The Body Mechanic NZ

#42: reframing negatives into positives

In today’s podcast we take you through an NLP technique that will help you deal with life’s curve balls by identifying new, posts positive ways to deal with negative events that are out of your control.
If you prefer to follow through these steps in written form you can find this podcast on our blog: http://blog.ryding2health.co.nz/2019/06/06/reframing-negatives-into-positives-creating-a-compelling-future/

#41 Winter blues: bottling the exercise buzz!

Everyone knows what it’s like to struggle with the winter blues: dark mornings, days, long nights, so how do you motivate yourself to get out and do that workout? We break it down into small manageable steps

#40: What does massage actually do?

A curious yet simple question we were asked last week: so here is the answer in non technical language!

#39 Why does nicotine suppress your appetite?

In fact, the question is not why the question is DOES IT...
RESEARCH LINKS: 1)https://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137085989/the-skinny-on-smoking-why-nicotine-curbs-appetite
2)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666384710142
3)https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02253588

#38 Why do I sweat more when I'm over 40?

Something a client asked me this week, which actually has some science in the answer.

#37 Why does stopping smoking make me fat?

This was a statement that a client brought to us earlier this week, saying a medical professional had told them that smoking speeds up your metabolism and therefore if you stop it will slow down thus making you gain weight.
We were, obviously, extremely keen to find out if this was in fact true.
Here are the research articles we refer to in this weeks Why?
1) https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1992.72.2.401#.Wu5UmlftMm0.email
2)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbmr.5650040513#.Wu5Va-Vjrm4.email
3)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002604959190225L

#36 Why are weight loss pills dangerous?

A most curious question, so thank you for this one! Here is my extensive research into this very topical question and the result of my findings.
Research articles referred to:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/194127
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673610608884
https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/clpt.1985.197

#35 Why does exercise help to lower your blood pressure?

This is a follow on from last week's question which asked why high blood pressure was so dangerous. Here we look at what happens when you exercise to help lower your blood pressure, and how you can defy the effects of age!

#34 Do high waisted trousers stop you using your abs?

This is a curious question which led us to research high waisted, tight AND control pants!
Here's what we found out! Have a question, then comment below and we will consider it for a future episode

#33 Why can drinking out of plastic bottles make me fat?

This sounded totally nuts when I heard two hospital staff talking about it to each other, so I went in search of some reasons...
Research articles referred to: 1) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.609.694&rep=rep1&type=pdf
2) https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/100/5/1792/2829636