Yes, you can always buy supplements, but food is always best
This page has a list of what foods you can eat to get your needed essential fatty acids.
Why is What You Eat So Important?
So often I hear from various people that they don’t want to change their diet, they are too old to change what they eat and besides disease is really hereditary anyway
Is it? I very often tell someone when they complain about the cost of healthy organic food, that they can spend more now or they can pay the doctor later. Besides the pain, loss of income, and the anxiety of what might be wrong when they get ill, they miss out on all the energy they could have right now.
As an example of what a poor diet can do, may I present an article Diet of The Plague? What Went Wrong?
How does this work?
You have to understand that there are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acids, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. Collectively these forty nutrients are spoken of as the body’s requirements. From these our bodies synthesize an estimated 10,000 different compounds essential to the maintenance of health. All the forty nutrients work together. Therefore, the lack of any one might result in the underproduction of hundreds of these essential compounds. Probably no one nutrient is ever totally lacking from an otherwise adequate diet, but partial simultaneous deficiencies of many nutrients is common.
Your body needs these things every day to function. You have to start paying attention to what you eat, and make sure you take those vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids that are missing in your diet.
Rather than have to deal with sickness and heroic measures to save your life (surgery, drugs, etc.). Isn’t it a better idea to build health?
Understanding what your body needs and providing it is your best Health Insurance.
“We need to shift our focus from treating disease to generating health…” Hippocrates (“The Father of Medicine” 460 BC – 380 BC)
What is Processed Foods?
I keep being told that someone eats natural foods only and doesn’t eat processed foods. But, when I talk further, they don’t know what that means..
Thought I’d give you some information – a processed food s any food that’s been changed prior to being consumed according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
When nutritionists refer to “processed foods”, they have a lot of additives.
Does it come in a box? That’s a hint.
Processed foods comes with being heavily modified and contains a long list of ingredients.
That covers a lot of food.
For more information about Processed Foods
Remember to always Check the Labels
Toxins = Bad Health
There are so many ways that toxins can get into your body and disrupt the normal body functions. Yes, you can breath it, you can ingest them, you can even get it through your skin.’
Wonder what is in your beauty products? What is in that shaving cream? What is in the make up or skin softener? What about the cleaning products?
What about the food you eat? Not only can it have lots of toxins from the way it was grown, but now most vegetables are genetically modified …. GMOs.
Start somewhere and start eliminating the toxins from constantly being used by the body instead of what it should be using for health.
Here’s an article on GMO in case you wonder about buying non-GMO products but think they are too expensive. Think about how expensive bad health is.
B Vitamin Deficiency and Neuropathy
B vitamins are the most important vitamins for nerve health. Once the nerve is damaged by the high blood sugars of diabetes, chemotheraphy, toxins, trauma, etc. etc. getting enough B vitamins is vital to building healthy nerves again.
But can a deficiency cause the condition?
Neuropathy can be a result of malnutrition caused by an unbalanced diet and by alcoholism . Alcohol does not allow the normal nutrients of the food you eat to be used. It does not allow it to be absorbed and metabolized. Thus, the person using alcohol winds up with malnutrition and the symptoms one normally observes as the result of heavy alcohol consumption. See Alcohol for more information.
Poor diet, vegan diet plans, gastric disorders, severely compromised immunity, etc. are just a few of the risk factors for vitamin B deficiency.
The main reason can be due to the lack of B12 in the diet. B12 deficiency can lead to a number of serious conditions and peripheral neuropathy is one of them. Usually this is more than just B12. These B vitamins work together.
Vitamin D. There is some thought that when a person has diabetes, his D levels go down and that might be a reason for the neuropathy. But that isn’t something that would on its own create the damage. It is the high blood sugars that lead to the nerve damage.
Many doctors after diagnosing someone with neuropathy will take blood tests to see if they have vitamin deficiencies. Because it is believed that neuropathy can be due to B12 deficiency, it is sort of reversed and the deficiency is then looked for.
Very often they can’t find a deficiency, however, the tests used are venous blood which is blood that is leaving the body. It doesn’t seem like a good test to determine what is in the cells. That is where it counts and where the deficiency would matter.
Healthy nerves can be determined as they do not burn, hurt or create coldness, etc. etc. If these symptoms are present the nerves are not healthy.
If the body had all the ingredients to build healthy nerves, they would by using up all the B vitamins and none would appear in the blood test.
However, often the B12 (and other vitamins) found in the blood can be due to laboratory created vitamins that the body cannot use. In fact, there are often a lot of deficiencies created by artificial vitamins found in “supplements” and processed foods. Have you ever seen “vitamin fortified” on a box? These are artificial vitamins made in the laboratory that the body does not recognize and will not use – and, in fact, it can “gum up the works”. See Natural vs Synthetic Supplements
Getting the right nutrients however will give the body what it needs to build healthy nerves again. Once the nerve is damaged it needs certain vitamins to build healthy nerves. An isolated B vitamin will not do that. It needs the various B vitamins to create health in the nerves. It is the nutritional support needed for neuropathy.z
To find out what the body needs for healthy nerves read Nerve Health
How About Not Putting Toxins in Your Body
How? One way is not to eat anything with toxins. Interesting idea isn’t it.
