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Women's Holistic Health: Simple Effective Ways to Achieve Optimal Digestion

Women’s Holistic Health: Simple Effective Ways to Achieve Optimal Digestion

Digestion is a major problem in 21st century lifestyle. Everybody is too busy to sit down and eat properly, or healthily and there is a massive increase in colon cancer cases.  The question we must ask of ourselves is why does this happen? Followed by what can I do about it?  Why Indigestion?  Let’s start with why does this happen because this has far wider implications than mere indigestion.  Indigestion is nothing more than a symptom that your digestive juices are not performing the function that they are designed to perform.  In a nutshell that means that your body is not disposing of excess or waste products. This causes indigestion, heartburn etc. It also assists in putting on weight and…

Free Radicals: The Benefits of Antioxidants & Highly Sourced Foods that Fight Agin

Free Radicals: The Benefits of Antioxidants & Highly Sourced Foods that Fight Aging

Ever wondered how you get all those wrinkles? Those annoying crow’s feet at the corners of your eyes? Or those laugh lines around your mouth?  Sure, these things are but part of the normal aging process. But what causes aging anyway? And is there anyway to retard it? In biological systems, the normal processes of oxidation are what lead to aging. Oxidation causes the production of substances called free radicals which are highly reactive.  These free radicals can readily react with and damage other molecules. Note that it says “molecules” so that means free radicals don’t make the distinction between foreign bodies and healthy cells.  And when free radicals start attacking the body’s own cells, you can guess what the…

Getting Our Minds Around Mental Health & Essential Facts of Bipolar Disorder

Mental Illness: Getting Our Minds Around The Facts A recent survey by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) found that many people know little or almost nothing about the warning signs, causes and effective treatments for mental illnesses-even though in any given year, one in five Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder. Each year, more people suffer from a mental illness than from cancer and diabetes combined. Research shows that mental illnesses are caused by genetic and environmental factors, traumatic events and other physical illnesses and injuries. Yet one-third of Americans mistakenly believe emotional or personal weakness is a major cause of common mental illnesses and almost as many think old age is a major cause. As a result, many…

Women’s Health: Hormonal Imbalance & Restoring it the Natural Safer Way

Women’s Health: Hormonal Imbalance & Restoring it the Natural Safer Way

A number of novels and stories of the early 18th and 19th centuries often portray women as mad and irrational beings, thus, espousing the creation of mad women literature.  But, modern medicine dispels this “mad” attribute. By establishing that women’s hormones are more sensitive and susceptible to change than that of men, more attention is given to female health.  Menstruation, menopause, PMS, and perimenopause – these are all part and parcel of general health topics related to women.  Aside from that similarity of being part of female health, these phenomena are due to one thing: hormonal changes.  Hormones are fickle, they change with the slightest variation in diets or physical activity. Sometimes even emotional upheavals are enough to make women’s…

Decrease Your Risk: Simple Steps to Avoid and Prevent Common Cancers

Decrease Your Risk: Simple Steps to Avoid and Prevent Common Cancers

With its fairly unique characteristics, cancer strikes intense fear in many people and all would like to find ways to prevent and avoid cancer. Obviously, any disease that is a) fatal, b) incurable and c) derived from unknown causes will earn a position of esteemed concern among the general public. The faulty basis regarding the incurability of cancer is something you will find in my most recent book, but for now let us acknowledge that most people believe this to be true. Cancer is a unique illness, in that it is created within our cells, by our cells. Damaged DNA causes a cell to divide without limits, producing more cells with damaged DNA that divide without limits.  Soon, the cells…