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1. High Blood Pressure is a Symptom, Not a Disease
2. Your immune Defense is Beta Glucan
3. Signs You're Eating Too Many Carbs
4. Shingles and Nerve damage

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High Blood Pressure is a Symptom, Not a Disease

There are so many ways to push down or lower your blood pressure. You can read about the medications and natural methods and how they lower the blood pressure.

 

If you are tired of "lowering" blood pressure and want to work out how to naturally have the correct blood pressure, realize it is part of the metabolic syndrome.

 

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.

 

Learn more about the metabolic syndrome what you can do about the Metabolic Disorder

 

 

 

 

Your immune Defense is Beta Glucan

Beta Glucans is formulated to prepare and protect the immune system from repeated and ongoing stressors.

Beta Glucan contains a highly purified, yeast-free beta glucan extract derivative. It works to enhance immune system strength and efficiency against fungal, bacterial, and viral antigens.

Think of it as giving your immune system some added muscle to do its job better anytime you need it to.

Read more about Beta Glucan and what it can do for you.

 

 

 

 

Signs You're Eating Too Many Carbs by Dr. Martin (MartinClinic.com)

Here's something you've probably never thought of before; Some people have a better ability to make fat cells and some people don't.

That may sound weird, but it has significant health implications.
Another way to think about this is that some people can better protect themselves from high blood sugar levels (by making more fat cells) and some people don't.

Remember, when you eat sugar (Or crappy carbs, or too many carbs) your blood sugar levels spike.

And that's a BIG problem — high blood sugar levels are toxic and dangerous.

So, your body must immediately get rid of the excess glucose in your blood. In simple terms, you either use the glucose (blood sugar) for energy RIGHT now, or your body must remove the glucose from your blood and put it elsewhere.

This is when insulin steps in.

Your pancreas secretes insulin in response to rising blood sugar levels, and insulin moves glucose out of your blood and into storage.

Speaking of storage, you only have three places where you can store the extra glucose:

In your muscles
In your liver
In your fat cells.

You should know your muscles and liver only have limited space to store glucose, but you can make new fat cells (some more than others).

Blood sugar is toxic. Leaving glucose in your blood is NOT an option. So, if you can't make a lot of fat cells and your liver and muscles get stuffed as much as possible, then your blood sugar levels rise and your health is in trouble.

If you can't make a lot of fat cells then your ability to store extra glucose in fat cells is limited that means your body will stuff your muscle and liver (hello, fatty liver!) with as much fat as possible.

But if you can make a lot of fat cells, then your body can keep your blood sugar levels "normal" for much longer by taking the extra blood glucose and storing it in new fat cells.

Why does this matter?

By focusing ONLY on blood glucose levels, you aren't getting a true picture of your metabolic health. That is why we talk more about INSULIN than blood glucose.

The more your pancreas has to secrete insulin to help your body get rid of the excess glucose in your blood eventually the cells in your body start to ignore the insulin. So, your pancreas responds by making MORE insulin.

Now, you need more and more insulin to do the job that a lot less insulin is used to that's called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is THE cause of most modern diseases.

That might sound dramatic, but it's true. When you get your blood work done, and things like

  • Your triglycerides are high
  • Or your HDL is low
  • Or your A1C is high
  • Or your Uric Acid is high
  • Or your CRP is high

Then your insulin is high, regardless of how many fat cells you have!

Even if you haven't had blood work done, high insulin can show up as:

  • High blood pressure
  • Skin tags
  • Swollen prostate
  • Belly fat
  • Hair loss
  • Humpback
  • Kidney stones
  • Gut
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Psoriasis
  • Brain fog
  • Hormonal imbalances
  • Joint pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Vertigo
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Acne
  • Cataracts
  • Overactive bladder
  • Insomnia
  • Fatigue
  • Achilles tendon pain.

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, it's meant to show you how severe of a problem too much insulin can be.

It also means that if you have some of the symptoms on the list, you're most likely eating too many carbs.

 

 

Shingles and Nerve damage

What is Shingles?

The medical term for Shingles is acute herpes zoster. It is commonly called shingles and is an infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. Only people who have had chicken pox can get shingles.

