May 19, 2012

Managing Menopause Naturally

“I feel like I’m going crazy!” she said.  I’ll never forget that moment. My mother-in-law was 51 and completely menopausal.  She confessed to me through her tears, that she felt like she was literally losing her mind.  Her body was hot flashing, she could hardly sleep, and her mood was all over the map.  I could tell she was clearly not herself and my heart broke for her.

Her pain reminded me that even I would have to experience menopause someday.  It is completely unavoidable and a natural part of life’s transition.   It was then that I began my quest to find the best and most effective natural menopause solutions.  I not only wanted to help my mother-in-law feel normal again, but I wanted to be prepared for when my day arrived.

Perimenopause or Menopause??

Many of you aren’t sure if you’re in menopause or not.  You may think you are having severe PMS symptoms or that you’re too young to be in menopause. Shockingly, perimenopause can begin in women as young as 35 years old!  The whole process for peri- to post- menopause can last from approximately age 35 to age 60.  The average woman transitions from perimenopause to menopause around age 51.

The difference between perimenopause and menopause can be confusing to many people.  Perimenopause is the period of time when the body starts preparing itself to eventually stop menstruating. The word “peri” means “near” and perimenopausal symptoms can look very similar to both PMS symptoms and menopausal symptoms.  This period lasts around 10 years.  Hot flashes and night sweats are typically deemed as “menopausal” symptoms, but really begin in perimenopause. Once you have completely stopped having a menstrual cycle, you are considered to be in menopause.  If your menstruation cycles still occur, even if they are erratic and irregular, you are still in perimenopause.

The Beginnings of Transition

If you’re still not sure where you’re at in your life’s stages of transition, these symptoms serve as great indicators of perimenopause.   Of course, the most accurate way to find out is to get a hormone panel run by your doctor.

Some perimenopausal symptoms include:

  • Heart Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Night Sweats
  • Loss of Libido
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Fatigue
  • Fuzzy Thinking
  • Hot Flashes
  • Migraines
  • Blood sugar imbalance

This list truly goes on and on.  These are merely just a few of the many symptoms felt during perimenopause.  Reading this list may bring you relief to know that it’s your hormones causing these symptoms.  So many of you, just like my mother-in-law, feel like you’re going crazy or that maybe you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown.  The great new is that there are many ways to bring relief to your body that may seem to have a mind of it’s own.

Food for Hormone Balance

Your diet is essential for hormone balance.  There are foods that can literally help effect the production of our hormones.  Low fat and fat free diets have caused a major problem in our society.  Not only do these diets promote carbs and sugars, but they are starving our bodies of the very components it needs to manufacture hormones!  Most all the hormones in our bodies are created from fat and cholesterol.  If we don’t eat adequate amounts, than hormone production gets interrupted.

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It is important to highlight that not all fat is healthy.  Processed oils like canola, and soy oils are toxic to the system as are transfats like hydrogenated oils.  Some examples of healthy fats are:

  • Olive Oil
  • Coconut Oil
  • Avocado Oil
  • Ghee
  • Organic Butter

Eggs are also a great source of fat and cholesterol needed for healthy hormone production.

Carbohydrates, even complex ones, need to be very limited for hormone balance.  Carbs cause fluctuations in blood sugar, which in turn creates an insulin response.  Insulin is a hormone that promotes body fat.  But, body fat isn’t the only reason to avoid carbs.  These fluctuations in blood sugar also exasperate menopausal symptoms.

Dangerous HRT Drugs

The most common thing prescribed by doctors for menopausal symptoms are Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs.  Premarin, the most commonly prescribed, is an estrogen extracted from pregnant horse urine.  This estrogen is not identical to human estrogen and has caused a dramatic increase in breast cancer.  It is also been shown to increase the risk of heart disease.

Provera is another drug used in HRT.  It is a synthetic form of progesterone and has shown to be even more dangerous than premarin.  Provera also increases the chance of breast cancer and can cause blood clots and strokes.

There are other HRT drugs on the market, as well, and they all have similar side effects.  HRT drugs should be avoided — at all costs.  The terrible side effects far outweigh the supposed benefits.  I personally know five women, all of which have had breast cancer, and all five used HRT drugs.

Coincidence?

Bio-Identical HRT

Bio-Identical hormone replacement therapy is gaining momentum and popularity.  Celebrity’s like Suzanne Somer’s are touting their miraculous results.  Bio-identical hormones are not drugs; rather, they are “bio-identical” to the very hormones in your body.  These bio-identicals cannot be patented since they are natural. Therefore, big drug companies can’t make a profit from them.  These natural hormones are much harder to find for that very reason. They still must be prescribed by a doctor or nurse practitioner and compounded at a pharmacy.

I have seen women’s lives change by using bio-identical HRT.  Finding a practioner in your area who specializes in bio-identicals could be a challenge.  If you can’t find a practioner through an internet search, calling a women’s clinic and checking with your local health food store can also be helpful.

Nature’s Hormone Balancers

Not everyone has access to bio-identical hormones, nor does everyone need them.  Many women find relief using natural supplements and herbs that are much more accessible, lower in price, and don’t require a prescription like bio-identicals.  I typically start by suggesting natural supplements.  If my client finds no relief from herbs and supplements, I will then suggest the use of bio-identical hormones.

Progesterone Cream

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One of the most popular natural treatments is progesterone cream.  During perimenopause, a woman’s estrogen levels usually stay the same or even climb, but their progesterone levels drop.  This is why many women find relief using progesterone cream.  Progesterone cream is available at your local health food store or online.  Make sure the cream you purchase specifies that it is bio-identical.  The dosage is a little different for menstruating and non-menstruating women.

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Can We Reverse This Autism Pandemic? Leading Scientists Say Yes.

Did you know that 1 out of every 150 babies born in the U.S. has autism?

