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The Nopalea Difference​: Bioflavono​ids

Want to know how Nopalea™ aids the body in healing? The answer: "Its Bioflavonoids come to the rescue."

How Bioflavonoids help you
When you drink Nopalea, its Bioflavonoids enter your system and begin to restore your body's vitality at the cellular level. They do this by helping your body reduce the toxins surrounding its cells, which allows more essential nutrients to reach each cell. As a result, your cells are better fed and energized to repair and replace damaged tissues and help reduce the reactive inflammation, helping to keep it from becoming chronic and leading to more serious health problems.

Scientifically-validated health benefits
Nopalea Bioflavonoids come from the fruit of the Nopal cactus (Opuntia Ficus Indica). To date, countless scientific papers have been published on the benefits and attributes of Nopal in the highest quality, peer-reviewed journals. These are supported by the United States' National Institutes of Health database to ensure the conclusions are valid. They report improvements in cell function, immunity, detoxification and especially a reduction in inflammation.

More about those amazing Bioflavonoids
Bioflavonoids are the pigments that give the Nopal cactus fruit its vibrant pink color. But this is just the beginning. They're also a rare and potent class of natural antioxidants, which are only found in a few of the world's plants. Among these plants, the Nopal fruit supplies some of the highest amounts.

But getting those precious Bioflavonoids can be difficult
The average diet of most people is typically devoid of Bioflavonoids. The main reason for this is their scarcity. Only a few types of plants have them: the Nopal cactus, beets, Swiss chard, a few weeds and fungi.

Furthermore, not all Bioflavonoid-producing plants are equal. Plants produce Bioflavonoids to protect themselves from harsh environments; so the harsher the environment, the greater the Bioflavonoid production. This is why, among all of the world's plants, the Nopal cactus has among the highest concentrations of Bioflavonoids – it lives in the brutally inhospitable conditions of the Sonoran Desert.

Give your body the Bioflavonoids it needs
If inflammation and toxins are the problem, then Nopalea and its abundance of Bioflavonoids is a natural solution. It harnesses the power of the Nopal Superfruit to bring you potent and scientifically proven health benefits.

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Advanced bone-building formula
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Also included in this unique formula is MCHC (microcrystalline hydroxyapatite), a highly absorbable form of calcium. MCHC is the same form of calcium found in bones and gives bones their rigidity.

The body’s need for new bone
A natural process called “bone remodeling” occurs throughout adulthood. It’s a two-step process:

1. Your body breaks down bone to distribute calcium and phosphorous for use in other areas of your body.
2. Your body rebuilds sections of bone that have been broken down or injured.

After age 30, the rebuilding process falls behind, and your bones become weaker over time. This may lead to brittle and porous bones.

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Scientifically proven formula
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How to Manage Gout

Gout is a type of arthritis that results from the deposit and buildup of glass-like crystals of uric acid in your joints. Uric acid is a by-product of the breakdown of certain proteins. Normally, uric acid is broken down in the bloodstream and then eliminated in the urine.

It is estimated that over 2 million Americans have gout. A severe gout attack is extremely painful and, if left untreated, can cause permanent and severe joint damage. Fortunately, gout can be managed or controlled.

First things first: risk factors
Are you at risk for gout? Although gout can occur in men and women of any age, it most often occurs in men over age 40. Gout usually does not affect women until after menopause. Lifestyle factors increase the risk of gout, including being overweight, fasting or crash dieting, drinking alcohol in excess and eating a diet that includes foods high in purines (proteins which make up uric acid):
Organ meats (e.g., liver, kidney, brain, sweetbread, heart)
Fish roe
Mussels
Anchovies
Herring
Sardines
Legumes (e.g., dried beans, peas, soybeans)
Meat extracts
Consommé
Gravies
Mushrooms
Spinach
Asparagus
Cauliflower
Poultry

Drinking high-fructose beverages, like sugar-sweetened sodas and orange juice can dramatically increase your risk of gout. There appears to be a genetic component as well, but not a large one. Six percent to 18% of people who have gout have relatives who also have gout. (In a small number of people, the risk of gout is increased by an enzyme defect that interferes with the way the body breaks down purines.) That means that 82% to 94% of the people with gout do not have a genetic link to the disease; it is primarily a lifestyle issue.

Certain medications can increase the risk of gout. These include:
Diuretics
Salicylates and medicines made from salicylic acid (such as aspirin)
Caffeine, including medicines containing caffeine
Levodopa (used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease)
Aminophylline
Withdrawal of corticosteroid medications
Cyclosporine (used to help control rejection of transplanted organs)
Niacin in doses of 1000 mg per day may trigger an attack in someone with gout

In addition, surgery, trauma, and cancer treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy may also increase your risk of developing gout.

It is possible to develop gout with or without the risk factors listed above. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing gout. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.

Reducing uric acid.....
It is known that Vitamin C reduces uric acid in people with gout – and there is simply no better form than Dr. Libby’s Vital C™. As little as 500 mg of Vitamin C daily can help the body reduce uric acid levels over time and a Vital C flush is a common solution recommended by Dr. Libby for people with gout. Folic acid is also a time-honored solution for the symptoms of high uric acid. And, according to legendary naturopaths Dr. Murray and Dr. Pizzorno, essential fatty acids like those found in OmegaPrime® can also be very useful.

Autoimmune Disease: Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease that may affect many different parts of the body. Small round spots, called granulomas, form in various organs. The spots hinder normal functioning of those organs.

The lungs are the most commonly affected organs. Granulomas in the lung leave less space for the air exchange that needs to take place. This can cause the lungs to stiffen. Other commonly affected organs are the skin, eyes, liver and lymph nodes. In rare instances, the brain may be affected.

Antecedents, triggers and inflammatory mediators
Scientists do not know what causes sarcoidosis; it seems to be related to the malfunctioning of the immune system. The disease may possibly be triggered by an infection or exposure to a toxin in the environment, especially airborne toxins.

It also seems to cluster in certain ethnic groups and regions around the industrialized world. Some people may be more susceptible to sarcoidosis, especially women of childbearing age of African-American, Northern European, Scandinavian and Irish descent.

Symptoms
Symptoms vary and may include coughing, shortness of breath, rash (may or may not be raised), pain or irritation of eyes, night sweats, swollen lymph nodes, pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints. They can occur in different parts of the body, depending on where the granulomas form.

Most symptoms develop in the lungs, skin, eyes and liver. Multiple body systems may also be affected. Symptoms may come and go. This disease is often acute, but in some patients it is chronic, waxing and waning.

Diagnosis
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam. There is no specific lab test that confirms a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Instead, the diagnosis is made by noting a cluster of symptoms and a number of medical tests that are usually positive in patients with this condition.

In some cases there may not be any symptoms. The disease may sometimes be suspected based on the appearance of a routine x-ray. A blood test may show increased calcium levels, which can occur with sarcoidosis and a urine test may show elevated levels of calcium in the urine.

Treatment
Treatment aims to ease symptoms and minimize permanent problems. Treatment may include:

• Monitoring for symptoms and complications of sarcoidosis
• Medication – usually anti-inflammatory medications (both steroid and non-steroidal)
• Eye drops may be used for mild eye problems
• Pulmonary rehabilitation programs may help improve lung function

Self-care to help minimize your symptoms includes following these guidelines:

• If you smoke, quit
• Avoid exposure to dust and chemicals
• To prevent infection, wash your hands frequently

Nutrients and nurturing
Stress is a major trigger for autoimmune conditions, including sarcoidosis. As you remove toxic chemicals from your environment, give consideration to toxic levels of stress as well. Remember, the four common causes of all states of immune system imbalance are trauma (injury), toxins, deficiency and stress. Adaptogen 10 Plus® can help your body build a bulwark against stress while Nopalea™ helps support an anti-inflammatory lifestyle.

Take Control of Your Health

• Reduce stress
  • Isolate yourself from common sources of stress
  • Insulate yourself with deep breathing, daily activity and Adaptogen 10 Plus
• Reduce toxins
  • Use “green” products for cleaning
  • Store ALL chemicals outside (including bleach and fabric softener)
  • Change air filters frequently
• Reduce inflammation
  • No: Smoking, sugar, excessive alcohol or caffeine
  • Whole, organic foods only
  • Nopalea as needed to help support low levels of inflammation

How To Reduce Allergy Symptoms

Allergic rhinitis is the set of symptoms that occurs when you breathe in substances you are allergic to. These substances are called allergens and are small proteins.

Seasonal allergy (sometimes called hay fever) occurs during times of the year when allergens are in the air, like spring, summer and fall. The most common allergens are tree, grass or weed pollens. Perennial or persistent allergic rhinitis is caused by allergens that may be present year-round. These may include chemicals, dust, dust mites, cockroaches, animal dander or mold spores.

Causes.....

An allergic reaction occurs when your body's immune system overreacts to an allergen. People at highest risk are those who already exhibit some signs of other immune system irregularities, such as food allergies, eczema or asthma.

When you breathe in an allergen, mast cells in your nasal passages release a chemical called histamine. Histamine causes your nose to feel itchy and also causes swelling and mucus production in the nasal passages, runny nose, nasal congestion, sinus pressure, postnasal drip and cough, headache and dark circles under your eyes.

Diagnosis....

The two most common tests for airborne allergies are:
Skin prick test - A tiny bit of an allergen is placed under the skin with a needle. The doctor watches to see if the skin in that area becomes red, raised and itchy. This can be done for multiple allergens at the same time.

RAST testing - A small sample of blood is taken and tested for different allergens.

Help reduce symptoms......
Four studies in the medical literature have shown us ways to stabilize these mast cells and reduce the symptoms of allergies.
The first study was conducted in Korea on the Nopal fruit (Opuntia ficus indica). It showed significant benefit of Nopal fruit against allergies.
The second study was from Japan. This was an animal study that showed Vitamin B-12 reduced the allergic response in those with allergy to the same levels as those without allergy. One group of physicians in Dallas, Texas used this information to treat humans by giving them 3 milligrams of Vitamin B-12 sublingually. They report in Men’s Health that allergy symptoms decreased by 50% the first year and by 50% more the second year of sublingual B-12 use.
The third study in Helsinki, Finland used probiotics to stabilize mast cells and reduce allergy symptoms.
One of my best, time-tested approaches for allergy came from an older article out of Brussels, Belgium. It shows the absolute necessity of essential fatty acids (EFA) for allergy. A more recent article from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil also commented that EFA and probiotics together are even more effective.

Conclusion
So, what is your opinion: In recent years, have people become more allergic or less? Likely, you will notice more people suffering with allergies. As our world becomes more toxic, we become more sensitive. And as we become more deficient – especially in bioflavonoids, Vitamin B-12, probiotics and essential fatty acids – we are more prone to allergy. So, insulate yourself by taking your nutrients every day and isolate yourself from allergens by following the recommendations below.

Take Control of Your Health.....

