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1.Is It Possible to Improve Blood Circulation?
2.The Difference Between Drugs and
Nutrition Supplements for the treatment of Neuropathy \
3. PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) What is it? How does it
effect women?
4. Could This be the Key Factor Spiking the Rise in ADHD?
Is It Possible to Improve 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.
Here are some 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
Poor circulation can also reduce the absorption of nutrients that you're taking.
Improving your circulation can help your body to get better results from the nutrients that you're taking.
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 primary care health professional if you have any questions about the safety of this procedure.
The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements for the treatment of Neuropathy
No matter what the cause of your neuropathy, 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 cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, the chemicals used in cancer treatments, 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.
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
PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) What is it? How does it effect women?
PCOS has now been
recognized as perhaps the most common of all hormone disorders affecting women.
It is thought to effect 6-10% of the female population with many believed
to be undiagnosed.
PCOS may be
associated with chronic inflammation. Inflammation
appears to be a link between obesity and insulin resistance.
A majority of patients with PCOS have insulin
resistance. Their elevated insulin levels contribute to or cause the
abnormalities.
PCOS can effect the Pituitary gland (the master gland of the body)
Many women with PCOS
have difficulties maintaining ovulation because of imbalanced hormone levels in
their bloodstream. This can make pregnancy extremely difficult to achieve.
PCOS causes ovaries to function improperly.. As a
result, eggs are not released during ovulation, but instead build up within the
ovaries forming cysts. These cysts continue to grow, covering the entire ovary
and affecting the production of reproductive hormones in the body.
The side effects of this
imbalance can create:
Learn more and learnt what you can do if you have this syndrome..
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