It is a well-known fact that following training your body ability to synthesis protein is enhanced. It is also pretty well known that post training muscle tissue becomes more insulin sensitive and simple carbohydrates are more likely to replenish glycogen than be stored as body fat at this time.
This knowledge is in itself a great thing but it has lead bodybuilders into the habit of eating after the event and ignoring their nutrient needs at other times. For example, you need carbs well before you train in order to get through the session. You need a high blood pool of aminos DURING training to get the growth process off to the best possible start. These aminos will come from the protein you ate hours before you trained.
Make sure you eat those radical nasty goodies prior to training though so they are actually present and working in your blood stream at the point of greatest oxidative stress (during and straight after training) rather than having them hanging around in your stomach digesting while your over trained body is shouting out for help after training.
A firm eating schedule should be worked out depending on your daily routine. Let’s say that you are sat by a computer for several hours in the morning, and then your carb intake should be reduced while your protein intake should be increased. If your afternoon consists of a punishing workout, then your complex carb intake should be increased as well as fluids and antioxidants, and you will also need a mix of proteins. Post workout nutrition should be supplemented strategically based on your requirements for the coming hours.
It doesn’t happen very often that a competing bodybuilder owns up to being outclassed by his fellow competitors. Nine times out of ten you will hear all sorts of back stabbing comments and low life conspiracy theories regarding the judges or the event organisers. Competitors will come up with virtually anything as an excuse for their own pathetic looking physiques that just weren’t up for it on the big day.
This is down to how bodybuilding is currently judged which without a doubt could be improved big time. The judges should be forced to write down notes that made quite clear the break down of the score for each physique. These documents could then be at the disposal of the competitors following the event so they could see for themselves what they were lacking. A judge will always highlight poor diet from what he has seen, and this would help bodybuilders prepare better for any future competition.
Bodybuilders are the best athletes in the world at kidding themselves they are making progress simply because their sport has very little in the way of truly objective criteria for judging performance gains. In order to compensate for this every bodybuilder should have photos taken once or twice a year in the same light, in the same poses. Every bodybuilder should keep track of his / her muscular girths and have his / her body fat tested at least once a year also.
In short if you are gaining lean mass and or losing body fat your muscular girths will increase whilst your waist will remain much the same. If you are not losing fat or gaining muscle then what the heck are you training for? Bodybuilding is a sport of large, lean muscles so if you are not getting bigger and / or leaner you are not succeeding in bodybuilding. Forget all the nonsense about “increasing density” or “quality” or “having enough size”.
Every time I hear this I know immediately that that competitor is at a dead end in his / her training and nutrition and has stopped making gains. How many times have you seen a judging sheet in a bodybuilding contest where a competitor was marked down for carrying too much muscle and being too lean? So what must your objectives be? More muscle? Always. Better condition? Always.
There’s no doubt in my mind that most bodybuilders are completely nuts. Well that’s by Albert Einstein’s definition of the word who said that insanity was the constant repetition of something while expecting different results. It sounds to me like a bodybuilder carry out the same pattern of train, eat, and train and so on. How many times have you seen a bodybuilder in the gym who always looks the same but oddly enough just carry on with the same training techniques and nutrition routines?
If you don’t seem to be progressing in the gym, then consider a drastic change in something now or you could end up looking the same five years down the road. The most likely bet is that your training routine needs some changes made to it, but if you have been giving it your best for a while then have a serious look at your eating habits.
Something else you might hear in the gym is some dude saying that he just hasn’t got the genetic makeup for bodybuilding. Well let me tell you, this guy just has no clue on training, eating properly or recovering and how the hell can he possibly reach his maximum possible gain? Well let me just rephrase that again, I mean size just makes no difference at all when it comes to making big muscle gains.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
A cold sore or fever blister
A cold sore or fever blister is painful and can occur on the lip, genital area or other places on the skin and the mucous membranes. They start often with a tingle feeling and then grow into a sore which may itch. Keep in mind that this can be contagious during an outbreak so use caution around others.
Please note that a cold sore symptom or fever blister outbreak is not the same as an aphthous ulcers or canker sores. These are similar in appearance but appear inside the mouth they are not caused by HSV. People on chemotherapy treatments may get canker sores in the mouth but these are not cold sores.
Lysine and zinc supplements are mentioned by some for helping the immune system against cold sores. For myself, I find if I eat peanut butter I may get a cold sore outburst on my lip, but if I take lysine at same time I won’t. The amino acid ratio is very important in our systems.
When your immune system is compromised such as by stress, insufficient sleep or fighting off a cold you can get a cold sore or fever blister sore. Try to take care of yourself, reduce stress and get enough sleep. Also wear sunscreen on your lip when you are outside as the UV can cause this if you are prone to it.
The application of ice as well as tea bags are two home remedies for cold sores that are advised to help to minimize the pain and inflammation. Tannic acid (in tea) has anti-viral properties and ice is always good to reduce inflammation. Neither of these are a cure but still can be an aid.
The cold sore forms a crust at the end but you are not out of the woods yet. The sore unfortunately can re-open and bleed if it is on your lip due to the fact this is part of the process just like a scab heals. When we eat we pull the lip and this stimulation may cause problems.
Traditional natural remedies that purport to ease the pain and length include acidopholous, grapefruit seed extract, aloe juice and b-12 supplements. Though some people say vaseline will stop the cracking, I found this spread my cold sore to create a second one next to it so I cannot recommend the vaseline.
They haven’t found a cure for fever blisters and cold sores yet but you can find comfort in knowing that with a good system of prevention as well as measures you take with the initial tingle the length, severity and frequency can be greatly minimized and you don’t have to live in a crisis mode with this.
Please note that a cold sore symptom or fever blister outbreak is not the same as an aphthous ulcers or canker sores. These are similar in appearance but appear inside the mouth they are not caused by HSV. People on chemotherapy treatments may get canker sores in the mouth but these are not cold sores.
Lysine and zinc supplements are mentioned by some for helping the immune system against cold sores. For myself, I find if I eat peanut butter I may get a cold sore outburst on my lip, but if I take lysine at same time I won’t. The amino acid ratio is very important in our systems.
When your immune system is compromised such as by stress, insufficient sleep or fighting off a cold you can get a cold sore or fever blister sore. Try to take care of yourself, reduce stress and get enough sleep. Also wear sunscreen on your lip when you are outside as the UV can cause this if you are prone to it.
The application of ice as well as tea bags are two home remedies for cold sores that are advised to help to minimize the pain and inflammation. Tannic acid (in tea) has anti-viral properties and ice is always good to reduce inflammation. Neither of these are a cure but still can be an aid.
The cold sore forms a crust at the end but you are not out of the woods yet. The sore unfortunately can re-open and bleed if it is on your lip due to the fact this is part of the process just like a scab heals. When we eat we pull the lip and this stimulation may cause problems.
Traditional natural remedies that purport to ease the pain and length include acidopholous, grapefruit seed extract, aloe juice and b-12 supplements. Though some people say vaseline will stop the cracking, I found this spread my cold sore to create a second one next to it so I cannot recommend the vaseline.
