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Supplementation
Secrets of a Ph.D. Nutritionist Revealed
. . . “10
Reasons Why Supplementing With A Balanced Blend of Plant Source EFAs
Makes You A Nutritional Genius!”
Imagine a nutrient
tested in over 100 research studies and found to be highly beneficial
throughout the body including; blood pressure, heart health, immune
system strength, reducing aches and pains, increasing energy, naturally
controlling appetite, aiding in weight loss, and much more. Now stop imagining and
learn about Essential Fatty Acids and why plant-source EFAs are one of
the BEST supplements you can possibly take.
An essential nutrient is a nutrient your body does not make and one that you cannot be healthy without. If cars were people, gas, oil, and brake fluid would be their ‘essential nutrients’ because your car doesn’t make them and it won’t run without them. Vitamins, minerals, 9 different amino acids and 2 different FATTY ACIDS are all essential nutrients. There are two types of essential fatty acids, Omega 3 and Omega 6. Both are necessary for good health and neither are made internally, which makes them essential by definition. How EFAs Provide
Maximum Health Benefit EFAs are the
RAW MATERIAL your body uses to produce hundreds of bio-chemicals that
regulate practically everything, including: energy level, inflammation,
immune system strength, wound healing, blood pressure, resistance to
allergies, heart health and more. Because EFAs regulate so much, a deficiency can cause you to feel poorly in a dozen different ways, none of which would be directly linked to the sub-optimal intake of EFAs. Science has determined
exactly how EFAs work. There's
no mystery as to why proper EFA supplementation is proven in research to
effectively lower blood pressure, naturally reduce inflammation, build
resistance to allergies, sharpen your mind, nourish your brain, improve
the health of your skin and hair, and MUCH more. Practically No One
Gets All the Healthy EFAs They Need Through Diet Alone! It’s very difficult to get all the EFAs you need in a normal-healthy diet. Even if you go
out of your way to eat healthy, unless you regularly consume lots of
cold-water fish, munch on fresh walnuts daily, use flaxseed oil for
salad dressing (and eat lots of salad), you probably run low on EFAs on
a daily basis and would benefit greatly with proper EFA supplementation. If you diet is less than perfect, if you eat fast foods, or regularly dine on anything other than fresh, home-cooked meals lovingly prepared with the finest, freshest ingredients, then it’s CERTAIN you are not getting all the healthy EFAs you need and will benefit greatly by getting more healthy EFAs in your diet. Top 10 Reasons Why a
supplementing With A Balanced blend of Plant Source EFAs Makes You A
Nutritional Genius ... #1: Greater Energy & Vitality In A
Matter of Days
EFAs help transfer oxygen OUT of the blood and INTO the cells where the oxygen is needed. Don’t be surprised if you experience a big jump in energy in just a few days after beginning proper EFA supplementation. I’ve seen people transform themselves
from tired and fatigued to energetic and enthusiastic in a very short
time with proper EFA supplementation. #2: Would You Read A Telegram . . .
Straight From Your Heart?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your body could send you a telegram once a month letting you know EXACTLY what it needs so you can be gloriously healthy and always feel your best? Your heart won’t be sending you a telegram, but if it could, based on dozens of published research studies, your heart would BEG you to get more healthy EFAs. Essential fatty acids, especially the Omega 3s, are extremely important for keeping a heart healthy and blood pressure in the normal range. Research shows that people suffering with certain blood pressure and heart problems are often deficient in EFAs. Studies prove that proper supplementation can ease these problems and, for some, even reverse them. Daily EFA
supplementation is cheap insurance to help protect against serious
problems. Personally, I
take my EFAs every single day. They
are an unchanging part of my daily supplement program. For me they
are a MUST HAVE nutrient. What
about you? #3: How To Kiss Food Cravings Goodbye -
Forever!
It’s one in the
morning and I am standing in front of the freezer in a trance like
state, eating ice cream out of the carton, shoveling it in, with a gleam
in my eye, staring like a deer frozen in the headlights of an on-coming
18-wheeler. What diabolical force
could drive a renowned health expert, a PhD nutritionist to participate
in such a bizarre, unnatural, nutritionally deviant ritual? Did I lose a bet?
Did I give in and go over to the nutritional dark side? No!
None of the above; all I did was forget to take my EFA
supplements two days in a row and there I am, able to give you a dozen
specific reasons why eating ice cream at one in the morning is bad,
while I savor every bite. Ah the power of an EFA deficiency! Two days is all it
takes for me. Two days without my EFAs and I develop a craving for
ice cream strong enough to bend steel.
