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1. Give your Heart the Energy it Needs
2. Metabolic Neuropathy, what is it?
3. Is It Time to Rethink Fluoride in Drinking Water?
4. How GMOs, Pesticides and Processed Foods Contribute to Common Bowel Disorders
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Give your Heart the Energy it Needs
The Key To a Healthy Heart? Healthy Mitochondria.
Hey, Dr. Martin here…
You’ve heard it before—the heart’s a muscle and just like every muscle, it needs healthy mitochondria to stay strong and do its job. But here’s the issue, most people are struggling with something they don’t even know about…
It’s called mitochondrial dysfunction.
That may not sound like a big deal and few have even heard about it before and most doctors don’t even bring it up. Yet, this hidden problem affects everything - your energy, heart, lungs, brain, immune system, skin…and your heart.
Your body is like a city with 100 trillion cells and your mitochondria are the power plants keeping it all running. They are your batteries, generating over 90% of your body’s energy.
The point I’m trying to make is that you need HEALTHY mitochondria for your heart to work properly.
So, that begs the question What do healthy mitochondria look like? First off when it comes to mitochondria more really is better. When you're full of energy, eating right, and staying active, you naturally have more mitochondria working for you.
And here’s the kicker size matters, too. Bigger mitochondria mean even more energy.
It’s simple the more mitochondria you have and the bigger they are the more power your body gets, and the better you feel.
So, the bottom line is your heart needs plenty of big, healthy mitochondria to stay strong and keep your blood vessels in top shape.
Read: Understanding Metabolism (and healthy mitochondria)
Metabolic Neuropathy. What is it?
The term metabolic neuropathy refers to nerve disorders associated with systemic diseases of metabolic origin.
Metabolism is a generic word for EVERY chemical process in your body from energy production to cellular reproduction, using food for energy, and fighting off disease. This means that metabolically unhealthy people can have severe problems in every system of their body.
If you have high blood pressure, high blood glucose, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, excess weight around the waist you have a metabolic disorder – an imbalance or deficiency – that negatively affects the way your body functions.
Metabolic diseases include diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, uremia, hypothyroidism, hepatic failure, polycythemia, amyloidosis, acromegaly, porphyria, disorders of lipid/glycolipidmetabolism, nutritional/vitamin deficiencies, and mitochondrial disorders, among others.
The common factor of these diseases is damage to the nerves by alteration of the structure or function of the myelin sheath and axons due to metabolic pathway dysregulation.
Dysregulation is defined as: impairment of a physiological regulatory mechanism (as that governing metabolism, immune response, or organ function)
Diabetes is the most common cause of metabolic neuropathy, followed by uremia.Some of these disorders also affect muscles due to the fact that the conditions damage motor nerves which send incorrect signals to the muscles.
For information about nerve damage read Neuropathy
RELIEF? Treat the Neuropathy and then Support and Restore you Metabolism.
Treatment for Neuropathy
None of the various neuropathy treatments will build healthy nerves. You can cover up the symptoms and you can increase circulation and you can make a person feel less pain, etc., but if you build healthy nerves, there will not be any symptoms (healthy nerves don’t hurt, tingle, burn, are not numb, etc.) and the relief will be lasting.
Building Healthy Nerves* Relief from Neuropathy The healthier the nerve the less symptoms you will feel
*Studies & Research on Nerve Health
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We recommend Boosting Your Metabolism
Why do we recommend read Improving Metabolism
Is It Time to Rethink Fluoride in Drinking Water?
For the first time, an extensive government report acknowledged that high levels of fluoride exposure may harm neurological development and cognitive health in kids.
It concluded with “moderate confidence” that fluoride exposure at twice the level recommended in drinking water is associated with lower IQ in children.
The report has stirred debate, with some experts urging a reevaluation of water fluoridation policies, while dental health organizations continue to support its benefits for tooth decay prevention.
For more than 75 years, water systems in the U.S. have added fluoride to reduce tooth decay that comes with the wear and tear of daily use. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers community water fluoridation to be “one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.”1
However, in late August, the government published a report acknowledging for the first time that high levels of fluoride exposure may harm kids’ neurological development and cognitive health.
In a 324-page report that took nearly a decade to finalize, the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded with “moderate confidence” that high levels of fluoride exposure are associated with lower IQ in children.2
National Toxicology Program (NTP). 2024. NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopment and Cognition: A Systematic Review. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Toxicology Program. NTP Monograph 08. doi: 10.22427/NTP-MGRAPH-8
Importantly, the report doesn’t evaluate the effect of fluoride in drinking water alone. Researchers reviewed over 500 study results, mostly focusing on fluoride levels above 1.5 parts per million—double the concentration recommended for U.S. drinking water. Less than 1% of people drink water with levels of fluoride that high.
The report has stirred controversy. Dental health organizations question the report’s methods and say the findings could be misinterpreted to stoke fears about fluoride exposure. Meanwhile, some toxicology experts say the evidence is strong enough that regulators should rethink fluoridation guidelines, which haven't been updated in decades.
“It’s so important to get this right. At a minimum, we’ve got to pause and say, ‘We’re taking this science seriously because our job is to protect the public.’ It’s not to protect our reputation. It’s not to put our heads in the sand and say we’ve always known fluoride is safe,” said Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, a professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. “If we address it urgently, we have a chance of reducing harm if it is, in fact, a toxic chemical. And we have a chance of not losing any more trust in public health.”
Read more: Is Fluoride really neurotoxic?
https://www.verywellhealth.com/fluoride-lower-iq-children-report-8708414
What does cause tooth decay?
How GMOs, Pesticides and Processed Foods Contribute to Common Bowel Disorders
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an autoimmune disease that affects an estimated 3.1 million American adults. It has serious consequences, including raising your risk for colorectal cancer
Factors thought to play a role in rising IBD rates include antibiotics, toxic exposures such as pesticides and GMOs, and processed food ingredients such as the emulsifiers polysorbate-80 and carboxymethylcellulose
Glyphosate and Bt toxin have both been linked to rising IBD rates. Independent testing reveals glyphosate is present at “alarming levels” in many popular processed foods
Read entire story Common Bowel Disorders
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