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Vitamin C is good for you… its importance dates back to early explorers crossing the ocean by ship who suffered from something called scurvy — caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.

There is now a continual stream of research on vitamin C and its related health benefits — which include antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-aging properties, along with the fact that it has been shown to be a heart-health booster.

Naturopathic physician Mark Stengler, ND, provides the latest thinking on the many positive attributes of vitamin C.

HEART HEALTH

It has great value in reducing risk for cardiovascular disease, as shown by numerous research studies. Nurses’ Health Study which followed more than 85,000 women for up to 16 years, demonstrated that a higher intake (in this case, more than 359 mg/day from dietary sources and supplements) reduced cardiovascular risk by 27%… and an analysis of nine other studies tracking more than 290,000 adults that showed a 25% reduction in risk in those who took more than 700 mg of supplemental vitamin C, compared with those who took none.

Not only has vitamin C been shown to decrease risk for heart attacks, it also seems to reduce damage following one. In a study called the Myocardial Infarction and Vitamins (MIVIT) trial, researchers found that patients who suffered an acute heart attack and then supplemented for one month with 1,200 mg of vitamin C (along with 600 mg of vitamin E) after an initial IV infusion of vitamin C had a reduced rate of complications from the heart attack.

“This doesn’t surprise me,” Dr. Stengler told me, “since vitamin C has so many protective functions, including increasing blood vessel flexibility (so they do not rupture as easily) and preventing the oxidation of LDL cholesterol.”

IMMUNE BOOSTING

In addition to acting as a powerful antioxidant and helping protect the body from free radical damage, vitamin C also supports immune function. It enhances the activity of white blood cells, the body’s first defense against pathogens. And it improves immune response partly by activating an antiviral chemical produced by the body called interferon.

Additionally, vitamin C helps to regenerate other antioxidants, including vitamin E, by acting as a “recycling service” for antioxidants in the body, causing them to re-circulate in the bloodstream and thus delivering “double duty” protective action.

OTHER HEALTH BENEFITS

Vitamin C is…

a.. A collagen builder. Collagen is an important structural component of bones and tissues

b.. A detoxifier. Vitamin C is involved in the production of bile acids, which carry toxins out of the liver.

c.. An agent for longevity. Two major studies have associated vitamin C status with longevity. In a study of more than 19,000 adults, those with the highest blood levels of vitamin C had about half the risk for mortality compared with those with the lowest levels of vitamin C in their blood.

RECOMMENDED DAILY ALLOWANCE

Though the current recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin C is only 90 mg for men and 75 mg for women (add an extra 35 mg for smokers), Dr. Stengler believes a far higher intake is beneficial. “For general prevention and overall health, studies suggest 400 to 500 mg daily,” he said. For those with heart disease he recommends 500 mg to 1,500 mg daily.

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Hello there,

Please read this important message for the sake of your heart. The information is provided in an article by Galina Samitova.

Vitamins are very important when it comes to keeping your heart healthy. You need to eat the right foods of course, but you also need to supplement the food you eat with the vitamins necessary for your body to stay in shape and to keep your heart healthy.

Vitamin E is a vitamin that is essential to improving the overall health of your heart. Taken correctly, vitamin E will stop the cholesterol in the body from harming the arteries that surround the heart. Anytime cholesterol oxidizes, it sticks to the sides of the arteries and can lead to blockages. The blockages can cause heart attacks or other serious heart problems.

Eat foods that are naturally rich in vitamin E, such as nuts. Most nuts have high amounts of vitamin E. You can find other foods that contain vitamin E as well, although nuts are exceptionally rich in this vitamin.

Research has shown Vitamin E can help those who have already suffered a heart attack. This vitamin helps to prevent heart attacks in the future by opening up the arteries to eliminate blockage.

You can use vitamin C to boost the effects of vitamin E. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, which prevents the damaging effects that cholesterol has on the body. Along with preventing cholesterol from damaging the body, vitamin C also helps vitamin E with its functions, including protecting your arteries and your heart.

By taking both vitamin C and E as a combination, you will be taking steps toward a healthier heart. This is the accepted way of protecting your heart. If you have a history of heart disease or heart problems in your family, these vitamins are essential to your diet.

As far as your dosage goes, it will vary from person to person, although 400 international units of vitamin E and C are the recommended amounts for most people.

Finally, you should always try to ensure that you get the proper amount of vitamins in your daily diet. Taking additional vitamins and supplements is usually helpful to your overall health. For more information on natural health supplements

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Here is a very interesting article from Yahoo News if you are worried about age-related vision problems.

