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2004 Inside Outside Wellness Center & Medical Spa
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This Month's SuperSlow®
Star: Clarice Martinez
Clarice Martinez is our SuperSlow®
Star of the month. She
saw Inside Outside featured on
KENS5 by Medical
Reporter Wendy Rigby. She called right after the
show and came in the very next day. She is shown here with
her strongest supporter 8 year old Bradley.
In Clarice's Own words:
"I was fat! I had
trouble getting around doing everyday chores.
Seaworld, the Zoo, Fiesta Texas were places to endure not to
enjoy! I was seriously worried about my health and
future. Then I saw Dr. C on the news and I called for
an appointment. That is the best thing I have ever
done for myself. I feel strong, healthy, energetic and
young. Now my son has to keep up with me. Thanks
to everyone at Inside Outside: Amada, the Taskmaster, Nancy,
the Nurturer, Rosa, the Cheering Section, Dawn, the
Nutrition Lady, and my deepest gratitude to Dr. C for
everything.
Happy Holidays!!"
Clarice Martinez
Before and 6 Months, 60lbs later/lighter!
Clarice was featured in the Fox 29, News
at 9, segment by Cynthia Lee which aired on 8 Oct 04!
Here are some graphs which
demonstrate her progress.
Clarice has increased her strength over in all 5 of our basic machines!
This has occurred after only
29 Sessions spread out over 6 Months. The actual time
exercising was probably only 29X20min or about 9.6 hours of
exercise over these 6 months. That, folks is only about 1.5
hours of exercise per month for all these strength gains!
Clarice has lost 60Lbs, about
2/3 fat and 1/3 lean. She was very serious about reducing
calories right from the start. Her weight loss
occurred over 26 weeks so this represents a little over 2
lbs per week. This is a little faster that we like to
see the weight come off and is probably responsible for some
of the lean mass loss.
Her case is another perfect example
of how one can, despite having lost muscle mass, in this
case 20lbs, actually get quite a bit stronger.
At this point we are going to concentrate
on Clarice getting enough protein to maintain her muscle mass
at this level and at the same time working to get off
more fat.
We are proud of you Clarice!
Congratulations on being selected our SuperSlow®
Star of the Month and earning 4 more SuperSlow®
Sessions.
Dr.
Christian's Update on The 6 Components of Optimal Health and
Aging
"4th
Component: Exercise"
Take
your Vitamin "X" Not too much, not too little.....
About 2
years ago, I began thinking about writing a book entitled
the “6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging”. The work is
still in progress, but my desire to make it a profound work
and full of “useful information”, and my desire to “make it
better” inevitably will slow it’s progress.
In forming
the outline for the book, I began to stall on the chapter
on Exercise.
I have
never been a real “athlete”. I was way too skinny in High
School for anything really “physical” (picture a 118lb
Charlie bloodied by a 200lb line backer, I actually went out
for football practice once, only once) and had too many
extra jobs and no money to pursue golf, swimming, track or
tennis teams.
So, even
though I wasn’t a jock, I was smart and made good enough
grades to get into the Air Force Academy, but I needed a
waiver because I was underweight. One of the goals of
Basic Cadet Summer was to bulk up the skinny cadets and to
slim down the fat ones. Of course bulking up requires
eating, and meal time was much more about hazing the
“Doolies” as we were called than feeding us. I had a weigh
in once a week to check my progress. I was not gaining any
weight. I was called in to speak with the “Officer In
Charge” of our Squadron. This was a real Air Force Officer,
not one of the UpperClassmen who were training us. He told
me I was making the squadron look bad and asked why I was
not gaining any weight. I told him that I didn’t think the
upperclassmen were giving me enough time to eat and that if
I could have unlimited milk and bread with butter on it (not
real Zone food) I could probably gain some weight. The
Officer said he would take care of it.
That
evening, the UpperClassman, at the table said. “Mr.
Christian, I hear you are not getting enough ButterMilk.
Waiter 2 quarts of ButterMilk for Mr. Christian!!” I had to
drink 2 quarts of buttermilk and after supper he ran me for
2 miles, stopping several times to throw up. So began my
quest to bulk up….I was once given a T-Shirt that said "I
got This Body with Buttermilk"
Everyone at
the Academy was required to participate in the Physical
Education Program somehow. Sports were important they said
for development of well rounded leaders.
We were
required to recite Gen. Douglas McArthur “On the fields of
friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and
other fields will bear the fruits of victory”
OK, I think I can see that connection....
