This email came in this morning:
"I appreciate all of your articles. I just wanted to share with you a
valuable point that I learned from your site. You recommended the book
Slow Burn a while back. It had great information in it.
I am a critical care nurse for 30 years. I pride myself on knowing how the
body works, but mostly in crisis situations and in multi-system organ
failure states.
The patients
will not respond to any treatment until the acidosis is fixed. I have also
been into health and fitness especially for the last 5 years. I was going
through perimenopause, which threw me for a loop as it seemed no matter
what I did, I could not lose the weight. I worked out with a trainer who
worked me hard. She saw that despite vigorous heavy weight/strength
training, my body was not building muscle.
I was desperately trying to
lose weight. I would spend 2-3 hours a day at the gym between
cardio/weights/pilates/spin/yoga. My trainer told me that too much was
not good, but she could not tell me why. So for over 3 years, I
overtrained with little results, and I would come home with purple fingers
and toes and mottling over my extremities, and felt lousy.
It took
reading the book Slow Burn to find out that I was becoming
acidotic--like my sick patients--thus releasing free radicals in my
bloodstream, and actually causing more harm than good. And I see this
behavior all the time at my gym now. I hope to spread the message that too
much is very harmful.
Now I limit my workouts to no more than an hour, and see more results.
I really do appreciate all of your updates, as I pass this info on to my
friends, nurses, and trainers."
Thank you for the insight!!
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