Two nutrients found in eggs, spinach and other leafy green vegetables offer some protection against the most common cause of blindness among the elderly, researchers said on Monday.

Age-related macular degeneration affects 1.2 million Americans, mostly after age 65, and the irreversible condition gets gradually worse, robbing victims of the center of their vision. Many people may be susceptible due to genetic factors, while smoking is known to heighten the risk.

The two nutrients, lutein and zeaxanthin, are both carotenoids — compounds that give many fruits and vegetables a yellow color.

They help ward off the condition, apparently by allowing the eyes to filter harmful short-wavelength light and by curtailing other damaging effects to the macula, or the center of the eye’s retina, the researchers said.

“No clear associations with other nutrients were seen,” including the vitamins C and E and beta-carotene, according to the researchers, led by John Paul SanGiovanni of the National Eye Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.

The 6-year study asked about the dietary habits of 4,519 people aged 60 to 80 when enrolled.

Those in the top fifth of dietary consumption of foods containing the two nutrients had 35 percent less chance of developing the condition compared to those in the lowest fifth of consumption.

“Lutein and zeaxanthin may be considered as useful agents in food or supplement-based interventions designed to reduce the risk of AMD,” the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.

Foods considered good sources of the nutrients include eggs, spinach, kale, turnip greens, collard greens, romaine lettuce, broccoli, zucchini, corn, garden peas and Brussels sprouts.

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Here is some life-changing information that we would like to share with you.  It was described in a publication that was sent to us.

Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. was recently awarded the Linus Pauling Award by his contemporaries, who call him the greatest genius in alternative medicine.  The award is the discipline’s highest honour for a lifetime of achievement in naturopathic medicine. Thousands of forward-thinking doctors have sought him out for advice and guidance in seeking natural therapies for health problems that have defied drugs and conventional treatments.

Alzheimer’s is NOT a death sentence and you do not have to lose your wits. Natural treatments do exist that block major Alzheimer’s pathways.

Scientists believe they have confirmed what they once thought impossible - that you can actually “re-grow” and regenerate your brain— at any age.

Lithium aspartate and orotate have been shown to block major pathways in recent studies!

Why have you not heard this before?

Probably because lithium aspartate and lithium orotate are minerals.

Which means they cannot be patented, so it is not in the financial interest of drug companies to promote them.

Lithium aspartate or lithium orotate— completely safe minerals you can pick up at any health food store for about 26 cents.

Most people think Lithium is for mental cases in strait-jackets. But that’s lithium carbonate, which is only available with a prescription and used to treat bipolar disorder. In fact, lithium is not a drug at all. It’s a mineral-part of the same family of minerals that includes sodium and potassium.

Discuss Dr Wright’s findings with your family doctor if you, or a member of your family, suffers from Alzheimer’s.

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Recent research has added yet more successes to the list of properties of a little known substance - Carnosine. It was first discovered in 1900 in Russia but its incredible properties have only recently been recognised following several research projects in Russia, Japan, Australia, UK and USA. Scientists around the world are now looking to see what other tricks this innocent looking chemical has up its sleeve.

Ethos Endymion is the very best brand of L-Carnosine available anywhere in the world as backed by Professor Steven Charles Gallant and his years of research into L-Carnosine).

What is it?

Carnosine is a combination of two important amino acids, beta-alanine and L-histidine. It occurs naturally in the human body (mainly in muscle) and can also be found in many animals. Carnosine is easily broken down into beta-alanine and L-histidine, but the remarkable thing is that these two amino acids now work much more efficiently than they would have done if they hadn’t combined to form Carnosine in the first place! While still combined together as Carnosine it has the unique ability to rejuvenate cells i.e. to make old cells younger and extend their life-cycle. Carnosine is the only compound commercially available that possesses this very rare and unique ability.

What does it do?

There are numerous technical papers on Carnosine and its derivatives and they are too complex to discuss here. In simple language, Carnosine has the ability to change itself into numerous compounds that can each carry out or enhance many important body functions. These include, in no particular order:

a) Can bind to harmful metal compounds and inactivate them.

b) Turn the resultant carnosine/metal compound into useful antioxidants that in turn become anti-ulcer agents.

c) Stabilise and protect cell membranes, helping to protect the cells from harmful free radicals.

d) Protect healthy cells from radiation damage (certain cancer treatments).

e) Act as a neuro-transmitter - a chemical that helps messages jump from one nerve to another. This helps boost memory and fight dementia (Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease).

f) Allergy fighter.

g) Improve blood flow to brain.

h) Block activation of guanylate cyclase - an enzyme linked to asthma, migraine, septic shock and cancer.

i) Special carnosine derivatives can clear the build up of abnormal protein and sugar compounds in the eye - various forms of these can lead to cataracts, glaucoma and Macular Degeneration.

j) Acts as a catalyst to enhance the work of numerous other nutrients and compounds.

