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We all know that we feel better when we are getting enough sleep, and every health pundit tells us that getting enough sleep is extremely important to your health. But when you sleep are you getting all of the benefit that you COULD be?
We hear a lot about getting enough sleep, but rarely do we hear about the TIMING of your sleep and the importance of the adrenal gland fatigue hormone called cortisol and sleep. And the TIMING is AT LEAST as important as getting enough sleep.

Humans evolved as diurnal animals. That means that, as a species, we evolved to sleep at night as opposed to the daytime. For thousands of years, we had no light except firelight after dark and therefore we Slept when it became dark. With the advent of the electric light, we have learned that we can manipulate this rhythm and stay up all night if we desire. But our manipulation of the environment, in this particular case, is to our detriment of the cortisol and sleep rhythms and contributes to Adrenal Gland Fatigue.
 

The adrenal glands, a pair of small glands that sit on top of each kidney, produce the hormone cortisol, among other hormones. Cortisol is one of the main hormones responsible for the stress response in our bodies. It goes up when we are stressed and ideally it returns to normal when stress is reduced.

Some people are stressed so much that their cortisol level is continually [...] Continue Reading…

What are the Swine Flu Vaccine Dangers? Well, to see what these dangers are, lets see who is NOT getting the Swine Flu Vaccine. If THESE prominent physicians (or their families) are not getting the swine flu vaccine, then should YOU be getting this vaccine that has been “Fast-Tracked” through the FDA.

 
What Does it Mean to Be Fast-Tracked?
What does ‘Fast Tracked’ mean? Don’t let the cutesy name fool you, ‘Fast Tracking’ simply means that it is UNTESTED to the sufficient normal standards of the FDA (which lets drugs like Vioxx and Baycol get through even under NORMAL testing standards).

So, do you REALLY want to get a vaccine that contains:

Mercury

Squalene

Aluminum

AND that has been untested?

 
Who’s NOT Getting the Swine Flu Vaccine?

If you are debated whether to get the swine flu vaccine or not, you might want to see who believes that Swine Flu Vaccine Dangers are great enough that they are NOT getting the Swine Flu Vaccine.

1) Dr. Mercola is NOT getting the vaccine. He believes that the risks of Thimerosol (Mercury) and the additiveSqualene, that has been linked to autoimmune disorders, just makes the risks too great.

2) Dr. Kent Holtorf, an Infectious Disease Specialist. Thinks that levels of Mercury are Too High. He’s NOT getting the swine flu vaccine:

When you think of ‘Prescription Strength’, most of us will think, somehow, that it is automatically better or stronger than a similar ‘Over the Counter’ variety. But with prescription vitamin D supplements, this is far from the case. In fact, these prescription vitamin D supplements are Completely inferior to the vitamin D3 supplements that you can buy in any health food store in many ways. They are less potent, have more potential for toxicity, don’t have the ‘active’ component that regular vitamin d does and they have a shorter shelf life. Do you STILL want prescription strength vitamin D?

Vitamin D has become somewhat famous lately, with tons of studies showing that millions of otherwise ‘healthy’ people are vitamin D deficient, in many cases SEVERELY so, and that the consequences are diseases like cancer, heart disease and multiple sclerosis. As clinicians become more aware of the problems associated with vitamin D deficiency, more are testing for and treating it. And while awareness of vitamin D is GREATl, it will also bring more prescription vitamin D supplements- which may NOT be so great.

The most common form of prescription vitamin D is in the form of Vitamin D2, also called Ergocalciferol. This is also the same type of vitamin D that is used for the ‘fortification’ of most milk and cereal products. But the ‘over the counter’ formulation of vitamin D in the form of Vitamin D3, also called Cholecalciferol, is far superior to the prescription formula that is routinely prescribed. [...] Continue Reading…

Nearly everyone experiences fatigue at one time or another, but when that fatigue goes on for long periods of time or when it accompanies another health problem, it can be devastating. While there ARE many medical causes of fatigue, often those with persistent tiredness are left without a diagnosis, without answers and without hope. For many, however, the amino acid supplement L-Carnitine COULD just offer some hope for a normal life again.
 

