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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
Learn the advantages of having a good posture for physical health, and learn how vitamin B-12 is good for mental health.
Stand Up Straight! Take A Posture Self-Test
By Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer
Good posture reflects a body that is aligned in its most efficient pose. Your head, neck, back and legs are all supported effortlessly by the joints beneath them. Your internal organs experience optimum blood flow. Good posture reflects a mind that is at ease.
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How can we achieve good posture?
Causes of poor posture
As mentioned, a peaceful mind will be reflected in our posture. However, stress will cause a disruption somewhere in your posture. And a disturbance in one part of the body will require compensation in another part of your body until the entire kinetic chain is out of alignment, all because of stress.
Simple deficiencies can also be reflected in our bearing
An oxygen deficiency from restricted breathing may result in an anxious, forward-of-center posture.
Dehydration from too little water or copious urination, associated with mineral and EFA deficiency, may result in loss of a proper curve in your back. Foundational nutrition, a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement, Omega Essential Fatty Acids, Vitamin C and Vitamin B-12, can have an impact on your posture from the inside out!
Sleep deprivation often results in slouching and a jawline that is forward of your slumped shoulders. This causes extra stress on your jaw joint, TMJ, and may result in chronic jaw pain.
By far, the most damaging influence to our posture and therefore our health, is a sedentary lifestyle. Sitting or being immobile for long periods of time has a detrimental effect on all of the joints in the body. As mentioned, if the body structure is improperly aligned, circulation will be impaired. That means no nutrients to the cells and an accumulation of waste that can not get out.
For optimum wellness, find an exercise routine that you enjoy and do it often. Choose several different types of exercise, or play, to prevent activity burnout. I like swimming, running and riding my bicycle. Many prefer organized routines such as Pilates, Tai Chi or ballroom dancing, dancing is the highest expression of human movement.
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Posture self-test
Proper movement and good intentions can be the cure to bad posture. For example, if you really want optimum wellness for your life purposes, check your posture frequently. Check to see that
Your shoulders are level
Your head is straight, not tilted to the side
The spaces between your arms and your sides seem equal on both sides
Your hips are level, not sloped to one side
Your ankles are straight and not turned in or out
You can also have someone look at you from the side and check the following
Your head is stacked over your body, not jutting forward or pulled back
Your chin is parallel to the floor, not tilting up or down
Shoulders are in line with ears, not drooping forward or pulled back too far
Your hands are in line with hips, not forward or back
Your knees are straight, not bent or hyper-extended
Your lower back is slightly curved forward, not too flat or curved too much, creating a swayback
Our body was made to move. The more you move, the more you will be able to move and the more you will want to move. The less you move, the less you will be able to move and the less you will want to move.
Take the posture test. Then, ask yourself what imbalanced posture means in your case. Address the cause and watch your posture come back into alignment. As it does, watch your energy level increase and your mental clarity improve. Enjoy the vitality of wellness and use that strength to fulfill your life purposes!
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Take Control of Your Health
Check your posture weekly
Focus on improving daily
Make sure you are living the 10 Essentials
Focus on exercise most days of the week
Aerobic training 30 to 150 minutes
Resistance training 2 to 5 times per week
Try Pilates, Tai Chi or ballroom dancing
Take foundational nutrition
A multiple vitamin and mineral combination, VitaDaily AM-PM
OmegaPrime
Vital C
Sublingual B-12
Define your purposes and work toward them!
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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
Keep good healthy habits to keep the heart going, and use daily vitamins, and a basic vitamin like B12 vitamins.
Top 10 List To Better Heart Health
By Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer
What an amazing organ our heart is! It beats for an entire lifetime without stopping for a break. With every heartbeat, about a third of a cup of oxygen-rich blood is pumped out to your body. This means that between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of blood are pumped through your heart every day. The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute. In the course of one day it beats over 100,000 times. In one year the heart beats almost 38 million times, and by the time you are 70 years old, on average, it beats 2.5 billion times! That makes me tired just thinking about it.
The heart has a lot of work to do, so how can we help it stay healthy throughout life?
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Heart Health Top 10
1. Eat a high-fiber diet
Dietary fiber is often classified into two categories, soluble and insoluble.
Soluble fiber draws water into the bowel and can help slow digestion. Soluble fiber can help reduce bad cholesterol, triglycerides and elevated glucose which is blood sugar. Examples include
Oatmeal
Oat bran
Beans
Peas
Rice bran
Barley
Citrus
Strawberries
Apple pulp
Insoluble fiber speeds digestion and can add bulk to the stool. Examples include
Whole wheat breads
Wheat cereal
Wheat bran
Rye
2. Eat healthy fats
Most of us have heard about how fats are bad for us – but this is not always the case. Some fats are very good for our ongoing well-being. Two of these fats are Omega-3 and Omega-6. Not only are they good for us, they are actually indispensible, which is why they are also called Essential Fatty Acids, EFAs.
