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Enjoy Refreshing Pineapple this Summer and Promote Your Health at the Same Time

2011-08-09T17:14:00.000-07:00

Most health-conscious people know that pineapple and other fruits are a major source of Vitamin C. And most of us have heard about the central role of this water-soluble antioxidant vitamin in mopping up the free radicals that damage normal cells -- implicated in the aging process. But did you know that the key enzyme in pineapple (bromelain) has been studied for decades and has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects? And to aid in digestion? And even to be effective in cancer treatment and prevention?

Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme. It acts to accelerate the breakdown of the proteins that we eat and thereby enhances the absorption of nutrients. Bromelain is active in both the acid environment of the stomach and in the alkaline environment of the small intestines. Bromelain enzymes are fibronolytic (breaks down clots) and antithrombotic (reduces obstructions in blood vessels). Scientific studies have documented the therapeutic efficacy of Bromelain in a wide range of health conditions and body functions.

Bromelain balances digestive processes through enzymatic action.
Bromelain is used for treating sinusitis.
Bromelain increases blood and urine levels of antibiotics in humans.
Bromelain has anti-inflammatory effects, reduces swelling, aids in recovery from injuries and surgery.
Bromelain protects the Immune system, enhancing the body’s natural healing processes.
Bromelain has been used to treat tumors and even Cancer.

How to add Bromelain to your daily nutrition regime

You can add Bromelain to your daily nutrition regime by eating fresh pineapple, a delicious summer treat. But please note that canned pineapple has lost most of its nutritional value from the heat used in the canning process.
For tips on buying good pineapple explore this site http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-a-Pineapple-Is-Ripe, and for advice on preparing the juicy, tangy, sweet fruit of this tropical plant, you can visit http://www.howtocutapineapple.com.

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A Simple Way to Protect Your Heart and Brain from Disease

2011-07-15T12:42:00.000-07:00

Flaxseed, walnuts, beans, fish,
and winter squash are all excellent
food sources of omega-3

Omega-3 fatty acids (such as DHA) found in fish and natural foods can lower levels of dangerous homocysteine, an amino acid linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and dementia, according to research recently published in the journal Nutrition. Scientists found that introducing Omega-3 fats from dietary or supplemental sources was associated with significantly lowered levels of plasma homocysteine. Based on evidence provided by this study and volumes of research over the past decade, most health conscious people should include Omega-3 fats in their diet or supplemental regime to lower chronic disease risk factors.

Omega-3 fats lower homocysteine levels by deactivating an enzyme that is necessary in its formation. Omega-3 fats also improve vascular function and are shown to lower the risk of blood clots while reducing blood pressure and heart rate in people at high risk for cardiovascular disease.

Researchers publishing in The Journal of Neuroscience found that DHA boosts levels of a protein that helps to naturally dissolve plaque tangles in the brain before they can disrupt normal function. Scientists believe that DHA is a nature-supplied nutrient that can help lower the risk of developing dementia, especially when consumed or supplemented from an early age.

Omega-3 fatty acids have been an integral part of the human diet for countless generations, and they are incorporated into cell wall structures throughout the body. Nutritional experts found that 2 to 6 grams of Omega-3 fats consumed daily provide critical support for optimal health and chronic disease reduction.

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Heart Disease is the number one cause of death. Are you taking heart healthy steps?

2011-07-06T23:01:00.000-07:00

Heart Disease is the number one cause of
death among men and women.

Many women may not be aware that heart disease and stroke are major threats to their health. Heart disease is the number one cause of death among men and women in the United States, and stroke is number three.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type and is the leading cause of heart attacks. When you have CAD, your arteries become hard and narrow. Blood has a hard time getting to the heart, so the heart does not get all the blood it needs. CAD can lead to:

Angina (an-JEYE-nuh)

Angina is chest pain or discomfort that happens when the heart does not get enough blood. It may feel like a pressing or squeezing pain, often in the chest, but sometimes the pain is in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back. It can also feel like indigestion (upset stomach). Angina is not a heart attack, but having angina means you are more likely to have a heart attack.

Heart Attack

A heart attack occurs when an artery is severely or completely blocked, and the heart does not get the blood it needs for more than 20 minutes.

Other forms of heart disease include:

Heart Failure

Heart failure occurs when the heart is not able to pump blood through the body as well as it should. This means that other organs, which normally get blood from the heart, do not get enough blood. It does not mean that the heart stops. Signs of heart failure include:

Shortness of breath (feeling like you can't get enough air)
Swelling in feet, ankles, and legs
Extreme fatigue

Heart Arrhythmias (uh-RITH-mee-uhz)

Arrhythmias are changes in the beat of the heart. Most people have felt dizzy, faint, out of breath or had chest pains at one time. These changes in heartbeat are harmless for most people. As you get older, you are more likely to have arrhythmias. DO NOT panic if you have a few flutters or if your heart races once in a while.

Stroke happens when the brain does not get enough blood. Without enough blood, brain cells start to die.

The GOOD NEWS is that you can take steps to lower your chances of having a heart attack or stroke. These steps include getting regular physical activity, taking nutritional supplements and making healthy food choices, knowing your numbers and taking good care of yourself overall. It is also important to make sure you talk to your doctor about heart health and the use of menopausal hormone therapy or aspirin.

Heart Healthy Steps

Most women are not aware that they are at risk
and symptoms may not be apparent.

Women should maintain a BMI below 25, not smoke, eat less salt, eat plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and get at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week or 75 minutes of sustained activity.

Ask your doctor to check your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. These simple screening tests will give you important information about your heart health. Your doctor can tell you what your numbers mean and what you need to do to protect your heart

Warning Signs

Typically men experience the well-known heart attack signs of chest pain, arm pain, and shortness of breath.

Women's symptoms of nausea, fatigue, and dizziness are quite different. They are often diagnosed as stress.

The top 5 symptoms reported are:

unusual fatigue
trouble sleeping
shortness of breath
indigestion and
anxiety

It is important to learn the specific warning signs of heart attack and stroke. In women, the warning signs are often overlooked since women tend to seek medical care later than men do. Prompt treatment can help women recover from a heart attack or stroke with few or no disabilities.

No matter your age, you can commit to heart-healthy living. It is never too late to take steps to lower your risk of heart attack and stroke.

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Is your Sunscreen Toxic?

2011-06-25T18:25:00.000-07:00

A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals that 97% of Americans are contaminated with a common sunscreen ingredient called oxybenzone. This toxic chemical has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage, as well as low birth weight in babies whose mothers are exposed during pregnancy.

Oxybenzone (also known as benzophenone-3) is a penetration enhancer, a chemical that helps other chemicals penetrate the skin. Although oxybenzone is most common in sunscreen, manufacturers also use the chemical in many other personal care products.

The FDA does not require UVA filters in sunscreens, and most manufacturers have never included them in their formulations. However, because of consumer demand and awareness, the number of sunscreens that block harmful UVA radiation more than doubled between summer 2008 and 2009, according to Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis.

More Americans than ever are using sunscreen to protect from sunburn and guard against skin cancer. Top choices include products with high SPF ratings, and that are waterproof or that advertise "broad spectrum" protection. Most people trust that the claims on the bottle will ensure that the product truly protects their health and their families', but this is just not the case.

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The result is a sunscreen formula where the chemicals do not touch the skin, are not carcinogenic, and do not cause irritations. Most sunscreens without MLT use chemicals that are applied and absorbed directly into your skin. Virtually all of these chemicals have been demonstrated to have some level of toxicity to the skin. Due to this toxicity concern, it is not recommended that these types of skincare products be used on infants or on sensitive skin. These types of products may also demonstrate a strong chemical odor, and can even cause increased free radicals and oxidation damage to your skin.

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Calcium is Critical for Maintaining Good Health

2011-06-24T19:57:00.000-07:00

If you are 30 or older, you are losing it every day

Calcium is vital for bone health. Both women and men will begin to lose 0.5-1% of their bone density or degree of bone mineralization per year starting around the age of 30. In women, the rate of loss will spike to 2-3% per year for the first 3 to 15 years following menopause.

Calcium is critical in all diets. Of all the minerals required by our bodies, calcium is the most prevalent. The average adult body is comprised of 1.25 Kg (almost 3 pounds) of calcium.

Not only is calcium an integral part of the teeth and bones, where 99% of the calcium in the body is found, but it also helps the body:

form blood clots at the site of a wound
aids in muscle and nerve function
regulate blood pressure, required for normal heart beat
cellular structure
release certain hormones
many enzyme reactions

Calcium is present in high amounts in a wide variety of foods, although most people get the majority of their calcium from just one group of foods - dairy products, and in particular, cow’s milk. As calcium often works alongside magnesium, it is useful to obtain calcium from sources that also include magnesium. This is not the case for milk.

In fact, calcium and magnesium work so closely together that, if there is an excess of one in the body, it will often lead to a reduction in the other, disturbing the natural balance. In addition to the presence of magnesium, it is beneficial that many of the other sources of calcium, such as seeds and nuts also contain essential fatty acids, which are also required for healthy brain, nerve, hormone and immune systems. Calcium is also closely associated with and its absorption is dependent on Vitamin D.

According to the National Institute of Health, most people do not get enough calcium in their daily diet. Supplements are suggested as an alternative to meet their daily required intake.

The most commonly used form of calcium is calcium carbonate, which is often derived from limestone or oyster shells. This form of calcium is poorly absorbed and is often contaminated with poisonous lead.

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E. Coli Mutation

2011-06-06T14:16:00.000-07:00

E. COLI OUTBREAK IN EUROPE IS THE DEADLIEST IN HISTORY

The World Health Organization said that "The E. coli bacteria responsible for a mysterious outbreak in Europe that has left 18 people dead and sickened hundreds is a new strain that has never been seen before." The new strain has "various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing."

Scientists sequencing the bacteria strains found in the outbreak said it was caused by "an entirely new super-toxic E. coli strain" that has several antibiotic resistant genes.

Sadly for those affected, it is not just about recovering from this type of infection; it is also about recovering from the treatment to end the infection.

The WHO recommends that to avoid food-borne illnesses people wash their hands before eating or cooking food, separating raw and cooked meat from other foods, thoroughly cooking food, and washing fruits and vegetables, especially if eaten raw. Experts also recommend peeling raw fruits and vegetables if possible.

The creation of Ai/E10 in 1993 resulted directly from the recognition of this problem. We need to keep our immune function vibrant so we can respond as effectively as possible to these new challenges if we get caught-up in one of them. The food chain is always at risk and we need to be alert to the dangers of contaminated food. It doesn't just happen in apparent unsanitary places. It can happen anywhere.

If you are traveling this summer, or anytime, it is always a good idea to increase your daily use of Ai/E10. Remember to "think immune."

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Study reveals that many Americans are not getting enough calcium

2011-05-05T19:57:00.000-07:00

ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH CALCIUM? THE SECRET TO BONE HEALTH...

The May, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association published the conclusion of researchers at Yale University and the University of Connecticut that many older Americans have an insufficient intake of calcium. Adequate intake of the mineral has been defined by the Institute of Medicine as 1,000 milligrams per day for adults and 1,200 milligrams per day for those over 50.

Calcium and vitamin D are the cornerstone of osteoporosis prevention, yet they are not the whole story. Other minerals and nutrients that are vital to healthy bones include magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin B12, and others, including zinc, manganese, boron, copper, and silicon (Nieves JW 2005; Hirota T et al 2005).

Many studies have shown that calcium can reduce bone loss and suppress bone turnover. Calcium requires the presence of vitamin D for maximum absorption.

Although calcium is readily available in dairy products and other dietary sources, many Americans are calcium deficient. Here are a few possible explanations for calcium deficiencies:

Decreased vitamin D availability, possibly due to kidney or liver problems or insufficient exposure to sunshine

Decreased gastrointestinal tract absorption due to stomach or intestinal problems

Increased loss of calcium from the kidneys,colon and bowels

Low dietary calcium intake

Medications that inhibit calcium absorption

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Tips For Better Vitamin D Absorption

2010-11-24T12:53:00.000-08:00

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Vitamin D has come to the forefront recently as a hugely important vitamin for the human body. This makes it that much more urgent that we follow some simple steps to ensure our bodies are absorbing enough of this pivotal nutrient. Since most Americans are grossly deficient in vitamin D, it is important to spread the word about how to most effectively build your blood levels up.

The first and perhaps most obvious tip for better vitamin D absorption is to make sure you are getting enough UV (sun) exposure. Ideally, everyone would get about 15 minutes of UV exposure every day, exposing most of the body. However, this is not practical since most of us don't live in sunny locations year round.

UVB exposure, as opposed to UVA, is the only spectrum of UV light which facilitates vitamin D production. Sun exposure has long been vilified by the media and medical community as unhealthy. However, there is a reason that our skin tans. We were meant to be exposed to the sunlight, and our skin is equipped to handle some exposure, although some people do have better defenses against burning.

Even indoor tanning beds may have their proper use when it comes to therapeutic vitamin D exposure. Indoor tanning beds that emit more UVB rays may be of use for those that are indoors most of the time for long winters.

It is important that one not over expose themselves to both the natural sunlight and the rays of an indoor tanning bed. You should never let the skin get anything more than the slightest pink tint, and use your ethnicity and past experience to gauge your UV sensitivity.

If you burn easily, consider supplementing your diet with lycopene, a key nutrient that is found in heavy concentration in tomatoes. Studies recently showed that those with high levels of lycopene had a much higher "internal sunscreen," and burned much less easily, than those who did not take in a lot of lycopene. In fact, antioxidants in general may give your skin an edge against UV sensitivity and cut down on burning.

