Dr. Fred Clary's Podcast

Food related anaphylactic hospitalizations is up 700% !!!  Food allergies in general are up 50%. Asthma is on the rise!  Why are immune systems getting weaker as a society?  Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique and lifting and life coach, opens a conversation in to the subject of 'increasing allergies worldwide'.  

The secrets to athletic success and performance have been studied and researched since the 1950s by the Soviets. These methods have been available to the West since the 1980s and have been modernized and adapted. You don't have to be an Olympic hopeful to utilize these scientific approaches to your athletic endeavors.  If you want to lift at the local lifting meet or are a high school athlete or just want a better 5K, proper programming is for everyone. Utilizing a programming plan that can maximize your efforts and results is within your grasp.  Dr. Fred Clary, The founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique, World Champion and World record holder in Powerlifting (record still stands from the 1980s) has studied and  utilized  Soviet methods since the 1980s on himself and hundreds of athletes he has coached in dozens of sports. 

Since the late 1940s , Gluten has been blamed for many health issues.  Dr. Fred Clary takes a brief scientific and functional approach to this controversy. Is it JUST Gluten, or perhaps, the 20+ other things that are different about our grocery store bought baked goods.  This episode only scratches the surface of this subject and I hope to get the listener thinking about other possible causes of 'gluten-centered illness'. 

Serotonin is needed in many bodily processes.  If we are not getting enough protein, sleep, quiet time, exercise, quality nutrition and music in our lives; we can negatively affect how this important chemical is processed, received, and transported.  To change your life you may need serotonin's help. 

Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique, reviews how we can work with and not against this influencing chemical. 

Serotonin, or 5-HT,  predates the nervous system and vertebrates.  Yes, it was here first! Serotonin is found and has profound roles in plants, single-celled organisms, multi-celled organisms, worms, flukes, insects, seafood (I mean ocean creatures…I must be hungry), amphibians, reptiles, mammals etc. etc. Serotonin has regulatory functions in the human central and peripheral nervous system, reproductive system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system etc etc. Serotonin is just not a mood regulator. 

Dr. Fred Clary the founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique begins a series on the role of the phylogenetically ancient monoamine in our lives and our collective history. 

Movement, the ability to crawl and walk and reach and play, is a highly complicated neurological program that our brains (our computers) have to run.  It takes lots of bodily resources and physiological capital (neurotransmitters, ATP, neurons and glial).  Dr.Fred Clary introduces the concept that your movement can be used to assess your physical state, your strengths and your weaknesses.  If you cannot get out of your chair correctly how are you going to fight off a cold, be a balanced parent or undertake a personal relationship correctly. Movement takes priority before most functions as a human being, and if its jacked, everything else suffers no matter how seemly far removed the function. 

The more fad diets depart from the laws of biology, the more ridiculous the claims of health and wellness will be.  Dr. Fred Clary introduces the concept of following your genetics (who you really are) instead of what the experts that don't have your DNA tell you. 

The Soviets and Bulgarians have established the best strength and power training methods  by research and results for decades.  These methods have been adopted by Westerners since the fall of the Iron Curtain. But Mike Bridges, a 180 pound power-lifter, who in the late 70s and early 80s was lifting more than National champions 100-200 pounds heavier in body-weight, taught me a few valuable lessons about Sport Specific Training. 

Dr. Fred Clary, the founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Techniques summarizes seven things he learned from his mentors and coaches. Sometimes you can get all the answers to life from a movie (Casablanca) or a 16 minute podcast.  

Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique offers some thoughts:

Who is driving your car?   Your car of life? You may think it is you since you are behind the wheel, but many times our beliefs are really not ours.  They are our teacher's and preacher's and friend's and family's beliefs that have been placed on us.  They are driving the car and we are not even aware of it.  Your view of reality is your Paradigm.  This episode looks at the paradigm.   

Paradigm: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

 A philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind.

 Since the late 1960s, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context.

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn gave this word its contemporary meaning when he adopted it to refer to the set of practices that define a scientific discipline during a particular period of time. Kuhn himself came to prefer the terms exemplar and normal science, which have more exact philosophical meanings. However, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn defines a scientific paradigm as:

• what is to be observed and scrutinized, 
• the kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to this subject, 
• how these questions are to be structured, 
• how the results of scientific investigations should be interpreted. 

Your Paradigm controls what questions and answers you accept about this world.  Your paradigm controls YOU.