Stretch4Life

Today we continue our conversation on digestion. Our focus today is on what is stress eating and what is it doing to your body. Stress eating effects our hunger cues. The way our body naturally tells us that it is time to eat and when we are full. Stress eating can be harmful to us and it’s important to understand how to notice when we are stress eating. When our brain sends signals to us that it...

Last week we talked about fasting and what it does to our body’s normal digestion processes. Today we are going to take a deeper dive into our body’s natural digestion process. Our brain is heavily involved in the digestion process, our brain stores “files” of memories it has while eating certain foods and the emotions that came with those foods. When we are hungry it brings these memories to the...

In today’s episode we go over a question we received from a listener. They asked us “What do you think about intermittent fasting?” Fasting has been around for a very long time and was usually centered around a religious activity. Anytime the body is told that it can’t do or have something it becomes obsessed with finding a way to do, or get, that thing. Digestion is a muscular practice, if we don...

We are Finishing off our “custom fit suit” series with today’s episode. The purpose of this series is to advocate for our children and utilize the wisdom of other parents to be able to help us discover the gifts and talents our kids have and how to help them utilize those gifts. Today we are going to talk about the need of taming our passions and why it is so important. We need to be a good role m...

Welcome back! We are continuing our “custom fit suit” series with today’s episode. The purpose of this series is to advocate for our children and utilize the wisdom of other parents to be able to help us discover the gifts and talents our kids have and how to help them utilize those gifts. Today we are going over children’s mechanical brain functions and development. A very important concept is un...

Today we are continuing our “Custom Fit Suit” series. The purpose of this series is to advocate for your children.  We continue talking about how we can be advocates for our children and how we need to work with them to notice their gifts and talents and help them move forward with them.  Where and when are your children experiencing their growth spurts? These life events for children are very imp...

This week we are back to continue our testimonial series! This week we have Richard on to share how he formed his relationship with Lori and introduced her to the Avazzia machine. Richard has worked with medical grade ozone for 20+ years. Richard now works with Avazzia micro current device as a consultant at medical clinics, and for practitioners. Richard is a natural health practitioner, LMT, and...

 Today we start a new series to really help you ask some questions about your children over the summer. We are calling this our custom fit suit series. Lori is very passionate about the concept of apprenticeship for your children. It’s best to begin by thinking backwards…  What do we want our adult children to look like? Their work ethic, how they interact with their community, etc. Our education...

It’s so important to develop healthy sleep habits from a young age. Not learning good sleep habits as a child can literally mess up your sleep for the rest of your life. Preparing for sleep is an important wind down process in the evening. This includes not doing things that are energizing or giving your mind too much input. Including cell phone usage or any type of information input going into yo...

Today is a continuation of last episodes topic of what is healthy exercise.   In society today a lot of us like to join groups to apply some competition and community to our fitness journey. An example of this is camp gladiator. Lori goes over the impact things like this have on women’s bodies. The main issue with these programs is they only offer one side of the homeostasis equation. After a lot...

Today is sort of a controversial episode. Lori goes over what our body needs for healthy exercise vs what society (the fitness industry) tells us is a healthy exercise to be “skinny and beautiful”. Your body views almost every activity as repetitive and if it feels it as repetitive it will quit and preform what Lori calls the “muscle shuffle”. During this shuffle your body goes from the primary mo...

Lori is adamant about stretching. You have to stretch! If you do not stretch, you will not correct your posture and your posture will hinder your body’s ability to make blood. While sitting, you are lessening your body’s ability to make blood. One example is travel. Why is traveling so exhausting when most of the time we are either sitting in an airplane or a car? Our bodies need to stand and move...

Lori found out about lifewave stem cell patches at an infusion business near where she lives. Lori had been doing a ton of research on stem cells because of a condition she had recently discovered. Amy had introduced the lifewave patches to that same infusion business after presenting the patches and explaining their benefit of helping the body reactivate it’s own stem cells. Amy’s own journey wit...

Lori and Amy met through a common connection in the health and wellness Industry. Amy has been in the field of stem cells for the last few years.    Amy currently is utilizing stem cells in two ways:  1.   To assist our bodies to reactivate our own stem cells in a natural, noninvasive way. 2.   Stem cell injections for hair restoration.   Amy started off using stem cell patches on her own ankle to...

Did you know that what you put on your feet can either promote good posture or contribute to poor posture? The relationship between shoe choice and posture is undeniable! Lori gives a bunch of good tips in today’s episode on what to and not to wear on your feet. Tall high heels are a big no no!  The body is so complex and amazing. Something that we see as so small like what shoes we pick in the mo...

Did you know many things we use in our daily lives can limit or fully cut off the blood flow of certain parts of our bodies? This can range from bras, purses, backpacks, very tight clothing, etc. Lori explains how this can affect your body as a whole and what you should do about it. This is so important for parents to keep in the back of your mind when raising your children. Pay attention to postu...

Tracy has known Lori for 26+ years. She was referred to Lori from her OBGYN while she was pregnant with her daughter. Tracy was experiencing bad headaches during her pregnancy and was given pain killers to deal with them but was later told this is not a healthy thing for her unborn child so she went to see Lori. Tracy is an instructional designer. She spends a lot of time sitting in front of a com...

We have an interesting part of our brains called the limbic system. It is here where our emotions are created. In the middle of our back is our thoracic nerves. These nerves are located along the spine and they contribute to the fight or flight mechanisms. Posture plays a large part in how these nerves operate and can keep your body in survival mode at all times. Laura shares her experience of str...

Today we have a special guest, David Myers. Dave is Laura’s husband and a certified hand therapist. Lori and Dave have a discussion over what it looks like when someone has an injury and how it effects a growth plate.   Bones perform so many functions for our bodies, far more then just being structure for us. Bones don’t grow by themselves. They are coded from birth to fit our bodies height and fr...

This is a continuation of our cleaning and clearing your organs series. Today we talk about Men and their reproductive organs. This episode contains language regarding male reproductive organs, and things related, so if you have young children this may not be an episode you play aloud where they can hear.  Masturbation is a very common thing that men learn about and perform during puberty. We want...

It is so important to do your own research and ask questions to your doctors. In the modern era so much information is available and public. We have to remember that at the end of the day a doctors office is a business. Most peoples experience in a doctors office if the same… Long wait times, very short amount of the time actually seeing the doctor, etc.  Laura shares her opinion on the current in...

As women, we just assume that we are supposed to have horrible cramps and other issues during our monthly cycle. Lori breaks down what cramps are and why we shouldn’t be having terrible cramps each month. Lori goes over some early warning signs in a females body that leads to cramps and more. Posture, tongue ties, etc… Most people don’t know but a female starts ovulating inside of the womb. A mont...

What is birth control? When you are consuming these chemicals each day what is happening inside your body.  Birth control started out as a castrating drug. Later it was popularized by Margaret Sanger, founder of planned parenthood, who fought for its use as a contraceptive. Birth control isn’t only damaging female bodies… The chemicals that pass through the female body (via urine) while taking bir...

This is a continuation of the Cleaning & Clearing Your Organs Series. This episodes continues the focus on the female reproductive system. Specifically postpartum. The female body cycle is divided into 3 sections. Preadolescent, adolescent (child baring years included), and menopause. We need these cycles to happen correctly because it is the part of a woman that makes our brains, hearts, and...

This is a continuation of the Cleaning & Clearing Your Organs Series. This episodes focus is about the female reproductive system. Specifically the Uterus. We threw out a few topics in our series overview episode last week but today we want to dive deeper into reproductive health for women. Their is so much misinformation out there for this topic so we wanted to clear it up. Women have been he...