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Blog 28: RAYNAUD’S DISEASE/SYNDROME

February 7, 2013 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

STOP THIS ANNOYING PROBLEM IN JUST DAYS

CATEGORY: 2: Inflammation
RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: Beta Carotene

Raynaud’s is one of the most annoying problems, but also one of the easiest to fix. There is a distinction made between Primary Raynaud’s, referred to as the Disease, and Secondary Raynaud’s, referred to as the Syndrome. Both manifest as numbness in the shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes. Luckily, this therapy works equally well on both.

Primary Raynaud’s (the Disease) is diagnosed if the symptoms have no other known cause and occur by themselves, with no association with any other disorder or condition.

Secondary Raynaud’s (the Syndrome) is diagnosed in conjunction with and secondary to a wide variety of other conditions, including, connective tissue disorders, eating disorders, obstructive disorders, ingesting certain drugs, and occupations that lead to extensive exposure to cold weather or cold conditions. Raynaud’s is often described as an allergy to cold, because cold conditions are one of the classic inflammatory triggers that leads to the problem.

A closer look shows that these other conditions associated with secondary Raynaud’s are all, directly or indirectly, connected to and caused by a flare-up of inflammation, just like Raynaud’s. Therefore, if you can control inflammation you can control both Primary and Secondary Raynaud’s, no matter the cause.
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Note: Inflammation can flare up anywhere in your body, at any time, and for a million different reasons. How it will manifest is a function of your personal genetics. Maybe your family has a genetic weakness in the nervous system, so your inflammation may show up as Multiple Sclerosis. Maybe the genetic weakness is in the digestive system, in which case your inflammation may show up as Crohn’s Disease. Maybe it’s a predisposition to tumor growth that turns your inflammation into cancer. But inflammation is inflammation: All and any inflammation has the same root cause, oxidation and an excess of free radicals. Hence, no matter where it manifests, any case of inflammation can be treated with the same therapy with equal success.
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WHAT DOES RAYNAUD’S FEEL LIKE?

You wake up in the middle of the night with the phone ringing loudly in your ear. Your reach for it, only to discover that your right arm is completely numb, with no feeling whatsoever. Since the numbness extends into your hands and fingers, you can’t pick up the phone. Or you go out to shovel snow from your walk. When you finish and reenter your kitchen, your fingers are completely numb with no feeling. You even have trouble unzipping your parka. Or, maybe every time you sit down for a spell, one or both of your legs fall asleep, making it hard to stand again and move around. This is Raynaud’s, and it is one of the easiest disorders to control and prevent.

WHAT IS RAYNAUD’S?

Think of Raynaud’s as “over-crowding,” like thirty-six people sharing a studio apartment, constantly getting in each other’s way, constantly invading each other’s space.

All of your blood vessels are surrounded by soft tissue. When that soft tissue becomes inflamed it takes on water, swells up and expands. As it expands it takes up more room and presses against the blood vessels, leaving less space for blood flow to get through to your extremities. The decreased blood flow to the extremities causes the numbness and the condition we call Raynaud’s. That’s all there is to it. It’s easy to see therefore, that stopping inflammation will stop the tissue from swelling, and will stop Raynaud’s from stealing space belonging to the blood vessels and thereby cutting off the blood supply to the extremities.
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Note: When exposed to cold temperatures, the blood supply to the face, nose and earlobes can also be markedly reduced because of the same inflammation described above. When the oxygen supply in the area is depleted, numbness occurs due to lack of blood, and the skin turns bluish.
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Chronic recurrent attacks of Raynaud’s can result in atrophy of the skin, subcutaneous tissues, and muscle, stemming from the prolonged periods without enough oxygen. In severe cases, if left untreated, Raynaud’s can progress to necrosis or gangrene of the fingertips or toes, because extended constriction of blood flow to any area leads to tissue hypoxia.

It is said that Raynaud’s can herald certain diseases by periods of more than 20 years in some cases, making if effectively their first presenting symptom. That’s because it is inflammation that is causing the Raynaud’s, as well as the other diseases. Left untreated inflammation worsens and leads to other conditions, like cancer, Crohn’s, or MS.

RAYNAUD’S INFLAMMATORY CHAIN REACTION

When inflammation flares up in your system it has a set process and reaction sequence. In the case of Raynaud’s, the inflammatory trigger causes reddening and warmth in the tissue surrounding the blood vessels. The body then attempts to cool the heat by shunting extra fluids to the tissue. The tissue absorbs the extra fluid and swells. The swollen tissue squeezes against the blood vessel walls, nanrrowing them, and decreasing blood flow to the limbs. Decreased blood flow means decreased oxygen, and results in numbness and temporary loss of usage in the affected extremities.
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Raynaud’s Inflammatory Chain Reaction
environmental trigger → inflammation → reddening and warmth → extra fluids → swelling → squeezing of blood vessel walls → narrowing of blood vessels → numbness in extremities _____________________________________________________________________

BETA CAROTENE IS THE VERY BEST INFLAMMATION FIGHTER

Large doses of Beta Carotene—a superior antioxidant, supported by Vitamin D3 and taken on a regular basis—will prevent and heal Raynaud’s. Beta Carotene stops inflammation from being triggered, and will keep the tissue around the blood vessel from swelling and constricting blood flow to your extremities, leading to tissue hypoxia. It does this by severely restricting free radical growth. (See Blog 3: The Danger of Inflammation)

Ginkgo Biloba is recommended because it thins the blood, permitting more to get to the affected area even after blood vessel constriction. While you are using Beta Carotene and Vitamin D3 to control Raynaud’s, you may also want to take Ginkgo Biloba to thin the blood and help more blood and oxygen get to the extremities right away. Once you no longer suffer from Raynaud’s, you can stop taking Ginkgo Biloba, but you should continue taking Beta Carotene and Vitamin D3. If you are already taking a prescription drug blood thinner, like Coumadin, don’t take it with Ginko Biloba, because the supplement will duplicate the effects of the drug.
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Note: Smoking tobacco worsens the frequency and intensity of Raynaud’s attacks, because tobacco smoke is known to constrict blood vessels all on its own.
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RAYNAUD’S/NUMBNESS IN EXTREMITIES Quick Glance Chart
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Supplement           Breakfast         Dinner                  Brand                   Strength
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Beta Carotene
(softgels only)      50 softgels    50 softgels    Puritan’s Pride #1223    25000 IU
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Vitamin D3
(softgels only)      2 softgels         2 softgels     Puritan’s Pride #17621    2000 IU
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This is a healing and maintenance dose, meaning that you should keep taking Beta Carotene and D3 in these dosages, even after Raynaud’s symptoms have disappeared.
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Ginkgo Biloba
(capsules only)      1 capsule        1 capsule      Puritan’s Pride #4544      120 mg
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NOTES

► If you take Beta Carotene without also taking Vitamin D, you will deplete your stores of Vitamin D and develop a Vitamin D deficiency. It may manifest as sores on the inside of the mouth. Always take Vitamin D when you take Beta Carotene. Vitamin D3 is recommended, because it more closely replicates the Vitamin D made naturally on your skin from contact with the sun. If you can’t find D3, take straight Vitamin D.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 29: Dry, Sore, and Chapped Lips, where I tell you how to have soft, kissable lips without chapstick.
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Lynn Capehart Wellness Foundation, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, meaning that any donation you make is tax deductible. We appreciate your support for our current efforts to establish a Vitamin Scholarship Program, so that we may supply supplements to those who could be cured of their disorders but who cannot afford the cost. You may make your donations through www.paypal.com using any credit card or bank anywhere in the world. Donations should be made there to the account of lynncapehartnonprofit@outlook.com Thank you.
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BLOG 27: ASTHMA

June 21, 2012 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

BREATHE EASY IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS

CATEGORIES: 2: Inflammation, 3: Blockage

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENTS: Beta Carotene, Lecithin, L-Cysteine,

My father, Raleigh, was career Army. He loved it. Loved the order and organization. The discipline and polish. The precision and pomp. He considered it a true meritocracy, and believed there was no more level playing field for a man of color then, than in the U.S. Army. Thankfully, he never tried to impose his love of order and discipline on me. He didn’t bring home the soldier, only the dad.

But whatever made Raleigh a good warrior also fed a bit of an obsession with my safety and well being. His only child, and him a single parent. Thus it was his habit to try to incorporate defense information into our everyday activities. But it never came across like a “lesson.” He was smart and always teaching me new things. The defense part seemed all of a piece with the other information.

More often than not he made it a game, like “Front Door Intruder,” where he would knock on the screen door and pretend to be an intruder. I would open the front door, spot the malice in his face. He would pull the screen and come at me. The game was to see if I could turn and make it up the stairs to my bedroom and lock the door before he could catch me. Of course he taught me not to open the door in the first place; this was just his backup plan in case I forgot.

If we were watching a show on television and a woman was on her way into a trap, he would turn to me and want to know what was wrong with the picture. What mistake was she making? What should she do? When the victim was a man, my father would identify himself with that person and ask how I would go about rescuing him. If I gave a wrong answer I might hear something like, “No, no, first you have to create a diversion.” Then we would run through my options for creating a diversion.

Among other things, Raleigh signed me up at the Police Athletic League for rifle lessons, taught me himself how to use a hand gun, and the correct way to hold a knife as a weapon. He showed me the best escape routes out of the house from every single room, how to get to the police station through a series of backyards, and that a well placed kick to the shin would slow an attacker as quickly as one to the groin. If you’re wearing shoes.

He also schooled me on basic survival techniques. Sundays, when the family was lazing around the house reading the newspapers and funny pages, and laboring over the New York Times crossword puzzle, he would suddenly pull out The Army Survival Manual (ASM) for a bit of light reading and discussion. Groans might be heard from another room but I usually cooperated, and he usually reciprocated with ice cream, sometimes homemade by him.

The ASM makes for absorbing reading. It tells a soldier how to survive in a battle situation when she is separated from her unit. How to think, psychologically, and what to do. But there are survival tips that serve civilians just as well: What if your car breaks down in the desert? What if your small boat washes out to sea while you’re napping? What if your snow mobile runs out of gas on an Alaskan ice ledge? What if you get separated from your camping party and lost in the woods?

The ASM instructs that if you are stranded in a survival situation, there are fundamental steps to be taken if you want to make it out alive. And the steps should be taken in specific order if possible. If you are injured, first aid takes priority. Second is to find water, because we can only live a few days without it; third is build or find shelter for protection from the elements, whether rain, snow, wind, sea, or sun; fourth is find food; and fifth is find a way to signal rescuers who will be looking for you, or, make plans to travel from the site on your own.

Notice that none of the steps tells you to find an air source. We expect air to always be there. We can live without it only minutes at best. So no one cautions searching for an air source. But what if you couldn’t depend on getting enough air, and had no real control over the situation? What if once you got air in, got your lungs all filled up, you couldn’t get the air back out? In a very literal sense, asthma steals your breath away.

