Dietary supplements can be a great addition to your self-care routine, but it’s crucial to choose your supplements wisely. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently introduced regulations to improve supplement safety, the new rules won’t be in full effect until 2010. And while those regulations will ensure that supplements are contaminant-free and properly labeled, there’s a host of other safety issues you should consider before and after you buy.
Your Supplement Safety Checklist
To make sure your supplements are right for you, keep these safety concerns in mind.

1) Watch Out for Drug Interactions
Since a number of supplements such as St. John’s wort and ginkgo biloba may interact in harmful ways with prescription or over-the-counter drugs, you should always consult your physician before starting a supplement regimen.
Your doctor may also be able to notify you of any other potential risks the supplement might pose to your health (especially if you’re pregnant or planning to have surgery), as well as offer guidance on the best dosage to take. If your doctor isn’t comfortable with advising you on supplement use, ask if he or she can refer you to a supplement-savvy alternative health practitioner.

2) Do Your Research
Before you purchase a supplement, brush up on scientific evidence supporting the safety of its use. Third-party sources (such as information provided by objective health experts) are far more reliable than health claims published on a supplement manufacturer’s website.

3) Seek Out Certified Products
If a supplement is certified by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), NSF International, or the United Natural Products Alliance, it’s guaranteed to meet a certain standard of quality. (The USP’s screening process, for instance, ensures that a product will break down properly and effectively release its ingredients into the body.) Look for a certification seal from any of these organizations whenever you buy a supplement.

4) Check the Label
When shopping for an herbal supplement, it’s important to verify which parts of the plant were used in its production. Different components can produce different effects, some of which can harm your health. For example, research shows that while the roots of the herb kava seem to be safe, its stem peelings and leaves may contain compounds that could be toxic to the liver. Talking with your doctor or herbalist and researching an herbal supplement can help you determine which plant parts to look for.

5) Take Heed of Side Effects
If you experience any adverse effects after taking a new supplement, discontinue its use immediately and contact your doctor. Although many supplements can be used without harm, others are linked to serious side effects (such as kidney damage and gastrointestinal problems), especially when taken at excessive doses.

Source:
Nerurkar PV, Dragull K, Tang CS. “In vitro toxicity of kava alkaloid, pipermethystine, in HepG2 cells compared to kavalactones.” Toxicological Sciences 2004 79(1):106-11.

It might seem like all that sleep is a giant waste of time. But scientists now know that while you’re snoozing quietly in your bed, there’s lots going on inside your brain and body.

Cycling through Sleep

For one thing, you sleep a cycle of five different types of sleep, over and over each night. When you first lie down and begin to fall asleep, your body enters what sleep experts call Stage 1 sleep. You’re still very close to being awake, but your brain begins to work more slowly. Your body relaxes, and your closed eyes start to roll around. If someone woke you from this stage, you’d probably say that you weren’t even asleep yet. After several minutes, you sink a little deeper, into Stage 2 sleep. You’d still be easy to wake up, but you’d probably know you’d been snoozing.

Then you really relax and fall deeply asleep, into Stage 3 sleep. Your heart slows down, and you breathe more slowly, too. Noises nearby would probably not wake you. Finally, you sink into the deepest sleep of all, called Stage 4. Once you’re in Stage 4 sleep, you’re very hard to wake up. And if someone does manage to wake you, you’ll be very confused about where you are and what’s happening.

The first time you reach Stage 4 sleep after going to bed, you stay there for almost 20 minutes. That’s the longest chunk of deep sleep you’ll have all night. After that, you slowly move back up through Stages 3 and 2.

And then your sleep gets really interesting.

Sweet Dreams

As you come back up through a period of Stage 2 sleep, you shift into Rapid Eye Movement, or REM, sleep. It’s called REM sleep because when you’re in it, your eyes-behind your closed eyelids-slide quickly back and forth, and back and forth, as though you were watching the ball in a tennis game. Your brain becomes much more active during this sleep stage, almost as active as when you’re awake. Instead of resting, a brain in REM sleep is racing! And while your eyes are darting from side to side, a very detailed story is running through your head: you’re dreaming.

It’s during REM sleep that you dream your strangest dreams, the ones that sound so very mixed-up when you describe them the next morning. As you drift into a REM-sleep dream of singing toothbrushes or a dog that says he’s your uncle, your body changes, too. Your breathing and heart rate sometimes speed up. Scientists say that your brain waves-measurements of the electrical activity in your brain-look almost the same during REM sleep as they do when you’re awake. When you enter REM sleep, you go from being completely relaxed to being ready for action. And yet, you never move. That’s because you can’t. You’re paralyzed!