But as long as I take my EFAs regularly, a half-gallon of ice
cream will last weeks without even one stolen bite. If you don’t have the
will power to overcome food cravings, rest easy.
Trying to overcome food cravings with will power is like trying
to cut the lawn with hair dryer, it’s the wrong tool. In my program, 5 Steps
to Optimal Health, you learn that food cravings are caused by a
nutritional deficiencies and hormone imbalances. Without going into all
the detail you get in the 5 Steps Program, suffice it to say that
supplementing with balanced, plant-source EFAs wipes out food cravings
in a matter of days. This
works when the will power of Rambo-on-a-mission would fail. I’ve seen no research
on EFAs and food cravings, but it works! #4: Believe It - Aches & Pains Can
Become A Thing of
Your Past!
Like salt and pepper,
pain and inflammation go together; where there’s one, there is ALWAYS
the other. When your nervous
system responds to inflammation, you experience that response as pain.
When there’s no inflammation there’s no nervous system
response and no pain. Essential fatty acids
regulate inflammation in your body.
Running short on healthy EFAs causes a biochemical imbalance and
that imbalance makes the inflammation worse and worse.
Some people have so much inflammation that taking pain killers
and anti inflammatory drugs is part of their daily life. Regardless of anything
else, anyone suffering with constant aches, pains and sore muscles has
too many naturally produced inflammatory chemicals circulating in their
body and that fact alone strongly suggests a raging EFA deficiency. When you have the
proper EFA balance you will not overproduce inflammatory bio chemicals,
and you will have LESS inflammation and fewer aches and pains. The right EFAs produce a natural, powerful, anti-inflammatory response. This fact is tested, proven and written about in virtually every major medical journal in the world. There is no guesswork here, only science and fact. What you do with it is up to you! EFAs are so effective
in naturally reducing inflammation that they have shown to be as
powerful, and in some cases more powerful, than popular painkillers.
EFAs have none of the bad side effects common to all prescription
and over the counter drugs. You don’t have to
have arthritis or a sprained ankle to benefit from the power
anti-inflammatory effects of proper EFA supplementation. Have you ever exercised
and been extra sore the next day? Have
you ever been stiff or sore in the morning?
Do your muscles get sore and ache as the day wares on? If EFAs are powerful
enough to help arthritis suffers and strong enough to compare with
powerful pain drugs, what effect do you think they may have on reducing
inflammation that causes common aches and pains? Proper EFA
supplementation results in fewer aches and pains, fewer sore muscles
after a hard day’s work, and greater energy and vitality.
What wonderful benefits! #5: What If You
Could Focus Your Mind Like A Laser Beam? Yes it’s true!
EFAs help you focus your mind and help you stay focused for long
periods of time. EFAs are
so effective in helping improve the ability to concentrate that they are
considered “Super Brain Food”. In her remarkable book,
“What’s Food Got to Do With It”, world-renowned learning
specialist Pat Wyman blew the whistle on the popular ADD/HD diagnoses
that is incorrectly hung on millions of school children each year. Wyman revealed, and
substantiated with research, that the vast majority of ADD/HD diagnoses
made by school nurses and administrative personnel are wrong, incorrect,
unjustified and ill founded. Wyman cites research
demonstrating that, for most children, simply reducing sugar intake and
supplementing with Essential Fatty Acids completely eliminates the
symptoms so commonly misdiagnosed by school administrators as ADD/HD. Studies have shown that
reducing sugar intake and supplementing with EFAs can dramatically
improve mental function. Studies testing this show improved behavior and higher test
scores for children and better scores in mental ability tests for
adults. It’s like EFAs make
you calmer and smarter! EFAs work their
mental-magic by crossing the blood-brain barrier and directly nourishing
your brain. If you’re
short on EFAs you do not function at peak efficiency.
And if you are not functioning at peak mental efficiency, you are
not doing as well as you could. It’s
amazing to think that a simple nutrient can help turn that around. Have you ever been
agitated or edgy? Are you
easily frustrated? Do you
wish the world would just leave you alone?
All these feelings are the result of brain chemistry. When your brain gets
the EFAs it needs to function at it's best, you may still get frustrated, but it will take a lot
more to push your buttons and it will be much easier for you to stay
calm, focused and happy doing what ever you are doing.