If you were
not on a Varsity team then you were required to participate
in Squadron Sports. Each Squadron had teams depending on
the season. We practiced and then competed against each
other and then there were end of season Championships
between Squadrons. You could choose which of these sports
you wanted to participate in. In addition, you could take
“Courses” in sports. These were usually things like golf
and tennis which could be lifelong pursuits. During the
Winter most sports were inside, boxing, swimming, water
polo, handball, badminton etc and when the weather was good
we had field sports, soccer, football, field hockey etc. I
found myself actually doing pretty good at some of these
sports. As for team sports, I was good at field hockey and I
made the shot that gave our Squadron the Wing Lacrosse
Championship!!
I seemed to
do best however at individual sports. I was decent
wrestler, boxer, badminton player and judo. Some of these
individual sports require of course an opponent. Although I
was light 120-125lbs, my 5’10’ height made me especially
good at boxing. I won virtually all my boxing matches
because those I fought were usually much shorter and they
couldn’t hit me. I was on my way to becoming the wing
champion in my weight class, then my coach decided to move
me up to a higher weight class and I got squashed big time.
Somehow, I
don’t remember, I found the weight room and started working
out. From the very start at the Academy I could always
nearly max out the PE tests, situps, chin ups and the
running. I was strong but very thin. Imagine, Leonardo
DiCaprio, but able to do pushups and chinups.....
I remember going to Brooks Air Force Base School of Medicine
for a Flight evaluation. They performed a deuterium dioxide
body composition test and I was 4% body fat. They told me I
would starve to death quickly if I had to eject in some
wilderness and not have food or water. Fat POW's live
longer than thin ones they told me.
Anyways,
the Gymnastics Coach was wandering through the weight room
and saw me doing a bench press at least twice my weight,
maybe 240lbs or something like that. He came up and invited
me to be on the off season gymnastics team. He wanted to
make me a still rings specialist since they use mostly upper
body strength. So, no more Squadron sports, just presses to
hand stands, then a shoot to handstand, straight body press
to handstand, various levers, planches and eventually the
IRON CROSS and a wobbly Maltese Cross. But, I couldn't do
the swings between the strength moves. I just went
from strength move to strength move and no swings and I had
no dismount. I worked really hard, spending extra time at
the gym and my grades went to pot. I remember 4 F’s and 3
D’s going into finals at Christmas. Needless to say, I was
off the team and back to Squadron sports, but I now knew how
good it felt to be strong!! I was getting my first hint of
what exercise should be all about…
Next month…
Journey to maxed out Ectomorph…..Jumping out of Airplanes,
Med School, a Marathon and Scuba along the way.
Stuff About The Still Rings
Your partner in health,
Dr. Christian
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Christian
Are There any
Legitimate Weight Loss Supplements?
Bombards of media, emails and literature arrive in the
office daily. Emails, Salespeople, phone calls, mail,
literature, free CD’s, faxes, free samples, arrive on my
desk every day. Claims, photos, testimonials, a few
scientific studied (thrown in for good measure) all saying
that we are the best, the fastest, the most cutting edge for
weight loss, belly fat, more muscle, improve your sex life,
dream life, or whatever you are lacking, it will be better.
My grandmother always told me’ If it sounds too good to be
true, it probably isn’t.” However, a lot of scientists are
becoming more and more fascinated with the properties of
calcium and Conjugated Linoleic Acid or CLA and how they
seem to affect weight gain and weight loss.
Most
of us associate calcium with bone growth and density.
Researchers stumbled on the scientific
evidence for calcium as a weight-loss aid in the late 1980s
as part of a study on high blood pressure. The researchers
had a group of people with hypertension add extra calcium to
their diets in the form of 2 cups of yogurt a day. The idea
was that the 800 milligrams or so of extra dietary calcium
would help the participants lower their blood pressure. It
did—and they also lost an average of 11 pounds over
the year the experiment lasted, even though they weren’t
dieting and the yogurt added extra calories to their daily
intake.
Recently
clinical studies have shown that subjects placed on a weight
loss diet enriched with dietary calcium lost more body
weight than those who eat the same amount of calories but
with less calcium. In fact, calcium can account for as
much as 10% of fat burned in a 24 hour period according to
Jane Harrison-Hohner, a nurse practitioner at Oregon Health
and Science University.
Michael
Zemel, a nutritionist at the University of Tennessee,
suggests that it has to do with the actions of vitamin D.
Data appear to show that the active form of vitamin D,
called calcitriol, causes fat cells to create more fat.
