Food Anti Inflammatory is a term that gets a lot of searches on Google. That may be a recent occurence, I’m not certain. What I do know is that scientists are making a lot of connections between our diets, inflammation, and all kinds of health issues including serious illnesses and diseases.
I received the information below about Inflammation from the Chairman of Health Sciences at Shaklee. Shaklee employs the largest staff of scientists than any other natural nutrition company, with the numbers not even close. 75 compared to 2 or 3 at most other brands, and unbelievably some may not have any on staff.
It’s the science and the research, a brand’s own science and research, that can make the difference between products that work very effectively, and the opposite which is when you hear someone say, “Nutrition doesn’t work for me.” Of course nutrition ‘works’. Nutrients in food and in supplements is what fuels our body and feed our cells. The problem is that not all food and not all supplements are created equal.
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Inflammation – A Biological Response to Stress
In the past decade, inflammation has become one of the hottest topics in medical research because it is emerging as a possible cause of many of the chronic diseases that threaten the quality and the length of life. . If that’s true, then addressing inflammation could be a singular approach to targeting multiple health conditions and, perhaps, could simplify scientific and medical research strategies for fighting many of the most deadly chronic diseases.
We now know that there are many possible lifestyle and environmental triggers of inflammatory stress, including smoking; a high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; obesity; radiation; and even exposure to environmental toxins. Persistent, chronic, or uncontrolled low-grade inflammation has been linked to increased risk for the metabolic syndrome and heart disease, diabetes and insulin resistance, rheumatoid arthritis, certain cancers, asthma, allergies, and even Alzheimer’s disease.
Acute inflammation is a natural immune system response to injury or infection during which the body orchestrates a symphony of immune system signals, messages, and physiological actions to combat and neutralize foreign invaders that may be responsible for the injury. This inflammatory response can result in the characteristic redness, heat, swelling, and pain that you may see and feel at the site of a wound and is the beginning of the healing process as the body eventually brings nourishment to the site.
Most of the time, inflammation is an acute, on-demand function, a biological stress response that enables our body to fight off disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites. But when inflammation doesn’t shut down on cue, or somehow persists with no particular purpose, it can attack normally healthy cells and cause damage at the cellular level. In autoimmune diseases, a continuously triggered inflammatory response causes damage to its own tissues—sometimes with disastrous health consequences.
Recent research has uncovered the benefits of smoking cessation and even moderate exercise as sound approaches to battling inflammatory stress. A September 2010 laboratory study found that a three-week moderate exercise regimen reduced several biomarkers of inflammatory stress, including C-reactive protein (CRP) in diabetic rats, (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04240.x/abstract). The investigators concluded that moderate physical exercise had significant anti-inflammatory effects and that this may be a good strategy to protect against insulin resistance and vascular complications in diabetics.
Nutritional approaches to reducing inflammatory stress are also receiving more attention. Several studies have supported the benefits of a “Mediterranean” or an “anti-inflammatory” type diet, and spices such as ginger and turmeric are also showing promise. In the 2010 review Dietary polyphenols can modulate the intestinal inflammatory response, plant sources of dietary polyphenols—including green tea extract, various flavonoids, ellagic acid (found in muscadine grapes and pomegranates), and resveratrol (found in red wine and Japanese knotweed)—were shown to successfully modulate intestinal inflammatory response. The investigators concluded that the use of natural preventive treatments in early life could reduce or delay inflammatory bowel diseases, and that polyphenols could play an important role in modulating intestinal inflammation (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00210.x/abstract).
In February 2011, a new study, A resveratrol and polyphenol preparation suppresses oxidative and inflammatory stress response to a high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal, was published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. The researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY) showed that a resveratrol and muscadine grape polyphenol blend was able to suppress the oxidative and inflammatory stress response typically experienced after consumption of a high-fat fast food meal (jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jc.2010-1812v1).