They haven’t found a cure for fever blisters and cold sores yet but you can find comfort in knowing that with a good system of prevention as well as measures you take with the initial tingle the length, severity and frequency can be greatly minimized and you don’t have to live in a crisis mode with this.
Cellular Nutrition
Cellular Nutrition
Health Concepts, PO Box 9226, Rapid City, SD 57709
http://www.bionutrition.org/cellular-nutrition.asp
We have no choice but to live in our present environment. Our bodies are affronted daily by excessive production of free radicals caused by our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles, and over-medicated society. Though we can certainly reduce the amount of free radicals our bodies produce by: not smoking, decreasing stress levels, and avoiding toxic chemicals, most of our bodies are still unable to fight the overwhelming daily attack on the natural defense system. Remember balance is the key--we need enough antioxidants available to neutralize the free radicals produced.
Over the past 50 years, nutritional medicine and supplementation has focused on replenishing a nutritional deficiency. Countless hours and dollars have been spent trying to determine exactly which nutrients our bodies are depleted of. Blood tests, urine tests, hair samples, muscle testing, and more have been conducted in an attempt to determine which nutrients we need to supplement. However, we have been aiming at the wrong target.
The presenting problem is not a nutritional deficiency, but rather, underlying oxidative stress. Oxidative stress has now been shown beyond any shadow of doubt via medical research to be the root cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases. Diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s dementia, macular degeneration, lupus, MS, and the list goes on and on.
Because oxidative stress is our concern rather than specific nutritional deficiencies, we must determine what is the best approach to preventing or controlling oxidative stress. This is accomplished by bolstering one’s natural defenses through cellular nutrition.
Cellular nutrition is simply providing ALL nutrients to the cell at optimal levels. This allows the cell to determine what it actually does and does not need. I don’t have to worry about determining which nutrients the cell is deficient in. I simply provide all of the important nutrients at optimal levels--those levels shown to provide a health benefit in the medical literature. Any nutritional deficiencies will be automatically corrected over the next few months by this approach and all the other vital nutrients will be brought up to their optimal levels as well.
Cellular nutrition is providing the body with all the antioxidants along with the supporting B vitamins and antioxidant minerals at optimal levels. This is "preventive medicine" at its best because we can literally attack the disease process at its core by preventing oxidative stress from occurring.
You may be wondering if we can control oxidative stress by simply improving our diet and eating more fruits and vegetables. This is definitely a good start. By simply eating 7 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day you can decrease the risk of heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s dementia, and cancer, two to three fold. We certainly want to supplement a good diet—not a bad diet. However, even if you eat a great diet you can barely obtain the RDA level of all essential nutrients. Medical studies have shown that less than 1% of the American population accomplishes this on a consistent basis.
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA):
Research studies reveal standards of recommended daily allowance (RDA’s) have absolutely nothing to do with chronic degenerative diseases. RDA’s were developed to avoid what are known as acute deficiency diseases like scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C), rickets (deficiency of vitamin D), and pellagra (deficiency of niacin). In other words, if you consumed the RDAs for vitamin C, vitamin D, and niacin, you would not develop any of these illnesses.
Admittedly, the RDA’s have done their job—how many people do you know suffer from these diseases? RDA’s first developed in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The list of nutrients included in the RDAs grew over the next two decades and in the early 1950s, the definition of RDAs expanded to include the amounts of nutrients needed for normal growth. Despite the fact that RDAs have proved useful, most physicians and laypeople tend to assign more meaning to RDA standards than they should.
After researching medical literature on the topic of oxidative stress and the amount of nutrients needed to prevent it, I found the optimal levels of nutrients known to provide health benefits are significantly greater those suggested by RDA levels. For example, the optimal level of vitamin E is 400 IU. The RDA is only 10 to 30 IU. That being the case, you may consider eating 400 IU of vitamin E. You would only need to eat 33 heads of spinach, or 27 pounds of butter; 80 avocados will do, or an alternative 5 pounds of wheat germ each and every day to obtain that level of vitamin E.
Similarly, the optimal level of vitamin C is approximately 1200 to 2000 mg daily, while the RDA is only 60 mg. To eat the optimal levels of vitamin would need to consume 18 oranges, or 17 kiwifruit, or 160 apples. Put in this perspective, it becomes clear that the only way to obtain these levels of nutrients is to supplement our diet. And this requires more than a generic multiple vitamin. One-a-day multiple vitamins are primarily based on RDA levels, thus providing no measurable health benefits. Significantly more potent supplements are needed each day to provide the optimal levels to provide cellular nutrition.
I will discuss more specific details in How to Choose a Quality Supplement.
The "Magic Bullet" Approach
Most scientific studies done on nutritional supplements are approached in the traditional way of testing drugs—hoping to discover a "magic bullet". A disease is isolated and targeted by one specific drug. The pharmaceutical results of that drug are then measured.
Research trials have been similarly conducted for nutritional supplements. For example, calcium and vitamin D have been tested for their effects on osteoporosis; vitamin E for heart disease, magnesium for irregular heartbeats or selenium to reduce the risk of cancer.
One problem remains, however: vitamins such as C, D and E are not drugs. They are natural nutrients that our bodies get from our foods. The various antioxidants and supporting nutrients work on different types of free radicals and in different parts of the body. Vitamin E is the best antioxidant within the cell membrane. Vitamin C is most effective within the plasma.
Glutathione is works most efficiently within the cell itself. Literally dozens of antioxidants are at work in various parts of the body and are effective against particular types of free radicals. They work together—synergistically-- to control oxidative stress. This means that 1 plus 1 does not equal 2, but 8 or 10. Medical research separates these nutrients out and tries to study their individual effect. The amazing fact remains that the overwhelming majority of studies actually does show a health benefit with even an individual nutrient. However, since oxidative stress is the underlying problem we must concern ourselves with, it is important to realize that all of these nutrients work together—synergy.
Vitamin C actually replenishes vitamin E and intracellular glutathione so it can be used over and over again. Alpha lipoic acid also regenerates vitamin E and glutathione. In addition, these antioxidants need optimal levels of the B vitamins—folic acid, vitamin B1, B2, B6, and B12—in order to perform at optimal levels. They also need the so-called antioxidant minerals such as: selenium, manganese, copper, and zinc to do their job right. If you have all the glutathione in the world available but are depleted in selenium, which glutathione needs to work, there will be very little health benefit.
When all of the necessary nutrients are provided to the cell in a complete and balanced nutritional supplement, the combined effect is phenomenal. The potency of these nutrients in optimizing our body’s natural antioxidant, immune, and repair systems is certainly possible. Oxidative stress can be controlled and our health will be protected.
I also apply these principles for my patients who are already suffering from a major chronic degenerative disease. I provide them with the same basic cellular nutrition I recommend for all my patients and then I add additional potent antioxidants to the regime tailored to each specific disease. When physicians take advantage of the most tremendous healing asset, the host--our bodies, and support it rather than denying its importance in the healing process, amazing clinical improvement is possible.
