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How Tap Water Can Affect Your Immune System – What’s The Alternative?

How Tap Water Can Affect Your Immune System – What’s The Alternative?

If you use RO filtered water, you will need to add minerals once it is filtered, otherwise it is too acidic. I use a product called ‘Perfect Minerals’ by a company called Aqua Tru. Because the filtering process is so thorough it also eliminates most of the minerals from the water. Drinking pure water for long enough will draw minerals from your bones and teeth and increase your chances of osteoporosis and dental problems.

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Reducing Stress & Boosting Your Immune Function

Reducing Stress & Boosting Your Immune Function

In this post, I want to share with you one method I use… meditation… and in particular the form of meditation I use, Vipassana!

Now, I don’t think everyone should do the same style of meditation, i think you need to find the style that works for you. It took me about 12 years of different methods before I found Vipassana that I had now been doing for 3 or 4 years every day.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT COVID-19?

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT COVID-19?

Having been coaching people for 24 years to achieve optimal health and having helped hundreds of people to overcome very challenging health conditions, I have come to learn through extensive studies and clinical experience some key factors that create health. Using a...

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ARE YOU AT RISK FROM COVID-19?

ARE YOU AT RISK FROM COVID-19?

Are you worried about contracting COVID-19? You are? How worried should you really be? Well, one way of assessing your level of risk would be to look at the scientific data. The table below produced by Birmingham Health Partners, tabulate co-morbidities from different...

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RISK FACTORS FOR COVID-19

RISK FACTORS FOR COVID-19

The graph below from https://www.statista.com highlights co-morbidities that (COVID-19) deceased patients had in Italy as of 16th April 2020. They list in order of prevalence: HypertensionType 2 DiabetesIschemic Heart FailureChronic Renal FailureAtrial...

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CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 6

CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 6

In this video, I summarise chapter 6 of new free e-book "The Corona Virus Survival Guide".Chapter 6 provides a lot of scientific research into the effectiveness and safety of vaccines. The chapter poses the question to ask yourself whether a vaccine is the long-term...

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CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 5

CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 5

In this video, I summarise chapter 5 of new free e-book "The Corona Virus Survival Guide".Chapter 5 provides a lot of information on the treatments that doctors are using, where some doctors believe they have made mistakes and it highlights a number of treatments that...

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CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 4

CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 4

In these 3 videos I summarise chapter 4 of new free e-book "The Corona Virus Survival Guide".Chapter 4 provides a lot of information on things you can do to help prevent getting COVID-19by improving your health and your immune system... You can check out the videos by...

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CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 3

CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 3

In this video I summarise chapter 3 of new free e-book "The Corona Virus Survival Guide".Chapter 3 provides all the data from scientific studies around the world on COVID-19... As more data is being gathered, it is becoming clearer and clearer as to what the risk...

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CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 2

CV-19 NEW E-BOOK VIDEO SUMMARY – PART 2

In this video I summarise chapter 2 of new free e-book "The Corona Virus Survival Guide".Chapter 2 shows a lot of evidence to give reason to ask the question, "do governments really care about our health?" You can check out the video by clicking on the link below:...

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Dr Judy Mikovits PhD Outbreak Briefing

Dr Judy Mikovits PhD Outbreak Briefing

Dr Judy Mikovits, PHD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology explains the science behind viruses, the Politics and the corruption of the the current and past pandemics and what you can use to prevent illness from COV-SARS2. This is a real eye opener and information you...

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Educate Before You Vaccinate

Educate Before You Vaccinate

In the current Pandemic, more and more talk of vaccinations being our saviour is coming from officials and main stream media. But did you know that there is no consensus amongst experts on the subject of vaccines effectiveness and safety? It's not my intention to tell...

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Successful Treatment of COVID-19

Successful Treatment of COVID-19

It's been a while since my last blog, but I feel this information is just too important not to share. Dr Klinghardt is one of the most well respected Doctors in the world and he explains how he has been successfully treating his COVID-19 patients. You can click this...

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Teaching the CHEK Philosophy

Teaching the CHEK Philosophy

The last couple of weeks have been a very busy time. Two weeks ago I taught CHEK Exercise Coach to the Year 1 CHEK Academy Students at The Albany Club in London. It's always an extra pleasure to teach the Academy students as they go through extra training before the...

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On The Road in Europe

On The Road in Europe

The last few weeks have been extremely busy. Two weeks ago I flew to Copenhagen to teach two workshops for CHEK Europe at Fitnessdk in Nygardsvej. I taught two workshops, 'Program Design' and 'Scientific Core Conditioning'. I had a class of 22 very keen personal...

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Tendonitis

Tendonitis

So what is tendinitis? Tendonitis is inflammation of a tendon (tendons are connective tissues that join muscles to bones). Tendonitis can occur with repeated stretching and overloading, the cross-linking structure of the collagen fibres break apart, causing micro...

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Health & Life Lessons of The Festive Season

Happy New Year to you! I thought I would share with you what I have been up to since I finished work on the 17th December,  what I have learned since then and how I have visualised and planned my year ahead. When I finished work for the year on 17th December I have to...

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

In this series of blogs, I thought I would introduce you to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and what options you have to overcome it. What is the carpal tunnel? There are eight small bones called carpal bones in the wrist. A ligament, the retinaculum, lies across the front of...

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October Update

OK, so what's been happening since the last blog in September. Well, quite a lot! I managed to have a couple of weekends off, went hiking in the South Downs and generally relaxed. With regards to BodyCHEK, I've delivered a number of assessments on clients and designed...

