Scientific studies, some conducted at Yale University,  have shown that green tea can significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and even reduce the size of tumors. It has been used for thousands of years in China, India, Thailand, Japan and other Eastern countries as a general health tonic, much like ginseng, without significant negative side-effects. And like ginseng, science is only beginning to discover its incredible anti aging health benefits.

Here’s a nice little ditty about the Japanese spiritual relationship to tea ceremonies, a very special part of their culture. ” In japan, the traditional japanese tea ceremony is a chance for friends to gather in a harmonious environment and reflect upon the simple joys of friendship and the beauty of nature.”

Beyond cancer additional research has shown that green tea increases the heart’s resistance to vascular diseases, increases life span, cleanses the body of toxins and strengthens your immune system. Green tea can even fight gingivitis (gum disease) and prevent your teeth from getting cavities.

Even better for most people, green tea delays and reduces the onset of wrinkles as we age. This keeps us looking younger and healthier, which helps from getting a job to getting [...]]]>

Anti-Aging

Scientific studies, some conducted at Yale University,  have shown that green tea can significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and even reduce the size of tumors. It has been used for thousands of years in China, India, Thailand, Japan and other Eastern countries as a general health tonic, much like ginseng, without significant negative side-effects. And like ginseng, science is only beginning to discover its incredible anti aging health benefits.

Here’s a nice little ditty about the Japanese spiritual relationship to tea ceremonies, a very special part of their culture. ” In japan, the traditional japanese tea ceremony is a chance for friends to gather in a harmonious environment and reflect upon the simple joys of friendship and the beauty of nature.”

Beyond cancer additional research has shown that green tea increases the heart’s resistance to vascular diseases, increases life span, cleanses the body of toxins and strengthens your immune system. Green tea can even fight gingivitis (gum disease) and prevent your teeth from getting cavities.

Even better for most people, green tea delays and reduces the onset of wrinkles as we age. This keeps us looking younger and healthier, which helps from getting a job to getting a mate. Green tea is known to enhance wakefulness, facilitates the formation of better ideas, decreases tiredness and relaxes the muscles of the body.

Green tea:  stronger than Black tea?

They are processed differently. Both teas contains an enzyme that oxidates them, meaning if they sit around they get destroyed. But the the process of steaming and heating green tea stops this oxidation process earlier than with black tea, which goes through additional processing that destroys some of the flavonoids (polyphenols) unique to tea such as thearubigins, epicatechins, catechins and other antioxidants, and causes leaves to turn dark brown or even red.

“Flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds that are ubiquitous in nature and are categorized, according to chemical structure, into flavonols, flavones, flavanones, isoflavones, catechins, anthocyanidins and chalcones.”

Green tea leaves are not, as are black tea leaves, fermented; they are naturally processed and steamed. Black and other teas are additionally subjected to a mashing and fermenting procedure, which degrades the antioxidants in them. A catechin called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (egcg) is  responsible for some of the healthy effects of green tea, and is great for boosting metabolism for those who want to lose weight. So it’s true, green tea is one of the most potent of all the teas.

Acai juice is a increasingly popular diet and nutritional health supplement and has acquired its outstanding reputation because of its healing and astounding nutritional qualities. For example, the ORAC rating of acai berry – which means how much antioxidant power it has – is an astonishing 167, while blueberries are a 44 and apples only a 14, by comparison.

Although limited scientific research has been done because they are natural foods and cannot be patented by pharmaceutical companies, thousands of people have given testimonial to their nutritional powers. As another example, in preleminary scientific studies (in culture, not on humans), acai berry destroyed cancer cells 86% of the time. This will probably prove to have similar benefits in human experiments.

All of these natural fruit berries – goji, noni and acai berry- have a long history of healing and nutritional use in their [...]]]> Goji, blueberries, strawberries and Noni are all very popular berries, but what if you discovered that there was another berry that may be much more powerful in its health and wellness properties? What if it could help prevent disease – including cancer – improve energy, help you lose weight, aid in digestion and digestive problems, and increase mental concentration?

Acai juice is a increasingly popular diet and nutritional health supplement and has acquired its outstanding reputation because of its healing and astounding nutritional qualities. For example, the ORAC rating of acai berry – which means how much antioxidant power it has – is an astonishing 167, while blueberries are a 44 and apples only a 14, by comparison.

Although limited scientific research has been done because they are natural foods and cannot be patented by pharmaceutical companies, thousands of people have given testimonial to their nutritional powers. As another example, in preleminary scientific studies (in culture, not on humans), acai berry destroyed cancer cells 86% of the time. This will probably prove to have similar benefits in human experiments.

All of these natural fruit berries – goji, noni and acai berry- have a long history of healing and nutritional use in their native homelands going back hundreds or even thousands of years, despite having only recently been discovered by those of us in the west. Acai berry grows on the acai palm trees in the amazon rain forest of brazil, Peru, and some regions of Central America, where it is a large and integral part of their diet. These natural juices have been packaged and now being imported for both the diet and natural health nutrition conscious consumer.

Acai berry is rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, which have become so popular now in products like fish oil. These fatty acids, particularly the omega-3 (DHA and EPA), help increase your metabolism. The faster your metabolism, the faster your body burns fat, so a higher, more active metabolism helps you to lose weight naturally, without even exercising, and achieve superior results with your weight loss diets faster than just dieting alone through calorie restriction.

So by providing omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, the acai berry brings you all the benefits of these highly nutritional and healing fats, the incredible benefits of which I will discuss in another article. But it is easy to see why acai berry is now used in many weight loss diet pills.

