Catalyst Care

  After work, with sports training, or for self care a few times a year Massage  is good. Some benefits include   https://www.clearsolutionsmassage.com/the_clinic .  Is there a role of nutrition in supporting a massage? Nutrition helps to fix the tissues, make energy, handle inflammation and of course, drink lots of water, prior or you may get cramps.  In most cases, our food isn't enough for all the nutrition we need, even organic. With the toxics around us, in the air, lack of nutrition in food, lack of sleep, etc, we have high oxidative stress, and often are dealing with mental health, sickness or disease sooner than we'd prefer.  Keep getting the massage, and depending on what your body needs, activation, vs supplementation is there to help our body do what it's designed to do.  This month on our third Thursday LEARN MORE series, join us on zoom as we hear from  Katie Lilligren, Massage Therapist  mom and gym rat share her health journey...

  Change you life, one cell at a time For the past 40 years or so, oxidative stress has been increasingly recognized as a contributing factor in aging and in various forms of pathophysiology generally associated with aging. Our view of oxidative stress has been largely "superoxide-centric", as we focused on the pathological sources of this oxygen-derived free radical and the types of molecular havoc it can wreak, as well as on the protection provided by the antioxidant enzymes, especially the superoxide dismutases, catalases, and glutathione peroxidases. In the last decade our view of oxidative stress has broadened considerably, and it is now often seen as an imbalance that has its origins in our genes, and the ways in which gene expression is regulated . At the center of this new focus is the transcription factor called nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2, or Nrf2. Nrf2 is referred to as the "master regulator" of the antioxidant response, modulating the exp...

Relationship between mental disorders and heart disease Patients with mental disorders, such as MDD and anxiety disorders, tend to have high levels of circulating catecholamines, a marker of sympathetic activation, causing increases in heart rate and blood pressure while at the same time decreasing coronary blood flow and increasing systemic vascular resistance. In creased levels of inflammatory biomarkers [including interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-6 and C-reactive protein, (CRP)], predicting CVD and events,  have been demonstrated for MDD (Major Depression Disorder), schizophrenia, and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder).  Data suggests that antidepressant treatment tended to have a normalizing effect on the proinflammatory states seen in depression.     ( www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov .) Inflammation and heart issues ( perhaps some blood types more than othe r) can be related to mental health issues, age, diet, cholesterol, diabetes to name a few, all of which. So how do we rev...