Two new ideas on escaping colds & flu & more....
Today's Post: Monday, 11-30-2009
Jon Herring is the new Editorial Director at Total Health Breakthroughs.
(See www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com .) Thanks to Jon, it’s again worth reading sometimes.
A week ago last Wednesday, on Wednesday, 11-18-2009 Jon did an article about 3 lifestyle changes he made that in part helped him go from getting colds or flu once or twice a year to one time in several years.
(It is important to note that his body likely learned to beat all the stuff he once got sick from in addition to the 3 things he mentions. Elementary school teachers catch everything for several years; but after they have taught for 10 or 20 years they rarely catch anything. So that effect is real too.)
But each of the 3 things he changed DOES have evidence it is protective.
We already have posted that taking at least 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 boosts the effectiveness of your immune system so much it prevents many if not most cancers and many if not most cases of colds & flu, BY ITSELF. For some people 5,000 iu may be better. You can get tested to see your blood level of vitamin D. But virtually everyone should get 400 iu from a multivitamin and an extra 2,000 iu. That’s fast and really inexpensive. Even better, it makes you LESS likely to get autoimmune diseases where your immune system thinks part of you should be attacked. Plus vitamin D protects your bones and your heart and blood vessels we now know.
But Jon adds two additional methods, one of which gives you other multiple health benefits & one of which may well do so.
1. The average American gets 22 teaspoons a day of some kind of sugar. That’s in addition to even more high glycemic carbs from refined grains in breads and breakfast cereals and snacks and desserts.
Jon quotes convincing evidence that this excessive amount of sugar and high glycemic carbs from refined grains has been TESTED as cutting the effectiveness of your immune system by 90%.
So, if you stop drinking soft drinks; eating any food or drink with high fructose corn syrup; and cut your intake of real sugar in half and then in half again, you will boost your immune system massively. It also will help to eat nonstarchy vegetables or whole grain foods instead and never or almost never eat refined grain foods again.
Even better, if you have been eating and drinking a lot of that stuff, you may well lose 20 or more pounds of excess fat without getting any hungrier or doing anything else!
For example, one study found for every soft drink a day, regular or diet, that people drink daily, they are 15 pounds fatter than they would be if they drank real water instead.
If you are 50 or more pounds overweight, this one change could literally be a lifesaver from the fat you’ll lose. The ten times boost to your immune system is just a bonus!
2. Jon also began taking 200 mcg a day of selenium. (More than that can be toxic, so more is NOT better. But that much seems safe from what I’ve read.)
I had heard that doing so may prevent some cancers although the early studies have not verified that for many kinds. However, I did read of study that found that people who took that much selenium were dramatically less likely to die from any cancer. So selenium may help avoid the more dangerous kinds of cancer rather than prevent all kinds.
But Jon quotes some amazing information on taking selenium as an antiviral and immune system booster for preventing virus infections, & making the ones you get milder and leave sooner.
One group of mice were given human flu virus (& the flu) with no extra treatment and another also got selenium supplements. The mice which did NOT get selenium had worse lung symptoms and DAMAGE and their symptoms also lasted much longer.
This may well mean that taking selenium not only may prevent the flu; but if you do get swine flu or a “seasonal” flu that attacks your lungs, you may also be dramatically less likely to die from it
Today's Post: Monday, 11-30-2009
Jon Herring is the new Editorial Director at Total Health Breakthroughs.
(See www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com .) Thanks to Jon, it’s again worth reading sometimes.
A week ago last Wednesday, on Wednesday, 11-18-2009 Jon did an article about 3 lifestyle changes he made that in part helped him go from getting colds or flu once or twice a year to one time in several years.
(It is important to note that his body likely learned to beat all the stuff he once got sick from in addition to the 3 things he mentions. Elementary school teachers catch everything for several years; but after they have taught for 10 or 20 years they rarely catch anything. So that effect is real too.)
But each of the 3 things he changed DOES have evidence it is protective.
We already have posted that taking at least 2,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 boosts the effectiveness of your immune system so much it prevents many if not most cancers and many if not most cases of colds & flu, BY ITSELF. For some people 5,000 iu may be better. You can get tested to see your blood level of vitamin D. But virtually everyone should get 400 iu from a multivitamin and an extra 2,000 iu. That’s fast and really inexpensive. Even better, it makes you LESS likely to get autoimmune diseases where your immune system thinks part of you should be attacked. Plus vitamin D protects your bones and your heart and blood vessels we now know.
But Jon adds two additional methods, one of which gives you other multiple health benefits & one of which may well do so.
1. The average American gets 22 teaspoons a day of some kind of sugar. That’s in addition to even more high glycemic carbs from refined grains in breads and breakfast cereals and snacks and desserts.
Jon quotes convincing evidence that this excessive amount of sugar and high glycemic carbs from refined grains has been TESTED as cutting the effectiveness of your immune system by 90%.
So, if you stop drinking soft drinks; eating any food or drink with high fructose corn syrup; and cut your intake of real sugar in half and then in half again, you will boost your immune system massively. It also will help to eat nonstarchy vegetables or whole grain foods instead and never or almost never eat refined grain foods again.
Even better, if you have been eating and drinking a lot of that stuff, you may well lose 20 or more pounds of excess fat without getting any hungrier or doing anything else!
For example, one study found for every soft drink a day, regular or diet, that people drink daily, they are 15 pounds fatter than they would be if they drank real water instead.
If you are 50 or more pounds overweight, this one change could literally be a lifesaver from the fat you’ll lose. The ten times boost to your immune system is just a bonus!
2. Jon also began taking 200 mcg a day of selenium. (More than that can be toxic, so more is NOT better. But that much seems safe from what I’ve read.)
I had heard that doing so may prevent some cancers although the early studies have not verified that for many kinds. However, I did read of study that found that people who took that much selenium were dramatically less likely to die from any cancer. So selenium may help avoid the more dangerous kinds of cancer rather than prevent all kinds.
But Jon quotes some amazing information on taking selenium as an antiviral and immune system booster for preventing virus infections, & making the ones you get milder and leave sooner.
One group of mice were given human flu virus (& the flu) with no extra treatment and another also got selenium supplements. The mice which did NOT get selenium had worse lung symptoms and DAMAGE and their symptoms also lasted much longer.
This may well mean that taking selenium not only may prevent the flu; but if you do get swine flu or a “seasonal” flu that attacks your lungs, you may also be dramatically less likely to die from it
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posted by David at 2:59 PM
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Not all food supplement have the same level of quality, some are just synthetic, artificial fillers. Be cautious especially if the price is cheap for it may compromise your health.
This probably not true of supplements from Germany.
And, except for some of the very cheapest ones from lesser companies, it tends not to be true of the major makers of supplements you find in health food stores in the United States.
But, right now the supplements that are most likely to contain things that will harm your health or drugs NOT listed on the label come from countries outside of the United States & Europe where laws on purity, accurate labeling, and safety are far less common for all things.
Natural ingredients DO tend to work better in many cases than the sythetic, and cheaper, ones.
Often organically grown, non GMO, fruits and vegetables are your best source for nutrients.
But, supplements that concentrate the nutrients from these foods and some other supplements, such as
C0Q10, DO have extremely valuable health effects.
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