This is the first installment of a Clinically Paragon Discussion with our partners at Paragon Nutrition and Fitness. In these discussions, we will be taking major topics in the health, nutrition, performance, and supplement industry and breaking down what it all means and passing as much information on to you as we can.

We started up Barbells N' Bourbon again and so we wanted to share with you one of our more important and impactful epsiodes. Check it out!

Busy seems to come with every work territory in this day and age. There are times when things can become so much it produces overload and different people handle that differently. Andy has worked in some extremely productive lab settings where there are constantly multiple research projects and associated writing occurring. Joel oversees two departments that help the athletic department achieve its goals.

This research review looks at a study that utilized “research snacks” to see the effects on insulin, glucose and free fatty acids after meals throughout the day. These “snacks” consisted of ascending 3 flights of stairs as fast as possible every hour throughout the day. Each time would take between 10-20s. The results showed that for an overweight and obese group there was a decrease in insulin and free fatty acid levels, no changes in these levels occurred in a healthy group.

In keeping up with providing more information on popular diets and how they could apply to your life in the New Year of 2019 (or 2024), Dr. Jagim breaks down everything behind Intermittent Fasting. He gives full details on how to apply it, how if affects your body and what the potential benefits are of using it.

Leah is a resident of La Crosse Wisconsin and has a fantastic story about overcoming so much in her own live when it comes to health and wellness.  Leah is a nurse who found her life at a turning point in her life and we got to hear the entire story about what made her turn her life to where she wanted it to go.

Strength and control through the external rotators of the hips and shoulders is something that we lose over the course of time due to many factors. When you revisit it again and see how it is a natural movement that an infant naturally learns and performs it makes you realize just how powerful being effective in this range is. This is a short Clinical/Performance Insight talking about some quick application of ER and how it can benefit you, as well as some exercise demonstrations to help get you started.

This episode features Alex Friedman, strength and conditioning coach and CP Ambassador. Alex is currently out in Colorado finishing up his masters degree.

In this episode of the wrestling weight certification series, Dr. Twohey and Dr. Jagim talk about minimum wrestling weight. They discuss what it means and all the factors that occur to determine what that predicted safe wrestling weight would be. They also discuss the history and research that went into the creation of the process and the equations that ultimately determine the weight.

Dr. Lindsey Shay is a physical therapist that has worked in a lot of different settings in her career but most recently she has focused on running her own business, Kidz Physical Therapy. This business takes a unique approach to physical therapy and focuses on working with kids with special needs. It is an intensive style of physical therapy where the sessions are much longer than a typical PT appointment and take a different approach to engaging these patients in therapy, exercise and play.

Hear what Dr. Jagim found when he checked out this research study that looked at the effects of fish oil and what impact it had on resistance training-induced adaptations. Another reason to potentially consider a fish oil supplement in your diet OR upping the amount of fish you consume in your diet.