tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55682141046655636132024-03-13T13:53:02.661-07:00Starfields Holistic HealthcareRoss McCulloch shares knowledge gathered over thirty years as a healthcare professional on how a multi-disciplinary approach to holistic health can uncover and resolve the hidden factors related to illness or injury, facilitating a return to a complete state of well-being.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-66869403330003090672015-12-30T09:38:00.000-08:002015-12-30T09:38:15.945-08:00Sugar Addiction<br />
The white stuff may be the most common and primary addiction — a cycle that starts with a stressed brain, triggering further unhealthy eating. Breaking this vicious cycle starts with understanding it.<br />
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Sugar addiction is universally rampant and a leading cause of ill health and disease. Few people, however, realize that addiction to this dangerous substance is also at the root of other addictions as well — including alcohol, legal and illegal drugs, and even vices such as gambling, sex, shopping and working too much.<br />
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Most people with addiction issues tend to believe their personal compulsion or obsession is the worst of the world’s addictions. The fact is an addictive personality housed in the brain plays a primary role in the addictive process.<br />
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Feeding the brain with artificial rewards is a primary problem that must be addressed if addiction is to be properly remedied. The brain is influenced by lifestyle, which influences actions. In the case of addiction, this means seeking unhealthy habits that reward the brain.<br />
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The highly complex process goes something like this:<br />
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Physical, biochemical and mental-emotional stress affects the brain.<br />
These stresses affect the body’s metabolism in an unhealthy way.<br />
Stress leads to carbohydrate cravings.<br />
Cravings can lead to disordered eating.<br />
The use of drugs or actions that reward the stressed brain follows.<br />
This leads to what is known as addiction.<br />
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As poor diet further impairs the metabolism, it usually increases body fat. (Those who don’t end up with increased body fat still have the metabolism of an overfat person.)<br />
And the cycle continues . . .<br />
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Since the immediate and long-term influence of carbohydrate food can dramatically impact the brain, influencing the metabolism and cravings, stress and poor dietary habits are the two main factors that fuel the addiction cycle.<br />
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<u>Addiction-cycle</u><br />
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<u>Lifestyle Stressors</u><br />
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Drs. Rajita Sinha and Ania Jastreboff from Yale University School of Medicine have extensively reviewed the published research on this topic in “Stress as a common risk factor for obesity and addiction” in the journal Biological Psychiatry (May 2013), and the topic is also researched by other experts in this field.<br />
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My perspective is as a holistic healthcare fascilatator, with many years of helping people eliminate the causes of addictions is that Stress is almost always a key factor. It comes in many forms and often plays a key role in instigating the addiction cycle:<br />
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Physical stress such as muscle and joint problems, dental neglect, neck pain, foot problems, excess sitting, poor posture or gait.<br />
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Biochemical stress including hormone imbalance, digestive problems, poor diet and drug problems (excess alcohol or caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, etc.), prescription and over-the-counter drugs.<br />
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Mental-emotional stress can be seen in poor personal relationships with people both personally and professionally. This may be partially due to physical pain, brain injury, confusion or lack of understanding about one’s health, such as how best to eat or work out, and even understanding addiction.<br />
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The accumulation of stress adversely affects the brain, impairing metabolism, and causing abnormal blood sugar and insulin levels, leading to carbohydrate cravings. One common reward-seeking behavior is eating refined carbohydrates, AKA sugar. Eating these foods affects the brain’s reward center. Addiction follows, and if one does not address this key factor, the vicious cycle continues.<br />
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The process also leads to increased body fat, weight and BMI, adding to more disordered eating, and more stress. While some people reduce food intake as a result of stress, many people eat more, especially through added snacking on junk food.<br />
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Addressing addictions by removing secondary substances such as alcohol, nicotine or cocaine, while a positive step in the process, may not break the addiction cycle because the primary problems in the brain and metabolism that influence cravings and the need for rewards remain. Often, the person finds another addictive substance, or just continues rewarding the brain with sugar, maintaining addiction.<br />
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<u>Let’s look at the addiction mechanism with a wider more detailed view.</u><br />
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<u>Brain Overdrive</u><br />
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Mechanisms in the hormonal and nervous systems are responsible for the brain’s stress response. While this mechanism is intended to help us adapt, the ongoing driving stress can lead to disordered eating and addictive behavior, along with reduced immune function, chronic inflammation, impairment of glucose metabolism, and carbohydrate intolerance.<br />
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Some end-result signs and symptoms include:<br />
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Increased body fat.<br />
Weight gain.<br />
Fatigue.<br />
Physical injury.<br />
Pain.<br />
Intestinal dysfunction.<br />
Infections and other illness (e.g., allergies and asthma).<br />
Increased hunger.<br />
Cravings for sweets.<br />
Poor sleep.<br />
Hormone imbalance.<br />
Metabolic syndrome.<br />
Overtraining syndrome (in people who exercise).<br />
When chronic, the process of disease development follows:<br />
Diabetes.<br />
Alzheimer’s.<br />
Cancer.<br />
Cardiovascular disease.<br />
Associated conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke, high blood cholesterol and triglycerides, cognitive dysfunction such as memory loss, and poor quality of life.<br />
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<u>Reward: Food</u><br />
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Food reward is a behavioral issue common with stress, with sugar singled out as the most common food. Continuing to consume it can maintain the vicious cycle with stress triggering a desire for a sweet reward, followed by addiction and more food stress.<br />
Basically, as researcher’s Sinha and Jastreboff write, stress potentiates cravings for desserts and other carbohydrates. Stress also diminishes emotional, visceral and behavioral control, while increasing impulsivity and leading to greater use of reward.<br />
In addition, it does not take long for the brain to learn the reward, with memory and emotional processes involved in negotiating behavioral and cognitive responses.<br />
Sweet foods are rewarding, stimulating the brain’s reward pathways and, via learning and conditioning mechanisms, increasing the likelihood of seeking out more sugar, just like the incentive that draws people to drugs like alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. Studies show that those with higher body fat seek rewards more easily.<br />
The clinical indications of these addiction patterns were evident many years ago, and the most effective approach in dealing with addiction for my patients — and me — was simple: Eliminate the sugar addiction first, then any and all other addictions to drugs or other issues would more easily be eliminated.<br />
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<u>The Fix: Break the Sugar Addiction Cycle</u><br />
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It was not long ago that the mention of sugar addiction would be countered by questions such as, “what?” or, “where’s the research?”<br />
Today, many clinicians, researchers and most others have jumped on the sugar addiction bandwagon with a new common question: “How do I know when my sugar addiction is gone?” Like other addictions, the short answer is simple: when sugar no longer controls you. More importantly, when addiction itself no longer controls you.<br />
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Others ways we know include:<br />
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When the sugar devil no longer can tempt you.<br />
When you stop rationalizing that refined carbs are part of a healthy diet.<br />
When you no longer believe that humans are glucose-dependent.<br />
When you understand that sugar does not give you long-lasting healthy energy.<br />
After reviewing some of the mechanisms behind the very common problem of sugar and other secondary addictions, here’s the key point: The remedy is simple — breaking the cycle. I don’t wish to oversimplify an emotionally painful and complex physiological condition, but this involves reducing stress, especially from the diet.<br />
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While individuality is important, in my experience there are two starting points:<br />
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<u>The Stress List. </u><br />
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This can help you organize your primary physical, biochemical and mental-emotional stresses in a way that begins the process of eliminating some, reducing others, and helping the body best adapt to those that remain.<br />
The Two Week Test. Remove all sugar/junk food from the diet for 2 weeks. This helps break the stress cycle by reducing excess carbohydrate foods, addressing sugar addiction, and helping to learn intuitively how to individualize healthy eating habits.<br />
By kicking your addiction to sugar and reducing other stress factors, you will be confronting the root of all addictive processes, which can lead to successfully giving up other bad habits and addictions as well.<br />
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This article is adapted from a blog written by a college of mine- Dr Phil Maffetone. Full accreditation goes to him.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-38430326102849839662015-12-30T09:00:00.000-08:002015-12-30T09:00:26.422-08:00Bone strength and function.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know its popular, but taking calcium supplements is NOT one of them.<br />
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This is the time of year to care for bone health<br />
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Bone health is quickly becoming a concern for more and more people. Of course, with our aging population of baby boomers, the number of people who will suffer the brittle bone disease of osteoporosis is already skyrocketing, making hip replacements and orthopedic surgery a very busy and expensive profession. And just like everything else in healthcare, bone health is becoming less black and white. People are suffering more and more with little hope for healthy options to prevent the high cost of diseases like osteoporosis.<br />
