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  By Dr. Mercola      

Sensible Sun Exposure Can Help Prevent Melanoma, Breast Cancer, and Hundreds of Other Health Problems


    A growing body of research clearly shows the absolute necessity of vitamin D for good health and disease prevention. However, despite vitamin D’s role in keeping your body ticking along like a well-oiled clock, you are likely deficient in the sunshine vitamin because the majority of people are.

    Our vitamin D levels have dropped as a result of being scared sunless by those spreading misinformation that the sun causes melanoma, a myth that survives by mass promotion but really lacks any factual basis. It has been repeated so many times that most people believe it.

    Vitamin D affects your biological function by influencing nearly 3,000 of your genes through vitamin D receptors. In fact, vitamin D receptors are found throughout your body, which should come as no surprise, given we humans evolved in the sun.

    Recent research has also revealed yet another benefit of sun exposure beyond the protective benefits of producing vitamin D, namely the production of nitric oxide a compound that lowers your blood pressure.

    According to the researchers, the heart-health benefits from this may outweigh the risk of developing skin cancer. Your vitamin D level varies not only with time of day, season, and geographic location, but also with your genetics.

    For example, if you have dark skin, you may need up to 10 times more sun exposure to maintain an optimal vitamin D level as a person with pale skin. Redheads have to be particularly careful, as they appear to be genetically predisposed to developing melanoma, regardless of whether or not they spend time in the sun.


Tens of Thousands of Health Studies Attest to Vitamin D’s Importance

     Sunshine’s gifts extend well beyond vitamin D production. As discussed in the featured article by Sayer Ji, five of the many noteworthy properties of sunlight include:

        Pain-killing (analgesic) properties
        Increased subcutaneous fat metabolism
        Regulation of human lifespan (solar cycles appear to be able to directly affect the human genome, thereby influencing lifespan)
        Daytime sun exposure improves evening alertness
        Conversion to metabolic energy (i.e. we may ingest energy directly from the sun, like plants do)
    When it comes to vitamin D production, the benefits are simply immeasurable. In fact, correcting a vitamin D deficiency may cut your risk of dying in half, according to an analysis of more than 10,000 individuals.

    According to a January 2013 press release by Orthomolecular Medicine, 3,600 medical papers with vitamin D in the title or abstract were published in 2012 alone, bringing the grand total to 33,800. Research to date shows vitamin D has far reaching benefits to your physical and mental health.

Another Way Sun Exposure Protects Your Heart Health

    UVB exposure also improves your mood and energy level, helps regulate melatonin, and, as mentioned earlier, increases nitric oxide production, which benefits your cardiovascular system. With regards to the latter:

        Richard Weller, Senior Lecturer in Dermatology, and colleagues, say the effect is such that overall, sun exposure could improve health and even prolong life, because the benefits of reducing blood pressure, cutting heart attacks and strokes, far outweigh the risk of getting skin cancer, Medical News Today reports.

        Weller and colleagues found that the body's production of nitric oxide is separate from production of vitamin D... Human skin contains large stores of nitrite (NO2) and nitrate (NO3). The researchers note that while nitrate is "biologically inert", the action of sunlight can reduce it to active nitrite and nitric oxide (NO).They found that circulatory nitrate fell and nitrite rose during UV and heat exposure, but not during exposure to heat only. There was no difference in vitamin D levels.

        Weller says in a statement that: 'We suspect that the benefits to heart health of sunlight will outweigh the risk of skin cancer. The work we have done provides a mechanism that might account for this, and also explains why dietary vitamin D supplements alone will not be able to compensate for lack of sunlight... If this confirms that sunlight reduces the death rate from all causes, we will need to reconsider our advice on sun exposure.'"

Skin Cancer, in Brief

    Before we discuss melanoma, you need a basic understanding of the three most common types of skin cancer, each named for the type of cells affected:

        Basal cell carcinoma (BCC): Begins in the basal cell layer of the skin, typically on the face; the most common form of skin cancer and the most common type of cancer in humans; least likely skin cancer to spread.
        Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC): Begins in the squamous cells, typically on the face, neck, ears, lips, and backs of hands; tends to grow and spread a bit more than BCC.
        Melanoma: Begins in the melanocytes (the cells that produce the pigment melanin, responsible for your tan); melanin protects the deeper layers of your skin from excess radiation. Melanoma is more likely than other types of skin cancer to spread to other parts of your body and causes more deaths than any other type of skin cancer.

