Can you imagine starting at birth a plan to fight aging all of your life? Do you think it is too soon? I don’t. We already know that most of us are not getting the nutrients we need for optimal health on a daily basis, unless we supplement. Doesn’t it make sense that if we start young, even at birth, to fuel our bodies with high quality nutrition, that those bodies are going to be healthier and live longer? And wouldn’t it be great if children didn’t get sick as often?
Today, we see young people getting sick. Too much. My daughter who last week finished her junior year of college just told me about two young people her age, both engaged to be married, who got cancer and died quickly. That is tragic.. very sad. Younger children are getting cancer and many other kinds of illnesses. It seemed that 26 years ago when I was a new mother, we worried about our kids getting a cold or an ear infection. Kids are still getting those illnesses, some more frequently than others, and many more like asthma, allergies, digestive problems, overweight issues. I heard a shockingly high statistic about autism the other day, and then there are attention disorders and other illnesses that didn’t seem as common as before.
“You must have grown a foot!” is a comment often used when seeing children. Children grow more in the first five years of life than at any other time. It is a time when they are developing and growing at a rapid rate. Vital body systems are developing such as the heart, brains and lungs. Children need proper nutrition to ensure proper development. I remember first learning about nutrition the fact that the body requires optimal nutrients in order for the bodily processes to work the way they were designed. It makes sense. If we are not getting the amount of nutrients we need through our foods, it also makes sense to look at supplements.
Nutritional needs for children under five are different than older children and adults. Experts agree breast milk is best for babies. While breastfeeding, a mother’s nutrition is very important. Her doctor may put mom on special vitamins, and many moms design their own natural nutrition plans. This ensures both mom and the baby are getting the nutrients they need. In the first three to six months of life this is the main source of nutrition the baby gets.
There are some mothers who are unable to breastfeed. There are formulas on the market to meet baby’s needs. While these do not provide some of the antibody and other benefits they are a good substitute. Read the labels though. Different formulas provide different nutrients. It is important to consult a health care provider to receive their recommendation as well.
In the news lately there has been information on the lack of Vitamin D children receive. Many formulas are Vitamin D fortified. There is concern about those children which are breastfeed and older children not getting the recommended daily allowance. Vitamin D is important for growing children. Vitamin D is vital for bone growth. It helps bones absorb calcium. Children grow at such a rapid rate and their bones need the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin D to ensure healthy bones. Sources of Vitamin D are foods which are not traditionally liked by small children. Cod liver oil and fatty fish. Exposure to the sun ten to fifteen minutes at a time several times a week can also provide Vitamin D. Unfortunately sunscreen prevents this. For children over one year milk and many brands of orange juice are fortified with vitamin D. A child will have to drink four to six cups a day to provide them with the recommend daily amount. The baby’s health care provider may recommend vitamin supplements to make sure they are getting the correct amount to build healthy bones and teeth.
Other nutrients growing babies need are B12, Calcium, Iron and Zinc. A breastfeeding mom needs to make certain she gets adequate sources of these nutrients. Once a baby starts depending more on solid food the parents need to see to it baby is getting the nutrients they need to have healthy bones and organ growth.
The first and best way to get nutrients is through diet. Having a well rounded diet with different food choices is the best method. We have to face it though; many young children are picky eaters. Their palates are not the same as an adult. They may not like certain foods which will provide them what they need. Offer them the foods, but don’t make an issue of it. As children age their taste will change and they will start to like the foods they once splattered across the high chair.
If you are concerned about your child’s nutrition ask your health care providers advice. There are many vitamin and mineral supplements which are gear specifically towards a growing child’s needs. The AAP, The American Academy of Pediatrics, makes constant revisions and recommendations for the nutrition of growing children. Supplements which will fit in with the recommended guidelines will help your child reach optimum health.
To learn about a new line of baby and kids nutrition products, developed with the latest scientific research by the #1 Natural Nutrition company in the United States, visit our Children’s Health page.
