So after deal­ing with many nag­ging injuries and inces­sant mus­cle sore­ness, I decided that I was ready to try any­thing that might bring me some relief. I visit my chi­ro­prac­ter when I feel the need to, but quite hon­estly, he merely treats the symp­toms of my pain vs. truly get­ing to the source. So, one morn­ing last week, dur­ing one of my per­sonal train­ing ses­sions, my client rec­om­mended that I go see a Chi­nese med­ical doc­tor from Shang­hai, who prac­tises the art of shi­atsu and acupunc­ture. She went to him dur­ing her preg­nancy when she was lit­er­ally bent over in excru­ci­at­ing back pain. She said after 30 min­utes, she was once again stand­ing upright and feel­ing like her­self again. How could I not try it out???

After just a few min­utes lying on the table, and apply­ing mod­er­ate pres­sure all over my body, Dr. Chen con­cluded that my body was suf­fer­ing from a cal­cium defi­ciency. He told me that my severe mus­cle sore­ness and fre­quent injuries were directly related to the lack of cal­cium in my blood. He sug­gested that that I sup­ple­ment with 750 mg of cal­cium cit­rate and vit­a­min D, three times a day, for a whop­ping total of 2500 mg!

The shi­atsu mas­sage that fol­lowed, was like noth­ing I’ve ever expe­ri­enced before. At one point, he pressed on the area between my thumb and fore­fin­ger, and I nearly jumped off the table. Who knew that our bod­ies car­ried so much stress in our hands? After an hour of the most intense yet amaz­ing mas­sage, I could hon­estly say, that every mus­cle felt as though it was in a state of total relaxation.

So, has the cal­cium worked its magic? Well, after two days of sup­ple­ment­ing with cal­cium, my body is feel­ing much looser, more flex­i­ble and in gen­eral, much happier.

I’m plan­ning on going for a long ride tomor­row, so I’m hop­ing that my lower back won’t cause me the same nag­ging pain that I expe­ri­enced last week­end. We shall see.…

Hope you’re all hav­ing a great weekend!