Menopause: The Alchemy of Life

Menopause: The Alchemy of Life

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Menopause can happen anytime, these days women are getting it faster than ever, as early as in their mid 30s. Understand and embrace the signs of 'life-changing' transformation.

Many years ago, I went out for a walk and simply couldn't breathe. My chest suddenly felt like it was closing in on my heart and my ribs were like strings pulling a corset tighter. It was an ache, a frozen heaviness, a strange sensation that my ribcage was suffocating me. I stopped and stared at the horizon, unable to move. In a moment of sheer terror, I became very still and all of a sudden, I noticed everything. It wasn't a heart attack, but it seemed to feel like one. It wasn't a panic attack, but it darn near became one. It was nothing and everything. This is one of many visceral experiences women endure and move through during menopause. Unexplainable yet very real.

We all go through ups and downs, through stress and life challenges. But when "the change" just happens, it can be quite overwhelming. Like a hormone roller coaster, some women living a normal life suddenly have their world turned upside down. For it seems menopause is a que for a complete surrender. For those who choose to carry on as they always have, menopause without support could turn into a nomad journey into a barren desert of nothingness.

Menopause is naturally a force of nature and one must look to nature and the nature of things during this phase of a woman’s life. Thus begins a look at her life tapestry and what she has woven. In one sense menopause seems like the end of being ‘female’, the entering of infertility, a time to retreat. But in a traditional sense, it is the time to birth her core wisdom, her instinct and authentic self.

I did not expect, realize or even consider that I had already entered menopause around the age of 36. Some experts tell us that menopause is occurring the day we are born such that we already in a state of declines as each year go by. A woman under stress such as having a sudden accident, divorce or family death may spark an onset. However, living as a woman in modern society, statistics don’t seem to help or serve when a relatively young, healthy active woman all of a sudden for no reason cannot remember where she parked her car, has no recollection of what she drove into town for, is silently rebelling against anything that does not include staying in bed or being alone and is trying to cope with the fact that her body albeit everything she is doing refuses to cooperate.

Ways that worked before to lighten spirit may suddenly seem not to work anymore. As the months progress, body temperature begins to change, sleep patterns become disturbed while hair, skin and nails change. A gust of hormones are leaving, so say goodbye to oestrogen and welcome a new world, a new mind, a new body, a new you. The Change of Life is truly happening. I was truly blown away by the change. I had to ask, will I become traumatized or will I listen, learn and transform? It was time to choose.

To remain caged in your own body and heart unwilling to accept the changes occurring or begin to consider this as a meaningful transition would be un-wise and un-useful. When the change occurs, a change must occur. Listening, feeling, observing and becoming very aware of oneself is the beginning of a healthy transformation.

Yoga is a start. With simple, restorative and gentle yoga, a woman is soothed in her own bones. The health benefits are subtle but often profound. Relaxation, gentle exercise, weight bearing postures, core stability and joint mobility all serve to benefit the female body through this tremendous process. With yoga, joints, digestive and skeletal systems are strengthened. Awareness of breath, movement and tension provide daily doses of de-stressing.

Woman’s yoga is designed to offer all the elements that support the continuous and naturally changing landscape of a woman's body, mind and spirit. She will make her way to the other side. A yoga practice nurtures a woman and allows her to feel. Menopause is truly a woman’s time. It is her opportunity to tap into her own second wind.

Tailored to help each woman explore her unique requirements, yoga at this time is not about physical fitness, or getting ‘into shape’. Yoga for the mature woman is about developing a new core foundation, to be flexible in adversity and to reap the reservoirs of earned stillness.

Attacking The Salt Problem

Attacking The Salt Problem

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The British Medical Journal recently published an analysis on the effects of too much salt in our diets.  According to their research, which looked at 13 studies from 1966 to 2008:

High salt intake is associated with significantly increased risk of stroke and total cardiovascular disease.

The British Medical Journal recently published an analysis on the effects of too much salt in our diets.

