February 2005 Inside Outside Wellness Center & Medical Spa Newsletter

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	This Month's SuperSlow® Star: George Ellis Dr. Christian's Update on the 6 Components of Optimal Health & Aging, 4th Component "Exercise, Part 3" Back to the Basics: Water Part 1: The Most Essential Nutrient Checkout the SuperSlow Gym at Valentines and for Heart Month! Marketing Update - Seminars, Silent Auctions, Radio and Glossy Ads!! Amanda's SuperSlow® Techniques: The MedX Core Abdominal Machine. Intense Pulsed Light Skin PhotoRejuvenation Dr. Sears New Book "The Anti-Inflammation Zone" Contact Us, Suggestions, Comments

This Month's SuperSlow® Star: George Ellis

This months SuperSlow Star is George Ellis. George read about me in the Express News article about Growth Hormone. He had been working out at a local gym but decided to check us out. He has been one of our most faithful clients, and has only missed 1 scheduled workout over the 4 month period. On Monday's and Thursdays at 0830, George is here ready to go.

In George’s Own Words:

“I am a retired Air Force Officer, Age 78 and a widower. I have always enjoyed an active life including flying, fishing, hunting and traveling. In recent months I noticed a rapid decrease in my energy and strength I attributed to my age. I read about Dr. Charles Christian and his SuperSlow® Exercise program. So I went to see him to find out if I could make a come back.

Many exercise programs are not productive and do not take weight off or keep it off, do not increase your energy or increase your muscle strength, and take lots of time. Dr. Christian and his staff are very dedicated to improving your energy and strength. Super means that you lift the maximum weight that you can for a minimum of 6 repetitions and slow means you do your repetitions in a very slow and concentrated proper form. Within 2 months I began to feel more energetic and I could actually see and feel my muscles increase in strength. What more could you ask for in only two 20minute sessions a week. Many older women are too fat and inactive. Now I only date women under 50.”

Here are some graphs which demonstrate his progress.

George has shown considerable increases in his strength as the graph shows.

These changes have occurred after 36 20min sessions over a 4 Month period.

The Row and the Pulldown have had the greatest gains.

George's body composition changes represent exactly what we are trying to accomplish. Gain Muscle, Lose fat..

He has lost about 7lbs of fat and gained 2.5lbs of lean mass.

His Body Fat % has dropped to 17% from 22%

At this point we are going to concentrate on him continuing to get stronger and adding a little more muscle. 2.5 lbs more muscle and George will be on our SuperSlow Honor Roll!

George, we are proud of you! 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 Part 3"

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.    Part 1   Part 2.

Now Part 3 I Discover SuperSlow®....Enter Ken Hutchins and SuperSlow®.

We are now in Late 2002, I am working on the Exercise Chapter of my book “The 6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging”. I am struggling with what kind of “Exercise Prescription” I want to write. From the 2 previous columns, it should be apparent that I am leaning toward most of the emphasis being on strength training and muscle mass maintenance. But what am I going to say about this topic is the burning question. Most of the things that are written are for the big guys and gals who are actual body builders and when it gets right down to it these individuals are to some extent a different species. For sure they are all of the mesomorphic body type.. You know what I mean.. if you have ever had a physical trainer…They are genetically different from the rest of us and respond very well to exercise. Why do you think they end up working in gyms and as athletes etc. Because to some extent it came easy to them. That’s human nature. We tend to gravitate to those areas where we succeed most easily. Our genetic makeup ends up guiding us to areas of endeavor where our talents lie. Cindy Crawford is a Supermodel because she looks like a Supermodel and so forth, and she is amazing. Thank you God.

In October 2002, while doing research for the Exercise chapter, I was reviewing the web site of Dr. Joseph Mercola. I had met him several previously at a seminar concerning Cell Membrane Structure and how to improve cell membrane function. I could gather from talking with him that he and I had similar thinking regarding the importance of nutrition. I wanted to check out his site and see if he had much to say about exercise. I stumbled on this web page: Short Periods of Exercise Add Up. Although he was reviewing an article concerning some benefits seen in a group of subjects who did several short periods of “brisk walking” several times daily, down in the middle of his “Comments” was buried this sentence. “When I was lecturing in Dallas recently I met someone at the Symposium who challenged me to reexamine my views on exercise by looking more seriously into SuperSlow® weight training. While I've been doing that for the last 18 months or so, I did not realize that I was doing the program improperly as I was using free weights. There appear to be some very compelling arguments to consider this type of approach to exercise. Time would certainly be one of them, as one of their claims is that if done properly you only need one 15-minute workout per week.”   This caught my attention and I immediately went to the SuperSlow ®site of Ken and Brenda Hutchins and began to read about their approach.

