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1. Two Silent Threats To Your Eyes
2. Master Any Skill: The Basic Study Manual for Everyone
3. What you don't know about your Metabolic Health Could be Causing your Health Problems.
4. Gut microbiome is most important scientific discovery for human healthcare in recent decades

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Two Silent Threats To Your Eyes

Hey, It’s Dr. Martin here…

I was thinking about the health of your eyes, especially as you age. Did you know your eyes are a mirror to your overall health?

In ancient times, your eyes were referred to as “the windows to the soul” for a good reason. Today, we know your eyes are a great biomarker of overall metabolic health.

For example:

A study in the journal Neurology found that changes in the blood vessels of the eye at age 60 could hint at memory loss years later. The study found that imaging the tiny blood vessels in your eyes can give clues to brain frailty as you age.

If the blood vessels in your eyes are a problem…Your brain is at risk.

Both your eyes and brain are loaded with tiny blood vessels. If the blood vessels in your eyes are aging too fast, it's reasonable to think the same thing is happening to your brain.

The good news is when you prevent or fix the TWO leading causes of damage to the tiny blood vessels in your eyes you also prevent or fix the damage to the blood vessels found throughout your body including your brain.

So…what are the two threats to the tiny blood vessels in your eyes?

High Insulin and Oxidative Stress.

There's a reason why people with diabetes are at serious risk of vision loss high circulating insulin causes a lot of inflammation, damaging blood vessels.

For most people high insulin is the biggest threat to their eyes…and brain.

Oxidative Stress

Ever heard of free radicals? They're like tiny troublemakers in your body that can hurt your eyes. Imagine cutting an apple and leaving it out by the next day, it's all brown and yucky. That's what these free radicals can do inside you, especially to your eyes.

But don't worry, we've got something called antioxidants in our bodies that help fight off these troublemakers.

The problem?

Sometimes, there are just too many free radicals for our antioxidants to handle alone. Because of all the plastics and chemicals we’re bombarded with every day we’re attacked by more free radicals than our own antioxidant system can handle.

Simply put — our body needs help in the fight against free radicals. That's why I think it's critical for everyone to take a really good antioxidant supplement every day.

So, How do you protect your eyes? In my opinion…3 things need to be done to keep your eyes healthy.

1 - Lower insulin.

2 - Take antioxidants.

When you have enough antioxidants in your system, it's almost as if you're pouring water right back into your fountain of youth. Your bones feel stronger, your skin looks smoother and younger, and you regain the energy you had in your 20s.

Learn more and understand Antioxidents an Free Radicals

Master Any Skill: The Basic Study Manual for Everyone

This book lays the groundwork for mastering Study Technology. Providing an in-depth examination of the Three Barriers to Study, it offers tools to comprehensively address them.

An ideal guide for middle and high school students aiming to enhance their practical application of knowledge, it's also invaluable for adult learners and professionals striving to level up their skills and proficiency in their daily lives and careers.

Learn more: Basic Study Manual

What you don't know about your Metabolic Health Could be Causing your Health Problems

Your health problems start with diet, lifestyle, environment and gut issues.

Diet - poor nutrition, processed foods, food allergies, etc.

Lifestyle - not enough exercise, stress, poor sleep

Environment - too many toxins

Gut issues - leaky gut, imbalances of gut bacteria

These create Mitochondrial Damage

The mitochondria are small structures (organelles) that live within a cell and power the cell’s biochemical reactions. Damage to the mitochondria causes cells to die because they can no longer produce enough energy.

Mitochondrial damage disrupts normal metabolism.

Impaired metabolism

Metabolism is the process of cells creating energy from food. Well-functioning cells create a healthy body.

When metabolism goes awry there are abnormal chemical reactions that disrupt the body’s metabolism so less cellular energy is produced and organ dysfunction can result.

Impaired metabolism can result in nutrient deficiencies and toxic overload. One of the most familiar metabolic disorders is excessive insulin in the blood and high blood sugar or glucose.

Inflammation

A move away from optimum metabolism results in inflammatory responses. The inflammatory environment in the body further impairs mitochondrial function so it becomes a vicious circle.

Inflammation makes the body less responsive to insulin and increases the risk for insulin resistance.

