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1. 5 Ways Caregivers Can Share Yoga With Seniors
2. Tooth Decay and Deminerazation of the Teeth
3. Losing Your Hair Color Prematurely Do These 2 Things Now
4. The Truth About Neuropathy & Vitamins

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5 Ways Caregivers Can Share Yoga With Seniors by Harry Cline

When it comes to keeping seniors fit and healthy, caregivers are tasked with important responsibilities. Whether you’re a hired professional or a family member with a big heart, making sure your senior client stays active— in mind and body— is a big part of your job description. But what if there was a way where you could help yourself and your senior strengthen, relax and tone the mind and the body? Enter yoga.

If you didn’t know it already, yoga can be done by anyone. You don’t have to be able to touch your toes to practice yoga. If you can breathe, then you are already doing it! If you’re a caregiver looking to add yoga to you and your senior’s day, here are a few tips to help you start and keep a routine going.

Tip #1 Set Up a Space

Making a designated yoga space is a great way to keep your practice on the forefront of your mind. It’s also a good way to make your yoga time together a noteworthy time, which will help your senior feel special. You can use a whole room or part of a room, just as long as there is room for a yoga mat or two and access to Wifi. You’ll want to watch a few yoga videos (there are thousands of free ones online) so you understand how to correctly do a pose. While you don’t need a full-on home gym to practice yoga in your house, an area dedicated to health and fitness takes you one step closer to making it a priority.

Tip #2 Put It On Your Schedule

While one major lesson we learn from yoga is flexibility, in the beginning, you might want to make it a scheduled activity for your senior.  Not only will it help you both see results more quickly, but it will also help yoga become an important daily habit. If your senior needs a little boost after they wake up, practicing a few senior-centered sun salutations before breakfast will get the blood pumping and breath flowing. If your senior charge often becomes sluggish in the afternoon, a gentle vinyasa practice after lunch will boost energy, aid in digestion and build muscle strength. If falling or staying asleep is an issue, a nighttime relaxation practice could help you both unwind. Stick to your schedule for at least 21 days to see if a habit forms.

Tip #3 Practice With Your Friends

Nothing keeps us working out quite like an accountability partner, someone who is in this with us, doing it alongside us and relying on us to help them stay the course. As a caregiver, you know friends and family who may like to get involved. Go to a class together, play yoga games on Wii Fit or watch YouTube videos to learn new poses and flows. Your gentle encouragement to make yoga a social occasion can help guard against senior isolation and add an additional activity to your senior’s week. Ask if inviting a few people over to practice yoga together might be fun.

Tip #4 Make it Meditative

Yoga is an exercise for the body and the mind. From slow, gentle yoga to hot, upbeat vinyasas, yoga is a moving meditation. It takes effort to hold poses and stretches, and if you let your mind wander, you’ll begin to fall out of the pose. In this way, yoga helps us stay attuned to the present moment , a type of mindfulness that has been shown to reduce anxiety, manage stress and reduce fear. If you finish your practice with a five minute savasana, you’ll be able to maximize the mental meditative state. End lying on your back with closed eyes. Focus on each breath , making the inhale the same length as each exhale. Every time thoughts intrude upon your savasana, just bring your focus back to those slow, even breaths.

Tip#5 Cost Shouldn't Be An Obstacle

Many people associate yoga with the affluent or young people with more disposable income. In fact, yoga can be affordable for anyone . Whether it's through in-person classes, wellness centers, or yoga videos online, yoga is a practice to be enjoyed by all age groups and incomes. Seniors in particular often have a fitness program subsidy through Medicare Advantage or Medigap Plan, so it's worth reviewing any literature or resources to see what's covered . Alternatively, many senior centers offer free yoga classes for the community. You may be surprised what you find with a little investigative work.

A caregiver’s relationship with his or her client is paramount to providing good care, for yourself, too. If you encourage your senior to practice by getting on the mat with them, you’ll help inspire a healthy habit for the both of you.

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Tooth Decay and Deminerazation of the Teeth

In 1930, Weston Price, DDS, traveled all over the world, investigation the relationship to what the different populations ate and what their teeth looked like. He found that the problem ws the demineraliation of teeth and breakdown of the enamal. He wrote a book on this. Makes sense - unhealthy teeth should not be the result of not brushing away the sugar in your mouth. But, it was decided by some that it was a matter of oral hygiene.

There is a change and I guess enough was broadcast that the dental practitioners are now wrigitn that demineralization is a result of the acid in the mouth. so again, it is back to brushing and flossing. I've even seen an ad for a popular tooth paste that it would re-minearlize the teeth. They stopped that promotion, nothing in the tooth paste would help the teeth with mineralization.

I would still hold to having healthy teeth by what you eat. Do you know the parotid gland if healthy is apparently able to remineralize the teeth and even clean them.

Here is an article How to Remineralize Teeth Naturally & Reverse Tooth Decay by Katie Wells

Do you and your kids brush and floss regularly and limit sugar and still get cavities?

Have any of your kids needed to have braces?

Has your child under 6 had signs of tooth decay?

Ever wish you could reverse those things?

If you are like me, you were raised with the notion (likely told by your dentist) that sugar and bad genes cause tooth decay and that if you were getting tooth decay as a child, you needed to cut back on sugar. You likely also believe that genetics determine tooth spacing and that your genetics might have doomed you to braces…

I believed all that stuff too… but as it turns out, there is more to the story.

What Really Causes Tooth Decay?

There is a lot of evidence showing that diet had a tremendous impact on oral health (even more so than brushing in some cases) and that there had even been cases of cavities reversing.

As I thought about this, it made sense…

Why would bones and other tissue be able to heal and regenerate, but not teeth?

