Many studies in the past has proven that antioxidants can cure and
prevent hundred of diseases, apart from cancer, heart disease and
diabetes, diverse disorders like long diseases, cataracts, anemia,
burns and other wounds, multiple different infections and degenerative
diseases of the brain.

Antioxidants not only neutralize free radicals, but also increase your
resistance to all kinds of toxins, bacteria, viruses, traumas and
degenerative diseases.
They accomplish this amazing feat by strengthen your immunity.

Dr. Tengerdy, at Colorado State University discovered only in the 1970’s
that supplementing animal diets with vitamin E protected them against
all kind of diseases, introduced into their bodies.

The basis of their protection was a big increase in immune strength,
especially in strength of the lymphocyte responses.
Animals, whose diets contained the equivalent amount of vitamin E for
humans were not protected and succumbed to disease after disease.

Dr. Tengerdy concluded from his research that to strengthen immunity
requires at least six times the vitamin E that is generally accepted
adequate for “normal” health.

Other scientists found the same effect by using selenium, which is the
antioxidant co-factor of vitamin E. Immune strength increased to four
times the usual response.

Other studies proved that antioxidants, when given over a long period
of time, prevent the decline of immunity by animals with aging.
Even when immunity by animals has declined with age, supplementation
with antioxidants can restore it, including a restoration of T-lymphocyte
function.

The same effect can be found with humans.
Dr. Meydani at Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center gave healthy
men and women over age 60 supplements of 800 IU of vitamin E
each day in a double blind clinical trial.
Most subjects showed a 10% – 50% increase in immune strength,
including increases in the production of lymphocytes.

New studies show that whey protein can enhance your immunity
up tp 500%. Other protein has little effect.
The main reason is that whey contains a much higher level of cysteine
than most other proteins.
Cysteine is the precurser of gluthathione, one of the strongest
antioxidants in your body.

The studies show that gluthathione levels increase rapidly in animals
who are fed whey protein concentrate and it is this increase that
enhances immunity.
So if you are using a protein drink for meal replacement or muscle
building, make sure it’s protein ingredient is whey protein concentrate.

The above is only a small sample of the evidence that supplementation
with antioxidants can provide amazing protection against multiple forms
of disease and disorders.

This protection is much stronger than any physician, hospital, medicine,
or any other health strategy known to man.
If you read the medical references given and choose wisely,
my purpose in writing this article will be fulfilled.

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   Edition 20

Eight Things Your Eyes Reveal about Your Health

Twelve Ways your Pet can Improve Your Mental Health
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Facts about Fat Storage
Problems concerning the eyes
Strengthen your immune system

Cataract surgery is most common for people over the age
of sixty In the US, eye surgeons perform 1.3 million cataract
operations every year for a total cost of  US $3.5 billion.

The lens of the eye collects and focus light on the retina.
It is important for the lens to stay clear throughout our lifetime,
In order to function properly. As we age, various components
of the lens may get damaged, leading to cataracts.

Medical research has proven that supply of sufficient
antioxidants at an early age can prevent cataract formation.
Antioxidants are needed  to combat against  free radicals,
due to ultraviolet sunlight.

In particular the fluid around the lens of the eye has to be
protected by antioxidants against oxidative damage.
The most important antioxidant is vitamin C, which is found
in high concentration around the lens, as well as vitamin E,
alpha-lipoic acid and beta-carotine.

A study showed that consuming vitamins in supplementation
protects the eye and decrease the risk of developing
cataracts by 50%. There is sufficient evidence that taking
antioxidants is an inexpensive way to decrease cataract
formation.

Another problem concerning the eye is macular degeneration.
It is the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of sixty.

This is the decay of an important part of the retina called  macula.
This is the area, which deals with central vision,
where the greatest concentration of photo receptors are located.

We recognize  wet and dry forms. Ninety percent of the cases
represent the dry form, in which central vision gradually
reduces and may proceed to the wet form for the remaining
ten percent.

There is currently no treatment available for the dry form.
The wet form can be treated via laser photo coagulation,
by which new vessel formation can be slowed down, which
causes swelling and bleeding into the retina.
Blindness usually follows rather quickly.

Theories suggest that light entering the eye and focused on
the macula of the retina causes significant  free-radical
production in the outer aspect of the photo receptors.

If there are no sufficient antioxidants available to the
photo receptors, lipofuscin formation, a toxic substance,
within the retinal pigment epithelium, causes more oxidation
damage to the retina and research believe it is actually
the cause of damage and destruction of these sensitive
photo receptors.

