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Camu-Camu – Antioxidant food and Vitamin C Source

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Are you looking for superior antioxidant foods?

In the flood plains of the Amazon between Peru and Brazil lives a bushy tree – Myrciaria dubia- usually called Camu-Camu.  After the fragrant , waxy white flowers drop it develops small purple-red colored fruit that looks similar to a cherry. Among herbalists , camu-camu is valued for its astringent, antioxidant , antiviral, anti-inflammatory , analgesic and emollient and nutritional characteristics and additionally is a source of phosphorus, protein , niacin, iron , thiamin riboflavin , calcium, beta-carotene , and three   amino acids. It’s an abundant source of flavinoids.

People who take Camu-camu because of  its vitamin C know that only 1-2 grams of this naturally present vitamin C is a superior immune system strengthener than large doses of commercially available synthetic vitamin C . Camu-camu is around two to three percent Vitamin C by fresh weight, which is an unusually high concentration and testifies to Camu-camu’s value as an antioxidant food .  And  antioxidants are vital for my 2 other favorite “antis” antiaging and anti-inflammatories .

Camu-camu is now being studied to assess its emotion balancing properties . As published in the Clinician’s Handbook of Natural Healing (1998) by Gary Null, Ph.D. this fruit is second in terms of the potency of the chemical compounds it contains for its mood balancing properties. While the connection has not been thoroughly researched , it seems that Camu-camu might offer nutritional help for your brain’s natural production of mood balancing compounds .  Additionally, research has been released linking vitamin C and a higher level of serotonin.

Dr Mike Adams, (who’s called the Health Ranger) said this about Camu-Camu:
“I’ll tell you a secret about camu. It’s the highest natural source of vitamin C in the world. And it’s not just one isolated chemical (ascorbic acid), it’s the full symphony of protective antioxidants. My research on this herb , based in part of the works of Dr. James Duke, leads me to the conclusion that camu-camu crosses the blood-brain barrier and offers extraordinary protection to the nervous system. There is no question in my mind that this product can drastically reduce eye disorders, including macular degeneration, as well as protect the brain and nervous system from degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.”

Camu-camu is just one of the natural antioxidant foods found in AIO- Premium Cellular Health

Improve your digestion with enzymes

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Those of us who are familiar with and always aware of the importance of digestive enzymes sometimes forget that enzymes are necessary for more than fodd processing . In fact , in the absence of enzymes there would be no chemical reactions anywhere in our body, because enzymes represent the potential labor force your body can draw from to fire up every necessary chemical reaction. Without enzymes there is no life .

But food digestion uses a large investment of energy from your body in terms of enzyme capacity . Since we only have a certain enzyme potential when we’re born and it needs to last our entire life, it only makes sense to manage our capacity to manufacture enzymes and supplement when possible . One of the reasons that supplementing is necessary, is because our cooked diet is responsible for robbing us of the enzyme activity we would gain from a diet of raw food . (And if you can understand how we are shortchanged of our natural enzyme sources from our diets of cooked food, just think of the implications  for your dogs and cats !)

To supply our saliva and pancreatic, gastric and intestinal juices with the myriad of enzymes needed to process our intake of cooked food, our bodies need to steal from the provision of enzymes to our heart, brain , lungs, kidneys , muscles and other tissues and organs . According to food enzyme researcher, Dr. Edward Howell, that trade off between our digestive tract and the other organ systems in our bodies might directly contribute to the development of a few different chronic and incurable diseases .

In short , in the words of this physician , who has spent more than 40 years treating ongoing ailments  -the depletion of our enzyme “bank “, which is the direct result of our diets dominated by cooked – “enzyme dead” food, is a leading cause of premature aging and early death.

Since few of us will  move totally to a diet of raw foods , there are 2 simple steps that we can try to  address this problem .  The first is to make a conscious effort to eat more raw, vegetables and fruits replacing some of our cooked foods with simpler fare – like grains, fruits and vegetables.

