Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness
Each week, holistic nutritionist Joy McCarthy tells us about a common health problem she’s seen in her practice and how she came to a solution.
This week’s client: Brad, a busy entertainment lawyer by day and warrior by weekend who thrives on high intensity exercise.
The Problem: Brad gets headaches after any exercise whether it be lifting weights, cardio or playing hockey.
When Brad hired me as his nutrition coach and personal trainer, he was (sorry boys) a stereotypical beer-drinking, wing-eating guy who worked hard by day and played hard by night and weekends. He knew exercise was important and he wanted to lose 30lbs, so he came to me in hopes that he could shed his beer belly and get more energy.
What Brad didn’t realize was that I was going to help him solve a problem that had prevented him from taking his fitness to the next level — post-workout headaches. They weren’t debilitating enough to prevent him from his belly-fat-burning workout but they were most certainly unpleasant enough that often he couldn’t make any social plans immediately after exercise until his pain medication kicked in. Of course, being a holistic nutritionist I cringed at the thought of how many pain meds he’d popped over the years and what his poor liver had to say, but we will save that post for another day.
Solution after the jump
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