It is no longer simply about adequate calcium ingestion (actually, it never was; that was just successful marketing by the dairy industry). We’ve limited our attention to bone health to include only osteoporosis and the reduction of bone density. If you think the only people who have to consider bone health are menopausal women, you are sadly mistaken. New research is opening our eyes to more of what impacts bone health and total health. Our bones are incredibly complex organs, just as complicated as any other system in the body.<br />
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A recurring theme in my journey as a natural health care facilitator is the fact that we must expand our knowledge of how our body expresses health. This is because we live in a time where the number of environmental factors that interfere with us living a healthy life has reached a point of critical concern.<br />
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Our bones are responsible for so many seemingly unrelated functions. They provide critical feedback to our brain and nervous system, they help to regulate scores of hormones, and they are factories for our immune and blood cells. Therefore it stands to reason that diseases of bone like osteoporosis have consequences beyond brittle bones.<br />
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Bone health begins at birth and never stops until you die. Waiting until you are 60 years old and diagnosed with low bone density before you take action or consider bone health is like waiting for your first heart attack before you consider your heart health.<br />
Bone health contributes to many things, from sports injuries in the professional athletes to the folks who just want to work out to be fit and healthy. Some examples:<br />
Scoliosis<br />
Chronic joint pain<br />
Shin splints<br />
Sever’s disorder of the heel and osgood schlatters of the knee (apophysitis)<br />
Recurring injuries<br />
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Here are some little known facts about bone health.<br />
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Hormones that regulate energy production and hunger, such as leptin, play a major role in bone health. Leptin resistance is a condition of abnormal energy production and storage that is seen in our modern world, too much refined carbohydrates, fizzy drinks, sweets, sugar and even so called ‘healthy’ complex carbs.<br />
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Decreased progesterone and high oestrogen levels in all ages contributes to bone loss.(high levels of oestrogenic compounds from the petrochemical industry in our atmosphere ‘mimics’ oestrogen in the body, raising oestrogen and lowering progesterone.) This is often not considered until menopause, but progesterone levels can actually be negatively impacted throughout your life.<br />
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DNA transcription factors found in the gut and impacted by diet directly impact the differentiation of cells in our bone to become osteoblasts and osteoclasts. The cells responsible for laying down new bone and remodeling bone. Linking gut health and bone health.<br />
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Bone health is directly impacted by the interplay of several key hormones, all of which requires LDL cholesterol for their production. There is a link between taking statin drugs and poor bone health.<br />
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Osteocalcin is a hormone produced by our osteoblasts and is involved in creating insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity is the opposite of the pre-diabetic state of insulin resistance. Osteocalcin also helps us to make more testosterone, which improves bone health in both men and women.<br />
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Vitamin K2 ( found in pesticide free/organic eggs)and the hormone osteocalcin together are involved with where and how calcium can be deposited in bone, teeth and even arteries. K2 is deficient in our culture due to its loss when processing food. When there is a deficiency of vitamin K2, calcium loses its ability to go where it is needed and may result in calcium being deposited where it is not needed (plaque formation in the arteries) and result in cardio vascular disease.<br />
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Osteocalcin needs to be activated by a process of adding a carboxyl group. Carboxylation of osteocalcin is inhibited by insulin resistance and diabetes.(high carbohydrate diet.) This explains the increased risk of osteoporosis for diabetics. The interplay of vitamin K2, blood sugar/insulin regulation and osteocalcin carboxylation make it difficult to do a simple blood test. A clinical picture and AK testing will give us a healthy insight into the risk factors of poor bone health.<br />
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Interestingly calcium can also be deposited in teeth as plaque. This may be a better indication of vitamin K2 deficiency and poor activation of osteocalcin.<br />
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Vitamin K2 is present in unprocessed foods. Organic green leafy vegetables have vitamin K2, but produce that is exposed to pesticides is depleted of vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is indirectly produced in our bodies by the bacteria present in our gut, if our gut is healthy. Poor gut health and microbiome can be another indicator of poor Vitamin K2 levels.<br />
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Exercise can be helpful, especially weight bearing and MAF aerobic training, but the positive effect of exercise must be supported by a low carb, higher fat/protein/fruit/veg diet.<br />
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Poor bone health does not cause diseases like atherosclerosis, diabetes, heart valve disease, immune challenges, and sleeping disorders. Rather, poor bone density and health are valuable indicators for a dramatically increased risk of all these conditions.<br />
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<u>The best steps you can take to begin to improve bone health</u>.<br />
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Reduce leptin resistance with a food combination/paleo style diet that focuses on fresh organic vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, organic eggs , healthy meats and healthy animal fats like EPA and DHA (animal source Omega 3 fat).<br />
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Limit dairy milk but organic pesticide free butter and cream and yogurt are ok.<br />
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Vitamin D. Supplements vitamin D3 in hemp oil and black cummin seed oil during autumn, winter and spring. In summer make sure at least 40% of your skin is exposed to the sun for at least 1 hour per day.(no sun block)<br />
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Vitamin K2 at 50-150 mcg per day in hemp oil.<br />
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Dietary control of gut inflammation- reduce grains/pulses/beans and absolutely no refined carbohydrates/sugar/junk food.<br />
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Practice intermittent fasting. Fasting is a great way to temporarily decrease the antigenic load in the gut where 85% of the immune activity resides. Fasting shuts down much of our inflammatory processes. In other words give the gut a rest.<br />
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Gut inflammation is further inhibited by supplementing L-glutamine and Liquorice(DGL) regularly, especially if you are aware the gut dysfunction is a part of your health history.<br />
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In 35 years of practice I rarely find the need for calcium supplementation. If you have a diet rich in whole, healthy foods, please do not supplement calcium. This has been shown to lead to adverse outcomes for reasons discussed above.<br />
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Regular intake of liposomal turmeric and resveratrol to regulate inflammatory cytokines, increase IGF-1 and at the same time (in the case of resveratrol) increase bone density and decrease bone resorption.<br />
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Increasing neuronal and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and decreasing inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) with MAF exercise and L-Arginine supplementation. iNOS will contribute to proinflammatory processes and bone loss, whereas eNOS will contribute to increased bone density.<br />
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Sleep is critical to total health, recovery and healing. Addressing emotional and stress issues that interfere with sleep is essential.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-43331021989945301962015-11-26T09:23:00.000-08:002015-11-26T09:23:45.119-08:00Single Nucleotide Polymorphism.Single nucleotide polymorphism(SNIP) is a variation on a single nucleotide which may occur at some specific point in the genome. In laymen’s terms, a glitch or hiccup in the genes. Though a more serious example of a SNIP is cystic fibrosis. One could say that the SNIP that contributes to sickle cell anemia is a protective evolutionary change that offers some protection against malaria.<br />
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Thankfully most of the SNIP’s are just ‘glitches’ and I’m sure as the science of genetics and especially<a href="http://starfieldsholistichealthcare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/epigenetics-and-holistic-health.html"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Epigenetics</span></a> evolves there will be more understanding of both the seriousness of SNIP’s and how they manifest in day to day life.<br />
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An example of a SNIP is, at a specific base position in the human genome, it may be that in most individuals the base C appears there; but in a minority of individuals, the base A appears at that position instead. There is a SNIP at this specific base position, and the two possible nucleotide variations - C or A - are said to be alleles for this base position. Although in this example and most SNIPs so far discovered there are only two different alleles.<br />
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The severity of our illness and the way the body overcomes that illness and how it handles the treatment of these illnesses is also genetically and epigenetically predisposed. In other words these SNIP’s contribute to the intensity of our symptoms, or not and how the body heals itself. An example, sickle cell anaemia of how a SNIP develops as a protective mechanism for the body that has been attacked by the Malaria protozoa.<br />
It alters the shape of the red blood cell to become sickle like in shape that contributes to the slowly down of the spread of the malaria protozoa. The downside is all the attendant symptoms of Sickle cell anemia.<br />
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A less well known(but not in my practice) manifestation of a SNIP is within the individual’s capability of converting Vitamin B6(Pyridoxine) to its activated cofactor Pyridoxine-5-phosphate. This can express itself epigenetically as high levels of Homocysteine in the blood, chronic fatigue, low attention span, chronic muscular aches and pains, generalised malaise and hormonal and digestive disorders and cardiovascular issues. Thankfully we have a supplementation -P5P in capsule form, that the patient takes, at a higher dose initially then a lower dose latterly for the rest of their lives.<br />
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There are variations between human populations, so a SNIP allele that is common in one geographical or ethnic group may be much rarer in another. This is important to take note of when you are working with patients from overseas or from a different ethnic background.<br />