Cellular nutrition is about health, not disease. "Attacking" the root cause of chronic degenerative disease is true preventive medicine. By applying these same principles, you who are in good health can decrease the risk of developing these chronic degenerative diseases.
Health Concepts, PO Box 9226, Rapid City, SD 57709
http://www.bionutrition.org/cellular-nutrition.asp
We have no choice but to live in our present environment. Our bodies are affronted daily by excessive production of free radicals caused by our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles, and over-medicated society. Though we can certainly reduce the amount of free radicals our bodies produce by: not smoking, decreasing stress levels, and avoiding toxic chemicals, most of our bodies are still unable to fight the overwhelming daily attack on the natural defense system. Remember balance is the key--we need enough antioxidants available to neutralize the free radicals produced.
Over the past 50 years, nutritional medicine and supplementation has focused on replenishing a nutritional deficiency. Countless hours and dollars have been spent trying to determine exactly which nutrients our bodies are depleted of. Blood tests, urine tests, hair samples, muscle testing, and more have been conducted in an attempt to determine which nutrients we need to supplement. However, we have been aiming at the wrong target.
The presenting problem is not a nutritional deficiency, but rather, underlying oxidative stress. Oxidative stress has now been shown beyond any shadow of doubt via medical research to be the root cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases. Diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s dementia, macular degeneration, lupus, MS, and the list goes on and on.
Because oxidative stress is our concern rather than specific nutritional deficiencies, we must determine what is the best approach to preventing or controlling oxidative stress. This is accomplished by bolstering one’s natural defenses through cellular nutrition.
Cellular nutrition is simply providing ALL nutrients to the cell at optimal levels. This allows the cell to determine what it actually does and does not need. I don’t have to worry about determining which nutrients the cell is deficient in. I simply provide all of the important nutrients at optimal levels--those levels shown to provide a health benefit in the medical literature. Any nutritional deficiencies will be automatically corrected over the next few months by this approach and all the other vital nutrients will be brought up to their optimal levels as well.
Cellular nutrition is providing the body with all the antioxidants along with the supporting B vitamins and antioxidant minerals at optimal levels. This is "preventive medicine" at its best because we can literally attack the disease process at its core by preventing oxidative stress from occurring.
You may be wondering if we can control oxidative stress by simply improving our diet and eating more fruits and vegetables. This is definitely a good start. By simply eating 7 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day you can decrease the risk of heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s dementia, and cancer, two to three fold. We certainly want to supplement a good diet—not a bad diet. However, even if you eat a great diet you can barely obtain the RDA level of all essential nutrients. Medical studies have shown that less than 1% of the American population accomplishes this on a consistent basis.
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA):
Research studies reveal standards of recommended daily allowance (RDA’s) have absolutely nothing to do with chronic degenerative diseases. RDA’s were developed to avoid what are known as acute deficiency diseases like scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C), rickets (deficiency of vitamin D), and pellagra (deficiency of niacin). In other words, if you consumed the RDAs for vitamin C, vitamin D, and niacin, you would not develop any of these illnesses.
Admittedly, the RDA’s have done their job—how many people do you know suffer from these diseases? RDA’s first developed in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The list of nutrients included in the RDAs grew over the next two decades and in the early 1950s, the definition of RDAs expanded to include the amounts of nutrients needed for normal growth. Despite the fact that RDAs have proved useful, most physicians and laypeople tend to assign more meaning to RDA standards than they should.
After researching medical literature on the topic of oxidative stress and the amount of nutrients needed to prevent it, I found the optimal levels of nutrients known to provide health benefits are significantly greater those suggested by RDA levels. For example, the optimal level of vitamin E is 400 IU. The RDA is only 10 to 30 IU. That being the case, you may consider eating 400 IU of vitamin E. You would only need to eat 33 heads of spinach, or 27 pounds of butter; 80 avocados will do, or an alternative 5 pounds of wheat germ each and every day to obtain that level of vitamin E.
Similarly, the optimal level of vitamin C is approximately 1200 to 2000 mg daily, while the RDA is only 60 mg. To eat the optimal levels of vitamin would need to consume 18 oranges, or 17 kiwifruit, or 160 apples. Put in this perspective, it becomes clear that the only way to obtain these levels of nutrients is to supplement our diet. And this requires more than a generic multiple vitamin. One-a-day multiple vitamins are primarily based on RDA levels, thus providing no measurable health benefits. Significantly more potent supplements are needed each day to provide the optimal levels to provide cellular nutrition.
I will discuss more specific details in How to Choose a Quality Supplement.
The "Magic Bullet" Approach
Most scientific studies done on nutritional supplements are approached in the traditional way of testing drugs—hoping to discover a "magic bullet". A disease is isolated and targeted by one specific drug. The pharmaceutical results of that drug are then measured.
Research trials have been similarly conducted for nutritional supplements. For example, calcium and vitamin D have been tested for their effects on osteoporosis; vitamin E for heart disease, magnesium for irregular heartbeats or selenium to reduce the risk of cancer.
One problem remains, however: vitamins such as C, D and E are not drugs. They are natural nutrients that our bodies get from our foods. The various antioxidants and supporting nutrients work on different types of free radicals and in different parts of the body. Vitamin E is the best antioxidant within the cell membrane. Vitamin C is most effective within the plasma.
Glutathione is works most efficiently within the cell itself. Literally dozens of antioxidants are at work in various parts of the body and are effective against particular types of free radicals. They work together—synergistically-- to control oxidative stress. This means that 1 plus 1 does not equal 2, but 8 or 10. Medical research separates these nutrients out and tries to study their individual effect. The amazing fact remains that the overwhelming majority of studies actually does show a health benefit with even an individual nutrient. However, since oxidative stress is the underlying problem we must concern ourselves with, it is important to realize that all of these nutrients work together—synergy.
Vitamin C actually replenishes vitamin E and intracellular glutathione so it can be used over and over again. Alpha lipoic acid also regenerates vitamin E and glutathione. In addition, these antioxidants need optimal levels of the B vitamins—folic acid, vitamin B1, B2, B6, and B12—in order to perform at optimal levels. They also need the so-called antioxidant minerals such as: selenium, manganese, copper, and zinc to do their job right. If you have all the glutathione in the world available but are depleted in selenium, which glutathione needs to work, there will be very little health benefit.
When all of the necessary nutrients are provided to the cell in a complete and balanced nutritional supplement, the combined effect is phenomenal. The potency of these nutrients in optimizing our body’s natural antioxidant, immune, and repair systems is certainly possible. Oxidative stress can be controlled and our health will be protected.
I also apply these principles for my patients who are already suffering from a major chronic degenerative disease. I provide them with the same basic cellular nutrition I recommend for all my patients and then I add additional potent antioxidants to the regime tailored to each specific disease. When physicians take advantage of the most tremendous healing asset, the host--our bodies, and support it rather than denying its importance in the healing process, amazing clinical improvement is possible.