Autism currently affects about 1,500,000 people in the U.S., and the numbers are increasing, according to the Autism Society of America.

Some people are calling the autism pandemic “a national emergency,” as autism rates skyrocket worldwide.

Are we all just going to sit and watch the autism pandemic get worse day by day?

The truth is many leading scientists agree much more can be done to help people with autism. Just blindly accepting autism as fate doesn’t help anyone.

If you have a loved one with Autism and you want to give them the best quality of life possible, as soon as possible, then this may be the most important autism report you’ll ever read.

The signs of autism usually appear within the first three years of life. Currently, estimates claim the annual cost of caring for autistic people in the U.S. is about $13 billion per year and the lifetime care of an individual autistic person averages $2 million.

So, if we’re spending all this money on autism, then where is the cure?

Spending billions of dollars “treating symptoms” changes nothing. The only way to make a lasting difference is to eliminate the underlying cause of autism.

Autism is one of the most complex challenges before us today.”

Before real cutting-edge advancements can become mainstream, the prejudices and blocks to proper care need to be eliminated.

To move toward a real solution, we must first we need to accept the reality that Western medicine has blatantly failed to help the autistic. It only adds insult to injury when doctors refuse to accept the reality of their inability to help anyone with drugs and surgery.

The real challenge is really about learning to listen better to what people with autism can teach us about the best ways to help them with healing alternatives. Until we agree on the cure, it benefits no one to condemn an autistic person to ignorance, social prejudice and stereotypes.

After decades of trial and error, new ways of helping autistic people are redefining what it means to be autistic as well as non-autistic. Today, we’re taking giant steps toward agreeing that autism is both preventable and curable . . . perhaps in the final lesson we will also discover what it means to be more human.

Autism In Perspective

Autism used to be quite rare, occurring in just 1 child out of 2000.

However, since the early 1990′s, the rate of autism has spread exponentially around the world with statistics as high as 1 out of 110, with boys being diagnosed 400% more than girls.

The Centers for Disease Control defines 5 main types of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

The five types of ASD are:

  1. Classical autism
  2. Asperger’s syndrome
  3. Pervasive Developmental Disorder –not Otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)
  4. Rett syndrome
  5. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder

Let’s look at the history of this relatively young condition.

  • 1911: Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, used the term autistic to describe a group of symptoms related to schizophrenia.
  • 1940’s: Dr. Leo Kanner from Johns Hopkins University, first coined autism as “Kanner’s syndrome,” and referred to it as an infantile psychosis.
  • Meanwhile Hans Asperger, a scientist in Germany, identified a similar condition that’s now called Asperger’s syndrome.
  • 1960’s: Bernard Rimland, a psychologist who was the father of an autistic child, redefined autism as a “brain disorder.”

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Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

Passion is the flammable fabric necessary for any romantic relationship to survive in the long run.

The danger is passion alone can consume you in its exciting flames just about as fast as it can abandon you.

Intimacy, on the other hand, takes time to grow and blossom, which when nurtured with genuine love and compassion eventually leads to commitment.

Sometimes, things really do turn out right, for strangers in the night.”

If you’re a die-hard romantic who still holds out for and believes in true love, nothing could be more important than having it and keeping it. When you have your health and you’re really in love, then you have a priceless piece of heaven on earth.

The Triangle Of Love

As you may already know, passion without love is nothing but pure infatuation. Infatuation is the state of being temporarily carried away by unreasoned passion or addictive love.

Passion, intimacy and commitment cannot stand alone.

Let’s look at the different forms of love, passion, intimacy and commitment make up . . .

  • If you have a sense of commitment and desire to make your relationship last, but you don’t have passion and intimacy you have only “the idea” of love or . . . emotional love.
  • Let’s say you’ve got passion and the drive to build a life together, but you lack intimacy . . . you have puppy love or fatuous love.
  • Alright, so you are in an intimate relationship and you are committed to building a future together, you’re like siblings, there is no fiery passion or erotic attraction involved . . . you have companionate love.
  • Have you ever fell head-over-heels with a friend? You’re enthralled in the arms of both passion and intimacy . . . you have romantic love.
  • Ultimately, when you have all three dimensions of intimacy plus passion and commitment you have it all . . . Congratulations, you have consummate love!

Sometimes we all get a little obsessed with finding our own “idea of love,” but experiencing love and wishing for it are as far apart as day and night.

You don’t need another philosophy or theory about love; you desire the experience. The real challenge isn’t in finding “true” love. It’s really only about removing the obstacles to love’s presence. That’s the secret.

It’s been said that love and fear are opposites, but I’m telling you today that true love has no real opposite. Once you remove the blocks to really loving, your life becomes an inspiration for others as you experience the intimate interconnectedness of life itself. For it is life that made love possible.

Fear is the lack of love and love is the lack of fear; they are irreconcilable.

The only mystery of love is for those who keep themselves cut off from it. Love’s purpose is to reveal your connectedness and give you a permanent sense of belonging — where there are no more illusions.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.” (1 Cor. 13:4–7, NIV)

Love is the fearless knowledge of living right. Call a rose by any other name and it’s still a rose. So, though true love has many names, it’s the quintessential “experience” beyond words we long for.

Being in love is good for you in many splendored ways.

It’s a scientific fact that happily married couples live longer healthier lives than single people do.

Couples who express themselves intimately and passionately have fewer stress hormones according to the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

It shouldn’t surprise you that having sexual intercourse, kissing and even holding hands has a beneficial biological effect on lowering levels of the “stress hormone” cortisol.

Chronic stress has been shown to weaken the immune system and promote heart disease, even a “broken heart.”

Give Your Sex Life Wings!

In dealing with the ups and downs of any relationship one of the most important things you can do is to find new activities to do together which create a positive feeling for both partners.