When you’re in REM sleep, your brain cuts off all the messages that might tell your body to move. You never pull up the covers or even roll over. Except for your shifting eyes, your breathing, and a twitch every now and then, you lie perfectly still as you dream. Scientists guess that may be to prevent you from acting out any wild scenes in your dream and hurting yourself.

Does Dreaming Make You Smarter?

You’ll spend more than two hours each night in REM sleep, dreaming. Why do you dream? Scientists are still trying to figure that out.

One idea is that dreaming helps you organize your memories. It gives your brain a chance to sort through everything that happened during the day, storing what you need to remember and tossing out details that don’t matter.

Experiments show that REM sleep definitely can help you learn better. In one test, volunteers were taught a new skill. That night, some of them were awakened whenever they entered REM sleep. The others were awakened the same number of times but only during non-REM sleep. The next day, the people who got their REM sleep tested better than the others at performing the new skill.

Researchers now think dreams may be like exercise for your brain, and dreaming may actually help your brain develop. Newborn babies spend almost half of their sleep time in REM sleep! But adults, whose brains aren’t developing so much anymore, spend only about one-fifth of their sleep time dreaming.

Going without Sleep

During the day your muscles are busy stretching and pulling as you run, jump, or even just sit. Lying down asleep and fairly still gives those muscles a chance to repair and grow stronger. Scientists carried out an experiment on weight-lifters. For one night, they allowed the athletes to sleep only three hours. The next day, none of the athletes could lift as much weight as they had before. If you didn’t sleep, you wouldn’t be as strong either.

As you lie snoozing, you’re busy healing and growing. Your body is releasing more of the chemicals that help it create new bits of skin, muscle, and other parts of you. Sleep is so important for healing that when you’re injured or sick, your body releases chemicals to make you feel sleepier. Just recovering from a sunburn can make you sleep longer.

Ayurveda’s 5,000 year old wisdom gives us great insight into purification and healing. Purification is the process of eliminating imbalances from the past, which cause the current unbalanced condition. One of the basic laws of Ayurveda is that when one or another of the forces of nature becomes disturbed through excess or deficiency, disease is established.

In Ayurveda, our natural state is one of health, happiness and an inner sense of well-being. Health is defined as the body being clear of toxins, the mind is at peace, emotions are calm and happy, wastes are efficiently eliminated and organs are functioning normally.

 In a busy, stressful and toxic world, our physical and mental systems accumulate toxins causing deterioration in bodily functioning. These can evolve into serious specific diseases, ultimately damaging an individual’s health and wellness.

Panchakarma can help by reversing these negative effects of daily living. It can restore your natural state of health and wellness by cleansing your body of toxins, bringing balance into your system and improving bodily function. It can also help you sustain this process by making positive changes in lifestyle.

The Panchakarma therapeutic prrcess appears quite simple in its application. Its effects are powerful and effective.It is a unique, natural, holistic, health-giving series of therapeutic treatments that cleanse the body’s deep tissues of toxins, open the subtle channels, bring life-enhancing energy thereby increasing vitality, inner peace, confidence and well-being.

The main emphasize of Ayurveda is on preventative and healing therapies along with the various methods of purification and rejuvenation. The treatment in Ayurveda consists of four basic forms- drug therapy, panchakarma, dietary routine and regulation of lifestyle. It works in two fundamental ways of cure and prevention.

The preventive aspect includes personal hygiene that further consists of daily routine, seasonal corrections and appropriate behaviour. The curative aspect consists of internal medicine that includes internal purification through panchakarma, external medicine as massage, use of pastes and powders .

Secrets  from the Fountain of Youth

 

Since the beginning of time, people all over the world have been on the search to find the fountain of youth that will keep them looking young and healthy. Because of this fact, many different types of methods such as, anti aging creams,medications, devices, therapies, and others have been developed and marketed for hundreds of years. You’ve heard of all types of things like "miracle" anti aging creams, and magic elixirs all to prevent this thing called age. Many people have been buying into a never ending supply of products all to reduce aging or trying to get rid of the aging process altogether. The only thing to consider when buying these supplies, creams and "miracle cures" is that aging is inevitable – it’s an impossible thing to ignore and stop.

There are many organizations and resources out there that offer advice on anti-aging, since ant aging has become just as much of health concerns as it has been a cosmetic concern. Beauty may only be skin deep, but what shows through your hair and your skin maybe a sign of what else is going on inside your body.

Age has become a bad thing. The irony of wanting to grow up and be older when we are young, children, even teens suddenly becomes a devastating reality when we are now older and mature and wishing we were younger again. "Aging gracefully" is taken on by men and woman both who only wish to be wrinkle free and any other things that may show signs to others of how old they really are.