Insulin Resistance

Cells in the muscles, fat and liver don’t respond well to insulin and fail to take up glucose from the blood. Over time, this phenomenon cascades into problem health conditions.

These Cause Problem Health Conditions

Metabolic Syndrome
High blood pressure
High blood sugar (glucose),
High Triglycerides or High “Bad” LD
Cholesterol
Low “Good” HDL Cholesterol
Overweight/Excess Fat around the Waist
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Fatty Liver
Fatigue/Low Energy

Check our site index for a Metabolic education and
Improving Metabolism and a recommendation PureLife Care+

Gut microbiome is most important scientific discovery for human healthcare in recent decades

Scientists are only just now discovering the enormous impact of our gut health.

“The gut microbiome is the most important scientific discovery for human healthcare in recent decades,” says James Kinross, a microbiome scientist and surgeon at Imperial College London. “We discovered it – or rediscovered it – in the age of genetic sequencing less than 15 years ago. The only organ that is bigger is the liver.”

The ‘gut microbiome’ is made up of the trillions of microorganisms and their genetic material that live in the intestinal tract. These microorganisms, mainly comprising bacteria, are involved in functions critical to health and wellbeing. These bacteria live in the digestive system, and they play a key role in digesting food and helping to absorb and synthesize nutrients. These microorganisms are involved in many other important processes that extend beyond the gut, including metabolism, body weight, immune system regulation, as well as brain function and mood.

Your gut microbiome weighs about 2kg and is bigger than the average human brain.

Studies suggest having a diverse population of gut microbes is directly associated with better health.

Professor Jack Gilbert, an award-winning microbiome scientist at the University of California San Diego and author, has stated,

“Over the last 80 years and since the dawn of antibiotics, there has been a multi-generational loss of microbes that appear to be important for human health. They are passed from mother to child (during birth, via breast milk and skin contact throughout the generations, but at some point, in the last three or four generations, we lost some. We’re not entirely sure if the cause was our lifestyle, our diet, cleanliness in our homes or the use of antibiotics. We’re missing certain immune stimulants that people in the developing world have plenty of.”

Several recent studies found that children with cognitive, social communication and behavioral issues harbor an altered bacterial gut microbiota. These children have a lower abundance of specific beneficial bacteria and a higher abundance of less beneficial bacteria. There were important differences between the microbiota of children with these issues and typically developing children.

Studies in mice have indicated that the gut microbiota appears to influence the development of emotional behaviors and brain neurotransmitter systems, further suggesting the existence of a microbiota gut-brain axis.

The gut-brain axis describes the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract communicating through a bidirectional network of signaling pathways. We know that the gut has its own nervous system, the enteric nervous system, and contains 100 million neurons.

The gut microbiota is a critical component of the gut-brain axis, highlighting its potential impact on behavior and mood at the level of the central nervous system.

A new 2021 study was published in mSystems, an open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. “Longitudinally, we were able to see that within an individual, changes in the microbiome were associated with changes in behavior,” said principal study investigator Catherine Lozupone, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado.

The final frontier for gut microbiome exploration is its relationship with our brains, something the new fields of nutritional psychiatry and psychobiotics are researching. Psychobiotics are beneficial bacteria (probiotics) or support for such bacteria (prebiotics) that influence bacteria–brain relationships.

“The short chain fatty acids produced from microbial fermentation in the gut are quite similar to some mood stabilizing prescription drugs. Some of the association that we see between healthier diets and better brain health could be because your microbes are producing psychoactive substances from your diet to help stabilize your mood.” Kimberly Wilson, chartered psychologist and author.

This is an exciting field of research with the potential to provide more valuable data for optimal health.

It is now more evident than ever that we should be consuming foods and drinks that support a healthy gut microbiome.

Probiotic foods contain beneficial live microbiota that may alter one’s microbiome. These include fermented foods like kefir, yogurt with live active cultures, pickled vegetables, tempeh, kombucha tea, kimchi, miso, and sauerkraut.

Gut bacteria and microbes like a diet of fatty acids and polyphenols. These are found in olive oil. Studies have shown that olive oil helps reduce gut inflammation, too.

There are many natural ways to improve your gut microbiome and thereby improve your overall health

More Information:

The Gut-Heart Connection

How the Gut-Brain Axis can Effect Your Health

Gut Support for Special Needs Children

Improving Metabolism

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