After exposure to UVB rays, make sure you wait as many hours as you can before showering. Why? After UV exposure, your skin produces a powdery substance that is then absorbed into the skin and converted to vitamin D by the body. If you wash this off too early, you interfere with the amount of vitamin D made, and hence do not get the full benefit.

When exposing the skin in the summer time, it is best to expose as much of the body as possible, other than the face and arms. Your legs and torso are great for making vitamin D. So, make the most of your natural sun exposure and allow the larger parts of your body to be bare.

Now, let's talk about vitamin D supplementation. While UVB exposure is still the absolute best way to synthesize vitamin D, supplements are a secondary approach to making sure you get enough of this vitamin as well. When looking for a supplement, make sure you choose one that is encapsulated in an oil base. These oil based capsules are most likely better absorbed since vitamin D is fat soluble.

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Originally submitted by Danna Norek on behalf of Natural News.

Why Should I Take Probiotics?

2010-11-03T15:05:00.000-07:00

Supplemental probiotics provide the helpful bacteria that normally live in the human digestive tract. Taken regularly, probiotics can help keep the digestive system in balance and functioning optimally and support immune system function, especially when you're taking antibiotics, which can wipe out intestinal bacteria indiscriminately.

Probiotics can also be an effective treatment for:

diarrhea
lactose intolerance
irritable bowel syndrome
vaginal yeast infections
oral thrush
Crohn's disease
and ulcerative colitis

Probiotics have even been linked to improvements in autistic children and skin conditions such as eczema.

Take probiotic supplements whenever you're on antibiotics as soon as you start your course of medication and continue for a few days after you finish. Look for brands containing Lactobacillus (like HealthPro Nutrient's Probiotic).

Always check the expiration date and protect your supplements from heat, moisture, and air.

You can stay on probiotics indefinitely. The only reason to avoid them is if you have had an allergic reaction.

Ai/E10 Every Day...Think Immune!

2010-10-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

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We are often asked these questions:

Why is it important to use Ai/E10 EVERY DAY?
After the end of cold and flu season, why should I use Ai/E10?
If I feel OK, why should I use Ai/E10?

These are really good questions and there are really important reasons to take Ai/E10 EVERY DAY all year long. Let's look more closely at the reasons.

The immune system carries out millions of actions EVERY DAY with no conscious instruction from us to do so and operates with a set of three imperatives relative to foreign invaders:

Recognize them.
Respond to their presence.
Remember how to respond to them effectively.

There are five factors that have been shown to interfere with the immune system's ability to execute its duties relative to the imperatives:

Stress.
Poor nutrition.
Toxins.
Infection.
Trauma.

Many people are surprised by the five factors and will ask, "Where is "cold and flu season" on the list"?

Cold and flu season is surely capable of putting additional stress on our immune function, but it is only one stress and probably is not the greatest for any of us. We do not need to remind anyone how much stress we all experience in our EVERYDAY lives.

These factors restrict immune system communication and reduce the immune system's effectiveness. This reduction in communication is represented physically in the body by a reduction in the number, variability and viability of immune communication cells available to carry out the imperatives.

Ai/E10 was designed to support your immune system as it carries out these millions of actions EVERY DAY, all year, by providing an orally absorbable source for replacement of relevant immune communication molecules that have been lost to stress, poor nutrition, toxins, infection and trauma. Ai/E10 has been produced in the United States from a private herd of dairy cows specially bred and maintained for this purpose since 1994.

Clinical experience has shown that the use of Ai/E10 begins to provide benefits immediately, but the full benefits are not achieved until after 30 to 45 days of continual use in most people. Since the majority of dietary supplements we take EVERY DAY, as well as the nutrients we absorb from food, are associated directly or indirectly with immune function, keeping immune communication working well all year makes our other supplementation more effective and allows us an opportunity to build immune capability and capacity to help support us when additional stress or other factors present themselves.

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Article of Interest: Progress in Alzheimer's Testing

2010-10-19T14:25:00.000-07:00

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By Erin Allday
New York Times Syndicate
10-18-10

San Francisco -- If doctors are ever going to find a way to attack and even cure Alzheimer's disease, they first need to know how to diagnose it -- ideally years, maybe even decades, before patients are symptomatic and their brain has been irreparably damaged.

That's why researchers around the country are intrigued by several promising new studies that highlight techniques for identifying Alzheimer's in the body long before people show the classic signs of memory loss and confusion.

A study that was released in August to much excitement among researchers suggested that a spinal fluid test could be very effective in identifying abnormal levels of amyloid, a protein that forms plaque buildups in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.

In the Bay Area, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford are studying drugs that would serve as biomarkers in the body, attaching themselves to proteins like amyloid and letting doctors find those proteins more easily using imaging tests.

"It's exciting that we will likely soon have new tools that will allow us to detect Alzheimer's changes very early, even in people who are cognitively normal," said Dr. Adam Boxer , director of the Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia clinical trials program at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center. "If there were a treatment that could remove amyloid from the brain, then it would really be an exciting and powerful combination."

People are currently tested for Alzheimer's using a fairly lengthy, somewhat subjective process that starts with simple memory tests and interviews with patients and their family about problems they may be having from day to day. Those tests are accompanied by a physical examination, more thorough cognitive testing, and blood analysis and a brain-imaging scan.

The process is more about ruling out other diseases with similar symptoms -- such as a stroke or a benign brain tumor -- that may be easily treated. After the testing is over, doctors can reliably diagnose Alzheimer's with about 90 percent accuracy, but it can only be confirmed after death, when brain tissue can be studied under a microscope.

For patients and the doctors treating them, it's not necessarily important to definitively diagnose Alzheimer's because for now there's no cure for the disease. But for researchers, it's essential to be able to identify test subjects who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so that they can focus on potential treatments.

Researchers hope that if doctors can find abnormal buildup of proteins before people become symptomatic, it may be easier to find effective treatments. Most studies of potential drug treatments for Alzheimer's have had disappointing results.

"Many (researchers) believe these studies may have failed because we started treating people too late," Boxer said. "The majority of people in studies have full-blown Alzheimer's disease, and it's a tall order to get treatments to work in these people.

It's hoped that by developing biomarkers, we could find it much earlier."

Most research into early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is centered around two proteins: amyloid beta, which is distinctive for the way it clumps up in the brain like plaque, and tau, which forms tangled strands in the brain when neurons die. Buildup of these proteins is common in the brains of deceased people who had Alzheimer's.

At Stanford, a team of researchers is participating in a national study of the drug florbetaben, which would act as a marker for amyloid and allow doctors to find the protein using certain imaging techniques. UCSF researchers, meanwhile, are looking for similar drugs that might be used a biomarkers for the tau protein.

The spinal fluid test, which was studied primarily at the University of Pennsylvania, involves performing a spinal tap on patients to look for signs of both proteins.

Dr. Marci Teresi , clinical lead of the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Memory Clinic, said doctors are enthusiastic about the current research, but she doesn't expect such testing to be made widely available outside of research studies any time soon.

"It's mostly useful for investigational purposes, for finding people who want to participate in research studies," Teresi said.

"I don't think it's as practical for the large number of patients that are out there seeing their regular doctors."

In other words, patients with no Alzheimer's symptoms shouldn't start asking their doctors for advanced imaging tests any time soon. In fact, early testing could do more harm than good, some doctors say, if it causes patients anxiety and depression before they're showing signs of Alzheimer's. Some people with protein buildup in their brains never get Alzheimer's at all.

Still, there are advantages to screening older people who may be showing the first small signs of illness, said Dr. Catherine Madison , medical director of California Pacific Medical Center's Memory Clinic.

Several drugs can make life for patients more comfortable and slow down some of the worst effects of the disease, especially if the treatment is started early. Patients can also benefit from therapy and anti-depressants.

"There's no magic cure out there. Even if I could tell you that you were going to get dementia, would you want me to?" Madison said. "But we have medications that can help. We can slow the course of this and make it a whole lot better for patients and families."

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2010-10-13T22:05:00.000-07:00

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Toxins Are Everywhere...But They Don't Have To Stay Inside You

2010-10-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

Editorial Note: Bentonite clay can be found in the HealthPro Nutrient product Regulier for bowel elimination. To help with eliminating environmental toxins such as chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, household chemicals, fungicides, heavy metals and xenobiotics (synthetic man-made estrogens) look to a full detoxification program with HealthPro Nutrients ClearBody, Probiotic, and Digestive Enzymes.

For additional support for detoxification of chemicals look to far infra red saunas and alkaline water. For optimal detoxification it is important for proper bowel elimination, urination and perspiration.

Bentonite Clay: Safe Protection from Environmental Toxins

by Cheryl McCoy, citizen journalist

(NaturalNews) During the past few months, there has been an outbreak of reports of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and toxins being found in our water supply, our food, our air, our soil....just about everything we come in contact with it seems. But, armed with the proper information, there`s no reason to live in a state of fear. Of course, measures must be taken to remove these harmful substances from our eco-system, but until that dream becomes a reality, you can protect yourself and your loved ones with calcium Bentonite clay. Used both externally and internally, calcium Bentonite clay safely removes toxins from your system.

What are we up against?

Here are just a few samples of the reports that have surfaced recently:

The CDC announced that traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what`s considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient. The study by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked for the chemical, perchlorate, in different brands of powdered baby formula. The chemical has turned up in several cities` drinking water supplies.

Natural News recently reported on a study conducted by Baylor University researcher Bryan Brooks, and published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, that examined fish caught near Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia and Orlando, testing them for residues of pharmaceuticals. The results showed that these fish are contaminated with a chemical cocktail of seven different prescription medications, including cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, allergy drugs and psychiatric medications used to treat bipolar disorder and depression, and two different chemicals used as artificial fragrance in soaps.

USA Today recently reported on a new study finding that young children have high levels of chemical fire retardants in their blood. The report stated, "Toddlers and preschoolers had levels of the chemicals that were on average three times higher than their mothers`, according to a study of 20 families by the Environmental Working Group, which has campaigned against the chemicals for several years. The chemicals, called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are widely used in televisions, remote controls, computers, mattresses and other products. Scientists are concerned that the chemicals cause brain damage in animals and may cause hyperactivity in children, says Jimmy Roberts, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics` committee on environmental health. Doctors also are concerned that the chemicals affect the reproductive organs and hormone systems."

These same chemicals are showing up in high amounts in the breast milk of American mothers. Two studies found that all of the women tested were contaminated with polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Their PBDE levels were the highest in the world: 10 to 20 times higher than those in Europe , where the chemicals are being phased out.

Last year, an article in the Washington Post warned that trace amounts of 6 popular prescription drugs had been found in the area`s drinking water, and that these harmful substances could not be filtered out by most treatment systems. This was not an isolated incident. According to the article, "Pharmaceuticals, along with trace amounts of caffeine, were found in the drinking water supplies of 24 of 28 metropolitan areas tested." Although experts agree that aquatic life are most at risk from exposure to the drugs in rivers and streams, researchers are concerned about what they don`t know about human health effects.

Bottled water is evidently not the answer. Natural News recently reported that bottled water from across the country contained a wide variety of toxic substances, according to laboratory tests conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The study authors wrote that the purity of bottle water cannot be trusted. Researchers conducted comprehensive tests at the renowned University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory on 10 leading bottled water brands, purchased from retailers in nine states and the District of Columbia (D.C.). A total of 38 toxic pollutants were detected altogether, with each brand containing an average of eight. Chemicals detected included fluoride, byproducts of chlorine-based disinfection, caffeine, pharmaceutical drugs, fertilizer residue, plasticizers, solvents, fuel propellants, arsenic, other minerals and heavy metals, and radioactive isotopes. Four brands also contained bacteria.

There is a safe and easy way to protect yourself from these horrifying contaminants - calcium bentonite clay. According to Michel Abeshera, author of The Healing Clay, "Clay has a remarkable resistance to chemical agents.... [A]s a bacteria-destroying agent it can render contaminated water innocuous."

How does calcium Bentonite clay work?

Bentonite clay carries a uniquely strong negative ionic charge which causes it to `magnetically` attract any substance with a positive ionic charge (i.e., bacteria, toxins, metals, etc.). These substances are both adsorbed (sticking to the outside like Velcro) and absorbed (drawn inside) by the clay molecules. Your body doesn`t digest clay, so the clay passes through your system, collecting the toxins, and removing them as the clay is eliminated. It`s like a little internal vacuum cleaner. In his book The Clay Cure, Ran Knishinsky states it this way:

"The clay`s immediate action upon the body is directly on the digestive channel. This involves the clay actually binding with the toxic substances and removing them from the body with the stool. It performs this job with every kind of toxin, including those from the environment, such as heavy metals, and those that occur naturally as by-products of the body`s own health processes, such as metabolic toxins. The clay and the adsorbed toxins are both eliminated together; this keeps the toxins from being reabsorbed into the bloodstream."

So while it currently may be impossible to avoid these contaminants, using calcium Bentonite clay can remove them from our system.

How do we use the calcium Bentonite clay?

In this day and age, there`s virtually no way to isolate yourself from the toxins that surround us. In our air, in our food, in the ground beneath our feet, and in our water, the contaminants abound. However, with calcium Bentonite clay, you can keep yourself healthy and vibrant.

Perry Arledge, author of Living Clay: Nature`s Own Miracle Cure, suggests the following protocol to keep yourself internally cleansed:

Clay must be taken internally. Take two ounces of liquefied clay twice a day made with 1 part dry powder calcium Bentonite clay to 8 parts water for 14 days. After that, you can scale back to 1 ounce a day.

