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About Lorraine C

Lorraine is a contributing author to My Max Wholesale and other health oriented sites included wholeearthhealth.com and the-quality-of-life.com

AIO with AC-11 and Amla Fruit

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The Indian Gooseberry

Amla fruit, better known as the Indian Gooseberry is a bitter, sour, astringent and stringy fruit.  It grows on a tree capable reaching a height of eighteen meters with far reaching branches and a twisted trunk. Given what it tastes like, it’s very difficult to understand why anyone would eat it, but amla is actually quite special.

In initial research, the Phyllanthus emblica – that’s the scientific name for Alma fruit – has demonstrated both antiviral and anti-microbial properties.  There is more evidence from research that extracts of amla fruit can initiate apoptosis (programmed cell death) in some bone cells which are directly connected with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.

As recently as 2011, a research study found that treatment using the Phyllanthus emblica lowered the severity of acute pancreatitis and also created  unassisted restoration and regeneration of the pancreas right after a severe occurance. 
In another study, recently conducts with diabetic rats, an amla fruit extract produced a substantial reduction of the blood glucose and triglyceridemic measurements and at the same time it improved liver function by normalizing the performance of a liver-specific enzyme.

Amla is additionally being examined as an anti-cancer agent and a few test preparations produced using various components of the tree – including the fruit- have demonstrated some potential against laboratory models for inflammation, diabetes, some types of age related renal (kidney) disease and some cancers.  It has been proven to prevent cataracts in diabetic sufferers. In a Japanese study amla fruit extracts prevented the creation of cancerous cells, specifically cells from the womb, skin and stomach.

Amla fruit has been demonstrated to lower blood cholesterol levels in men. In India, where the Amla fruit naturally grows, it’s used by all-natural healers to manage premature hair loss. A potent antioxidant, Amla has a high density of tannins.

Along with its other recognized anti inflammatory properties, The Indian Gooseberry has been found as effective treatment for hay fever and can reduce joint inflammation. And if this list of attributes isn’t impressive enough this little fruit can also help people with stress and contributes to better sleep, and an overall relaxation of the muscles.

Amla with it’s possible anti-cancer properties is just one of several antioxidant rich fruits used to make Aio Premium Cellular Health, a nutritional supplement available fromWhole Earth Health. 

If you are looking for antioxidant foods with a wide range of potential health benefits including possible cancer fighting properties, the Indian Gooseberry deserves your attention.

Try to Slow Down Heart Disease with Antioxidants

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Picture of a heart composed from healthy foods

The human heart is truly a miraculous machine.  Even before you’re born, the muscles that make up the heart are working hard, pumping oxygen rich blood to each organ in you and returning oxygen depleted blood back to the lungs.  On average, the heart will beat 37,869,120 times each year, year after year.  That’s about two and a half billion heartbeats in a lifetime.

Plainly, your heart is your powerhouse and it’s worth protecting. We know, nobody can live without a beating heart and indeed, with an average of 2 deaths every 68 seconds,  forty percent of all the deaths in the United States are from heart disease, led by Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

As the hardest working organ in the body, the heart muscles naturally produce a continuous supply of energy and it’s this massive level of energy creation which makes the heart vulnerable to the attack of free radicals. Hence, your heart is one organ with a large requirement for antioxidants like Glutathione which is the most valuable.

The Heart’s Energy Production

The heart’s amazing ability to produce energy is based within each cell in the cellular power plants- Mitochondria.  Every cell in every organ possesses these tiny energy producing locations.  On average, most cells will have a few hundred mitochondria, but the cells in your heart are estimated to include up to 5,000! The power that’s made in your cells, takes the form of a compound called ATP – adenosine triphosphate.  Unfortunately, making energy has a price.

The by- products of creating energy are free radicals and with the high concentration of energy producing mitochondria in the cells of the heart, there is an equally high production of free radicals. Think about wood burning in a fireplace and the ashes that accumulate. If they don’t get cleared out now and then, eventually they’re smother the fire. That clearing out process is accomplished by antioxidants and without their work, free radicals create a cascading response within the cells that will destroy them and their components – including the cellular DNA.

CAD and Heart Disease

Arteriosclerosis – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) which is commonly called hardening of the arteries or loss of arterial elasticity is one of the main causes of Heart disease. It’s been linked to a substance known as lipid peroxidase. That’s what happens if the lipids in your heart are converted into free radicals.  Lipids, are a molecular group that includes sterols, waxes, fats and the fat soluble vitamins E, A, D & K.  As well as elevated levels of free radicals, patients with CAD also have low levels of antioxidants including Glutathione.  Lacking the antioxidant reserves to clean out free radicals in your heart, it and the arteries in the system will eventually suffer from oxidative stress.

