Glutathione - the mother of antioxidants

The Mother of All Antioxidants

We have all heard of antioxidants, but have we heard of the mother of all antioxidants? One that is the secret to prevent cancer, heart disease, aging, neurological issues and more? This single antioxidant has been studied in great depth yet most of us know nothing about it and  many doctors have no idea how to address the epidemic of its deficiency in humans.

We are of course talking about Glutathione (pronounced “gloota-thigh-own.”) This is a powerful detoxifier and immune booster and is crucial to a healthy life. Although the body does make some of its own Glutathione, poor food quality, pollution, toxic environments, stress, infections and radiation are all depleting out bodies glutathione.

What is Glutathione?
Glutathione is a simple molecule produced naturally in the body at all times. It’s a combination of three building blocks of protein or amino acids — cysteine, glycine and glutamine.

The best part of glutathione is that is contains sulfur chemical groups that work to trap all the bad things like free radicals and toxins such as mercury and heavy metals in our body then flush them out. This is especially important in our current world of heavy metal bombardment.

Where Can You Get Glutathione?
The body makes it, but it’s often not enough in our strenuous environment. Here are some food sources that either contain glutathione or its precursors to help the body produce more.

Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Avocados
Peaches
Watermelon
Cinnamon
Cardamom
Turmeric (Curcumin)
Tomatoes
Peas
Garlic
Onions
Red peppers

Notice they are all healthy foods we often don’t get enough of? This is another big issue with our diets. We consume a lot of junk, meat, dairy and processed foods, items that clinically have been proven to be the number one causes of heart disease and illness yet we consume  them in huge quantities. The key is to limit these and eat a lot of fresh, lively foods that provide nutrients and don’t ask the body to perform a mega job to digest.

You can also increase your exercise as glutathione production increases when you exercise. Breathing and sweating are also great ways to get rid of toxins in the body.

Glutathione Protects Against Chronic Illness
What makes glutathione so important and powerful is that it recycles antioxidants. When your body is dealing with free radicals, it is essentially passing them from one molecule to another. They might go from vitamin C to vitamin E to lipoic acid and then to glutathione where they are cooled off. Antioxidants are recycled at this point and the body can now regenerate another glutathione molecule to go back at it again.

Glutathione is crucial for helping your immune system fight chronic illness as it acts as the carrier of toxins out of your body. Like a fly trap, toxins stick to glutathione and they are carried to the bile into the stools and out of the body. Glutathione is also powerful enough that it has been shown to help in the treatment of AIDS greatly. The body is going to get in touch with oxidants and toxins, the more we can deal with those the better our body will be at staying strong, this is why glutathione is so important.

9 Final Tips

Dr. Mark Hyman has given 9 tips to increase your Glutathione levels.

1. Consume sulfur-rich foods. The main ones in the diet are garlic, onions and the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, watercress, etc.).

2. Try bioactive whey protein. This is great source of cysteine and the amino acid building blocks for glutathione synthesis. As you know, I am not a big fan of dairy, but this is an exception — with a few warnings. The whey protein MUST be bioactive and made from non-denatured proteins (“denaturing” refers to the breakdown of the normal protein structure). Choose non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics. Immunocal is a prescription bioactive non-denatured whey protein that is even listed in the Physician’s Desk Reference.

3. Exercise boosts your glutathione levels and thereby helps boost your immune system, improve detoxification and enhance your body’s own antioxidant defenses. Start slow and build up to 30 minutes a day of vigorous aerobic exercise like walking or jogging, or play various sports. Strength training for 20 minutes 3 times a week is also helpful.

One would think it would be easy just to take glutathione as a pill, but the body digests protein — so you wouldn’t get the benefits if you did it this way. However, the production and recycling of glutathione in the body requires many different nutrients and you CAN take these. Here are the main supplements that need to be taken consistently to boost glutathione. Besides taking a multivitamin and fish oil, supporting my glutathione levels with these supplements is the most important thing I do every day for my personal health.

4. N-acetyl-cysteine. This has been used for years to help treat asthma and lung disease and to treat people with life-threatening liver failure from Tylenol overdose. In fact, I first learned about it in medical school while working in the emergency room. It is even given to prevent kidney damage from dyes used during x-ray studies.

5. Alpha lipoic acid. This is a close second to glutathione in importance in our cells and is involved in energy production, blood sugar control, brain health and detoxification. The body usually makes it, but given all the stresses we are under, we often become depleted.

