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     Continued From Last Post.

        For most people (although there are clearly individual differences),
a diet high in healthful fats (as high as 50-70 percent of the calories you
eat), moderate amounts of high quality protein, which is far less than the
average amount most people eat, with the bulk of carbohydrates coming from
vegetables and very low or no carbohydrates from grains and sugars, will set
you on the right track toward health.

        Comprehensive Exercise Program, including High-Intensity Exercise

        Even if you're eating the healthiest diet in the world, you still
need to exercise to reach the highest levels of health, and you need to be
exercising effectively, which means including not only core-strengthening
exercises, strength training, and stretching but also high-intensity
activities into your rotation. High-intensity interval-type training boosts
human growth hormone (HGH) production, which is essential for optimal health,
strength and vigor. I've discussed the importance of Peak Fitness for your
health on numerous occasions, so for more information, please review this
previous article.

        Stress Reduction and Positive Thinking

        You cannot be optimally healthy if you avoid addressing the emotional
component of your health and longevity, as your emotional state plays a role
in nearly every physical disease -- from heart disease and depression, to
arthritis and cancer. Effective coping mechanisms are a major longevity-
promoting factor in part because stress has a direct impact on inflammation,
which in turn underlies many of the chronic diseases that kill people
prematurely every day. Meditation, prayer, energy psychology tools such as
the Emotional Freedom Technique, social support and exercise are all viable
options that can help you maintain emotional and mental equilibrium.

        Optimize Vitamin D with Proper Sun Exposure

        We have long known that it is best to get your vitamin D from
appropriate sun exposure during times when UVB rays are present. Vitamin D
plays an important role in preventing numerous illnesses ranging from cancer
to the flu.

        The important factor when it comes to vitamin D is your serum level,
which should ideally be between 50-70 ng/ml year-round. Sun exposure or a
safe tanning bed is the preferred method for optimizing vitamin D levels, but
a vitamin D3 supplement can be used when necessary. Most adults need about
8,000 IU's of vitamin D a day to achieve serum levels above 40 ng/ml, which
is still just below the minimum recommended serum level of 50 ng/ml.

        Be aware that if you take supplemental vitamin D, you also need to
make sure you're getting enough vitamin K2, as these two nutrients work in
tandem to ensure calcium is distributed into the proper areas in your body.
Vitamin K2 deficiency is actually what produces the symptoms of vitamin D
toxicity, which includes inappropriate calcification that can lead to
hardening of your arteries.

        While the ideal or optimal ratios between vitamin D and vitamin K2
have yet to be elucidated, Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue, author of Vitamin K2 and
the Calcium Paradox: How a Little Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life,
suggests that for every 1,000 IU's of vitamin D you take, you may benefit
from about 100 micrograms of K2, and perhaps as much as 150-200 micrograms
(mcg). 

        Fermented vegetables can be a great source of vitamin K if you
ferment your own using the proper starter culture. We recently had samples of
high-quality fermented organic vegetables made with our specific starter
culture tested, and a two to three ounce serving contained about 500 mcg of
vitamin K.

        High Quality Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats

        Animal-based omega-3 fat like krill oil is a strong factor in helping
people live longer, and many experts believe that it is likely the
predominant reason why the Japanese are the longest lived race on the planet.

        Avoid as Many Chemicals, Toxins, and Pollutants as Possible

        This includes tossing out your toxic household cleaners, soaps,
personal hygiene products, air fresheners, bug sprays, lawn pesticides, and
insecticides, just to name a few, and replacing them with non-toxic
alternatives.

            Thank You Dr. Mercola

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It’s Time to Change American Disease-Management into a Health-Fostering System

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   For example:

        Americans spend twice as much on health care per capita than any
other country in the world; in fact according to a series of studies by the
consulting firm McKinsey & Co, the US spends more on health care than the
next 10 biggest spenders combined: Japan, Germany, France, China, the U.K.,
Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and Australia.

        Despite that, we rank dead last in terms of quality of care among
industrialized countries, and Americans are far sicker and live shorter lives
than people in other nations

        A review of U.S. healthcare expenses by the Institutes of Medicine2
last year revealed that 30 cents of every dollar spent on medical care is
wasted, adding up to $750 billion annually. Exorbitant hospital costs are a
leading cause of this overspending

        According to a 2011 report by the global consulting firm Milliman,
annual healthcare costs for the average American family of four, if covered
by a preferred provider organization, is still a staggering $19,3933

        As opposed to other countries, American laws prevent the government
from restraining drug prices. Federal law even prevents the single largest
drug buyer - Medicare - from negotiating drug prices

        Overall, Americans pay 50 percent more than other countries for
identical drugs. This year alone, the US will spend more than $280 billion on
prescription drugs. If Americans paid the same prices other countries pay for
the same products, we’d save about $94 billion a year

We Need a Whole New System of Medicine

    When it comes to medical charges, you the buyer are completely separated
from the seller or provider. There’s absolutely no market feedback to
regulate and control the prices that are charged, whether they are related to
medications or hospital/treatment charges. For the most part, drug makers and
hospitals are allowed to charge as much as they want, which plays a large
role on why these charges have gotten so outrageously out of control. This
simply does not happen in countries outside of the US.