Sometimes we place too much pressure solely on intimacy or sex, which is a big reason why so many couples are having sexual issues. Great sex takes patience.  Having sex should never be a pressure issue; take your time to romance the flame of passion.

In fact, did you know “emotional factors” are responsible for nearly half of the male impotence issues in America? The other half has underlying health factors such as diabetes, circulatory problems or some physical trauma.

If you or your partner is suffering from sexual performance issues the best thing you can do, besides addressing your health through diet, exercise and lifestyle, is to introduce novel activities you both might consider to be intimate.

What if your level of sexual pleasure and performance is all in your head?

Bottom line nothing is less attractive than fear. Fear also releases the stress hormone cortisol, which reduces circulation, increases inflammation and wastes your source of intimate sexual energy.

Remember: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

Here are 3 sexually attractive attitudes to help you men out there who know they deserve to be loved often:

  • Like your self.
    Women are turned on by men who like being men. It keeps you interesting and sends out a positive attractive message.
  • Be a fun lover.
    Women love to go out and play with their sexual partners, so go somewhere or do something together that’s fun.
  • Get what you want.
    Have a big personal goal that drives you and go for it.

Nothing is sexier or a bigger turn on than the mind. Learning to turn on your mind will increase your own sexuality and attract the intimacy you crave form your mate.

Did you know your brain uses 18% of the body’s energy intake while constituting merely 2% of its weight?

Most sexual problems can be overcome naturally using your intelligence, creativity and attitude. Truth is most drugs can’t even beat the placebo effect in the first place, which means if you “believe” you can or can’t, either way you’re right . . .

With a healthy attitude comes a desire for a healthier body. The “right” nutrition is important for sexual health because it energizes your brain, stimulates your nervous system and strengthens circulation.

The foundation for great sex is a healthy mind and body . . . here are some key vitaminerals and nutrients to help you enjoy incredible sex:

  • Vitamin A found in carrots, broccoli and sweet potatoes help produce optimal level of progesterone, which is an important sex hormone that supports libido (that sexy feeling).
  • Vitamin B1 found in sprouted grains, asparagus and pineapples is essential for optimal nerve transmission and energy production throughout the body, which is vital to increase libido.
  • Vitamin B3 found in avocadoes, sprouted grains and beans can enhance the sexual sensation, increase blood flow to the skin and mucous membranes, and intensify the orgasm!
  • Vitamin B6 found in vegetables, nuts and bananas helps regulate prolactin, a natural libido booster.
  • Vitamin C found in citrus, Camu camu and beets is used to help make beneficial hormones vital in sexuality and getting “turned on.”
  • Vitamin D found in mushrooms, eggs and sunlight helps you maintain a healthy and vigorous libido.
  • Vitamin E found in seeds, nuts and green leafy vegetables is a powerful antioxidant and is necessary for healthy cells, especially those involved in the sexual experience.
  • Magnesium found in cacao beans, spinach and nuts is important for the production of sex hormones and neurotransmitters and is a powerful smooth muscle relaxant.
  • Selenium found in parsley, brazil nuts and seaweed is a mineral vital for healthy sperm health. Nearly is stored and used in the testes and seminal ducts.
  • Zinc found in alfalfa, mustard and almonds is used to make testosterone and other sexual hormones. Zinc is loaded in the prostate gland and sperm more than anywhere else in the body.
  • Last, but not least, Essential Fatty acid found in black currants, nuts and cacao butter are needed to make sex hormones and store sexual nutrients to keep you in the game.

Bottom line is your “consummate relationship needs a constant balance between intimacy, passion and commitment, but without having a healthy lifestyle, a smart diet and quality sex, the triangle of love can collapse.

So, always make it a priority to romance your partner like you did when you were first dating and remember: great sex and romance begin while your clothes are still on.

Nurturing a healthy partnership isn’t just about pushing the right buttons, so don’t let your “sexual rendezvous” to become just another routine. Learn to overcome, be adventurous and have fun.

Learn how to nurture your passion, renew your intimacy and revitalize a healthier sexuality for the years to come.

SOURCE: Dr. Beate Ditzen of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, et al.

Martin Jacobse (The 7 Rungs of the Health and Wellness Ladder), a hearing and speech specialist of 30 years, was first inspired by the natural home remedies used by his Cherokee Grandmother. He has since expanded his interests into naturopathic, alternative and energy medicine. Excited to share his findings and close the gap between the medical profession and natural home remedies, Jacobse found a passion as an independent medical researcher and ghost writer, dedicating his life to getting the word out as a consumer health advocate for Barton Publishing. Jacobse spends his free time practicing the healing art of magnetic Qigong, publishing books and enjoying the quiet of a small horse ranch near the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.

Are Your Legs Restless from Running Through Your Mind All Night Long?

As you already know, another “syndrome” called Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) or Wittmaack–Ekbom syndrome, is plaguing Americans of all ages. If you ask some of the victims of this mystery condition, they might call it restless body syndrome.

It’s a myth that the painful prickling, pins and needles sensation RLS victims suffer are limited to only their legs. Many people experience these symptoms non-stop, not only in their legs, but also in their hips, arms, neck and face muscles, as well.

Sometimes the RLS symptoms of this syndrome are so bad that people are unable to walk and have to take powerful pain-blocking drugs just to get through another day.

After reading dozens of testimonials posted on reputable medical websites, it becomes obvious that conventional medical treatment doesn’t have a clue what to do about RLS.

This isn’t something that appeared on the horizon just six months or a year ago when I first heard of it. It’s been around for decades, just not in the massive numbers we’re seeing today. Some adults report having suffered life-long RLS symptoms since childhood.

As with any syndrome, doctors just don’t know what the root cause is. The other challenge is that many other medical conditions have very similar symptoms, therefore making accurate diagnosis difficult.