According to their research, which looked at 13 studies from 1966 to 2008:

High salt intake is associated with significantly increased risk of stroke and total cardiovascular disease. Because of imprecision in measurement of salt intake, these effect sizes are likely to be underestimated. These results support the role of a substantial population reduction in salt intake for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Yikes!

Over at Food Politics, Marion Nestle points to the study’s commentary which calls for more regulation in the food industry. Since “nearly 80% of salt enters the diet through processed and pre-prepared foods,” they argue that regulation is the best way to help reduce the salt in our diets.

Is regulation the answer? Sure, it would be great to see restaurants and food companies step up and consider the health impacts of the food they’re producing. I’m just not sure it’s something that legislation alone can address.

One of the big problems, as Nestle points out, is that:

…the taste for salt depends on how much is eaten. On a low salt diet, even lightly salted foods taste salty. But if you are used to eating a lot of salt, it takes even more to taste salty. So the object needs to be to reduce salt in the diet across the board.

If we’re going to reduce salt intake across the board, consumers need to have a clear idea of salt’s health impacts. Education is key.

Not only do folks need to know the risks, they need solutions. If processed- and restaurant foods are the major culprits, it sounds like home cooked meals might be the answer.

Preparing home-cooked meals makes it so much easier to monitor how much salt is going into your food. Why wait for regulation when you can take charge of your diet in your very own kitchen? We’ve got tons of recipes to get you started. Not all of our recipes are low salt, but you can reduce the salt called for gradually as your palette adjusts.

Essential Fatty Acids Foods for Better Fitness

Essential Fatty Acids Foods for Better Fitness

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Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) are crucial, not just for our fat loss and muscle building results, but for our overall health and well being, too.

Omega-3 essential fatty acids are not made by the body but are essential for a variety of important functions, including lessened risk of cardiovascular disease, improved metabolism, better eye health and more.

Omega-3′s also help your body’s sensitivity to insulin. This helps your body store less fat. In addition, the fat you do store is more readily and easily converted into energy and burned during activity.

This keeps your blood sugar levels stable and keeps you away from those famed sugar crashes and cravings and irritable mood swings.

A big obstacle to getting enough omega 3′s from food is that very few foods have a significant amount of Omega 3′s in them. On top of that, the typical Western diet does not include many of the foods that are good sources of Omega 3.

To make the problem worse, by not getting enough Omega 3′s, we end up with an imbalance between other fatty acids, such as Omega 6 and Omega 9, which may cause a variety of health problems.

Here are 4 Essential Fatty Acids Foods High in Omega 3

1. Cold-Water Fish: Wild Salmon, Trout, Herring, and Sardines

These cold-water fish are very rich sources of EPA and DHA. Salmon and trout are best purchased wild or organically farmed. You can make salmon patties for dinner, or add sardines to a salad. Fresh caught, jarred, or canned varieties of these fish are equally high in these special fats, so you’re free to choose the form that works best for you. Just make sure you purchase jarred or canned items that have no added sugar or artificial flavors.

2. Seaweed, Spirulina, Chlorella

The cold-water fish listed above are rich in EPA and DHA due to their consumption of seaweed, which they convert to and store as EPA and DHA. You can add these special green foods to smoothies, or eat them on a salad. They’re also a rich source of iodine, which supports normal thyroid function.

3. Krill oil and Fish Oil

For some people, the simplest and most cost-effective way to get EPA and DHA omega-3 fats into their diets is to take it in supplement form. The two most concentrated sources of EPA and DHA are krill and fish oils. Ensure that you’re buying these oils from a reputable source that screens their product for mercury contamination, so that you avoid this harmful chemical at all costs. Fish also carries the risk of mercury, but salmon, trout, herring, and sardines contain very little compared to fish like swordfish and tuna.

4. Omega-3 Eggs

These special eggs come from chickens that were fed fish or algae oils. The EPA and DHA are then stored within the bright yellow yolks, making them an ideal source of omega-3s for people that dislike eating fish directly. Have an egg or two a day in scrambled eggs, boiled on a salad, or cooked in a quiche, to give your body the omega-3 fats it needs. Besides the long list of health benefits, Omega 3 fatty acids also help to burn fat and build muscle by increasing your metabolic rate (for fat burning) and boosting your testosterone levels (for muscle building).