Clay baths, taken twice a week, are also helpful. Clay baths help keep your body cleansed by pulling toxins through the pores. To prepare a clay bath, scatter about 2 cups of Bentonite clay powder into the bath water as it`s running, and use your hands to swish away any lumps that might form. A clay bath should last ideally between 15-20 minutes. Submerge as much of your body as possible during the bath. The more clay that is used in the therapy, the more powerful the response.

How do we choose the right clay?

There are many companies selling clay these days, but you need to know this: Not all clays are created equal! Some clays should never be used externally, let alone internally. You must do your due diligence and make certain that you are using a high quality, safe, healing clay. According to an article published in Natural News, the following standards should be followed when choosing a good quality detoxing clay:

A natural calcium Bentonite clay pure and free of contaminants.
A pH of 8.7 or above.
From a company that provides a mineral analysis sheet.
From a company that provides a certified laboratory microbial test.
A Montmorillonite-Smectite Clay that Absorbs and Adsorb.
So pure it is odorless and tasteless.
It is an all natural vs. processed clay.
Has professional packaging (no Ziploc bags or hand-written labels) with labels showing directions and ingredients.
A non-gritty clay
From a company that gives you direct contact information - a phone number, physical address and an e-mail address.
From a company available to answer questions about their clay.
From a reliable company that has been in business for several years.
A clay that does not stain material.

Resources:

Living Clay: Nature`s Own Miracle Cure, Perry A~, 2006, Perry Productions. (www.livingclaybook.com)

USA Today: "CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula", http://www.usatoday.com/news/health...
(accessed 4/12/09)

Mike Adams, Natural News: "Cocktail of Pharmaceuticals Found in the Fish Caught Near Major U.S. Cities", http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html (accessed 4/12/09)

Liz Szabo, USA Today: "Fire Retardant Chemicals Found in Toddler`s Blood", http://www.usatoday.com/news/health... (accessed 4/12/09)

Elizabeth Weise, USA Today: "Flame retardant found in breast milk". http://www.usatoday.com/news/health... (accessed 4/12/09)

Carol D. Leonnig, Washing Post: "Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines",
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/09/ST2008030901877.html (accessed 4/12/09)

David Gutierrez, Natural News: "Bottled Water Found Contaminated with Medications, Fertilizer, Disinfectant Chemicals" http://www.naturalnews.com/025993.html (accessed 4/12/09)

The Healing Clay, Michel Abehsera, 1986, Lyle Stuart.

Perry Arledge, Natural News: "Criteria for Selecting a Quality Healing Clay", http://www.naturalnews.com/025053.html (accessed 4/12/09)

2050: 1.1 Million Over 100 Years Old; Their Aging Brains

2010-09-22T21:50:00.000-07:00

By Amy Sherman*
Mclatchy-Tribune News Service.

07-21-10

There was a recent article in my local paper about brain fitness and how to retain optimal brain function well into our senior years. As boomers, we are all concerned about moments of memory loss and wonder if we are experiencing dementia or other signs of cognitive impairment.

Chances are our memory loss is more about our ability to retrieve information and filter out unnecessary irrelevant material than it is about cognitive decline and illness. Because there's so much information bogging us down and distracting us, it becomes difficult to shut off the "noise" long enough to remember what we want to remember. That makes us feel forgetful and susceptible to those numerous senior moments.

However, we can't ignore that cognitive decline may happen, but we don't have to feel helpless to the aging process. Most researchers will agree that a challenged, stimulated brain will retain and regenerate brain cells and that translates into maintaining, restoring and revitalizing cognitive acuity well into the golden years of our lives.

Therefore, if you want to slow up the aging process, you may want to learn a new language, do crossword puzzles, play Sudoku or take piano lessons to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

Research is now taking aging a step further. Apparently, not only is it important to learn challenging new experiences, but it is important to do so in a social setting, connecting and interacting with others. The University of Southern California has been studying this concept with a group of seniors who are well into their 90s. The key to their brain health is their afternoon bridge game where they are required to maintain a strong focus by remembering the bidding, the dealt hands and the strategies of their partner.

These residents in Southern California are considered the most successful seniors in the world. In fact, this research is altering the way scientists are looking at the aging brain. While mental exercises and good diet can't hurt to keep you healthy and alert, it seems you need to be involved socially with others to maintain your cognitive alertness and acuity.

Successful aging is really based on lifelong choices, a good attitude and a keen sense of your life's purpose. The Census Bureau estimates that by 2050 there will be 1.1 million people 100 years old. Baby boomers who continue to train their brain on a regular basis are twice as likely to retain high cognitive function than someone who doesn't. This means that if you start now, you'll reap the rewards of a healthy, sharp, active brain for many fruitful years to come.

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*Amy Sherman is a licensed mental health counselor and trainer.

Antibiotics vs Probiotics: Who Wins?

2010-09-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

This may surprise you, but antibiotics are not necessarily unnatural. In fact, most antibiotics are natural compounds produced by bacteria or fungi. These microorganisms produce antibiotics to protect themselves. Their tiny immune systems produce an arsenal of antibiotic biochemicals enabling them to expand their colonies within a hostile environment threatened by other microorganisms.

Why Are Natural Health Advocates Opposed To Antibiotics?

Antibiotic use goes back to the late 1920s and Dr. Alexander Fleming, who was looking for ways to kill the bacteria that infect cuts and wounds. One day he noticed that a particular mold from the genus Penicillium notatum was especially effective in killing bacteria. He isolated that substance and called it penicillin.

Prior to this, several researchers, including microbiologists Dr. Louis Pasteur and Dr. Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, had come to understand that bacteria produced substances that killed other bacteria. In the early 1900s, Mechnikov focused on the bacteria species known as Lactobacillus bulgaricus. This bacterium had been cultured in dairy by the northern and eastern Europeans for centuries and seemed to promote health and prevent disease in those who drank the tangy fermented culture.

These bacteria came to be known as probiotics (pro = promoting, biotic = life).

In the decades following the discovery of penicillin, many other antibiotics were isolated from microorganisms and became the darlings of the then fledgling pharmaceutical industry. The ability of these antibiotics to knock out life-threatening infections was a blessing that the medical institution came to rely upon as its most effective treatment for many illnesses.

Probiotic research continued and slowly developed, but was neglected next to the excitement around antibiotics. However, probiotic research increasingly illustrated that the body's own microorganisms were responsible for much of the disease resistance and that various cultured foods had been effectively uses as medicines over thousands of years because of these probiotics.

So Why Are Probiotics Effective?

Probiotics secrete a variety of antibiotics that either repel or kill microorganisms that invade the body. In other words, the very antibiotics the pharmaceutical industry hype are simply the same types of secretions that our own body's probiotics produce.

Probiotic research has matured over the past 40 years, but has only recently become a mainstream focus. Many probiotic supplements and specially formulated foods are readily available.

Meanwhile, criticism around antibiotics has increased because over the years, they have been so widely used, that a number of bacteria species have become resistant to antibiotics. Bacteria are living creatures and can adapt and learn to survive in the face of adversity.

Probiotics, however, are also living creatures. As their opponents get used to one weapon, they will figure out a new weapon to launch against the invader.

Antibiotic Strategies

This is not to say that antibiotics are not great weapons against many infections when prescribed and used wisely. When our body's natural probiotics and immune system are not quite strong enough to take down a lethal bacterial infection, it only makes sense to launch an avalanche of microorganism produced antibiotics against the infective bacteria.

However, this strategy comes with complications. Antibiotics like penicillin will kill our body's probiotics as well. This is where trouble can start as it leaves us susceptible to other infections and unpleasant symptoms (like diarrhea).

Solution

We can take a good probiotic supplement, such as HealthPro Nutrient's Probiotic, between our antibiotic doses. A good probiotic will have a mixture of Lactobacillus and Bifodobacterium species. If we take the probiotic 2-3 hours before, and 2-3 hours after our antibiotic doses, the probiotics will provide the extra protection against opportunistic and antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

Taking probiotics in between antibiotic doses has also shown to increase the effectiveness of the antibiotic. Because the probiotics secrete different types of antibiotics, this can "double up" the antibiotic effect of whatever type of infection we might have.

At the end of our antibiotic course, we should continue to take the probiotics for a period of at least 2-3 months to help stimulate a regrowth of our resident probiotic species. While supplements do not replace our resident strains, they promote an environment allowing our probiotics to slowly regrow in colony strength. After several months, our resident strains can hopefully stage a comeback to healthy levels. Periodic courses of probiotics are recommended to stimulate this process over time.

Health practitioners and naturopaths recommend 30-40 billion CFUs of probiotics per day for adults in these situations.

*Article written based on research by Naturopath, Casey Adams.

Prevent Colds and Flu! Why Suffer When You Don't Have To?

2010-08-19T22:03:00.000-07:00

FACTS:

Americans get one billion colds a year.
Americans spend 1.5 billion dollars on doctor visits
American spend 2 billion dollars on non-prescription cough and cold treatments.
The influenza virus hospitalizes more than 200,000 Americans a year
36,000 die each year from the influenza virus
The flu shot is only 44 percent effective in stopping the flu

Is there any way to decrease your chances of getting a cold or the flu?

According to a study by James R. Sabetta, MD, in the Department of medicine at Yale University, the answer is yes. The study revealed that of those studied, those who had low blood levels of vitamin D had twice as many upper respiratory tract infections. Those who consistently maintained appropriate levels were completely free of these infections. Most of the study participants that remained healthy were taking a supplement.

Vitamin D is produced most abundantly in the body when the skin is exposed to strong, direct sunlight. It doesn't take a genius to know that when there's less sun, there's more illness. It's also easy to connect that when there's less sun, supplements will help fill that gap and keep colds and flus away.

There are many studies that link vitamin D levels to the flu. Yale researchers say that blood levels should be maintained at 38 ng/ml or higher to reduce infection risk. However, according tot he Vitamin D Council, half of all Americans have blood levels below 20 ng/ml.

The Vitamin D Council recommends that you test your blood for vitamin D every 6 months. Maintain blood levels higher than 38ng/ml in order for vitamin D to be stored in muscles and fat and therefore be the most effective.

Keep in mind that studies over the past few years show vitamin D can prevent (and often treat) cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, depression, asthma, multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, and many other conditions. In fact, high levels of Vitamin D have been linked to a reduction of death from any cause.

The Vitamin D Council recommends a vitamin D supplement of 5,000 IU a day and says that anyone who takes this amount regularly shouldn't get a cold or flu or should recover much faster. They also recommend taking vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), not vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol). Vitamin D3 is the compound your skin makes naturally. And don't worry about an overdose.

A couple more notes:
Spend 10 minutes each day in the sun during the summer months. Expose as much of your body as possible when the sun is highest in the sky.

HealthPro Nutrient's Youth D3 is an excellent Vitamin D supplement and in addition to providing protection against infection, is an incredibly efficient anti-aging formula that enhances the skin and combats the effects of aging from the inside out.

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Article sources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-gottlieb/the-easiest-way-to-preven_b_651576.html
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

Probiotics in Their Purest Form...100% Vegan, No Yogurt Necessary

2010-08-17T16:11:00.000-07:00

Most people in North America lack important probiotic bacteria normally found in healthy people that consume a diet based on plants, fibers, fresh fruits, and vegetables. Today’s highly processed commercial foods lack the healthful microorganisms that the body requires for a normal balanced microflora.

HealthPro Nutrient's Probiotic made with LactoSpore®, provides the good bacteria essential to maintaining a healthy immune system. LactoSpore is an intestinal probiotic enhancer designed to improve gastrointestinal function.

Normal intestinal balance of microorganisms can be disrupted by stress, disease, poor nutrition, toxins, and medications (i.e. antibiotics, immunosuppressant’s and gastric acid inhibitors) resulting in intestinal and systemic health disturbances.

Anyone who has taken antibiotics or other immune suppressing agents should take Probiotic during and afterwards. Probiotic does not cause gas or bloating.

A little more about LactoSpore:

LactoSpore grows in the small intestine where they add beneficial lactic acid to your digestive tract, which helps to eliminate potentially harmful bacteria present in our intestines. This reduces the symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, gas, and bloating caused by the presence of harmful organisms.

LactoSpore, L. sporogenes, is the Lactobacillus favored in infant nutritional programs, as recommend by the World Health Organization.

LactoSpore does not require refrigeration to maintain optimum potency. Lactospore is protected from destruction by environmental factors by the naturally present microencapsulating system, the spore coat.

LactoSpore is 100% vegan.

Skin Care is So Much More Than Just Skin Deep

2010-06-09T11:52:00.000-07:00

As you care for your skin topically with all the exciting new discoveries in facial gels, devices and medical treatments available to you today to slow the externally visible signs of aging do not neglect taking care to protect and nurture your skin from the "inside" as well.

When you use facial gels and spa devices in combination with great nutritional supplementation you provide a real means of support to your skin to help postpone the visible and "invisible" effects of aging. Industry analysts report that products to postpone aging will perhaps witness very strong demand in upcoming years.

The quality of the new cells you make every day is directly linked to the condition of your immune system. Good immune function will make your beauty regimen much more effective and long-lasting.

There are simply no supplements more important to the cell-building process than products that contain Ai/E10 because of Ai/E10's totally unique support for both adaptive and innate immunity. Remember to weave the unique benefit of an Ai/E10 product into your skin's beauty and destiny every day.