6. Methylation nutrients (folate and vitamins B6 and B12). These are perhaps the most critical to keep the body producing glutathione. Methylation and the production and recycling of glutathione are the two most important biochemical functions in your body. Take folate (especially in the active form of 5 methyltetrahydrofolate), B6 (in active form of P5P) and B12 (in the active form of methylcobalamin).

7. Selenium. This important mineral helps the body recycle and produce more glutathione.

8. A family of antioxidants including vitamins C and E (in the form of mixed tocopherols), work together to recycle glutathione.

9. Milk thistle (silymarin) has long been used in liver disease and helps boost glutathione levels.

WORST HABITS AFTER EATING...

Seven Worst Habits After Eating

One of the most difficult thing for everyone is changing a habit. If you want to improve your health and keep your body slim try following this list that experts have made including seven things you should never do after having a meal.

1.Cigarette after having a meal

Experts warn that this habit is more harmful than it seemed, because only one cigarette after a meal has the effect as if you have smoked 10 cigarettes. Our digestive system works through the entire body and nicotine binds to the blood oxygen.

2. Fruit after having a meal

Your body is able to digest fruit very quickly and if you consume fruit  immediately after your meal the fruit remains in the stomach for a long time and causes decay, releases gases and toxins, which, except this, can encourage formation of cellulite. So eat fruit when your stomach is empty or two hours before or after having a meal.

3. Tea after having a meal

This habit is not good, although many people are practicing this habit. Tea caffeine as the main ingredient binds to iron and slows digestion, which can be very bad for anemic people. Anemic people should not drink tea at least one hour after eating.

4. Swimming after having a meal

In this case, our grandmothers and mothers are totally right, but experts also warned that is not recommended to take a shower right after eating. Water improves blood flow throughout the body, but after eating our blood goes to the stomach where digestion takes place. When we have a shower our body experiences sudden changes in temperature, so blood is needed in the whole body.

5. Waist exercise after having a meal

This is a habit we all have, but waist exercise after having a meal can lead to intestines entanglement and digestion delaying. Also there is additional reason why waist exercise after having a meal  is bad. It can lead to weight gaining.

6. Activity after eating

While everyone thinks that physical activity is good after having a meal, the truth is rather different. Physical activity is blocking your digestive system to absorb nutrients from your meal. It is recommended to take an easy and pleasant walk, but without any stronger efforts.

7. Sleeping after eating

This is another old myth proved to be true. When we sleep all body functions are “sleeping” together with our brain and it is not recommended to fall asleep after eating. Lying position is also not recommended and is not good for the digestion and gastric juices, so they are unable to do their job. This habit can lead to stomach problems.

Therefore try to change these habits. Avoiding these bad habits you will improve your health and you will keep your body slim.

GREAT POTENTIAL BUSINESS IN FOOD, PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL DAN COSMETIC

GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND BIG POTENTIAL IN FOOD, PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL AND COSMETIC INDUSTRIES

We would like to share a recent finding of new TECHNOLOGY to do extraction and isolation of any type of herbs in new processing method. We use Ultra Sonic system replacing all know current system for extraction and isolation. We can turn any type of raw material from water to powder with better and efficient ways in quantity, quality and cheaper than any know comparative process. The process had been designed and tested in one of our University and it works well. We would like to offer to any interested party to collaborate with us to build up this technology. 

One of the latest research and finding work on raw material of Vinca Rosea (Kemuning Cina) herbs by using this technology, we found that there are valuable compounds on anti-cancer - Vanderlin, Vincristine and Vinblastine being recovered in large quantity comparing to the current method of processing.

Some Point to consider on the technology..............

Shorter time consume in extraction process

•       We can use fresh leaf /fruit /spices /herbal raw material without dry it first

Time consume for the extraction will reduce by using ultra sonic up to 50% compare to conventional method with same capacity. The system will continue direct to drying method

Maintain and improving the quality and efficacy of the extract because

•      Temperature in all flow process as in extraction method and drying method will control at below 80 degree Celsius to maintain the quality of extract. The spray dry will produce smaller size of particle of extract as low as 20 micrometer and this applied for cosmetic and pharmaceutical used

Low cost of processing system

•      No need to dry the raw material

No need to sterile the extract using Gamma ray or using autoclave because the ultra-sonic extraction will deactivate the bacteria

By using this technology the time period will be shorten. Some process will be excluded and the best part is the manufacturing process in low temperature will give us more valuable end product compound to be recovered from the source of raw material. Current process method has made most of the component in the herbs being destroyed.