Some possible misdiagnosis for RLS are:

  • Sleep apnea
  • Narcolepsy
  • Muscle disease
  • Joint conditions
  • Nerve cell problems
  • Circulation difficulties

It appears that exercising helps a lot of people stop the irritating and often debilitating RLS symptoms. On top of all the tingling and burning sensations, sudden involuntary jerking spasms are the most annoying and potentially dangerous part of the syndrome.

Imagine trying to drive a motor vehicle while dealing with unpredictable nervous seizures of muscle and limbs – not to mention the “phantom-limb” pains, severe sleep deprivation and adverse drug effects they often suffer.

Since the jury is still out on exactly what causes RLS, perhaps we should do our own due diligence and look into this together.

Let’s slip into our “health detective” shoes for a moment and do some medical investigation of our own; perhaps we can find some clues to the root cause.

It only makes common sense that before you can solve any problem, you first need to identify the “root cause.” So, let’s see what we can find out about RLS.

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Learn The Secret To Keeping The Shingles Virus Dormant Forever!

If you’re looking for help from shingles look no further.

Shingles can be one of the most miserable types of viral infestations to try and live with. If you already suffer from shingles, then that’s old news to you. But, I promise I do have good news for you if you read on.

If you are not suffering from shingles you will still find this a worthy read. The more people understand how excruciating the pain can be when complicated by the shingle’s flu-like symptoms, swelling and scarring, then perhaps fewer people with shingles would feel so isolated from their friends and family.

FACT: More than 1,000,000 people in the US suffer from shingles annually and the numbers are rising.

As you may already know, if you had Chicken pox as a child then you carry the Varicella Zoster herpes Virus (VZV) in a “dormant state.” Shingles pain is none other than the Chicken pox virus revisited — with a vengeance!

The good news is shingles pain is preventable, treatable and reversible if you know how to “activate the secret key” of viral immunity.

I believe it was the ancient Greek philosopher Pericles who once said, “The truth is sometimes so unbelievable, it escapes becoming known,” which is why this amazing revelation was nearly forgotten and lost forever.

Yet, if it’s so simple, why not at least give it a try, right?

So, if you’re willing to turn up your own healing power and shut down this painful and debilitating dis-ease, then keep reading.

Getting  to Know the Enemy Better . . .

Normally, a healthy immune system keeps the Varicella Zoster-herpes Virus (VZV) at bay.

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Are You A Glutton For Gluten?

Everyone has heard something about the dangers of “gluten,” yet few people really know what it is. Most people know it has something to do with wheat products, but seem confused about the topic. If that sounds like someone you know, read on!

What you’re about to read in the next 5 minutes will shock you. So, let’s start with the basics!

Wheat gluten is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant area of the Middle East. Globally, maize (corn) is the most produced food among the cereal crops; wheat is second and rice ranks third.

80% of US spring wheat comes from Montana, N. Dakota and S. Dakota. 3.5 million acres of spring wheat (other than durum) are planted in Montana every year, representing about 60% of total wheat plantings.

There Are Three Parts of a Wheat Kernel:

(Consider a typical bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds.)

  1. Endosperm: Separated, the endosperm (50 pounds) is the source of white flour and contains the greatest portion of protein, carbs, iron and major B-vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin and thiamine. On average, 45 pounds of flour are milled from 50 pounds of endosperm. The remaining 5 pounds of endosperm is used for livestock feed.
  2. Bran: The bran (8.3 pounds) is included in whole wheat flour or marketed separately, and contains small amounts of protein, trace minerals, dietary fibers and B vitamins.
  3. Germ: The wheat germ (1.5 pounds) is the embryo or sprouting section of the seed. It has a high fat content (10%) that if not separated from endosperm during flour production, causes dough to be unmanageable.

The endosperm is composed of thin-walled starchy cells. This starch contains “gluten particles” that provide the stickiness in dough. Although endosperm has most of the protein, its protein quality is lower than in the bran and germ because it is less concentrated.

Keep in mind, gluten is almost 80% protein. But, as you’ll see, not all proteins are created equal.

Obviously, high quality wheat grows very well in the Dakotas and Montana. That’s because they have the right soils, temperatures and provide ideal semi-arid (dry) conditions. This is important because a wet rainy season results in wheat growing with lower protein (gluten) content, which is not good for the bakery business.

A lower protein content means lower gluten, and gluten is what makes dough sticky to work with. Different levels of stickiness are needed to produce specialty products, which is why “adding gluten” is necessary.

So, not only does gluten “enrich” many foods with protein, wheat gluten is also used for binding and texturizing purposes in many different foods.

Without gluten, hamburger buns would crumble and hotdog bun hinges would break, in turn ruining millions of picnics and back yard BBQ’s around the world.

When we break it down, we find gluten is made of two main proteins:

  1. Glutenin creates the elastic quality of vital wheat gluten: makes dough tough.
  2. Gliadin, the smaller protein molecule, dissolves in water and other liquids including alcohol, and is responsible for the syrupy properties of wheat gluten. Too much will make bread dough overly expansive. Gliadin is also used in cosmetics and personal care products

FACT: The smaller gluten protein, gliadin, is a trigger of many health problems.

These molecules breakdown even further inside your body and create “opium-like proteins” called “gluteomorophins,” which can enter your brain and cause all kinds of havoc. Gluten, containing glutamate crosses the blood-brain barrier irritating and damaging brain cells as an “excitotoxin.”

Gluten Is One Of Many Plant Anti-Nutrients

Fact is certain foods are good for you and other foods can actually do harm. Gluten is one of these harmful foods.

Unsprouted grains were in the “do-not-eat” category until about a hundred years ago when we really started eating so many refined grains.

About 10,000 years ago our ancestors learned the importance of sprouting, soaking and cooking grains to neutralize the plant toxins so they would be safe to eat.  But, somewhere along the way that knowledge was almost lost.