    As a result, more than half, or approximately 60 percent, of all personal
bankruptcies in the US are related to medical bills. Even more remarkably,
the majority of those bankruptcies are among people WITH health insurance...

Weil writes:

        “The film [Escape Fire] takes its name from the practice of setting a
small fire to clear out nearby brush, allowing a fast-advancing forest fire
to pass by harmlessly. Will we be sufficiently clear-eyed and rational to
take a similarly bold action to avoid disaster wrought by our dysfunctional
health care system? I hope so. In the film, I say, 'The present system
doesn't work, and it's going to take us down. We need a whole new kind of
medicine.'"

    This new system needs to address preventive strategies, and allow for
less expensive, less invasive and more health-promoting alternatives as the
first line of treatment. This automatically means reduced profits for the
medical industry as a whole, but the pharmaceutical industry in particular
would have to relinquish its grasp on its greatest cash cow, the American
drug consumer.

    When you consider how far Big Pharma has gone to manipulate the political
system to its advantage, lobbying for laws to protect and bolster its profits
even to the detriment of the country as a whole, this is not going to happen
overnight. But you don’t have to wait for the system to change. You can take
control of your own health in the meantime, and proactively work to protect
not only your life but your pocketbook as well. At the end of this article, I
will list a few of my top healthy lifestyle considerations, the most
important of which is proper food choices.

Most of the Leading Causes of Death are Preventable

    Still, there is light at the end of the tunnel because you CAN take
control of your health - you don't have to listen to and abide by this system
that makes and keeps you sick in order to make multinational corporations
wealthy.

    The majority of deaths are due to chronic, not acute, disease. And most
chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, are
largely preventable with simple lifestyle changes. Even infectious diseases
like the flu can often be warded off by a healthy way of life. Just imagine
the lowered death toll, not to mention costs to the economy, if more people
decided to take control of their health … heart disease and cancer alone
accounted for 47 percent of deaths in the United States in 2010, and there
are many strategies you can implement to lower your risk of these diseases.

    The added bonus to this is that the healthier you are, the less you will
need to rely on conventional medical care, which is a leading cause of death.
So what does a "healthy lifestyle" entail? The following is a short list of
the basics expounded upon in my nutrition plan:

        Proper Food Choices

        For a comprehensive guide on which foods to eat and which to avoid,
see my nutrition plan. It's available for free, and is perhaps one of the
most comprehensive and all-inclusive guides on a healthy lifestyle out there.

Generally speaking, you should be looking to focus your diet on whole,
ideally organic, unprocessed foods that come from healthy, sustainable,
ideally local, sources.

        For the best nutrition and health benefits, you will want to eat a
good portion of your food raw. Nearly as important as knowing which foods to
eat more of is knowing which foods to avoid, and topping the list is
fructose. Sugar, and fructose in particular, can act as a toxin in and of
itself when consumed in excess, and as such drive multiple disease processes
in your body, not the least of which is insulin resistance, a major cause of
accelerated aging and virtually all chronic disease.

          Continued

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It’s Time to Change American Disease-Management into a Health-Fostering System

By Dr. Mercola

    I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of
medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes
of Americans at large.

    Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from
their health care, compared to other industrialized nations. Overcharging and
over-treating are two factors contributing to this enormous problem.

    Andrew Weil, author of You Can't Afford to Get Sick: Your Guide to
Optimum Health and Health Care, recently jumped into the fray with an article
on CNN1 and a full one-hour long CNN documentary. The documentary is called
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, which CNN premiered on

March 10. Weil writes:

        “The most insistent political question of the past four years has
been: How can more Americans get access to medical care?

        The federal response was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act. Better known as 'Obamacare,' it is a complex mix of insurance changes
and tax credits. When the act takes effect on January 1, 2014, it will
provide access to insurance to about 30 million people who currently don't
have it.

        Unfortunately, that was the wrong question. So the looming 'answer'
is wrong as well. Here's the right question: How can we improve medical care
so that it's worth extending it to more people? In other words, how can we
create a health care system that helps people become and stay healthy?”

Disease-Management versus Health Care

    I could not agree more with Weil’s statement that the US does not have a
health care system; we have a disease-management system.

    It’s a system that is wholly dependent on expensive drugs and invasive
surgeries, opposed to preventive measures and simpler, less expensive
treatment alternatives. In short, it’s a system rooted in an ideal of
maximized profits, opposed to helping people maintain or regain their health.

