1. If You're Taking This Drug - Don't Take Aspirin
2. Are Medications Causing Your Neuropathy?
3. How to Lower Cholesterol, Lose Weight And Lower Blood Pressure 
4. Health Conditions - What is good health?  

 

If You're Taking This Drug - Don't Take Aspirin

Even though I strongly disagree with this common preventive medication as there is plenty of evidence to suggest it doesn't work, antiplatelet medications, such as aspirin, are a typical part of standard care after a heart attack.

Many heart attack patients, and those suffering from cardiovascular disease, are also prescribed an antidepressant—in large part because both heart attacks and depression are believed to be related to stress.

However, this 'standard practice' has its risks, and it's important to understand that antidepressants do not actually treat stress.

What's worse, research presented earlier this year at a New Orleans meeting of the American College of Cardiology shows that antidepressants may actually accelerate atherosclerosis by thickening your arterial walls.  Unexpected consequences like this are precisely what you would expect when you use a band aid treatment that does not address the cause of the problem.

For full story, go to Don't Take Aspirin

 

Are Medications Causing Your Neuropathy?

One of the three major causes of neuropathy today are prescription medical drugs. 

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

You should talk to your doctor about using a safe and effective alternative.

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

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

Blood pressure medications that can cause neuropathy:
Atenolol, Aceon, Altace, Benicar, Betapace, Bumetanide, Bumex, Cozaar, Diovan, DynaCirc, Ethacrynic Acid, Edecrin, Furosemide, Hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), Hydrodiuril, Hyzaar, Isradipine, Lasix, Lisinopril, Micardis, Norvasc, Olmesartan, Perindopril, Prazosin, Prescal, Prinivil, Ramipril, Sotalol, Valsartan, Zestril.

Cholesterol medications that can cause neuropathy:
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.

These are just a few of the prescription medications that can cause neuropathy. If you are taking any other kind or type of prescription medication, you can let us know and we will tell you if it can cause neuropathy or not. 

To learn more about Neuropathy

To learn more about the Causes of Neuropathy

 

How to Lower Cholesterol, Lose Weight And Lower Blood Pressure - Go Primal & Lose Weight With Caveman Cuisine

If you’re looking for a new way to lose weight, lower your cholesterol or lower your blood pressure, all you need to do is go primal. Caveman cuisine is all the rage. Way back in the day, it was just what everybody ate. Now it’s called the Paleolithic diet.

Dr. Igor Mitrovic is a neuroscientist who follows the Paleolithic diet; eating only what prehistoric man ate half a million years ago.

For the complete story go to Healthy Cuisine 

 

Health Conditions - What is good health?  

Years of man made foods open the door to all sorts of disease.   What should you do?

Health is the optimum operation of all your organs and cells.    If you viewed your health on a scale: 

100% - Perfect Health
80%
60% 
40% 
20% 
O% - Death

100% would be perfect health.  Everything functioned just the way it should.  You would have lots of energy and would not have attention on your body.  It would just work.  On the bottom of your scale =  0% would be the non-functioning of all your cells and your body.  This would be Death.

Now what about all those ranges in between?   Well, around 20%, on your way down, you would go into the realm of Disease.   This is the Medical Doctor's area of expertise and where they save people from incapacity and death.    The Medical Doctors are experts in this area and their tests and protocols will handle these situations.   This is where their energies are placed. 

100% - Perfect Health
80%
60% 
40% 
20% - Disease  
O% - Death

But, have you ever felt really bad, you're not functioning at you best, you've got aches and pains, or maybe you're really tired all the time.  You go to see your medical doctor and he/she does all the standard tests and they are all normal.   You may even take some highly sophisticated tests and they still show within the normal range.   But, you feel bad......???

Well, you're in that range somewhere below 100% and above 20%.   Here is where you aren't in the range of disease, but in something we like to call dis-ease.   It isn't life threatening, but it threatens your well being and ability to live happily.

Around 80%, things aren't bad, but not perfect,  Around 60% you start getting those aches and pains and other non-optimal feelings.   You start feeling bad.

100% - Perfect Health
80% - Less than perfect
60% - Dis - Ease 
40% - Dis - Ease
20% - Disease  
O% - Death

How do you stop the plummet down the scale?  Well, you pay attention to what you eat.   You pay attention to the poisons in the air and the poisons you put in your body.    You find out what foods you need, or what supplements you need and start up the ladder again.   You make sure you exercise your body.

The body given the right fuel will run optimally.    Each cell will run well and the DNA will make a new perfect cell when it is time to reproduce itself.  However, if you don't give it the right nutritional ingredients, it won't be able to make a perfect copy.  

How does that work?

As an example, let's say you hired a contractor and asked him to build you a perfect replica of the Taj Mahal.   He could do it; he is that good a contractor.  He knows the tools of his trade.    But, the only materials you give him is plywood and nails.    He would do the best he could, but he wouldn't build that perfect replica.  And it wouldn't stand up the way the original has.

You get the picture?    Well, why would your body behave differently.   If you only give it sugar, caffeine, and an imbalance of what it needs, it isn't going to build really good cells that are capable of doing their job.   In fact, continually getting the wrong foods and you body has deficiencies which become disease.

What about when you get the best food, when you can't always eat right.   The answer supplementation.

Let's get back up the scale

Lots of non-optimum conditions are the result of years and years of poor eating.  Giving the body "plywood" instead of what it really needs to survive well.  

What can you do about it?   Start giving your body the vital ingredients it has been depleted of.   Continue to give your body all the ingredients it needs to build a healthy body.   Stop giving it that "plywood" and give it what it some "steel".  Or if there isn't a lot of good "steel" around, give it concentrated nutrients - supplementation.   

Now the body is a bit more complicated.  It needs a lot of ingredients to create good health. 

Ingredients for health

There are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acids, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. Collectively these forty nutrients are spoken of as the body's requirements. From these our bodies synthesize an estimated 10,000 different compounds essential to the maintenance of health.  All the forty nutrients work together, therefore, the lack of any one might result in the underproduction of hundreds of these essential compounds. Probably no one nutrient is ever totally lacking from an otherwise adequate diet, but partial simultaneous deficiencies of many nutrients is common.

Now, you have to remember that it took years and years of bad eating and living in a polluted environment to bring the body into the condition that will produce non-optimum health conditions, and thus, you can't take the correct vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids for a day or two and expect to handle the situation.   True sometimes just a day or two makes you feel much much better because you've given your body those things it most needs.

But. supplements aren't drugs, they don't create instant results. Nutrition, both food and supplements, supply the body with those things it needs to build the cells that will make the body function correctly.

So, maybe it might take a few months to start seeing real changes, but you will see those changes.   One rule of thumb is that it will take you one month for each year that you have had a non-optimum health condition to make a change.   But, then again,  the body is resilient and it can start re-building and changing things very quickly.     But, remember, your body needs these things every day to function.  Don't drop our your supplement regiment because you feel better.  Start paying attention to what you eat, and make sure you take those vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids that are missing in your diet.

Now that you know the basics of supplementation, we want to introduce you to our index on Health Conditions and what you can do about those non-optimum body problems.