Postures from the Alexander Technique may be the key to helping a chronically aching lower back.

The way you think and process information may contribute to tenseness in your back muscles and leave your back vulnerable to injury.

by Vic Shayne, PhD
Back problems — especially lower back pains — are among the top health complaints in the United States. Nobody is completely sure why this is, but it’s possibly from one or more of the following — overweight conditions, sports injuries, incorrect lifting, poor posture, spinal injury, disc problems, bad sleep, poor bedding/mattresses, [...]

Lift With Your Legs:
The Legacy of Back Pain
by Vic Shayne, PhD
Back pain is right up there with headaches and heart attacks when it comes to the most common types of health complaints. In fact, low back pain is the #2 reason that Americans see their doctor — second only to colds and flus. (NIH)
The National [...]

Backaches are at the top of the list of health complaints.
Blocked arteries to the lower back contribute to the pain.
by Vic Shayne, PhD
Back problems are at the top of the health complaints of all Americans. Why is this? What’s going on here? Well, for one thing, studies have recently shown that there is an [...]

Dealing with problems of the joints, tendons, muscles, cartilage and supportive structures has to do with prevention as well as feeding the musculoskeletal system with supportive nutrients.

By Vic Shayne, PhD
Nobody gets through life unscathed and unhurt. From the time we are little children, we come to understand the meaning of bruises, scratches, sores, infections and inflammation. But what is not well known is that inflammation is a process of great importance, and not something to regard as a disease itself. In [...]

by Vic Shayne, PhD
When it comes to your body’s health and healing, which is preferable — to eat a man-made chemical or nutritious food? ProMin Complex and GreenNutrients provide a number of nutrient-dense foods that are supportive of the body. Nutritious foods provide the building blocks for healing and repair of joints, cartilage, muscle and [...]

Editor’s Note: Low back pain is one of the most prevalent of all medical complaints. In the past I’ve written on the benefits of increasing blood supply to the lower back as a means of lessening pain, as well as the benefits of supplying nutrients in the form of VasCor, ProMin and InflaPlex (descriptions of [...]

Splendid Specimens:
The History of Nutrition in Bodybuilding
By Randy Roach
Weston A. Price Organization
The sport called bodybuilding demands the ex-treme in body presentation. No other athletic endeavor requires such high levels of regimentation for muscle development and body fat reduction. To outsiders, such efforts may appear vain and self-centered, even looming out there on the lunatic fringe. [...]