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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP223 - Stretch and Hydrate · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Speaker 1: Time now for back to the basics in healthcare with
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  Speaker 1: Balanced Life Chiropractic, and we have doctor Harley joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, doctor Harley. We're getting closer and closer to summer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean every week is one week closer, right.
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  Speaker 2: And we're burning through the month of May.
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  Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, it's going to be June, and
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be July and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: out and about doing you know, fun activities outside, some
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  Speaker 1: people doing you know, the honeydew list that we talked
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  Speaker 1: about last week, where you know, now that it's nice out,
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  Speaker 1: we're out doing these. But before you do this, you
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  Speaker 1: should probably stretch and then you should stay hydrated.
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  Speaker 2: You know how I know that because we've talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: Yes we have. We've talked about that in the past.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's a great thing to remind people
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  Speaker 1: because I personally was out this weekend and I should
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  Speaker 1: have probably been a little more hydrated.
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  Speaker 3: Right, you know. So we might talk about some of
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  Speaker 3: the similar things over the months and weeks, but it's
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  Speaker 3: always important to remind people. Sometimes it takes like three
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  Speaker 3: times hearing something for it to finally clicks.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like this is back to the basics in healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: That's these are the basics. It's important stuff, right.
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  Speaker 3: And really the simplest thing we can do for our
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  Speaker 3: health is make sure we're saying well hydrated.
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  Speaker 2: And why is that? Why does water matter so much?
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  Speaker 1: Because this water not Hey, I was drinking beer all weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are made up of at least like seventy
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  Speaker 3: some percent water in our bodies, So it's important to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that we keep that proper hydration because that's
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  Speaker 3: going to help keep our tissues hydrated. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: help flush all the toxins and crap out of our
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  Speaker 3: body that is like sell your byproduct build up. Or
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  Speaker 3: when we're moving our muscles like they get kind of
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  Speaker 3: micro tears. We want to flush all that out and
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  Speaker 3: other liquids don't really do that.
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  Speaker 1: And so there are some people that go, oh, when
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  Speaker 1: I do this, I have Gatorade or power aid or
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  Speaker 1: one of those aids. Is that better than water or
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  Speaker 1: does that replace water? Or is that not really the
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  Speaker 1: same thing.
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  Speaker 3: If you are sweating a lot, like say you're outside
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  Speaker 3: and you are just dripping sweat, or if you're exercising
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  Speaker 3: really hard or sports or something anytime you're sweating a lot,
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  Speaker 3: it's important to drink stuff like that because it's going
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  Speaker 3: to help replace the electrodes that you're losing in sweat
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  Speaker 3: where water is still good, but it does help with
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  Speaker 3: hydrating you faster.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you should just be drinking electrolyte drinks
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  Speaker 3: when you're sitting at home watching TV necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: But I sweat a lot while watching TV. So it's
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  Speaker 2: like that guy on TV looks like he's working hard.
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  Speaker 2: Just the thought makes you It kind of does some time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only halfway kidding there, but no that So if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be doing a bunch of physical things, or
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna maybe run a marathon or practice, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a game, because I know a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: time that's kind of tied with sports, right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's why sports drinks are kind of what
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  Speaker 3: they're called, because you're losing a lot of like because
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  Speaker 3: it's like salt and sodium or the electrolytes that are
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  Speaker 3: really important that we lose a lot of those in
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  Speaker 3: the sweating. So by putting them back into our body,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna help our body to use that water better.
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  Speaker 3: Because areas of high concentration of like that salt and
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  Speaker 3: potassium go to areas of lower and with like water osmosis.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can go into a lot of technical
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  Speaker 3: but it helps just hydrate us faster and keep you
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  Speaker 3: from getting dehydrated, especially when it's getting hotter and hotter outside.
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  Speaker 2: Rating is part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the stretching. Why is stretching important? What is
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  Speaker 1: that going to do to help me not necessarily get hurt?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think if you think of like
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  Speaker 3: a rubber band, if you just stretch it really quickly,
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  Speaker 3: it's probably gonna break. But if you like slowly gradually
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  Speaker 3: stretch it kind of get that rubber you know, warmed up,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna last a little bit. Our muscles are kind
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  Speaker 3: of the same way. They need to get warmed up
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  Speaker 3: before we do a lot of extra activity or you
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  Speaker 3: could potentially pull a muscle or worst case in air,
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  Speaker 3: tear a muscle because the muscles weren't ready for that
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  Speaker 3: much activity.
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  Speaker 1: Be it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you're slow running or if you're sprinting
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  Speaker 3: or lifting heavyweights, they still have to get prepped and
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  Speaker 3: ready to do that kind of exercise.
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  Speaker 1: And I pulled a muscle once watching television as well,
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  Speaker 1: so reaching for.
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  Speaker 2: The remote, Oh, you probably move too fast.
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  Speaker 1: It's exactly if somebody listening is going, Okay, I've got
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  Speaker 1: stuff I'm planning I'm doing outside this summer. As we're
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  Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to that, what is the best
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  Speaker 1: way for them to connect with you at Balanced Life
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  Speaker 1: Chiropractic to make sure that they're ready to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Right. If you've got some big projects or sports that
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be doing, it's always good to see
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  Speaker 3: a chiropractor with that kind of stuff because we can
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  Speaker 3: help make sure that your body is in tip top
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  Speaker 3: shape and ready to do those types of exercises, so
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  Speaker 3: then you're not calling in after the fact, like I
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  Speaker 3: really messed up my back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really hurt.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Announce of prevention is very important versus waiting for things
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  Speaker 3: to start falling apart. So you can give us a
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  Speaker 3: call at six zero five two one five one seven
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  Speaker 3: eight five, or reach out to us on our Facebook
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  Speaker 3: page at Balanced Life Chiropractic.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice. You can find that Facebook page and you
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  Speaker 1: can also find that phone number on their website which
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  Speaker 1: is Balanced Life sd dot com.