Load up on Nopal bioflavonoids with Nopalea™

Get 3 milligrams of Sublingual B-12 daily

Use FloraVita™ as a good source of probiotics

Help fill your essential fatty acid reserves with OmegaPrime®

Keep the windows of your house and car closed to keep pollen out

Use an air conditioner to reduce indoor humidity and to prevent mold and mildew growth

Clean your air conditioner filters regularly

Consider running an air purifier in your home, especially in your bedroom

Use vacuum cleaners and air conditioners with HEPA filters to trap allergens

Cover pillows and mattresses with vinyl covers to reduce your exposure to dust mites

Wash bedding weekly in very hot water

Use fewer dust-collecting items, such as curtains, bed skirts, carpeting and stuffed animals, especially in your bedroom

Keep your pets out of bedrooms and other rooms with carpets

What people are saying about Nopalea…

Nopalea is the anti-inflammatory wellness drink that people are talking about. Nutrients in Nopalea are scientifically proven to help the body reduce inflammation and detoxify itself. Try Nopalea today and see what it can do for you!

 

"After taking Nopalea for three weeks, all I can say is wow!"
Juliet suffered with severe leg pain which made walking difficult; climbing stairs was especially painful. She considered surgery but decided to give Nopalea a try first. She says that after three weeks, she could stand up unassisted, get out of bed and walk without pain.
Juliet S. – Milwaukee, WI

 

"Most of my aches and pains have gone away."
Jay suffered with body aches for eight years; the pain was especially bad in his neck and legs and he had frequent migraine headaches. He's been using Nopalea for six months and says that most of his aches and pains have gone away and he hasn't had a migraine since. He reports that his body feels much more flexible and his quality of life is greatly improved.
Jay F. – Woodbridge, VA

 

"Nopalea has been nothing less than tremendous for me!"
A health club owner and trainer, Joe has been an athlete his entire life. As he reached his 40s, he began to experience inflammation, aches and pains. He started using Nopalea daily, and his aches and pains diminished and he was able to engage in more activities.
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"I wake up with energy, no pain and ready to face the world with a smile."
After suffering with chronic inflammation in her back and finding no relief, Patricia had given up the idea of feeling good. Then she took the Nopalea Loading Phase for 30 days and things began to turn around. Now she reports drastically reduced pain and a return of energy.
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"This product will always be vital to my continued health, mobility, strength and flexibility."
Marc, a highly ranked martial artist, was beginning to feel the effects of age and repetitive exercises. Pain and inflammation in his left shoulder and right elbow had Marc worried that his livelihood might be at risk. After taking Nopalea, he noticed a significant difference. He says he no longer experiences pain and his range of motion is normal.
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How To Stop Hair Loss

If you are experiencing hair loss you certainly don't need anyone to tell you how traumatic it can be. There are many emotional consequences and even relationship issues related to thinning hair. Hair loss has many causes. The three we will deal with in this edition of the Weekly Wellness Report are:

Hormone imbalance
Autoimmune disorders
Protein metabolism

Hair and hormones
Hair growth is triggered by hormones. Hair follicles act on a growth/rest cycle that may last from many months to many years. It is estimated that 90% of your hair follicles are growing and 10% resting at any one time. All follicles will rotate through growth/rest cycles evenly, rather than in one place at a time.

You may remember from previous Wellness Reports that hormones are merely messengers. Hormones convey a signal from a master gland to a receptor. When the receptor has completed the assignment it will respond with another hormone that originates in the receptor and conveys a "task completed" message back to the master gland.

All hormone cycles come in three phases:
We make them
We use them
We get rid of (detoxify) them

Trouble may begin at any one of these three phases, but usually it is in the detoxification phase that we find imbalances causing hair loss. It is especially important that we detoxify DHT, an inert form of testosterone found in men and women under constant stress. Adaptogen 10 Plus® is naturally formulated to help relieve stress and its negative health effects.

Hair and our immune system
Hormones are also involved in a second cause of hair loss: auto-immunity. An autoimmune condition may develop when stresses from our lifestyle and stress from our environment collide with weaknesses in our genetics. Our immune system may not be able to tell if our hair follicle is sick or healthy. Many hair follicles may be attacked by our immune system and be completely destroyed or simply become dormant.

Autoimmune disorders respond to stress reduction and detoxification. Certainly, Adaptogen 10 Plus is a very important part of stress reduction. Autoimmune conditions also respond well to increased amounts of Essential Fatty Acids (EFA), such as those found in OmegaPrime®. OmegaPrime and dietary EFA help the body reduce inflammation and let the immune system work smarter, not harder.

Hair and protein metabolism
Protein digestion and metabolism require a careful balance of hormones, vitamins, enzymes and acids. Indigestion results when one of these elements is out of balance. Many people take antacids – which reduce protein digestion and trigger hair thinning. Antacids reduce our ability to utilize Vitamin B-12. Vitamin B-12 also participates in protein metabolism. This is the third of our pathways that may lead to hair loss.

It may be that proper chewing and healthy protein choices are all that is needed to restore balance to protein digestion. Probiotics such as those found in FloraVita™ may also be needed if the indigestion spreads to the intestines. People usually find relief from indigestion with FloraVita.

Protein metabolism also involves our thyroid. Thyroid hormones may carry a small amount of the protein L-tyrosine to hair follicles as well. L-tyrosine is found in Energy Now!®. If your body temperature is low in the morning and your hair is thinning, you may need more l-Tyrosine. Energy Now!, Vitamin B-12 and FloraVita – along with a healthy diet – may help complete the protein metabolism you need to restore thinning hair.

There are many other triggers of hair loss; some require competent medical care. You should always discuss thinning hair with your doctor so they may appropriately care for your medical conditions. Be patient and remember that most hair loss can be reversed through a vigorous application of the
10 Essentials for Health and Wellness, proper medical care and the right nutrients!

Anatomy of Nerve Pain

Pain is a funny thing. It’s not a hilarious thing – unless you have a really sick sense of humor. But it is funny in that pain is really a trick played on us by our mind to get us to do something. Let’s examine the anatomy of pain to see if we can learn to listen to its message.

Pain fibers
Nerves do many wonderful things, such as empowering our stomach to digest our food, empowering our heart to pump our blood and empowering our eyes to read this page. These are called efferent nerves. Efferent nerves carry signals from your brain to your body.

Nerves that carry signals from your body to your brain are called afferent nerves. Different receptors in afferent nerves help us distinguish hot and cold, a light touch from heavy pressure, and the many faces of pain signals: sharp, dull, throbbing, fixed, migrating, piercing, etc. Even numbness or pins-and-needles sensations are really pain sensations because of their afferent nerve signals.

Pain nerves are covered in a protective sheath called myelin. The myelin sheath may become damaged from injury, toxicity, and certain deficiencies such as Vitamin B-12 and folate. When this occurs, we will feel pain sensations when no injury really exists.

This is where the trickery begins.

Interpreting the signals
A pain signal is designed to get you to avoid serious injury. If you put your hand on a hot stove, pain signals get you to quickly remove or withdraw your hand before more serious injury occurs. The same with cold, sharp, dull, etc. Pain is very motivating!

Afferent nerves don’t really feel pain. You don’t really feel pain. Your nerves merely carry a signal from your body to your brain. Your brain, in turn, interprets this signal according to the type of nerve that conveys the message.
When you touch something hot, your brain interprets heat; you don’t really feel heat.
When you touch something cold, your brain interprets cold; you don’t really feel the cold.

When you experience pain you are not really feeling pain; your brain is interpreting a signal as pain. That becomes very important as we discuss the remedies for chronic pain.

Remedies for pain
Pain is the way your body signals that there is something wrong requiring immediate attention – withdraw from the pain! Switches – like light switches that turn on a light – turn on the pain signal when danger exists and turn it off when danger has passed. So, the first remedy for chronic pain is to withdraw from whatever is causing the pain.

With chronic pain, sometimes the switch gets turned on and never gets turned off! These switches, often called pain gates, are ruled by nutrients such as Vitamin D. Also, in chronic nerve pain, a signal is sent from a damaged area or lesion in the myelin sheath. The myelin sheath is ruled by nutrients such as Vitamin B-12 and folate as well as essential fatty acids.

Chronic muscle pain occurs when muscles try to restore balance to an unbalanced muscle region. The imbalance may be caused by injury, stress, a sedentary lifestyle or poor posture (really, poor posture and sedentary living are types of muscle injury). Muscle balance is ruled by magnesium and, to a smaller extent, by potassium and calcium.

A word about inflammation
Just as chronic nerve pain can become caught in a loop or cycle, inflammation may become chronic even after the cause of the inflammation is removed. The chemicals of inflammation injure your afferent nerves and your brain interprets this injury as chronic pain. Pain and inflammation go hand in hand.

To break the cycle of chronic pain we must:
Remove the cause: trauma/injury, toxins, etc.
Restore nutrient balance
Break the cycle of inflammation

In this way we can learn to listen to the message of pain and achieve the balance of pain-free living.

Learn more about Nopalea and inflammation

Why Are You Tired All the Time?

If you are tired, there is a reason for it. Think of fatigue as a message from your body and brain saying, “Something is wrong; help me!” Let’s learn to listen to the message of fatigue through a simple elimination process. Maybe we can find out what’s making you tired and discover a remedy.

Reasons for fatigue

Lack of sleep

Most fatigue comes simply from getting too little sleep. We often fail to both respect the need for sleep and accord the process of sleep the dignity it deserves. For example, humans are diurnal animals. Nothing can change that. We are awake in the daytime and asleep at night. But electric light, shift work, caffeine and bad habits let us push past the normal sleep drive until we become insensitive to our own need for sleep.

Boredom

Fatigue follows boredom. Humans are designed to live with clarity of purpose. Purpose breeds enthusiasm, a sense of mission in life and a drive that compels you to get up, get out and do something! Our work is not our purpose; rather, it should reflect an aspect of our purpose. So should our play, our relationships and our form of worship. Find balance, focus and clarity in purpose around love, play, work and worship and you will discover untapped energy.

Sedentary lifestyle

A sedentary life creates fatigue. The less you move, the less you will want to move and the less you will be able to move. The more you move, the more you will want to move and the more you will be able to move. Exercise is a source of energy.

Toxicity

Fatigue is a sign of toxicity. Some toxins are created within your own body. Some toxins are emotional and come from “toxic” relationships. Most toxins come from our polluted air, water and food. Toxins cause fatigue, inability to think clearly, muscle aches and pains, and a host of symptoms that are hard to describe and may change day to day. Cleaning up your physical and emotional environment as well as making better choices for the future will reduce your level of toxicity and fatigue.

Deficiencies and imbalances

Nutrient deficiency, hormone imbalance, dehydration and other forms of deficiency can cause you to feel tired:

Vitamin B-12 deficiency, especially in people over age 50.
Borderline thyroid imbalance (usually seen as fatigue with a slightly low body temperature).
Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) deficiency is a common cause of poor stamina, though not necessarily fatigue if you are sitting still.
Dehydration causes grumpiness first, poor joint mobility second and finally fatigue.

What to do

Sleep: Begin your transition to a night of peaceful sleep by turning off all electronics at dusk. Use low intensity red/orange light in your home after supper. Develop a low-stress sleep routine: brush your teeth, take a bath, read a book. Get to sleep after 9 p.m. but before 11 p.m. to be in the deepest sleep state between midnight and 3 a.m. Awaken before 7 a.m. and get out into the sunshine!

Purpose: Journaling can help you clarify your purpose and focus on it daily. What do you want? Why is that important? Who are you at your best? What do people say about your strengths? How will you, your family and the world be different when your actions are in full integrity with your purpose? Measure your actions daily and ask, “Is this course ‘on purpose’ or does it take me off my path?”