There are two reasons why these omega fatty acids are considered essential
By nourishing our heart, brain, skin, glands and joints and by helping the process that produces our hormones, these two EFAs play crucial roles in helping us sustain vibrant good health, from early adulthood development on up through healthy aging in the senior years.
Because our bodies cannot make them internally, we have to get omega fatty acids from outside sources, such as diet and supplements.
3. Reduce salt
If you have high blood pressure or are at risk of developing it, cutting back on salt could reduce your risk of a heart attack by 25 percent or more. Your goal should be less than 2,300 mg of sodium a day, which is about a teaspoon of salt.
4. Lose the gut
Even if you are not significantly overweight, carrying extra fat around your middle is bad for your heart. It raises blood pressure, adversely affects blood lipids, causes insulin resistance and produces inflammation. No amount of crunches can reduce belly fat. The only way to get rid of it is to lose weight overall.
5. Increase activity
Updated recommendations from the American Heart Association call for at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity most days of the week. Strength training, in addition to improving overall fitness, improves fat-burning capacity by increasing muscle mass. If you are over 45, already have some kind of cardiovascular problem, or have not exercised regularly for years, see a doctor before lacing up your workout shoes.
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6. Calm down
Stress triggers the release of hormones that can threaten your heart. Curbing negative emotions is almost as good for your heart as proper diet and exercise. For stress, try deep breathing and regular aerobic exercise.
7. Drink a little, if at all
Drinking a little bit of alcohol can raise HDL, good, cholesterol and reduce inflammation and blood clots. But too much can cause heart problems.
8. Do not smoke
As for smoking, do not. Cigarette smokers have twice the heart attack risk of nonsmokers. If you can not quit on your own, get help. It is essential for heart health that you do not smoke!
9. Know your numbers
Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, LDL cholesterol, homocysteine, glucose blood sugar and triglycerides are associated with poor heart health. Know your numbers and work to keep them under control.
10. Stay in touch with family and friends
Love and gratitude are the emotions most closely connected with the heart, and science has shown that people who experience and express love have healthier hearts. Conversely, people that never form heartfelt attachments with others, and those who never make room for love, have the shortest life spans and highest death rates from all causes.
So, take care of your heart through nutrients and nourishment. Learn to love and accept love from others and be grateful. Be grateful for all the wonders in your life, large and small, and be grateful for your heart, a small organ with a huge impact on your health and happiness.
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Take Control of Your Health
Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy foundation supplements, like daily vitamins, as well as B12 vitamins
Achieve an optimum body weight
Consider Adaptogen 10 Plus for stress management
Consider Nopalea to help your body reduce inflammation
Try HCY Guard to help reduce elevated homocysteine
Get your essential fatty acids from OmegaPrime
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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
B12 vitamins are very important for cancer and other health issues. Learn how B12 can avoid certain diseases or illnesses, or improve your health concerns.
Homocysteine, Genetics and Vitamins
By Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer
Homocysteine, HCY, is a tool used by your body to modify protein. Specifically, homocysteine carves up the amino acid methionine into smaller amino acids. Each of these amino acids has important functions. The leftovers from this construction project are not thrown away. Instead, your body recombines the debris back into methionine again.
Methionine is the protein that serves as the foundation for all other proteins. It is like concrete. You can build a small cottage or a large skyscraper on the same concrete foundation. You can build brain cells, heart cells, bone cells, and healthy cells for your entire body on the protein methionine. Homocysteine is responsible for crafting that foundation. While homocysteine is an excellent tool for your body, too much of it can be fatal.
It is in the genes
There is a common gene defect among people in North America. It is called an MTHFR defect. It allows homocysteine to escape into the bloodstream and literally shred your arteries causing a stroke, tangle your brain cells causing Alzheimers Disease, shatter your bones causing osteoporosis, and inflame your heart causing a heart attack.
Another common genetic defect is MTHFD. It allows homocysteine to run amok inside your cells. This can lead to cell mutations and even cancer.
What an elegant, yet destructive element homocysteine can prove to be! How can we modify homocysteine and harness its constructive power while protecting against its destructive rampage?
The answer is found in Vital Amines.
