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Your Nutritional Education Site

1. Improving Blood Circulation
2. Things that can Stop Nerve Damage Repair - Worth Reading even if you don't have neuropathy.
3. The Difference Between Drugs and All Natural Vitamin Supplements 
4. Signs & Symptoms of Deficiencies
5. Remedy for Sinus problems.

Improving Blood Circulation

One question I often hear from customers is "How can I improve my circulation?" 

The good news is that there is a simple way to improve circulation in the body. It's called Contrast Showers. 

Here's how it's done:

1. You stand in the shower and turn the water on as hot as you are able to stand it. Run the hot water over your body for a minute or two. 
2. Then change the temperature of the water to as cold as you are able to stand it. Continue running the cold water on your body for about a minute or so. 
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 about 4 to 8 times.
4. End off with the cold water.

Do this several times a day for the most benefit. 

When you begin, you may only be able to tolerate warm water then slightly cool water. This is okay because you don't want to scald yourself. As you do it more often, you'll gradually be able to withstand hotter as well as colder water and this will make it even more effective.

The hot water causes the blood to flow towards the surface of the body. The cold water makes the blood flow towards the center of the body.

Poor circulation can also reduce the absorption of nutrients that you're taking while improving your circulation can help your body to get better results from the nutrients that you're taking.

Here are some other reported benefits of Contrast Showers in addition to better blood circulation:

*Boosts the immune system
*Revitalizes the skin
*Reduces muscle soreness
*Temporary relief of aching, pains and stiff joints from arthritis
*It helps the body to reduce toxins. (Medications are very toxic to the body.)
*Better digestion and nutrient assimilation
*Can help to improve mobility
*Improves production of digestive enzymes
*Improves the oxygen to the internal organs
*Better metabolism 
*Helps prevent colds

It's not recommended that you take a Contrast Shower if:

*You are asthmatic
*Have an active autoimmune disease
*Inflammation
*Cardiovascular problems
*Are pregnant

Consult your physician if you have any questions about the safety of this procedure.

Things that Stop Nerve Damage Repair 

(Worth reading even if you don't have Neuropathy)

While working with our customers to help them reduce and eliminate their neuropathy there are some things we learned that can lengthen the time it takes to see an improvement in one’s neuropathy symptoms.

One of the things we found is that some of our customers are unknowingly creating a vitamin B deficiency as a result of their daily activities. B vitamins are vital for healthy nerves!

For example, some of the things that cause a B vitamin deficiency are heavy drinking of coffee, tea and soft drinks. This includes de-caffeinated coffee, tea and soft drinks. These beverages act as diuretics that cause the loss of both water and water-soluble B vitamins from the body.

Also, heavy smoking or drinking of alcohol, antibiotics, birth control pills, and stress can all burn up B vitamins.

And of course, there are many prescription medications that cause neuropathy as a side effect. 

If you are taking one or more of the medications listed below, it can greatly increase the amount of time it will take for you to see results in repairing and reversing your nerve damage.

The following blood pressure medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side effect: 

Aceon, Altace, Hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), Hydrodiuril, Lisinopril, Perindopril, Prinivil, Ramipril, Zestril.

The following cholesterol medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side effect: 

Advicor, Altocor, Altoprev, Atorvastatin, Baycol, Caduet, Cerivastatin, Crestor, Fluvastatin, Lescol, Lescol XL, Lipex, Lipitor, Lipobay, Lovastatin, Mevacor, Pravachol, Pravastatin, Pravigard Pac, Rosuvastatin, Simvastatin, Vytorin, Zocor. 

It’s recommended that if you’re taking any of the above mentioned medications, that you speak to your doctor about getting off of these and replacing them with a natural supplement.

Minimally, your doctor should put you on a medication that does not cause neuropathy, so that the  Nerve Support Formula can nourish the cells of your body so that your body can more effectively repair the nerve damage. 

If your doctor is not willing to work with you on this then you should find a doctor who will. 

The Nerve Support Formula is a medical food that is specifically formulated for the dietary management of neuropathy, and it works extremely well.

But remember, if you are trying to put a fire out with one hand, it does not help if you are pouring gasoline on it with the other hand!

Here is what some of our customers are saying about using the WSN Nerve Support Formula:

“I am both amazed and delighted with the results I am experiencing from my first order of the Nerve Support Formula! After only 19 days of taking the 4 capsules a day I am free of that awful constant burning in my feet.” - Jeff Hadfield, Manitoba, Canada 

"Within just three weeks of starting on your Nerve Support Formula my neuropathy and the pain has decreased dramatically. I am so pleased!” - Betty Latham, Nevada

You can find out more about the  WSN Nerve Support Formula by going here 
http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/nerve-support-formula.htm


The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements 

 For what every ails you, , a person has only a few choices about what to do about it..

The Drug Approach

What a drug does is it forces the body to do something that it normally wouldn't do.. When it comes to a medication, the body reacts in certain ways to this medication and it is done in order to achieve a desirable effect.  For instance,  in order to balance itself and handle the effects of a drug, the body has to lower its blood pressure.   If this is what you want to happen because its a blood pressure medication, it's a good thing.   However, there are also various other ways the body can react to the drug and sometimes this is not such a good thing - this is called a "side effect".  It is the reason someone can wind up on 4 blood pressure medications.  Each drug is given in an attempt to balance another drug so as not to create the various side effects of the other drugs.  It is a balancing act. 

The Natural Approach

What a nutritional supplement does is give the body the actual tools it needs to fix the body. 

In the case of neuropathy, it is the nerve cell that is damaged.  The body needs certain tools (nutritional factors) to do this repair.   Drugs don't repair anything; they treat the symptom, not the cause of the problem. 

As with our example of blood pressure, if they don't know what is causing the high blood pressure, the drug just lowers it artificially.  the supplement doesn't force the blood pressure low, but addresses the cause of high blood pressure and brings your body into better balance, and the blood pressure goes to normal.  

The cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, the chemicals used in cancer treatments, injury to the nerve, etc. - but one thing is known,  the damage is done to the cell and this causes the pain.  

You can cover this up with pain killers, or with other drugs that are manufactured to handle this, but the drugs aren't repairing anything.   They are trying to forces the body to not give you pain, not give you numbness, etc.,  And sometimes more damage to the nerve cell might happen due to the drug or other drugs you are taking,

The Nutritional Approach

Nutritional supplements are actually vitamins and minerals that the body needs to repair the cells.  The body needs certain nutrients to function properly. 

In the case of neuropathy, there are specific ingredients needed by the body to repair the cells.  These are the supplements you want to take.

Another difference is that if you are taking a drug and just covering up symptoms, you have to continue to take the drug to get relief and sometimes even have to increase the drug to get the same relief.

If you take natural supplements, the body can fix the problem, and as long as you don't do anything to damage the cells again, there is an end to taking the supplements.

For neuropathy see:   Nerve Support Formula

For High Blood pressure see High Blood Pressure

For other health challenges, see McVitamins.com

 

New Formula for Sinus Problems 

 Do you have problems with sinus infections - read an article and find out about the Sinus Relief Formula.  This is a homeopathic remedy.  Homeopathic remedies do not produce any side effects and they can be taken with other medications if necessary.

Find out more at www.mcvitamins.com/sinuses.htm    And find out more about homeopathic remedies at www.mcvitamins.com/homeopathy.htm