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Stomp Out Allergies With Ai/E10

2010-05-31T18:57:00.000-07:00

Springtime and Immune Support

As we enjoy the arrival of spring, for many it means the beginning of the aggravation of seasonal allergies. Allergies arise from an abnormal, but very common, immune system response to otherwise harmless substances in the environment. That suggests the importance of keeping our immune systems in top condition not only in the winter months but spring as well. Taking a supplement containing Ai/E10 everyday will help give your immune system the support it needs throughout the seasons. 50 mg twice a day or 100 mg once a day for general support.

Boosting Immunity - Good or Bad?

Dietary supplement products often claim that they "boost" immunity. We see that as a "stimulant" approach...."boost" immunity like you try to boost your awareness and even energy levels with caffeine in coffee, soda, etc. You won't see that claim made for Ai/E10. Ai/E10 works uniquely to help the immune system return to a state of "dynamic balance" by supporting immune communication, a goal stimulation will not accomplish. Stimulation may have its place at times and in moderation, but it will not help to support the immune imperatives of "recognition" and "remember." Only Ai/E10 supports immunity so effectively in such a simple and safe manner.

How is Ai/E10 Performance Measured?

Ai/E10 supports B, T and NK Cell activity more effectively than any other supplement product. Its further ability to help balance or "modulate" immune activity makes it right for everyone.

Taking a supplement containing Ai/E10 everyday will help give your immune system the support it needs. 50 mg twice a day or 100 mg once a day for general support.

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More Doctors Focus On Vitamin D Deficiencies

2010-05-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

A basic medical exam produces some familiar numbers, clues to your overall health -- blood pressure readings, cholesterol counts.

Now a new number is getting marquee treatment: a vitamin D level.

Do you know yours?

In the past year, a test that checks vitamin D levels in the blood has surged in popularity among doctors.

This summer the Institute of Medicine is expected to revise its recommendation for daily vitamin D intake. Experts agree the current guidelines are far too low.

If you have symptoms that include fatigue and muscle aches and pains, don't be surprised if your doctor suggests a vitamin D blood test at your next visit. Because of widespread deficiencies, some won't need any symptoms to suggest it.

Vitamin D is important to bone and muscle health for certain, but vitamin D experts worry that D deficiency is implicated in cancers, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, infections and depression, to name but a few ailments.

Carla Aamodt, an internal medicine doctor with St. Luke's Health System, said about half the patients she was testing were vitamin D deficient, with many more "borderline."

Michael Kennedy, a family physician at the University of Kansas Hospital, said a third to a half of the patients he tested in the past year were deficient.

Cardiologist James O'Keefe said general population statistics were worse. Lack of sun exposure, the natural way the body makes vitamin D, helps explain the deficiencies.

"Upwards of 70 percent of American adults are vitamin D deficient or insufficient," said O'Keefe, director of the preventive cardiology program at St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute. "In the last year, awareness of vitamin D deficiency has really exploded."

Doctors want to see a level of at least 30. That's nanograms per milliliter. Some prefer a minimum of 40. Levels in the low to mid-20s aren't unusual, and both Aamodt and Kennedy have had patients with levels under 5 ng/mL.

Billie Howard Barnes of Kansas City knows how that feels. The fourth-grade teacher at Pembroke Hill School had her vitamin D checked two months ago -- doctor-recommended and nothing she had considered before -- and was surprised by the call she got.

"The nurse says: 'I believe this is the lowest level we've ever had. Yours is 5.' "

Barnes is African-American, and people with darker skin, she learned, are at a higher risk of vitamin D deficiency.

"I'm 43, and getting up in the morning, my feet would hit the floor and every joint in my body was sore," she said. "I didn't realize how bad it had gotten. It just kind of crept up on me."

After several weeks of a high prescription dose of a vitamin D supplement, Barnes said she could tell a difference.

"It wasn't an instant thing, but I just feel much better. I'm not as stiff. Colleagues say there's more pep in my step," said Barnes, mother of 10-year-old twins. "And I'll tell you, my children are taking 1,000 IU (international units) a day now."

Of course, the potential wonders of other vitamins have been heralded before, only to be debunked or downplayed later.

But O'Keefe and others point out that D is unlike other vitamins and should be recognized for what it is: a hormone.

"Vitamin D is misnamed," he said.

Although there are food sources of vitamin D, its natural production takes place inside the body after the skin is exposed to sunlight. As a hormone, vitamin D helps regulate gene function throughout the body, so its implication in various body functions and disease processes makes sense. Its strong roles in bone and muscle health and in aiding calcium absorption have long been known.

The process nature intended -- ultraviolet rays on exposed skin equals vitamin D production -- would be the most likely method to remedy deficiencies except for two matters. People aren't out in the sun enough. And if they were, they would increase their risk of skin cancer.

"We're doing such a good job putting on sunscreen and being cautious because of skin cancer that we kind of left vitamin D out of the equation," Kennedy said.

That was then. Responding to an array of vitamin D research in the medical literature, Kennedy said he now regularly informed patients about the possibility of D deficiencies, and he often suggests ordering the blood test.

The test is called "25-hydroxy vitamin D," costs about $100 and may or may not be covered by insurance. O'Keefe said in the past year it had become the most popular "a la carte" blood test doctors were ordering.

If a patient is deficient, levels usually can be increased with vitamin D supplements, typically in pill form. Food sources of vitamin D, such as ocean fish and fortified milk, typically can't be consumed in enough quantities to do the trick.

For borderline and slight deficiencies, doctors often recommend an over-the-counter supplement containing 1,000 IU or more of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), taken daily. Many multivitamins contain 400 IU of vitamin D.

Up to 2,000 IU in a daily vitamin D supplement is considered safe for most people without worry of toxicity. Severe deficiencies may require a prescription.

Some doctors recommend both supplements and short amounts of sun exposure, with the caveat not to burn the skin. O'Keefe said a safe approach for many patients was to take a supplement plus get a maximum 15 minutes of unprotected sun exposure. But many doctors aren't comfortable suggesting sun exposure to patients.

"I'm a big advocate for sunscreen, but I'm simultaneously a big advocate for vitamin D supplements," Aamodt said.

With help from the noonday sun, the body can make a lot of vitamin D.

It's estimated that a light-skinned person in "optimal" conditions -- 60 percent skin exposure, sitting in the sun for 30 minutes between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in warm months -- would make 10,000 IU of vitamin D.

People with darker skin have to be in the sun longer to make the same amount and thus are more likely to be deficient.

A year and a half ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics doubled its recommendation for daily vitamin D supplements for infants through adolescents, from 200 to 400 IU.

Anecdotally, Aamodt said, patients she has treated who have vitamin D levels below 10 ng/mL said they "feel better overall, have more energy with less muscle aches and pains."

Vitamin D and calcium improve bone density and reduce falls and fractures. And although many other correlations with health and disease prevention are suspected with improved vitamin D levels, the jury is still out.

"I think the data will only get better," Aamodt said. "Stay tuned."

Vitamin D levels

Many doctors consider a vitamin D blood level of 30 ng/mL as a benchmark. Below 30, and they probably will recommend a supplement. We asked local cardiologist James O'Keefe to put a finer point to the numbers. Here's his suggestion:

--40 to 70 ng/mL: Excellent

--30 to 39: Adequate

--20 to 29: Mildly deficient

--10-19: Moderately deficient

--Under 10: Severely deficient

HealthPro Nutrient's Answer - Youth D3
Youth D3 contains natural vitamin D3 which has shown to provide a major benefit in cardiovascular health & skeletal support. D3 is normally synthesized in the body from sunlight, but due to the winter season, weather conditions, and sunscreen, the body's ability to produce optimal vitamin D3 levels are inhibited. Some believe that annual fluctuations in vitamin D3 levels explain the seasonality of the flu virus.
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Published 4/21/10 by The Kansas City Star, Mo

You May Be Too Fit To Be Healthy

2010-05-10T17:08:00.000-07:00

Most people will want to be both fit and healthy, but therein lies a problem that people are not aware of. Most people think that fitness and health go hand in hand and that when you are fit that you are also healthy at the same time. Not so, fitness and health are two distinctly different concepts.

Fitness and health are not the same
Fitness is the ability to perform work, create physical energy, with well trained muscles and health is the absence of illness. These two are not mutually inclusive. If you concentrate on health improvement you will improve the health of muscles as well and it will improve their ability to produce energy, in other words it will improve overall fitness as well. On the other hand, if you concentrate on fitness improvement and a washboard stomach and other pleasant looking muscle groups, then your health will actually decline. That sounds crazy and totally at odds with what we have learned and what we believe about fitness and health. But that are new insight that can be better understood after reading www.PlasmaCirculation.com.

Blood circulation
Health requires better blood circulation through all the tissues in the body (vital organs, brain, joint tissue etc.) and fitness requires more blood circulation through muscles. It so happens that an increase of blood-flow through muscles will necessarily result in a decrease of blood-flow through all non-muscle cell tissues, resulting in less blood delivery to all these cell tissues. It means a decrease in delivery of nutrients, oxygen and disease fighting white blood cells (a most important part of our immune system) and that means a decrease in health and greater risk of cancer in all the cell tissues that get fewer white blood cells, oxygen and nutrients delivered to them.

Exercise creates blood flow through muscles at the expense of blood flow through all non-muscle tissue in the body (vital organs, brain etc.)
Exercise creates greater blood flow through the muscles that are producing energy during the exercise. Capillaries in the working muscles open up to a larger flow diameter. They dilate to a larger diameter as a result of lactic acid that is produced by the muscle cells that create the energy. with most exercise the flow diameter of the capillaries goes back to normal. With some exercises that greater blood flow through the fit muscles remains after the exercise when the person is no longer exercising. The blood flow through the fit muscles will still remain at a higher flow volume when the person is at rest and that means lower volume of blood through all other non-muscle cell tissues when the person is at rest and not only when that person is exercising. It means more fitness and less health.

But since most people equate fitness with health they will be wanting to do the kind of exercises that improve fitness and they will wind up decreasing their health. This explains then also why many highly fit people from the World of sports will often wind up with a lot of severe health problems in their mid-fifties and sixties and many will die in their mid fifties and sixties, many as a result of cancer. We then wonder how it is possible that these very fit people wind up with these big health problems and die, because we are stuck in the belief that fitness equals health.

Here is the explanation:
When you concentrate on creating maximum fitness, you will have to do very intense exercises that will increase blood-flow through muscles so that the increased blood-flow will deliver more “fuel” and oxygen to the muscles with which they can create more energy and perform more work (fitness). The problem is that an increase of blood-flow through these fit muscles means a decrease of blood-flow in all other cell-tissues in the body.

It now becomes clear
It now becomes clear why some very fit individuals such as athletes in certain sports are having serious health problems in their mid-fifties and sixties and why a number of them die in their mid-fifties and sixties. They have created too much permanent blood flow at rest through all their highly trained very fit muscles. Professional football players have an average lifespan of 52, much lower than the average population.

Many of the health problems are cancer related. That is also explained in http://www.plasmacirculation.com/

Low resting pulse rates
The people that have created a high degree of fitness and a lot of blood flow through highly trained muscles at rest, will have a low resting pulse rate. They now incorrectly believe that a low resting pulse rate is a good thing because it is as a result of being very fit. And since they believe that fitness means health, they will try to train for even more fitness that results in an even lower pulse rate at rest. They now are well on their way to less health and more illness. Very confusing right?

Why is their resting pulse low?
The main influence of resting pulse rate is the level of CO2 circulating in the blood. People that have developed a lot of bloodflow through muscles at rest will have less blood circulation through all non-muscle celltissues at rest. Not good for health and it makes for low levels of CO2 in the blood at rest, resulting in a low pulserate.

The Best Exercise is Explosive
Just like any other animal, the best way to keep your body in shape and your blood circulating properly is through explosive movement. But how do you exercise like that without hurting yourself? The answer is QuickGym.

The QuickGym / ROM machine puts you through cardio performed at such an intense level that your body will spend the rest of the day expending energy to recover from the workout. This is commonly referred to as EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) and it means that you consume a great deal more oxygen recovering from the exercise than you would have if you'd just done a steady-state workout like jogging or walking. This means that you will be burning up to nine times more fat while sitting on the couch later that night than you would have if you'd spent an hour on the treadmill at a moderate pace.

High intensity training, also known as HIT training, has a number of benefits in addition to the reduction in training time. First of all, this type of training is far superior to steady-state exercises when it comes to increasing your VO2 max, which is the maximum amount of oxygen you can uptake during exercise.

Besides, The best exercise is the one you will do!

Chinese Wolfberries May Improve Vision Problems Brought On by Type-2 Diabetes

2010-04-08T22:04:00.000-07:00

A Kansas State University researcher is exploring the use of Chinese wolfberries to improve vision deficiencies that are common for type-2 diabetics. Dingbo "Daniel" Lin, K-State research assistant professor of human nutrition, is studying wolfberries and their potential to improve damage to the retina.

His findings show that the fruit can lower the oxidative stress that the eye undergoes as a result of type-2 diabetes. "I would not say that wolfberries are a medicine, but they can be used as a dietary supplement to traditional treatments to improve vision," Lin said.

"Wolfberries have high antioxidant activity and are very beneficial to protect against oxidative stress caused by environmental stimuli and genetic mutations." Lin has experience in biochemistry and eye research, and he wanted to bridge his current work in nutrition with vision.

In a conversation about the eye and phytochemicals Lin had with his father, a traditional medical doctor in China, Lin decided to explore the use of wolfberries for vision improvement. "In our culture's history, we have traditional medicine literature that describes things like the wolfberry and its functions," Lin said.