Activity: Get out and move! Humans do best with about 2 ½ hours of activity daily.
Detoxify: Start with breathing deeply for 10 minutes, three times daily and 20 minutes at bedtime. Three-fourths of all body waste comes out through your lungs. Stop eating toxic foods (sugar, alcohol, caffeine and artificial anything) and eat Certified Organic when possible. Remove all cleaning supplies and other chemicals from your home and store them outside (remove them from a basement or an attached garage as well). Also, remember “the solution to pollution is dilution!” That means drink pure water: ½ ounce per pound of body weight daily.

Nutrients: The most common nutrient deficiencies are Vitamin C, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin D, Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) and the mineral magnesium. Any deficiency can cause fatigue, but Vitamin B-12 is the greatest offender! (Remember, EFA is for stamina rather than fatigue.) A common protein deficiency of the amino acid phenylalanine can cause low thyroid. Further, stress may interfere with the way our body converts phenylalanine into thyroid and brain hormones. This is called a “functional” deficiency: you have enough, you just can’t use what you have because of stress!

Conclusion
We are always tired for a reason. Learning to listen to the symptom of fatigue can help us live a healthier, purpose-filled life!

Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure

There are several types of high blood pressure. In some cases, the top number is too high, but the bottom number is normal. In others, the top number may be acceptable but the bottom number is too high. In many people, both the top and bottom numbers are too high.

What do these numbers mean? What can we do to help reduce our blood pressure?

What the numbers mean

The top number in a blood pressure reading is called the systolic blood pressure. It represents the pressure generated by your heart as it pushes the blood through the blood vessels. Most of the resistance to blood flow (75%) comes from an intermediate blood vessel called an arteriole. Arterioles are very sensitive to adrenaline. Stress produces adrenaline and stress alone is a common cause of high blood pressure where only the top number is too high.

The bottom number in a blood pressure reading is called the diastolic blood pressure. It represents the pressure exerted upon the heart when it is at rest, drawing in blood to pump out to the rest of the body. Toxins in the bloodstream such as fat, sugar, salt, alcohol and nicotine may cause high diastolic blood pressure. The kidneys and lungs are organs that excrete toxins from your body. High levels of toxins elevate diastolic blood pressure and place stress on these delicate organs. This may cause them to fail.

Inflammation in the bloodstream is a common cause of high blood pressure where both numbers are too high. Often, a toxin such as homocysteine injures the blood vessel walls. Homocysteine is a protein that looks very much like a sliver of broken glass. As it slices through your delicate arteries, they release markers of distress such as C-Reactive protein. Bad cholesterol (LDL) that becomes too sticky may start a “grease fire” in the lining of the arteries. White blood cells may use a sort of foam to try to put the fire out and calcium may turn the blood vessels into bone! Hardening of the arteries is a common reason why both systolic and diastolic numbers are too high.

What to do

First, you should know that high blood pressure is a medical emergency. Get medical help immediately. Once your type of high blood pressure has been diagnosed, there are several things you may do to help bring it under control.

For systolic (top number) hypertension, stress management is important. Practice deep breathing for 10 minutes, three times daily and for 20 minutes at bedtime. Take long walks and talk with a woman (blood pressures goes down when men talk with women or when women talk with women; it remains the same when a woman talks with a man). Consider adding Adaptogen 10 Plus® to your supplement program as well as Leanology® Capsules to help address cortisol (the other side of the adrenaline equation) – especially if you are gaining weight around the middle.

For diastolic (bottom number) hypertension a comprehensive detoxification program is needed. Practice deep breathing (75% of all body waste is excreted through the lungs) and increase your water consumption unless you have been limited by your doctor. Eliminate all obvious toxins (see above) and start hunting for more subtle poisons, such as chemicals stored in your home. Use the Vital C Flush to encourage your body to eliminate more toxins.

With essential hypertension, where both the systolic and diastolic numbers are too high, you may need to change everything in your lifestyle: reduce stress, lose weight, control LDL cholesterol, homocysteine CRP and inflammation, eliminate toxins, etc. Remember, this is a medical emergency and you must do whatever it takes to lower your blood pressure before you suffer organ failure, heart attack, stroke and death.

Conclusion

High blood pressure of any kind is a message of distress sent to you by your body. The more you are able to listen to this message and take appropriate actions, the happier your body will be. Learn to listen to the subtle – and not so subtle – messages from your body and respond appropriately. It is my hope that this Weekly Wellness Report series has helped you take control of your health so that you may claim the resources needed to live the life of purpose and enthusiasm that is your birthright!

10 Essentials to Improve Circulation

It’s pretty simple, really: the blood in your arteries carries nutrients and oxygen to your cells and the blood in your veins carries waste away from your cells for disposal.

Nutrients in, waste out!

With that simple description we can illustrate and understand how critically important good circulation is. How can we measure our circulation? And, if it’s not what we want, how can we improve it?

Measuring blood flow
A common cause of poor circulation is hardening of the arteries. Cholesterol and calcium may clog the arteries a little at a time until the blood flow is completely pinched off. This is a “silent” disease and there are few signs that it is happening. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one indication that blood is not flowing as it should.

PAD occurs when blood does not flow to your extremities as it should. It is often diagnosed with an ultrasound Doppler and a simple blood pressure cuff. It is painless and everyone should request one with your annual physical examination.

Most people think that cold hands and feet indicate poor circulation. That is completely true, except you can have perfectly clean arteries and veins and still have cold hands and feet. That is because of stress. Yes, stress – one of the four causes of all disease – can cause poor circulation to your hands, feet and heart even when your arteries are completely clear of any blockages.

Stress causes the blood vessels to constrict and contract and choke off blood flow. Stress can even cause a heart attack or stroke by clamping off your precious blood supply. Up to 75% of the restriction in your blood flow can be caused by stress. Adaptogens can help reduce the impact of stress on circulation.

Improving blood flow

The 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness contain many tools, tips and techniques for improving blood flow.

The most basic (and, therefore, the most important) tip is to breathe deeply. Ten minutes of deep breathing and one to three ounces of Adaptogen 10 Plus® can help reduce the impact of stress.
Dehydration is another cause of poor blood flow. Blood is mostly water. Without water, blood may be mostly sludge! So, drink up.

Being well rested is another tip for proper circulation. Too little or too much sleep is interpreted by your body as stress. Your body will react the same to poor sleep as it would if you were being chased by a lion! The supplement Peaceful Sleep™ can help you improve the quality of your sleep every night.
Diet is an extremely important contributor to good or bad circulation. Eating well may be classed into specific techniques that improve circulation:

No “bad” fats. Trans fats are fake fats! Your body doesn’t know what to do with them. They clog and inflame your blood vessels and prevent proper circulation. OmegaPrime® contains good fats that displace some of the bad fats. Good fats improve circulation.

Mostly plant-based foods. High-fiber, high water content fruits and vegetables promote circulation by reducing cholesterol and inflammation. HCY Guard® and Nopalea™ also provide the nutrients that help reduce inflammation.

No overeating. Stop eating when you are about 80% full. That keeps the hormone insulin low. Insulin causes blood vessel inflammation and poor circulation. Leanology® Capsules help metabolize blood sugar and keep inflammatory insulin balanced.

High polyphenols. Eat a rainbow. The more colorful your food is, the more polyphenol nutrients it contains. Polyphenols keep your blood vessels young and healthy.

Exercise is necessary for good circulation. We need at least 30 minutes of sustained, vigorous activity every day. Actually, we need more – much more! Thirty minutes is a minimum. The Pima natives, known for their extremely low incidence of heart disease, have a routine that encourages more than two hours of vigorous activity every single day. We need this much or more, much more!

Emotionally, people with a heart full of love have better circulation than isolated, lonely people. We need love to live! Love tells us we matter and have value. It seems that when we are lonely and feel that we do not matter our body begins to shut down. We literally die of a broken heart.

Finally, we need a sense of purpose for good circulation. Why? Because we will simply not have the discipline it takes to eat right, exercise, get our rest and practice deep breathing without a commanding sense of purpose. As every expert in human behavior knows, fear of pain, disease and even death will not motivate us for very long. Only love for the significant purposes in our life will drive us to make the permanent changes necessary for improved circulation

How To Avoid Premature Aging

The aging process is like water moving downhill toward the sea: it can be a rushing river or a creeping glacier.

I vote for the creeping glacier!

Remember, death is the only way to halt the aging process. We cannot stop aging, nor should we try. Instead, we should try to balance the aging process and slow its progress. Make it a creeping glacier instead of a rushing river. This is the entire concept behind the theory of antioxidants.

Skin health and antioxidants
One of the earliest discoveries concerning the benefits of antioxidants in foods was their benefits for beauty – skin that was aging in a balanced, healthy way. Unhealthy skin was thought to be caused by excessive sun exposure.

When we look at the skin of people with equal amounts of sun exposure we find a spectrum of aging skin that stretches all the way from “beautifully bronze” to “wrinkled prune.” And time becomes as big a factor as sun exposure because the problem of sun damage becomes worse with age.

Of course, the sun is not our enemy. We were designed to harness the power of the sun to our benefit. The rays that age our skin are the very rays that provide us with Vitamin D – the sunshine vitamin. As the sun strikes our skin, the beneficial effects are harnessed by enzymes and fats and the stress created by sunshine is neutralized by antioxidants.

Antioxidants neutralize the sunrays that may potentially be damaging. But more than that, antioxidants also help protect your skin from toxic chemicals, pollution, temperature extremes in humidity and dryness as well as inflammation. We need a full complement of antioxidants to balance the millions of stresses we know of and the many millions we have yet to discover, unless we are content with “wrinkled prune” and rapidly aging skin.

Beauty inside?
People with healthy skin are, in general, healthy people. Our skin is protected by antioxidants. We get those antioxidants from our foods. Colorful foods contain more antioxidants. The more colorful a food is, the more antioxidants it contains. All fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds contain antioxidants. The more antioxidants we eat, the more protection we will have.

Antioxidants begin their work of safeguarding our health and beauty from the moment we eat them. Our body receives them, breaks them into small packets of different sizes and distributes them through circulation. Cells at the end of the journey receive them and put them to work in harmonizing our inside world with our outside world. Each different shape of antioxidant has an affinity for certain types of tissue in your body, like a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in a round hole. All antioxidants help protect the skin and find a home in at least one other tissue. A good example is the antioxidant anthocyanins found in blueberries: they help protect your skin, eyes and brain. Or the polyphenol antioxidants found in grape skins: they help protect your skin, heart and blood vessels.

So, the beauty of your skin reflects the abundance of your antioxidant load.

The health of your heart, brain, immune system and every other body system depends in part on a robust antioxidant supply. And, since many antioxidants cannot be stored in your body, it highlights the need for daily antioxidant nutrition. Antioxidants come in different shapes and colors, so we should eat a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables daily: 5 servings for children, 7 for women and 9 for men.

Your antioxidant load
When I was young my mom used to say, “Eat your vegetables and you’ll grow up strong and tall like Joe DiMaggio!” My dad’s advice was simpler: Eat your spinach and you’ll be as strong as Popeye! I am sure all parents said similar things to their children. Our compliance with that mandate (along with improvements in medical care and personal hygiene) led my generation to have the greatest longevity since Noah stepped off the Ark. The children born since the year 2000 (Generation Y) will not live as long or as well as their parents and grandparents.

