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The Debt Crisis. If Treasury Bonds Are not Safe, What Is?
Original article at Wall Street Journal

How can you lower your portfolios risk in a world of rolling government-debt crises? Start by taking a deep breath. Then, see if you need to do some tinkering—but not too much.

With Europe in turmoil, investors are so eager for a safe haven that this week they were willing to accept a return of only 0.01 percent a month to hold Treasury bills. Such yields on short-term Treasurys are barely a sliver above their all-time lows, even as Uncle Sams own debts may be teetering on the brink of default.

Fears are rampant that the U.S. may lose its triple-A credit rating, that the economy will stay stagnant, that inflation will eventually surge and that the dollar will wither. Lately, U.S. Treasurys and the dollar have rallied mainly because other nations are in even more of a mess.

Amid such uncertainty, you can not reduce one set of risks without raising others. If, for instance, you buy gold, you lower the risk that a collapsing dollar will crush your wealth. But you incur other hazards by paying all-time-high prices for an asset that generates no investment income, lacks intrinsic value and has a weak record of combating inflation. Other hedges carry other risks and trade-offs.

Thus, making a sharp course correction may cut your exposure to the U.S. dollar or inflation—but if todays fears do not materialize, or the future turns out to be full of its customary allotment of surprises, then your sudden shifts may turn out to hurt you. So moderation is the key.

Normally, explains Laurence Siegel, research director at the Research Foundation of CFA Institute, U.S. investors should tilt toward holding assets denominated in dollars, since their future spending also will be dollar-based. However, Mr. Siegel says, todays extraordinarily low yields on dollar assets drag the solution the other way—toward international diversification. If, for instance, you normally keep 20 percent in non-U.S. stocks, you might begin raising that to 25 percent.

Some heavy-hitting investors are beginning to move in that direction, even in their own portfolios. Going into the crisis, all my, personal, safe money was in U.S. Treasurys, says Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles, which manages more than 80 billion dollars. Now, it is in the debt of a variety of countries, on the assumption that some of their currencies may well gain versus the dollar.

Likewise, Todd Petzel, chief investment officer at Offit Capital Advisors in New York, says his firm is spreading its clients assets into short-term securities issued by non-U.S. governments. Mr. Petzel favors countries with low levels of debt and a wealth of natural resources, such as Australia, Brazil and Canada.

Relatively new mutual funds make it easier for small investors to spread bets—again, in moderation.

WisdomTree Dreyfus Commodity Currency and WisdomTree Dreyfus Emerging Currency are exchange-traded funds offering exposure to foreign currencies that, so far at least, have been relatively unscathed by the government-debt crisis. Commodity Currency provides exposure to money issued by Australia, Canada, Russia, New Zealand and four other countries that are major exporters of raw materials, Emerging Currency offers Brazil, China, India, Israel and eight other developing nations.

SPDR DB International Government Inflation-Protected Bond and iShares International Inflation-Linked Bond are ETFs that hold the debt of more than a dozen governments world-wide, designed to keep pace with inflation in those countries. Such a fund could offer partial protection against a decline in purchasing power in the U.S.

The debt of developing countries is no longer cheap, but it still may offer some diversification. The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF holds debt denominated in U.S. dollars, while Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond is a basket of government securities issued in Brazilian reis, Chilean pesos, Russian rubles and so on.

But remember, While many emerging-market nations may have better fiscal outlooks than the U.S., they still are risky. If lending to Russia does not make you nervous, someone needs to check your pulse. The currency funds may spread your overall portfolio risks, but they distribute income only once a year and are not a substitute for cash.

If the markets get scared again and there is another flight to quality, says Larry Swedroe, director of research at Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, then the dollar will go up and kill your unhedged foreign bonds just when you most want them to keep you afloat.

If you do move any money in response to the debt crisis, move small amounts slowly. A future that seems this inevitable may not even happen—precisely because it seems so obvious. As Mr. Marks asks, Is the world less safe than it used to be? Or was it never as safe as we thought it was? Maybe the risks were higher before, when nobody was conscious of them.
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Another Alternative. Work at Home
There is a community where an entrepreneur can gain valuable information on a work at home business.

Work at home can happen for you, if you are motivated. Now, there is a work at home community that you can work with and gather as much information that you need to succeed. The community name is Tomorrow's Home Business social community and is located at this address http://tomorrowshomebusiness.ning.com.

In this work at home community, the business entrepreneur will be able to read blogs and watch videos for business, or just for pleasure. With a couple of RSS feeds coming to the main page, the entrepreneur can even stay informed of what is happening in the world. There is something here in this community for everyone.

Groups like the Maniac Marketers come in and post their blogs in the community, giving valuable information for their Health and Wellness businesses. If you would rather watch videos of the TriVita videos, you can do that, too. Or if you just want to hang out and relax, you can do that, too! There are many music videos like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, and Seasick Steve! Or if you want to learn about handcrafts or see the equally oldest Ford antique car, a 1903 Model A Ford, you can do that, too! Or maybe you need an inspirational video clip! There are many choices of inspirational clips, such as Al Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday, or Mel Gibson as William Wallace motivating the Scottish men men before battle in Braveheart; or Sylvester Stalone as Rocky and how he motivates himself in the boxing ring, or even his inspirational conversation with his son, and who can forget those chants for Rudy in the movie Rudy!

When you become a member of Tomorrows Home Business Social Community, there is a profile created just for you. You can use the standard set-up on your page. Or you can be as creative as you want to be. For an example check out my profile page at Terry Allisons Profile Page. I use my profile page as a dream-building tool. I have always wanted a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have learned to keep this dream in front of me.

A work at home communty for people wanting to find out more information on starting their own work at home business.

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It seems like we do not have any high hopes coming out of Washington these days, as evidenced in this article Ailing Economy Needs Self-Interest, Not Sacrifice by Jonathan Hoenig. You just got to love the caption underneath the title when it says that Mankind has benefited far more from Bill Gates making billions than from him giving it away. The basic point of the article is that when people work, they do not have to sacrifice. At the end of this article, I will present a community where you can go where people help one another, not to sacrifice, but to learn and gather information to better themselves possibly from a work at home business.

Original article posted at http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/ailing-economy-needs-selfinterest-not-sacrifice-1310659345937/?link=SM_hp_ls4e

When you trade shares of Cisco, CSCO 15.43, -0.14, -0.90 percent, no one is sacrificing himself on your behalf. You are a willing buyer, someone else is an amenable seller, and you voluntarily agree to transact at a mutually beneficial price. Both parties get what they want.

It is the polar opposite of the doctrine of shared sacrifice permeating through Washington, and by unfortunate extension, the economy. The burgeoning Federal deficit, now significant enough to warrant a warning from Moodys on the countrys AAA rating, can only be solved through shared sacrifice, which, in President Barack Obamas words, means wealthy individuals will finally be required to pay their fair share.

Mr. Obamas underlying philosophy has not changed from before the campaign. As I pointed out nearly three years ago, he believes Americans should be willing to sacrifice. Patriotism must, if it is to mean anything, involve the willingness to sacrifice, to give up something we value on behalf of a larger cause, he told an audience in 2008.

That sacrifice has been the justification for massive intervention in the economy, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars sent to banks, auto companies, homeowners and green projects, all to benefit the public good.

But a capitalist economy does not require anyones sacrifice. Just like traders in the stock market, we deal with others through voluntary, mutually beneficial trade. The countrys prosperity, the poverty level in America is equivalent to the average income in socialist Venezuela, is not a function of sacrifice but of self-interest. Mankind has benefited far more from Bill Gates making billions then from him giving it away.

The ad hominem smear is that any refusal to sacrifice makes you an immoral pariah. How could you be against government-run health care or homeowner bailouts, argue supporters. Do not you care about families in need? As the President put it, without sacrifice, It is seniors, or it is poor kids, or it is medical researchers, or it is our infrastructure that suffers.

The idea that only government can address poverty or medical research is false, and the philosophy clearly institutionalizes mob rule. When one man can be made a sacrifice for another, you are either predator or prey. Each individuals life becomes chum to be the public good whatever central planners in Washington decide that might be.

What results is a society built not on mutual benefit, as with capitalism, but mutual contempt, whereas one is endlessly forced to sacrifice for the public with the only hope that one day others will be conscripted to sacrifice themselves for you. Social Security and Medicare are just two examples of this multi-generational feudalism.

The issue is not whether you should charitably decide to pay for someones retirement, health care, or mortgage, or education. The role of government, according to our own founding fathers, was not to re-allocate income, but to protect each individuals right to his own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Policies built around sacrifice make that pursuit a crime.

In his recent address, the President offered himself as a moral example, I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing. In fact, I am able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I do not need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they have got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

Capitalism protects individuals self-interest, collectivism kills it. So in a free country, why does not the President simply give his unneeded hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income over to the struggling parent, autoworker or whomever he feels is deserving of it? Why must his sacrifice become a national suicide?

Jonathan Hoenig is managing member at Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC.

And here is the community information that I promised, so you can gain valuable information on a work at home business.

Work at home can happen for you, if you are motivated. Now, there is a work at home community that you can work with and gather as much information that you need to succeed. The community name is Tomorrow's Home Business social community and is located at this address http://tomorrowshomebusiness.ning.com.

In this work at home community, the business entrepreneur will be able to read blogs and watch videos for business, or just for pleasure. With a couple of RSS feeds coming to the main page, the entrepreneur can even stay informed of what is happening in the world. There is something here in this community for everyone.

Groups like the Maniac Marketers come in and post their blogs in the community, giving valuable information for their Health and Wellness businesses. If you would rather watch videos of the TriVita videos, you can do that, too. Or if you just want to hang out and relax, you can do that, too! There are many music videos like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, and Seasick Steve! Or if you want to learn about handcrafts or see the equally oldest Ford antique car, a 1903 Model A Ford, you can do that, too! Or maybe you need an inspirational video clip! There are many choices of inspirational clips, such as Al Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday, or Mel Gibson as William Wallace motivating the Scottish men men before battle in Braveheart; or Sylvester Stalone as Rocky and how he motivates himself in the boxing ring, or even his inspirational conversation with his son, and who can forget those chants for Rudy in the movie Rudy!

When you become a member of Tomorrows Home Business Social Community, there is a profile created just for you. You can use the standard set-up on your page. Or you can be as creative as you want to be. For an example check out my profile page at Terry Allisons Profile Page. I use my profile page as a dream-building tool. I have always wanted a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have learned to keep this dream in front of me.

A work at home communty for people wanting to find out more information on starting their own work at home business.

Terry L. Allison, Sr.
Creator of Tomorrow's Home Business Social Community
http://terryallison.com
U Make Money Online 2
Phone: 859-858-9246
Skype: allisonmarketinggroup

Anti-inflammatory Product

The Physical Side of Stress
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

According to health experts, we need about 30 minutes of aerobic exercise most days of the week. The benefits of this are too numerous to list but include

Heart health
Increased energy
Decreased obesity
Improved mood

Exercise has been called the best thing we can do for our body.

We also need resistance training to build lean body tissue and strong bones. Resistance training increases the ability of our individual cells to accept sugar and insulin. Indeed, resistance training is seen by some as the antidote to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and osteoporosis.

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Stress in, stress out!
Despite all the benefits of exercise, it must be recognized that exercise is stressful. Exercise is work. It is a struggle against gravity and in the end, gravity always wins! That said, there are nutrients that can help us succeed in the struggle against gravity and help us meet our desired objectives of fitness and wellness.

First, we need energy to exercise, and then exercise gives us energy. Energy comes from metabolism, and the sensation of being energetic is stored in the nerves.

Our polyphenol product Energy Now helps convert about 200 calories of energy from stored reserves per serving. This is the amount of energy we need to walk about two miles.
Sublingual B-12 adds to our energy delivery system by nourishing the nerves. Have you ever had a day when you felt light as a feather? Conversely, have you ever had a day when you felt like you were weighted down with lead weight? Most of us have that experience from time to time. Much of the sensation of feeling energetic is related to the potential of our nerves to conduct energy. Vitamin B-12 facilitates that energy delivery so we have more light as a feather days.

Sublingual B-12 also helps in another way. When we exercise we contract one group of muscles and stretch an opposite group of muscles. Vitamin B-12 facilitates muscle stretching, so muscles can stretch with ease.

When muscles ache after exercise it is because we have exceeded the limits of the muscle group at that moment. As we learn to listen to our body we really have only two choices, either do not exercise so we will never feel that pain or take discomfort as a signal that we need to increase our nutrient reserves. Adaptogens are a group of nutrients from specific plants known to help us resist the stress of exercise while speeding a return to normal after exercise. Adaptogens are non-toxic by nature. So, if you find yourself sore after exercise, take more adaptogens!

Of course, pain is one of the cardinal signs of inflammation, pain, swelling, redness and heat accompanied by loss of function. Nopalea contains anti-inflammatory bioflavonoids called Betalains. Reducing inflammation quickly can help our body repair and return to normal function more quickly.

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My routine
I am often asked about my exercise routine and the supplements I take. The answer really depends on what goal I am working on at the moment. If I am preparing for an event, like a bicycle race or triathlon, I will train every day, but I will only work out with weights twice a week. On the other hand, if I am preparing to hike the Grand Canyon, I may run a few miles a day but increase my weight training to five days a week. However, I always begin my workout routines with four ounces of Adaptogen 10 Plus and four ounces of Nopalea.

I use Healthy Foundation supplements and add Energy Now just before performing. It really gives me a boost!

I do not like to exercise but I really do like to play! As an adult my play is more structured and organized than when I was a kid. It is also much less frequent. Still, I know that the more I move, the more I will be able to move and the more I will enjoy activity. Conversely, the less I move, the less I will be able to move and the less I will want to move.

Happiness and self-esteem come from setting and achieving worthwhile goals. One worthwhile goal is to enjoy activity daily and use nutrients and nurturing to combat our inevitable opponent, stress!

Take Control of Your Health

Start slowly, warm up, stretch
Pick several activities to avoid burnout
Use Energy Now to raise metabolism
Use Sublingual B-12 to aid muscles and nerves
Use Adaptogen 10 Plus to help with recovery
Use Nopalea to help break the cycle of inflammation
Set and achieve worthwhile activity goals

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Taking the Flame Out of Inflammation
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

We usually describe the process of inflammation like a series of dominos all set up and ready for something to tip over the first domino and start the chain reaction. The first one tips over the second one, which tips over the third one and so on. This is called the domino effect. Clever people can set up these dominos in an amazing array of complicated designs.

Inflammation is a process much like that. A single event may trigger a domino effect of inflammatory reactions. While many of the reactions are fairly predictable, many others are not. They seem to involve amazingly complicated patterns unique to the individual. Still, all inflammation exhibits five basic signs caused by four basic triggers.

Signs of inflammation
With tissue injury, inflammation is part of the healing process

Redness. An injured area needs an increased supply of nutrients and proteins carried in the blood. So, blood supply increases and the tissue turns red. The Latin word is rubor.
Swelling. The injured area is bathed in healing proteins and substances to control bleeding, as well as an increased supply of plasma for transport of waste. This causes the injured area to swell. The Latin word is tumor.
Pain. The injured area needs to be protected. We instinctively guard an injury because we feel or anticipate pain. The Latin word is dolor.
Heat. The damaged tissue now becomes weakened and so it is susceptible to infection. White blood cells rush to the area and defend the fragile cells from microbes. A sign that this is working is heat or fever in the damaged area. The Latin word is calor.
Loss of Function. This process is accompanied by a reduction in function of the injured area until it is healed. The Latin word is functio laesa.

The dominoes fall in the same predictable pattern if the injury is a sprained ankle or heart attack! No matter what triggers the inflammation, the process is the same.

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Inflammation triggers
Inflammation is the response to four basic triggers, trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress. All four of these triggers cause tissue injury. Our body responds to injury with inflammation.

Trauma We usually think of trauma as a direct injury that causes pain and distress. However, a sedentary lifestyle is also a serious cause of trauma. Why? Because our body was made to move! The more we move, the more we are able to move, and the more we want to move. The less we move, the less we are able to move. Our muscles and other tissues shorten and atrophy. Then, any movement causes injury. So, the less we move, the less we want to move.
Toxins
Toxicity causes cells to rupture in the same way that a needle causes a balloon to pop. Is there any doubt that we live in a toxic world? An article in National Geographic estimated that humans create 700,000 tons of pollution and waste every day! Between these exotoxins, toxins created outside our body, and endotoxins, toxins created inside our body, we are bathed in inflammation-producing poison every moment of every day. Any successful strategy for reducing inflammation must address the level of toxins we face.
Deficiency
Deficiencies also cause inflammation. For example, an omega-3 essential fatty acid, or EFA, deficiency leaves the cell walls weak and unable to function normally. Again, cells are like balloons. If the balloon membrane is too thin, even a normal amount of air will make it pop. If the cell wall is too thin because of an omega-3 EFA deficiency, even normal cell activity will cause the cell to pop and trigger the domino effect of inflammation. Similarly, deficiency of other nutrients can have a catastrophic effect on cells within your body. A deficiency in oxygen, water, sleep and circulation can also trigger inflammation.
Stress
Emotional distress is also a cause of inflammation. When we appraise a situation to be stressful, our brain releases chemicals called catecholamines that trigger the release of many inflammatory processes. For example, stress causes the release of insulin, a pro-inflammatory hormone. Too much stress over too long a period of time will cause insulin resistance, or IR, which is associated with obesity. Other stress-related chemicals reduce circulation to our digestive and reproductive systems and trigger inflammation from blood deficiency. Stress is a serious cause of inflammation!

First steps
We are made with the ability to respond to trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress with inflammation. Therefore, inflammation is not the enemy, however, runaway inflammation is definitely our enemy! Stop the domino effect of runaway inflammation before it starts by learning and living the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

Reduce basic nutrient deficiencies through our Healthy Foundation program.
Help reduce the effect of harmful toxins with Nopalea.
Ease the disturbances caused by emotional distress with anti-stress adaptogens.

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A word about Nopalea
Once runaway inflammation is triggered it follows an amazingly intricate course leading to catastrophe. It is as if tens of thousands of dominoes are falling in an extremely complex design. Many of the steps are known to medical science, but many are not. One thing we know and have known for thousands of years is to stop the runaway inflammation and health will always improve! So, no matter what the condition is that is causing distress, reducing excess inflammation will always improve the way we feel.

Betalains in Nopalea are anti-inflammatory nutrients. They help your body do what it does best, repair with controlled inflammation while dousing the flames of runaway inflammation. So, we can say with confidence that if runaway inflammation is the problem, reducing that inflammation is part of the solution. Address the root causes of runaway inflammation by following the 10 Essentials, and taking Healthy Aging nutrients, adaptogens and Nopalea!

Take Control of Your Health

Eat 5, 7 or 9 servings of fruit and vegetables each day. Include a rainbow of colors, including leafy green vegetables.
Supplement appropriately
Healthy Foundation to fill deficiency
Nopalea to put out the fire and drain toxins
Adaptogen 10 Plus to help counteract damage caused by stress
Sleep peacefully every night and enjoy activity every day

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Resveratrol
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Whether it is someone on Oprah, Dr. Oz or another show that features health topics, sooner or later the topic will turn to resveratrol. What is resveratrol? Why is it so controversial? Could you benefit from including this mysterious antioxidant in your supplement routine?

Humble origins
Reseveratrol was first discovered by a pre-WWII Japanese scientist who isolated a resin from Veratrum species plants. The resin was deemed a resorcinol.

I am sure these words sound quite different in Japanese!

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Anyway, the war effort distracted scientists from really exploring this discovery until many years later when French physician Serge Renaud identified a mysterious compound in red wine, and many other berries, that reduced the impact of high-fat foods in the human diet. He noted that French people ate a higher-fat diet than their American counterparts, yet had a lower incidence of heart disease. He claimed it was an unnamed element in red wine that offered the protection. So, the contraction resveratrol was created to describe this resinous antioxidant.

The argument of the so-called French Paradox rages on even today. It is true, the French eat foods with higher fat and drink great volumes of red wine, or so the stereotype goes. And in general, they have a lower risk of heart disease than people in North America. Of course, they also enjoy much more activity than most in North America.

Research today
Numerous studies of resveratrol have been conducted in recent years. Most of these have been in vitro tests, studies conducted in laboratory Petri dishes, not on humans. Most of these studies have shown promising results, longer lifespan and a greater host-resistance to infection and cancer cells. Other studies in animals reproduce some of the results, though many are not directly applicable to humans. Can you say that the body of a hamster is a mirror of a human body?

Studies conducted on humans have demonstrated visible results with concentrated resveratrol, skin regains its elastic qualities, wrinkles fade or disappear and skin just looks better. Anti-aging physicians report an increase in stem cells with resveratrol. Stem cells are the progenitor cells that replace diseased, dying or dead cells. Stem cells make us younger!

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Where can I get resveratrol?
There are many sources of resveratrol. The skins, stems and seeds of grapes, especially red grapes, as well as other dark berries, peanuts and other nuts and, of course, red wine all contain resveratrol. However, if you want a consistent concentration of this youthful antioxidant, standardized supplements are the best sources. Why? Because supplements give you the benefits without the risks. Also, supplements can give you the economy of scale. For example, two capsules of Super Antioxidant Complex can give you more resveratrol than dozens of glasses of wine or pounds of boiled peanuts!

TriVitas Super Antioxidant Complex is our best source of resveratrol. TriVitas VisionGuard, Adaptogen 10 Plus and Nopalea also contain resveratrol-rich berries. Once you try one or all of these resveratrol sources, you will want to keep taking it. Then you will understand why resveratrol has remained so popular for so long, it just makes you feel that good!

Take Control of Your Health

Eat the right amount of high-antioxidant fruits and vegetables
5 servings for children
7 servings for women
9 servings for men
Supplement for the most consistent and targeted resveratrol supply
Use Super Antioxidant Complex for beauty from the inside-out!
Use VisionGuard to help protect your vision
Use Adaptogen 10 Plus if excessive stress is aging you too fast
Use Nopalea if inflammation is your primary health issue

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Other health related articles.

Posted by
Terry L. Allison, Sr., #13134349 1 Star
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member
Skype: allisonmarketinggroup
Phone: 859-858-9246
http://terryallison.com
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Anti-inflammatory Product

Resveratrol
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Whether it is someone on Oprah, Dr. Oz or another show that features health topics, sooner or later the topic will turn to resveratrol. What is resveratrol? Why is it so controversial? Could you benefit from including this mysterious antioxidant in your supplement routine?

Humble origins
Reseveratrol was first discovered by a pre-WWII Japanese scientist who isolated a resin from Veratrum species plants. The resin was deemed a resorcinol.

I am sure these words sound quite different in Japanese!

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Anyway, the war effort distracted scientists from really exploring this discovery until many years later when French physician Serge Renaud identified a mysterious compound in red wine, and many other berries, that reduced the impact of high-fat foods in the human diet. He noted that French people ate a higher-fat diet than their American counterparts, yet had a lower incidence of heart disease. He claimed it was an unnamed element in red wine that offered the protection. So, the contraction resveratrol was created to describe this resinous antioxidant.

The argument of the so-called French Paradox rages on even today. It is true, the French eat foods with higher fat and drink great volumes of red wine, or so the stereotype goes. And in general, they have a lower risk of heart disease than people in North America. Of course, they also enjoy much more activity than most in North America.

Research today
Numerous studies of resveratrol have been conducted in recent years. Most of these have been in vitro tests, studies conducted in laboratory Petri dishes, not on humans. Most of these studies have shown promising results, longer lifespan and a greater host-resistance to infection and cancer cells. Other studies in animals reproduce some of the results, though many are not directly applicable to humans. Can you say that the body of a hamster is a mirror of a human body?

Studies conducted on humans have demonstrated visible results with concentrated resveratrol, skin regains its elastic qualities, wrinkles fade or disappear and skin just looks better. Anti-aging physicians report an increase in stem cells with resveratrol. Stem cells are the progenitor cells that replace diseased, dying or dead cells. Stem cells make us younger!

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Where can I get resveratrol?
There are many sources of resveratrol. The skins, stems and seeds of grapes, especially red grapes, as well as other dark berries, peanuts and other nuts and, of course, red wine all contain resveratrol. However, if you want a consistent concentration of this youthful antioxidant, standardized supplements are the best sources. Why? Because supplements give you the benefits without the risks. Also, supplements can give you the economy of scale. For example, two capsules of Super Antioxidant Complex can give you more resveratrol than dozens of glasses of wine or pounds of boiled peanuts!

TriVitas Super Antioxidant Complex is our best source of resveratrol. TriVitas VisionGuard, Adaptogen 10 Plus and Nopalea also contain resveratrol-rich berries. Once you try one or all of these resveratrol sources, you will want to keep taking it. Then you will understand why resveratrol has remained so popular for so long, it just makes you feel that good!

Take Control of Your Health

Eat the right amount of high-antioxidant fruits and vegetables
5 servings for children
7 servings for women
9 servings for men
Supplement for the most consistent and targeted resveratrol supply
Use Super Antioxidant Complex for beauty from the inside-out!
Use VisionGuard to help protect your vision
Use Adaptogen 10 Plus if excessive stress is aging you too fast
Use Nopalea if inflammation is your primary health issue

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Other health related articles.

Posted by
Terry L. Allison, Sr., #13134349 1 Star
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member
Skype: allisonmarketinggroup
Phone: 859-858-9246
http://terryallison.com
http://umakemoneyonline2.net

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Protect Against Stress with Adaptogen
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Stress is defined as change that is seen by your body or mind as a threat, large or small, imaginary or real, or a change in your environment that triggers a rapid use of your reserves. Stress creates a demand on your resources. Soon, these resources become exhausted and you get sick.

Distress can come from your environment, your body or your mind. Rather than being just a single event, stress accumulates over time from all three sources. It strangles the joy and pleasure from your days and nights. It makes you miserable and then it makes you sick. Once you are sick, stress keeps you from responding as well to medical care.

Adaptogen 10 Plus is designed to help your body repair the effects and damage of stress and protect itself against further damage.

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Adaptogens
Adaptogens are plant species that do no harm, but increase your bodys resistance and resilience to stress, enabling your body to adapt around the problem and to avoid reaching collapse. Over time, sustained stress of an emotional or physical nature has a damaging effect on the health of both humans and animals.

The term adaptogen was coined in 1947 by Dr. Nicholai Lazarev. Joined by his colleague Dr. Israel Brekhman, they led a team of over 1200 Russian scientists in exploring the properties of adaptogens and classifying further plant species to determine the possible presence of adaptogenic qualities. Three criteria were established for a plant species to be termed an adaptogen

The plant must be non-toxic and harmless to humans and animals.
The actions upon human and animal physiology must be non-specific. Adaptogens must act within a system to sustain resistance irrespective of the stressor.
It should normalize bodily functions regardless of the pathological state. For example, an adaptogen acting upon blood sugar metabolism must be able to regulate blood glucose whether it was high or low.

Aloe
Aloes contain smart sugars, molecules that provide information to your body that all is well. Recently, aloe has been used as a supplement for people under life-threatening stress, such as severe diabetes. It seems that aloe can improve digestion and assimilation in even the most seriously stressed people. A study of people with type 2 diabetes demonstrated that as patients got sicker, they could not absorb the medications they needed to combat diabetes. When doctors added aloe to their daily medication routine, the patients began to absorb and assimilate the medications again.

We use aloe in Adaptogen 10 Plus to speed adaptogens and antioxidants, as well as other nutrients, directly into your system.

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Stem cells, Human Growth Hormone and Adaptogen 10 Plus
Aging can be defined as the process of cell death and cell replacement. Premature aging is when more cells die than you can replace in a single day. Chronic disease and disability often accompany premature aging as you might imagine. Stem cells replace dead cells. So, the more stem cells you can make in a day, the slower you are aging, the more vital you may be and the less likely you are to experience the chronic diseases associated with premature aging.

