Glyconutrients: A Breast Cancer Survivor’s #1 Nutritional Supplement!

I am a 7 year breast cancer survivor. I have survived; however, I took a very poisonous chemotherapy regimen that my doctor recommended and my body was left ravaged with no stamina, energy and even brain damage. Some researchers call it “chemo fog”; however, that name seems too benign to describe the loss of mental skills that I experienced as a result of agreeing to the “standard of care” at the time. I knew that surviving breast cancer for me was going to be a struggle unless I found natural health products that would help rebuild my body.

It took me 4 years to find a group of nutrients that really seemed to help me regain energy after chemotherapy.  I had heard about different products, especially products from network marketing companies that promised everything imaginable. Most did little to change how I felt. You cannot get help from medical doctors about nutrition because they never studied it in school. To make matters worse, the pharmaceutical industry is working overtime to prevent natural health companies from marketing products. and the FDA daily cruises the internet looking for natural health companies making health promises about nutritional supplements. It is important that people who are making outrageous claims about their products need to be kept in check about claims that cannot be supported with data. So, you are left with testimonials from people who have used the products. If someone took the time to write a testimonial about a natural health product and they are excited, their experience speaks volumes. So, I will share my testimonial on Nutratose which is my personal experience.

Slowly I have rebuilt my body over the last 7 years and I believe the most important supplement that I have taken to rebuild it is glyconutrients. Research has demonstrated that these 8 vital glyconutrients derived from plants like Aloe vera and others help to rebuild a person’s cells. These glyconutrients are the building blocks of the “cell-to-cell communication system” which is the key to a healthy immune system. If you do not take these glyconutrients into your body on a regular basis and you suffer a chronic deficiency, you will develop serious diseases particularly those involved with the immune system. The standard American diet provides, at best 2, of these glyconutrients and that is if you eat fruits and vegetables at all. I took copious amounts of glyconutrients for months and finally after 6 months or so, I sensed a change in my overall well-being. The longer I took the glyconutrients, the better I felt.  You can find all 8 vital glyconutrients in the product Nutratose.

 I started my website, www.nolannaturalhealthproducts.com  because of my experience with Nutratose. Building my website took a tremendous amount of time and money but I really wanted to have a place where people could purchase glyconutrients at a fair price. 

When I was looking for natural health products to help bring my corpse like body back to health after chemotherapy, the only companies that had glyconutrients were network marketing companies. I wanted people to be able to buy them from a non-network marketing company so I created my website. Network marketing companies mark up products to an outrageous price and then depend on their cult of network marketers to guilt their friends into buying these overpriced  products with a promise of better health and a profitable little business.You will find that I sell Nutratose for considerably less than network marketing companies sell glyconutrients.

I want people to get their hands on a group of nutritionals that maybe the most important dietary supplement a person can take to remain health after cancer. If you are going through treatment, I highly recommend that you take a glyconutrient supplement while you are receiving treatment. I know of many patients who have taken them during treatment and they suffer far less side effects than patients who are unable to take them. Thus, I believe that every cancer patient and survivor should be taking glyconutrients.

Are there any supplements that improve varicose veins?

For anyone who is suffering with a health condition that has not responded to pharmaceuticals or the pharmaceuticals that they have been prescribed are causing intolerable side effects, I have good news!, A new day is dawning! The day of the nutraceutical is here! A nutraceutical is a natural product that consists of the active components of herbs and other plant medicines that have been used for centuries; however, they work even better because research scientists have been able to isolate the natural biochemicals from these plants and then put them in a delivery system that makes them easy to digest and more effective!

 

An exciting example of a new nutraceutical medicine is Veinulux™ Veinulux™ has been studied at 5 university medical centers for its impact of varicose veins. If you suffer with varicose veins, you know that they can be very painful and they do not do the job anymore that normal veins are supposed to do. Varicose veins are large, swollen and twisted veins and they no longer control blood flow. Normal healthy veins have valves that close behind the blood as it returns to the heart. Healthy valves keep gravity from pulling your blood back downward. In varicose veins, the valves do not work properly and blood will pool all along the vein.

 

Another type of vein problem is spider veins and they occur when vein tissue becomes too fragile. The primary cause of fragile vein tissue is a lack of key nutrients such as specific minerals that work to maintain the health of the whole body from the cell level on up and that includes vein tissue. Both varicose veins and spider veins can be helped by Veinulux!