Yesterday, on Earth Day 2009, Shaklee CEO Roger Barnett joined Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in SanFrancisco, to plant the 1 Millionth Tree from the company’s One Million Trees – One Million Dreams campaign. One million trees is truly a fantastic contribution to out environment that has been supported by our entire Shakleee family. We have great news for a new campaign that will change lives.
These are revolutionary times that we live in. There are people struggling, many people, to meet their monthly bills and are looking for a way to earn more income. At the same time that many companies are failing or closing, there are others like the Shaklee Corporation that are growing. This means that there is opportunity to bring people who need something more TOGETHER WITH a company that can offer them more. We call it the Land of And. The opportunity to do well AND to help others do well.
At the event yesterday, Roger announced the company’s new mission to offer 1 Million people a new economic opportunity this year. I call this an Anti-Aging Home Business for several reasons:
1- You have the opportunity to represent the anti-aging supplements that belong to our #1 Natural Nutrition company.
2- We have taken any stress that can lead to aging (!!) away because you are extended an opportunity to start a home business at no cost. Where else can you start your own business and be in cash flow the very first week?
3- You won’t have a boss, or a certain time schedule (definitely anti-aging!). You are an independent and will get out of your business what you put into it. The sky is really the limit here with no income caps unless you put them on.
4- The business plan we have has a very cool anti-aging feature: it pays you forever! That means that ours is a business that creates residual income, money that is paid month after month, year after year. It is one that you leave behind to your family.
5- We have product and marketing information available as well as tools and support that are targeted to help you build a successful home business.
6- You can start right here, right now. If you and/or your family can use more income right now, you can partner with a company that is growing, that represents 5 major growth trends for the future, and can help you have the life you want and be in charge of your financial future.
If you want to learn more, contact me today or follow the link under the video..
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Last month, Fox News aired this segment about the emerging anti-aging science and research on resveratrol, a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine. Billions of dollars are being spent by pharmaceutical companies to develop a Fountain of Youth pill, and it’s all centered around resveratrol. That is five or more years away, but some of the same science and research that has been happening for years has already brought us the world’s only cellular anti-aging tonic with resveratrol and polyphenols from a super (muscadine) grape.
20 year neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers (GO WORLD CHAMPION PITTSBURGH STEELERS!!), Dr. Joseph Maroon, has written a book called The Longevity Factor, about how resveratrol and red wine activate genes for a longer and healthier life. It’s not about simply living to an older age, it is about fighting the diseases of aging and keeping our bodies younger.
Dr. Joseph Maroon discusses Vivix, and the resveratrol and muscadine grape ingredients that are part of its formulation, in The Longevity Factor, pages 70 and 193 (video also available on this Amazon site where the book is sold). There is also a great book review and references (praise) posted on this Simon and Schuster website.*
Vivix is a resveratrol product unique to any supplement currently on the market. With essentially 100% pure resveratrol, this patent-pending formulation that also contains polyphenols from a super (muscadine) grape is 10X more powerful than resveratrol alone and is manufactured by the #1 Natural Nutrition company in the United States. Years of science and research, partnerships with the world’s leading anti-aging researchers and Harvard University, and the exclusive forumulation, are all part of this revolutionary, pharmaceutical grade, anti-aging tonic.
Let’s look at the comprehensive product development steps that make cellular anti-aging benefits available exclusively to youright now.. not five (or more) years from now.
The Shaklee Corporation has a 52+ year legacy of products developed through science and research. Creating products that deliver results are testament to the dedication the brand has to changing peoples’ lives. Vivix is the most complex product in company history. This brand is the first to create and isolate a unique profile of polyphenols shown in laboratory studies to fight cellular aging, and then to develop a patent-pending extraction process to harness the polyphenol profile of one of the key ingredients, and finally to secure the entire output from the largest and best growers in the world.
Being on the forefront of this emerging scientific research has made it possible for folks to have the opportunity right now to fight aging and the diseases of aging, and to choose to live a longer, healthier life.