Stem cell production is encouraged by Human Growth Hormone, HgH. Growth hormone and stem cell production occurs in response to certain botanical extracts and antioxidant nutrients, as well as amino acids. Of the six known stem cell-HgH stimulants, five of them occur in Adaptogen 10 Plus. Betalains are the sixth recently discovered stem cell stimulant, contained in Nopalea.

The complete package
Adaptogen 10 Plus uses the smart sugars in aloe to open the doorway for adaptogens, botanical extracts and nutrients to enter your body. Adaptogens can then work their magic at helping your body return its physiology to normal and protecting itself from further damage caused by stress. Stem cell-HgH stimulants can then go to work helping your body repair the damage caused by stress.

Adaptogen 10 Plus is the complete package to help restore, repair and protect you against the relentless changes we call stress.

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Breathe deeply. Stress is reduced with just 10 minutes of deep breathing
Get your sleep. HgH is released during deep sleep
Exercise vigorously. HgH is released during strenuous exercise
Eat a rainbow. Colorful foods contain nutrients needed for stem cell production
Take Adaptogen 10 Plus for a solid foundation of anti-stress nutrients
Consider adding Nopalea. Betalains can help your body increase its production of stem cells

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Suffering with Low Back Pain?
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Most of us will experience low back pain at some point in our life. It is a condition caused by imbalance in our posture. What causes our posture to become unstable? All conditions of imbalance are caused by trauma, toxins, deficiency or stress. Low back pain is no different.

Let us discuss a few issues of low back pain and see if we can not find some solutions that work for you. As with other signs and symptoms in our body and mind, we need to learn to listen to the message of low back pain.

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Common causes, injury
Before we begin our discussion of low back pain, I want to say something about all pain in general. Pain is communication from your body. It tells you that something is wrong and that action is required from you to withdraw from the trigger of the pain. A common message in chronic pain is low Vitamin D levels. Nerves that conduct pain messages have special receptors for Vitamin D. We may often withdraw ourselves from chronic pain by filling our Vitamin D deficiency.

Trauma or injury to the back is the most common cause of low back pain. Simple things like overuse, or sprain and strain of the tissues, muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc., can trigger a guarding reflex, part of the guarding reflex is pain. In the case of an injury, pain often serves to limit our motion and prevent us from further injuring the area.

Allow your injury to heal. Use topical stimulants to increase circulation and facilitate healing. Topical stimulants are also called counter-irritants. A counter-irritant prevents the message of pain from becoming chaotic and random. They focus the nature of the pain down to a point where only the actual injured tissue hurts. The unaffected and undamaged tissues stop hurting, they stop having sympathy pains when we use topical counter-irritants.

Inflammation is a common result of injury to the low back. Inflammation is part of the healing process. Using Nopalea can help the body reduce runaway inflammation and facilitate the kind of inflammation needed to heal the injury or trauma.

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Common causes, toxicity and deficiency
Several diseases can cause low back pain. The most common among them is DJD, Degenerative Joint Disease or osteoarthritis, of the low back. DJD is a deficiency of water in the discs of the low back. They dry out and shrink. Rarely, this is associated with injury such as in a herniated disc. More often, this is associated with toxins. How does DJD work?

A popular theory goes like this. Toxins in our environment are detoxified in our liver by a process called sulfation. Sulfation requires dietary sulfur from foods like

Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Brussels Sprouts
Mustard greens
Turnip greens

If we are exposed to toxins and do not eat enough dietary sulfur, our body process called homeostasis will steal it from the next available source, our joints. When the sulfur comes out of our joints, they can no longer hold water and begin the process of degeneration. They will try to stabilize by fusing the bones together and thickening the tendons. But without sulfur, the process will continue as we are exposed to more toxins.

Toxins that require sulfation often deplete the body of Vitamin D. In turn, a low back with DJD is unstable and more prone to injury. Injury causes inflammation and pain. The solution is to decrease our toxic exposure, increase our water and dietary sulfur, and supplement appropriately for low back pain, Vitamin D, Nopalea, Quick-Relief Gel as needed and supplemental sources of sulfur, including Glucosamine sulfate, Chondroitin sulfate and MSM.

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Common causes, stress
No less important than trauma, toxins and deficiency, stress is a frequent cause of low back pain. Stress changes our body into a fight-or-flight posture. The early stages of fight-or-flight causes low back pain for some people, neck pain for others and headaches for still other people. It all depends on the person. In the end, stress can lead to exhaustion and exhaustion can lead to low back pain.

A great way to determine the impact of stress on your low back pain is to simply take 1 to 3 ounces of Adaptogen 10 Plus at bedtime. Listen to the message this simple trial sends to you. If your back pain rapidly improves then you have your answer, stress is a trigger for your pain.

Conclusion
People are complex, yet, the messages from the human body are pretty simple. If we experience pain we need to learn to listen, take action and find a solution to the pain. Often it is a mixture of approaches that are as unique to you as your fingerprint! Still, all states of imbalance find their causes in trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress.

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The Essentials of a healthy low back
Deep breathing helps reduce pain and stress
Healthy joints require water
Poor sleep increases pain chemicals, which interfere with sleep!
Junk foods and food allergies increase low back pain
Sulfur-bearing foods improve joint health
Low impact exercise, especially walking, improves back health
Reduced back pain is associated with supportive relationships
Essential supplements
Vitamin D helps reduce chronic low back pain
Joint Complex helps increase sulfur and water in the joints
Nopalea helps the body reduce runaway inflammation
Quick-Relief Gel helps increase circulation and reduces pain

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Protect Yourself From the Flu
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Important Health News. Protect Yourself from the Flu

About this time of year many people ask me what they can do to prevent the flu or minimize its impact. That has never seemed more relevant than today. So, I will address this with the best science we have available today. I say todays best science because we simply do not know everything we need to know about preventing and treating the flu. And we need to remember that not all that long ago current science said that the earth was flat and diseases were caused by evils spells or dead ancestors.

Many people never get the flu, no matter which strain we are talking about. Do you? When you get the flu, are your symptoms severe? Are there high-risk people living with you? Then your preference for or against preventive measures must take them into consideration. What if you got it and survived but transmitted it to them and they died? How would you feel? In any case, 35,000 to 40,000 people in North America die of the flu each year. It is estimated that this number will double with H1N1.

Flu protection
There are three pathways you need to focus on with flu protection, any variety

Transmission
Infection
Inflammation

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Inflammation
We will begin at the ending. Inflammation from the immune system that incapacitates, even kills, people when they have the flu. MOST IMPORTANT, The flu kills people not by transmission or by infection, but by an inflammatory immune system response called the cytokine storm.

Our immune system is designed to neutralize and excrete any non-self protein it finds. That includes the influenza virus. The size of the immune response needs to be equivalent to the strength of the invader.

Think of this as a building on fire. Small fires are extinguished by local fire fighters. Some fires are so big that fire fighters from other departments have to be called in to help. So, fires are designated as one-alarm, two-alarm, three-alarm, and so on. At a certain point, our immune system pulls all of the alarms and immune system fractions from all over our body rush to put out the fire, so to speak. However, this is a case of fighting fire with fire. Cytokines are inflammatory. They kill viruses and bacteria by creating inflammation.

The cytokine storm is responsible for all of the symptoms we feel, fever, body aches, nausea, diarrhea, etc. It is also responsible for filling the lungs with mucous, pneumonia/pneumonitis, which is often the fatal trigger in influenza, SARS, Hanta virus, bubonic plague, etc.

To survive we must modulate the cytokine storm so that it does its job but does not overwork and kill us. We make it work smarter, not harder. So we do not use Vitamin C or Echinacea or anything that boosts" the immune system. We use immune system modulators so we get exactly the right response. Quercetin, Betalains in Nopalea are quercetin bioflavonoids, green tea polyphenols, found in Energy Now and ginseng, Panax and Eleutherococcus found in Adaptogen 10 Plus, all help balance the bodys immune system and decrease the cytokine storm.

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Infection
Prior to the cytokine storm is the infection stage of influenza. The virus infects the cell by matching a cell receptor called Hemagglutinin. Hemagglutinin, the H in H1N1, allows the virus to gain entry to the cell and mutate the cell DNA so it can breed an infection. It also allows the newly mutated DNA to be incorporated into surrounding cells and through cell lines. Hemagglutinin describes infection with the flu. Two powerful natural bulwarks of Hemagglutinin are green tea polyphenols and ginseng, Panax and Eleutherococcus, found in Super Sublingual B-12.

Transmission
Neuraminidase describes transmission of the flu where the virus disarms the immune system with an enzyme. This is the N in H1N1, H5N1. Neuraminidase inhibitors like Tamiflu limit the ability of the virus to transmit its DNA strands. Two strong natural Neuraminidase protectors are green tea polyphenols and quercetin, Betalains in Nopalea are quercetin bioflavonoids. It is likely that green tea polyphenols and quercetin will help your body do what it does best, resist infection. Think of them as the first line of defense to arm your immune system and help protect against the flu virus from disarming it.

Important...
Remember to always stock up and use these TriVita products on a daily basis to maintain a strong and healthy immune system.

Nopalea
Energy Now!
Adaptogen 10 Plus
Super Sublingual B-12

By the way, the most common route of infection is touching your eyes with contaminated hands! Wash your hands frequently and dry your hands thoroughly to discourage infection. Also, the most common reason why people experience the runaway inflammation of a cytokine storm is poor sleep. Sleeping peacefully now becomes a matter of life and death!

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Flat earth?
We do not know all there is to know about flu prevention and treatment. There are endless avenues and processes we simply have not explored. Imagine what we knew about viruses 50 years ago. Do you think we will know more in the next 50 years? Certainly so! Accepting that as truth we know one thing for sure. Some people never get the flu.

How can we be one of them?
Primarily it is through vigorous application of the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

Practice deep breathing to reduce your bodys acidity and to reduce the impact of stress on your immune system.
Drink plenty of pure water.
Wash and thoroughly dry your hands often.
Get plenty of early-morning sunshine.
Sleep peacefully every night.
Eat nutritiously and take the nutrients you need as a solid foundation for health.
Play daily, enjoy activity, and surround yourself with healthy people you love.

These are the things that keep healthy people healthy and they can help you, too!

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Wash and dry your hands many times daily.
Get your rest every night.
Eat nutritiously and supplement appropriately.
Avoid sick people for two weeks after they recover.

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How To Lead An Anti–Inflammatory Lifestyle
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Wellness is created in the way our immune system interacts with our environment, based on our genetics and modified by our behavior or lifestyle. Illness is really a disharmony produced by injury, toxins from inside or outside our body, deficiencies in vital elements like air, water, sleep and nutrients and emotional distress.

Sometimes we ask the wrong questions when we start to experience disharmony in our body. In effect, we ask, What makes sick people sick? As pertinent as that question is to a sick person, it is usually more productive to ask, What keeps healthy people well, and how can I be one of them?

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Good inflammation?
Can inflammation really be good for you? Yes! For example, your body temperature is 98.6 F or 37 C. We are able to maintain that warmth because of controlled, focused, balanced inflammation. We call this type of inflammation metabolism.

Our immune system also functions through focused inflammation. For example, bad bacteria are neutralized by inflammation from macrophages, critical elements of our immune system.

Bad inflammation
Four imbalances create disharmony in our immune system. They are

Trauma or injury. Injured tissues first respond with beneficial inflammation. But if the inflammation becomes chronic, it will limit circulation by blood and lymph. Poor circulation allows waste created by the cells to accumulate, eventually becoming a toxic cesspool which can be the target for infection and disease.
Toxins from inside or outside of your body. Fat-soluble toxins and poisons from our environment may accumulate in our tissues and smolder for decades. These toxic tissues become chronically inflamed. Fatty tissues in our body such as our brain, liver and reproductive systems accumulate toxins and become the target for inflammation and disease.
Deficiencies in elements critical for life. Many people are deficient in oxygen though there is an abundance of air surrounding them. Oxygen deficiency causes acidic tissues, an acid body foments disease. Deficiencies in air, water, sunlight, sleep and nutrients are the most common causes of chronic inflammation.
The immune-suppressing scourge of emotional distress. Sustained emotional distress is a trigger for chronic inflammation. Actually, stress is also a known trigger for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Obesity causes more emotional distress and more chronic inflammation.

Your anti-inflammatory plan
We are made with the ability to respond to trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress with inflammation. Therefore, inflammation is not the enemy, however, runaway inflammation is definitely our enemy! Stop the domino effect of runaway inflammation before it starts by learning and living the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

The simple act of breathing deeply can help reduce the impact of stress on your body. Oxygen also encourages an alkaline body, alkaline tissues are resistant to chronic illness.
Sleeping peacefully can also help reduce the impact of stress.
Exercise can ease the imbalance created by injury or trauma. Exercise may also make you less prone to future injury.
Reduce basic nutrient deficiencies by eating the appropriate servings of fruits and vegetables daily
5 servings for children
7 servings for women
9 servings for men

Further fill in the gaps of nutrient deficiency by taking the Healthy Foundation program.

Help reduce the effects of many internal and external toxins with Nopalea.
Ease the disturbances caused by emotional distress with anti-stress Adaptogen 10 Plus.

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A word about inflammation and disease
Once runaway inflammation is triggered, it follows an amazingly intricate course leading to catastrophe. Many of the disease processes are known to medical science, but many are not. One thing we know, stop runaway inflammation and health will improve! So, no matter what the condition is that is causing distress, reducing excess inflammation can help improve the way we feel.

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Breathe deeply, sleep peacefully and enjoy activity
Eat 5, 7 or 9 servings of fruits and vegetables
Eat a rainbow, include leafy green vegetables
Supplement appropriately
Healthy Foundation nutrients to fill deficiency
Nopalea to help your body put out the fire and drain toxins
Adaptogen 10 Plus as a bulwark against stress
Always ask the right question, How can I build wellness today?

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Are You Nutrient Deficient?
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

For the first time in recorded history, children born in North America today are not expected to live as long or as well as their parents. This startling trend may have its roots in the nutrition of our parents or grandparents. The trend continues through our generation. Truly, the sins of the parents are visited upon their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

How did we get into this predicament and what can we do to change the trend?

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Poisonous fruit
Along with the advances in agriculture that reduced famines and starvation, the farming practices of the last century produced some pretty scary trends. For example, food grown in mineral-depleted soil has fewer nutrients to offer us. Food processed for increased storage is further reduced in nutrients. Flavor-enhancing additives, such as refined sugar, further impose a burden on our system. It is as if we are over-taxing our personal health resources and the deficit spending of this course is being passed on to our children.

Some scientists recognized this disastrous course 100 years ago. General awareness of the importance of nutrition has increased significantly in the past 50 years. However, commercial and other interests have kept the debate suppressed until recently. A landmark article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, June 19, 2002. It defined the need for nutrients in disease prevention. Though it was met with resistance, this article clearly opened the door for debate while confirming the truth we have known for a century. A body deprived of nutrients and nurturing will be prone to disease, disability and untimely death.

Further scientific exploration into the link between low nutrient reserves, a shortened lifespan, increased disease and unhealthy children was published that same year in the European Journal of Human Genetics. It clearly detailed the link between poor nutrition in a person and the increase in disease in their children and grandchildren. The root of poor nutrition has erupted into obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases that extend through generations. Habits and practices of 100 years ago are bearing fruit in our children!

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Solutions
With this knowledge, the discussion around human nutrition has never been more important. We simply must change our habits if we are to change our destiny. For example, we must select food grown in mineral-rich soil and endorse farming practices that support ecology.

We must also discipline ourselves to take our nutrients every day. By doing this, we increase the opportunity for having healthier children. If we are past childbearing, taking our nutrients daily will improve our health and give us the opportunity to model responsible behavior for our children and grandchildren. Healthier kids mean a healthier family, a healthy community and even a healthier species.

The power to change the trend is in the choices you make every day.

Wellavoh
Wellavoh, pronounced wel-lah voh, is a multi-nutrient complex built upon the science of proper nutrition. Wellavoh is constructed to give you the nutrients you need today to help your body change the trend: the trend toward wellness. It contains the classes of nutrients we need to fill in the gaps left by poor diet and foods grown in nutrient-depleted soil.

Wellavoh is designed for adults and children age 10 and over. Take your nutrients every day and model healthy behavior for your children and grandchildren. Become part of the solution to declining health by making better choices in nourishing and nurturing your body today!

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Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy foudation nutrients
Wellavoh, the multi-nutrient complex
Nopalea
Sublingual B-12
OmegaPrime
Vitamin C
A Vitamin D supplement found in VitaCal-Mag D and Bone Growth Factor
Eat organic, locally-grown food when possible

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Just Say No to Premature Aging

Nopalea Can Help
By Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Officer of TriVita

Healthy aging is about living long without being old. To reach that goal we need to take a brief look at the process called biological aging. Biological aging does not happen with the tick of the clock or the pages turning on your calendar. It happens in your cells. During its life cycle, a cell may be damaged by exposure to

Toxins
Direct trauma
Nutrient deficiencies
Stress

Each of these circumstances causes inflammation and free radical production. Intense nutrition is needed to battle these causes of premature cell death. Premature biological aging occurs when more cells die than you can replace.

Fighting inflammation
The human body is designed to fight premature aging and remain young. A powerful force called homeostasis mobilizes your immune system, hormones, nerves and other important systems to ignite the healing process. Homeostasis uses focused inflammation to remodel your cells following injury, illness or even the extreme challenges of emotional stress. Once the healing process is complete, homeostasis extinguishes the fire of inflammation and returns your body to a state of dynamic and vital balance, free from the effects of runaway inflammation.

However, there are times when your body cannot heal itself. If inflammation overwhelms a cell, it may be damaged beyond repair. Damaged, dead cells must be removed or they will become the focus of infection and illness. Betalains, a unique class of nutrients that is both an antioxidant and a protein, assist a special cell called a macrophage, literally big eater, to engulf the dead cell and eliminate it from your body. This makes room for a brand-new replacement cell and the cycle of wellness continues.

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Nopalea protects against premature aging
There are many things that contribute to premature aging, including

Excess exposure to the sun
A poor diet
Stress
Inactivity

The most common contributors, however, are inflammation, muscle and joint pain and poor circulation. Since Nopalea targets inflammation, aids detoxification and optimizes cell health, it can help slow down the process of premature aging. Daily servings of Nopalea will provide you with the Betalains that help put out the fire of inflammation and rescue cells under attack by free radicals. Further, Betalains act to clean up the dead cells and help to protect them from becoming a target for disease. Betalains help you thrive as they help your body reduce inflammation and support the miracle of homeostasis.

Remember, premature aging is about losing more cells than we replace. Healthy aging is about closing the gap between loss of our cells and repair or replacement of our cells as directed by homeostasis and fueled by nutrients.

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Managing High Cholesterol
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

The guidelines for healthy cholesterol have changed. New targets have been established that tell us that perhaps our efforts to manage cholesterol and other blood lipids have been inadequate. This is especially true when we consider the target for LDL, low density lipoprotein, the so-called bad cholesterol.

Why should we be concerned with our LDL level? How did we get into such a deplorable state when it comes to managing our cholesterol? How can we use this information to improve our health?

What is LDL?
Low density lipoproteins, LDL, are often considered to be a bad form of cholesterol. But this is an extreme mischaracterization of a very beneficial fat in our blood. You see, your body makes important things out of LDL. Brain cells and nerves are shielded with LDL cholesterol-based fats. And hormones in your bloodstream and inside your cells are made from LDL cholesterol. So, LDL is not really bad, just misunderstood!

The dark side of cholesterol metabolism occurs when a person over-produces LDL and when LDL particles become sticky, oxidized and inflamed. This is one cause of atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, which leads to heart attack and stroke, peripheral artery disease, PAD, and other diseases of your blood vessels.

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Why cholesterol is high
We also make hormones from good cholesterol. Most doctors recommend over 1,200 milligrams of Omega-3 fats for building healthy hormones and reducing bad cholesterol. OmegaPrime supplement contains beneficial Omega-3 fats. You may find that you need more OmegaPrime every day to build cholesterol into trophic hormones.

Estrogen, progesterone, DHEA and testosterone are examples of trophic hormones. They are made of the same substance, cholesterol. If your body is unable to convert cholesterol into these hormones you may see your blood levels of cholesterol rise. You can bring your cholesterol down and your low hormones up by supporting cholesterol-to-hormone conversion. We can help support healthy hormone metabolism with supplements such as OmegaPrime, Balanced Woman and Prostate Health Formula.

The most critical balance of hormones occurs between insulin and glucagon. When we sleep too little, when we are stressed too much and when we eat too much sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup, our insulin levels stay too high for too long and cause insulin resistance. High levels of insulin cause the liver to release high levels of cholesterol and LDL. Oxidized LDL inflames, gets sticky and clogs arteries.

Glucagon is a liver hormone that balances blood sugar and lowers cholesterol and LDL. We support glucagon metabolism with adaptogens for stress and Leanology capsules to sustain healthy blood sugar. We assist with LDL stickiness by using robust levels of Vitamin C. We help your body reduce inflammation with Betalains found in Nopalea.

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Learning to listen
We should think of high cholesterol as a message from our body that something is wrong. Learn to listen to your body by taking stock of your lifestyle in comparison to the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness

Are you keeping the impact of stress on your body in control? You do this by daily exercise of 30 minutes or more, sunshine in the morning and deep breathing exercises for peaceful sleep at night.
Do you drink enough water and eat up to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables daily?
How healthy are your relationships?

We can balance our cholesterol and meet the new guidelines for LDL through vigorous application of the 10 Essentials, meticulous supplementation and appropriate medical care.

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Nopalea And Stem Cells
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

I attended an anti-aging conference recently. The discussions were about natural and pharmaceutical ways to slow the aging process and extend the vitality-longevity of humans. There were 20 speakers from around the world. All 20 of these physicians and professors eventually discussed stem cells as a way to slow aging and speed healing.

What are stem cells and how can they help us live long, healthy lives? Are there natural products that can assist us as we age?

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What are stem cells?
At conception, cells begin to divide into what will become a person. Along the way the cells differentiate. That is, they become different tissues. Some become the heart, others the brain and so on until the complete human is formed. These are called embryonic stem cells. Highly controversial experiments are being conducted with samples of these cells.

Once a person is formed, does the human body stop making stem cells? No, because stem cells are part of our miraculous healing process. We make stem cells every day of our life. These are different from embryonic stem cells because they actually replace other cells. You see, every cell in your body has a life span. When that cell dies it needs to be replaced. Stem cells made in your bone marrow and other places in your body follow a chemical trail back to the place where the cell dies and differentiate into the type of cell that died.

Aging can be defined as the process of cell death and cell replacement. Premature aging is when more cells die than you can replace in a single day. Chronic disease and disability often accompany premature aging, as you might imagine. Stem cells replace dead cells. So, the more stem cells you can make in a day, the slower you are aging, the more vital you may be, and the less likely you are to experience the chronic diseases associated with premature aging. All 20 of the experts at the anti-aging conference endorsed doing all we can to promote stem cell production by our own body.

Making stem cells
As I mentioned, we make stem cells every day. Dying cells release enzymes into your bloodstream. Your brain interprets the level of enzymes and sends an appropriate amount of Human growth hormone, or HgH. When the HgH reaches the bone marrow or other stem cell nursery, it triggers the release of a number of stem cells that roughly correspond to the amount of HgH. The stem cells follow the chemical trail left by the enzymes of the dying cell. They follow the trail back to the space left by the dead cell and nestle into the tissues. Once there, they differentiate into the cell they replace. They literally become the exact type of cell they replaced.

Nutrients are required for making cells, including stem cells. If you are deficient in any critical nutrient at the moment you create stem cells, one of two things will happen

Your bone marrow will refuse the order to meet that quota of stem cells, causing premature aging, or
The cells will be made, but without the nutrients critical for the health and longevity of the cell. When a deficient cell matures it becomes the target for inflammation and disease.

Cells need nutrients. Without all of the appropriate nutrients on board at all times, we will not be able to make as many healthy cells as we lose in a day. The disparity between how many cells we lose and how many we can replace is premature aging.

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More stem cells
Nutrients serve as the foundation for stem cells. However, specific nutrients also stimulate the production of stem cells. At the anti-aging conference, six stem cell-stimulating nutrients were identified. As one speaker neared the end of his presentation, he talked about a curious bioflavonoid found in great abundance in prickly pears from the Nopal cactus. Of course, he was talking about Betalains! It turns out that Betalains along with Vitamin B-12 may help your body increase the production of stem cells.

More healthy stem cells close the gap between the numbers of cells that die and the number of cells we replace every day. That equals slower aging. So, take your nutrients every day. Mens and Womens Wellavoh for the nutrient foundation we need, Super Sublingual B-12 and Nopalea to encourage an abundant crop of anti-aging stem cells!

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Get your sleep. HgH is released during deep sleep.
Exercise vigorously. HgH is released during strenuous exercise.
Eat a rainbow. Colorful foods contain nutrients needed for stem cell production.
Take Mens and Womens Wellavoh for a solid foundation of nutrients.
Take Super Sublingual B-12 for healthy DNA-RNA reproduction.
Drink Nopalea. Betalains may help increase your production of stem cells.

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Building and Maintaining Healthy Blood
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Symbolically and poetically, blood represents life. It is made of four basic components

Red cells. Red cells carry oxygen to the rest of the cells in your body. They should remain flexible, but certain conditions such as sickle cell anemia and diabetes cause the red blood cells to become rigid and damage the lining of your blood vessels. White cells. White blood cells are a large part of your immune system. Platelets. Platelets serve to repair damage when you are injured. They form blood clots to arrest excessive bleeding. Plasma. Plasma is the fluid in which each of these cells is carried. Plasma also carries nutrients and hormones to your cells and waste products such as carbon dioxide away from your cells. Plasma is mostly water.

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The essentials of healthy blood

Plasma
Low blood plasma is called hypovolemia. To have healthy blood plasma we must first have healthy hydration. We must drink pure water. To calculate how much water your body needs daily, take your body weight in pounds and cut that number in half. That represents the average amount of water in ounces that you should drink daily. I weigh about 190 pounds. Half that number is 95. So, I need about 95 ounces of water daily to help build healthy blood.

Blood plasma contains proteins and fats. For healthy plasma, eat healthy proteins and healthy fats.

Red blood cells
Red Blood Cells, or RBC, carry oxygen by means of a special molecule called hemoglobin. Low RBC volume or a low volume of hemoglobin is called simple anemia. A more serious, persistent form of anemia is called pernicious anemia. Both simple and pernicious anemias require an abundant supply of folic acid, Vitamin B-12 and dietary iron. Chronic anemia also responds to resistance or strength training exercises.

Blood derives oxygen from breathing deeply. To support proper oxygen balance in the blood and cells of your body, practice breathing deeply for 10 minutes, 2 or 3 times daily and 20 minutes at bedtime.

Platelets
A deficiency of platelets will cause you to bleed too freely if you are injured. In fact, this type of condition, called thrombocytopenia or ITP, may cause you to bleed even without an injury! Thrombocytopenia may be a sign of a simple infection or a serious disease. However, ITP may also be associated with insomnia and a low-fat diet. For healthy platelets, get your sleep and eat healthy fats.

White blood cells
White Blood Cells, or WBC, come in many varieties. WBC fight infection with inflammation. A high WBC count, then, is a sign of infection, the type of WBC can often tell you what kind of infection you have. Bioflavonoids in the quercetin family called Betalains can help focus the activity of your WBC and make them more effective.

A low WBC count, called leukopenia, is often a sign of low stem cell production in your bone marrow. The common function of your WBC is responding to infection and injury. So, a reduced production of stem cells will yield a low level of WBC and an increased risk of serious infection also, a reduced healing response.

Low WBC count is also associated with various viral infections that target the immune system. It may be caused by a vitamin deficiency, especially Vitamin B-6 and Vitamin B-12, excessive stress, toxicity from various causes and certain cancers.

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Conclusion
Building healthy blood cells and delivering those cells to where we need them is dependent on The 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. Special nutrients can help build elements of our blood. In the end, blood is life. Without healthy blood cells and plasma, we will simply never have the wellness we desire and deserve!

