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1. Antibiotic Resistance: Have We Had it Wrong the Whole Time?
2. What does the Flu Virus Do to Your Central Nervous System?
3. Neuropathy (nerve damage) Caused by Alcohol Use
4. Potassium : The Most Important Electrolyte
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Antibiotic Resistance: Have We Had it Wrong the Whole Time?
LA Times reports that 2 people have died and another 170, or so, were exposed to an antibiotic resistant bacteria, called CRE. It seems that this germ kills about 50% of those with it, because antibiotics don’t kill it. UCLA is being questioned on how well they cleaned the reusable endoscopes that apparently passed the germs. The media is amazed that one of the top 5 hospitals in the country could have this happen, although they are also much relieved that the FDA has stepped in to oversee the problem. What does this mean?
Here is a simple explanation - it's fungal.
Read: Antibiotic Resistance
And to go with this
5 Anti-Fungal Spices You Should Always Use
What does the Flu Virus Do to Your Central Nervous System?
You know the symptoms of the flu all too well. Wha about your nervous system. Do you feel you brain fogging up, your cognitive functioning not working.
Well, Dr. Aze calls it Flu Brain.
You can read about it in the below article. But, he also gives you solutions to the flu.
Flu Brain
Neuropathy (nerve damage) Caused by Alcohol Use
There are many different problems created in the body with the use of alcohol, as it is toxic to the body.
Most people have heard of alcohol damaging your liver, but it also creates a lot of nutritional deficiencies and thus many problems. One of the problems created is damage to the nervous system.
The buzz gotten from drinking comes from the alcohol burning vitamin B1 (thiamine). Drinking alcohol can thus cause a thiamine (B1) deficiency. Alcohol also significantly impairs the body's ability to absorb more vitamin B1 and interferes with its necessary chemical reactions in the body.
Thiamine deficiency can cause a painful neuropathy of the extremities. It is nerve damage. Some researchers believe that alcohol consumption may, in itself, contribute directly to nerve damage. Alcohol has a toxic effect on nerve tissue
Alcohol is attracted to the membranes of the nerve cells. This membrane is called the myelin sheath. The myelin sheath surrounds each nerve cell. The alcohol thus affects their function.
When a sensory nerve is damaged in this way, you get the tingling, pain and numbness. When a motor nerve is damaged, it impairs the motor functions as motor nerves tell the muscles what to do.
This disorder is termed "alcohol induced neuropathy".
What can you do about this nerve damage?
Read about Neuropathy
Go right to Neuropathy and the Treatments
What can be done for relief?
We always recommend you take the approach of building health - and nerves are no different.
Find out how to build healthy nerves
Potassium : The Most Important Electrolyte
By Dr. Eric Berg
If you take salt and put it into water and dissolve, it disassociates the sodium and chloride disconnect and they become two separate minerals.
And that fluid is very electrically conductive.
So, basically electrolytes have to do with minerals that help control elec. In the body and they control many bodily functions.
Electrolytes you have and need
Sodium
Magnesium
Potassium
Chlorides
Calcium
All of those minerals.
Potassium: The Highest RDA of All Minerals - and the Hardest to Get
Now, potassium out of all the electrolytes is the one that we need in very large quantities. I was curious, why is that? Why do we need potassium in such large amount's - 4,700 to 6,400 mgs a day.
That's 7 to 10 cups plus of salad or vegetable a day.
That's a HUGE amount of necessary potassium and such a high requirement that is very hard to meet.
There's something in the body called the sodium-potassium pump. It's built into a little protein, attached to an enzyme on the surface of your cells.
You have 800,000 to 30 millions of these in your body. They're little generators that allow things to enter into the cells and they take a lot of energy to work.
In fact, one third of all the food you eat goes to running those pumps. You also have another pump in the stomach called the hydrogen-potassium ATP-and it's a pump to help you create stomach acid to help you digest foods.
These pumps are in various places in the body including the muscles and the nervous system. In fact, the ones in your nervous system takes up 60% of your bodies caloric intake of energy.
So, these pumps are critically important in exchanging nutrition, glucose, amino acids, and other minerals to allow them to transport in and out of the cell.