Lipofuscin accumulate in the pigment epithelium cells and
are eventually excreted in the form of drusen, which is one
of the first indications of  macular degeneration development.

The development of drusen separates the photo receptors
of the eye from its blood supply and causes an area of
blindness.

High-energy ultraviolet light and visible blue light are in
particular responsible for the production of  free radicals
in the retina of the eye.

Our natural antioxidant defense system that protects us from
this free radical damage, declines when we get older.
Macular degeneration is characterized by low levels of zinc,
selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E and carotenoid.

High levels of carotenoids, called lutein and zeaxanthine,
absorb the blue light portion of visible light, that can damage
the lens and he retina of the eye. They  are strong antioxidants
and are found in corn and leafy green vegetables.

CoQ10 can also play a part in reducing the oxidative damage
caused by free radicals.

Glutathione, which is a very potent antioxidant found within
every cell of our body, is in particular critical within the lens of
our eye and the pigment and the photoreceptor cells of the
retina. The level of glutathione declines when we get older.

Glutathione peroxidase is one of the natural antioxidant
defense systems that our body creates. The nutrients needed
for the body to make its own defense are selenium, vitamin B6,
N-acetyl-L-cysteine and niacin.

Vitamin C and alpha-lipoic acid have the ability to regenerate
glutathione. Zinc is important for the function of our catalase
antioxidant defense system and selenium is necessary for the
glutathione peroidase system and both are important to
combat free radicals produced in the eye.

As we get older, the lens of our eyes allows more ultraviolet
light through and no longer protects the retina from damage
of ultraviolet light. A good quality pair of sunglasses that
block all UV light are important.

Without any doubt, the underlying cause of cataracts and
macular degeneration is oxidative stress.
Consequently, we can’t be too aggressive in our
supplementation plan.

Visionex  protect you against macular degeneration and cataracts.
Click here to get more information.

There are two primary types of essential fats: Omega-6 and Omega-3
fatty acids.
Our body is unable to make them and the only way to get them is from
our diet or via supplementation.

Essential fats or essential fatty acids are necessary nutrients for the
body to produce key hormones called eicasinoids.
They have been referred to as the body’s super hormones and are
made by every cell in our body.

There are several different eicasinoids that have the opposite effect
on the body’s functions and either increase or decrease inflammation.
Both of these functions are critical for optimal health.

In general, the Omega-3 fatty acids become eicasinoids that decrease
inflammation in our bodies (natural anti-inflammatories) and Omega-6
fatty acids become eicasinoids that cause inflammation.

When you are injured you need an inflammatory reaction in order to
heal this injury, but once the wound is healed, this inflammatory process
has to stop. That’s why eicasinoids have the ability to either intensify
or diminish inflammation in our body.
They can also increase or decrease the clotting tendency of the blood.
It is critical that these two potentials are well balanced.

Consequently,the balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 we take in,
becomes critical for our optimal health and has to be in the right ratio,
preferably 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 at least.

In our modern society, this ratio is out of balance and we have too much
Omega-6 in our body, which causes to much inflammation.
There is plenty of Omega-6 in our diet, it is present in chicken,dairy
products, processed carbohydrates, peanut oil and safflower oil.

This is the underlying cause of numerous diseases, like heart disease,
asthma, arthritis, major depression, autoimmune disease, inflammatory
bowel disease etc.

Heart Disease
Dr Terry Jacobson reviewed over a dozen large clinical trials that
looked at the health benefits of supplementing Omega-3 fatty acids in
over 20,000 participants who had coronary artery disease.
These clinical trials showed that the group who consumed the Omega-3
fatty acids in the form of fish oil capsules , had nearly a 20% decreased
incidence of cardiovascular events.

Adding Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet not only lower inflammation,
but also lower one’s total and LDL or bad cholesterol.
This health benefit shows even more in those people that are not
consuming much in the way of cold-water fish or other sources of
Omega-3 fatty acids.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
There are thirteen clinical trials that show benefits of Omega-3
supplementation for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
There was improvement in all their symptoms, like early morning
stiffness, pain, and in the number of tender joints.
One important result was a measurable decrease in the inflammatory
products being produced by the body and a stabilization in the course
of their disease.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
Many clinical studies have measured the body’s increased production
of inflammatory products.
When fish oil supplements where given to  these patients,not only where
these products reduced but the patients experienced significant
clinical improvements.

The most exciting thing they found was the fact that many patients were
be able to reduce their dependence on steroid medication
Also their bowel pattern showed significant improvement
when these patients received repeat biopsies.