Cellular nutrition is about health, not disease. "Attacking" the root cause of chronic degenerative disease is true preventive medicine. By applying these same principles, you who are in good health can decrease the risk of developing these chronic degenerative diseases.
Oxidative Stress
Oxidative Stress
Health Concepts, PO Box 9226, Rapid City, SD 57709
http://www.bionutrition.org/oxidative-stress.asp
Even though the average life expectancy in the United States hasincreased dramatically during this past century, our quality of lifedue to chronic degenerative disease has taken a major hit. We areessentially "living too short and dying too long".
Most of us cansimply look forward to suffering and dying from heart disease,cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease,arthritis, macular degeneration, and the list goes on and on, unlesswe literally attack the underlying cause of All of these diseases—oxidative stress.How long do you expect to live? Now envision what your last twentyyears will look like. I can assure you my patients today are not asconcerned with the number of years in their lives as they are thequality of life in those years.
Who wants to live to a ripe old ageif he or she cannot even recognize close family members because ofAlzheimer's dementia? Who looks forward to a decade or two ofsuffering severe joint or back pain due to degenerative arthritis?One of my close friends told me recently that he simply wants tolive until he dies. Is this your desire? It certainly is mine. Thatis why I recommend preventative rather than post-problem medicine—empowering people to avoid getting major diseases in the firstplace.
Over the past seven years, I have changed my approach. I nowstrongly encourage and support my patients in taking a three-foldapproach to health: eating well, practicing a consistent exerciseprogram, and daily consuming high-quality nutritional supplements.
I now use medication as a last resort—not as my first choice.Do you fear growing old? Have you accepted chronic disease or painas a given in your future? Are you willing to make necessary lifechanges to ensure your health? I believe a full and abundantphysical life does not need to start slipping away at age forty.Each year of your life can be your very best. But first you mustunderstand the war that is waging within every one of our bodies.
Oxygen is essential for life itself. But did you know it is alsoinherently dangerous to our existence? I call this the "dark side"of oxygen. And as a result, we are essentially rusting both insideand out. The same process that causes a cut apple to turn brown oriron to rust is the cause of all the chronic degenerative diseaseswe fear and even the aging process itself.Consider the aging of our skin. Oxidative stress is the cause ofwrinkles, sagging skin, and age spots.
The next time you are with alarge gathering of people of different ages, observe closely thechange you see in people's skin. Aging is a process we all take forgranted, but when you look more closely, and compare a baby's face,to that of a grandparent's, the effects of our largest organ beingexposed to all the pollutants in the air, sunlight, and cigarettesmoke is baffling.
This aging of the skin is an outwardmanifestation of "oxidative stress," which is occurring within everycell in your body.Over the past 7 years, I have reviewed well over 2,000 medical andscientific studies in regards to nutritional supplements and theiraffect on your health. These studies appearing in medical journalslike the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, British Lancet, and Annuals of InternalMedicine report that beyond any doubt the "root" cause of well over70 chronic degenerative diseases is "oxidative stress." These arethe "who's who" of diseases we all fear and want to avoid; diseaseslike heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer, arthritis,Alzheimer's dementia, macular degeneration, lupus, MS, fibromyalgia,and chronic fatigue.
"So what," you may be wondering, "is `oxidativestress'?"Within every cell of the body is a furnace called the mitochondria.As oxygen is utilized within the furnace of the cell to createenergy and life itself, occasionally a charged oxygen molecule iscreated, called a "free radical." This free radical has at least oneunpaired electron in its outer orbit essentially giving it anelectrical charge. If this free radical is not readily neutralizedby an antioxidant it can go on to create more volatile freeradicals, damage the cell wall, vessel wall, proteins, fats, andeven the DNA nucleus of our cells.
Chemically this reaction has beenshown to be so volatile that it actually causes bursts of lightwithin our bodies!Imagine yourself in front of a crackling fireplace and I'll give youthe best illustration I have to explain the process of oxidation.The fire burns safely and beautifully most of the time, but onoccasion out pops a hot cinder that lands on your carpet and burns alittle hole in it. One cinder by itself doesn't pose much of athreat; but if this sparking and popping continues month aftermonth, year after year, you will have a pretty "ratty" carpet infront of your fireplace.
The fireplace represents the furnace of the cell (the mitochondria),the cinder is the charged"free radical," and the carpet is your body. Whichever part of yourbody receives the most free radical damage will be the first to wearout and potentially cause one of these degenerative diseases. Ifit's your arteries, you could develop a heart attack or stroke. Ifit is your brain, you could develop Alzheimer's dementia orParkinson's disease. If it's your joints, you could developarthritis.Through biochemical research we're learning that we are notdefenseless against this attack on our body by free radicals.Antioxidants are like the glass doors or fine-wire mesh we place infront of our fireplace. The sparks are still going to fly but ourcarpet will then be protected.
As you begin to imagine the war thatis taking place within every cell in your body, you can envision thetwo opposing forces: the enemy—free radicals; and your allies—antioxidants and their supporting nutrients.Living a healthy life becomes a matter of balance.
You must haveenough antioxidants available to readily neutralize the number offree radicals your body produces. If you don't, "oxidative stress"will occur. When this oxidative stress is allowed to persist over aprolonged period of time, you will most likely develop a seriouschronic degenerative disease.Each of us must ask, "Am I getting enough antioxidants from my dietto protect myself from this onslaught of free radicals or do I needto be taking nutritional supplements?"
This is the question thatI've had to ask myself as I have spent countless hours researchingmedical literature. You see I was taught in medical school that youdon't need supplements—that you can get everything you need from agood, healthy diet.And this is what I told my patients for years. I was wrong.Since balance is the key, we need to look closely at the individualplayers that are at war within. The number of free radicals youproduce each and every day is never the same. All the pollutants inour air, food, and water dramatically increase the number of freeradicals we produce. Enormous stress, excessive exercise, cigarettesmoke, sunlight, radiation, and every drug prescribed greatlyincrease the number of free radicals produced in the body.
In fact,there has never been a generation on this planet subjected to moreoxidative stress than this present one. We are literally underattack from our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles, and over-medicated society.This ongoing attack is depriving us of our most precious gift—ourhealth.
But God did not leave us defenseless against this onslaughtby free radicals. In fact, we actually have our own army ofantioxidants, which are able to neutralize free radicals and renderthem harmless. In generations past, these defense systems weresufficient. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. Our bodies'defense systems need additional allies.Most antioxidants come from vegetables and fruit.
This creates a gapin our protection, because our foods have become significantlydepleted in their content of antioxidants and supporting minerals asa result of mineral depletion in our soils, green harvesting, coldstorage, foods that are highly processed, our poor food choices andfood preparation.At a time when we are under the heaviest attack from the environmentaround us, our natural defense systems are becoming overwhelmed anddepleted.
We must do all we can to rebuild our antioxidant systemswith a healthy diet, but too you need to learn how complete andbalanced nutritional supplementation with high quality supplements(cellular nutrition) is our best hope in winning this war within andprotecting our health.
