Vaccines are Safe and Effective and Prevent Disease

One of the primary problems with vaccines in general is their detrimental impact on your body’s primary, natural defense against ALL disease. Vaccines can over-stimulate your child’s immune system, sometimes causing the very disease it’s designed to protect against, or worse. And, when several vaccines are administered together, or in close succession, their interaction may completely overwhelm your child’s developing immune system.

Fluoride in Your Water Lowers Your Risk of Cavities

There is practically no difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries, and no difference between states that have a high- or low percentage of their water fluoridated. Meanwhile, fluoride can cause significant harm, from dental fluorosis to thyroid damage to reduced IQ… and much more.

GMOs Crops are Safe, Well Tested and Economically Beneficial

GMOs may be the greatest health disaster in the American diet. Millions may already be suffering health problems caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their diet. Many studies that show GMOs cause disorders such as vital organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system problems, accelerated aging, infertility, and dysfunctional regulation of insulin and cholesterol.

Sun Causes Skin Cancer

Appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. Melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens. Vitamin D formed in your skin from exposure to sunlight provides built in cancer protection. Instead, sun avoidance and the excessive use of sun screen are actually the two primary reasons for the rise in melanoma.

Artificial Sweeteners are Safe, Well Tested and Help Promote Weight Loss

Studies that have carefully analyzed their effectiveness show that those who use artificial sweeteners actually gain more weight than those who consume caloric sweeteners. There are also a large number of health dangers associated with artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame, known as Splenda, Sweet & Low and Equal, served on the tables of almost every restaurant in the country.

Soy is a Health Food

Unfermented soy products are NOT healthful additions to your diet. On the contrary, thousands of studies have linked unfermented soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility—even cancer and heart disease. Not only that, but more than 90 percent of American soy crops are genetically modified, which carries its own set of health risks.

Whole Grains are Good for Everyone

ALL grains, including whole-grain and organic varieties, can elevate your insulin levels, which can increase your risk of disease, such as Obesity, Diabetes, High blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Many people face gluten intolerance also. You should eliminate grains and sugars from your diet, especially if you have any of the above conditions. Eat as your ancestors ate: toxin free meat, poultry, fish, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.

Milk Does Your Body Good.

Don’t drink pasteurized milk of any kind, including organic, because once milk has been pasteurized its physical structure is changed in a way that can actually cause allergies and immune problems. Milk contains pituitary hormones, steroid hormones, thyroid and parathyroid hormones, gastrointestinal peptides, growth factors, growth inhibitors, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria and viruses. It doesn’t even build strong bones!

From www.mercola.com

RICO’S COMMENTS: Everyone of these myths are spread by propaganda from agencies, corporations and medical associations to do two things…….. make money on the misinformation they are spreading around the country, and to make us sicker so they can make money off of us.  Most people I talk to are ignorant of many of the above myths and think they are being healthy by following this false information. You always have to get your information from unbiased sources that will not make any money from what they tell you. Do your homework. If you correct all of the above myths you will be well on your way to optimal health.

Chronic diseases—such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes—are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. Chronic diseases account for 70% of all deaths in the U.S., which is 1.7 million each year.

Think about this—7 out of every 10 deaths!!!!!

These diseases also cause major limitations in daily living for almost 1 out of 10 Americans or about 25 million people. Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly health problems, they are also among the most preventable. Adopting healthy behaviors such as eating nutritious foods, being physically active, and avoiding alcohol and tobacco use can prevent or control the devastating effects of these diseases.

If everyone exercised regularly, ate a balanced diet and didn’t smoke and drank alcohol in moderation we could virtually wipe out most of these deaths resulting from chronic disease!

Somehow we feel bullet proof or we just don’t give a damn or don’t until we experience a stroke, heart attack or get diabetes. I still, for the life of me, can’t figure out our ignorance and “blind eye” attitude about our health and our everyday practices that will eventually lead us to bad health and a miserable life. Just what don’t you get people??? This is what will happen to each one of you if you live a sedentary lifestyle and eat like crap—tons of sugar, salt, and saturated fat.