This peer-reviewed and published human study is even more compelling because it is one of the earliest placebo-controlled clinical research studies on resveratrol compounds. In fact, a January 2011 review of resveratrol research published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences found only six recently completed clinical trials on resveratrol supplementation, and only one other study employed a placebo-controlled design (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05853.x/abstract).
In the SUNY study, the researchers fed 10 healthy adults either the resveratrol-muscadine polyphenol blend or a placebo before the high-fat fast food meal, and markers of oxidative and inflammatory stress were measured for five hours following the meal. In the group consuming the polyphenol blend, there was a significant reduction in the oxidative stress response typically observed after consumption of a high-fat meal. At three hours, there was also a 150% increase in Nrf-2, an important regulator of the body’s antioxidant defense and detoxification systems.
The investigators also reported a significant blunting of the body’s inflammatory response to eating a high-fat fast food meal in the subjects who consumed the resveratrol-muscadine polyphenol blend. Induction of two well-known inflammatory biomarkers, plasma lipopolysaccharide and IL-1ß, were both significantly reduced after consuming the high-fat meal, but only in the supplement group.
So what are we to do to address the chronic low-grade inflammation that permeates our modern-day lifestyles? Fortunately, many of the same dietary and lifestyle behaviors we’ve recommended for decades to lower the risk for cardiovascular diseases and cancer can also help to reduce the risk for chronic inflammation:
Find an exercise you like and participate on a regular basis
Reduce stress and keep your blood pressure in check
Achieve and maintain a healthy weight, which can reduce inflammation, a biological stress response
Don’t smoke and avoid secondhand smoke
Eat a healthful diet rich in plant foods, whole grains, legumes, leafy vegetables, colorful fruits, lean cuts of meats and poultry, and low-fat dairy products
Choose unprocessed foods low in trans fats, saturated fat, salt, and sugar
Seek out anti-inflammatory foods such as fish that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, as well as olive oil
Look for anti-inflammatory nutritional ingredients such as resveratrol, muscadine, and pomegranate polyphenols, as well as spices such as ginger and turmeric
For information about inflammation and your health, talk with your doctor or health care professional to discuss the steps you can take maximize your anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle.
To your good health!
Shaklee Health Sciences
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Are you one of the millions of people looking for natural pain relief for joint pain? Many millions of Americans suffer from joint pain. It’s hard for them to remember when doing everyday chores was simple. Do you remember when simple pleasures were.. well.. a pleasure? Does just the thought of getting up and moving keep you from doing the things you love?
Maybe when you were young you played a lot of sports that did physical abuse to your body. The grinding of your joints really hits you as you get older. Sometimes everyday tasks like putting the dishes away or doing other household chores are now associated with feeling pain. You may be limited by the activities that you are able to do pain free.
Before we discuss cholesterol regulation, a few words about supplements in general.
Natural supplements are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to the Mayo Clinic it is widely recognized that herbs have been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years and that they have not been scrutinized in the science and research field the same as medicines.
There is news every day about how to fight aging, more specifically the diseases of aging. Many times the focus is on living a healthier lifestyle, eating the right foods, getting both exercise and enough sleep every night, and of course our mindset.
We read about our bodies being deficient in something, having too much of something else, being exposed to environmental factors that cause illness, at risk because of smoking, alcohol, diet, and even about how our medications can make us sicker.
Being sick is not fun. It can age us even faster than the normal process of growing older. And it can also be very scary. Growing old is scary also. There is illness and disease and aging everywhere we turn.
So what can we do? How do we fight aging? The good news is that we have so much news. Science has brought us revolutionary discoveries in terms of how we age, why we age, and some very real ways we can fight the process. And,here in 2010, that information is right at our fingertips.
All we have to do is to listen to the news, Google for specific information we seek, and then take some action. There are reputable news and education web sites that have every kind of topic imaginable. There is almost too much information, but that shouldn’t hold us back.
We can tap into what we need to know in several ways: 1) we can research aging in general and discover what people are doing successfully right now to fight the aging process; and 2) we can research specific challenges that we are personally facing, that has already started in our bodies, and learn how we can impact what is happening or even reverse it.