    The majority of the diseases we’re trying to “manage” in this manner are
lifestyle-related, and if you don’t address this root cause, you’ll never get
better. You’re just paying for overpriced band-aids that do absolutely
nothing to fix the underlying cause.

    As Weil states:

        “Making this system more accessible by passing costs to taxpayers
will simply spread its failures more broadly.”

    Like myself, Weil promotes integrative medicine (IM) as a better
alternative to the current system. IM offers a combination of conventional
medical therapies and complementary or alternative therapies "for which there
is some high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness."

    Placing greater emphasis on prevention, IM fosters long-term health, and
when disease does set in, conventional drug and surgery approaches are used
sparingly and/or as a last resort.

    Our current system does the exact opposite. Drugs and surgery are
employed FIRST, and then, when the patient has exhausted all conventional
avenues, he or she will sometimes turn to alternative therapies or
nutritional interventions out of sheer desperation, on their own (and at
their own expense).

    Frequently this is what ends up saving that person’s life...

Unfortunately, many have been financially ruined by the time they’ve wound
their way through the conventional system.

    Escape Fire takes a deeper look at the problems inherent with our medical
system; the cause of the problems and its devastating effects, and provides
some hopeful solutions. Weil issued the following highlights from the film:

        The torturous journey of Sgt. Robert Yates, an injured veteran

wounded in Afghanistan. He was prescribed a shopping bag full of prescription
medications that left him broken and miserable in body, mind and spirit.
Watching Yates begin to regain his health through gentle, low-cost therapies,
including meditation and acupuncture, is profoundly moving.

        A look at the revolutionary Safeway Healthy Measures Program. It
gives the supermarket chain's employees financial incentives for taking
responsibility for their own health, decreasing Safeway's insurance costs
significantly while improving participants' well-being.

        The dramatic story of Dr. Erin Martin, an Oregon primary care
physician fed up with being pushed to treat patients faster and faster to
boost clinic profits. She enrolled in the Arizona Center for Integrative
Medicine's Fellowship Program to find a better way, explaining that "I'm not
interested in getting my productivity up -- I'm interested in helping
patients."

Why the Affordable Health Care Act is Unlikely to Benefit Your Health

    Last fall, I gave a presentation at Harper College, in which I discussed
the Affordable Health Care Act, and why it’s likely to make matters far worse
rather than better. It’s important to understand that guaranteed health
insurance does NOT equate to guaranteed health care.

    A major part of the problem is that the Act does not include any
strategies designed to actually prevent illness. It also does not contain any
measures to rein in or reduce out-of-control health care costs related to
overcharges. Instead it expands an already flawed model of “care” that has
been and continues to be a leading cause of both death and bankruptcy in the
US.

    Continued

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    The US does not have a health care system; we have a disease-management
system that is dependent on expensive drugs and invasive surgeries. It’s a
system rooted in an ideal of maximized profits, opposed to helping people
maintain or regain their health.

    The US spends more on health care than the next 10 biggest spenders
combined: Japan, Germany, France, China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil,
Spain and Australia, yet the US ranks last in health and mortality analysis
of 17 developed nations.

    Integrative medicine (IM) is a better alternative to the current system,
as it offers a combination of conventional medical therapies and
complementary or alternative therapies "for which there is some high-quality
scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness"

    The Affordable Health Care Act is likely to make matters far worse rather
than better, as the Act does not include any strategies to prevent illness.
Nor does it contain any measures to rein in or reduce out-of-control health
care costs related to overcharges. Instead it expands an already flawed model
of “care” that has been and continues to be one of the leading causes of both
death and bankruptcy in the US.

 Thank You Dr. Mercola


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 The Fallacies of Fats and Carbs

    Coincidentally, Dr. Robert Lustig – another expert on the dangers of high carb diets – was recently interviewed by NPR radio’s Science Friday segment.2 His new book, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, tackles the persistent myths about fat that is endangering the health of millions. It’s difficult to know just how many people have suffered poor health because they followed conventional low-fat recommendations, but I’m sure the number is significant.

    The fact is that you’ve been thoroughly misled when it comes to dietary advice. Still today, many doctors, nutritionists, and government health officials will tell you to avoid saturated fat and keep fat consumption to below 10 percent while keeping the bulk of your diet, about 60 percent, as carbs. This is madness, as it’s the converse of a diet that will lead to optimal health. As an example, you’ve probably seen the whole grain label, which is certified by the American Heart Association3 of all things. Do whole grains support heart health? Hardly. The following outtake from the transcript addresses this head on:

        “Flatow: ...there’s something that came out yesterday released from Harvard... and it talks about one of the most widely used industry standards, the wholegrain stamp. [It] actually identified grain products [bearing the stamp] were higher in both sugars and calories than products without the stamp.

