Archive for July 2007
Heart Attack of Popular Basketball Coach
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 9:45 AM by T.Smith, M.S. the site author">T.Smith, M.S.
The state of NC is considered to be a 'Basketball State', with many of
the best college teams in the US. Basketball Coach Skip Prosser had the
Wake Forest Team playing with passion, and they say a team is a
reflection of their coach. This untimely event should bring attention to
cardiac disease, heart health and arterial health.
How silent is silent? Or is silent only because we didn't listen in the right places? Heart health begins with good nutrtion, more so than rigorous exercise. It has been demonstrated by some of the best scientist in the world that cardiovascular health begins with sound nutrition, which is not the approved 'get sick thresholds'. The 'get sick threshold' are the approved levels where if you fall below, you will be at high risk get ill or sickly. These are not the threshold for optimal health.
Dr. Linus Pauling is an unparrelled Two time - Nobel prize winner and bestowed with 48 honory Ph D's. He was also awarded as a patent in 1994 for supporting heart health and reducing cardiac disease. Getting a patent is very difficult, because you must prove that it works. Dr. Pauling also showed that high levels of ordinary cholesterol was not the culprit, however that a variant of LDL, Lp(a) LDL, was the heart artery nemisis. Dr. Pauling demonstrated that a combination of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 18 G/with or before meals, 3 times/day, and Lysine 5 G/day would block the binding function of Lp(a). In many cases, heart risk was reversed.
Preventing cardiovascular disease and improving heart health is often painted with a 'super science brush'. As if it beyond our comprehension to take care of ourselves. However, we must remember that we live in a capitalist country, and sometimes things are not always shared with us for monetary reasons. Science should support and be freely available to us, to learn and adjust.
It is a good idea to a get thorough cardiovascular checkup, visit your physician and evaluate yourself from an allopathic perspective. It is even more important to use good nutrition, mind-heart calming meditation, and light exercise. If you find any risks, and as we age, even better heart healthy nutrtion. Make sure that you listen to your heart and in a variety of area's.
Posted in Heart-Cardio
Personal Training Introduction
Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM by T.Smith, M.S. the site author">T.Smith, M.S.
Providing Personal Training for Raleigh, Cary, Wake
Forest, NC
Our natural approach to personal training provides a progressive system to improve your health and fitness safely. With our individualized personal training programs, we have a thorough initial evaluation and regular re-evaluations thereafter.
Your personal trainer will beside you to determine goals, priorities, and the steps in heading toward your goals. Whether you prefer to train at our facility, outside at a local park, or have at home personal training, we will design a training strategy and plan with you.
Start with the Basics
Our personal trainers encourage the basics first, so that all other training has a sound foundation to develop from:
- Oxygeniate - Natural breathing is full and replenishes the blood. The International Breathe Institute recently found cardiac patients kept their blood oxygen levels up higher, and improved their physical fitness much better than those who did not breathe naturally and fully. Your personal trainer will work right beside you as we establish a new baseline for relaxed breathing.
- Hydrate - Bathing the cells and tissue in cleansing water strongly influences our ability to cleanse and feel better. The military, numberous sports teams, and now many physicians encourage their people to use take half their body weight in ounces for their daily water intake. However, this is not recommended to 'leap' into; their is a system to getting their people to this goal. People who try to go from 3 cups of water and 2 cokes per day, to half gallon of water will often feel tired and sick. We will show you how to get yourself into proper hydration levels. When someone is on medications, this can influence intake greatly.
- Circulate - Improving the flow of all internal systems, lymph, blood, energy, in combination with oxygeniate and hydrate cleanses, nurishes, bathes, and reenergizes every cell in our body.
- pH - We periodically will check your pH to ensure your body is running close to optimal. We know the healthy body runs close to 7 - 7.2, slightly alkaline. Every person we have tested shows acidity and we work through the influencing factors, including there nutrition.
There are several other basic factors that we start assessing and teach you how to follow yourself. It is the goal of the Personal Trainer not to only take you through, but to assist you in learning how to monitor yourself.
Edited on: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:58 AMPosted in Services
Echinacea Helps protect us from colds
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 10:21 AM by T.Smith, M.S. the site author">T.Smith, M.S.
US researchers who reviewed over a dozen studies on the effect of echinacea have concluded that the popular herbal remedy reduces a person's chance of catching a cold by 58 per cent. And they found that it also cuts the duration of a cold by an average of 1.4 days.
The study is published in the July edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The researchers were led by Dr Craig Coleman from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut.