 

Veinulux contains the needed nutrients that support the rejuvenation of vein tissue. It helps balance the body’s pH so that your veins resist development into varicose and spider veins. Veinulux is loaded with antioxidants that target free radicals and prevent oxidative damage to vein tissue. In addition, the minerals and antioxidants in Veinulux protect bone density and joint health as it protects the health of your entire body!

 

When I was treated for breast cancer, I was given 3 very powerful chemotherapy agents. Although the cancer was caught early, it had made it into one sentinel lymph node so there was a possibility that other cancer cells had entered the lymphatic super highway and travelled great distances to vacation in other parts of my body only to begin to multiply and cause a cancer recurrence in the future. In an attempt to wipe out any cancer cells with wanderlust, my oncologist recommended that I take these 3 potent drugs as an insurance policy to prevent cancer recurrence. I agreed because they were considered “standard of care”.

 

In seven years, I have not experienced a cancer recurrence; however, I am still suffering from the severe adverse events that these three poisons caused in my body. I have been trying to rebuild my body from the cellular level on up ever since and there have been few natural health products available that have helped. One product helped improve my energy but there was little help for the chronic pain that I have experienced until now!

 

I started taking Veinulux™ because the chemotherapy injured my veins. Nurses have had a very difficult time drawing blood as a result so I wanted to see if it would help rejuvenate my vein tissue as well as reduce some of the chronic pain that resulted from the use of chemotherapy. I am thrilled to report that it has helped reduce the pain! In just 3 days as reported Iin the studies, Veinulux™ began to reduce the pain! I mean Veinulux is a miracle! If it can help me with my pain which I assumed was muscle pain then it will be amazing for people who suffer with the pain of varicose veins. If it is helping the pain, I am sure it is restoring the integrity of my veins and I am thrilled! Nutraceuticals are the natural medicines of the future and the future has arrived with Veinulux™.

Do You Have Cold Hands And Feet!

Do you have cold hands and feet? When someone grabs your hand, do they say, “Wow, your hand is so cold!” Do you remember a time when your hands and feet were not cold?  I assumed it was “poor circulation” and I did not think much more about it until about 7 years ago.

Seven years ago I was completing a 6 month treatment with chemotherapy for cancer. I had undergone surgery but the ”standard of care” was to follow-up surgery with chemotherapy. It was an insurance policy of sorts just in case one of those little tumor cells had decided to slip into my lymphatic system and go on a holiday in another part of my body. Receiving chemotherapy made sense to me at the time. It was not until my body had been ravaged by these incredibly toxic chemicals that I began to question my decision to have chemotherapy as well as the logic and mental acuity of people who thought up this idea of poisoning a person back to health in the first place.

Chemotherapy destroyed my body and every health challenge that I had experienced prior to chemotherapy was made much worse as a result of receiving these deadly toxic chemicals. Before you say to yourself, it is seven years later and you are alive so it must have worked. Odds were in my favor anyway. I was trying to improve the chances so I went along with the standard of care. However, there is another silver lining to this story.  Had my body not been reduced to a shell of its former self, I would not have tried to rebuild it cell by cell.

My hands and feet were always cold. When someone would touch my hand and say, “Wow, your hand is so cold!” I would jokingly respond with “Cold hands, warm heart! Ha! Ha!” and that would be that. But after receiving chemotherapy, my hands and feet were not just cold, they felt like ice. I am serious. They were ice cold all year round. It could be 98 degrees and my hands and feet felt like frozen Popsicles!  I wondered if I had any circulation left in my fingers and toes.  When I asked a doctor about it,  I would get “Hmm, they are cold.” I thought, “Wow, you get paid for this?”  

I was reading a blog of Byron Richards who is a clinical nutritionist and a health care practitioner who I greatly respect. He is one of those people who actually gives practical, helpful information out for free and does not entice you with little bits of information only to lead you to a place to buy a book or make an appointment with him to get any real help. He was talking about Oprah’s weight problem and how he believed that he knew the cause and how she could get a handle on the problem. He was talking about thyroid problems and he mentioned the word, “iodine.”