The first time someone is exposed to the virus, it causes the widespread, itchy sores known as chickenpox. After a patient recovers from the chicken pox, the virus remains inactive in the body but the virus never goes away. Instead, it settles in nerve cells and may reactivate year’s later, causing shingles.

People over the age of 50, or those with weakened immune systems are at the highest risk for developing shingles. Other factors that increase your risk include:

  • Some cancer medicines
  • Steroid medicines
  • Long-term stress or trauma
  • A weak immune system from illnesses

When the virus is reactivated it begins to multiply within the dorsal root ganglia (a part of the nervous system), which causes damage and swelling to this area of the nerve. This damage to the nerve causes the first pains of shingles. The virus then moves along the nerve to the skin, damaging the nerve and causing swelling as it goes. When the virus finally reaches the skin, it causes the shingles rash.

Shingles appears as a painful skin rash, typically on only one side of the body in a belt-like pattern. (Shingles comes from the Latin word for girdle or belt) The rash is usually on either the right or left side of the chest, starting in the middle of the back and wrapping around to the breast, but it can occur in any part of the body. The rash generally lasts from one to fourteen days.

Most of the time, shingles is very painful. Sometimes the pain from shingles starts before the rash appears. When the pain starts before the skin rash, it can be very hard to get a correct diagnosis. Many patients have been told they have heart attacks, appendicitis, migraine headaches, etc. before getting the correct diagnosis of shingles.

Fortunately, in most cases the pain of shingles gradually disappears over several weeks or months. Most people with shingles will have no pain or just a little pain one year after the rash.

Some patients with shingles develop neuralgia (a neuropathy) a condition in which the pain from shingles continues months or years after the rash has faded

What is Postherpetic Neuralgia?

If the pain from shingles does not go away, it is called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). It is also referred to as neuropathy. It is nerve damage. A recent study showed that people with neuropathy – nerves of the body that are not working correctly – are more likely to develop PHN after shingles.

It is interesting that most people in this study who had a neuropathy before they got shingles did not know they had neuropathy — they did not have any symptoms. Therefore, having neuropathy, even if it is not causing symptoms, may increase the chances of getting PHN. Sometimes neuropathy is cumulative. There is some damage but the shingles creates more damage and the symptoms of neuropathy appear.

Pain from Shingles and Postherpetic Neuralgia

Patients often describe the pain from shingles as a horrible, unbearable pain in the area of the rash. Each patient may experience different types and degrees of pain. The words used to describe the pain include sharp, electric-like jabs, burning, throbbing, aching, and skin sensitivity. It is a neuropathy – or nerve damage. There also may be intense itching in the painful area. The pain of the neuropathy may spread beyond the original shingles rash.

What can be done about postherpetic neuropathy?

It is known that Infections and autoimmune disorders can cause peripheral neuropathy and shingles is one of them. These viruses severely damage the sensory nerves.

What can be done for the Nerve Damage?

Treatment for Neuropathy

For more information about neuropathy and the standard medical treatments – go to Neuropathy Treatments

What can you do?

Take a Quiz: Am I doing everything I can to daily help my neuropathy?

Find out what lifestyle changes will help, take the quiz and get our suggestions and get our assistance on what you can do.

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Lasting Relief:

None of the various neuropathy treatments will increase nerve health. You can cover up the symptoms and you can increase circulation and you can make a person feel less pain, etc., but if you restore nerve health, there will not be any symptoms (healthy nerves don’t hurt, tingle, burn, are not numb, etc.) and the relief will be lasting. By increasing nerve health, your symptoms will decrease.

Improving Nerve Health*

Healthy sensory nerves mean that they are not painful. Healthy nerves means that they communicate and don’t send wrong signals such as burning, hot and cold, tingling when there is no reason for it. Healthy motor nerves mean that they relay messages from the brain to the muscle so that they move correctly. Nerves need to be healthy to function properly.

The body needs specific nutrients (vitamins) to increase nerve health. .

It may not give immediate relief (although many do feel changes in the first week of supplementation) as the vitamins are working at a cellular level, but it does address the actual problem, healthy nerves bring lasting relief.

What can be done for this lasting relief?

Find out how to restore the healthy to the nerves

*Studies & Research on Nerve Health


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