Generation Y eat only 1 ¾ servings of fruits and vegetables daily – mainly in the form of French fries and ketchup!

We need to do better in training our kids and we need to do better at building up our own antioxidant reserve if we want to slow and balance the aging process. One way to supplement your diet with a rainbow of antioxidants is with TriVita’s Fruits ‘n VegEZ™. It contains over 30 different fruits and vegetables of every shape and color. One scoop daily will give children a full complement of antioxidants (1 ½ scoops for women and 2 scoops for men). Try it, you’ll like it!

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Lupus and the Autoimmune Crisis

Many people know that Lupus (systemic Lupus erythematosus – SLE) is an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are a class of conditions where your immune system attacks your own body. There are many autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, colitis and allergies. The prevalence of all of these conditions is increasing.

What causes Lupus and other autoimmune conditions and what can we do about them?

Causes of Lupus
We need to be very cautious when we talk about causes, whether we are talking about Lupus or any other condition. There are two basic reasons: 1) Accuracy. Our view of medicine and, therefore, our understanding of disease is growing daily. We simply don’t have the complete information to be able to see why someone may have Lupus or any other disease. Stating a “cause” would be inaccurate. 2) Hope. We certainly don’t want to add emotional distress to the victim of a disease by telling them their condition is hopeless; this hopeless attitude may be a by-product of our wrong view of disease.

Instead, let’s talk about the process of Lupus and other autoimmune disorders. It is a three-step process leading to disease:
Antecedents – Antecedents are the things that go before something else. There are specific immune complexes called CD8 that are needed to harmonize your system from day to day. With Lupus, the CD8 suppressing antecedents are often toxins called xenoestrogens (fake estrogens in our environment). These include dioxin, DDT and carbon tetrachloride. They also include plastics (Bisphenol A and phthalates), preservatives like BHA and food coloring such as red dye #3.
Antecedents also include deficiencies. People suffering from Lupus commonly have deficiencies in Vitamin D, B-6, B-12, dietary fiber, iron, magnesium and essential fatty acids.

Triggers – Triggers are the substances or events that activate the disease process. In Lupus, the trigger is commonly stress. Stress – especially “social defeat” stress – suppresses the harmonizing effect of CD8. Virus infections are common triggers as well. The Epstein-Barr virus is found in the organs of many people with Lupus.

What we can do
Lupus is a serious disease that may eventually kill the people it attacks. Never undertake the treatment of such a serious medical condition without a qualified healthcare provider as your guide.

Think of Lupus and other autoimmune conditions as a poisonous tree with a root (antecedent), shoot (trigger) and fruit (inflammatory mediators). Simply addressing the “fruit” of inflammation is, while important, not enough. We must uproot the entire tree. The tool we need to accomplish this is CD8.

Strike at the roots of the tree by removing toxins and poisons that block CD8: insecticides, plastics, preservatives and food colorings. Build up your CD8 by supplementing your nutrition with Vitamin D, B-6, B-12, dietary fiber, iron, magnesium and essential fatty acids. Reduce and remove the triggers that blunt CD8, especially stress. Then go after the poisonous fruits, the inflammation that destroys vital organs.

Rather than being a victim of autoimmune disease, think of yourself as a participant in your personal Wellness Journey!

Consider Essential D™, Sublingual B-12, and OmegaPrime® supplements, as well as VitaDaily™ AM/PM for essential minerals. Try Adaptogen 10 Plus® for stress management. Use Nopalea™ to help reduce the impact of inflammation

How to Combat GERD

As Dr. Elie Metchnikoff said over 100 years ago, “Death begins in the digestive system.”

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is the name of the condition where acid from the stomach churns up into the esophagus and causes a burning sensation – the heartburn of acid indigestion. This warning sign is telling us that our digestive system is imbalanced and we need to act immediately if we want to avoid Dr. Metchnikoff’s dire prediction.

Healthy digestion

Digestion of our foods really begins in our mind. As we anticipate eating, our mouth begins to water. The saliva we are producing is full of an enzyme called amylase. This enzyme digests starch. Our saliva is basically neutral pH – a balance between acid and alkaline that creates stability in our food. After physically grinding our food into liquid (thorough chewing is very important to good digestion), we swallow. Meanwhile, our stomach has been preparing an acid bath to break down the food into microscopic particles.

The neutral pH food hits all that acid and explodes! If we don’t thoroughly chew our food or if we eat things we are allergic to, indigestion develops and this explosion erupts like a volcano into our esophagus and we get acid indigestion, a key sign of GERD.

Healthy digestion fully saturates our food in stomach acid. Next, the food is sent into an extremely alkaline environment in the small intestines. The acid food hits the alkaline small intestines and, once again, explodes! (Think of the reaction that occurs when baking soda is added to vinegar.)

During each of these stages of digestion, three basic enzymes (lipase, protease and amylase) and six of their relatives separate each component of food into useful packets. These components are delivered to our liver and circulatory system for distribution to every cell in our body.

Elements of healthy digestion

Probiotics

An important feature in our digestive system (DS) is the presence of probiotics. These are strains of “good bacteria” that have a two-fold purpose: digestion and defense (assimilation and protection). Probiotics protect us from “bad” bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, parasites and even spoiled food and toxic metals like mercury. They also fuel our body and brain by taking nutrients we can’t use and converting them into nutrients we can use. A good example of this is iron. Elemental iron is toxic. Probiotics in the DS convert iron to ferritin and bind it to transferrin, thus nourishing humans and starving unwanted microbes.

Prebiotics

Prebiotics lay the groundwork for probiotics, as prebiotic fibers help probiotic bacteria establish colonies by providing a food source. Probiotics also have a marvelous impact on the rest of the body and brain as they coordinate the immune system of the DS. Prebiotics and probiotics work together to improve digestion and elimination.

Enzymes

Enzymes begin the healing process because they remove toxic proteins and discourage bad bacteria, yeast and parasites from breeding. And they help digest your food for more energy. Dandelion root works with the lipase enzyme as it thins the bile from the liver and gallbladder. Bile helps lipase to digest fat. Bile also discourages bad bacteria, yeast and parasites from breeding. Milk thistle helps reduce the autoimmune impact from an imbalanced DS, and helps reduce cramps, pain and bloating.

Conclusion
To have a healthy body and brain, we must have a healthy DS. It provides us with digestion and defense. TriVita’s FloraVita™ helps support these processes by supplying our probiotics the food they need – called prebiotics – and by replanting healthy colony-forming units of probiotics. Also, FloraVita helps support digestion and defense with a wide array of digestive enzymes and immune-modulating botanicals.

How to Lower Bad Cholesterol Naturally

Yes, I know that many of you have been told that your high cholesterol levels are “genetic” and there is nothing you can do but take medications. At the risk of sounding sarcastic, aren’t we fortunate that there just happens to be a medication that treats this mutation? And because we are even more privileged, this magical potion doesn’t require us to do a single thing to shape our own destiny: no stress reduction, no daily exercise and no diet changes.

Just take the pill!

But, before you do, remember that there are significant risks to taking cholesterol-reducing medications – including the risk of death! Do you want to help reduce your cholesterol another way? Then let’s explore some changes that naturally help reduce “bad” cholesterol.

Other possibilities
Cholesterol is needed by every cell to function properly. Without it you would die. High LDL – also known as “bad” cholesterol – is associated with a high risk of heart attack, ischemic strokes caused by blood clots, Alzheimer’s disease and many other devastating conditions. This is especially true when inflammation is combined with high cholesterol. Inflammation plus cholesterol is the recipe for atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries.

We all know it is necessary to reduce “bad” cholesterol. But first ask yourself, “Why is my LDL too high in the first place? What is the difference between those people with optimum LDL and those with high LDL?”

Reduce stress

First, people with optimum cholesterol levels have less stress in their life. Develop a routine to shed the stress every day: take a walk, take a nap, pray, go to happy hour, drink Adaptogen 10 Plus®. Find a routine that works for you to help take the stress out of your day, every day.

Improve your diet

Next, reduce saturated fat from your diet and eliminate trans fats altogether. People with optimum cholesterol levels use good fats. Good fats make good cholesterol; bad fats make bad cholesterol. Good fats displace bad fats. Nuts and seeds such as almonds and pumpkin seeds supply the best fats.

Take supplements

Cholestria™ contains purified plant sterols with the powerful ability to block bad cholesterol from a high-fat diet. It also helps the body raise HDL – “good” cholesterol. Dietary Omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFAs) such as walnuts and flaxseeds and the EFAs in OmegaPrime® help the body to reduce LDL and increase HDL as well. Plus, OmegaPrime helps the body reduce inflammation.

Vitamin E helps reduce inflammation in LDL “bad” cholesterol. Nuts are excellent sources of Vitamin E; eat them daily. Cholestria contains all eight types of Vitamin E.

Vitamin C also helps reduce inflammation in LDL “bad” cholesterol. Berries, such as organic strawberries, cherries and currants as well as tropical fruits, citrus fruits, and yellow and green vegetables all contain high amounts of Vitamin C. Adults need 7 to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables daily. Get your Vitamin C supplies daily along with a good source of magnesium, such as nuts and seeds as well as Wellavoh™ or VitaDaily™ AM/PM.

Increase fiber intake

Dietary fiber increases the excretion of bad cholesterol by absorbing it in your intestines. Target at least 1 gram of additional fiber for every gram of “bad” cholesterol you want to eliminate. In other words, if you want to reduce your LDL by 30 points (mg/dL) , try adding 30 grams of fiber to your diet.

Conclusion

Sarcasm aside, we really do live in an age of significant advancements in medicine. Still, we need to learn to listen to the message of high cholesterol and take steps in our life to restore balance. We need to do all we can to live a healthy life and rely on medical care as a supplement to “self-care.”

Sinusitis Got You Down?

Most conditions in medicine that involve inflammation end in the suffix “-itis.” For example, tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils, appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix, and so forth. Sinusitis is inflammation of the sinus cavities in your head. What causes sinusitis? How can we help our body to resolve the inflammation? Is there a way to protect against sinusitis?

The causes of sinusitis

Inflammation follows four states of imbalance in the human body: trauma (injury), toxicity, deficiency and stress.

Stress – Can stress cause sinusitis? Yes! A 2008 report of children with sinusitis and ear infections clearly showed a correlation between emotional stress and sinus infections from strep bacteria. Stress causes inflammation; inflammation provides fertile breeding ground for bacteria.

Trauma – Streptococcus (“strep”) is a primary bacteria associated with sinusitis. Of course, we all have strep bacteria living in our sinuses. Yet, we do not all have active sinus infections. Strep proliferates where there is inflammation. Any tissue injury can cause inflammation. Trauma is a cause of sinusitis.

Toxins – Toxins from our environment can also cause inflammation in our sinuses. Once again, inflammation allows strep and other bacteria to grow. Allergies are a form of toxin. A person with pollen allergy is more prone to sinus infection and sinusitis because of inflammation caused by pollen.

Deficiency – Certain deficiencies can cause sinus inflammation. A water deficiency (dehydration) paralyzes the cilia – tiny hair-like appendages in the sinus cavity. Vitamin A and Vitamin D deficiency have the same effect. Zinc deficiency is associated with sinusitis and people who don’t get enough sleep are also more prone to sinus infection.