Our testosterone levels start to fall naturally in our twenties and getting enough essential fatty acids can help to combat the drop.

And if you workout and stay fit…

“Studies show that higher-fat diets make more sense for fit people than low-fat diets,” says Liz Applegate, Ph.D., author of Encyclopedia of Sports & Fitness Nutrition. “In one study, endurance athletes ran up to 24 percent longer before they fatigued when they ate a diet that was above 30 percent fat compared to one that was below 20 percent,” she says.

Optimistic attitude toward the health effects

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Optimistic attitude toward the health effects

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The relationship of optimism and health

A person who has an optimistic attitude tend to see things from both sides. Two people are behind bars in the same prison to see something different on the outside of the prison, depending on whether the person is an optimist or a pessimist. A pessimist would see a dirty muddy ground outside the jail to make it more depression, while an optimist would see the beauty of the stars are scattered in the sky that lit up the night. Through the eyes of an optimistic outlook, the glass looks half full of water while through a pessimist, the glass looks half empty.

Optimism is actually a view of our faith. Optimism is built on trust and hope in God and believe that He can do all things for our good. Therefore, an optimist can laugh despite what was expected did not materialize. Optimists have proved that laughter is medicine. Being a pessimist find it hard to laugh. By choosing to be an optimist, we will be able to laugh and gain a positive impact thereof.

Norman Cousin, is the author of a book called Anatomy of Illness, and is also an editor of the Saturday Review for over 30 years. He also is a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral flying science at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In his book Anatomy of Illness he emphasized the great importance of having a happy attitude to our health. He recounted his own experience in which he suffered serious collagen. In August 1964, he suffered a widespread inflammation of collagen, the connective tissue of the body that is composed of fibrous substance that binds cells together.

Suffering is as follows: (i) his skin thickened and inelastic, tight and slick and shiny, so consequently he found it difficult to move the fingers, (ii) he has difficulty in moving his limbs, and turned around on the spot sleep, (iii) a lot of bumps covering his body which shows the characteristics of the disease that has spread to all parts of his body, (iv) a second jaw can not be moved, because of inflamed and thickened connective tissue so that his mouth as if buttoned and tight.

Dr. William Hitzig, doctors held a consultation with experts from Howard Rusk Rehabilitation Clinic in the city of New York. After the Norman Cousin checked, they confirm that he was not only suffering from collagen, but also ankylosing spondylitis, which means the connective tissue in the spine is also under attack, so having contractions. The doctors provide a wide range of drugs painkillers such as aspirin, phenylbutazone (butazolidine), codeine, colchicines and what kinds of sleeping pills. Norman is given the maximum dose of 26 tablets of aspirin, as well as 12 tablets phenylbutazone (butazolidine) every day.

As a result, his violent side reaction, ie swelling all over her body as if bitten by millions of red ants. He was very sensitive to all the drugs given to him. Statistics show that only 1 in 500 people will be cured. It is a progressive disease with a dismal prognose.

Norman Cousin was troubled by her suffering, and one day she confronted the doctor and he murmured, "I have been tired with all this treatment along with all the symptoms of side effects. Therefore, I want to stop eating these drugs and trying to cheer me. "He called Allen Funt, producer of" Candid Camera "to send him funny movie with a movie projector. The nurses were instructed how to play the film.

He was surprised to find that the pain was reduced when he laughs. He noticed that when he laughed out loud for 10 minutes, as he watched funny movies, he can sleep for 2 hours without feeling pain. When the effect of reduction in pain from laughing out loud it began to disappear, he will play another funny movie that will bring him an interval of pain-free sleep. Sometimes nurses will read to her collection of books filled with humor. Norman Cousin really happy with the films that funny, and the story is filled with humor. Unfortunately there is one negative side of the program in which Norman laughing too strong, thus disturbing the patients at the hospital.

