Archive for March, 2010

Health You, Healthy Skin

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

I will begin this blog about natural beauty and how to make organic skin, face and hair care products that you can make to keep you and especially your skin, face and hair in optimum health by giving you an overview on how your body functions and what is meant by you being healthy. Without this information, many of you will be lack the basic knowledge as to what you should be doing to improve or maintain your overall health and your skin health.

The health of your body is determined by the collective health of every one of its cells. The healthy functioning of the cells is directly related to the following core healthy molecular materials used to build cells: 1. Oxygen; 2. Carbon; 3. Hydrogen; and 4. Nitrogen. All foods are made up of these four basic elements. Combined with these core elements in your food are many inorganic minerals such as sodium, calcium, sulfur, magnesium, chlorine, etc. These core elements and the inorganic minerals are metabolized by our cells in order to build tissues. The tissues are used to build organs, the organs are used to build core systems like the immune system and your skin, and these systems are used to build the body.

The body consist of well over 100 trillion cells. These cells interact in multiple ways to handle multiple cellular processes that control the cell’s environment, reparation, communication, transportation, policing, performance, pH balancing, medical needs and nutrition as well as toxic and waste (including free radicals) removal. Even if you are eating the perfect diet for your body type and avoiding any toxins in your environment, the acidic waste generated through metabolism needs to be constantly flushed from your body through your key organs. For example, the kidneys remove neutralized waste salts, uric acid, ammonia, the lungs take carbonic dioxide out from carbonic acids making your blood more alkaline and your skin uses perspiration to dispose of acidic waste products. Therefore any ss long as you are providing your cells with a healthy stress free environment, nourishing foods, clean water and air, and bathing your skin in biodegradable organic soaps and shampoos and moisturizing with organic oils for your skin and hairs, your body will have all that it needs to continue functioning properly including the disposal of all waste products in your body.

Of the trillions of cells in your body, they can be grouped into about 200 different types that require 90 plus nutrients to produce the hormones, peptides, neurotransmitters and other materials required for cellular renewal and the proper functioning of the body. The types of cells range from stem cells, blood cells and blood cells, to heart cells, spleen cells and muscle cells through to brain cells, eye cells, skin cells and nerve cells. Each cell performs its own unique functions that combine with other cells to provide synergistic choreography and orchestration of all the body’s functions. The different cells have a different half-lives. This means that your body is constantly renewing itself throughout your lifetime. Your skin which is the body’s largest organ is replaced every 21 to 28 days, your heart is renewed every 8 months, a new liver every 5 months, and your blood every 90 days. In the case of your bones because of the nature of the matrix being very hard (consisting of Vitamin D, calcium, boron and oesteoclasts) it renews every 7-10 years. The key thing to remember is that the quality of the renewal of all of your cells is dependent on the quality of building materials you have provided in the forms of nutrients (i.e. amino acids, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phyto-nutrients, sunshine, oxygen and water) and/or toxins that you have provided. If it is nutrient rich and not lacking in essential nutrients, then the regenerated body will be stronger than the original. If it is nutrient poor (i.e. missing key nutrients) and/or high in toxins, it will be weaker than before and will continue to worsen unless you make changes in your diet and environment.

To give you an idea of how this translates, consider that 10 to the power of 12 cells or 1% of your body mass needs to be regenerated every day. If you are providing nutrient poor materials and toxins to your body, this regeneration will not take place. Instead your body’s own proteins will endanger your life since after metabolism, many become free floating providing an environment for poisonous and fungal infections to grow on them. The toxins and wastes will accumulate in your body creating an anaerobic environment that is hospitable to fungus, bacteria, cancer cells, etc.

This accumulation of waste in and around the cells is what causes aging in the body. The most ready measure any person can do to have an indication of their state of overall health is to measure the pH of their urine and saliva in the morning. This is because pH is a controlling factor for hundreds of enzymes in the body for digestion, assimilation of nutrients and the production of energy in the cells. When your body is in a healthy state, you saliva pH should be 6.2 to 6.4, your urine pH should be 5.5 to 6.0. This would indicate that your blood pH is probably around it ideal measure of 7.30 to 7.45. If your pH level is below these ranges, your body is overly acidic most likely indicating a deficiency of potassium, magnesium, calcium, trace minerals as well as possible high pulse rate. To give you an idea of how long cells can continue to thrive when they are kept in a nutrient rich environment free from waste products, a French physiologist, Alexia Carrell kept a chicken heart alive for about twenty-eight years in a saline solution containing minerals in the same proportion as chicken blood. He kept the extra cellular fluids constant and disposed of the cellular waste products daily by changing the fluid. It’s only when he stopped changing the solution did the heart cells die.

