Monday, September 27, 2010
To Be or Not To Be Organic
"In today’s economy, money can be tight and we are all looking to stretch wherever we can; but spending a little more to buy organic can be a wise investment in your health." Inger Pols, editor of the New England Health Advisor
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Want to Slow Down Aging?
"Of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage to your body, probably the most damaging are sugar molecules. Fructose in particular is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that accelerates aging." Dr. Joseph Mercola
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Hormonal Balance and Osteoporosis
Excerpts from http://www.drhotze.com/ blog of 8/5/10:
Hormonal imbalance can cause long term damage to the body including cognitive decline, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Eighty percent of osteoporosis cases involve women. The closer a woman gets to menopause the more at risk she becomes. Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bones' but, the good news is that your body has a process for rebuilding and rejuvenating bone. Cells called osteoclasts roam through your bone tissue looking for old bone cells. These osteoclasts dissolve the old bone and release the leftover calcium and minerals, leaving holes in the bone. Don’t worry, it’s all part of a great plan. Our second player comes on to the scene: osteoblasts. Osteoblasts fill these holes by using the leftover calcium and minerals to build new bone.
And viola! You’ve got new bone tissue!
Whether you have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia or would like to prevent osteoporosis, you have the ability to promote healthy bones now.
Hormonal balance is crucial to bone health. As estrogen levels decline, osteoclastic activity increases, removing nutrients and breaking down bone. On the other hand, progesterone enables bone-building osteoblasts to do their job. Osteoclasts are breaking down bone tissue faster than osteoblast can build it. When both estrogen and progesterone are deficient, the damage to bone is amplified at an alarming rate.
Progesterone falls 120 times faster than the rate of estrogen and can begin decreasing long before menopause. Therefore, bone loss can begin as early as your 30’s in the form of progesterone deficiency. You can see how progesterone deficiency over the years, combined with estrogen deficiency when you reach menopause can lead to osteopenia and eventually osteoporosis.
Estrogen and progesterone are not the only hormones that promote bone health. Testosterone and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), like progesterone, promote osteoblastic activity thus building new bone tissue.
In addition to correcting hormonal imbalance, adding a few supplements to your vitamin regimen can promote bone health. Supplementing magnesium, calcium citrate and strontium, along with optimizing your vitamin D levels are all good steps to ensuring healthy bones.
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Hormonal imbalance can cause long term damage to the body including cognitive decline, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Eighty percent of osteoporosis cases involve women. The closer a woman gets to menopause the more at risk she becomes. Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bones' but, the good news is that your body has a process for rebuilding and rejuvenating bone. Cells called osteoclasts roam through your bone tissue looking for old bone cells. These osteoclasts dissolve the old bone and release the leftover calcium and minerals, leaving holes in the bone. Don’t worry, it’s all part of a great plan. Our second player comes on to the scene: osteoblasts. Osteoblasts fill these holes by using the leftover calcium and minerals to build new bone.
And viola! You’ve got new bone tissue!
Whether you have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia or would like to prevent osteoporosis, you have the ability to promote healthy bones now.
Hormonal balance is crucial to bone health. As estrogen levels decline, osteoclastic activity increases, removing nutrients and breaking down bone. On the other hand, progesterone enables bone-building osteoblasts to do their job. Osteoclasts are breaking down bone tissue faster than osteoblast can build it. When both estrogen and progesterone are deficient, the damage to bone is amplified at an alarming rate.
Progesterone falls 120 times faster than the rate of estrogen and can begin decreasing long before menopause. Therefore, bone loss can begin as early as your 30’s in the form of progesterone deficiency. You can see how progesterone deficiency over the years, combined with estrogen deficiency when you reach menopause can lead to osteopenia and eventually osteoporosis.
Estrogen and progesterone are not the only hormones that promote bone health. Testosterone and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), like progesterone, promote osteoblastic activity thus building new bone tissue.
In addition to correcting hormonal imbalance, adding a few supplements to your vitamin regimen can promote bone health. Supplementing magnesium, calcium citrate and strontium, along with optimizing your vitamin D levels are all good steps to ensuring healthy bones.
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WellPro United is a network of Wellness Providers and the people they serve. It is the most Proactive and Authentic wellness network available. WellPro United offers exclusive benefits for Wellness Providers and Consumers. If you are a Wellness Provider, a supplier of Wellness Products or a user of Wellness Services and/or Products and want more information or to join the network please contact us at: WellProUnited@live.com, 832-245-5041, 713-339-0900, or WellProUnited.com. You can also find us on FaceBook and Twitter.