Calcitrol levels are raised with lower intake of calcium.
Therefore, fat cells produce more fat on low calcium diets.
By contrast, high-calcium diets suppress calcitrol and, as
a consequence, promote the burning of fat
.
However
scientists still do not understand how calcium promotes fat
reduction.
They just know that consumption of dietary calcium foods,
and calcium supplements work in preventing fat production,
and in most subjects, promoted the burning of excess body
fat. In the words of my college chemistry professor, Dr.
Fan, (from Mainland China), often said, “Do not ask me why,
God make it so” O.K., we’d answer, who can argue with God’s
law? So drink your moo juice, so you do not look like a
living movable feast. Sorry, side bar comment, I could not
resist. You can also find good sources of calcium in
sardines, leafy green veggies, and soybeans to name a
few. We recommend the
Bone Up Product from Life Extension.
Selected
References
- Heaney,
R.P., Davies, K.M., Barger-Lux,
M.J., “Calcium
and Weight: Clinical Studies,”
Journal of the American
College of Nutrition, 21(2),
2002, pages 152S-155S.
- Heaney,
R.P.
Normalizing calcium intake:
projected population effects for
body weight.
J Nutr.
2003 Jan;133(1):268S-270S.
Review.
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Secondly,
let’s look at conjugated linoleic acid or CLA. This fatty
acid may have some fascinating health benefits. In fact, many
researchers are busy trying to discover its secrets. First
discovered at the University of Wisconsin in the 1970’s, CLA
has been credited with enhanced immune function in
rats, mice and pigs and may have anti-cancer effects and
anti-atherogenic effects.
In June
2004 an entire supplement to the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition was devoted to CLA. In the same
Journal there appeared the first article looking at the use
of CLA for a full year in healthy obese people. The
Article was entitled "CLA
Supplementation for 1 year reduces body fat mass in healthy
overweight humans." In their study,
the patients took 4.5gm of CLA for 1 year and the control
group took 4.5gm of Olive oil. At the end of the year,
the CLA supplemented subjects had lost about 7-9% more fat
than the control group without dieting or exercise. These
were healthy subjects and no Type II diabetics were
included. Several studies this year in patients with
Type II diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome suggest that CLA
might actually worsen insulin resistance and glucose
tolerance. Dr. Christian, at this time feels we should limit
CLA use to only healthy overweight subjects and we are
recommending 4gm per day, using the
Life Extension Foundation Product.
CLA is also found in Beef, but only grass fed and not grain
fed beef. Here is a good source for grass fed beef.
U.S. Wellness Meats Advantages:
Omega 6:3 ratio comparable to fish w/o the
mercury!
High CLA levels due to pasture diet!
NO Animal by-products means immunity to
issues from animal by-product feeding, such as BSE
NO Hormones
NO Irradiation -
NO
Antibiotics fed
CLA Reference
Review Site at University of Wisconsin
Of course
taking any supplement or oil does not give us license to
ignore a healthy diet and regular exercise program, and
results will vary with individuals.
Assuming
that one is eating a reduced calorie diet and eating “In the
Zone”, concomitantly, one is presented with adequate muscle
stimulation, an adequate intake of calcium and CLA,
could help a person’s battle of the proverbial bulge. After
all, in Hemingway’s tradition, ‘a moveable feast” is not a
picnic basket full of goodies, but rather, a mind and heart
full of emotional and spiritual satisfaction to preserve a
life’s fascinating journey.
If you want to order
Bone Up or CLA, let me know!!
Dawn Blem
Certified Nutritional Consultant
Contact Dawn Blem
Amanda's
Corner: "Announcing the SuperSlow®
Honor Roll"
Who is going to be the first? Here
are the Criteria!
Over the past few months we have been
recognizing a SuperSlow®
Star of the month. Dr. Christian and the staff have selected
these Stars because of their hard work and success and to
some extent because each of them came to us for different
reasons and with different goals. We consider all our
members to be Stars and we will continue to have a Star each
month. Not all of the Stars are going to have really
spectacular results in terms of body composition and
strength but, nonetheless, we want to recognize special
situations which benefit from our program and the reasons
that they chose to work with us.
We feel it is necessary however, to create
a very special category of achievement which we will call
the "SuperSlow® Honor
Roll". The requirements for membership on the Honor Roll
will be more stringent and will require a lot more
work especially on the diet/protein side. It will be something everyone can strive for and
there is no time limit to getting on the Honor Roll. A
few may achieve it in a 4 month program, others may take 6
months or a year.
