My Thanksgiving Tradition
by: Manny Aragon Ahhh. Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas and New Years too. July 4th is fun, and the other holidays have their place. But there is nothing quite as satisfying as the run up to Thanksgiving and the day itself. One of my long…
Read MoreThe Best Chicken Soup Ever- Filipino Style
by Manny Aragon This is comfort food in my family and a very healthy meal to boot. I am partial to soups, broths, and stews in the winter months as I am outside a good part of the day training or sitting on a freezing pool deck while my kids swim, play soccer, basketball, etc.…
Read More14 Unusual Reasons To Detox Your Liver
by Manny Aragon If you’ve been paying attention to any of my social media posts and newsletter articles lately you probably know that I am a big fan of periodic metabolic body detoxification. And I have been just as guilty as most of the other authors out there in dumbing down the reasons why -honestly,…
Read MoreWhat I Eat To Detox My Body
by Manny Aragon Detox is as natural a process as eating. In a general sense, when health experts talk about detox they are generally referring to a gut cleansing process and a stage I/II liver detox. They go together after all. So, when I speak about the detoxification process, I too am speaking about cleaning…
Read More21 Ways To Tell If Your Mitochondria Are Damaged
by: Manny Aragon Mitochondria are the literal “powerhouses” of located in each and every cell in our bodies. As such, they bear a huge effect on our body’s ability to produce just about every aspect of energy we produce (from heat to movement to vitality in general). When mitochondria aren’t operating optimally, funny things start…
Read MoreMen/Women: Is Estrogen Dominance Wrecking Your Health?
By: Manny Aragon We are surrounded by estrogens. We ingest estrogens. We make estrogens. Men and Women both make and need a certain balance of estrogenic hormones inside of our bodies in order to keep things copacetic. When things go out of balance, life gets pretty wacky in a hurry. Some of the most prevalent…
Read More20 Ways To Tell If You Suffer From Chronic Inflammation
by: Manny Aragon If you suffer from one or more of the following conditions: arthritis fibromyalgia chronic fatigue sinusitis, allergies acne asthma digestive conditions flu symptoms dysmenorrheal endometriosis Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s multiple sclerosis cancer heart disease osteoporosis hypertension depression Insulin resistance (pre diabetes) diabetes the root of your disease state may be caused, in large part,…
Read MoreAre You Toxic? Take Our Survey To Find Out!
by: Manny Aragon “Toxicity” seems to be a jargon word these days in the wellness world. Everyone and their brother seems to be into “cleansing” and there is a booming business in juice cleansing, detox cleansing, and even folks who use the master cleanse, and colonics on a regular basis. But for all this cleansing,…
Read MoreThe Basic 10 Session Series of Dr. Rolfs’ Method Of Structural Integration Part 2
by: Manny Aragon Session 6: Mobilize The Sacrum In this session, you will be lying on the front of your body and we will focus on the back of the body from the heel to the mid back. Particular emphasis will be paid to the hamstrings, gluteals, deep rotators of the hip, stabilizing muscles of…
Read MoreThe Basic 10 Session Series of Dr. Rolfs’ Method Of Structural Integration Part 1
by: Manny Aragon Session 1 of 10: Welcome: Horizontalize the Pelvis, prepare the body to receive the following sessions in the series with efficiency. This session makes the remaining sessions more effective. The first session is an introductory session and is a longer session than the rest of the sessions in the series. This is…
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