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When Paul Chek Came to Town

Following on from the  CHEK Conference  at Surrey Sports Park in Guilford, Surrey, I attended a meeting in Oxford for all European CHEK Faculty and CHEK Mentors. Paul Chek, his wife Penny, and Gavin Jennings Global Director of Education for the CHEK Institute updated...

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun!

Wow, where did July go? It's been such a busy month, there has been no time to blog. We have seen a very high number of enquiries here at BodyCHEK and we have started working with a number of new clients including a young tennis player, which I am always excited...

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The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 4

In Part 3, I explained what you can do to minimise micro-trauma of your discs from a biomechanical perspective and therefore, help to prevent a disc prolapse. In this post, I will explain tissue healing rates and how that affects your lumbar discs. If you look at the...

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The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 4

The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 4

In Part 3, I explained what you can do to minimise micro-trauma of your discs from a biomechanical perspective and therefore, help to prevent a disc prolapse. In this post, I will explain tissue healing rates and how that affects your lumbar discs. If you look at the...

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The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 3

In Part 2, I explained how poor posture and muscle balance and a sedentary lifestyle can lead to micro-trauma of your lumbar discs leading to a prolapse. In this post, I will explain what you can do to minimise micro-trauma of your discs from a biomechanical...

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The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 2

The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs – Part 2

In Part 1, I explained how common back pain is, how much it costs us in the UK and how micro-trauma and reduced tissue healing can lead to injuries and pain. In this post, I will explain more about micro-trauma, how it occurs and how it can cause prolapsed lumbar...

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The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs

The A-Z of Prolapsed Lumbar Discs

In the UK, 49% of the population will experience back pain for more than 24-hours each year. 7% of these people will develop chronic back pain, which costs UK employers £600 million per year with nearly 5 million work days are lost annually. Treating back pain costs...

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Hormones & Fat Loss – Part 2

OK, in Part 1 of "Hormones & Fat Loss", I discussed the role Leptin plays in controlling hunger and how sugars may cause Leptin resistance and over-eating and fat gain. In this post, I will be discussing the role of insulin... Insulin is a hormone produced by the...

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Hormones & Fat Loss

Following on from my last blog, I thought I would delve into more detail about the relationship between hormones and fat loss. I always inform my clients that you have to get healthy to lose weight, not lose weight to get healthy. And getting healthy includes...

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Do You Need Supplements to Lose Body Fat?

If you've read my blogs before you'll know my belief that you need to get healthy, to lose weight, not lose weight to get healthy!!! When your bodily systems are properly balanced, your body's fat levels normalise. So how do you normalise your bodily systems, get...

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What to Eat to Lose Weight? Part 2

In my last post, I began discussing what's best to eat to lose weight and the fact that we are all different and therefore have different nutritional requirements. So how do I answer the question to my clients? Well, I following a few simple steps with my clients here...

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What to Eat to Lose Weight?

If I had a pound, every time I was asked, "What Should I Eat to Lose Weight", I probably would have finished paying my mortgage by now. What most people tend to believe is that the answer will be the same who ever asks the question. So, for me it is never a straight...

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De-Stress & Reduce Body Fat

So far this month, I have posted blogs on The Cardio Myth and Building Muscle to help those of you who have a goal of losing excess body fat. The final blog post of the month continues on the path of exercise and fat loss. If I can summarise my last two posts, I would...

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More Muscle, More Fat Loss

It is that time of year where we tend to look at our health and set goals for the year. You might be thinking that you would like to reduce your body fat levels and are wondering what is the best way to do it. Unfortunately, many people believe that they need to do...

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The Cardio Training Myth

There is a dogma in the health and fitness industries and amongst the general public and media that you have to perform lots of cardiovascular exercise to achieve health and/or weight loss. However, this is not true. In fact, great benefits can be achieved with...

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Welcome to Bridget

I am very pleased to say that we have a new PA here at BodyCHEK. Her name is Bridget Coates. Bridget comes with a wide background of skills. Bridget was a dancer in her younger days, but has also worked in retail as well as the service industries. Bridget's previous...

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Crazy December

I haven't managed to blog for a few weeks now, but I have had an extremely busy December so far. On 30th November and 1st December I was teaching the CHEK Academy Year 2 Anatomy & Physiology Workshop at The CHEK Europe HQ in Lancashire. It was a really fun...

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Leanne's Leaving

After 17 great months, Leanne has finally decided to move on. Leanne has been a great help to me over the last year and a half or so. Especially, freeing up my time to be able to finish my e-book, "Axe Adult Acne" and to complete a very large project for The CHEK...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge Rehabilitation Part 2

In my previous post, I promised I would outline for you the current programme I am undertaking. This programme will affectively be weeks 5-8 of the programme . So here it is: I am constantly listening to my body to ensure I am not progressing too fast. After each...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge Rehabilitation

It's now been eight weeks since I first suffered the symptoms of my bulging discs at L4/5 and L5/S1 levels. Since then I have been rehabilitating my back with a three pronged attack. Firstly, I have been taking my more time out, resting more and getting to bed earlier...

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Lumbar Disc Bulge

I am a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason. This philosophy has stood me in good stead over the last week. The reason I say this is because last Thursday I woke with an ache in my lower spine on the left just above the sacroiliac joint. As I...

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Axe Adult Acne e-book Now Available

I recently blogged to let you know that I would soon be releasing my latest e-book, "Axe Adult Acne". Well, I am now very pleased to say, that the e-book is ready and can be purchased from http://axeadultacne.com. As someone who suffered badly from this problem and...

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