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This is a complex and very new science but what is emerging is that we can alter the epigenetic expression of our genome by health living, good diet, lower stress levels, specific nutrition, meditation, relaxation etc...all the natural, holistic approaches that are available to us now.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-81076513531484987712015-11-26T09:22:00.000-08:002015-11-26T09:22:28.770-08:00Activated Vitamin B6 in pregnancy and labour<br />
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Vitamin B6(Pyridoxine) is a water soluble vitamin substantially found in fruit, vegetables, grains, chickpeas and meat. It is readily absorbed in the upper small intestine where it is used as a co factor in over a 100 known enzyme reactions in the body.<br />
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In the liver, VitaminB6(pyridoxine) is activated by a process of phosphorylation to become activated Vitamin B6.(P5P). This activated coenzyme form goes on to catalyze a myriad of biochemical reactions.<br />
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Pyridoxine 5 phosphate(P5P) is the predominant form of vitB6 in the plasma.<br />
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P5P is needed for the proper absorption of vitamin B12, Magnesium and gastric HCl.<br />
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P5P is an important coenzyme in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and the elongation of essential fatty acids. It is a vital ingredient to stop the build up of homocysteine (thus protecting the cardio-vascular system) and is also required for the production of antibodies and red blood cells (in pregnancy you will be making new blood cells).<br />
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It participates in the Phase 1 and Phase 2 liver detox pathways. Therefore in morning sickness during pregnancy it is the go to co-factor in helping to ease the extra load on the maternal liver.<br />
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In labour, activated VitaminB6 helps release stored glycogen(stored glucose) in the form of glucose within the uterine muscle, making this glucose available to be used in the Krebs cycle for energy consumption. This takes place in the mitochondria of uterine muscle tissue.<br />
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Also in labour, skeletal muscle is being used to keep you physically active and help with the labour so P5P is very important in participating in the release of stored glucose to be used as energy in skeletal muscle.<br />
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<u>P5P also participates in the formation of noradrenalin.</u><br />
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Noradrenaline is a very important hormone of labour as it stimulates the release of glucose from the liver and increases the maternal heart rate to pump blood around the body (with all that extra glucose/O2/fats/nutrients).<br />
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Noradrenaline is essentially getting Mother's brain and body ready for action - the action of labour, so you want this to be at its optimal level.<br />
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Noradrenaline mobilizes the break down of brown fat for energy.<br />
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In the kidneys, noradrenaline release glucagon which in turn release more glucose from the liver.<br />
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In adipose tissue(fat tissue) it breaks down fats to be used as energy within the uterus and skeletal muscle.<br />
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In the gut it slows down digestion, blood flow and release of digestive enzymes (you don’t want to be digesting food when going through labour).<br />
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You can see from the above simplified list how important this co factor-P5P is, and any reduction in levels could have a significant affect on your well being.<br />
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In clinical practice a number of questions arise. If Vitamin B6 is so abundant in so many food groups why do patients need the activated form P5P?<br />
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Simply put, they are not converting an abundance of B6 in the diet/body to P5P.<br />
So why is this not happening in some people, especially those that belong to the <span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.starfieldsholistichealthcare.com/red-body-type.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">RED body type</span></a><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>(mesomorph)?<br />
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The reason we feel is a genetic glitch we call a <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://starfieldsholistichealthcare.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/epigenetics"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">single nucleotide polymorphism</span></a> </span>(SNIP for short). In other words, somewhere in their genetic code these individuals have a hiccup that doesn’t allow them to make enough enzymes to convert VitB6 to it's activated form - P5P. This explains why I see so many people that require a supplement of P5P to maintain optimal well being (mainly but not exclusively Red body type/mesomorph).<br />
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So lets keep this simple, the Red body types have a genetic glitch (SNIP) that prevents them from fully converting all of the abundant VitB6 in the diet/plasma to P5P, which the body then goes on to use in a myriad of biological reactions.<br />
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Therefore, a shortage of P5P may lead to excessive morning sickness as the maternal liver struggles with the extra endogenous toxins.<br />
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A shortage of P5P may also lead to a prolonged and uncomfortable labour due to the reduction of available glucose and fats for energy needed by the uterus.<br />
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There is not enough P5P to go around to give you a full compliment of noradrenaline, thus your fat stores/glucose stores and O2 levels are not being fully utilized.<br />
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All in all this one supplement, P5P in capsule, covers many bases and is very beneficial during all stages of pregnancy and labour.<br />
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The other nutrients for labour are Zinc, magnesium and H4 biopterin.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then you decided to try and sit...well we know what comes next..the short story is, as soon as you began walking mum and dad put shoes on your feet,and since then you’ve been wearing ill fitting shoes.( As parents let your kids walk bare foot as much as possible and whenever possible).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here's the thing, the latest ‘craze’ is barefoot running but you’ve encased your feet in shoes,boots,slippers etc for eons in time so what do you think has happened to your feet?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yep,they’ve adapted poorly to your ill fitting shoes you’ve been wearing since you where a kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You’ve developed a buffering layer of fat on the heel bone--because of excessive heel strike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You haven’t developed enough of a buffering layer of fat over the anterior arch because we don’t walk/run enough on the front foot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The muscles of the foot have been used in an un-natural way because of the excessive heel strike action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These same muscles have ‘forgotten’ to ‘save’ kinetic energy and then ‘release’ this kinetic energy on ‘toe off’ or pushing stage of the gait pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your posture ‘slouches’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your pelvis and upper cervical vertebrae will be out of alignment.Putting too much strain on these joints and their ligaments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The chinese meridian points and gait reflexes that are on the foot are all out of synch because of all of the above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The layer of shoe leather/rubber/plastic etc acts like a ‘disconnector’ to the Earth( as does walking on pavements).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So what happens next?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Excuse the pun but we need to make changes,gradually,one step at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Walk on grass for 30 minutes at a time to start with. You’re local park is a great venue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Walk on the beach for 30 minutes to start with and gradually build it up till you can walk comfortable for 60 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These three simple exercises will slowly and gradually build up the muscles of the foot and lower leg and return you stride pattern to something like natural....it also feels great and enlivening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The skin on the soles of your feet will thicken as will the natural buffering layer of fat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The gait reflexes and chinese meridian points will start to normalize and return to their natural state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your posture will show healthy signs of improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whether you want to start bare foot running or not, being on bare feet as much as possible is very healthy for you and very ‘grounding’ mentally/emotionally.Your posture will improve as will your levels of vitality and energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For those who want to continue to bare foot running there are a few steps to observe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1) You will find yourself naturally running on the balls of your feet and it will be almost impossible to run on you heels like you’ve been doing for eons when you wore shoes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your running or gait action will noticeably change and may feel unusual to start with but strangely it will also feel ‘normal’. Even paleolithic or primordial. Trust this...its a great feeling and will get better as you return to your ‘roots’ of running naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2) Run gently for 50m then walk for 100m. do this 10 times to start with.No more, but do less if you feel uncomfortable especially if you starting out on sand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3) Be careful at this stage because you can ‘strain’ muscles that have never been used in this way before even though it is how they are supposed to be used. Wearing ill fitting shoes and poorly design training shoes have ‘retrained’ you walking/running patterns in a very negative way so to undo these harmful patterns change won't happen over night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4) SLOW is the new FAST. Take you time to build up and feel free to rest between sessions and walk between ‘runs'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That’s all for now. e- mail me for a consult or any further info.