So, potassium is ESSENTIAL for building the pumps that control these functions:
Potassium Benefits
Potassium charges the cells - that voltage powers your cell and allows things to go in and out of cells- in fact that energy that you have that powers your metabolism is controlled partially by this little pump.
Potassium gives you energy
Potassium helps the muscles to contract or relax by controlling the transport of calcium.
So, if you're low on something in this pump is missing, you'll get muscle cramps from that lack of calcium, but we can only fix that by giving you potassium, not calcium.
So the muscle needs this pump. The nerves need this pump to conduct electricity.
Fluid, the hydration of your body is controlled by this pump, and your overall physical energy is controlled by this pump.
So if you don't eat enough vegetables, you can experience a set of symptoms like this:
Fatigue can come from a potassium deficiency because your cells are going to be down in terms of their electricity and you cannot pump anymore.
The problem is if you try to take a potassium pill, it only provides maybe 40 to 90 mgs of potassium and you need 4,700 mgs., so you'd have to have a whole bottle of them. Plus, if you take that much potassium without other minerals, so you want to get your potassium from food and food concentrates.
Other symptoms are energy fatigue and muscle fatigue. You'll have a lack of endurance and heavy legs.
Nerves: if the nerves are tired and the electrical impulses won't work so you'll have arrhythmias and alterations in beat problems and atrial fibrillation.
Fluid and fluid retention also indicates a potassium deficiency.
But what doctors tell you is to decrease salt which is a big mistake.
Also, lack of energy in the cells.
In the stomach, without enough potassium, you cannot create the acid you need to metabolize proteins and absorb other minerals.
Why You Become Potassium Deficient
You need 7 to 10 cups of vegetable or salad a day to achieve this. I enhance this with food concentrates if I can't get the quantity of vegetables I need.
I use my wheat grass juice powder. That gives me a lot of potassium and magnesium to spike that sodium-potassium pump and boost my energy as well.
Vomiting, diarrhea and surgery will also decrease potassium in the body.
That's because surgery creates a lot of stress which virtually causes the body to dump out potassium. Likewise, stress will decrease your potassium levels.
Let's look at the SIBA Encyclopedia for Endocrinology, which notes that "Adrenal stress creates potassium loss."
Sugar also creates a potassium deficiency.
Why?
Insulin is the hormone that helps you absorb nutrients-but it also helps everything be stored as fat.
If you have insulin resistance, then, you cannot pull nutrients into the cell- which is why you're craving sweets by the way. See, insulin acts as a trigger of the sodium-potassium pump. Being insulin resistant, you're not absorbing enough potassium. That's why you get these sugar cravings. The body is telling you it needs something badly for energy that you're not giving it enough of.
It's very difficult to fix diabetes, in fact, without enough potassium-which means without enough vegetables.
So, if you eat more potassium, your need for insulin is decreased as well.
Diuretics will also leach potassium out of the body.
A good way to tell you if you're potassium deficient is that your blood pressure will go up, and you won't be absorbing calcium as you need to.
Too much salt in the diet can deplete potassium.
Alcohol can also deplete potassium.
AND ketogenic diets can cause potassium to plummet.
That's the reason I tell you to consume more vegetable when you do a high fat diet, so you can replenish the potassium and feel better.
A lot of time you'll not only dump fat, you'll dump water, and all of this will cause potassium to drop and, consequently, your energy levels. It's not the fiber, it's the potassium in that food that will flush the liver out, help those pumps work better, and keep that fat off the liver.
So, I hope this has given you an enhanced understanding of what potassium does in the body.
Dr. Berg's Wheat Grass Powder
Dr. Berg's Electolyte Powder
Dr. Berg’s Electrolyte Powder is the perfect combination of electrically conducting minerals and trace minerals. Electrolytes when dissolved in water create charged elements ready to hydrate the body cells and energize the body. These active minerals assist in nerve conduction as well as muscle contraction and relaxation.
This supplement has 1000 mg of Potassium and everything you need to go with it and it is so easy to take.
Read about Dr. Berg's Electrolyte Powder
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Sidebar:
Nutritional Support for Nerve Pain
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.
* Average fish oil has 600 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.
* Higher Quality fish oil has 800 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.
* RHP Cold Water Fish Oil has 1500 mg (EPA & DHA) Omega-3s.
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