Quote of the Day
“When you treat the symptoms of a disease, you don’t get to the root cause of the problem. Sometimes the solution to a problem is so simple that we can’t believe it. We therefore overlook it.”
Exerpt from: Could There Be a Cure for Heart Disease?
The Truth about Vitamin D Toxicity
There has been a great deal of talk recently on the research showing the benefits of Vitamin D. These studies are showing that Vitamin D deficiencies are being linked to many diseases, including breast and colon cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, depression, and obesity. With the growing number of people deciding to take Vitamin D-3 supplements comes the common questions: “How much should I take?” and “How much is too much?” Most leading researchers on this subject agree that the current recommended upper limit is far too low and that greater amounts (2,000-10,000 IU) may be necessary and have been proven safe. I love the Vitamin D Council website and recommend you visit it to learn more and get your questions answered.
A great article to start with is “The Truth about Vitamin D Toxicity”. Click here to read it now.
Our lifestyle choices really do matter!
Did anyone see Oprah yesterday? They had the 20 Years Younger Challenge results on and one woman got off of her blood pressure and cholesterol meds and her cholesterol dropped 100 points in just 2 months with lifestyle changes alone!! Not only that but they ALL felt better and had more energy! That is so awesome! Our choices have a huge impact on our health…either for the bad or the good! Let’s make them count!! See overview here!
Quote of the Day
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
Are you on cholesterol, blood pressure and stomach acid drugs?
The prescriptions we take to regulate cholesterol, blood pressure and stomach acid are supposed to make us healthier. But could these medications be doing us more harm than good?
The Other Drug Problem By Pamela Weintraub
He had been a faculty member in three departments of a major university with an IQ north of 180. Over time, the professor lost the ability to recognize people he’d known closely for decades and to read more than a page of text at a time. He’d repeat the same thing over and over, not recalling he’d already said it. The diagnosis: rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s. When he went to his 50th college reunion, he wore a sign around his neck with his name and the statement, I have Alzheimer’s. Old friends needed an explanation for why he couldn’t recognize people he’d known for decades or repeated himself endlessly throughout the night.
His condition seemed hopeless when he applied to enter a clinical trial testing a new Alzheimer’s drug at Duke University.
Before he started the clinical trial, his wife took him off his cholesterol-lowering statin drug, simvastatin. By the time he got to Duke, he was no longer qualified to participate; he didn’t have Alzheimer’s, doctors said. Instead, he entered another study: The Statin Study Group, directed by University of California at San Diego (UCSD) physician and scientist Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD. “There are people with extremely severe functional deficits caused by statin drugs,” Golomb says. Two years after he stopped taking simvastatin, the patient reported his recovery was complete. His mind was clear and he was back to reading three newspapers daily.
To read the rest of this important article and learn about the alarming side effects of other popular Rx’s, go to experiencelife.com
Are the chemicals in your household products causing your child’s ADD/ADHD?
Unfortunately, many of the ingredients in the everyday consumable products in the average home today contain harmful chemicals, many of which have not been tested for safety. In fact, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 150 common household chemicals have been linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological abnormalities. There are many things a parent can do to remove carcinogens and neurotoxins from the home. For more on this topic and a quick list of 11 easy solutions, read this informative article from Annie B Bond on HuffingtonPost.com
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