ASTHMA AND INFLAMMATION

Asthma is a chronic inflammation in your lungs, which triggers certain responses from your body that together form what we call an asthma attack.

Let’s say you’re on vacation with three friends, renting a seaside cottage on the Maine coast. It’s a hot July day and the bees are out busily pollinating flowers. You have a cigarette on the porch with a cup of Earl Grey. Watching the waves entices you to take a swim in the Atlantic, where you push yourself beyond your normal limits. As you leave the water you feel a tightness forming in your chest. Your heart speeds slightly in anticipation of an imminent asthma episode. By the time you get back to your room, you’re coughing and having trouble breathing.

An asthma attack starts with inflammation. That’s what asthma medicines like inhaled and swallowed corticosteroids try to achieve, the control of inflammation. You can have inflammation anywhere in your body, but in the lungs is possibly the worst place to have it. If you suffer from asthma, you walk around with a chronic, low grade inflammation in your lungs all the time, making them overly sensitive and therefore susceptible to certain triggers.

When those triggers are activated as they were in the opening hypothetical, by pollen dust, cigarette smoke, hard exercise, and fatigue, that low grade inflammation flares inside your lungs into a full blown one. When inflammation reaches a base point threshold in your lungs, it triggers an asthma attack.

We’re all familiar with the symptoms of inflammation. If you bang your wrist on a fence, the affected area will redden and warm due to increased blood flow as your body reacts to the damage; it will swell as the body dispatches fluids, trying to cool the heat it just produced; it will be painful from a chemical released in reaction to the damage that over stimulates nerve endings; and there will be a loss of function, because of all the other reasons.

When that process happens on a wrist it’s an annoyance but you get on with your day. If it happens inside your lungs, it’s a catastrophe, and you could suffocate. Let’s walk through an asthma attack, step by horrible step:

SIX STEPS TO AN ASTHMA EPISODE

Step 1: your specific trigger causes inflammation to explode inside your sensitive lungs;

Step 2: your body acts to protect the area by expanding capillaries, which increases blood flow to the lungs, and causes reddening and warmth;

Step 3: the reddening and warmth signal your body to send extra fluids to your lungs, attempting to cool the heat it just produced there;

Step 4: the extra fluids are absorbed by the lung tissue and result in swelling and the production of excess mucus;

Step 5: as lung tissue swells and the lungs fill with mucus, airways constrict (narrow); this lethal combination of swelling, mucus, and airway narrowing reduces the space in the lungs, until there isn’t enough left for air to move in and out. (You try to take a breath but there’s no place for the air to enter into.)

Step 6: the narrowed airways cause chest tightening, and pressure in the chest as your muscles work harder and harder for every breath; it can get so bad that no air can circulate in and out, and you lose function in the lungs.

There is pain and discomfort throughout this entire frightening process.

ASTHMA’S CHAIN REACTION

environmental trigger → inflammation → reddening and warmth → fluids → swelling → mucus → narrowed airways → trouble breathing → loss of lung function → with pain and discomfort throughout the entire process

ATTACKING ASTHMA

As you can see from the steps above, if you can stop inflammation from flaring, you can stop the chain reaction that leads to an asthma attack. All of the symptoms associated with asthma have inflammation as the core problem. Because of the chain reaction asthma causes in the lungs, it takes several supplements to control and prevent it naturally.

There is no better inflammation fighter than Beta Carotene, along with its support partner, Vitamin D3. (Please see Blog 3: The Dangers of Inflammation for more information.) You are given the option of taking from 15 to 25 softgels twice daily. If you start with 15 and do not get the results as described here, simply increase your dosage and keep increasing it until the asthma is under control, even if it means taking more than 25 softgels twice daily. This is only nutrition and will not hurt you. Let me say that again. Beta Carotene will not hurt you. It is perhaps the kindest gift the universe has ever given us. Whatever dosage works to control your inflammation is your specific daily maintenance dose of Beta Carotene.

Lecithin will keep lungs clear of the mucus produced by your body as it tries to heal the usually low grade, but never ending, inflammation in your lungs.

L-Cysteine, along with its support partner, Vitamin C Complex, has an incredible ability to heal and cleanse the lungs fast and efficiently.

You can avoid the side effects of asthma medicines with these food supplements that actually heal the condition without causing harm. Taken together, they are all that you need to control and prevent asthma. You should plan on taking the extra nutrition in these supplements daily, as a maintenance dose, to make sure you keep asthma completely in check. Otherwise it will return if you stop.

*ASTHMA* Quick Glance Chart
Supplement	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
Beta Carotene (softgels only)	15-25 softgels	15-25 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #1223	25,000 IU (equivalent to 15 mg)
Vitamin D3 (softgels only)	1 softgel	1 softgel	Puritan’s Pride #17621	2000 IU
Lecithin (softgels)	6 softgels	6 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #303	1200 mg
Lecithin (granules)	1 heaping tablespoon		Puritan’s Pride #1064	(equivalent to 6 or more softgels)
L-Cysteine (capsules only)	3 capsules	3 capsules	Puritan’s Pride #100	500 mg
Vitamin C Complex	3 tablets	3 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #3140	1000 mg

NOTES

► If you take Beta Carotene without also taking Vitamin D, you will deplete your stores of Vitamin D and develop a Vitamin D deficiency. It may manifest as sores on the inside of the mouth. Always take Vitamin D when you take Beta Carotene. Vitamin D3 is recommended because it more closely replicates the Vitamin D made naturally on your skin from contact with the sun. If you can’t find D3, take straight Vitamin D.

► Lecithin is the best natural emulsifier available, and will safely breakup and remove congestion from your lungs and sinus. I have recommended Puritan’s Pride brand because theirs is from soybeans only, and contains a minimum of 732 mg of phosphatides in each 1200 mg softgel, equivalent to 61 percent phosphatides. The value of a Lecithin product is determined by the percentage of phosphatides, because they activate the emulsifying process in your body. You may use another brand but make sure it conforms to or exceeds these specifications or it will not work as I described.

► When you use Lecithin regularly, in the beginning you will notice that you are coughing up and blowing out of your nose, a lot more mucus than usual. And it may appear thicker, nastier, and more opaque than usual. This is happening because Lecithin is breaking up congestion blockages in your lungs and other areas, causing mucus and other wastes to be expelled. This is a good sign and will taper off as your body cleans itself.

► Lecithin Granules are best used in blender drinks and sprinkled on salads, fresh cut fruit, and cereals. Make sure to consume it uncooked, in its natural state. You can use it in cooked recipes for texture and smoothness, but those amounts do not count toward your daily maintenance dose. It’s completely safe so take as much as you want.

► When you open a bottle of L-Cysteine you will notice a strong odor. It’s supposed to smell like that. It’s the sulphur. If you have a sulphur allergy do not use L-Cysteine.

► In order for L-Cysteine to work effectively it must be taken with twice its weight in Vitamin C. So, if you were to take 1000 mg of L-Cysteine, you would need 2000 mg of Vitamin C in order to get the L-Cysteine to work properly. This therapy will not work as I have described if you take L-Cysteine alone, or without enough Vitamin C.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 28: Raynaud’s Syndrome (Numbness In Extremities),where I tell you how to eliminate it forever in just days.

PLEASE DONATE

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Lynn Capehart Wellness Foundation, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, meaning that any donation you make will be tax deductible. We appreciate your support for our current efforts to establish a Vitamin Scholarship Program, so that we may supply supplements to those who could be cured of their disorders but cannot afford the cost. You may make your donations through www.paypal.com using any credit card or bank anywhere in the world. Donations should be made there to the account of lynncapehartnonprofit@outlook.com Thank you.

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BLOG 26: ESSAY 1: WHY NUTRITION CAN HEAL AND PREVENT ANY PHYSICAL DISORDER

February 22, 2012 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

IN THE BEGINNING, NUTRITION FUELS POST CONCEPTION GROWTH

A pregnant woman’s body is a biological factory, a product manufacturing site, and a distribution port for the human race. It takes in raw materials in the form of nutrition, breaks down the elements into a usable form, and shunts the majority of those resources to the design floor, the womb, where they are utilized in a combined production, resulting usually in a fairly decent product being shipped. Namely, you.

No matter how you were conceived, naturally or in a petri dish, you came to term inside one of these female factories, having grown and survived after conception on the nutrition that your mother consumed. You’ve heard the expression, “you are what you eat.” Well, in a very real sense, at birth you were what your mother ate. As there is no other way for you to get here, to this reality, it can be said that you—the body you inhabit—is literally, not figuratively, constructed from nutrition. Constructed from the same proteins, vitamins, minerals, herbs, plant extracts, and other concentrated food formulations that I recommend to heal your body and maintain wellness.

NUTRITION ENABLES GENETIC PROGRESSION

The premise for all my theories, the reason for my absolute promise to you that nutrition can heal any disease, is based on the fact that since vitamins created your body, it is logical to believe that the same nutrition can repair it. The particular genetic recipe for each of you is contained in your individual genes. But the instructions in the genetic code cannot be implemented without the addition of nutrition into the process. In other words, your genes need an energy source in order to activate and then construct your body based on your chromosomal blueprint. This energy source is none other than the food nutrition provided by your mother’s own choices and consumption patterns.

The genes you inherited turn off and on throughout your lifetime. This is one way that mama evolution keeps things interesting and ensures that you don’t pass on the same genetics to each offspring. This mix-it-up plan makes better usage of the gene pool from whence you sprang. That’s why your sister can look like dad while your brother looks just like dad’s granduncle, Ted. And you look like your mother’s great-grandaunt, Selendra, the financial investment wizard who died in 1929. Let’s say that you were lucky enough to inherit Selendra’s genes for math and financial projection. Meaning, you have within your genetics specific code for a future on Wall Street, and achieving financial stability in your youth.

A LACK OF NUTRITION LIMITS POTENTIAL

But let’s also say that you were conceived in a time of ongoing crisis or famine, and that during your manufacturing process, your mother consumed only 27 percent of the proteins, 16 percent of the B complex components, and 31 percent of important minerals that are necessary to grow an optimal human brain. While the majority of her consumed nutrition was shunted to you in the uterus, some of it was kept and utilized by your mother so she could continue functioning. Call it overhead, like you’d spend to keep any factory functioning, say for gas, electric, and cleaning services. So the percentages of these important nutritional elements were even lower for you during gestation.

In this case, there will certainly be fewer nutrients than necessary to grow the cerebral area pertaining to mathematics. And suppose that the crisis or famine situation includes a toxic atmosphere, which causes rampant free radical growth in your mother’s factory. She is eating only 25 percent of the antioxidants she needs to control free radical activity. So, even though you have the genetics, you come to term without great-grandaunt Selendra’s math abilities due to a lack of nutrition, and already predisposed to free radical inflammation based conditions, like cancer, and multiple sclerosis.