In normal way of doing extraction the process need to have a boiling temperature at more than 100 degrees Celsius to vaporize the water into powder and this have affected the herbs components. They vaporize and lost. When we do at below temperature we can prevent it from vaporizes and recovers more components inside the herbs that are useful to use.

	Our System	Current technic
1	Low temperature, pure product	High temperature (more 100 C, damaged most extract properties)
2	No chemicals	Used chemicals, solvent for extract, stabilizer maltodextrine for spray dryer
3	Inline system, input wet herbal, outlet powder extract	Separate process, dry 1 machine, grind 1 mahcine, extract 1 machine, spray dryer 1 machine,
4	2 technical op per shift	At least 8 person (specialize)
5	Process cycle 1 hour	Process cycle at least 10 hour , 3 hour dry,  1 hour grind, 5 hour extract, 1 hour spray dry
6	Purity very high	Purity low

We believe with this new concept and are not available in the current market over the world. It will give more new impact and large benefit to the Pharmaceutical industries and companies. We expect there will be a large demand on this new finding of active compound such as to produce drug using vincristine and vinblastine for cancer treatment. In fact from the survey we have done we expect there will be buyer ready to purchase all this.

We want to build up a first small pilot plant. Later it will be business for producing product and also selling technology to various interested party.

Set up Installation & Renovation time period until commissioning – 3 months.

Video of prototype in Youtube –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehIK9EUzxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9fekUa0E-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOI1S3cObDY

Project Costing : Plantation

Particulars	Amount (RM)
Equipment	80,000.00
Agriculture input	42,000.00
Plant herbal seedling	67,500.00
Working capital	60,500.00
TOTAL INVESTMENT	250,000.00

Project Costing : Extraction System

Particulars	Ringgit Malaysia
Capital Equipment	450,000.00
Capital Equipment Option	250,000.00
Infrastructure, Foundation & building	150,000.00
Engineering and professional service	100,000.00
Working capital	250,000.00
TOTAL INVESTMENT	1,200,000.00

REVENUE	Per year	10 Years
Annual production	2,916,000.00	27,823,500.00
OPERATING EXPENSES
Input materials contract	648,000.00	6,237,000.00
Electricity	60,000.00	577,500.00
Labour	385,500.00	3,750,500.00
Administration & Marketing & Rental	120,000.00	1,200,000.00
Utilities	36,000.00	346,500.00
Maintenance & Spare Parts	60,000.00	575,000.00
Spare Parts & Consumable part	84,000.00	808,500.00
Other operating costs	87,480.00	863,350.00
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES	1,480,980.00	14,358,288.00

PROFIT	Per year	10 Years
Quantity End Product Produce	81 kilogram	8,100 kilogram
Revenue less Operation	1,435,020.00	12,486,788.00
Return of Investment (ROI)	0.84 year
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)	172%

Project Financing Repayment – 4 years with 1^st year free retention repayment period. Monthly repayment scheme without interest calculation @ RM 25,000.00. Total 5 years Repayment Plan.

Facts on Honey with Cinnamon....

FACTS ON HONEY AND CINNAMON!!

HEART DISEASES:    Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, put it on toast instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol and could potentially save one from heart attack. Also, even if you have already had an attack studies show you could be kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of cinnamon honey strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as one ages the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and the veins.

ARTHRITIS:    Arthritis patients can benefit by taking one cup of hot water with two tablespoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. When taken daily even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week (out of the 200 people so treated) practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain — and within a month, most all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis now started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:    Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder….who knew?

CHOLESTEROL:    Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water given to a cholesterol patient was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, when taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol-could be cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:    Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and, clear the sinuses, and it’s delicious too!

UPSET STOMACH:    Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also is said to clear stomach ulcers from its root.

GAS:    According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that when Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:    Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacterial and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles (where DNA is contained) to fight bacterial and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:    Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food is eaten relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals

INFLUENZA:    A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ‘Ingredient’ which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:    Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Use four teaspoons of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of boiling water to make a tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans increase and even a 100 year old will start performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

RASPY OR SORE THROAT:    When throat has a tickle or is raspy, take one tablespoon of honey and sip until gone. Repeat every three hours until throat is without symptoms.