My brain, which was “chemofogged” for years is now starting to process information again and it started to ponder the word, iodine. I remembered that “iodized salt” was the type of salt that I knew growing up and I wondered why iodine had been added to salt. I could not think of a particular disease that was caused as a result of iodine. Lack of growth, cretinism and mental retardation were all linked with iodine deficiency but I did not think that any of these conditions were so prevalent in the US that a mandate to put iodine into salt would have gone out to salt companies. Perhaps it was the revelation that your thyroid gland needs iodine to make thyroxine that was enough for public health purposes to put iodine in salt. 

Then I started to wonder about the number of people in the US who might be iodine deficient because they were told not to eat salt by their doctors to lower their blood pressure. I heard a teleconference where a case study was discussed and the patient had admitted to “salt indiscretions.” Then I wondered how many people actually listen to their doctors and would give up iodized salt to the point that they would become iodine deficient.  Well, apparently, quite a few because the number of people in the US who are not receiving enough iodine has been increasing since the 1980s when physicians first told their patients to knock out salt.

Byron Richards is a clinical nutritionist who has a wonderful website, Wellness Resources that includes a blog about how specific nutrients can help specific health issues.  He sells top of the line nutritional supplements including iosol iodine. When I saw the iodine, I thought I should at least try it and see what happens. About 5 days after I first tried the iosol iodine,  I realized that my hands and feet were “WARM!” WOW, for the first time in seven years, this is the way that hands and feet are supposed to feel! WOW, for the first time in decades, my hands and feet are the temperature that they are supposed to be.  “WOW!!” If you have cold hands and feet or you think that you need to find out more about iodine deficiency, then click on Iosol Iodine  because it may be the answer to your cold hands and feet!

Found: An Aluminum Free Deodorant Stick That Works Great!

I wrote in an earlier entry about the large number of personal care products that contain toxic metals and other toxic ingredients. I specifically focused on aluminum because it is in antiperspirants and it has been associated with the development of Alzheimer’s Disease.

As a breast cancer survivor, I felt as if I was committing an act of suicidal mania every time I had to put on an antiperspirant. I had heard rumblings about the use of antiperspirants and their association with breast cancer. I don’t know if it is actually true but the location of where I had breast cancer to my underarm area was just too close for comfort.

I looked and looked for a natural antiperspirant without aluminum and the ones that I tried just did not work. Until now!

Tom’s of Maine, Inc. has produced “long lasting care” Aluminum-Free Deodorant Stick. It contains “hops” which inhibits the growth of odor-causing bacteria and zinc riconoleate for long lasting odor prevention.

Now, notice that it is not an “antiperspirant” and yet for me it seems to have reduced perspiration.  It is  important to perspire for good health, so it is not a good idea to prevent it completely even under the arm. The problem is body odor which is caused by odor-producing bacteria on the skin.

In the US culture, body odor is offensive to many people so we have to stop it or cover it up and stopping it is not a great idea. Other cultures understand the process or at least accept it as most people know who have travelled outside of the United States. However, that does not help the U.S. citizen who is looking for a job. If you must go on a job interview, you will fare much better if you are not filling the room with the scent of body odor.

This product from Tom’s of Maine works great! I perspire alot which is good for my body but not so great for anyone else if I cannot change the aroma.  So,  I am thrilled to have found Tom’s of Maine long-lasting care. By the way, I tried other natural antiperspirants such as salt sticks and so forth and they did not work for me. Finally, I found a great product that works for me! My brain feels better already because it knows it is being protected from aluminum!

Most health food stores should carry products from Tom’s of Maine, Inc; however,  I found it at Sam’s Club and it was very reasonable price for a package of 3 deodorant sticks.

Natural Varicose Vein Help!

When people apply science to create synthetic medicine, results can cause problems because the body knows that these chemicals are not natural and responds with adverse events. Researchers are getting it right now by using science to discover active compounds in natural substances and combining them together to make nutraceuticals which are pure and often much more potent than herbs. Herbs have been used for thousands of years but they have been met with mixed results because some people have experienced difficulty with digestion and some people are allergic. When you break compounds down to a molecular level and remove proteins, you remove the threat of allergies and when you isolate active compounds at a molecular level, a person does not have difficulty digesting the substance. These are some of the reasons that scientists are developing nutraceuticals. The body will accept them readily without adverse events and allergies and you can concentrate or potentiate the effectiveness of the active compounds.