This is certainly a worst case, but I am trying to make the point that nutrition counts at every single step in the process of growing, caring for, and keeping a human body well and free of disease. It especially counts during pregnancy when the new human is under construction, and later when it needs repair.

NUTRITION BUILDS THE BODY FEATURE BY FEATURE

Pregnant women are notorious for their wild food fancies—from pickle and pomegranate casserole to peanut butter and popcorn sandwiches. But what they eat translates directly into sustenance for the growing fetus. It translates into bone and sinew, into blood vessel and brain matter, fingernails, faces, skin and hair. Every bit of you is constructed by nutrition.

Perhaps one day your mother woke up and unbeknownst to her, her factory was scheduled to produce ears and hearing for you that day. Maybe the production line needed a lot of extra potassium that day in order to get the hearing just right, so you would have perfect pitch. The factory foreman sent resource demands to her brain and your mother spent the next few days stuffing herself to exhaustion with guacamole and corn chips, buttered potatoes and lima beans, and pint after pint of fresh picked blueberries, all good sources of potassium. By the end of the week, the factory had moved on to eyes, and you had the perfect pitch of Yo-Yo Ma.

This transfer of nutrition happens minute by minute while you are in the factory, in the womb. Let’s say that while you were gestating, your mother ate as a snack one afternoon, a 16 ounce broiled sirloin, french fries, sautéed winter vegetables, and three whole wheat rolls with butter. She shared with you through the umbilical cord, a large portion of the nutrition she consumed at that meal.

From the steak you received, in addition to the calories—a lot of protein to help grow bone and tissue, iron and cobalamin (B12) to facilitate the flow of oxygen and to help regulate how your cells were differentiated, zinc to assist in brain cell formation, and B6 to produce hemoglobin and grow your nervous system.

From the vegetables you received, in addition to calories, protein, and fiber—an enormous assortment of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamins A, C, K, E, thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), folic acid (B9), potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, zinc, copper, manganese, and selenium, among other trace elements.

Each vegetable has these nutrients in varying amounts—e.g., a cup of dried seaweed has 1527 mg of potassium, while a cup of raw spinach has 167 mg. A cup of pumpkin has 12,230 IU of Vitamin A , while a medium baked potato has 17 IU. A cup of parsnips has 1.56 mg of Vitamin E, while fennel and mushroom have none. It’s important to eat a variety of vegetables because they work together to make up for what they each lack.

From the whole wheat hard rolls you received, in addition to calories, protein, and fiber—carbohydrates, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, folic acid, magnesium, selenium, manganese, and important fats, plus other trace elements.

From the butter you received, fat and calories, which are also important in a growing fetus’s diet. You’ve heard the term “baby fat.” It is nature’s gift to a newborn, a nutritional reserve to live on in case there is crisis or famine when it is born.

And that’s just one meal. Think about all the nutrients Mom consumed while carrying you to term. All the raw materials by way of nutrition, that rolled into the factory and were used to make the body you’re parked in right now.

NUTRITION CAN MAKE ANY REPAIR

There is plenty of evidence to support agreement that the human body is constructed from nutrition. Once that is established, it’s not such a big leap to the conclusion that when that body gets sick, it makes sense to utilize the same elements to repair it that were used to create it in the first place.

Suppose you came outside one sunny morning, coffee cup in hand, and discovered that Roxanne had dug several holes in your lawn while looking for a lost bone. You love this lawn and repair it immediately with like material: seeds to grow new grass, or a patch of grass to cover the damage. You wouldn’t use cement, or carrots, or velvet, to repair the grass.

If your tire went flat you would repair it with a rubber patch because the tire is made of rubber. If you tore a hole in a denim shirt you would repair it with a cotton patch because the shirt is made of cotton. If an oil derrick arm broke down you would use steel to repair it because it is made from steel. If the sidewalk in front of your house cracked and needed repair, you would use cement because the sidewalk is made of cement. If the road in front of that sidewalk needed a repair, you would use asphalt because the road is made from asphalt. Et cetera.

I think you get the picture. Common sense tells us that when the human body breaks down, gets sick in any way, we should use nutrition to repair it because, say it with me now, “it is made from nutrition.”

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 27: Asthma, where I tell you how to toss the inhaler for good and get on with your life.

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BLOG 25: OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA)

January 21, 2012 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

END PAIN AND POSTPONE OR AVOID SURGERY WITH THIS NUTRITION THERAPY

CATEGORY: 1: Simple Malnutrition

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENTS: Glucosamine, Monavie Active, Beta Carotene, and Lecithin

As an infant you are born with 300 to 350 bones. As you grow, some of them fuse together, thereby decreasing the overall number until it drops to 206 in adulthood. There isn’t strict agreement on the number of joints in a human body. The answers range from no one knows to a couple hundred. We can agree that you need a lot of joints to hold together 206 bones.

Definitions: A Joint is the spot where two or more of your 206 individual bones are joined in such a manner as to permit flexibility and movement of the musculoskeletal structure. Joints are held in place by Ligaments, tough elastic tissue that connects bones and cartilage to the joint. (Tendons connect muscle to bone.)

Osteoarthritis (OA) assaults your joints and cartilage, and affects more people than rheumatoid arthritis, the “other” arthritis, which is an auto immune disorder. OA is the number one cause of chronic disability in the United States, and accounts for one in four visits to a primary physician. Meaning, that if we could get control of this disease, we could greatly reduce chronic disability, and eliminate the costs associated with 25 percent of primary care visits.

It is believed that some people have a genetic propensity that causes them to contract OA. Even so, you can always trump genetics with nutrition. Always. It’s not the family genes that are at fault, but the family diet that is passed on to succeeding generations.

OA is also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease, simply because as the disease progresses the joints actually degrade, erode, and slowly disappear in places. The polite term is “narrowing.” OA symptoms include acute pain, chronic stiffness, fiery burning sensation, swelling from water retention, bone spurs, crackling sounds (crepitus) when joint is used, and enlargement and misshaping of the joint. Naturally, any combination of these can lead to a loss of mobility. There are lucky people who do not have symptoms, despite x-ray evidence of OA.

Definition: Bone Spur: It is caused by the same inflammation that causes swelling from water retention, and most of the pain and burning. This inflammation stimulates the overgrowth of bone cells, causing them to deposit too much bone in the area of the arthritis. The extra bone accumulates until there is a noticeable bony outgrowth called a spur. Bone spurs are one reason for the enlargement and misshaping of an arthritic joint, and are directly related to inflammation.

PREVENTING CARTILAGE DEGRADATION AND LOSS IS THE FOCUS FOR TREATING OSTEOARTHRITIS

OA is not a complicated disease despite its debilitating affect on your body. It can be successfully treated with nutrition that targets the resultant symptoms, and also the trigger itself, which is wear and tear. OA results directly from the loss of cartilage, the spongy protein substance that “cushions” the joints and keeps the bones from bumping into each other as you move.

Humans are always seeking “cushions” in life. We want the cushy job. We are told it is wise to have a financial cushion in case of hard times. Chairs are padded with cushions for our butt’s comfort. Your car’s bumper cushions it from other, inept drivers. Take that natural desire for cushion to a biological level. Each bone has the same need. It needs a cushion to keep the other, inept bones away from it.

A large part of the cartilage cushion is dependent upon water content and other joint components like Glucosamine. If you don’t give your body the building nutrients it needs to repair cartilage, it will dry out over time and become less resilient. As the cartilage dries it provides less and less of a cushion for the adjoining bones. If the cartilage dries out completely, the cushion is lost and the bones collide with drastic results.

A great loss of flexibility and mobility occurs when the cushion collapses and bones start grinding against each other. Movement becomes painful and sometimes impossible. With a loss of cartilage, joints can actually lock in place. The stress on the joint from the disintegration of cartilage causes inflammation. Once inflammation is present the other symptoms show up as well.

ALL JOINTS ARE AT RISK FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS

OA can affect any joint but it usually presents in hands, feet, hips, knees, spine and lower back. The medical industry tells you that osteoarthritis is simply a natural result of aging. That you should go ahead and expect your joints to wear out before you’re done using them. Joint replacement surgery has become routine.

This medical information is confirmed by your own observations. When you look around you see most people over 45 with some symptom of OA. They complain that certain joints have become tender and achy. Or that they’re beginning to experience stiffness. Maybe a little swelling now and then? That’s the beginning of OA. But today you also hear 23-year-olds complaining about OA, while some 90-somethings show no signs of the disease. OA is no longer a disorder associated strictly with aging. Now it’s a disorder also associated with a profound lack of nutrition, regardless of your age.

The truth is that evolution designed your joints to operate efficiently for over 100 years, if supplied along the way with the nutritional building materials they need to make repairs and maintain their integrity. But after decades of use without enough nutrition, sure, they’re going to fail prematurely. They’re going to wear out.

Think of a favorite pair of shoes that you wear every day for months. They’re comfortable and you love them because they make you look cool. After a while the heels and soles show signs of wear and tear. Your first impulse, since these are your favorites, is to take them to a repair shop before they fall apart and you can’t wear them anymore.

Same thing with your joints. If you expect to get extended use out of them, you have to take steps to ensure they can fulfill the 100 year warranty. Your joints are in use more or less constantly. Even when you’re asleep, you can’t turn over in bed, scratch your ear, or reach for the annoying alarm without using many of your joints. Everything you do, your mobility itself, depends on actions by your joints. Without healthy joints you would become an immobile stick creature like Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, before Dorothy saved him with the oil can. If you supplement your diet with specific nutrients, your joints will have the building materials they need to make repairs and maintain stability.

THE SUPPLEMENTS

Glucosamine Sulfate or Glucosamine Hydrochloride (HCL) both do a good job of repairing and forming new cartilage inside joints. Glucosamine is a component of joint tissue and important to the production of synovial fluid, which keeps the joint lubricated. Your body produces Glucosamine, but the levels fall as you age and fail to add it as a supplement to your diet.

There is disagreement on which Glucosamine works better, the sulfate or the hydrochloride form. You’ll have to experiment to see which works best for you. For a long time I used sulfate and it worked fine, but then I noticed that taking it caused irritation in some joints, especially the knee. When I switched to hydrochloride the results improved. I can promise you that Glucosamine will rebuild the cartilage cushion in your joints, but your individual factors will decide which is best for you. Don’t lose heart if you try one form and it doesn’t work for you. Simply switch to the other to get relief.

While Glucosamine is the accepted supplement for rebuilding cartilage and preventing future loss of it, Monavie Active, which has a potent Hydrochloride form of Glucosamine, is very effective and highly recommended.

Lecithin is an emulsifier. It smoothes out the cartilage being constructed by the other supplements, and keeps the joint clear of organic debris that is the cause of a lot of the pain experienced by those who have OA. Like Dorothy’s oil can, Lecithin helps keep the joints lubricated and mobile.

Beta Carotene reduces free radical activity and thereby calms inflammation. It also reduces pain, burning, swelling, and misshaping of the joint through bone spurs.