Another idea – that’s also simple is to start supplementing  with quality digestive enzymes .  Maximizer, which is a product available from RGarden is a multi-enzyme supplement.  For people with problems like stomach ulcers, an even better choice is Gamma-Zyme another multi enzyme supplement that does not contain Protease ( for proteins) which can upset some stomachs.

What are Digestive Enzymes and why do I care?

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Enzymes are all complex molecules, that support every chemical reaction that happens in the body.  Digestive and Metabolic are the two majors types of enzymes.  The Metabolic enzymes fuel you body functions.  Digestive enzymes breakdown big food molecules into small enough , more easily used components.  Food begins with the enzymes necessary to aid the digestive process so that your body doesn’t need to do as much work.  But when we cook, refine or process food, most, if not all of the enzymes are destroyed.

Our digestive system’s job is to extract and absorb the critical nutrients contained in our food.  But, eating cooked foods means that  our body needs to draw enzymes from our pancreas, liver and other organs to support our digestion and over time this can contribute to a weakened immune response and it can slow down our metabolism.

Enzyme-deficient food sits in the upper part of your stomach rotting instead of  starting to digest . That’s what the enzymes are designed to do. When that happens your white blood cell count will increase since your immune system responds to your undigested food as an alien substance.  Additionally , it strains our systems to provide extra digestive enzymes at the expense of making metabolic enzymes for cellular activity.  If stomach acids don’t complete their function before the food moves into the small intestine, it’s possible for food particles to enter your blood system undigested!

This rotten material can cover the intestinal walls , hurting your ability to absorb needed nutrients and interfering with the removal of toxins through the intestinal wall.  In this environment, bacteria and viruses can thrive and easily multiply out of control and make you susceptible to infection, fatigue, and degenerative disease.

Very few of us are going to eat a raw food diet so we’re living on enzyme deficient food, but you can supplement with digestive enzymes like enzyme Blends like Maximizer, Gamma-Zyme or Quadra-Zyme Plus from RGarden.

Vitamins E & D3, Alma Fruit,Glutathione – Immune System Boosters

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As is the case most other things your immune responses weaken with age ,so you might want to think about taking natural immune boosters that can support this important function .

One such supplement is Vitamin E.  Based on some research from the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, found at Tufts University in Boston , Vitamin E may prevent part of the immune system from declining with age .  The research ran with seventy eight healthy seniors , aged sixty-five plus and it found that 200 mg of Vitamin E every day for a period of 4 months triggered more antibody production in response to tetanus and hepatitis B vaccines .

Vitamin E can support the immune response by initiating extra production of our killer cells that destroy germs and cancerous cells. In addition to that , your B-cells,  the immune cells that create bacteria killing antibodies are stimulated in the presence of Vitamin E.  Another interesting thng – in a study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health using Vitamin E supplements was shown to reduce the risk of heart attacks by 50% .

Vitamin D3 the one made in skin after exposure to the suns ultraviolet light is also an immune system booster .

A new natural health product with immune system boosters called AIO- Premium Cellular Health also has Alma fruit – which I had never heard of until now .  Alma fruit, or the Indian gooseberry is also an exceptional source of Vitamin C with 30 times as much as you’ll find in oranges.  Alma fruit grows naturally in plains and mountain areas of the Indian Subcontinent and grows anywhere from Afghanistan to Burma .

Ongoing research is showing that Alma fruit could help to treat and/or avoid problems like stress, cataracts , hay fever, arthritis and even cancer.  It’s no surprise that the Indian and Tibetan healers consider it to have special immune enhancing and anti-aging properties .

Japanese researchers at Nagasaki University found that extracts from alma fruit prevent the growth of cancerous cells, with the cells in the uterous, stomach and skin showing the most pronounced effect.  Alma fruit is a very concentrated source of antioxidants. The active immune booster found in Alma is called phyllemblin and it stimulates an increased creation of immune cells.

Each body comes with lots of antioxidant based defensive abilities , but inside cells a little protein called glutathione is critical . Glutathione is needed for the proper functioning of immune cells, to defend us from bacterial and viral infections. Among those with immune deficiency, glutathione concentrations are shown to be very low in blood and immune cells. When they can supplement glutathione levels to those found in healthy humans is likely to help immune deficient patients .

