We’re under a statewide stay-at-home order at least until May 4. Because our center is closed, we cannot offer you recovery and health services as usual. This strange situation, as terrible as it is, gives me the opportunity to try something new on this blog. For the next two months, I will be providing the Read more…
Stress and Your Immune System
Whole-Body Cryotherapy for Insomnia
Here’s a typical insomnia scenario. You crawl into bed and lie there waiting to sleep while your mind races. Is that twinge in your neck a cancerous tumor? Is your heart beating too fast? Are you going to have enough money to make the rent? On some level, insomnia may seem trivial. So you can’t Read more…
Float Pod for Sleep
I have a confession to make. When I use the float pod here at Peak, I invariably fall asleep in it. I know I am supposed to use floating to solve tough problems or get creative insights. But when I pull the lid down and lie back in the skin-temperature water, I find it difficult Read more…
Self-Care in the Time of Coronavirus
On the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it says, “Don’t Panic.” That’s good advice at any time, but today especially. The novel coronavirus is scary mostly because we’ve never encountered it before. Most people who come down with the disease will survive it. Self-care, and specifically the self-care involved in strengthening your Read more…
Balance Diet, Exercise, and Stress Relief
Excessive stress can lead to fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia. You probably already knew that. But did you know the process by which it happens? Excessive stress doesn’t actually cause fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia. Rather, it depletes magnesium in the body; fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia are symptoms of magnesium deficiency. Diet and stress relief are interdependent Read more…
Float Pod for Pregnancy
Last week, I wrote about the importance of self-care and how Peak Recovery & Health Center can help with your self-care needs. It got me thinking about self-care during a special phase of life: pregnancy. There are many sites on the web that can advise you on self-care for pregnancy. They all offer the same Read more…
The Importance of Self-Care
You can’t throw a rock on the world wide web without hitting someone who wants to tell you about the importance of self-care. Here is a site. Here is another one. Believe me, there are thousands more. Ordinarily I would be suspicious of an idea that gets so much hype. But I think these sites Read more…
Compression for Lymphedema
Recent research shows that compression is effective for lymphedema. This is good news, because there are a number of conditions that can cause lymphedema, including cancer, cancer treatments, certain surgeries, and infections. The Lymphatic System Your lymphatic system is a critical part of your immune system. The lymph running through it distributes proteins to your Read more…
Massage for Neck Pain
Your head weighs about 11 pounds, which means your neck supports 11 pounds all day, every day. If that sounds easy to you, grab a 10-pound dumbbell and see how long you can hold it up. You won’t last a day. On the basis of physics alone, it is easy to understand why neck pain Read more…
CBD for Cancer
A Google search on the phrase “CBD for Cancer” resulted in 44.8 million hits, a number I find somewhat staggering. But I couldn’t find any reports of clinical research. Nevertheless, the hope signified in the 44.8 million-hit search results seems justified. The first page of the search results, for example, contains many links from establishment Read more…