 

The latest nutraceutical that I have tried and truly been amazed by in its action is a vein supplement called Veinulux™. Veinulux is a nutraceutical that is truly amazing varicose vein help because it strengthens veinous tissue! It also helps spider veins!. In addition, it relieves the soreness and discomfort of varicose veins in just 3 days! Veinulux™ got my attention because it was studied at 5 prominent university medical centers and these universities would never allow their names to be used unless the information reported by the manufacturer of Veinulux™ was true. In addition, the manufacturer of Veinulux™ is registered with the Food and Drug Administration. Natural health product manufacturers are not required to register their products with the FDA; however, if they register them, every study that is quoted must be reviewed by them.

 

Other study findings included that Veinulux™ supports the development and function of vein tissue and strengthens vein tissue over time and showed improvement in tightness, cramping and “jumping legs” at night so a person can enjoy a good night’s sleep!

 

My veins were seriously hurt when I received chemotherapy for breast cancer. These drugs destroyed the integrity of my veins so it has been impossible for people to draw blood out of my veins ever since. In addition, I had suffered with fibromyalgia for years when I was diagnosed with cancer and after receiving chemotherapy, the pain in my muscles seemed to increase 100-fold! Although I have been successful in improving my energy level with glyconutrients, I was unable to find a natural health product that helped restore vein tissue and decrease the pain for 6 years!

 

I started taking Veinulux™ and in 3 days, I began to feel better all over. Pain in my body was reduced. I have continued to take it now for 10 days and I just keep feeling better. I am sure that my veinous tissue is strengthening if everything else is happening. I will find out in about 2 months when I go for a check-up and have my blood drawn.

 

If you have varicose veins or spider veins and you want to reduce the soreness and discomfort as well as improve the way your legs look and feel as your veins improve, try Veinulux™!  In addition, if you suffer from restless legs, you may want to try it as stated earlier with the findings! It has given me hope that new natural medicines are truly on their way and we will be entering a new chapter in true healthcare and not disease management as we have in the US today.

How Do You Treat A Pubic Lice Infestation?

All lice are parasites and an infestation of these little blood suckers, (really, they are blood suckers), can be frightening and embarrassing. You may ask, How do some lice end up in certain places on the body? Do they choose where they want to live? The answer is no. The answer is that there are 3 different species of lice that live on humans and they are:

 

• Pediculus humanus (Head lice)
• Pediculus humanus corporis (Body louse, clothes louse)
• Pthirus pubis (“Crab” louse, pubic louse)

Pubic lice AKA “Crabs” or “Crab Lice” are spread from person to person by sexual contact. They are very rarely spread by clothing, bedding or toilet seats.

 

A pubic lice infestation is considered to be a sexually transmitted disease.Like any sexually transmitted disease, people who are sexual contacts need to be examined for crab lice and treated and sexual contact between the infested person and their sexual contact should be avoided until the parties are treated and reevaluated to make sure the infestation is gone.

 

The crab lice removal products that you will find at the drugstore are all pesticides that are highly toxic. Unfortunately, we are being bombarded daily by more and more toxins in our environment and the last thing you want to do is to add to the toxic load that you are carrying. Most substances that you put on your skin will get absorbed and you do not want toxic your skin to absorb pesticides!

 

It is hard to believe that pesticides would be allowed on the market for human use but they are. Recently, I read a book, “The Brain Wash” by Michele Schroffro Cook who is a naturopathic physician. She estimates that in just 15 years, there will be more people suffering with brain diseases than there will be people suffering with all cancers and heart disease combined. This frightening prophecy has been well thought out based on the increasing number of toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Most of these toxins are disguised in the form of medicines and personal care products. But pesticides are pretty obvious toxins and you do not want to use them. You need to use a totally safe and natural product that has thankfully been invented..

 

An ingenious natural pubic lice treatment that is both safe and effective is Genitrex. Genitrex is a gentle shampoo that contains enzymes that break open lice on contact. When the enzymes break open the exoskeleton of the louse, it basically implodes. So, as you wash the area of infestation, you wash away the crab lice and their eggs or nits that the louse has attached to your hairshafts. The glue that the louse makes to hold the nits to the hair is dissolved by Genitrex so after one use, 99% of all crab lice and their nits are gone! Genitrex ends the nightmare of pubic lice AKA crab lice safely! There is also a product made specifically for head lice that was discussed in a previous blog entry. Lice R Gone is a natural head lice treatment that is an enzyme filled shampoo that removes head lice naturally and on contact.