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See a doctor immediately for any blood disorder
Practice the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Breathe deeply and drink pure water
Sleep peacefully, eat nutritiously and enjoy activity
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OmegaPrime to supply healthy fats
Sublingual B-12 for folic acid, B-6 and B-12
Nopalea to help the body regulate inflammation and help with cellular health
Adaptogen 10 Plus to help the body reduce stress and promote optimal cellular health

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Reduce Pain from the Inside Out
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Where does it hurt? This is often the first question caregivers ask. A caregiver may be a doctor or nurse, a friend or mommy! We ask because we care. People often, though not always, tell us where it hurts because they are searching for a solution to their pain.

Why we hurt
Pain is a messenger system designed to tell us that something is wrong. As my grandfather used to say, If your hand hurts, take it off the hot stove! Pain is often designed to trigger a withdrawal response. We withdraw from pain because the pain tells us that we are being injured. This interpretation of pain may seem overly simplistic, especially in our world, where it is not always easy to take your hand off the hot stove, so to speak.

There are a number of different pain sensations. The feeling may seem sharp, superficial pain receptors, or dull, deeper pain receptors. It may seem to throb with your heartbeat or be constant. It may be fixed in one location or migratory, moving around from place to place. The main distinction of pain basically boils down to acute pain versus chronic pain.

Acute pain begins to go away as soon as you remove the trigger. Take your hand off the hot stove, repair the broken tooth or drink pure water to rehydrate the dehydrated brain and acute pain goes away. The message of pain has been received, interpreted and the corrective action taken.
Chronic pain persists after the cause has been removed or because the cause is itself a chronic condition. It is often related to inflammation, either inflammation in the tissues of your body, or inflammation in the nervous system, or both. We used to have a saying to help us define inflammation, rubor, tumor, calor and dolor. These four Latin words mean redness, swelling, heat and pain.

Your brain eventually interprets the signals in a way that motivates you to confront the cause of pain. Interestingly, the brain does not feel pain. It merely interprets the nerve and chemical signals as painful.

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Understanding the signals
It is important for us to understand why we hurt so that we can take the proper action. The four basic pain triggers are

Trauma or injury
Toxins or poisons
Emotional distress
Deficiency

As mentioned above, an example of a deficiency that causes pain may be a water deficiency, dehydration, causing a headache. Another extremely common form of painful dehydration is osteoarthritis, OA. In OA the soft tissue of the joint capsule loses water and withers. This may be due to a number of causes, including simply not drinking enough water. More often, joint dehydration associated with OA occurs because there are not enough minerals to hold the water in its proper place and quantity.

An example of toxins creating pain may be the way toxins from inside your intestines trigger rheumatoid arthritis and many other autoimmune disorders. Typically, a toxin from inside your system escapes into the bloodstream and relocates to the soft tissue of your organs or around your joints. Your immune system attacks both the toxins and the soft tissues. In an attempt to remove the toxin or poison, your system may destroy the tissue in which the toxin resides.

Pain caused by toxins frequently responds to Nopalea, as the Betalains in Nopalea are both anti-inflammatory and anti-toxin. These two actions help your immune system work smarter, not harder and, ultimately, help you do what you do best, heal. This often results in reduced levels of chronic pain.

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The lesson of pain
Dedicated physicians spend decades learning the antecedents, triggers and inflammatory pathways associated with acute and chronic pain. There is simply no way to address all of the particulars of pain in our Wellness Reports, however it is my sincere wish that this report gives you a little more insight into the possible causes, and solutions, for acute and chronic pain.

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Practice deep breathing 20 minutes or more daily
Drink pure water, half ounce per pound of body weight
Sleep peacefully to reduce pain signals and heal
Eat nutritiously, including appropriate supplements
Exercise daily according to your abilities. Get professional help with an exercise program tailored to your needs and abilities
Select a support team

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Understanding Seasonal Allergies
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Seasonal Allergies, In Full Bloom

More and more people are experiencing allergies and suffering with related symptoms. In past Weekly Wellness Reports we have discussed how histamine receptors trigger inflammation in the four tissues they populate

The airways
The digestive/reproductive tract
Our brain
Our immune system

Histamines are triggers for runaway inflammation.
If we are to combat the rise in allergy symptoms we must first understand them. How are histamines produced? What effect do they have on the four receptor sites, H-1, H-2, H-3, H-4? These important questions require answers from anyone experiencing symptoms.

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The four sites
We are all familiar with H-1 site, airways. The symptoms are watery, itchy, inflamed eyes and nose, throat and lungs. The same signs of inflammation we experience in our respiratory tract with H-1 inflammation occur in the three other sites

H-2 sites, digestive/reproductive tracts, inflame and we experience acid indigestion, gastric reflux, dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis and inflammation of the reproductive tract.
H-3 sites, the brain, inflame and we experience anxiety, agitation, insomnia, depression, attention deficit-hyperactivity, autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimers disease.
H-4 sites, the immune system, inflame and we experience autoimmune symptoms associated with chronic fatigue, body aches and pains, rapid aging and hormone disruption.

The root of the tree may be the same, histamines, but the fruit on the tree, symptoms, depends on our genetics, environmental factors and lifestyle choices. It also depends on timing. For example, an explosion of histamines in the brain may manifest as hyperactivity in the young and anxiety in the elderly, and insomnia in everyone.

Important for growth
Histamines are not bad chemicals, just misunderstood. We sometimes need histamines to protect us from poisons. When we have hay fever, our body misidentifies a harmless pollen grain as a toxic poison. Histamines actually flood the area to remove the pollen. However, these histamines are critically important in other ways. Our body uses controlled inflammation to accomplish good things. For example, we make histamines to facilitate the process of puberty. Just imagine the physical changes little boys and girls have to experience to become young men and women. These physical changes are caused by the controlled inflammation of histamines. Our ability to stay awake and alert is dependent upon histamines as well. However, when these become imbalanced we may experience symptoms such as PMS and hyperactivity.

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Histamines form
To make histamines we need protein amino acids and the B vitamins folate and B-12. One important amino acid in forming histamines is methionine. A sign that our methionine metabolism is impaired is elevated homocysteine levels.

Many people have a hard time digesting Vitamin B-12. For example, people with any digestive irritation will be unable to absorb B-12. When B-12 levels go down, histamines go up! This is because normal, healthy levels of folate quickly become unbalanced and begin converting proteins to histamine. These histamines attach to any available receptor site.

Here is an important reason why people can experience different symptoms from the same basic cause, too little B-12. One person may be born with more H-1 receptors, so they experience allergies in the airways. Another person may be born with more H-3 receptors, so they experience insomnia. One person may simply be born with more receptor sites than another.

Restoring Balance
To bring balance back into the system we need Vitamin B-12. Please note, How much B-12 is in the bloodstream is not important in deciding how much B-12 you can use! Vitamin B-12 exits the blood system quickly and we may get a false impression of our actual need for nutrient balance by viewing B-12 this way. It is better to look at the end results if we are to truly determine the benefit of taking B-12. For example, elevated homocysteine levels tell us we need a high level of folate and B-12. Elevated histamine levels in our blood, or signs of excess histamines in our body, tell us we need extra Vitamin B-12, but less folic acid.

This is why I formulated Super Sublingual B-12 with large amounts of B-12, both methyl-B-12 and cyano-B-12, and low amounts of folic acid. It is also why I formulated HCY Guard with a closer ratio of the two nutrients and why Dr. Libby used a similar strategy.

Super Sublingual B-12 helps restore balance to people troubled by signs of high histamines. Regardless of your specific symptoms, Super Sublingual B-12 may be the relief you need from the inflammation of elevated histamines.

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Reduce your exposure to toxins. Go green!
Increase deep breathing
Maximize water consumption
Get adequate sleep and reduce stress
Take B-12 to help slow histamine formation
Take Nopalea™ to break the cycle of inflammation

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The Health Benefits of Perilla Seed Oil
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

No wonder it is such an important part of our OmegaPrime formulation

By Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Officer

What would you think of a food that could help balance your immune system, help reduce your cholesterol and improve your ability to breathe? Perilla seed oil is just such a food! Perilla seeds have been used as a source of food and medicine for thousands of years. As interest in traditional remedies has grown in modern medicine, scientific studies have been carried out on perilla seeds as a possible remedy for allergies. This is notable because the number of people diagnosed with allergies, allergic rhinitis, has significantly increased in recent years.

A person experiences an allergy attack when the tiny cells that line the sinuses burst. These are called mast cells and they are filled with histamines, the substances that cause allergy symptoms. Pollen and other allergens rupture these cells and release the histamines in large amounts. Anything that stabilizes these cells and keeps them from bursting gives welcome relief from allergy misery.

What scientists are learning is that the oil from perilla seeds is a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. It not only reduces inflammation in the sinuses, but in all areas where mast cells release inflammatory histamines like the sinuses, lungs, joints, intestines and skin. So, perilla seed oil acts as an anti-inflammatory to relieve allergies, gastritis and even asthma.

That is why I put perilla seed oil in OmegaPrime, different oils reduce inflammation in difference tissues. Fish oil reduces inflammation in the arteries, flax oil in the reproductive tissues, evening primrose oil in the brain and bones and perilla seed oil in the sinuses, lungs and intestines. Is there any solid research on these applications for perilla seed oil? Absolutely!

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Studies conducted on people with asthma showed that perilla seed reduced the inflammation in the lungs, reduced the hyperactive immune system leukotrienes in the lungs and improved lung volume. At the same time, doctors measured cholesterol levels and found that perilla seed oil reduced total cholesterol, LDL, bad, cholesterol and triglycerides. Also, perilla seed oil raised the levels of beneficial, protective HDL cholesterol.

In the past, medications called bronchodilators were used to open the airways in asthma attacks. These medications worked pretty well in emergency situations; however, they did not stop the inflammation and they did not address the immune systems role in allergies and asthma. Newer, stronger drugs were developed that both opened the airways and reduced airway inflammation. A milestone in medicine was achieved when a class of drugs was developed called leukotriene inhibitors.

Leukotriene inhibitors were the missing link in allergy and asthma treatment, as well as with irritable bowel syndrome. They reduced the hyperactivity of the immune system and provided longer relief than anti-inflammatory drugs alone. Soon, however, the dark side of these medications emerged as many patients contracted serious infections from a suppressed immune system.

Perilla seed oil was shown to be a remarkable leukotriene inhibitor that did not suppress the immune system! It is also a powerful anti-inflammatory. Perilla stabilizes the mast cells so histamines are not released. What is more, perilla seed is showing positive results in studies against human cancer cells, irritable bowel disease and depression. All without any side effects. What a marvelous discovery! When you take TriVita OmegaPrime, you are getting so many benefits in this physician approved formula, including the remarkable effectiveness of perilla seed oil.

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Healthy Aging
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.
Dean Martin

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
H.D. Thoreau

This is the third in a series of articles on healthy aging. It is the most requested topic for our Weekly Wellness Reports and to me, it is one of the most important topics. You see, health is not about waiting for disease to strike and then battling it. As the World Health Organization said back in 1948, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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Healthy aging
My seventh-grade teacher was an ancient fossil of man, much older than even my parents! I think he was 50. He told me a truth about aging that I have never forgotten. And that is the only way to avoid getting old is to die young. With that in mind I found great wisdom in the words of Benjamin Franklin who said, all would live long but none would be old.

So, healthy aging is about living long without being old! To reach that goal we need to take a brief look at the process called biological aging.

Biological aging does not happen with the tick of the clock or the pages turning on your calendar. It happens in your cells. During its life cycle a cell may be damaged by exposure to

Toxins
Direct trauma
Nutrient deficiencies
Stress

Each of these circumstances causes inflammation and free radical production. Intense nutrition is needed to battle these causes of premature cell death.

Premature biological aging occurs when more cells die than you can replace.

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Fighting inflammation
The human body is designed to fight premature aging and remain young. A powerful force called homeostasis mobilizes your immune system, hormones, nerves and other important systems to ignite the healing process. Homeostasis uses focused inflammation to remodel your cells following injury, illness or even the extreme challenges of emotional stress. Once the healing process is complete, homeostasis extinguishes the fire of inflammation and returns your body to a state of dynamic and vital balance, free from the effects of runaway inflammation.

Homeostasis orchestrates the cells in your body to maintain balance under even severe conditions.

However, there are times when your body cannot heal itself. If inflammation overwhelms a cell it may be damaged beyond repair. Damaged, dead cells must be removed or they will become the focus of infection and illness. Betalains, a unique class of nutrient that is both an antioxidant and a protein, assist a special cell called a macrophage, literally big eater, to engulf the dead cell and eliminate it from your body. This makes room for a brand-new replacement cell and the cycle of wellness continues.

Intense nutrition
The supplements of healthy aging include four critical components

A balanced multiple vitamin-mineral supplement to establish a solid foundation for healthy aging
An essential fatty acid supplement to nourish the arteries and rehydrate the brain
A Vitamin C supplement to serve as an antioxidant reserve and keep the immune system active
A B-12 supplement to keep the energy level up and the mind bright.

Premature aging is about losing more cells than we replace. Healthy aging is about closing the gap between loss of cells and repair or replacement of our cells as directed by homeostasis and fueled by nutrients.

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Learn, live and share the 10 Essentials of Wellness
Engage in your community, volunteer often
Take your supplements
A multiple vitamin-mineral
Sublingual B-12
Vitamin C
OmegaPrime

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Causes of Hidden Inflammation

Inflammation is the number one medical issue facing people in North America today. There are four sources of inflammation and each one requires a pretty lengthy explanation. Rather than presenting our Weekly Wellness Report as an exhaustive list of what may go wrong, I would like to cover

The major categories of inflammation
How you can protect yourself
Nutrients you can use to help reduce inflammation

Cause number 1 is toxins
Toxins cause inflammation by penetrating healthy tissue in your body and hiding there. Your immune system knows they are there and responds with acute inflammation to eradicate them, even killing healthy cells to get rid of the toxins. Toxins create death when more cells die in a single day than your body can replace with healthy cells.

Sometimes this happens very quickly, as with infection from the H1-N1 flu epidemic. The virus inhabits the lungs and airways. Your body responds with immune cells which douse the viral toxin with inflammation. So many lung cells are killed in the process that the host simply can not replace the sick, toxic cells with new, healthy cells and the patient dies.

Sometimes toxins kill more slowly, as with air pollution causing lung cancer. Inflammation kills diseased cells but at such a slow rate that a few replacement cells keep the lungs functioning. However, over time the rate of cell replacement cannot keep up with the rate of cell death and the patient dies of a chronic lung disease such as cancer or emphysema.

Toxins are produced outside our body as well as inside our body. We must insulate ourselves from external toxins and keep our body shiny and clean on the inside through vigorous application of the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. Supplements such as Nopalea and Vitamin C can be very helpful in releasing hidden toxins.

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Cause number 2 is deficiency
Your body must replace millions of cells every hour. Building healthy cells requires that we have healthy building materials in our system all the time like oxygen, water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and many other elements. We must give our body time to rebuild with 7 and a half to 9 hours of peaceful sleep every night.

If any element in your health routine is missing for even a moment, a cell will be created without critical building materials and the cell will be weak. A single weak cell will be eliminated by the acute inflammation of our immune system. However, poor nutrition day after day and poor sleep night after night will create a deficit between the number of healthy cells you have and the number of healthy cells you need to live. Chronic inflammation is the way your body deals with this deficit. It is the seedbed for infection, disease and an early death.

Pay close attention to the 10 Essentials and support your body with Healthy Foundation nutrients. A multiple vitamin/mineral supplement, OmegaPrime, Vitamin C and Sublingual B-12 are basics for wellness.

Cause number 3 is emotional distress
Stress describes the forces trying to tear us apart, for example, toxins and deficiencies, gravity and weather, injuries, expectations and time pressures. These are examples of things that pull us apart. The forces trying to pull us back together, homeostasis, are seen in the 10 Essentials, like deep breathing, pure water, peaceful sleep, nutritious food, daily activity, emotional and spiritual support.

Emotional distress is based on how we appraise or evaluate changes in our environment. All changes are stressful, even good changes such as a raise at work or a new, healthy grandbaby! The changes that threaten our health and create long-term, chronic stress are those that may cause pain or loss to ourselves or to someone we care about, or that may overextend our coping resources.

Support yourself against this dangerous cause of inflammation by creating a healthy community of people around you. Use Healthy Foundation supplements to create a solid foundation for coping with daily stress. Especially consider adaptogens to build a bulwark against the onslaught of daily stress from outside, inside your body and even inside your mind.

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Cause number 4 is injuries and trauma
Acute inflammation is the normal response to trauma. Acute inflammation is characterized by pain, swelling, redness and heat. Using Quick-Relief Gel can expedite the repair process by supporting homeostasis during the early days following an injury. Keep the external region bathed in Quick-Relief Gel during this crisis stage.

Conclusion
There are four basic causes of inflammation, therefore, there are four basic causes of chronic disease. Work to insulate yourself from these malevolent influences with appropriate nutrients and emotional-spiritual nurturing and you will improve the quantity and quality of your life!

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Practice the 10 Essentials each day
Use Nopalea to detoxify
Create a nutrient base with Healthy Aging supplements
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Sublingual B-12
Vital C
OmegaPrime
Adaptogen 10 Plus Plus to thwart stress
Use Quick-Relief Gel for acute injuries

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Pain is Your Bodys Warning System
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

According to one medical resource, there are 2,186 disease conditions that are characterized by pain. On the other hand, there are people who experience no pain whatsoever. Would you like to live a life without pain? Definitely not! Pain is the special communication from your body that tells you when something is wrong.

There is a certain social endorsement to people who can work or perform through pain. The more intense the pain is, the greater the admiration we have for someone who struggles on. We also have a somewhat negative view of people who seem to have a greater sensitivity to pain or that are limited by pain, especially if there are no obvious signs of disability. Of course, this stereotype is more extreme for men than for women.

We should all know that pain is a message. Our brain tells us that something is so very wrong that our health and well-being are threatened.

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Acute pain
My grandmother used to have a saying that applied to pain and many other areas of life including work, play and relationships. If the stove is too hot, take your hand off of it!

We take our hand off of a literal hot stove because of what is called a withdrawal reflex. We will often withdraw our hand or foot from a painful experience even before we have fully defined what is hurting us. In acute, short-term, pain, removing the trigger is very important. Common triggers for acute pain are

Trauma
Toxins
Deficiencies
Stress

Chronic pain
Some pain persists even when you take your hand off the stove. This is called chronic, long-term, pain. For instance, chronic back pain and chronic headaches persist long after the trauma that caused them. Many times there is no specific trauma. The pain just starts and will not go away.

This happens because of the way our nerves are constructed. You see, nerves do not really feel pain. They merely sense stimulation. It is up to our brain to interpret the signal as pain. We have specific nerve fibers that fire under specific conditions. One group of fibers may be triggered by a sharp jab, another group by dull pressure. One group may be triggered by heat and another by extreme cold. The nerves carry this specific message to our brain for interpretation. Our brain interprets the signal as painful. The volume of the signal helps us determine the intensity of the pain.

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In chronic pain

The signal goes from the nerve ending to the spine.
From the spine it travels to the brain for interpretation.
Then a signal goes back along that route, from brain to spine and from spine to nerve ending. This return message is supposed to shut off the pain signal when the irritation is gone.

In chronic pain, the return signal is not switched off. Instead, it is amplified.

Have you ever heard a microphone-speaker screech with feedback? This happens when the microphone is too close to the speaker or when it is directed in such a way that the microphone picks up the sound waves from the speaker and amplifies them. This amplified signal is played through the speaker again and picked up by the microphone again, where the signal repeats even louder. The result is the feedback screech that is definitely painful!

Your nerves can amplify pain signals. The signals do not even have to come from the nerve endings. Certain conditions may cause random signals to be amplified and pain may be projected to a perfectly healthy nerve ending. Remember, it is the interpretation of the intensity of this signal that we call pain.

Breaking the cycle
When pain comes from problems with the nerves themselves, you must help repair the nerve to get relief from the pain. This can be accomplished with specific nutrients, with physical medicine, for example, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, and with various nerve therapies.

More commonly, acute and chronic pain come as a mixed bag of imbalances caused by trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress. These triggers lead to inflammation. To relieve the pain you simply must deal with the cause of the problem as well as the triggers and any associated inflammation.

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Inflammation
Almost all healthy fats are anti-inflammatory. Omega-3s block inflammation and pain similarly to aspirin but are much safer. Omega 6 and 9, such as Evening Primrose oil and Perilla seed oil, block inflammation at the source and help keep runaway inflammation from overwhelming us. OmegaPrime is a good source of these Omegas and can be used to help hinder the cycle of inflammation. Other good sources of healthy fats include some fish, nuts, and oils.

Stress

Finally, if stress is a significant trigger for your pain, consider deep breathing exercises to help reduce the impact of stress and increase oxygen to the painful area. Many stress-induced migraines, neck and back pain can be relieved this way. Also, consider taking adaptogens up to four times daily in a pint of water to help create strong protection against stress.

Take Control of Your Health

Remove causes of pain. Remember to take your hand off of the stove!
Remove triggers of pain and inflammation
Resolve trauma with physical medicine
Detoxify to reduce chronic pain
Saturate your body with nutrients
Create a bulwark against stress
Practice deep breathing
Increase your fitness levels through exercise
Increase your mobility through stretching exercises
Reduce chronic pain disability by working with pain management specialists

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A Must Read For Any Man Over 40
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

Do not wait until symptoms develop. Take action now to prevent prostate problems that could haunt you later
By Dr. Samuel N. Grief, MD, FCFP

If you do not know what your prostate is or what it does, you are certainly not alone. Most men do not. But you really should. More than 30 million men suffer from prostate conditions that negatively affect their quality of life. Men of any age are susceptible to prostate conditions, but men age 40 and older are much more likely to experience them. However, men should be taking special precautions to take care of their prostate as early as age 40, before they experience symptoms.

The prostate is a small gland, about the size of a walnut that surrounds the urethra, a tube that passes urine from the bladder to the penis. The prostate gland grows quite a lot during puberty, and then does not change much until about age 40. At this time, it slowly begins growing again and, in many men, does not stop. Half of all men are not bothered by their growing prostate, but the others will develop any one of three prostate diseases because of inflammation, enlarged prostate, prostate cancer, or prostatitis. Some men may suffer from more than one of these conditions.

The medical term for an enlarged prostate is benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH. A noncancerous disorder, an enlarged prostate is the most common prostate health problem among men. Half of men between the ages of 50 and 60 will develop it, and by the age of 80, about 90 percent will have experienced BPH symptoms.

BPH may result in a range of uncomfortable symptoms such as frequent urination, incomplete emptying of the bladder, a weak urine stream or difficulty starting urination. As the prostate slowly continues to enlarge, symptoms may gradually worsen, interfering with sleep, physical comfort and routine activities. In rare cases, an untreated enlarged prostate may lead to an inability to urinate, incontinence, bladder stones, kidney infections, and damage to the bladder, kidneys and urethra.

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Treatment for BPH often involves prescription medicine, surgery or both. Supplements can shrink the prostate enough to lessen or even rid a man of the most bothersome symptoms. However, if a mans BPH symptoms continue or worsen, it is strongly encouraged that he consults a healthcare provider for further evaluation. Each year over 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 30,000 will die of it. There are several factors that could put you at risk of developing prostate cancer

Age. As men age, the risk increases. Those at the earliest risk are those who are 40 or over with a family history of prostate cancer and African American ancestry. For other men, the risk is greatest for those who are 50 and above. Most prostate cancers are diagnosed in men over 65, but it is becoming more common in men 55 to 65.
Family history. Your risk of developing prostate cancer is doubled if your father, brother or close male blood relative has or had the disease.
Race. African Americans have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world, at least twice as high as Caucasian men.
Diet. Eating a diet that is low in fiber and high in fat and red meat has been shown to increase prostate cancer risk.

Even though one in six men, that is 17 percent, will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, only one in 33, or 3 percent, will die of it. This is partly because early treatment of prostate cancer is often effective and partly because other illnesses often overtake prostate cancer as the ultimate cause of death. So, some men have prostate cancer and never even know it. They live long healthy lives without knowing the diagnosis, and eventually die of something having nothing to do with prostate cancer. Your doctor can help you assess your risk for prostate disease and determine whether it is appropriate to undergo a blood test screening, prostate specific antigen or PSA, for prostate cancer. PSA screening is somewhat controversial as the benefits of this blood test do not always outweigh the risk. Ideally, you will help protect yourself from prostate disease by

Leading an active lifestyle
Consuming foods rich with healthful vitamins, minerals and antioxidants
Complementing your daily sustenance with a high quality prostate-specific supplement.

Prostate disease need not be the end of a healthy life. Talk to your healthcare provider about what you can do to feel better today and healthier tomorrow.

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Test Your Skin Health
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Skin is made of several layers, each requiring their own specific nutrition to remain healthy. For example, in past reports we have discussed how the essential fatty acids in OmegaPrime work with sunshine receptors in the skin to create Vitamin D. And many people know the simple truth that we cannot have healthy collagen in our skin without adequate Vitamin C.

There is an emerging body of science that confirms the observation that our skin reflects our inner health and wellness.

Thin skin consistency is often equated with elevated levels of homocysteine and thinning bones. Skin that bruises easily is related to fragile blood vessels in the eyes and inner ear. Blotches of benign pigment on the skin, frequently called liver spots, are often made of lipofuscin, a fatty-pigment that may also form in the brain.

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Testing the health of your skin
There is an old way to determine the health of your skin and, therefore, the internal age it reflects. Note, chronological age is determined by the calendar, biological age is determined by how well we care for ourselves, our nutritional status, our stress load and toxins, etc. Simply pinch the skin on the back of your hand with the thumb and forefinger and hold it for five seconds. Let go and time how long it takes for the skin to flatten back out. The shorter the time, the younger the functional age of the skin.

Compare your results to the table below

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Slowing the skins aging process
Interestingly, many of the things we should be taking as supplements to slow the aging process work internally and externally at the same time. The bilberry fruit in VisionGuard that is so useful for the eyes, ears and brain is also useful in protecting against bruising of the skin. Gingko, again useful for the eyes, ears and brain is equally beneficial in protecting against wrinkles.

Poisons that are bad for the brain are also bad for the skin. For example, toxic levels of glucose, sugar, caramelize in the bloodstream and damage the eyes, brain and kidneys, as well as rapidly age the skin.

A solution that will not go away!
Many years ago, scientists began to notice that certain cultures had low levels of heart disease even though they ate high levels of fatty foods. This was common in France. So, a careful search was made to explain this French paradox. As it turns out, resveratrol, a nutrient found in red and purple grapes, red grape skins and seeds, and red wine, provides significant protection from toxic oxidized fat.

Resveratrol is also excellent for helping protect against rapidly aging skin. This may explain some of the skin-health benefits people report after taking Nopalea. One of the supporting ingredients we included is an antioxidant complex based in the skins and seeds of red grapes. Likewise, Adaptogen 10 Plus and Super Antioxidant Complex both contain concentrated antioxidants from the skins and seeds of grapes.

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One more use for B-12...
The homocysteine-reducing effects of HCY Guard are also good for your skin. Homocysteine shatters the collagen matrix in the blood vessels, lungs, brain and bones. It is also implicated in certain skin disorders associated with rapid skin aging. Using HCY Guard may reduce your blood levels of homocysteine by as much as 35 percent in six weeks.

Healthy skin reflects a healthy, balanced body. Beauty on the outside begins with wellness on the inside. Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness, which includes adding the appropriate amount of fruits and vegetables, healthy fats and proteins to your diet. Take the time to correctly assess your nutrient needs and supplement your diet accordingly.

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For healthy skin

Eat healthy fats and take OmegaPrime to help form the foundation
Eat an antioxidant-rich diet
Take specific antioxidants such as
Vitamin C
Nopalea
Adaptogen 10 Plus
VisionGuard
Super Antioxidant Complex
Get appropriate sunshine, and never burn!