I ordered his Manual Entitled “SuperSlow, The Ultimate Exercise Protocol” and then ordered a small Manual on SuperSlow® Strategy written by Dr. Doug McGuff, an ER Doctor in South Carolina who owned Ultimate Exercise, a licensed SuperSlow facility. Dr. McGuff also had produced a VHS Tape of one of his seminars and a Sample Workout. I poured through these and tried doing SuperSlow® in November 2002 at the Concord.

I found that there was one SuperSlow® Master Trainer in Texas. He was Ryan Womack and his facility was in College Station and was called “Smart and Fit”   I drove up to College Station in Mid January 2003, playing the Pointer Sisters all the way...

"I want a man with a slow hand,
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time

Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a slow hand "

If SuperSlow® Strength Training was anything like what the Pointer Sisters were singing about...

Ryan is one of only, I think 26 SuperSlow® Master Trainers, Certified by Ken Hutchins. He was smart, soft spoken and gave me new insights into this form of strength training. I did my first real SuperSlow® Workout on SuperSlow® Machines. I was whipped.   I was hooked. Thanks Pointer Sisters. I knew you were on to something.

In February 2003, I went to Austin to the SuperSlow® facility Efficient Exercise of Mark Alexander, son of Dr. Phillip Alexander, a College Station Internist. I had my second real SuperSlow® workout and bought Dr. Alexander's small monograph about SuperSlow entitled “High Intensity Exercise, The SuperFast Version of SuperSlow®.” After reading this and thinking about how much sense it seemed to make, I called Ken Hutchins in Altamonte Springs, Florida and paid my money to become a Level-1 SuperSlow® Instructor. I was scheduled to go to Florida on Easter Weekend April 2003. I got my study materials and got to work….

Next Month: Part 4: The Journey continues… Meeting Ken and Brenda Hutchins and Madeline Ross…The seeds of a San Antonio SuperSlow® Facility are sown….

Your partner in health,

Dr. Christian Contact Dr. Christian

Back to the Basics: Water Part 1 The Most Essential Nutrient. Well Almost..

We plan to start a series talking about those nutrients which are Essential to Life. A “Back to the Basics Series”. Basic questions we need to answer are: Why is this molecule or element Essential, What Purpose does it Serve, In What Form is it Best Consumed and How Much do we need.

Water Pronunciation: wt-r, n : the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, Swimming pools, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter and that is an odorless, tasteless, very slightly compressible liquid oxide of hydrogen H₂O which appears bluish in thick layers, freezes at 0°C (32°F) and boils at 100°C (212°F), has a maximum density at 4°C (39°F) and a high specific heat, is feebly ionized to hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and is a poor conductor of electricity and a good solvent. It is also wet, unless of course, it is frozen, then it is cold. When you can't see through it, we call it fog, and you need to slow down.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Water (As We Know It)

Water (Molecule)

Essential Pronunciation: ĕs`sĕn´sjal or `i-sen-chl` a :basic and fundamental a: being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet s :absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed s :of the greatest importance s :absolutely necessary; vitally necessary n :anything indispensable ie don't leave home without it....More important than Gummi Bears...

OK, I think you get the point. The next two Newsletters will focus on Water. Part 1: Why Water is Important Part 2: How Much and What Kind.

Water. The most essential nutrient for all living things is not quite correct. All life on earth depends on first the Sun, the Sun should then be considered our first essential requirement. The Sun through photosynthesis produces two more Essentials, Oxygen and Sugars (Like Glucose). Strictly speaking then, our bodies (especially our brains) cannot survive without a source of Oxygen or Glucose for over a few minutes. So Oxygen and Glucose are constant essentials and even losing them for a few minutes can produce irreversible brain damage…Yuk, no more TV… So it might be a good idea to carry around a gas bottle of Oxygen Gas and a liter of Glucose (or Gummie Bears) in your glove compartment, purse, desk etc so you won’t miss an episode of Friends or MTV or Saturday Night Reruns..