Vitamin D3 supports Beta Carotene in its inflammation fighting function. If you take Beta Carotene without Vitamin D, you will deplete your stores of Vitamin D and develop a Vitamin D deficiency. That’s why you should always take Vitamin D when taking Beta Carotene. Vitamin D3 is recommended because it more closely replicates the Vitamin D made naturally on your skin from contact with the sun. If you can’t find D3, take straight Vitamin D.

Ibuprophen eliminates 90 percent of the stiffness accompanying OA. The pain, burning, and swelling will end if you take the supplements discussed above. But if stiffness is still a problem, regular daily use of Ibuprophen makes a huge improvement. You’ll stop feeling like you’re already 100.

*Healing and Preventing Osteoarthritis* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Supplement	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
Glucosamine Sulfate or HCL (capsules only)	2-4 capsules	2-4 capsules	Puritan’s Pride #4173 for Sulfate; #11822 for HCL	1000 mg
Monavie Active	2 ozs (mandatory)	2 ozs (optional)	Monavie	NA
It’s important to shake the Monavie bottle well each time before you use it. Consume everything that comes out of the bottle. Sometimes you will see grit, or small chunks of puree. Don’t discard any of it.
Lecithin (softgels, and granules)	5 softgels, and one heaping tablespoon	5 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #303/ #1064	1200 mg
Lecithin granules are best used sprinkled over salads, fresh fruit, and cereals, and mixed in with blender drinks. To count toward the daily dosage you must consume it uncooked.
Beta Carotene (softgels only)	25 softgels	25 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #1223	25,000 IU (equivalent to 15 mgs)
Vitamin D3 (softgels only)	2 softgels	2 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #15605	1000 IU
Ibuprophen	2-3 tablets	2-3 tablets	Generic	200 mg

IF YOUR KNEE JOINTS ARE THE PROBLEM IT’S IMPORTANT TO EXERCISE THE MUSCLES THAT SUPPORT THE JOINT

Make no mistake, if you’re aiming for zero tolerance you have to take all of the supplements recommended above. But if you follow the instructions and find that you still have discomfort, weak muscles might be the problem. You need strong muscles surrounding the knee to hug the joint and hold it in place. If the muscles are weak they permit too much movement in the joint which leads to an instability. Your knee stability will improve shortly after doing the following exercises.

The focus here is on the muscles on either side of the joint. It’s a good idea to do these exercises at least three times a week on a regular basis. The directions begin each exercise with the left leg, but you can switch it up if you want to.

The directions also instruct you to switch back and forth from the left leg to the right leg. If you prefer you can do all the exercises for one leg before moving on to the other leg.

OUTER KNEE MUSCLES

STARTING POSITION: Begin all three exercises lying on your right side, supporting your head with your right hand and bent elbow, with your body bent at the hip so that you are in the shape of an “L.”

EXERCISE 1. Keeping both legs straight and your left foot flat and parallel to the floor, lift your left leg about eight inches and drop it back down gently. Do 25 reps. Up and down. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

EXERCISE 2. Keeping both legs straight, lift your left leg a few inches and point your toes. Keeping both knees in alignment, one above the other, bend your left leg and swing it back gently, until it makes a 90 degree angle with your upper thigh, and straighten it again. Do 25 reps. Back and forth. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

EXERCISE 3. Keeping both legs straight, and your foot flat, bring your left knee toward your chest as far as you can, and return it to a straight position. Do 25 reps. Up and back. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

INNER KNEE MUSCLES

STARTING POSITION: Begin all three exercises sitting on the floor with your legs spread in front of you in a V-shape. Bend your right knee and place your right foot flat on the floor. Lean to the left and rest your weight on your bent elbow with your left hand against the floor. Rest your right arm on your bent leg.

EXERCISE 1. Your left leg is still where it was originally in the V-shape. Turn your left leg so that the inner leg is facing up. Keeping your foot flat and the inner side facing the ceiling, begin to bob your leg up and down about four inches. Do 25 reps. Up and down. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

EXERCISE 2. Your left leg is still where it was originally in the V-shape. Turn your left leg so that the inside is facing up. Keeping your left foot flat and the inner side facing the ceiling, bend your left knee, bringing your heel close to your body. Push out and down gently, leading with your left heel. Do 25 reps. In and out. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

EXERCISE 3. This exercise is almost identical to the one above. Your left leg is still where it was originally in the V-shape. Keeping your left foot flat and the inner side facing the ceiling, bend your left knee, bringing your heel close to your body. But this time kick out and away, while leading with your pointed toes. Do 25 reps. In and out. Change sides and repeat for right leg.

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BLOG 24: THE FLU

November 22, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

STOP AN OUTBREAK OF ANY STRAIN IN JUST HOURS

CATEGORY: 5: Viruses

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: L-Lysine

Tis’ the season. To be jolly sure, but also to be sick. Each year brings new and more deadly influenza viruses that claim lives. You’d like to think of the flu as just a nastier version of a cold. Add aches and pains and you’re there, right? But they’re different. Colds are bacterial based and won’t kill you, at least not until they turn into something much worse, like pneumonia. But the flu, which is virus based, can be deadly enough to take your life, especially if you’re part of an at-risk group—like infants, the infirm, and the elderly—who often have a compromised or weakened immune system.

THE SYMPTOMS

The primary symptoms of flu manifest quickly after exposure, what is called “sudden onset,” and include high fever 100F or greater, sudden unexplained muscle pains, chills even when in a sufficiently warm environment, and extreme fatigue. Secondary symptoms include sore throat, headache, runny nose, sneezing, an array of stomach symptoms—like nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and diarrhea—and chest discomfort as in coughs, pain, and congestion.

THE VIRUS

The viruses that cause flu are living entities that crave life and will fight for it much as you would. In furtherance of the goal to survive, maintain and increase their population, and pass on their DNA to the next generation, they also breed—in a manner of speaking. In order to keep you sick and feeling like hell the flu virus has to breed, because each generation doesn’t live long enough to sustain the process. By breeding and replicating themselves, as one generation dies another is being born within your tissue, and the misery continues, sometimes unto death. Your body will eventually fight off succeeding generations until the virus is expelled. But not before you’ve spent an unhappy week or two.

Therefore, the focus has to be on stopping the virus from replicating a new generation of itself. If you can do that, stop that next generation from invading your tissue, you can stop the flu in a few hours. L-Lysine actually disrupts the virus’s DNA replication cycle, thereby stopping the next generation from being born, and ending the flu.

THE VIRUS KILLER

L-Lysine is a simple amino acid, one of the “building blocks” of protein. Natural and benign. Taken in appropriate doses as soon as possible after you experience the symptoms listed above, it will stop any strain of the flu.

Let’s be clear on this. We label each new strain of flu virus based on many factors. We worry about its origin, strength, and ability to mutate. But inside the body, L-Lysine will stop any strain, because they’re all the same when it comes to preventing replication, which is L-Lysine’s specialty.

PREVENTING FLU

Washing your hands regularly is important: When you get home, you should take off your coat and go directly to a sink to wash your hands, and scrub well. Also wash them after you use the bathroom, before you handle food or go into the refrigerator, and after you blow your nose.

I was invited for Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. I was watching the host’s sister make a salad. She had been sniffling from the peppers she was cutting. So she stopped, pulled a tissue from her apron pocket, blew her nose, put the tissue back in her pocket, and her hands back in the salad. Needless to say I didn’t eat the salad or anything else I thought she may have touched.

I once dated a guy who thought that after he showered in the morning his body miraculously stayed clean through the day, including his hands. He’d shower, go shopping at Vons, come home, unpack and begin immediately to prepare food. When I asked him about it he told me about his divine shower taking. Do you know how many filthy surfaces he touched, how many bacterium he came into contact with, between leaving the shower stall and pulling out the frying pan? Good grief.

2. Keeping your sneezes and coughs to yourself will be greatly appreciated by all: The best way is to sneeze or cough into the crook of your arm, because you won’t be using it to touch any other surfaces and leave little nasties behind.

3. Please stay home if you’re sick: This is another way of keeping your sneezes and coughs to yourself. No one will praise you or think better of you if you drag your sick and contagious body to work. Don’t be a martyr. Your coworkers will only resent you for it. If you’re sick you won’t do an effective job at work anyway. All you’ll do is spread your contagions around the office and infect others.

4. Please keep your hands to yourself when you’re sick: Don’t touch a lot of things if you have the flu, as your hands most likely have the virus on them. If you don’t have the flu but are around those who do, avoid touching your own face, especially around your mouth, nose and eyes, because chances are good that you will touch a surface already touched by someone with the flu, which is therefore contaminated. Flu virus can live from 2 to 8 hours on surfaces.

*Stopping The Flu* QUICK GLANCE CHART
If You Are Already Experiencing Symptoms
Supplement	First Dose Every Morning	Every 3 hours while awake and symptoms are present		Twice daily for a week after symptoms are gone	Brand		Strength
L-Lysine	4 tablets	2 tablets		2 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #6011		1000 mg
L-Lysine is the primary supplement, and all you really need to take to stop the flu. Below are support supplements that address other problems created by the flu, like (a) Lecithin for lung, nose and sinus congestion, (b) B12 for extreme fatigue, and (c) Beta Carotene for inflammation.
Supplement	Morning		Evening	Brand		Strength
Lecithin (softgels only)	4 softgels		4 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #303		1200 mg
B12	2 tablets		2 tablets	Nature’s Life		1000 mcg
Beta Carotene (softgels only)	20 softgels		20 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #1223		25,000 IU (Equivalent to 15 mg)

You can prevent the flu and other viruses by taking a daily maintenance dose as recommended below.

*Preventing The Flu* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Maintenance Dose As A Preventive Measure
Supplements	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
L-Lysine	1-2 tablets	1-2 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #6011	1000 mg

NOTES

► Do not use time released or sustained release Vitamin B12. You need the jolt of the whole dose at one time, not to have it dribble into your system slowly.

► It cannot be overemphasized that you have to flood your system with L-Lysine in order for it to be effective as a therapy against the flu. It is important to take every dose on time and not miss a single one.

► Be aware that some people may experience watery bowels while taking high doses of L-Lysine. It will stop as soon as you reduce or stop the supplement. But don’t let this stop you from taking the recommended amounts. It won’t make you have to go to the bathroom more often. It’s just that when you do, your feces will be watery.

► Certain foods produce mucus in your system and should be avoided or kept to a minimum while battling the flu: (1) milk products, (2) sugar products, (3) alcoholic products.

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BLOG 23: BUTT TIGHTENING LOWER BACK EXERCISES

October 19, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

SCULPT AND SHAPE YOUR BUTT & RELIEVE LOWER BACK PAIN

CATEGORY: 8: Exercise & Fitness

The following exercises have both physical and psychological benefits. They are designed to lift, tighten, and shape your rear end, and in the process strengthen your lower back muscles, lessening pain in that area. A tight shapely behind is good for more than attracting and keeping lovers. It helps support your lower back as well. And it makes you feel pretty good about yourself, with all those extra eyes checking you out as you pass by.

