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
How to Cure Acne – Basic Steps to Take
Acne is very hard to deal with, especially for young individuals. Acne usually occurs in the teenage years, but more and more adults have been reported to suffer from this skin condition in the last few years. Pimples, whiteheads, zits, acne scars – all lower the sufferer’s self esteem and in some severe cases can lead to anxiety and depression. No wonder why the Internet is full of people looking for solutions on how to cure acne. Fortunately, you’re in the right place. In this short article I’ll describe a few proven remedies that will help diminish the appearance of acne greatly.
The first step in order to get rid of acne permanently is changing your eating habits. Increase your daily fruit and vegetables intake, as these contain many antioxidants and vitamins, great against flushing the toxins out of your body. Also, many citric fruits contain citric acid, which is an excellent antioxidant. Water will help keep the skin hydrated and cleanse the body of all the unwanted toxins, which lead to breakouts. Cut down smoking (if possible), caffeine and unhealthy foods (fast-food, junk-food, fatty foods and processed foods etc).
Categories: Acne Tags: Acne, antioxidants, Skin, skin condition, 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.
Hair Loss – Biotin is Food For Your Hair
Biotin plays a significant part in the prevention of hair loss and most nutritionists agree that biotin is one of the most important vitamins for supporting hair growth. It is also advised to take it to supplement medical treatments such as the recently FDA approved Minoxidil.
Biotin helps the body use fats and carbohydrates effectively while building healthy nails, skin and hair.
If you are lacking in it, your hair and nails can become brittle and break easily, but biotin alone cannot solve the problem of hair loss, you need other ingredients to combine for the maximum effectiveness. Read more…
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
Vitamins: Essential Supplements or Marketing Trick?
If you’ve walked by any dietary supplement store even the right section of your supermarket you will have seen them: shelves upon shelves of enigmatic vitamin supplements, ranging from your standard vitamin C to such esoteric things as bottles of green algae. Have you ever stopped and stared at these thousands of extracts, tinctures, reductions and concentrations and wondered if you should be taking some? If you are missing out on a key nutrient or dietary supplement that could prove to be the key to unlocking boundless energy and zest for life? If so, then read on: we’re going to examine vitamins in this article, and give you an honest answer as to whether you should be taking them or not. Read more…
Categories: Medicine Tags: diets, Exercise, Health, multivitamins, Nutrition, nutritional supplements, Vitamins