Asthma
Asthma is mainly an inflammatory disease of the lungs.
This inflammation sets off the bronchospasm which is characteristic
for this disease. These patients have a significant increase in
inflammatory products, which are found in the lungs.
After supplementation with Omega-3 fatty acids, many responded
positive and the results were definitely encouraging.

Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Psychological stress has proved to be the cause of a significant
increase in these inflammatory products, triggered by an unbalance
of Omega-3 & Omega-6 fatty acids.

The medical community believes this to be the main reason for the
development of depression.
Studies are already showing prolonged remission with the reduction
of relapse in patients with bipolar disorder in those who supplement
with Omega-3 fatty acids.

Conclusion.
It is a proven fact that the general population has too much inflammation
in their body as a result of too much consumption of Omega-6 fatty acids,
which is the root cause of many chronic degenerative diseases.

Because most people have a problem with increasing the Omega-3
to take in, everyone should start with supplementing their diet with
high-quality , filtered, pharmaceutical-grade fish oil capsules.
As an alternative , taking in flaxseed or cold-pressed flaxseed oil will
also do the job.

This additional Omega-3 intake will offer the building blocks  of
our natural anti-inflammatory products.
As we bring inflammation back into normal balance,significant
health improvements and decrease in risk of heart attacks and
sudden death can be the result.

Cellular nutrition has become more important in our modern society than ever  before. Our bodies have to face daily an over-production of free radicals,
caused by our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles and malnutrition.

However,we can reduce the production of free radicals by avoiding smoking,
toxic chemicals and decreasing our stress levels.
But the majority of our bodies are still unable to fight the overwhelming
daily attack on our natural defense system.

Balance is the key.If there are not enough antioxidants available to
neutralize the free radicals, oxidative stress develops.

Over the past 50 years,nutritional medicine has been concentrating on
supplying a nutritional deficiency.Many hours and dollars have been spent
trying to determine exactly which nutrients our bodies are depleted of.

Blood and urine tests, hair samples, muscle testing and more have been
conducted in an attempt to determine which nutrients we need to supplement.
However,we have been aiming at the wrong target. The problem is not
a nutritional deficiency,but rather underlying oxidative stress.

Oxidative stress has shown to be the root cause of over 70 degenerative
diseases,like heart disease,stroke,cancer,diabetes,arthritis,Alzheimer’s
disease,dementia,lupus,MS… and the list goes on!

Because the problem is oxidative stress,rather than specific nutritional
deficiencies,the best approach to prevent or to control oxidative stress
is to strengthen our natural defense system through cellular nutrition.

Cellular nutrition means: supplying the cells with all nutrients at
optimal levels,without having to worry about determining which nutrients
the cell is deficient in.

By providing all the important nutrients at optimal levels,which has
been shown to provide a health benefit in the medical literature,
we correct automatically any nutritional deficiencies over the next
few months.

Cellular nutrition is providing the body with all the antioxidants,
along with the supporting B vitamins & minerals at optimal levels.
This is “preventive medicine” at it’s best, because we can attack
the disease process at the core by preventing oxidative stress.

According to the Framingham Heart Study, America’s best, shows that weight gain after adulthood causes a huge risk increase of all types of cardiovascular disease.
Even a 10% increase above ideal weight causes a 6-7% increase in blood pressure.
Losing that extra weight causes an immediate drop in blood pressure of 10-11%.

Women, carrying 50-60 lbs of extra weight are 700% more likely to develop hypertension.
Both men and women carrying 60 lbs extra or more have a 3000% more change of developing diabetes.

The result of a 20 year study by the American Cancer Society, involving over 1 million Americans 25 different states showed that men who are 40% overweight, have higher rates of prostate cancer, colon cancer and rectal cancer. Women who are 40% overweight, have higher rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, gall bladder cancer, cervial cancer and endometrial cancer. Corpulent is sick indeed!

Overweight is a significant cause of almost all diseases.

Even moderate fatness damages the immune system and reduce your resistance to everything.
Overweight people going into surgery increase their risk of post-operation infections by up to 700%. Studies show that fat babies get twice as many infections as slim babies.

Moderately overweight folk show typical defensive reactions to the evidence that fat is sick. They suck in their stomachs and laughing proclaim:”This is just happy fat.”
Or they slam their plump thigh and exclaim:”God made me this way,healthy and comfortable.”

The latest study at the Harvest School of Public Health shows that even the mildly chunky die young.
Dr. I-min Lee tracked 19.297 healthy Harvard men who graduated between
1916 and 1950. Smokers were excluded as unacceptable health risk.
By 1988, 4370 of the men had died, mostly chunky. The less the men weighted, the lower their death risk. Men who were 20% below the average had the best change for a long and healthy life.

