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Meditation and Yoga can help you to live longer !
August 12, 2009
According to Dr. Oz Meditation and Yoga can help you to add a couple years to your lifespan.
Meditation can stimulate your sinuses to release gases that will help your body to relax. That’s why a very effective treatment for sinusitis is humming. It will dilate your blood vessels effectively and as good as antibiotics. The gas that is produced is called nitric oxide. Inflammation causes an increase of nitric oxide as well and is your natural answer to sinusitis.
On this website: http://www.yogabasics.com/yoga-postures.html you will find many meditation yoga poses that will allow you to meditate effectively.
Yoga Pose
Can Sleep & Sex keep us young? Anti-Aging Checklist
August 12, 2009
Dr. Oz believes that an active sex life can keep us young. Sex creates chemicals as we all know, men have increased testosterone values and women have increased oxytocin.
Those chemicals keep us going and make us stay young. Therefore it is recommended that lack of sex and sleep should be avoided.
Sleep plays a critical role too. To keep our vitality sleep is very essential, because that’s simply how we recharge our energy. Lack of sleep can make you age dramatically faster.
On Wikipedia I found an interesting statement that two things should be fulfilled when you sleep:
The optimal amount of sleep is not a meaningful concept unless the timing of that sleep is seen in relation to an individual’s circadian rhythms. A person’s major sleep episode is relatively inefficient and inadequate when it occurs at the “wrong” time of day; one should be asleep at least six hours before the lowest body temperature. The timing is correct when the following two circadian markers occur after the middle of the sleep episode and before awakening.
- maximum concentration of the hormone melatonin, and
- minimum core body temperature.
Dr. Oz also recommended to floss your teeth before going to bed. He says that it might cause gingivitis and irritation of the gums if you don’t. Oral health can also prevent cardio-vascular related diseases.
Foods to Avoid – What are unhealthy foods?
August 11, 2009
Dr. Oz’s List of Foods to Avoid:
Leptin is a protein hormone that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure, including appetite and metabolism.
Dr. Oz’s Extreme Life Extension – Anti-Aging Checklist
August 11, 2009
We all age. It’s life. To be exact our cells age. How could you possibly slower that process?
A harvard study about the French Paradox revealed a compound called “Resveratrol” that has been found in red wine, chocolate and other foods and even plants, that can help us stop the aging process of our cells. Resveratrol is activating a gene called sirtris.
Trivia: The people that discovered resveratrol called their company “sirtris”. By now it has been bought by GlaxoSmith Kline for about 720 million US-dollar. A nice sum for one of the most important discoveries since antibiotics.
Dr. Oz says if you don’t want to drink red wine to get your daily dose of resveratrol, you should get it from other sources like Concord grape juice or other dark grape juices.
However, Dr. Oz got some facts messed up. According to the harvard study you would have to drink 1000 bottles of wine per day to benefit from the resveratrol in it. Unthinkable. Instead you can get resveratrol pills. Resveratrol is being extracted from japanese knotweed. They usually sell small pills between 100 mg and 500 mg of trans-resveratrol.
Red Wine Resveratrol
Dr. Oz Fish Oil – A great source of Omega 3 DHA
August 11, 2009
Fish oil is also available as a pill. Fish oil pills should be considered as a daily health supplement.