If you have been allowing toxins and waste to accumulate in your body, your health will start to be compromised, you will find yourself getting sick and your body’s built-in compensating mechanisms will be activated to compensate by neutralizing and excreting acidic toxins and waste from the blood, cells, lymph and tissue fluids. The eight compensating mechanisms are: 1. Increased Oxygenation through respiration; 2. Pulling Amino Acid reserves from intra-cellular amino acids; 3. Pull in high pH body fluids from the lymph and saliva; 4. Pulling High pH Electrolytes from bones, teeth and muscles, 5. Excrete acids through the body’s elimination systems such as the skin, colon, urinary tract and respiratory system; 6. Manufacture High pH Bicarbonate Ion from CO2 for diffusion into blood plasma; 7. Push Excess Acids to outer extremities away from vital organs (in terms of your skin this leads to dermatitis and joints and fingers rheumatoid arthritis); and finally 8. Dumping Acids into the Blood and Vital Organs. If number 8, happens, you body is in trouble because it means that your body’s pH is in deep in the acidic range and dependent on the nature of your cellular weakness and genetic makeup, this can lead to one of a number degenerative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic degenerative diseases.

When you are ill, it can be down primarily to either nutrient deficiency, exposure and/or accumulation of toxins in your body, and finally the accumulation of waste in your body. So logically the key to restoring yourself to full health is to not just directly attack the virus or bacteria since the low pH is your body creates an environment hospitable to virus and bacteria, but also to eliminate the toxins and waste (i.e. detox) and at the same time to provide the proper nutrients to your body (i.e. change your environment, change your diet and change what you products you put on your skin, face and hair). When you restore the proper environment for cellular regeneration, a number of positive things happen: 1. The virus, bacteria or malignant cells die off because the majority cannot survive in the healthy aerobic environment – this is especially the case with cancer cells which can only survive in an anaerobic environment (Dr. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize for this discovery); 2. Your immune system is able to properly defend your body against these invaders; 3. Your energy levels go up as your body has the nutrients required for cellular regeneration and is no longer needs to using energy for the various compensating mechanisms to neutralise acidic toxins and waste, leaving your body with more energy.

So how does this relate to your skin? In further blogs in this series, you will discover that ill focus on providing you with information that will allow you to provide all the nutrients that your skin, face and hair needs as well as information on the dangerous levels of toxins found in many common skin, hair and facial products. Once you’ve eliminated these toxins from your body by detoxing and changing from the majority of toxic products one finds in most stores to biodegradable organic products that you can make yourself, your skin’s appearance will improve as well as your hair and face.

References:

Reverse Aging; Sang Whang

The Battle For Health is Over pH; Gary Tunsky

The Detox Book; Bruce Fife, N.D.

Health and Nutrition Secrets that can save your life; Dr. Russell Blaylock M.D.

John Boyd has been passionate about health ever since his young daughter became ill when she was an infant. He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Masters of Business Administration in finance and international economics. For the last 12 years he has run a small IT consulting firm JTB Solutions Ltd. He has just recently started his blog connected to one of his new passions which is making his own cosmetics products. Follow his blog at http://www.naturalbeautyforyou.org

How to Get More Longevity Using Anti-Aging Vitamins

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Our body requires a vast variety of nutrients to remain healthy and function at its best. We eat different kinds and types of food and each and everything that we eat has either a positive or a negative impact on our well being. Since we can not lead the life of total abstinence, the next best option is to minimize the harmful effects of unhealthy food by taking in the daily dose of anti aging vitamins.

Common vitamins need to be taken

The most common and important vitamins required by our body are Vitamin A, B, C, D and K. Each of these is important for one reason or the other and the deficiency of even one of them can result in diseases of various kinds and intensities.

The body has the capability to manufacture some of them like Vitamin D, but the others need to be ingested and are derived from the food we eat. As we age, the requirement of vitamins increases as the body is not able to absorb all the vitamins present inside.

Hence it becomes very important to take in supplements on a regular basis. Also, as these nutrients work on a cumulative basis, it is best to start having them at an early age and continue to take them throughout life.

A healthy life is important

It is of utmost importance to provide all the essential nutrients to the body so as to keep it healthy and thereby prolong the life. The carbohydrates, fats and proteins that we ingest give the body energy to undertake normal day to day functions.

Vitamins, on the other hand, do specific functions that no other nutrient can accomplish and are hence of great importance. Some vitamins help improve our vision while others keep out memory sharp. Some keep our skin tight and glowing while others prevent heart diseases. Therefore, it is an extremely smart decision to take these supplements on a regular basis.

Prolonged trouble free life is the aim

The main aim has always been to live longer and to the fullest. Anti aging vitamins are instrumental in providing the body with vital nutrients that help it to function properly and also regenerate the dead cells. As a rule, the body tends to replace all its cells including the brain cells once in about seven years. A long life is guaranteed if the body is capable of making new cells to replace the old ones on a regular basis.