Human bodies have originally been designed to clean up the free radicals created by normal processes, but most of us are subject to extra stressors that aren’t natural . These stresses include environmental toxins (and especially tobacco smoke!), poor diets, the unhealthy pace and emotional stress of everyday living and a weak condition of our muscles from not getting enough exercise.  We have put our antioxidant capabilities at a terrible disadvantage.

The Benefits of More  Glutathione and Other Antioxidants

As we grow older, our chemistry starts to slow down. The mitochondria in our heart muscles inevitably create less energy and we also naturally begin to produce less glutathione – which is vital for a healthy heart.  Boosting glutathione reserves will not make us live forever, but given how hard your heart is working for you, it must make sense to  improve your diet, choose a healthier lifestyle and take concrete steps to increase your natural production of glutathione.

Oral Glutathione supplements are not effective, but you can increase your glutathione with a glutathione precursor like  Cellgevity- available at wholeearthhealth.com.

Here’s a Good Way to Detox Your body

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Bottle of brown Seaweed extract

Following the earthquake in Japan, curiosity was raised about heavy metal poisoning and the results of radiation.  We all need to know how to detoxify the body. Brown Seaweed Extract from Laminaria Japonica helps to detox your body. It incorporates pure Organic Alginate, Iodine, Laminarin and Fucoidan

Organic Iodine boosts the thyroid gland, which manages metabolism, growth, and development and functions as a natural disinfectant organ in the body. All of the blood in the body rotates through this small organ every fifteen minutes.

Alginate helps in addressing heavy metal poisoning and the absorption of heavy metals,free radicals and radioactive elements in the body. It does this by binding itself to alien substances. It is then removed from the body as well as the toxic substances. Fucoidan helps clear away dangerous cells from the body. Laminarin is a polysaccharide that assists in balancing cardiovascular functions.

Brown seaweed extract Formula has Modifilan® which is beneficial for increasing energy and boosting the immune system. It consists of Chlorella enhanced with the Amylase, Papain, and Phytase enzymes to encourage superior absorption of the ingredients.

Brown Seaweed Extract Formula is best taken on an empty stomach, such as upon rising in the morning with plenty of water. It is not encouraged to take it before bedtime, as most people report an elevated energy level, which could interfere with sleep. For general health purposes take four capsules per day. For people who have serious health conditions it is recommended to take larger quantities, such as eight to ten capsules per day for three months. For chelating therapy, i.e. the removal of heavy metals and radiation from the body, take approximately ten to twelve capsules per day for up to six months. IMPORTANT: DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. ONE FULL GLASS IS RECOMMENDED FOR EACH FOUR CAPSULES.

RiboCeine and NAC Can Raise Liver Glutathione Levels

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A next generation product has been brought to market to help your body produce glutathione. In case you’re not familiar with Glutathione, it provides many important benefits to your health including fortifying the immune system, cleaning toxins from your body, helping to combat inflammation and neutralizing free radicals.

Oxy- radicals are a critical issue because the damage that free radicals create in your body has been connected to over seventy four major disorders and illnesses and the main weapon we each possess to prevent the destruction caused by oxidative stress is Antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that can stop the spread of free radicals, which left alone can create an ongoing chain reaction of incomplete molecules that eventually damage the host cells and the organs in your body. With the many antioxidants that exist, one of them does a superior job of defending your cells from the damage caused by free radicals and it’s the Master Antioxidant, Glutathione.

Glutathione is naturally produced by your body. Unfortunately, aging retards the creation of glutathione and – when you need it most, glutathione is less and less available to you. It would be an easy thing to correct if you could simply supplement with glutathione, but that doesn’t work. Oral glutathione supplements are not effective, because as they pass through the digestive tract, the glutathione is ruined by the gastric juices and can’t be absorbed into the bloodstream.

The strategy that actually works is taking glutathione precursors. Precursors are the necessary nutrient materials that the body requires to make glutathione naturally. By supplying your body with an abundance of the building blocks it requires, blood and liver glutathione concentrations are boosted naturally – and considerably. To date the most effective products that I know of to increase glutathione levels are MAXGXL, MAXONE and Cellgevity from Max International.

MaxONE and Cellgevity are based on compound named RiboCeine, which has been featured prominently in connection with MAX ATP (I’ll write about ATP later). RiboCeine takes the name from D-Ribose – a simple, chemically linear sugar that supports the production of ATP and L-Cysteine, perhaps the most critical of the materials from which we make glutathione. While MAXGXL uses a blend of L-Glutamine and NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine), MAXONE and Cellgevity use RiboCeine, which apparently is better able to protect the Cysteine in its journey through the stomach and get more to the cells, resulting in 300% higher liver glutathione levels.