THE BUTT

Culturally big butts are all the rage now, and it’s comforting to posses that which is sought after by others. But imagine the potential mess when time and gravity get through with that extra muscle and flesh. Kind of a, “bigger they are the bigger they fall,” scenario. If you don’t specifically target-exercise the gluteus maximus and surrounding muscles, chances are 90 percent that you will end up with a droopy, flattened, jello-shaking or cellulite-ridden exterior. But if you exercise the area regularly, faithfully, 3-4 times a week, there is no reason why you can’t have the same butt at 60 and beyond, as you had at 25. It might even look better after a regular course of these exercises.

THE LOWER BACK

You can’t do much in life without the support of your lower back. Back pain is complained about across the age spectrum, by the young, the old, and the in-between. It seems that no one is immune to the problem. When you think about it you realize that the lower back doesn’t get a lot of exercise on a daily basis. It is crunched into a sitting or standing position for most of the day. Suddenly you make a demand on it, like support to lift a window air condition. Then the spasms and pain begin, because the muscles were too weak to respond properly.

Lower back pain can be triggered by many things, including overuse, injury, vertebrae problems, fractures, osteoarthritis, and spinal conditions. A large percentage of these conditions can be helped or eliminated simply by strengthening the lower back through regular exercise, because most lower back pain stems from weak musculature being over taxed. The following exercises will not only tone and tighten your rear, they will strengthen you lower back muscles.

THE EXERCISES

For all exercises, it’s better to start with a lower number of repetitions per leg, say 12, and work up to the recommended set of 25 for each exercise. When you reach 25 repetitions per leg, which is one set, you can extend yourself by adding another set of 25 repetitions. Work out on a carpet or other floor padding that cushions and protects your elbows, hands, back, and knees. Don’t work out on a bare floor of any kind unless you have no other choice.

STAIR KICK

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. With your weight on the right knee, lift the left leg off the floor. With the left knee still bent, bring the leg forward under your chest, and then swing it back until your leg is straight out behind you with your toes pointed.
Continue to bring the leg forward as far as you can under your chest, and then swing it back until it’s straight out behind you. You’ll get into a kind of rhythm of swinging it forward and back. Be gentle in your movements. Don’t exaggerate, don’t force. Don’t raise your leg higher than your hips, when you do the back swing. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

NOTES

► This is the most important butt exercise. If you do none of the others, at least make sure you do this one regularly.

► This works well because it duplicates the movements of climbing and descending stairs. If you live in a house with a staircase, you can enhance your workout by going up and down them 12-25 times each day, all at once as a set exercise, in addition to your regular daily use of the stairs.

► The best weapon against the crimes of time on your behind is the bicycle, stationary or real life. For stationary, use the upright where you sit straight and slightly forward, with no back support. At the gym I notice older members queuing up to use the sit down bicycle with back support, while there are upright machines available. They mistakenly perceive that the bicycles with back support are easier to use. Not true. The back support bike has you moving your legs in a lateral motion, across gravity. So even with inertia working your way, you don’t get the full benefits of gravity helping you. The upright bike has you moving your legs vertically, so that when inertia is added, the whole process is easier. It’s just physics. I’ve tried both, and though it’s counterintuitive, the upright bike gives a more butt-effective workout with less effort.

HALF HYDRANT

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. With your weight on the right knee, and keeping your left leg bent, lift the left leg off the floor and move it out and away from your body, to the side—but not too far out, about 45 degrees—and then swing it back in. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

NOTES

► Along with the Full Hydrant below, this exercise can make you appear 5-7 pounds thinner after about a week of regular sets of repetitions, even without actual weight loss. It does this by altering and narrowing the curvature of the hips. It gives a more athletic, leaner look to the body. If you like an hourglass, round-hip figure, you may want to avoid this exercise. But if you need to look thinner fast, this exercise can get you into a smaller dress size without drastic dieting. With drastic dieting you could probably drop two sizes.

FULL HYDRANT

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. With your weight on the right knee, lift the left leg off the floor and move it out and away from your body, stretching it out until the leg is straight to the side with toes pointed. Touch the floor or the air near the floor with your toes, before returning to the starting position.
After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat. Be gentle when stretching your leg to its fullest extent. Try hard to make the full extension without forcing it.

NOTES

► Along with the Half Hydrant above, this exercise can make you appear 5-7 pounds thinner after about a week of regular sets of repetitions, even without actual weight loss. It does this by altering and narrowing the curvature of the hips. It gives a more athletic, leaner look to the body. If you like an hourglass, round-hip figure, you may want to avoid this exercise. But if you need to look thinner fast, this exercise can get you into a smaller dress size without drastic dieting.

BUMPER

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Lean forward until your weight is on your forearms, with your hands pointing forward, and your butt sticking up. Keep your head down and look at the floor.
2.With your weight on the right knee, raise your bent left leg off the floor, moving it upward until the front of your upper leg is parallel to the floor, and the bottom of your foot is facing the ceiling. Make sure your lower leg is kept vertical. If you can see yourself in a mirror, your leg should be in an L shape.
3. Drop your knee slightly below the level of your butt. Then, bump your foot up toward the ceiling, purposefully using your butt and the back of your leg to lift. Drop it back down, slightly below parallel and repeat. Don’t lift your leg above the level of your butt, and make sure your foot is always facing the ceiling throughout. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

BUMPER STRETCH

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Lean forward until your weight is on your forearms, with your hands pointing forward, and your butt sticking up. Keep your head down and look at the floor.
2. With your weight on the right knee, raise your bent left leg off the floor until your upper leg is parallel to the floor, and your toes are facing the ceiling. If you can see yourself in a mirror, your leg should be in an L shape.
3. Extend your leg fully, out and back, with your toes pointed, then return it to the bent position with your toes facing the ceiling. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

BOUNCE

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Lean forward until your weight is on your forearms, with your hands pointing forward, and your butt sticking up. Keep your head down and look at the floor.
With your weight on the right knee, lift your left leg and stretch it all the way out straight behind you. With toes pointed, bounce the leg up and down a short distance, making sure not to lift it higher than your butt. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

TRIANGLE

Instructions:

Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Stretch your left leg out straight to the side with the inner part of the foot flat on the floor.
2. Lean on your right forearm. Use your left arm to brace yourself on the floor. Lift the left leg off the floor, keeping the inner side of the foot parallel to the floor. Bob the leg up and down above the floor, and not touching it. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

SIDE L KICK

Instructions:

The L exercises are difficult to do. If you body won’t cooperate, you will do fine with just the other exercises.

1. On the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Lift your left leg, which is still bent at the knee, all the way out and up, until the inside of the leg is parallel to the floor and forming a 90 degree angle with the floor.

2. Holding your inner leg parallel to the floor, kick your leg out, away from your body, gently, until it is fully extended to the side. Then return the leg to the bent position. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

BACK L PUSH

Instructions:

The L exercises are difficult to do. If you body won’t cooperate, you will do fine with the just other exercises.

1. Start on the floor, doggy style, supporting yourself with your bent knees and your hands. Lift your left leg, which is still bent at the knee, all the way out and up, until the inside of the leg is parallel to the floor and forming a 90 degree angle with the floor.

2. Holding your inner leg parallel to the floor, push your leg back, gently, until it is fully extended behind you. Then return the leg to the bent position and repeat. After your repetitions, switch legs and repeat.

WAIST BEND

Instructions:

Stand with feet should length apart, holding a 5 pound weight with both hands centered in front of you.
While bending at the waist, slowly lower the weight to the floor. While still bent over lift the weight to your chest, and return it to the floor.
Slowly straighten up, bringing the weight with you, until you are in the starting position with the weight centered in your hands in front of you. Repeat.

NOTES

► You should start with 6 repetitions of the Waist Bend. If you want to challenge yourself, you can work your way up to 12 repetitions, adding more sets of 12, with one minute rest periods between sets.

► If you have really bad lower back pain start with a smaller weight, something like two pounds. If you’re really bad off, you can use no weight in the beginning, just try to bend over to touch the floor and then raise both hands to your chest, back down to the floor and then straighten up. You can also increase to a 10 or 15 pound weight.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 24: Flu, where I tell you how to stop an outbreak of any strain in just hours.

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BLOG 22: SPORTS INJURIES

September 30, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

CUT YOUR HEALING TIME IN HALF OR BETTER FOR ANY INJURY

CATEGORY: 2: Inflammation

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: Beta Carotene

In any sport, an injury can mean the difference between crossing the finish line first or fifth, between a cheering crowd and a booing mob, between money in the bank and bankruptcy. How many times has your favorite team lost a game or season because important players were sidelined by injuries that didn’t heal fast enough? Maybe you’re a weekend warrior who uses tennis or running to unwind, or maybe you’re a professional with millions riding on every performance. Whatever, an injury can be a literal game changer.

Sports injuries are most often classified as either acute and traumatic, like an Achilles tendon tear, or arising from overuse of a particular body part, like tennis elbow. An acute sports injury is one that happens suddenly or rapidly and progresses quickly. An overuse injury takes longer to develop.

Acute sports injuries range from mild to life threatening, and result from a sudden impact or traumatic event to the body resulting in bruises, sprains, strains, tears, fractures, head traumas, and other injuries. Acute injuries can take months or years to heal. Some never truly heal because inflammation is never brought under control. In those cases, the injury can remain painful and limiting for the rest of a person’s life. These injuries can occur during all types of sports, even simple exercise, and usually involve the musculoskeletal system that includes ligaments, tendons, muscles, and bones.

Definitions: A ligament is tough elastic fibrous tissue that connects bones or cartilage to joints, holding the joint together. A tendon is tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects muscles to bone, permitting mobility.

FREE RADICALS LEAD TO OXIDATION, CAUSE INFLAMMATION, AND
SLOW DOWN HEALING TIME

All sports injuries are accompanied by inflammation. Anytime you receive any damage whatsoever to your body, inflammation will be present. And
where there is inflammation there is pain. It is the same inflammation that
determines how long it’s going to take your injury to heal, and whether you will measure the time in days, or years. If you can stop inflammation quickly, your healing will be fast and easy. If you can’t, your injury may never really heal.

When you suffer a sports injury, like an Achilles tendon tear, many things happen on a cellular level that affect your healing time:

Inside a cell are two electrons that must remain together for the cell to remain stable, and free of inflammation and disease. Think of a social system where marriage is mandatory and you will be shot on sight if you are found without your partner.

The tear to the Achilles tendon affects thousands of cells, destroying many of them outright. But it only damages others and breaks the bond between the two electrons. There are suddenly a whole lot of single electrons in the area of the injury. As soon as the bond is broken and the two electrons are separated, each single electron turns into a free radical, dangerous and unstable. Think of a free radical as a lonely single desperately searching for a partner.

