| How does Boundless Health help improve your
circulation?
You need good circulation to keep your mind, heart, bones, muscles and vital organs healthy.
Your circulation is greatly affected by how much you move. Your heart drives blood out into the body, and then the muscles of your limbs and trunk help push it back towards the heart. Without regular exercise your whole system stagnates.
Research has demonstrated that through exercise you can move, stretch and strengthen this circulatory system, directly improving the function of cells in the blood vessel wall and thus decrease hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis (Hambrecht et al 2000, 1993). It is this hardening of the arteries that can restrict blood flow to your vital organs such as the heart and cause a heart attack.
Our joints do not have a blood supply. There are no blood vessels in your joint because they would burst from all the pressure between the bones. Instead your body ingeniously uses joint fluid to provide nutrition and remove waste from the cells in your joint.
Without movement the joints become stiff a bit like the oil in a car engine, it needs to be moving to stay well lubricated. That is why our exercise programs get you moving safely through a wide range of positions so that your joints can be well fed and lubricated.
Another benefit when we exercise is the stimulation of our hormonal system this awakens the release of chemicals that are like mind food. These chemicals include endorphins, which can reduce your aches and pains and give you a sense of wellbeing. Other chemicals released and used up during exercise such as adrenaline can help you to lower your level of mental stress and increase your sense of wellbeing. After exercising you are likely to be able to think more clearly and alertly.
Taking control of diabetes
Exercise is one of the key weapons against diabetes particularly type 2, which accounts for 85-90% of cases of diabetes through out the world (WHO 1994). Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that results from insensitivity to insulin. Insulin is a hormone in the body that helps us store sugar (glucose) from the blood stream. As insulin becomes less effective blood sugar concentration becomes high. This can lead to damage to the blood vessels or vascular disease.
Many parts of the body can be affected including the eyes (retinopathy), kidneys (nephropathy) the nervous systems (neuropathy) the lower limbs (peripheral vascular disease PVD) and the heart (coronary heart disease CAD)
Fortunately exercise has been shown to improve your body's sensitivity to insulin. Both aerobic training and strength training has been shown to be very effective in healthy individuals (Heath et al 1983, Rodnick et al 1987, Miller et al 1984). The improvement can be very rapid; one study has shown changes within a week (Cononie et al 1994).
If you already suffer from the disease you can still make improvements, however they appear to be slower taking 3 months to a year (Holloszy et al 1986, Hughes et al 1993). Most important of all regular exercise will help you on a daily basis control your blood sugar levels.
Starting early before the problem starts really does pay off. So why wait? Contact us at Boundless Health and let's get you "circulating" in a new social circle.
return to top
|