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A tale of two families
Vital Amines are active enzymes in your blood, organs, and even inside your cells. You may know them by their shortened name, vitamins! In the world of B vitamins there are two families
The MTHFR family
B-12
Folic acid
B-6
Biotin
The MTHFD family
Riboflavin
B-1
Niacin
antothenic acid
Elevated homocysteine can be caused by genetics or poor nutrition. When a person has an active genetic defect they require intense nutrition to offset the imbalance caused by the gene mutation. Supplemental nutrition is very effective in most cases. TriVitas HCY Guard was designed specifically for high HCY. One study on TriVitas HCY Guard found that HCY levels could be reduced by 35 percent in just 6 weeks!
Vital amines such as the Riboflavin family of B vitamins combine with antioxidants to help reduce the activity of cellular homocysteine. One study found that the specific antioxidant ECGC, the antioxidant found in green tea, stopped the trigger DNMT, an enzyme, from releasing homocysteine inside the cell. People consuming large amounts of ECGC have reduced DNMT and fewer cases of cancer.
Riboflavin and ECGC are both found in Energy Now! In fact, just as TriVitas Sublingual B-12 and HCY Guard supplements contain the B-12 family of B vitamins, Energy Now contains the complementary Riboflavin family of B vitamins. They work together to form a perfect B complex that helps reduce homocysteine.
Are you at risk?
Is there a way to tell if you have one of these common disease risks? Yes. One way is to have a genetic test performed. This is usually done by drawing enough blood to collect DNA and submitting this to one of only a few labs in North America that can perform genetic testing. A second way is to have your homocysteine levels tested. This can be performed by most medical laboratories. Ask your doctor to do this test with your annual physical.
Another indicator of elevated homocysteine is your own family tree. Does any first-degree relative, like father, mother, brother, or sister, have any of the conditions attributed to homocysteine? If so, you likely have the gene defect. Does a second-degree relative, like grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins, have any of the conditions attributed to homocysteine? If so, you may have the gene defect as well.
Did you know nutrient deficiencies can mimic a genetic defect by failing to provide the minimum amount of vital amines necessary to prevent elevated homocysteine? A poor diet, illness, pregnancy, aging, and stress can place you at risk for elevated HCY. Children and adults with asthma and irritable bowel syndrome are at high risk for elevated HCY.
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Lowering your homocysteine
High HCY in your blood is linked to serious illness. Helping your body reduce high HCY may greatly reduce your risk for serious illness. These actions will also help
Eat fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants, 5 servings daily for children, 7 servings for women, and 9 servings for men.
Reduce your stress load.
Get at least 30 minutes of vigorous activity every day.
Supplement your diet with nutrients such as TriVitas HCY Guard and Energy Now!
Defeat stress by nurturing your spirit with healthy relationships and a healthy sense of purpose.
Remember, genes are not fate! You have as much control over your genes, through nutrients and nurturing, as they have over you. Build a healthy foundation for your future by balancing your homocysteine.
Take Control of Your Health
Be sure to have your homocysteine levels tested if
You have a family history of
Heart disease
Stroke
Alzheimers Disease
Osteoporosis
Cancer
You experience gastric disturbances, breathing difficulties, or kidney issues
You are over 50
You are pregnant
You are experiencing high stress levels
You eat a poor diet
You do not exercise regularly
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Practicing A Life Of Gratitude
Count your blessings, not your problems
The phrase thank you has become as common in conversations as hello and goodbye. We thank the person holding the door open for us, bringing us our meal at a restaurant, handing us our purchase at a department store, or saying bless you when we sneeze. What these actions have in common is their ability to produce an instant thank you. In the present, we respond immediately because the action has just taken place, making it easy for us to remember and express gratitude. But what about yesterday or the day before?
Do you live life on autopilot?
Let us take a typical day, for example. Your alarm goes off, you hit snooze. You finally climb out of bed and head for the shower. Is the water warm? Will you have breakfast? These are all choices and opportunities that seem automatic. You get dressed, get into your car and head for work. You sing along with the radio or honk at the slow driver in front of you. After arriving at work, you chat with your co-workers, exchange emails, possibly attend meetings and then it is time for lunch. The workday ends and maybe you attend an exercise class of some sort. Dinnertime rolls around and you enjoy a lovely meal. You chit-chat on the phone, catch up on your reading or your laundry and before too long, you are ready to crawl back into your warm, cozy bed. This day may seem monotonous to many of us, if we choose to look at it that way. Often, we go through our days like robots forgetting that everything we do and have could just as well not exist.
If we were stripped of our daily interactions, possessions, relationships and freedoms and then have them returned to us, we would probably look at them in a whole new light. Many of us go through life focusing on what we do not have rather than what we have right in front of us. We live in a society focused on consumption. The latest gadget, car, or beauty product seems to promise us more out of life. How would we handle that daily routine without that friend or family member we talk with? Imagine going through life without an arm or leg? There is always someone worse off than we are. No matter how bad we think we have it.
