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1. How Camel Milk Compares to Alternative Milks
2. Motor Nerve Damage or Motor Neuropathy
3. Is Alcohol Good for Your Heart Health? by Dr. Eric Berg
4. The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements 

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How Camel Milk Compares to Alternative Milks

Supermarket shelves are packed with many kinds of "milk" for those of us who are lactose intolerant, have dairy allergies, or just prefer to drink something other than cow’s milk. Camel milk is a newer addition to the list of milks now available in the US.

Camel milk is being hailed as a new superfood due to its unique, nutrient-dense properties. How do other milks stack up?

Lactose intolerance and dairy allergies

If you are one of the many Americans who have trouble digesting the sugar (lactose) in cow’s milk, camel milk may be just the ticket. Camel milk contains less lactose than cow’s milk and it is usually well tolerated by lactose intolerant people. In addition, it doesn’t contain beta-lactoglobulin – one of the proteins found in cow’s milk that causes allergic reactions. Camel’s milk contains a different beta-casein to cow’s milk. A study conducted at the Ben Gurion University in Israel found that camel milk reduced children’s allergic reactions to food when other conventional treatments had failed to do so.

100% natural versus additives

Commercial soy and nut milks don’t have beta-casein or lactose, but you should read the labels carefully. Most of them have additives to thicken them so they seem more like a "milk". Three of the most common additives in nut milks are guar gum (a binding and thickening agent), gellan gum and carrageenan, which is known to be extremely inflammatory. Some have added sugar. Soy milk often contains carrageenan and vegetable oils.

Camel milk is 100% real milk without any additives.

Fat

Your body needs fats to produce energy and support cell growth. They also help your body absorb some nutrients and produce important hormones. But keep a check on what kind of fat and how much of it you consume.

Whole camel milk contains 50 percent less fat than cow’s milk. So, you can get that rich, creamy taste without worrying about the fat content.

Micronutrients

Micronutrients refer to vitamins and minerals. They are all essential for a healthy body. You have to get them from your food because your body doesn’t make them. That’s why they’re also referred to as essential nutrients.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a vital nutrient necessary for the growth, development and repair of all body tissues. It's involved in many body functions, including formation of collagen, absorption of iron, the immune system, wound healing, and the maintenance of cartilage, bones, and teeth.

Almond milk has no Vitamin C at all. Cow’s milk has about one milligram. Camel milk has 3 to 5 times more Vitamin C than cow’s milk.

Camel milk is rich in micronutrients like calcium, sodium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc, and magnesium.

Minerals

Your body needs minerals for a lot of different functions: Calcium for bones and teeth as well as muscle function and blood vessel contraction. Magnesium helps with hundreds of enzyme reactions, including regulation of blood pressure. Sodium is an electrolyte that helps keep your fluid balance correct and potassium is another electrolyte that maintains fluid status in cells and helps with nerve transmission and muscle function.

Cow’s milk has calcium, copper, zinc, sodium, magnesium and iron. Camel milk is rich in micronutrients like calcium, sodium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc, and magnesium.

Almond milk has calcium, magnesium and potassium. Some commercial almond milks have added nutrients to make it more like cow’s milk.

So, if you are looking for a natural, healthy milk that is a real milk without the ingredients that cause lactose intolerance and dairy allergies, try camel milk. It certainly seems to live up to the name superfood.

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Motor Nerve Damage or Motor Neuropathy

The brain communicates with the body and tells muscles to move via these nerves. These motor nerves control moving your hands, arms, legs and feet or talking.

Nerves carry information to and from the brain. It is the communication system of the body. The brain sends out commands to the body via the nervous system. The brain gets information from the body via the nervous system.

Sensory nerves relay what you feel, such as pain, or touch. The autonomic nerves control the biological functions such as breathing or heartbeat. The third type of nerve is a motor nerve.

Motor Nerves: There are many motor nerves throughout the body. The brain communicates with the body and tells muscles to move via these nerves. These motor nerves control moving your hands, arms, legs and feet or talking.

Motor neuropathy occurs if the motor nerves which control muscle movements become damaged. When the motor nerve does not relay information to the muscles they do not behave normally.

As with sensory neuropathy, the parts of the body most likely to be affected are the feet, hands, legs and arms. But any nerve that controls a muscle can create problems.

Motor neuropathy can affect the body's ability to co-ordinate movements.