Our ancient ancestors knew that grains, beans and potatoes could be toxic if not prepared properly. Another word for these plant toxins is “anti-nutrients,” or phyto-toxins.

All Food Has Intelligent Design

Edible vegetables and fruits depend on us to eat them to spread their seeds around. However, a grain like wheat, rye and kamut are seeds in themselves and if eaten, they cannot sprout up new plants.

That’s why Mama Nature has given grains built-in natural pesticide and fungicide defenses.

Grains have evolved “enzyme blockers” that stop them from sprouting until they fall unto fertile ground having the right conditions. These same powerful enzyme blockers can neutralize your digestive enzymes as well1. Besides gluten, other anti-nutrients found in plants are “phytates, glycoalkaloids and lectins (wheat germ agglutinin).”

Gluten protein, phytates and lectins are defense chemicals for the wheat plant tribe, intelligently designed to repel outside threats from fungus, mold and pests.

Unfortunately, gluten protein is created to be difficult for people to digest, so it...


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The Invisible Symptoms Of The Silent Killer HBP Revealed

Did you know in 2009, an estimated 785,000 Americans had their first heart attack, and of those about 470,000 will have another? That means about every 25 seconds an American has a heart attack and about every minute someone dies as a result.1

That makes High Blood Pressure (HBP) the #1 cause of sudden death America. HBP is called “The Silent Killer” because for most people their first symptom is a heart attack or death. Why is that?

Medical Myth: HBP has no cure and there are no symptoms.

Truth is every action has a reaction, every cause has an effect and every dis-ease has its symptoms.

I’m sure you’d agree that if you simply don’t know what to look for, you’ll never find it. Right?

I want you to know that worrying yourself to death is NOT your only option. So, today, I hope to help you learn how to stop a heart attack before it happens. Once you can recognize the effects of HBP, then you can better address the cause(s).

There’s no need to worry about curing your HBP if you’ll focus on the root cause of it.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~ Franklin D Roosevelt

Uncommon Sense

Common sense is no longer “common” because so many people have become confused by all the mixed messages concerning their health care. As an independent medical investigator, consumer health advocate and author, I’ve found even doctors find it hard to keep up with all the advancing scientific discoveries and still manage their practices. Helping make common sense more “common” is why Home Cures That Work (HCTW) is such an exciting publication for both professionals and laymen alike.

Home Cures That Work helps keep intelligent people like you in the loop.

New Science Based On Time-Tested Remedies

The business of Western medicine, the American Medical Association (AMA), is actually quite young —historically speaking —and as a result, has made many costly mistakes over the past 160 years. One of them was the exclusion of all holistic, alternative and ancient time-tested medicine of the east.

The good news is America is finally realizing the benefits of joining ancient healing wisdom with cutting-edge medical science.

Cutting Edge Health Breakthroughs

Because of recent breakthroughs in epigenetics,” we now know your hypertension is NOT usually determined by your genes. In fact, HBP is a direct response...


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Is Inflammation Taking You Up Or Down The Wellness Ladder?

How you handle your inflammation means everything. Discover how easily you can stop your inflammation and change your life’s direction and healing process in 7 simple steps.

Many of you remember our very first issue of HCTW when I introduced The Jacobse Wellness Ladder and promised to discuss its healing process and principles in more detail later. That day is here!

For our new readers, The Jacobse Ladder is a helpful model based on 7 “rungs” that lead either to dis-ease or wellness. The rungs correlate to proven “healing principles” which ascend the ladder of wellness in 7 defined steps to recovery or descend into further sickness, pain and more suffering.

I have always used The Jacobse Ladder to help give people an idea where they stand and to encourage them to keep striving to “live well” again.

In this month’s issue of HCTW, our health topic is all about the “fourth step” on The Jacobse Wellness Ladder: INFLAMMATION!

Let’s trace back down the seven rung ladder of health to help you understand the ROOT CAUSE of what ails you:

  • The first step down is loss of life energy
  • The second step is toxicity
  • The third step is stress
  • The fourth step is inflammation
  • The fifth step is degeneration
  • The sixth step is stiffness
  • The seventh step is mutation

Understanding each step down the ladder will give you the wherewithal to help stop the dis-ease you’re suffering from and give you an opportunity to reverse your direction before it’s too late.

My exhaustive research confirms once you’ve identified the real cause of your dis-ease, then you can trace back up the ladder and ultimately, with genuine care, revive your original state of vitality, health and wellness.

To point a fact: only treating your symptoms fails to address the cause or reverse dis-ease.

The “fourth rung” of inflammation is most crucial whether you are descending or ascending. It’s how you deal with your inflammation that will determine which way you are going on your own personal wellness ladder. As you already know, you want to be going up it, not down.

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I Was 50 Pounds Overweight Until I Found This

You don’t need another theory or method.
You need a positive weight loss experience.

Here’s a little known secret that I used to lose 50 pounds in only 90 days. One of the most critical factors of the present obesity epidemic is what’s commonly called “insulin resistance.” Insulin resistance is also known as “glucose intolerance” or “pre-diabetes.” Regardless of the label, it is correlated to your cell membrane health and your cell membrane health is the master key to unlocking abundant health, longevity and especially vital for attaining your “ideal weight.”

Read on!

I’m sure you’re tired of hearing about weight loss gimmicks, gadgets and magic bullets – about as much as I am. That’s precisely why I chose to put the latest natural discoveries to the test and, as a result, I lost 50 pounds in 90 days. Now, I get to share how I did it with you. As with anything revolutionary, it may at first seem a little unbelievable, but once you think it through, it’s really quite obvious. So, let me save you some time and cut right to the chase.

The Key To Healthful Weight Loss Is Muscle Growth!