The question asked is how much truth is there in the notion of anti aging and is it possible to seriously fight the signs of aging?
 

Ayurveda’s Primary Purification
 

Ayurveda’s 5,000 year old wisdom gives us great insight into purification and healing. Purification is the process of eliminating imbalances from the past, which cause the current unbalanced condition. One of the basic laws of Ayurveda is that when one or another of the forces of nature becomes disturbed through excess or deficiency, disease is established.
In Ayurveda, our natural state is one of health, happiness and an inner sense of well-being. Health is defined as the body being clear of toxins, the mind is at peace, emotions are calm and happy, wastes are efficiently eliminated and organs are functioning normally.
 In a busy, stressful and toxic world, our physical and mental systems accumulate toxins causing deterioration in bodily functioning. These can evolve into serious specific diseases, ultimately damaging an individual’s health and wellness.
Panchakarma can help by reversing these negative effects of daily living. It can restore your natural state of health and wellness by cleansing your body of toxins, bringing balance into your system and improving bodily function. It can also help you sustain this process by making positive changes in lifestyle.
The Panchakarma therapeutic prrcess appears quite simple in its application. Its effects are powerful and effective.It is a unique, natural, holistic, health-giving series of therapeutic treatments that cleanse the body’s deep tissues of toxins, open the subtle channels, bring life-enhancing energy thereby increasing vitality, inner peace, confidence and well-being.
The main emphasize of Ayurveda is on preventative and healing therapies along with the various methods of purification and rejuvenation. The treatment in Ayurveda consists of four basic forms- drug therapy, panchakarma, dietary routine and regulation of lifestyle. It works in two fundamental ways of cure and prevention.
The preventive aspect includes personal hygiene that further consists of daily routine, seasonal corrections and appropriate behaviour. The curative aspect consists of internal medicine that includes internal purification through panchakarma, external medicine as massage, use of pastes and powders .
 

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Alejandra Neri   promoting  her Home Business with   Wellness and Nutrition

Herbalife is a part  of my home business in wellness and personally use the products to keep fit and healthy.

 We can see that  Sommer is around the corner.Are you trying to lose weight? Tryiong tio loose those extra winter pounds?Not seeing results? Herbalife  Weight Management solutions are for you. Combining cutting-edge science with delicious shakes and snacks Weight Management products can help you lose those unwanted pounds.

Try delicious protein shakes which are loaded with essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients that are perfect for busy people. Whether you’re on the go or just want a nutritious meal, to satisfy your hunger and help manage your weight. If you are interested get in touch with me.

 With my own home business I can set my own work schedule integrate it with my house chores and the kids daily schedule .If I need a few days break. I can freely do so giving me total control of how I run my business and the way I would like to run it.

This way I never have to worry about having a babysitter watch my kids, I can be with them and watch them grow. But I must be organized and schedule well to be able to multi-task for the family life and business obligations.

There are great advantages too, like not having to commute to work each day going through the early morning traffic rush others do, or driving around looking for a parking .With the rise in gasoline prices, it saves me some hundred euros each year.

Many home business industries offer seminars and trainings on line as well as offline to get familiar with their special products, and also to further educate its team. At a normal job there would not be enough time to broaden your knowledge and learn more about the latest progress on your profession. But a home business you have the opportunity to have time to learn more.
One of the areas I have chosen for my home based business is nutrition and wellness field. There are other services one can do. There are a lot of home based businesses available too .All depending on what one likes and enjoys doing or your passed professional skill.
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We’re only human and can’t help wondering if maybe this time, science has actually landed upon the miracle in a jar and perhaps for $150.00 we can iron out wrinkles, fade skin discoloration and firm our skin tone by daily application of this new wonder anti aging skin care product.

So we read the instructions and follow them”Yes!” There have been scientific tests performed which prove without a doubt that this is indeed the skin care product we have been waiting for!

Look at the before and after photos. Look at the half face studies. After six weeks of using this wonder cream the fresh younger looking faces stare out at us from the pictures. It gives us this warm and fuzzy feeling that we too can achieve a younger and more attractive look.

The jar is expensive looking and pretty, it would look lovely on the bathroom shelf. Great!!!!!!!

All that stand between us and youthful beauty is money. Well we’re not going to let that stop us. So we float to the checkout, credit card and miracle product in hand, mentally calculating what we can cut back on this month so we can afford our dream.

So are we witnessing a real miracle? Yes indeed. But it’s more a miracle of modern marketing than anything else. Don’t be disappointed, at least we’ve got to keep our $150.00!