EFAs are that powerful! #6: Imagine A
Nutrient More Effective At Fighting Depression Than Powerful
Prescription Drugs! An article in the August ‘02 issue of Prevention, (Bye-Bye Blues, Healthy Fats Ease Depression) states that the Omega-3 fatty acid EPA could be a missing link that the brain needs to be happy. Andrew Stoll, MD of Harvard Medical School is quoted…"These results were huge, and the improvements were obvious. Those who got the supplements slept better and felt less worthlessness and guilt." The article references a recent study (A Journal of Psychiatry, MAR 2002) in which 60% patients suffering from depression got relief with a daily intake of 2 g of EPA, which is one of the bio-chemicals naturally produced when you get sufficient EFAs through diet or supplementation. Dr Stoll theorizes that the EFA derivative, EPA helps the brain use the feel-good chemical serotonin, an important neurotransmitter in the biochemistry of depression. All cell coatings are made of fats, and the fatty acid EPA seems to help the serotonin receptors on the brain’s surface function in a healthier way. This is one of dozens of studies showing how EFAs naturally fight depression and helps people feel better about life. Believe it, an essential nutrient that actually helps you feel happier! When you get the healthy, balanced EFAs you need everything in your body works better and you feel better. And what could be better than that? Everything functions better, from your brain to the joint in your big toe. Believe it!
#7: The Comprehensive Health Benefits You Get From Proper EFA
Supplementation Can Be Tremendous! Never swallow pills and hope for the best. Choose your core supplements based on what is PROVEN to provide maximum possible benefits. Because EFAs are the raw material your body uses to make many other important nutrients and bio-chemicals that affect your health, if you don’t get them, an EFA deficiency can mimic depression, fatigue, muscle soreness, arthritis pain, high blood pressure, hormonal imbalance, allergies, forgetfulness, constipation, or other ailments. Being short on EFAs can make any of these symptoms appear, AND, getting what you need may cause the same symptoms disappear. Supplementing properly with EFAs almost always produces noticeable improvement in the way a person feels. Now you know why EFAs are so important and why proper EFA supplementation may be one of the most important steps you can take for your health. But there’s more. EFAs are like a high-yield stock; they’re a tremendous value! Because EFAs affect many things that DETERMINE your quality of health and because not getting the EFAs you need may eventually causes big problems, proper EFA supplementation is a small step that pays BIG health dividends. Proper EFA supplementation gives you MAXIMUM health benefits! #8: Never
Compromise! Never
Settle For Second Best! Plant source EFAs are
superior to fish source EFAs because plant source EFAs contain NATURALLY
HIGH LEVELS of VITAMIN E and natural vitamin E protects the essential
fatty acids and keeps them fresh and potent better than anything else
under the sun. EFAs molecules are like
fine china, extremely valuable, but fragile.
Plants naturally high in EFAs also contain a lot of natural
vitamin E. And the
vitamin E protects the EFAs. Vitamin E is like a
Special Forces bodyguard that protects the EFAs and keeps them fresh,
potent and strong. Nothing protects EFAs and keeps them fresh better than
the natural occurring vitamin E found in plants. Naturally occurring
nutrients are more potent, powerful and effective than anything
individually extracted from nature or anything man made. As such, it’s not
surprising to learn that using vitamin E as an additive in a product is
not as beneficial as taking a product that is naturally rich in the
vitamin. Plants are PERFECT for
delivering the benefits of EFAs because the EFAs and the vitamin E
needed to protect them occur naturally.
Plants have it all. Juice a fish and you
won’t get vitamin E. Fish contain NO natural
vitamin E. Manufacturers add vitamin E to their fish oils as a
preservative, but often the results are not good. The are disturbing facts
about fish oil EFA supplements. Does this affect you? A recent study, done in
Chicago, involved researchers going out in the market place and
purchasing over 50 different fish oil supplements. Everything from the
most exclusive fish oil supplements to the cheapest fish oil products
available were purchased and taken to a laboratory for evaluation and
testing. The capsules were
broken open and the oil tested. What they discovered
was shocking! Even though each product was well within the expiration date
stamped on the bottle, OVER HALF OF FISH OIL SUPPLEMENTS TESTED WERE
RANCID! That’s right,
spoiled rotten, right there on the shelf. Researchers suspected
bad manufacturing practices. To
determine why over half of the fish oil supplements tested in Chicago
were spoiled, the makers were contacted and investigated. Again, the results were
shocking! But not for the reasons you may think. Every manufacturer
cooperated, and with few exceptions, each one used quality raw material
and was in perfect compliance with accepted manufacturing practices. They did everything
possible to produce a good product, they didn’t try to cheap out, they
didn’t cut corners, and still they failed.