Cellgevity, which is the newest product takes advantage of the strength of RiboCeine and combines it with other substances – like Vitamin C, Broccoli seed extract and ALA to also help your body better use -and reuse- the glutathione it produces.

For people who hate to swallow pills, a month’s supply of MaxONE is only 60 capsules – just two a day to boost your glutathione levels and experience the benefits that the Master Antioxidant will deliver to you.
Click here for more information on Cellgevity and if you would like to take a closer look at the original glutathione precursor MAXGXL- click here

Camu-Camu – Have you ever heard of this?

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Camu camu berries

Are you looking for superior antioxidant foods?

In the Amazonian flood plains between Brazil and Peru lives a shrubby tree – Myrciaria dubia- usually called Camu-Camu. When the pleasant smelling , waxy white flowers fall to the ground, it grows small purple-red colored fruit similar in appearance to a cherry. Among herbalists, camu-camu is valued for its astringent, antioxidant, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and emollient and nutritional characteristics. As if that isn’t enough, it’s also a source of protein, phosphorus, iron, niacin, thiamin riboflavin, beta-carotene, calcium, and 3 amino acids. It is an abundant source of flavinoids.

Those who take Camu-camu because of its vitamin C have found that just one to two grams of this natural source is a better immune system supporter than mega doses of commercial synthetic products. Camu-camu is around two to three percent Vitamin C based on the fresh weight and that’s an unusually high concentration and testifies to its antioxidant food value. And antioxidants are vital when it comes to my 2 other favorite “antis” antiaging and anti-inflammatories .

Camu-camu is currently being researched to assess its emotion balancing properties. As appearing in the Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing (1998) – Gary Null, Ph.D. Camu-camu is second in terms of its potential mood balancing properties. While these connections have not been completely researched, it seems that Camu-camu could offer a nutritional boost to the brain’s own manufacturing of mood balancing chemicals. Additionally, research has been published linking vitamin C with a higher level of serotonin.

Dr Mike Adams, (who’s called the Health Ranger) said this about Camu-Camu:
“I’ll tell you a secret about Camu. Camu-camu is the highest natural source of vitamin C in the world. And it’s not just ascorbic acid, it’s the full symphony of protective antioxidants. My research, based in part of the works of Dr. James Duke, leads me to the conclusion that camu-camu crosses the blood-brain barrier and offers extraordinary protection to the nervous system. There is no question in my mind that this product can drastically reduce eye disorders, including macular degeneration, as well as protect the brain and nervous system from degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.”

Camu-camu is just one of the natural antioxidant foods found in AIO- Premium Cellular Health.

Inflammation – Something You Should Know

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illustration of inflammed hip joints

The biggest problems with inflammation are that it’s a painful condition that can also quite destructive.
Inflammation is a process by which the body’s white blood cells and chemicals protect us from infection and alien substances like toxins, bacteria and viruses. But, in auto immune diseases, the immune system inappropriately triggers inflammation when there are no foreign substances to fight off and creates damage to its own cells. Your immune system assaults normal tissues as if they are diseased or contaminated. When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body’s white blood cells are released into the bloodstream and/or affected tissues in an effort to rid the body of alien toxins. This release of chemicals increases the flow of blood to the immediate area and can cause redness, warmth and swelling . Unfortunately, the inflammatory process may stimulate nerves and cause significant pain.

Arthritis is a well known term that describes inflammation in joints. Some, but not all, types of arthritis are the fallout from misdirected inflammation. Some types of inflammatory arthritis include: rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis and tendinitis and Gouty arthritis.

While not all need to be present, the basic symptoms of inflammation are swelling, redness, pain or stiffness in the joint and a decrease or loss in function Another thing, inflammation might come with general “flu-like” symptoms; fever, feeling chilled, headaches, a lack of energy, lack of appetite and muscle stiffness.

While the immediate pain caused by inflammation is lousy enough, the increased number of cells and fluid can, in the long term, damage the cartilage (cushions at the end of bones) and joint lining. Inflammation can also attack organs. The type of symptoms depends on which organs are affected:

    Inflammation of the heart (myocarditis) may cause shortness of breath or swollen legs
    Inflammation of the small tubes that move air to the lungs can cause an asthma episode
    Inflamed Kidneys (nephritis) can lead to elevated blood pressure or kidney failure
    Inflammation of the large intestine (colitis) can cause diarrhea and cramps.

Pain might not be the first symptom of organ inflammation, since many organs don’t have many pain-sensitive nerves.