We live in a country where we are free to choose what we wear, what we say, what we believe and where we worship. Yet, we often take those things for granted, skipping over that realization; they are forgotten in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives.
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Gratitude is a form of humbleness
Gratitude is accepting the present and combining our love for it alongside thanks. In Japanese the word kan-sha means gratitude. Broken down kan means feeling and sha means apology. Thus, the apologetic quality of the word gratitude. It is stepping out of the everyday routine and focusing on the value of what makes up our day. In a sense saying thank you is humbling ourselves, apologizing, if you will, for the forgotten people, things and freedoms that have brought us to where we are today.
Be grateful for yesterday, today and tomorrow!
We can attract more and more happiness into our lives by expressing gratitude. We can express it for immediate actions, as well as everything leading up to this moment and everything we hope for in the future. Being faithful and true to what we already have and expressing our gratitude toward God and others, will only open the door for a multitude of blessings in our lives.
And with Gratitude, Take Control of Your Health
Take care of yourself every day of the year
Vigorously apply the 10 Essentials
Make sure you take an abundance of nutrients,
Sublingual B-12 and Adaptogen 10 Plus
A multi-nutrient complex like Wellavoh Men and Women or VitaDaily AM-PM
An Essential Fatty Acid complex like OmegaPrime
Recruit emotional support. Do not be afraid to ask for help
Remember the Stress Protection Pack,
Sublingual Vitamin B-12
Adaptogen 10 Plus
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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
B-12 vitamins provide mental clairty. Learn to take care of your health in mind, body, and spirit
Health Is The Whole Body, Mind And Soul
You count grams of fat and fiber, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, drink green tea and jog four times a week. But you spend most of your time at a high stress job, have few close relationships and feel that your life lacks meaning. The good things that you do for your body may help increase your resistance to stress and illness, but they only reflect part of a much larger picture.
Health is more than having a body that works properly. It includes physical, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, and even occupational and vocational dimensions. When these dimensions are working in harmony, they contribute to a sense of well-being and satisfaction. Doctors Donald Tubesing and Nancy Loving Tubesing are pioneers in the field of wellness. In their book, Seeking Your Healthy Balance, they explain that health involves all of you, your mind and emotions, your connections with other people, your sense of hope, your satisfaction with work, as well as your body.
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The Six Dimensional Model of Wellness
So how do you take care of your whole self? The National Wellness Institute embraces the Six Dimensional Model of Wellness developed in 1979 by Dr. Bill Hettler. The chart below, based on Hettlers model, can provide you with some guidance.
The Six Dimensional Model of Wellness
Physical. Achieving personal fitness and health goals through nutrition, physical activity, safety, and self-care
Engage in aerobic exercise at least three times per week, 30 minutes per session.
Eat a healthful diet.
Stop smoking.
Learn to recognize early signs of illness.
Get adequate rest and sleep.
Use alcohol in moderation, if at all.
Use safety precautions whenever possible. For example
Helmets, seat belts
Smoke alarms
Safe driving
See your doctor regularly.
Emotional. Maintaining good mental health, a positive attitude, and high self-esteem, responding with resiliency to emotional states and everyday life
Spend time with friends and family discussing important personal concerns, and providing mutual support.
Participate in personal growth activities, self-esteem workshops, or support groups.
Read a self-help book that interests you.
Practice positive thinking.
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Spiritual. Getting in touch with your deeper self and the spiritual dimension of your life, developing faith in something larger than yourself, finding meaning and purpose
Explore your spiritual core by asking yourself questions such as
Who am I?
What is the purpose of my life?
Look for inspiration from uplifting books, movies, TV, spiritual gatherings, soothing music, nature, beauty, meditation, or prayer.
Spend quiet time alone on a regular basis
Practice being fully present in the moment.
Practice acceptance of self, others, life, and detachment from outcomes.
Look for deeper meanings to patterns and problems in your life.
Allow yourself to deeply feel grief and pain.
Practice appreciating the depth and expanse of life and the universe.
Identify your values and beliefs.
Intellectual. Having curiosity and a strong desire to learn, solving problems, thinking independently, creatively and critically
Take a class or workshop on a subject that interests you.
Seek new experiences on a regular basis, try new foods, travel to new places, learn about new cultures.
Read informative literature and watch educational TV.
Get involved in a creative project or use your creativity to solve problems.
In your spare time, work on puzzles and intellectually challenging games such as Scrabble and chess.
Occupational and vocational. Engaging in or preparing for work in which you will find personal satisfaction and enrichment
Identify your strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes.
Develop a personal mission and goals.
Find ways to learn new skills.
Develop new occupational or vocational interests.
Find ways to use your strengths in work or avocations that contribute to your enjoyment and need for meaning.
