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1. What is "bad food"?
2. Does Exercise Lower Blood Pressure
3. Amazing Electrolytes for your Health
4. Addressing Your Neuropathy, What Can You Do?

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What is "bad food"?

Every one of us learned the difference between “good” and “bad” when we were still little children.  Why is it then that those of us in our 60’s and 70’s we are still scratching our heads and wondering what the definition of a “bad” food really is?  

As a nation, we have appointed health experts, usually doctors and dietitians, from whom we get information on dietary health.  Unfortunately, special interest groups often prevent the release of where a professional’s heart really is when it comes to diet.  So often, fees paid to professional medical groups by questionable food groups, keep them in the dark and us in the doctor's offices.  

Read entire article - Bad Food by Doug Kaufman

Does Exercise Lower Blood Pressure

• In the U.S., an estimated 1 in 3 has high blood pressure (hypertension); another 1 in 3 have prehypertension, A blood pressure reading of 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) is considered healthy
• Inactivity and blood pressure are closely related. Inactive individuals have a 30 to 50 percent greater risk for high blood pressure than their active counterparts
• The key to affect your blood pressure is to do aerobic activity that raises your heart rate, making your heart beat faster and increase blood flow. Strength training has also been shown to lower blood pressure
• Research suggests improving your handgrip strength may be most effective of all, even more effective than conventional endurance and strength training programs

Find out what else you need, read the entire article Exercise and High Blood Pressure

Read about a Natural Way to Lower Blood Pressure

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Amazing Electrolytes for Your Health

Most people think electrolytes are merely minerals, however this is far from the truth. The unique thing about electrolytes is that they are “electrically charged” minerals. They are made to conduct electricity.

This means that your muscles, heart and nerves can use them to make things move and travel.

Examples of electrolytes are:

• Potassium

• Magnesium

• Calcium

• Sodium

• Chloride

The biggest reason Dr Berg created this unique combination of electrically charged minerals has to do with what it potentially can do for insulin resistance.

Potassium and magnesium and for that matter all the electrolytes greatly influence the insulin receptor. Here are just a few benefits of potassium & magnesium.

After balancing your electrolytes:

You’ll feel a nice rush of energy

You’re endurance will be improved, especially if you exercise!

You sleep quality will be improved!

And you’re hydration will be better!

Read more about Electrolytes, which includes a educational video by Dr. Eric Berg and where to get Dr. Berg's Electrolyte Powder.

Addressing Your Neuropathy, What Can You Do?

What can you do to address the symptoms of neuropathy?

1. Control your Blood Sugars if you are diabetic – it is the high blood sugar that creates nerve damage.

2. Find out what the Cause of Your Neuropathy is – and make sure you eliminate the cause.  

If you got neuropathy from trauma, it isn’t a problem unless someone is beating you up every week, but there are many causes, and you need to find out what created your neuropathy and eliminate the cause. 

Don’t eat things that include artificial sweeteners or MSG (watch for the names this ingredient may be hidden – see other names for MSG)

It can be toxins to avoid, or medications such as statins or blood pressure medications with a possible side effect of neuropathy. Talk to your doctor about changing the medication.  Or you can find a natural solution for High Cholesterol.  See article on Cholesterol

Not sure what caused your Neuropathy – go to Causes and Risk Factors for Neuropathy and see if it can be spotted.   

Idiopathic Neuropathy just means someone hasn’t found out yet.  There is always a cause and it might even be more than one cause.  The combination of risk factors can create the problem that you are now feeling.

If you have neuropathy, I'd check all the possible reasons and contributors to neuropathy, and stay away.  You don't want anything that might contribute to your neuropathy

3. Alpha Lipoic Acid & Acetyl l Carnitine will help the body address the condition by getting the nerves to become healthy faster. 

4. Take B12 (methyl B 12 NOT cynocobalamine)  The body uses B12 to prevent and correct neurological defects including regeneration of neurons and the myelin sheaths protecting the nerve cells.  cynocobalamine isn't always absorbed by the body and you only get a small amount. 

5. Take B1 (benfotiamine) Benfotiamine is fat soluble B-1 and has 360% greater bioavailability than any other form of B-1 which is essential to overall nerve health.  It doesn't wash out of the body like regular B1.

For a good source of these vitamins and others that work together to build healthy nerves.  

Go to RHP Nerve Support Formula

For a good source of Alpha Lipoic Acid & Acetyl L-carnitine

Read more Articles on Neuropathy & Nerve Damage

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Sidebar:

Nutritional Support for Nerve Pain Relief

Omega-3 fatty acids can provide important nutritional support for those who have nerve pain.

Nerve pain (or neuropathic pain) is usually caused by a deterioration of the myelin sheath that surrounds and insulates pain nerves.

Then, just like an electrical circuit with exposed wiring, nerves that shouldn't be communicating directly with each other, cross paths and create a feedback loop that perpetuates pain.

The February 2010 "Clinical Journal of Pain" describes five patients with neuropathic pain that experienced lasting relief by taking high dosages of EPA and DHA. Dosages of 2,400 to 7,200 mg a day contributed to improvements that were maintained for as long as 19 months.

It then follows that the higher the Omega-3 (EPA & DHA) content of the fish oil, the more it will nutritionally support and help your body to maintain normal nerve function.