Remedies for sinusitis

Very few people can point to one single cause of inflammation in their sinuses. With most of us it is a combination of factors that gang up on us and result in sinus inflammation. The key is for us to do a thorough – and honest – assessment of our primary causes and work to restore balance to that area of our life. It is as if our body is speaking to us through the symptom of sinus inflammation. If we learn to listen, we will relieve the inflammation as we work to support our natural healing ability.

Stress reduction

The first thing we need to do is address our needs. Is stress a likely contributor to sinusitis? Then 10 minutes of deep breathing three times daily, plus 20 minutes at bedtime can help reduce the impact of stress enough to improve our symptoms. Adaptogens also play a major role in rebalancing our body when stress pulls us off kilter.

Hydration

Are we drinking enough water? Targeting ½ ounce of water per pound of body weight will help us catch up on hydration. Taking zinc and other minerals can really help hold the water in tissues, much the same way as minerals in the soil hold water and allow for a healthy garden.

Supplementation

Trauma and toxins call for a reduction in inflammation and detoxification. Nopalea™ is an anti-inflammatory that supports the major pathways used by your body to reduce inflammation. Vital C™ and Super Sublingual B-12 act to help reduce histamines when toxins and allergens attack the sinuses. And, of course, Sublingual B-12 is a great stress-buster as well. We want to keep strep bacteria from colonizing. Probiotics are very important in this regard. FloraVita™ is an excellent probiotic.

Conclusion
Sinusitis is a message from your body that something is wrong. Instead of thinking of yourself as a victim of “bad” bacteria or inflammatory pollen, learn to listen to the message of inflammation and work to reduce its impact on your sinuses and your whole body.

Do Nopalea and Diabetes Mix?

Question: Can I take Nopalea if I have diabetes?

Answer: Yes! Here is how…

Diabetes

Diabetes comes in two types:

Type 1
The first type – Type 1 Diabetes – occurs when your immune system attacks the insulin producing part of your pancreas. It kills these cells and you can no longer produce insulin. The function of insulin is to take the glucose (blood sugar) from the bloodstream into the muscles and other cells where it can be burned to produce energy. When you don't have enough insulin, the glucose from your diet accumulates in your bloodstream. Glucose becomes toxic very quickly. Within a short time, this blood sugar overload can damage your eyes, brain, lungs and kidneys.

Type 2
The second type – Type 2 Diabetes – occurs when the pancreas functions just fine, but the cells in your muscles and the rest of your body become resistant to insulin. The insulin cannot signal the cells to open up and receive the glucose. Just as in Type 1 Diabetes, glucose (blood sugar) increases to dangerous levels. The fuel cannot be burned to create energy, so you feel tired. As the glucose level climbs in the bloodstream it can destroy your eyes, brain, lungs and kidneys.

Type 1 diabetes is characterized by low insulin and high glucose. Type 2 Diabetes is characterized by high insulin and high glucose. This extra high insulin hormone is very inflammatory. It can destroy your blood vessels, disrupt your entire family of hormones and make you fat.

Controlling diabetes

The key to controlling the damage from Type 1 Diabetes is to control your carbohydrate levels. Determine how many carbs you have eaten and adjust your supplemental insulin levels to match. Carbohydrates in Nopalea are listed on the Supplemental Facts Panel.

The key to controlling Type 2 Diabetes is to limit the number of carbohydrates per day: 1 gram of carbohydrate per pound of body weight daily. (Healthy people will often eat 2 grams of carbohydrate per pound of body weight daily.) Determine how many grams of carbohydrate you need and plan a diet to match. Include your servings of Nopalea in the final carb count.

In order to lose body fat, it is often necessary to employ a low-carb diet. Limiting carbohydrates to 60 grams or less will often result in reducing blood sugar and increasing insulin sensitivity. Reducing stress, increasing exercise and increasing dietary fiber help with insulin resistance as well.

Type 2 diabetes is at epidemic proportions in developed lands around the world. We all need to increase our activity, dietary fiber, good fats and lean proteins as well as reduce stress to improve our health. Once we lose our health it is difficult to get back. Guard it jealously. Take Nopalea* as needed and simply count the carbs in your total daily diet.

A note about the Nopalea sweetness

The sweet taste of Nopalea comes from both nutritive and non-calorie sources. Nopal prickly pear is a fruit and Agave is a root. These are the sources of nutritive sweetness in Nopalea. Stevia is a source of the non-nutritive sweetness in Nopalea. In the end, the Nopal fruit tastes sweet without adding sugar. It is the primary source of nutritive sweetness in Nopalea.

Take Control of Your Health
Count your carbohydrates daily: 1 to 2 grams per pound of body weight
Increase your dietary fiber: 1/4 to 1/3 gram per pound of body weight
Reduce your carbohydrates even more when insulin resistance is a factor
Eat lean proteins: 1/4 to 1/3 gram per pound of body weight
Drink pure water: 1/3 to 1/2 ounce per pound of body weight
Reduce stress
Improve sleep
Increase daily activity: 30 minutes to 2 ½ hours daily

Learn more about Nopalea

*Those with diabetes should consult with their doctor before taking Nopalea

Are Plastic Bottles Safe?

by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

News media stories have alerted the public to a growing threat to our health: plastic bottles.

Plastic bottles were once thought to be miracles of modern science as they allowed us to preserve and store foods for convenient use. Indeed, most of us use plastic bottles every day. Plastics are made from coal, natural gas or (most commonly) petroleum. They have been around for almost 200 years.

Unsafe choices

Plastics in the human body look remarkably similar to hormones. Some look like male hormones, others like female hormones. Yet, they are not hormones; they are artificial substances completely unusable to the human body. They tend to accumulate in hormone tissue around the body and cause inflammation.

Many plastics have been directly implicated in health-related concerns. For example, in the book Living Downstream, Sandra Steingraber details numerous disease clusters related to plastic manufacturing. Ms. Steingraber suffered from breast cancer. She lived downstream from a plastics manufacturer. In graphic detail she discusses how certain plasticizers (chemicals used in making plastics) actually cause disease. According to another organization, Healthy Child (www.healthychild.org), many plastics are especially damaging to children.

Plastics are identified by a numbering system from the American Chemistry Council. The number is stamped on the bottom of a plastic bottle in a little triangle (numbers outside the triangle are not relevant).

According to Healthy Child, several numbers are simply too toxic to be safe for children – or anyone else! They include numbers 1, 3, 6 & 7. Number 7, for example, contains Bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic chemical known to disrupt brain chemistry in ways similar to ADHD, schizophrenia and autism. BPA is similar to testosterone. It is harmful to women and girls and even more harmful to men and boys. (Maybe BPA is one reason why ADHD and autism are more prevalent in boys?)

Safer choices

Again, according to Healthy Child, several resin-code numbers are safer choices for our children and for us. Numbers 2, 4 & 5 are safer choices. Number 2 is the only one recommended as safe for drinks and beverages. Not coincidentally, Number 2 is the bottle we use for Nopalea!

Conclusion

Plastics are inherently unsafe in large amounts. However, with two centuries of use it seems that small amounts in our environment are tolerated without ill effects. Time will tell just how much and how often we can tolerate plastics in our environment and which ones are safest. For now, we know that we are serving our Wellness Journey best when we drink only from Number 2 plastic bottles.

Take Control of Your Health - Use plastic bottle alternatives:

Glass bottles
Stainless steel bottles/containers
Ceramic containers (no lead glaze!)
Wood, including paper
Bamboo
Reusable cloth bags
Select safer plastics – Number 2 resin code – for drinks

Nopalea is TriVita's astonishing breakthrough wellness drink that helps your body experience an optimal state of wellness by:

• Relieving pain
• Improving breathing
• Reducing swelling in joints and muscles

These changes may in turn help your body feel increasingly energized.

Daily use helps your body:

• Reduce inflammation
• Detoxify
• Achieve optimal cellular health

If inflammation is the problem, Nopalea is a Wellness Solution! Order it today!

Healthy Digestion For A Healthy Life

If our digestive system (DS) is working as designed, we will have a good appetite, sweet-smelling breath, abundant energy and daily elimination of waste. When our DS works well we feel on top of the world!

If our digestive system is not working optimally, we will have a bizarre appetite. This is often characterized by no desire for breakfast and a ravenous, insatiable appetite in the evening. We may even awaken in the middle of the night feeling as if we need to eat and yet never being satisfied with normal foods. When our digestive system is “broken” we will develop food allergies, gas, bloating, indigestion and excess stomach acid. If our DS malfunctions, we will have constipation or alternating diarrhea and constipation. Plus, we will have abdominal pain.

As time progresses and our DS becomes more imbalanced, we may experience chronic inflammation in the mouth (leading to sores in the mouth and on the tongue), stomach (leading to GERD, ulcers and indigestion), small intestines, pancreas, liver, gallbladder and colon. And because “bad” bacteria and yeast multiply in an unhealthy DS, we may start to experience chronic infections that migrate to our kidneys, bladder and reproductive systems. Chronic infections also trigger autoimmune attacks on healthy organs.

However, as we assist our DS to find balance, our health will rebound and return to a vital state very quickly. You see, our DS cells are the most prolific in our whole body – many of them possess a lifespan of only four hours! So, it’s easy to un-balance and upset our DS, but it’s also easy to re-balance and heal it.

Our “gut-garden”

What we need to rebalance our DS is the “Weed, Seed and Feed” program we use in our garden. We “weed” out all of the toxins in our DS with enzymes and herbs. We “seed” the DS with probiotics and we “feed” them with prebiotics for better colonization and a long, healthy life.

Weed

Enzymes help begin the healing process because they remove toxic proteins and discourage bad bacteria, yeast and parasites from breeding in our gut. And they help digest our food for more energy. Dandelion root works with the Lipase enzyme as it thins the bile from the liver and gallbladder. Bile helps Lipase to digest fat. Bile also discourages bad bacteria, yeast and parasites from breeding. Milk thistle helps reduce the autoimmune impact from an imbalanced DS, and helps reduce cramps, pain and bloating.

Seed

Prebiotics lay the groundwork for probiotics, as prebiotic fibers help probiotic bacteria establish colonies by providing a food source. Probiotics also have a marvelous impact on the rest of the body and brain as they coordinate the immune system of the DS. Prebiotics and probiotics work together to improve digestion and elimination.

Feed

To have a healthy body and brain, we must have a healthy DS. It provides us with digestion and defense. TriVita’s FloraVita™ supports these processes by supplying our probiotics the food they need – called prebiotics – and by replanting healthy colony-forming units of probiotics. Also, FloraVita supports digestion and defense with a wide array of digestive enzymes and immune-modulating botanicals.

Our digestive system is a miracle of creation! It is the primary way we take in energy to fuel a life of passion, mission and purpose. Take care of it starting today!

The Dangers of Hypoglycemia

by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

What is hypoglycemia?

There is an epidemic sweeping the world. It is an epidemic of obesity. As obesity increases, the risk of diabetes increases. The two conditions reflect each other in such a mirror-image proportion that some have started using the term “diabesity” when discussing them.

How did the epidemic begin? What are the warning signs? Most importantly, how can we break the cycle of diabesity and reclaim our health?