So one of the dubious foods that are toxic, or worse, we don’t know that interfering with food will do. I’m talking about GMOs. Genetically Modified Organisms, doesn’t sound very healthy to me.
Here is some links that will take you to:
GMO Companies (they don’t want you to know
GMO & Non GMO Labeling on Produce
And so you know why – what is GMO
To your Health!
How to Boost the Immune System when it’s Weakened by an Underlying Health Condition
It is important to support the immune system. There is plenty being said about Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc and other things (like sleep and staying away from sugar) to build a healthy immune system.
But for anyone with a degenerative condition or chronic illness, immune system support it vital. For instance, it has been found that most people with metabolic disorders and Metabolic Syndrome have a weakened immune system and this leads to more health complications.
You can get the immune system protection you need by using a potent formulation of beta-glucans
What is Beta-Glucans?
Beta-glucans is a scientifically proven biological response modifier (BRM) (BRM defined as “Substances that stimulate the body’s response to infection and disease”). These naturally help normalize this immune response.
Beta-glucans boosts the immune system in people whose body defenses have been weakened by health conditions.
Note: Beta glucans increases the immune system response. By increasing the immune system beta glucans might decrease the effectiveness of medications that decrease the immune system. Check with your doctor about any medications you are on that decrease the immune system response before taking beta-glucans.
There have been no reported side effects from taking beta-glucans by mouth.
Learn more about this with Immune Defense
Processed Food and Your Health
I have a quiz on my site to check on certain things that might stop someone from restoring health to their nerves. One question is do they eat processed foods.
Actually, so many people say they don’t eat processed foods, that I begin to wonder if they know what that means. However, what I want to communicate is that it is so important to read labels when buying food. No, eggs, vegetables and meat are probably okay – well unless they come packages and then I would still check the labels.
Here is an article on checking labels…
You Have to Check the Labels to Find Healthy Foods
And Processed Foods
Skin Relief? Discover the Underlying Cause of Skin Problems
If you are like most people with a problem skin condition, you’ve spent countless hours researching solutions. You’ve probably tried many different products with the hope of finding something that would improve your skin. Any non-optimum skin condition can cause embarrassment and affect self-esteem and quality of life.
What most people don’t know about the underlying cause of skin problems
Inflammation is at the core of most health issues. Unresolved, chronic inflammation is a feature of a wide range of chronic health conditions, including skin conditions.
Acute inflammation is a necessary, protective response of the body tissues to adverse stimuli, like irritants, or damaged cells due to injury. Acute inflammation lessens when the stimulus is removed. In contrast, chronic inflammation is an ongoing response to stimuli that doesn’t end and the longer it continues the more it causes cellular degeneration and damage.
In fact, chronic inflammation is recognized as one of the four primary factors that affect health and cause degeneration in the body.
What effect does chronic inflammation have on the body?
Chronic inflammation can affect the following:
- Skin health and inflammatory skin conditions
- Immune system health
- Cardiovascular health – many heart attacks are caused by inflammation around the heart, and high blood pressure can be caused by inflammation of the blood vessels.
Dr. Robert Crea stated, “Tackling inflammation will be at the core of medicine for the next 20 years. Cellular inflammation, and trying to control it, is going to be at the core of medicine over the next 20 years and people want to manage it with natural compounds.”
What can you do about chronic inflammation?
The good news is you can do something about chronic inflammation. Eating more plant-based whole foods will help. In addition, taking a supplement designed to have a powerful, positive impact on chronic inflammation will provide extra anti-inflammatory support.
Dr. Robert Weiss says, “Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease modifying tools available to practitioners – more powerful than any drugs or surgeries.”
Treating skin conditions from the inside
If you have an unresolving skin issue it is very likely you have chronic inflammation in your body.
Most people try to tackle their skin condition with a topical solution, but creams, gels or lotions don’t always deliver the desired result.
Skin conditions need to be addressed from inside the body as that’s where the chronic inflammation is happening.
New Scientific Study… what does it mean?
Every other day it seems, there is a new study that is published which states that something is good for you or bad for you. It could be a study about food, or supplements, or how easy it is for you to get some dreaded disease. And there are many times that the study contradicts an earlier one. And the next study contradicts that one. Do we believe them?
You need to know that studies are paid for by tax dollars and by companies that have a vested interest in the study. They are looking to prove that you should take a certain drug, or prescription vitamin, or that you should be wary of a specific way of living.
Vested interest means that they may be out to prove their hypothesis so they can sell you a drug or prevent you from using the competitor’s product.
Then there is the overwhelming problem, that one study doesn’t prove a thing. There are so many variables, that you can’t possible expect that a 100-300 person study (people who have been picked for the study) to show something conclusively.
So next time you decide you should not take something due to the “latest” study. Read up what it really is. Find out the science behind the nutritionally sound concept of nutrition or what your body needs to function.
Or investigate the actual studies and what other studies have been done – you can find them on PubMed.gov
To Your Health