Introduction

Welcome everyone to the Take Control of Your Health Podcast. This is Dr. Mercola bringing you the latest cutting edge interviews to help you achieve optimal health. Today we're going to focus on exercise, one of my major passions in life and my background looks a little different because I'm traveling unexpectedly and got caught up in some things and I really did not want to miss this interview. The katsu KAA-TSU is a Japanese word for it means additional pressure but it's a subset of blood flow restriction therapy which was developed by Dr. Sato in Japan. In other words, it's a band that looks like a blood pressure cuff except it looks like it but it is because