Why? This study spurred
other studies aimed at discovering why fish oil products go rancid so
easily. Knowing that plant
source products have a long shelf life and tend to maintain their
freshness and potency up to a year beyond the date stamped on the
bottle, researchers wanted to know why fish oil products spoiled so
easily. Finally the answer is discovered. Plant source EFAs stay fresh and potent while fish source EFAs may go unpredictably bad because plant source products are NATURALLY PROTECTED by high amounts of naturally occurring Vitamin E contained in the plant. Fish oil manufacturers ADD vitamin E to their products, but it is not the same. Naturally occurring vitamin E is MORE POTENT and MORE PROTECTIVE because it contains many natural components that are completely lost in the manufacturing process. Chalk one up for Mother
Nature! There are other
EXCELLENT REASONS for choosing plant-source EFAs and those reasons are
explained in detail in my 5 Steps to Optimal Health Program. #9: How To Have A
Powerful Nutritional SUPER HERO Protect YOUR Health Faster than a speeding
free radical. More powerful
than a trans fatty acid! Able
to bust up sticky blood platelets with single blow! Look, in the blood –
It’s a vitamin! It’s a
mineral! No, it’s a Healthy Essential Fatty Acid! Imagine a Nutritional
SUPER HERO powerful enough to BLAST AWAY FOOD CRAVINGS and KEEP YOU
FOCUSED and FULL OF ENERGY all day long. Imagine a Nutritional
SUPER HERO that can help build your immune system strong like Milo, the
Greek farmer who developed legendary strength by carrying a baby calf
around the yard everyday until one day he was carrying a full-grown
bull. Imagine a Nutritional
SUPER HERO that protects your heart, sharpens your mind and can make
losing weight easy, but ONLY if you need to lose weight. Healthy Essential
Fatty Acids are that Nutritional Super Hero! Become UNSTOPPABLE
in Your Quest for Health and Vitality! Each essential nutrient
is important. Each one
plays a serious role in some aspect of your health.
Running low on any essential nutrient is like racing down the
freeway low on oil, or like slamming on the brakes when you’re low on
brake fluid. If you become deficient
in any one of the essential nutrients, unless corrected, that deficiency
will lead to health complaints and eventually to real health problems. Here ‘s the tricky
part. Before a diagnosable
problem develops, things about your health slowly decline.
So slowly that most people hardly notice.
It’s like having a tiny hole in your gas tank, little by little
sapping your energy and draining your valuable fuel. A little more fatigue,
a few more colds, creeping weight gain, constipation, indigestion,
difficulty concentrating; practically any health complaint can be caused
by a prolonged deficiency in one or more of the essential nutrients. Sometimes changes are
so subtle people don’t even notice their health declining, until one
day you wake up and realize you just don’t feel as good as you should. Proper supplementation
is not a cure all. Just
getting the essential nutrients you need does not guarantee good health.
But NOT getting those nutrients absolutely guarantees you will
not feel as good as you could and not be as healthy as you should. Be mindful of this
nutritional reality, put it to work in your life and your odds of
developing excellent health will soar! Which Nutrient is the Most Important FOR
YOU?
Each essential nutrient
is important, however, there is one that is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than all the
others. Which one?
Which is MOST important? The MOST IMPORTANT
NUTRIENT is always the nutrient, (or nutrients), you do not
get enough of in your regular, daily diet.
The nutrient you are routinely short on will, over time, be the
one that eventually causes deficiency symptoms and health problems. I strongly endorse
proper EFA supplementation because, of all the essential nutrients, the
healthy essential fatty acids in beneficial combinations and ratios are
the essential nutrients most difficult to get through diet alone. Because they are
difficult to get through diet alone, the prediction is that almost
everyone is deficient to a greater or lesser degree, AND, anyone
deficient in the healthy EFAs will benefit noticeably, perhaps
dramatically, with proper supplementation. For The Sake of Your
Own Good Health, Please Consider this...
What does all this
mean? Draw your own
conclusion, but for me it’s a no-brainer!
A balanced blend of the healthy essential fatty acids is a
brilliant addition to ANY supplementation program. Since EFA deficiency
symptoms can look like anything from sore muscles to high blood
pressure, from food cravings and weight gain to depression or allergies,
it makes sense to make certain you get the EFAs you need. Of all the nutrients
the Essential Fatty Acids come closest to being a True Health Super Hero
because EFAs are responsible for so many things that keep you healthy
and because they are the most difficult nutrient go get through daily
food consumption. There’s one more
reason why a balanced blend of plant-source EFAs may be the most
important supplement you can take and here it is. #10:
YOU ARE WORTH IT! That’s
right, you’re worth it. When you get right down to it your health is YOUR
SINGLE MOST VALUABLE ASSET and protecting your most valuable asset is
the right thing to do. Your
health is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than money.
