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Article by Isaac Eliaz

Many men, especially those over the age of 45, are becoming more concerned about their prostate health. In fact, one in six men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Protecting and preserving prostate health is no small feat, however, many options exist today that can promote prostate health without a multitude of unpleasant and unnecessary side effects. For instance, a new study shows that simply walking can greatly benefit prostate health. Exercise has long been shown to promote vitality, especially since it boosts the immune system, but this new study shows that walking at a brisk or vigorous pace inhibited unhealthy prostate conditions by up to 61 percent!

The experiment studied 1,455 men with prostate cancer. Erin L. Richman, MD, of the Harvard School of Public Health and fellow researchers found that men who walked briskly for three hours per week or more, had a 57 percent lower rate of progression than men who walked at a leisurely pace for less than three hours a week. They also found that men who exercised more vigorously experienced a 61 percent decrease in death from prostate cancer. Dr Richman concluded that the results, “…suggest significant clinical benefits of brisk walking for men….” The researchers observed that many men battling prostate cancer may not engage in much exercise. However, as many studies continue to show, simply moving the body enough to get your heart rate up, as occurs with walking, is highly beneficial and may actually help to fight prostate cancer, as well as other types of cancer.

When we exercise, even for a short time, a wealth of positive reactions occurs within the body. But the benefits of exercise aren’t just physical. They are also mental, emotional and even spiritual. Mind-body exercises, such as yoga or Tai-chi, can help to relieve stress, anxiety and occasional depression associated with illness, as well as providing a good workout!

Common-sense strategies for cancer prevention, such as eating vegetables and exercising, are still some of the most effective tools we have to take control of our own health. Take care of yourself by nourishing your body with natural ingredients. Nature offers us not only sustenance, but powerful compounds now recognized by science to promote health, such as antioxidants and polyphenols. Today, more and more doctors are recommending natural ingredients found in plants, herbs, and some vegetables that can greatly support prostate health.

Herbal supplements that contain scientifically-researched nutrients, medicinal mushrooms, minerals, and botanicals from both traditional herbal medicine and modern western medicine are highly effective for improving prostate health and preventing the onset of cancer. Key natural extracts proven to support prostate health include a highly bio-available form of turmeric root, saw palmetto berry, grape skin, pomegranate, pumpkin seed, pygeum bark, sarsaparilla root, green tea, Japanese knotweed, and stinging nettle. Another powerful ingredient for promoting prostate health is 3,3′-diinodolymethane (DIM). DIM is the biologically active ingredient derived from broccoli and research has demonstrated its benefits on cellular health and hormone balance. DIM promotes the excretion of both excess estrogen and xenoestrogens (potent estrogen-like compounds which are of special concern in prostate health). In addition, antioxidants and nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin D3, selenium, and natural polyphenols including quercetin, resveratrol, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) from green tea, and ellagic acid from pomegranate are also beneficial for preventing the growth of harmful cancer cells. For more information about prostate cancer and other harmful conditions affecting men’s health, visit http://www.dreliaz.org

About the Author

Dr. Isaac Eliaz is a respected author, lecturer, researcher, product formulator, and clinical practitioner. He has been a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980s. Dr. Eliaz is a frequent guest lecturer on integrative medical approaches to health, immune enhancement, and cancer prevention and treatment.

Article by Joe Barton

Is arthritis literally draining the life out of you? If you answered ‘yes’, you should pay close attention to this next sentence. What you eat and drink is determining how much your joints ache! Let me explain.

Over the past centuries, arthritis has been a plague for most civilizations. However, in recent decades arthritis cases have sky rocketed, particularly in developed countries. You would expect just the opposite, right? But still today, in some indigenous, primitive tribes there is NOT one case of arthritis. Even more amazing for these indigenous tribes, men and women live to almost 100 years of age and go on working (planting, gathering, harvesting) up till their dying day. Why is this? The answer to this question is also cure to arthritis.

Arthritis has been denoted as the ‘incurable disease’ but is it? Hundreds of natural health experts say arthritis is curable and is determined by your diet. In fact, you could naturally treat arthritis with a simple 70/30 nutrition rule!