Health Concepts, PO Box 9226, Rapid City, SD 57709
http://www.bionutrition.org/oxidative-stress.asp
Even though the average life expectancy in the United States hasincreased dramatically during this past century, our quality of lifedue to chronic degenerative disease has taken a major hit. We areessentially "living too short and dying too long".
Most of us cansimply look forward to suffering and dying from heart disease,cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease,arthritis, macular degeneration, and the list goes on and on, unlesswe literally attack the underlying cause of All of these diseases—oxidative stress.How long do you expect to live? Now envision what your last twentyyears will look like. I can assure you my patients today are not asconcerned with the number of years in their lives as they are thequality of life in those years.
Who wants to live to a ripe old ageif he or she cannot even recognize close family members because ofAlzheimer's dementia? Who looks forward to a decade or two ofsuffering severe joint or back pain due to degenerative arthritis?One of my close friends told me recently that he simply wants tolive until he dies. Is this your desire? It certainly is mine. Thatis why I recommend preventative rather than post-problem medicine—empowering people to avoid getting major diseases in the firstplace.
Over the past seven years, I have changed my approach. I nowstrongly encourage and support my patients in taking a three-foldapproach to health: eating well, practicing a consistent exerciseprogram, and daily consuming high-quality nutritional supplements.
I now use medication as a last resort—not as my first choice.Do you fear growing old? Have you accepted chronic disease or painas a given in your future? Are you willing to make necessary lifechanges to ensure your health? I believe a full and abundantphysical life does not need to start slipping away at age forty.Each year of your life can be your very best. But first you mustunderstand the war that is waging within every one of our bodies.
Oxygen is essential for life itself. But did you know it is alsoinherently dangerous to our existence? I call this the "dark side"of oxygen. And as a result, we are essentially rusting both insideand out. The same process that causes a cut apple to turn brown oriron to rust is the cause of all the chronic degenerative diseaseswe fear and even the aging process itself.Consider the aging of our skin. Oxidative stress is the cause ofwrinkles, sagging skin, and age spots.
The next time you are with alarge gathering of people of different ages, observe closely thechange you see in people's skin. Aging is a process we all take forgranted, but when you look more closely, and compare a baby's face,to that of a grandparent's, the effects of our largest organ beingexposed to all the pollutants in the air, sunlight, and cigarettesmoke is baffling.
This aging of the skin is an outwardmanifestation of "oxidative stress," which is occurring within everycell in your body.Over the past 7 years, I have reviewed well over 2,000 medical andscientific studies in regards to nutritional supplements and theiraffect on your health. These studies appearing in medical journalslike the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, British Lancet, and Annuals of InternalMedicine report that beyond any doubt the "root" cause of well over70 chronic degenerative diseases is "oxidative stress." These arethe "who's who" of diseases we all fear and want to avoid; diseaseslike heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer, arthritis,Alzheimer's dementia, macular degeneration, lupus, MS, fibromyalgia,and chronic fatigue.
"So what," you may be wondering, "is `oxidativestress'?"Within every cell of the body is a furnace called the mitochondria.As oxygen is utilized within the furnace of the cell to createenergy and life itself, occasionally a charged oxygen molecule iscreated, called a "free radical." This free radical has at least oneunpaired electron in its outer orbit essentially giving it anelectrical charge. If this free radical is not readily neutralizedby an antioxidant it can go on to create more volatile freeradicals, damage the cell wall, vessel wall, proteins, fats, andeven the DNA nucleus of our cells.
Chemically this reaction has beenshown to be so volatile that it actually causes bursts of lightwithin our bodies!Imagine yourself in front of a crackling fireplace and I'll give youthe best illustration I have to explain the process of oxidation.The fire burns safely and beautifully most of the time, but onoccasion out pops a hot cinder that lands on your carpet and burns alittle hole in it. One cinder by itself doesn't pose much of athreat; but if this sparking and popping continues month aftermonth, year after year, you will have a pretty "ratty" carpet infront of your fireplace.
The fireplace represents the furnace of the cell (the mitochondria),the cinder is the charged"free radical," and the carpet is your body. Whichever part of yourbody receives the most free radical damage will be the first to wearout and potentially cause one of these degenerative diseases. Ifit's your arteries, you could develop a heart attack or stroke. Ifit is your brain, you could develop Alzheimer's dementia orParkinson's disease. If it's your joints, you could developarthritis.Through biochemical research we're learning that we are notdefenseless against this attack on our body by free radicals.Antioxidants are like the glass doors or fine-wire mesh we place infront of our fireplace. The sparks are still going to fly but ourcarpet will then be protected.
As you begin to imagine the war thatis taking place within every cell in your body, you can envision thetwo opposing forces: the enemy—free radicals; and your allies—antioxidants and their supporting nutrients.Living a healthy life becomes a matter of balance.
You must haveenough antioxidants available to readily neutralize the number offree radicals your body produces. If you don't, "oxidative stress"will occur. When this oxidative stress is allowed to persist over aprolonged period of time, you will most likely develop a seriouschronic degenerative disease.Each of us must ask, "Am I getting enough antioxidants from my dietto protect myself from this onslaught of free radicals or do I needto be taking nutritional supplements?"
This is the question thatI've had to ask myself as I have spent countless hours researchingmedical literature. You see I was taught in medical school that youdon't need supplements—that you can get everything you need from agood, healthy diet.And this is what I told my patients for years. I was wrong.Since balance is the key, we need to look closely at the individualplayers that are at war within. The number of free radicals youproduce each and every day is never the same. All the pollutants inour air, food, and water dramatically increase the number of freeradicals we produce. Enormous stress, excessive exercise, cigarettesmoke, sunlight, radiation, and every drug prescribed greatlyincrease the number of free radicals produced in the body.
In fact,there has never been a generation on this planet subjected to moreoxidative stress than this present one. We are literally underattack from our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles, and over-medicated society.This ongoing attack is depriving us of our most precious gift—ourhealth.
But God did not leave us defenseless against this onslaughtby free radicals. In fact, we actually have our own army ofantioxidants, which are able to neutralize free radicals and renderthem harmless. In generations past, these defense systems weresufficient. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. Our bodies'defense systems need additional allies.Most antioxidants come from vegetables and fruit.
This creates a gapin our protection, because our foods have become significantlydepleted in their content of antioxidants and supporting minerals asa result of mineral depletion in our soils, green harvesting, coldstorage, foods that are highly processed, our poor food choices andfood preparation.At a time when we are under the heaviest attack from the environmentaround us, our natural defense systems are becoming overwhelmed anddepleted.
We must do all we can to rebuild our antioxidant systemswith a healthy diet, but too you need to learn how complete andbalanced nutritional supplementation with high quality supplements(cellular nutrition) is our best hope in winning this war within andprotecting our health.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
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Business Building During the Holidays
Business Building During the Holidays
By Pete Zdanis
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it can come a whole set of new obstacles for the uninformed network marketer.
The obstacles:
Uninformed Network Marketer Mentality: “I’m going to take some time off during the holidays, and then start building my business again after the New Year.”