PIMPLES:    Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it off the next morning with warm water. When done daily for two weeks, it removes all pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:   Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin Infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:   Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast and on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. When taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:    Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder three times a day for one month.

FATIGUE:    Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, even when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, when taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M., the vitality of the body increases within a week.

BAD BREATH:    People of South America, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water first thing in the morning so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:    Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing.

TOOTHACHE:    Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.

Eleven Surprising Factors That Mess With Your Memory

11 Surprising Factors That Affect Your Memory

1. Thyroid Problems

Although your thyroid doesn't have a specific role in your brain, memory problems are a hallmark characteristic of thyroid disease. High or low thyroid levels (hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism) may lead to difficulty with memory and concentration. If you suspect you have thyroid trouble, please read these natural protocols for addressing thyroid dysfunction.

2. Menopause

Hot flashes and insomnia are common during menopause, and both can impair your sleep and contribute to memory loss. This is temporary and should improve when your menopause symptoms subside (try these simple solutions for stopping hot flashes).

3. Lack of Sleep

The process of brain growth, or neuroplasticity, is believed to underlie your brain's capacity to control behavior, including learning and memory. However, sleep and sleep loss modify the expression of several genes and gene products that may be important for synaptic plasticity.

Furthermore, certain forms of long-term potentiation, a neural process associated with the laying down of learning and memory, can be elicited in sleep, suggesting synaptic connections are strengthened while you slumber.

Among adults, a mid-day nap has even been found to dramatically boost and restore brainpower.3 Most adults need about eight hours of sleep a night; if you wake up feeling fatigued or fall asleep easily during the day, you probably need more sleep. You can find 33 tips to help you get the shut-eye you need here.

4. Anxiety and Depression

Increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol brought on by anxiety and depression causes your brain cells to lose synapses (which connect brain cells). This, in turn, makes it more difficult to form and retrieve memories. Allen Towfigh, MD, medical director of New York Neurology & Sleep Medicine, told TIME:4

"We don't understand the exact link, but strong evidence indicates depression, anxiety, and bipolar disease disrupts the neural circuitry involved in developing and retrieving memories…

The severity of the memory loss often mirrors the severity of the mood disorder—severe depression brings about equally severe memory loss."

5. Certain Medications

Many prescription drugs interfere with your memory function. This includes anxiety medications (Xanax, Valium, and Ativan), which hinder your brain's ability to transfer short-term memories to long-term "storage."

Others include tricyclic antidepressants, statin drugs, beta-blockers, narcotic painkillers, incontinence drugs, sleep aids, and antihistamines (such as Benadryl).

6. Smoking

Smoking impairs the blood supply to your brain, leading to memory lapses. Studies also show that smokers have a more rapid decline in brain function, including memory, than non-smokers, while smoking leads to the accumulation of abnormal proteins in your brain that interfere with processing and relaying information.5

7. Stress

An animal study revealed that higher levels of stress hormones can speed up short-term memory loss in older adults.6 The findings indicate that how your body responds to stress may be a factor that influences how your brain ages over time. Previous research has also linked chronic stress with working memory impairment.7

My favorite tool for stress management is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It's an energy psychology tool that can help reprogram your body's reactions to everyday stress, thereby reducing your chances of developing adverse health effects.

8. A Higher "Infectious Burden"

People exposed to more germs, such as the cold sore virus (herpes simplex type 1), scored 25 percent lower on cognitive tests than those with a lower "infectious burden."8 Researchers concluded that past infections may contribute to cognitive impairment, perhaps due to damage to your blood vessels.

9. Green Tea

If you want to boost your memory, drink more high-quality green tea. In a study of 12 healthy volunteers, those who received a beverage containing 27.5 grams of green tea extract showed increased connectivity between the parietal and frontal cortex of the brain compared to those who drank a non-green tea beverage.9

The increased activity was correlated with improved performance on working memory tasks, and the researchers believe the results suggest green tea may be useful for treating cognitive impairments, including dementia.

10. Exercise

Exercise encourages your brain to work at optimum capacity by stimulating nerve cells to multiply, strengthening their interconnections, and protecting them from damage. During exercise nerve cells release proteins known as neurotrophic factors. One in particular, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), triggers numerous other chemicals that promote neural health, and directly benefits cognitive functions, including learning.

