Irving Dardik - The World Is Changed By People With Passionate Beliefs

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Irving Dardik - The World Is Changed By People With Passionate Beliefs

" If you can't find a cause to die for, you've got nothing to live for! "

stated Dr. Luther King. Putting a unique twist on this is Dr. Irving

Dardik, who has sacrificed everything to save lives. This prize-winning

vascular surgeon has gone head-to-head with conventional medical wisdom and

proven that the good guy always wins!

Just seven years ago he was laughed at and ridiculed for his beliefs and

methods of practice. So much so that his license to practice medicine in New

York was revoked.

It all began when Dr. Dardik's beliefs in circadian rhythms and modifying

medicine intake and prescription practices attracted a few wealthy

individuals who convinced Dr. Dardik to give up a lucrative practice to

dedicate all of his attention to helping a few very sick people and

hopefully develop methods and procedures for administering drugs and

exercise that could in fact lessen the damage of drugs and stressful lives.

Dr. Dardik recognized the importance of the observation that within the

circadian rhythm there are smaller rhythms or waves, called " ultradian "

rhythms. Optimally, there are sixteen 90-minute ultradian waves (roughly 45

minutes of increasing and 45 minutes of decreasing physiological activity)

every 24 hours. The frequency and strength of the natural ultradian rhythms

is greatly influenced by your environment and behaviors. He believes that a

more radically natural lifestyle, like getting up early, eating your meals

after activity, taking naps, creating temperature waves, being in natural

light, and being in the dark at night all help create and shape these

smaller waves which nest inside each persons day-long circadian rhythm.

Most people can feel when they are " not in synch " with their internal clock.

Lots of different things can throw you off, like traveling across different

time zones. Jet lag is simply the lack of synchrony between your internal

circadian rhythm and the external day/night cycle. Dr. Dardik believes that

this sort of mismatch between the body's internal clock and the external

day/night cycle can be an outcome of modern, technological lifestyles.

Dr. Dardik combines his vascular knowledge with his life rhythm theories in

research he conducts at The Dardik Institute (www.dardikinstitute.org),

which focuses on recreating the natural synchrony between the modern

lifestyle and natural body rhythms.

Dr. Dardik's passionate belief has attracted a following of people from the

medical world, academia, physical fitness, and philanthropy. One exciting

area where his theories are being studied is in the arena of chronic

disease. Clinical trials of these cyclic exercise programs are being

conducted to understand their effects on a variety of populations, including

Parkinson's Disease.

The uncontrolled, proof of concept trial tested cyclic exercise and

relaxation for a 12-week period on 18 people with moderate Parkinson's

Disease. The goal of the program was to test whether Cycles could the

positive effects associated with longer periods of aerobic exercise without

the concomitant problems of endurance exercise in this population. The

results indicate that there were increases in the heart range (decreases in

resting heart rate and increases in maximum heart rate). Improvements in HR

range correlated with decreases in dyskenisia, tremor and postural problems

(UPDRS). This relatively low impact exercise program appears to be well

tolerated in an elderly, chronically ill cohort and appears to provide some

benefits of participants in improved HR range, reduced symptomology, in the

short term. In addition, participants and their families endorsed a number

of qualitative improvements in symptomology and functioning.

This type of promising research is being extended into other areas, ranging

from preventing other chronic diseases to specific problems such drug

side-effects, jet lag, weight gain and insomnia.

Breakthroughs in any of these areas will be owed to the fearless efforts of

Dr. Irving Dardik.

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