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.
What is Inflammation? Why is it necessary and how to combat chronic inflammation
What is Inflammation?
We hear so often about inflammation. There is even a drug commerical which states that it will “block the source of inflammation”. Makes one wonder what causes the inflammation and why isn’t that being targetsd?
Let’s first find out what inflammation is
Why is it necessary and how to combat chronic inflammation
Inflammation refers to your body’s response when fighting against things that can harm it, such as infections, injuries, and toxins. The response is in order to protect the body so it can repair injuries and to fight invaders, such as bacteria and viruses
You can think of inflammation as the body’s natural response to protect itself against harm. It’s a big part of how our body recovers after facing disease or injury.
This response includes the release of antibodies and proteins, as well as increased blood flow to the damaged area. The whole process usually lasts for a few hours or days in the case of acute inflammation.
There are two types: acute and chronic
Read entire article What is Inflammation?
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
A Non-Toxic Cleaning Product
Yes. I never knew how much cleaning my house made me feel tired and … well, I just didn’t want to do it. It was the chemicals that I used. Even when I bought brands in the health food store that were more natural then the many very toxic chemicals normally found on the shelves.
Here is an article on a Cleaning Product derived from a mix of essential oils (plant essense). I have used it myself and I enjoy using it. It not only cleans well, but it smells great.
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
Sanitizing to stop a virus is structural medicine ??
What is the difference between structural medicine and functional medicine? Structural medicine is similar to parking an ambulance at the bottom a of a cliff because people are falling off. instead of building a fence on the cliff so people don’t fall off.
Learn more about Structural and Functional Medicine