For example, some aging processes that many people experience are memory issues, joint problems, and heart disease. There are lifestyle choices including diet that play a huge role in our health, and also natural supplements for aging that have been proven to help people in significant ways – both produce great results for those types of aging issues.
What we feed our bodies many times determines not only how we feel throughout the day, but our overall health. If you think about it, our food is the fuel our bodies need to perform many different functions in all of our organs. Junk in, junk out.. so the saying goes. And it does make sense.
Resveratrol and fish oil are natural supplements that have exciting research behind the results people are getting for joint pain, memory issues, and heart health. The science and research is ongoing but that is not stopping people from using these ingredients in natural supplement form. They are not drugs and do not have the side effects associated with prescription drugs.
The key to using supplements is that they must be taken everyday in order to get the desired outcome. While not as potent as medication, they function very well in the body, working along with normal body processes and regulating them so that they work the way they are intended to work. I remember hearing that same fact over 28 years ago.. about how starting a nutrition program will help the body work in the healthy way it should. It is amazing the results you can get when you follow a plan.
I encourage you to use the resources that we have today, and find the answers that you seek in terms of aging and fighting disease. We are privileged to be able to access that kind of information anytime that we want, and then be armed with the tools we need to get what we want.
If there is anything that I can help you with in regard to your personal health challenges, don’t hesitate to write or call. If you would like the links to some natural nutrition products that are 100% guaranteed – either you like them and they work for you, or you get your money back:
Listen Up. Do you hear people talking about needing more energy? They are tired. They are stressed. They can’t rest. They are overworked. They have no time to exercise. They are dragging every day. They need MORE ENERGY!
If you are quiet – and listen – I think you will hear it throughout your day. You will hear it at home. You will hear it at work. You will hear it at the grocery store. You will hear it at a restaurant. You will hear it everywhere you go. People need MORE ENERGY!
We may not think much about exactly where our energy comes from. We may not think about why we have less energy than usual some days. We just want it. We need it. And when we lose it, we want it back again.
Energy brings us happiness. It brings us focus. Energy makes us feel healthy. And it may even help us feel smart. We need energy not only for life, but for our memory and for learning. And lack of energy can result in bad moods, thinking slowly, depression, and even mental disorders.
Even though energy is something we may lose with age, our energy level can be very low at younger ages. Low energy can be due to overall fatigue. Maybe you are not sleeping well or enough – for any number of reasons, including stress. Maybe your lack of energy is because you are bored or depressed.
Persistent fatigue that is not related to an underlying illness can be the result of poor lifestyle choices, including your daily diet. There are foods like high fat food and high-refined-carbohydrate foods (processed foods that have white flour and white sugar) that will cause fatigue. Alcohol, caffeine, drugs, tobacco and stress are lifestyle habits that will rob your body of energy.
Foods that are energy boosters are fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, green tea, and more white fish and less red meat. High quality soy protein is an excellent source of daily protein and has many health benefits in addtion to boosting your energy. It is also very quick and easy to make a delicious protein shake for breakfast. Your blood sugar levels will be balanced for the entire morning, and this has a significant effect on energy levels as well.
Your cells’ ability to produce energy is dependent on quite a few things that are happening in your body throughout the day. Cells get energy from the food you eat which is why it is so important to make healthy choices that will help deliver the energy your body needs. Certain nutrients help the process. For example, the B vitamins are the primary vitamin involved in the release of energy from the foods we eat, into our cells, and yet many of us are deficient in these B vitamins because we aren’t getting enough of them from our foods. This is a good reason to supplement with a high quality B vitamin supplement.
The oxygen you breathe is another important factor in your cell’s energy production. The more toxins our bodies take in from our environment, the more burden there is to eliminate them and keep those cells energized. It is good to limit our exposure to pollution, including indoor pollutants, chemicals, high stress levels, smoking or living with a smoker. Antioxidants help keep our cells healthy after they are exposed, and green tea provides a safe, natural boost of energy that can be sustained throughout the morning and afternoon.