Wolfberries are bright orange-red, oblong-shaped and grown in China. Lin said the fruit is known to help rebalance homeostasis, boost the immune system, nourish the liver and kidneys and improve vision. He wanted to understand the mechanisms of the wolfberry's effects on vision and started the project in July 2008.

Lin and his colleagues have found that wolfberries have high levels of zeaxanthin, lutein, polysaccharides and polyphenolics, which have been shown to improve vision, including the prevention of age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

The researchers are using dried wolfberries and examining their effects on the retina pigment epithelial cell layer. "It's the only cell layer in the far back of the retina, and it provides a fundamental support to the whole retina, just like the base of a building," Lin said. "All of the nutrients pass through that cell layer."

By using type-2 diabetic mice, the researchers are studying the effects of wolfberries on oxidative stress, one of the factors that occurs in diabetic retinopathy, which is a common complication of diabetes and the leading cause of blindness in American adults. "Oxidative stress is known as cell impairment of the production of reactive oxygen," Lin said. "Cellular oxidative stress is involved in many human diseases, such as diabetes, vision impairment and blindness."

The researchers also looked at the endoplasmic reticulum, which is where the folding process of proteins occurs in a cell. When the accumulation of unfolded protein aggregates occurs persistently, the endoplasmic reticulum is under stress.

Prolonged stress will eventually cause cell deaths, Lin said. The in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that the wolfberry's phytochemicals protect the retinal pigment epithelial cells from hyperglycemia, or high glucose.

The findings show that the fruit has local effects on oxidative stress, reactivates the enzyme AMPK and reduces endoplasmic reticulum stress." AMPK is a key enzyme in the balance of cell energy homeostasis," Lin said. "The outcome of the current research will lead to the development of dietary regimens in prevention of an eye disease."

The researchers are continuing to study wolfberries and their health benefits. Lin said wolfberries could be used as a dietary supplement, though the fruit isn't likely to be found in traditional U.S. food stores. He said consumers might find them in a Chinese food store or on the Internet.

The research is part of a fast-moving field called nutrigenomics, which studies the effects of food on gene expression and disease. Nutrients have been shown to affect gene expression, and by understanding the roles of specific nutrients and how they might cause diseases, scientists could recommend specific foods for an individual based on his or her genetics.

At K-State, other researchers collaborated on the project: Denis Medeiros, professor and department head of human nutrition; Yu Jiang, research associate in human nutrition; Edlin Ortiz, junior in life sciences, Liberal; and Yunong Zhang, a former research assistant in human nutrition. The research has been presented at the 2009 Experimental Biology conference and 2009 American Society of Cell Biology Conference.

-Manhattan, KS., March 30, 2010 / PRNewswire-USNewswire

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WHAT'S IN YOUR WATER?

2010-04-05T22:22:00.000-07:00

Your body is about 70% water. Keeping your body healthy is directly linked to hydration. You should be drinking HALF OF YOUR BODY WEIGHT in ounces of water.

A leading problem for millions of Americans, that is directly related to thousands of illnesses and diseases, is inflammation.

Click here to read the HPN blog on inflammation.

Inflammation is caused by toxins and chemicals that build up in your system. They never take a day off. Drinking lots of water every day helps flush them out.

However...

Tap Water Is NOT Safe
According to Time Magazine, tap water in America is not safe. "All told, there are about 3,000 prescription pharmaceuticals in use in the U.S. and thousands more over-the-counter drugs, not to mention creams and ointments we smear on and then shower off. 'Between cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and other sources,' says John Spatz, commissioner of Chicago's department of water management, 'there are 80,000 potential combinations of chemicals.'

Wastewater from homes gets treated at sewage plants, but it's never possible to remove every trace of drugs. What's more, sewage pipes break, septic tanks overflow, and in some parts of the U.S. "straight-piping" — which sends untreated sewage flowing directly into surface water — is still practiced. One way or another, the drugs find their way back to us."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1976909_1976907_1976871,00.html#ixzz0kGnuDkH5

MOST Bottled Water Is Convenient, But NOT SAFER And NOT GOOD FOR YOU
"If you repeatedly test over 100 brands of bottled water, about a third will have a problem, and if you tested tap water that often, you will find something similar," says Erik Olson, director of advocacy for the nonprofit National Resources Defense Council.

Olson adds that with the exception of a few isolated pockets of truly bad drinking water, most municipal systems and most bottled water sources are fairly equal in terms of contaminants and other health and safety issues.

Additionally, many brands of water include ingredients like salt and additional additives that prevent your body from absorbing it. The result is often a waterlogged feeling feeling--instead of refreshing and energizing you...it actually weighs you down.

Water As An Investment In Your Health
The best possible alternative is to find water that is science-based and formulated to be of the best possible benefit to your body. Why pay for just water, and especially bad water, when the water your body needs can also:

enhance the absorption of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins and other important nutrients
speed fatigue recovery
maintain healthy circulation
support a healthy immune system

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Comparing the cost of a bottle of Evolv to a bottle of water found in the grocery store is like comparing apples and oranges. With Evolv, the water is free. What you are paying for is the unique Archaea Active formula. The spring water Evolv uses is the best source for delivering nutrients throughout your body.

HealthPro Nutrient recommends drinking Evolv water instead of other bottled waters. However, a great alternative is to drink 2-3 Evolv waters each day and then supplement for the rest of your ounces with Fuji or Smart water. Remember, you need to drink HALF of your body weight in ounces of water each day.

Interesting note: Did you know that your skin is the largest organ in/on your body? Did you know that it needs water, and lots of it, to thrive? Don't be mean to your skin and starve it of what it needs!

Healthy Dark Chocolate Positively Affects Diabetes

2010-01-06T16:59:00.000-08:00

Both forms of diabetes are conditions that are linked to and exacerbate other major health conditions. Numerous studies indicate that dark chocolate has a very favorable effect on blood sugar levels and the symptoms of diabetes.

How Does Dark Chocolate Minimize the Effects of Diabetes?

Protects blood vessels from scarring because of excess glucose and insulin
Minimizes symptoms of neuropathy
Reduces incidences of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance
Protects from cardiovascular symptoms related to blood-glucose abnormalities

How Does Dark Chocolate Minimize the Effects of Diabetes?

Not all chocolate is the same. Those chocolate products that use alkalized ("dutched") cocoa and that contain high amounts of sugar, oil, milk fats, and synthetic ingredients won't yield the same health benefits as healthy dark chocolate.

How Much Chocolate Should You Eat?

Recent studies on cacao have concluded that health benefits were obtained by consuming dark chocolate foods containing 600-900mg of flavonoids on a regular daily basis. Flavonoids are just one of the classes of antioxidant compounds found in abundance in cacao.

Findings from a 2008 double-blind trial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology demonstrate that cocoa can mitigate the effects of diabetes. In the trial, diabetic subjects experienced a reversal of vascular dysfunction common to diabetics.

Why Do You...Age? Get Sick? Get Diseases?

2009-12-22T22:49:00.000-08:00

This might seem hard to believe, but we as humans don't actually age, we don't get sick, and we don't get diseases. Our cells do.

Our body's health is dependent on our cells' health. So to slow down aging, limit sickness, and prevent disease, we must protect and properly feed our cells.

If you were to put buttermilk in your car's gasoline tank...it would get a "disease" and stop working.

This blog is the first of several entries on this subject, as it is important for all HealthPro Nutrient customers, distributors, and friends to learn as much as possible about how your body works, and how to keep it nourished and healthy. We have the secret to the best health care plan possible.

That health care plan is knowledge.

What Are Cells Made Of?

Cells are made up of many atoms. When these atoms are healthy, the cells replicate (make an exact copy) and keep the body young, well, and disease free. What makes an atom healthy is that it has "paired" electrons (yellow dots).

How Do Cells Age, Get Sick, And Get Diseases?

Atoms missing an electron (yellow dot) are not just "bad", they actually destroy surrounding atoms by stealing their electrons. An atom missing an electron is called a Free Radical. Free Radicals alter or destroy cells. Cells that die, and cells that replicate in a damaged state, are the cause or contribute to premature aging, sicknesses, and diseases such as cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and many others.

Where Do Free Radicals Come From?

smoking
stress
UV rays
pesticides
pollution
medications
certain foods
food additives
x-rays
excessive exercise
chlorine
mercury
many more

Free radicals come from pollution released into our environment all over the world.

Free radicals come from pesticides and insecticides put on our plants, grass, weeds, and in our air.

Free radicals come from water treated with chlorine to make it "safe" for drinking.

One cigarette generates approximately one quadrillion free radicals (1,000,000,000,000,000).

The Solution Is Antioxidants

Antioxidants have "extra" electrons (yellow dots) that can give to free radicals, which eliminate their harmful effects.

Antioxidants are your body's defense against destructive free radicals. Therefore they are your defense against aging, sickness, and disease.

Part 2 in this series will provide you with information about how antioxidants neutralize free radicals and reduce your risk of disease.

Vitamin D Emerges as Treatment for Prostate Cancer - Cuts PSA Levels by Half

2009-12-11T12:16:00.000-08:00

Treatment with vitamin D supplements may slow the progress of prostate cancer, according to a study published in the journal BJU International.

In the United States, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men, after lung cancer. Approximately 240,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, leading to 30,000 deaths.

Researchers have suspected for nearly two decades that the so-called "sunshine vitamin" may play a role in the risk and progression of prostate cancer, but no studies have previously been conducted on its usefulness as a treatment.

"It's very interesting - there has been no significant trial of vitamin D," said lead researcher Jonathan Waxman of Imperial College London. "This is a treatment which is unlikely to have significant toxicity and is a welcome addition to the therapeutic options for patients with prostate cancer."

Waxman decided to do the study when he learned of a prostate cancer patient who recovered after his wife bought vitamin D pills for him. Waxman and colleagues recruited 26 men with prostate cancer and assigned them each to take a daily vitamin D supplement. In five of the men, reductions in levels of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) were reduced.

In men with prostate cancer, PSA levels are an indicator of disease severity. One participant experienced a decrease in PSA levels less than 25 percent, two experienced decreases of between 25 and 50 percent, and two experienced decreases of more than 50 percent. In one of the participants, PSA levels remained reduced for a full 36 months.

Vitamin D is synthesized by the body upon exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight. It plays a critical role in calcium absorption and bone health, and deficiency in the vitamin can lead to rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults. Recent research has also suggested that vitamin D can help prevent autoimmune disorders and a variety of chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Some scientists have stated that if everyone increased the amount of time they spent in the sun, far more lives would be saved from cancers prevented than would be lost from increased skin cancer cases.

A light-skinned person can get enough vitamin D from getting 15 minutes of sun on the face and hands each day, while a darker skinned person might need up to 45 minutes. More sun exposure is needed at more extreme latitudes.

A connection between vitamin D and prostate cancer was first suggested in 1990, when researchers suggested that the vitamin might tie together a variety of observed risk factors for the disease. A wide body of research has demonstrated that prostate cancer risk is higher at northern latitudes (where people get less vitamin D), among older people (with reduced vitamin D synthesis) and black people (who absorb less UV rays). Researchers have also found that men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer or autumn, when vitamin D levels tend to be highest, have a better prognosis than men diagnosed in winter or spring.

In 1992, researchers also suggested that higher vitamin D consumption in Japan might account for lower rates of prostate cancer there, relative to the United States. Japanese men consume more fatty fish, which is high in both vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids that increase the vitamin's stability in the body, and soy, which slows the rate at which bodily vitamin D breaks down.

Since then, studies have found that many prostate cancer cells contain vitamin D receptors, and that vitamin D can inhibit the growth of some of these cells.

Researchers also hypothesize that vitamin D might inhibit the action of the androgen receptor, which produces male sex hormones that have been linked to the disease.

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The above article was originally published by David G. of Natural News

Brain Health Impacts Diabetes

2009-12-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

Think of a treatment for diabetes, and you probably think of a drug or natural therapy that targets the pancreas to help normalize blood sugar levels. Resveratrol, a phytochemical found in red grapes, has been shown to have a host of health benefits -- including improving diabetes in animal studies. But, it turns out, that's not necessarily because it benefits the pancreas. Instead, scientists have made an unexpected discovery: resveratrol's anti-diabetic properties appear to be mediated through the brain.

That's the conclusion of a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, that was just published in Endocrinology, a journal of The Endocrine Society. The researchers focused on sirtuins, a class of proteins activated by resveratrol that are thought to underlie many of the potential beneficial effects of calorie restriction, including promoting longevity and slowing down the aging process.

Early studies in mice have produced important evidence showing that when resveratrol activates sirtuins, diabetes is improved. While sirtuins are expressed virtually all over the body, until now researchers have remained in the dark about what tissues could be mediating resveratrol's beneficial effects on the disease.

"We know that sirtuins are expressed in parts of the brain known to govern glucose metabolism, so we hypothesized that the brain could be mediating resveratrol's anti-diabetic actions," said Roberto Coppari, PhD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and co-author of the study, in a statement to the media. "To test the hypothesis, we assessed the metabolic consequences of delivering resveratrol directly into the brain of diabetic mice. We found that resveratrol did activate sirtuins in the brain of these mice which resulted in improving their high levels of blood sugar and insulin. These findings may lead to new strategies in the fight against type 2 diabetes."

