Stretch4Life

Jessica is a mother to 7 children. All her childrens births were a little different. The first 3 were hospital births, the next 2 were in birthing centers, the next was a home birth, then her last was a premature birth. Never once did Jessica hear that she needs to have her uterus cleaned and cleared.  Jessica heard about Lori from our co-host Laura. Her problems started off with gallbladder pain....

After Lori finished school she enrolled in a labor and delivery class/program with two midwives, one of which was an OBGYN. During this time she learned a lot about organ placement and cleaning/clearing organs. It began with ensuring the entire placenta was removed post birth to avoid infection and other problems. A lot of women immediately get back on contraception after child birth and begin ski...

In the post covid era, talking about vitamin D deficiency is an important topic. How does Lori help her clients with Vitamin D deficiency? It’s important to make sure you are getting enough vitamin D going into winter with less sunlight.  Our bodies ingest cholesterol (It’s not always bad! Lori lists a bunch of good sources of healthy cholesterol) and our liver processes it and puts the nutrients...

Avazzia is an electrical micro-current device that Lori uses in her office to help treat her patients. It makes the brain wonder why this particular electrical sensation is going to a specific area and then the brain tracks through what is blocking the signal from coming through. You can tell from the unit how much electricity is getting to a particular area!  Lori doesn’t just use this for client...

 The Thymus is a gland in our bodies that manufactures t cells that protect the body from foreign invaders. T cells are crucial to our immune systems. Not to be confused with antibodies.  T cells have a long term memory of particular foreign invader and can even pop up many years later to fight familiar viruses. Our Thymus regulates these t cells and keeps a library of all of the pathogens it has...

Why is scheduling so important when we are young children? This doesn’t end with young children! We all need scheduling in pour day to day life. Lori is going to break it down biologically in this episode to show why scheduling is important for our children’s brain development, digestive health, and overall growth. The human body has 4 mechanisms: eating, sleeping, using the restroom, and discipli...

About 12 years ago Jeff began to experience symptoms of TMJ. Which is pain that goes up your neck to your ears, specifically in his jaw. It became painful for him to be able to even eat. Jeff began to try a number of different ways through traditional medicine to find the root cause of his pain but wasn’t successful. Jeff’s mother in law was training under Lori at the time. She recommended Jeff co...

Today Lori, Laura, and Bob have a very important discussion. The origin of life. We talk about fertility, IVF, and how/when life is created. Lori is going to approach this from a view of biology.  Did you know that what a mother eats can influence their kids hormone production going forward. We discussed soy and how it effects our hormones in a previous episode. If you or a family member is a vege...

Do you have a pet? If so, you are probably exposed to parasites more than you think. Have you been dealing with anxiety, depression, or exhaustion? It may be a symptom of your body dealing with parasites. How do you know if you have been exposed to parasites? Lori has a few different tools in her office that she uses to diagnose parasites but she also names a few symptoms she keeps an eye out for....

Holiday season is here! Lori has some great tips to help keep your immune system ready for the weather change, seeing all of your family and friends at holiday parties, and overeating. Lori always has her essential oils on the go kit with her. She has an oil for every occasion! Listen to todays episode to learn what Lori carries in her essential oil to go kit. Check out our store link below to fin...

Rich ended up in Lori’s office seeking help for back pain that he had been dealing with for a few years. He tried a year of working with a chiropractor but traditional medicine was not able to help him figure out what was causing the pain in his back. A personal friend of Rich told him go see Lori and trust her. As a mechanical engineer, Rich was very skeptical going to a massage therapist to find...

In this fast-paced, busy world we live in people are always searching for meal replacement bars, drink, smoothies, and other quick proteins. A lot of people don’t realize that many of the popular protein powders/products available on the market are made with soy. Always check the label when buying food or nutrition products!   What does soy do to your body? How does the effect differ between male...

If you have any gut issues, or a loved one who does,  this is the episode for you! Bone broth has started to really make a comeback these last few years. Our ancestors made it and didn’t know how amazing it was for them. We now know how beneficial bone broth is for us. In this episode, Lori shares some of the health benefits of bone broth and why we should try to include it into our diets.    Laur...