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Allergies, Asthma and Your Environment
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

What is your experience? Does there seem to be more or less people with allergies these days? Do more or less children, and adults, seem to have asthma these days? Most people recognize that the prevalence of allergies and asthma is on the rise, and health statistics confirm it.

What are the causes of allergies and asthma? Why are we seeing so many more people suffering from these conditions? How can we find relief from these common conditions?

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Antecedents, triggers and inflammation
We say we have allergies when we experience a certain set of symptoms, watery eyes, runny nose, scratchy throat, etc., in response to a trigger such as pollen or dust. We say we have asthma when we experience breathing difficulty related to constriction in our airways and inflammation in the immune system of our respiratory tract. Antecedents, certain people have allergies while others do not. And certain people experience asthma while others do not. The difference between those of us with symptoms and other people is found in antecedents literally what comes before. Antecedents may be

Genetic. rare
Trauma from smoke, chemical burns, etc. more common
Emotional distress. far more common
Toxins from the environment that permeate our air, water and food. the most common antecedent for allergies and asthma

Triggers. Triggers are the myriad products or processes in our internal and external environment that create symptoms. For one person, wheat triggers symptoms. For another person cat dander triggers symptoms. Almost everyone reacts to ragweed! Your symptom triggers are unique because of the way your personal, internal chemistry interacts with the antecedents that come before allergies and asthma.

Inflammation. Inflammation is the final reaction in this chain. The symptoms we experience are all related to inflammation. Examples of inflammatory mediators are histamines, prostaglandins and leukotrienes. These are strange and difficult words that are all too familiar to people that suffer from allergies and asthma.

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Defense strategies
We protect ourselves through the process of insulation and isolation. It is very important to isolate ourselves from trauma, stress and toxins. It is also imperative to insulate ourselves with anti-allergy nutrients.

Vitamin B-12, especially Super Sublingual B-12, helps your body reduce histamine formation. Nopalea helps your body reduce inflammation in the soft tissues of the respiratory tract, digestive tract and pretty well all other tissues! These represent the best strategies for symptom relief.

Triggers, allergens, are sharp, jagged proteins that are like shards of broken glass in your system. The cells lining your airways, and pretty well all other tissues, are like delicate balloons that pop when allergens attack. Fortunately, we are able to resist most of these allergens. However, the ones we cannot neutralize create real misery. Essential Fatty Acids, or EFAs, like OmegaPrime toughen up the balloon-like cells and make them much more difficult to pop. You will likely need two to three times the normal amount of EFAs every day for several months to achieve lasting relief from allergy triggers.

Antecedents are more difficult to address because genetics, toxins and stress are pervasive. They do not go away. With patience, though, we can develop strategies to minimize the impact of antecedents. For example, we can breathe deeply to de-stress our mind and body. We can drink pure water and eat nutritiously to cleanse toxins from our body. This can also help protect against new poisons setting us up for allergies in the future. And we can modify our sensitivity by exercising appropriately, and safely, as well as sleeping peacefully to balance our immune system.

Conclusion
Allergies and asthma are more prevalent now than ever. We can prevent much misery by addressing the antecedents that come before these reactions, by strengthening our cells to resist triggers, and by reducing the inflammation that creates so much misery!

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Drink pure water
Eat nutritiously
Practice deep breathing at least 20 minutes every day
Take high levels of OmegaPrime to help strengthen delicate cells
Take Super Sublingual B-12 to help your body reduce histamine formation
Use Nopalea to help your body reduce inflammation
Take CoQ-10 for greater energy
Use Vital C to detoxify your body
Get at least 30 minutes of exercise most days of the week
Get 7 and a half to 9 hours of sleep per night

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Got Energy?
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Regardless of what complaint a person has when they visit their doctor, 85 percent of all patients complain of fatigue. It is one of the Top 10 reasons for seeking medical help.

People feel tired. We need energy. So, where does energy come from? And, once we get energy, how do we keep it? Let me explain the process by which we produce energy and how we may form strategies to feel energetic every day.

The process of energy
First of all, there is a difference between having energy and feeling energetic. We produce a significant amount of energy even when we are asleep. Yet, most of us do not feel particularly energetic when we wake up. There are times when we may feel energetic and yet scientific tests actually measure less energy. A good example of this may be seen when a person uses a caffeine-based stimulant such as a cup of coffee or a soft drink. They may feel more alert. Yet, they have less mental energy and they typically score poorly on mental performance tests. That means they cannot really think as well and solve problems as well when they are under the influence of caffeine. More than that, the alertness that they feel comes at a high price, drinking caffeinated beverages will ensure that you feel more fatigue later. The energy that you feel is not real energy.

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Metabolism
Real energy is a process of burning calories found in foods and releasing the energy contained within them. This is the process of metabolism. The word metabolism is drawn from a Greek word meaning change. Metabolism changes food into heat. Heat is a form of energy. Therefore, the first step in producing lasting energy is to eat properly so we will have enough fuel to keep our inner fires burning. Betalains, found in Nopalea, prevent these fires of metabolism from becoming fires of inflammation.

Metabolism is governed by hormones that originate in a region of your brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus determines your energy needs and sends this information to your pituitary gland. The pituitary gland, often called the Master Gland, translates these signals into hormones and sends these messenger hormones on their way to other various glands. The two prominent glands for energy production are

Adrenal glands. The adrenal glands respond with adrenaline when the hypothalamus detects danger. This process is often called the fight or flight response to stress. Adrenaline sends your body into an energy spending spree where it virtually cannibalizes your organ reserves for all of their stored energy. The fires of metabolism are turned down. Your hands and feet get cold and your core body temperature may drop below normal. Even when we are not in danger, caffeine and sugar, as well as other stimulants, mimic this process and trick your system into releasing adrenaline. The adrenaline rush is very addictive but it robs us of true energy. So, the second step in energy production is to turn down the stress response. We do this with adaptogens, plants known to help us reduce the impact of stress.

The thyroid. The thyroid gland is responsible for regulating your body temperature by adjusting your metabolism. Two primary fuel sources keep the thyroid gland functioning properly, Iodine and Tyrosine. Iodine is a mineral and Tyrosine is an amino acid, a building block of protein. Tyrosine is considered a non-essential amino acid because we do not need to get it in our diet. We can make it from an essential amino acid, one we must get in our diet, called Phenylalanine, LPA. However, getting Tyrosine in our diets is not a bad thing, it means that we will use less energy making Tyrosine from LPA.

Nopalea is a good source of dietary Tyrosine and Energy Now! contains both LPA and Tyrosine to fuel healthy energy production. Energy Now! is a nutrient, not a stimulant. The ingredients in Energy Now! can help us feel energetic by supporting healthy metabolism.

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Into the brain
Tyrosine and LPA fuel metabolism by supporting healthy thyroid function. Further, these important amino acids foster the sensation of energy and euphoria by serving as the building blocks for other brain chemicals, such as PEA and Nor-Epinephrine. PEA is the hormone of love and it is likely the reason why our energy is increased, our pain-perception reduced and even our appetite reduced when we fall in love. We want to support PEA metabolism to feel energetic! Nor-Epinephrine fuels the creation of energy in the brain and supports our nerves as we translate that energy into action.

To get energy from our brain to our body requires healthy nerves. Often, our metabolism is normal and our stress level is low and our nutrient reserves are high and still we do not feel energetic. The problem may not be as much in creating energy as it is in translating that energy through our nerves. Nerve health is supported by Vitamin B-12. People feel fatigued when they lack enough B-12 because they cannot transfer the creation of energy into the sensation of energy.

Conclusion
Health only comes from healthy habits practiced every day. Our bodies rely on nutrients and nurturing to remain healthy. Fatigue is a message from our body that something is wrong, and we need to learn to listen to our body to have energy and to feel energetic!

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Practice the 10 Essentials for energy
Get your rest and exercise.
Eat a nutrient-rich diet.
Select relationships that energize you.
Support energy production with Energy Now!
Reduce the impact of stress with Adaptogen 10 Plus
Improve the sensation of energy with Vitamin B-12
Decrease the impact of inflammation with Nopalea

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Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

We are a people on fire!

Less than a hundred years ago the common health challenges we faced were infections. With the discovery of pathogenic bacteria and the advent of proper hygiene, death from these problems became less common. Inflammation has become the new epicenter of disease, disability and death.

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Inflammation and the immune system
Our immune system uses heat to destroy invading bacteria. A specialized cell called a macrophage douses the invader with inflammatory enzymes, like acids, and the heat generated in this battle destroys the invading bacteria.

Sometimes our own healthy cells become the focus for disease. This often happens because of toxic exposure. When we eat, drink or breathe a toxin, or if it is absorbed through our skin, our detoxification system works to remove it before the poison can compromise our health. Unfortunately, many of todays poisons are simply too strong and they overwhelm our detoxification system and enter healthy cells. These cells now become the target of disease, infection and inflammation. Our immune system must treat them as hostile and use heat to destroy them.

Autoimmune diseases arise when our immune system becomes so overworked that it can no longer tell the difference between healthy cells and sick cells. It attacks all cells of a particular type equally. This body system is never able to heal and chronic inflammation sets in.

The weakest link
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. You are only as healthy as your weakest body system. How robust you are depends mostly on lifestyle choices, somewhat on your environment and a little on your genetics.

When a toxin overwhelms your detoxification process it will likely settle in your weakest system. The immune system melts these polluted cells in an effort to save healthy cells. This is acute inflammation. With chronic toxicity comes the opportunity for chronic inflammation. In the case of chronic inflammation, the immune system attacks any sick cell as well as any healthy cell that looks like the sick one. If the immune system attacks connective tissue we say a person has lupus. If it attacks the beta cells of the pancreas we say they have type 1 diabetes. If it attacks the joints we say they have rheumatoid arthritis.

These are only a few of the more than 200 autoimmune diseases. Yet they all share one common attribute. inflammation.

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Putting the fire out
Inflammation arises because of

Toxins
Injuries
Emotional distress
Nutrient deficiency

We simply must reduce our toxic exposure to reduce the chances of developing an autoimmune disorder. And we must also develop emotional coping strategies and have all of the nutrients we need in our body in the right quantity, every moment of every day. These are the first steps to reducing inflammation.

We can directly douse the fire with anti-inflammatory Betalains such as those found in TriVitas Nopalea. A Betalain is a protein-antioxidant complex found in certain plants grown in hot climates. The hotter the climate, the more Betalains the plant needs to survive and the more we can benefit.

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Nutrient strategies
According to most authorities, everyone needs to be taking a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement every day. This is even more important for people trying to tame their immune system in an autoimmune flare-up. We also need to eat foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and take Omega EFA supplements. These fats not only reduce inflammation but they also make your immune system work smarter, not harder. Antioxidants are critical to putting out the fire of inflammation. Betalain protein-antioxidants are extremely powerful anti-inflammatory nutrients. Finally, Vitamin B-12 and adaptogens form a bulwark against the blues and physical stress.

We are a nation on fire. This is at the heart of the near epidemic of autoimmune disorders we are facing. Strategies of nutrients and nurturing will help us fight inflammation and help us with what we do best, heal!

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Remove household cleaners from your living space
Keep clear of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides
Select certified organic foods when possible
Take a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement
Eat foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids
Salmon, tuna, herring and other fatty fish
Walnuts, especially English walnuts
Take an Omega EFA supplement
Help your body reduce inflammation with Betalains found in Nopalea
Protect yourself from emotional distress with B-12 and adaptogens

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Toxins, A Major Source of Inflammation
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Have you ever walked down the cleaning aisle at the supermarket? What was your experience? I hate it! In fact, I completely avoid that aisle. If I need something, I hold my breath, quickly get what I need and beat a hasty retreat from that toxic soup.

The soaps, bleaches, softeners and fragrances in the cleaning aisle are all in sealed containers. Yet, they still give off an overwhelming, nauseating stench that may make a person sick for hours. What happens when we bring those containers home? They continue to give off toxins. Only now, the containers are open and the process happens 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Our toxic environment
In North America we are inundated with toxins every moment of every day. Pollution in our air, water and food challenges our ability to detoxify and adapt. Worse still, the place we think of as a haven from stress -- our home -- is likely the most toxic environment we face in our daily routines. Toxins released from household chemicals, fabric, carpet, fragrances and pesticides seep into our body in tiny amounts even as we sleep.

Toxic waste, like barnacles on the hull of a ship, drags us down. It slows the efficiency of our mitochondria, the energy-producing engines inside our cells. Noxious chemicals create fatigue, headaches, digestive disturbances and moodiness. Eventually, toxins become the focus for inflammation.

Inflammation
Your body uses acute inflammation to try to neutralize toxicity. Think of your reaction to a bee sting, redness, swelling, heat and pain. This is not caused by the toxins in the bee venom. It is the reaction of your body as it tries to eliminate the toxicity

Redness is the increase in blood supply to bring in immune system antibodies and remove the neutralized venom.
Swelling is the lymphatic fluid that dilutes the concentrated poison while providing proteins for repair of the tissue damaged by the toxins.
Heat comes from immune system activity as it battles the invading contaminant.
Pain causes us to guard that area from further damage.

Chronic inflammation occurs when the toxins are not completely removed from an area. A good example of this may be found in simple lawn chemicals, like fertilizers and pesticides. Certain fertilizers are potassium-based. Potassium is important for human health. When we are exposed to these fertilizers, our cells may accept the potassium along with the toxic attachments. Your immune system will constantly attack these contaminated cells until it destroys them. Clusters of diseases like Parkinsons disease and multiple sclerosis have been linked to these fertilizers.

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Home sweet home, isolate and insulate
Neutralizing toxins in the body begins with isolating ourselves from chemical exposure. We must be diligent if we are to protect our family from toxic overload. Chemicals should be stored out of the living area in a place that is well-ventilated. This is especially true if there are children in the home, as developing brains are up to 10 times more likely to suffer damage from toxins than an adult nervous system.

Insulating ourselves against toxic exposure is equally important. Two nutrient classes shine when it comes to protection from pollution

Essential fatty acids. Many of the toxins we face are fat-soluble. We need clean fats in abundance to displace toxic fats in our brain, liver and other regions of our body.
Antioxidants. Antioxidants neutralize toxins and Betalain antioxidants found in Nopal figs have two added benefits over standard antioxidants
Betalains drain away the toxin from an affected area
Betalains shore up the cell membrane to help promote healing.

Betalains turn out to be our best tool in combating the causes of inflammation, toxins, stress, injury and nutrient deficiency. Use this excellent tool liberally to help you resist the increasing onslaught of toxins both inside and outside of our home sweet home!

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Breathe deeply
Remove toxins from your living area
Use HEPA filters for cleaner air
Drink pure water
Granular carbon filters remove many toxins
Ultraviolet light kills many pathogens
Mineralized, alkaline water displaces poisons
Eat nutritiously
Select organic foods
Pre-soak fruits and vegetables
Focus on high-antioxidant fruits and vegetables
Supplement with Nopalea
Betalains help your body neutralize toxins
Betalains help your body drain away toxic waste
Betalains help your body repair tissue damaged by toxins
Supplement with OmegaPrime, at least two capsules per day helps you resist fat-soluble toxins

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Special Radiation Issue
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

There is much concern in the air regarding the radiation leak from the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan. Your concern is valid and reasonable, especially after our collective experiences with Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents. We must do what is in our own best interests in times such as these.

Let us take a brief moment to discuss what radiation is and what it does to our body. Then, we will be in a better place to see how we can minimize any potential damage.

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What is radiation?
Radiation describes what happens when a wave or particle leaves a source and travels a distance away. Light, for example, leaves a light source like the sun or a light bulb and travels to an object. Then, light reflects off the object and travels to our eyes and we can see. Light can travel great distances.

Nuclear radiation in a power plant occurs when particles are emitted from a radiation source. This radiation may be harnessed to generate electricity. Most of these particles are contained inside a nuclear reactor. If they are released into the atmosphere, they continue to emit waves of energy. Unlike light, a radioactive particle is quite heavy and the energy it releases travels only a short distance away.

How harmful is radiation?
A radioactive particle releases energy within a specific distance from the particle itself. The further away from the particle the energy goes, the weaker it gets. Think of a glowing ember from a fire, the further away from the ember you get, the less affected by the heat you will become. The damage caused by an ember blowing from a crackling campfire down the back of your shirt, ouch, is far different from the effect of the same ember from a block away, a mile away or an ocean away.

Nuclear particles are like embers from a nuclear bonfire. If they blow into your lungs they will cook the delicate lung tissue around them. If they contaminate your food they will burn the delicate lining of your digestive system. These nuclear embers will smolder and cook any of your body tissues where they alight, from skin to thyroid, from bones to brain.

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What can we do?
The fire in the tissues caused by nuclear radiation is fueled by imbalanced atoms, called free radicals. A free radical is an atom that is as unbalanced as a four-wheeled car with only three wheels. Free radicals create havoc wherever they go. Antioxidants are like well-stocked tire dealers. They donate an extra wheel to any imbalanced car. They donate an extra electron to any free radical. In the case of nuclear radiation, antioxidants limit the amount of smoldering fires and cooked tissues.

Right away we can see that anti-inflammatory supplements such as Nopalea may help the body reduce the damage caused by radiation. Also, the extreme antioxidant power of Adaptogen 10 Plus will donate millions of electrons to balance free radicals. Adaptogen 10 Plus is like a tire dealer with millions of wheels to donate to any imbalanced car. Adaptogen 10 Plus is a good remedy for daily radiation exposure.

Two other special nutrients are in Adaptogen 10 Plus, natural iodine and sodium alginate. Iodine does not stop radiation from getting inside your body, but it occupies many iodine receptors in your thyroid and other tissues. Iodine acts like customers in a restaurant. It takes up all the seats, so radioactive iodine has no place to sit and smolder. The natural iodine in Adaptogen 10 Plus can fill many of the seats!

Sodium alginate is a seaweed fraction that attaches itself to radioactive particles that may contaminate your food. If a radiation particle falls on your food and you eat it, sodium alginate will grab that particle and surround it with a thick foam or mucous. Adaptogen 10 Plus contains several seaweed sources rich in sodium alginate.

Adaptogen 10 Plus contains healthy levels of potassium, which displaces radioactive cesium in much the same way that iodine protects against radioactive iodine. It also contains an abundance of natural calcium chloride which may work to displace radioactive strontium.

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How much is enough?
There is no toxicity to Adaptogen 10 Plus. You can take more if you want. This may be a case where more is better. Let its iodine help protect your thyroid, its sodium alginate help protect your digestion, and the potassium and calcium help displace other potentially harmful elements. I recommend at least an ounce per meal as a way to neutralize free radicals and, especially, to supply sodium alginate for any potentially compromised foods. Children can take it too. I recommend the same serving size for children as for adults. Be sure to consult with your health care provider if you have any specific questions.

Adaptogen 10 Plus was designed to help the body offset the amount of free radical activity we all experience daily. It was not designed as a shield for nuclear fallout. Still, daily servings of Adaptogen 10 Plus can help protect us from an increase in free radical activity.

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Stay indoors where your air is filtered
Drink pure water from outside a contamination zone
When outside, wear long sleeves and a large hat
Eat nutritiously from certified organic farms
Peel all fruits and vegetables until contamination is resolved
Increase antioxidants, organic iodine and sodium alginate

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By the Numbers, Healthy Blood Pressure
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Recently, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Mayo Clinic issued new recommendations for ideal blood pressure, 115 over 75. What does that mean? Is it attainable?

We typically determine blood pressure measurements with two numbers. The higher number, called the systolic pressure, represents the pressure in the artery when the heart beats. The lower number, called the diastolic pressure, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest. Healthy blood pressure is in the range of 120 over 80. As mentioned, ideal pressure is somewhat lower. A key to healthy blood pressure is the ratio between the two numbers. They should remain at a 3 to 2 ratio whatever the actual pressure may be.

If your blood pressure is ideal, congratulations! Your hard work has paid off. If it is higher or lower than ideal, do not worry. Most blood pressure problems can be solved with the right approach. Let us dissect the common problems with blood pressure and see what we can learn about possible solutions.

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Systolic too high
A healthy systolic number is 120. This number represents how hard your heart must beat to get blood out to your body. If your arteries are stiff, inflexible, inflamed or too narrow your heart will have to beat harder and this will create a higher systolic number. The most common cause of a high systolic number is too much adrenaline and other stress-related hormones in the bloodstream. These hormones have the effect of artificially narrowing your arteries in a fight or flight stress response.

Stress-induced high blood pressure will usually be seen with a high systolic number and a normal diastolic number such as 150 over 80. We will often see this number normalize with just 20 minutes of deep breathing. Some people respond well to biofeedback and supplementation with

Co-Q10, especially at bedtime to relax the heart
Vitamin C morning and evening to relax the blood vessels
Adaptogen 10 Plus morning and evening to help reduce the effects of stress

Both numbers too high
When both the systolic and diastolic numbers are high, 160 over 110, the most common problem is inflammation leading to atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. This is a medical emergency. You should be under medical care as the disease has already progressed to the point where emergency measures are necessary. Dietary measures, such as the Dr. Dean Ornish, Reversing Heart Disease diet, should be at the center of your self-care. Daily exercise, stress management and, very likely, medications will be needed to reverse this disease.

An anti-inflammatory lifestyle will be helpful. Include supplements such as

Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids from OmegaPrime at every meal to reduce inflammation
Vitamin C and Co-Q10 as suggested above
Betalains found in Nopalea can reduce inflammation in the blood vessels and help your body drain away the excess fluid associated with blood pressure

Achieving an optimal body fat percentage is also critical when caring for high blood pressure. The target body composition for men is 14 percent body fat, for women it is 23 percent. Remember, this type of high blood pressure is a medical emergency and it should be treated as such.

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Diastolic too high
When the bottom number in your blood pressure reading is too high, 120 over 90, but the systolic or top number is normal, it can mean that your lungs, kidneys and liver are not properly detoxifying your body.

Detoxification is an automatic process. Your body does it every moment of every day. You can help support this process by reducing your exposure to toxins and supporting your lungs, kidneys and liver with daily nutrition

A multiple vitamin and mineral supplement to support healthy detoxification
Vitamin C, a powerful detoxifier for the lungs, kidneys and liver
Betalains found in Nopalea also drain away toxins

Too high, too long
Some people find that their blood pressure will not go down no matter what they do. This often happens because of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, OSA. With OSA, a person stops breathing during sleep. Sensing the shortage of oxygen, your brain increases blood pressure to compensate. These increases in blood pressure may last into the next day. You may awaken with high blood pressure that may go down by the evening. This type of hypertension will usually not respond to medication or alternative treatments.

Treatment for OSA begins with using a breathing machine called CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure, during sleep. Using CPAP at night reduces blood pressure in most people, even those without serious OSA. Eventually, reducing your body fat to the percentages listed above will open your airways enough to compensate for OSA.

Hypertension will damage you. Eventually, it will kill you. Check your blood pressure frequently. Your body is speaking to you when your pressure is imbalanced. Learning to listen will help you feel better today and be healthier tomorrow!

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Test your blood pressure every month
Check your blood pressure at different times of the day
Eat a low-fat diet
Eat 7, 9 or more servings of vegetables and fruits daily
Exercise for 30 minutes on most days of the week
If you have high blood pressure, test for OSA

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Whole Foods & Health
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Humans are designed to eat food.

Minerals from the soil are broken down by bacteria from large, rock-like molecules into tiny molecules often bound to protein. These miniature minerals are absorbed by plants. Plants use soil, water, air and sunlight to create active minerals and vitamins. We eat the plants and gain the benefits of their work. Sometimes we eat the animals that have eaten the plants.

We are designed to digest plants and extract the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. We are designed to desire the plants as food. Culinary artists tell us that we have large taste buds for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and acrid-pungent tastes and smells that attract us to various foods. These taste buds trigger cravings before we eat and satiety after we eat.

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The journey of digestion
Hunger will be triggered if our brain detects a deficiency in any nutrient. These include macro nutrients like carbohydrates and sugars, protein, fats, water and fiber. It also includes micro nutrients like calcium, magnesium and Vitamin C. In a wonderful way, our body communicates the nature of the deficiency. For example, we crave sweets when we need Vitamin C. Cravings are the language our body uses to communicate its needs. We need to use our brains when interpreting this language!

As we anticipate eating a food that satisfies our cravings, we begin to salivate and our stomach prepares to receive the food. Microscopic particles of our meal enter the bloodstream and lymphatic system as we chew the food. This triggers our small intestines, liver, gall bladder, immune system and hormone regulatory system to prepare for the next steps of digestion and assimilation.

Macronutrients have special enzymes that break out the vitamins and minerals we need from the foods, amylase for starches, protease for proteins, lipase for fats, etc. These are present throughout the digestive tract, but they are concentrated in the first 10 inches of the small intestines. Without whole foods, these special enzymes will not be released. Without these enzymes, vitamins will not be liberated from the food.

Renting your vitamins
You have actually seen evidence of vitamins that were rejected by your body because they were not properly digested. You may not have recognized the signs. But, have you ever seen your urine change colors after taking a vitamin? This is a sign that the vitamins were rejected. You did not buy the vitamins, you merely rented them! Do you want to know how to keep the vitamins you take?

The answer is simple. Humans are designed to eat food. Take your vitamins with food and you will increase your chance to absorb them. If you have indigestion, try one of the over-the-counter digestive enzyme blends to help out where you may be deficient. Use probiotics from fermented foods as a digestive aid as well. Most important. Start with food-based vitamins for the best absorption!

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Food-based nutrients
Remember, humans are designed to eat food. That is why we created VitaDaily AM-PM and Wellavoh for Women and Men in a whole food base. VitaDaily contains 25 whole food concentrates that represent many of the foods we eat the least in North America. TriVita Kids Multi-Vitamin also contains 25 whole food concentrates and digestive enzymes for support. Wellavoh contains over 30 whole foods in different blends, including a special blend to aid digestion of the nutrients.

Cravings are your bodys way of communicating needs and deficiencies. Taking your nutrients should erase your cravings and make you feel better. But, they will not do their job if they are not digested. Use whole food supplements as a Foundation for the nutrients we need for health today and a healthier tomorrow!

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Eat a rainbow of foods, different colors mean different nutrients
Target the right volume of fruits and vegetables
5 servings for kids
7 servings for women
9 servings for men
Take Foundational Nutrition for optimal wellness
VitaDaily, Wellavoh or TriVita Kids
Original B-12 or Super B-12
OmegaPrime
Non-Acidic Vitamin C
Listen to your healthy cravings. Enjoy whole foods!

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The Four Causes of Disease
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Have you ever heard an orchestra playing a symphony? Every instrument has a unique sound. Each plays a unique part in the masterpiece. The conductor brings out the best in every musician. Even the acoustics of the surroundings enhance or detract from the performance.

This is an accurate description of the way we harmonize with our world. From the instant of conception, tiny cells are a symphony of activity and this harmony continues throughout our life. Cells join with the rest of the orchestra, the body, in harmonious music, always changing to meet new and varied circumstances.

We need harmony between our mind, body and environment. Our immune system usually provides it. But what happens when things go wrong? What happens if we are exposed to bad bacteria, viruses or other pathogens?

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Disease and our immune system
Sometimes we ask the wrong questions when we start to experience disharmony in our body. Sometimes we seem to be asking, What makes sick people sick? As pertinent as that question is to a sick person, it is usually more productive to ask, What keeps healthy people well? And how can I be one of them?

Wellness is created in the way our immune system interacts with our environment based on our genetics, and modified by our behavior or lifestyle. In order to prevent disease and achieve wellness, we must experience harmony between our world and our immune system.

A good example of harmony with our world occurs with viruses. In medicine we know that viruses exist all around us just as they have always existed. During an epidemic there will be people who never get sick, people that get sick and recover and, unfortunately, people that get sick and die. The difference between these groups has little to do with the nature of the virus. It remains virtually the same in all three cases. The different responses are based on the harmony of each individuals immune system.

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Causes of disharmony, and disease
Four imbalances create disharmony in our immune system. They are

Trauma or injury. Injured tissues limit circulation by blood and lymph. Poor circulation allows waste created by the cells to accumulate and become a cesspool. Toxic waste becomes the target for infection and disease. Fortunately, appropriate exercise can help increase healthy circulation and intense antioxidant nutrition can help restore function to an injured area.