Dr. Coppari and his research team found that long-term infusion of resveratrol into the brains of diet-induced obese and diabetic mice normalized the animals' hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and greatly improved the rodents' hyperinsulinemia (excess levels of circulating insulin in the blood). The scientists noted in their research paper that these beneficial effects were independent of changes in the lab animals' body weight, food intake, and circulating levels of leptin (a hormone that helps regulate appetite and metabolism).

Resveratrol -- which is found in red wine, red grapes and grape juice -- has been found to promote health in a remarkable number of ways. In addition to preventing heart disease, it can help maintain a healthy weight, keep cholesterol in balance and even support increased longevity). It may also prevent and reverse fatty liver disease.

For more information:
http://endo.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/en.2009-0528v1

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The above article was originally published by S. L. Baker of Natural News

More on Inflammation: What You Don't Know May Kill You

2009-12-09T14:08:00.000-08:00

America is in the middle of a health crisis. Over the last two decades, our society has seen a dramatic increase in conditions such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and arthritis. In fact, chronic disease accounts for approximately 75% of deaths in people over 65.

What is on thing these conditions have in common?

A primary underlying cause of these conditions is chronic inflammation.

What Is Inflammation?

Most of us think of inflammation as the swelling that accompanies a sprained ankle or insect bite. This type of inflammation is acute and part of the body's healthy response to injury or illness. But when inflammation is present for long periods of time, it causes problems...often big problems.

What Causes Chronic Inflammation?

Usually, this is a result of how we live. Our diets have too much fat, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and chemicals. All of these can injure the body's cells and tissues. Our environment exposes us to hundreds of toxins and chemicals every day. Pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol, smoking, excessive sunlight, household cleaners...the list goes on and on. They all create free radicals that damage our cells, tissues, and organs...which ultimately result in the body creating an inflammatory response.

Which Conditions Can Chronic Inflammation Contribute To?

Cardiovascular disease
Dementia
Diabetes
Obesity
Irritable bowel syndrome/digestive disorders
Fibromyalgia and other autoimmune disorders

Which HPN Products Help?

Most HPN products help with inflammation because they are focused on creating wellness by balancing your system, feeding you the nutrients you need, and addressing from the inside the negative factors you are living with on the outside.

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Indulge...Just Be Prepared

2009-11-20T16:50:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday for showing appreciation to those we love and live our lives with. We want to celebrate and we don't want to think about whether we ate too much, or how much sugar our bodies are trying to process, or whether or not we should have that extra piece of pie. Honestly, who can say no to one more piece of Grandma's Pumpkin Pie? Or better yet, who should?

We say eat all you want this holiday season...just be prepared!

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Why Is This Important?

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Also, some ingredients, like those you will find in Life Line or ClearBody, are best served in liquid form and therefore don't travel as well. If you are traveling this holiday, you can take Probiotic, Digestive Enzymes, and Regulier with you as they pack easily and won't cause any headache at the airport.

What Does Each Product Do?

ClearBody clears our body of toxins, enhances our metabolism, and increases endurance.

Digestive Enzymes are the catalyst which allows us to break down foods into absorbable nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids. Digestive Enzymes help to promote a healthy stomach.

Probiotic provides the good bacteria essential for maintaining a healthy immune system and helping to maintain normal intestinal balance that can be disrupted by stress, disease, poor nutrition, toxins, and medications (i.e. antibiotics) resulting in intestinal and systemic health disturbances.

Regulier is an herbal formulation that establishes healthy elimination of toxins and free radicals to maintain a healthy balance in the body. Regulier contains Calcium Bentonite Clay, the body's natural pH balancer.

LifeLine has the very best antioxidant compounds available for cell enhancement, weight managment, and mitochondrial support (mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they generate most of the cell's supply of chemical energy.)

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A Pre-New Year's Resolution

If your New Year's Resolution is going to be to "get healthy" or "lose weight", give yourself the best chance of not only starting that goal, but finishing it. Don't "wait until the holidays are over". Prepare your body for the increased consumption of refined sugars, calories, and fat. Get your digestive and immune system primed so that you can process it better. It will be much easier to keep your resolutions if you do. Not doing so is like putting two soldiers up against an army and asking them to sort of "chip away" at the oncoming slaughter.

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Get To Know Vitamin D

2009-11-19T10:00:00.000-08:00

Vitamin D has received a lot of attention lately. As its health implications become more and more apparent through research, it is becoming evident that a significant proportion of the population has inadequate blood levels of the vitamin. It is estimated that up to 58% of US adolescents and adults are deficient. Chronic vitamin D deficiency and its consequences represent a major public health challenge. This article is intended to increase understanding of vitamin D and promote awareness of its connection to health and well-being, through a series of questions and answers.

What is Vitamin D?

Vitamin D actually refers to a number of distinct, but related compounds. Differentiating between these compounds is necessary in order to fully appreciate this important substance. When exposed to sunlight, the skin synthesizes cholecalciferol, or vitamin D3. Cholecalciferol can also be taken as a supplement. After it is produced in the skin or ingested, it undergoes a two-step modification by the liver and kidneys. The first step yields calcidiol, which serves as an intermediate, storage form. Calcidiol is later activated to become calcitriol, which functions as a steroid hormone in the body.

Why is Vitamin D Important?

Vitamin D has been synthesized by life on earth for more than 750 million years. This fact alone suggests that vitamin D is a fundamental component of physiology and health. The vitamin D receptor (VDR) is located inside virtually every cell in the body. It is the target of activated calcitriol. After calcitriol binds to its receptor, the resulting complex functions to regulate DNA expression. This process affects more than 2000 genes. Some genes are activated and others are suppressed by the action of vitamin D. Through such genetic control, vitamin D ultimately directs the activity of hundreds of enzymes and proteins. This is perhaps the strongest evidence for its vital role.

What are the Effects of Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is well known for its role in calcium absorption and bone metabolism. However, this is only one of many important health benefits that vitamin D has to offer. It is also known for its anti-inflammatory effects, anti-cancer activity and its ability to strengthen the immune system. The capacity to regulate DNA itself means that vitamin D influences the very foundations of biochemistry, giving it the power to positively impact all body systems and harness the body's innate healing ability.

What Evidence Exists for the Benefits of Vitamin D?

Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with at least 17 varieties of cancer, along with many other chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and chronic pain. This may appear to be a tremendous claim. However, the relationship between vitamin D and disease is easy to recognize once you understand that it is integrated into our physiology, acting as one of the keys to normal cellular activity.

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the article above contains exerpts from an article written by Jeremiah Smith, citizen journalist, Natural News

References:

Vitamin D Council
(http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/)

Wikipedia, "Vitamin D"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D)

GrassrootsHealth

Sunlight, Nutrition And Health Research Center

FOCUS ON BRAIN HEALTH: Vitamin B12 Deficiency can Look Identical to Alzheimer's Disease

2009-11-11T16:13:00.000-08:00

The article below talks about the dangers of a Vitamin B12 deficiency. Vitamin B12 can be found in the HealthPro Nutrient brain formulas:

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When is Alzheimer`s Disease NOT Alzheimer`s Disease? When it`s actually caused by undiagnosed Vitamin B12 deficiency. This frequent occurrence is a tragedy in our society where growing numbers of those with Alzheimer`s Disease are diagnosed every year. Despite having IDENTICAL symptoms in many cases, vitamin B12 deficiency is almost NEVER considered as a possible cause.

Alzheimer`s Disease is a growing personal and family problem as well as a HUGE financial burden for society. And with over 4 million people in the US alone who have been diagnosed with this 'incurable' disease, Alzheimer`s Disease is becoming an ever growing crisis. Governments around the world are attempting to combat this problem by spending millions of dollars every year on research for drugs, stem cell treatment, genetic manipulation and pharmaceuticals- yet nothing has been found to effectively stop or slow its insidious spread. However, doctors in clinical practice are completely overlooking a SIMPLE cause of this problem that could stop the disease in its tracks. The scientific evidence is VERY CLEAR that the symptoms of Alzheimer`s Disease could be RADICALLY improved in many cases if a trial of high dose vitamin B12 were instituted soon after diagnosis.

Vitamin B12 deficiency, also called cobalamin deficiency, becomes more and more common as people get older and some researchers estimate that over 800,000 elderly in the US have undiagnosed deficiency. Yet because few clinicians are trained to look for its symptoms, many elderly who SHOULD be screened for this simple vitamin deficiency are, instead, diagnosed with `incurable` neurologic diseases. These mental changes from vitamin B12 deficiency were first described as far back as 1902, with much research having been done since that time. Many times, these changes are accompanied by lesions and degeneration of the brain and spinal cord on medical imaging that doctors use as evidence of the irreversible nature of this disease. Astoundingly, when these degenerative changes are caused by Vitamin B12 Deficiency, they are actually REVERSIBLE if high dose therapy is started soon after diagnosis!

Not only is medical imaging worthless in determining which cases will benefit from Vitamin B12 therapy, but blood testing has little value either. Since the 1950's, several studies have shown that cases of dementia that respond well to vitamin B12 therapy often have completely normal Vitamin B12 blood tests. Yet 50 years later, doctors still rely EXCLUSIVELY on blood testing and medical imaging to determine the need for Vitamin B12 therapy. These studies are clearly showing that a trial regimen of high dose vitamin B12 is absolutely warranted with cases of new onset dementia regardless of the results of medical testing. Yet modern medicine is simply NOT paying attention, and this extraordinarily safe therapy that costs less than $100 is virtually NEVER instituted. As a result, Alzheimer`s patients who COULD have benefited if B12 therapy were instituted soon after diagnosis are left with no memory and no hope.

Additional Articles/Research:

1) http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=2306220&pageindex=1

2) http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2035923&blobtype=pdf

3) http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/12/3/389

source: by Kerri Knox, RN, citizen journalist

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Inflammation: The Little Known Bully

2009-11-10T21:55:00.000-08:00

Below, there is a very good article addressing inflammation concerns. Inflammation has been in the news for some time and as you will read below, is a hot topic in medical research today. HealthPro Nutrient has a full line of products that address this very issue. If you have any of the risk factors listed at the bottom of this article, HPN can help. Our goal is to keep you well.

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A Huge Number of Illnesses are Caused by Inflammation

There is a surprising link between Heart Attacks, Cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases. These other diseases include all forms of Autoimmune disorders including Arthritis and MS, Parkinson's, Osteoporosis, Diabetes, Obesity, Allergies including Asthma and Food Intolerances, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and many other pain disorders. And there is much evidence to suggest that the link is inflammation. The modern diet and lifestyle is likely to cause inflammation in the body, and this can lead to a variety of illnesses.

Inflammation is now the hottest area of medical research, as drug companies rush to find remedies for this modern day epidemic. Unfortunately, these drugs are generally dangerous and don't get to the root of the problem.

Inflammation is the age-old immunological defense mechanism that causes the area of tissue of an injury to become red, hot and swollen. Most of the time, inflammation is a lifesaver that enables our bodies to fend off various disease-causing bacteria, viruses and parasites. The inflammatory response should subside after it has fought off any invaders to an injury site and has allowed the healing to begin. However in certain circumstances, the inflammatory response fails to shut down and becomes chronic.

This is often due to poor dietary and lifestyle factors which promote chronic inflammation. Immune cells use "free radicals" to kill off pathogens and other foreign invaders. Free radicals (also known as reactive oxygen species) are unstable particles which puncture and damage cells around them. This is great for killing bacteria, but it can also damage healthy cells if allowed to become out of control. In a body with chronic inflammation, there is therefore increased free radical or "oxidative" stress in the body. Free radicals damage blood vessels, joints, cell membranes, nerves and just about any other part of the body - this is why chronic inflammation is so bad for us. Free radical stress is also essentially how we age.

The body has an army of natural defense against free radicals; these are known as antioxidants. In states of chronic inflammation, the body can become depleted of antioxidants, and hence free radical stress does a lot of damage. This in turn causes more inflammation and more free radicals! It is essential to break this cycle of damage by lowering factors which promote inflammation, and by boosting our antioxidant status through dietary and lifestyle changes.

One last point - do we want to "boost" our immune system if it is already "over-active" due to inflammation? The answer is yes and no! There is only one PART of the immune system which gets over-active and begins to create problems with inflammation. Another part of the immune system works along a different line of attack; it does not create inflammation, but does a very important job fighting off bacteria, parasites, cancers cells and viruses. Many people today have signs of inflammation, yet also come down with yeast infections, viruses, dental infections and so on. In a sense their immune system needs modulation (Cell Balance and Cell Design), reduction of the pro-inflammatory side, and a boost to the other side which fights off the baddies without inflammation.