Some facts about L-Carnitine. It is an ‘essential’ amino acid, meaning that it must be supplied in the diet in order to meet the body’s needs. While the majority of amino acids are used for protein synthesis, L-Carnitine is special; it is not required for protein synthesis, but is used as a carrier of fatty acids into the mitochondria. the energy production centers of every single cell in the entire body. The burning of fatty acids like:

Raw Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
High Vitamin Butter Oil

in these miniature cellular power plants supplies MOST of the energy for the body’s skeletal muscles. While this points to the need for good quality fats in the diet, it ALSO highlights the vital function that L-Carnitine plays in producing energy.
 

“These findings suggest that L-Carnitine may be safely
administered at doses up to 3000 mg/day and that positive effects
may be more likely at relatively higher doses in this range.”
‘Safety, Tolerability and Symptom Outcomes Associated
with l-Carnitine Supplementation in Patients with Cancer,
Fatigue,and Carnitine Deficiency’

 
Since the facts about L Carnitine show that it is [...] Continue Reading…

For the most part, doctors believe that the Causes of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome are usually related to an ‘impingement’ of the median nerve that runs down the wrist. According to doctors, strain and repetitive motion causes inflammation of the connective tissue that surrounds this nerve running through your wrist into your hand; surgery is often indicated as a treatment to ‘release’ the impingement on this nerve. But Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is simply a collection of symptoms and not a disease itself. As with many ‘Syndromes’, there can be different causes of carpal tunnel syndrome and ‘nerve impingement’ is only ONE of the causes of carpal tunnel syndrome, making Conservative Non Surgical Treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome imperative before surgery is attempted.
 

 
But other, more unlikely sounding Causes of Carpal syndrome are Thyroid Gland Problems. This may sound a bit crazy, but an under active thyroid gland, termed hypothyroid, can be one of the causes of of ‘Carpal Tunnel Syndrome’. This was actually discovered by accident when patients with hypothyroidism suddenly found their carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms disappearing. While it SOUNDS easy to have a doctor simply check a person’s thyroid levels before they consider surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome, it’s not always that simple.
 
“Especially in the treatment of entrapment neuropathy
in hypothyroidism, the chance of medical treatment must
be given to patients before considering surgical treatment.”

‘Hormone replacement therapy in hypothyroidism
and nerve conduction study’
 

Unfortunately, hypothyroid isn’t necessarily easy to diagnose. Even though the blood tests are readily available, doctors generally only [...] Continue Reading…

Current thinking has us believe that age-related hearing loss is an inevitable consequence of getting older, but is it really? Hundreds of studies from around the world show severe vitamin deficiencies as causes of hearing loss. Even more importantly replacing the missing vitamins improved the hearing loss in vast numbers of people, making hearing loss simply another one of many age-related problems preventable with good nutrition.

When most of us think of getting older, we think of canes to walk, glasses to see and hearing aids to hear. But is this an inevitable consequence of aging, or is it due to modifiable and preventable environmental factors? We are told that the only modifiable way to prevent hearing loss is to keep away from loud noises, but the causes of hearing loss seems to have less to do with loud sounds than it does with nutrition.

Nutrient deficiencies are often overlooked as causes or contributing factors in many diseases, and they are also overlooked causes of hearing loss. Studies done all over the world by completely different teams of researchers using completely different nutritional supplements and using completely different methods of studying the problem have all come to the same conclusion- nutritional supplementation, in the right circumstances, are effective treatments for hearing loss.
 

Vitamin D

Some of the most interesting studies come from Vitamin D Research. Vitamin D is well known to be responsible for the calcium absorption required for strong bones. The most well known problem associated with lack of vitamin D is [...] Continue Reading…

Question:

I have been Vitamin D deficient now for almost a year. They have had me on 50,000 units once a week until recently and have now bumped me up to 50,000 twice a week.

However, I am still deficient. I am always tired, have to force myself to do things most days, and have major mood swings… My body hurts all over, so they said, “oh you have Fibromalagia.” Now this new Doctor says it’s all caused from the lack of vitamin D…..

Do you have any suggestions, or help for me? I am at my wits end!

Sincerely,
K
Dallas, Texas

Answer:

Hi K,

Wow, that sounds like it hasn’t been a very fun year. At least your doctors were aware enough to check for Vitamin D Deficiency, but it sounds like they are missing a few things.