Toxins from inside or outside the body. Toxins and poisons from our environment may also accumulate in our tissues and smolder for decades. These toxins become inflamed. Inflammation creates the matrix for disharmony in the immune system, which may result in disease.

Deficiencies in elements critical for life. Many people are deficient in oxygen though there is an abundance of air surrounding them. Oxygen deficiency causes acidic tissues, acid foments disease. Deficiencies in air, water, sunlight, sleep and nutrients are the most common causes of immune system disharmony. We can restore balance by attending to these basic needs.

Immune-suppressing scourge of emotional distress. Emotional distress is an immediate trigger for immune system discord. As soon as a thought arises in the mind, it is already translated into a posture of the immune system. Fortunately, we can, through an act of will, change our thoughts to positive ones and have a harmonizing effect on our immune system.

Conclusion
We participate in this symphony along with the individual members of the orchestra within our immune system. We are not merely passive observers. Address the four causes of disharmony that result in disease. Take time to learn how to apply the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness to harmonize your immune system so it works smarter, not harder.

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Enjoy activity daily to reduce the effect of trauma
Insulate yourself against toxins with Healthy Foundation nutrients
Remove toxins passively with Nopalea
Fill up deficiencies
Breathe deeply
Drink pure water
Sleep peacefully
Eat nutritiously
Take Healthy Foundation supplements
Reduce the impact of stress through healthy emotional-spiritual harmony and adaptogens

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Are You Nutrient Deficient?
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

For the first time in recorded history, children born in North America today are not expected to live as long or as well as their parents. This startling trend may have its roots in the nutrition of our parents or grandparents. The trend continues through our generation. Truly, the "sins of the parents" are visited upon their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

How did we get into this predicament and what can we do to change the trend?

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Poisonous fruit
Along with the advances in agriculture that reduced famines and starvation, the farming practices of the last century produced some pretty scary trends. For example, food grown in mineral-depleted soil has fewer nutrients to offer us. Food processed for increased storage is further reduced in nutrients. Flavor-enhancing additives, such as refined sugar, further impose a burden on our system. It is as if we are over-taxing our personal health resources and the deficit spending of this course is being passed on to our children.

Some scientists recognized this disastrous course 100 years ago. General awareness of the importance of nutrition has increased significantly in the past 50 years. However, commercial and other interests have kept the debate suppressed until recently. A landmark article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, June 19, 2002. It defined the need for nutrients in disease prevention. Though it was met with resistance, this article clearly opened the door for debate while confirming the truth we have known for a century. A body deprived of nutrients and nurturing will be prone to disease, disability and untimely death.

Further scientific exploration into the link between low nutrient reserves, a shortened lifespan, increased disease and unhealthy children was published that same year in the European Journal of Human Genetics. It clearly detailed the link between poor nutrition in a person and the increase in disease in their children and grandchildren.

The root of poor nutrition has erupted into obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases that extend through generations. Habits and practices of 100 years ago are bearing fruit in our children!

Solutions
With this knowledge, the discussion around human nutrition has never been more important. We simply must change our habits if we are to change our destiny. For example, we must select food grown in mineral-rich soil and endorse farming practices that support ecology.

We must also discipline ourselves to take our nutrients every day. By doing this, we increase the opportunity for having healthier children. And, we must give our children their nutrients as well. If we are past childbearing, taking our nutrients daily will improve our health and give us the opportunity to model responsible behavior for our children and grandchildren. Healthier kids mean a healthier family, a healthy community and even a healthier species.

The power to change the trend is in the choices you make every day.

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Wellavoh and TriVita Kids Multi-Vitamin
Mens and Womens Wellavoh, pronounced wel-lah võh, is a multi-nutrient complex built upon the science of proper nutrition. Wellavoh is constructed to give you the nutrients you need today to help your body change the trend, the trend toward wellness. It contains the classes of nutrients we need to fill in the gaps left by poor diet and foods grown in nutrient-depleted soil.

TriVita Kids Multi-Vitamin was formulated to fill the nutritional gaps increasingly seen in todays children. Without foundational nutrients, children will not have what they need to grow healthy and strong.

Help change the alarming trend of declining health. Make better choices in nourishing and nurturing your and your childrens bodies starting today!

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Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy aging nutrients
Mens and Womens Wellavoh, the multi-nutrient complex
Nopalea
Sublingual Vitamin B-12
OmegaPrime
Vitamin C
A Vitamin D supplement found in VitaCal-Mag D and Bone Growth Factor
Give children the nutrients their growing bodies need with TriVita Kids Multi-Vitamin
Eat organic, locally-grown food when possible

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Are You Nutrient Deficient?
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

For the first time in recorded history, children born in North America today are not expected to live as long or as well as their parents. This startling trend may have its roots in the nutrition of our parents or grandparents. The trend continues through our generation. Truly, the sins of the parents are visited upon their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

How did we get into this predicament and what can we do to change the trend?

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Poisonous fruit
Along with the advances in agriculture that reduced famines and starvation, the farming practices of the last century produced some pretty scary trends. For example, food grown in mineral-depleted soil has fewer nutrients to offer us. Food processed for increased storage is further reduced in nutrients. Flavor-enhancing additives, such as refined sugar, further impose a burden on our system. It is as if we are over-taxing our personal health resources and the deficit spending of this course is being passed on to our children.

Some scientists recognized this disastrous course 100 years ago. General awareness of the importance of nutrition has increased significantly in the past 50 years. However, commercial and other interests have kept the debate suppressed until recently. A landmark article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, June 19, 2002. It defined the need for nutrients in disease prevention. Though it was met with resistance, this article clearly opened the door for debate while confirming the truth we have known for a century. A body deprived of nutrients and nurturing will be prone to disease, disability and untimely death.

Further scientific exploration into the link between low nutrient reserves, a shortened lifespan, increased disease and unhealthy children was published that same year in the European Journal of Human Genetics. It clearly detailed the link between poor nutrition in a person and the increase in disease in their children and grandchildren.

The root of poor nutrition has erupted into obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases that extend through generations. Habits and practices of 100 years ago are bearing fruit in our children!

Solutions
With this knowledge, the discussion around human nutrition has never been more important. We simply must change our habits if we are to change our destiny. For example, we must select food grown in mineral-rich soil and endorse farming practices that support ecology.

We must also discipline ourselves to take our nutrients every day. By doing this, we increase the opportunity for having healthier children. If we are past childbearing, taking our nutrients daily will improve our health and give us the opportunity to model responsible behavior for our children and grandchildren. Healthier kids mean a healthier family, a healthy community and even a healthier species.

The power to change the trend is in the choices you make every day.

Take the Wellness Challenge.

Wellavoh
Mens and Womens Wellavoh, pronounced wel-lah voh, is a multi-nutrient complex built upon the science of proper nutrition. Wellavoh is constructed to give you the nutrients you need today to help your body change the trend, the trend toward wellness. It contains the classes of nutrients we need to fill in the gaps left by poor diet and foods grown in nutrient-depleted soil.

Wellavoh is designed for adults and children age 10 and over. Take your nutrients every day and model healthy behavior for your children and grandchildren. Become part of the solution to declining health by making better choices in nourishing and nurturing your body today!

Take Control of Your Health

Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy aging nutrients
Mens and Womens Wellavoh, the multi-nutrient complex
Nopalea
Sublingual Vitamin B-12
OmegaPrime
Vitamin C
A Vitamin D supplement found in VitaCal-Mag D and Bone Growth Factor
Eat organic, locally-grown food when possible

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Toxins in Our Air, Water and Food
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

We have one of the safest food and water supply chains in the world here in North America. That is, our supply chain is safe when we compare it to others that are worse. It is safe when we compare it to how it used to be here in North America. Our food and water supplies are safe when we think of how toxic they could be if we did not have the legislation in place that governs pollution in our food and water.

And yet, every expert recognizes two truths about the safety of our food and water. They are far, far away from how safe they could be, and the toxins in our food and water are getting worse every year.

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Bad water, bad food
According to the World Health Organization, WHO, more than 1.4 million children die each year from diseases related to polluted water. Tragedy for these families could quickly be eliminated if there were only minimum standards of hygiene applied to their drinking water. We enjoy this protection in developed lands. Yet, our drinking water is so polluted that water wells are frequently closed due to contamination.

Do you drink bottled water? Many of us do, and yet, specific toxins called phthalates and parabens contaminate water bottled in plastic containers. Many of these toxins accumulate in our body. The chemicals are so new that science has no idea what the consequences are to human health as time progresses. We are learning that reproductive cancer rates increase when animals and people are exposed to parabens and phthalates over time.

Our food supply is contaminated with these chemicals as well as from pollution in our air and specific toxins used in agriculture. Certain fruits and vegetables are singled out as the most contaminated foods we eat

Strawberries
Spinach
Bell peppers
U.S. cherries
Peaches
Mexican cantaloupe
Celery
Apples
Apricots
Green beans
Chilean grapes
Cucumbers

While we enjoy protection from acute bacterial infections that cause diarrheal diseases, we ultimately pay a price for this protection, a shift toward chronic disease from accumulated toxins.

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Isolation and insulation
To improve our health we should limit our toxic exposure. Obviously, many people do not have the financial resources to implement all of the possible changes we need for truly safe air, water and food. Still, any improvement we make as individuals will benefit our health over time. And, as the old saying goes, we make ourselves either part of the problem or part of the solution by our everyday choices.

Water. We can begin insulating ourselves against toxic water through filtration. Loose-granular carbon filters will remove parabens and phthalates from drinking water. We also need these same interventions for bathing water, as our skin, our largest organ, absorbs chemicals in water. These are often low-cost solutions to water toxicity. Food. Food, especially the fruits and vegetables listed above, should be grown organically and purchased locally. Try growing your own garden as a source of wholesome, nutritious, pesticide-free food. Air. Green cleaning supplies can help immensely in cleaning up the air inside your home. More help for keeping your personal space toxin-clean can be found in libraries and on Internet sites, especially ones that end with .org and .gov.

Insulation from toxins is found by keeping our nutrient reserves high and taking nutrients with known anti-toxin benefits. Many toxins are fat soluble, so keeping our good fats high may allow us to pass bad, toxic, fats out of our system. Other toxins can be detoxified by internal body processes with common nutrients like Vitamin B-12, Vitamin C and green tea.

An excellent anti-toxin effect is seen in Betalains, a group of bioflavonoids in the Quercetin family. Betalains help protect healthy cells from certain poisons, help distressed cells return to normal when possible, and drain away toxic waste-water from around healthy tissues.

Conclusion
Health only comes from healthy habits practiced every single day of our life. To achieve the lofty goal of clean air, water and food we must begin with our own home and our own food and water supply. To insulate our fragile internal environment we must keep all of the nutrients on board that detoxify or displace toxic waste. In the end, we must not slip into complacency about the safety of our environment. Instead, we must be vigilant in order to be part of the solution!

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Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy foundation nutrients to
Displace environmental poisons
Detoxify from the inside out
Take Nopalea as excellent protection from toxins

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Test Your Risk for Heart Disease
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

Heart disease is still the number 1 killer in North America. Atherosclerosis is the medical term we use to describe heart disease. Literally, sclerosis means hardening and athero describes the nature of the debris that clogs and hardens arteries, typically the arteries of the heart. Our risk for getting this disease increases slowly over time as we age. Certain risk factors can tell us if we are in danger of developing this disease 10 years from now. These risk factors include

Age
Blood pressure
HDL, good, cholesterol
Total cholesterol

Test your risk
Follow these steps to calculate your risk.

Have the following numbers available, your blood pressure, total cholesterol and HDL.
Click here to access an online risk calculator.
Once on the page, scroll down and click on Health Risk Assessors, Coronary Heart Disease.
Read the instructions and enter your data. The program will automatically display your risk.

Your risk of developing atherosclerosis is a combination of several factors over time. Please understand what this assessment does not mean. It does not tell you if you are going to have a heart attack. Markers in your bloodstream that signal an imminent heart attack include Total Plasma Homocysteine or tHCY, and C-Reactive Protein or hsCRP.

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Heart disease warning signs
Let us review some of the factors that can act as warning signs of heart disease

High blood pressure
Blood pressure measurements are read as two numbers. The higher number, called the systolic pressure, represents the pressure in the artery when the heart beats. The lower number, called the diastolic pressure, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest.

A normal systolic number is 115. If your arteries are stiff, inflexible, inflamed or too narrow, your heart will have to beat harder and this will create a higher systolic number.

A normal diastolic number is 75 or lower. When the diastolic number is too high it can mean that your lungs, kidneys and liver are not properly detoxifying your body.

Some people find that their blood pressure will not go down no matter what they do. This often happens because of Obstructive Sleep Apnea or OSA. With OSA, a person stops breathing during sleep. Sensing the shortage of oxygen, your brain increases blood pressure to compensate.

High total cholesterol
Increased levels of cholesterol in the blood can contribute to atherosclerosis, which is the gradual build-up of cholesterol, fat and fibrous debris along the walls of your arteries. This build-up, called plaque, can accumulate enough to narrow the artery and stiffen the arterial wall. If the plaque is severe enough, it can impair blood flow past the blockage. A normal, healthy cholesterol level is 170 mg dL or lower.

Low HDL good cholesterol
High density lipoproteins, HDL, absorb cholesterol and take it back to the liver for disposal. A normal, healthy HDL level is over 60 mg dL. HDL cholesterol rises with moderate to intense exercise. We simply must make peace with daily exercise if we are to increase our HDL and reduce our risk of heart disease.

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Heart attack warning signs
As mentioned earlier, cholesterol levels and blood pressure alone do not serve us very well as determinants of heart attack risk. Homocysteine levels are much more accurate in predicting who is at risk and C-Reactive protein, CRP, is the best predictor for heart attack, as well as many other really bad conditions.

Elevated homocysteine levels can be reduced with certain nutrients called methyl donors. TriVitas HCY Guard is rich in methyl donors and proven to help the body reduce elevated HCY. C-Reactive protein has been reduced quite consistently with Essential Fatty Acid supplements and Quercetin-like Betalain bioflavonoids such as OmegaPrime, one to six grams daily, and Nopalea.

Learning to listen
High blood pressure as well as high cholesterol levels and low HDL levels should be viewed as warning signs from our body. Elevated homocysteine sounds a louder alarm and high C-Reactive protein levels sound the loudest siren of all. We can translate these alarms into valid communication by learning what each lab value means and how to address them in terms of nutrients and nurturing.

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Wellness from the Inside Out
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

The average person in North America lives about 77 years.

Imagine building a skyscraper that was 77 stories tall. How sound would it be at the top floor if a beam were mislaid in the foundation? Healthy aging means that we build a structure, us, that is sound, habitable and healthy, right to the very top floor. This life-long building process begins at the foundation, our DNA.

How cells work
There may be trillions of cells in the human body. Cells are like tiny factories. Each one has a function and a product to produce. Our DNA orchestrates the production of tiny proteins that are made into enzymes, hormones and other products of the cell.

Under extreme circumstances the cell will alter its production of basic, life-sustaining proteins and produce whatever is necessary to meet a crisis. For example, when we are under stress our adrenal glands produce large amounts of adrenaline. They do not normally produce much adrenaline. They usually produce mineral corticoids that help us build healthy bones. Under stress they change their function.

Under stress our cells stop producing the things that build us up, anabolism, and start producing things that tear us down, catabolism. Your body does this because the message of stress is that it must sacrifice healthy function, healthy aging, for a time to produce energy needed to ensure our safety. This is an acceptable trade if we are using the energy to get out of oncoming traffic! It is a poor way to deal with constant, chronic, daily stress.

The DNA is sensitive to signals of stress because it is designed to help us survive. We must be very careful of the physical, emotional and mental signals we send our cells. According to Candace Pert, Ph.D., author of the book, Molecules of Emotion every thought we think, every food we eat or drink, and every breath we take washes over our DNA as information. Our DNA responds by either building us up, anabolism, or tearing us down, catabolism, to sacrifice on the altar of chronic stress. Adaptogens carry information that helps our DNA select anabolism to build us up, even under extreme stress.

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Building healthy cells
Healthy cells make healthy tissues. Healthy tissues of different types are collected together as organs. For example, your liver consists of many hundreds of different types of cells all collected together to make up your liver. Organs work within systems, for example, your digestive system, immune system, etc. Systems combine to form a healthy, functioning body. Still, the basic unit of life is the cell and the basic conductor, orchestrating the function of the cell, is the DNA.

In order for our DNA to accomplish the task of building healthy cells we must provide the necessary nutrients every day. We have specific requirements for health, fats and proteins, carbohydrates and water, oxygen, minerals and vitamins, etc. If we are missing even a single nutrient at the critical moment it is needed, our cells will not be able to carry out their work of creating healthy proteins. Incomplete proteins are produced, cells become toxic and these become the focus for inflammation and disease.

We simply must provide our cells with the nutrients they need every day.

Toxic DNA
It is important to know that your DNA never produces disease. Instead, it produces proteins with the raw materials it has at that moment and in response to information it receives. That information comes in the form of nutrients and toxins from both inside and outside our body. Healthy application of the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness and daily healthy foundation nutrients send positive, anabolic, messages to your DNA. Trauma, toxins, deficiencies and stress send negative, catabolic, messages to your DNA.

Trauma, toxins, deficiencies and stress damage your DNA and cause it to produce incomplete, toxic proteins. These proteins become the source of inflammation and disease. Many nutrients help repair the DNA. A special antioxidant polyphenol called ECGC found in green tea and concentrated in Energy Now! takes the lead in antioxidant DNA repair. CoEnzyme Q-10 (CoQ-10) adds fuel to the repair process and works in concert with ECGC.

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Conclusion
Like a healthy building, we need a solid foundation. The difference between our health and the health of a building is that our cells renew periodically. They are not fixed when manufactured. Therefore, we can correct any building errors by applying sound, healthy essentials. We can improve our health by building healthy cells at any age. We are literally one choice away from improving healthy cellular function. The choice to live the 10 Essentials.

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Make a strong commitment to being healthy
Think positive thoughts
Give and receive love
Be forgiving
Practice gratitude
Develop acceptance
Attend to your physical needs daily
Breathe deeply
Drink pure water
Sleep peacefully
Eat nutritiously
Enjoy activity
Develop your spirituality
Take healthy foundation supplements daily
Add Adaptogen 10 Plus to help combat stress
Add Nopalea to help reduce inflammation
Add Energy Now! and CoEnzyme Q-10 to help repair DNA

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Hot Flashes

I receive more questions about the distressing symptoms associated with menopause than perhaps any other single situation. Usually, the concerns are about how to stop the hot flashes. In this Weekly Wellness Report we will discuss some of the more disturbing signs associated with abnormal menopause and what they mean. Hopefully, we can map out a strategy that will work for you and work soon!

Taking a look at the symptoms

Menopause Symptoms
Rate your menopause symptoms on a scale of 0 to 5 with 5 being the most severe.

Signs of low estrogen

Hot Flashes
0 1 2 3 4 5

Night Sweats
0 1 2 3 4 5

Low Energy
Mental/physical
0 1 2 3 4 5

Low Moods
No emotional energy
0 1 2 3 4 5

Bladder Urgency
Including incontinence when you cough or sneeze
0 1 2 3 4 5

Signs of low progesterone

Ache in joints
Hips, low back, knees, fingers, etc.
0 1 2 3 4 5

Allergies getting worse
0 1 2 3 4 5

Wide mood swings
Anxious, tense, irritable
0 1 2 3 4 5

Brain fog
Often unable to think clearly
0 1 2 3 4 5

General inflammation
0 1 2 3 4 5

Signs of low testosterone

Low motivation/increased apathy
0 1 2 3 4 5

Low libido
Sexual interest
0 1 2 3 4 5

Reduced strength/muscle tone
0 1 2 3 4 5

Shorter attention span
0 1 2 3 4 5

More unsure of yourself/frightened
0 1 2 3 4 5

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Hormone basics
Although the three hormones that affect menopause most directly are estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, this is not the whole hormone picture. In fact, they represent broad categories of hormones that may encompass hundreds of other hormones. There are at least 35 different estrogens alone. Also, they interact with each other in such a way that a relative excess in one hormone may make another hormone seem deficient even though blood tests say it is normal.

Balancing hormones is simple, though it is not always easy

Make them
Use them
Detoxify them

This is the cycle of balanced hormones. The vast majority of women using this procedure achieve balanced hormones in just a few months. Over half of these women find substantial symptom relief in their first month using this approach.

Make them, use them, get rid of them!
Estrogen, progesterone and testosterone are examples of trophic hormones. They are made of the same substance, cholesterol. If your body is unable to convert cholesterol into these hormones you may see your blood levels of cholesterol rise while the hormone levels drop. You can bring your cholesterol down and your low hormones up by using nutrients to help convert cholesterol to hormones.

Make them. We make good hormones from good cholesterol. We make good cholesterol from good fats. OmegaPrime contains fish oil, flax oil, Evening Primrose oil and Perilla seed oil to help convert cholesterol to any of these hormones that may be low. You may find that you need to take more OmegaPrime every day to properly support converting cholesterol into hormones.

Use them. Balanced Woman helps your body make and use the hormones it needs. Then, the hormones may complete their important work of building up the body and mind. Most of the distressing symptoms will disappear during this make them, use them phase.

Get rid of them. Finally, the hormones must be excreted from your body to prevent them from building up to toxic levels. We must get rid of them or smoldering fires of inflammation will begin. Inflammation from hormone toxicity is one reason for the distressing symptoms associated with menopause. To find relief we MUST detoxify the hormones. This is where Balanced Woman really shines!

Hormones are detoxified through the liver. Detoxification enzymes in the CYP family account for clearing almost all toxins from our body, including toxic hormones. This may include so-called xenoestrogens, the estrogen-like substances that come from plastics, solvents and other chemicals in our environment. The Branched Chain Amino Acids, or BCAA, support detoxification. Balanced Woman contains BCAA to up-regulate hormone detoxification. You may need to take more Balanced Woman capsules daily during detoxification.

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Conclusion
One final note. Imbalanced hormones can cause uncomfortable symptoms, which can create stress. Stress all by itself creates hormone imbalances. Add the insult of a toxic world to the daily traumas, nutrient deficiencies and stresses from inside and outside our bodies and we have a recipe for disaster. The 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness replenish our reserves through nutrients and nurturing. Embrace the 10 Essentials and practice them daily for a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Take Control of Your Health

Increase good fats. Avoid bad fats
Take OmegaPrime
Take Balanced Woman to help make, use and get rid of hormones
2 capsules daily with juice on an empty stomach for maintenance
You may need to take more during detoxification
Consider Nopalea to help the body reduce inflammation and Adaptogen 10 Plus to block stress
Eat meals that are protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber balanced

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Building and Restoring Your Memory
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

What do you remember?
Earlier this year I wrote a Weekly Wellness Report on how to make a memory. Do you remember the key points from that article? To recap, occasional memory lapses usually indicate you are distracted by stress. Rehearsing things you want to remember will help and practicing new things that you have learned will help as well. Because new behaviors create new pathways in your brain, learning something new such as a new language or musical instrument can improve your overall memory.

Stress kills your memory. Nutrients such as Omega-3, Vitamin B-1 and anti-inflammatory antioxidants such as those found in Nopalea help rebuild and restore your ability to remember. With all of these tools at your disposal you have access to the power of a healthy memory.

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New data!
In my research on how to build or improve your memory, I found three articles in the medical literature that were impressive to me. Let me tell you about them.

The first article discussed the attempt to reduce heart disease by reducing homocysteine with Vitamin B-12. Now, the form they used was not even close to our HCY Guard formula. It was an oral form. They did not deliver the supplement sublingually nor use the critical nutrient Biotin to complete the B-12 family, as found in Dr Libby's original, patented Sublingual B-12, B-6 and Folic Acid. So, they did not achieve the level of homocysteine reduction they could have if they were using the complete B-12 family of nutrients and delivering them either sublingually or by injection.

Still, the results against homocysteine were adequate. The formula did not change the heart attack risk. But, it had an unintended benefit in that Vitamin B-12 improved the memory of the senior adults that took it. The study conducted at the University of Oxford demonstrated that people taking Vitamin B-12 had better memory, less brain atrophy or shrinkage, and less white matter damage as well.

Hooray for B-12!

Another study published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin measured levels of Vitamin B-12 in women during pregnancy and the mental status, occurrence of mental illness, and cognitive functioning in their children nine years later. The results were clear. The better the B-12 status in mom, the better the brain in the child! Pregnant women need Vitamin B-12 if they want smart babies!

The third study focused on the 16 percent of 70-year-olds that have cognitive impairment. Half of those with measureable impairment at age 70 will go on to have full-blown Alzheimers disease. In this group, they found that the impairment could be improved with Vitamin B-12 therapy and that the cognitive decline toward Alzheimers disease could be slowed.

Hooray for B-12!

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Foundations for a healthy brain and memory
We have developed a package of nutrients that we call the Healthy Foundation Pack. It contains Sublingual B-12, OmegaPrime, a multi-nutrient complex and Vitamin C. Each of these nutrients has direct application to creating a healthy brain at any age.

We have just discussed the impact of Vitamin B-12 on healthy memory. OmegaPrime contains the Omega-3 essential fatty acid DHA, docosohexanoic acid. Two-thirds of a healthy brain is made of fat and three-fourths of the fat in the brain is DHA. That means that half of your brain is DHA. OmegaPrime contains the stuff your brain is made of!

A multi-nutrient complex is an important foundation of health for the entire human body. But did you know that specific studies have shown cognitive improvement with a multi-nutrient complex? Three blinded studies of children show significant differences between kids who take their multi and kids who do not. That data applies to adults as well.

Finally, Vitamin C is important to protect the brain from oxidation and stress. Oxidation occurs when there is not enough oxygen to parts of the brain, such as with seizures, migraines or snoring. Stress directly damages the hippocampus, the memory-forming and memory-retrieval area of the brain. Vitamin C protects against that damage and helps the injured brain repair.

Conclusion
Building a healthy memory and protecting what you have is within your power. Take control of your health and enjoy the benefits of a good memory your entire life!

Take Control of Your Health

Reduce stress
Increase physical activity and mental activity
Learn something new
Rehearse before an important event
Practice and review the things you want to remember
Learn something new. Yes, I know I repeated this, but repetition is the mother of retention
Nourish your memory with
Sublingual B-12
OmegaPrime
A multi-nutrient complex
Vitamin C

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Want Healthy Joints? Keep On Moving!
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

The most common diagnosis in North America, more common than the common cold, is arthritis. This condition begins when old cartilage cells are cleared away faster than they are replaced with new ones. This deficit of new cells can be likened to spending just a little more money than you deposit each month. Sooner or later, your account will be empty. With arthritis, old cells are taken from a joint faster than new cells are added. Sooner or later, the joint becomes dry.

Healthy joints
Joint spaces are filled mostly with water. There are small, magnetic proteins embedded in collagen that constantly push each other apart. This suction creates a vacuum that is soon filled with water and nutrients. Every time you move the joint, some of this water is squeezed out along with waste from the joint cells. Between movements, when the joint is at rest, it once again draws in water and nutrients.

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Sick joints
Many different things can interfere with the balance of cell life and death, like trauma to the joints, toxins from infections and our environment, nutrient imbalances that create a deficit in the structure of joint cells, and stress that suppresses new joint cell formation. All of these influences can slow the production of new cartilage cells and hasten the death of existing cells.

When a person lacks sufficient nutrients to make complete, healthy cells, immature and imbalanced cells will be produced instead. These may function for a time, however, sooner or later they will shatter and splinter into fractions of protein in your joint capsule. These act like slivers of broken glass. As they slice through certain guardian cells, called mast cells, large amounts of histamine are released and inflammation sets in. You can often hear the grinding in your joints when they become inflamed.