Cellgevity, Glutathione and Chronic Pain

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Chronic pain – defined – is recurrent and long lasting .  It can continue for months or- as is often the case – for years.  Chronic pain isn’t the the immediate pain you feel when you’re injured . The fact is that if you severely twist an ankle when you’re out running , it’s going to hurt the for a while .  Pain is your body’s way of alerting you that something’s physically wrong. For most sprains and twists , the pain you feel the next day is from the inflammation caused in the cells .

In that sense , the immediate pain and chronic pain have something in common . That commonality   is inflammation.  Inflammation is frequently common chronic condition that lots of people suffer from even if we aren’t aware of it. But if the result of the inflammation is pain, we notice it .

Inflammation is often caused by the chain reaction of free radical damage in our cells.  One explanation for the unchecked damage is a shortage of enough antioxidants in the body to clear out the free radicals.  There are many reasons for free radicals and many types of antioxidants that can deal with them, but not all of them are equally useful and one of the most useful is an antioxidant called glutathione .
Glutathione is frequently called the body’s Master Antioxidant because it’s present in each cell of the body.  Since it’s everywhere , glutathione is beautifully adapted to remove free radicals everywhere .  Unfortunately , as we get older we manufacture decreasing amounts of the Master Antioxidant .

So my point is , one thing you can do – which has worked for people afflicted with chronic pain is to boost the qualtity of antioxidants in your body so that you can eliminate the free radicals and treat the inflammation.  Try increasing your levels of Vitamins E and C . Add more fresh vegetables and fruit to your diet and to enhance your  glutathione production you can take Cellgevity.  Try Cellgevity instead of a Glutathione supplement.

Some Words About Glutathione

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Do you need to learn more about heart disease, pain, liver disorders, male infertility, Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s, inflammatory diseases or are you concerned about your aging body? If so, you’ll be well advised to do a little bit of research on antioxidants  and of all the antioxidants you can look into, you should learn more about Glutathione.

Glutathione, a small molecule in the body, is formed by three amino acids. The product of these amino acids exists in every cell in your body. But, it can only  be produced by your body. Glutathione is vital to your immune system. It aids in the production of lymphocytes, the cells that combat particular diseases and illnesses . These cells produce oxiradicals to protect us from diseases, and to produce them , the body needs more antioxidants. Your body will also, ironically, use antioxidants to get rid of the free oxyradicals .

We can use the food we eat to fuel the creation of the amino acids needed to also manufacture glutathione as well as building it from the acids already there in the cells . There are a variety of  foods to provide the fuel to make glutathione. Watermelon and asparagus are two such foods , as are many other fresh vegetables, fruits, and  meat . Whey protein is also a good source . Oral glutathione supplements are not usually absorbed into our systems. That’s a shame, since our ability to manufacturer glutathione declines dramatically after our twenties. Glutathione precursors like Cellgevity on the other hand, will help our body boost Glutathione production.

It’s important to note that Cellgevity as a precursor does not contain Glutathione.  It contains other substances that your body uses to help it manufacture more glutathione on it’s own.

Glutathione has earned it’s reputation as the Master antioxidant. It will also help our body make repairs caused by infection, radiation treatments, stress, injury, poor diet, and even burns and trauma . Antioxidants remove free radicals. This keeps our cells working as they should . Glutathione also aids the liver to remove foreign chemicals and other pollutants . As a matter of fact, most glutathione is manufacturered in your liver.

Who should look at increasing the amount of glutathione  or supplementing with Cellgevity? Anyone who is dealing with high blood pressure, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, cataracts, or male infertility issues may benefit from more glutathione. It can also help when recovering from chemotherapy and other radiation treatments. However, it is important to note that studies are still being done on glutathione, and it may not affect everyone in the same way.

Increase your glutathione with Cellgevity

Everyone Wants a Stronger Immune System

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Our only natural asset for fighting sickness is our own immune system. We don’t pay enough attention to making it stronger and in fact, only seem to really be interested in our health when it leaves us.  Then we just reach for drugs.  A health approach based on wellness would help us strengthen and support that asset .