  

How Much Aluminum Exposure Have You Had Today?

In the world we live in today, we assume that everything that we ingest or put on our bodies is safe because we have regulatory groups that make sure that unsafe products are not being produced and marketed to the public. In addition, we believe that most companies who make products that are either ingested or placed on the skin are safe for use. The fact is that information revealing any negative effects on the human body of any commercial substance may take years or decades to discover.

I was shocked when I read that some researchers believe that in just 15 years, there will be more people suffering with brain diseases than with cancer and heart disease combined! This is a frightening and yet very real possibility because of all of the heavy metals and environmental toxins that our bodies must fight every single day.

Everyone is familiar with the neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s Disease. I remember hearing in the news about aluminum being found in the brain lesions of Alzheimer’s Disease patients. I believe this information has been known for at least 15 years and yet we continue to be bombarded with products that contain aluminum. You do not have to chew on aluminum foil to get aluminum in your body, You just have to put on an an antiperspirant. Also, you can use shampoo or slather body creams and lotions on your skin and get aluminum on your body. The skin is our largest organ and we absorb most substances that are put on the skin to at least some degree. If you think about the hours, days and even years that you have used any of the he following items on your body, then you will begin to get the idea of how much exposure you have had to aluminum.

Antiperspirants:  Almost 100% of antiperspirants are made with a form of aluminum.

Shampoos, Skin Care Products, Personal Care Products: A large number of these items have aluminum based ingredients. Spend a few minutes reading the ingredients on the bottles of personal care items at the drugstore and you will be astounded by the number of products that contain aluminum based ingredients. In fact, it should be especially disturbing that so many “personal care” items contain aluminum since the news about aluminum and Alzheimer’s Disease has been known for years. Do these companies just not care? I wonder if their executives use their aluminum laden products?

Antacids: There are several different salts that are used in antacids. A very common one is aluminum hydroxide. There are alternatives such as magnesium and calcium carbonate found in other products.

The best strategy to deal with this problem is to be proactive and read the ingredients on the bottles of every product that you use on your body or ingest into your body. We need to make sure that we have a diet full of antioxidants because they will help clean up the free radicals that are formed when heavy metals and other toxins are circulating in our bodies. Take a supplement with anti-oxidants. Since our fresh fruits and vegetables are not as nutritious as they used to be due to picking them before they are ripe, you cannot rely on diet alone to get enough antioxidants. If you make sure that you take anti-oxidants and eat the best diet you can with organic vegetables, this is your best offense to keep from being a one of the statistics with a neurodegenerative disease in 15 years.

Are Digestive Enzymes Necessary To Take With Meals?

Are digestive enzymes necessary to take with meals? If you are over the age of 30, the answer is most likely, “yes.” Many studies show that lack of enzymes is a cause of many metabolic diseases and disorders because having enzyme deficiencies for a long period of time can prevent your body from absorbing nutrients from food that the body needs to be healthy. The symptoms of enzyme deficiency are very similar to symptoms that people report who are diagnosed with GERD. There is acid reflux, heartburn, bloating, gas and cramping. These symptoms are usually treated with over the counter drugs like Pepcid AC or prescription drugs like “The Purple Pill” or Aciphex.

 

Imagine that an enzyme deficiency could be the cause of your GI problems that you have been trying to fix for years! Imagine how much energy you have been missing if you have an enzyme deficiency! And, imagine how much better you will feel if you receive all of the energy from your food and supplements that are possible! You will if you thoroughly digest your food but you may need supplemental digestive enzymes to thoroughly digest your meals! 

 

It is possible that an enzyme deficiency is the cause of these types of problems if you are over the age of 30 years. As we age, our natural levels of digestive enzymes decrease and we put our energy in other areas of the body to fix other problems. So, we may not be be getting the most out of our food if we do not take supplemental digestive enzymes.

Insufficient enzymes could mean:

• Necessary nutrients are not being absorbed by our systems.
• Without necessary nutrients, your health degrades
• Aging accelerates
• Disease of some form could be the result of chronic nutrient deficiencies.

