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Many of you have heard about celebrity athletes using the latest cutting edge treatments to heal from injuries and recover quicker. You might be wondering what they are getting and does it work? Now many of those treatments are now available to you. One such treatment is PRP (platelet rich plasma). It is gaining a lot of popularity with everything from healing sports and overuse injuries to helping with hair rejuvenation for make pattern baldness. So what exactly is PRP? PRP treatment involves taking the your blood and spinning it down such that the platelet rich plasma is extracted. Then that is injected or applied to the area that we want to treat. Sounds quite simple doesn’t it? So I’m sure you are wondering if it was so effective why isn’t it being recommended and offered by all doctors? There are a few reasons for this: The results from the studies on the effectiveness of PRP are mixed. More on this in a future blog post. This is likely related to the fact that there may be individual factors that make you more likely to respond to a PRP treatment. At this moment we don’t know what those factors are, but you can improve your chances of the treatment working for you because ALL PRP is NOT THE SAME. Here are some questions you may wish to ask your medical doctor: 1. How comfortable are they with injecting the area you want the PRP to get into? Whether you’re getting PRP injected into your knee, shoulder or onto your scalp make sure the practitioner knows how to do the procedure and has done it in the past. 2. Are they using any method to activate the PRP so it is more effective? Depending on the tube the PRP is collected in and how it is extracted this will determine how effective the PRP is. Are PEAK PRP Protocols include specific things that we do to activate the platelets so that they are ready to perform their action of healing in the body. 3. Are they using any specialty system that ensures that the plasma drawn up is platelet rich and not platelet poor? Depending on the tube that’s being used the layer of serum that is separated may be platelet rich or platelet poor. be sure to inquire that the clinic is actually withdrawing platelet rich plasma for your treatment. 4. Are they recommending or providing any other adjunct treatment such as specific peptides or stem cells to enhance the effect of the PRP? PRP is just one method of activating cells in the body. At Peak we implement other modalities to make the PRP treatment much more effective. To learn more or work with us to get you to Peak 100x now – fill out our quick new client intake form. Contact us for a consult on how PRP can help you.
“Fasting while Eating” would seem to be an oxymoron and until recently I wasn’t aware that this is an ACTUAL thing. BUT IT IS… The health benefits of Fasting are well established in the scientific community (and will be reviewed in future posts here). Even with such a preponderance of evidence, doctors have been leery of advising fasting because of the concern that adherence to this practices are quite difficult – many people do feel weak, tired, have headaches and could run the risk of malnutrition or electrolyte disturbances. There are many different times of fasts: Time restricted Feeding – abstaining from food from 8-16 hours per day. Intermittent Fasting – abstaining from food for 16 hours to 2 days. Periodic Fasting – abstaining from food for greater than 2 days to 21 days. Fasting Mimicking Diets – eating a diet that mimicks a fasting state for 5 days. Let’s skip right down to the 4th type – the Fasting Mimicking Diet. Researchers led by Dr Valter Longo have devised a 5 day meal program what they claim provides all the health benefits of a 5 day fast but allows the participant to consume about 750 – 1000 kcal per day. The FMD diet being sold by Prolon has some good research behind it. In a nutshell, the research study published in Science Translational Medicine (randomized and prospective crossover case control groups ) showed that participants that completed 5 days per month x 3 months (total 3 – 5 day fasts) of the Prolon fasting mimicking diet had lost fat, preserved lean body mass and their all their metabolic biomarkers improved (lipid, insulin growth factor 1, glycemic). Furthermore, fat that was lost was primarily visceral (around organs) and abdominal and the good thing was that lean body mass was preserved. This seems obvious – eating less food will result in weight loss – the good news from the studies was that the weight lost was primarily fat not protein (muscle). But there really is one other big benefit that appeared in a study conducted with mice. Researchers noted that their was a decrease in the size of their livers during the study which rapidly grew back again once the fast ended. What appears to be happening is that the lowering of Insulin Growth Factor – 1 (IGF-1) allowing the cells to renew themselves – getting younger in the process. It appears that fasting kicks the body into a state of rejuvenation by activating our stem cells. This is probably the mechanism behind why caloric restriction extends lifespan is all animals from the fruit fly to humans. Faced with a scarcity of resources the body continues to remain youthful and not age BUT once we expose our bodies to an abundance of food and are past our optimum fertile stage of life (40+) the cells of the body send a signal to begin the decline that we notice as aging. That’s a much longer discussion for another day… The Peak Human Labs team has now had over 20 people go onto our Peak Human Fasting Support Program that includes the Prolon FMD kit. All of our participants have lost fat (about 2 lbs per cycle) and everyone has noticed feeling more energetic after the 5 day program. To learn more, I recommend reading “the complete guide to Fasting” by Dr. Jason Fung with Jimmy Moore. Send us a message if this article helped you (bepeak@peakhumanlabs.com) and I’ll arrange to get a copy of the book shipped out to you. June 30th – the Peak Human team is now signing up the first 50 people to join us on our next Peak Human Fasting Program that starts this month. Be Peak Now..