Protein, green tea, antioxidants, and a healthy daily diet can all help increase the energy we want to have in our bodies so that we can feel all the benefits that accompany an energized body: feeling healthy, feeling focused, feeling happy, and even feeling rested.
There are times when we need an extra boost of energy. We over-schedule ourselves. We push ourselves to the limit, maybe with an athletic endeavor. We have days that are more stressed than others. Science finds us new answers all the time and is close to delivering a new energy booster that can make an impact when we need quicker solutions. Stay tuned to an exciting announcement in early January.
We have natural solutions to increase our energy and they have been researched for decades and produce daily results for people who choose to use them. It is up to each of us, as individuals, to make that choice to benefit our bodies and ourselves. I choose to feel great every day, and hope that you do as well.
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I read a statement today that makes a lot of sense. It talked about how prevention is the best answer we have for the health crisis that we face in the United States. It goes on to say that it is getting to be impossible to continue to pay to treat disease.
We hear in the news every day about how our government leaders are trying to pass a new health care plan. While that is a priority, the illness and disease in this country is the crisis. What is most frustrating to me is that science has given us a lot of choices in the way of prevention. We have learned how to build health and what is good for us and what is not. The problem is that many of us continue to ignore the research and studies that can keep us well.
Many people don’t eat right or take the supplements needed for optimal nutrition, don’t get enough rest, don’t exercise enough, and don’t manage stress. This can make us sick. We have answers and yet we don’t use them to build health.
The World Bank has stated that the single greatest investment to eliminate poverty would be an investment in nutrition. They are also advocating plant based protein sources as the most sustainable.
Prevention can make all the difference in terms of health care in our country. Health care costs could be drastically reduced if people focused more on prevention and healthy lifestyles. We now have access to clinical studies that can verify proven results and help us make the right choices that will help us be healthier.
Shaklee recently raised the amount of Vitamin D3 in their multi-vitamin products and daily nutrition foundation programs. The company’s research was so impressive to the scientific community that it was accepted for publication by a very prestigious, peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Clinical Lipidology without any revisions. Shaklee determined the amount required in supplement form in order for the body to have optimal levels of activated vitamin D in the blood. Optimal Vitamin D3 levels also have an effect on HDL levels by raising them and also decreasing the risk of metabolic syndrome which is a precursor to diabetes and a risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
Other exciting news is the Vivix Study that was done at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The complete results are pending publication and can’t be released until after that time, but the list of health-building cellular activities with our brand of resveratrol + polyphenols includes heart and brain health, cardiovascular function, enhanced immunity, and joint health. We do know that the key regulator of cellular defense and survival of cells is able to successfully do its work with the polyphenol blend.
How’s this for a combo? We have one part to help us repair cells and eliminate ‘gunk’ from our bodies, and then we have the supplement ‘food’ that goes right to our cells to build health. A win-win combination in my eyes.
Science continues to give us valuable information in terms of health and wellness. It is still our individual choice to make the daily decision to take care of our bodies and build great health both for now and for a longer, better quality life ahead.
It seems you cannot turn on a news show without hearing about the latest research about hormones. There is research on how a woman’s hormone levels change during her life time. There is research on hormone replacement therapy. There is research in bio-identical hormone replacement. This is just the tip of the hormone research being done.
Women want to know how to deal with hormones or the lack of hormones because it affects their daily lives and impacts others also. Hormones, and the nasty symptoms they can produce like pms and during menopause, can make a woman feel like she is going crazy and how about the people in their lives.We have all heard stories of people having to put up with us when our hormones are on attack.
There are many hormones in our bodies, not just estrogen. They help with body functions by carrying messages to the cells.There are two types of hormones, steroids and peptides. Peptides are the hormones that take care of tasks such as growth and insulin. Steroids are the hormones such as estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. These hormones regulate sexual maturity and fertility.
During a woman’s lifetime her hormone levels change. There is time in her early teens where she goes through puberty. Estrogen and progesterone are released and there are obvious changes. Breast development as well as the start of the monthly cycle is part of this change brought about by these hormones.
