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1. 7 Tips to Improve Heart Health
2. The Link Between Nutrition and Health, Part 1
3. Are your vitamins doing you any good?
4. Nerve Damage caused by Toxins

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7 Tips to Improve Heart Health

American Heart Month is an excellent time to start focusing on your heart’s health. If your family has a history of heart disease or if you have, in some ways, been neglecting your body, there is no better time to work on improving your health than now. As you follow these tips, keep in mind that better heart health usually requires long-term diet and lifestyle changes, not just short term improvements.

Watch Your Weight
You must watch your weight when caring for your heart’s health. If you fall into the overweight or obese category (1), it’s time to ditch fatty and sugary snacks, and to increase your physical activity. Also, a lesser known fact is that being underweight can also have adverse effects on your heart.(2) Achieving a healthy body weight, and maintaining it through healthy diet and exercise, is essentially the key to good heart health.

Get More Exercise
Being physically active is extremely important.(3) Unfortunately, we live in a time where most of us hold a desk job and have to find extra time to be physically active. Exercising 30 minutes per day for at least 5 days each week is considered a goal to strive for to maintain good health. Walking, running, swimming, working out with weights, Tai Chi, Yoga, dancing, playing sports, working out at the gym – whatever you do to move your body more is beneficial.

De-stress Yourself
There are countless downsides to being consistently stressed out, and heart issues is just one of them.(4) If you find yourself with the “boss from hell”, or other problems at work, or if things are not great at home, or if any aspect of your life is stressing you out, it’s important to put a strategy in place to reduce your stress. For example, have a day out with your friends, go see your folks at their place, plan a beach day or a picnic, or do something that you really love to do. You can even introduce small changes to your daily routine, for example, drinking chamomile tea just before bed or doing yoga in the morning can be relaxing. Remember that being stressed out can damage your heart.

Don’t Skimp on Your Sleep
It’s difficult to over emphasize how important it is to get proper sleep. Try your best to get eight hours of sleep every night, going to bed and arising around the same times each day. Studies have shown that insomnia is closely linked to higher blood pressure levels and diseases of the heart.(5) Other than that, not getting enough sleep can raise your stress levels, which, in turn, can also negatively affect your heart’s health.

Therefore, take actions to change your routine and get enough good quality sleep. Remember to make your sleep environment comfortable – make sure the room is dark and quiet and a good temperature for sleeping. You can also take natural supplements to sleep better, such as chamomile or melatonin.

Cut Down on Your Alcohol Intake
Excessive alcohol intake can lead to problems like cardiomyopathy (diseases of the heart muscle) which can ultimately lead to heart failure. So, limit your alcohol intake to one glass per day or only to special occasions.

Eat Smart
Remember that eating foods laden with preservatives, salt or sugar can also be bad for your heart. So, try to eat smart and choose fish, lean meats, and lots of vegetables, particularly green, leafy vegetables, over processed foods.

Many of our food sources today don’t provide us with adequate nutrition, and they can also contain toxins. In addition, many people have poor gut health which limits the nutrition the body absorbs. For these reasons, it’s important to take nutritional supplements to make up for the nutrition that is missing in our diet.

Plant-based supplements provide the best source of nutrients, particularly those supplements made from plant-based food sources that are genetically compatible with the body.

For natural, non-GMO, gluten free supplements, which are also vegan and Keto friendly, check out Qgenics Cardio Advance is formulated specifically to support better heart and blood vessel health.

Keep an Eye on Your Numbers
After you reach 40, it’s essential to keep an eye on your numbers. If you have a concern about high blood pressure, regularly monitor your blood pressure with the help of a medical professional and at home. Have blood work done each year to get tested for diabetes and check your lipid profile (cholesterol and triglycerides) so you know exactly where you are at when it comes to your health. This will ultimately lead you to make better choices about your health.

…Also
There are many other factors that can have a negative impact on your heart. One factor is smoking.(6) While you should try your best to quit, it will also help to cut down on your smoking.

Keeping your mind occupied by reading a book or magazine, listening to some music you enjoy, doing a crossword or Sudoku puzzle, or playing an online game, can be distractions from smoking.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) can be useful to quit smoking as it will decrease the sensations of cravings and withdrawal you experience that may impede your effort to quit smoking. NRTs are designed to wean your body off cigarettes. They supply your body with a regulated nicotine dose but protect you from exposure to other tobacco chemicals.