Your muscles are either growing or being replaced with fat; there is no in between. After years of exhaustive research as a medical investigator, I discovered a way to naturally maintain the proper energy metabolism that supports lean healthy muscle growth. You see, insulin resistance, or whatever you want to call it, is another symptom of a low cellular energy metabolism. To make a long story short, this means you have less mitochondrion than you need to maintain a high cellular energy level.

Mitochondria are simply the energy factories inside your cells. They basically convert your calories and oxygen into energy. The more mitochondria your cells have, the more dynamic your overall health.

If you are losing your mitochondria, you will eventually lose your muscle to fat. Insulin resistance is an imbalance which slows down the calorie burning process. This-bogged down metabolism causes fat that should be burned for energy to become stored away – a kind of hibernation effect. By recognizing both your weight issue and insulin resistance as symptoms, it frees you up to address the “real root cause” of the imbalance: UNDERNUTRITION.

In a nutshell, here’s how I lost 50 pounds in 90 days: “It all comes down to simply improving your cell membrane health first.” After researching everything under the sun to do with sustaining optimal health, I kept noticing an amazing pattern coming up over and over again. The world’s latest cutting edge science was showing me the secret way to lose stubborn excess weight. That is to focus on improving cellular health, increase mitochondria production and muscle growth.

So, that’s exactly what I did. At 6’1″ I was weighing in at a sluggish 270 pounds. I suffered from symptoms of heart disease, diabetes and chronic fatigue. Based on what I discovered, I knew if I could address the root cause of the real problem and reverse that health problem, then the unwanted “fat pounds” would just burn away naturally. It did, just like the scientific evidence predicted it would!

My Healthful Weight Loss Was A Side Benefit Of Addressing The Root Cause Of Accelerated Aging

I discovered by simply changing the way I was approaching the whole weight loss scenario, I could accomplish something mainstream media doesn’t really want you to know: obesity is a symptom of heart disease and diabetes.

I was taught obesity caused heart disease, but now I had reason to believe the opposite was true.

If you only focus on losing weight in general, you may end up doing more harm to your health than good. This may shock you, but it’s not all about how much you weigh. The bottom line is how much muscle weight versus fat weight you have, which is called “body composition.” The ideal weight for you depends on a lot of factors including, height, age and even bone mineral density. So, let’s forget about how much you weigh for a few minutes so you can see more clearly how to have the leaner, healthier body Mama Nature meant you to have.

Now, back to this metabolic imbalance called insulin resistance . . .

Insulin resistance is a major determiner of healthy body composition. This is simply because if your energy metabolism is out of balance, your lean-muscle-to-fat ratio will be out of balance, too. Problem is most “overweight” or “out-of-shape” people are suffering from an over production of cellular waste, which is stored in fat cells, and an under production of healthy muscle growth. All that is an effect of insulin resistance.

You should also know muscle weighs more than fat. Muscle is denser and it takes less muscle to weigh up the same as fat. This explains why I can lose fatty inches around the waist and still weigh the same.

The shocking thing is most people who lose weight on a “diet” are losing two things:

1. Water weight

2. Muscle mass

That’s why the majority of people who lose weight rapidly gain it right back, like Oprah. It’s easy to gain and lose weight; it’s called the “Yo-Yo Effect.” The Yo-Yo effect of dieting is not only discouraging, it’s outright dangerous for your health. One of the reasons for this rebound effect is that your metabolic energy level drops in half when you are replacing muscle with fat.

Insulin resistance is a major trigger of increased metabolic waste and loss of lean muscle mass. Most people believe just cutting out sugars (carbohydrates) is the solution. That’s simply not true. Yes, eliminating simple carbohydrates is a significant factor in improving overall health, but your body depends on specific carbohydrates to function properly. These sugars are also called glyconutrients (super metabolic sugars) and they’re used for cellular signaling, repair and regeneration.

Proteins, Cellular salt, Fats and Certain Sugars Are All Necessary for a Healthier You

Increasing your body’s sensitivity to insulin is really the ticket to a balanced and healthy metabolism.

Once you have figured out how to rebalance your metabolic processes, you’ll find fat will simply burn away the unhealthy byproducts you were storing and, in turn, give you more energy and fuel for building healthy muscles. Then, your “weight issue” will take care of itself.

I reversed the cause of my dis-ease and lost weight by simply improving my cellular insulin sensitivity. Let me repeat: I improved my insulin sensitivity by simply focusing on improving cellular health and promoting an effective, energetic and clean burning metabolism.

The only way to improve sensitivity to insulin is to improve cell health – the same thing that reverses heart disease and diabetes!

I know it sounds too simple to be true, but the truth is naturally simple.

The key to attaining ideal weight is so simple you may not believe me at first. But, let me remind you, I did lose 50 pounds in 90 days and beat the Yo-Yo effect once and for all. To my amazement, my remarkable weight loss results stayed the same to this day nearly a year later. After reaching my personal goal, I set a new goal to increase muscle mass. Yet, with my “new improved” metabolism my weight still remained the same. My waist slimmed down, all because I learned how to replace unhealthy fat with healthy muscle while improving my overall health.

I’m as surprised to hear me say this as you may be surprised to read it. I know how frustrating trying to lose weight can be. I have been battling weight issues all my life. After I left the Navy in 1981, I was 6’1″ and 190 pounds. Then, I got married and raised three magnificent children. I’ve reach as high as 285 pounds at one point, but averaged around 265 for decades. Nothing worked for me in the past because I was trying to treat a symptom as if it was the cause.

Almost a year later, I am easily maintaining a healthful weight between 215 and 217 pounds. Plus, I’ve gone from a 42″ waist to a 35″ waist. I still believe in mild exercise rather than extreme exercise, because extreme exercise can lower your metabolism and tax critical nutrients. I love to take long walks, swim when I can and practice my magnetic Qi-gong twice a day. Otherwise, I live a relatively sedentary lifestyle as a medical investigator, musician and author.

