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Apparently, there has a been a shortage of infant formula especially for specialties such as for allergies, digestive issues, etc. This has recently been made worse due to the FDA closing down a very big plant (about 30% of the production) due to a bacteria problem.
Here is a suggestion of a alternative way to feed the baby which idea came from a practitioner who sees the problem daily.
There is a new quiz which is designed to create a personal program to restore health to your nerves.
There are lots of nerve support formulas around since 2010 that try to help a person relieve the symptoms of neuropathy. Three is actually the original nerve support formula that was available earlier since 2004. Some are good, some fair and many are just covering up the symptoms.
The person’s activities in life can impact creating nerve health.
The new quiz asks the question so that a real program can be developed to relieve the symptoms while building health for the nerves.
You can access it here QUIZ
This Vitamin C is made from berries. There are a lot of advantages.
You can read about it – remember if you need Vitamin C to build anti-stress hormones or interferon (an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus)
Try this C.
Why does autoimmunity conditions lower your ability to fight disease and what does it mean?
Learning how this condition works and what can help it would be important to so many people who suffer with these conditions. 8-9% of the population suffer and there are 100s of them.
Read Autoimmunity and get educated
The Spectrum Care+ Protocol is designed to promote optimum metabolic, gut and neurological health in children with special needs.
When taken as directed, parents have reported improvements in cognition, social communication, behavior, digestion and sleep patterns.
Check out Spectrum Care+
Allergies are versatile. They can show up just about anywhere in your body and create an incredible variety of symptoms. They can affect your nose, eyes, throat, lungs, stomach, skin and nervous system. They can give you a stomachache, a rash and even bring on fatigue and headache.
Allergy symptoms occur when your body’s immune system overreacts to a substance in your environment. But it is not the substance that causes the allergic reactions; it is the body’s reaction to that substance that prompts the reactions. The immune system overreacts and releases a chemical that the body uses to fight microbial invaders. But in allergies, the invaders are not viruses or bacteria. They are harmless substances: pollens, dust, mold spores and other substances including food.
When the immune system uses its weapons to fight off infection, the results are usually good. But if the immune system gets confused and mistakes pollen for bacteria, it can unleash those same weapons unnecessarily, wreaking havoc in the body.
People with allergies have immune systems that can react to just about anything that comes along. A tiny particle of the right substance puts your panicky immune system on the defensive. Your body strikes back by releasing a rush of a chemical that causes the familiar swelling and running in your nose, eyes and sinuses.
These overly sensitive immune cells (called mast cells) release a substance called histamine. Histamine causes small blood vessels to widen allowing fluid to pass from the bloodstream into the surrounding tissues, causing nasal conditions, runny eyes and nose and sometimes hives.
Histamine can make the smooth muscles in the walls of the lungs, blood vessels, stomach, intestines and bladder contract. This contraction can bring on a wide range of symptoms. Histamine in the lungs causes wheezing. Histamine also indirectly stimulates the production of thick, sticky mucus.
Hay fever is triggered by pollens. There are allergies to cat hairs, bee stings or certain foods or drugs.
They are all the result of the same thing; the immune system overreacts to the substance in your environment
What to do for allergies
In spring nearly 8% of Americans experience seasonal allergies.
Most conventional treatments are aimed at cooling off this inflammation. Standard treatment for allergies involves taking certain medications. While these drugs can be effective, they all have side effects, such as drowsiness, raised blood pressure, interference with sleep, and some may even suppress your immune system predisposing you to infections.
Natural help for allergies
Fortunately, there is natural help for allergies including eating certain foods, vitamins, herbs and immune-balancing foods. You can also reduce the number of allergens in your environment.
Reduce the allergen triggers in your environment
The Mayo Clinic offers the following suggestions for reducing exposure to allergy triggers:
a. Stay indoors on dry, windy days. The best time to go outside is after a good rain, which helps clear pollen from the air.
b. Delegate lawn mowing, weed pulling and other gardening chores that stir up allergens.
c. Remove clothes you’ve worn outside, and shower to rinse pollen from your skin and hair.
d. Don’t hang laundry outside — pollen can stick to sheets and towels.
e. Wear a pollen mask if you do outside chores, or work outside.
f. Check your local TV or radio station, your local newspaper, or the Internet for pollen forecasts and current pollen levels.
g. Close doors and windows at night or any other time when pollen counts are high.
h. Avoid outdoor activity in the early morning when pollen counts are highest.
i. Keep indoor air clean using a portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter in your bedroom.
j. Clean floors often with a vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter.
k. Keep indoor air dry with a dehumidifier.
l. Use the air conditioning in your house and car.
2) Eat more colorful fruits and vegetables
Keep your immune system healthy by eating lots of colorful fruits and vegetables. Blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and bell peppers are good choices. These foods are rich in flavonoids, which act like antihistamines. They also contain carotenes, which have anti-inflammatory activity. Eating garlic and onions can help retard the inflammatory reactions of allergies.
3) Take a supplement to support your immune system
Thankfully, there is much scientific evidence which points to beta-glucan providing natural relief for allergy symptoms.
Beta-glucan is a form of soluble fiber derived from the cell walls of baker’s yeast that can support and modulate the immune system.