*Dr. Joseph Maroon is a distinguished surgeon and a professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a lifelong athlete, and competed in more than fifty triathlons and three Hawaiian Ironman Championship competition. His book is heralded as a groundbreaking examination of new scientific research that holds the secret to weight loss, increased strength, endurance, memory, and a healthier, longer life. I do not know that he is associated directly with The Shaklee Corporation, or Vivix, but was delighted to see his highly respected reference to both in his book.
Are hormones wreaking havoc in your body? Are you tired all of the time? Do you feel lousy or just out of balance? Do you get sick too much? Are you having problems with your heart, cholesterol, or your bones? Is your skin sagging or looking too old for your age? Are you forgetting things? Do you have weight issues that you can’t control? Hormones have been related to all of the above.
It seems that when hormones are not balanced, they aren’t able to do their job and keep the body operating like it should and feeling happy. In fact, they can make us miserable and feeling desperate to get back in sync with ourselves.
How are hormones related to the human aging process? I read an article today about minor hormones causing major consequences in our bodies. That led to digging in a little deeper to explore these substances that can make so much trouble for us, and learning more about how aging is related to the effects they have on the body.
First, what are some of these hormones and what causes them to get out of whack? Melatonin is one such hormone that can affect our daily life because it affects our sleep and our body rhythm. Both seem important enough to me. I like to feel balanced and happy. The normal aging process can reduce melatonin levels in our bodies, starting as early as our thirties. And diseases of aging are escalated in people with hormones that are not synchronized and functioning properly.
The anti-aging hormone, HGH, gets a bad rap when it is abused by athletes; however, it is the hormone that helps us look younger and feel younger. It helps children grow, and levels significantly drop in our bodies when we are only in our twenties. It provides many benefits to our bodies such as brain health, cardiovascular health, immune system health, aerobic health, and bone health. When we are deficient in HGH, it shows up through thinning hair, skin and bones, decreased muscle strength, increased body fat, and heart and immune function are compromised.
Pregnenolone is a steroid hormone, and classified as a prohormone because it is a pre-cursor to a hormone and has minimal hormonal effects by itself. However, it can have quite an effect with regard to fatigue and memory problems if not functioning properly in the body. This is another substance affected by aging, and sooner than you think. The supply starts to decline in our thirties, and when it does, the amount available to make other hormones also decreases.
The mother hormone, DHEA, is one of the most abundant in the body and yet still declines with age leaving 70 year olds with only 10% of what they had as 20 year olds. Diseases of aging, especially heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and cancer, impact levels of DHEA in our bodies. Many body processes are affected by DHEA, with unbalanced levels resulting in problems with weight, muscle mass, bones, memory, cholesterol, immune system, and more.
Hormones are chemicals in the bodies that are released by cells and affect other cells in the body. Because the body processes are so inter-related, when a hormone is not balanced, or not functioning properly, it can be like a ripple effect to each other. The functions of hormones are very complex and it is not in the scope of this article to be technical, only to discuss how they can make our bodies scream for help.
Learning more about hormones made me realize the importance of doing what we can to keep our hormones balanced so we avoid as much of the hormone craziness as we can. The aging connection where hormones can accelerate aging is one that we can impact because we have anti-aging choices that help us keep our bodies younger and fight the diseases of aging.
It is up to us as individuals to take charge of our own good health. We can ‘feel’ if there is something not right happening inside of us. We deserve to feel good every day. When that’s not happening, we need to be asking: why? We need to find answers. My personal choice is to look for natural solutions to balance hormones if something is not life threatening and needing meds to survive. Natural nutrition can work on the underlying cause of the problem, not just help with symptoms. Plus there are side ‘benefits’ with natural products, not side effects.