Tim Russert, national TV journalist dropped dead of cardiovascular disease a few weeks ago. He was 58 and had no prior history of bad health. That is the exact way it happens….you just drop dead, JUST LIKE THAT! Chances are you won’t even get a warning. You will be here one day and gone the next. This article is meant to scare you! To make you sit up and realize the path you’re headed down.

If you ever decide to take responsibility for your health and take action, go to amazon.com and get my book:

                            TOTAL HEALTH FOR LIFE

                                   MIND AND BODY

               THE BABY BOOMER’S BIBLE OF HEALTH

Following this program will lessen the risk of a host of ills, such as diabetes, osteoporosis, some types of cancer, and cardiovascular problems. It will also lower bad cholesterol, raise good cholesterol, and boost your metabolism. Along with these physical benefits, an improvement in self-image, self-esteem, and confidence will accrue.

Most of your life centers around the relationships you have with your loved ones, family, friends, and associates. If you plan on being around to enjoy these relationships, you need a good relationship with yourself, your mind, heart and body.

Don’t you have the desire to live the best quality of life possible? If you don’t then you are cheating yourself. Make TODAY the day you make the commitment to finally take action.

Please have your friends sign up for my FREE bi-weekly newsletter at www.totalhealth4life.net to keep up on current health issues and how to stay on track with the many changes in our society that effect your health in very important ways.

Rico Connor

When it comes to running long distances, Dr. Siegel was right on the mark when he said, “Your body doesn’t know whether you’ve run a marathon, or been hit by a truck.”

And the “inflammatory storm” triggered by the stress of running a marathon creates the exact same symptoms as heart disease.

The media glosses right over this kind of stuff. But the message is clear: Your body was not designed for monotonous, continuous running.

What happens is that your body reacts to the “injury” you’re inflicting on it – running – with an adaptive emergency-repair response. Your adrenal glands and brain produce the stress hormones cortisol and vasopressin. Your damaged muscles churn out cytokines, which trigger inflammation throughout your body. Even your heart gets damaged.

In one study they tested the blood of 60 marathon finishers and found that after the race, some runners’ hearts had trouble pumping the blood back out to the lungs. They also found increased pressure in the heart, enzymes leaking through the heart’s membrane, and heart cell injury.¹

This happens because routinely forcing your body to perform the same continuous cardiovascular challenge, by repeating the same movement, at the same rate, thousands of times over, without variation, without rest, is unnatural.

Adding repeated “cardio” to our busy days and pushing for greater endurance produces the opposite result of what we need in the modern world.

We’re only supposed to be running to save our lives – a fight or flight situation where you produce astronomical amounts of hormones to either fight or escape from danger. And here we are, running when there is no need to.

Sure, you can train for endurance, but nobody ever stopped to think if you should. If they had, they would have realized that the long-term consequence is that running robs your heart and lungs of their capacity, or power, and trades that power in for efficiency.

But your body wasn’t designed to be an efficient little scooter. It’s built more like a Ferrari: powerful bursts over short distances with plenty of reserve power when you need it.

But the flip side of that is that there’s a lot of power in your adaptive response. In fact, it’s the key to rebuilding the heart power the modern world has taken from you.

www.alsearmd.com

RICO’S COMMENTS:

I get bashed from lots of long distance runners in one of my You Tube videos on this subject. I’m not making this up. I learn from several of the brightest health and fitness guys out there. They all appear to be saying the same thing. Don’t forget about the wear and tear put on your knees, back, joints and ligaments with years of long distance running too. They way to good health is doing what is natural for our bodies, like eating clean, live, raw foods and organic meats/poultry, and getting the right kind of exercise. Look at pictures of athletes that train with variations of HIIT and long distance runners. Who looks healthier? Who looks skinny and frail? Having lean muscle mass has many health benefits and is an important part of being optimally healthy.

The fact that statin drugs cause side effects is well established – there are now 900 studies proving their adverse effects, which run the gamut from muscle problems to diabetes, to birth defects and increased cancer risk. Dangers of statindrugs include, but are not limited to, a potential increase in liverenzymes so patients must be monitored for normal liver function,muscle aches, weakness, immune system suppression,  and a serious degenerative muscle tissuecondition called rhabdomyolysis.