In addition, natural fiber in acai berry improves digestion, in part because it contains important digestive enzymes that help you break down food for absorption into your system. Too many people, particularly in the West, but increasingly in the East as we export our McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chickens around the world, eat too much overly-processed junk food containing very high levels of hydrogenated oils. These oils are considered the most unhealthy kind of fats in our diet. Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils contain high levels of very unhealthy trans fat.

These harmful trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils raise our levels of “bad” cholesterol and lower the “good” cholesterol in our bodies. Trans fats are usually found in what we typically think of as junk food: french fries, microwave popcorn, and most commercial brands (inorganic) of cookies, potato chips, doritos, peanut butter, crackers – most foods fried or manufactured with these damaging oils.

Avoid foods made with hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. Your body cannot easily digest foods processed with trans fats, which are typically high in carbohydrates but low in fiber, and these trans fats cause damage to your blood vessels. Improperly digested food builds up in your intestines which your body can’t eliminate effectively, so a lot of it gets absorbed into your body and you gain more weight. Fiber helps prevent the absorption of calories into your bloodstream from your intestines.

The trans fats in the partially hydrogenated oils causes plaque to build up in your blood vessels, which leads to strokes and heart attacks. Also, improperly digested foods become compacted in your colon, causing blockage, and poisons from the undigested, rotting foods leak back into your body, causing many diseases.

Now we have all heard how terrible cholesterol is for health, right? Anything with cholesterol is bad and must be avoided? But if the most important adrenal hormone in your entire body – and the most potent memory enhancer known to science – is produced from cholesterol, how could cholesterol be so bad for you?

The answer is that cholesterol in itself is not bad, but the sources you get it from in your food or supplements are very important. There are good and bad sources of cholesterol. For example, natural butter is much healthier than synthetic margarine. And don’t eat foods cooked with unhealthy trans-fats, like companies such as McDonalds and KFC, etc. did for years even after the scientific evidence was overwhelming that they should stop because it was causing heart and other diseases.

Pregnenolone has been shown to have very few side-effects, and is [...]]]> Pregnenolone is called the “mother hormone” or “the brain hormone” because it is converted from cholesterol by the body in the mitochondria of the cell and is the primary hormone of the Adrenal gland. That means that all other adrenal hormones – from dhea to testosterone to estrogen, mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids – are produced from Pregnenolone.

Now we have all heard how terrible cholesterol is for health, right? Anything with cholesterol is bad and must be avoided? But if the most important adrenal hormone in your entire body – and the most potent memory enhancer known to science – is produced from cholesterol, how could cholesterol be so bad for you?

The answer is that cholesterol in itself is not bad, but the sources you get it from in your food or supplements are very important. There are good and bad sources of cholesterol. For example, natural butter is much healthier than synthetic margarine. And don’t eat foods cooked with unhealthy trans-fats, like companies such as McDonalds and KFC, etc. did for years even after the scientific evidence was overwhelming that they should stop because it was causing heart and other diseases.

Pregnenolone has been shown to have very few side-effects, and is one of the safest supplements in the medical literature. “Despite its powerful metabolites, pregnenolone is acknowledged to be without significant side effects, with minimal or no anabolic, estrogenic or androgenic activity.”

However, one word of warning. It is thought that about 5% of people who take pregnenolone are prone to developing skin rashes. These are not dangerous, but if you should develop a skin rash, try reducing your dose or discontinue altogether. The rash will go away as soon as you stop taking pregnenolone.

Pregnenolone is a hormone, which are powerful substances, so it should always be taken carefully and in moderation. Again, listen to your body. Most women age 30-45 respond well to 5-10mg a day. Women age 45-60 do well on 10-25mg daily.

Men can take more since they have naturally higher levels of certain adrenal hormones like dhea, which is made directly from prenenolone. So men age 30-45 can take 10-25mg a day while men 45 and above do well on 25-50mg a day, and for someone who is really aged or fighting a disease, 100mg or more are sometimes advised.

Pregnenolone is primarily found in and active in the brain. It is incredibly good for your brain, and is considered the most potent memory enhancer ever discovered, some say by a factor of 100. That means it is 100 times more powerful at enhancing your memory than anything else ever found. It also naturally increases mental alertness.

Its not surprising that pregnenolone has been proven effective at preventing and treating dementia and alzheimer’s disease, as well as other nerve disorders as it has been proven effective at enhancing and protecting nerve cell growth. It can enhance your overall mood and feelings of motivation and improve sleep. Melatonin is the sleep hormone and will be discussed another article.

There is growing evidence that pregnenolone helps to strengthen the immune system also

Pregnenolone has been shown to stimulate the growth of dendrites in the brain, which are the branch-like strings that grow out of the neurons and make connections with other neurons. That means pregnenolone makes your brain more powerful, better connected, and smarter, because your brain can work more efficiently. It has alo shown effective at lessening anxiety.

Because estrogen is made almost directly from pregnenolone, estrogen-deficient women often are low in pregnenolone, as are people who are depressed and lacking energy. Studies in the military have shown that soldiers have more stamina, can stay awake longer and function better, and deal with stress better when supplementing with pregnenolone.

In fact, pregnenolone is a very powerful anti-infammatory. 50 or so years ago, before the pharmaceutical companies began peddling their prescription poisons to an unsuspecting public, pregnenolone was widely prescribed by doctors to treat arthritis because of its anti-inflammatory properties. It is very effective against rheumatoid arthritis, and has been shown to reduce pain and swelling. This should slow, halt, or even reverse some symptoms of the disease.