Joint Damage

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Nutrient rescue
To make sure our joints remain healthy we all need the right nutrients in the right amounts and at the right times. These nutrients include joint-specific proteins such as glucosamine, chondroitin and hyaluronic acid, minerals including magnesium and potassium, and special fats that reside specifically in your joints. But there is another essential element to joint health, movement.

Movement is key
Remember, joints are made of living cells. Each cell must get nutrients in and waste out. But the cells have no blood supply. They have to get their nutrients by the gentle action of movement. Think of a sponge in a pail of water. If you want circulation in the sponge, you must squeeze and release it. If you want healthy joints you must move them to squeeze out the waste and draw in the nutrients. For good joint health you must move.

Your body was made to move. By moving more you will enjoy greater flexibility and less pain. So, keep moving every day for healthy joints.

Take Control of Your Health

Stretch before exercise. Make sure your joints are ready.
Use both warm up and cool down exercises to preserve joint health.
Exercise for at least 30 minutes most days of the week.
Drink pure water to moisten your joints.
Use sulfur-bearing nutrients for joint hydration, Glucosamine sulfate, Chondroitin sulfate, and MSM.
Use Essential fatty acids to stabilize the joint cells.
Use enzymes and plant substances to reduce inflammation.

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Top 10 List To Better Heart Health
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

What an amazing organ our heart is! It beats for an entire lifetime without stopping for a break. With every heartbeat, about a third of a cup of oxygen-rich blood is pumped out to your body. This means that between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of blood are pumped through your heart every day. The average heartbeat is 72 times per minute. In the course of one day it beats over 100,000 times. In one year the heart beats almost 38 million times, and by the time you are 70 years old, on average, it beats 2.5 billion times! That makes me tired just thinking about it.

The heart has a lot of work to do, so how can we help it stay healthy throughout life?

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Heart Health Top 10

1. Eat a high-fiber diet
Dietary fiber is often classified into two categories, soluble and insoluble.

Soluble fiber draws water into the bowel and can help slow digestion. Soluble fiber can help reduce bad cholesterol, triglycerides and elevated glucose or blood sugar. Examples include

Oatmeal
Oat bran
Beans
Peas
Rice bran
Barley
Citrus
Strawberries
Apple pulp

Insoluble fiber speeds digestion and can add bulk to the stool. Examples include

Whole wheat breads
Wheat cereal
Wheat bran
Rye

2. Eat healthy fats
Most of us have heard about how fats are bad for us, but this is not always the case. Some fats are very good for our ongoing well-being. Two of these fats are Omega-3 and Omega-6. Not only are they good for us, they are actually indispensible, which is why they are also called Essential Fatty Acids or called EFAs.

There are two reasons why these omega fatty acids are considered essential

By nourishing our heart, brain, skin, glands and joints and by helping the process that produces our hormones, these two EFAs play crucial roles in helping us sustain vibrant good health, from early adulthood development on up through healthy aging in the senior years.
Because our bodies cannot make them internally, we have to get omega fatty acids from outside sources, such as diet and supplements.

3. Reduce salt
If you have high blood pressure or are at risk of developing it, cutting back on salt could reduce your risk of a heart attack by 25 percent or more. Your goal should be less than 2,300 mg of sodium a day, which is about a teaspoon of salt.

4. Lose the gut
Even if you are not significantly overweight, carrying extra fat around your middle is bad for your heart. It raises blood pressure, adversely affects blood lipids, causes insulin resistance and produces inflammation. No amount of crunches can reduce belly fat. The only way to get rid of it is to lose weight overall.

5. Increase activity
Updated recommendations from the American Heart Association call for at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity most days of the week. Strength training, in addition to improving overall fitness, improves fat-burning capacity by increasing muscle mass. If you are over 45, already have some kind of cardiovascular problem, or have not exercised regularly for years, see a doctor before lacing up your workout shoes.

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6. Calm down
Stress triggers the release of hormones that can threaten your heart. Curbing negative emotions is almost as good for your heart as proper diet and exercise. For stress, try deep breathing and regular aerobic exercise.

7. Drink a little, if at all
Drinking a little bit of alcohol can raise HDL (good) cholesterol and reduce inflammation and blood clots. But too much can cause heart problems.

8. Do not smoke
As for smoking, do not. Cigarette smokers have twice the heart attack risk of nonsmokers. If you can not quit on your own, get help. It is essential for heart health that you do not smoke!

9. Know your numbers
Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, LDL cholesterol, homocysteine, glucose or blood sugar, and triglycerides are associated with poor heart health. Know your numbers and work to keep them under control.

10. Stay in touch with family and friends
Love and gratitude are the emotions most closely connected with the heart, and science has shown that people who experience and express love have healthier hearts. Conversely, people that never form heartfelt attachments with others, and those who never make room for love have the shortest life spans and highest death rates from all causes.

So, take care of your heart through nutrients and nourishment. Learn to love and accept love from others and be grateful. Be grateful for all the wonders in your life, large and small, and be grateful for your heart, a small organ with a huge impact on your health and happiness.

Take Control of Your Health

Learn and live the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness
Take healthy foundation supplements
Achieve an optimum body weight
Consider Adaptogen 10 Plus for stress management
Consider Nopalea to help your body reduce inflammation
Try HCY Guard to help reduce elevated homocysteine
Get your essential fatty acids from OmegaPrime

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Arthritis, More Common than the Common Cold
by Brazos Minshew, TriVitas Chief Science Officer

What is the most common medical diagnosis in North America? Arthritis!

Arthritis literally means joint, arthro, and inflammation, itis. Indeed, there is often inflammation around a diseased joint. But, did you know that arthritis is a disease of dehydration? Yes, long before the joints swell and inflame, the water-rich lining of the joint begins to dry out. That is why most doctors have changed the diagnosis from arthritis to Degenerative Joint Disease. To effectively care for degenerating joints we need to find a way to get fluid, especially water, back into its proper place.

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Inflammation
Have you ever put two north pole magnets together? Notice how they repel each other? A similar phenomenon occurs in your joints. Thousands of positively charged proteins called GAGs push each other apart and create a vacuum in your joint space. But nature does not like a vacuum. So your body will fill this space with a nutrient-rich soup made of minerals, fats and water. In degenerative joint disease, GAGs are lost and the vacuum collapses. No water gets in and your joints dry out and become inflamed.

Inflammation occurs when a special cell in your joint bursts and releases acids and histamines. This cell is called a mast cell. When a mast cell is damaged by trauma or toxins, or is weakened by nutrient deficiency or other stress, it pops like a water balloon and its contents flood out to neighboring cells.

Even healthy cells cannot resist this flood of chemicals and they will join in spreading inflammation. Within a short time, all of the joints in a region can become inflamed with arthritis because of dehydration in one joint. Mast cells also exist in your skin. So the area around a diseased joint will become red and warm to the touch.

The solution to this immediate problem is really quite simple.

Replace the nutrients found in the soup of your joints. The most important nutrients to put into your joints are mineral protein complexes. Glucosamine, chondroitin, and methyl-sulfonyl methane or referred to as MSM, are three good representatives of this family of protein-mineral complexes. Also, basic minerals like magnesium and boron are very important to joint health. These nutrients are pumped in and out of your joints by movement. So, keeping your joints mobile and active is critical.

Stabilize the mast cell so it does not pop. Mast cells are surrounded by healthy fats. Dietary fats from certain fish and nuts can help reduce inflammation. Also, supplemental fats like Perilla seed oil, fish oil, and cetyl myristoleate or referred to as CMO, create healthy, robust mast cells.

Clean out any debris left over from the inflammation. Finally, you must clean out all of the fractured proteins to prevent more cell damage in the future. These proteins are like broken glass inside your joints. The enzyme Bromelain is very effective at reducing these fractured proteins and inflammation.

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The results
Numerous studies from such renowned researchers as Navarro, Ressel and Bucci have all demonstrated that joints can be re-hydrated by following these recommendations. Just imagine what this means, we may not have found a cure for the common cold but we have found a way to help repair the most common crippling degeneration we face in North America.

Take Control of Your Health

Take glucosamine and other joint-health nutrients. TriVitas physician-formulated Joint Complex provides the nutrients that have been shown to help re-hydrate joints.
Increase essential fatty acids. OmegaPrime from TriVita contains healthy fats that can help stabilize mast cells.
Keep your joints clean with enzymes. Enzymes such as Bromelain can help reduce inflammation. Bromelain is an ingredient in TriVitas Joint Complex.
Drink pure water. Divide your weight, in pounds, by 2. This is the number of ounces of water you should drink every day.
Get daily exercise. Try to get 30 minutes of exercise per day for optimum health.

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Test Your Risk for Heart Disease
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

Heart disease is still the number one killer in North America. Atherosclerosis is the medical term we use to describe heart disease. Literally, sclerosis means hardening and athero describes the nature of the debris that clogs and hardens arteries, which is typically the arteries of the heart. Our risk for getting this disease increases slowly over time as we age. Certain risk factors can tell us if we are in danger of developing this disease 10 years from now. These risk factors include

Age
Blood pressure
HDL or the good cholesterol
Total cholesterol

Test your risk
Follow these steps to calculate your risk.

Have the following numbers available, your blood pressure, total cholesterol and HDL.
Click here to access an online risk calculator.
Once on the page, scroll down and click on Health Risk Assessors, Coronary Heart Disease.
Read the instructions and enter your data. The program will automatically display your risk.

Your risk of developing atherosclerosis is a combination of several factors over time. Please understand what this assessment does not mean. It does not tell you if you are going to have a heart attack. Markers in your bloodstream that signal an imminent heart attack include Total Plasma Homocysteine or tHCY, and C-Reactive Protein or hsCRP.

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Heart disease warning signs
Let us review some of the factors that can act as warning signs of heart disease

High blood pressure
Blood pressure measurements are read as two numbers. The higher number, called the systolic pressure, represents the pressure in the artery when the heart beats. The lower number, called the diastolic pressure, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest.

A normal systolic number is 115. If your arteries are stiff, inflexible, inflamed or too narrow, your heart will have to beat harder and this will create a higher systolic number.

A normal diastolic number is 75 or lower. When the diastolic number is too high it can mean that your lungs, kidneys and liver are not properly detoxifying your body.

Some people find that their blood pressure will not go down no matter what they do. This often happens because of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, often called OSA. With OSA, a person stops breathing during sleep. Sensing the shortage of oxygen, your brain increases blood pressure to compensate.

High total cholesterol
Increased levels of cholesterol in the blood can contribute to atherosclerosis, which is the gradual build-up of cholesterol, fat and fibrous debris along the walls of your arteries. This build-up, called plaque, can accumulate enough to narrow the artery and stiffen the arterial wall. If the plaque is severe enough, it can impair blood flow past the blockage. A normal, healthy cholesterol level is 170 mg/dL or lower.

Low HDL good cholesterol
High density lipoproteins, HDL, absorb cholesterol and take it back to the liver for disposal. A normal, healthy HDL level is over 60 mg-dL. HDL cholesterol rises with moderate to intense exercise. We simply must make peace with daily exercise if we are to increase our HDL and reduce our risk of heart disease.

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Heart attack warning signs
As mentioned earlier, cholesterol levels and blood pressure alone do not serve us very well as determinants of heart attack risk. Homocysteine levels are much more accurate in predicting who is at risk and C-Reactive protein, CRP, is the best predictor for heart attack, as well as many other really bad conditions.

Elevated homocysteine levels can be reduced with certain nutrients called methyl donors. TriVitas HCY Guard is rich in methyl donors and proven to reduce elevated HCY. C-Reactive protein has been reduced quite consistently with Essential Fatty Acid supplements and Quercetin-like Betalain bioflavonoids such as OmegaPrime, one to six grams daily, and Nopalea.

Learning to listen
High blood pressure as well as high cholesterol levels and low HDL levels should be viewed as warning signs from our body. Elevated homocysteine sounds a louder alarm and high C-Reactive protein levels sound the loudest siren of all. We can translate these alarms into valid communication by learning what each lab value means and how to address them in terms of nutrients and nurturing.

Take Control of Your Health

Regularly check your blood pressure
Have an annual medical check-up
Test cholesterol, HDL and LDL
Test homocysteine and C-Reactive protein
Reduce stress and increase nutrients
Increase methyl-donors for HCY reduction
Increase Omega-3 and Betalains for CRP reduction
Exercise 30 minutes most days of the week

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Do Not Take Fatigue Lying Down

Valuable tips for fighting exhaustion

If you are feeling tired all the time, you are not alone. Fatigue is one of the most common complaints that people bring to their healthcare providers. Several studies say that people who see their doctor have suffered silently with fatigue for a long time, anywhere from six months to several years. Sadly, many people have become resigned to the fact that they will always be tired. What is causing this fatigue epidemic? Ask many medical experts and they will tell you that the true cause of this widespread problem is modern life itself. Some of the most common life stressors that can bring on fatigue include

Depression or anxiety
Relationship issues, family conflict, loneliness and social phobias
Job or financial stress
Poor eating habits
Substance abuse, such as caffeine, alcohol, cigarettes and drugs
Side effects from medication
Chronic disease and pain

Specific medical causes for fatigue can include congestive heart failure, hyperthyroidism or diabetes. Fatigue may also be a result of sleep disturbances caused by menopause or physical changes that accompany aging. If you feel that your fatigue may be caused by a medical condition, consult your healthcare provider. Another important stressor is physical inactivity. Our bodies were not designed for a sedentary lifestyle. While many of us struggle to exercise one hour a day, previous generations often had eight hours of daily exercise. Today, too few of us make an effort to get off the couch and get moving. While fatigue may seem inescapable, there are several easy-to-follow strategies to help you regain the physical and mental energy you need to enjoy life to its fullest.

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Start with a healthy, balanced diet
If you fuel your body with junk foods and sugary drinks you will pay the price. Any short-term energy surge will soon be replaced by an overwhelming sense of fatigue. Here are several suggestions to keep your energy level high

Eat the right kinds of food to help prevent fatigue. Simple sugars found in many fruits can give you a quick lift, while other foods, such as whole grains and healthy unsaturated fats, supply energy reserves for the entire day.
Eat small, frequent meals for sustained energy. It is better to eat small meals and snacks every few hours, instead of three large meals a day. You will feel less fatigued because your brain, which has very few energy reserves of its own, benefits from a steady supply of energy.
Take a daily multivitamin to get the necessary vitamins and minerals.
Pass up the so called energy drinks. The short-term surge from these caffeine and sugar-heavy drinks make you even more tired.

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Reduce the stress in your life
Here are some easy-to-implement techniques which can help reduce fatigue

Engage in regular, low intensity exercise, including aerobic exercise or a leisurely walk. Exercise acts directly on the nervous system to increase energy and reduce fatigue.
Meditation, yoga and tai chi.
Progressive muscle relaxation which involves systematically tightening and releasing sets of muscles.

Do not neglect such fundamentals as enjoyable work, healthy relationships and adequate recreation. Many of the 10 Essentials For Health and Wellness will also help reduce fatigue and increase energy. Remember, regardless of your age you have many options to get that energetic feeling back in your life. If you are vigorous you are much more likely to enjoy life to its fullest.

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Help Stop Allergies Before They Stop You
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

On the cusp of the new millennium we saw an explosion in allergy suffering. Since 1991 numerous studies in Allergy News have cited the following increases among children and adults worldwide

Hay fever increased from 9.8 percent to 10.1 percent
Eczema increased from 13 percent to 16 percent
Asthma increased from 18.4 percent to 20.9 percent

These increases were global, from North America to Western Europe, from South Africa to Iran, from the UK to New Zealand. Everyone everywhere is becoming allergic, sensitive, or reactive to almost everything!

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What are allergies?
At first, allergies may just seem like an annoyance. However, over time this irritation becomes chronic inflammation. Inflammation may turn to infection. People that suffer from respiratory allergies have an increased tendency for ear infections, sinus infections, frequent sore throats, lung infections, and bronchitis. Additionally, people with allergies suffer from increased headaches, fatigue, and irritability. Similar outcomes affect people with skin reactions, food allergies and intolerance, and chemical sensitivity.

Allergies occur when a plant or animal protein or a synthetic substance contacts your mucous membrane and your immune system reacts to reject this irritant. These irritants can include

Mold
Pollen
Dust
Animal dander
Many other irritants

A normal, healthy immune system may react very little when exposed to these irritants. A form of barrier protection called passive immunity prevents irritants from getting inside of you and triggering your active immune system.

There are small hair-like structures called cilia that form the protective aspect of passive immunity. These move the irritant away from the contact area. Imagine tall stalks of wheat blowing in the wind. This gives you a mental picture of the gentle way your body should deal with irritants. Allergy problems begin when this ciliary action fails and the irritant requires a more persuasive approach to leave the area. Your active immune system is summoned and an allergic reaction results.

When your immune system senses one of these irritants it creates an antibody. The antibody protein is rushed to the site of irritation by your bloodstream and lymph system. It immediately pops a balloon-like mast cell in the region of this irritation. Mast cells contain histamines that cause your body to flood the area with liquid. This excessive liquid attempts to wash the irritant from the area. This is why you get watery eyes and a runny nose and other symptoms. This is your body attempting to wash away an irritant.

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Boost your immune system to help reduce allergies
Many medications exist to block histamines and the irritation, discomfort, and damage they cause. But, think about this. Is it the histamines that need to be corrected or your immune system? Put another way, the histamines are like the fruit on a tree. You will never get rid of the tree by simply picking the fruit. You must attack the tree at the roots if you are to rid yourself of the fruit. In the same way, you must address allergies at the level of the immune system if you are to be successful in resolving the problem of seasonal allergies.

Health only comes from healthy habits. A healthy immune system is built moment by moment from the choices you make. One of the choices you make is the food you eat. If you eat healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and low-fat sources of protein, you will build a healthy immune system. The same goes for the rest of the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness. For instance

Breathing deeply reduces stress and strengthens your immunity
Drinking pure water flushes your system of toxins and encourages the delivery of nutrients to your cells.
Peaceful sleep is very important in correcting allergies, as the kind of immune cells that inappropriately trigger allergies are higher in people that do not get enough sleep.

To have a healthier immune system and fewer allergies, make better health choices.

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Additional tips for minimizing allergic reactions
There are certain enzymes that neutralize allergy proteins. The most important of these enzymes is called protease. As an allergic protein enters your body, protease traps and breaks down the protein. Some of these enzymes can be found in pineapple and unripe papaya.
During allergy season, many local news stations will give allergen level reports, like mold, mildew, etc. If the levels are high, try to avoid going outdoors if at all possible. If you do venture out, wear a simple dust mask to help keep the irritants out of your system.

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The Link Between Diet And Your Energy Level
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

How is your energy level?

The World Health Organization, often called WHO, states that Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It is the ability to lead a socially and economically productive life.

Does that describe you? Or, like many people in North America, are you just too tired to think about being socially and economically productive?

The scope of the problem
If you feel too tired to do much more than read this article, thank you very much. I appreciate your time and I will hopefully give you a few good ideas on how to increase your energy. You do not have to feel alone. Up to 85 percent of the people who visit a doctor for any reason also complain of being chronically tired. It seems that we are in the middle of an energy crisis that has nothing to do with petroleum production!

When we talk about energy we need to distinguish between the ability to survive and the feeling of being energetic. We must admit that even the sickest person is converting nutrients to energy in order to survive. Yet, we want to do more than survive. We want to feel energetic. We want to thrive! We want to have the energy to dream and then have the energy to live those dreams. We want to feel our best every day.

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Food and energy
As I mentioned, energy comes from the way our body burns nutrients. Nutrients such as fats, protein and carbohydrates must be metabolized. The word metabolism is from a Greek word that describes the process of burning wood to create heat. It also describes creating energy from food. So, an energetic life is possible with a healthy diet and healthy metabolism.

This description outlines the two-steps needed to create and sustain an energetic feeling. Improve our burn rate, which is metabolism, and improve our fuel source, or diet.

Polyphenols increase metabolism. Polyphenols are extremely rare nutrients found in certain foods and concentrated in Energy Now!. Energy Now! increases the burn-rate of the food we eat. A balanced diet must include

7 to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables for adults
30 plus grams of high quality protein
20 to 35 grams of fiber daily

However, when it comes to providing energy, fat is the undisputed champion.

Sugar from the foods we eat provides us with ready energy, but it does not last very long. Proteins are converted to energy at a much slower pace and provide us with a more stable supply of energy, which is five times as much energy per gram as sugar. Fats provide us with stamina. Healthy fats burn slowly and steadily up to eight times longer than sugar. So, for stamina that lasts all day and into the evening hours, select foods high in good fats and take an EFA supplement.

Many experts say that we should get as much as 30 percent of our total calories per day from fat. This may mean more than 70 grams of fat for a 2,200 calorie per day diet. That is a lot of fat! But do not reach for the French fries just yet. You see, all foods contain fat. Fat is as important for plants as it is for humans. So, select fats from foods that are known for high energy, such as vegetables, seeds, nuts, legumes and certain types of fish.

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A note on metabolism
Metabolism occurs inside the cell in a tiny energy factory called mitochondria. Other cell functions are dependent on DNA, with half of the DNA coming from your mother and half from your father. Mitochondria have their own DNA, inherited only from your mothers side of the family. Your energy level will likely be similar to your mothers energy level.

The mitochondria DNA is very easily damaged and very slowly repaired. The antioxidant ECGC is shown to repair mitochondria DNA damaged by stress, deficiency or toxins. Energy Now! is a concentrated source of ECGC.

With the proper nutrients, you can help restore both the energy of metabolism and the feeling of being energetic!

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Eat a diet high in good fats
Take Omega EFA supplements every day
Eat high quality proteins daily
Supplement LPA or L-Phenylalanine, and Tyrosine
Eat a diet low in refined sugar
Use GlucoManage to curb carb cravings
Reduce your stress
Take adaptogens to bolster your resistance
Reduce exposure to toxins
Nopalea drains toxins from your body
Load up on antioxidants and polyphenols
Focus on Energy Now!

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Introducing Wellavoh

A daily multi-nutrient complex that provides superior day and night health support

No matter where you live, your core health, or foundational health, can now draw its strongest support from the extreme conditions of the Sonoran Desert. Altogether 17 different tribes thrive in the Southwestern region of North America, and the people who prosper in this environment have lessons for the rest of the world. It was here that we at TriVita found the inspiration for Nopalea, the astonishing wellness drink, and now we draw on the secrets of this region again to bring you Wellavoh.

Wellavoh, pronounced wel-lah vo¯h, is derived from the Native American language of the Sonoran Desert. It means Wellness Harvest. These people regard the Sonoran Desert as a wellspring of wellness. Their concept of wellness is a belief that individuals can be healthy only within a healthy community. The skills and wisdom they have developed over many generations have produced a nearly illness-free society. We have included many plants indigenous to the Sonoran Desert in our Sonoran Bloom multi-nutrient complex, Wellavoh. These same plants are used as health-promoting foods by the people of the region.

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Vitamins and minerals are essential for human health
If we have the nutrients we need at the moment we need them, we will thrive! Conversely, if we do not have the proper nutrient base in our system every day, we will suffer loss of energy, poor mental performance and increased risk for disease. All experts agree that the best way to get the nutrients we need is from whole foods. Most experts agree that the best way to ensure that you absorb your vitamin supplements is to take them with food. Wellavoh is designed with whole-food complexes containing virtually every nutrient known to science. This exceptional formula feeds your body the nutrients it desires and lacks, every day, to avoid any potential gaps in nutrition. It provides you with hard-to find healthful nutrients that go far beyond an ordinary multi-vitamin.

Wellavoh is a multi-nutrient complex that offers complete nutrition both day and night.

Different needs for different times
Have you ever looked at a restaurant menu and wondered why certain foods are breakfast foods while others are preferred at supper? Well, restaurant owners followed the requests of their customers. Customers followed the cravings of their body. Our body craves certain nutrients in the morning to support energy throughout the day. The morning serving of Wellavoh concentrates energy-producing nutrients for greater vitality. Now, think of the foods we crave for supper. Typically, heavier, more mineral-rich foods are preferred in the evening. The evening serving of Wellavoh supports what you need most, like rest, repair and rejuvenation. These easy-to-swallow soft-gel capsules provide improved absorption for maximum benefit. Wellavoh vitamins are also individually packaged for easy on the go use.

Targeted nutrition for men and women
The nutrient needs for men and women are different. For example, the mens formula supports optimal prostate, cholesterol and blood sugar health. The Wellavoh womens formula supports optimal bone, skin, hormone and breast health.

What is more, Wellavoh contains four exclusive blends of rare nutrients from herbs, plants, fruits, oils and more, combined to deliver essential health benefits using soft gels. These blends include the Sonoran Blend with healing plants from the Sonoran Desert, Heart Healthy Oil Complex, Digestive Blend and Whole Food Blend.

Wellavoh also includes six essential nutrient classes that make it a complete multi-nutrient complex

Vitamins are for vitality and health.
Macro and trace minerals are to maintain healthy bones, muscles and heart.
Phytonutrients are whole food concentrates for better absorption.
Enzymes are to support metabolism at the cellular level.
Essential Fatty Acids are for heart and brain health.

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The importance of supplements
The word supplement means an addition to something to make up for a deficiency. All supplements are in addition to a healthy diet. They make up for the deficiency we face because of poor nutrient density in our foods.

They also help out when we miss the mark of diet perfection.

Supplements will not make up for bad dietary choices. We created Wellavoh to fill in the gaps of a healthy diet. As you review your diet for the past week, ask yourself, Did I eat the right amount of fruits and vegetables every day? And that is 5 servings for children, 7 servings for women and 9 servings for men. If you can say, yes, congratulations! If you are like most people you did not reach that goal. And, if you are like most of us, you did not eat all of your fruits and vegetables from an organic source, so, the fruits and vegetables may have been of low nutrient value.

Staying on top of our nutrient reserve is important. Our body makes millions of new cells every day, like heart cells, brain cells, bone and blood cells. Every time a cell dies, it should be replaced. If you do not have the right amount of nutrients to construct a new cell you will either make an incomplete cell or none at all. The outcome is bad in either case, so, we really need to keep all nutrients on board at all times. This is why we suggest Sonoran Bloom Wellavoh, because it gives you the nutrients you need at the moment you need them.

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Loneliness and Heart Health
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

Can loneliness kill you? According to medical science, yes it can!
As humans, we need each other. Children die when they are deprived of human contact and even young adults have significantly higher blood pressure if they feel lonely. This high blood pressure can follow them into middle age where they are far more likely to suffer from heart attacks, strokes, obesity, and diabetes.

Adults cope better, especially women, but the diseases of emotional famine disable many people. Conditions that have been linked to loneliness include

Chronic back pain
Ulcers
Migraine headaches

The good news is that many of these problems subside when a person feels connected to a community. Indeed, it is only in community that you can experience life in its robust diversity.

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Loneliness and the heart
Emotional turmoil causes an inflammatory reaction in the circulatory system. The blood vessels stiffen and your heart has difficulty pumping blood. Blood pressure increases and the increase damages delicate organs, such as the lungs, kidneys, eyes, and especially the blood vessels themselves. That is why heart attacks and strokes are so common among lonely people.

Interestingly, the illnesses suffered by lonely, bored, and emotionally starved people are the same as those experienced by people under great emotional stress, such as those engaged in active combat in war. Both extremes, too much stimulation and too little, trigger the, fight or flight, mechanism. This emergency or survival mechanism interferes with the enzymes that block inflammation. Inflammation is like a heavy burden on an over-taxed system, the weakest link is sure to break!

Many people in North America have weakened their hearts with high salt or high fat foods, a sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, and chronic stress. Loneliness adds a burden that is just too much for the human body to take, the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back, and a heart attack, stroke, or other crisis becomes inevitable. That is the medical description for the impact of loneliness. How can we prevent this chain of events from killing us?

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Women save humanity, once again!
Interestingly, the amount of time spent alone does not determine the degree of loneliness. For instance, undergraduate students rated their loneliness and then reported on their social interactions and other habits throughout the school year. Those most lonely and those least lonely did not spend significantly more or less time in social contacts with others. The lonely students did, however, perceive that their social contact made demands of them that they simply could not meet.