Bad diets, too much stress and aging all detract from the strength of our immune systems. Getting older is particularly destructive and sadly , unavoidable . Our cellular and antibody functions slow and chronic inflammation which seems to go hand and hand   with many diseases of old age sets in . Chronic inflammation (think heart disease & rheumatoid arthritis) is also connected to   oxyradicals and the damage they cause at the cellular level . This will come as no surprise to anyone who is an advocate of the importance of antioxidants.

Supporting our immune system by upping our antioxidant levels to help take out the free radicals damaging our cells is a route worth examining . We can do this through our diet and health products like Cellgevity to help increase your glutathione, which could easily be the leading defender against the free radical damaging . We also need to deal with our stress levels and please get up , get some exercise and put the cookies away !

Besides glutathione, there are other antioxidants that are powerful immune system supporters . There are Vitamins E and C along with the B-vitamins, and they’re available as antioxidant supplements. Vitamin A is another one and CoQ10 is a powerful antioxidant but as we get older our production of it flags . Minerals that matter to our immune system include copper, zinc and selenium . The Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish and flax seed oils have been found to offset suppression of the cellular immune system .

Support a weak immune system with products like RGarden’s Epicor. Improving intestinal health with digestive enzymes is one of your immune system boosters

Cellgevity, Antioxidant Foods and Heart Disease

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Cardiovascular   illness isn’t caused by one cause and so it’s not accurate to say that one answer will work for everyone.  And in fact, some circumstances could be completely out of your control. But, it’s still a good concept to made whatever improvements you can to help your health . For one thing – we know that oxyradical damage to the cells can build up and left untreated lead to damaging the heart and cardiovascular system.  Science has demonstrated that antioxidants can destroy free radicals and stop that damage. So, will taking antioxidant supplements  combat heart disease?

Up until now, no one is certain . Antioxidant vitamin E supplements , for one , haven’t been shown to reduce the likelihood of stroke, heart disease, or other cardiovascular problems . While the supplement may contain antioxidants, they don’t seem to help.

Antioxidants are also available from beta carotene supplements , but doctors agree  excessive amounts of beta carotene is not a good thing . It can instead cause an increase  in cardiovascular and other heart issues and diseases So mega dosing beta carotene in order to inject anti oxidants into your body to combat heart and/or cardiovascular issues is -you’ll agree- a lousy idea.

The best route appears to stem from consuming foods rich in antioxidants.

Fruits, whole grain foods and vegetables that contain antioxidants have been proven to decrease the likelihood of heart disease.  To help lower your risk of cardiovascular diseases, you might need to modify your diet to include some of the most richly concentrated antioxidant foods like – dried beans – red, kidney and pinto ; wild blueberries; other berries like cultivated blueberries, cranberries and raspberries . There are more , but just how hard is it to add dried beans and berries to your diet?

Natural antioxidants are the best start and another natural antioxidant is  L-glutathione which is produced in the body.  As the Master Antioxidant, glutathione should be considered as another tool in your heart disease protection arsenal . Too bad that it’s not all that well absorbed in the form of an oral antioxidant supplement .  A better idea is to supplement with  a glutathione precursor like Cellgevity from Max International.

And if you really want to help your heart by boosting your level of antioxidants – stop smoking. (Hardly much of a news flash, is it?) Smoking has been conclusively connected to the introduction of free radicals, so you’ll need to take even more antioxidants just to make up for the smoking. While you’re at it – watch your blood pressure, eat foods high in fiber and other nutrients, and exercise regularly .

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Cellgevity is Not a Glutathione Supplement

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there are many different antioxidant supplements on the market and without any question, antioxidants a critically important to your health but what shoudl you do when you find that the most important antioxidant – Glutathine – doesn’t work as an  oral supplement?

Tell Me About Glutathione .

Glutathione is an antioxidant that is manufactured in your body . Technically, it’s a tri-peptide of the amino acids glutamine or glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine and found in every cell of our body. That means it’s immediately available where it will be needed – one of glutathiones many special attributes.  But Glutathione is really a lot more than that.