A 2010 study on primates published in Neuroscience also revealed that regular exercise not only improved blood flow to the brain, but also helped the monkeys learn new tasks twice as quickly as non-exercising monkeys. This is a benefit the researchers believe would hold true for people as well.10

In a separate one year-long study, individuals who engaged in exercise were actually growing and expanding the brain's memory center 1 percent to 2 percent per year, where typically that center would have continued to decline in size. To get the most out of your workouts, I recommend a comprehensive program that includes high-intensity interval exercise, strength training, stretching, and core work, along with regular intermittent movement.

11. Vitamin B12

B vitamins including vitamin B12 may slow brain shrinkage by as much as seven-fold in brain regions specifically known to be most impacted by Alzheimer's disease. In one study, participants taking high doses of folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 had blood levels of homocysteine that were lowered as was the associated brain shrinkage – by up to 90 percent. The researchers noted:11

"…B vitamins lower homocysteine, which directly leads to a decrease in GM [gray matter] atrophy, thereby slowing cognitive decline. Our results show that B-vitamin supplementation can slow the atrophy of specific brain regions that are a key component of the AD [Alzheimer's disease] process and that are associated with cognitive decline."

This makes a strong case for ensuring your diet includes plenty of healthful B-vitamin sources, such as meat, poultry, eggs, dairy products, and wild-caught fish. Leafy green vegetables, beans, and peas also provide some B vitamins, but if you eat an all vegetarian or vegan diet, vitamin B12 is one of the nutrients your body is most likely deficient in. Also, when you get older, the lining of your stomach gradually loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid, which releases vitamin B12 from your food. If you're over 50, it's safe to assume you are not absorbing vitamin B12 at an optimal level and may be at risk of deficiency.

Because vitamin B12 is the largest vitamin molecule known, it is not easily absorbed from most oral supplements. Injections or a sublingual (under your tongue) spray work far better, as they allow the large B12 molecule to be absorbed directly into your bloodstream.

DANGEROUS TOXIN THROUGH YOUR BODY STRESS.....

10 Invisible Things Stress is Doing to Your Body Right Now......

Here are 10 concrete ways stress is possibly the most dangerous toxin your body faces every day.

1. Stress changes gene expression.

The chemicals your body produces when you are under stress turn on or off of genes that change everything from how much fat you store, to how well your immune system works, to how fast you age, to whether or not you will develop cancer.

2. Early life events determine your set point for stress.

Research shows that even very early childhood events “set” your CRH, or corticotropin releasing hormone, at a high or low level. CRH is like the foot on the gas turning on your adrenals, and therefore your stress levels.

3. Stress causes brain damage.

High levels of stress hormones damage critical parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus, the area responsible for memory. One reason people experience “adrenal burnout” after long term chronic stress, is because the brain, in order to save itself, turns off the adrenals.

4. Stress shuts down the immune system and increases inflammation.

From slowing wound healing, to diminishing the protective effects of vaccines, to increasing your susceptibility to infections, stress is the ultimate immune-modulator. Stress can also reactivate latent infections — people who get cold sores know this from experience.

5. Chronic stress damages the energy powerhouses of your body, your mitochondria.

These energy factories produce ATP, the currency through which all cells and organs in your body do their work. The good news is this damage is reversible over time, as stress goes away.

6. Stress reduces your ability to metabolize and detoxify.

Studies have shown that the activity of hundreds of genes responsible for enzymes that break down fats and detoxify prescription drugs, are negatively impacted by stress. Stress can also increase your toxin burden by increasing your desire for high fat, high sugar foods.

7. Your cardiovascular system responds to stress, increasing cardiac output if you have to run away from a tiger.

But chronic stress has been shown to increase the thickness of the artery walls, leading to high blood pressure and heart disease.

8. Stress messes with your sex hormones.

Stress increases the amount of something called sex hormone binding globulin, the school bus that ferries testosterone and estrogen around your body, meaning fewer of these hormones are available to your cells. Chronic stress also increases the production of cortisol, leading to something called “cortisol steal,” where fewer sex hormones are produced.

9. Stress is bad for your bones and muscles.

There is evidence that higher stress levels are associated with lower bone mineral density, and many studies show that people under chronic stress experience more physical pain.

10. The gut and stress are intimately intertwined.

You may have heard that 95% of your serotonin is in your gut, and you may remember a time when you were nervous or sad, and your belly was in knots.

10 Cancer Symptoms That Everyone Ignores

Healthy Food Team.... 10 Cancer Symptoms That Everyone Ignores....