Having a healthy diet with little to no grains and sugars will work in the majority of cases to lower your cholesterol. On a side note, eliminating sugar and grains will inevitably cause beneficial side effects, such as normalizing your weight, increasingyour energy and lowering your blood pressure and triglycerides.

from www.mercola.com

RICO’S COMMENTS:

Why do you think I recommend the Paleoithic Diet? NO GRAINS OR SUGAR. It’s the reason that during the Paleo Era CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DIABETES AND CANCER  were non existent! Will your doctor tell you anything about natural cures? NEVER. It doesn’t make them or the drug companies any money.

DISEASE IS BIG BUSINESS

DRUGS NEVER CURE ANY DISEASE …. THEY ONLY MASK THE SYMPTOMS AS THE DISEASE KEEPS ON GROWING

When it comes to cholesterol, the truth is as long as your HDL (good cholesterol) is high enough, you have little if any risk of heart disease. And potentially no need for assistance from prescription meds. Not only that, but it’s showed that raising HDL can reduce coronary disease regardless of LDL cholesterol. That’s because HDL removes plaque from your arteries. And it’s plaque buildup that really causes heart disease and heart attacks – not cholesterol.

www.alsears.com

Your body requires cholesterol to survive, which is why it produces it. The fact that your body naturally makes some cholesterol, and uses it for producing cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help you digest fats, among many other things, it is a major clue that cholesterol is necessary and beneficial for your health. Cholesterol is essential for synthesizing a number of critical hormones, including the sex hormones testosterone, progesterone and estrogen.

Low cholesterol–whether due to an innate error of metabolism or induced by cholesterol-lowering diets and drugs–can be expected to disrupt the production of adrenal hormones and lead to:

www.mercola.com

RICO’S COMMENTS: Make sure you always get your health information from independent sources that have no monetary gain from studies and research that they have funded. Western medicine is notorious for creating symptoms that require drugs to treat, even when the “symptoms” aren’t dangerous to you. Sad but true. High Cholesterol being a factor in cardiovascular disease is a MYTH. Cholesterol is essential for good health. My cholesterol is perfect and I eat raw cage free eggs and grass fed beef all the time. Don’t believe the hype.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optimizing your vitamin D levels may be one of the most important steps you can take in support of your long-term health. There’s overwhelming evidence that vitamin D is a key player in your overall health. This is understandable when you consider that it is not “just” a vitamin; it’s actually a neuroregulatory steroidal hormone that influences nearly 3,000 different genes in your body. Receptors that respond to the vitamin have been found in almost every type of human cell, from your brain to your bones.

Just one example of an important gene that vitamin D up-regulates is your ability to fight infections, as well as chronic inflammation. It produces over 200 antimicrobial peptides, the most important of which is cathelicidin, a naturally occurring broad-spectrum antibiotic. This is one of the explanations for why it can be so effective against colds and influenza.

The truth is, vitamin D from sun exposure or a safe tanning bed is the BEST way to optimize your vitamin D levels. Safe tanning beds have electronic ballasts rather than magnetic ballasts, which helps you avoid unnecessary exposure to health-harming EMF fields. They also have less of the dangerous UVA than sunlight, while unsafe ones have more UVA than sunlight.

Vitamin D Dosage Recommendations

If appropriate tanning is not feasible, then you’ll be wise to consider an oral vitamin D3 supplement. According to the most recent findings by Carole Baggerly, founder of GrassrootsHealth, her research of nearly 10,000 people shows the ideal adult dose appears to be 8,000 IU’s a day to get most into the healthy range. Just remember to get your vitamin D levels tested regularly if you take an oral supplement.