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References
Eckel, R. H. (1997). Obesity and heart disease: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Nutrition Committee, American Heart Association. Circulation, 96(9), 3248-3250.
Suastika, K., Dwipayana, P., Saraswati, M. R., Gotera, W., Budhiarta, A. A. G., Sutanegara, N. D., … & Taniguchi, H. (2012). Underweight is an important risk factor for coronary heart disease in the population of Ceningan Island, Bali. Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, 9(1), 75-77.
Dorn, J., Naughton, J., Imamura, D., & Trevisan, M. (1999). Results of a multicenter randomized clinical trial of exercise and long-term survival in myocardial infarction patients: The National Exercise and Heart Disease Project (NEHDP). Circulation, 100(17), 1764-1769.
Stansfeld, S. A., & Marmot, M. G. (2002). Stress and the heart: Psychosocial pathways to coronary heart disease. BMJ Books.
Partinen, M., Putkonen, P. T. S., Kaprio, J., Koskenvuo, M., & Hilakivi, I. (1982). Sleep disorders in relation to coronary heart disease. Acta Medica Scandinavica, 211(S660), 69-83.
Lakier, J. B. (1992). Smoking and cardiovascular disease. The American Journal of Medicine, 93(1), S8-S12.

The Link Between Nutrition and Health, Part 1

By Freddie Ulan, DC, CCN

It’s kind of interesting because what we’re living with today is exactly what Dr. Francis Pottenger predicted would occur if we didn’t change the eating habits that were becoming predominant in America during the 1930s. In the 1930s there was a big influx of processed foods, especially refined sugar and processed milk.

Dr. Pottenger did some experiments we could go into detail on that demonstrated a generational deteriorating effect. In other words, from one generation to the next, it would take about three generations to create a predominantly sick population if they continued to eat the same type of refined foods and sugars and things that he was observing them eating back in the 30s.

Pottenger’s experiments were on cats, and some people say, “Well, what do cats have to do with humans?” Well, the reason he did his experiments on cats and the reason his research is so valid is there was a huge amount of work that was being done with cats. For example, practically the entire subject of endocrinology, the study of human hormones, was done originally on cats, and what they found on cats played out very, very well in humans. And that’s just one example. I know when I did my gross anatomy courses back in the 60s, one of the things we studied was the section on cats, and it’s amazing how similar the cat body is to the human body. Other than that, it has a much shorter digestive tract which makes it predominately a meat eater and it has meat eating teeth, other than that, the placement of the organs and where they are in relative size to each other is amazingly similar to a human.

The point being that he used cats and what he did was he had a couple hundred of them. This was in Pasadena, California, he had a sanitarium there that his father had set up where they were curing tuberculosis, which was unheard of in those days. He was in a very forward-thinking family, they weren’t curing tuberculosis with antibiotics, that didn’t even exist back then, but food had a lot to do with it.

What he did with these cats is he divided them into groups and he had one third of them eating their normal diet, in other words he let them out into the fields at night and they foraged for food and caught rats or mice or whatever. All they ate was what they foraged themselves in their natural environment. Then he had two other groups in which he had varying amounts of either sugar or processed milk, pasteurized milk, or a combination of those things. He observed what happened with these cats from generation to generation.

By the time the cats that were on the diet that more closely resembled the human diet of the time got to their third generation, they were so sick that he actually had to stop the experiment. They had all kinds of arthritic problems, degenerative diseases, they even had mental illness, if you can imagine a mentally ill cat. I’ve never seen a mentally ill cat that wasn’t ill-fed, to tell you the truth. They’re either poisoned or they’ve got serious nutritional deficiencies and imbalances. I’ve seen some cats that were kind of psychotic and you fix them up by handling their immune system, correcting their diet and they become well cats again.

So, at the end of that third generation, most of the cats were not even capable of reproducing, so he had to stop the experiment. He took the cats that were still alive and he started feeding them their more natural diet, and those that could reproduce started to reproduce. It took four generations to get the cats back to the health of the original healthy cats that he started with at the beginning of his experiment.

When I went to school type 2 diabetes was predominantly a disease of 40-year-old and older females who were overweight. Today, because of this degeneration from one generation to another, we’re seeing type 2 diabetes in 8–year–olds, 10–year–olds, 12–year–olds. That’s just one example. Everybody’s sick today!

The takeaway from this is Pottenger gave the warning and nobody heeded it obviously. Today we’re not only dealing with third generation “Pottenger’s Cats” as people, many of our patients are fourth generation and fifth generation. It’s just shocking when you look at a practice today and see the age of the people coming in who are chronically ill, they’re younger and younger.

When I first started practicing nutrition as a specialty back in the early 90s, if you were a woman under 35 years old you weren’t interested at all, you were fine, you didn’t have problems. That just isn’t the case anymore. Younger and younger people are having serious health problems, due to the diet.

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Are your vitamins doing you any good?

There are many myths and misconceptions that have been floating around for years and years.   People unknowingly spread this false information because they’ve heard others saying the same thing.   They have heard it in commercials and in other advertisements. It really get confusing because sometimes the so-called authorities are the ones spreading these untruths.  

Let’s clean up the myths.  

Synthetic Vitamins will make you healthy

In an effort to protect themselves and their families from frightening and serious health problems, people are changing their diets and are taking herbs and supplements.  Why do they need vitamin supplements?  Due to the depletion and demineralization of topsoil, the contaminations of produce from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, the over processing, enriching and preservation – foods just don’t have the same nutritional value they once had.  To get the same amount of iron that was available to Popeye in one can of spinach, today he would have to consume 65 cans.    An orange that once contained 50 mg of natural Vitamin C complex in 1950, now contains 5 mg.