Your body constantly renews itself with all cells in the body being entirely replaced every seven years. By the time you are 80, you have totally regenerated nearly a dozen times. High-quality natural digestive enzymes ensure that the 300 billion new cells your body regenerates every day have the vital nutrients for healing and growth. If you let your enzyme deficiency reach chronic levels, it will weaken your immune system. This affects thousands of other processes directly related to aging.

 

So, which enzymes  are necessary to avoid nutrient deficiencies due to incomplete digestion? A good digestive enzyme supplement should contain enzymes that can breakdown all food groups and need to be derived from plants with no animal byproducts to ensure your body accepts them without side effects. The enzymes are:

 

• Amylase: Breaks down starches so they are more easily absorbed
• Protease: Breaks down proteins into essential amino acids
• Lipase: Breaks dwon fats and triglycerides.

 

 

If you have take an enzyme supplement, thorough digestion of food takes place and the symptoms will go away almost immediately so giving digestive enzymes a trial for about 1 month may ber worth the time and money. A good digestive enzyme supplement should cost between $35.00 -$40.00 which is far less than prescription drugs for many of these GI disorders.

 

In addition, if you have your full regimen of digestive enzymes working for you, the ingredients that are breaking down food also help to promote elimination of wastes and toxins that you don’t want hanging around any longer than necessary. Having nutrients available quickly to your primary elimination organs including the liver, kidneys and pancreas helps these organs work more efficiently. If you have been diagnosed with a GI disorder that the symptoms of heartburn, gas and bloating, try natural digestive enzymes for a month and see how you feel. You may have found natural heartburn relief as well as relief from your other symptoms as well!

Do You Suffer With Heartburn?

Do you have frequent episodes of heartburn? Does it often occur after a big meal? Are you taking a drug to treat the heartburn that is either OTC or by prescription? I bet you are if this is a frequent occurrence.

 If you watch TV or read the newspaper or magazines you have most likely seen advertisements for drugs that will end your heartburn misery. There are the people who ride around the country in a bus with Prilosec OTC painted all over it. I wonder if that couple is still driving the bus with the gas crisis?! Then there is “The Purple Pill” or Nexium. These are proton pump inhibitor drugs that work by shutting down the production of acid in your stomach. It works and it also costs quite a bit per day to take these drugs. And, there have always been some folks that have worried that shutting down acid over the long term may cause problems. However, chronic acid reflux which is a more severe form of heartburn is definitely linked to an increase in esphageal cancer so heartburn should be stopped and for some people, these drugs may be the answer.

Then there are the tablets that you can pop to neutralize acid but they can also cost some money since you need to take them every couple of hours.  Stomach acid belongs in your stomach and not your esophagus. So, you need to stop reflux before there are serious complications.

Did you ever consider that maybe you have heartburn because your body is not making enough digestive enzymes? If you are older than 30 years of age, then consider it seriously because as we age, we make less and less digestive enzymes. Enzymes that are secreted by the pancreas and other organs are necessary for complete digestion of your food. Some end up directly in the stomach and others in the small intestine but they breakdown the different food groups and make it possible for you to digest them. And as we age, we do not make as much of the digestive enzymes as we used to make when we were younger.

One thing is for sure, if you are not making enough enzymes than you are not getting the maximum benefit of the food that you eat. And, if you are taking the time and money to purchase organic fruits and vegetables, all of the vitamins, minerals and other phytonutrients are just becoming part of the most expensive stool in town.

What does that have to do with heartburn?  The symptoms of undigested food hanging around are the same as GERD and some other GI disorders. So, if you suffer from heartburn and/or gas and/or bloating. it makes sense to find out if you are sufficiently digesting your food or not. If you do not have sufficient enzymes, you should be taking supplemental digestive enzymes and you will not have to take those drugs. Taking drugs for inadequate digestion robs you of the food that you need to make energy for yourself and repair your cells each and every day.

For less money than you pay for a 1 month’s supply of a prescription drug or about $30.00 – $40.00 per month, you can get an excellent supplement of high quality digestive enzymes that may very well be natural heartburn relief as well as providing the nutrition that you need. One digestive enzyme supplement that is complete with all necessary enzymes is called Prolipamy.