The same report shed light on an interesting phenomenon. Spending time talking with women, and that is for both sexes, provided protection from feelings of loneliness. Many theories have been advanced to explain this but consensus from scientists appears elusive. Communication styles differ between men and women. Men seem to prefer transactional conversations while women typically exemplify negotiation, compromise, empathy, and forgiveness.

When feelings of loneliness are eliminated, high blood pressure is reduced. For instance, normal systolic blood pressure is about 120 mm hg. Chronically lonely people typically experience an increase in blood pressure that may take them above 150 mm hg. The danger zone is any systolic pressure above 140 mm hg. Social integration yields a reduction in blood pressure of 10 to 30 mm hg. As a comparison, achieving a weight loss of 25 pounds or more for the obese can reduce their blood pressure by 5 to 20 mm hg and regular physical exercise reduces blood pressure by 4 to 9 mm hg.

It is even as Robert McAfee Brown noted, How does one keep from growing old inside? Surely only in community.

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Increase Your Social Support. Meet others to help reduce loneliness. Take a class at a community college, volunteer, or join a church, or community group.

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Strength Training for Optimum Wellness
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer

Essential number 5 of TriVitas 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness tells us to Enjoy Activity. Many of us enjoy long walks on the beach or through the forest. Others like square dancing or ballroom dancing. Some enjoy swimming, tennis or bowling. I personally like bicycling through the vineyards of Napa Valley.

When it comes to strength training, enjoy is not a word you hear often. How can you find joy in strength training? The answer may not be so much in what you do as why you do it!

Benefits of strength training
The benefits of strength training include increased bone density, improved heart functioning, better blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes, and even reduced depression, according to Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., associate chief of the Human Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. The greatest benefit, however, may be strength trainings ability to build muscle.

Starting in our 30s and 40s, people start to lose a quarter-pound of muscle every year, explains Dr. Nelson, author of the best-selling book Strong Women Stay Young. We believe that much of this loss can be stopped or reduced with simple strength training.

Other conditions that might benefit include back pain, recovery from surgery and even mild high blood pressure.

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Methods of strength training
Strength training may or may not include lifting weights. In fact, weight-bearing exercises include stair climbing and calisthenics such as push-ups and chin-ups. And rather than using metal weights, many prefer to use elastic tubing. Still, you should not be intimidated by metal weights, or by muscle-bound weight lifters!

If you have not lifted weights before, make an appointment with a certified athletic trainer to help you develop a safe strength-training program. You can find a trainer at a local gym or through a referral from your doctor or a friend.

Tips for getting started

Begin each exercise with very low weights and minimal repetitions.
Slowly increase weight, never adding more than 10 percent in a given workout.
Do strength-training exercises 2 to 3 times a week. Allow at least one day between each workout for your bones and muscles to rest and restore themselves.
Gradually increase the intensity of your workout. Try to work up to 2 or 3 sets of 8 to 10 repetitions with a rest period of 30 to 60 seconds between sets.

Although stiffness the day after exercise is normal, you will know if you did too much if you are in pain. Decrease the intensity or the duration of your exercise next time.

The joy of strength training
As mentioned earlier, you can enjoy the activity of strength training with a simple survey of your life. For example, would you like to

Prevent bone loss
Improve heart function
Improve blood pressure
Achieve better blood sugar control
Help reduce depression

If so, strength training is for you!

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How long do you plan to live? Pick a number and look at people that age. You will see a broad spectrum of vitality, from those that are home-bound or have confined mobility to those competing in marathons and skydiving! Which group do you want to be in? Strength training can help you maintain vitality and flexibility, it can help you recover from injury and can improve your energy at any stage of life.

Do you have purpose in your life? Meeting those purposes requires health. Strength training helps you achieve and maintain the wellness you need to be effective in your life purposes: to be there for those you love, to accomplish the great works inside you, to enjoy your leisure knowing you are healthy enough to do whatever your heart demands. Strength training helps you have more to give, and giving is the truest source of happiness.

So go ahead, enjoy the activity of strength training!

Note. Consult with your doctor before starting any type of exercise program.

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First, decide why you want to do strength training
Get professional help when needed
Start slowly, progress wisely
Warm up, stretch and breathe deeply
Know good pain from bad pain
Allow 48 hours for recovery
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Boost flexibility with OmegaPrime
Reduce inflammation with Nopalea
Lose unwanted weight with Leanology
Take Bone Growth Factor to re-grow bone

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Dietary Supplements for Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis, or OA, is by far the most common form of arthritis. You may already show signs, though you probably do not know it. It is not until later in life that OA becomes one of the leading causes of chronic pain and disability.

Joint Wear and Tear
Degenerative joint disease, another term for OA, is a better description of the process of wear and tear that gradually softens and breaks down the joint cartilage that normally prevents bones from rubbing together. X-rays of osteoarthritic joints often show narrowing of the joint space and destructive changes in the adjacent bone.

Patients with OA generally complain of joint pain and stiffness, particularly after physical activity. The hips, knees, ankles, and spine are most susceptible to OA, since they absorb the brunt of gravitational forces.

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Cartilage Health
Joint cartilage is made up of cells, called chondrocytes, embedded in a substance called the extracellular matrix. One of the primary components of this matrix is a material called proteoglycan. This material helps cartilage absorb the forces of friction.

With normal aging, the proteoglycan content of the matrix decreases. This decrease can be accelerated by injury, excessive mechanical force or joint deformity. This explains why certain occupations, like dockworkers and professional football players, become disabled from OA sooner than the rest of us. It also explains why obesity, which adds considerable stress to joints of the lower extremities, greatly increases the risk of OA, particularly in the knees.

Even after OA begins to set in, there is evidence that regular exercise can delay or prevent the onset of pain and disability. Aerobic activity protects against obesity, while weight training enhances the strength and flexibility of the muscles, tendons and ligaments around the joints, which improves joint stability and resilience. Keep in mind that acute injuries and repetitive strain increase the risk of OA. Therefore, exercise is only beneficial to joint health if it is done gradually, and with proper preparation, like stretching, and equipment, like quality footwear.

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Treating Osteoarthritis
Standard treatments for symptomatic OA include

Physical therapy to increase the strength and flexibility of affected joints
Prescription or nonprescription pain medication, most commonly nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs for short
Injections of more powerful anti-inflammatory steroid medication into the joint
Joint replacement surgery

Although often effective at relieving pain, these interventions do nothing to slow or reverse the deterioration of cartilage. Therefore, researches have turned their attention to two natural constituents of human cartilage thought to preserve, or even enhance, cartilage integrity—glucosamine and chondroitin.

Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Glucosamine and chondroitin are thought to stimulate the production of proteoglycan and stop its breakdown. Glucosamine is derived from the exoskeletons of shrimp, lobster and crabs. Chondroitin is manufactured from natural sources, such as shark and bovine cartilage.

Numerous clinical studies have evaluated the effectiveness of these supplements in treating OA of the knee and hip. Some studies have shown glucosamine and/or chondroitin to be moderately more effective than a placebo, with no significant side effects.

Other Supplements for OA
Many other dietary supplements are purported to benefit OA patients. These supplements include

S-adenosylmethionine or SAMe, which is an analgesic or anti-inflammatory
Vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene–antioxidants
Vitamin D–essential to normal bone and cartilage metabolism
Avocado or soybean oil extracts may stimulate chondrocyte activity

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RESOURCES

Arthritis Foundation
http://www.arthritis.org/

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health
http://nccam.nih.gov/

REFERENCES

Osteoarthritis. EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments website. Available at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=15topicID=114. Updated February 2010. Accessed June 21, 2010.

This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.

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The Secret Of Nopalea's Amazing Betalains

These powerful and protective healing nutrients are essential to detoxification

By Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer

Sure, Nopalea tastes great and it offers many astonishing benefits. However, you may not know about one of Nopalea's very special secrets. This breakthrough wellness drink contains a unique class of nutrients called Betalains. Betalains are bioflavonoids in the Quercetin family. A bioflavonoid is a vitamin-like substance that works alongside antioxidants like Vitamin C. They are useful in helping us make collagen so our skin looks young and in strengthening blood vessels so we do not easily bruise. Bioflavonoids help us resist allergies and infections from bacteria and viruses. They are also anti-inflammatory.

How Quercetins help fight deadly toxins
Quercetins are found in foods we eat every day such as apples and onions. They are important in medical science because high intake of Quercetin-containing foods results in low incidence of cancer and heart disease. Betalains are grandchildren of Quercetin. But Betalains are orphans. None of the plant species related in their development exist anymore. They have all gone extinct except beets, rainbow Swiss chard and Nopal fruit, plants that are not even distant cousins in the world of fruits and vegetables.

However, all 24 known Betalains are very important for human health. That is especially true today because they are all anti-toxin and anti-inflammatory. Would you not agree that our world is becoming more and more toxic? Environmental experts report dramatic increases in disease-producing toxins in air, water and soil. Toxins produce inflammation, and most of the diseases we face start with inflammation, like Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, etc.

Betalain content develops in response to the environment in which the plant grows. The more extreme the climate, the more protective Betalains the plant needs to survive, and the more benefits we get when we eat them! So, while we may get a few precious Betalains from beets and rainbow Swiss chard, we get the greatest abundance, all 24, from the specific Nopal fruit found in the Sonoran Desert.

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Beta xanthines key role
One of the most important Betalains for detoxification is beta xanthine. Beta xanthine participates in detoxification in the liver and kidneys. It makes detoxification much easier for our body.

Human bodies burn food to create energy. This is called metabolism, which is the breaking down the food in basic components called catabolism and using those building blocks to build up our health called anabolism. This makes us healthy and energetic. However, we must contend with toxins along the way, toxins from outside our body, like exotoxins from air, water and food, and even toxins created inside our body called endotoxins. One of these endotoxins is called uric acid. High levels of uric acid are poisonous and high levels have been associated with heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, kidney stones and gout.

Uric acid is neutralized in the liver by enzymes. Interestingly, the same liver enzymes that detoxify uric acid may also detoxify many other poisons. So, improving liver detoxification of uric acid with the help of Betalain beta xanthine may improve your ability to detoxify many other poisons. It is like getting a bonus every time you drink Nopalea!

You will not be able to complete this detoxification process entirely if your liver is fatty, sluggish or toxic. Uric acid is excreted by the kidneys. The kidneys are easily damaged by dehydration, too much protein or sugar in your diet, toxic metals like mercury or other toxins like aspirin. In fact, the kidneys are so delicate that they can even be damaged by temperature extremes in our environment, especially heat.

Beta xanthine helps protect the liver and kidneys by neutralizing toxins such as uric acid, by increasing liver detoxification enzymes that clean up both exotoxins and endotoxins and may even reduce the shock our kidneys face from excess heat.

Betalains, including beta xanthine, are anti-inflammatory and anti-toxin, just what we need in a toxic, inflamed world! And just like their grandfather Quercetin, Betalains are beneficial for improving our health and daily performance. Beta xanthine takes its place among all of the health-promoting bioflavonoids as an antioxidant that harmonizes with all of the other beneficial nutrients that are truly gifts to us from the Sonoran Desert.

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Understanding Degenerative Joint Disease

Osteoarthritis is the breakdown of cartilage in the joints. This is followed by chronic inflammation of the joint lining. Healthy cartilage is a cushion between the bones in a joint. Osteoarthritis usually affects the hands, feet, spine, hips, and knees. People with osteoarthritis usually have joint pain and limited movement of the affected joint.

Causes
Osteoarthritis is associated with aging. The exact cause is unclear. As osteoarthritis develops, you experience loss of cartilage, bone spurs around the joint, and muscle weakness of the extremity.

Risk Factors
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.
Risk factors include

Obesity
Genetic factors
Injury to the joint surface
Occupations and physical activities that put stress on joints
Neuromuscular disorders like diabetes.

Symptoms
Symptoms include

Mild to severe pain in a joint, especially after overuse or long periods of inactivity, such as sitting for a long time
Creaking or grating sound in the joint
Swelling, stiffness, limited movement of the joint, especially in the morning
Weakness in muscles around the sore joint
Deformity of the joint.

Diagnosis
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history, and perform a physical exam.
Tests may include

X-rays of the affected joints
Blood tests
Arthrocentesis

Treatment
There is no treatment that stops cartilage loss or repairs cartilage that is damaged. The goal of treatment is to reduce joint pain and inflammation and to improve joint function.

Treatments may include

Dietary Supplements
There is some evidence that glucosamine and chondroitin may relieve pain and/or decrease osteoarthritis progression. Talk with your doctor before taking any herbs and supplements.

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Alternative Treatments
Some doctors report that acupuncture has been successful in reducing the pain of osteoarthritis, although the evidence is not consistent.

While more studies are needed, balneotherapy or referred to as hot water therapy, relaxation therapy, exercise, yoga, and tai chi may be helpful.

Mechanical Aids
Shoes with shock-absorbing soles can provide some relief while you are doing daily activities or exercising. Splints or braces help to properly align joints and distribute weight. Knee and wrist joints may benefit from elastic supports. A neck brace or corset may relieve back pain, and a firm mattress may help chronic back pain. Canes, crutches, walkers, and orthopedic shoes also can help those with advanced osteoarthritis in the lower body.

Weight Reduction
Losing weight can lessen the stress on joints affected by osteoarthritis. Losing five pounds can eliminate at least 15 pounds of stressful impact for each step taken. The more weight lost, the greater the benefit.

Exercise and Physical Therapy
Strengthening the muscles supporting an arthritic joint, particularly the knee, lower back, and neck, may decrease pain and absorb energy around the joint. Swimming and water aerobics are good because they do not put stress on the joint.

Assist Devices
If you are having difficulty getting around due to arthritis pain, your doctor might recommend that you install handrails and grips throughout your home. These are useful in the bathroom and shower. You may need elevated seats, including toilet seats, if you are having difficulty rising after sitting.

Heat and Ice
Applying heat, with hot water bottles, heating pads, hot paraffin, helps joints and muscles move more easily. It can also lessen pain. Using ice packs after activity can also help.

Steroids
Corticosteroid injections to the inflamed joint may be given if other pain medicines do not work. Because repeated cortisone injections can be harmful to the cartilage, they are reserved for those with severe symptoms.

Surgery
Surgery can

Reposition bones to redistribute stress on the joint
Replace joints
Remove loose pieces of bone or cartilage from joints

Prevention
To reduce your chance of getting osteoarthritis

Maintain a healthy weight.
Do regular, gentle exercise, including walking, stretching, swimming, and yoga.
Avoid repetitive motions and risky activities that may contribute to joint injury, especially after age 40.
With advancing age, certain activities may have to be dropped or modified. But, you should continue to be active.

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RESOURCES

American College of Rheumatology
http://www.rheumatology.org/

The Arthritis Foundation
http://www.arthritis.org/

CANADIAN RESOURCES

The Arthritis Society
http://www.arthritis.ca/

Seniors Canada On-line
http://www.seniors.gc.ca/

REFERENCES

American College of Rheumatology Subcommittee on Osteoarthritis. Recommendations for the medical management of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee. 2000 update. Arthritis Rheum. 2000 43 1905-1915.

Arthritis. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disorders website. Available at
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Is Inflammation The Cause Of Obesity?

Research points to a connection that's gaining awareness

If we could reduce inflammation, could we also reduce the problem of excess weight? There is growing evidence of a connection between the two conditions, and mounting excitement over the possibility of easing both.

For several years, medical science has turned its eye toward inflammation as the main issue behind a number of health problems, from joint pain to allergies, high blood pressure to ulcers, and even cancer and heart attacks. As early as 2004, TIME magazine called chronic inflammation, The Secret Killer. Continuing research suggests that obesity might be added to the list of conditions caused, at least in part, by inflammation.

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The brain, inflammation and excess weight
Researchers recently found that weight could be lowered or managed by reducing inflammation in a certain part of the brain. Just over a year ago, a study published in the journal Cell indicated that inflammation could be a key factor in obesity.

Obesity is known to increase inflammation throughout the body. But could the inflammation be a cause, not an effect, of the obesity? A study based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of California, San Diego zeroed in on two areas

The hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates the bodys energy balance.
A so-called master switch of inflammation that is usually turned off.

In lab tests on mice, that so-called master switch of inflammation turned on in the brains of mice on a high-fat diet. With that master switch turned on, the mice gained weight.

Next, the scientists used genetic engineering to flip that master switch off in the hypothalamus of other mice. Those mice were significantly protected from becoming obese, even on a high-fat diet, the researchers wrote. It is important to note that inflammation alone is not a bad thing: it is a vital tool for the body to fight off infection. It is when the bodys defense switch gets stuck in the, on, position that we have chronic inflammation. The researchers concluded that finding out how to control that switch in the hypothalamus might open the door to fighting obesity and related diseases.

Obesity as chronic low-level inflammation
More connections between obesity and inflammation were found by Dutch researchers writing in the journal PPAR Research. The article, which looks at the complex relationship between fat storage, insulin resistance and secreted proteins, comes to a provocative conclusion.

After studying the affect of obesity on tissue in body parts including the liver, the scientists said that their findings feed a growing recognition that obesity represents a state of chronic low-level inflammation.

Adding diabetes to the story
Because our bodies are so complex, some of the research into obesity and inflammation takes an extra step to understand. In the case of diabetes, for example, a connection between body fat and diabetes has pointed a finger at inflammation as the root problem.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine published findings of a study in the journal Cell Metabolism, that can be summed up in four words, Inflammation is the key. The research found that obesity, in animals or people, leads to increased fat in the liver, called steatosis. Steatosis, in turn, leads to liver inflammation and insulin resistance, which can result in diabetes.

Problem, Inflammation. A solution, Nopalea
As research continues into the relationship between inflammation and excess weight, there is a way to help your body reduce inflammation, Nopalea. This breakthrough wellness drink is helping people across North America enjoy optimal wellness, because with daily use it helps your body

Reduce inflammation
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Protect against premature aging

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Inflammation: Scourge Of Our Time

TriVita Sublingual B-12 and Nopalea pack a powerful anti-inflammatory 1, 2 punch
by Brazos Minshew, TriVita Chief Science Officer

How many of your friends suffer from inflammation? Not just the kind that comes with a sore throat or swollen finger, but the inflammation that is causing an explosion in asthma, allergies, digestive problems, insomnia, autoimmune disorders and other reactions around the world? More important, what are some possible answers to the problem of inflammation?

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Forming histamines
Humans have been exposed to pollen since we first walked the earth. It is the same with foods that trigger allergies in many people. Yet, the sensitivity to pollens and all other proteins is increasing, it seems, almost daily. Since people, pollens and proteins have peacefully coexisted for many generations, the problem must be something new in our environment that is causing us to become more inflamed. Potential causes of the increase in autoimmune disorders could include

The toxins in our environment
The emotional distress we endure daily
Deficiency in vital elements such as nutrients and sleep
The damage of a sedentary life

Each of these sources of stress has been implicated in the release of inflammatory histamines in our body. Histamines form more readily in a B-12 deficient environment because B-12 blocks THF, which is an enzyme that creates histamine. Once histamines are released into your system they are extremely inflammatory. Nopalea quenches inflammation through anti-inflammatory Betalains.

Histamine disorders
We probably only think of hay fever when we think of histamine, like itchy, watery eyes, sneezing, difficulty breathing, etc. These are allergy symptoms connected with histamine release on an H-1 receptor in the upper airways. Yet, histamines are released on 4 different receptors

H-1 in the airways pertains to allergic rhinitis or referred to as hay fever, asthma, watery eyes, scratchy throat, bronchitis.
H-2 in the digestive system pertains to acid indigestion, gastric reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis.
H-3 in the brain pertains to insomnia, anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder, Alzheimers.
H-4 in the immune system pertains to rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia.

Histamines are inflammatory. They start a fire in one or more of these body systems and we produce symptoms. The fires origination may be determined because of heredity, environment and lifestyle. The so-called match ignites the firestorm may be pollens or proteins, toxic poisons or healthy foods or just about anything you can imagine. In the end, the inflammation is always caused by histamines!

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The dynamic duo
As I mentioned, Sublingual B-12 protects against much of the excess histamine formation by blocking the enzyme THF. This is especially true of TriVita Super Sublingual B-12 because it contains three milligrams of both biologically active forms of B-12. Once histamine is released, it creates inflammation that actually feeds on itself in a storm of irritation. Nopalea helps break the cycle of inflammation and anti-inflammatory Betalains help quench the firestorm.

So pollens are not inherently "bad" and proteins in foods are not either, although, I must admit that sometimes they seem that way! In combating inflammation we may benefit from a simple two-step approach. We need to isolate ourselves from the allergen until our immune system can be reprogrammed and insulate ourselves with proper nutrients and nurturing every single day. Insulation begins with B-12 and Nopalea.

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Stress, Inflammation and Aging

Breaking the toxic cycle, regaining wellness balance
By Dr. Linda Wright

If you feel more stressed than you did, say, five years ago, about half the population is with you. Whether the stress is mental, physical, emotional or environmental, it brings with it inflammation that can lead to premature aging. Stress in general contributes to poor relationships, affecting work and damaging health. First, it is important to know the real physical effects that stress can have on our bodies. Over time, stress can lead to

Heart disease
Glucose intolerance
Nervous conditions
Immune system disorders
Acute respiratory disease, such as asthma
Susceptibility to colds and flu
Diabetes
Allergies
Depression
Osteoarthritis
Digestive problems... and several other ailments

Stress in and of itself is not a bad thing. As humans, we are designed to respond to it every day, sometimes with temporary bursts of energy that are natural and normal, like the flight or fight response involved when hormones are released into our bloodstream. However, when chronic stress keeps us in a constant state of readiness, the body can become weakened and susceptible to disease.

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Cells overwhelmed by inflammation
A certain amount of inflammation is actually necessary for healing, whether the damage is from injury, illness, toxins, nutritional deficiencies or stress. Think of what happens when you cut your finger. You may have redness, in which increased nutrients and proteins are carried by an increased blood supply to the injury site, swelling, in which additional plasma and healing proteins are brought to the site, pain, in which is our signal to be careful of that area, and heat, in which white blood cells defend damaged tissue from microbes.

This cut finger example demonstrates homeostasis in action. In this way, the body tries to get all its systems back in balance by remodeling damaged cells. The redness, swelling, pain and heat gradually disappear. Once the healing process is complete, homeostasis returns the body to a natural, healthful state of balance. However, when the body is overloaded with chronic stress and excess inflammation, it can be literally worn down by the constant demands. Cells may become damaged beyond repair, and we can literally become old before our time, falling victim to both mental and physical problems.

Controlling stress and inflammation
Sometimes, we can be overwhelmed by the various types of stress that come with everyday life. These include mental stress, such as over-work, physical stress, such as exercising more than usual, emotional stress, as when we are having relationship problems, and environmental stress from pollutants in our environment and food supply.

Let us look at just one type of stress, emotional, to see how the brain and body respond. Suppose you get a letter from the government tax office saying you owe 40,000 dollars. Even if you have that kind of cash lying around, you are going to feel stressed. Your brain will release chemicals called catecholamines that trigger inflammatory processes. One might be the release of insulin, a pro inflammatory hormone.

Too much stress over an extended time period will cause insulin resistance, which is associated with obesity. That obesity, which itself creates inflammation, triggers the body to produce another pro inflammatory hormone called cortisol, which creates more stress, and so on and so on. Clearly, then, controlling stress will help break this cycle of inflammation, and help the body return to its natural, balanced state.

Keys to stress management
The first step toward managing stress is to identify the things in your life that are causing it, like marital problems, work pressures or illness in the family. Once you identify and understand these stressors, you can begin to find ways to change your environment and manage them. Support groups, exercise and certain nutritional supplements may help modify the levels of stress hormones and help the mind and body to rebalance. Try these techniques to help reduce stress

Practice the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.
Enjoy physical activity every day.
Eat nutritiously, emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean protein.
Seek out friends to talk to, or take steps to build your social support network.
Take time out each day to sit quietly and peacefully.
Try relaxation techniques such as yoga and deep breathing.
Avoid excess alcohol.

If stress continues to be a problem despite your best efforts, do not hesitate to ask your healthcare provider for help. After all, controlling stress, inflammation and the wear and tear they create are key to enjoying health and life for as long as possible.

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Headache Pain? Inflammation and fat could be to blame

What is the connection between migraine headaches, inflammation, and body fat?

By Dr. Joshua A. Tobin

I am a neurologist, which means that I diagnose and treat disorders of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and sometimes muscles. Since the brain is the body part that recognizes pain, much of my practice involves treatment of painful conditions, such as headaches.

Inflammation is the bodys attempt to remove harmful stimuli and initiate healing. Inflammation is an extremely important process because without it, our bodies could not fight infection, and our wounds would not heal. For example, if my immune system could not cause inflammation in my foot, my foot sprain would never heal, and I would be stuck using crutches for the rest of my life!

However, too much inflammation is harmful. Inappropriate inflammation is a major contributing factor to many Western diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes and also to headaches.

Migraines
Migraine is a specific type of headache that afflicts 12 percent of all Americans. Its hallmarks are a moderate to severe throbbing pain on one side of the head that is worse with physical activity, lasts for hours to days, and is associated with nausea, vomiting, or light and noise sensitivity.

Medications often used for migraines include NSAIDS, which stands for non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and corticosteroids.

Estrogen has many effects, one of which is suppression of the immune system. Women are more likely to have migraines around the time of menstruation, when their estrogen levels are low, and are less likely to have migraines when they are pregnant, when their estrogen levels are high.

An important change that takes place during a migraine is called neurogenic inflammation, which is the swelling of the blood vessels of the brain, possibly with leakage of bloodstream proteins into brain tissue. Many successful migraine treatments work by counteracting this blood vessel swelling, including caffeine, a group of medications called the triptans, and another group of medications called ergots.

Cytokines are small proteins that most cells in the body produce to communicate with other nearby cells. One cytokine that triggers blood vessel swelling in neurogenic inflammation is called CGRP, which stands for calcitonin G related peptide. CGRP also stimulates the production and release of more inflammatory cytokines with names such as TNF alpha or tumor necrosis factor alpha, IL 1 beta or interleukin 1 beta, and IL 6 or interleukin 6 from special white blood cells called lymphocytes. While the names of all these cytokines can seem a little technical, just remember that they are all small proteins that allow communication between nearby cells.

Scientists gave TNF alpha to volunteers, who subsequently developed headaches. In another study, an anti-inflammatory cytokine called IL 10 or interleukin 10 decreased pain levels in volunteers. Studies have shown increased levels of the proteins TNF alpha, IL 1 beta, and IL 6 in the blood draining away from the head in the first few hours after a migraine attack.

A potential new class of migraine medications works by preventing CGRP from signaling the blood vessels to dilate. These CGRP receptor antagonists are still in development.

While neurogenic inflammation is a localized process of the brains blood vessels, migraine might also involve systemic inflammation, or inflammation of the rest of the body. Two studies found that migraine sufferers had elevated levels of many inflammatory molecules in their blood both during headaches, TNF alpha, IL-1 beta, and IL 10, and perhaps more importantly, even in between headaches, TNF alpha and IL 1.

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Headaches, inflammation, well being and fat
Simply put, headaches make us feel lousy. Migraine sufferers especially tend to feel tired and achy. Inflammation relates to these feelings. When scientists studied the blood of volunteers who felt tired, irritable, achy, feverish and who could not concentrate, they found that a particular group of white blood cells called mononucleocytes produced more IL 1 and IL 6 in these afflicted volunteers than in other volunteers who felt good.

If you have migraines, your fat may have something to do with your headaches, possibly because your fat cells secrete an anti-inflammatory protein, cytokine, called adiponectin. Interestingly, the less body fat you have, the more adiponectin your fat cells produce. In other words, thin people have high adiponectin levels, and overweight people have low adiponectin levels. Adiponectin protects against diabetes, high cholesterol and atherosclerosis, otherwise know as hardening of the arteries.

