Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Drink Alcohol & Prolong Your Life....Yes, You Heard Me Right




So you've been to a party and there's always that one person who says "I don't drink alcohol" and totally bring down the mood of the conversation you're trying to have. Bummer.

There are people who believe drinking alcohol is a travesty, immoral, etc...but guess what??? Their morality may be dead against science and may also be shortening their life. For heavy drinkers this may also be true as excessive alcohol intake can lead to some severe conditions that will shorten your life. But it's very interesting what research shows for those that drink a moderate amount of alcohol.

According to the recent study published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Research, epidemiological research suggests that moderate to high alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced overall mortality risk compared to non- and light drinkers.

Their study included over 1,800 people, aged 55 to 65 when the study began. Sixty-nine percent of the participants were men. The subjects were followed for 20 years.

Surprisingly, the group with the lowest mortality rate was moderate drinkers, who had one to three alcoholic drinks per day, followed by heavy drinkers, and then light drinkers, while non-drinkers had the highest mortality rate of them all.

The study states:

“Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy drinkers had 70% increased risk, and light drinkers had 23% increased risk.

A model controlling for former problem drinking status, existing health problems, and key sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors, as well as for age and gender, substantially reduced the mortality effect for abstainers compared to moderate drinkers.

However, even after adjusting for all covariates, abstainers and heavy drinkers continued to show increased mortality risks of 51 and 45%, respectively, compared to moderate drinkers.”

Dr. Mercola has a great analysis of the entire issue which you can read by clicking here or copying and pasting this link into your browser:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/14/why-do-heavy-drinkers-outlive-nondrinkers.aspx

With that said... Here's To Your Health

Cheers!

Dr. T

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Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

A New Web Site, Great Laser Therapy Seminar & Additional Contact Info

OK, so this blog isn’t so much about sports medicine stuff but more about things happening and a little update.

1. My New Soft Tissue Instrument - The Narson Body Mechanic N6

For those patients, friends & colleagues that know about or have experienced the Narson Body Mechanic soft tissue mobilization instrument, the newer web site is up. We’re still working on the order form, but it’s otherwise pretty functional. It’s viewed best with Mozilla Firefox Browser rather than Internet Explorer. The web site is: www.NarsonBodyMechanic.com.

As many of you know, I've been a certified Graston Technique® practitioner since 2002 (M1) and 2003(M2) and over the past several years have been trying out various soft tissue mobilization instruments from modern Gua Sha tools to many others. I finally took what I considered the most useful of all the tools out there and designed them into 1 instrument. Whatever form of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization you use, the Narson Body Mechanic N6 does an outstanding job


2. LASER THERAPY CERTIFICATION: For my colleagues, Dr. Mike Mathesie & Nelson Marquina PhD are teaching an amazing Laser Therapy Certification course September 11-12, 2010 (Part I) and October 9-10, 2010 (Part II). This course leads to CLP (Certified Laser Practitioner) certificate. The difference between this LASER course is that is it NOT sponsored by a laser company, rather being taught UNBIASED by two LASER therapy experts. You will get real complete in-depth information by two of our nations laser therapy experts. The seminar is in Orlando, FL. To register or find out more info, simply email: Backman100@aol.com or call: 954.755.1434.

3. New Way To Get In Touch With Me I’m still moving up in the world of technology and now have a skype account. To get in touch with me on Skype, either type in my name in the add user screen or my skype call name is SportsDocNarson. For info regarding the Narson Body Mechanic, you can call us on skype as well at: NarsonBodyMechanic-N6

4. In about 1 month we’re gonna have some more exciting news so keep a look out for our big announcement on Facebook, Email, S-mail (aka: regular US Postal Service), Twitter and more…

‘nuff said

Dr. T




Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.