Today’s hypoglycemics…

We used to say that the people with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) today will be the people with type 2 diabetes tomorrow. Over the past 40 years that has proven true.

Hypoglycemia begins with too much sugar in your bloodstream for you to handle (hyper-glycemia), followed by a rapid drop in blood sugar levels (hypo-glycemia) when your metabolism finally catches up. This “yo-yo” blood sugar creates the symptoms you feel. You will eventually become type 2 diabetic if this continues. But, we get years of warning messages before this happens.

So, to halt type 2 diabetes we must learn to listen to the message of hypoglycemia. We need a sound strategy to control blood sugar before we exhaust our internal resources and slip into type 2 diabetes.

In people with type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia may be fatal if untreated. The treatment is pretty simple: sugar. If your blood sugar is too low, doesn’t it make sense to take some sugar and raise it? It might sound like a good strategy but in the kind of hypoglycemia that leads to type 2 diabetes, it is like adding fuel to the fire, and the problem only gets worse.

Sugar, including any high glycemic-index foods such as alcohol, bread or pasta, is the cause of hypoglycemia, not the cure. In the long run, high glycemic foods can lead to hypoglycemia, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

A little misleading

Actually, the term “hypoglycemia” is inappropriate. The better term is “dysglycemia,” meaning disrupted blood sugar metabolism. You see, hypoglycemia that leads to obesity and type 2 diabetes is actually a demonstration of your body’s attempt to adapt to impossible circumstances. Humans were never meant to eat this much sugar and starch, endure this much stress and be this sedentary. The fact that we survive at all is a miracle.

To adapt, our body responds to the overload of sugar and stress by producing more insulin to take the toxic level of sugar out of our bloodstream and into storage in our liver, muscles and fat cells. Because we are sedentary, our muscles suffocate with all the sugar and become resistant to the insulin. Now, only the liver and fat cells are available to receive the sugar. So we get fatty livers and fat stomachs.

Eventually, even these mechanisms fail and our pancreas simply wears out. The result is type 2 diabetes. We may even become insulin-dependent.

What to do

Three steps are immediately necessary to help stop the diabesity trend of hypoglycemia:

Stop all added sugar and starch in your diet
Increase activity every day
Reduce the impact of stress

For diet recommendations, there are three major plans that can help you:

A low-fat diet (e.g., Dr. Ornish “Eat More, Weigh Less”)
A moderate-fat Mediterranean diet (e.g., Dr. Gutterson “The Sonoma Diet”)
A high-protein diet (e.g., Dr. Agatston “The South Beach Diet”)

There are many exercise routines that can help. You may want to start by simply walking every day. Fifteen minutes is a start. Thirty minutes is better, but an hour or more every single day is best. A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed out that we should increase our exercise as we age, going “farther, longer and faster.” Hypoglycemia, obesity and diabetes are serious conditions and require a serious response.

What about supplements? I’m glad you asked! TriVita’s GlucoManage® can help your body reduce carbohydrate, sugar and alcohol cravings. It also helps re-sensitize your cells to insulin to balance blood sugar. Leanology® Capsules can literally extract fat from storage and burn it as fuel. Adaptogen 10 Plus® can help your body reduce the impact of stress and Sublingual B-12 helps reduce dangerous levels of MMA, strongly linked to type 2 diabetes.

To avoid your personal diabesity epidemic tomorrow, address the signs of hypoglycemia today!

Nopalea™ to be Included in 2012 Physicians’ Desk Reference®

TriVita is pleased to announce that product information on its Nopalea wellness drink will be published in the PDR Drug Information Service™, which will include the 2012 print edition of the Physicians’ Desk Reference® (PDR) and will appear in the online version at PDR.net sometime next month.

The PDR is an excellent resource for customers and their doctors to review product information about Nopalea.

The Physicians’ Desk Reference® (PDR) is a commercially-published compilation of manufacturers' prescribing information that is updated annually. It is designed to provide physicians with full, legally-mandated information but is also widely available in libraries and bookstores and is commonly used by other medical specialists.

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Vitamin D and Your Brain

by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

I recently read an article in the medical and scientific literature that discussed the role of Vitamin D in the human brain. The article correlated the low levels of Vitamin D in the bloodstream with high levels of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and oppositional-defiant disorder. The most important discussions, however, were about the role of Vitamin D in two plagues: autism and Alzheimer's disease.

Autism

The number of people diagnosed with autism is increasing at an epidemic rate. Greater than 1 in 150 children born today will have autism. The gender rate is also alarming: Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls.

No one can agree as to the cause of autism. This may be because there is more than one cause. In fact, the last time I counted there were 11 suspected causes. However, two things that nearly all children have in common are poor methylation (inability to use Vitamin B-12 to create whole proteins) and poor hydroxylation (inability to convert inactive Vitamin D into its active form).

The most common cause for these defects is toxicity: environmental toxins and/or geno-toxins (poisons created by abnormal genes).

Alzheimer's disease

There are three characteristics of Alzheimer's disease in the human brain: neurofibrillary tangles, beta-amyloid plaques and glial cell inflammation. Interestingly, some people with plaques and tangles - but no inflammation - appear to function normally into their advanced years. It is brain inflammation that seems to be the spark which lights the fire of Alzheimer's disease.

Vitamin D may help reduce inflammation in the brain. A notable attribute of Alzheimer's disease victims is low levels of Vitamin D.

The same two problems that exist in children with autism also afflict adults with Alzheimer's disease: poor methylation (inability to use Vitamin B-12 to create whole proteins) and poor hydroxylation (inability to convert inactive vitamin D into its active form). Methylation is measured by a blood test for homocysteine. And one of the ways to measure hydroxylation is with a blood test for Vitamin D.

Are autism and Alzheimer's disease related? At this point it is hard to say; perhaps it is even impossible to say that they are connected conditions. But they share remarkably similar imbalances in biochemistry and they share at least two common deficiencies: Vitamin B-12 and Vitamin D.

Certainly, it would be an amazing coincidence if they were not somehow linked, don't you think?

Conclusion

In the 1990s I was overwhelmed by the mountains of evidence linking homocysteine to the increase in autism and Alzheimer's disease. This was eventually linked back to a methylation defect that led to poor protein formation and Vitamin B-12 metabolism. Now, we are seeing new mountains of evidence emerging about hydroxylation defects leading to poor hormone formation and Vitamin D metabolism.

We can say with greater certainty than ever before that these imbalances are caused by toxicity, deficiency, injury and stress. Let's increase our efforts to combat these "causes" and reduce the chance of being victimized by the effects!

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What is Nopalea (TriVita's Signature Product)?

Discover the benefits of this amazing, natural, anti-inflammatory solution

Nopalea is our astonishing breakthrough wellness drink that helps your body experience an optimal state of wellness by:

• Relieving pain
• Improving breathing
• Reducing swelling in joints and muscles

These changes may in turn help your body feel increasingly energized.

Daily use helps your body:

• Reduce inflammation
• Detoxify
• Achieve optimal cellular health

If inflammation is the problem, Nopalea is a Wellness Solution!

TIME Magazine called it “The Secret Killer”
...and here’s how to help protect against it

In 2004, TIME Magazine ran an astonishing story about inflammation and its destructive effect on the body’s health.*

In the years following TIME’s story, medical science went on to find even more links between chronic inflammation and highly debilitating conditions, including allergies, chronic aches and pains, IBS and others.

These links were dumbfounding: so many different conditions can all stem from just one problem – chronic inflammation.

And the type of chronic inflammation that is being studied is not just that “sore, swollen muscle and joint” kind that so many naturally think of. It also includes the deeper, internal types of inflamed tissues affecting vital body systems, such as:

• Chronic cardiovascular inflammation in the heart and arteries
• Chronic pulmonary inflammation in lungs and airways
• Chronic digestive inflammation in the stomach, esophagus and intestines
• Chronic inflammation in the other major organs (liver, kidneys, etc.) and glands
• Chronic widespread body cell inflammation existing throughout the body

All of these different types of chronic inflammation can lead to many different kinds of severe health problems, such as:

• Ongoing, never ending pain in parts of the body
• Allergies and asthmatic reactions
• High blood pressure and deteriorating heart and blood vessel health
• Ulcers and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Constant, overall tiredness and lethargy

Normal inflammation is good

Whenever your body is subject to threatening elements or events, it may counter these attacks with one of its defense mechanisms – inflammation. This is normal.

The threats that could trigger the body’s inflammatory response could be little things, such as an injury like a pulled muscle. Or, the threat could be a bacterial intrusion. Stressful feelings and events can also trigger inflammation to flare up in any number of your body’s tissues. And, nutritionally deficient diets can lead to inflammatory flare-ups.

Finally, one of the biggest causes of inflammation could be today’s world, which relentlessly exposes your body to an overwhelming flood of micro-sized dangers, such as toxins, pollutants, bacteria, viruses and chemicals from ... the air you breathe ... the water you drink ... the foods you eat ... and even the things you touch.

But chronic inflammation is very bad

Due to all of the causes of inflammation, it’s highly likely that right now, as you read this, your body has many sites that are inflamed. This isn’t the problem, though. The problem is all of sites in your body where, for a variety of reasons, your inflammation isn’t being turned off. Instead, the inflammation just keeps going and going. This is chronic inflammation.

There are several factors that can keep your body from turning off its inflammation response, but three factors are especially prevalent:

• Chronic Stress – it keeps your body constantly “revved up,” wasting nutrient stores and impairing its ability to stop inflammation from becoming chronic
• Chronic Nutritional Deficiencies – without the right nutrition, on a daily basis, your body may not have the right resources to put a halt to ongoing inflammation
• Chronic Toxin Overload – in today’s world, your body is constantly fighting off toxins, pollutants and contaminants from so many sources that it simply can be too overwhelmed to stop the never ending, triggered inflammation

You’ll notice that there’s one thing in common with all three of the above factors: Chronic. When these adverse factors are chronic (constant), it greatly increases the chance that your body’s inflammation will be chronic, too. And it’s exactly this type of inflammation – the chronic kind – that the TIME Magazine story warned about because it can be so damaging to your health.

Some common examples of how you could be suffering from various kinds of chronic inflammation and their related health problems include:

• Muscle, joint and bone inflammation – causing ongoing body pain
• Respiratory inflammation – causing allergies and breathing difficulties
• Arterial inflammation – causing heart health problems
• Digestive tract inflammation – causing ulcers and IBS
• Widespread body cell inflammation – causing overall fatigue.

A superior solution to chronic inflammation
If chronic inflammation is the problem, Nopalea^™ is a solution. It’s your premier wellness partner in your body’s never-ending, daily battle for good health. With its amazing Betalains, Nopalea works in two vital ways: it helps neutralize your body’s inner toxins and it helps reduce its chronic inflammation.

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What Does Having Cracked Skin Really Mean?

Do you have cracked skin around your heels, on your hands or at the corners of your mouth? Each of these conditions may be described as a failure in the protective nature of your immune system. And they each tell a story about life balance and lifestyle choices, as well as your environment and even genetics that affect your health.

Heel cracks

Fissures called xerosis form around the edge of the heel as the skin dries out. The more we stand on our feet - and the older we get - the more likely we are to experience heel fissures. However, xerosis is not an inevitable part of aging or standing. Many people who stand all day or survive to age 100 don't have heel cracks. What is different between those who get them and those who don't?