Two important types of dietary fat are the omega 3 fatty acids and omega 6 fatty acids. In general, omega 6 fatty acids promote inflammation, and omega 3 fatty acids oppose inflammation. While your body does need some omega 6 fatty acids, the typical Western diet contains up to 30 times too much. Therefore, decreasing dietary fat intake is normally expected to reduce the amount of inflammatory omega 6 fatty acids.

Does this mean that people can cure their headaches by losing body fat? We don’t know for sure, but we do know that obese people with headaches are more likely to find their headaches worsening. If you have headaches, you may want to ask your doctor if decreasing your fat intake or altering the types of fat you consume is worthwhile.

Joshua A. Tobin, M.D., is a board certified neurologist at 21st Century Neurology in Phoenix, AZ. He especially enjoys caring for patients with headaches, fibromyalgia and sleep disorders.

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Enjoying Wellness From The Inside Out

Improve your health by rejuvenating your cells
By Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Officer

There may be trillions of cells in the human body. Each cell is like a tiny factory... and they all have a function and a product to produce. Our DNA orchestrates the production of tiny proteins that are made into enzymes, hormones and other products of the cell.

Under extreme circumstances the cell will alter its production of basic, life sustaining proteins and produce whatever is necessary to meet a crisis. For example, when we are under stress, our adrenal glands produce large amounts of adrenaline.

Under stress, these same cells change function. They stop producing the things that build us up, anabolism, and start producing things that tear us down, catabolism. Your body does this because the message of stress is that it must sacrifice healthy function, which we call healthy aging, for a time to produce energy needed to ensure our safety. This is an acceptable trade if we are using the energy to get out of oncoming traffic! It is a poor way to deal with chronic, daily stress.

The DNA is sensitive to signals of stress because it is designed to help us survive. Adaptogens carry information that helps the health of our DNA, even under extreme stress. TriVita has a product called Adaptogen 10 Plus that provides not only the necessary adaptogens to cope with the stress, but also antioxidants to counter the damage and boost your immune system.

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Building healthy cells
Healthy cells make healthy tissues which in turn are collected together as organs. Organs work within systems, for example, your digestive or immune system. Systems combine to form a healthy, functioning body. Still, the basic unit of life is the cell and the basic conductor of orchestrating the function of the cell is the DNA.

In order for our DNA to accomplish the task of building healthy cells, we must provide the necessary nutrients every day. If we are missing even a single nutrient at the critical moment it is needed, our cells will not be able to carry out their work of creating healthy proteins. Incomplete proteins are produced, cells become toxic and these become the focus for inflammation and disease.

Toxic DNA
It is important to know that your DNA never produces disease. Instead, it produces proteins with the raw materials it has at that moment and in response to information it receives. That information comes in the form of nutrients and toxins from both inside and outside our body. Healthy application of the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness and daily healthy aging nutrients send positive (anabolic) messages to your DNA. Trauma, toxins, deficiencies and stress send negative, catabolic, messages to your DNA.

Trauma, toxins, deficiencies and stress damage your DNA and cause it to produce toxic proteins. These proteins become the source of inflammation and disease. Nopalea helps your body neutralize its inner toxins and reduce its inflammation. A special antioxidant polyphenol called ECGC found in green tea and concentrated in Energy Now takes the lead in antioxidant DNA repair. CoEnzyme Q 10, or CoQ-10, adds fuel to the repair process and works in concert with ECGC.

We can improve our health by building healthy cells at any age. We are literally one choice away from improving healthy cellular function, the choice to live the 10 Essentials.

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Nopalea defends your body against dangerous toxins that ...threaten cellular health
...lead to inflammation
...and trigger a whole host of diseases
Here is how it helps the body thrive.

The power of Betalains
Harnessing the power of Betalains, a rare and potent class of antioxidants that flourish in the Nopal cactus, Nopalea delivers scientifically proven health benefits.

Detoxify your body
Every day, we are exposed to toxins in our air, water and food, and even toxins created by our own bodies. Nopalea combines its Betalains with other antitoxic ingredients to combat these poisons where they strike us first, right inside the trillions of cells in our bodies.

By increasing the activity of CYP 2E1, a special enzyme that neutralizes daily toxins, Nopalea protects your cells and vital organs, especially your liver, against the carcinogens, hormone disruptors, respiratory toxins, developmental toxins and neurotoxins that are responsible for one quarter of all the worlds diseases.

Reduce inflammation
When toxins assault your system, or when injury or infection strikes, your body responds with a complex biological process commonly referred to as inflammation. If this inflammation goes unchecked, it can lead to a wide variety of disorders, from stroke to arthritis to heart disease.

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Nopalea specifically targets signs of inflammation in your body and reduces them quickly. Its Betalains and other anti-inflammatory ingredients work directly on the fluid surrounding your cells. There, they draw off the toxins and excess water to reduce inflammation and rebalance the cellular environment.

Protect against premature aging
Your skin is a miraculous covering that protects you from harm. Pollution, toxins, radiation and other potentially damaging influences are kept out of your body by your skin, in which vital organs are protected inside. One of the first signs of aging is thin, sagging, withered skin that is easily damaged.

Nopalea rushes to these damaged areas to shore up your protective layer. The Betalains in Nopalea fill in the gaps of your cells, including the cells in your skin, and return them to the firm, robust nature of young cells, at any age. By providing a healthy environment for the cell, Betalains keep it from withering.

More health benefits
Want even more reasons to drink Nopalea? Scientific research shows that Nopalea also helps the body to

Increase energy
Boost the immune system
Protect against fluid retention
Neutralize free radicals

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How Nopalea aids the body in healing
Its Betalains, come to the rescue
Betalains, pronounced bay ta lins, are a rare and potent class of antioxidants that flourish in the Nopal cactus fruit. Nopalea harnesses the power of this desert Superfruit and its Betalains to bring you scientifically proven health benefits.

These Betalains have been scientifically proven, in hundreds of studies, to help the body detoxify itself and reduce inflammation.

More about those amazing Betalains
Betalains are the pigments that give the Nopal cactus fruit its vibrant pink color. But that is just the beginning. They are also natural antioxidants, and they are found only in a few of the worlds plants. And among these plants, the Nopal fruit is the leader, by far, as it contains one of the highest amounts of Betalains in all of nature.

How Betalains help with your wellness
When you drink Nopalea, its Betalains enter your system and begin to restore your bodys vitality at the cellular level. They do this by helping your body reduce the toxins surrounding its cells, which allows more essential nutrients to reach each cell. As a result, your cells are better fed and energized to repair and replace damaged tissues and reduce the reactive inflammation, keeping it from becoming chronic and leading to disease.

Scientific research shows that Betalains help to

Reduce the risk of blood clots. Betalains protect the thin lining of your blood vessels. This helps reduce the inflammation that makes your blood sticky and leads to clots.1
Reduce bad cholesterol. Betalains strongly reduce oxidized LDL cholesterol.2
Protect cells from toxins. Betalains protect many types of cells, especially brain cells, from toxins known to trigger tumors.3
Protect your liver. Betalains provide significant protection from toxins that directly affect your liver.4

But getting those precious Betalains can be difficult.

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The average U.S. or Canadian diet is typically devoid of Betalains. The main reason for this is that Betalains are only available from a few types of plants, like the Nopal cactus, beets, Swiss chard and a few weeds and fungi.

Furthermore, not all Betalain producing plants are equal. Plants produce Betalains to protect themselves from harsh environments, so the harsher the environment, the greater the Betalain production. That is why, among all of the worlds plants, the Nopal cactus has the highest concentrations of Betalains. It lives in the brutally inhospitable conditions of the Sonoran Desert.

So if inflammation is the problem, then Nopalea is a natural solution.

1.Antioxidant Betalains from cactus pear, Opuntia ficus-indica, inhibit endothelial ICAM 1 expression. C Gentile, L Tesoriere, M Allegra, M A Livrea, P DAlessio Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, Universit� di Palermo, Italy. 2.Allegra M, Tesoriere L, Livrea MA. Free Radic Res. 2007 Mar 41 3 335 through 341. 3.Lee MH, Kim JY, Yoon JH, Lim HJ, Kim TH, Jin C, Kwak WJ, Han CK, Ryu JH. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep 20 9 742 through 747. 4.Galati EM, Mondello MR, Lauriano ER, Taviano MF, Galluzzo M, Miceli N. Phytother Res. 2005 Sep 19 9 796 through 800.

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Chronic Inflammation

It is long been a secret problem,
now scientist are discovering it is the cause of so many different kinds of pain and serious disease

Chronic inflammation is linked to a wide variety of conditions, including many types of pain, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimers and even gum disease!

For the longest time, chronic inflammation remained hidden and unknown as an extremely serious health problem. It was not until not too long ago that it was discovered to be so dangerous. So much so that TIME Magazine even published a story about it on its cover. Now, scientists are finding more and more links between chronic inflammation and a wide variety of conditions including,

Although inflammation has not been pinpointed as the cause of all these conditions, it has been well documented as playing a part in them, often intensifying the symptoms and effects.

So what exactly is inflammation, how can it affect you and how can you help reduce it?

First things first. What is inflammation?
Inflammation is your immune systems response to damage. This damage can arise from trauma, bacterial, viral or parasitic infection, stress, genetic abnormalities, metabolic disorders and a host of other sources. Certain lifestyle conditions can also contribute to inflammation, such as poor diet, stress, being overweight, a sedentary lifestyle and smoking. Inflammation can cause redness, swelling, heat, pain and loss of function.

When you are injured, the inflammatory response immediately moves into action. White blood cells rush to the scene of the damage and begin to destroy the damaged cells, while sending out chemical signals that call for more help. Part of this response process creates free radicals, which attack the damaged area and help correct the problem. Finally, at a certain point, the body overcomes the damage, repairs the tissues, and equilibrium is restored.

However, if the body can not overcome the damage and restore equilibrium, then the inflammation continues unabated. Those free radicals, instead of stopping, continue attacking the bodys tissues, and now start damaging healthy cells. This new damage leads to yet the continuation of inflammation, which mistakenly causes more damage, which results in further inflammation, and so on. This is the cycle of chronic, never ending inflammation. And it is what causes all the serious trouble.

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How chronic inflammation worsens your health over time
Though you may not see or even feel chronic inflammation, it could be silently causing trouble within your body right now. Over time, it can result in two kinds of damage, first, to the immediate area of your body that’s chronically inflamed, and second to your overall health as well. Common problems can include,

Heart Problems. Chronic inflammation is believed to contribute to the formation of plaque in blood vessels, as well as the formation of blood clots. When these blood clots break free into the blood, they can block blood flow to the brain or heart, resulting in a heart attack or stroke.

Brain Problems. Chronic inflammation plays a role in Alzheimers disease, yet scientists are still uncertain what that role is. However, one theory is that inflammation kicks into gear because of the plaques and tangles in the brains of Alzheimers patients. In trying to solve the problem, inflammation just makes matters worse.

Joint Problems. Chronic inflammation of the joints can result in destroyed ligaments and tendons, damage to joint cartilage and bone and even bone erosion. This leads to pain, deformity and an inability to perform daily tasks, drastically affecting quality of life.

Mouth and Gum Problems. Dental researchers once thought bacterial infections caused gum disease, but now it is thought that some of the more severe symptoms of gum disease are attributable to chronic inflammation. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, report that inflammation can even break down bone and connective tissue that keep the teeth in place.

Emotional Health Problems. Chronic inflammation may even play a role in your emotions. Scientists at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, discovered that an enzyme secreted by the immune system caused inflammation related, depression-like symptoms in mice. Because inflammation is linked with conditions often accompanied by depression – such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, researchers expect that this study will provide insight into chronic inflammations role in depression.

Cancer Problems. Although researchers have not discovered the exact mechanism of chronic inflammations role in cancer, they believe it encourages cancer growth. According to the American Cancer Society, inflammation creates just the right conditions for cancer cells to grow and multiply.

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Anti-Inflammation

TIME Magazine called it, The Secret Killer
...and here is how to help protect against it

In 2004, TIME Magazine ran an astonishing story about inflammation and its destructive effect on the bodys health.

In the years following TIMEs story, medical science went on to find even more links between chronic inflammation and highly debilitating conditions, including allergies, chronic aches and pains, IBS and others.

These links were dumbfounding, because so many different conditions can all stem from just one problem – chronic inflammation.

And the type of chronic inflammation that is being studied is not just that sore, swollen muscle and joint kind that so many naturally think of. It also includes the deeper, internal types of inflamed tissues affecting vital body systems, such as,

Chronic cardiovascular inflammation in the heart and arteries
Chronic pulmonary inflammation in lungs and airways
Chronic digestive inflammation in the stomach, esophagus and intestines
Chronic inflammation in the other major organs, such as liver, kidneys, etc., and glands
Chronic widespread body cell inflammation existing throughout the body

All of these different types of chronic inflammation can lead to many different kinds of severe health problems, such as,

Ongoing, never ending pain in parts of the body
Allergies and asthmatic reactions
High blood pressure and deteriorating heart and blood vessel health
Ulcers and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Constant, overall tiredness and lethargy

Normal inflammation is good

Whenever your body is subject to threatening elements or events, it may counter these attacks with one of its defense mechanisms such as inflammation. This is normal.

The threats that could trigger the bodys inflammatory response could be little things, such as an injury like a pulled muscle. Or, the threat could be a bacterial intrusion. Stressful feelings and events can also trigger inflammation to flare up in any number of your bodys tissues. And, nutritionally deficient diets can lead to inflammatory flareups.

Finally, one of the biggest causes of inflammation could be todays world, which relentlessly exposes your body to an overwhelming flood of microsized dangers, such as toxins, pollutants, bacteria, viruses and chemicals from ... the air you breathe ... the water you drink ... the foods you eat ... and even the things you touch.

But chronic inflammation is very bad

Due to all of the causes of inflammation, it is highly likely that right now, as you read this, your body has many sites that are inflamed. This is not the problem, though. The problem is all of sites in your body where, for a variety of reasons, your inflammation is not being turned off. Instead, the inflammation just keeps going and going. This is chronic inflammation.

There are several factors that can keep your body from turning off its inflammation response, but three factors are especially prevalent,

Chronic Stress. It keeps your body constantly revved up, wasting nutrient stores and impairing its ability to stop inflammation from becoming chronic.
Chronic Nutritional Deficiencies. Without the right nutrition, on a daily basis, your body may not have the right resources to put a halt to ongoing inflammation.
Chronic Toxin Overload. In todays world, your body is constantly fighting off toxins, pollutants and contaminants from so many sources, that it simply can be too overwhelmed to stop the never ending, triggered inflammation.

You will notice that there is one thing in common with all three of the above factors. Chronic. When these adverse factors are chronic, meaning constant, it greatly increases the chance that your bodys inflammation will be chronic, too. And it is exactly this type of inflammation, the chronic kind, that the TIME Magazine story warned about because it can be so damaging to your health.

Some common examples of how you could be suffering from various kinds of chronic inflammation and their related health problems include,

Muscle, joint and bone inflammation, causing ongoing body pain
Respiratory inflammation, causing allergies and breathing difficulties
Arterial inflammation, causing heart health problems
Digestive tract inflammation, causing ulcers and IBS
Widespread body cell inflammation, causing overall fatigue.

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Anti-Inflammatory Product

Anti-Inflammatory Product

Anti-Inflammatory Product

Market Potential

In the U.S. alone, 1.3 million people suffer from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Skin Diseases (NIAMS).i Overall, the prevalence in North America and the European Union is expected to increase until at least 2010, due to the aging population. With significant unmet clinical need and the progressive introduction of higher value and more effective biopharmaceuticals, the rheumatoid arthritis market is expected to more than double in value to 27 billion dollars by 2015.ii

As of 2007, 23.6 million Americans, 7.8 percent of the population have diabetes, of which an estimated 5.7 million people are undiagnosed. Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), which can be fatal if untreated, usually strikes children and young adults, although it can strike at any age. In adults, T1D accounts for 5 to 10 percent, 0.9 million to 1.8 million people, of all diagnosed cases of diabetes in the U.S. alone. Risk factors for T1D may be autoimmune, genetic, or environmental. No known way to prevent type 1 diabetes exists.iii

There are over 1 million ulcerative colitis patients in the world, with seven major markets in the U.S. Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.iv Colitis, a chronic digestive disease characterized by inflammation of the colon, is an Inflammatory and auto-immune condition affecting the tissue lining both the large and small intestines. Colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, as opposed to an irritable bowel syndrome, IBS.

Stage of Development

Phase: I, single ascending dose, SAD, and multiple ascending dose, MAD, studies in healthy volunteers complete. Conducted by SNBL Clinical Pharmacology Center, Inc.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety profile, tolerability and pharmacokinetics in healthy subjects following SAD up to 800 mg and MAD of up to 200 mg twice a day

Study Type: Safety and pharmacokinetics

Study Design: Randomized, double-blind, Subject, Investigator, placebo controlled

Study Start Date, September 2008

Status, Study completed

For more information, www.clinicaltrials.gov Identifier, NCT00760396

Commercialization

Drug, Licensed from Ganial Immunotherapeutics, Inc.

Out-license agreement, TBD.

Technical

Rheumatoid Arthritis, RA

Autoimmune disorder: inflammatory disease leading to irreversible joint damage, deformity and disability

Affects 2.5 million Americans

50,000 people develop RA each year; more common in females

Increased mortality compared to the general population

Cause of RA is unknown

Ref. www.niams.nih.gov

VGX, 1027

Small Molecule drug candidate for the treatment of RA

Orally bioavailable

Novel mechanism of action

Preclinical efficacy against various inflammatory diseases: RA, TID, and colitis

Type 1 Diabetes

Autoimmune disease that results in the permanent destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas.

TID is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, and was previously known as juvenile Diabetes.

TID is treated with insulin replacement therapy, usually by injection or insulin pump, diet modification, exercise, and careful monitoring of blood glucose levels using Glucose meters.

Untreated diabetes can lead to one form of diabetic coma, diabetic ketoacidosis, and death.

There is no cure for Type 1 diabetes and insulin treatment must be continued indefinitely.

5-10 percent of North American diabetics have T1D.

in Mice

Mechanism of action of VGX 1027 against T1D

In T1D, pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF unknown, interleukin 1 help to destroy the unknown cell in pancreas.

unknown cell destruction causes inhibition of generation and secretion of insulin.

This results in T1D.

i What People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Need to Know About Osteoporosis. November 2006. National Institutes of Health Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases.

ii Rheumatoid Arthritis Market Expected to More than Double in Value to US 27 Billion dollars by 2015. Business Wire. . FindArticles.com. 04 Dec. 2008.

iii National Diabetes Statistics, 2007. The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, NDIC.

iv DATAMONITOR – Commercial Insight inflammatory Bowel Disease. 11/2006. Reference Code, DMHC2260. Page 19.

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Work at home offers many great opportunities. The first, of course, is making money. For money people, this alone makes people want to try. But we really need to look beyond the money, and look at some other aspects of a home business.

The first that comes to mind is freedom. If you work for a company, you are selling or renting your time to make someone else rich, so they can live their dream. Hopefully, you have your own dreams to live out. But sometimes, people loose their dreams or get stuck in rut, and start thinking that they could never have their own business. If you find yourself thinking this way, you are absolutely right. As the old saying goes, 'if you think you can, and if you think you can't, you are right either way'. The reality is if you are willing to learn and do the work, you can build your work at home business.

If you are teachable and put in the effort, there are people who will help you. There are people who have the marketing system and expertise to help you to profit in your business, but you will have to do your due dilligence in finding the right business for you. I found my work at home business. I can help you with yours, every step of the way.

Work at Home

Will 2011 be a turning point for the economy?
By Tom Petruno Market Beat

With much of the public expecting so little from the economy, the mood could easily brighten if the job market were to rack up a few months of decent numbers.

The U.S. economy keeps climbing out of the deep hole left by the financial crash and the Great Recession that followed.

But the recoverys benefits have been dispensed unevenly, to say the least, which is why many Americans do not believe things have improved, and lack faith that 2011 will bring better times.

Those doubts, however, could have a silver lining. The bar is low for what might constitute good news that could feed on itself and give the economy significant momentum.

As 2010 ends, though, the sharp disparities of this recovery are what stand out.

Profits boomed at major corporations this year while countless small businesses struggled to stay afloat.

The financial health of most banks continues to improve, but at the expense of diligent savers who are earning virtually nothing on their money as short-term interest rates are held near zero.

Strong sales at luxury retailers like Tiffany and Company and Coach Incorporated have driven their stocks to record highs, even as the number of Americans on food stamps has reached a record 43 million.

Most distressing of all is the employment picture, of course. Despite five straight quarters of economic growth, the U.S. jobless rate, currently 9.8 percent, is down just slightly from its peak of 10.1 percent in October 2009.

The greatest challenge facing the economy in 2011 is clear. The job market must turn up, and meaningfully. If that does not happen, American pessimism could become self fulfilling.

The employment crisis is what drove Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in 2010 to take on a role that would have been alien to his predecessors. In his public comments, the 57 year old Fed chief, a PhD economist who grew up in small-town South Carolina , tried to show that he understood the pain of average families.

While partisanship deepened the divide in Congress for much of the year and the publics faith in President Obamas economic policies dwindled, Bernanke donned the mantle of responsibility for bolstering growth and spurring job creation.

On its current economic trajectory, the U.S. runs the risk of seeing millions of workers unemployed or underemployed for many years, he said in a speech last month. As a society, we should find that outcome unacceptable.

That was his primary defense of the Feds controversial commitment Nov. 3 to purchase an additional 600 billion dollars of U.S. Treasury securities through mid 2011. The Feds goal in buying bonds from banks and private investors is to hold down longer-term interest rates and to funnel cash into the financial system, and from there into the real economy.

The central message of Bernankes policies is that the Fed wants growth, and they want a lot of it, said Joe Carson, an economist at money manager AllianceBernstein in New York.

But critics see the new bond purchase program as potentially ruinous. They deride it as a money printing campaign that risks a severe erosion of foreigners confidence in the dollar and could fuel massive inflation down the road.

Its just going to make a bubble that could burst later on, said Robert Auerbach, an economics professor at the University of Texas. He accuses the Fed of malpractice.

Indeed, Bernanke has become the favorite target of the doomsday crowd, which taunts him relentlessly in Internet forums. That camp sees the combination of a ballooning federal budget deficit and the Feds continued easy-money policies as assuring a new financial system crash and the next Great Depression.

Even some of Bernankes supporters simply doubt that the U.S. economy can make sustained progress, given still-depressed home prices, the reluctance of many banks to lend, and looming state and local government budget cuts.

And with many European countries in austerity mode because of their government debt crises, and China and other Asian nations trying to slow growth to head off rising inflation, the global economy may be a head wind rather than a tail wind for the U.S. in 2011.

At the moment, however, even the Feds detractors have been forced to admit that the recoverys pace has picked up in recent months, sweeping away the double dip recession fears that dominated last summer.

Retail sales this holiday season have substantially exceeded expectations. A monthly measure of manufacturing activity has signaled expansion of the sector for more than a year, and a comparable index for the far-larger services sector last month reached a six month high.

And with Congress extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that were set to expire Dec. 31, the fear that consumer and business spending would hit a wall Jan. 1 has dissipated.

Real gross domestic product, the governments inflation adjusted measure of the economys total output, is expected to hit a new high either this quarter or next, more than recovering the last of what was lost in the recession.

Yet U.S. nonfarm employment remains 7.4 million jobs short of the record high of 137.9 million people on payrolls in December 2007. So far this year, net job creation has totaled just 951,000 positions.

Many economists, though dead wrong about job growth in 2010, believe that 2011 will be the turning point. They are betting that plenty of company owners and managers can justify adding staff with sales reviving and with a key reason for not hiring, uncertainty about the tax cuts, now resolved.

Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, predicts that once hiring kicks in, it will be pretty much everywhere in the economy because the losses were so broad during the recession.

Wishful thinking? Maybe. But at many companies, the outlook for staffing has definitely brightened.

Among chief executives of major U.S. firms, optimism about the economy is at its highest since 2006, according to the Business Roundtable. The group, which surveys its CEO members quarterly, found in the fourth quarter survey that 45 percent expect their U.S. employment rolls to increase in the next six months, up from just 19 percent a year ago.

Importantly, the mood also has improved among smaller businesses, a crucial engine of job creation.

The National Federation of Independent Business said its optimism index gained 1.5 points to 93.2 in November. Although still depressed by historical standards, the index was up for a fourth straight month to its highest reading since December 2007.

Saunders Manufacturing, a Readfield, Maine, company whose 100 employees produce plastic clipboards, aluminum ring binders and other specialty office products for sale here and abroad, counts itself in the ranks of companies that are on the cusp of hiring, said CEO John Rosmarin.

After the company cut employees average workweek to 32 hours in 2009, many workers this year have been restored to 36 hours and some to a full 40 hour week, he said.

If business picks up from here, we're going to have to add people, Rosmarin said.

What is more, the company has been relocating some of the production work it was doing in China to its U.S. plants because of rising labor costs in the fast-growing Asian economy, he said.

It is still a little more expensive here, but China is going to be getting more expensive as the country's standard of living rises, Rosmarin said.

Yet even as businesses sound more upbeat about the economy, a large swath of Americans are not buying it. A Pew Research Center poll of 1,500 adults this month found that 48 percent believe that a recovery is a long way off.

Asked about the year ahead specifically, 55 percent said they thought it would be better than 2010, but that was down from the 67 percent who said in January that they expected 2010 to be better than 2009.

With much of the public expecting so little from the economy, the mood could easily brighten if the job market were to rack up a few months of decent numbers.

LaVorgna, who thinks the economy will add an average of 200,000 jobs a month next year, said that level of growth could have a cascading effect by encouraging employers on the fence about hiring to push the button.

It is a confidence game, he said. Someone moves, and then someone else moves.

That is what the Fed is hoping for. Bernankes legacy now is tied to pulling unemployment down, although it almost certainly will be a slow process.

As for critics who say the central bank is about to inflate another economic bubble by keeping money too cheap for too long, the Fed clearly has made a choice. It would rather take the chance of facing a future bubble and higher inflation than risk allowing the economy's current momentum to reverse and fuel a new downward spiral.

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Terry L. Allison, Sr.
Work at Home

For Immediate Release

Work from home jobs increasingly popular among the unemployed, and unemployable of the nation.

Work from home is not just A way, but THE way to face the uncertain times found in today's economy. According to sources, unemployment is now reaching 9.8% and growing with each passing month. People are looking, but not finding jobs, and the US economy seems to be slipping under the current Administration.

Big business and multi-national corporations seem to be literally draining the little guy and gal of valuable resources, as well as hope for the future. The only positive move to be made today is the work from home business on the Internet.

With multiple advantages both in tax savings, and income potential, it would seem that people are constantly being drawn to some type of work from home business model.

Though the general consensus of inexperienced Internet users, work from home businesses are not only present, but are growing steadily. This new upsurge is good news for existing work from home experts, and they predict a banner year for 2011.

Most of the problems associated in this industry come from the simple fact that most are unsavvy about the inner workings of promoting effectively on the Internet. It is necessary to have access to those who thrive in this field, and certainly, finding the perfect work from home business model that provides mentoring is an added plus.

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2 Million People Have Lost Their Unemployment Benefits

Today's news is not all that positive. Over 2 million people have lost their unemployment benefits because the system is simply breaking down. I have a question for my readers. What does this mean? It simply means that finding a good paying job today is getting harder than ever before. Folks, its time to face the music. The ONLY safe haven for people today in finding work is on the Internet. Its the last bastion of safety in a crazy and unsafe world. Today's economic climate does not mean that there are not possibilities. There are indeed, rich possibilities for people who are seeking to find a full time work at home business that will sustain their income for the future of their families. Where else will you look for work?

Is A College Education the Answer?

Obviously, if that were the cure for the ailments of this economy, we would not be in the situation that we are in now. Used to be, the parents told their kids, "go to college, get a good education, get a good job, and all will be well with your life." Now, if you have a college degree, you will be really lucky to find a waiter's job, or even become a greeter at Wal-Mart. Now, there is nothing wrong with those jobs, but honestly, the income will never be substantial.

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