Arthritis-Free Nutrition: A New Way to Eat

Imagine what life would have been like 500 years ago? Now picture what kind of foods you would be eating. It doesn’t take too much time to discover how our diets have changed in the past 500 years. And as we live in this age of McDonalds and fast foods, arthritis cases skyrocket like never before! Could you be arthritis-free by changing your diet? This information might surprise you!

If you are to prevent arthritis from destroying your life you must refrain from processed foods and other acid forming foods. Normally, a healthy diet should be 70% alkaline and 30% acidic. Alkaline foods are typically foods which are still in their natural state (raw and fresh). And acidic foods are typically foods which have been altered through processing, frying, and high-fat cooking.

Therefore, instead of eating acidic foods (cooked and processed), you should be eating mostly raw, fresh vegetables and fruits. Also, reducing the consumption of meats could also be helpful to your arthritis. By eating less meat and more fresh fruits and vegetables, you would be allowing your body to receive more nutrients and keep your acidic levels low. The result of your new diet could change the pain and inflammation affecting your arthritic joints.

The following is a list of alkaline foods (70%) and acidic foods (30%).

Alkaline and Acid Foods

Alkaline foods include: all vegetables (except peppers and beets); all fruits (except blueberries and prunes); flax, millet, quinoa, and amaranth; almonds, pignoli, fresh coconut, chestnuts; alfalfa sprouts, radish sprouts; unsalted butter; eggs; milk; honey; fruit and vegetable juices; herbal teas; most herbs and whey.

Acidic foods include: processed foods; fast foods; all meat and fish (eat sparingly); rice; oats; wheat; cornmeal; popcorn; pasta; most breads; grains; beans; cheese; seeds; nuts; sodas; alcohol; coffee; tea; most yogurts; and most condiments.

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How a joint pain remedy is curing my arthritis pain without killing me. www.provailen.com This is my personal story about how i had an accident 20 years ago. I have had 3 spinal surgeries, 3 knee surgeries and i have lots of arthritis issues. I have been taking about 10 different prescription meds, celibrix or celebra my anti-inflammatory medication, vicodin and tramadol for pain, flexeril and soma for muscle relaxers. I have taken these specific meds or similar for about 20 years now, about 8 month ago I woke up with a bleeding stomach ulcer and was vomiting blood. I then had to go see a gastroenterologist, besides my normal orthopedic doctor, i then received Tagament, Peptcin something and Famotidine now i also always had a bottle of tums and the pink stuff peto bismol to fight the late night indigestion. 90 days or so after i was on all this stuff for my stomach, and back and knee i cold not sleep. Imagine i now also have Insomnia and after weeks of virtually no sleep doctor prescribed Ambien a sleeping pill. What really shook me up was when my orthopedic doctor had me doing liver tests every 60 days to monitor my liver, I was told of the problems of anti-inflammatory but honestly I did not think they could be that serious. Now looking back and looking at the cocktail of medications i was on you can tell it would eventually get me. Well liver test in, doctor tells me i have to get off meds or risk permanent liver damage to the point i might need a liver transplant. I …
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Asthma and supplements, could there possibly be a link with vitamins or nutrients that could actually help with asthma as it is now considered an epidemic?

Asthma of course can be controlled, depending on the kind that you may have, but it can also be fatal if severe enough, and you have to fully understand which of the six types of asthma you may have.

Asthma is the fastest growing chronic condition in America, estimated to currently affect over 15 million Americans with an estimate to possibly double that number in the next 10 to 12 years. In fact, a child born 10 years from now is expected to be twice as much at risk at getting asthma than a child in 2009.  Worldwide numbers simulate these numbers.

As many asthma suffers know; there is no known cure, there is no real known cause, and there is no real treatment program that works effectively for the majority of asthma patients all of the time.

Do you not have to ask yourself than, is there anything else that could be done for this condition?

Asthma, by definition, is a chronic, long term disease that inflames and narrows the airways, making it very difficult to breathe when an attack happens. The airways are the tubular like structures that carry the air we breathe in and out of our lungs. 