There are a variety of treatment options for inflammatory diseases, but as a rule, the medical community seems to prefer prescription anti-inflammatories, pain medication, rest, exercise, and surgery to correct joint damage.

The goals of treating inflammation are to:

    Avoid or modify activities that aggravate pain
    Relieve pain with analgesics (pain-relieving medications) and anti-inflammatory medications
    Help joint movement and muscle strength with physical therapy
    Support the joints by using braces, splints or canes as necessary

What’s missing are any preventative ideas or treatment courses designed to essentially help your body by increasing your antioxidant intake, making dietary improvements, reducing stress in your life and dealing with everyday toxins – because they truly are everywhere. Antioxidants support your immune system and help your body to fight toxins as are natural inflammation fighters.

What are Digestive Enzymes?

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Enzymes are all complex molecules that support every chemical reaction that happens in the human body. Digestive and Metabolic are the 2 major groups of enzymes. The Metabolic enzymes support you body functions and digestive enzymes reduce big food molecules into small, more easily useable components. Food originally has all the enzymes needed to aid the digestive process so that your body doesn’t need to do all the work. But when we cook, refine or process food, all of the enzymes are destroyed.

Our digestive system’s role is to extract and absorb the necessary nutrients contained in our food. However, a diet of cooked food means that we need to get enzymes from the pancreas, liver and other organs to manage our digestion and as the years go by this can result in a weakened immune response and it can slow down our metabolism.

Enzyme-deficient food sits in the upper part of your stomach rotting rather than starting to digest. Not a pretty picture. That’s what the enzymes are created to do. When that happens your white blood cell count will increase because your immune system responds to your undigested food as an alien substance. What’s more, it strains our systems to produce extra digestive enzymes at the expense of making metabolic enzymes for cellular activity. If stomach acids do not complete their job before the food moves into the small intestine, it’s difficult to extract the nutrients from your food.

This rotten material can adhere to the intestinal walls, hurting your ability to absorb needed nutrients and interfering with the ejection of toxins through the intestinal wall. In this environment, bacteria and viruses can thrive and easily multiply out of control leaving you susceptible to infection, fatigue, and degenerative disease.

Not many people will ever live on a raw food diet so we’re living on enzyme deficient food, but you can supplement with digestive enzymes like Protease (for proteins), Lipase (for fats) or Amylase (for carbohydrates).

Immune Boosters You Should Know About

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Just like everything else your immune system gets weaker when you grow old, so you might want to consider immune boosters to strengthen this important function.

Vitamins E and D are immune boosters

One such supplement is Vitamin E. Based on a study from the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, at Tufts University in Boston, Vitamin E can help some of the immune system from declining with age. The research used 78 seniors in good health, sixty-five and older and discovered that 200 mg of Vitamin E every day for a period of sixteen weeks stimulated increased antibody production in response to vaccines for hepatitis B and tetanus.

Vitamin E can boost the immune response by triggering extra production of our killer T-cells to destroy germs and cancer cells. In addition to that, your B-cells, the special cells that create antibodies to kill bacteria are stimulated in the presence of Vitamin E. Another valuable fact – in a different study at the Harvard School of Public Health, using Vitamin E supplements was shown to cut the chance of heart attacks by 50%.

Vitamin D3 the vitamin manufactured in your skin following exposure to the suns ultraviolet light is also an immune system booster.

Alma Fuit can boost your immune system

A new health drink that has immune system boosters also contains Alma fruit – something I had never heard of before. Alma fruit, or the Indian gooseberry is also an exceptional source of Vitamin C with 30X’s more vitamin C than you’ll find in oranges. Alma fruit is found in the plains and mountain regions of the Indian Subcontinent and grows anywhere from Burma to Afghanistan.

Continuing studies are demonstrating that Alma fruit might help to treat and/or avoid problems such as stress, cataracts, arthritis, hayfever and also cancer. It’s no surprise that the traditional Tibetan and Indian healers attribute to it special immune enhancing and anti-aging properties.

Japanese scientists at Nagasaki University have discovered that extracts from alma fruit prevent the growth of cancerous cells, with those in the stomach, uterus and skin showing the most pronounced effect. It’s also a richly concentrated source of antioxidants. The active immune booster in Alma has the name phyllemblin which can stimulate an increased production of immune cells.

Glutathione offers immune system support

Our bodies have many antioxidant defense systems, but within each cell a little protein called glutathione is crucial. Glutathione is essential for the action of immune cells, which protect us from bacterial and viral infections. Among people suffering from immune deficiency, glutathione levels are below what is normall found in the blood and immune cells. When they can increase glutathione levels to match what’s expeccted in healthy humans. it’s likely to help immune deficient people.

