Cops Alive | Police Stress and Health - Career Survival

As a three time cancer survivor, Tina Ulatowski shares her story as well as educates individuals, groups, schools, and healthcare professionals on the correlation between nutrition and disease. She is the author of the book “What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You, A Simple Guide between Nutrition and Disease”.

This doesn’t mean we need to minimize line of duty deaths but rather do some basic threat assessment and acknowledge that many more officers take their own lives than those that are killed in the line of duty. This is a police issue and we as policing professionals need to deal with this ourselves.

Jon Benson who was also on our cruise and that was part of a 3-week business vacation during which he LOST 11 pounds of body fat while I gained 6 pounds on the same cruise.

for police officers emergency living is full of chaos, crisis, and panic. It keeps us moving at warp speed, always thinking about the next thing we have to do. We think we have to move faster and faster just to keep up.

ill effects such as fatigue, slower response times and even agitation and mood swings. These can be a problem for the average person, but they become an professional liability for police officers.

The presenters came from the Los Angeles Police Department Behavioral Sciences Unit, The Denver Police Department and the Fairfax County Police Department

Robert DouglasRobert Douglas knows how it feels to lose a fellow police officer to suicide. He brings that experience of being out there in facing the day to day hassles that can drive even the strongest officers to their knees.

Better quality sleep, along with sleep disorder screening and treatment programs may potentially improve police officer health, safety and productivity.

Most workout plans are either too easy or too intense for too long a period of time. My System is super-short (7-14 minutes a day, plus walks when you can.) This is enough to build all the muscle you need plus burn bodyfat when combined with the nutrition plan.

As editor of CopsAlive.com I just finished attending the 3-day “Traumas of Law Enforcement” seminar put on by the Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) organization and despite the depressing nature of what is happening to our profession I left with a sense of hope that there are so many dedicated people out there making things better for those who come after them.