The free radicals in the injury immediately attack nearby healthy cells, attempting to separate them and hook up with one of the electrons. Unfortunately, free radicals are better at separating two other electrons than they are in partnering up with one of the stolen electrons, so free radical growth becomes exponential.

When too many free radicals are present in the tendon, oxidation occurs. Free radical oxidation is the final condition for inflammation. You know what happens to an avocado when you cut it and leave it on the counter. It is an excess of free radicals that leads to oxidation and causes the pulp to rot. Think of yourself as a larger more complex avocado, but still capable of the same kind of internal decay. That decay is driven by free radicals in both you and the avocado. During the healing process, unless you take steps to prevent it, free radicals will continue to proliferate decay, cause inflammation, and thereby slow down your body’s ability to heal the tendon.

HEALING SPORTS INJURIES IS ALL ABOUT NUMBERS

It’s as if you were trying to clean a floor. But behind you is a gremlin putting
down mud, so you have to keep going back over what you’ve already cleaned. Yes, you will eventually get it cleaned, but it will take twenty times longer than it would if the gremlin weren’t there. Free radicals are your injury’s gremlin. Your body will heal a spot, only to turn around and find that free radicals have chewed it up again. That’s why healing takes longer than it should.

The focus then has to be on the number of free radicals present at the site of the injury at any given time, and how to neutralize that number so that your body can clean the floor just once. Let’s call that number (X), as in there are (X) number of free radicals present. We are assigning the total number of free radicals with this designation, because we have no way of knowing exactly how many are present.

While we don’t know the exact number of free radicals present, we do know that if we send in an equal or greater number of antioxidant cells, to match or
exceed the number of free radicals, we can stop free radical production for the time being, as well as, the oxidation, inflammation, and pain. Therefore, if the number of free radicals equals (X), we need (X+1) amount of antioxidant cells to neutralize them. In a one-on-one encounter, using this formula means that the antioxidants will always outnumber the free radicals, and healing will be fast and relatively painless.

Antioxidants protect any living being from free radical damage due to a unique characteristic they possess. Unlike partnered electrons in a healthy cell that become dangerous free radicals when separated, an antioxidant cell remains stable even after the two electrons are separated. Meaning, an antioxidant cell’s two electrons will not turn into free radicals when they are attacked and separated by free radicals.

The antioxidant ends the electron stealing chain reaction, and by partnering with the free radical, returns it to healthy cell status again. The single antioxidant electron left behind after the donation can be used to neutralize another free radical or be harmlessly expelled from your body as waste matter. Either way, it performs its function without attacking any other cells along the way.

Antioxidants are the second important number in the equation. If you can send in (X+1) number of antioxidant cells to meet with and neutralize every free radical present, you will heal quickly.

WHY YOU NEED LARGE DOES OF BETA CAROTENE TO SPEED UP HEALING

We know there are (X) number of free radicals present in the Achilles tendon. We know that for every free radical, we need an antioxidant cell that will donate an electron to neutralize it.

There are apparently millions upon millions of free radicals present in the Achilles tendon, because that’s how much Beta Carotene it takes to end the symptoms of inflammation, when you are recuperating from a sports injury or surgery. Luckily, the signs of inflammation are easy to spot, so you know when you have it and when it’s gone. Your symptoms weaken and disappear when you take enough Beta Carotene.

The point is that when you are taking enough Beta Carotene, you will feel the difference. The discomfort melts away. Each dose will last about 3-8 hours. Less or more depending on where you are in your healing and how serious your injury is. To keep pain down and healing moving at a good pace you have to flood your system with Beta Carotene and keep the levels high for a sustained period. The large doses will not hurt you. They are being put to good use in ending free radical growth.

Remember two things: (1) Beta Carotene is concentrated nutrition, a food source. It should not be viewed as a prescription drug because it isn’t a drug. It’s a food. (2) You are trying to accomplish the neutralization of millions of free radicals. That’s why you need these large doses.

You have to send in one antioxidant cell for each free radical present. As dangerous as a free radical is, all it wants is a partner electron. Give it that by way of Beta Carotene, and it will stop misbehaving. Your wound will continue to produce free radicals as it heals so you will have to take Beta Carotene during the entire healing process.

You cannot possibly get enough antioxidants from your food to significantly speed up your healing time, no matter how healthy your diet. So you need supplementation through Beta Carotene. What good will it do to follow what
a bottle says and take one or two softgels, when there are fifty times that
amount of free radicals currently decaying your tissue? You need an amount of antioxidants that will match or exceed the amount of free radicals present.

Think of it in law enforcement terms. You are chief of police in a small town threatened with takeover by a motorcycle gang called The Free Radicals. You’re on conference call with the National Guard. When asked how many more people you need, you glance out your window. You do a quick count of the shiny black motorcycles darkening the curb, and find there are about 100. You have a force of 10. That means you need 90 bodies to simply match the gang’s. Since you’ve been given the option wouldn’t you play it safe and ask for more than you think you’ll need?

You most certainly would not ask for 40 people, ensuring that you’ll be outnumbered two to one. You’d ask for enough to outnumber The Free
Radicals. It’s the same thing with your body. If there are millions of free
radicals putrefacting your Achilles wound, you need millions of antioxidant
cells to neutralize them and hurry up your healing.

Keep in mind what the point of the high doses is, and how pointless it is for you to take less antioxidants than there are free radicals. When I say it’s a numbers game, I refer to the number of free radicals on one side, and the number of antioxidants necessary to neutralize them on the other. If you play the numbers correctly, match free radical with an equal amount of antioxidant cells, you can shut down the discomfort sooner, feel little or no pain during the healing period, and shorten that period by half or more. Plus, any scars will be lessened.

Beta Carotene will neutralize free radicals at a remarkable pace and enable your injury to heal much faster than you are used to. Vitamin D3 supports the Beta Carotene in its healing functions. D3 is recommended over just Vitamin D because it more closely replicates the Vitamin D made on your skin from exposure to sunlight. But if you can’t find D3 use plain Vitamin D.

*Speed Healing Sports Injuries* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Supplements	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
Beta Carotene (softgels only)	25-50 softgels	25-50 softgels	Puritans Pride #1223	25,000 IU (equivalent to 15 mgs)
Vitamin D3 (softgels only)	2 softgels	2 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #15605	1000 IU
If bone fractures are involved also take Calcium Magnesium Combo
Chelated Calcium Magnesium	4 tablets	4 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #4082	500/250 mg

Notes

► If you take Beta Carotene without also taking Vitamin D, you will deplete your stores of Vitamin D and develop a Vitamin D deficiency. It usually manifests as sores on the inside of the mouth. Be sure to take Vitamin D when you take Beta Carotene and there will be no problem.

► Do not use mixed carotenoid products. They are only a marketing gimmick and will not work the way Beta Carotene will, not the way I have described here.

► If you select a certain dosage of Beta Carotene and feel better but still have symptoms of inflammation, raise your dosage. When you get it right, discomfort ceases until it’s time for the next dose. You can also add a third dose at lunch if necessary to relieve your symptoms.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 23: Butt Tightening Lower Back Exercises, where I tell you how to stop the
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BLOG 21: RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA)

August 21, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

YOU CAN STOP AND CONTROL THIS DEBILITATING DISEASE IN JUST WEEKS

CATEGORY: 5: Auto Immune

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: Monavie Active

I met Susan during the darkest period of her life. She was only 27, but her dreams and life plans had been hijacked by RA when she was 21. It was a puzzle why a disease that usually manifests in women aged 40-50 would attack someone so young. It had forced her to drop out of graduate nursing school, break off her engagement to her boyfriend of seven years, and perhaps worst of all for someone in their twenties, move back to her parents’ house and relinquish her independence.

Susan refused to accept the reality of her prognosis, even as her family was comparing wheelchairs and making plans to modify the house to make her life easier. A life that had seemed endless in its potential, when she and friends went on a one week trip to the mountains of central Mexico, a twenty-first birthday present from her parents.

Susan got sick the last day of the trip with what appeared to be a gastrointestinal parasite, a common ailment referred to by the locals as Montezuma’s Revenge. It mostly consists of diarrhea, nausea, and a strong sense of shame. But not for Susan. Montezuma’s symptoms went away, but two weeks later she got her first RA symptoms: 70-80 hard nodules all over body, painful swollen joints, skin rashes, and fever. Those symptoms disappeared after a few weeks, only to return six months later much, much worse. A biopsy of a finger joint pointed to RA. She was stunned when the doctor told her it was caused by the virus she contracted in Mexico.

Susan has always been athletic and competitive. She played tennis and loved rollerblading. But RA robbed her of all that. She said, “It seemed like one minute I was running along the beach, and the next I had trouble crossing a room.” Her rheumatologist told her she had one of the worst cases of RA on record, with nearly all her joints affected.

Note: Click on the YouTube tab at the top to see Susan today. She’s the skater. See if you can find any evidence that she still has one of the worst cases of RA on record. Nutrition is what keeps her disease under control. If you would like to purchase Monavie Active, contact Susan at www.mymonavie.com/backes.

By the time Susan’s sister introduced us, she had tried just about everything to control the disease. She was told by doctors that it would continue to progress, and that these measures would only slow that progression.

Background: What follows is a partial overview of Susan’s prescription drug usage, before supplement therapy. During the six years before we met, Sue tried a number of prescription drugs, and suffered grievously from many of their side effects. Tylenol, an over the counter painkiller for her never ending joint pain, up to 20 a day. Its side effects include constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, excitability, headache, loss of appetite, nausea, trouble sleeping, vomiting, and bodily weakness, among others. Piroxicam, a mild, then prescription, anti-inflammatory drug said to lessen pain and inflammation. Its side effects include constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, gas, headache, heartburn, nausea, severe allergic reactions, trouble breathing, chest pain and tightness, and swelling of the mouth, face, lips or tongue, among others. Celebrex, an NSAID, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug thought to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. Its side effects include increased bruising, heart problems, ringing in the ears, gastric ulcers and stomach bleeding, and liver and kidney damage. Prednisone, a corticosteroid used to fight inflammation, pain, and joint damage, with side effects that include easy bruising, thinning of bones leading to easy breaks, cataracts, bloating and weight gain, a rounding of the face, and diabetes. Because it is so damaging, doctors usually prescribe it only for acute cases like Susan’s. Methotrexate, originally used in chemotherapy, and Plaquenil, originally used to fight malaria, are part of a disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug set called DMARDs, which are prescribed to slow the progression of RA and lessen damage to joints and connective tissue. Their side effects include liver damage, bone marrow suppression, and severe lung infections.

Enbrel and Remicade, Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitors. Enbrel is administered through a shot, while Remicade is given by IV. TNFs are inflammatory substances produced by your body. These drugs are prescribed to help reduce pain, morning stiffness, and tender swollen joints. Their side effects include congestive heart failure, blood disorders, lymphoma, increased risk of infection, and injection site irritation.