First, a possible solution

Since you live in Dallas, you might be able to remedy this situation in a few weeks by GOING OUT IN THE SUN! Get outside in a bikini, or nothing at all if you have some privacy and are inclined to do so- and get as much sun as you can every day to the point of BEFORE you get burned.

Sun is the way that we were MEANT to get vitamin D. So, if that is at all a possibility, then do that. You can protect your face with sunscreen and a big hat, but otherwise, let your entire body get as much sun as you possibly can- just don’t burn.

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Question:

I have a strong suspicion I have a gluten intolerance or Celiac Disease.
I haven’t yet been tested, but have felt much better on gluten free diet until recently.
But then I had a root canal about a month and a half ago and it went well.
I had another several weeks ago which also went well until my tooth broke
before the permanent filling could be put in. Within a few days I began getting
my old symptoms back. I tried to figure out what I was eating that was causing it,
but it was getting more severe. After a few weeks, I went to get the tooth
fixed at which time the root canal filling was removed and a filling was put in place.
I almost immediately started to feel better, but symptoms are gradually returning again.
Is it possible the root canal filling that was used has gluten in it, and the one that
remains is now leaking into my system?
I tried to find any info, but have had no success.
What do you think?

Thanks in Advance:
Laurel in Pennsylvania
 

ANSWER:
Hi Laurel,

While I think that it is likely that you are gluten sensitive because you felt better on a gluten free diet, I DON’T think that it’s very likely that you’re filling has gluten in it and that that is what is making you feel bad. What I think is happening is one of two things, or a combination of both.

The first possibility is that the material from your fillings, which INVARIABLY contain either Mercury [...] Continue Reading…

When we speak of disease and health, we often think that people who are healthy are ‘lucky’ and people who are unhealthy as ‘unlucky’. But the debate is beginning to tip towards the fact that environmental factors influence genetics more than we can ever imagine, and luck of the genes has less to do with health than environmental factors. Vitamin D as an environmental factor in our health is not debated, only HOW MUCH of a factor in our health is what is debated.

 
“Careful attention to maternal vitamin D status
could translate into diverse improvements in health
outcomes for the following generation”
Professor John McGrath
Queensland Centre for Schizophrenia Research,
Wolston Park Hospital, Wacol, Queensland, Australia

 
Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with osteoporosis, but most of us think of osteoporosis as starting in older age. Since women are particularly affected, it’s often that vitamin d and calcium supplementation is begun after menopause to help prevent the associated fractures of osteoporosis. But women in their pre reproductive and reproductive years need to be supplemented too, less for themselves, but more for the health of their offspring. Several studies have shown that Levels of Vitamin D During Pregnancy can determine bone mass and risk of fracture as an adult! Disturbingly, Deficiency of vitamin d and pregnancy is rampant among pregnant women and it could be having devastating consequences on the youngest generations.
 

“Vitamin D supplementation of pregnant women,
especially during winter months, could lead to
longlasting reductions in the risk of
osteoporotic fracture in their offspring.”
‘Maternal vitamin D status [...] Continue Reading…

Symptoms of kidney infection are painful and uncomfortable. Life stops until the problem is taken care of. Usually symptoms of kidney infection require a trip to the doctor’s office as well as a regimen of antibiotics and an anti fungal for the yeast infection that follows. Antibiotics are becoming more and more resistant to urinary tract infections, with one study concluding, “Bacterial resistance in UTI in Chinese females is a severe problem, which could be resulted from antimicrobial irrational use.” And this is not just a problem in female bladder infection, but anyone who gets UTI’s.

This doesn’t have to be the case, though. Many women who have suffered with symptoms of kidney infection know that drinking cranberry juice is an effective infection prevention, but what few know is that the main ingredient in cranberries that makes it work so well for symptoms of kidney infection is a sugar called D-mannose.
 
How can sugar be a urinary tract infection cure?

D- Mannose IS a sugar- yet it doesn’t ACT like sugar. It tastes slightly bitter and it doesn’t raise blood sugar levels, yet it is classified by scientists as a sugar. But this sugar has a special trait makes it useful for treating bladder infections. Most of the time, a bacteria called Escherichia Coli or simply ‘E Coli’ causes the symptoms of kidney infection by grabbing onto the wall of the bladder and reproducing and causing infection. But D-Mannose helps to stop this by [...] Continue Reading…