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-8576806182633558542015-11-22T05:08:00.001-08:002015-12-30T10:05:11.434-08:00We are all athletes and fat burning as our energy source<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Having just finished busy clinic in Edinburgh I'm going to add a few notes about my last blog on Fat burning as our fuel of choice over refined carbohydrates and in general complex carbohydrates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">1) Paramount of importance is to remove all junk food, white refined carbohydrates(cakes/buns/biscuits/chocolate/fizzy drinks), sugar, coffee/tea and additives and preservatives from your diet. Now!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">2) Hay/Food combining diet (see previous blog)with only whole grain brown rice as a carbohydrate. No bread of any kind and no potatoes and chips. No bananas. No pasta of any kind. For the first 6 weeks. After this you may want to introduce some potatoes occasionally but I would keep of All breads. But always stick to the healthy food combinations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">4) Buy a juicer and use it once a day. I recommend you juice two celery sticks, one apple, one carrot,one small beetroot and one orange. This is the minimum but be creative add some nuts and other veg/fruit. Ginger for the boys but not the girls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">7) All seeds stored in dark container and used whole or blend in a coffee grinder just before use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">8)Take a food supplement of turmeric and black cummin seeds once per day..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">9) Throw out the weighing scales. A more accurate measurement is to measure your waist line and upper arms to see how much fat you have burnt off from these areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">10) Purchase a heart monitor for MAF aerobic fat burning exercise(see previous blog on the athlete and fat burning).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">11) If you are starting out from the armchair -Walk..for 6 weeks every day on your MAF pulse. 30 minutes for the first week. 35 minutes for the next week till you reach 60 minutes a day. Walking will be a healthy, gradual start to building and maintaining your aerobic base. Keep a space for walking at least twice a week even if it's to and from work. You can always get a dog!! Now you can think about running/cycling/gym classes but always with the MAF formula. As your exercises become more intense you will need to have a rest day or a walk day or a mix of both. You know what's best for you when you start to listen to your body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">12) For you folks who already do some kind of sports/ exercise start with MAF formula and incorporate it into your schedule. Also walking is excellent to help with over training and fatigue to rebuild your aerobic base and balance out the excessive unaerobic build up in you body. Start out easy with this new MAF formula as it is different to what you are used to but the rewards are great in a short period of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">These are just guidelines and a starter to do your own research but please feel free to contact me for any further info.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I offer a service on a one to one basis to taylor make you personnel nutritional and exercise and life style needs to your own unique situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new", "courier", monospace;">Here is a link to a recently published<a href="http://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(15)00334-0/fulltext" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> article on fat burning.</span></a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-36029397056601719602015-11-01T07:45:00.000-08:002015-12-30T10:03:23.657-08:00The Healthy Athlete and Fat burning.<br />
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This approach is for all athletes from all levels of competition and all sports especially when a high degree of endurance is called for.</div>
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As a species I feel we are endurance orientated and most of us have an in built aerobic system built on using oxygen and fats are our primary energy source.<br />
Sprinters are mostly unaerobic and use low oxygen and glucose as a short burst of power. That does not mean to say that they would not benefit from a sound aerobic base - they would and they would post better race times and be able to run more races in a season due to having a shorter and healthier recovery time and have an over all sense of good health and well being.<br />
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Fat burning as a fuel for us humans is much more efficient than burning carbs.<br />
For every gram of fat we get 9 calories, for every gram of carbohydrate we get 4 calories.<br />
From one molecule of the common saturated fat, palmitic acid we get 130 ATP molecules.<br />
From one molecule of glucose we only get 36 molecules of ATP.<br />
It takes more O2 to oxidase the fats to release ATP so therefore there is great benefit in building up a solid aerobic base into our fitness levels(this applies to all sports).<br />
Fats also take a longer metabolic pathway and thus a longer time, to release their ATP than carbs. So it's wiser to have a slower longer warm up period (15 to 20 mins) to prepare your body to fat burn.<br />
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When you take in carbs your insulin levels spike and stop you from burning fat as a fuel,instead it makes fat and deposits it as adipose tissue in the usual areas.( waistline and thighs).<br />
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So it makes sense in the athlete to use fat as the main source of fuel to burn during training and race conditions.<br />
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The old approach of 'carbing up' will help replenish glycogen stores(stored glucose) but will diminish the athletes ability to fat burn as his body is getting a clear message from the spiked insulin to store fat not burn it.<br />
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Yet we need glucose for fat burning to be more efficient and the only fuel supply for the brain is glucose.<br />
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So what's the remedy to this conundrum?<br />
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As I've said before in my updated blog we need to reduce significantly our carbohydrate intake and completely avoid all refined and processed carbs ( all junk food) and increase our healthy fat, vegetable and protein intake.(all pesticide free and organic)<br />
This approach allows the body to use fat as an energy source from its stores and dietary intake.As insulin doesn't spike as no starches are present,the the body will be more efficient at utilising dietary and stored fat. Muscle function will improve laying down more lean muscle bulk as fats and proteins work well together both in the digestive system and muscle cells.<br />
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So the individual athlete must over come her past indoctrination about carbs as been the best energy source and that 'carbing up' is the solution to her energy needs.<br />
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He must also face up to his addiction to sugar and sweet foodstuffs and start to wean himself of sugar rich foods.<br />
(We must, I repeat must come of all junk/processed foods as paramount to well being)<br />
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It means a willingness to try something new and a 'trust process' to allow for this change in approach to take effect and a open mind to observe the results.<br />
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It also means 'label reading' all and every packet and canned foodstuffs to make sure they are additives,preservatives and sugars free.(glucose,maltodextrose,corn syrup,sucrose to name a few of the disguises sugar comes under)<br />
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It also means cooking and preparing food and finding the time to do so.<br />
I always recommend cooking as it can be therapeutic and a rest from the rigours and stress of training and competition.(and the work place).<br />
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<u>So what about the good fats?</u><br />
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Only cook with goose or duck fat or lard.They stay stable during the cooking process and do not go rancid or transform(trans fats). Trans fats are the bad boys- big time!!<br />
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Do not cook with vegetable oils as they very quickly change to trans fats or go rancid and therefore very toxic for us. It is my opinion that rancid and trans fats and processed carbohydrates are at the root of many of the endemic diseases of the 21st century.<br />
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Eliminate these from our diet and we will go along way to be a far healthier species.<br />
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It goes without saying that the athlete who wants to perform at his highest level and recover as speedily as possible must eliminate all trans/rancid fats and processed carbohydrates from her diet.<br />
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Raw vegetable fats are very healthy for us.<br />
Coconut oil<br />
Olive oil<br />
Sesame oil<br />
Flax oil<br />
Pumpkin oil<br />
Hemp oil<br />
Pumpkin oil<br />
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Nuts and seeds raw(just out of their shells) and put through a blender are an excellent source of healthy oils and protein.<br />
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Organic eggs are a super food but cook them soft boiled and poached.(cooking in air oxides the healthy fats) They contain lipases(fat reducing enzymes) alongside good fats and proteins. They also contain Vit K2 that helps make osteocalcin that takes calcium from blood and atherosclerotic plaques and drops it into our bones, teeth and nails.<br />
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There is a method to eating that maximises the goodness we get from our foods and that is the Hay diet or food combining diet. Simply put,you separate proteins from starches at any given meal, with most vegetables going with well with either proteins or starches.This is a ' must' on so many fronts for good health.The benefits are potent and long lasting and quite easy to implement.<br />
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In other words proteins and fats are digested in one system and starches in another system. A bit like putting petrol into your petrol engine and diesel into your diesel engine. You wouldn't put petrol into you diesel engine? So we must learn not to put proteins into our starch digestive system and vice versa.(see food combining blog).<br />
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<u>Healthy Starches.</u><br />
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Whole grain organic brown rice<br />
Sweet potatoes<br />
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<u>Unhealthy Starches.(all cause an insulin spike)</u><br />
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Potatoes.<br />
Pasta.<br />
Bread/cakes/sweets<br />
Refined sugars of all kinds<br />
fizzy drinks of all kinds<br />
Sports drinks of all kinds<br />
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<u>Training on your maximum heart rate(beats per minute-bpm) to burn fat.</u><br />
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For all athletes from all levels and background a change from using glucose as the primary energy source to utilising dietary and body fat as an energy source comes with a change in how you train.<br />
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How you train will change your metabolism from excessive glucose intake which causes the insulin 'spike' to fat burning as its primary source of energy production i.e. beta oxidation of fats in the mitochondria so they enter the Krebs cycle as Acetyl CoA<br />