Supplements cost money and having lots of money is nice. But without your health, being a millionaire a hundred times over wouldn’t matter. What
good would it do to have all the money in the world if you were
constantly tired and fatigued and felt progressively worse year after
year? Friends
are wonderful but your health is even MORE IMPORTANT than friends.
Friends
help make life rich and satisfying.
But without your health you’ll never be able to fully enjoy
your friends, or anything else for that matter. Friends
can never give you the satisfaction you can get every morning when you
jump out of bed and realize that YOU FEEL GREAT and recognize that you
have another glorious day to live your life and work toward the
fulfillment of your dreams. What
could be better! The
Ethics of Good Health – How A Post Graduate Philosophy Class Has A
Direct Impact on YOUR Health! The
morning was crisp and cool. The first day of the new semester in the Philosophy
Department at The University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas is about to
begin. Seven
students, each working toward their doctorate degree in philosophy, are
seated around a rectangular table, chatting, fidgeting, and anticipating
the arrival of Dr. John Miller. Dr.
Miller is no average professor and taking postgraduate ethics at one of
the most prestigious colleges of philosophy in the United States is no
average classroom experience. Dr.
Miller, a frequent speaker at philosophy conferences, is recognized as
an intellectual giant in the field of ethics.
Having an ethics class with Dr. Miller is like having private
golf lessons with Tiger Woods or like taking a film making class with
Stephen Spielberg. The
room is small. The subject
is large. After
all, ethics is the study of right and wrong and your decisions about
right and wrong guide your choices throughout your life. If
you’re president, your ethics determine the course of your nation.
If you’re CEO, your ethics determine the course of your
company. Regardless of who
you are, your ethics determine the course of your life.
All in all, pretty serious stuff. I
did not attend that class, but my wife Elizabeth was there, one of the
seven students. What
you are about to hear are the first words that Dr. Miller spoke as the
advanced ethics class officially began on that first day.
Dr.
Miller walked in, made eye contact with each student, and stood in
silence at the head of the table. A
hush fell over the room. Dr.
Miller began, “The entire subject of ethics, everything, all of it,
including everything you will learn in this class, boils down to this;
Do good. Avoid evil.” Amazing!
The ethics of living a good life and the ethics of achieving and
maintaining excellent health have a great deal in common.
In fact, they are identical! If
you want excellent health you must do good.
In other words, you must consistently do the good things that
support the creation and maintenance of excellent health.
Doing otherwise AUTOMATICALLY sets the creation process for poor
health spinning into motion.
Also,
if you want excellent health you must avoid evil.
In other words you must develop the habit of avoiding things that
interfere with you reaching your good-health goal.
What
brilliant simplicity! Do
the things that make you healthy and avoid things that sap your energy
and damage your health. Apply
this formula and your health will improve dramatically.
No other outcome is possible! If
Dr. Miller wrote a book titled, “The Ethics of Good Health”, it is
certain there would be a chapter teaching how extremely important it is
to keep your body well supplied with the raw materials that make
excellent health and vitality possible.
Not
supplying your body the raw materials it needs to function properly is a
clear violation of the Ethics of Good Health.
Supplementing
properly with essential nutrients is one of the least expensive and most
intelligent health decisions you can possibly make.
Proper
supplementation may be just what you need to feel better, healthier and
stronger than ever before. A LITTLE STEP That Makes THE BIG
DIFFERENCE - Are You Benefiting?
Proper supplementation
with essential nutrients is easy. It’s
a little step that helps protect your health and can make a big
difference in the way you look, feel and function. Regardless of other
supplements you may take, a good plant source EFA supplement is one of
the Crown Jewels in any good supplementation program. EFAs help keep you
healthy in a dozen different ways.
In today’s world where quality supplements are affordable, not
getting what you need is just plain silly. Always remember that a
deficiency of essential nutrients is a perfect prescription for
developing little health problems that can eventually grow into big
ones. Why risk it? Taking supplements does
not guarantee health, but being deficient in an essential nutrient, over
a long enough period of time, absolutely guarantees problems that could
have been avoided. Proper supplementation
is the little step that can make a big difference! Copyright 2005, Russell Communications, Inc. |
Hi,
Russell J. Martino Ph.D. nutritionist here with some important
information about the health benefits of Essential Fatty Acids and some
tips on proper EFA supplementation.