Skin care marketing is very clever. It preys on our insecurities and our lack of self esteem. We want people to admire us and think we’re attractive. When someone tells us we can achieve this by using their product, we want to believe it so we do believe it. That little voice of reason is silenced.

Don’t feel bad if you’ve recently fallen for this type of skin care hype. There are many more of us who’ve done exactly the same thing. Yes I’ve done it too and I don’t even have the excuse of ignorance. I’ve read a lot on skin care and natural health and I know what the skin can absorb and what the best ingredients are.

But I bought the product anyway and used it faithfully every night for a month until it ran out. Trouble was I had to use it for six weeks to see real results! It was then time to decide whether to buy another jar and carry on to the six weeks.

Fortunately common sense kicked in. I looked in the mirror. Yes my skin was looking pretty good. But I realized it was probably more because I’d taken the trouble to cleanse and nourish it for thirty days straight rather than the super anti aging ingredient inside the jar.

I was not upset with the cosmetic company, thatas is their business to make money. I wasn’t upset with myself either, more amused that I’d been sucked in with clever marketing.

There may well be skin care products in the market which can make a significant difference to our appearance, but I think I’ll wait to hear about it in the media next time. After all the real fountain of youth when it comes, will be a newsworthy event I’m sure.

Meanwhile, while we’re waiting, there are ways where can improve our skin. Take care of your health, eat a healthy diet, use a good sunscreen and use quality natural skin care products. The results may amaze you!

Powdered Pearl- a beauty treasure of the orient. Pearl powder, taken internally, contains calcium carbonate which strenghten bones, muscles and nerves. It reduces skin blemishes and rebuilds your health. Use it as a cooling beverage, taken with water, tea or juice. Powdered pearl can also be applied to the face as a beauty mask for rejuvenation and flawless complexion.

Pearl powder is a finely milled powder made from freshwater pearls, which contains a number of amino acids and several minerals. It is considered by its proponents to help improve the appearance of the skin.
Long a favorite of Asian women. According to ancient Chinese history artistes in the Tang Dynasty began using Pearl Powder on their faces to protect and beautify their skin when applying stage makeup. During the Ching Dynasty Empress Dowager began taking Pearl Powder internally as well as applying it to her face.

Freshwater pearls have been collected for some 3,000 years by the Chinese, and not just for jewelry. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) employs the medicinal qualities of ingested powdered pearl to treat inflammatory illnesses including epilepsy, convulsions, hyperactivity, hypertension, insomnia and palpitations. Traditional Chinese medical doctors also suggest pearl to quiet nerves and improve vision.

According to ancient texts and records including the “Compendium of Materia Medica,” up thru the current “Pharmacopoeia PRC edition” pearl has been used for medicinal purposes from China for over 2000 years. Pearl has a reputation of being a medicine for treating certain diseases as well as preserving a youthful appearance. The cosmetic grade pearl powder is mixed with the inner shell of the oyster as compared to the medicated grade which is made wholly from pearls.

TCM physicians believe the calcium and other valuable minerals and amino acids from pearl powder can also be absorbed through the skin. They have found pearl powder, applied externally, speeds the skin’s natural metabolism to tone and rejuvenate complexion, heal blemishes, minimize large pores and reduce redness. A pearl facial pack is said to rejuvenate dry, dull skin. CiXi, the last Dowager Empress of China during the Qing Dynasty (16441911), preferred expensive powdered pearl face masks to maintain her complexion.

During Ming dynasty the famous doctor Li Shizhen put in his medical book, Classical Chinese Materia Medica, the use of pearl powder for skin health: “Spread on face, lubricate skin and give good complexion. Spread on hands and feet, smooth skin and relieve chaps. Remove face acnes. Decrease secretion.”

To make a mask, you can mix one teaspoon pearl powder with enough olive oil to form a thin paste. Apply to clean, dry skin; then, after 10 minutes rinse off with warm water. Another option is a mix of pearl powder and milk and beaten egg, believed to have anti-aging effects. This pearl powder can also be used on its own, applying it on the face before sleep and removing it the next day. In TCM terminology, pearl powder has cooling, disinfectant and balancing properties. It keeps the skin cool and moist.

Pearl has other interesting applications. In China, pearl powder is used to heal wounds because it is believed to have antiseptic properties. In the United States, surgeons frequently sprinkle a lower-grade pearl powder, called surgical pearl, into their latex gloves before operating. The soothing, antiseptic pearl powder absorbs excess moisture and may help prevent the spread of infection. Similarly, pearl powder sprinkled into shoes helps absorb odor and excess moisture. The peal has been used to treat ulcerous sores by sprinkling the sores with the powder. It enhances tissue growth and prevent infections.

