Quick tips for optimizing your health

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin
  • A quick and easy way to get more phytonutrients into your life is using a VitaMix to make green smoothies. See Victoria Boutenko’s book “Green for Life” for some great green smoothie recipes. Available at health food stores and on the internet.
  • According to Dr. Blaylock, you absorb only 20-30% of the phytonutrients in raw fruits and vegetables when you eat them, but about 90% when you blenderize them. He recommends drinking 8 oz. of juice twice a day.
  • Fresh fruits and vegetables are always preferred, but freezing doesn’t destroy phytonutrients. So make use of frozen berries and other fruits if fresh aren’t available.
  • Drinking several cups of green or white tea daily is another way to get more phytonutrients. White tea provides more than green tea.
  • Tea acts as a diuretic and causes some loss of minerals. If you’re using a sauna or doing heavy exercise, you will also lose some minerals in sweat. Be sure you have a good source of minerals in your diet like our Bone Support Formula and especially magnesium.  In his November 2011 newsletter, Dr. Blaylock recommends 500 mg of magnesium twice a day for the average healthy person who is working up a sweat daily.
  • Although there isn’t much acrylamide in water (about .12 mcg in an 8 oz glass, as opposed to 82 mcg. in a large order of McDonald’s French Fries), you’ll be glad to know our Reverse Osmosis home water filtration system removes it.
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Vitamin E for the Health of Your Heart

Posted on May 17, 2012 by admin

. . . deficiency of E is more predictive of heart disease and cardiac death than any other single factor.

One of the most important nutrients to protect the heart is vitamin E. Yet according to a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association in 2004, only 8% of adult men and 2.4% of adult women in the US met the Estimated Average Requirements (EARs) for alpha-tocopherol intake. Even worse, EARs are about 20% lower than the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs).

Although many factors are involved in creating heart disease (see my article “Heart Disease” and Dr. Russell Blaylock’s article “Sudden Cardiac Death”) low levels of vitamin E are more predictive of heart disease and cardiac death than any other single factor. Vitamin E inhibits the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, preventing atherosclerosis. When you prevent atherosclerotic plaque, you automatically help to lower blood pressure.

In 1910, when heart disease was relatively rare, most people got at least 100 IU a day from freshly milled and baked stone ground whole wheat bread.  Yet almost all Americans today fall considerably short of the RDA of 15 mg (22 IU) per day, while optimal health may require 400 IU/day or more, based on individual weight and state of health.

It is important to get a mix of tocopherols rather than just alpha-tocopherol, and to get natural vs. synthetic vitamin E. Beyond Health Vitamin E Formula is a balanced mix of natural tocopherols.

Maras JE. Intake of alpha-tocopherol is limited among US adults. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2004;104(4):567-575. 

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Natural Therapies for High Blood Pressure

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin

. . .  drugs just aren’t cutting it.

The poor drug industry has been hard put to come up with a drug for hypertension that doesn’t significantly reduce quality of life with side effects like dizziness, nausea, arrhythmias and sexual problems, and in addition contribute over time to chronic disease. The new angiotensin receptor blockers were recently linked in The Lancet Oncology with developing prostate, breast and lung cancers.

It’s also been hard for them to come up with drugs that do the job. In a 2008 Canadian Family Physician, Richard Nahas, MD, CCFP, says only about 1/3 of those taking hypertension meds achieve optimal blood pressure control.

Therefore it’s not surprising, although refreshing, to see some serious attention being paid in medical journals to non-drug therapies. Recently, in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, two MDs discussed the value of the low-sodium DASH diet (see my article on the DASH diet for a description), exercise, weight reduction, moderate alcohol intake and supplements like potassium, calcium, vitamin D, folate, CoQ10, fish oil, garlic, and various herbs as well as specific exercises and mechanical devices for treating high blood pressure.

If you’re already on blood pressure meds, it’s important not to stop them abruptly, but to normalize your blood pressure with a good diet and supplement program while working with a doctor to gradually wean yourself off the drugs. It can take a while; it can also take up to three years for the drugs to completely clear from your system. But over the long term it’s well worth the effort to get off these dangerous and quality-of-life-destroying drugs. Remember that drugs do nothing to cure disease; they are designed to merely suppress the symptoms of disease. Meanwhile, these toxic chemicals wreck havoc on your health.

For more on preventing and reversing hypertension see my article.

Siphai I. Angiotensin-receptor blockade and risk of cancer: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. The Lancet Oncology. 2010;11:627-636.

Nahas R. Complementary and alternative medicine approaches to blood pressure reduction: An evidence-based review. Canadian Family Physician. November 2008;54(11):1529-1533.

Woolf, KJ. Nondrug interventions for treatment of hypertension. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension. November 1, 2011, 13(11):829-835.  

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