Uninformed Prospects Mentality: “Your business really sounds interesting to me, but why don’t you get back to me after the New Year, and we can discuss it then.”
How can we address these obstacles? Let’s start with the uninformed network marketer mentality:
Momentum is a very important part of our business. Momentum is simply maintaining a steady pace at anything. Once you lose it, it requires a lot of effort to get it back.
Think about driving your car down the highway at a steady 65 miles per hour. You are moving toward your destination and making good progress. However, when you pull off to the side of the road and stop, you are losing time, and it will require more time and energy (in this case, gasoline) to get back on the highway and accelerate back up to your previous cruising speed to get where you want to go.
The same is true of your business. When you stop making approaches and followups, you are no longer moving toward your business goals. And, the longer you take “time off”, the more time you lose and the harder it will be for you to get back to your previous business building pace. You will need to start making approaches from scratch, and you will have lost many of your prospects due to lack of followup.
Let’s say that you follow the tried and true method laid out in the “Power Of Two”. If you stop building your business from now until, say, January 2, you will have missed out on 98 approaches, 14 presentations, and at least 2 or 3 enrollments. Can you afford that? I know that we can’t.
And don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you don’t want to “bother” people with something like USANA during the holiday season. As you know, this is the season of giving, and the USANA products and business truly are gifts which we offer to our prospects, and it is up to them do decide if they choose to accept our gift.
If you don’t believe that USANA is a gift, then you need to re-think your belief level and business motives. Remember, building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects. Let me repeat that: Building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects. When you help other people meet a need or solve a problem, abundance will definitely come your way – for you AND your team members.
If you are not comfortable with that concept, try a simple exercise the next time you make an approach or presentation. Instead of thinking “What will signing this person up as an Associate or Preferred Customer do for my business?”, approach it from the standpoint of “How can my gift of USANA help this person?” You will be truly amazed at the difference in your results by making this simple shift in your thinking.
You see, so many people get things backwards when trying to build their USANA business, and that’s what leads to problems and failure. I know when I started out and was talking to a prospect, the foremost thoughts in my mind were where I was going to place this person when they signed up, and how much it would help my business. Now admit it, you’ve probably had the same thoughts, and maybe you still do from time to time. But, once I focused on trying to figure out how my gift could help my prospects, everything changed for the better for everyone, including me.
Now let’s talk about the uninformed prospect:
If a prospect tries to put you off until after the holidays, first of all tell them that you appreciate their concerns and respect their time, but that you just want to make two points with them before they make a final decision to wait until January.
Tell them that most people feel the same was as they do, and want to wait until after the holidays. So, what happens is that January and February are very strong business building months because people are looking to make a new start and improve their health and/or financial situation. By getting their USANA business set up now, your prospect can benefit from all of this activity instead of just being a part of it.
A major benefit of having a USANA business can be the tax advantages it offers. By getting their business set up now, they can potentially benefit from tax savings when they file their return in a few months, rather than putting those benefits off until they file their tax return in 2009.
Tell them that you respect whatever decision they make, but that you just wanted to make sure that they were aware of those two major benefits.
Remember, building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects.
By Pete Zdanis
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it can come a whole set of new obstacles for the uninformed network marketer.
The obstacles:
Uninformed Network Marketer Mentality: “I’m going to take some time off during the holidays, and then start building my business again after the New Year.”
Uninformed Prospects Mentality: “Your business really sounds interesting to me, but why don’t you get back to me after the New Year, and we can discuss it then.”
How can we address these obstacles? Let’s start with the uninformed network marketer mentality:
Momentum is a very important part of our business. Momentum is simply maintaining a steady pace at anything. Once you lose it, it requires a lot of effort to get it back.
Think about driving your car down the highway at a steady 65 miles per hour. You are moving toward your destination and making good progress. However, when you pull off to the side of the road and stop, you are losing time, and it will require more time and energy (in this case, gasoline) to get back on the highway and accelerate back up to your previous cruising speed to get where you want to go.
The same is true of your business. When you stop making approaches and followups, you are no longer moving toward your business goals. And, the longer you take “time off”, the more time you lose and the harder it will be for you to get back to your previous business building pace. You will need to start making approaches from scratch, and you will have lost many of your prospects due to lack of followup.
Let’s say that you follow the tried and true method laid out in the “Power Of Two”. If you stop building your business from now until, say, January 2, you will have missed out on 98 approaches, 14 presentations, and at least 2 or 3 enrollments. Can you afford that? I know that we can’t.
And don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you don’t want to “bother” people with something like USANA during the holiday season. As you know, this is the season of giving, and the USANA products and business truly are gifts which we offer to our prospects, and it is up to them do decide if they choose to accept our gift.
If you don’t believe that USANA is a gift, then you need to re-think your belief level and business motives. Remember, building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects. Let me repeat that: Building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects. When you help other people meet a need or solve a problem, abundance will definitely come your way – for you AND your team members.
If you are not comfortable with that concept, try a simple exercise the next time you make an approach or presentation. Instead of thinking “What will signing this person up as an Associate or Preferred Customer do for my business?”, approach it from the standpoint of “How can my gift of USANA help this person?” You will be truly amazed at the difference in your results by making this simple shift in your thinking.
You see, so many people get things backwards when trying to build their USANA business, and that’s what leads to problems and failure. I know when I started out and was talking to a prospect, the foremost thoughts in my mind were where I was going to place this person when they signed up, and how much it would help my business. Now admit it, you’ve probably had the same thoughts, and maybe you still do from time to time. But, once I focused on trying to figure out how my gift could help my prospects, everything changed for the better for everyone, including me.
Now let’s talk about the uninformed prospect:
If a prospect tries to put you off until after the holidays, first of all tell them that you appreciate their concerns and respect their time, but that you just want to make two points with them before they make a final decision to wait until January.
Tell them that most people feel the same was as they do, and want to wait until after the holidays. So, what happens is that January and February are very strong business building months because people are looking to make a new start and improve their health and/or financial situation. By getting their USANA business set up now, your prospect can benefit from all of this activity instead of just being a part of it.
A major benefit of having a USANA business can be the tax advantages it offers. By getting their business set up now, they can potentially benefit from tax savings when they file their return in a few months, rather than putting those benefits off until they file their tax return in 2009.
Tell them that you respect whatever decision they make, but that you just wanted to make sure that they were aware of those two major benefits.
Remember, building a USANA business has nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with your customers and prospects.
Beta Carotene Supplementation and Cognitive Function in Men
A Randomized Trial of Beta Carotene Supplementation and Cognitive Function in Men
The Physicians' Health Study II
Francine Grodstein, ScD; Jae H. Kang, ScD; Robert J. Glynn, PhD; Nancy R. Cook, ScD; J. Michael Gaziano, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2184-2190.
Background
Oxidative stress contributes to brain aging. Antioxidant treatment, especially over the long term, might confer cognitive benefits.
