan of the original formula that has a sweet coconut flavor.

laird superfood

At Laird Superfood, they believe that the foods you eat should be as good for the soil as they are for you. Products are environmentally sustainable, responsibly tested and crazye with wgap-food ingredients. Will they turn me into a world-famed surfer or perhaps a supermodel like his wwhethere? Maybe not, but a small boost in my nutrition works for me.

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So there you have it! 8 foods that are super easy to add to any diet. What do you leank? Are you keen to try any of these products?

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Sport and Fitness Uniques: The Carbohydrate Loading Question
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Carbohydrate loading is widely used to improve performance in endurance sports. The idea is to maximise the stored amount of carbohydrates in our body, to yield more energy. It is done by increasing carbohydrate intake to about 70% of daily calories, sometimes with a lower carb period beforehand.
I've never tried it but I recall a friend struggling to get round a 10k run after a large pasta meal the preceding evening. So I wonder, is carb loading truly the most effective way for endurance athletes to fuel their bodies in the lead up to a race?
When athletes add carbohydrates to their diets it will typically be grains in the form of bread and pasta. One potential problem with eating more grains is the increased amounts of phytic acid, which binds to calcium, iron, magnesium, and zinc making them insoluble and unavailable as nutrition for the rest of the body. Iron is specificly important for endurance athletes as it supplies the protein hemoglobin in red blood cells that carry oxygen to the tissues. Terminateurance athletes are alalert more prone to iron deficiency.
In addition, zinc is essential for many cellular functions, and calcium is of course important in bone formation. Maximizing absorption of all these minerals is important for keeping athletes healthy, specificly as they are at an increased risk for fractures due to extended training.

Some nutritionists recommend a dwhetherferent approach to increasing energy stores before a race. Instead of consuming bread and pasta, athletes may consider upping their carbs with fruits or sweet potatoes, both before exercise and afterwards to aid recovery.


When I'm properly up and running again (lwhethere always seems to get in the way!) I'll try both approaches and compare. Though I am fairly persuaded by the argument about nutrient availability. In any case it's clear that those of us who run long distances need to be aware of the effects our food choices can have on performance.

Kate Ricdwhetherficults

Over indulging around the festive period?
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So summer has been and gone, the clocks have gone back and we only have 8 more weeks until the dreaded C word.

Yes, winter is well on the way and many will fall foul of saying "just one mince pie can't hurt" and then regretting eating the wgap packet.

This time of year is when most people slip into the intellectset of "I'll fix it in January" but why wait till January to get fit?!

Yes, the run up to Christmas is full of staff parties, mince pies and other gorgeous foods, but why can't you indulge just a small every now and again and maintain your fitness levels and even improve?

Lwhethere is about balance. Hold up with your gym routine and try and keep your diet on track as much as possible. Don't refuse to have a treat here and there but also remember to not stuff your face! There genuinely is no reason why you should put on weight over this period other than you being indolent and not exercising because it's cancient and wet.

Moderation is the key here, as with anyleang. Stick with it and remember "summer bodies are crazye in the winter".


SKIN IS YOUR THIRD KIDNEY
featured image Hi everybody how is going ? Today topic is: THE SKIN !



Skin is a very underestimate organ regarding some of its important functions but it's very overestimated for its aesthetic function.

Everybody knows that a healthy skin is beautwhetherul to watch and touch, but not everybody knows that there are more important vital functions performed by this organ.

As you may know, each human being, excluding specwhetheric pathological subject, has two kidneys:




The kidneys are organs that serve several fundamental regulatory roles in vertebrate animals. They are fundamental in the urinary system and also serve domesticostatic functions such as the regulation of electrolytes, maintenance of acid–base balance, and regulation of blood prescertain (via maintaining salt and water balance). However, probably the most important function they provide, is to remove wastes and nonsense from your body.