Frequently, it is nutrition, exercise, rest and stress management.

Heel cracks appear most commonly in people as they age, it is true. So does diabetes. My experience tells me that heel cracks commonly appear as we lose our ability to balance our glucose (blood sugar). They are more common in people with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Control your blood sugar and you can often help control the cracking in your heels.

Two nutrients are important in glucose management: zinc and Omega essential fatty acids. Zinc helps control blood sugar, helps improve mental function, helps reduce the number of colds and viruses that affect you and even helps with ringing in the ears (tinnitus). Essential fatty acids help produce more lubrication (sebum) in the skin of the heels and help speed up healing. GlucoManage® is a good source of zinc and, of course, OmegaPrime® is my favorite source of essential fatty acids.

Consult with your healthcare provider if heel cracks:

Become painful
Become so deep they begin to bleed
Become infected
Hand cracks

Fissures affect the hands as well as the feet. However, the causes are not the same. For example, cracked skin on the hands can be a sign of an autoimmune disorder such as Sjogren's or psoriasis - inflammatory conditions appearing in the skin. I say "appearing in the skin" because psoriasis is a condition involving the whole body. Psoriasis and other skin disorders causing fissures in the hands and fingers may be autoimmune disorders - a condition where the immune system attacks normal, healthy skin and destroys it.

Interestingly, essential fatty acids are often effective in teaching the immune system to "work smarter, not harder." They do not "boost" the immune system or bolster it in any way. (In an autoimmune disorder you do not want to "boost" your immune system because that causes more damage.) Instead, essential fatty acids along with Vitamin D help the immune system more clearly identify healthy and unhealthy tissues so it may react appropriately.

Not to be overlooked, the immune system is the most intrinsically involved body system in the mind-body connection. Any stress, large or small, is immediately reflected in the immune system. Adaptogens help mitigate the impact of stress on the immune system.

Mouth cracks

Infections from tooth abscess to thrush can cause cracks in the corners of your mouth. Autoimmune conditions including celiac disease can as well (celiac disease is triggered by an extreme allergy to wheat and other gluten-containing grains). Toxins also cause cracks in the corners of the mouth. For example, fluoride in toothpaste and too much Vitamin A can both reach toxic levels and cause cracking and fissures in the lips.

The most common cause of dry, cracked lips is dehydration. Drink pure water and make sure you have enough essential fatty acids and minerals to hold that water in your skin.

Conclusion

Our skin says much about our life. It is a special window into our immune system. For healthy skin we must learn to listen as our body speaks to us. If you have dry, cracked skin anywhere on your body, seek appropriate medical care and consider the impact that proper nutrients and nurturing will have as we strive to be like the people with perfect, beautiful skin!

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Heel cracks: OmegaPrime, GlucoManage

Hand cracks: OmegaPrime, Nopalea™, Adaptogen 10 Plus®

Mouth cracks: OmegaPrime, Wellavoh® or VitaDaily™ AM/PM, Drink Pure Water

Straight Talk About Weight Loss

The prevalence of obesity is skyrocketing all over the world, but especially in developed countries such as the U.S. and Canada. Data from the Centers for Disease Control show that 31% of adults in the U.S. are obese and 35% are overweight. That's quite a significant number of people that are struggling with unhealthy weight.

Unfortunately, this is not simply a cosmetic problem; it's not just about how we look. It is about how well we are. It's about how much energy we have for the people we love and how much vitality we have for the commitments we make. It's about how successful or unsuccessful we will be at reaching our goals and living a life of Purpose and Meaning. It's that serious.

What's keeping you from reaching your weight loss goals?

When you consider the amount of advice and information available about weight loss, we should be the thinnest people in history. Yet, we continue to struggle despite all that knowledge. Test yourself:
Name something that you know you should do to achieve and maintain an ideal weight - something you are not doing.

Now, name something that you know you should not do - yet you are.

Did you have trouble naming something in each category? Most people I speak with name at least three things in each category that they could change to meet their weight loss goals. They have the knowledge but they are lacking the application. They lack a sense of Purpose strong enough to motivate change.

The "why" of weight loss
Purpose can be described in another way: Destiny. A sense of Destiny will dictate a need for health. For you, health may include appropriate weight loss. Commit yourself to living your Destiny, your Mission, your many Purposes in life and this will motivate change.

Take all the time you need to figure out exactly what you want and why you want it. Write it down. Also, be sure to recruit allies; they will be your cheering section when you are winning and your support team when you are struggling.

You know, I once heard a quote that went something like, "Never confuse planning with performing." Destiny is about planning AND performing. It's about deciding what you want and why you want it. Now, you need to be very clear about your "why." One of my favorite quotes about this is, "He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how.'"

The "how" of weight loss
Do you need a better diet? More exercise? Better sleep? Less stress? All of these changes require effort and energy. Your sense of Destiny will inspire you to act. It will give you the energy to act. Of course, sometimes idealism clashes with realism. So, decide what's realistic, not what you should do but what you will do, and then do it.

Now, it must be recognized that in some cases, obesity is associated with underlying illness or as a side effect of a medication. This requires medical treatment and I encourage you to work closely with your health care team to find a solution to these problems.

However, most people can achieve and maintain a healthful body weight by reducing stress, improving sleep, eating a more healthful diet, and exercising regularly to burn off the calories they consume. TriVita can help guide you through this process with Leanology™, a comprehensive weight loss program. A lifestyle approach to weight loss, Leanology includes nutrients, education, and guidance to help you reach and maintain a healthier life.

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Always remember, we are created to live a life of purpose. Let your purpose fuel your actions step by step; let your actions harmonize with your sense of destiny. You won't need to struggle with eating nutritiously or engaging in activity; your destiny will demand that you make the healthiest dietary choices. It will demand that you exercise appropriately to stay fit.

Great purposes require great health. Let your sense of destiny be the driving force behind your weight loss journey. Get started today!

Prepare Now For Flu Season

Have you ever noticed that some people never seem to get sick? Really, only about 10% of the people you know will get the flu in any normal year. Even in an epidemic year, only about 50% of the people around you will get the flu.

How would you like to be one of the people who do not get the flu this year? Well, it’s possible to reduce your risk and improve your chances of staying healthy with two simple steps: insulation and isolation.

Isolation

We don’t need to be quarantined to be isolated from the flu. In fact, the number-one technique for isolation from the flu is right in your hands! Yes, hand washing is the most important thing you can do to protect yourself from the flu. Wash them thoroughly in hot, soapy water for 20 seconds (sing your alphabet) and dry them completely. You may also use alcohol-based hand sanitizers between washings.

Other isolation pointers include:
Don’t be near sick people
Cover your face when you cough or sneeze
Use a disposable tissue rather than handkerchief
Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose and mouth
These commonsense strategies can help protect you from infection and reduce your risk of getting sick.

Insulation

More important than isolation is insulation. Most people don’t get sick when the flu comes around because they are sufficiently insulated, not because they were “lucky” and never exposed. We are all exposed. When we make it through the season without an infection it is probably because we are sufficiently insulated, not because we are completely isolated.

Insulation is about nutrients and nurturing; it is about the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. For example, stress makes people more prone to infection; Deep Breathing reduces the impact of stress. Toxicity is a common trigger for infection; Deep Breathing and proper hydration (Drink Pure Water) help detoxify us. Eventually, the symptoms we feel from influenza infection are modulated by our immune system.

Sleeping Peacefully is the primary way we reset our immune system. In fact, peaceful sleep of the right quantity and quality is the key to becoming infection-resistant. Sleep well and avoid infection; sleep poorly and increase your risk of getting the flu.

Other Essentials are significant contributors to our immune system: moderate exercise reduces our risk and eating our fruits and veggies does as well. Emotional health reduces our risk and social support may also. In the end, insulation is your best protection from illness. Coupled with your isolation program, insulation Essentials are the best tools available to help avoid getting sick.

Nutrients?

It is critical that we build a solid foundation for wellness in order to avoid illness. This includes satisfying nutrient deficiencies. In the industrialized world, the top deficiencies are: Vitamin C, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin D, Magnesium and Essential Fatty Acids. At the very least, supplements to meet these deficiencies should be part of your insulation strategy.

A few other nutrients I suggest include Peaceful Sleep™ (if you can’t sleep, you can’t repair!), Nopalea™ to help reduce the chance for inflammatory symptoms in your lungs, and Adaptogen 10 Plus® to help reduce the contribution stress may have toward lowering and weakening your immune system.

These insulation and isolation suggestions will give you the best chance to come through this season as one of the people who simply did not get sick!

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Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables? Most people aren’t.
If you find it difficult to get your recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables, you’re not alone. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report revealed that more than 75% of Americans don’t meet the minimum recommendation of five servings of fruits and vegetables per day. With all the time and commitment involved in shopping and prep work, not to mention the rising cost of food, that statistic isn’t surprising – although it is alarming.

Evidence continues to grow regarding fruit and vegetable consumption and disease risk. Study after study shows that those who eat more fruits and vegetables lower their risk of chronic disease, compared to those who eat fewer fruits and vegetables.

Bottom line? Getting the vital nutrients fruits and vegetables provide is crucial to good health.

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• Boost your immune system
• Increase energy
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• Support cardiovascular health
• Increase overall vitality and well-being

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How to Keep Your Heart Healthy

Death is Nature’s way of saying, “Slow down, take it easy”

Ahh, to slow down for a moment… To go through life relaxed instead of pedal-to-the-metal!
We call the cycle of chronic stress Fight or Flight. It describes the reaction of our nervous system when we are confronted with a life-threatening circumstance. Our nervous system governs homeostasis – which controls our hormones, sugar balance and energy production. Our nervous system controls our heart and vascular system as well.

The gas, the brakes…

Our car is equipped with an accelerator to make it go and brakes to make it stop.  Our nervous system is divided into two separate systems that function in much the same way. The sympathetic nervous system reacts and responds to stimuli from outside our body such as noise, cold and heat. It reacts to pain or even the threat of pain and loss. It reacts when you are tickled. It is “sympathetic” to emotions such as fear and anger.

Our parasympathetic nervous system works to bring us back into balance when stressful circumstances are past and the hormones of stress start to drop. The parasympathetic nervous system runs everything in your body: heart, brain, immune system, digestion, reproduction – everything!

The sympathetic nervous system may tear your body apart to try to solve a momentary crisis. The parasympathetic nervous system builds your body up and allows you to heal when the crisis has resolved.

We need to put the brakes on stress or it will put the brakes on our life!

Hormones, stress and heart attacks

If our body is parasympathetic-dominant we experience all the colors of life from an optimum state: our breathing is relaxed, our digestion is complete and our circulation is wide open. Our thyroid is busily building up our muscles, bones and organs and our heart is cooperating by ensuring a nutrient-rich supply of blood.

If our body is sympathetic-dominant it is stressed. Our thyroid cannot complete its building function so our brain pumps out more and more stimulating hormones. Our liver releases huge amounts of sugar and cholesterol. Our blood pressure increases and our heart rate increases as nutrients are choked off from non-Fight or Flight systems, such as breathing, reproduction and digestion.

One of the most vulnerable of all systems to sympathetic dominance is the cardiovascular system – your heart and blood vessels. If they have been constricted for too long because of stress, they will lose their ability to return to normal when you relax. Soon, semi-permanent changes will occur in these systems as we become accustomed to stressful living.