Don’t Fall for the Melanoma Myth

    If you believe the lure of the sun is equivalent to the siren’s call for melanoma, you’ll be relieved to learn melanoma is not actually caused by sun exposure, unlike the other two types of skin cancer, BCC and SCC. Although the reported number of new cases of melanoma in the US has been reportedly increasing for more than 30 years, a landmark study in the British Journal of Dermatology0 suggests this apparent increase is a result of non-cancerous lesions being misclassified as stage 1 melanoma. In other words, people are being diagnosed with melanoma even when they have only a minimal, non-cancerous lesion, and these diagnoses are significantly skewing cancer statistics.1 The sun is nothing more than a scapegoat in this phenomenon of increased melanoma.

    But this misdiagnosis is doing more than just skewing statistics it’s causing a mountain of unnecessary melanoma surgeries. A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that 90 percent of melanoma excisions end up NOT being melanoma at all. But if the sun doesn’t cause melanoma, then what does?

The REAL Role of the Sun in Melanoma

    As with all serious diseases, there are multiple interacting factors that cause your immune system to go awry, such as nutrition, environmental toxins, stress, inadequate sleep, etc. But for melanoma, the sun does appear to have a significant role melanoma may signify too little of it!

    Studies show melanoma mortality actually decreases after UV exposure. Additionally, melanoma lesions do not predominate sun-exposed skin, which is why sunscreens have proven ineffective in preventing it. Exposure to sunlight, particularly UVB, is protective against melanoma or rather, the vitamin D your body produces in response to UVB radiation is protective. The following passage comes from The Lancet:

        "Paradoxically, outdoor workers have a decreased risk of melanoma compared with indoor workers, suggesting that chronic sunlight exposure can have a protective effect."

    And this from the British Medical Journal:

        There is solid descriptive, quantitative, and mechanistic proof that ultraviolet rays cause the main skin cancers (basal and squamous). They develop in pale, sun exposed skin, are related to degree of exposure and latitude, are fewer with avoidance and protection, are readily produced experimentally, and are the overwhelmingly predominant tumor in xeroderma pigmentosum, where DNA repair of ultraviolet light damage is impaired. None of these is found with melanoma.

    The bottom line is, by avoiding the sun, your risk for vitamin D deficiency skyrockets, which increases your odds of developing melanoma and a multitude of other diseases. The risks associated with insufficient vitamin D are far greater than those posed by basal cell or squamous cell carcinomas, which are fairly benign by comparison, as you’ll see by reading on.

Vitamin D Could Prevent 90 Percent of Breast Cancers

     Theories linking vitamin D deficiency to cancer have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies. In the above interview, GrassrootsHealth founder Carole Baggerly believes 90 percent of ordinary breast cancer is related to vitamin D deficiency. In fact, breast cancer has been described as a vitamin D deficiency syndrome. The way vitamin D interferes with breast cancer’s ability to spread is by affecting the structure of those cells without adequate vitamin D, they fall apart and are forced to overmultiply in order to survive.

    Previous research has shown that optimizing your vitamin D levels can reduce your risk for as many as 16 different types of cancer, including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, breast, prostate, and skin cancers. A study of menopausal women showed that maintaining vitamin D serum levels of 40ng/ml lowers overall cancer risk by 77 percent.

    Two recent papers in the journal Science Express shed light on how cancer might begin. A cancer cell can be created when unusual mutations occur in a small area of its DNA that controls and regulates its genes, as contrasted with mutations in the genes themselves. The mutations spur the cell to make telomerase. One of the functions of telomerase is to prevent telomere shortening, which leads to cell death. According to Harvard researchers, abundant telomerase is so important to cancers that it appears in nine out of ten.

    In addition to being a strong cancer preventative, vitamin D is crucial for pregnant women and their babies, lowering the risk for preterm birth, low birth weight, and C-section. And sadly, 80 percent of pregnant women have inadequate vitamin D levels.

Low Vitamin D in Pregnancy May Increase Your Baby’s Risk for Multiple Sclerosis Later in Life

    Sunshine is so important to your overall health that science is now finding a connection between the strength of your immune system and your birthday, called the birth month effect. If you were born in the spring, you are statistically more vulnerable to developing an autoimmune disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS), than if you were born in the fall.

    Why would this be?

    Some researchers suggest it’s related to a pregnant woman’s vitamin D levels during her baby’s gestation. April and May babies have been gestating during the colder, darker months, as opposed to November and December babies, who’ve been developing over the spring and summer. Now a study in JAMA Neurology shows this hunch may be correct, suggesting a mechanism related to thymic development. Another study suggests sun exposure and vitamin D may play roles in the CNS demyelination associated with MS.