Do you ever crave a particular food from your childhood? Our bodies bring forward things that it needs and casts a vision of it into your mind. Crazy right? Our stomach is building a library of memories as we grow up. With each holiday meal, or family dinner, our stomach is learning what foods help it grow or heal. It then can later recall on these memories and put the thought of them into your mi...

Is it possible to give your home a deep clean using essential oils?  With the changing of the season, we need to help prepare our bodies for the change in temperature. Lori and Laura utilize essential oils and ozone to keep their homes clean. If you or a family member are feeling under the weather, you can keep some essential oils nearby to help them strengthen their immune system and mitigate the...

More than ever, people are starting to ask questions and do their own research about the stuff we are putting on our skin. We currently have this epidemic of breast cancer in America, and it makes you wonder why. Most antiperspirants contain Aluminum.    Lori breaks down what is happening when we rub that aluminum on our armpits (which contains a bunch of lymph nodes) and what the odor of your swe...

Today we go over some interesting things about blood that most people never think of. One of those is that male blood, and female blood are very different and should not be mixed! They are very much separate and have different characteristics.  Lori gives some great tips on ways we can clean our blood. From ozone, to healthy foods, and oils to add to your diet to help your body produce healthier b...

Co-host Laura Myers talks on how she got introduced to Lori 7 years ago.  Laura was referred by a friend for a foot injury she sustained before her pregnancy with her 4th son. She had seen multiple doctors and chiropractors and none of them could help her get over this nagging foot injury. That’s when Lori and Stretch 4 Life came to the rescue!   Laura quickly learned that Lori is not your typical...

Todays episode is about poop! We all do it, but we don’t all pay attention to what our poop is telling us about our health. How important is it for us to be eliminating correctly and what does it even mean to eliminate correctly?   Our last few episodes have been about our immune systems and how to strengthen them for cold and flu season. Poop gives us a lot of signals about what is going on in ou...

With cold and flu season approaching, we have some great tips to help you better be prepared when you or a member of your family has a fever.   Today we will cover what is the traditional treatment for fever? What is Lori’s treatment for a fever? What is a fever? There is a TON of info available about fevers, and the conventional way of dealing with them. A lot of the available information is not...

With cold and flu season approaching, we have some great tips to get your body ready to fight them off!  Our nose and sinuses were designed to help protect us when inhaling bacteria and toxins. Our nose has protective membranes, mucus, and little hairs called cilia that trap, and help move, bacteria before it enters our bodies. Nose breathing is very important to keep bacteria and toxins from pene...

Meet our friend Bobby Parrish!  Bobby is a food network champion, youtuber, cookbook author, has award winning recipes, yet is proud to say he’s a home cook like you. Bobby’s tag line is 'Making healthy food that actually tastes good!' We love Bobby’s cookbooks and free app that help us make healthy, home cooked food for our families. Lori is not a fan of most of the fad diets that she s...

Yoga is very popular, it is thrown at us constantly as a solution to strengthening our bodies and minds. Lori has a very different way that she views yoga. If you like yoga that isn’t a bad thing! We just want you to open your eyes to a different way to think about it.  Listen to the episode to learn more about: ·      Why do people do yoga? ·      What is the purpose of yoga? ·      Does yoga hav...

Stretch 4 Life, Lori Walter’s clinic, is not your typical massage therapy clinic. Lori’s expertise is more focused towards using massage/stretching to achieve whole body holistic healing. Lori gives her background on how she learned to use stretching to help heal the body and how it differs from traditional massage. Laura and Lori discuss how a typical appointment works at the Stretch 4 Life clini...

Today's episode is an extremely important one. Our focus is to encourage you to do your own research and ask questions to your medical professional to make the best decision for you and your family. We are going to discuss the Gardasil series of vaccines and how they are being pushed on your children for HPV. What does the Gardasil vaccine do to your body and how does it work? What are the ri...