Category: Anti-Oxidants and Free Radicals

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The Gut, Metabolism and your Sleep Quality

sleep quallitySleep Quality is essential for your ongoing health and wellbeing.

An increasing number of studies on sleep have explored the connection between sleep and the mitochondria. The mitochondria a small organ within the cells that produces energy from food. Thus, the mitochondria help the body repair itself during sleep and much more.

Your repairs itself while you sleep. If their sleep cycle is not good, it can have major effects on the body. The body goes through different changes while you sleep, and his process begins with the mitochondria.

For the body to repair itself, the mitochondria need to be producing energy from food.  This controls the function of the ‘master gland’ that lives at the base of the brain. When you sleep, this gland releases growth hormones that helps the body grow.

Thus, healthy mitochondria support your health.

Mitochondria are also involved in the sleep/wake cycle

In addition, the mitochondria influence the body’s sleep/wake cycle. Studies have proposed that mitochondria are the primary site of melatonin synthesis.

Melatonin synthesis is the production of melatonin within the body. This hormone is secreted by the pineal gland which is in the brain. It helps control the body’s sleep pattern and sleep-wake cycle. The production increases with darkness to help promote healthy sleeping. While melatonin does not make you sleep, the increased levels help to promote sleep.

Studies have explored the connection between mitochondria and the circadian rhythm (the body’s internal body clock). Studies have found that sleep deprivation alters the enzyme activity and protein levels within the body – which highlights the mitochondria’s involvement in the body’s sleep/wake cycle.

So, the mitochondria help you sleep.

Sleep deprivation contribute to cell stress

When we’re sleep-deprived, the body doesn’t function at its best. One study, published in the journal “Scientific Reports” points out that this extends to our mitochondria’s ability to fight cell stress. Cell stress, also known as oxidative stress, is what happens when too many free radicals escape from your mitochondria and attack your cells. According to the study, free radicals are produced while you’re awake and are eliminated when you sleep. This suggests that a lack of sleep inhibits the body’s ability to fight cell stress. As cells are the building blocks of the body, cell stress has the potential to significantly impact your general wellbeing and energy needs.

Supporting mitochondrial health

Thus, by supporting mitochondrial health, you can support your energy and sleep quality.

It’s clear that sleep and mitochondrial health are interlinked. Multiple studies have found that a lack of sleep can negatively affect mitochondrial function. Supporting the mitochondria will help your sleep and health.

Supporting the Mitochondria

Good Health Depends on Optimum Gut and Mitochondrial Function

There is a range of nutrients required to maintain optimum gut, mitochondrial and metabolic health.  Due to the quality of food today, many children are deficient in the vitamins and minerals needed by the body for optimum gut, mitochondrial and metabolic health.

Camel milk contains high proportions of anti-bacterial and anti-viral substances, antioxidants and immune system boosters.  It provides a range of vitamins and minerals, including B vitamins, Vitamin C, magnesium and zinc and can offer excellent nutrition for children.

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It offers all the benefits of camel milk as well as the added benefit of natural ERDS™ (Enhanced Rapid Delivery System). ERDS is a powerful extract of Vitamin E, and Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 and more to enhance the bioavailability of the nutrients of the camel milk. It contains natural ingredients to optimize metabolic health.

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Too Little Sleep? Study Findings Say “Eat More Fruits + Veggies”

too little sleep.According to experts, healthy adults should sleep between seven and nine hours per night. After noticing a rise in people with insomnia and those getting too little sleep, researchers in Finland examined the correlation between fruit and vegetable consumption and its impact on sleep—revealing a strong association.

For their study, researchers looked at data from 5,043 adults aged 18 and older participating in the National FinHealth 2017 Study. For the study, participants shared their sleep duration and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables. The researchers also looked at other factors such as socioeconomic status and demographics. They also used a sensitivity analysis to exclude “energy under-reporters” to remove that variable.

The researchers compared the average amount of fruits and vegetables eaten by people with different sleep durations—short sleepers (averaging 6 hours per night), normal (averaging 7.7 hours per night), and long (averaging 10.1 hours per night). They found that short sleepers consumed 37 fewer grams of fruits and vegetables a day than normal sleepers and long sleepers consumed 73 grams less per day. Plus, that correlation held true with a variety of statistical models.

Given the strong link between fruit and vegetable consumption and sleep duration, the researchers emphasized the importance of looking at lifestyle variables when treating sleep disorders. They also recommend focusing on the fruit and vegetable groups with the strongest association, such as leafy greens.

Study

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Vitamin B May Protect Against Alzheimer’s and More

The reference by Dr. Mercola talks about homocysteine being lowered in the body in the presence of vitamin B.  I was interested in forwarding this as homecysteine has also always been associated with heart disease and more and now with Alzheimers.

Why?  The body needs cysteine.  It is vital to making Glutathione. Go to the link if you want to know more about Glutathione, the body’s master anti-oxidant).

Homeocysteine is part of a reaction in the body and is supposed to convert to cysteine.  But it needs B vitamins to convert.   Thus the need for the B vitamins.

Here is what the article is about:

B vitamins may slow brain shrinkage by as much as seven-fold in brain regions specifically known to be most impacted by Alzheimer’s disease

High levels of the amino acid homocysteine are linked to brain shrinkage and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s; B vitamins are known to suppress homocysteine

Among participants taking high doses of folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12, blood levels of homocysteine were lowered as was the associated brain shrinkage – by up to 90 percent

To view the full article, go to Mercola.com and search on B Vitamins and Alzheimer’s

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Eye Problem – what you can do.

So often this area of your health is ignored until it gets bad enough to get glasses and then gets worse and you are given the choice of surgery either laser or knife.

Well, there is always something that can be done about building health, and eyes are not different.

Find out about Eye Health

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Why Wheatgrass?

Wheatgrass provides a concentrated amount of nutrients, including iron; calcium; magnesium; amino acids; chlorophyll; and vitamins A, C and E. It contains all the minerals known to man as well as vitamins B Complex, I and K. It’s  nutrient content is said to boost immunity, kill harmful bacteria in your digestive system, and rid your body of waste.  

In a juice form it is easily assimilated. 

Dr. Berg’s wheat grass juice powder is 100% organic and massively nutrient-dense. It is grown on an ancient sea bed in Utah, which allows the grass to absorb tons of trace minerals. It is dark green, alive and very aromatic. You’ll notice the difference between this wheat grass juice powder by its deep green color, soothing taste and aromatic smell.

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What can Vitamin C do for Your Nerves?

Sorbitol (a form of sugar) travels to certain parts of the body where it builds up. These parts of the body are:

– the lens of the eye where it forms a white milky film called cataracts and

– the sciatic nerve (the big nerve that runs down your leg) where it can cause nerve damage (nerve pain).

Evidence indicates that taking 2,000 mg a day of vitamin C may reduce the production of sorbitol and help strip sorbitol out of the body.

Most of the vitamin C sold in the US is ascorbic acid by itself, a whole food or food based Vitamin C is what is needed.

You can read more about Vitamin C