    And the sun can lift your mood! New research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that Google searches for mental health related issues drop by 15 to 42 percent during the summer months, which could very well be related to the boost in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is a known factor in cognitive impairment and dementia.


Practicing Safe Sunning

     Safely exposing your bare skin to the sun is the best way to optimize your vitamin D levels, and is therefore the best protection against melanoma. Sunburn should be avoided at all cost. I recommend reading our article about safe sunning guidelines and listening to the video above for detailed instructions about how to do this safely and effectively.

    Vitamin D3 is an oil-soluble steroid hormone (the term vitamin is a misnomer) that forms when your skin is exposed to UVB radiation from the sun or a safe tanning bed. When UVB strikes the surface of your skin, your skin converts a cholesterol derivative into vitamin D3. It takes up to 48 hours for this D3 to be absorbed into your bloodstream to raise your vitamin D levels. Therefore, it’s important to avoid washing your skin with soap for 48 hours after sun exposure. In case you do develop a sunburn, immediately apply raw aloe vera, as it’s one of the best skin remedies.

    As a general guideline, research by GrassrootsHealth suggests that adults need about 8,000 IU’s per day to achieve a serum level of 40 ng/ml. If you opt for a vitamin D supplement, you also need to boost your intake of vitamin K2 through food and/or a supplement. How do you know if your vitamin D level is in the right range? The most important factor is having your vitamin D serum level tested every six months, as people vary widely in their response to ultraviolet exposure or oral D3 supplementation. Your goal is to reach a clinically relevant serum level of 50-70 ng/ml.

Overuse of Sunscreen May Turn You into a Melanoma Magnet

    Following the advise of health officials’ to slather on sunscreen may increase your melanoma risk instead of decreasing it, which is certainly not what you want. Indeed, you never want to let yourself burn. However, if you practice safe sunning, you will avail yourself of all of the sun’s health benefits with none of the risk.

    If you do use a sunscreen, please be careful about which product you choose as many sunscreen products contain chemicals you don’t want absorbed into your body. According to the Environmental Working Group’s 2012 Sunscreen Guide,21 about 75 percent of sunscreens contain potentially harmful ingredients, such as oxybenzone and retinyl palmitate. Avoid products with SPFs higher than 50, and make sure yours offers protection against both UVA and UVB rays.

    Keep in mind SPF only protects against UVBs but it’s the UVAs that increase your risk for skin cancer and are responsible for photoaging your skin. Recall that it’s the UVBs that stimulate your vitamin D production, so you don’t want to block out too many of them.

    Using an internal sunscreen is an alternative to topical sunblock agents. Astaxanthin a potent antioxidant has been found to offer effective protection against sun damage when taken as a daily supplement. It can also be used topically and a number of topical sunscreen products contain it. Some sunscreens are also starting to use astaxanthin as an ingredient to protect your skin from damage. As an alternative, you can cover up with lightweight clothing to protect yourself. Sometimes we forget about the simple things, like simply wearing a hat.

Thank You Dr. Mercola

 God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

Larry Nelson
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cancercurehere@gmail.com

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Five Steps to a Healthier Emotional Outlook and Perspective

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By Dr. David Williams
Filed Under: Mood & Memory
Last Reviewed 02/06/2014

Envision a Happier, Less Stressful You

Visualization can be a very positive tool in restoring a healthier, happier perception of yourself and the world. There are probably endless methods and sequences for visualization and, if you want, you can easily modify these to suit your needs. Here is an outline of five simple steps you can follow.

1. Consider your actions
As you lie in bed, relive the events of the day. If there were instances where you expressed any anger, bitterness, ill will, hatred or other negative feelings (either verbally or even if you just had these thoughts), visualize the situation in your mind and picture yourself handling the situation in a positive manner.

2. Let yourself forgive
As you begin to re-examine and understand how you react to others, you'll most likely need to work on forgiveness for both yourself and others. Unresolved hurt can destroy you both physically and mentally. It implants itself deeper and grows into bitterness and, if left untended, it will eventually transform into feelings of hatred.

3. Accentuate the positive
Next, it is time to give thanks for all of the wonderful things in your life. If you can't find anything, it's only because it's easier to feel sorry for yourself than look for the positive aspects. If nothing else, you should feel extremely positive that you're going through this process to make things better from this moment forward.

4. Relax body and mind
After a few minutes of working through the above suggestions, it's time to relax and get rid of the physical stresses that have accumulated throughout the day. Again, there are numerous relaxation procedures; however, this one is particularly effective and easy to learn.