There is another horrific side effect not listed that Susan experienced with Remicade—temporary paralysis. She received the drug intravenously in her doctor’s office one afternoon, went home and woke up the next morning unable to move from the chest down. She called 911 and was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

Gold. That’s right, from the metal. Three different kinds taken orally and by injection, to do who knows what in her body. Today it is rarely prescribed for RA because it is so toxic, with side effects that include severe stomach cramps, blood in urine, coughing, metallic taste and mouth sores, pain and numbness in hands and feet, shortness of breath, thickening of the tongue, persistent diarrhea, unusual bleeding or bruising, vision problems, and vomiting.

Susan also bravely participated as a subject in a couple of experimental RA drug trials. She has had total joint replacementsurgery, andsurgery to repair tendons. She tried acupuncture and boiling a mixture of herbs to drink. She left no stone unturned. And everything helped a little for a little while, but her disease continued to progress, until it had affected most of her joints, which were being slowly deformed.

The problem with all the drugs listed above is that they do not address the core problem of an immune system gone mad. They are addressing instead the results of the madness. Quiet the immune system and you quiet RA. It’s that simple.

At our first meeting, Sue could barely walk and moved in a kind of waddle, designed to avoid trying to fully rotate her ankles, and take the pressure off her knees and hips. I waited as she took ten minutes to traverse a six-foot hallway in her sister’s house. As we talked, she showed me just how much of her mobility she’d lost. She could raise both arms only a few inches from her waist, maybe 35 degrees. She couldn’t bend her wrists, and had trouble using her fingers; two of them she couldn’t move at all. She was miserable, but she wasn’t going to let RA defeat her. She was looking for a different approach and told me she’d do whatever I told her to.

As a start, I put Sue on supplement therapy designed to address and control her symptoms. Symptoms are important, as they are your body’s request for specific help. “How do I feel?” is an important question to ask yourself, and the more specific you can be the better.

On her own and against my advice, Susan decided to stop all her medications, except Piroxicam and Tylenol, cold turkey. She was particularly anxious to stop the steroids and gold, because they fatigued her, killed her sex drive, bloated her body, gave her face an unnatural round look, and were so dangerous that she spent one day a week in a hospital gown getting her liver and kidney tested for damage from their side effects.

Before supplement therapy, Susan experienced morning stiffness lasting two hours. And this wasn’t, oh-my-legs-are-so-stiff-from-tennis-yesterday stiffness. This was stiffness that keeps you from moving. Meaning, she spent two hours each morning loosening up before she could begin her day. That may not sound like a lot, but that’s 730 hours a year, more than an entire month of her time each year lost to RA stiffness alone. Within two weeks of beginning the natural therapy, she had cut the time to 30 minutes. Today she has zero stiffness in the mornings.

Before supplement therapy, Susan also experienced non-stop pain, difficulty moving around, with some joints actually locked in place and completely immobile, extreme fatigue, and an overall feeling of malaise. After two weeks on the supplement therapy some of her locked joints loosened, and she cut her Tylenol intake in half. After 30 days she had returned to running along the beach, and had no trouble crossing a room.

Susan continued on this therapy, with 99 percent relief from her RA for eleven years, but she had to take two daily doses of nine different supplements, about 80 a day. She didn’t care because they gave her back her life and kept her well. She bought a special backpack to carry the supplements and took them with her no matter where she went, knowing that if she missed even one dose, her symptoms would return in full force and effect.

Comment: What Susan’s Rheumatologist Says About Her Supplement Therapy: Susan started to feel so good while taking the supplements that after six months she stopped going in for her regular appointments with the rheumatologist. She was 99 percent symptom free and had regained nearly all movement in previously effected joints. She was again running five miles a day along the ocean, and she took up rollerblading with a vengeance. She had decreased her Tylenol intake to two tablets, once or twice a week. Susan hadn’t taken any arthritis drugs for a year when I asked her to visit her rheumatologist for a complete work-up. He had not seen her for six months and he was impressed with her recovery, writing in her medical chart: “. . . It is good to see that she has gained marked symptomatic improvement during the interval months as she did not obtain relief with multiple other traditional medications used for rheumatoid arthritis. Perhaps the . . . form of arthritis which she contracted after her illness in Mexico may prove responsive to the current vitamin and food supplement therapy which she is using.”

One happy day Sue discovered Monavie Active, which contains all the nutrition she had been getting in her daily supplements in a delicious tasting juice. She called me raving about it, talking so fast I couldn’t understand her. She told me she’d decided to become a Monavie distributor and had wanted to test the product on her own disease. So with her usual bravado and all or nothing attitude, she stopped taking all her supplements, as she had stopped taking her major meds earlier. She relied solely on Monavie Active to control her RA.

At first she followed the recommended dosage of two ounces of Monavie Active, twice daily, before breakfast and dinner. She still experienced some discomfort the first week, so she added a third dose of two ounces in the afternoon. It took three weeks before all her symptoms disappeared, while relying solely on Monavie Active. But they did disappear, and they have remained gone. In the beginning, Susan stopped taking Monavie Active from time to time, to see what would happen. Each time, within 72 hours she had RA again. But using Monavie Active regularly has enabled her to more or less forget about her disease, because as long as she takes Monavie Active her RA in no way impinges on her life.

I too experimented with Monavie Active. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just wanted to see what would happen. I don’t have RA but I do have allergies, and can tend to itchy eyes and serial sneezing. The first thing I discovered was that Monavie Active worked as well as Bee Pollen at controlling my allergies. Since RA and allergies are both immune based I was spurred to investigate how Monavie Active would work on other auto immune disorders. I found that it works remarkably well on all of them to relieve any symptom. If the health problem is auto immune based, Monavie Active in the correct doses will heal it.

RA ARISES FROM THE OVERREACTIONS OF A NERVOUS AND HYPER SENSITIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM

The virus Susan contracted in Mexico triggered a reaction from her immune system, which handled the symptoms properly, making her feel better. But once triggered by that particular virus, her immune system couldn’t stand down and return to a normal state. Once it had eliminated all the real threats to her body, and while still in a hyper active state, it began to attack its own body, giving Susan RA.

The immune system can be compared to two personality types in humans. There is a type of person who remains calm under pressure, who never raises his voice, who varies his methods as necessary to deal with new crises without getting flustered. He would never lose his cool and do something inappropriate. Let’s call him Andy. We all know someone like this and admire their grace under pressure.

But there is another type of person who gets upset at the slightest thing, who has trouble sleeping, who jumps at every noise, and is always over anxious. Anything can set him off, and he’s known to cry at the slightest frustration or bad news. Let’s call him Bob. We also all know someone like this and usually can’t wait to get away from them, because their anxiety can be draining.

These two personality types can also describe two types of immune systems. Andy represents a stable, healthy one that doesn’t mistake harmless substances as potentially dangerous allergens. When Andy kicks in it is to respond to a real emergency, and he never attacks the body he is supposed to protect. Bob represents a hyper sensitive immune system that has a hair trigger, and will send out t-cells and antihistamines to cause inflammation at the slightest disturbance. Bob’s hand is always hovering over the red “go” button.

Ordinarily, it’s the immune system’s job to protect your body against truly harmful substances, like viruses, pollution, bacteria and subsequent infection. Unfortunately, an over anxious immune system will wrongly react to benign substances and treat them like allergens. When this happens it goes into full lock down and sends out all the troops to fight an imaginary foe, something that isn’t really there. At that point, the system has become disabled, has lost the ability to distinguish healthy body tissue from a threatening antigen enemy.

Susan’s immune system decided to attack her joints, resulting in RA, but it just as easily could have been a different auto immune based disorder like MS, psoriasis, diabetes, lupus, or allergies. There are close to a hundred disorders that stem from problems with the immune system. The end results may be different but the trigger in all of these disorders is the immune system. Fix its problem and you also solve the underling health problem.

Comment: Arthritis Groups: When Susan first started taking the supplements and discovered that they worked so well to control her RA, she was excited to get the news out and help other people with the disease. She found a local support meeting sponsored by one of the major arthritis organizations. There were about 20 people in attendance and two leaders. As soon as we arrived Susan introduced herself to the leaders, gave them a quick summary of her personal triumph, and asked to speak to the group and share her story with them. We were both surprised when the leaders adamantly refused to let us say anything to anyone. They stopped just short of asking us to leave, after we promised not to try to talk to anyone about Susan’s experience. Susan had brought a copy of her medical records in case anyone doubted that she has RA, but that didn’t change their minds. She was disappointed, and after trying a couple of different meetings and running into the same attitude, she gave up using that path to inform others. Shutting out new information is never a good idea, especially when it comes from someone who has walked the walk. Susan felt that if even one person could be helped with her story she wanted to give them that chance. We both realized that the major arthritis organizations are too bureaucratic to accept new information that might help their members. Through this blog, Susan and I are trying again to let people know about a product, Monavie Active, that can help anyone with RA. If Monavie Active doesn’t work on your health problem, maybe it isn’t RA that you have.

Usually, when I recommend Monavie Active I also lay out a supplement therapy that will work as well. I do this because some may find the $150 monthly cost of Monavie Active to be prohibitive. But with RA it takes so many supplements to do the job that the cost difference is negligible. You have to take (1) Bee Pollen, to calm down the immune system so it stops attacking you, (2) Beta Carotene, to stop the inflammation response and neutralize free radicals, (3) Vitamin D3, to support Beta Carotene, (4) Lecithin, to break up the blockages limiting your mobility, (5) L-Cysteine, to clean toxins out of your system, (6) Vitamin C Complex to support L-Cysteine, (7) Vitamin B12, to increase energy levels, (8) B Complex 100, to support B12, and (9) Iron, to fight the anemia common to many with RA. I haven’t done the math but Monavie Active might be cheaper than buying as much of these supplements as needed to shut down RA. And it’s a lot easier.

*Controlling Rheumatoid Arthritis* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Supplements	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
Monavie Active	2 ozs	2 ozs	Monavie	NA

Notes

► You are going to start with two doses of 2 ozs each of Monavie Active daily, like the chart says. Watch your progress. If you feel better after a while but still have symptoms, add a third dose of 2 ozs at lunch. It will take a little while for the RA to shut down completely, but if after three weeks you still have any RA symptoms, increase your dosage to 3 ozs three times daily. After a couple of months, you should be able to remain RA free with just the two daily doses of 2-3 ozs morning and evening. But this is only nutrition, so make sure you take enough to eliminate all of your symptoms. If any remain just up your dosage of Monavie Active as I have described here.

► Monavie Active is a combination of fruit juices and is a very dense liquid. Make sure you shake it well. Be sure to stay well hydrated, to drink water throughout the day when you first start taking it, until your body can get used to processing so much additional nutrition.

► Try to take Monavie Active on a fairly empty stomach, before breakfast, and before dinner. If you need a third dose at lunch, try to take it before you eat. If you can’t do it like this, don’t worry about it.