That said, keeping a close eye on your vitamin D levels is a wise move for most. The widespread vitamin D deficiency seen today is now thought to fuel an astonishingly diverse array of common chronic diseases, including:

Cancer	Hypertension	Heart disease
Autism	Obesity	Rheumatoid arthritis
Diabetes 1 and 2	Multiple Sclerosis	Crohn’s disease
Cold & Flu	Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Tuberculosis
Septicemia	Signs of aging	Dementia
Eczema & Psoriasis	Insomnia	Hearing loss
Muscle pain	Cavities	Periodontal disease
Osteoporosis	Macular degeneration	Reduced C-section risk
Pre eclampsia	Seizures	Infertility
Asthma	Cystic fibrosis	Migraines
Depression	Alzheimer’s disease	Schizophrenia

 

 

RICO’S COMMENTS: I take 10,000 IUs a day of D3. I don’t just want average levels of such an important vitamin in my body. I want optimal. I also tan outside when I can and use Mercola’s safe indoor tanning wall 10 minutes a day. You don’t have to hit me over the head with a hammer to make me realize the importance of having optimal levels in my body! I’ll never figure out how anyone that learns this doesn’t at least go get D3 to supplement with, knowing they aren’t out in the sun hardly at all and don’t do indoor tanning too. Like I always say “Knowledge is Power”. What you choose to do with your knowledge will define who you are as a person and what your state of health will be in the future.

YOU MIGHT NOT CARE NOW ….. BUT YOU WILL IN THE FUTURE.

 

Family history. Obesity. Diabetes. High blood pressure.

These are some of the more commonly recognized risk factors for heart disease. But there’s one risk factor you may not know about… and it has nothing to do with your family genetics.

The number-one risk factor for heart disease is high homocysteine levels.

You see, in normal situations, homocysteine is just a harmless amino acid. But if your levels get too high it can:

• Block blood flow by triggering inflammation across your body
• Damage the lining of your arteries
• Prevent the dilation of your blood vessels
• Increase the chance of blood clots

But you have the power to completely get your homocysteine under control. And help cut your risk of heart disease and extend your life – right now.

One way to know if you’re at risk is by getting your homocysteine levels checked with a simple blood test from your doctor. I personally like to keep my patients’ levels at 7 or below.

Another way to help keep your homocysteine in check and protect yourself from heart disease is to ramp up your levels of vitamin B.

Vitamins B6, B9 (also known as folic acid or folate) and B12 all help to convert homocysteine into methionine, the good guy.

Methionine is one of the building blocks of protein. And without enough levels of B vitamins in your system, your body can’t convert homocysteine to methionine efficiently. This can lead to an overload of homocysteine racing through your blood.

RICO’S COMMENTS:

I take a very good multi B vitamin, CoQ10, Arjuna, and many supplements that help with heart health. One of my newest supplements is Trimethylglycine (Betaine). Betaine reduces blood levels of homocysteine, a toxic breakdown product of amino-acid metabolism that is believed to promote atherosclerosis and osteoporosis. While the main nutrients involved in controlling homocysteine levels are folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12, betaine has been reported to be helpful in some people whose elevated homocysteine levels did not improve with these other nutrients. My homocysteine level on a recent blood test was 4.6 which is well below Dr. Sears level of 7. I do an extensive blood test every 3 months to check all levels of things in my body.

Your heart is one of the most important organs in your body. Your heart is your life. How does aerobic fitness relate to it? The heart becomes strong through use, like any other muscle. If placed under stress via aerobic exercise, it responds by enlarging and becoming more powerful. As a result, your resting heart rate is lowered. This is good. If it’s relatively low, it means your heart doesn’t have to work as hard to get blood around your body and that means your heart is in pretty good shape.
The unconditioned heart requires seventy to one hundred beats per minute at rest to do its job. The average resting heart rate is about seventy-two beats per minute. The conditioned heart pumps between thirty and sixty beats per minute at rest, pumping the same amount of blood as the unconditioned heart does at seventy to one hundred beats per minute. As we can see, the conditioned heart pumps far fewer times to get the job done and therefore suffers much less wear and tear than the unconditioned heart.

Try this test to see what kind of shape your heart is in next time you hit the gym. I do HIIT on a treadmill after my workout. I sprint for 20 to 30 seconds at around 11/12 speed and then I walk at around a 2 speed for a minute. That is one set. I do 5 to 7 sets and I”m done in just 10 to 14 minutes. This FAR outweighs the benefits of that 45 minute to an hour boring, medium pace walk that people do in all the gyms (like robots, never gaining any results).

