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Welcome everyone, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and

today we're going to talk about one of my most exciting new discoveries and that is

blood flow restriction training which I perceive to be the greatest

innovation in exercise training in the last century and maybe even longer.

So I've got a lot of videos and written information on that, but briefly it's one of the reasons I'm so excited.

I see it provides a practical tool, a resource that virtually everyone can use to get the benefits of conventional

strength training which uses really heavy weights, typically 70 to 85% of your one rep max, which can be significant,

and precludes that from most elderly people because they just can't lift that that'd be a weight.

So blood flow restriction training run done properly will provide almost all the

benefits and then some and will probably touch what some of those benefits

are later but we have the person who is responsible for bringing

this marvelous innovation to the United States, because it was developed by a Japanese

Professor Sato in 1966 and remained in Japan still is to this day, until literally this decade.

So Stephen Munotonous, who is on with us now,

is going to share his story.

And I think it's really important because this, to me is a major historical

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