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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.

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.

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.

Avoid Heart Disease- Know the Risk Factors

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Atherosclerosis, the scientific term for heart disease is the # 1 killer among North Americans. But what is it Well, sclerosis signifies “hardening” and athero identifies the type of substance that stops up and hardens arteries. Over time, our risk factors slowly rise but specific risk factors are important in figuring out if we’re probably prospects and they include our years, blood pressure, total cholesterol levels and good (HDL) cholesterol ranges.

Warning Indicators
High total cholesterol

High levels of cholesterol in the blood can contribute to atherosclerosis, which is the slow build-up of fat, cholesterol and other particles along the sides of your arteries. It’s called plaque and it can accumulate enough to narrow and harden the artery. If the plaque is serious enough, it can restrict blood flow past the blockage. Portions can also detatch themselves and cause a heart attack or stroke. An acceptable cholesterol level is 170 mg/dL or lower.

Low HDL “good” cholesterol
High concentration lipoproteins (HDL) absorb cholesterol and recycle it back to the liver for removal. A normal, healthy HDL level is over 60 mg/dL. HDL cholesterol rises with workouts. We need daily exercise to boost our HDL and decrease our risk of heart attack.

Elevated blood pressure
Blood pressure measurements are read as two numbers. The higher number, referred to as the systolic pressure, signifies the pressure in the arteries when your heart beats . The smaller number, called the diastolic pressure, signifies the pressure when the heart is at rest.

A normal systolic number is 115. If your arteries are narrowed, hardened or inflamed your heart needs to beat harder and this will generate a higher systolic measure.

A normal diastolic number is 75 or less. When the diastolic number is too high it can suggest that your lungs, kidneys and liver are not properly detoxifying your body.

High blood pressure, along with high cholesterol levels and low HDL levels should be considered as warning signals from our body. Heightened homocysteine sounds a louder alarm and high C-Reactive protein levels should never be ignored.

In addition to exercise, products like Cellgevity with support the heart by supporting our glutathione production, ProAri-9 Plus which acts as a Nitric Oxide Precursors and Herbal supplements like RGardens Heart Blend will all help you support your good health.

Glutathione and the Antioxidant Network

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Antioxidants are our body’s primary protection against the harm triggered by free radicals which contribute to many chronic inflammatory and degenerative problems. Oxy radicals are the root cause of premature aging. Among all the antioxidants, a group of five are acknowledged as Network Antioxidants. This group of both fat and water soluble antioxidants work together to assist your cells and do the job together to support each other.

How Network Antioxidants work

When an antioxidant passes an electron to correct or repair a free radical, it actually becomes one, but a benign one without the capacity to continue the chain reaction.  Unfortunately, when they become oxidized, antioxidants can no longer perform effectively.  But, what is unique about the network antioxidants is that are able to regenerate each other and carry on the cycle of searching out and repairing free radicals.

Even though they do the job together, the network antioxidants fulfill diverse jobs.  The fat soluble ones, namely CoQ-10 and Vitamin E protect the fatty cell wall and the cell mitochondria, while the water soluble antioxidants, Glutathione and Vitamin C protect the center of the cell. ALA – Alpha Lipoic Acid is unique in that it is both fat and water soluble.

Vitamin C is the link which joins the fat soluble and water soluble antioxidants in the network and is primarily responsible for rejuvenating Vitamin E when it becomes oxidized.

Vitamin E is closely aligned with heart disease prevention, because it’s the only antioxidant that can reach fatty parts of the cell that are not reachable to the rest of the network.  It’s actually not a single compound but is instead a group of fat soluble alcohols.

CoQ-10 or CoEnzyme Q-10 is present in all your cells, where it is concentrated in the mitochondria,  the component of your cell that creates energy. Mitochondria are susceptible to free radical injury which has been evidenced as a loss of energy as we age. Additionally, CoQ-10 contributes in the regeneration of Vitamins C, E and Glutathione.

Glutathione, popularly recognized as the Body’s Master antioxidant is continuall circulating through your cells, repairing your immune cells and cleansing cellular waste from your body. It supports the rejuvenation of all of the remaining network antioxidants. Raising your glutathione levels helps protect you from various inflammatory conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma and others.

Alpha Lipoic Acid is unique amongst the Network Antioxidants in that it is both fat and water soluable and can help both the fatty membrane and water based interior of your cells. It is also uniquely capable of repairing itself and notably can regenerate the other network antioxidants including glutathione. It helps to avert muscle damage during tough workouts.

Like glutathione and CoEnzyme Q-10, ALA is created by your body, but the production capacity declines substantially as we age.

Alpha Linolenic Acid

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ALA Alpha-Linolenic  acid is is something that confused me at first.  I was researching ALA which is found in Cellgevity and learned – much ot my surprise that ALA not only stands for Alpha Lipoic Acid- which is an ingredient in Cellgevity but also Alpha Linolenic acid which is something completely different.

Alpha linolenic acid is a polyunsaturated, omega-3 fatty acid originally identified by A. Rollet in 1909.  It is most effortlessly found in seed oils like walnut, canola, soybean hemp and flax . It’s also observed in the membranes responsible for photosynthesis in broad leafed, green plants (thylakoid membranes).

Other outstanding, although less acknowledged sources of ALA are Perilla, Kiwifruit and Chia . Perilla oil is extracted from the seeds of the Perilla family, a.k.a the mint family. Although in the west it is used principally in the paint industry, (like linseed oil) in the east it is used for its content of ALA giving it antioxidant qualities and a significant content of vitamins and minerals . Chia is not always associated with the pets of the same name. Chia is also known as Salvia hispanica. It is another member of the mint family.