The next most essential nutrient then is Water. The requirement for this nutrient is common to all living things although some species can exist in a very dehydrated state for years and when water is added a more aroused state occurs (a cause of afternoon sleepiness is often dehydration). All early cities and civilizations were first developed around drinking water sites. If no obvious water was available, wells were dug routinely. Wars have been and will be fought over water. One of the most important developments of the human race has been the development of water purification systems and delivery of drinking water as well as control of human waste. Of all the earth's water, 97% is salt water found in oceans and seas. Only 1% of the earth's water is available for drinking water. Two percent is currently frozen, most of this as Margaritas in Texas...

Humans are 66% water. Our Blood is 90% Water, our Brain 75% Water, our Muscles 72% Water and Skin 71% Water (Lose hydration in the skin and you can get wrinkly). Bone and Fat have much less water. In Physiology we talk about water being either inside cells (intracellular fluid) and outside cells (extracellular fluid). Our body is amazingly capable of maintaining the correct balance of total body water content and how it is distributed between inside and outside cells (Inside Outside… Sounds Familiar doesn’t it) So, try as we may to mess all this up our bodies do a great job of keeping the soup at just the right consistency and we don’t usually die if we mess it up a little by not drinking enough on a daily basis. But messing it up to the point of death is easier than one might think. A healthy adult may live for weeks without food but only a few days without water. A person can lose all reserve carbohydrate and fat and about half the body protein without real danger, but a loss of 10% of total body weight of water is serious, while a loss of 20% to 22% is fatal. There is a statement on the Wild Survival Site that “in the desert, relaxing in the shade, one could survive up to 72hours. Exposure to the sun or strenuous activity would significantly reduce that amount of time.” Mental note: Don't do pushups if lost in desert but sex is OK if you are with someone, since you are going to die anyway.

To keep the amount of Total Body Water at the optimal range we need to intake amounts equal to that lost in water vapor from breathing, sweating, urine, fecal output and throwing up when we purge or get drunk. That In-Out thing again. Literally millions of infants die each year from diarrhea related diseases which cause fatal dehydration. This is really sad when you think about it. See Rehydration Project.

A mere 2% drop in water will cause mental fatigue, making simple math computations seem laborious, and computer tasks take longer than when one is well hydrated and you might have headaches. Unfortunately, relying on a thirsty feeling is not a good guide and as we age the thirst mechanism is slowly impaired. By the time you feel thirsty, the hydration may be low enough to make one constipated or grumpy. Constipated and Grumpy, sounds like my...oh never mind.

Diabetic patients will have a harder time balancing blood sugar when dehydrated. All these facts and more can be found in the book “Your body’s many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty!” by Batmanghelidj, M.D. See Watercure.com. Nurse, More Water Please!

Water is needed to emulsify food in the stomach, so that nutrients can be used by the cells. Dehydration greatly diminishes the pain threshold and the allergenic response time.

Still not convinced Water is Essential? If we see the oil light turns on in our car, what do we do? We take out more oil and run the engine dry to burn out the engine, right? Why do we let the lubrication in our own bodies go dry? No wonder our joints hurt and we are slow to repair!!! O.K. now I am meddling. Gee do you think that I have a position on that issue? I’ll go get a drink of water and maybe I’ll stop being so hostile. Hmmmmm…

Next Month: How much, What Kind. At Inside Outside, "We're Radical Because we Insist on the Basics"

References:

Hydration: issues for the 21st century. PDF File for Download.
Grandjean AC, Reimers KJ, Buyckx ME. Nutr Rev. 2003 Aug;61(8):261-71
The Center for Human Nutrition, Omaha, NE 68105, USA.

Healthy Water Healthy People Web Site.

Your Body's Many Cries for Water.

By F. Batmanghelidj M.D.

Watercure.com

Rehydration Project

Website about Diarrhea and Dehydration

Established in 1881, AWWA is the authoritative resource for knowledge, information and advocacy to improve the quality and supply of drinking water in North America and beyond.

Creating a Healthy Environment CDC Monograph

25 Facts About Water

Dawn Blem

Certified Nutritional Consultant

Contact Dawn Blem

Checkout the SuperSlow® Gym At Valentines & for Heart Month

Amanda Antonini

Contact Amanda Antonini

Marketing Update: Seminars, Live Auctions, Radio, Glossy Ads!

On 16 Feb 05 Dr. Christian gave his Seminar entitled "The 6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging" with an emphasis on Combining the Zone Nutrition Program and SuperSlow Strength Training for the residents of Madison Estates. Door prizes were 2 DXA Bone Density Scans, 2 MicroDerms and the Grand Prize, 16 SuperSlow Sessions, won by Marilyn Dubrin a 86 year old retired business woman. Madison Estates Website

On 15 Feb 05 Dr. Christian was given a nice certificate of appreciation at the monthly meeting of the Connections Chapter of the American Business Women's Association at Anne Marie's at Devonshire Place. The certificate was made by Katy Garcia, Vice President and Presented by Marci Loven, President. This chapter provides great networking opportunities for entrepreneurs. Dr. Christian is Scheduled to speak at their July meeting.