It seems everyone is searching for “a method,” or some trick to attaining optimal health and weight. I could take the time to explain to you all the finer details and refer you to all the scientific studies that led me to this breakthrough, but you don’t need another theory or method. You need a positive weight loss experience.

I know your metabolism is different than mine, as is your life style and eating habits. In fact, our bodies are as different as our individual thoughts are. Yet, there is an underlying matrix of implicit order, an undeniable common denominator that is the source of our health, wellness and happiness. Whether you label it genetic, biological or even-intelligent design, it serves us all the same.

All atoms, molecules and cells come from the same source of subtle organized energy fields. That must be why increasing your own intrinsic energy at the cellular level can reverse diseases and maintain an ideal weight – without drugs, surgery or diet gimmicks.

We are all made of the same cosmic stuff, live on the same planet and share the same essential elements to thrive and grow. In essence, you can return to a simpler life, improve your health and lose those unwanted fat cells by tuning into the source of your energy and learning how to sustain natural balance.

Here are some more guideposts to help you find your own healing pathway.

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First 30 Days

A good foundation is switching to a high-protein, plant-based diet consisting of at least 60% raw foods. Some of the best sources of plant-based protein are “The Ultimate Meal,” “Hemp Protein” and Dr. Jordan Rubin’s “RAW Protein Meal” products. I always recommend Dr. Rubin’s Garden of Life products because they are rich in RAW nutrition, including enzymes and probiotics. I stay away from soy-based products unless they are properly fermented to remove the “phyto-toxins,” which are natural insecticides the green soy plant contains. Try it for a month, and if you are ambitious, try 100% raw vegan for 30 days.

A few other things that will help you is to:

  • Drink plenty of water “between meals”
  • Eat your protein before your carbs
  • Use Celtic sea salt and
  • Get your hands on a good full spectrum enzyme supplement, too

Second 30 Days

The second month you can start including grass fed meats like bison, venison and elk to your menu 10-25% of the time. I suggest eating at least 5 to 7 small meals a day. Eating until you’re “80% full” is a good rule to follow. As you get in the healthy habit of eating more often, supplement with enzymes to help break down nutrients, eat at least 40-50% raw, plant-based protein sources, and you will begin to feel more energetic as inches will begin melting away. Pounds lost show more gradually.

You can’t raise your metabolism, grow more mitochondria and develop healthy muscles unless you consume enough protein-rich nutrition. Eating empty calories is basically the same as starving yourself. Under-nutrition is a main cause of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Eating nutritious foods more often, hydrating and introducing mild exercise is all you really need to transform your health fast and effectively.

Throughout your 90-day effort, I also suggest eating a lot of fat. Yes, you read that right, fat. The media has misinformed you about the benefits of good fat. Generally, most animal fats are bad and most plant-based fats are good. Some are better than others, of course. For example grass fed meats and ocean and lake spawned fish have a higher quality fat. Good fats increase cellular health and bad fats trigger inflammation.

You can’t beat avocados, coconut milk and oils, Brazil nuts and raw almonds. RAW is key. Watch out for added ingredients like refined salts, hydrogenated oils and cottonseed oil. I can’t emphasize enough how important Celtic or Himalayan salts are to flushing your system and helping to build healthy nerve and muscle tissue.

Last 30 Days

By your last 30 day cycle, you will have found what you like to eat and will have established a healthy pattern that works for you. Remember these 5 fat-loss tips:

1. Eat your proteins 5 minutes “before” your carbs.

2. Eat only fruits between meals or as an entire meal.

3. Don’t mix nuts and fruits, or meats and fruits or carbs and proteins

4. Drink water in-between meals and snacks.

5. Utilize your enzymes and stomach acids for optimal nutrient absorption.

So, there you have it. Now you can create your own weight loss diet.

Remember, your fat burning genes are “switched on” by eating foods that maximize your energy metabolism and by avoiding the overcooked and processed foods, which trigger insulin resistance and fat production. By following my outline, you will learn which foods to eat to reverse disease and sustain a healthy body composition and, in other words, be healthy, well and happy within your own skin.

Cutting Edge Natural Remedy Secrets Revealed for Heart Disease

The surprising simple natural remedy in reversing heart disease with one everyday, common supplement, Vitamin C – according to a two-time Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine, Dr. Linus Pauling!

You may already know more than 60,000,000 Americans are diagnosed with cardiovascular disease. Yet, few people know that heart disease can be successfully treated, without surgery or prescription medications, leading to a quick reversal.

If you are wondering if heart disease is curable or reversible, my response to you is that heart disease is a process. Like any process, once the driving factors are removed, the process will stop. Truth is, there are many documented cases of people who have completely recovered from heart disease, some in as few as 10 days — without any known risks.

Before any process can be reversed, it must first stop moving in its destructive direction. Only then can it turn around, eventually allowing the body’s healing process to restore, rebuild and revitalize a sustainable balance and harmony.

The good news is that there is a proven safe and effective natural remedy therapy, with more than 10 years’ experience behind it, which can help turn your heart disease around on a dime.

Today, I will introduce you to two-time Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Linus Pauling. He is one of many elite physicians and scientists throughout history who thought and lived “out-side the box.” Dr. Pauling is the only person ever to be the solo recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and even twice at that. Read on to learn why.

In his famous Unified Theory Lecture, Linus Pauling said, “I think I know what the answer is. We can get almost complete control of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of this therapy — even cure it.”

Dr. Pauling knew how to stop the number one killer of Americans way back in 1992.

You may be wondering why Westernized medicine seems ridiculously ignorant of this. The answer is because “treating heart disease” generates Big Pharma a fat $300,000,000,000 (BILLION) every year.