Start by lying flat on your back with a pillow to support your neck and head and with your hands at your sides. Beginning with your toes, first tense the muscles, then allow them to relax completely. From there, move to your feet, lower legs, thighs and so on until you finish with the neck and head area. Don't leave any area until it is totally relaxed.

Relaxing may be difficult on the first try, especially when you reach certain areas (like the neck or shoulder areas). With practice, it will become easier and you may be able to use a quicker technique. (In the same position, imagine you are lying in a warm stream of water that runs from your feet, up your legs, thighs, and so on, and as it moves up the length of your body it relaxes every muscle). Don't be surprised if you fall asleep the first several times.

5. Visualize happiness
Once you have mastered these relaxation exercises and can stay awake, it's time to visualize happiness.

First, imagine your entire body encompassed by a bright white light. Next, picture yourself as you would like to be. For example, you might see yourself as extremely happy and healthy enjoying a walk on a beautiful spring morning. Picture situations with loved ones or friends in the surroundings you would like to experience. (It is fine to picture others with you, just make sure you don't visualize yourself controlling them or their actions.)

These exercises can turn out to be some of the most powerful tools you can ever develop for helping your body heal itself, both physically and mentally.

They can be one of your most powerful goal-achieving tools when used properly. The key is to use your imagination not only to "see" circumstances you would like to occur, but also to develop the ability to imagine how to touch, feel, smell and even taste those situations. In other words, when you picture yourself in a positive situation, imagine the input you'd be receiving from your other senses. The more detailed you can become, the more powerful a tool visualization will be.

Read more:
http://www.drdavidwilliams.com/five-steps-to-a-healthier-emotional-outlook/#ixzz37Af0rfxH

Thank You Dr. David Williams

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Larry Nelson
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Intermittent Fasting

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    Is it a good idea to starve yourself just a little bit each day, or a couple of days a week? Mounting evidence indicates that yes, intermittent fasting (IF) could have a very beneficial impact on your health and longevity.

    I believe it’s one of the most powerful interventions out there if you’re struggling with your weight and related health issues. One of the primary reasons for this is because it helps shift your body from burning sugar/carbs to burning fat as its primary fuel.

    As discussed in the featured article, intermittent fasting is not about binge eating followed by starvation, or any other extreme form of dieting. Rather what we’re talking about here involves timing your meals to allow for regular periods of fasting.

    I prefer daily intermittent fasting, but you could also fast a couple of days a week if you prefer, or every other day. There are many different variations.

    To be effective, in the case of daily intermittent fasting, the length of your fast must be at least 16 hours. This means eating only between the hours of 11am until 7pm, as an example. Essentially, this equates to simply skipping breakfast, and making lunch your first meal of the day instead.

    You can restrict it even further down to six, four, or even two hours if you want, but you can still reap many of these rewards by limiting your eating to an eight-hour window each day.

    This is because it takes about six to eight hours for your body to metabolize your glycogen stores; after that you start to shift to burning fat. However, if you are replenishing your glycogen by eating every eight hours (or sooner), you make it far more difficult for your body to use your fat stores as fuel.

Intermittent Fasting More a Lifestyle Than a Diet

    I have been experimenting with different types of scheduled eating for the past two years and currently restrict my eating to a 6- to 7-hour window each day. While you’re not required to restrict the amount of food you eat when on this type of daily scheduled eating plan, I would caution against versions of intermittent fasting that gives you free reign to eat all the junk food you want when not fasting, as this seems awfully counterproductive.

    Also, according to research published in 2010, intermittent fasting with compensatory overeating did not improve survival rates nor delay prostate tumor growth in mice. Essentially, by gorging on non-fasting days, the health benefits of fasting can easily be lost. If so, then what’s the point?

    I view intermittent fasting as a lifestyle, not a diet, and that includes making healthy food choices whenever you do eat. Also, proper nutrition becomes even more important when fasting, so you really want to address your food choices before you try fasting.

    This includes minimizing carbs and replacing them with healthful fats, like coconut oil, olive oil, olives, butter, eggs, avocados, and nuts. It typically takes several weeks to shift to fat burning mode, but once you do, your cravings for unhealthy foods and carbs will automatically disappear. This is because you’re now actually able to burn your stored fat and don’t have to rely on new fast-burning carbs for fuel. Unfortunately, despite mounting evidence, many health practitioners are still reluctant to prescribe fasting to their patients. According to Brad Pilon, author of Eat Stop Eat:

        Health care practitioners across the board are so afraid to recommend eating less because of the stigma involved in that recommendation, but we are more than happy to recommend that someone start going to the gym. If all I said was you need to get to the gym and start eating healthier, no one would have a problem with it. When the message is not only should you eat less, you could probably go without eating for 24 hours once or twice a week, suddenly it’s heresy.