Echinacea is one of the most popular and frequently used herbal remedies but scientific and medical opinion about its effect on the common cold is controversial.
Coleman and colleagues decided to review the current literature using an approach called a "meta-analysis" which pools the results of previous trials and examines them using a rigorous set of statistical methods. Their analyses reviewed 14 trials that studied the effect of echinacea on prevention and treatment of the common cold.
Edited on: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:21 AMPosted in Herbs , Immune System
Green Tea Protects the Bladder from Infection
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 10:09 AM by T.Smith, M.S. the site author">T.Smith, M.S.
Herbal agents could be used to treat inflammatory bladder diseases, according to a preliminary study that looked at the ability of green tea to protect bladder cells from inflammation. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Anaheim, Calif., found that components of green tea protected bladder cells from damage in culture. The study is Abstract 299 in the AUA proceedings.
Green tea, reported to have many health benefits, is rich in powerful antioxidants that make it a possible remedy for many medical conditions. It is comprised of catechins - plant metabolites that provide it with many anti-oxidative properties.
"We discovered that catechins found in green tea protected both normal and cancerous bladder cells from inflammation when we exposed the cells to hydrogen peroxide," said Michael B. Chancellor, M.D., professor of urology and gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "Although further studies are needed, these results indicate herbal supplements from green tea could be a treatment option for various bladder conditions that are caused by injury or inflammation."
In the study, normal and cancerous bladder cells were exposed to two major catechin components of green tea, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and epicatechin gallate (ECG), for 23 hours. Both significantly protected cell lines from exposure to hydrogen peroxide, which damages or kills cells. The concentrations of EGCG and ECG used in the study were at levels that may be achieved through dietary intake.
Posted in Herbs
Stress: How we respond is key.
Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 11:53 AM by T.Smith, M.S. the site author">T.Smith, M.S.
We have often identified stress as culprit to deminishing health, relationships, or other problems that may occur. Just like most other things in this life, it is the dosage and exposure that makes the difference. The sun is necessary for us to generate vitamens, too much, we get burned. Stress at low to moderate levels actually helps us perform better, some self-development coaches refer to stress at this level as 'leverage'. It motivates us to improvise, adapt, or overcome (a Marine motto).
When the level of stress crosses a threshold (that vary greatly for all
of us), our success begins to dimenish, if the high level of stress
continues then we will begin to degenerate, stay tired more, get sick,
etc. The primary stress forms are acute or prolonged. We adapt
differently to each type.
Dr. Seyle (1907-1982) studied stress as referenced almost as the father of stress science. He described stress as the following:
the "general adaptation syndrome" represents a three-stage reaction to stress. Dr. Selye explained his choice of terminology as follows: "I call this syndrome general because it is produced only by agents which have a general effect upon large portions of the body. I call it adaptive because it stimulates defense....I call it a syndrome because its individual manifestations are coordinated and even partly dependent upon each other."
Dr. Selye said the general adaptation syndrome involved two major systems of the body, the nervous system and the endocrine (or hormonal) system, all of these greatly effect our energy and productivity.
There are three primary stages of response to any stress:
1) Reaction Stage - our initial response to the stress and the accumulation. Our instinctive fight or flight responses kick in. This stage activates a suppression in our immune system and Dr. Seyle states that people are more susceptible to illness and injury during this time. When we begin to work toward a solution to solving the stress, then we move to the next stage, as long as we deny the stress, we stay in stage one.
2) Improvise and Adapt Stage - During this phase, if the stress continues, the body adapts to the stressors it is exposed to. Changes at many levels take place in order to reduce the effect of the stressor. A productive approach is to look for long term solutions, not bandaids to blind us to the stress.
3) Exhaustion Stage - At this stage, the stress has continued for some time. The body's resistance to the stress may gradually be reduced, or may collapse quickly. Generally, this means the immune system, and the body's ability to resist disease, may be almost totally eliminated. Patients who experience long-term stress may succumb to heart attacks or severe infection due to their reduced immunity.
Again, Dr. Seyle demonstrated that stress isn't a bad thing, it is more of how we respond to it that can make the difference. Each person's attitude, belief in themselves, and willingness to adjust when necessary is important.
We must find ways to support our immune system, nutritional support is essential particularly for the endocrine system (adrenal, thyroid, etc). There are selective nutritional supplements used to promote immune health. There are physical (structural), emotional, and myofacial (energetic network) needs that will also have to addressed. If it didn't have emotional energy, it wouldn't be a stress.
Edited on: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:37 PMPosted in Stress