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This requires the use of a pulse monitor, to measure keeping you, too your designated maximum aerobic pulse rate over a set distance and observing the change in time.<br />
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Initially this means you will train slower to get faster- slow is the new fast. There will be noticeable results in around 2 weeks and by the 4th week you will be in the grove of - slow is the new fast. You will have a feeling of well being and generally have more energy as you body adapts to the dietary change and the new approach of training on the pulse(beats per minute).<br />
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You will notice that you speed up and you will have to put more effort into maintaining your maximum aerobic pulse rate.<br />
In other words, at the same pulse rate you will take a shorter time to cover the same training distance.<br />
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<u>Finding your maximin aerobic rate- beats per minute.</u><br />
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This is the 180 formula developed by a colleague of mine Dr Phil Maffetone-the MAF formula.<br />
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<u>The MAF formula.</u><br />
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Take 180 minus your age is your maximum aerobic rate. When training you don't go above this level and you seek to maintain this level for the duration of you training,meaning you don't go under this level.<br />
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So a 35 y.o. runner's maximium heart rate according to the MAF formula would be<br />
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180 minus 35 =145 beats per minute. So he would warm up for 15 to 20 minutes till his heart rate was 145 bpm and maintain that for 30 mins with a cool down for 10 minutes.<br />
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One of the key features in the MAF formula is that you slowly warm up, this is very important as it reduces the anaerobic, hormonal, heart, circulation stress and gently brings in fat burning as a fuel while not exhausting glycogen stores, thus keeping them for that last anaerobic energy burst to the winning line-the 'kick'.<br />
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A 15 to 20 minute warm up at a slow gentle pace to reach your max aerobic pulse rate maintaining this for 30 minutes then a warm down for 10 minutes. As you improve and your body adapts to the new changes you will want to stay at you're max aerobic level for much longer.<br />
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The warm down is also important so as not to stress the body any further.<br />
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I would also say that if you are a regular athlete/sports person at whatever level then you could use the formula as- <br />
180 minus your age plus 5.<br />
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For example if you regularly exercised for a number of years and are not overstressed from your training schedule then you could add on an extra 5 beats per min. to your MAF formula. e.g. a 35 y.o. female triathlete MAF pulse per min would be<br />
180 minus 35 =145 +5 =150<br />
so her 15 to 20 minute warm up would take her up to 150 beats per minute.She would stay at this level for a minimum of 45minutes then take 10 minutes to warm down.<br />
Depending on the athletes ability and sport this max heart rate level could be maintained for longer e.g. 60/90/120 minutes.<br />
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I would also add that if you have not done any exercise for a number of years and your ‘getting on ‘ a bit then you would subtract 5.<br />
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For example if John at 55 had not played any sport since college I would put his MAF formula as 180 minus 55 =125 minus 5 = 120.<br />
So John would start with a 20 minute warm up till he reached 120 bpm then keep that rate for 30 minutes with a 10 minute warm down. He could be jogging/cycling/swimming.<br />
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I offer a service which would taylor make your MAF to best suit your individual level of fitness and goals.This would also include a full AK evaluation of your nutritional/dietary needs and treatment of any injuries to enhance your performance and sense of well being.<br />
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Cryotherapy.<br />
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You may have seen that most of the top level dance companies/football clubs/rugby clubs have ice baths to help reduce inflammation in the musculoskeletal system.<br />
They are invaluable tool to aid recovery but what they don’t realise is that they aid fat burning.<br />
We all have a small amount of ' brown fat' situated at the under arms(axilla) and at the back of the neck. The purpose of brown fat is help metabolise our fat stores to burn as calories. This is stimulated by cold/plunge baths or just shower these areas with cold water after your workout.<br />
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Here is a recently published<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(15)00334-0/fulltext" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;">article on fat burning</span></a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-75963431892262965762014-04-22T06:07:00.001-07:002014-04-22T06:07:41.000-07:00The dangers of margerine<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Polyunsaturated margarine became a major part of the Western diet and had overtaken butter in popularity in the mid-20th century. Despite their best efforts, the margarine lobby has failed to convince most people that their synthetic concoctions are healthy. So what is not obvious to most of the people who consume it? The manufacturing process of course, which is very similar to the way plastic is produced.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Did you know that numerous types of margarine carry the approved recommendations and seal of agencies that also promote cardiovascular health, such as heart and stroke foundations? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u> Manufacturing Process .</u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The basic method of making margarine today consists of emulsifying a blend of vegetable oils and fats, which can be modified using fractionation, interesterification, and/or hydrogenation of plant fats, chilling the mixture to solidify it and working it to improve the texture. Those fats that are liquid at room temperature are oils. The oils are hydrogenated by passing hydrogen through the oil in the presence of a nickel catalyst. The addition of hydrogen effectively increases the melting point of the oil and thus "hardening" it. Margarines made in this way contain hydrogenated fat. If some of the chemical bonds aren't hydrogenated during the process, they will still be present in the final margarine in molecules of trans fats the consumption of which has been shown to be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> To boost its health profile, modern margarines are making their products from wide variety of animal or vegetable fats, mixed with skim milk, and emulsifiers, such as soy lecithin to help disperse the water phase evenly throughout the oil, and preservatives are also commonly added. The margarine industry has also taken to promoting the fact it's low in saturated fat, a thinly veiled jab at butter. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">But growing evidence is now firmly establishing that saturated fat may not be a problem at all. A false interpretation of scientific studies has led to millions being "over-medicated" with statin drugs due to the proliferation of myths in the medical community regarding the role of saturated fat in heart disease. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter was and is still is recognized by many as the most easily absorbed source of vitamin A. Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role. Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital anti-oxidant--containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Why You Should Avoid Margarine, Shortening and Spreads</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">There are a myriad of unhealthy components to margarine and other butter imposters, including:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Trans fats</u>: These unnatural fats in margarine, shortenings and spreads are formed during the process of hydrogenation, which turns liquid vegetable oils into a solid fat Trans fats contribute to heart disease, cancer, bone problems, hormonal imbalance and skin disease; infertility, difficulties in pregnancy and problems with lactation; and low birth weight, growth problems and learning disabilities in children. A U.S. government panel of scientists determined that man-made trans fats are unsafe at any level. (Small amounts of natural trans fats occur in butter and other animal fats, but these are not harmful.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Free radicals</u>: Free radicals and other toxic breakdown products are the result of high temperature industrial processing of vegetable oils. They contribute to numerous health problems, including cancer and heart disease.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Synthetic vitamins</u>: Synthetic vitamin A and other vitamins are added to margarine and spreads. These often have an opposite (and detrimental) effect compared to the natural vitamins in butter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Emulsifiers and preservatives</u>: Numerous additives of questionable safety are added to margarines and spreads. Most vegetable shortening is stabilized with preservatives like BHT.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hexane and other solvents: Used in the extraction process, these industrial chemicals can have toxic effects.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Bleach:</u> The natural color of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is grey so manufacturers bleach it to make it white. Yellow coloring is then added to margarine and spreads.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Artificial flavors</u>: These help mask the terrible taste and odor of partially hydrogenated oils, and provide a fake butter taste.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Mono- and di-glycerides</u>: These contain trans fats that manufacturers do not have to list on the label. They are used in high amounts in so-called "low-trans" spreads.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Soy protein isolate</u>: This highly processed powder is added to "low-trans" spreads to give them body. It can contribute to thyroid dysfunction, digestive disorders and many other health problems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u>Sterols</u>: Often added to spreads to give them cholesterol-lowering qualities, these estrogen compounds can cause endocrine problems; in animals these sterols contribute to sexual inversion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">As you can see we must avoid margarine at all times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I recommend a light scraping of organic butter on your bread/toast. Be careful when cooking with butter. When it turns brown that means it has oxidised and has become toxic.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Sound is not just heard by the ears as music, it is also”felt”by the body, via the Chinese meridian system.For example, if you listened to an analogue sound recording of a Beethoven symphony (a composer of deep love and compassion) conducted by Furtwangler(a deeply loving human being) it will immediately lift up your Chi energy, de-stress the meridian and neurological systems and you will feel more content and relaxed.It will be an excellent therapy for you, as music should be.Play a digitalized recording of the same music and it will not have the same beneficial affect!