The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

    Aside from removing your cravings for sugar and snack foods and turning you into an efficient fat-burning machine, thereby making it far easier to maintain a healthy body weight, modern science has confirmed there are many other good reasons to fast intermittently. For example, research presented at the 2011 annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans4 showed that fasting triggered a 1,300 percent rise of human growth hormone (HGH) in women, and an astounding 2,000 percent in men.

    HGH, human growth hormone, commonly referred to as "the fitness hormone," plays an important role in maintaining health, fitness and longevity, including promotion of muscle growth, and boosting fat loss by revving up your metabolism. The fact that it helps build muscle while simultaneously promoting fat loss explains why HGH helps you lose weight without sacrificing muscle mass, and why even athletes can benefit from the practice (as long as they don't overtrain and are careful about their nutrition). The only other thing that can compete in terms of dramatically boosting HGH levels is high-intensity interval training. Other health benefits of intermittent fasting include:

Normalizing your insulin and leptin sensitivity, which is key for optimal health
    
Improving biomarkers of disease

Normalizing ghrelin levels, also known as "the hunger hormone"
   
Reducing inflammation and lessening free radical damage

Lowering triglyceride levels
   
Preserving memory functioning and learning

 Intermittent Fasting Is as Good or Better Than Continuous Calorie Restriction

    According to Dr. Stephen Freedland, associate professor of urology and pathology at the Duke University Medical Center, undernutrition without malnutrition is the only experimental approach that consistently improves survival in animals with cancer, as well as extends lifespan overall by as much as 30 percent. Interestingly enough, intermittent fasting appears to provide nearly identical health benefits without being as difficult to implement and maintain. It’s easier for most people to simply restrict their eating to a narrow window of time each day, opposed to dramatically decreasing their overall daily calorie intake.

    Mark Mattson, senior investigator for the National Institute on Aging, which is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), has researched the health benefits of intermittent fasting, as well as the benefits of calorie restriction. According to Mattson, there are several theories to explain why fasting works:

        "The one that we've studied a lot, and designed experiments to test, is the hypothesis that during the fasting period, cells are under a mild stress, and they respond to the stress adaptively by enhancing their ability to cope with stress and, maybe, to resist disease... There is considerable similarity between how cells respond to the stress of exercise and how cells respond to intermittent fasting.

    In one of his studies, overweight adults with moderate asthma lost eight percent of their body weight by cutting their calorie intake by 80 percent on alternate days for eight weeks. Markers of oxidative stress and inflammation also decreased, and asthma-related symptoms improved, along with several quality-of-life indicators.

    More recently, Mattson and colleagues compared the effectiveness of intermittent fasting against continuous calorie restriction for weight loss, insulin sensitivity and other metabolic disease risk markers. The study, published in the International Journal of Obesity in 2011, found that intermittent fasting was as effective as continuous calorie restriction for improving all of these issues, and slightly better for reducing insulin resistance. According to the authors:

        Both groups experienced comparable reductions in leptin, free androgen index, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, total and LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure and increases in sex hormone binding globulin, IGF binding proteins 1 and 2. Reductions in fasting insulin and insulin resistance were modest in both groups, but greater with IER [intermittent fasting] than with CER [continuous energy restriction].

How Intermittent Fasting Benefits Your Brain

    Your brain can also benefit from intermittent fasting. As reported in the featured article:

        Mattson has also researched the protective benefits of fasting to neurons. If you don't eat for 10 hours, your body will go to its fat stores for energy, and fatty acids called ketones will be released into the bloodstream. This has been shown to protect memory and learning functionality, says Mattson, as well as slow disease processes in the brain.

    Besides releasing ketones as a byproduct of burning fat, intermittent fasting also affects brain function by boosting production of a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Mattson’s research suggests that fasting every other day (restricting your meal on fasting days to about 600 calories), tends to boost BDNF by anywhere from 50 to 400 percent, depending on the brain region. BDNF activates brain stem cells to convert into new neurons, and triggers numerous other chemicals that promote neural health. This protein also protects your brain cells from changes associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

    BDNF also expresses itself in the neuro-muscular system where it protects neuro-motors from degradation. (The neuromotor is the most critical element in your muscle. Without the neuromotor, your muscle is like an engine without ignition. Neuro-motor degradation is part of the process that explains age-related muscle atrophy.) So BDNF is actively involved in both your muscles and your brain, and this cross-connection, if you will, appears to be a major part of the explanation for why a physical workout can have such a beneficial impact on your brain tissue and why the combination of intermittent fasting with high intensity exercise appears to be a particularly potent combination.