There is a special bonus offer being offered by an reputable source of an extra thirty percent (30%) of  L-Carnosine when you buy a 100 gram tub. As the suggested daily dose is one gram, you effectively get an extra 30 day supply at no cost. The bonus offer expires at midnight on August 31

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What does this mean?

Carnosine’s unique ability to repair cells, protect them and increase the effectiveness of so many other compounds within the body means that its effects are numerous and in many cases remarkable. Clinical research has now confirmed that Carnosine (and its derivatives) show marked improvements in the following conditions:

1) Arthritis and bone health.

2) High blood pressure AND low blood pressure!

3) Regulates blood clotting and eases resultant conditions.

4) Ulcers.

5) Wounds and skin health.

6) Cancer.

7) Increased lifespan and anti-aging.

Cataracts and other eye disorders (using N-alpha-acetyl-Carnosine or NAC for short).

9) Muscular conditions.

10) Improve learning and special awareness (ADHD and autism).

11) Conditions linked to poor memory and confusion.

12) Increases the body’s own stem cell production. Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body and serve as a natural repair system.

The list goes on………

The work done by Carnosine as an antioxidant and cell protector has another most welcome effect. It speeds up cell replacement. This means that old, damaged cells are replaced by new, healthy cells. Skin and complexion are younger and fresher. Hair and nails improve their condition. Carnosine really is a super anti-ageing supplement.

And finally……

There are no known adverse side effects to taking Carnosine - even at very high doses (50g+).

There is a special bonus offer being offered by this source of an extra thirty percent (30%) of  L-Carnosine when you buy a 100 gram tub. As the suggested daily dose is one gram, you effectively get an extra 30 day supply at no cost.

The bonus offer expires at midnight on August 31

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Hi!

Here are excerpts from Dr Kim’s newsletter on the benefits of eating raw dark chocolate.

Here are the key reasons why eating raw chocolate is good for your health:

*Raw chocolate is naturally rich in flavonoids, which are natural nutrients with antioxidant properties - the same nutrients that make berries, grapes, and green tea health-promoting foods.

* Flavonoids that are abundant in raw chocolate can protect your cells against damage by free radicals, which can help to prevent premature aging.

*Flavonoids in raw chocolate are good for your heart, as they can help to prevent stickiness of platelets, which are cells that play an important role in blood clotting.

*Flavonoids can help your body produce nitric oxide, a compound that promotes a healthy cardiovascular system.

The health benefits of chocolate are mainly due to its rich flavonoid content. And the more chocolate is processed, the fewer flavonoids it retains. Fewer flavonoids translates to less antioxidant content and less potential health benefits.

If you want to eat chocolate to optimally support your health, your best choice is raw, organic chocolate that has no added ingredients like sugar, milk, and oil. Your next best choice is dark chocolate with 70 percent or more cocoa content, but this ranks a distant second to raw chocolate, since conventional dark chocolate bars are exposed to significant heat and processing. Most varieties of milk chocolate have only about 25 to 50 percent the flavonoid content of dark chocolate, and white chocolate has no flavonoids.

The antioxidant content of different foods is measured by what’s called the ORAC test; the higher the ORAC value for a food, the greater its antioxidant content. Here is a list of ORAC values for foods that are known to be rich in antioxidants, as calculated by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Journal of the American Chemical Society:

Dark chocolate 13,120

Milk chocolate 6,740

Prunes 5,770

Raisins 2,830

Blueberries 2,400

Blackberries 2,036

Kale 1,770

Strawberries 1,540

Spinach 1,260

Raspberries 1,220

Brussels sprouts 980

Plums 949

Alfalfa sprouts 930

Broccoli 890

Beyond its value as a food that is super-rich in antioxidants, raw chocolate is also abundant in the following health-promoting nutrients:

*Serotonin (3 mg per 100 g) and tyramine (2 mg per 100 g) - both are capable of creating a mild calming effect.

*Copper (0.8 mg per 100 g) - needed for energy production, proper nerve signalling, optimal bone health, and formation of healthy connective tissue in your heart and blood vessels.

