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1. Are You Playing Russian Roulette with Your Heart?
2. Do Statins Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease?
3. Improving Blood Circulation
4. The Difference Between Drugs and
Nutrition Supplements
Are You Playing Russian Roulette with Your Heart
Drugs that include traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as well as new generation anti-inflammatory drugs (COX-2 inhibitors) have been linked to cardiovascular risks.
Do Statins Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease?
A scientific paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association a number of years ago by Dr. David Jenkins from the University of Toronto showed that the patients who lowered their cholesterol with statins had higher levels of insulin, while those who lowered their cholesterol through diet had lower insulin levels. Why is that important? Because elevated insulin levels are the first step on the road to diabetes--they make you gain weight around the middle, cause high blood pressure, increase inflammation, and promote stickiness of the blood. Each of these conditions, in turn, contributes to heart attacks and heart disease.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/do-statins-cause-diabetes_b_712929.html
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.
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 http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/Nerve-Support-Formula.htm
For High Blood pressure see High Blood Pressure
For other health challenges, see McVitamins.com
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