        Lustig: Absolutely. And to be honest with you, wholegrain doesn’t mean much... Basically what it means is you start with a whole grain; that is the starch on the inside, the kernel, or the husk or the bran on the outside, and then whatever you want to do with it is perfectly fine. It’s still a whole grain. So if you pulverize it and add sugar to it, hey it’s still a whole grain because that’s what you started with. But you know what? All the benefits you get from whole grain are gone as soon as you pulverize it. So.... what it means is irrelevant because the definition is not helpful.”

Other Lifestyle Factors that Influence Your Cancer Risk

    Other lifestyle factors that have been found to have an impact on chronic disease and cancer include:

        Vitamin D: There's overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that vitamin D deficiency plays a crucial role in cancer development. You can decrease your risk of cancer by more than half simply by optimizing your vitamin D levels with sun exposure or a safe tanning bed. And, if you are being treated for cancer, it is likely that higher blood levels – probably around 80-90 ng/ml – would be beneficial. To learn the details on how to use vitamin D therapeutically, please review my previous article, Test Values and Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency. In terms of protecting against cancer, vitamin D has been found to offer protection in a number of ways, including:
            Regulating genetic expression
            Increasing the self-destruction of mutated cells (which, if allowed to replicate, could lead to cancer)
            Reducing the spread and reproduction of cancer cells
            Causing cells to become differentiated (cancer cells often lack differentiation)
            Reducing the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones, which is a step in the transition of dormant tumors turning cancerous
        Getting proper sleep: both in terms of getting enough sleep, and sleeping between certain hours. According to Ayurvedic medicine, the ideal hours for sleep are between 10 pm and 6 am. Modern research has confirmed the value of this recommendation as certain hormonal fluctuations occur throughout the day and night, and if you engage in the appropriate activities during those times, you're 'riding the wave' so to speak, and are able to get the optimal levels. Working against your biology by staying awake when you should ideally be sleeping or vice versa, interferes with these hormonal fluctuations.

        There's a spike of melatonin that occurs between midnight and 1am that you don't want to miss because the consequences are absolutely spectacular. Melatonin is not only a sleep hormone, but it also is a very powerful antioxidant. It decreases the amount of estrogen your body produces, and boosts your immune system. It also interacts with other hormones. So, if you go to bed after 10, it can significantly increase your risk of breast cancer.
        Effectively addressing your stress: The research shows that if you experience a traumatic or highly stressful event, such as a death in the family, your risk of breast cancer is 12 times higher in the ensuing five years. I believe energy psychology tools are ideal to address stressors in your life. My favorite is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but there are many others available as well.
        Exercise: If you are like most people, when you think of reducing your risk of cancer, exercise doesn't immediately come to mind. However, there is some fairly compelling evidence that exercise can slash your risk of cancer.

        One of the primary ways exercise lowers your risk for cancer is by reducing elevated insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells. Additionally, exercise improves the circulation of immune cells in your blood. Your immune system is your first line of defense against everything from minor illnesses like a cold right up to devastating, life-threatening diseases like cancer.

        The trick about exercise, though, is understanding how to use it as a precise tool. This ensures you are getting enough to achieve the benefit, not too much to cause injury, and the right variety to balance your entire physical structure and maintain strength and flexibility, and aerobic and anaerobic fitness levels. This is why it is helpful to view exercise like a drug that needs to be carefully prescribed to achieve its maximum benefit. For detailed instructions, please see this previous article.

        Additionally it is likely that integrating exercise with intermittent fasting will greatly catalyze the potential of exercise to reduce your risk of cancer and stimulate widespread healing and rejuvenation.

You CAN Beat 'the System'...

    Cancer is the second most lethal disease in the US after heart disease (not counting iatrogenic mortality, aka “death by medicine”). We all know that the war on cancer has been a dismal failure. Tragically, conventional wisdom is blind when it comes to cancer prevention and treatment and hundreds of thousands die prematurely every year as a result. They have little to no appreciation of the concepts discussed in this article. But you don’t have to fall into that trap as you know better and can take control of your health and ability to treat cancer in your own hands.

    The ketogenic diet, which can be summarized as a high-fat, moderate-protein, no-grain-carb diet, has brought many back to health, even after being diagnosed with aggressive cancer, and given no hope of survival. Hopefully, research by the likes of Dr. D’Agostino will become more widely known. Until then, do your own research and take control of your own health, and that of your family.

    Severely limiting sugar/fructose, processed foods of all kinds, sweetened beverages (as well as diet versions), and replacing carbs with healthy fats and high quality protein can do what no medicine can – it can prevent disease from setting in, and may even be the U-turn you’re looking for if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer or other chronic disease. Add to that appropriate sun exposure, sleep, effective stress management, and regular exercise, and you’ll be well ahead of the rest of the population.

Thank You Dr. Mercola

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