Fat is not just unhealthy and unsightly excess storage that needs to be battled. Fat is actually a vital organ that releases important hormones. A hormone called leptin is released from fat which decreases our appetite and accelerates our metabolism. Another hormone called adiponectin keeps our blood clear of…
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Fueling Your Better Tomorrow
Food to man is one of two things: a solid foundation for strong, healthy bones, muscles and other organs OR one of the slowest, most deadly forms of poison. Unfortunately, the latter tends to be the case more often than not in today’s world. There’s a…
Kamshad Raiszadeh, M.D.
Dr. Raiszadeh's completed medical school at UC San Francisco, orthopedic surgery residency at UC Davis and his Pediatric and Adult Spine Fellowship at the Hospital for Joint Diseases/NYU in New York City. He has 20 years of experience with the broad range of spine surgery including minimally invasive surgery, complex spinal disorders such as scoliosis and kyphosis, and cervical spine disorders. During this 20 years he has noticed a dramatic increase in patients turning to surgery for treatment of neck and low back pain, but many of them not getting their desired long-term result. He therefore became increasingly interested in improvement and standardization of non-operative treatment. By developing the best aspects of non-operative treatment in an atmosphere of empowerment to maximize the body’s own healing capacity, he noticed that many fewer patients required surgery, and the ones who underwent surgery had much better long term results.