Methods
We added cognitive testing to the Physicians' Health Study II (PHSII), a randomized trial of beta carotene and other vitamin supplements for chronic disease prevention. The PHSII is a continuation of the Physicians' Health Study (PHS), which had randomized male participants to low-dose aspirin and beta carotene. Participants include those continuing their original beta carotene assignment from the PHS, begun in 1982, and newer recruits randomized as of 1998.
The beta carotene arm (50 mg, alternate days) was terminated; follow-up is ongoing for the remaining arms. Near the close of the beta carotene arm, we interviewed 5956 participants older than 65 years to assess general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency. The primary end point was a global score averaging all tests (using z scores); the secondary end point was a verbal memory score combining results of 4 tests. We compared mean cognition among those assigned to beta carotene vs placebo. We separately examined new recruits and continuing participants.
Results
Among 1904 newly recruited subjects (mean treatment duration, 1 year), cognition was similar across treatment assignments. Among 4052 continuing participants from the PHS (mean treatment duration, 18 years), the mean global score was significantly higher in the beta carotene group than in the placebo group (mean difference in z scores, 0.047 standard units; P = .03). On verbal memory, men receiving long-term beta carotene supplementation also performed significantly better than the placebo group (mean difference in z scores, 0.063; P = .007).
Conclusion
We did not find an impact of short-term beta carotene supplementation on cognitive performance, but long-term supplementation may provide cognitive benefits.
Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00270647
Author Affiliations: Channing Laboratory (Drs Grodstein and Kang), Division of Aging (Drs Grodstein and Gaziano), and Division of Preventive Medicine (Drs Glynn, Cook, and Gaziano), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Departments of Epidemiology (Dr Grodstein) and Biostatistics (Dr Glynn), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
RELATED ARTICLES
In This Issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2163. FULL TEXT
Antioxidants and Prevention of Cognitive Decline: Does Duration of Use Matter?Kristine Yaffe Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2167-2168. EXTRACT FULL TEXT
The Physicians' Health Study II
Francine Grodstein, ScD; Jae H. Kang, ScD; Robert J. Glynn, PhD; Nancy R. Cook, ScD; J. Michael Gaziano, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2184-2190.
Background
Oxidative stress contributes to brain aging. Antioxidant treatment, especially over the long term, might confer cognitive benefits.
Methods
We added cognitive testing to the Physicians' Health Study II (PHSII), a randomized trial of beta carotene and other vitamin supplements for chronic disease prevention. The PHSII is a continuation of the Physicians' Health Study (PHS), which had randomized male participants to low-dose aspirin and beta carotene. Participants include those continuing their original beta carotene assignment from the PHS, begun in 1982, and newer recruits randomized as of 1998.
The beta carotene arm (50 mg, alternate days) was terminated; follow-up is ongoing for the remaining arms. Near the close of the beta carotene arm, we interviewed 5956 participants older than 65 years to assess general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency. The primary end point was a global score averaging all tests (using z scores); the secondary end point was a verbal memory score combining results of 4 tests. We compared mean cognition among those assigned to beta carotene vs placebo. We separately examined new recruits and continuing participants.
Results
Among 1904 newly recruited subjects (mean treatment duration, 1 year), cognition was similar across treatment assignments. Among 4052 continuing participants from the PHS (mean treatment duration, 18 years), the mean global score was significantly higher in the beta carotene group than in the placebo group (mean difference in z scores, 0.047 standard units; P = .03). On verbal memory, men receiving long-term beta carotene supplementation also performed significantly better than the placebo group (mean difference in z scores, 0.063; P = .007).
Conclusion
We did not find an impact of short-term beta carotene supplementation on cognitive performance, but long-term supplementation may provide cognitive benefits.
Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00270647
Author Affiliations: Channing Laboratory (Drs Grodstein and Kang), Division of Aging (Drs Grodstein and Gaziano), and Division of Preventive Medicine (Drs Glynn, Cook, and Gaziano), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Departments of Epidemiology (Dr Grodstein) and Biostatistics (Dr Glynn), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
RELATED ARTICLES
In This Issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2163. FULL TEXT
Antioxidants and Prevention of Cognitive Decline: Does Duration of Use Matter?Kristine Yaffe Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2167-2168. EXTRACT FULL TEXT
Beta-carotene supplementation long-term may delay mental decline
Beta-carotene supplementation long-term may delay mental decline
Beta-carotene supplementation long-term may delay mental decline In a newly published study, researchers tested the cognitive function of participants in the Physicians' Health Study II (PHSII), a continuation of the Physicians' Health Study (PHS) trial looking at the effects of beta-carotene and other vitamin supplements on chronic disease. The subjects included participants from the original PHS (started in 1982) and newer recruits from 1998.
The researchers tested the general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency of 5,956 participants, including 4,052 participants from the PHS with a minimum supplementation period of 18 years. Among the 1,904 newly recruited subjects (average supplementation of 1 year) no differences in cognition were evident whether they took beta-carotene or the placebo.
However, among the long-term supplement users from the PHS, the mean global score (average of all tests) was significantly higher in the beta carotene group than in the placebo. On verbal memory, men receiving long-term beta carotene supplementation also performed significantly better than the placebo group. The potential mechanism for the protective effects could be related to the role of vitamin A and beta-carotene on beta-amyloid protein production in the brain. The build-up of plaque from beta-amyloid deposits is associated with oxidative stress, cell death, and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
The study is the first to look at long-term antioxidant supplementation in relation to a decline in cognitive function that occurs naturally with age, and that precedes diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2184-2190.
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Beta-carotene supplementation long-term may delay mental decline In a newly published study, researchers tested the cognitive function of participants in the Physicians' Health Study II (PHSII), a continuation of the Physicians' Health Study (PHS) trial looking at the effects of beta-carotene and other vitamin supplements on chronic disease. The subjects included participants from the original PHS (started in 1982) and newer recruits from 1998.
The researchers tested the general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency of 5,956 participants, including 4,052 participants from the PHS with a minimum supplementation period of 18 years. Among the 1,904 newly recruited subjects (average supplementation of 1 year) no differences in cognition were evident whether they took beta-carotene or the placebo.
However, among the long-term supplement users from the PHS, the mean global score (average of all tests) was significantly higher in the beta carotene group than in the placebo. On verbal memory, men receiving long-term beta carotene supplementation also performed significantly better than the placebo group. The potential mechanism for the protective effects could be related to the role of vitamin A and beta-carotene on beta-amyloid protein production in the brain. The build-up of plaque from beta-amyloid deposits is associated with oxidative stress, cell death, and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
The study is the first to look at long-term antioxidant supplementation in relation to a decline in cognitive function that occurs naturally with age, and that precedes diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(20):2184-2190.
http://www.safeliving.usana.com
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Terms of you building a large group
This is the next installment in our series of seven things that
will make a difference in terms of you building a large group.
These are what top leaders do to build a massive network.
(Sometimes consciously, sometimes instinctively.) The most
successful ones use all of them.
These seven things aren't really skills. Some are habits. Some
are mindset. And some are techniques. But they all are things
that you must use effectively to build a large business.
