Healthy Eating Recipes: Eating Superfoods and Super Supplements

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Ok, this is a brand new blog. However, we are not new to the internet or the topic of health.  But, what makes us different is we PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH. . Everything we discuss here, I have personally tried and experienced great (sometimes unbelievable) benefits to my health and well being.    Hence, we are not just pushing products, we are enjoying extraordinary health benefits from everything we discuss here, because WE USE IT OURSELVES! …….. ……..

It all started about 25 years ago when I first adopted a vitamin supplemented diet to my own daily regiment.  However, if I said taking vitamins was a big breakthrough or that I noticed any obvious benefit from taking vitamins daily, I would NOT be engaging in honest dialogue here.  You see like the majority of the population I was addicted to fast (and semi-fast) foods for many years.  What was quick and fun was priority over long term health 0r detriment to my health.  For years I could not understand WHY even though I worked out almost everyday, I was not maintaining a steady weight or experiencing a very healthy life. It seemed that I was getting sick too many times a year for a guy who obsessively worked out five days a week (running 20-30 miles a week). 

What I would like to first discuss with you is one of the most significant and recognized anti-aging supplement maybe to ever surface on the market, Resveratrol. Again, this is not from a salesman pushing a product, but from someone who has followed all the anti-aging “miracle” products, including never-ending “youth creams”  that seem to surface every other day for several years. For the record, I personally do NOT have faith in “youth creams” as they do not have any internal benefit and most are do NOT even cure wrinkles. Just read most of their claims as “make the appearance of wrinkles disappear”, hence a temporary stretching affect that wears off in a few hours.  

Here we don’t subject you to illusions or temporary fixes. We focus on your internal health, that often results in external improvements.   But, more important than the vanity aspect is the amazing benefits of more energy, less illness, reduced risk of serious disease and chronic illness and overall improved quality of life.  And, for those who live with chronic illness like diabetes, most of what we discuss here will have enormous value to your well being and quality of life, in some cases near miraculous (just keep a eye out for when we discuss a product by Dr Gabriel Cousens a pioneer in diabetic well being).

Resveratrol is an anti-aging supplement that had gained national attention a few years ago after it’s amazing health benefits  had been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Now anyone who is familiar with the NWJM, knows that this publication hardly ever publishes on the anti-aging market (I am not aware of any other anti-aging product making it’s way into the NEJM).  

Watch the video in the upper right for a 60 Minute segment on Resveratrol

About a year ago I began taking a Resveratrol supplement can honestly say that the benefits were more noticeable than any supplement I had ever taken before.  For example, my energy level increased, my skin felt and looked much younger after a couple months, and I wasn’t getting as sick as I traditional did.  These proven benefits along with the massive disease fighting, anti-oxidant power didn’t require much thought to make  Resveratrol  a part of my daily regimen.

Though more formal clinical research is just beginning on Resveratrol it is important  to note some of the break-throughs currently happening.

Resveratrol and experimental diabetes
Palsamy and Subramanian have recently published articles on the antihyperglycemic potential of resveratrol in experimental diabetic rats. In their study, the oral administration of resveratrol (5mg/kg b.w) to streptozotocin-nicotinamide-induced experimental diabetic rats for 30 days significantly normalizes the levels of blood glucose, plasma insulin, glycosylated hemoglobin, AST, ALP, ALT, and modulates the altered activities of carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes in the liver and kidney tissus of diabetic rats. The results thus obtained showed the antidiabetic property of resveratrol in experimental diabetes

Cancer prevention
In 1997, Jang reported that topical resveratrol applications prevented the skin cancer development in mice treated with a carcinogen. There have since been dozens of studies of the anti-cancer activity of resveratrol in animal models.  No results of human clinical trials for cancer have been reported. However, clinical trials to investigate the effects on colon cancer and melanoma (skin cancer) are currently recruiting patients.

In vitro resveratrol interacts with multiple molecular targets (see the mechanisms of action), and has positive effects on the cells of breast, skin, gastric, colon, esophageal, prostate, and pancreatic cancer, and leukemia. However, the study of pharmacokinetics of resveratrol in humans concluded that even high doses of resveratrol might be insufficient to achieve resveratrol concentrations required for the systemic prevention of cancer. This is consistent with the results from the animal cancer models, which indicate that the in vivo effectiveness of resveratrol is limited by its poor systemic bioavailability. The strongest evidence of anti-cancer action of resveratrol exists for tumors it can come into direct contact with, such as skin and gastrointestinal tract tumors. For other cancers, the evidence is uncertain, even if massive doses of resveratrol are used.

Thus, topical application of resveratrol in mice, both before and after the UVB exposure, inhibited the skin damage and decreased skin cancer incidence. However, oral resveratrol was ineffective in treating mice inoculated with melanoma cells. Resveratrol given orally also had no effect on leukemia and lung cancer; however, injected intraperitoneally, 2.5 or 10 mg/kg of resveratrol slowed the growth of metastatic Lewis lung carcinomas in mice. Resveratrol (1 mg/kg orally) reduced the number and size of the esophageal tumors in rats treated with a carcinogen. In several studies, small doses (0.02–8 mg/kg) of resveratrol, given prophylactically, reduced or prevented the development of intestinal and colon tumors in rats given different carcinogens.

Resveratrol treatment appeared to prevent the development of mammary tumors in animal models; however, it had no effect on the growth of existing tumors. Paradoxically, treatment of pre-pubertal mice with high doses of resveratrol enhanced formation of tumors. Injected in high doses into mice, resveratrol slowed the growth of neuroblastomas.

Other applications, Including Alzheimer’s Disease:
Johan Auwerx (at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology in Illkirch, France) and coauthors published an online article in the journal Cell in November, 2006. Mice fed resveratrol for fifteen weeks had better treadmill endurance than controls. The study supported Sinclair’s hypothesis that the effects of resveratrol are indeed due to the activation of the Sirtuin 1 gene.

Nicholas Wade’s interview-article with Dr. Auwerx states that the dose was 400 mg/kg of body weight (much higher than the 22 mg/kg of the Sinclair study). For an 80 kg (176 lb) person, the 400 mg/kg of body weight amount used in Auwerx’s mouse study would come to 32,000 mg/day. Compensating for the fact that humans have slower metabolic rates than mice would change the equivalent human dose to roughly 4571 mg/day. Again, there is no published evidence anywhere in the scientific literature of any clinical trial for efficacy in humans. There is limited human safety data (see above). Long-term safety has not been evaluated in humans.

In a study of 123 Finnish adults, those born with certain increased variations of the SIRT1 gene had faster metabolisms, helping them to burn energy more efficiently—indicating that the same pathway shown in the lab mice works in humans.

In November 2008, researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University reported that dietary supplementation with resveratrol significantly reduced plaque formation in animal brains, a component of Alzheimer and other Neurodegenerative diseases. In mice, oral resveratrol produced large reductions in brain plaque in the hypothalamus (-90%), striatum (-89%), and medial cortex (-48%) sections of the brain. In humans it is theorized that oral doses of resveratrol may reduce beta amyloid plaque associated with aging changes in the brain. Researchers theorize that one mechanism for plaque eradication is the ability of resveratrol to chelate (remove) copper.

Watch the video in the upper right for a 60 Minute segment on Resveratrol

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