Give Intermittent Fasting a Try

    If you’re ready to give intermittent fasting a try, consider skipping breakfast, make sure you stop eating and drinking anything but water three hours before you go to sleep, and restrict your eating to an 8-hour (or less) time frame every day. In the 6-8 hours that you do eat, have healthy protein, minimize your carbs like pasta, bread, and potatoes and exchange them for healthful fats like butter, eggs, avocado, coconut oil, olive oil and nuts essentially the very fats the media and experts tell you to avoid.

    This will help shift you from carb burning to fat burning mode. Once your body has made this shift, it is nothing short of magical as your cravings for sweets, and food in general, rapidly normalizes and your desire for sweets and junk food radically decreases if not disappears entirely.

    Remember it takes a few weeks, and you have to do it gradually, but once you succeed and switch to fat burning mode, you'll be easily able to fast for 18 hours and not feel hungry. The hunger most people feel is actually cravings for sugar, and these will disappear, as if by magic, once you successfully shift over to burning fat instead.

    Another phenomenal side effect/benefit that occurs is that you will radically improve the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Supporting healthy gut bacteria, which actually outnumber your cells 10 to one, is one of the most important things you can do to improve your immune system so you won’t get sick, or get coughs, colds and flus. You will sleep better, have more energy, have increased mental clarity and concentrate better. Essentially every aspect of your health will improve as your gut flora becomes balanced.

    Based on my own phenomenal experience with intermittent fasting, I believe it’s one of the most powerful ways to shift your body into fat burning mode and improve a wide variety of biomarkers for disease. The effects can be further magnified by exercising while in a fasted state. For more information on that, please see my previous article High-Intensity Interval Training and Intermittent Fasting - A Winning Combo.

    Clearly, it’s another powerful tool in your box to help you and your family take control of your health, and an excellent way to take your fitness to the next level.

Thank You Dr. Mercola

 God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

Larry Nelson
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Volunteering is a simple way to help others.

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By Dr. Mercola

    Volunteering is a simple way to help others, but it’s
also a powerful way to help yourself.

    Beyond the good feelings you’ll get from donating your
time, and the potential to develop new, meaningful
relationships with people in your community, volunteering has
a significant impact on your physical health, including a
boost to your heart health.

Volunteering Cuts Your Risk of High Blood Pressure by 40
Percent

    New research from Carnegie Mellon University, scheduled
to be published in the journal Psychology and Aging, followed
more than 1,000 adults between the ages of 51 and 91.

    Those who volunteered for at least 200 hours a year were
40 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than
those who did not. The type of volunteer work appeared to be
irrelevant. Rather, it was the amount of time spent doing it
that mattered.

        As people get older, social transitions like
retirement, bereavement and the departure of children from
the home often leave older adults with fewer natural
opportunities for social interaction, lead author Rodlescia
Sneed, Ph.D said.

        Participating in volunteer activities may provide
older adults with social connections that they might not have
otherwise. There is strong evidence that having good social
connections promotes healthy aging and reduces risk for a
number of negative health outcomes.

    Indeed, social interaction, and the stress relief it can
provide, is likely one major reason why volunteering has a
beneficial effect on blood pressure, as it’s a well-known
fact that stress elevates blood pressure.

What Makes Volunteering so Good for Your Health?

    Blood pressure aside, volunteering is not only a boon for
your heart health. Research shows volunteering can cut your
overall mortality risk by 47 percent, may lower your risk of
depression and anxiety, and even boost your psychological
well-being.

    The benefits are particularly pronounced among older
adults, a population that tends to slow down once retirement
hits. It’s likely that one reason volunteering is so

beneficial is simply because it keeps you active and on your
feet. Instead of resigning yourself to your couch, choosing
to volunteer adds many hours of non-exercise activity to your
life a key to optimal health.

    Sitting for extended periods of time is an independent
risk factor for poor health and premature death. Volunteering
is a simple way to interrupt the sitting and add unlimited
amounts of movement to your days, which some experts, such as
former NASA director Dr. Joan Vernikos, believe is even more
important than regular exercise.

    As mentioned, there’s a definite social aspect as well,
as if you're socially isolated, you may experience poorer
health and a shorter lifespan. Volunteering also gives you a
sense of purpose and can even lead to a so-called helper’s
high, which may occur because doing good releases feel-good
hormones like oxytocin in your body while lowering levels of
stress hormones like cortisol.