The Requirements Being Considered Include:
1. Be a SuperSlow®
Zone Inside Outside Client and declare that you have set a
goal to become a member of the Honor Roll.
2. Have Pre and Post Digital
Pictures taken or provide us with a Pre Picture
representative of you before our program.
3. Maintain, increase, or lose no more
than 10% of your baseline lean mass while at the same time
meeting the initial fat loss goal set during your Initial
Zone Prescription. Clients with BMI greater than 30 and
a Body Fat % greater than 30 may lose up to 20% of their
Lean Mass.
That's it. Sounds easy?
Remember losing fat and maintaining or not losing too much
muscle and especially gaining muscle while
on a reduced calorie diet is not that easy. So far, only one
of our SuperSlow®
Stars has maintained muscle mass while losing fat, but she
has not met the initial fat loss goal.
Members who achieve the Honor Roll will be
recognized in the Newsletter, receive 4 extra sessions added
to their program and a T-Shirt.
Who is going to be the first? Hint,
Protein moves around, Carbohydrates come from the ground...
Amanda Antonini
Contact Amanda
Antonini
Marketing Update:
Health Fairs, Seminars and Radio!
Inside Outside Wellness Center and Medical Span has participated in at
least 30 health fairs so far in 2004. Many of these were hosted by
Kaiser Medical Management, operated by Lenore Kaiser. Her company
arranges health fairs and speakers for Businesses all over San Antonio.
Nancy Flater is shown in the picture with Lenore at a recent health fair
where we featured our Medical Spa Services. Visit the
Kaiser Medical Management LLC website
See More Health Fair Pictures
Here
Dr. Christian's Interview with Karen Clauss recorded on 4 Oct
was broadcast beginning on 28 Nov on Magic 105 at 0730.
The 30min interview focused on the importance of
combining a Reduced Calorie diet like the Zone and Concurrent Strength
Training like SuperSlow®
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Check out Karen's
Custom Cake Design Service.
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Karen Clauss
Bio Link
Dr. Christian spoke to the Bexar Kiwanis Club on 14 December
2004 at their monthly meeting at Gini's Restaurant on San Pedro.
His Topic was "The 6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging"
with emphasis on combining Zone Nutrition and SuperSlow
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Strength Training.
Check out "Working Out Part III" by Bert Gallagher, Editor of City Pages
Magazine.
The December Edition of
the City Pages Magazine featured the third of several first person
articles written by Bert Gallagher, the editor of the magazine and his
Creative Director Doug Jacobson. Their December article is on their web site
Here._
Hypnosis for Health
In this
article I will discuss three areas in which hypnosis can be
very beneficial in helping someone achieve their goals for
health.
1)
Relaxation:
The process of hypnosis involves deep relaxation techniques.
In fact, regardless of what one wishes to use hypnosis to
achieve, a natural side effect of hypnosis is increased
relaxation and improved sleep. This fact is extremely
relevant concerning weight related goals, because chronic
stress can contribute to weight gain. This occurs when
cortisol, one of the hormones released during times of
stress, remains elevated in the body. Cortisol acts to
maintain high levels of blood sugar, and therefore,
stimulates the release of insulin, which keeps the body in a
storage mode. All of you working with Dr. Christian,
and following The Zone, know how important it is to keep the
release of insulin under control!
2)
Reinforcement:
Our habits are formed by repetition. What we think, say, and
do repetitiously becomes our reality. When we want to change
a habit, we must form new subconscious programming, because
our subconscious mind controls our automatic, habitual
behavior. Conscious behavior modification programs such as
the SuperSlow®
Strength Training and The Zone Nutritional Program, which
Dr. Christian provides are excellent. And, according to
available research, when hypnosis is used in conjunction
with these programs to fully integrate the newly learned
behaviors into the subconscious, the results are even more
successful, especially for maintence of long term results.
See the Article of the Month:
"Hypnotic Enhancement of Cognitive-Behavioral Weight Loss
Treatments."
3)
Motivation:
Anyone who
has ever been involved in any type of sport knows the
importance of motivation. Hypnosis is a very effective tool
to use for motivation, because a key ingredient in any
hypnosis session is lots and lots of POSITIVE affirmations,
and action statements.
Maintaining
health is a multi-faceted process. Good nutrition, an
ongoing exercise program, relaxation techniques to reduce
stress chemicals, and maintaining a positive attitude are
all equally important. We all have a purpose in our
lifetime, and maintaining optimal health allows us to
fulfill that purpose.