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-31613705396471766042014-02-19T03:27:00.001-08:002014-02-19T03:27:53.981-08:00Michel Odent on "love cocktails" in birth<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pcEmuUrdMGU" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Michel Odent wrote a wonderful book on childbirth "the violence of birth". It is still as valuable today as when it was first published all those years ago.</span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">AK and Holistic approaches take this all to a higher level and with great success. Presently due to a number of enviromental factors/diet/poor nutrition and stress most women are defficient in progesterone and oxytocin and this leads to difficulty in concieving and difficult labours with low weight neonates and the broadspectrum of ADHD/Autism.</span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The approaches I use make sure all the hormones are at optimimul levels correcting any defficiences and detoxifying any body toxins we find, <u>before</u> conception and then monitoring the hormone levels and spinal and pelvic alignments throughout the gestation period. We are very much in favour of natural births at home in a quite peaceful space surounded by loved ones.</span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Listen to this man carefully as he has decades of experience with natural childbirth.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-60907199446163749992014-02-03T09:08:00.001-08:002014-02-03T09:08:49.753-08:00Birth Trauma - An Holistic Approach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Here is a short video on my approach to birth trauma and how I correct it using Applied Kinesiology techniques. I'm interviewed by a client of mine who suffered severe physical trauma to the cranium and upper neck at birth, who in later life developed debilitating headaches/migraine and neck pain.All succesful treated by AK, Chiropractic and nutrition. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-40485691407829659242014-02-02T07:11:00.000-08:002014-02-02T07:11:04.443-08:00Ear Infections in Children - Otitis Media(OM).<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">allergy rotation or elimination diets are important in managing chronic OM presentations. The most common food allergies include wheat, cow's milk, soy, corn, and strawberries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">*Kali muriaticum: recommended when patients experience fullness and congestion in the ear, impaired hearing, and popping or crackiling sounds on swallowing. This remedy is commonly used to clear the eustachian tubes when serous fluid persists after acute OM.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-53019228745270229932013-09-29T10:52:00.001-07:002013-09-29T10:52:04.613-07:00Epigenetics-more info.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hi folks,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">This is an article that really just says what I've been saying and practising for a while now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">You can change.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">You are not at the mercy of your DNA.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">You Really Can Change Your DNA – </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If you believe that you are at the mercy of your genetic code, great news, you’re not. According to the science of epigenetics (the study of how environmental factors outside of DNA influence changes in gene expression), stem cells and even DNA can be altered through magnetic fields, heart coherence, positive mental states and intention. Top scientists around the world agree: genetic determinism is a flawed theory.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The DNA we are born with is not the sole determinant for our health and well-being. Stem cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., discusses the important difference between genetic determinism and epigenetics in an interview with Super Consciousness magazine:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“The difference between these two is significant because this fundamental belief called genetic determinism literally means that our lives, which are defined as our physical, physiological and emotional behavioral traits, are controlled by the genetic code. This kind of belief system provides a visual picture of people being victims: If the genes control our life function, then our lives are being controlled by things outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is not true.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Lipton’s theory is confirmed by Carlo Ventura, M.D., Ph.D., professor and researcher at the University of Bologna in Italy. Dr. Ventura has shown through lab testing that the DNA of stem cells can be altered using magnetic field frequencies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“It’s like a time machine. You’re reprogramming somehow backward with these cells to an uncertain state in which any kind of decision is somehow possible; even the decision to become virtually any kind of cell of the organism. And just think about the tremendous potential of this discovery.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">He adds that two Nobel Prize-winning scientists discovered even “nonstem adult cells can be epigenetically reprogrammed backward to a state where they can eventually give rise to neural cells, cardiac cells, skeletal muscle cells or insulin-producing cells.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Changing DNA through intention</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">According to the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, epigenetics encompasses far more than just DNA, our environment and life experience. After two decades of study, the researchers discovered factors like love and appreciation or anxiety and anger also influence a person’s blueprint. In one experiment, select participants were able to change DNA with positive mental states.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">“An individual holding three DNA samples was directed to generate heart coherence – a beneficial state of mental, emotional and physical balance and harmony – with the aid of a HeartMath technique that utilizes heart breathing and intentional positive emotions. The individual succeeded, as instructed, to intentionally and simultaneously unwind two of the DNA samples to different extents and leave the third unchanged.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Control group volunteers who had low heart coherence were unable to alter the DNA.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Healthy cell expression and a quantum nutrient diet</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If we want to nourish our bodies at a cellular level (and not promote disease), the institute recommends an abundant diet of quantum nutrients. When we are stressed or negative, our biological energy reserves are diverted from the important task of regenerating and repairing the body. We can counteract this cellular starvation by focusing on genuine states of care, appreciation and love. These positive emotions enhance our energy system and feed the body, even down to the level of DNA. HeartMath calls such positive feelings “quantum nutrients.”</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-4723813903453088002013-08-29T05:03:00.001-07:002013-08-29T05:03:22.448-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1. YOU ARE A PHYSICAL EXTENSION OF THAT WHICH IS NON-PHYSICAL. YOU ARE A WHOLE COMPLETE BEING IN PHYSICAL FORM. YOU ARE ONE WITH ALL WHILE IN HUMAN FORM.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2. YOU ARE HERE IN THIS BODY BECAUSE YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE. THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH WITH A CAPITAL ‘T’. YOU ARE THE CHOICE-MAKER. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">3. YOU ARE FUNDAMENTALLY FREE, THIS IS A GIVEN, THIS IS A TRUTH.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">4. THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE IS TO BRING JOY TO YOUR EARTH JOURNEY. LITERALLY TO BRING HEAVEN TO EARTH. TO BRING ‘ONENESS’ TO THE PHYSICAL STORY.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">5. YOU ARE A CREATOR; YOU CREATE WITH YOUR EVERY THOUGHT AND FEELING.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">6. ANY PURPOSE THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE IS YOURS TO BE OR DO OR HAVE. HAVE A DREAM AND IT IS YOURS TO MAKE MANIFEST.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">7. AS YOU ARE CHOOSING YOUR DREAMS AND YOUR THOUGHTS YOUR INNER LOVING BEING IS GUIDING YOU.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">8. THE UNIVERSE ADORES YOU FOR IT KNOWS YOUR BIGGEST PICTURE, YOUR TRUER INTENTIONS.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">9. BE STILL IN YOUR OWN NATURAL WELL-BEING. ALL IS WELL. (TRULY IT IS!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">10.YOU ARE A CREATOR OF BEING-NESS....THOUGHTS...ACTION ON YOUR UNIQUE PATH OF JOY. THIS IS THE RE- DISCOVERED WAY OF CREATING.....BEING-NESS...... CREATES THOUGHTS .....WHICH CREATE ACTION. ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AND POSSESSIONS TO BE EXCHANGED COME AFTER YOUR FOCUS ON BEING-NESS AND OF JOY.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">11. ALLOWING OTHERS THEIR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES ALLOWS YOU YOURS.THERE IS NO LIMITS TO YOUR EXPERIENCES AND CREATIONS.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-18023733420925231172013-04-04T05:00:00.000-07:002013-04-04T05:00:37.581-07:00Epigenetics and Holistic Health<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Epigenetics offers a new way forward in understanding chronic disease and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">is often labelled the new biology</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Epigenetic means "on the gene," and the term refers to the recent discovery that stress in the environment can impact an individual's physiology so deeply that those biological scars are actually inherited by the next several generations. For instance, a recent study has shown that men who started smoking before puberty caused their sons to have significantly higher rates of obesity. And obesity is just the tip of the iceberg - many researchers believe that epigenetics holds the key to understanding cancer, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and diabetes.</span></span></h4>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">So let's be clear about this, Epigenetics is showing that <b>our life style does impact our genetic code and that of our children</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The potential is staggering.....the age of epigenetics has arrived"</span></b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time magazine January 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Epigenetic changes relate to how our genes express themselves and not a true change of the genetic code. In other words the genes you are born with are your genes and their code is yours but how they<i> express</i> themselves varies according to enviromental factors and emotional or psychological factors.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Toxins in the enviroment and harmful belief systems and emotions actually interfere with the highest expression of your genetic material which in turn produces all the biology that makes up your body. With the aging process this only gets worse.Thus, these Epigenetic changes lead to an unhealthy gene expression which can manifest in chronic illness and are major factors in the cause of diseases like heart disease, obesity, cancer, neurological and cognitive disorders and infertility.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b>The read out of our genes is affected by enviromental signals, through how we percieve the world around us - Epigenetics</b>.</span><br />