Detecting early symptoms is the best way to treat and cure this bad disease. Some of the symptoms can also be quite common, but a large number of men and women ignore them.
Find out which are the 10 most common symptoms of cancer:

1. Short of breath

One of the first signs of lung cancer, and patients who suffer from it are saying that they noticed the symptoms like the wheezing or shortness of breath and noise while breathing. Frequent misdiagnosis that people give themselves is that they have asthma.

2. Chronic cough and chest pain

Several types of cancer, including leukemia and lung cancer, can be recognized by the symptoms such as cough or bronchitis. One of the ways that you can tell the difference is if the problem is constant or occasionally disappears. If you have constant pain or cough, go do the analysis.

3. Common infections

Frequent infections are symptoms of leukemia that is if our blood starts producing abnormal amount of white blood vessels so they cannot fight the infection effectively. Leukemia is often found among adults even when the patient complains of frequent occurrences like fever and flu-like symptoms.

4. Difficulty in swallowing

Difficulty in swallowing is a symptom commonly associated with cervical cancer or one of the first symptoms of lung cancer.

5. Swollen lymph nodes under the armpit or groin

Enlarged lymph glands indicate changes in the lymphatic system, which can be a sign of cancer. Painless lump under armpit often leads to breast cancer, while a lump on groin and neck, may reference an early sign of leukemia.

6. Excessive bruising
This symptom can be an indication of some abnormal activities of red blood cells, which in turn often leads to leukemia. Bruising in odd places, fingers and palms and red spots on the face, neck, chest are symptoms that must not be ignored.

7. Pain in the abdomen or pelvis

Itself, pelvic pain may refer to several things. It is a common symptom of ovarian cysts, so this sign is often ignored, but should not be.

8. Rectal bleeding

One of the first symptoms of colon cancer is rectal bleeding or blood in the stool. In case you notice these symptoms, you should immediately contact your doctor.

9. Weight Loss
If you notice the pounds melt away, and you have not made any change in diet or lifestyle, you need to ask yourself why. Losing weight is an early sign of colon cancer, and it affects appetite and the body’s ability to get rid of “waste”.

10. Nail changes

Wonderful nail changes can be a symptom of various cancers. Brown or black lines and dots on the nails indicate skin cancer. Pale or white nails can be a sign that the liver is not functioning properly, and that is a symptom of liver cancer.

Make your analysis today and get rid of doutbs.

COCONUT OIL IS BETTER THAN TOOTHPASTE

Coconut Oil Is Better Than Toothpaste According to New Studies
Posted by: Daily  in Health March 24, 2015

There is nothing better and more beneficial for the teeth than coconut oil. It has a very strong effect in cases of fungi, microbes and bacteria and according to studies it can kill tooth decay bacteria in no time.

Just one spoonful of coconut oil has the ability to prevent your teeth from decaying and can help you clean them much better than regular toothpastes, and it doesn’t even have side effects like in the cases of mouthwash products and fluoride.

The strong effects of coconut oil were researched at the Athlone Institute of Technology, where Irish scientists found out that coconut oil can inhibit mouth bacteria, especially in cases of candida albicans.
How can coconut oil prevent tooth decay?

By destroying the candida albicans, it prevents your teeth from developing dental diseases. The growth of candida albicans is helped with processed foods and sugar, and can also lead to other illnesses related to the digestive system. The scientists discovered that coconut oil has strong effect on common bacteria that help in teeth decay, such as the S. mutans, which is the primary cause for bad teeth, and have suggested that the coconut oil enzyme is a powerful alternative to chemicals that we use to protect our teeth.

YOUR BODY REACTION WHEN ON FASTING... VERY INTERESTING FACTS...

Here’s What Happens to Your Body When You Fast

When one doesn’t eat or drink anything for a whole day, their organism functions differently.

Find out what will happen to your organism if you don’t drink or eat anything for a whole day.

In all religions, the act of fasting apart from having a spiritual effect on one’s body,also has an incredibly positive effect on one’s overall health.

The fast that lasts for several hours can be quite difficult, however, it is actually very beneficial for the human body.

When it comes to the work of the heart, during this fast less blood flows to the digestive tract so more blood reaches the tissues of other parts of the body and thus the heart functions perfectly.

Besides that, fasting allows the body to eliminate toxins from the lungs easier.

Fasting also contributes to a thorough elimination of harmful substances from the body and thus cleanses the intestines.