We’ve all have gotten used to reading literature proclaiming the benefits of vitamins, deciding what is wrong with us and heading to the health food store to buy what we’ve decided we need   We often end up buying all kinds of supplements - but are we any healthier?   People are still fatigued, still overweight, still fighting the cholesterol battle, etc. etc. etc.

The body runs on vitamins, minerals, nutrients and oxygen just like your car runs on gas, water and oxygen.  But what happens if you put the wrong gas, or worse some other liquid, into your car?  Not only will it not work, it may damage the engine.  The same thing can happen when you put the wrong vitamins in your body.

We can get healthier if we understand what most vitamins today really are – they’re synthetic.  Let’s talk about synthetic vitamins

What are synthetic vitamins made of?   Let’s define some words:

Natural:  These are vitamins not tapered with and are the way they are in nature, not tapered with in any way that might change their molecular structure or biochemical actions.   This can also be called whole food supplements.

Crystalline – these are vitamins originally from food but treated with heat, caustic, high-powered solvents (such a s benzene or toluene) chemicals, and distillations to reduce them to a specific vitamin.

Synthetic – These are vitamins made in a laboratory that are chemically reconstructed versions of the crystalline vitamins from other known sources. Thiamine mononitrate (a synthetic vitamin labeled as B1), is made from coal.  It’s not “organic” just because it has carbon in its molecular structure.

One of the most perilous deceptions is the passing off of these phony, synthetic vitamins and saying that the body does not know the difference.   In the long run, we will compound our health problems by taking them.

Keep in mind that synthetic vitamins are not the vitamin available in foods, but synthesized (made in a laboratory) fractions (parts) of a vitamin complex, The analogy here is essentially the same as an automobile salesman handing you a wheel from a car and telling you the wheel is an automobile. 

In an example we look at vitamin C.  You can buy “vitamin C” that is called
”Ascorbic Acid”.  Ascorbic acid is only one small part of the vitamin C complex.  Vitamin C has enzymes, co-enzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, activators, and other unknown factors that enable the vitamin to go into the biochemical operation.  

In turn, the human physiology cannot properly utilize these synthetic fractions in the way that natural complexes work in the body and are essential to tissue repair and the sustenance of life.   

When a person starts taking a fraction of a vitamin – and has sufficient reserves in his body of all the other components of the vitamin to recombine and process, the person may experience some improvement for a time.  However when those reserves are drained, the vitamin will no longer benefit the person.  Thus, a person may feel an increase in energy for a short period of time, but if taken for an extended period of time, the effects will reverse.

When vitamins were first discovered, they were discovered in foods.  When foods were studied a lot was learned.  Studies that show that vitamins work use a food source nutrient.  In studies showing that vitamins don’t work, a synthetic was always used. 

Additionally, the body actually has to recognize what you are putting into your body as food.   Like the finicky cat, that looks at some new food offered it and says “what is that?”  You’re body does the same thing.  It doesn’t recognize the synthetic vitamins and often just sends it right back out of the body.

A synthetic vitamin fraction can only be utilized for a drug or pharmacological effect.   The effect of a drug is palliative - meaning a making or covering over of symptoms - it isn't curative.  The disease process remains unchanged or progressively gets worse for lack of proper attention.  

What is needed is vitamins that come from whole food, which comes along with all the co-factors present when you eat a food. 

Tissue and cell repair, or replacement, require the following to restore the approximately 24 billion cells that break down each day in the human body.   

·        A constant, uninterrupted nerve impulse supply

·        A constant, uninterrupted blood supply

·        All of the VITAMINS in a natural, complex form.

·        All of the minerals in an organic form in most instances

·        All of the trace elements essential to metabolism

·        All of the enzymes, coenzymes, and apoenzymes

·        All of the 22 or more amino acids from protein hydrolysis

·        A discontinuance of organic or inorganic poisons either inhaled or ingested in bad air, bad food and/or bad water.

This doesn’t happen using fractionated vitamins.

What is a natural vitamin or supplement?   It is a whole food supplement, made from food, not made in the laboratory.

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Nerve Damage caused by Toxins

Nerve damage can be caused by toxins.  There is a lot of toxic things in the environment, you can find them on the food labels in your supermarket. 

Nerve Damage occurs when there is exposure to natural or artificial toxic substances.  These toxins are called neurotoxins. 

Neurotoxins alters the normal activity of the nervous system in such a way as to cause damage to nervous tissue. It is a destructive or poisonous effect upon the nerve system.  This can eventually disrupt and damage nerve cells.  

Neurotoxicity can result from exposure to substances used in chemotherapy, radiation treatment, drug therapies, drug abuse such as ecstasy, and organ transplants.  It can be caused by exposure to heavy metals, certain foods and food additives, pesticides, industrial and/or cleaning solvents, etc.

For more information to to Nerve Damage and Toxins 

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