Destroy Pancreatic Cancer Cells. Counter the effects of aging on our Hearts. Our Bones. Our Eyes. And Our Muscles. Can resveratrol make a difference? Billions of dollars are being spent right now studying resveratrol and how this natural antioxidant found in grapes skins and red wine can help us prevent the diseases of aging, and live longer, better quality lives. Most of this money is focused on a pharmaceutical product that is at best probably 5 years away. We do have a natural resveratrol supplement, a cellular anti-aging tonic, available right now and what a head start we can have in the new exciting world of resveratrol.
In 2008, the University of Rochester released the results of a study on resveratrol and how it can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells. We talked before about how resveratrol can impact the key mechanisms of aging, one of these key mechanisms of aging being mitochondria (the cell’s core energy source) in the cells. In the study, resveratrol was found to cripple the function of these cancer producing cells.
Study results posted on http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Mounting-evidence-shows-red-wine-antioxidant-kills-cancer-2618-1/ included this statement: “The findings, published July 3, 2008, in Cell Metabolism, may increase interest in resveratrol as a possible intervention for age-related declines, said NIA scientists. The authors emphasized, however, that their findings are based on research in mice, not in humans, and have no immediate and direct application to people, whose health is influenced by a variety of factors beyond those which may be represented in the animal models.”
In July, 2008, A Harvard University study conducted and supported in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that resveratrol slows age-related deterioration and functional decline of mice on a standard diet. This study is a follow-up to 2006 findings that resveratrol improves health and longevity of overweight, aged mice.
A review of the study that was posted on http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703120402.htm. I found the following very interesting and potentially a huge help for so many folks: “A major finding of the study reported today is that resveratrol prevented age-related and obesity-related cardiovascular functional decline in the mice as determined by several parameters. Total cholesterol was significantly reduced in 22-month-old non-obese mice after 10 months of resveratrol treatment, although triglyceride levels had only a slight, non-significant trend toward a decrease. Further, the aortas of 18-month-old obese and non-obese mice treated with resveratrol functioned significantly better than untreated mice. Resveratrol also moderated inflammation in the heart.”
There have been many scientific research studies on resveratrol, and they are ongoing. In addition, we have hundreds of resveratrol products that have been put on the market. The problem is that many (maybe most) are not manufactured by companies that do their own research on resveratrol, nor are they a formulation that will actually be assimilated by the body and be able to produce desired results without unwanted side effects. For example, on such side effect is a digestive issue with some resveratrol products. This is due to a lower quality product and an ingredient source that is not pure.
Our brand has spent years of their own research on resveratrol, and partnered with the world’s foremost anti-aging scientist who works for Harvard University, to develop a unique resveratrol blend that also includes polyphenols from a super grape. This muscadine super grape has an extra chromosome that no other grape has, and that is associated with anti-aging. The combination, similar to many of this brand’s products that are complexes, or blends of synergistic ingredients, enhances the performance of all ingredients.
Baby boomers listen up! The scientific study of the aging process has had some remarkable breakthroughs!! Two posts below this post is a short video of the CBS 60 Minutes segment on aging, and on the next page of this blog is a clip from the Barbara Walters Living to 150 television special.. both detail this exciting research.
We have, right now, an anti-aging choice that is light years ahead of every other resveratrol product available on the market.. 10X more powerful than resveratrol alone. This video explains more about what we have learned about the aging process through years of studying how we age.
How did we do this? After years of anti-aging research, 56 years and million of dollars of scientific research as our legacy, and the development of a unique and patented formulation of resveratrol and polyphenols from a super grape, the world’s only cellular anti-aging product was born.
Those people that are famiiar with this brand did not have to think twice about getting it in their hands and taking that first teaspoon. That’s because of the trust we have in the company, the fabulous results we get from the other products this brand has offered for over half a century, and of course our desire to live a longer, better quality life.
For new people to the brand, there is a 100% money back guarantee on every product. That has always been offered and yet rarely utilized because you get the benefits you want from the products.
Next post.. Vivix testimonies have started pouring in..
Since its launch this past September, this brand’s cellular anti-aging tonic has garnered national media attention and continues to generate buzz daily. It has been successful not only because it’s a truly remarkable and unique product, but also because of the compelling science and research behind it.