Weakness in the muscles of the foot and thus the loss of co-ordination is one of the symptoms of this type of damage. This type of damage can lead to unbalanced pressure being exerted on the ankle when someone walks. People with this type of neuropathy may not notice that they are walking differently as the nerve damage can result in numbness and diminished sensitivity. If unbalanced pressure is exerted over a period of time it can lead to sprains.

If further pressure is applied to the foot, through continued walking, this can lead to further bone dislocation and fractures, resulting in a deformation of the foot known as Charcot foot.

Neuropathy of a motor nerve can have the following symptoms:

Muscle weakness
Muscle spasms
Muscle cramps & twitching
Loss of muscle (muscle wasting through lack of use)
Loss of control or co-ordination
Loss of dexterity
Falling.
Inability to move a part of the body.
Muscle paralysis

If a medical doctor suspects neuropathy he/she will conduct a number of neurological tests to determine the location and extent of the nerve damage. These may include some or all of the following:

Blood tests

Spinal fluid tests

Muscle strength tests

Tests of the ability to detect vibrations

Depending on what the basic tests reveal, your doctor may want to perform more in-depth scanning and other tests to get a better look at your nerve damage. Tests may include:

CT scan

MRI scan

Electromyography

Nerve and skin biopsy

Treatments

Medical treatments for this type of damage will use drugs in an attempt to strengthen the immune system and stop inflammation. It doesn't build healthy nerves.

For more information about Nerve Damage and the treatments, go Neuropathy

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

Building Healthy Nerves

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 be able to build healthy nerves.

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

(For temporary relief while building healthy nerves, go to Pain Relief Formula )

What can be done for lasting relief?

Find out how to Build Healthy Nerves

*Studies & Research on Nerve Health

Is Alcohol Good for Your Heart Health? by Dr. Eric Berg

You might have heard that alcohol helps protect against heart disease. You might have also heard that one drink for women and two drinks for men every night is good for you. But is any of that true?

This may come as a surprise to many of you.

Just know that I only want to give you the facts so you can make your own decisions.

What I have found to be true is that alcohol isn’t as good for you as some might say. In fact, it’s worse. Find out why below.

The Benefits of Alcohol are.....

The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements 

For what every ails you, , a person has only a few choices about what to do about it..

The Drug Approach

When it comes to a medication, the body reacts in certain ways to this medication and it is done in order to achieve a desirable effect.  For instance,  in order to balance itself and handle the effects of a drug, the body has to lower its blood pressure.   If this is what you want to happen because its a blood pressure medication, it's a good thing.   However, there are also various other ways the body can react to the drug and sometimes this is not such a good thing - this is called a "side effect".  It is the reason someone can wind up on 4 blood pressure medications.  Each drug is given in an attempt to balance another drug so as not to create the various side effects of the other drugs.  It is a balancing act. 

Drugs don't repair anything; they treat the symptom, not the cause of the problem. 

The Natural Approach

What a nutritional supplement does is give the body the actual tools it needs to build health in the body. 

In the case of neuropathy, it is the nerve cell that is damaged.  The body needs certain tools (nutritional factors) to build the cell health.  

As with our example of blood pressure, if they don't know what is causing the high blood pressure, the drug just lowers it artificially. A supplement doesn't force the blood pressure low, but addresses the cause of high blood pressure and brings your body into better balance, and the blood pressure goes to normal.  

The cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, or the chemicals used in cancer treatments, it can be an injury to the nerve, etc. - but one thing is known,  the damage is done to the cell and this causes the pain.  

You can cover this up with pain killers, or with other drugs that are manufactured to handle this, but the drugs aren't making healthy nerves. They are trying to forces the body to not give you pain, not give you numbness, etc.,  And sometimes more damage to the nerve cell might happen due to the drug or other drugs you are taking,

The Nutritional Approach

Nutritional supplements are actually vitamins and minerals that the body needs.   The body needs certain nutrients to function properly.  

These are the supplements you want to take.

Another difference is that if you are taking a drug and just covering up symptoms, you have to continue to take the drug to get relief and sometimes even have to increase the drug to get the same relief.

If you take natural supplements, the body can fix the problem, and as long as you don't do anything to damage the cells again, there is an end to taking the supplements.

For neuropathy see:   Nerve Support Formula

For High Blood pressure see High Blood Pressure

For other health challenges, see McVitamins.com

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