    The latter may also explain why volunteering is so good
for your heart health (separate research has even shown that
states with a high volunteer rate have lower rates of
mortality and incidences of heart disease). Researchers
noted:

        [Studies] consistently demonstrate that there is a
significant relationship between volunteering and good
health; when individuals volunteer, they not only help their
community but also experience better health in later years,
whether in terms of greater longevity, higher functional
ability, or lower rates of depression.

Worried About High Blood Pressure? Here's What Can Help

    For the good of your community, and the good of your
physical and emotional health, volunteering is an activity
that we should all strive to do. But it obviously shouldn’t
be your only strategy to keep your blood pressure in check.

    Hypertension is best addressed by using a natural
approach, as opposed to a cocktail of typical expensive and
dangerous prescription drugs that may actually backfire on
you. Lifestyle changes, with particular emphasis on
normalizing your insulin levels, will put you on the safest
and most reliable path toward optimal health and blood
pressure levels. This includes:

        Replace most of your carbs, including sugar and
fructose, with non-starchy vegetables and replace the lost
calories with healthy fats like:

Olives and olive oil (for cold dishes)  

Coconuts and coconut oil (for all types of cooking and
baking)    

Butter made from raw grass-fed organic milk

Raw nuts, such as macadamia nuts
   
Organic pastured egg yolks    

Avocados

Pasture-finished meats    

Palm oil (make sure it’s the eco-friendly variety)    

Unheated organic nut oils

Normalize your omega-6:3 ratio. Both omega-3 and omega-6 fats
are essential for your health. Most Americans, however, are
getting too much omega-6 and far too little omega-3 in their
diets. Consuming omega-3 fats is one of the best ways to re-
sensitize your insulin receptors if you suffer from insulin
resistance. Omega-3 fats are also important for strong cell
membranes and good arterial elasticity. The best sources of
omega-3 fats are fish and animal products. Unfortunately,
most fresh fish today contains dangerously high levels of
mercury. Your best bet is to find a safe source of fish, or
if this proves too difficult, supplement with a high-quality
krill oil.

Eliminate caffeine. The connection between caffeine
consumption and high blood pressure is not well understood,
but there is ample evidence to indicate that if you have
hypertension, coffee and other caffeinated drinks and foods
can ex­acerbate your condition.

Consume fermented foods. Disturbances in gut flora appear to
be a significant factor in the development of heart disease,
as well as in many other chronic health problems. The best
way to optimize your gut flora is by including some naturally
fermented foods in your diet, such as sauerkraut and other
fermented vegetables, yogurt, kefir, cheese and natto.

Fermented foods (especially gouda and edam cheeses) are an
important source of vitamin K2, which plays a crucial role in
protecting your heart and brain.

Optimize your vitamin D level. Vitamin D deficiency has been
linked to metabolic syndrome, as well as to high blood
pressure. Vitamin D is a negative inhibitor of your body's
renin-angiotensin system (RAS), which regulates blood
pressure. If you're vitamin-D deficient, it can cause
inappropriate activation of your RAS, which may lead to
hypertension. Ideally, you'll want to get your vitamin D by
safely exposing your skin to the sun, or using a safe tanning
bed. If those are not possible, then consider taking a
vitamin D3 supplement.

Make exercise a priority. A comprehensive exercise regimen
such as my Peak Fitness program is very important in
maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system. Your routine
should incorporate high-intensity interval training and
weight training one to three times a week, as these have been
shown to be even more effective than aerobic exercises at
reducing your risk of dying from a heart attack.

Get Grounded. Lack of grounding, due to widespread use of
rubber or plastic-soled shoes, is likely contributing to
chronic inflammation today. When you walk on the Earth
barefoot, there is a massive transfer of beneficial electrons
rom the Earth into your body. Walking barefoot outside
improves blood viscosity and blood flow, which help regulate
blood pressure. So, do yourself a favor and put your bare
feet upon the sand or dewy grass to harness the healing power
of the Earth.

Thank You Dr. Mercola

 God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

Larry Nelson
42 S. Sherwood Dr.
Belton, Tx. 76513
cancercurehere@gmail.com

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Treating Alzheimer's Patients

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In treating Alzheimer's patients, the following are some of the approaches I've found helpful.

1. Eliminate any sources of aluminum exposure: cookware, utensils, foil, underarm deodorants, drinking water,and any juices and drinks packaged in aluminum-lined cartons. Cut out those vitamins as well as bottled waterpackaged in bottles with aluminum across the top.

