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Nutrition

Fish oil supplements.

Omega-3 fats help promote cardiovascular and brain health, but the key to their effectiveness is an essential fat known as eicosapentaenoic acid, more easily pronounced by its acronym, EPA. Essential…
Dr. Phil Maffetone
May 3, 2015
Nutrition

The Folate Plot

The discovery in 1991 that about 70 percent of neural tube defects, a group of serious birth defects, could be prevented by the consumption of synthetic folic acid led to…
Dr. Phil Maffetone
April 16, 2015
Exercise

Runner’s High

By Vera C. Stek (From: MyCentralJersey.com May 7, 2009) Much is made of the elusive “runner’s high” athletes are said to experience during the sweaty, gasping pursuit of their sport.…
Dr. Phil Maffetone
April 16, 2015
Exercise

Manual muscle testing

An important assessment and treatment form of biofeedback Tens of thousands of health and fitness professionals use some form of manual muscle testing in their work. The objective of muscle…
Dr. Phil Maffetone
April 16, 2015