How did other populations throughout the world have great oral health, no cavities and no need for braces when they didn’t even have access to modern dentistry?

As Dr. Weston A. Price (a dentist) found and detailed in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, there were cultures throughout the world who had perfect teeth despite no access to dentists or modern toothpaste, while similar cultures with different diets had very high rates of tooth decay.

He found examples of cultures with similar genetic backgrounds with some living in primitive type societies and eating primitive type diets and others who ate a modernized diet. He found that many primitive cultures were able to completely avoid tooth decay and the many oral health problems we struggle with today.

The image on the left shows a stark example of this: the woman in the top right ate a primitive, whole-food, high-fat diet while the other women ate more modernized diet that contained grains and agricultural foods.

Price hypothesized that several dietary factors contributed to this difference in oral health.

Sir (Dr.) Edward Mellanby (he discovered Vitamin D) and his lovely wife Dr. May Mellanby were also influential in discovering the roles of nutrients in oral health. These two contributed much research in the areas of bone and tooth health and mineral absorption.

n fact, it was Edward who discovered that Vitamin D deficiency caused rickets. They also discovered that tooth structure is determined during a child’s growth, and that poorly formed teeth are more likely to decay (pretty logical).

The Doctor's Conclusion: Diet Affects Oral Health

These doctors all reached the same conclusion after years of research, mainly that tooth structure and health is largely determined by diet, especially three main factors:

1. The presence of enough minerals in the diet.
2. The presence of enough fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) in the diet.
3. How bio-available these nutrients are and how well the body is absorbing them. They found that this is largely influenced by the presence of Phytic Acid in the diet and how much sugar is consumed.

What is Phytic Acid?

Phytic acid is a molecule of phosphorus tightly bound with other molecules to form a type of phosphorus that is not easily absorbed by humans. From the Weston A. Price Foundation:

Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially the bran portion of grains and other seeds. It contains the mineral phosphorus tightly bound in a snowflake-like molecule. In humans and animals with one stomach, the phosphorus is not readily bioavailable. In addition to blocking phosphorus availability, the “arms” of the phytic acid molecule readily bind with other minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc, making them unavailable as well. In this form, the compound is referred to as phytat

Phytic acid is found in grains, nuts, seeds and legumes and in much smaller amounts in some fruits and vegetables. The body naturally converts phytic acid into phytates, which are un-absorbable and take calcium from the body. Those who consume high amounts of phytic acid will lose calcium and absorb other minerals at lower rates.

Modern growing practices, including the use of high phosphorus fertilizer, mean a higher phytic acid content in many foods. Seeds, nuts, bran, oatmeal, and soybeans are especially high in phytic acid, and these foods are present in abundance in modern diet.

Check out this article about phytic acid for a comprehensive list of phytic acid content in foods.

Read the Entire Article Remineralzation of Teeth

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Losing Your Hair Color Prematurely Do These 2 Things Now

I always noticed that some people had gray hair earlier then others. So what can be done, what is your body missing. Dr. Berg explains this.

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The Truth About Neuropathy & Vitamins

All you have to do is search on the internet for vitamins to take for neuropathy and pages of articles come up regarding what natural method you can use to improve or relieve the neuropathy symptoms. Of course, they are all different. Some of them are similar, but not one agrees on what you should take.

So how to you wade through the confusion of it all and figure out what to take. 

Okay, here are the things you need to know. 

Neuropathy is nerve damage. The nerve tissue is damaged. 

We always recommend you take the approach of building health - and nerves are no different.  The body can build healthy nerves.

The body uses vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids in its daily task of energy production and replacing worn cells  If it doesn’t get these tools, it can’t build health.  And it can't build healthy nerves.

What does the body need to build healthy nerve tissue? 

Well, we know we can rule out the use of herbs. Herbs are medications. They force the body to do something it normally wouldn’t do, just like drugs. However, they are superior to drugs as they are natural not made in a laboratory. 

When using herbs you do need to know who is creating the herbal remedies as quality of the herb and manufacture of the herbal remedy can vary. But simply put, the body doesn’t use herbs to repair itself. 

A lot of articles written by medical doctors and medical professionals will only talk about using vitamins when the cause of the neuropathy was a deficiency of B12. 

But the simplicity is that the body uses amino acids, vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids to build healthy tissue.

So what vitamins are actually needed for to build healthy nerves? 

B1 – Vitamin B1 functions along with other B vitamins to turn nutrients into energy, normal heart functions, formation of blood, HCL in the stomach for digestion, and proper functioning of muscles, Vitamin B1 supports the normal function of the nervous system. It is required for nerves to function correctly, and helps in the maintenance of healthy nerves. It is required for regulating the transmission of particular types of nerve signals along the brain and the spinal cord.

B12 –Vitamin B-12 is necessary in human health for the formation of proteins and red blood cells, and for the functioning of the nervous system. It is vitally important in maintaining the health of the outer sheathing (protective covering, also called the myelin sheath) that surrounds nerve cells. 

B2 - Vitamin B2 riboflavin helps produce red blood cells and protects the nervous system. 

B6 - Vitamin B6 helps in the production of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that allow brain and nerve cells to communicate with one another, ensuring that metabolic processes such as fat and protein metabolism run smoothly, Vitamin B6 helps the body make several neurotransmitters, chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another. 

Folic Acid - Vitamin-B12 and folic-acid work together. Folic acid is needed to activate B12. Both vitamins together help nerves to function properly. 

D3 induces nerve growth factor production in the human body.

Together these vitamins give the body what it needs to get relief for neuropathy. 

You need to find a vitamin formula that has ALL the necessary ingredients. 

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