Body fat is by far America’s worst health risk, with 32.6 million Americans classified as overweight and about 40 million on the way. It causes more illness than all the environmental and nutrition problems, than smoking, alcohol and all other drugs put together. It’s infinitely worse than over-publicized AIDS.

Yet to the ignorant, overweight is little more than a good butt for humor.
it is sort of comical, that Americans waddle enough fat around to feed the whole of starving Africa and would gladly pay the shipping, but the disease it causes is no joke.

In September 2013, after I came back from a world trip,
I became terribly ill.
I was in intensive care for a week and I felt so bad that
I thought I was going to die.
Apparently, I picked up a virus along the way and it showed that my salt level was too low.
But amazingly, I recovered in less than ten days.
I didn’t expect that to happen and it even surprised my doctor.
I believe the USANA nutritionals have made my immune system
so strong, which caused my quick recovery from the virus.

Last a member of my church asked me how old I was.
I said: have a guess.
He thought I was about 56 years young. That made me feel very good, because that was 20 years younger than I really am,
all thanks to USANA and my healthy life style,
that make the difference in my life.

Many companies today falsely label their supplements “natural” for one raison:
because the word sells. But don’t get confused. The ingredients in vitamin pills
are about as natural as a plastic bag. Manufacturers play around this issue with statements like:”natural grown”, “natural source”, “food grown” etc. but to tell you
the truth, most pill ingredients are synthetic.
That means, they use natural materials and treat them with various chemical procedures, so that their resemblance to natural materials is gone.

For example, most vitamin C is made from corn.First the corn is chemically converted to
sugar (d-ribose). Then the sugar is chemically converted to pure,ascorbic acid.
There is not a molecule of corn left in it. The chemical processing makes it synthetic,
not the raw materials it came from.

Let’s look at “natural rose hip’ and “acerola” vitamin C. The best rose hip and acerola
powders contain only a few milligrams of vitamin C per gram.A 1000mg pil of natural
rose hip vitamin C would be about the seize of a baseball.
All these so-called “natural” pills are predominantly synthetic asorbic acid, with a pinch
of the natural powder thrown in for marketing.

Then there are those companies who claim that their pills are made of superior vitamins.
Let’s get this one straight too. Almost all  the vitamin raw materials in America come
from from a few large companies. offman La Rohe makes most of the vitamin C and many of the B-vitamins. Henkel makes most of the vitamin E. Almost all pill manufacturers buy
their bulk powders from the same sources that are available to everyone.

Elemental Minerals.
Most consumers don’t know that chemical forms of minerals are not elemental forms.
For example, a 1200 mg pill calcium gluconate is only 9% elemental.That means, it contans
only 108 mg of calcium. To get the RDA for calcium, you would have to swallow eleven of
these pills every day.

The same is true for every mineral.Calcium citrate is only 21% calcium and chromium
picolinate contains only 12.5% chromium. Magnesium aspartate is only 11% magnesium.
Some forms contain only 1-2% of the mineral element.Manufacurers are supposed to state the elemental amounts on the label, but many do not.

Chemical Forms.
Supplement pills only have to be true to label by law. That means, if the bottle says
the pill contains 300 mg of magnesium, that is all that is required. But many chemical
forms of nutrients are hardly bioavailable at all. They pass right through your
intestines without ever being absorbed.

Magnesium supplied as magnesium oxide for example, is only one-tenth as bioavailable
as magnesium aspartate. But the aspartate form is more expensive than the oxide and
takes up more room in the pill.Manufacturers save money by using the magnesium oxide.
They can also fit more magnesium into a given size pill by using the oxide, and therefore can put a bigger number for magnesium on the label. Consumers like big numbers.

Some manufacturers fudge bioavailability by claiming particular absorption rates, such
as 60%, for their multi-nutrient supplements. All such claims are false, because different
nutrients and different forms of the same nutrient are all absorbed at diffrent rates.
An average absorbtion rate is advertising nonsense.

For example, of a 100 mcg vitamin B12 tablet, only about 3% is absorbed, whereas
calcium acetate is 32% absorbed. To say the average absorption rate is 17.5% for the
two combined, tell you nothing about either.

This will give you an idea what you can expect when you look to buy supplements.
Many supplement contents are not true to the label,but there are only a few companies
on the market you can trust. One of them is USANA Health Sciences, founded by
Dr. Myron Wentz. Click here to get more information.

The History of Nature
In the 20th century, uninformed medical bureaucrats, who controlled health care,ignored Nature. They considered our dependence on the natural world as out-dated and human science as all powerful.The result is strikingly before our eyes.
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