I invite you to contact me through the website to discuss. We can communicate by email or by phone so let me know your preference, and start asking your questions!
The December 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek Magazine has a very interesting article online: HEALTH FOR LIFE, Never Say Die – Step aside, quacks. The search for longer life is a real science now.
It talked about the calorie restriction theory that is believed to extend life and prevent disease. That is the very same thing that the new cellular anti-aging tonic supplement does. We don’t have to wait for a drug that will be targeted for diabetes, or diabetes prevention. We can start now to receive the benefits of natural anti-aging and target preventing disease and feeling younger.
You can check the article out here and below are two videos that feature Dr. David Sinclair, interviewed for the article and partnered with our brand as well as his research at Harvard University: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172561/page/3
To Live Longer is a goal for many. But we don’t just want to grow old. We want to be healthy as we enjoy those extended years, with vitality, improved health, better physical shape and overall well-being.
The first step to improving health is providing our bodies with optimal nutrition to build good health. Since we have known for many years now that most of us do not get that nutrition from our daily diets, we need to supplement with vitamins, minerals, and sometimes herbal products.
Our next step can now be the revolutionary, breakthrough cellular anti-aging tonic that was introduced a short time ago to help us live longer. Resveratrol was first discovered in 1940 but remained relatively unknown for the next 50+ years when research linked it with heart benefits. Since that time there has been a great deal of research that has led to the association with aging benefits.
An optimal amount of resveratrol has been proven to extend life in the laboratory. This brand has taken that research to a new level with a more pure and natural form of resveratrol that is different from most sources on the market today that produce unwanted tolerance problems. That purest form which has been acquired by this brand results in resveratrol content that is no less than 98%.
In addition to greatly improving the resveratrol ingredient, polyphenols from a super grape are part of the formulation of this cellular tonic. As with many other products from this brand, the unique formulation is responsible for the ingredients enhancing each other’s effects and producing a more potent supplement that delivers greater benefits.
For more information on how the body ages and why our anti-aging tonic can impact that aging, please visit the brand site (blue link) and feel free to forward this link or pass along the news to someone you know that would like to live longer.
A revolutionary new product has been introduced and this brand is once again at the forefront of scientific research. Shaklee Independent Distributors represent scientists who have designed a way to create a unique blend of ingredients to fight cellular aging.
What sets this brand’s products apart is the unique blends of ingredients and the science behind those formulations. With this new tonic, scientists took the formidable research on anti-aging red wine resveratrol to a whole new level.
By combining key ingredients with resveratrol, this tonic can impact all four of the mechanisms of aging that occur at the cellular level. No other company or brand has a product like this.
Let’s look at how the tonic affects these mechanisms of cellular aging:
Protects and repairs cellular DNA
Positively impacts genetic regulators which help fight cellular aging
Promotes mitochondrial biogenesis, which helps increase the power production within the cells
Reduces the formation of AGE proteins that can gradually clog up your cells
While specific scientific detail may be hard for many of us to understand, that is why we have always enjoyed the benefit of having a team of highly qualified scientists behind this brand. This has resulted in more than 50 years of uniquely effective products based on solid science and research. We continue to use these products because they work!
To learn more and get the breakdown of the science behind this anti-aging tonic, visit www.yourhealthwebsite.net. There is an MD Resource website for medical professionals as well.
The release of this new tonic is truly a revolutionary breakthrough because it harnesses the power of a unique polyphenol blend to impact the aging process. The special blend of ingredients promote cellular longevity, increase cellular energy, fight free radicals, and promote good health and well being. In addition, the ingredients support heart health, brain health, cardiovascular function, joint health and enhance immunity. That’s a powerful punch!
Feel free to request additional printed material, audios, videos and opportunity to discuss the new anti-aging tonic.
I invite you to help spread the word to anyone you know who can benefit.. it really does feel great to help others feel their best. Who knew we could have the opportunity to help someone live 25 years longer and feel 25 years younger?
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