Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Vitamins and Minerals – Can Supplements Help Reduce Your CTS Symptoms?
There are nutrients that your body needs. If your body doesn’t get the nutritional things that it requires, you will have one type of disease or another.
Calcium, potassium, magnesium and iron are major minerals that are required for muscle health and function. If you don’t have enough, it increases the irritability of myofascial trigger points. Trigger points are areas of soft tissue (myofascial) or muscle that cause pain elsewhere. The muscles in your neck and upper body can harbor trigger points that “fire” into your hand and wrist–your carpal tunnel.
Calcium is essential (necessary) to the muscles so they can do their best job. Magnesium and potassium are also essential because they interact with calcium and are related to muscle health and contraction.
All of the parts of your body work together. So do all the vitamins. So do all the minerals.
If you take calcium, but don’t have enough Vitamin D3 (the sunshine vitamin) you won’t be able to absorb the calcium.
Without enough magnesium and potassium, calcium won’t absorb properly. Read more…
Categories: Hand Wrist Pain Tags: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, CTS Symptoms, minerals, Supplements, Vitamins
The Latest Hair Loss Research Revealed
The latest hair loss research shows us how many natural herbs, minerals and vitamins can help to effectively combat the loss of hair, and reveals one ingredient in particular that has proven to show some exceptional results.
First we need to look at the main cause and the most common type – DHT and male and female pattern baldness respectively, to understand how to find the best hair loss treatment.
DHT is a by-product of testosterone found in men and women, particularly after the menopause in women, and causes the hair to fall out by making the follicles smaller and smaller and also inhibiting any further regrowth.
The latest hair loss research shows one ingredient in particular that is very effective – Minoxidil.
Minoxidil is the only topical medication approved by the FDA for male and female loss of hair. It does not grow new hair, it works by blocking DHT and extending the growth phase of hair and providing more time for the hair to grow out to its full density and returning your full head of healthy hair.
Some powerful herb extracts can also block the DHT, boosting your circulation and overall health as well. The best ones are Nettle Root, Saw Palmetto and Pumpkin and when combined with important vitamins and minerals like B6, Biotin, zinc and magnesium, you have a winning combination.
Easily Stay Healthy and Active With the Amway Water Filter
The Amway water filter system uses a unique filtration design that comes close to eliminating 100% of all contaminants from your water, including bacteria and viruses. The filter combines a carbon block filter with an advanced ultraviolet light technology that results in nearly perfect water. This purification system can effectively kill almost all of the micro-organisms in water, while also removing chemicals, minerals, and metals. There no single filter which can eliminate every single bit of contaminant from water, but eSpring has discovered that by combining different filtering technologies in home systems, reaching perfection seems like an achievable goal.
The Amway water filter eSpring system eliminates an incredible 99.99% of bacteria and viruses thanks to the ultraviolet light component of the filter. Additionally, this system eliminates nearly 99.95% of cysts, which raises the bar for many competing water filter systems. In the second filtering stage, a carbon block filter removes all pesticides, metals and chemicals from the water. Some of these contaminants include chlorine, lead, radon and mercury, which can be especially common if you have a down stream water source. The eSpring water filter is NSF certified, so you know the claims of success are tested and documented by professionals and the top experts in the industry. Read more…
Categories: Environmental Issues Tags: Amway Water Filter, chemicals, contaminants from water, Filtration, metals, minerals, Stay Active, Stay Healthy
10 Servings of Fruits and Vegetables a Day? You've Got to Be Kidding, Right?
Our bodies need fruits and vegetables. They even crave them! Do we ever eat enough of them in one day? Are the vegetables we DO eat of a quality that gives us the maximum amount of vitamins and minerals? Do you eat a side salad of iceberg lettuce and maybe a few slivers of tomato, carrot and cucumber about 3 times a week and think you are doing well? I would say that most people are in severe need of the power given from eating fruits and vegetables. These power houses are what give our bodies strength and energy.
They keep us from getting sick and suffering, but yet we shy away from eating them and if we do eat them with every meal they are the smallest portion. Organic fruits and veggies are expensive. Yet research shows that certified organic fruits and vegetables have 40% more nutrients than fruits and vegetables that are not organic. I don’t have time to peel, chop or cut at dinner time. I don’t like the taste of green things. When I buy fresh fruits and vegetables they go rotten before I have a chance to use them. There are millions of excuses why we don’t eat them. Some are valid reasons, most are not. Is there a solution to the problem? Read more…
Categories: Nutrition Tags: fruits, minerals, organic fruits, vegetables, Vitamins
Healing With Gemstones and Crystals – How it All Works
How in the world can a rock help us to heal? The idea of a stone healing a human being must seem ridiculous to anyone who has yet to experience it. There was a time when I was also skeptical-not just skeptical, but would laugh if you even suggested that rocks, minerals or metals could do anything but just sit there. It could maybe look pretty. It must have been quite a while ago. I have been a practicing gem therapist (for myself, mostly) since the early eighties.
I have a pile of raw gems next to my bed, and sleep with a beautiful ocean jade under my pillow almost every night. Next to my bed are aragonite, quartz, amethyst, and copper-to name a few. I can absolutely understand how it would seem absurd that these stones actually do anything outside of appeal to the eye. A skeptic would likely chalk all this “healing business” up to imagination-which, hey-imagination is a good thing too, so if it works, go for it! It is true that gemstones can heal us.
Anything and everything is a potential healer. To understand this, it is important to first have some sense of how the natural holistic healing process works. First off, when we speak about the body, we are including the subtle bodies (i.e. the physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual bodies). Some things are obvious, and some things are subtle (less obvious). “Subtle bodies” is just another way of referring to the experience that surrounds your thoughts, feelings, nuances, and emotions.
Keep in mind that our entire bodily system is nothing more than energy that shows up in various patterns and densities. Our thoughts and our feelings are connected to our physical bodies and have a density of their own. We are all built pretty much the same. Diversity has its place, and we are all individuals, yet nature created patterns that work the same in all of us to keep our hearts beating, our blood flowing, and so on. When these patterns of energy work together in a balanced way then we experience our health. Read more…