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According to the National Wellness Institute, the Six Dimensional Model of Wellness is beneficial for the following reasons
Human Beings Are Multidimensional
All aspects of a person, like body, emotions, thoughts, relationships, beliefs, values, and activities, affect his functioning as a whole. Further, these individual aspects affect each other. For example, a person who is not utilizing his interests on the job, occupational dimension, may experience boredom and negativity, emotional dimension. A sense of futility, spiritual dimension, results, which causes others to avoid him, social dimension. This increases his frustration, emotional dimension, and can lead him to overeat and become obese, physical dimension.
Most Modern Health Threats Are Not Physical
Although we think about health in physical terms, most health threats today are not physical, writes Brian Luke Seaward, PhD, in his book Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water. Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality. Instead, they are emotional, feeling overwhelmed, bored, worried, or guilty, or spiritual, assessing relationships, values and ones purpose in life.
Health Is More Than the Absence of Disease
The multidimensional approach is oriented toward maximizing individual potential and functioning. It defines health as balance and complete well-being, being all that you can be, not merely as the absence of symptoms and disease.
Unfortunately, todays medical care is largely based on a disease model of health. You may be able, however, to find doctors who specialize in integrative medicine. This is a practice that places the patient, not a disease, in the center.
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Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World
But life can be so busy and complicated these days. Who has the time to address all these dimensions? Many wellness experts suggest numerous opportunities to find more balance. Strategies may include
Finding Single Activities That Meet Multiple Wellness Needs
For example, taking a daily walk with your spouse and children can fulfill needs for physical activity, emotional bonding, and relationship enhancement. And, if you use the time to discuss ideas and career aspirations, your family walk could also contribute to intellectual and occupational needs.
Clarifying Your Values and Priorities
Take time to know the deepest purposes for which you live, and use them to set goals and make decisions. For example, you may find that you would prefer more time with your family rather than a bigger paycheck. Do not wait for a crisis to show what really matters to you.
Identifying Areas Where You Want More Balance
Using your values and the Six Dimensional Model of Wellness, identify your current wellness deficits and develop a few goals that will help you find more balance.
Being Realistic and Flexible
Perfect balance in all dimensions is not possible in an ever-changing world. There will be times when you are overextended, lonely, angry, and tired. Over the years, you will need to make adjustments until you find a balance that enhances your quality of life.
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RESOURCES
National Wellness Institute
http://www.nationalwellness.org
National Mental Health Information Center
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov
CANADIAN RESOURCES
Canadian Mental Health Association
http://www.ontario.cmha.ca/index.asp
Mental Health Canada
http://www.mentalhealthcanada.com/
REFERENCES
California State University website. Available at: http://www.calstate.edu/.
Seaward BL. Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc; 1997.
Six dimensions of wellness. National Wellness Institute website. Available at: http://www.nationalwellness.org/index.php?id=391id_tier=381 . Accessed June 16, 2008.
Tubesing DA, Loving Tubesing, N. Seeking Your Healthy Balance: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Whole Person Well-Being. Duluth, MN: Whole Person Associates; 1991.
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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
Learn how to curtail the aging process by using Nopalea and B12 vitamins
Just Say No to Premature Aging
Nopalea Can Help
By Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer
Healthy aging is about living long without being old. To reach that goal we need to take a brief look at the process called biological aging. Biological aging does not happen with the tick of the clock or the pages turning on your calendar: it happens in your cells. During its life cycle, a cell may be damaged by exposure to
Toxins
Direct trauma
Nutrient deficiencies
Stress
Each of these circumstances causes inflammation and free radical production. Intense nutrition is needed to battle these causes of premature cell death. Premature biological aging occurs when more cells die than you can replace.
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Fighting inflammation
The human body is designed to fight premature aging and remain young. A powerful force called homeostasis mobilizes your immune system, hormones, nerves and other important systems to ignite the healing process. Homeostasis uses focused inflammation to remodel your cells following injury, illness or even the extreme challenges of emotional stress. Once the healing process is complete, homeostasis extinguishes the fire of inflammation and returns your body to a state of dynamic and vital balance, free from the effects of runaway inflammation.
However, there are times when your body cannot heal itself. If inflammation overwhelms a cell, it may be damaged beyond repair. Damaged, dead cells must be removed or they will become the focus of infection and illness. Betalains, a unique class of nutrients that is both an antioxidant and a protein, assist a special cell called a macrophage, literally big eater, to engulf the dead cell and eliminate it from your body. This makes room for a brand-new replacement cell and the cycle of wellness continues.