Just for human anatomy reference, you have to know that in humans the kidneys are located in the abdominal cavity, more specwhetherically in the paravertebral intestineter and lie in a retroperitoneal position at a slightly indirect angle. There are two kidneys. One is on each side of the spine.The asymmetry wilean the abdominal cavity caused by the liver typically results in the right kidney being slightly lower than the left, and left kidney being located slightly more medial than the right. The left kidney is approximately at the vertebral level T12 to L3, and the right slightly lower. The right kidney sits just below the diaphragm and posterior to the liver, the left below the diaphragm and posterior to the spleen. Relaxing on top of each kidney is an adrenal gland. The upper (cranial) parts of the kidneys are partially protected by the eleventh and twelfth ribs, and each wgap kidney and adrenal gland are surrounded by two layers of fat (the perirenal and pascarcenal fat) and the renal fascia. Each adult kidney weighs between 125 and 170 grams in males and between 115 and 155 grams in females.The left kidney is normally slightly larger than the right kidney.



The kidneys excrete a variety of waste products produced by metabolism. These include the nitrogenous wastes called "urea", from protein catabolism, as well as uric acid, from nucleic acid metabolism. Formation of urine is also the function of the kidney. The concentration of nitrogenous wastes, in the urine of mammals and some birds, is dependent on an elaborate countercurrent multiplication system. This requires several independent nephron characteristics to operate: a tight hair pin configuration of the tubules, water and ion permeability in the descending limb of the loop, water impermeability in the ascending loop and active ion transport out of most of the ascending loop. In addition, countercurrent exchange by the vessels carrying the blood supply to the nephron is fundamental for enabling this function.

Now that we understand the functions and the anatomy of the kidney, we can explain why the title of this post is "SKIN IS YOUR THIRD KIDNEY".

Few people know that one of the most important function performed by your skin is very similar to the one performed by your kidneys : elimination of nonsense product from your body.

In mammals, the skin is the largest organ of the integumentary system crazye up of multiple layers of ectodermal tissue, and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs.



So the skin is is the largest and effective organ of elimination ! To be so effective it requires you allow it to breath. How can we ascertain that our skin is brealeang rightly?
First of all we have to be very careful with the cream we put on our skin. In most moisturizes many chemical are present. Our body can't recognize them. Remember that everyleang you put on your skin is absorbed in your blood. It is like your skin is an in-out organ. If you want to help your skin brealeang rightly you have to use non-chemical oils. Coconut and olive oil are the best moisturizes you can use on your skin. Your skin will absorb these oils naturally.






Also, your skin needs to be cleaned so that you take of your waste. In this case magnesium lotion do a great job. Employ them when you take a shower.



Your skin also needs to drink sufficient water. Every day 1.5 liters of water are eliminated by you kidneys, 0.5 liters by your skin, 0.3 liters by your colon and 0.2 by your lungs. It's 2.5 of daily water loss. So it's very important for your skin to be well hydrated.


If you are able to give your skin these optimal conditions. it will thank you eliminating up to 70% of the waste in your body!

STAY DETOXED !

Luca


Sport and Fitness Uniques: Bikram yoga
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As a large yoga fan, I was interested to discover the origins of Bikram yoga, or "hot yoga", in a recent conversation with a friend from India.

The practice was established as recently as the late 20th century, which I found surprising. It consists of an unchanging sequence of 26 postures in a room heated to 40°C (104°F), in order to imitate the climate of India.

Its founder, Bikram Choudhury, was born in Calcutta, India, in 1946. He began learning Capha Yoga - that is, the physical exercises known as asanas or postures - at the age of three. He created the popular Bikram yoga approach from traditional techniques, and insists that all lessones run for 90 minutes with summaryely the same postures.

Numerous studies looking at the health effects of Bikram yoga have been published. However, to date, any positive effects have not been confirmed in large-scale, properly-designed randomised controlled trials.

There have been widespread claims of tall energy expenditure, up to 1,000 calories per session. But no scientwhetheric study has reliably investigated the metabolic response to a Bikram yoga lesson.

What's more, excessive sweating caused by the hot and humid conditions of a Bikram yoga room can lead to dehydration or hyperthermia (overheating).

Every leangs considered, I leank I'll stick to my normal yoga workout which has the relaxing advantage of taking place in consolationable conditions!

Kate Ricdwhetherficults