$300,000,000 (BILLION) in sales every year is an obscene amount of heart medications! Yet, despite tons of prescribed d

rugs, heart disease continues to destroy quality of life and kill more people than any other disease. Bottom-line is, we at Barton Publishing believe you deserve to know the truth about your health so you can make a powerful and lasting change in your life-time.

Dr. Linus Pauling discovered what he called the Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Pauling scientifically confirmed natural, low-cost “binding inhibitors” can prevent and dissolve arterial plaque build-up. To the left are 7 of Dr. Linus Pauling’s cutting edge discoveries.

The process referred to as heart disease basically starves the blood supply of vital organs like the heart, which triggers a ”Charlie Horse” reaction leading to heart attack and stroke. A more accurate name for this process is Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease (OCD) and is the inevitable result of chronic vitamin C depletion (chronic Scurvy). This eventually results in an inflammation, ulceration and hardening of the walls of the blood vessels.

The lysyl residues, or Lp, are what attracts the cholesterol (a) to the arterial walls, which promote atherosclerotic plaques. The secret to cardio health is to introduce the essential amino acid lysine (1 gram a day) to counteract the lysyl residues (Lp) from forming and even eliminate plaque deposits. About 1 gram of lysine and 4-5 grams of vitamin C each day was professed to be a “cure” for Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease by Dr. Linus Pauling back in 1994. To this day it is still undisputed.

If you suffer from:

  • Angina pain
  • Poor skin tone
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Poor circulation
  • Atherosclerotic blockages
  • Irregular heart beat
  • Abnormal cholesterol profiles
  • Low metabolic energy
  • General ill health

Then this natural remedy therapy can help your body’s innate healing processes actually grow new blood vessels to better feed your heart.

By balancing a “targeted diet” with specific “food-support” supplements and mild exercise, you can remove your name right off your doctor’s heart patient list in as little as 10 days to several months. It is not the time it takes that matters but rather the good news that you do NOT have to be a victim of misguided medical therapies or procedures. Modern medicine often seems impotent because it forgets your body is capable of healing when the “right nutrients” are provided in the “correct amounts.”

Dr. Pauling pointed out in his book, “How To Live Longer And Feel Better,” that doctors are taught that prescribing the right dosage of a drug is paramount, yet he questions why they have difficulty comprehending the same idea works for vitamins and other nutrients as well.

There are many reputable studies that confirm Dr. Pauling’s heart disease “cure” and frankly, that’s why it still stands unchallenged to this day. For instance, Harvard did a 15-year study involving more than 80,000 people that proved a single vitamin C pill reduced heart disease by nearly 30%.

There is a new science that uses photos of the eye to reveal the health condition of your heart. These retinal photographs (CardioRetinometry for testing cardiovascular disease) also prove that Pauling’s discovery reverses the damage caused by chronic vitamin C deficiency. In truth, your eye becomes your own crystal ball that doctors can peer into the future through. The truth is true; YOU can improve the future of your heart health using common sense and cutting edge natural remedies.

A study done with vitamin C and rats at the University of Calabar confirmed that using vitamin C can lower cholesterol levels, and recommended a possible benefit for both hypertension and atherosclerosis. (Niger J Physiol Sci. 2006 Jun-Dec;21(1-2):15-9) Another study done at the Nagoya City Johoku Hospital, in Nagoya, Japan concluded vitamin C is useful for controlling blood pressure in elderly patients with refractory hypertension. (Arzneimittelforschung. 2006;56(7):535-40)

The list of scientific evidence goes on and on . . .

I also found a large European study (of 20,649 men) suggesting vitamin C may reduce the risk of stroke by 42%. These findings are important for several reasons, two of which being that blood levels of vitamin C make an excellent biomarker for doctors to determine stroke risk factors and also and that increasing vitamin C-rich foods may significantly reduce stroke risks. (P.K. Myint, R.N. Luben, A.A. Welch, S.A. Bingham, N.J. Wareham, and KT. Khaw; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition January 2008, Volume 87, Pages 64-69)

According to Dr. Pauling’s findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, chronically low levels of vitamin C eventually result in atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke. The optimum daily dose is 4,500 mg of real vitamin C.

The human body cannot make its own vitamin C, and eating enough foods containing vitamin C would be nearly impossible, unless you’re a gorilla and can eat 50 pounds of fruits and vegetables per day. That’s why I suggest using a “food-support supplement” which is made from RAW whole food sources.

In closing, I feel very excited about the direction the new science of “cellular health” is taking us. Every medical category of disease and medical literature verifies the truth about food as a superior medicine for your cells. It is now common scientific knowledge among leading researchers that your cells use “food based nutrients” to prevent infections and support anabolic (healing) processes.

We are on the edge of the biggest, most miraculous medical discoveries mankind has ever witnessed. Revealing the once hidden connections between mind, body and environment is the new frontier, which offers us the capacity to transform our lives and the world as we know it.

You were born to heal!!!

Did you know the blood plasma within your bones generates miraculous cells called stem cells? These cells can become any cell your body needs to repair and grow. We now know that vitamin C transforms stem cells into new heart muscle cells.

Dr. Linus Pauling is known as the Father of Orthomolecular Medicine. Ortho means “right,” so eating the “right” foods will provide you with the “right” living molecules for the healthiest stem cells. Healthy stem cells mean healthy tissue, healthy organs and a healthier you!

 

 

 

 

Martin Jacobse, a hearing and speech specialist of 30 years, was first inspired by the natural home remedies used by his Cherokee Grandmother. He has since expanded his interests into naturopathic, alternative and energy medicine. Excited to share his findings and close the gap between the medical profession and natural home remedies, Jacobse found a passion as an independent medical researcher and ghost writer, dedicating his life to getting the word out as a consumer health advocate for Barton Publishing.