► Only Monavie Active will work the way I have described here. None of the other Monavie products can do what Active does. Don’t be fooled by the marketing. The other products may have other benefits, but they will not quiet the immune system.

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BLOG 20: IMPROVE COGNITION AND MEMORY

July 30, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

GET SMARTER FAST

CATEGORY: 1: Simple Malnutrition

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: L-Glutamine

I’ll admit to being a Trekkie, but I’m not a Trekkophile; I never wear my uniform in public, and I gave my life size, standing cut-out of Captain Kirk to Goodwill months ago. Besides the intellectual stimulation provided by the ongoing Star Trek adventures, I was drawn to the ethic of the show, the shared sense of honor and commitment the characters had toward each other. You were always certain the primary characters would raid heaven and hell to protect each other.

The original Star Trek television show didn’t have a big budget from the look of the sets, and sometimes the direction was weak. But there were new ideas presented in plots that gave you something to think about. One of my favorite episode ideas was, Spock’s Brain, which I understand is considered by the actors involved and most fans to be the worst episode of the show. Nevertheless, I liked it, and it helps me to make a point about the way the brain works

In that episode, an alien female beams onto the Enterprise, surgically removes Spock’s brain, leaving the body behind, and takes the brain back to her home planet in the Sigma Draconis system. The aliens connect Spock’s brain to their planet’s power grid. His brain then begins to operate various systems, pumping water, circulating air, running heating and cooling plants, coordinating filtration and sanitation—all the functions that make up a planet-wide life support system.

Just as Spock’s brain, called the Controller in the episode, ran the functions necessary to protect life on Sigma Draconis, human brains also direct an array of functions necessary to keep us alive. In effect, your brain is in charge of your life support system. It is in charge of heart rate, breathing, body temperature, and blood pressure. When’s the last time you thought about any of these things consciously? It processes enormous amounts of information that flood into it nonstop while you are awake, from your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. It permits you to be mobile, stand up, move around, walk, or sit up. It lets you experience emotions and sensations. Everything happens in your head; that is where your world unfolds.

And more in keeping with what people associate with brain power, your brain permits you to think, reason, analyze, differentiate, store and recall memories, and even dream. It enables you to communicate your desires and grievances to others. Each part of the brain has its own function, but these functions must all work together for you to stay alive.

THE HUNGRY DOG WORKS HARD

When you think about all it has to do, it’s easy to understand that your brain needs a lot of nutrition to perform a multitude of tasks. Or at least to perform them well. Your brain is a hungry creature. It’s the big dog at the top of our internal food chain; it even sits all the way at the top. The hungry dog consumes a full quarter of all the nutrition you take in. It sucks up over twenty percent of the oxygen carried in your bloodstream. Every heartbeat pumps almost a quarter of your blood into Hungry Dog’s lair. Meaning, at any given time up to a quarter of your blood supply is sloshing around inside your head.

Hungry Dog receives all this nutrition through your network of blood vessels. If Hungry Dog doesn’t get enough nutrition from your bloodstream, it will slowdown, forget where it’s buried its bone, grow snappish and snarly, and simply will not perform up to its full potential.

Hungry Dog likes to gorge itself on carbohydrates. Yum. Every kind of fruit, vegetable, nut, grain, and legume. It also likes milk, fish, eggs, and green tea. Before Hungry Dog can consume carbohydrates, they must first be changed into glucose in your bloodstream. It is this glucose that provides food energy to your own Hungry Dog.

Glucose is comprised of micronutrients, fatty acids, and amino acids. Amino acids are called the building blocks of protein. One amino acid in particular, L-Glutamine, is very important to brain function. The blood concentration levels of L-Glutamine are three to four times greater than any other amino acid. It is particularly concentrated in the brain and skeletal muscles.

L-GLUTAMINE AND GINKGO BILOBA TOGETHER

L-Glutamine is a brain food that gives your mental abilities a most potent boost without any manic side effects. Most particularly, it facilitates the transfer of communication between the two halves of the brain. It has a remarkable effect on improving the brain’s ability to learn, think, reason, and remember. And you don’t have to take it for a long time to feel its brain-expanding effects. Some people notice the difference hours after taking their first dose. Others might notice it days later. For some the real effect won’t be apparent to them until they stop taking it. All of a sudden what was normal before isn’t so inviting anymore. Feeling smarter is more fun.

A lot of people wrongly think that Ginkgo Biloba has a direct link to memory improvement. That, all by itself it can improve your thought processes. Not exactly true. Gingko Biloba is an herb and an effective blood thinner. If the blood is thinned, more of it will move faster through an arterial system, even a clogged one. Gingko Biloba helps to get more blood and therefore more nutrients into your brain faster, because it makes the blood skinnier. L-Glutamine feeds your brain, and Ginkgo Biloba thins the L-Glutamine filled blood so it can move quickly to the underserved parts of your brain.

IMPORTANT SUPPORT SUPPLEMENTS

There are two other important support supplements, Vitamin B12 and Lecithin: B12 increases the amount of oxygen carried by your red blood cells, and gets more oxygen to your brain, making you feel more alert and involved. Lecithin is the best natural emulsifier available, and helps keep your brain arteries clear of plaque that prevents good blood flow to the brain.

This therapy will not turn someone with an IQ of 12 into a genius suddenly. What it will do is permit anyone to maximize whatever brain power they already have and increase their ability to remember. It will permit your brain to operate at its maximum capacity everyday. It will help you to be your maximum best. I’m not a morning person, and without taking this therapy beforehand, I would be useless at morning meetings.

*To Improve Analytical Abilities & Memory* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Main Supplements	Breakfast	Dinner	Brand	Strength
L-Glutamine	3 tablets	3 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #3042	500 mg
Ginkgo Biloba (capsules only)	1 capsule	1 capsule	Puritan’s Pride #4544	120 mg
Important Support Supplements
B12	1 tablet	1 tablet	Natures Life	1000 mcg
Lecithin	3 softgels	3 softgels	Puritan’s Pride #303	1200 mg
If you’re in a stressful situation where your mind is constantly being pressed to perform at peak potential, add a third dose of all supplements at lunch time.

Note

► Ginkgo Biloba is an effective natural blood thinner. If you are on a prescription blood thinner, like Coumadin, know that Ginkgo Biloba will duplicate your prescription medication.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 21: Rheumatoid Arthritis, where I tell you how to get it completely under control and stop all symptoms within two to four weeks.

PLEASE DONATE

Your support is greatly appreciated.

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Lynn Capehart Wellness Foundation, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, meaning that any donation you make is tax deductible. We appreciate your support for our current efforts to establish a Vitamin Scholarship Program, so that we may supply supplements to those who could be cured of their disorders but cannot afford the cost. You may make your donations through www.paypal.com using any credit card or bank anywhere in the world. Donations should be made there to the account lynncapehartnonprofit@outlook.com

Thank you.

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BLOG 19: INCREASING SEXUAL PLEASURE

July 10, 2011 by Lynn Capehart Wellness Project

ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCES UP TO TEN FOLD WITH THIS APHRODISIAC

CATEGORY: 1: Simple Malnutrition

RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENT: DL-Phenylalanine (DL-P)

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There’s not a lot to say about this subject. Everyone likes consensual sex, and no one would mind if they could reap more pleasure out of their experiences. One way to do this is to buy topical ointments and gels to apply directly to your genitals prior to having sex. A better way to enhance sexual pleasure, however, is to manipulate the pleasure centers of the brain, where the sensations must register in order for you to get your thrills. Real sexual pleasure is “felt” in the brain. That’s why sex is usually better with someone you really care for, and why it can be routine with someone you don’t. It’s all in your mind. Sex is like food in that the brain must stimulate the appetite for it.

DL-Phenylalanine (DL-P) is a combination of D-Phenylalanine and L-Phenylalanine in nutritional supplement form. They are both amino acids. Besides what I discuss here, DL-P is known to have analgesic (pain killing) and antidepressant properties. It does these things by preventing endorphin degradation, which then leads to an inhibition of the GABA neurotransmitter that results in greater dopamine release. Dopamine is associated with the brain’s reward system, providing feelings of pleasure, enjoyment, and reinforcement.

L-Phenylalanine is also a nutritional supplement, and while it is used to increases energy levels, it does not have the analgesic, antidepressant, or sexual properties that DL-P possesses. DL-P stimulates the pleasure centers in your brain and intensifies all aspects of the sex act, making it feel up to five to ten times better than average. It works equally well in women and men.

USING DL-PHENYLALANINE AS AN APHRODISIAC

Take one or two tablets, 15-30 minutes before you’re planning on having sex, about the time you start eyeing each other. If you take it like this, the effects will last all the way through the act, no matter how long that is. If you wait too long to start intercourse, the effects will be weakened as time goes by, and the sexual edge is lost.

*As Needed Use of DL-Phenylalanine* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Supplement	15-30 Minutes Before Sex Begins	Brand	Strength
DL-Phenylalanine	1-2 tablets	Puritan’s Pride #4050	500 mg

You can also take DL-Phenylalanine everyday in the morning, and it will energize you, keep you upbeat and a little flirty. It won’t make you horny that minute but will make you more interested when the time comes to have sex, especially when added to the dose taken directly before sex begins.

*Daily Use of DL-Phenylalanine* QUICK GLANCE CHART
Supplement	Breakfast	Brand	Strength
DL-Phenylalanine	1/2-1 tablet	Puritan’s Pride #4050	500 mg

► Unfortunately, while DL-Phenylalanine enhances sexual feeling, it won’t help with performance problems. Please see Blog 14: Erectile Dysfunction for a better discussion on that issue.

► Do me a favor, please. Don’t get carried away with this and take much more than 1-2 tablets at the beginning of each sexual encounter. And one tablet is better than two in the beginning. That might be all you ever need, so you should start there. There’s a tendency for people to think that if X amount makes me feel good, then X+1 will make me feel even better; and X+2 even better than that. Not true, here. This could really rev you up, make you manic, uncomfortable, even a bit breathless. It will wear off and there’ll be no real harm done, but if you take it the way I recommend above, you’ll get your kicks with no side effects. The smart thing to do is to experiment. Begin by using my dosage recommendations, then up them slowly, a half tab at a time. Honestly, a little of this goes a long way.

► Be sure to buy DL-Phenylalanine, and not just L-Phenylalanine.

Please be nice to each other, and look for my next blog: Blog 20: Improving Cognition And Memory, where I tell you how you can increase you mental capabilities.

PLEASE DONATE

Your support is greatly appreciated.

www.paypal.com

Lynn Capehart Wellness Foundation, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, meaning that any donation you make is tax deductible. We appreciate your support for our current efforts to establish a Vitamin Scholarship Program, so that we may supply supplements to those who could be cured of their disorders but cannot afford the cost. You may make your donations through www.paypal.com using any credit card or bank anywhere in the world. Donations should be made there to the account of lynncapehartnonprofit@outlook.com

Thank you.

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