Risk factors which promote inflammation:

A poor diet can create micro-nutrient deficiencies. Type "B" malnutrition is rampant in the Western countries. This is a diet high in calories but deficient in nutrients, resulting in obesity and poor health. Micro-nutrient deficiencies make us more susceptible to low grade infections such as helicobacter pylori (the cause of stomach ulcers), gum disease, recurrent urinary tract infections, and Chlamydia. All low grade chronic infections can set up a chronic inflammation in the body.
Poor gut health. A significant part of the immune system is found in the gut. The immune system in the gut is one of the most important first lines of defense against the outside world; after all, it is the area where matter from the outside is brought inside the body. The gut contains many billions of bacteria; most of them are good and help promote good immunity as well as good digestion, and they help with the absorption of nutrients. However, if there is an over-growth of "bad bacteria", these produce toxins and trigger the immune system. This is known as gut dysbiosis and can trigger a systemic low grade inflammation throughout the body's immune system. A symptom of poor gut health are food intolerances. A diet low in fiber and high in saturated fat and sugar promotes gut dysbiosis. Constipation is very bad for your health!
Stress causes inflammation through worsening gut health, makes the body more susceptible to chronic low grade infections and lowers the immunity to bacteria, viruses, parasites and so on. All of this can trigger inflammation. Stress can also reduce cortisol hormone levels if adrenals are exhausted, which is a natural anti-inflammatory hormone.
Obesity. Fat cells behave like immune cells, spewing out messages to increase the inflammatory immune response. Therefore a sedentary lifestyle and a diet high in fat and sugar promote inflammation.
Environmental pollution such as pesticides, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals from things like exhaust fumes and electrical appliances.
Excessive sunlight since sun burn is free radical stress.
Excessive exercise since the process of energy production produces free radicals as a by-product. Some exercise is good for you but overdoing it at the gym every day is very bad for you.
Trans and hydrogenated fats made from over-heating vegetable oils. These are also found in processed and refined foods and deep fried foods.
A diet deficient in antioxidants (antioxidants can be found in most fruit and vegetables).

source: Alex Howard, citizen journalist, NaturalNews

The Power of Green Tea

2009-11-09T23:07:00.000-08:00

Green tea has been in the news quite a bit lately, and for good reason...below are two articles related to the powerful effects green tea has been found to have on cancer.

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Green Tea Reduces Risk of Blood Cancers by 42 Percent

A Japanese green tea study has determined impressive results regarding the reduction of blood and lymph cancers. Tohoku University researchers found a 42 percent reduction for blood cancers and 48 percent reduction for lymph cancers with high green tea consumption.

To arrive at these results, they analyzed the age, gender, lifestyle, and health of 40,000 Japanese over a ten-year period. The statistical observations over time have been bolstered with western clinical application and lab studies that revealed interesting observations.

For example, the Mayo Clinic of Minnesota fed leukemia patients large doses of GTE's (green tea extracts) and discovered immediate benefits in their patients. The doctors consider GTE's a helpful adjunct to orthodox cancer treatments. They declined the notion of using GTE's exclusively or in conjunction with other natural cancer treatments.

Researchers in Spain and England isolated the mechanics of green tea's inhibition of cancer cells. Their research was published in the March 2005 issue of Cancer Research. They found that EGCG, an extremely abundant catechin (active polyphenolic antioxidant metabolites) in green teas, inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), which are needed by cancer cells to proliferate. Upon closer scrutiny of green tea EGCG, they determined that its molecular structure closely resembles that of the cancer drug methotrexate used in chemotherapy.

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6325630/Five-cups-of-green-tea-a-day-lowers-cancer-risk.html

Green Tea Extracts May Protect Against Oral Cancer

Extracts from green tea may prevent the formation of mouth cancers in people with risk signs of the disease, according to a new study from Texas.

Over 50 per cent of participants in the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center study experienced a clinical response to the green tea extracts, according to findings published in Cancer Prevention Research.

“While still very early, and not definitive proof that green tea is an effective preventive agent, these results certainly encourage more study for patients at highest risk for oral cancer,” lead researcher Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou, MD.

“The extract's lack of toxicity is attractive - in prevention trials, it's very important to remember that these are otherwise healthy individuals and we need to ensure that agents studied produce no harm,” he added.

Green tea contains between 30 and 40 per cent of water-extractable polyphenols, while black tea (green tea that has been oxidized by fermentation) contains between 3 and 10 per cent. Oolong tea is semi-fermented tea and is somewhere between green and black tea.

The four primary polyphenols found in fresh tea leaves are epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin gallate (ECG), and epicatechin (EC).

Phase II Stats

The study, a phase II dose-finding trial, followed 41 people with oral leukoplakia who are at risk for developing oral cancer. The participants were assigned to receive either placebo or green tea extract.

Almost 60 percent of people taking the two highest doses of the green tea extracts had a clinical response. Just over 36 percent of people in the lowest extract dose group had a clinical response, compared to 18 percent in the placebo group, said the researchers.

Commenting on the safety, the researchers noted that side effects such as insomnia and nervousness were mostly only recorded in the high-dose group. None of these produced significant toxicity, they added.

“While these are encouraging findings, much more research must be done before we can conclude that green tea may prevent oral or any other type of cancer. It's also important to remind people that this trial enrolled very few participants who, at the highest dose levels took the equivalent of eight cups of green tea three times a day,” cautioned Papadimitrakopoulo.

“We need to further understand if green tea offers longer-term prevention effects for patients,” he added.

According to the American Cancer Society, more than 35,720 are expected to be diagnosed with oral and/or pharynx cancer and the five year survival rate is less than 50 percent.

Source: Cancer Prevention Research, Volume 2, 931; "Phase II Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial of Green Tea Extract in Patients with High-risk Oral Premalignant Lesions"; Authors: A.S. Tsao, D. Liu, J. Martin, X. Tang, et al.

Gut Bacteria Link to Breast Cancer Probed

2009-11-07T21:41:00.000-08:00

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Researchers at the Chicago based Rush University Medical Center has received $750,000 in funding from the US Department of Defense to study microbial cells in the human gut and the mechanism by which they can influence health and disease.

The researchers, led by gastroenterologist Dr. Ece Mutlu, said that they hoped to determine whether gastrointestinal microbiota has the potential to explain rises in breast cancer incidence.

The study is part of a wider project aimed at understanding how changes in bacterial genomes, known as the human microbiome, can be correlated with changes in human health, according to the Medical Center.

The researchers want to map out the composition of gut microorganisms and they hypothesize that if they are able to find the microbes responsible for certain diseases it could influence potential treatments or diagnostic tools.

Breast cancer susceptibility genes explain less that five to 10 per cent of total breast cancer cases related to familiar factors, maintain the research team.

Moreover, they claim that the gut microbiome passed on from mother to child may be another familiar factor previously never taken into account in the genetic risk models for the disease.

The team said that they will use a technology for genomic sequencing called Multitag Pyrosequencing (MTPS) that will allow them to identify 50,000 or 60,000 microbes per sample.

The team said they are currently recruiting study participants who are female, 30 years of age or older, and newly diagnosed with breast cancer before any treatment has begun.

Clinical data from the participant’s medical records will be taken, and prior to a patient receiving any cancer-related therapy, biopsies of the colon and stool specimens will be taken, added the researchers.

Source: Jane Byrne, Nutra-Ingredients.com

"Sunshine Vitamin" To Stave Off Breast Cancer?

2009-11-07T15:39:00.000-08:00

This Interesting Article Comes Off The Canada NewsWire

Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of contracting the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.

That's the message vitamin D pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto Tuesday as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine's "Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency" conference - the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the UT Faculty club for the landmark event.

Garland's presentation headlined a conference that reviewed many aspects of the emerging vitamin D research field - a booming discipline that has seen more than 3,000 academic papers this calendar year alone, conference organizers said. That makes vitamin D by far the most prolific topic in medicine this year, with work connecting it with risk reduction in two dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple scleroses and many other disorders.

Dr. Reinhold Vieth, Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at University of Toronto, and Director of the Bone and Mineral Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital, organized the event in conjunction with Grassroots Health - an international vitamin D advocacy group founded by breast cancer survivor Carole Baggerly.

As much as 97 percent of Canadians are vitamin D deficient at some point in the year, according to University of Calgary research - largely due to Canada's northerly latitudes and weak sun exposure. Sunshine is by far the most abundant source of vitamin D - called 'The Sunshine Vitamin' - with salmon and fortified milk being other sources. Vitamin D supplementation helps raise levels for many as well.

Grassroots Health's "D-action" panel - 30 of the world's leading researchers on vitamin D and many other vitamin D supporters - recommend 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily and vitamin D blood levels of 100-150 nanomoles-per-liter as measured by a vitamin D blood test.

Vieth pointed out that natural vitamin D levels of mammals who live outdoors in sunny climates is higher than that - up to 200 nanomoles-per liter. And Garland, whose presentation was entitled "Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease" presented data showing that raising one's vitamin D status near those levels decreased breast cancer risk more than 77 percent.

'The Sunshine Vitamin' was once thought of only for bone health, helping the body process calcium. But more recent work has shown that all cells in the body have "vitamin D receptors" which help control normal cell growth. Additionally, Garland presented new evidence that low vitamin D status compromises the integrity of calcium-based cellular bonding within tissues, which when eroded allow rogue cancer cells to spread more readily.

SOURCE: GrassrootsHealth

Twenty Reasons Why Vitamin D Is Better Than A Swine Flu Vaccine

2009-11-04T21:52:00.000-08:00

The news is out: Vitamin D is better than the swine flu vaccine at halting H1N1 infections. In fact, without vitamin D, chances are that a vaccine won't generate much of an immune response in the first place.
That's because vitamin D is essential for healthy, active immune function. That's just one of the reasons smart people are choosing vitamin D instead of the swine flu vaccine. Here are nineteen more reasons:

#1 Vitamin D activates your immune system to respond to any viral exposure (not just one virus).

#2 Vitamin D naturally belongs in your body.

#3 Vitamin D has been functioning as medicine in the human body since the beginning of the human species.

#4 Vitamin D is available right now and there's no shortage of it.

#5 Vitamin D won't cause your brain to swell and put you into a coma.

#6 Vitamin D doesn't require an injection with a scary needle.

#7 Vitamin D is found naturally in many foods such as sardines or salmon.

#8 Vitamin D has a perfect safety record. No one ever died from consuming it.

#9 Vitamin D is affordable. You can even get it for free (from sunlight).

#10 Vitamin D doesn't contain viral fragments from diseased animals (like vaccines often do).

#11 Vitamin D doesn't contain thimerosal or other chemical preservatives.

#12 Vitamin D doesn't need a warning sheet describing possible side effects.

#13 Vitamin D doesn't hurt your arm when you take it.

#14 Vitamin D also improves sugar metabolism, bone density and healthy moods.

#15 Vitamin D is safe for the environment.

#16 Vitamin D doesn't contain squalene or other inflammatory adjuvant chemicals.

#17 Vitamin D works on everyone and is safe for everyone, including infants and children.

#18 Vitamin D is made in nature, not a laboratory.

#19 Vitamin D is found naturally in breast milk.

#20 You can walk, and chew gum, and generate vitamin D from sunshine all at the same time!

Skip the vaccine. Get more Vitamin D!

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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Focus on Ingredients: AiE/10 for Immune Support

2009-11-03T12:27:00.000-08:00

Many substances are known to affect the structure and function of the immune system; some are mere stimulants, while others modulate immune function. The nutritional ingredient Ai/E10®, has been studied for its ability to stimulate restoration and maintenance of immune function, resulting in improved immune competence and balance.

Ai/E10 can be used as an ingredient in food, as a dietary supplement, or as an inactive ingredient in homeopathic remedies and drug products; it has been self-affirmed GRAS (generally recognized as safe).

Ai/E10 is a patented and proprietary ingredient for the immune system. Ai/E10 is a refined lacteal peptide complex that consists of over 60 hyper-immunized communication molecules to help the immune system recognize, respond to, and remember germs that come into the body. This unique ingredient can be found in the HealthPro Nutrient products Cell Balance and Cell Design.

Studies:
The following studies utilizing Ai/E10 were conducted by Solstice Clinical Associates, Tucson, AZ; Quantum Research Inc., Scottsdale, AZ; Immune Consultants, Tucson, AZ:

Study 1:

107 patients with documented and advanced chronic illness
Followed and treated with Ai/E10 for 13.2 months
Natrual Killer (NK) cell activity rose significantly, placing them at the high end of the recognized range for people in a healthy population (246 Lytic Units [LU])

Study 2:

12 healthy adults
Monitored over 90 days as they
Consumed 100 mg of Ai/E10 daily
Intervention significantly elevated NK cell activity from a pre-study mean of 30 LU to a post-study mean of 101 LU.
Additionally, Ai/E10 consumption significantly reduced “symptoms” on a general health evaluation.

Study 3:

Monitored the activity of NK cells, macrophages, and Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) activity
20 participants; 10 received a placebo; 10 took 200 mg of Ai/E10 daily for 15 days.
The study group exhibited a clear “modulated” immune response, elevating key immune markers occurring in concert with each other, which is consistent with observations of the immune system’s ability to recognize and respond.

Berlett Dietary Ingredients also conducted a study on Ai/E10, the results of which were published in the Townsend Letter, Examiner of Alternative Medicine, in December 2006. Ai/E10 was compared to other substances marketed for immune support, including colostrum, maitake, arabinogalactan, lactoferrin and astragalus. The researchers reported all materials demonstrated immune stimulation; however Ai/E10 also had a strong, reliable capability to increase immune surveillance and transfer immunological information among cell groups.

This posting is based on an article originally published by David L. Bergsma in Natural Products Insider, August 2008

Special Report...Flu Vaccine & Side Effects

2009-11-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

Special Report:

The flu vaccine comes with potential horrible side effects! Please be aware of this and know the risks. Watch the video and arm yourself with information before playing Russian roulette with your health.

We know that you CAN NOT afford to be sick, out of work, or go to the doctor. Investing in your health, investing in wellness from the inside out, having a proactive approach...that is the insurance you need. You can make your immune system smarter so that when viruses come, they are taken care of by a strong internal army of your own antibodies.

Guillain-Barre is another debilitating neurological syndrome that completely incapacitates those it affects. Most people who suffer from this syndrome end up on a ventilator, for months in the hospital. The first question asked when someone is diagnosed is whether a swine flu vaccine had been administered.

During "non-pandemic" years, Guillain-Barre is very rare (in a town of 150,000, there may be 1-2 cases of Guillain-Barre in a year), but during times when Swine flu vaccines are administered, those numbers soar.