*Phenylethylamine (PEA) - can help to promote mental alertness and focus. It is also thought to combat feelings of depression, and is released within your brain when you are in love.

*Magnesium (131 mg per 100 g) - is needed for healthy bones and teeth, energy production, and optimal heart, nerve, and muscle health. Magnesium levels tend to be low during menstruation, which may explain why some women tend to crave chocolate on a periodic basis.

To keep raw chocolate as fresh as possible, it is best to store it in your refrigerator or a cool, dry place.

Thank you, Dr Kim.

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Here is some information  from Dr Kim’s Newsletter:

We faithfully read Dr Kim’s newsletters because of its excellent content.

Some important points and guidelines on eating white and brown rice:

1. Since white rice is brown rice that has been stripped of some of its nutrients, brown rice is superior in its nutritional content. Specifically, brown rice is an excellent source of niacin (vitamin B3) and magnesium, a good source of thiamin (vitamin B1) and iron and a moderate source of protein, fiber and zinc.

2. White rice has less fiber and vitamins than brown rice, but is an excellent source of niacin and a moderate source of protein, thiamin and iron.

3. If you can eat brown rice without experiencing any abdominal discomfort, bloating, or gas, then it is a better choice for you than white rice because of its greater nutritional density.

4. If you experience abdominal discomfort or bloating after eating brown rice, it is worth your while to try eating white rice. Because of its lower fiber content, white rice is less abrasive to your intestinal lining than brown rice, a helpful feature if you have weak or damaged intestines. Many people who have colitis and/or problems with diarrhea find that they can digest white rice without any discomfort, while brown rice causes pain and gas production.

5. If you choose to eat white rice, be sure to eat it with plenty of cooked vegetables to prevent constipation. Fiber from well cooked vegetables does not typically cause irritation to a weakened or damaged intestinal lining.

6. If you are a diabetic or are at risk of being a diabetic, it is best to stay away from white rice completely because of the stress it puts on your blood sugar-regulating mechanisms.

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Excerpts from : National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements; Daily Herald interviews

Studies point to a protective effect by vitamin D against cancers of the colon, prostate, ovaries, pancreas and kidney, as well as heart disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, arthritis and other illnesses.

Many of us aren’t getting enough. Vitamin D researchers say the current recommendations for 200 to 600 international units a day are too low to protect against cancer and other diseases.

“We just don’t get as much sun as we used to get, and we’re not getting it in our diets,” said Massey, who is medical director for alternative and complementary medicine at Alexian and a Daily Herald columnist.

The body synthesizes vitamin D from exposure to ultraviolet rays. Northerners get less sunlight, particularly in the winter, and studies have found we usually have less vitamin D in our blood.

We’ve also become more cautious about the dangers of melanoma and other skin cancers from sun exposure. So sunbathing is out. Wider use of sunscreens has further limited UV absorption by our skin.

Vitamin D is present in fish and fortified dairy products, but otherwise is scarce in our diet. One cup of fortified milk has 98 international units of vitamin D, a quarter of the recommended intake for adults over age 51.

So how much do we need? And what’s the best way to get it?

Federal guidelines recommend 200 to 600 units of vitamin D a day, depending on age. But most studies have found that higher doses are needed to protect against cancer and other illnesses.

Dr. Richard Hellman, an endocrinologist in Kansas City, Mo., and president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, recommends 1,000 to 2,000 units a day. Half of his diabetes patients are deficient, he said.

Researchers are learning that vitamin D strengthens the immune system and helps regulate cell growth, a basic biologic process that goes haywire in cancer.

Where to Find Vitamin D

1. In food:

* Cod liver oil: 1 tablespoon, 1,360 units

* Salmon, cooked: 3.5 ounces, 360 units

* Tuna fish, canned in oil: 3 ounces, 200 units

* Milk, vitamin-D fortified: 1 cup, 98 units

* Cereals, fortified: 1 cup, 40 units

* Egg: 1 whole, 20 units

* Cheese, Swiss: 1 ounce, 12 units

2. In sunlight: The skin synthesizes vitamin D from ultraviolet rays. How much depends on geographical location and the intensity of the rays, as well as your skin type. Doctors urge caution; too much sun exposure increases your risk of skin cancer.

3. In supplements: Look for vitamin D3, or cholecalciferol. Vitamin D2, or ergocalciferol, is less effective in preventing cancer.

We hope you find this information both interesting and beneficial.

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Roshmi and Jay

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