So let's look at number seven. And this one may surprise you.
SACRIFICE
After all, that's certainly not sexy to tell a prospect. And we
recruit all the time on money, lifestyle, and luxury. And you
know what? Network Marketing offers all those things. But not to
start.
To begin, and build something big - you're going to have to
sacrifice stuff.
You and everyone you bring into the biz are already using all 24
hours of every day. Using them doing certain things. In certain
ways. In ways that most likely keep you in your comfort zone.
You know from last week's lesson that you need at least 10 to 15
hours a week to do the business. That means you'll have to
sacrifice whatever you are now doing during that time.
Now that doesn't have to be forever. But it does have to be at
the start. I'm reading the new bestseller "The Four Hour Work
Week" by Timothy Ferriss right now. A lot of fun to read, and
some great stuff in there. But it's going to be dangerous for a
lot of people because they won't use discernment and critical
thinking.
It sounds great that he takes six months off to become a Chinese
kickboxing champion or spend a year learning to tango in Buenos
Aires. But he built up a cash flow business FIRST, before he
started his life of unending adventures.
I'm the #1 bonus check in my company and I have the kind of life
Timothy talks about in the book. I have great residual income. A
large chunk of it is passive income, and I can plan my whole
schedule around my softball teams.
And the truth is, I still sacrifice. Not because I need to -
because I choose to. Because I want to build my passive income
even higher.
My sponsor sees every blockbuster movie as soon as they come
out. He has a TiVo and watches at least five or six TV shows
regularly. I miss most of those or catch them on plane rides a
couple months later. My top leaders take more spa days than me.
Do a bunch of cruises, and take more vacations than I do.
I could do those things too and would get some enjoyment from
them. But I would rather sacrifice now, to get myself in a
better position for the future.
Don't get me wrong...
I do the stuff that brings me great joy. I'll go to the midnight
preview of a "Star Wars" or "Matrix" movie. I'll do the same
thing when a new Harry Potter book comes out and stay up all
night reading it. (Which you may have figured out I did
yesterday.) I have no compunction about turning down a $50,000
speech because it conflicts with softball playoffs. When it's
something I'm am really excited about, I'll do it. But I'm able
to do that because of previous sacrifices.
I missed some days at church when I started building my
business. Now on some Sundays my tithe check equals the other
799 people combined.
I drove long hours in a broke-mobile, working with long distance
lines when I started out. Now I travel in private jets or first
class.
My mantra was, "I will do today what others will not, so later I
can do what others cannot." And you know what? It worked.
So how about you?
Are you making the sacrifices today that will bring you true
freedom tomorrow? Or are you living in the moment of instant
gratification - which will actually keep you a grinder forever?
Give this some serious thought. And evaluate yourself in all
seven of the things we discussed in the series. Once again, they
are:
1) POSTURE
2) IMAGE
3) EVENTS
4) PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
5) CONSISTENCY
6) COMMITMENT
7) SACRIFICE
How many of these things do you use well? Remember that the top
people in the biz use all seven. Give yourself an honest
appraisal, and then you'll know where to build from there.
Have a great week!
-Randy Gage
P.S. All of the seven keys to building and maintaining a successful
organization are timeless and will be invaluable to you for years
to come. I urge you to re-read these frequently on your journey to
fulfilling your dreams. To further reinforce these seven key
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will make a difference in terms of you building a large group.
These are what top leaders do to build a massive network.
(Sometimes consciously, sometimes instinctively.) The most
successful ones use all of them.
These seven things aren't really skills. Some are habits. Some
are mindset. And some are techniques. But they all are things
that you must use effectively to build a large business.
So let's look at number seven. And this one may surprise you.
SACRIFICE
After all, that's certainly not sexy to tell a prospect. And we
recruit all the time on money, lifestyle, and luxury. And you
know what? Network Marketing offers all those things. But not to
start.
To begin, and build something big - you're going to have to
sacrifice stuff.
You and everyone you bring into the biz are already using all 24
hours of every day. Using them doing certain things. In certain
ways. In ways that most likely keep you in your comfort zone.
You know from last week's lesson that you need at least 10 to 15
hours a week to do the business. That means you'll have to
sacrifice whatever you are now doing during that time.
Now that doesn't have to be forever. But it does have to be at
the start. I'm reading the new bestseller "The Four Hour Work
Week" by Timothy Ferriss right now. A lot of fun to read, and
some great stuff in there. But it's going to be dangerous for a
lot of people because they won't use discernment and critical
thinking.
It sounds great that he takes six months off to become a Chinese
kickboxing champion or spend a year learning to tango in Buenos
Aires. But he built up a cash flow business FIRST, before he
started his life of unending adventures.
I'm the #1 bonus check in my company and I have the kind of life
Timothy talks about in the book. I have great residual income. A
large chunk of it is passive income, and I can plan my whole
schedule around my softball teams.
And the truth is, I still sacrifice. Not because I need to -
because I choose to. Because I want to build my passive income
even higher.
My sponsor sees every blockbuster movie as soon as they come
out. He has a TiVo and watches at least five or six TV shows
regularly. I miss most of those or catch them on plane rides a
couple months later. My top leaders take more spa days than me.
Do a bunch of cruises, and take more vacations than I do.
I could do those things too and would get some enjoyment from
them. But I would rather sacrifice now, to get myself in a
better position for the future.
Don't get me wrong...
I do the stuff that brings me great joy. I'll go to the midnight
preview of a "Star Wars" or "Matrix" movie. I'll do the same
thing when a new Harry Potter book comes out and stay up all
night reading it. (Which you may have figured out I did
yesterday.) I have no compunction about turning down a $50,000
speech because it conflicts with softball playoffs. When it's
something I'm am really excited about, I'll do it. But I'm able
to do that because of previous sacrifices.
I missed some days at church when I started building my
business. Now on some Sundays my tithe check equals the other
799 people combined.
I drove long hours in a broke-mobile, working with long distance
lines when I started out. Now I travel in private jets or first
class.
My mantra was, "I will do today what others will not, so later I
can do what others cannot." And you know what? It worked.
So how about you?
Are you making the sacrifices today that will bring you true
freedom tomorrow? Or are you living in the moment of instant
gratification - which will actually keep you a grinder forever?
Give this some serious thought. And evaluate yourself in all
seven of the things we discussed in the series. Once again, they
are:
1) POSTURE
2) IMAGE
3) EVENTS
4) PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
5) CONSISTENCY
6) COMMITMENT
7) SACRIFICE
How many of these things do you use well? Remember that the top
people in the biz use all seven. Give yourself an honest
appraisal, and then you'll know where to build from there.
Have a great week!
-Randy Gage
P.S. All of the seven keys to building and maintaining a successful
organization are timeless and will be invaluable to you for years
to come. I urge you to re-read these frequently on your journey to
fulfilling your dreams. To further reinforce these seven key
imperatives, purchase Duplication Nation, the definitive guide
to exploding your downline...
http://www.duplicationnation.com/
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