Nopalea — protects against premature aging
There are many things that contribute to premature aging, including
Excess exposure to the sun
A poor diet
Stress
Inactivity
The most common contributors, however, are inflammation, muscle and joint pain and poor circulation. Since Nopalea targets inflammation, aids detoxification and optimizes cell health, it can help slow down the process of premature aging. Daily servings of Nopalea will provide you with the Betalains that help put out the fire of inflammation and rescue cells under attack by free radicals. Further, Betalains act to clean up the dead cells and help to protect them from becoming a target for disease. Betalains help you thrive as they help your body reduce inflammation and support the miracle of homeostasis.
Remember, premature aging is about losing more cells than we replace. Healthy aging is about closing the gap between loss of our cells and repair or replacement of our cells as directed by homeostasis and fueled by nutrients.
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For Immediate Release — B-12 Vitamins
B-12 should be at the top of the list for any health and wellness program. There are also 10 habits that the Google reader should avoid to keep from aging as quickly.
Be sure to start the day with a good daily multi-vitamin and vitamin B12.
10 Ways to Age Yourself Quickly
Follow these bad habits at your own risk
TriVitas commitment to good health is clearly represented by our 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. However, this article is going to directly address the bad habits that are taking years off our lives. Numerous clinical studies show that certain behaviors directly affect longevity. For example, a recent study of 5,000 British adults over a 20-year period found that four common bad habits aged the study group by 12 years, smoking, drinking, lack of activity and poor diet. Death certificates from this large study group were checked for the next 20 years and the most common causes of death included heart disease and cancer, both related to unhealthy lifestyles.
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Here are 10 bad habits that can actually take away years from your life.
Cut corners when it comes to sleep
Being tired most of the time causes you to eat too much, drive recklessly and be irritable even in mild situations. Plus, lack of sleep can also lower your immunity. Get at least eight hours of sleep a night.
Eat lots of sugar
Foods that contain lots of sugar will quickly increase your blood sugar and give you quick energy bursts. This will not last long and when the sugar is gone, debilitating exhaustion often results. Eat healthy snacks instead, like fiber-rich crackers or fruits.
Smoke
About half a million Americans die each year from smoking-related health conditions. Smoking can also decrease your lung capacity and prevent you from enjoying healthy activities. Find professional support or a peer group to get rid of this bad habit.
Too little exercise
Many serious health conditions like heart disease, stroke, diabetes and arthritis are linked to a sedentary lifestyle. Your body is made to move, so avoid these conditions with moderate exercise. It should help increase energy and reduce stress. At least 30 minutes of physical activity per day is recommended.
Worrying too much
Worrying about something that we cannot change only creates more damage than good. If you have a problem, try to solve it proactively. If it can not be solved, simply let it go.
Eating poor-quality food
Junk food or foods filled with chemicals and preservatives will definitely harm your health. Eat more fresh and natural foods.
Too much sun
A moderate amount of sun exposure will help you look younger and give you healthy amounts of Vitamin D. However, too much sun will seriously damage your skin. Prolonged sun exposure is responsible for premature aging of the skin and
many skin cancers.
Too many soft drinks
About 14 percent of an average American adults calories comes from sodas. This will seriously affect sugar levels and weight. Try another healthy alternative, like water or low fat milk.
Too little leisure activity
Do not live to work. Work to live. Keep your work at the workplace and reserve extra quality time for you and your family.
Drinking too much alcohol
In addition to risk of injury or death as a result of accident or violence, alcohol abuse causes a broad range of physiological and psychological dangers. Long-term consumption can result in many different serious health conditions.
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B-12 Vitamins combined with an exercise program can help with mental clarity and a better lifestyle.
Exercise Builds a Healthy Brain
Regular physical activity might improve how well your brain functions.
You probably know that exercise is important to keep your body healthy, but it might do wonders for your mind, too.
Research is showing several positive effects of exercise on the brain, including
Enhanced mood
Improved memory
Increased brain blood flow
Delayed or slowed progression of Alzheimers disease
Reduced brain damage after injury
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Mood
One study of older sedentary adults who participated in three exercise-training sessions per week for four weeks reported an improved mood, quality of life, and personal morale, as well as reduced anxiety.
Another study examined the effects of long-term exercise. Older adults who were previously sedentary experienced an improved morale after a year-long training program, which included aerobic exercise three times per week.
Exercise may also alleviate depression and anxiety, which may be due in part to the fact that older people who exercise moderately on a regular basis have been found to sleep better. According to sleep researchers at the Stanford Center for Research and the Emory University Sleep Disorders Program in Atlanta, older adults who exercise spend less time trying to fall asleep and generally sleep longer and more soundly than their sedentary counterparts.
Exercise produces other benefits, such as increased muscle strength, flexibility, range of motion, balance, endurance and posture, all of which promote self-sufficiency and decrease feelings of dependence and depression.