Fish Oil Supplement - Omega 3 DHA
Fish Oil benefits
1. Fish Oil reduces Pain and Inflammation.
2. Can Improve Cardiovascular Health.
3. Actively prevents heart problems.
4. Improves Brain function.
5. Can help to cure depression.
If you want to take fish oil to treat specific conditions, here is a short list:
- Anti Aging 1,000 mg twice / day
- Treat Angina 2,000 mg fish oils 3 times/ day
- Treat Arrhythmia 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Asthma 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Prevent Cancer 3 capsules twice / day
- Treat Crohn’s Disease 2,000 mg twice / day
- Treat Diabetes 2,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Eczema 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Gout 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Heart Disease Prevention 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Lower High Blood Pressure 1,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Lupus 2,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Psoriasis 2,000 mg 3 times / day
- Treat Raynaud’s disease 1,000 mg 4 times / day
- Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis 1000 mg (2 capsules) containing 600 mg EPA/DHA, twice / day
- Improve Skin Health 1,000 mg / day + food
- Prevent Stroke 1,000 mg 3 times / day
Best fish oil supplements
- NutraSea,
- Sealogix
- Omega-Cure
- Carlsons,
- Nordic
Fish oil does not have to be expensive:
just $7 here:
Antioxidant drinks – Dr. Oz’s Anti-Aging Checklist
August 11, 2009
For the average American coffee is the main source of anti-oxidants. Dr. Oz recommends to drink green tea instead.
Sidenote: Coffee has a lot benefits too. Caffeine is being used to treat Alzheimer for example.
Aside from green tea, there is white tea. It is extracted of the same plant as green tea, but in a different way.
Also Dr. Oz’s Green Drink is a great source of antioxidants.
Here’s the recipe for Dr. Oz’s Green Drink:
- 2 apples, cored
- 1 thumbnail length of ginger root, peeled
- 1 lemon - juice only (use peel slice for zest)
- 1 celery stick, chopped
- 2 big handfuls of spinach
- 1 medium cucumber
- 1/2 cup of chopped parsley
Antioxidant Drinks
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Dr. Oz’s Favorite Anti-Aging Foods – Anti-Aging Checklist
August 11, 2009
Blueberries are the favorite anti-aging food of Dr. Oz. The ORAC, anti-oxdiant scores speak for themselves. Blueberries are a great source of anti-oxidants.
On Dr. Oz’s Anti-Aging food list you will also find sweet potatoes, broccoli and heated tomatoes with a little oil.
Two popular anti-aging foods are acai berry and maqui berry. They have more anti-oxidants than blueberries and help you to cleanse your body.
Dr. Oz recommends to eat at least five servings of foods with a high amount of anti-oxidants to stay young.
Anti Aging Foods
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What are Anti-Oxidants? Dr. Oz explains!
August 11, 2009
We are exposed to oxygens all the time, we can’t avoid that. With time an apple ages and becomes brown and shriveled. Why? Because of oxygen exposure.
The same thing that happens to an apple happens to our body – just a lot slower. Anti-oxidants help us to slower that process.
An antioxidant is a molecule capable of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that transfers electrons from a substance to an oxidizing agent. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells. Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates, and inhibit other oxidation reactions by being oxidized themselves. As a result, antioxidants are often reducing agents such as thiols, ascorbic acid or polyphenols.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant
What are Anti-Oxidants?
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If you add lemon juice to the apple it will slower the process of oxidation. It will not become brown that fast. If you translate this metaphor it means that more anti-oxidants can help us to stop the aging process too.
Dr. Oz: Best Vitamins for Women
August 11, 2009
Some of the important supplements that have to be taken into consideration are Carnosine, nueronutrients, enzymes, amino acids, antioxidants, and some specialized substances.
Osteoporosis affects a great proportion of elderly women, and this state typically starts in your early 30′s. Daily intake of supplements that provide your body with enough calcium and magnesium in addition to other nutrients that support in absorbing should be considered for everyone above 40.
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Is colon cleansing a necessity to get a healthy digestive system?
August 1, 2009
That's how an unhealthy colon looks like!
Common diseases like arthritis and asthma can be caused by all of those toxic waste products that accumulate inside our bodies. If you can remove those products then it can help you to live a healthier life.
On the left you can see how your colon could look like. If it is at that stage you should think about colon cleansing. But how would you know what it looks like? There are many symptoms that can help you to find out if your digestive system is not healthy. After identifying the problem it will be easy to find a solution. There are many health supplements that can help you to treat large intestines.
If your colon is blocked it will also affect your mind directly. Dr. Oz put it like this: “If your colon is healthy, your mind is happy”.
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