Hence, it is a fact that anti aging vitamins are the real foundations of our lives as they help people live better and longer. People just need to take them on a daily basis throughout their lives the results are there for everyone to see.

This is easier than it seems as once a person develops a habit of taking vitamins in the morning along with breakfast; it is extremely simple to follow. The best part is that a number of reputed organizations now provide over the counter vitamins of top quality.

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How to Extend a Life Span by Using Anti Aging Vitamins

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

As years pass by, we become older and older. We all want to look young and want to live long. Let us talk about some tips to add to out anti aging program to help us to extend our life span.

1. The key to extend life span is detoxification.

Before you start any anti aging therapies, make sure that your body is completely free from toxins and you have a clean body. A complete medical check up analysis of your body systems is essential to know about your health and long life.

Major diseases of body is because of an overload of toxic which is added because of chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, carcinogens, parasites, fungi, bacteria, worms and viruses. They lead to cellular dysfunction of our bodies.

The most important part in your life should be to detoxify your body to extend your life span. Start to detox your body and you will increase the chances of avoiding diseases in your life. Do not wait for disease and health to start.

2. Reduction of Inflammation

Inflammation is a cause of aging and disease. An overreaction of the immune system leads to premature aging and early death. Taking a daily dose of anti inflammatory reduces the risk of heart problem. In a survey done, it was found that more than a million people die from heart problem every year only in US.

Level of inflammation can be checked by a simple blood test. It is slow killing of your body without you even knowing it. Proper steps should be taken to reduce inflammation.

3. Blood sugar level

Blood sugar plays an important role in you health. As age goes, you will develop poor health if you do not keep a check on your blood sugar level. Each time your blood sugar level goes high, your body becomes like a blow torch which turns up. This happens frequently when your age a high and it results in damaging your body cells, arteries, heart and also your brain.

It is very important to keep a check on your blood sugar level.

4. Hormones balance

When it comes to anti aging, hormones play an important role. Hormones regulated your body functions and it they are not balanced, your body will become imbalanced.

Hormone imbalance will make you feel unwell. You will gain more weight. Heart problem will shoot up. You will age much faster than your age.

If you want to extend your life span, keep a check on your hormones level. It will help you to lead a healthy and happy long life. It is the best anti aging vitamin for a longer life span.

5. Exercise

Exercise makes you three times less pron to have heart diseases. It is the potent therapy of anti aging. But it is sad that very few people do exercise on a daily basis.

Exercise which includes oxygen therapy is a very powerful tool to fight with anti aging. It should be done at least three times a week to fight anti aging.

Prevention is better than cure. If you take proper care of yourself from the right time, you will extend your life span.

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How to Find Affordable Skin Anti-Aging Face Supplements?

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Anti-aging skin care are expensive creams which are labeled in the market. Everyone can pay any cost to look young and beautiful. Manufacturers take undue advantage of this and price their products at a high rate. Moreover, good anti-aging skin care products contain ingredients which are expensive. This also makes them charged at a high price. But not all men and women can afford them.

Anti-aging skin products are made by the most high research and levels of ingredients which penetrate through layers of skin to make it look younger. Money is required to make them. They carry prices which match them.

What is the solution if you want a younger skin, but you are not willing to pay high prices? There are some antiaging products which are available in the market at a reasonable price. Many manufacturers are ready to sell them at a reasonable price as they know that more sales means more profits. They like for the long run. But the question is how do you know which affordable anti-aging product will work? Paying less will not lessen your wrinkles.

Here are a few tips which to create anti aging skin care on a budget.

1. Combine the products. Buy a cleanser which also acts like a toner. There are many daily moisturizers which also plays the role of a night cream.

2. Use only four products for your routine skin care- a combines cleanser and toner, an anti aging moisturiser which can be used for all purpose, an exfoliator and an eye cream.

3. Try to buy the products online to avail offers and guaranteed prices. Take the advantage of returns if required. Avail the advantage of free deliveries by buying all the required items at once.

4. Once you know which product to buy, check other online stores for their offers. Some give gifts and samples with multiple sales. Try buying more than one.

5. Try to buy only the reputed products of anti aging products.

These tips will help you to find affordable skin anti aging face supplements. If you want to look good and young, you will require to use the anti aging skin care products.

Always remember to check on what you are using. Natural skin care products give more impressive results. Most skin care products have unnatural chemicals which harm the skin. Do not let this happen. Some products may give good results in the short time, but are harmful for longer run. Skin is very expensive and needs good and proper care.

But if you stick to certain natural skin care products, you will remain to look younger. Add good and proper diet in your daily meals. Make them a routine in your life. Drink lots of water as it helps to flush out the toxins from your body. Exercise on a daily basis and sleep well. Theses must be done on regular basis along with the application of the anti aging skin products for an excellent result.

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