Memory
Memory decline usually accompanies aging, but exercise may slow the progression. Several recent studies have documented the effects of exercise on memory. In one study, older sedentary adults participated in an exercise program that consisted of one hour of fast treadmill walking, three times per week for four months. The exercisers, when compared with sedentary people, experienced a significant improvement in memory and reaction time tests.
These researchers also found that older adults that participated in a strength and flexibility program for one hour three times per week for four months, improved their performance on memory tests. Even though the memory-enhancing effects were more profound in people performing aerobic activity, the research shows that any type of regular exercise is better than none at all.
In another study, newly retired people who chose a more sedentary lifestyle had cognitive test scores that progressively declined over a four-year period. By comparison, new retirees who participated in regular exercise, such as walking, jogging, calisthenics, bicycling, sports, dancing, or aerobics, did not have a decline in cognitive test scores.
Brain Blood Flow and Stroke Risk
Blood flow in the brain also declines with age. This is a risk factor for stroke. The same four-year study mentioned above found that the new retirees who did not exercise had a significant decline in cerebral blood flow, while those who remained active or continued to work had a more constant cerebral blood flow, suggesting that exercise helps to reduce age-related decline in cerebral blood flow and may protect against stroke.
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Alzheimers Disease
A Japanese study followed the lives of 828 people 65 years of age or older who did not have dementia over a seven-year period. They found that people who participated in daily exercise at leisure time or moderate to severe physical activity at work had a significantly lower incidence of Alzheimers disease. Some people believe that leading a physically active life may be protective against Alzheimers disease.
How Does Exercise Affect the Brain?
Animal studies give us insight into what happens inside the brain during exercise. Mice love running, so they were given running wheels and allowed to voluntarily exercise. When compared with mice that did not exercise, the exercising mice had an increased number of new brain cells in the part of the brain involved in learning and memory. Therefore, when you exercise you may increase the number of neurons in your brain. Nicole Berchtold, PhD, says, The more brain cells the better. Go out and exercise to build up your muscles and brain cells.
One molecule that appears to be an important player in brain health and function is brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF. BDNF is a type of growth factor that makes neurons more resistant to injury. BDNF helps neurons survive, especially neurons that are susceptible to degeneration in Alzheimers disease and Parkinsons disease.
We have made some exciting discoveries. We have found that exercise increases BDNF levels in memory centers of the brain, says Berchtold. Scientists have also shown that BDNF enhances learning and memory. The exciting implications are that exercise not only keeps your neurons healthier, but exercise may also help you learn.
Scientists have shown that exercise can increase the number of brain cells as well as increase levels of protective molecules in the brain. This means that exercise has the potential to slow neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers disease, or repair damaged or aged brains.
Getting Started on the Road to Exercise
So if you have decided to get moving, here are some questions you can ask yourself in deciding which activity is best for you
Do you enjoy company while you exercise, or do you prefer to be alone?
Do you like the structure and companionship of a class setting?
Do you prefer being indoors or outdoors?
What is going to be convenient enough to fit into your routine?
Is transportation to and from an activity a problem?
Do you have any physical limitations that might limit the activities you can do?
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RESOURCES
50-plus Fitness Association
http://www.50plus.org
American Council on Exercise
http://www.acefitness.org
CANADIAN RESOURCES
Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology
www.csep.ca
Healthy Canadians
http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca
REFERENCES
Exercise: a guide from the National Institute on Aging. National Institute on Aging website. Available at: http://www.nih.gov/nia/health/pubs/nasa-exercise.
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Vitamin B-12, Attention and Focus
Correcting a deficiency could help mental function
by Dr. Scott Conard
Is someone in your life struggling with attention problems? Does he or she tend to be over-active or too impulsive? Such behaviors are recognized more and more as legitimate mental health issues, and the role played by Vitamin B-12 is also gaining recognition.
First, let us look at just what these health issues are. Attention and focus problems can show up as a range of behavioral issues, sometimes a combination of inattentiveness, over-activity and impulsivity. While most research into this area has focused on children, studies have suggested that the symptoms continue into adulthood in up to 50 percent of adults who had the condition in childhood.
Of course, some of the behaviors we are talking about are to be expected in children, but when several symptoms occur that exceed the normal range for a childs age, a clinical diagnosis may be made. If you are a concerned parent or grandparent, you should be aware of the signs and symptoms. Attention disorders are not restricted to children. While these issues are long-term, adults can often better control their behavior, and disguise their symptoms.