Running the engine of your car at top speed exhausts your fuel supply very quickly. Running your body in sympathetic dominance exhausts your nutrient reserves as well. This is especially true of your antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, such as Vitamins C and B-12, as well as essential fatty acids that serve as the primary fuel for your heart.

When your car runs out of fuel, it sputters and dies. It is the same way for your heart!

What to do

Deep breathing
Unlike your car, your body is designed to heal given the right circumstances. We can switch our nervous system to parasympathetic dominance by practicing deep breathing. Take “breathing breaks” for 10 minutes, twice daily. Practice deep breathing for 20 minutes before sleeping. This is a major step toward relaxing. Keep it up every day and in four to six months your cardiovascular system can begin to heal.

Activity
Enjoy low-stress exercise for at least 30 minutes daily. This will open your blood vessels and even help your body to build new blood vessels.

Nutrients
Use antioxidant nutrients such as Vital C™ and eat antioxidant-rich foods at every meal. Use anti-inflammatory supplements: Cholestria™ to help raise HDL (“good” cholesterol) and help reduce inflammatory LDL (“bad” cholesterol), and HCY Guard® (homocysteine is a very inflammatory toxin!). And fuel your heart with essential fatty acids from OmegaPrime®.

Take your foot off the gas with anti-stress exercises. Put more fuel in your tank with nutrients and nurturing. Slow down a little – or Nature will send you an unwanted message!

Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases

Article by Brazos Minshew - TriVita's Chief Science Officer

We are a people on fire!

Less than a hundred years ago the common health challenges we faced were infections. With the discovery of pathogenic bacteria and the advent of proper hygiene, death from these problems became less common. Inflammation has become the new epicenter of disease, disability and death.

Inflammation and the immune system

Our immune system uses heat to destroy invading bacteria. A specialized cell called a macrophage douses the invader with inflammatory enzymes (like acids) and the heat generated in this battle destroys the invading bacteria.

Sometimes our own healthy cells become the focus for disease. This often happens because of toxic exposure. When we eat, drink or breathe a toxin, or if it is absorbed through our skin, our detoxification system works to remove it before the poison can compromise our health. Unfortunately, many of today's poisons are simply too strong and they overwhelm our detoxification system and enter healthy cells. These cells now become the target of disease, infection and inflammation. Our immune system must treat them as hostile and use heat to destroy them.

Autoimmune diseases arise when our immune system becomes so overworked that it can no longer tell the difference between healthy cells and sick cells. It attacks all cells of a particular type equally. This body system is never able to heal and chronic inflammation sets in.

The weakest link
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. You are only as healthy as your weakest body system. How robust you are depends mostly on lifestyle choices, somewhat on your environment and a little on your genetics.

When a toxin overwhelms your detoxification process it will likely settle in your weakest system. The immune system melts these polluted cells in an effort to save healthy cells. This is acute inflammation. With chronic toxicity comes the opportunity for chronic inflammation. In the case of chronic inflammation, the immune system attacks any sick cell as well as any healthy cell that looks like the sick one. If the immune system attacks connective tissue we say a person has lupus. If it attacks the beta cells of the pancreas we say they have type 1 diabetes. If it attacks the joints we say they have rheumatoid arthritis.

These are only a few of the more than 200 autoimmune diseases. Yet they all share one common attribute: inflammation.

Putting the fire out

Inflammation arises because of:
Toxins
Injuries
Emotional distress
Nutrient deficiency

We simply must reduce our toxic exposure to reduce the chances of developing an autoimmune disorder. And we must also develop emotional coping strategies and have all of the nutrients we need in our body in the right quantity - every moment of every day. These are the first steps to reducing inflammation.

We can help douse the fire with anti-inflammatory Betalains such as those found in TriVita's Nopalea. A Betalain is a protein-antioxidant complex found in certain plants grown in hot climates. The hotter the climate, the more Betalains the plant needs to survive and the more we can benefit.

Nutrient strategies

According to most authorities, everyone needs to be taking a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement every day. This is even more important for people trying to tame their immune system in an autoimmune flare-up. We also need to eat foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and take Omega EFA supplements. These fats not only help reduce inflammation but they also make your immune system work smarter, not harder. Antioxidants are critical to putting out the fire of inflammation. Betalain "protein-antioxidants" are extremely powerful anti-inflammatory nutrients. Finally, Vitamin B-12 and adaptogens form a bulwark against the blues and physical stress.

We are a nation on fire. This is at the heart of the near epidemic of autoimmune disorders we are facing. Strategies of nutrients and nurturing will help us fight inflammation and help us with what we do best: heal!

Take Control of Your Health

Remove household cleaners from your living space
Keep clear of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides
Select certified organic foods when possible
Take a multiple vitamin/mineral supplement
Eat foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids
Salmon, tuna, herring and other fatty fish
Walnuts (especially English walnuts)
Take an Omega EFA supplement
Help your body reduce inflammation with Betalains found in Nopalea
Protect yourself from emotional distress with B-12 and adaptogens

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How to Jump Start Your Weight Loss

Weight loss is the number one "resolution" people make when they decide to improve their health. When weight loss occurs it comes from a loss of body mass: water, fat, lean body tissue and bones. Wouldn't it be great to focus weight loss on fat only? It certainly would. In fact, weight loss that selectively targets fat and preserves or increases lean body tissues and bones is the only way to permanently lose weight.

Sounds difficult, right? Well, don't worry: We have a solution!

Suicidal weight loss
Many people lose weight rapidly by starving themselves. I call this suicidal weight loss for three reasons:

1. Rapid weight loss is water loss; water loss is dehydration and dehydration is death.
2. Rapid weight loss comes from lean body tissue (brain, heart, muscle, collagen, etc.). Sarcopenia (age-related loss of lean body tissue) is death.
3. Rapid weight loss comes from bone. Bone loss is osteoporosis; osteoporosis kills more women in North America than breast cancer!

Rapid weight loss by starving yourself is slow suicide.

Lifetime weight control
An alternative to this kind of weight loss madness is to select a strategy that focuses on weight loss from fat only. This is not done by accident. We must select fat loss by choice. This choice implies knowledge; knowledge means that we must learn the lesson of obesity and battle it for the rest of our lives.

Calories – Obesity in simplistic terms is about consuming more calories than you burn in a single day. Multiply these extra calories over time and you have what we all see: an obesity epidemic. However, it is not merely the number of calories we eat; we must include the right kind of calories for lifetime weight control. Organizations such as the American Heart Association and the America Cancer Society recommend eating 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables daily (5 for children, 7 for women and 9 for men).  These are the best calories.

Movement – Our body is made to move. Daily exercise is necessary for lifetime weight control and targeted fat loss. Aerobic training for 30 minutes on most days of the week and weight training (resistance training) 2 to 5 times per week will keep the fires of your metabolism burning fat.
Other tips:

• Deep breathing for 20 minutes daily reduces fat-building hormones like cortisol.
• Get your sleep: The less you sleep, the more you will weigh.
• Eat small meals: Eating more than 400 calories at a single meal causes our cells to suffocate from insulin.

Why supplementation is important
Taking certain supplements can help you lose weight, but you really have to be careful! One supplement that was heavily advertised on television was shown to cause 74% weight loss from lean body tissue. Another supplement that seemed to be the most popular weight loss supplement of the time caused 55% lean body loss. That is suicidal weight loss!

Beneficial supplements exist. For example, Leanology Weight Loss Capsules were studied in a top-of-the-line, scientific clinical trial through Arizona State University. They were shown to reduce weight entirely from fat! Yes, 100% of the weight loss came from fat!

Also, the plant antioxidant ECGC (found in Energy Now!) can increase metabolism by over 200 calories per gram.

My favorite fat loss supplement to "jump-start" a weight loss program is Vital C. This is primarily because of the nature of fat: a toxic dumping ground for chemicals and poisons your body could not eliminate. Vital C is a pH-balanced form of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C). Ascorbic acid neutralizes many of the toxins we store in our fat cells. For rapid weight loss that targets fat cells, use a Vitamin C Flush, Energy Now! and, especially, Leanology.

Conclusion
Good health only comes from healthy living. Take time to learn the rules of healthy living. Practice healthy habits every day. Soon, the "deposits" you make into your health account will begin to yield real dividends: a lean body functioning at peak efficiency!

 

 

Take Control of Your Health

 

• Eat your vegetables and fruits
  • 5 servings for children
  • 7 servings for women
  • 9 servings for men
• Exercise daily
• Reduce stress through deep breathing
• Sleep peacefully
• Detoxify fat cells with pure water and Vital C
• Increase metabolism with Energy Now!
• Lose 100% of the weight from fat with Leanology

 

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - How B Vitamin Supplementation May Help

by Dr. Scott Conard

Many puzzles are yet to be solved by modern medicine. As we continue to seek causes and solutions for the ills that plague mankind, confusion still swirls around two of the more "mysterious" ailments: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS). They have some important traits in common:

• We don't know what causes either CFS or fibromyalgia
• They share several symptoms
• There is no cure

The confusion around these two syndromes is fed by their overlapping nature: It's estimated that up to 70% of people diagnosed with CFS also fit the clinical guidelines for FMS, and vice versa. Most people with CFS have some kind of pain, which is a major symptom of FMS. And most people with FMS report fatigue, a major symptom of CFS. No wonder even doctors can be unsure which is which.

Vitamin B-12 and folic acid for managing symptoms
We do know, however, that many physicians and researchers (along with patients) support supplementation -- including Vitamin B-12 and folic acid -- as an important part of managing symptoms. Here's a thumbnail look that helps explain why:

CFS: As the name suggests, this is a disorder that causes extreme fatigue. This fatigue is not the tiredness that goes away after you rest. Instead, it lasts a long time and limits your ability to do ordinary daily activities. Symptoms of CFS include fatigue for six months or more, and other problems such as muscle pain, memory problems, headaches, pain in multiple joints, sleep problems, sore throat and tender lymph nodes. It is most common in women in their 40s and 50s, but anyone can have it. It can last for years.

FMS: Fibromyalgia makes you feel tired and causes muscle pain and "tender points." Tender points are places on the neck, shoulders, back,hips, arms or legs that hurt when touched. Other symptoms can include trouble sleeping, morning stiffness, headaches, and problems with thinking and memory, sometimes called "fibro fog."

No one knows what causes fibromyalgia. Anyone can get it, but it is most common in middle-aged women. People with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are especially prone to fibromyalgia.

... both syndromes can affect mental function... this may be a key to the use of B vitamins.

Supporting mental function with B vitamins
Notice that both syndromes can affect mental function: memory and thinking problems can arise, and this may be a key to the use of B vitamins. As you may know, the medical links between B vitamins and brain function are strong and well documented.

So, it isn't surprising that healthcare professionals in both traditional and alternative medicine, including experts in CFS and FMS, support the use of B vitamins and folic acid to help manage symptoms.

If you or a loved one have, or suspect you have, one of these confusing syndromes, it's important to know that both are much more than just being tired, or having some muscle pain. CFS and FMS are often misunderstood, and deserve attention and treatment. I urge you to consult with your healthcare professional, and to see how the highest quality B vitamin supplementation might help.

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