Amanda's SuperSlow® Technique Corner:
The MedX Core Lumbar Strength Machine.
Keeping
a healthy back is one of the best things that you can do for
yourself because back pain is one of the most common
physical complaints in the world today. An estimated 85% of
all people face some type of back problems in their
lifetime. Every one of us abuse our backs in some way by
either using bad posture or lifting heavy loads that stress
our muscles.
Incorporating the MedX Lumbar Core Lumbar Strength Machine
into your exercise routine is one of the best long term
cures for back pain and joint stiffness. This exercise will
increase circulation, provide better movement and strengthen
the main supportive muscles of the back. Performing this
exercise with proper posture will train your body to keep
good postural balance throughout the day and that means
reduced stress on the body.
When
performing this exercise, you want to keep your lower back
against the pad. Put the seatbelt on snuggly. Move slowly
through the rep and on the 3rd rep you should
push back like you are pushing back in a recliner and down
through your feet, holding and then squeezing for three
seconds. This squeeze will further exhaust the low back.
You should feel a BURN (not pain) in the low back as you
work this muscle group. Remember to always listen to your
body when performing an exercise and let your SuperSlow®
Instructor know if your feel any discomfort/pain.
As a
SuperSlow Client know that you ARE making a difference with
your back and therefore, improving your overall health and
lifestyle!
MedX Web Site
Arthur
Jones, Founder of MedX Article about his first Lumbar Spine
Machines
Now let's get Santa in the Air!!
Amanda Antonini, SuperSlow®
Instructor
Contact Amanda
Antonini
How to fix"Wrinkle City" Botox and Restylane.
What causes these
"Badges of Maturity" and Why do we want to Fix them?
We
get wrinkly as we age. Some more than others. Wrinkles
are a result of several factors. The first of these are
environmental factors such as the sun and stress which
destroy or degrade our collagen and elastin in the
skin. Collagen holds water and our skin is less
hydrated leading to some wrinkles and also we lose some
of the thickness of the skin when the collagen is lost.
Gravity also eventually will cause the skin to sag and
when elastin is lost the skin once stretched by gravity
can’t snap back into it’s original shape.
Unfortunately, after puberty or early adolesence we
don’t/can’t make any more elastin. There are all kinds
of creams and gels and techniques on the market which
try to increase the production of collagen in the skin
and some of them may work temporarily but there seems to
be nothing that really works to turn on elastin
production again.
But
there is another cause of wrinkles. Hypertrophic or
hyperfunctional facial muscle which exagerate facial
expressions. These hyperfunctional muscles cause
wrinkles between the eyes and on the forehead.
So
why should we be concerned about these “Badges of
Maturity”.
Because, mainly, there are complex social implications
of these wrinkles. We humans and all species use
facial expressions as a very important way to
communicate with each other in a non-verbal manner.
From
the abstract of “Social Implications of Hyperfunctional
Facial Lines” by J. Charles Finn M.D. et al Dematologic
Surgery Jun 2003.
“The face is the focus of human interactions, and
facial appearance profoundly affects self-esteem. Facial
appearance is not only a compilation of the dimensions
of the primary morphologic features but is also a direct
result of the emotional expressions exhibited on the
face. Facial expressions are central in the
communication of emotions, as well as in signaling
characteristics such as age. The repeated expression of
emotions produces hyperfunctional facial lines, and the
presence of these lines when the face is at repose may
give an erroneous impression of emotions or personality
characteristics. These lines are also perceived as a
sign of aging. Treatment of hyperfunctional facial lines
is beneficial for patients who believe that their faces
are not communicating their emotions properly, who want
to delay the outward appearance of aging, or who simply
want to look their best.”
In other words you look
sad, angry or tired or "old" when you don't feel
that way or don't want to convey that impression.
You can really blow that
first impression and go home without that job or the
girl.....
The most popular and effective non-invasive
methods for treating these facial lines or wrinkles is
with Botox for Hyperdynamic Muscles and Restylane for
filling in wrinkles and lines not associated with
hyperdynamic muscles.
More next month about Botox and Restylane
procedures and keep an eye out for our Botox and
Restylane party coming up in January where we will
demonstrate these procedures.
Botox
Cosmetic Web Site
Restylane Web Site
If your are wondering about
Botulism
Complete Guide to Home Canning, USDA. Amazon Link
Johns Hopkins JAMA Study: Botulinum toxin as a
biological weapon: Medical and public health management.
CDC Botulism Information
BOTULISM From Baylor University
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