BUILDING MASS There are 4 Key Components in gaining lean body mass: They are: 1.Eat Lots of Good, Clean Food. 2. Work-Out Hard. 3. Supplement Properly. 4. Sleep Long. Notice that I put "eating lots of good, clean food" at the top of the list. Let's face it, more Calories = more mass, period. To build muscle, it is imperative to have adequate calories to build with. This doesn't mean to rush to Burger King and order 10 Whoppers. LOL, you want good, clean calories, like those found in your
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and training are accomplished in harsh environments pushing the warrior to their physical and mental limits. One vulnerable group of service members are initial entry trainees (IET). This cohort steps into a realm of physical, mental and emotional stress applied by drill sergeants, extreme physical training, high operational environment, and unpredictable circumstances.1, 2 One specific environmental injury at basic training is rhabdomyolysis. This has been observed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
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PTSD is a real medical condition. It is the brain’s natural biochemical reaction to an abnormally stressful situation or series of stressful situations. It all begins with a person perceiving a situation in such a way as to create fear, which in turn begins the fight or flight response. When you have fear, your brain immediately goes to work sending the information on two different paths simultaneously. One path is extremely fast and is designed to react first, ask questions later; ‘better safe than
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PTSD the think of the young soldier who has just come home from the horrors of war. Few think of what happens to these veterans as they age and become elderly men and women. Over the past 30 years treatment options and protocols for posttraumatic stress disorder have become more formalized and reliant on evidence. Many of these established PTSD protocol driven interventions were originally developed to help Vietnam veterans while they were younger men and women. The problem is that these Vietnam
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Craig Walker’s documentation of Brian Scott Ostrom suffering severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from serving in Iraq is a powerful and moving photograph. In this particular photograph Ostrom is suffering from a panic attack from an argument he had had over the phone with his girlfriend, Walker managed to take the shot to show a clear and concise message: that war has an emotional toll on a person long after they have been serving. He does this by encapturing the telephone, Ostrom’s face
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a debilitating anxiety disorder experienced by many people who have been exposed to traumatic events. Some traumatic events include warfare, genocide, rape, or even a car accident. Results of witnessing or being a part of these incidents can result in flashbacks, emotional numbing, and hypervigilance. In the Civil War, it was referred to as “Da Costa’s Syndrome,” named after the Civil War doctor who described the symptoms. During WWI, PTSD
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Soldier’s Heart ,also known as PTSD, a disorder characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. Charley Goddard is one of the Union soldiers fighting in the Civil War, and throughout the story Charley has been through a lot and is very fortunate for surviving as long as he has. From the beginning Charley is just a boy but turns into a man after what he experiences during the war. As a young boy Charley looks for fun and adventure. A shooting war is more
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Webster’s dictionary describes the word trauma as: “a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). These emotional stressors can be caused from a wide variety of situations. Examples of damaging stressors can include: sexual abuse, verbal abuse, physical abuse, exposure to violence or death, as well as many others. The powerful effect of these stressors can ultimately lead to deep psychological damage. The term
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from severe trauma. The stare has a history as long as war itself; the cause has had many names including soldier’s heart, irritable heart, traumatic neuroses, shell shock, war hysteria, combat stress reaction, Vietnam veterans syndrome, and fright neuroses, today it is called combat post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Personally, I have been diagnosed with combat PTSD and I have professionally treated other victims of combat PTSD, making it a very
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Ptsd Research In: English and Literature Ptsd Research Lack of Support for Soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Soldiers in the war are subjected to many violent and traumatic events which can affect a person internally and emotionally without being noticed for a period of time. This is called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is a common disorder found in soldiers in the United States military who have been to war. PTSD can cause many health and social issues. In order
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