Pearls are made of aragonite (CaCO3) and a small amount of conchiolin, an organic albuminoid substance. Oyster pearl powder and shell are both chemically the same and are good sources of calcium carbonate.

Source: written by Joni Ito
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Alkalizing people’s bodies is the way to not only cure a person of disease, but to prevent that disease from ever re occurring ever again. A disease cannot thrive/live in an alkaline environment but will thrive/live in an acidic environment. People’s lives have been literally reversed when they were deemed “terminal” with cancer and started using Alkaline water.People are also coming off of their medications simply by drinking Alkaline water on a daily basis which allows the body to become alkaline and in turn, gives the body a chance to fight disease since disease cannot thrive/live in an alkaline environment but will thrive/live in an acidic environment.
The water we drink weather it be tap, bottled or otherwise is dead, lifeless and unhealthy. Incidentally, bottled water that we think is healthy is WORSE than tap water. I had doubt when I heard this but when I did the test on these waters, I was shocked.

Eric Larson is a Lbry.com contributor

For some reason some people like to trick themselves and look away from diets in order to lost weight. They claim they’re happy with the way they are and state they feel healthy with no room for change. Others feel happy with who they are as well, but desire to increase their happiness therefore they look at antiaging and food seriously.

We all know eating is absolutely required to live, so it is very important to consume foods that are good for you. It is a known fact that antiaging and food go together. Providing your body and mind with proper nutrition will strengthen all of the cells in the body. It will minimize the affects of old age and some claim it can turn back the effects of aging.

Due to the fact aging is a process of nature, it is impossible to cease it completely. There is no true Fountain of Youth. Being sure you are active, exercise, eat properly, and get all of the rest you need can become the closest thing to a Fountain of Youth.

There Are Foods That Slow The Aging Process

As your body requires enough caloric intake to create heat and provide energy, and promote antiaging with food, not every food can assist you with the antiaging process. The calories in many fast food meals contain empty calories, which simply means they are deficient in necessary vitamins and minerals needed to slow aging.

Considering all of this it is clear you should eat those foods that will benefit your body and mind. Some excellent choices include raw nuts, barley greens, seeds, and olive oil. Similar foods can help slow the process of aging. When considering the cell replication process when one cell dies and another grows and takes its place food and antiaging really go hand in hand with this process.

This new cell that replaced the other is much more full of vitality and strength. This cell will need the correct nutrition to keep your body elastic and strong. Those cells that become undernourished can add to the degenerative process and therefore speed up the aging process. Artificial coloring, processed foods, fried foods, and foods containing monosodium glutamates (MSG) also speed up this undesirable process. We’ve all seen those with poor eating habits look worse for wear over time.
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Finding a exercise fitness program is not as easy as you might think. First, everyone has busy lives. We have school, jobs, spouses, family, children and their activities. We have work responsibilities, lawns that need mowing and children who have to get to the dentist. Finding the time to JOIN a gym, never mind actually work out at one can be difficult and require a level of commitment that some are either unwilling or unable to make.

But our lives really do depend on us being fit. While being in shape certainly does not guarantee good health, it has been shown to be beneficial in many areas. And being in shape certainly comes in handy when the escalator is broken at the mall. Or the elevator up to your 6th floor apartment is not working again. So finding an exercise fitness program that works for you is important for everyone.

There is also the matter of self esteem. I know that when I lose those pesky 5 pounds that I seem to love to gain and lose, I feel much better about myself. When I can fit into my skinny jeans, I really do have a skip in my step. Looking good and feeling good are certainly related. Does that mean that all overweight people are miserable? Of course not. It does mean that when you are fit and healthy you feel good about yourself and your life.

SO, what is the answer for the person who would like to get into shape but can not seem to find the time? First, if getting into shape is important to you, you can and will find the time. I run in the morning before my husband goes to work. That means I forgo sleeping in most mornings, but I gain the feeling of having already accomplished something by 730am. Being fit is important to me. For some, joining a gym is the answer. Some need the group atmosphere of a gym to keep motivated. There truly is an exercise fitness program for everyone.

Others are looking for a exercise fitness program they can do at home.. Perhaps they have small children and the gym in their area does not provide child care or is too expensive. Perhaps there is no gym in their area or they do not have transportation. Maybe they want to get started at home because they are embarrassed about their fitness level. For them a home based program is best. The good news is that there are lots of at home programs available. They are for every level of fitness from the beginner to the advanced exerciser. Becoming fit is important for everyone. Take the time to find a fitness exercise program that works for you.

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