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1. Can you Tell a Disease by the Smell?
2. Neuropathy (nerve damage) Caused by Alcohol Use
3. Hydroxytyrosol is a Powerful, Natural Antioxidant & Anti-Inflammatory
4. Vitamin B5, Your Adrenals and Your Sleep

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Can you Tell a Disease by the Smell?

I remember a western TV show where they called a doctor as the young boy was very ill. The doctor walked into the sick room and took a breath to smell ... and said "thyphoid fever" Interesting. That was 100 years ago or more. Yet, that ability is now being looked at again.

I read an article recently where they found a smell attached to Parkensin's Disease and how it could give an early warning sign.

PD Smell

And here is an article of scientific studies done on this The Smell of Disease

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".

Treatment for Alcohol Induced Neuropathy

There are many medications, and other remedies that can bring you relief, you can read about them in this article Neuropathy Treatments

What can you do:

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Lasting Relief:

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 mean 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

Hydroxytyrosol is a Powerful, Natural Antioxidant & Anti-Inflammatory

By Qgenics on Sep 01, 2021 04:29 pm

Oxidative stress is an imbalance between damaging free radicals and antioxidants in a body.

Free radicals are oxygen-containing molecules with an uneven number of electrons. The uneven number allows them to easily react with other molecules. Free radicals can cause large chain chemical reactions in the body because they react so easily with other molecules.

When there are more free radicals present than can be kept in balance by antioxidants, the free radicals can start doing damage to fatty tissue, DNA, and proteins in the body. Proteins, lipids, and DNA make up a large part of the body, so that damage can lead to a vast number of diseases over time, including neurodegenerative diseases and inflammatory diseases.

Antioxidants are molecules that can donate an electron to a free radical without making themselves unstable. This causes the free radical to stabilize and become less reactive.

Hydroxytyrosol is the most potent natural antioxidant discovered to date. Hydroxytyrosol is a chemical extracted from olives [1].
68,576 is the ORAC value (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) of hydroxytyrosol, 15 times higher than that of green tea and three times higher than that of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Scientists recognize its potent anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antioxidant, and cardioprotective properties due to numerous, well-documented studies[2].

Characteristics of Hydroxytyrosol

Many researchers are interested in hydroxytyrosol because it has powerful antioxidant and free radical scavenging properties, as well as strong anti-inflammatory characteristics [1]. As a natural antioxidant, hydroxytyrosol has the highest degree of free radical absorption so far recorded. Aside from its antimicrobial properties, it inhibits the growth of several bacteria strains in humans [1], which could effectively fight bacteria of infectious diseases.

It has some exceptional characteristics that contribute to its effectiveness. It is:

• Rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and tissues to perform its free radical scavenging duties.
• The only phenol (organic compound) that can cross the blood-brain barrier, which allows it to absorb free radicals throughout the central nervous system
• It has both fat and water-soluble components, giving it the highest bioavailability of any antioxidant.

Olives are a good source of hydroxytyrosol

Hydroxytyrosol is a phenolic component of olive oil found in the olive tree’s fruits and leaves (Olea europaea L.). Hydroxytyrosol can be found in olive oil in both its free form and as part of more complex compounds like oleuropein. When olives grow, their oleuropein ingredient decreases and that causes the bitter taste of the fruit. This is due to the conversion of oleuropein into oleuropein aglycone and then to hydroxytyrosol. [2]. When humans eat an olive, the phenols in the olive undergo the first-pass metabolism after absorption [3]. They break down into hydroxytyrosol and homovanillic acid, which can be assessed by measuring homovanillic acid and hydroxytyrosol in urine [4].

Summary

Hydroxytyrosol, as one of the primary polyphenols found in virgin olive oil, has several pharmacological properties, including antioxidant properties, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties, and beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system.

RECOMMENDED

You can obtain all the health benefits of Hydroxytyrosol in concentrated form in the supplement Inflammation Relief.

Every capsule of Inflammation Relief provides 200mg of organic olive phenol extract from olive fruit. Due to the bioavailability of the antioxidant polyphenols in Inflammation Relief, taking a capsule is the equivalent of consuming as much as 8 to 12 ounces of extra virgin olive oil, but without all those calories!

References:

1. Martínez L, Ros G, Nieto G. Hydroxytyrosol: Health Benefits and Use as Functional Ingredient in Meat. Medicines (Basel). 2018;5(1):13. Published 2018 Jan 23. doi:10.3390/medicines5010013
2. Vilaplana-Pérez, Cristina, et al. “Hydroxytyrosol and potential uses in cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and AIDS.” Frontiers in nutrition 1 (2014): 18.
3. D’Angelo S, Manna C, Migliardi V, Mazzoni O, Morrica P, Capasso G, Pontoni G, Galletti P, Zappia V. Pharmacokinetics and metabolism of hydroxytyrosol, a natural antioxidant from olive oil. Drug Metab Dispos. 2001 Nov;29(11):1492-8. PMID: 11602527.
4. Tuck KL, Freeman MP, Hayball PJ, Stretch GL, Stupans I. The in vivo fate of hydroxytyrosol and tyrosol, antioxidant phenolic constituents of olive oil, after intravenous and oral dosing of labeled compounds to rats. J Nutr. 2001 Jul;131(7):1993-6. doi: 10.1093/jn/131.7.1993. PMID: 11435519.

Vitamin B5, Your Adrenals and Your Sleep

Vitamin B5 is very important for creating stress hormones, as well as the hormones involved in sleep and your mood. Vitamin B5 can also directly support the cell that controls the circadian rhythm.

Symptoms of a vitamin B5 deficiency:

• Irritability

• Fatigue

• Apathy

• Numb hands and feet

• Muscle cramps

• Restlessness

• Sleep disturbances

Find out about being deficient in B5.

Better Sleep

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Sidebar:

The Link Between Hydration and Happiness
by Dr. Eric Berg

Did you know your hydration levels can directly impact your mood? It’s crazy to think how many functions in your body are affected by your hydration levels. Truth is, when your body is off balance, your mood can easily be affected too. So, it makes perfect sense when you feel better physically, you will feel better mentally.

This brings me to something really important I want to share...

If you’ve been struggling with your mood lately, whether it is stress, anxiety, or even depression... Your electrolyte balance could be off!

When your electrolyte balance is off, it can throw off many other body functions. Your sodium-potassium ratio plays an important role in maintaining a healthy electrolyte balance. Most people are deficient in potassium, but not as deficient in sodium. The majority of people consume way too much sodium.

In fact, the majority of the population has a subclinical potassium and magnesium deficiency. Usually people are heavy on sodium, and low on potassium and magnesium.

This is why I created my electrolyte powder based on the electrolytes that people are most deficient in, potassium and magnesium.