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Anti-Bacterial Cleansers Don't Work Against Swine Flu

2009-10-30T14:08:00.000-07:00

For years, critics and even the food and drug administration, have questioned the use of antibacterial cleansers. Soaps and sanitizers (including Purell) that promise to kill viruses and germs actually provide very little benefit for consumers and could pose both environmental and public health risks.

It is often not clear whether antiseptics give any further benefit than washing with plain soap and water.
Some doctors warn that widespread use of antibacterial products can lead to the emergence of bacteria that resist antibiotics. Further, overexposure to these products prevent people from being exposed to routine bacteria, which may weaken the development of their immune system.
Environmentalists worry that some antibacterial cleansers may hurt algae and fish and break down in to a harmful contaminant.

So what can you do to help protect yourself from viruses, including the deadly Swine Flu?

It’s important to clean your hands as often as possible with soap and water. But the only sanitizing product proven to kill viruses and germs is alcohol, so when you can’t wash…use a hand sanitizer with an Isopropyl alcohol base, such as HPN’s Hand Sanitizer for Healthy Hand Hygiene.

HPN’s hand sanitizer is a mist, which means more coverage and the ability to sanitize things like door handles, shopping carts, airplane seats, etc. Also, this special formula contains special emollients that are engineered to 'stay out of the way' of alcohol molecules during the killing phase, yet leaves the skin soft and moisturized.

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2009-10-29T20:36:00.000-07:00

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H1N1 and Small Businesses

2009-10-28T22:30:00.000-07:00

If H1N1 (Swine Flu) is widespread this winter, many small businesses will be crippled “severe absenteeism,” warns workplace authority John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, an outplacement consulting firm.

Making the problem worse, Challenger says, are several factors:

Many companies are operating at minimum staffing after layoffs
Many lack any emergency planning related to a big flu outbreak
Many have ineffective sick-leave policies.

“For an employer that has recently gone through a downsizing and already stretched thin in terms of staffing, 40 percent absenteeism in a given month could be devastating,” said Challenger.

Widespread problems aren’t out of the realm of possibility. There have been more than 9,000 confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu strain reported in the United States so far this year, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control. The World Health Organization puts the number of 2009 cases worldwide at nearly 350,000, with at least 4,100 deaths resulting from the virus.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is certainly concerned about the potential impact. The agency along with Homeland Security are offering an H1N1 preparedness guide for small businesses.

Click here to download the free booklet.

“For countless small businesses, having even one or two employees out for a few days has the potential to negatively impct operations and their bottom line. A thoughtful plan will help keep employees and their families healthy, as well as protect small businesses and local economies,” said SBA Administrator Karen Mills.

A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health found that just one in three companies indicated that they could sustain their business with severe operational problems if half their workforce were absent for two weeks due to H1N1. Only one in five felt they could keep operations running if they were staffed at 50% for a month.

A recent poll by LogMeIn, Inc., a provider of remote computing devices, found that nearly 60% of small- to medium-size businesses do not have a business-continuity plan in place for a possible flu outbreak. A separate survey of 100 senior executives at private equity, hedge funds and other financial services companies conducted by Insite Security found that only 10% have plans to deal with the impact of H1N1 on their businesses.

“Beyond the impact on individual companies, there is the impact on the entire economy resulting from decreased tourism, trade and increased burden on the health care system,” said Challenger.

One recent example is the 2003 outbreak of SARS. It is estimated that the SARS outbreak – which infected just 8,000 people worldwide – cost the Chinese economy $18 billion, including a 65% drop in tourism and a 15% decline in retail sales. When the virus spread to Toronto , the Conference Board of Canada estimated that it cost the city $1 billion in lost gross domestic product.

Challenger has several suggestions for companies to protect workers if H1N1 is widespread:

Increase the number of shifts. This will reduce the number of people working in the office at one time.
Limit meetings. If there is no need to gather large groups of workers in a confined space then do not do it. Conduct meetings via conference calls. Bigger companies may want to consider video conferencing.
Expand telecommuting. Determine who can work from home or other locations. This will keep people off of public transportation and out of the office.
Allow sick workers to stay home without fear losing their jobs.
Institute flexible leave policies to allow parents to care for an ill child or one who is home due to school closures.
Provide no-touch trash cans and hand sanitizer.
Assign someone to the post of flu czar or workplace illness coordinator, who would be responsible for monitoring absenteeism rates, coordinating leave and informing employees of company measure to prevent and/or respond to outbreak.

Originally published by Jan Norman, small-business columnist

Strengthening The Immune System

2009-10-28T18:25:00.000-07:00

When a country is threatened by its enemies, its government responds with a declaration of war, and the country mobilizes and prepares for battle. Similarly, when the body is under attack from foreign bodies and pathogens, the immune system mobilizes to protect organisms from infection with layered defenses.

The human immune system is an intricate and complex system that is constantly working to protect our bodies from harm. Its defenses are organized into three layers:

the physical barrier,
the innate immune system, and
the adaptive immune system.

The physical barrier prevents pathogens such as bacteria and viruses from entering the body. If this barrier is breached, the innate immune system responds. This system is found in all plants and animals defending the host in a non-specific matter, meaning it doesn’t offer long-lasting immunity to the host. In addition, it does not have immunological memory.

The final layer of protection is the adaptive immune system, which is only found in vertebrates. The adaptive system does just that—adapts its response during an infection to improve its recognition of a pathogen, i.e., bacteria and viruses. The body uses y-shaped antibodies, produced by white blood cells, to identify and neutralize foreign substances, as known as antigens. Antigens trigger a reaction from the immune system and are often found on the surfaces of bacteria and viruses. After the pathogen has been eliminated, the antibodies stay in the body as an immunological memory. This helps the adaptive immune system launch a stronger attack each time the pathogen is met. Antibodies can be transferred from one individual to another, often from a mother to the fetus through the placenta. This is known as passive immunity and is a short-term transfer.

Many different types of immune cells travel through the body identifying pathogens. White blood cells, leukocytes, defend the body against antigens. There are two major types of leukocytes: lymphocytes and phagocytes. Lymphocytes are found in the adaptive immune system where immunological memory takes place and allows the body to recognize previous invaders. The two major types of lymphocytes are T cells and B cells. They start out in the bone marrow and either stay and mature (B cells), or depart for maturation in the thymus gland (T cells). B cells search for antigens and send antibodies to lock on to them; T cells destroy the antigens that the B cells identified. There are two types of T cells: helper T cells and killer T cells. Killer T cells destroy the antigens tagged by antibodies. Helper T cells help signal other cells (like phagocytes) to perform their job.

Phagocytes are biological cells that ingest and destroy foreign matter, bacteria, etc. There are three main categories of phagocytes: macrophages, microphages (mainly neutrophils, which fight bacteria) and dendritic cells. Each type of cell targets a specific type of foreign body such as parasites, bacteria or fungi. Neutrophils are the main cell found in pus, eosinophils mainly deal with parasite infections and are the predominant cell in allergic reactions, and basophils are present during an allergic reaction causing inflammation. Inflammation is the body’s protective attempt, triggered by dying cells, to remove the foreign bodies and start the healing process for the tissue; it is not a symptom of infection.

Immune disorders occur when the body’s immune system is deficient and cannot perform at its potential. Immunodeficiency is when one or more of the components of the immune system are inactive and it is unable to launch a normal immune response. Autoimmunity occurs when the immune system fails to properly distinguish between itself and non-self; basically, the body is attacked by its own immune system. Lastly, hypersensitivity is an immune response that damages the body’s own tissues.

Fortunately, the body doesn’t have to fight these battles on its own. Natural supplements have been proven to help boost the body’s immune system and strengthen its defenses.

Originally Published By: Alissa Marrapodi on http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com

Imperatives of the Immune Response

2009-10-27T14:52:00.000-07:00

When developing a dietary supplement to support the immune system, it is important to have a specific idea of the expected effects. Considering the “imperatives” of the immune response and how to best support those imperatives can help guide product developers in making the best choices.

Imperatives are defined as “obligatory acts or duties.” Most activities within the human body are unconscious or involuntary, happening naturally or automatically unless there is some interference with the activity.

The immune system carries out millions of actions daily with no conscious instruction and operates with a set of three imperatives relative to foreign invaders:

1. Recognize them.

2. Respond to their presence.

3. Remember how to respond to them effectively.

Five factors have been shown to interfere with the immune system’s ability to execute its duties relative to the imperatives—stress, poor nutrition, toxins, infection and trauma. Interference by these factors primarily manifests as a reduction in immune system communication, which reduces the immune system’s effectiveness. This reduction in communication is represented physically in the body by a reduction in the number, variability and viability of immune communication cells available to carry out the imperatives.

Most dietary supplements support what is known as “innate” immunity, primarily comprised of monocytes, neutrophils, granulocytes, natural killer (NK) cells and various specialized proteins. The innate immune system can recognize and respond to pathogens in a generic way; it does not confer long-lasting or protective immunity. Study data comparing the performance of one nutritional compound to another inevitably compares their effects on innate immunity. The immune support provided by these ingredients is generally the “generic” stimulation of cells that are already present toward a higher level of activity. Many products inaccurately describe this effect as immune “modulation.” An immune modulation effect implies intelligent up or down regulation, or a lack of movement, based on the circumstances present in the immune system at the time the ingredient is introduced. Stimulation is a one directional activity like caffeine in a cup of coffee. There is no specific intelligent modulation generally applicable to this activity.

The weakness of a stimulated approach to immune support rests in the realization that stimulation cannot reach immune communication cells that have been compromised or eliminated by the five factors. Clearly, there is only a limited and unpredictable benefit to stimulating immune cells already present in an individual’s immune system while creating no benefit for that which does not exist or has been marginalized.

As biological resources are finite, continual stimulation of an already compromised immune system opens an individual to reduced capability or other even more serious immune disorders or health compromises caused by the exhaustion of hormones, nutrients and co-factors that would otherwise be available to the immune system. Often, as a defense, the immune system will compensate for this continual stimulation using even more resources and rendering further use of the product meaningless.

The innate immune system can reach beyond its limited generic recognition capability and activate what is known as “adaptive” immunity. Adaptive immunity provides the long-term ability to recognize and remember and strengthens the ability to respond beyond the capabilities of innate immunity. The adaptive immune system is dependent upon the presence of a highly variable array of immune communication cells, primarily comprised of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells and lymphocytes, which generate the immune cascade that modulates the entire immune response and results in the production of antibodies. If the array is compromised, the immune system will struggle and innovate to create optional solutions that may or may not be successful. This struggle reduces immune capability and introduces the potential for undesirable outcomes. Some autoimmune diseases, for example, are thought to be triggered in this way.

Accordingly, formulators of immune products may wish to aim beyond simple stimulation and support “adaptive” immunity and true immune modulation. Innate immunity, by itself, may not be sufficient to protect a host against an invading pathogen. When innate immunity fails, the invader may yet be detected and attacked by the mechanisms of adaptive immunity.

The immune communication molecules needed to support the body’s adaptive immunity cannot come from a plant or herb, mushroom, fungi, etc. These coded immune communications molecules, necessary for a variable and intelligent immune response, can only come from another mammal. Most interesting is that mammals can also simultaneously provide superior support for innate immunity. Consider the role of breast feeding to see the validity of this concept.

The first goal of a dietary supplement for long-term support of the immune response should most surely be to provide a ready source for orally absorbable and relevant immune communication molecules to help replace those that have been lost to stress, poor nutrition, toxins, infection and trauma. These highly soluble immune communication molecules exist below <100kD and are highly synergistic with other immune stimulants of herbal and mushroom origin as well as antioxidants.

The presence of sufficient immune communication molecules sets the stage for support of full and effective immune capability and a high level of utilization of other supplements and nutrients from food. Accordingly, this type of immune support should be considered the cornerstone of “intelligent” dietary supplementation.

Originally Published 7/10/2009 by David L. Bergsma. David L. Bergsma is president of Health Technology Resources Inc., a Scottsdale, AZ-based company engaged in dietary supplement research and innovation.

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Probiotics Prevent Asthma

2009-10-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

This article talks about using healthy bacteria to help with your immune system in the gut:

Probiotics Prevent Asthma

Gut health is responsible for over 60% of your immune system so you can see how important probiotics are.

Dr. Oz recommended two supplements for the flu (including Swine Flu): probiotics and vitamin D3!

HealthPro Nutrient Probiotic is unique since it doesn't have to be refrigerated, it isn't destroyed by the stomach acid, and it is dairy free and 100%vegan.

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Flu Season is here in force! Over 1,000 Swine Flu Deaths in U.S.

2009-10-25T13:49:00.001-07:00

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Check out the new video on Swine Flu with President Obama, Officials from the CDC, Tommy Thompson (former Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services), and research scientists. http://ping.fm/xszLm

HealthPro Nutrient Educational Programming

2009-10-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

HealthPro Nutrient Educational Programming

HealthPro Nutrient is hosting a fall/winter series of educational programs and updates every other Sunday evening at 7:00 to 7:30 pm PST. The 30-minute conference calls will feature cutting edge information on how to protect yourself and others against the Swine Flu (H1N1 Virus).

Due to overwhelming inquiries related to the Swine Flu and immune health, HealthPro Nutrient will keep you up to date on cutting edge information designed to defend you and your family against this growing concern.

Learn how the Refined Lacteal Peptide Complex (Ai/E¹º®) found in Cell Balance and Cell Design works for optimal immune health.

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