ALA is one of the essential fatty acids and what this means is that it can only be obtained from our diets. We are unable to create any of the essential fatty acids on our own.

Research conducted over the years on Alpha-linolenic acid have connected it to many beneficial outcomes including a decreased chance of cardiovascular disease.  In 2005, a study conducted on young adults revealed that daily amounts of ALA diminished the levels of anxiety and stress among the subjects and a reduction of cortisol levels was objectively measured.  This finding was abundantly supported in a 2011 study conducted by Harvard University on 50,000 women that  over a period of ten years, found that a higher intake of ALAa-linolenic acid combined with a reduced intake of linoleic acid was connected with a substantial decrease in depression.

ALA is also a impressive antioxidant, known to combat numerous forms of oxidative stress and to help recycle other antioxidants.

Regrettably, due to the requirement that commercial food processors have for characteristics like “spread ability” which requires that ALA be partially hydrogenated, the most available source of ALA – soybeans, are being genetically modified to produce reduced amounts of ALA and linoleic acid.

While still being assessed for its advantages relative to heart health, a modest consumption of dietary ALA could prove beneficial for the primary and secondary reduction of coronary heart disease.

That’s the scoop on Alpha Linolenic Acid.

Introducing Cellgevity

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Just last weekend, Max International introduced a new glutathione precursor and it looks awesome.

Called Cellgevity after the company Max recently acquired, this product contains not only their proprietary RiboCeine breakthrough nutrient compound, but also an impressive line up of scientificially proven ingredients that support glutathione’s vital functions of cellular detoxification, inflammation reduction and free radical neutralization.

Cellgevity was developed to help fight problems at the root of premature aging by not only supporting the production of glutathione but also supporting the glutathione network.

Glutathione:

  • helps remove heavy metals from our systembottle of Cellgevity from Max International
  • protects immune cells
  • protects mitrochondrial DNA
  • protects the cell nucleus
  • reduces oxidative stress
  • fights intercellular inflammation
  • recharges other antioxidants
  • helps our blood transport oxygen

You can buy Cellgevity from Whole Earth Health or call 1 866 993 6243

Medical Conditions Associated with Low Glutathione

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Many people have been asking me about a list of the medical conditions that are known to be associated and affected by lowered levels of glutathione.  Most of them are looking to better understand the reasons why they should buy a glutathione precursor

What’s very important to understand is that this is not a list of conditions caused by reduced glutathione and they cannot be cured if all you do is increase your glutathione but reduced glutathione is a factor.

Here’s the list, broken down based on the body part/system:

Heart

Angina,Positive stress tests, Heart Attack, Spastic/Unstable Angina

Brain and Nerves

Depression, Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s,  Bipolar Disease, ADHD, MS, Huntington’s Disease, Migraine, Parkinson’s, Autism, Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Infectious Diseases

Influenza including Bird Flu, Common upper respiratory viral infections, Herpes Simplex, Herpes zoster/shingles,  gastroenteritis, HIV

Auto Immune

Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Systemic Lupis Erythematosus, MS,  Systemic Sclerosis Syndrome

Skin

Psoriasis, Wrinkles and sagging skin, Acne, Eczema, Atopic Dermatitis

Oncology

All studied cancers are associated with lowered glutathione levels

Child Bearing

Infertility, spontaneous abortions, PMS

Overall Health

Obesity, Immune Sygnalling, Heavy Metal Poisoning, Alcholism, Inflammation,

Breathing

Chronic Bronchitis, Smoking, Emphysema (COPD), Asthma,  Pulmonary Fibrosis

Eyes

Cataracts & Macular Degeneration

Ways to Buy MaxONE and MAXGXL

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I’ve spoken to many people in the last few months who are involved in supplements – like MaxGXL or MAXONE, but with the US economy in the shape it’s in, they are all looking for a good offer.

There are a number of factors that contribute to the price of MaxGXL and MAXONE – the glutathione accelerator but if you’re purchasing these products the way you should – which is to have them shipped directly from Max International in full month supplies, there are some affordable price ranges you can anticipate.

The current retail prices for MaxONE and MaxGXL respectively are $92.00 and $85.00 and in addition to that you should anticipate to pay shipping and tax.  A much better deal is to become a preferred customer which will give you access to the wholesale pricing.  The Wholesale price for MaxGXL and MAX GXL sport is $69 for a 1 month supply.  For MaxONE it’s $75.00.  That – pretty certainly is a considerably better price than the retail and there are positive aspects to becoming a preferred customer – like entry to a truly fantastic customer service group.  I kid you not they are the best trained customer service representatives I’ve ever had the enjoyment to deal with.  As well as the product you will pay a flat shipping charge of $9.95 in the USA and $12.95 for delivery to Canada.  And there is the tax.  I experience a great deal of resistance to paying the sales tax, but you ought to understand that a company like Max International has representatitves in each and every state and so the company needs to collect the sales tax.

At this time Max International has an outstanding promotion for consumers who are inclined to commit to a 3 month autoship.  MaxGXL can be bought under this new Loyalty Program for only $60.00 for a 1 month supply and MAXGXL can be bought for $50.00 a month. Clearly there is a excellent payback for loyalty.

If you EVER see MaxGXL or MaxONE offered for sale at less than $50 or $60 dollars a month, question the source of the product you’re getting. I’ve heard of individuals who thought they bought a month’s supply of MaxGXL for only $25.00 only to find out they were delivered only enough for a week.

But to buy MaxONE for Less – call 1 866-993-6243 and ask about the Loyalty program