Norman Cousin finally moved to a room where she can laugh at will, without disturbing the other patients. But he will still be monitored blood erythrocyte sedimentation rate, which is a blood test that indicates inflammation suffered terrible person. Blood tests are moving from 112 mm per hour decreased to 15 mm per hour on day 8! At the end of the day to 8, Norman was able to move his thumb without feeling any pain, lumps on the neck and back of his body began to shrink. His health recovered enough to return to work full Saturday Review. As the years passed and the movement increased until he was able to play tennis, golf, horseback riding, holding the camera by hand is not shaking, it can even play piano with songs like Toccata and Fugue difficult in D minor.

Laughter really is the panacea, as supported by the experience of many people. Are benefits of laughter? Research shows that laughter is very useful because (i) to train your lungs, (ii) stimulate the circulatory system, (iii) increase the oxygen is inhaled into the lungs and blood, (iv) where the runners like first heartbeat , respiration and blood circulation is accelerated, then pulse and blood pressure will decrease followed by a relaxed muscle.

Research at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to get, that when a laugh with a sincere, sympathetic nervous system will be stimulated to produce catecholamine, then the front of the pituitary gland will be stimulated to produce endorphins. The effects of endorphins as natural opiates are as follows: (i) to calm the mind, (ii) relief of pain (more effective than morphine), (iii) encouraging mood, (iv) increased endorphin activity of immune cells [1 pico endorphin gram = 1 gram per trillion cells increases the activity of Natural Killer (NK) cells against tumor cells by 42%].

We can be really happy and have a real laugh just by believing fully in Him and know that He who control our lives! Dr. Belloc and Dr.. Breslow from the Department of Public Health, Berkeley, California found that longevity has a close relationship with the people rejoice. This study covering 6928 residents in Alameda County, showing that they were not happy to have mortality rates 57% higher than those who live happily. An experiment conducted on university students at Harvard University, to see the impact of positive thinking on the immune system.

After participating in a comprehensive personality test where measured tolerance, confidence and self worth, and blood samples were taken from each university students then NK cells isolated and then put together with cancer cells for 4 hours to measure power than NK cells from the university students. Apparently NK cells from university students who think healthy and have a positive behavior, eradicate the cancer cells are more powerful than a group with other personality. Medium NK cells from university students who major depression in personality tests, and tend to withdraw and have a low self-worth, the least active in eradicating cancer cells.

It is only people who have self-tolerance and high value that can see the good side of any situation, so that they can enjoy better health. To be healthy, God encourages us to have free of evil thoughts and ways of thinking that are not wise

High Cholesterol Linked to Sunlight Deficiencies

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High Cholesterol Linked to Sunlight Deficiencies

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Vitamin D is formed in the skin when UVB radiation from the sun reacts with cholesterol within the skins capillary bed. This conversion takes place and reduces the cholesterol level of the body. In the absence of this exposure cholesterol builds up in the body and causes coronary heart disease instead of creating the disease preventative hormone vitamin D. Taking vitamin D orally will not provide this benefit.

The exchange and turnover of vitamin D for cholesterol in the skins capillary bed will be the determining factor in reducing blood plasma cholesterol levels. If the rate of the livers production of cholesterol always exceeds this, then no reduction will occur. If insufficient vitamin D is synthesized in the skin, then no reduction will occur.

If the blood flow is good enough to improve on this ratio, then of course cholesterol levels should be reduced. Recent research is also indicating that sunshine dilates capillaries.

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Capillary blood flow is often times limited by the tiny diameter of the capillaries themselves, often only large enough to allow passage of one blood cell at a time to squeeze through. They are also regulated and at any time three quarters of them are closed. I can suggest the use of a nicotinic acid flush which increases capillary size two and three fold, which translates into a four to nine fold increase in the blood flow potential. Many people suffer from an insufficient capillary blood flow. Vitamin B3 rivals, and often produces much better results than modern Stanton drugs designed to combat high cholesterol levels in the blood, and I admit not being familiar with the mechanisms for this. It may by itself be related to vitamin D exchange and turnover, or may have other mechanisms of effectiveness. But either way it does and should work In regards to enhancing vitamin D exchange for cholesterol.