Isn’t it worth finding out the cause of your heartburn? If the cause is insufficient digestive enzymes, you will find out pretty quickly because the symptoms will stop when food is being completely digested. Taking natural digestive enzymes may be the natural heartburn relief that you need and it will be good for your overall health as well.

So, if you are over the age of 30, it is a good idea to take a supplement of plant-based digestive enzymes. If you are over the age of 30 years and you have heartburn then you need to take digestive enzymes so they can provide potential natural heartburn relief as well as make sure that you are not losing nutrition from the food that you eat. 

Mental Fatigue? Want A Natural Pick Me Up?

I don’t know about you but I know that I can fade quickly when I have to do tedious reports. Some people like writing reports but others like myself find paperwork to be an after the fact documentation of work performed. I find myself asking myself, “Now, you are asking me to do this again? But, I got the sale!”

America must have a lot of paperwork or other mundane tasks where they find it difficult to concentrate because we have a new coffee house on every other block. You know when a fast food chain offers expresso or soft serve ice cream with espresso, we must have too much to do. Or at least it is boring work. Although coffee smells heavenly and tastes yummy at times, it is not the healthiest way for a person to prevent mental fatigue. The combination of stress and the acid in coffee can lead to GI problems such as GERD, dyspepsia or as they used to call it, ” sour stomach.” Irritable bowel is not far behind and of course, insomnia is high on the list of the average American who drinks coffee and then goes to yoga classes to try calm down but often fails. Or even more bizarre, the average American will consume copious amounts of pharmaceuticals to either wake them up and/or put them to sleep because they still keep drinking coffee.

I love the smell of coffee and the taste is not bad but the reason that I used to drink 6 cups per day was to keep me awake. I was continuing to work despite failing health and I just drank coffee all day long to make it through the day. Sometimes, I would exceed my limit (unfortunately, you don’t know exactly how many cups constitute “one’s limit” since the amount of caffeine in coffee will vary from producer and purveyor.) However, I knew when I exceeded my limit because I would get a really bad case of the “jitters” and yawn at the same time. Sleeping of course was a joke.

Coffee consumed in moderation is fine but there are better alternatives for a person to be able to concentrate and be focused to remain alert on the job. Unfortunately, most employers do not allow “power naps” or a break to go jogging in the mid-afternoon. What we need is something that will help us while we are working but it is not a drug or an herb that has side effects. We will jog when we get home but what about 2:30PM? Well, the good news is that there is a blend of natural herbs and phytochemicals that exists that works like a charm. I know because I have taken it and as a cancer survivor, I do not take anything that looks suspiciously unsafe or adverse to my system. The product is called “FOCUS EXCEL” and it contains ingredients that really do help your concentration and ability to focus like no other product that I have ever used.

FOCUS EXCEL is a “functional food” that acts as a neural accelerator. The term, “functional food” will be heard more and more as food manufacturers continue to add these ingredients to margarine and yogurt to lower cholesterol or improve digestion. Of course, they add a minute amount compared to what is really required yet, it is good to see that they are catching on to the importance of the marriage of our functioning and food.

The 4 most common causes of mental fatigue include:

1. Nutritional deficiency
2. Toxic exposure and/or pollution
3. Refined food
4. Stress

Of course, “stress” can be a killer and even though we all hear this point we still do not modify our behavior. Why is that? Because it is HARD! So, if we can find ways to alleviate stress, (yoga is a good one). and feed our bodies the nutrients it needs to function at optimal performance, we will be able to be more productive. You may have heard of some of the phytonutrients in FOCUS EXCEL and others maybe new to you. However, there are thousands of studies in the scientific literature which have described the amazing benefits of these ingredients. The ingredients include: cordyceps sinensis, phosphatidylserine, DMAE, bacopa monnieri and vinpocetine. You can purchase these ingredients alone but in FOCUS EXCEL, you will find a scientifically blended combination that has been tested and it works! And, there are no adverse events! Does this sound to good to be true? Well, here is a link to a website that sells it so check it out for yourself. And , last time I looked it was on sale for $47.00 rather than $57.00 until sometime in May. Here is the webpage:

www.nolannaturalhealthproducts.com/page/1291640. I have taken FOCUS EXCEL and I promise you, it works! So give it a try if you need a little help to stay focused at work all day and your stomach feels like it is going to rot from the inside out due to the acid in coffee and too much stomach acid. Been there…done that! Best wishes for Good Health!