Inflammation of the airways causes them to tighten, which narrows them, and as a result, less air flows into your lungs. The inflammation also causes swelling and makes these air ways very sensitive, which often causes the cells of the airways to produce more mucus than normal.

In our respiratory systems, mucus actually aids in protecting our lungs as it traps foreign particles that may enter, especially through the nose. Too much mucus being produced, however, is what triggers most of the Asthma attacks.

For the huge number of the asthma stricken population, you might want to step back and ask if Asthma and vitamin supplements have anything in common.

History and research clearly shows that it took the medical and the scientific community just slightly over 200 years to finally realize that thiamine could actually help beri beri. so why would Asthma and nutritional  supplements be any different?

There are differing opinions on how many different types of asthmatic conditions there actually are, but the consensus among most experts is that there are six different types and are grouped by what may, and that is the cogitative term, be causing the condition.

The list of six types of asthma include; allergic asthma, non allergic, exercise induced, nocturnal, asthma in pregnancy and occupational asthma.
Allergic asthma is obviously triggered by an allergic reaction to something such as pets and pollen, especially seasonal types of pollen, while non allergic forms are considered to be caused by irritants in the air such as second hand smoke, room deodorizers, fresh paint, perfumes, and very cold temperatures, just to name a few.

Exercise induced asthma seems to be set off by exercise or physical activity, while nocturnal forms of this condition can occur with any type of asthma and seems to happen most frequently after 3 to 4 hours of sleep. The possible reasons for this are that adrenaline and corticosteroids levels produced by the body to fight off asthma are lower the longer you sleep. 

Asthma in pregnancy is a condition where a woman already has asthma, but may have different affects of asthma because of pregnancy ranging from the condition almost abating entirely to getting much worse. Occupational forms are obviously caused by something you are exposed to at work such as chemicals, dust, and other like substances.

Asthma victims all know very well the medicines used to “control” this condition such as bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory medications, but what about nutrients that are used to treat different asthmatic conditions.

And would it not be logical that if these nutrients are used to help treat asthmatic conditions, that regular intake of the same nutrients might in the long run help to reduce or even eliminate asthmatic conditions?

Magnesium is a mineral that is needed in every cell in your body and is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions within the body. But what is extremely interesting about magnesium, is what it does for asthma.

A deficiency of magnesium was found in a study at the University of Nottingham’s Division of Respiratory Medicine to be a major cause of asthma and an intravenous shot of magnesium can immediately stop even the most acute attacks of asthma.

Backed by the Journal of Medicine, this same study of 2,633 asthmatics increased lung functions, airway responsiveness, and wheezing conditions when magnesium levels were raised to normal levels. Magnesium also helps to control muscle spasms and is able to smooth bronchial muscles so they don’t contract and close off air.

The same study found it very ironic that several of the prescribed medications for asthma can cause magnesium depletion and recommended 200-600 mg of magnesium supplements a day.

Further studies documented in the Natural Healing Encyclopedia and than backed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture biochemist found that with injections of Vitamin B12, 80% of asthmatic children responding immediately and continued frequent injections virtually eliminated all asthmatic conditions.

The B class of vitamins in general is severely depleted in your body by stress, and it is difficult to think of anything more stressful than not being able to breath.

Vitamin B12 is different from all other vitamins in that its chemical structure is much more complex and it is the only vitamin to contain an inorganic element, the mineral cobalt. Only microorganisms and bacteria can make this vitamin, as plants and animals can not.

Vitamin B 6 has also been shown to have several beneficial affects on asthma as well, as asthmatics seem to have an exaggerated need for B6, not from a deficiency, but from an error in metabolism.

The largest role of Vitamin B6 is in the repair and optimal function of the nervous system which controls the functions of all systems and organs in the body, but especially important for breathing. It is also is extremely interactive with Vitamin B12 in the body.

There is no cure for asthma and no one knows the exact cause, but what is known is that these three supplements are extremely effective in controlling asthma and reducing the affects.

So if they work so effectively to treat asthma after an attack and than to reduce those attacks, would they not be very beneficial in preventing attacks or at least greatly reducing the severity simply by taking them on an everyday basis?

As a father of two daughters that both have asthma, there is little doubt of what the answer is.

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