Trophology, or food combining, while ages old in Eastern cultures, has not garnered support from our scientific communities. But like many things that have been targets of scientific criticism, absence of evidence does not equate to evidence of absence. Sometimes, we...
David Brancato
Dr. Brancato’s cumulative experience in nutrition, alternative medicine, chemistry, toxicology, physiology directed him to holistic approaches in human physiology to correct system imbalances. He maintains his professional certifications as a Naturopath from the American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board; the National Federation of Professional Trainers; Black belts in Kick Boxing and Kenpo.
Trophology: The Science of Food Combining and Surrounding Debate
The science of food combining, also known as trophology, is far from a new concept practiced in India for centuries, and also a tenet of Taoist health practices. The idea is that body will function most optimally when specific food types are not eaten with others;...
How to Support Cellular Health: The Five “R’s”
Materials in our environment can have an alarming impact on our health: our food, our water, even home and personal care products all might be altering us on the cellular level. Heavy metals and toxins that penetrate our body systems are responsible for all sorts of...
How Toxins Can Cause Cellular Damage
Cellular energy is a must for athletic performance. Challenges to cellular energy include medications, work-every-day, and environmental toxins. Health depends on restoring cellular integrity and removing cumulative toxins in the body. Therefore, there is a need for...
AGEs and Glycation: How One Metabolic Process Can Impair Many Health Outcomes
The process of glycation (or, non-enzyme glycosylation) in the body may be an unfamiliar one to most fitness professionals, but one that impacts each of us, but to varying degrees. We can educate our clients on the basics, and coach them on how mindfulness to certain...
Addressing Rib Injury in Combat Sports
Anyone who engages in combat sport training is bound to get a few bumps and bruises. Rib injury is quite common and personal trainers can help their combat and martial arts clients handle them with more ease. The following describes the anatomy of the rib cage, injury...
Shoulder Injuries: Anatomy and Considerations
When strength training, it happens. That twinge in the soft tissue, that pop of the ligature, that pitch fork stab in the muscle. "I’m okay" you tell yourself, then the pain, the inflammation and the aching begins to disrupt your recreation, work and further workouts....
Comprehensive Karate Training
In combat and/or self-defense there is a need to understand how to develop a rock solid skeletal musculature to avoid the trauma, yes the trauma of being hit. When the body is hit the neuromusculature signaling to the brain becomes chaotic, disrupting response time....
Why Detox is Required for Homeostasis Pt. 1
The purpose of this article is two-fold, first to review the fact that we live in a toxic environment and that fat cells are used as a repository for toxins; second to understand the need for detoxification in order to sustain homeostasis, i.e. health. One of the...
A Natural Program Proven to Increase Muscle and Decreases Fat Pt. 2
THE PROGRAM To start the program for five days, target everything about your training and nutrition towards fat loss.12 FAT LOSS12 Intermittent fasting boosts testosterone by increasing the expression of satiety hormones including insulin, leptin, adiponectin,...
A Natural Program Proven to Increase Muscle and Decrease Fat
This article will convey a proven technique of altering diet and exercise that affects the natural processes for muscle gain and fat loss. Further, the information contained herein will provide a limited understanding of the hormones that activate protein synthesis;...
Diastasis Recti Can Hurt Anyone: What Effective Personal Trainers Need To Know
Diastasis Recti is a condition that can affect infants and pregnant women, but personal trainers should be aware that they aren't the only ones that can be afflicted. Rectus abdominus (RA) requires recruitment of the transverse abdominis (TVA) to sustain abdominal...
Training for Health or the ‘Love of the Game’ and HIIT
The purpose of this article is threefold, (1) to help you recognize the reason that you exercise, whether it is for your health or the love of a sport; (2) the type of exercise for the health enthusiast opposed to the training for the competitor; and, (3) to provide...
Facts on Body Fat, Pt. 2
As discussed earlier fat cells serve a purpose to capture excess lipids from the plasma and liver. Fat cells also serve as repositories for toxins. A group of toxins that are ubiquitous in our environment are endocrine disrupters, including but not limited to estrogen...
Facts on Body Fat, Pt. 1
The purpose of this article is to understand the types of body fat, energy from fat, protective mechanism within the body that fat serves, when cellular resistance to fat occurs, how hormones impact fat utilization, the hormones triggering satiety and hunger and how...
Nutrient Depletion
Your body’s innate intelligence is designed to remove substances that are of no physiological worth. However, no two people are alike respective to symptom, cause or recovery. Any symptom can be the manifestation of chemical sensitivity with any target organ being...
Biochemistry of Nutrition
The relationship between diet and well being dates back as early as 400 BC and is found in the principles established by Hippocrates. I believe personal performance is correlated to cell nutrition. Proper nutrition is not only based on choice of correct foods, but...
Train to Sustain Pt. 2
The following abdominal training is derived from the MMA Fight Club in Belgium. Remember no abs, no legs, no legs, no fight. Check out Part 1 here. The Training Crunches: Lie straight on your back with your legs up, tibia/fibula (shin) parallel to the floor. Do...