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Cabral concept where board certified naturopath and integrative health

practitioner Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering

illness and given no hope for recovery.

It was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine

ancient iovitic healing practices with state-of-the-art

naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight,

and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.

Welcome to the Cabral concept.

I'm Stephen Cabral, and it's a training Thursday. So we're going to take a break from our workout sessions.

And I'm in the back nutrition office in the Cabral Wellness Institute in Boston.

What we're going to do is actually show you, so someone's sitting at a desk all day, one of the common

questions we get is what happens when you have all this stress up in your neck and your trapezius

muscles, which are those muscles right on top of your shoulders, all those muscles tend to get really tense. Sometimes it's because you're

basically your head looking forward like this at a computer and what's

happening is when your head is extended it's called cervical flexion

and it means that it's kind of like holding a hammer or really heavy weight with your arm extended

When that happens your arm will eventually get tired and all the muscles on the upper shoulder will actually try to take the weight to pull back.

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