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How you as a unique individual see the world selects which gene sequences are going to be activated and modified to make the proteins (and then enzymes) which best fit your enviromental circumstances at that time.</span><br />
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This is very important - perception runs our genes!!! Your unique perception as a unique individual activates the neccessary gene expression for your unique circumstances at that time.</span><br />
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Now here's the most important part!!! <i>Mis</i>perceptions will <i>miss</i>-run your gene expression, which leads to faulty proteins which in turn leads to faulty enzymes which lead to dysfunction and disease!!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mis-perceptions are a 'faulty' interpretation of the world around us. When these inaccurate perceptions run our genes it leads to illness. This is so important!!! </span><br />
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This is why our thoughts/belief systems and emotions are a prominent factor in our state of well-being.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the diagragm below the mother smoking introduces a toxin to herself and the developing foetus.This will alter the epigenetic expression in the mother and the foetus.This in turn will alter the epigenetics within the foetus' own reproductive system which will then be 'passed' on to its own offspring - 3rd generation (it may well also alter the gene code).</span><br />
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Simply put, toxic enviromental influences and thoughts/belief systems have a significant impact on our </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">biology/physiology/bodies. To the mum and dad in the above example I would say you can change... empower yourselves to change. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Change your perception and you change your physiology.</span><br />
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Detoxify and support the repair of the damage and you change your biology.</span><br />
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How exciting!!! AK (</span><a href="http://starfieldsholistichealthcare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/what-is-applied-kinesiology.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Applied Kinesiology</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">) has many of the answers and "how to's" to make these real and meaningful changes to your life.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505980028060985059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5568214104665563613.post-61131460084347957052013-02-25T03:53:00.000-08:002013-02-25T03:53:09.411-08:00What Is Applied Kinesiology?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Applied Kinesiology is a non-invasive system that evaluates structural, biochemical, emotional/mental and neurological aspects of health by using muscle testing, postural analysis, body language and gait analysis alongside conventional diagnostic methods. Central to the A.K. approach is the Triad of Health.</span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span>If you train on arising (a habit I would seriously discourage - remember, first and foremost you are a human being and pre-dawn training goes against the natural bio-rhythms of the body), then a small snack of a handful of grapes or a couple of small squares of spelt/cornbread with honey with some water.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">This is probably post match/intensive session so see below 'after the competition'.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes you can feel hungry before a session - at these times I suggest some light toast/bread with honey which will be digested quickly so food is not lying in the digestive tract fermenting/putrifying while you're running around.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No heavy proteins before a heavytraining session or competition. (Protein meals come AFTER a vigorous workout)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Moving into the next hour, sips of water alongside sips of juice (1/3rd pressed apple juice with 2/3rds water or 1/3rd grape juice with 2/3rds water). NOT orange juice.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">You may add a teaspoonful of Manuka honey and a small pinch of salt if the session is reaching the 2 hour mark.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">NEVER drink off the shelf fizzy drinks or 're-hydration' drinks as they are full of 'E' numbers, glucose, aspartamate etc... in other words, junk.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">If you are a tennis player/cyclist/all day tournament you will need to eat some solid foods.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">DO NOT eat these off the shelf sports bars.They are a mixture of carbs and proteins and refined sugars/glucose. Too much for the digestive system to manage while the body and mind are in 'competing' mode.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">You might prepare small squares of spelt bread with honey before hand (if you are</span> <a href="http://starfieldsholistichealthcare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/food-allergies-holistic-approach.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">gluten intolerant</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">then cornbread is a good alternative).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the next 30 minutes or so you can drink 2/3rds water 1/3rd pressed apple or grape juice with a pinch of salt or 1/2 capsule of magnesium citrate. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By this time you've warmed down, showered and are feeling more relaxed as the recovery hormone nor-adrenaline kicks in.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">When you feel ready, around now is the time to have a quality protein drink mixed with pressed apple or grape juice. The protein drink needs to be brown rice proteins and natural flavours. Thats all!!! No other ingredients like digestive enzymes, additives, aspartamate or creatine... the list goes on and its quite shocking what the mainstream manufacturers put in, never mind the intensive marketing strategies to get you to buy their product.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">If you can tolerate dairy then there are some products that contain whey and that's fine.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">At this stage your body is hydrating and getting healthy fruit sugars and the appropriate amino acids to replenish and repair itself.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">If you take nutritional supplements now is the time, or you can take them with your meal. (Sports nutrition is a vast subject, so I shall do another post about it. It also needs to be taylor made to your unique needs and sport which is something I do with my clients).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now is the time to have a PROTEIN meal. I know it goes against commonly held beliefs that you need carbs but in the short term there is enough sugars in your fruit drink, soup, veggie drink and vegetables. Its now 1 to 1 1/2 to 2 hours after your competition. You know your body best so when to start eating solid foods is up to you but certainly not before an hour after you finished competing. For me personally its nearer the 1 1/2 hour mark.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">If you wanted you could have a glass of wine occasionally.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">You could also have some goats cheese with an apple or pear.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Or mixed fruit</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><b>2-3 Hours After Intense Exercise</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Now is the time to rest and recover, to allow the food to digest and the body to assimilate all the vital nutrition. Develop the skill of 'cat napping' to aid recovery and to release human growth hormone.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">The key to full repair and regeneration of the musculo-skeletal system is to maximise your protein digestion in the stomach to long and short chain amino acids - then they will go to make up EVERY enzyme system in the body and to make new muscle tissue/ligament tissue/joint/tendon/vertebral disc tissue.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">The sugars in the fruit juice and vegatables will help restore carb stores short term but the bulk of this will be replenished by your carb meal.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Three and half hours later you can have a carb meal, f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">or example:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> pancakes etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can eat as much as you like as your body is now at maximium rate of re-building muscle/liver glycogen and fat stores. Keep to natural sugars from grains and fruit as much as possible and keep away from white refined sugar.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">A small beer occasionally goes with a carb meal (not before a competition though, alcohol takes 18 hours to leave the body).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">On arising the day after drink a glass of water followed by your blended juice.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Breakfast would be a carb meal but no fruit juice, f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">or example:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have any questions about the protocol I've laid out here, please feel free to ask them, either in the comments here or by email (starfieldsholistichealth@gmail.com).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Over a 32 year career I've worked with a number of sports men and women from all levels; club, national and international and over a number of sporting disciplines; Rugby, Football, Road Cycling, Golf, Squash, Judo, Karate, Athletics and Tennis.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">This sports diet will give you all you need to promote quick recovery from an intensive 'session'/competition and also go a long way to enhance your sporting potential.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">As a sportsperson, your diet needs to give you that bit 'extra' to meet the extremes you push the body to. It also needs to help you maximise your sporting potential, increase your performance and promote a healthy recovery.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Here is a list of super foods that are a 'must' in every sports persons household:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All your food must be organic and fresh which does mean more home cooking - this is a great hobby to help relax the mind after the stress of a hard training session or competition (as is growning your own vegs in your own garden/allotment).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">A must is to purchase a juicer and a recipe book to make a variety of fruit juices/veggy juices and a mixture of both. Have a glass per day. A good time to have your homemade juice is one hour before breakfast.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Also, get used to making vegetable soups with chicken stock... any kind of soup, variety is the spice of life. Soups are neutral and go with either a protien meal or carb meal (an important thing to be aware of when following the 'Hay Diet'/food combining - the next step towards ideal sports nutrition which i will come to shortly).