Studies published on PubMed.gov have shown that beta-glucan supplementation for 4 weeks significantly improved allergy symptoms.
Beta-glucan may reduce runny nose, sneezing, congestion and itchy, watery eyes caused by pollen allergies. It also offered improved overall physical health and emotional wellbeing as compared to a placebo.
The health benefits of beta-glucans are well documented and show they support the immune system, the body’s first line of defense against illness, disease and allergies.
Immune Defense by Qgenics provides 1,953 mg of natural beta-glucan per serving. That’s up to 2 times more beta-glucan than most other brands giving better results and better value for your money.
Some people with autoimmune are very wary about “immune boosting supplements”. However…
Immune Defense could be called an immune system modulator. Immune Defense is made up of 70% pure 1,3 &1,6 beta-glucans derived from the cell wall of baker’s yeast. 70% purity is the maximum that can be reasonably used to avoid over stimulating the immune system, which results in health problems.
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A lot of beauty products are on the market have chemicals that you put on ou skin and hair, and that matters. Your skin can absorb those chemicals
Dr. Berg has created natural products for your hair & scalp,, face cream, and a “clear skin” product.
Check out his products here. There is a section for his beauty products.
With two potent grass-fed bovine superfoods: lymphatic powder and thymus powder, The Sinus and Lung Support Formula is designed to defend against bacteria and viruses that cause respiratory infection and inflammation.
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What is the secret for getting results with supplements?
Are you discourged because you have failed to find the right supplement to fix you health challenge?
The trick is understanding the condition so you get the right supplement.
You must educate yourself on what it really takes to build health. Specifically health in the part of the body that you have your attention on or which is creating a larger problem to your health.
And this is not just being told what helps to build Your Health, but getting the understanding of why it will build health.
An example is something which I’ve worked with for over 15 years, deciding which supplements for neuropathy. I’ve seen many many supplement companies start up (and sometimes fail) that sold supplements for neuropathy. They each had a different idea of what to use that will diminish the pain and symptoms.
Some worked to give some of the B vitamins but usually had additionally things like anti-oxidants and herbs. Anti-oxidants will actually bring some relief and stop the progression of nerve damage (which is what neuropathy is) and the herbs will just cover up symptoms. One supplement even claims that enzymes are what will make nerves healthy again but it mainly includes things that cover up the symptoms.
Covering up the symptoms, I know that it is very welcome to the neuropathy sufferer. But it sometimes isn’t strong enough and the results wouldn’t last – you definitely wouldn’t want to stop taking it.
I remember when I first discovered a supplement for neuropathy that I still recommend.
Why did I know that this Nerve Support Formula worked – it had the ingredients that I knew gave to body what it needs to restore health to the nerves. I was educated on the subject and I know what was needed. (You can check Nerve Health to find out why these vitamins are needed)
It occurred to me that it is true for any health problem. If it is the liver – what does the liver need with what is going on, in order to build health for the liver? The same idea went for the heart, the digestive system, etc. etc. It even works with immunity. What does the body need in order to have a healthy immune system that would ward off any variant of any virus, bacteria or fungus? Interesting idea.
So, I used to call MCVitamins, “How to Survive Despite a Fast Food Lifestyle“. This came about because the food that people consume creates all sorts of deficiencies, not to mention the chemical medicines, the pharmaceuticals that also create problems.
I changed it to Get Educated and Take Control of Your Health.
Understanding what is going on with your body and the health challenges you are experiencing will let you look and see which supplement you should chose to create health.
MCVitamins has always been about finding the right supplement formula that we found to work, and will help you and always will. But when you understand what health is and how it is created, you can be in control of things and make the right choices.
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Why Copper?
I’ve heard about copper infused materials. Never paid attention really but I do remember copper infused mask commericial and got curious as to why the copper?
I found the below info.
Copper is a safe, natural, essential trace element required for the functioning of all living organsims (plants, animals and humans).
Copper is scientifically proven to be nature’s biggest secret and has been used throughout centuries for its anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and even for it’s beauty properties.
How Do Copper Ions Destroy Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses?
The process by which Copper ions are able to naturally destroy pathogenic microbes is know as the Oligodynamic Effect
This is the process by which the copper ions, regardless of what material they are infused in, through electrostatic forces punctures the outer cell wall membrane or viral coat.
This rupture then allows the copper ions to destroy the DNA and RNA inside the cell preventing it from replicating, making it nature’s tool to protect and prevent the spread of infections.
Is is a completely safe, chemical free, natural, non-drug and non-invasive solution.
Copper Outperforms Silver
All forms of Silver are non-selective toxic biocides – making it poisonous to humans and only exhibit anti-microbial activity in the presence of moisture and humidity. Copper is not poisonous and works across all temperatures.
Promotion of Angiogenesis
Copper is known to promote the development of blood vessels and rejuvenate skin through the synthesis of collagen and elastin.
Anti-Microbial
Copper has been shown in published studies around the world to destroy 99.9% of bacteria, fungi and viruses within minutes of contact.
Anti-Odour – Copper is able to destroy the bacteria and fungi that typically cause foul smells and bad odour.
Here is a copper clothing company with Copper Infused Products