It’s known as   the Master Antioxidant and lacking it , better known but not as important antioxidants, such as Vitamins C and E which are the most abundant fat and water soluble antioxidants that we use won’t work to their maximum ability . As well , Glutathione is used in the repair of DNA, supports the immune system and the detoxification of toxins from air and water pollution, along with many carcinogens and cigarette smoke . You liver loves glutathione.

Adding to your serum levels of Glutathione is an important health improvement .  Research has repeatedly shown that some of the most infamous conditions connected to aging , like Osteoporosis, Type II Diabetes and High Blood Pressure are clearly accompanied with a fall in Glutathione levels.

As we pass our twenties (and could use the help !) our body doesn’t produce as much Glutathione. This is why many thoughtful and health conscious people are buying   glutathione supplements.  But a supplement is not the way to go .  To increase your Glutathione levels, don’t rely on glutathione supplements.

But there are a lot of alternatives   available if you choose to raise your level of glutathione and one option is diet .  Why not choose 4-5 servings a day of the right vegetables and fruits like broccoli, asparagus, spinach and avocado . Healthy food choices will help provide your body with more of whatit needs to produce its own glutathione.  Other natural sources of the raw materials to help accelerate your Glutathione production include Milk Thistle, Whey Protein, Selenium and Turmeric.

The second option available is to take glutathione precursors, which are products with the nutrients your body uses in order to boost its own natural production and over come one of the downsides of aging. Cellgevity from Max International is one product you can try.

Free Radicals are not Political

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The older you get, the more you should care about the Free Radical Theory of Aging . If you’ve never heard of free radicals, I can assure you that they are not politically motivated, but are quite distructive never the less. Free radicals  are unstable or damaged molecules that will steal an electron from another nearby molecule in order to restablize themselves. But, when they do that they make a new unstable molecule and the cycle repeats – creating a chain reaction that damages the organ systems in your body as deep as the cellular level.

Just check out the wrinkles on a 50+ sunbather if you doubt the impact of cellular damage on aging . with the skin we can see a visible change . We cannot see the brain, liver or heart .  But arteries get stopped – with cellular junk – and joints turn swollen with chronic inflammation- which is directly caused by free radicals.

But at least there is some help. Antioxidants are nature’s answer to free radicals . Antioxidants are molecules that are capable of donating an electron to a free radical without becoming unstable themselves. They halt the chain reaction and prevent the damage.

But,  where do free radicals come from ? There are two main sources of free radicals – one source is the outside environment – think of pollution and cigarette smoke and all the chemicals and toxins we regularly ingest . The other source of free radicals is us .   There are four separate ways that our bodies make free radicals – oxidants.

Daily metabolism – I’ll keep the long scientific words out of this account because they’re just too hard to spell. But let’s just say that our body, uses oxygen as fuel and converts it to water. In the process, the oxygen molecule is not completely and cleanly utilised. There are by-products called oxy-radicals- our own version of nuclear waste- So that’s one – huge source of free radicals.

Oxidants are not all bad, we use them to fight chronic infections, bacteria and parasites. Unfortunately, nearby cells are exposed to free radical damage . Too bad that we can get burned when we fight fire with fire . We also produce hydrogen peroxide- another free radical version of oxygen – when we metabolize some fatty acids.

These processes go on every day and are happening in millions of cells at once . It’s not surprising that antioxidant supplements are so popular and a great piece of news that our body also produces some superb antioxidants like glutathione and CoEnzymeQ10 to help us deal with them.

In a final irony , an enzyme called cytochrome P450 is used by our bodies to defend against toxins like drugs, other foreign chemicals and pesticides. In the process of creating this enzyme, our body will also produce free radicals. In a way, this makes the external toxins doubly damaging.

If you’re interested in helping your body combat the aging effects of free radicals, you need to support your supply of antioxidants. Some antioxidants, like Vitamins C and E can be supplemented and unquestionably a healthy diet is very important. Other antioxidants like Glutathione cannot be supplied as an oral  supplement although you can provide your body with the precursors -raw materials- to produce it yourself. One such product is Cellgevity, the Glutathione precursor from Max International.