Watermelon, cucumbers & celery – oh my! Making sure you are drinking enough water is essential to keeping you healthy and energized. Ideally, you want to drink half of your body weight in ounces. But as the weather gets hotter and we sweat, bumping up your intake is important. Here are a few signs you may becoming dehydrated: Dry, sticky …
Summer Bummers
How to prevent BBQs, flip-flops and trampolines from ruining summertime playtime with unnecessary injuries. Summer should be all about fun. But, according to the Center for Disease Control, more than 29 million people are treated in the ER for injuries every year, and summertime is by far the busiest hospital season. Almost half of all unintentional injury-related deaths in the …
What is Deep Tissue Massage?
Deep Tissue Massage is a type of massage therapy that seeks to access structural layers of muscles and fascia (the connective tissue surrounding the muscles). The slow, concentrated strokes focus on releasing chronic muscle tension and adhesions (knots) in these layers that lie far below the surface of the body. The term ‘deep tissue’ encompasses different styles of massage …
A CHECKLIST FOR MEN: If men were cars, wouldn’t they have taken themselves in by now? (please nudge as needed)
You take care of the house, your car, your lawn, your dog, your family – what about your own highly-functioning machine – your body? In the spirit of not waiting until ‘the wheels fall off’, the holistic health team at Root has prepared an 18-point preventative health checklist for you to ask the questions that help pkeep your body performing …
The Caveman Diet: is Paleo right for you?
“You are what you eat and, perhaps surprisingly, you also are what your ancestors ate.” Jack Challem Super fit celebrities such as Uma Thurmann, Jessica Biel, Megan Fox, Grant Hill, Miley Cyrus, Kobe Bryant, and Matthew McConaughey are all fans of the Paleo diet, helping to make this food lifestyle choice a household name. Also known as the caveman diet …
Making Space for Happiness, Emotional Intelligence and Resilience
“We are at a time in humanity when we have incredible technologies – and we are being asked to marry these with an equivalent transformation of heart.” – – Jack Kornfield at Wisdom 2.0 “When you want to make the other person happy, you want to give him or her something. You might want to cook something good and give …
Your pH Level is Your Guage
A chronically acidic body is the prelude to illness and disease – your pH level is your gauge! You want to be healthy. You want to function at your peak performance. So what do you do? You exercise vigorously. You watch your diet. You get adequate rest. You try not to let stress get out of hand. But have you …
A Special 3-month “Staycation” Program for the Summer (Exclusively for Educators)
EXCLUSIVELY FOR TEACHERS THIS SUMMER: Unlimited Yoga, Meditation & Foam Rolling Classes all summer (3 months maximum) for $49/month! And join us for a special FREE monthly PPS events (chair massage, group meditation, group acupuncture) just for you and your fellow colleagues! SIGN UP BY JUNE 30th and receive a $25 certificate against wellness service of your choice: massage, organic skin, acupuncture, …
Functional Movement Screen: Improve Your Sport Performance and Lower your Injury Risk
Deep squat, hurdle step, inline lunge, shoulder mobility, leg raise, pushup and rotary stability: The Functional Movement Screen (FMS®) is a seven point test to help you get your game on! Written J. Michael Burke, Doctor of Chiropractic Summer is a time when most of us become more active. Even if you’ve been busy during the winter, skiing, biking, running …
ATTENTION MEN: Time for a Prevention Intervention?
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin If we didn’t change the oil in our car for 10 years, some very major, costly issues would come up – the kind that could be easily avoided if we’d just changed the oil. We do regular anti-virus scans to catch the bugs that can crash and …
Holistic, Healthy Men (in Hollywood)
Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, LeBron James and other gratuitous name-dropping of the men in Hollywood who take a more natural approach to holistic health. What makes a man healthy and fit? All too often this conjures up images of tan twelve-packs and hard-core workouts that got them that chiseled, rock hard body. But in this article, we want to give …
“Don’t Wait Until the Wheels Fall Off: A Manly Man is a Healthy Man”
“We’ll talk about our injuries, but we won’t talk about our illnesses, so I think it’s time we do that,” Samuel L. Jackson, chairman of One For The Boys. Getting a man to a voluntarily go to a medical check-up might even be harder than getting him to ask for directions or admit that he does not have a clue …