American Business Women's Association Website

Inside Outside contributed several items for the San Antonio Aggie Mom's Annual Barbeque and Fund Raiser held at Aggie Park on 5 Feb 05. The live auction buyer of the 20 Session SuperSlow/Zone program was Becky Henley. Aggie Mom's Website.

The Valero Health Fair on 27 Jan 05 attracted many to our booth manned by Amanda Antonini and Nancy Flater. There were 31 Door Prizes given to employees including 25 DXA Bone Density Scans, 5 MicroDerms and the Grand Prize, 16 SuperSlow Sessions. Many of the winners have come by to claim their prizes and we added 60 more names to our Newsletter Mailing List.

During the month of February there aired a series of Public Service Announcements regarding our offer of a free SuperSlow Session and DXA Body Composition. During March there will more more PSA about our Free Facial Analysis. KZEP Web Site._

Dr. Christian's interview with Karen Clauss of Magic 105 was reaired on 13 Feb 05 with a very good response. The interview focuses on SuperSlow and the Zone Nutrition Program and nails down the importance of these two strategies as the best to lose fat and maintain or increase muscle at the same time.

City Pages Magazine ran another very sophisticated ad in their February Magazine featuring Inside Outside. We are planning several more using the same theme in the coming months. Check out their Website Here._

Dr. Sears' New Book "The Anti-Inflammation Zone"

From Dr. Sears' Monthly Newsletter

The OmegaZone E-Magazine

"For years the medical establishment has been telling Americans that fighting heart disease means a war against cholesterol. Slowly but surely, like the powerful Wizard of Oz façade, the cholesterol story has been slowly eroding. Now the scientific data is shifting more to inflammation as the underlying cause of heart disease. Of course, this makes common sense since the number-one drug to prevent a heart attack is an aspirin. Although aspirin has no effect on cholesterol levels, it has a dramatic effect on reducing inflammation. Recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have again confirmed the importance of inflammation on heart disease. A crude indictor of inflammation, C-reactive protein, appears to be more powerful than bad cholesterol levels in predicting future heart attacks.
But what if there was an even more powerful predictor of inflammation that could predict heart attacks? As I describe in my newest book, “The Anti-Inflammation Zone,” such a blood marker exists. It is the ratio of arachidonic acid (AA) to eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). This marker of inflammation precedes C-reactive protein by years. You could take drugs, such as statins, on a lifetime basis to reduce C-reactive protein. Of course, there are some side effects, such as memory loss, muscle weakness, neuropathy, and liver damage. But statins don’t reduce the AA/EPA ratio – they actually increase it. On the other hand, taking high-dose fish oil reduces the AA/EPA ratio, and the only known side-effect is to make you smarter. The amount of fish oil you need to reduce inflammation depends on how well you control insulin in your diet. The more you control insulin by following the Zone Diet, the less fish oil you need. On the other hand, the less you control insulin, the more fish oil you need. The choice is yours. Whatever approach (drugs or diet) you choose, just keep in mind that controlling inflammation is a much wiser medical approach to reducing heart attacks than controlling cholesterol."

Let us know if you want the AA/EPA test. The Cost is $300 and includes a consult with Dr. Christian to discuss the results. We also talk about the AA/EPA test in detail in our Omega Zone Seminar.

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Amanda's SuperSlow® Corner: Body Composition Methods

Gone are the days that we use the good old scale, pinchers or the tank to measure how fat we truly are. A scale measures everything from muscle, fat, bones and to everything we are ate and drank that day. In order to get the most accurate Body Fat measurement, we use the DEXA Machine (Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry).

This test is a technology that is very accurate and precise. The DEXA uses a whole body scanner and two different low dose x-rays to read bone mass and soft tissue mass. It takes about 6 minutes to do a body composition.

The DEXA is fast becoming the new “gold standard” because it provides a higher degree of precision in only one measurement and has the ability to show exactly where the fat is distributed throughout the body. Overall pounds, as measured on a regular scale, might not change much or you might even gain weight when beginning a strength training program. The DEXA body composition takes the guess work out of how healthy you truly are by giving us detail on your body fat percentage and your lean mass.