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Your training/sports diet must allow for some body fat to be distibuted around the tummy so that when you are training hard your body will convert that fat store to energy </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">(this is why I strongly recommend eggs)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">. Fat is a far better source of energy than carbs and is far less demanding on the body than the high carb diet most athletes have.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fats are also a very important component of the immune system (how many athletes get colds/flu/glandular fever/chills/run down?!). In my experience endurance athletes are lacking in fat stores to convert into energy while competing. So, ensure you have sufficient heathy fats/oils in your diet in the form of oily fish (plus omega 3 supplement {not omega 6}), avocado, nuts, olive oil and some saturated fat from good quality meat and goats cheese.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Food Combining is a must for sports people to optimise their health and performance potential.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">When you eat a piece of chicken (protein) the tongue 'scans' this and sends a neurological and chemical message telling the brain that this is a protein. The brain then produces a massive acid response in the stomach to aid the protein digestion and keep the meat in the stomach for 3 hours.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">When you eat bowl of porridge (carb) a chemical message and neurological message goes to the brain to say 'this is a carb'. The brian then switches off acid production (the exact opposite to protein digestion!) You can imagine how confused the brain gets when you eat a chicken sandwich or beef curry or fish and chips or Sunday roast with potatoes!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To maximise the breakdown of the protiens in fish/chicken/meat into long and short chain amino acids so the body can re-use them to regenerate muscle/ligament tissue the meat/fish/chicken must be eaten apart from carbs!!! this is so important in the sports athlete. When you use your musculo-skeletal system to excess, the tired/damaged muscle needs to be replaced as efficiently and effectively as possible which means proteins <i>must </i>be digested in the stomach without the presence of carbs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">This part of the sports diet is VITAL!!! I cannot impress upon you sports folks enough how important it is to keep proteins and carbs apart. After a vigorous work out your body is desperate for long/short chain amino acids to make every enzyme in the body and to repair the musculo-skeletal system.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">As every human being is unique the same goes for the athlete and their individual approach to their discipline. This diet is HEALTHY, it is an optimium diet to maximise your recovery and give you the maximum opportunity to compete at your highest level.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">* </span><a href="http://starfieldsholistichealthcare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sports-nutrition-part-two-step-by-step.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Part two</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"> of this series of posts for sports people includes a step by step guide to nutrition for optimum performance during and recovery after a high intensity training session or competition.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">1) Zinc deficiency. The acid forming cells (parietal cells) in the lining of your stomach are very zinc dependent. So, in the case of zinc deficiency (which is very common), the number of parietal cells in the lining of the stomach will be reduced, leading to less acid released into the stomach for digestion.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">2) Poor dietary habits over many years leading to an overload on the digestion system and then a 'fatiguing' of these parietal cells.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">3) Wrong food combinations i.e. eating proteins with starches at the same meal.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">4) Emotional stress.This leads to poor circulation in the abdominal organs due to the need to have the muscle system oxygenated in readiness for flight or fight response. The chronic poor circulation to the stomach leads to 'atrophy' of these parietal cells.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">5) Over use of antacids (e.g. Gaviscon). A common held belief is that we have too much stomach acid. This is not the case in the vast majority of 'heart burn' sufferers. Usually 'heartburn' or reflux is due to the stomach acids escaping out of the stomach and into the lower end of the oesophagus.The oesophageal lining is not protected from these stomach acids hence it 'burns' the lining. The proper management of this condition is to correct the hypotonic (weak) oesophageal sphincter (round muscle) so the stomach contents will remain in the stomach and not regurgitate through the weakened sphincter. There would be no need to neutralise the Hcl digestive acids. This is a classic example of a mis-diagnosed ailment and its treatment leading to a new dis-ease/condition - hypochloridria. Also a good example of over the counter medicines being over used.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><br />So, what is the outcome of hypochloridria on the body. This condition is a good example of a 'hidden' problem insidiously worsening over a number of years and contributing to a whole host of bodily disfuctions and distress, and it often goes undiagnosed!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you eat a piece of meat e.g. chicken, the tongue tastes and scans this and sends the information via the nervous system to the brain.The message is "this is protein" the brain then instructs the parietal cells in the stomach to release copious amounts of Hcl and another type of cell - 'chief cells' to release pepsin. They both then digest this protein for approximately 3 1/2 hours into long and short chain amino acids. The stomach then moves it onto the small intestine where it is met by a huge bicarbonate (alkaline) response.These long and short chain amino acids (building blocks) are then absorbed across the wall of the small intestine into the blood stream.They are then carried in the blood stream to wherever the body needs these building blocks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here the most important bit. THESE AMINO ACIDS ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL ENZYME FUNCTIONS IN THE BODY!!! AND THE PROTEINS THAT MAKE UP OUR MUSCLES, JOINT SURFACES,TENDONS, LIGAMENTS AND SKIN TISSUE!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">From my perspective, an untreated and undiagnosed (hidden) allergy can cause havoc in all three sides of the triad of health (structure, biochemistry and emotions). The two main dietary allergies are wheat and dairy. The gluten in wheat and the lactose in dairy are the two main proteins that people are allergic to.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Another way of assessing if you have a wheat or dairy allergy is if as a result of the test outlined above you have a flare up of eczema, psoriasis, arthritis, asthma or bronchitis.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">I said earlier that allergies are complicated so the next step is to dynamically treat the longstanding and chronic affects of the allergy on all the major systems of the body, as well as treating the allergic problem itself.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An unknown or “hidden” allergy can be chronically debilitating and make these patient's lives a misery. In nearly everyone I’ve treated with any of the major illnesses or just chronic ‘un-wellness‘ there is a hidden allergy creating havoc with their immune systems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well you know what happened next... the kid eats a huge piece of the wheat cake for the adults! With no affect whatsoever!! Why? The kid was happy and had all the lovely “happy” hormones flying around his body and he was away from his worried mother.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Article is a brief summary of these major dietary allergies to wheat and dairy. There is so much more i could go into so please feel free to contact me for further information (starfieldsholistichealth@gmail.com)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;">The main organ associated with hay fever is the spleen which will be very deficient in vitamin B12. At this level it sounds very simple, supplement with B12 and you’ll feel an improvement. Not so. Vitamin B12 is notoriously difficult to get into the body as it gets broken down very easily during the digestive process.</span></span><br />
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The first child clearly has an emotional significator to the way he takes in and processes new information. He is a good example of the ADHD spectrum of learning difficulties.</span><br />
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The second child’s handwriting indicates a neurological issue with processing new information then translating that using his fine motor skills which show a clear disturbance. The spelling indicates an auditory/visual disturbance in his brain synaptic connections yet he is of a happy disposition. This child shows signs of dysgraphia/dyslexic side to the spectrum of learning difficulties.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use of special exercises called cross-crawl exercises developed by the AK (Applied Kinesiology) profession can also help.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nutrition maybe given to correct any imbalances in the neurotransmitters of the brain. I would also look for any “hidden” allergies that can contribute to a minuscule swelling of the brain and aggravate the emotional centres of the brain and diminish the levels of the neurotransmitters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In more severe cases, the gut would show signs of “leaky” gut syndrome and that would have to be addressed quickly as this would be a major hindrance in a return to well being.</span><br />
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He will need a healthy physical outlet for his naturally high energy e.g. football, judo, karate and a father who spends quality time with him doing these sports and hobbies together.</span></span><br />
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No game boys/playstations - these are the curse of all these children.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of tactile cuddles and hugs from mum and dad and grandparents too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of quality one to one time and assurances that he is loved and wanted and you are there for him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve treated a number of children with Downs Syndrome and they are a pure joy to work with and respond to natural healthcare so well. The cranial work, the upper cervical work, nutrition, diet and exercises all have profound affect on these children’s immune systems, neurology and over all well being. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet the connection to physical birth trauma has only been recognised by a few. Also, the imbalance to the neurotransmitters has not really been looked at, let alone a treatment approach highlighted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But not all is lost. I’ve been working with these kids for 30 years now and have seen remarkable changes in all cases.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to contact me no matter how small the inquiry, you're not alone in this and proper treatment gives excellent results.</span><br />
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