Why We Need Bacteria to Survive

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Bottle of G.I. Balance

I always found this story to be very interesting because to many folks, living in our artificially disinfected world, bacteria is the enemy. Actually. it isn’t.

A perplexed Dr. Alexander Khoruts had run out of options for treating a patient with a wicked case of Clostridium difficile. Antibiotics didn’t help so Dr. Khoruts decided his patient should have a transplant. He transplanted some bacteria from her husband.

Prior to the procedureit was noted that her intestinal flora was almost non existant. “The usual bacteria just wasn’t there in her,” said Dr. Khoruts. “She was inhabited by all kinds of misfits.” Fourteen days after the procedure, the transplanted microbes were dominant. “That population was able to function and cured her condition quickly”.

To say that the scientific community was surprised with the outcome is an understatement. It shouldn’t be. Researchers are often blown away by the inter workings, impact, and sheer number of bacteria that populate our systems. We have over 10 times more bacteria than cells.

We end up with populations of different species, but they usually conduct the same essential chemistry that we need to survive. One of those functions is breaking down complex plant molecules. We have a pathetic number of enzymes encoded in the human genome, so we rely on extra microbes. As well as supporting the digestive function, the microbiome helps us in a variety of other ways. The bacteria in our nasal passage, for example, make antibiotics that battle the dangerous pathogens we inhale.

In order to work in harmony with our internal flora, our own bacteria population, our immune system has to be able to tolerate thousands of harmless bacteria while attacking unfriendly ones. Researchers are seeing that the microbiome itself guides the immune system to the proper balance. One way the immune system fights pathogens is with inflammation, but too much inflammation can be harmful, so we also have immune cells that produce inflammation-reducing signals. With their ability to contain unrestrained free radicals, antioxidant populations also support an inflammation fighting function.

Scientists are finding new links between our inner flora and our health. They’re also learning that many illnesses are accompanied by significant changes in the makeup of our inner ecosystems or bacteria populations. For example, people with asthma have a different collection of microbes in their lungs than healthy people. Obese people also have a different set of bacteria species in their digestive tracts than people of normal weight.

Some studies suggest that babies delivered by Caesarian section are more likely to get skin infections since they might lack the protective covering of bacteria from their mother’s birth canal. Caesarean sections have also been connected to an increase in asthma and allergies in kids. So have the high use of antibiotics in the United States and other developed countries. Farm children who are most likely to be exposed to healthy microbes from the soil are less likely to get autoimmune disorders than their peers who grow up in the city.

We consistently underestimate the importance of microbes and bacteria to our health and our medical profession has been too quick to take out their pads of paper and write up prescriptions for antibiotics and synthetic drugs.

Against this backdrop there has been a sudden upsurge in interest of probiotics and I think that probiotic supplements are pretty much a no-brainer given all the antibiotics most of us are exposed to over our lives. One probioitc suplement you might want to try is G.I. Balance – Dr Keller’s Immune System boosting probioitc

Glutathione – Natural Relief for Chronic Pain

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Are you suffering from chronic pain?

Chronic pain – by definition – is recurrent and long lasting. It can persist for weeks or (as happens all too often) for years. Chronic pain isn’t the immediate result of a traceable injury. The fact is that if you get injured, it’s going to hurt the next day. Pain is your body’s way of telling you that something’s physically wrong. For many sprains and twists, the pain you feel after the injury is caused by cellular inflammation.

In that sense, the immediate pain and chronic pain share a connection. That connection is inflammation. Inflammation is frequently a common chronic condition that lots of people suffer from without even being aware of it. But if the symptom of the inflammation is pain, we will pay attention.

Inflammation is frequently created from an unchecked cycle of free radical damage inside our cells. One reason that the damage can continue is that there might not be enough antioxidants in the body to scavenge the free radicals. There are many types of free radicals and many types of antioxidants that can deal with them, but not all antioxidants are created equal and one of the most valuable is Glutathione .

Glutathione is often referred to as the Body’s Master Antioxidant, because it’s found in every cell of your body. Because it’s in every cell, glutathione is totally adapted to support the removal of all types of free radicals. It’s too bad that, as we get older we produce decreasing amounts of glutathione.

So getting to the point, one thing you can do – and something that has worked for people suffering from chronic pain- is to boost the level of antioxidants in your system so that you can eliminate the free radicals and reduce the inflammation. You can increase your intake of Vitamins E and C. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and to enhance your glutathione production you can take MaxGXL, MaxONE or Cellgevity.

Go to Whole Earth Health or call 1-866-993-6243 (Toll Free) to order any of these products.