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Symptoms to watch for
The symptoms that make up attention and focus disorders can be broken down into three specific areas, inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Inattentiveness
Does not pay attention to details, or makes careless errors in work or school assignments
Has trouble maintaining attention in work or play
Does not seem to listen when spoken to
Does not follow through, fails to finish schoolwork, chores or workplace duties
Has trouble organizing tasks and activities
Resists activities such as schoolwork that require sustained mental focus
Tends to lose items needed for tasks or activities, such as toys, pencils or books
Is easily distracted
Is often forgetful
Hyperactivity
Has restless hands or feet, or squirms in a seat
Leaves a seat when staying seated is expected
Runs around or climbs in inappropriate situations
Has trouble playing quietly
Is often excessively active or talkative
Impulsivity
Blurts out answers before questions are finished
Has difficulty waiting his or her turn
Interrupts or breaks into others conversations or games
While the cause of attention disorders is not yet pinpointed we do know this. It is one of the most commonly-diagnosed behavioral problems. As much as 5 percent of school-aged children have this disorder.
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B-12 is proven brain-boosting power and vital to mental wellness
There are prescription drugs available to treat problems with attention and focus. But as you may know, these powerful drugs can have serious side effects.
There is strong clinical evidence to support the link between essential nutrients and vitamins, particularly Vitamin B-12, and mental function. Studies have shown that a B-12 deficiency may decrease levels of substances needed to transmit nerve signals. This reduced ability to transmit nerve signals has shown up in brain tests conducted on children with attention disorders. In people of any age, this problem with nerve signals can lessen or damage mental functioning.
So, in addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise, I recommend that everyone get enough essential vitamins like B-12. One of the best ways to make sure that you or a loved one get enough B-12 is to take TriVita Sublingual B-12, B-6 and Folic Acid.
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Vitamin B12 plays a huge part in memory functions. Learn how B12 vitamins can help you with mental clarity and possible memory loss.
When Memory Loss Turns Serious
By Dr. Scott Conard
We all forget things sometimes, where we parked the car, a lunch appointment or why we opened the refrigerator. When these sometime lapses become daily occurrences, though, that can be a sign that it is time to consult a healthcare professional. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, these questions can help determine if that time has come
Does the memory loss disrupt daily life?
If tasks that used to be routine, such as balancing a checkbook or bathing, become difficult, action should be taken.
Are lapses becoming more frequent?
It is not normal to forget where you parked every day, or to forget appointments over and over.
What kinds of things are being forgotten?
It is fairly natural to forget the name of someone you just met, but not the name of a close friend or relative. Other potential tip-offs of trouble could be forgetting entire conversations, frequently repeating yourself or asking the same questions more than once in the same conversation.
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Are there signs of confusion?
If someone gets lost in a familiar place, such as your local grocery store, or frequently puts something in an oddly incorrect location, such as car keys in the refrigerator, that could be a sign of a serious memory problem. Most members of the TriVita community will not be surprised to hear that a deficiency of Vitamin B-12 is among the major causes of memory loss. Along with stress, certain infections and sleep deprivation, the FDA cites nutritional deficiencie of Vitamin B-12 as one of the culprits behind faltering memory.
Of course, if you have been supplementing with Sublingual B-12, you know why you continue to make this smart health move. You may find that this amazing vitamin helps you stay upbeat and maintain a balanced mood, keep energy levels steady throughout the day, stay mentally sharp and, yes, enhance memory. If you are not among those who help feed their brains with B-12, I urge you to consider starting soon, for a host of reasons.
Are you at risk of B-12 deficiency?
If you are over 40, a strict vegetarian, or have thyroid, liver or kidney problems, you are at risk for B-12 deficiency. As we age, our bodies may become less able to absorb some vitamins efficiently, especially in the case of Vitamin B-12. Without enough B-12, other vitamins like folate and B-6 cannot function normally within the body.
As a doctor, I know the importance of maintaining appropriate levels of these essential vitamins, especially Vitamin B-12. That is why I applaud those who supplement their healthy diets with TriVita Sublingual B-12 products, and encourage others to see how they might benefit, too. For years, clinical evidence has been building to show that those who have a B-12 deficiency can experience symptoms caused by decreased mental and nerve functioning. These symptoms can include mental confusion and forgetfulness, mood swings and even psychotic behavior like seeing and/or hearing things.
Because of these associations, one of the first things I do when people complain of these problems is make sure they are getting enough of the essential vitamins like B-12. Unlike injections, or pills that you swallow, Sublingual B-12 dissolves under the tongue. That is the painless, easy way to make sure it gets into your bloodstream to give you maximum absorption and maximum benefit.
If you or someone you care about is showing signs of memory loss, I urge you to consult your healthcare professional to explore the options and resources available. And I also urge you to remember the research-proven benefits of B-12 supplementation. They could make a big difference in so many lives.
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