When a woman gets old enough to consider birth control one of her options is birth control pills. These are a form or estrogen and progesterone. There are benefits and risks to this method of birth control, but they are still the leading birth control.
An older woman going through what is commonly called “the change”, or menopause, may consider hormone replacement therapy. When a woman gets older, her body changes again. Less estrogen and progesterone are produced. This change can cause various signs and symptoms. She will no longer have a menstrual cycle. She may suffer from hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, fatigue and weight gain. All this is caused by the fluctuation of female hormones.
Many women suffer through menopause without any drugs. Others look for hormone replacement therapy or HRT. Taking low dose estrogen and progesterone can help elevate the symptoms. It has also been shown HRT can help a woman maintain bone density. A link between low female hormones and osteoporosis has been in many studies.
Another group of women which suffer through hormone deficiencies are those who have had hysterectomies. When the ovaries are removed the body no longer produces the needed amounts of estrogen. Women in their 20s and 30s which have had a hysterectomy or an oophorectomy, which is ovary removal, are often given ERT, Estrogen Replacement Therapy. At this early of an age the benefits outweigh the risk.Women who have these procedures later in life may be given the option of ERT or HRT, since they would be closer to menopause.
Women have to consider the benefits and risk of taking hormones at any stage of their lives. There are risks as well as benefits which have to be considered. HRT has been linked to breast cancer, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer and blood clots. It has also been linked to potential cardiovascular and gallbladder disease.
HRT or ERT may not be for you.The risks mentioned above, along with other negative things you may have heard other women experience or you read about yourself, may discourage you from choosing this course.There are other solutions.
Natural health offers an abundance of help in regulating hormones.Consistent daily use of targeted natural nutrition products can make a significant impact on symptoms and challenges of hormones throughout a female’s life.When we are able to give the body what it needs to balance the hormones, we feel that difference in our moods, our energy level, and our lack of all the nasty symptoms we might have otherwise had.
We all have hormones and at some point in our lives will have to deal with the issues hormones create. How we choose to deal with them is a personal decision and we need to make an informed decision. Do your research. Speak with your health care provider. Always keep in mind it is your decision and make the one that fits you and your lifestyle.
For more information about natural solutions for hormone challenges, visit www.yourhealthwebsite.net or contact me directly for in-depth information on natural health for women.
It might be hard for some of us to get to the gym or exercise at home on a regular basis. That being said, the rewards we get personally when we exercise can be very, very good. In addition to the healthy benefits for our bodies, our minds and moods fare well with exercise.
We live in a fast-paced world and we are busy almost every minute of the day. When we do get a break, we might want to collapse on the couch, or we are just too ‘tired’ to think about more activity. Exercise gives us energy and can improve our mood and mindset so it is to our benefit to make time in the day to exercise.
The mind body connection of exercise and mood can be helpful to people who are sad, depressed, stressed or feel down. There seems to be more stressful people these days, probably due to the economy but also due to many varied factors. There are millions of people who are depressed and exercise may help. Ongoing research shows that when people get active, it can dramatically change their mood.
“A 2007 study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine found that exercising helped people recover from depression better than medication. The connection between exercise and being happy is due, largely in part, to chemical reactions and nerve growth in the brain.
“Research has shown that exercise increases the amounts of norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, two important chemicals that can elevate mood. In fact, many of the prescription anti-depressant medications try to increase these chemicals as a way to improve mood,” says Dr. Amarish Dave, certified neurologist. “Research has shown that a nerve growth factor, VGF, increases in exercising brains, this nerve growth factor is believed to be important in elevating mood.” (taken from https://www.qualityhealth.com/quizzes/exercise-mood-1508?poll=1508&rf=31819&emailPID=main_article mc=MTU4NDE3Mjg.)
Personally, for non-life threatening health issues, I would rather try natural supplements or natural activities such as exercise, relaxation, sleep, and healthy diet choices, to see how they will impact how we feel and how we can improve our health without medications that many times have other side effects.
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