Muscle contractions are triggered by the flood of calcium ions into the muscle cells, and muscle relaxation is triggered by the flood of magnesium ions into the muscle cells. When the heart fails to contract and relax rythmically from these alternating ionic signals, this is called a heart attack. Calcium adsorption into the body is not at all efficient without vitamin D, and magnesium adsorption also needs this assistance…in fact it is estimated that the majority of US citizens are severely magnesium deficient leading to stress, disease, and heart attacks!Vitamin D Sunshine

So, in these ways sunlight combats heart disease by completing the metabolic pathway for vitamin D synthesis in the skin. The vitamin D created in this way reduces the cholesterol level of the body and also greatly enhances the adsorption of calcium and magnesium into the body ensuring a strong healthy heart, enhancing the relaxation response, and avoiding coronary artery disease.

In this highly charged and energetic environment we live in, it is truly not surprising that life has evolved to utilize these energies.

Pain Heals, Chicks Dig Scar and Getting Fit?

Pain Heals, Chicks Dig Scar and Getting Fit?

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What the euphemism am I talking concerning, right?

I had alittle incident for a while back wherever I nearly sliced my thumb in 0.5 on a tuna will lid. Blood was gushing all over. I currently knowledge a lot of we tend to use our thumbs daily. What a pain! square measure you inquisitive what the euphemism this needs to do with getting into nice shape? Next time you hit the athletic facility, take a glance around.
What reasonably exercises square measure being done?

I bet you see lots of machine work, isolation exercises, several “core” work, long, boring aerobic wherever folks barely break a sweat,while observance tv or reading a magazine. All that kind of issue. You don’t see lots of individuals doing the exercises that count:

 barbell Squats

 heavy Lunges

 military press

    Chin Ups

    Deadlifts

    Stiff legged Deadlifts

    High Intensity Interval coaching for cardio

    Kettlebell work, etc.

    Squat Thrusts

    Burpees

    Jump Squats

 all types of Push Ups

    Mountain Climbers

    Jump Rope

    Bear Crawls

    Hill Sprints

 and many more!

And I bet you never see anyone do all out sets of twenty reps on squats or deadlifts,. That is, if you see squats or deadlifts performed in the slightest degree.
What do those exercises have in common?

Two things.

They are very effective for serving to you get the body you wish, whether or not it’s building muscle, burning fat or each (yes, for each men AND women). and that they FREAKIN’ hurt huge time!

When I bring up pain, I don’t mean doing one thing to harm yourself (like those idiots that bench by dropping significant weights on their chest, bouncing it up, of age their toes and curving their backs such a lot you're thinking that they’ll snap in half).

I’m talking concerning the pain of give suck build up, the exhaustion of doing a twenty rep set of squats or deadlifts, or a killer interval educational program like running hill sprints, or some serious metabolic acquisition.

I mean the great quite pain from a good effort that ends up in the killer body you be.
And that’s what you wish, right?

I’m talking concerning the type of pain that needs mental toughness. solely you actually apprehend if you worked onerous enough on a group or throughout a effort. for many folks, on the really productive sets and exercises, their mind equal long before their muscles do.

Don’t let that be you! If you wish results, you've got to obtain it. however don’t examine it as paying the worth or creating sacrifices.

As angularity Ziglar says, you don’t pay the worth, you relish the advantages. which is incredibly true! You relish the advantages of being healthy and work by living a a lot of pleasant, top quality life, doing the items you wish to try and do and truly having the ability to try and do them! that's awesome!
Put some real work into real exercises.

Let everybody else in your athletic facility look precisely the same next year. Not you. You’ll be the one turning heads all over you go!

Look, I don’t BS you. You don’t need to eat stinking food, you don’t need to starve yourself and you certain as euphemism don’t need to effort 2 hours each day.

But you are doing need to work once you effort, despite what all the freakin’ infomercials tell you!

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