2. Undergo a brain and body detoxification program, which should include a supervised fast. Now don't attempt to detoxify on your own. You must have holistic physicians or practitioners who are knowledgeable, competent, and experienced in these practices because if you attempt it on your own, you may come up with some upsetting surprises. Raw juice therapy helps flush out the toxins and brings an enzyme to the raw nutrients. Colonic irrigation will help clean out the colon of years of accumulated material and help the body function properly. Drinking distilled water, at least in the beginning or for part of the treatment, is also beneficial, along with the use of herbal non caffeinated teas.

3. Have all of your silver, mercury amalgam dental fillings removed from your teeth. Tom Warren, who wrote Beating Alzheimer's, emphasized the importance of this procedure.

4. Bio-oxidative therapies are very effective in bringing oxygen into the brain to make it able to think. These include oxygen chamber therapy, ozone therapy, and hydrogen peroxide, among others. Also, vitamin E, aerobic exercising, and deep breathing in a relatively pure environment can be helpful. The herb gingko biloba is very beneficial.

5. The antioxidants, which work on the brain, are beneficial: vitamin A, thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, niacinamide, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, B12, folic acid, parameicbenzoic acid, biotin, choline and inositol, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin P bioflavinoids (such as quercetin and pignogenol), the sulfur-containing amino acids L-cysteine and L-methionine, and the enzymes such as co-enzyme Q10.

6. EDTA chelation therapy, done intravenously, is very good for removing the heavy toxic metals, which include lead, cadmium, arsenic, nickel, copper, iron, mercury, and aluminum. Despherioximine works well, specifically as an aluminum-chelating agent.

7. Homeopathic remedies will also remove aluminum from the body and the brain. Then you have to take orthomolecular nutritional therapy, intravenously or with intramuscular shots, along with oral supplements of all the nutrients.

8. The clinical ecologists have made a major contribution to treating people with Alzhleimer's disease by recommending that you have a food-rotation diet--in which you eat a variety of foods and no one food more than once or twice a week--thus eliminating the food allergens to which you are generally addicted. You should also eliminate alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, sugar, and foods that are refined, processed, or filled with chemicals and artificial color dyes, and replace them with natural, organically grown wholesome and whole foods.

9. Biomagnetic and electromagnetic pulse therapies are also helpful. Biofeedback, acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, and ear or auricular therapy can also be tried.

10. There are other nutrient substances that help the brain: An Israeli lecithin substance, AL721, which was originally used to give energy and reduce cholesterol in elderly people, and also was used to combat HIV and AIDS, also helps the brain. You might try Dr. Ana Aslan's treatment called Gerovital (GH3) and live cell therapy, which is illegal in America, but there are places outside that use this therapy. Also take super-triple-phosphotidycholine. There are supplement companies that manufacture brain formulas, which are composed of various amino acids, enzymes, vitamins, and minerals. Niacin is helpful because it opens up the blood vessels and brings nutrients, blood, and oxygen to the brain. Mineral baths, consisting of sodium, potassium, and magnesium, which get in through the pores of the skin, are also helpful.

11. Herbal remedies are also helpful: cell salts, Bach flower remedies, and homeopathic remedies.

12. Finally, since the brain of an Alzheimer's patient shrinks, we have to rehydrate it with pure water, daily; it takes about six months to compensate for the shrinkage." Dr Phillip Hodes.

In the case of dementia, my approach is to see whether there are some nutrients that the person may need. Some people have improved quite a bit on a program in which they received injectable B vitamins and magnesium. Some of these elderly people have difficulty absorbing vitamins and minerals simply because of long-term chronic deficiencies, so an injectable program becomes very, very helpful.

One of the first things I do is give them a trial of some vitamins and minerals by injection and often that will be very helpful. In addition, I have been using EDTA chelation therapy because by using disodium EDTA with magnesium, we find that we're able to reverse some of the aging processes by removing calcium from soft tissues, where it doesn't belong, and trying to get it back into the bone, where it does belong. The chelation process, which is an intravenous treatment, will help with soft tissue decalcification, in addition to removing heavy metals.

There is some research relating aluminum toxicity Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Krapper McCloughlin has done some work in Canada, and we have been doing some work recently too, with patients who suffer from dementia, using another chelating agent called Dephoroximine or Desphoral, which is primarily useful in removing iron and aluminum--and not calcium--from the body. Usually, dementia is a one-way street; people tend to get worse and worse. using this chelation process, some patients have at least had their dementia process stopped. Some patients have even improved a little using a combination program of supplements, a good diet, and the removal of some of these heavy metals with chelating agents."---Dr Michael Schachter

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 God Bless Everyone & God Bless The United States of America.

Larry Nelson
42 S. Sherwood Dr.
Belton, Tx. 76513
cancercurehere@gmail.com

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