How much time can you spend cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing your household items? The #1 best thing you can do to reduce your chances of getting sick is WASH YOUR HANDS regularly.
If you want to know how to kill germs all over your house, watch this video story:
What else can you do? Boost your immune system with these great tricks:
1) Bounce on a trampoline. You can find cheap mini-tramps at your local sporting goods store, and sometimes at yard sales and in the classified swap ads (in the newspaper). Bouncing on a tramp is one of the few exercises that you can do to completely rejuvenate your lymph fluid. 3 minutes and your lymph system gets a flush!
2) Get regular exercise. One of the best ways to boost immunity. Your lymph vessels do not have their own pumps, so they need "milking" from the muscles around them. Exercise is critical to staying healthy!
3) Sauna therapy- Far Infrared Saunas (FIR) are supposed to have more immune-boosting properties than regular hot-rocks saunas. They also detoxify your whole body, purify your skin, enhance circulation, and soothe weary joints.
4) Get Dry-Brushing or light body scrub treatments. Do you really need an excuse to go to the spa? C'mon, now you have another one. Those gentle herbal and salt scrubs are lymph-boosters. The light exfoliation is the key to moving lymph. Opt for loofahs, fine salts, dry-brushing, and body mitts in the treatment.
5) Spend more time outside. Give your body exposure to different environments. Making your immune system work is key to fighting germs. Get out and about!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Prevent germs and sickness: Boost your Immunity and lymph with these tricks
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Reduce inflammation and c-reactive proteins: don't overlook greater health problems by using statins for heart disease
The American Heart Association shares the annual conference's hottest news about statin drugs for heart disease:
According to the study, if you have high CRPs (C-Reactive Proteins), your cardiologist might consider prescribing statins. CRPs are an indication of inflammation.
Inflammation is just one indicator for disease in the body. It seems premature to prescribe a medication for heart disease if you have greater problems that might be "hiding" under the inflammation. Also, the doctor interviewed noted that they do not know the long-term effects of using statins! This should be a huge red flag!
If you have high CRPs, you should consider urgently changing your lifestyle and begin to Eat Healthier and get more Exercise.
Watch this video and cardiologist interview:
Before you consider the use of statins, Learn more about CRPs and inflammation. Weight the risks- Which is more important? Using a statin to reduce early indicators for heart disease, versus practicing Healthier Lifestyle habits (like eating more nutritious foods and getting more exercise) that will reduce inflammation and reverse the disease process.
If you choose to attack the CRPs yourself, with natural lifestyle changes, then you will prevent disease on a larger scale for yourself. And heart disease may be just one of the diseases that you can prevent!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Cancer-fighting cells duplicated to eliminate skin cancer
There are many studies revealing new cancer treatments these days. Alot of emphasis on treatment. For skin cancer, one research lab extracted cancer-fighting cells from a late-stage cancer patient and duplicated them in a lab. A few billion cells later, the cancer vanished. Watch this video for more:
Although cancer rates have been steadily growing, there have been many reports lately that vitamin D deficiency is pervasive in the U.S. So, it's important to monitor how much sun we are getting.
For bone strength, and warding off certain types of cancer, experts recommend anywhere from 10-60 minutes of sun exposure each day.
Deep burns and repeat sunburns should be prevented. A little sun can be cancer-preventive, but too much, all at once, should be avoided for better health.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Exercise, Diet, Yoga reverse Cancer in Dr. Dean Ornish study
It is no secret that regular exercise, nutritious eating, meditation and yoga are great for your health. But this study shows that they are powerful enough to reverse the course of cancer!
As Dr. Dean Ornish says, the body is more dynamic than we thought. Watch this video for more (then read on, below):
And what I find amazing about the results of the study was that the program suggested a mere 30 minutes of exercise daily! 30 minutes!
How many Americans who are facing death by cancer can't find 30 minutes for exercise every day?
Dr. Ornish describes how you can genetically alter your body to reverse cancer. He studied men with prostate cancer. He says these same tactics can be helpful in reversing other forms of cancer, too, such as breast cancer.
In the past, we have seen research studies that demonstrate how an exercising group were less likely to get cancer than non-exercising groups. And how research participants who ate healthy low-fat, vegetarian diets were less likely to get cancer than their study counterparts who ate less healthy foods.
But Dr. Dean Ornish's study is very different...
He studies men who already had been diagnosed with cancer. This study takes exercise from prevention to treatment status. This is significant, and of vital importance to anyone recently diagnosed with cancer!
This study is amazing, and it shows how, truly, Exercise is Medicine!