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Please see my other blogs: http://legacycoach.blogspot.com/, http://mrbbiblestudy.blogspot.com/, http://emergencysurvivaltips.blogspot.com/
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Cholesterol Fact or Fiction
Healthy cholesterol levels are the difference between life and death. You must reduce your cholesterol level to healthy cholesterol levels. A high cholesterol level means you will have a heart attack.
Cholesterol fact, or cholesterol fiction?
The answer is both simple and complex! Simple, in that cholesterol levels themselves are not the problem. Complex, because high cholesterol levels signify a different problem (albeit an easy one to resolve).
What are healthy cholesterol levels?
Simply put, when your doctor measures your cholesterol level, he discovers how much of the varying types of cholesterol are circulating in your blood. As your doctor would have you believe, healthy cholesterol levels are low and unhealthy cholesterol levels are high - because that's what he's paid to tell you!
Regardless of the amount of cholesterol in your diet, your liver will make however high or low a cholesterol level your body needs, period. High cholesterol diet or low cholesterol diet, your cholesterol levels will be the same - why?
Put simply, it doesn't matter whether your diet is high in cholesterol or low in cholesterol - cholesterol is so important to your body that it can, and does make your cholesterol levels exactly what it needs them to be, so, for YOU, your cholesterol levels are healthy cholesterol levels - everything else considered.
Does it matter that you don't have healthy cholesterol levels"?
Of course it does, but not for the reasons you think. Un-Healthy cholesterol levels signify that you are deficient in Vitamin C, which is used to repair the continual damage to your arteries. If you can't fix them, the body needs to do something else to ensure un-healthy cholesterol levels show that your body is using its "reserve" repair material instead of its first choice, nothing more, nothing less.
...... the issue is not your high cholesterol levels, it is your dietary lack of Vitamin C that causes high cholesterol levels, so stop worrying about your high cholesterol diet and cholesterol levels and start worrying
about your Vitamin C intake!
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WellPro United is a network of Wellness Providers and the people they serve. It is the most Proactive and Authentic wellness network available. WellPro United offers exclusive benefits for Wellness Providers and Consumers. If you are a Wellness Provider, a supplier of Wellness Products or a user of Wellness Services and/or Products and want more information or to join the network please contact us at: WellProUnited@live.com, 832-245-5041, 713-339-0900, or WellProUnited.com. You can also find us on FaceBook and Twitter.
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Credits:
"All About Natural Health" by Brian Adamson
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Please see our other blog:
http://emergencysurvivaltips.blogspot.com/
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Cholesterol fact, or cholesterol fiction?
The answer is both simple and complex! Simple, in that cholesterol levels themselves are not the problem. Complex, because high cholesterol levels signify a different problem (albeit an easy one to resolve).
What are healthy cholesterol levels?
Simply put, when your doctor measures your cholesterol level, he discovers how much of the varying types of cholesterol are circulating in your blood. As your doctor would have you believe, healthy cholesterol levels are low and unhealthy cholesterol levels are high - because that's what he's paid to tell you!
Regardless of the amount of cholesterol in your diet, your liver will make however high or low a cholesterol level your body needs, period. High cholesterol diet or low cholesterol diet, your cholesterol levels will be the same - why?
Put simply, it doesn't matter whether your diet is high in cholesterol or low in cholesterol - cholesterol is so important to your body that it can, and does make your cholesterol levels exactly what it needs them to be, so, for YOU, your cholesterol levels are healthy cholesterol levels - everything else considered.
Does it matter that you don't have healthy cholesterol levels"?
Of course it does, but not for the reasons you think. Un-Healthy cholesterol levels signify that you are deficient in Vitamin C, which is used to repair the continual damage to your arteries. If you can't fix them, the body needs to do something else to ensure un-healthy cholesterol levels show that your body is using its "reserve" repair material instead of its first choice, nothing more, nothing less.
...... the issue is not your high cholesterol levels, it is your dietary lack of Vitamin C that causes high cholesterol levels, so stop worrying about your high cholesterol diet and cholesterol levels and start worrying
about your Vitamin C intake!
===================================================================
WellPro United is a network of Wellness Providers and the people they serve. It is the most Proactive and Authentic wellness network available. WellPro United offers exclusive benefits for Wellness Providers and Consumers. If you are a Wellness Provider, a supplier of Wellness Products or a user of Wellness Services and/or Products and want more information or to join the network please contact us at: WellProUnited@live.com, 832-245-5041, 713-339-0900, or WellProUnited.com. You can also find us on FaceBook and Twitter.
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Credits:
"All About Natural Health" by Brian Adamson
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Please see our other blog:
http://emergencysurvivaltips.blogspot.com/
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