When you finish your last set, walk at a slow 1.5 pace and put your hands on the heart rate grips. When your heart rate shows up note it and look down at the time on the machine. Now subtract 30 from your heart rate and time one minute from that point. If your heart is in great shape, when the minute is up your heart rate should have slowed down by 30 beats a minute. The heart health is in how fast it can recover after being  stressed out. This will give you a starting point at which to aim for.

Rico Connor

Excerpts from Total Health For Life

In 1988 three researchers were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for 

their discovery of the gas, Nitric Oxide. Nitric Oxide is a free 

form gas that is produced in the body and is used by the body to 

communicate with other cells in the body. 

The production of Nitric Oxide occurs when the amino acid 

L-arginine is converted into L-citruline through an enzyme 

group known as Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS). 

Nitric Oxide controls the circulation of blood, transmits 

messages between nerve cells, and is a mediator of 

inflammation.

Nitric Oxide Benefits

The fact that nitric oxide increases blood flow should make it 

of interest to bodybuilders, as increased blood flow will serve 

to deliver more nutrients to muscles, thus helping muscles 

become larger when subject to stress. The fact that Nitric 

Oxide acts to reduce inflammation should also make it of interest 

to bodybuilders as it has the potential to reduce the pain 

associated with subjecting muscles to extreme stress.

Nitric Oxide also affects the endocrine system. It affects the 

release of gonadotroptin releasing hormone, as well as the 

release of adrenaline from the adrenal medulla. 

People supplementing with Nitric Oxide are feeling pumped

up all the time and growing like never before. But if that

wasn't enought, there are also the following health 

benefits.

Nitric Oxide Health

Nitric Oxide is essential for healthy circulation.  It helps 

dilate blood vessels, prevent blood clots and regulate blood 

pressure.  It also helps inhibit the accumulation of dangerous 

arterial plaque.  

Nitric Oxide may help prevent heart disease and stroke in 

the following ways:  

Expanding blood vessels:  Nitric oxide protects the blood 

vessels' smooth muscle tissue from harmful constriction.  

This allows the flexibility necessary for blood to circulate 

with less pressure.  

Controlling platelet function: An efficient vascular network 

that is enhanced by nitric oxide sheds platelets and inhibits 

dangerous clots.

Reducing arterial plaque by 50%:  Nitric oxide is an effective 

antioxidant that inhibits the passage of monocytes, a type of 

immune cell, into the artery wall.  This reduces the underlying 

inflammation that promotes plaque.  

Lowering total Cholesterol by 10% to 20%:  Nitric oxide 

lowers Cholesterol through its naturally protective antioxidant 

activity. Preliminary research suggests that stimulating nitric 

oxide production in individuals who have elevated Cholesterol 

levels, makes it possible to lower their prescriptive statin 

d rug dosages by at least 50%.    

Unfortunately, beginning in early adulthood, nitric oxide 

levels gradually decline, most often due to damage to the 

endothelial cells caused by such factors as a high-fat diet 

and a sedentary lifestyle.  

Daily intake of specific nutritional supplements that increase

production of nitric oxide in the blood vessels are beneficial. 

Bryan Kernan is the author of "Bodybuilding Supplement 

Secrets Revealed!" 

http://www.trulyhuge.com/SupplementSecrets/

RICO’S COMMENTS:


Beginning in early adulthood, nitric oxide levels naturally decline, hence
the need to supplement regularly with nitric oxide supplements!  As you can 
see the benefits are not only good for bodybuilders, but for EVERYONE! The key 
to good health is balancing your hormones and SUPPLEMENTING with the things that 
your body naturally produces that decline with age: MELATONIN, TESTOSTERONE, GABA, 
DHEA, NITRIC OXIDE, DIGESTIVE ENZYMES, etc.
In today’s modern times full of pollution, stress, nutritionally inferior food,
pesticides, toxins in everything we put on our bodies, free radicals, etc. it is
ESSENTIAL to supplement to combat these factors.
  

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