MINERALS MAKE US

A Revisiting of the Most Essential Nutrients

By: Michael Hennessey Macro and micro do matter. We are walking mineral banks, as minerals define our structure, enable our activity, and provide the circuitry for the electricity that makes us alive. Mineral nutrition is elemental. We are built with a foundation of seven macro minerals: calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine and magnesium. Of these major minerals, calcium, magnesium and potassium are the ones that we monitor for deficiency. The makeup of our own human Periodic table includes many other minerals that we need in smaller amounts for body allostasis, and some of these would include iron, In This Issue: zinc, molybdenum, iodine, manganese, chromium, "Berry" Good for Your Heart! 4 copper and selenium. We are made of the foods that we eat, including the Developing Healthy Skin 6 minerals drawn from the Habits For The Under 12 Set plant foods we consume. Modern agriculture Stuffed Peppers 8 has actually created Herb: Eyebright 8 conditions where ! todays standard diet d ing Prepare e B s e ip c e R r provides limited WATCH Ou Channel mineral nutrition. r ou Subscribe to Our food supply " "DHHLLC is mostly inadequate in providing the basic materials we need to keep our engine running and our chassis strong.
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Benefits of Organic Agriculture One primary reason that Organic Agriculture is so beneficial is that its method of fertilizing the land better allows for long-term soil regeneration, including soil remineralization. You will be hearing more of the biodynamic agriculture movement in the coming years, as this philosophy is all about making the soil used to grow our foods stronger for future generations, as opposed to current trends of rapid soil depletion. The earth is its own biosphere where we are constantly moving minerals around. Good future food means nourishing the soil now. For us, smart health strategies should involve getting all the minerals necessary for optimal health inside us, and making sure that we are getting those minerals in their optimum form. Nutrition is about cultivating the soil of our own health! Mineral supplementation is now understood to be necessary, as sadly most people cannot adjust their lifestyle to eat a proper, well-rounded diet. Todays mineral market is flooded with mediocre products that seem to offer a promise, but do not actually provide the building blocks of optimal health. In understanding human physiology and mineral absorption, you first must know that - in their natural inorganic form- most minerals are poorly absorbed. The body actually has to convert these nutrients into a usable biological compound before it can utilize them. This natural chelation process is often disrupted from performance by many factors beyond stress, digestion, disease and insufficient diet. Fortunately, nutraceutical science can provide excellent solutions to this mineral need.

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Nutraceutical Science to the Rescue Human mineral nutritional therapy has advanced in the last 50 years. We now know that the best source of mineral intake is from a plant-based diet with the minerals present in a food form that the bodys enzyme system can recognize and most efficiently deconstruct, distribute and then utilize. We also know that minerals are not easily absorbed by the human body there is an innate electrical charge resistance that probably exists as natures way of making sure we only get a natural balance of this good stuff and so we now can distinguish between high-absorption, and sub-par, mineral options. One example would be calcium. For most people, plenty of calcium is present in their diet: with women and the elderly often taking calcium supplements daily. Since dietary standards have been set, most consumers look at the amount of calcium consumed in their diet and add together the numbers when considering if they are achieving the dietary basics. Reality is that it is not about the number totals how much calcium you ingest but about the quality of the calcium source you intake, and the probability of its being available for use to the body. The ideal conditions for calcium absorption include the presence of other minerals, especially magnesium and zinc. We now understand that Vitamin K, best found in dark green vegetables, is a part of the absorption equation, and that adequate amounts of Vitamin D3 are probably more important for calcium utilization in the bones than even calcium itself. In addition, lower-absorption elemental calcium requires sufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach for that rock to be broken down for physiological use. This is why so many protocols now suggest adding a whole leaf aloe vera concentrate to the diet (especially for the elderly), to assist the bodys natural ability to transform an inert mineral into the electrical conductors and skeletal building blocks that we need. Too many people are buying cheap calcium, storing this poor absorption nutrient rather than utilizing it, which can lead to hormonal imbalances, kidney stones and joint health issues. Make sure you make intelligent purchases, and ask your health food store for guidance on the best choices. Cellular Absorption Minerals need chaperones to get into the bloodstream and to get to their final destination: it is all about cellular absorption. Forty years ago, scientific advancement identified the way to

bind elemental minerals to amino acids, and the promise of optimal mineral absorption was made available. Most of the initial research was conducted by vets for pets, so dont forget that these same minerals are critical for animals too. The most common form of calcium is calcium citrate, and most mass-market irons are iron fumarate. Calcium citrate has been well studied and is adequate, but the absorption is much lower than a true amino acid chelate. Calcium citrate is an elemental calcium salt of citric acid; compare that to the best amino acid chelates, which are bound to a bi-glycinate chaperone; or, two glycine molecules. You dont have to know the science to understand the principle; a good calcium chelate has higher absorption. We want to utilize minerals, not have them build up in our joints or bloodstream as excess baggage! Iron is an example of this math logic. Too many iron supplements on the market are common iron, which is not only hard to absorb, but is often constipating. Albion Ferrochel ferrous bisglycinate is a gentle, non-constipating amino acid chelated form of iron, and it is the best-selling iron in the world. Look for the Albion amino acid chelate minerals, available from many of the highest-quality supplement manufacturers, as this is the only real true amino acid chelate. Magnesium is now viewed by many as the mineral Americans need the most. Of the trace minerals, selenium and silver are considered the minerals that have been most lost in our soil (and therefore diet), in our rush to large-scale, profit-driven agriculture. Chromium is the trace mineral that often works like a charm for people with blood sugar concerns; from afternoon energy lapses; to weight management; to diabetes. The best strategy is to add an additional multimineral supplement to your daily Multiple. Minerals are large molecules, so you can only get so much into 1-2 tablets. As ancient cultures considered rocks to be representations of the ancestors, so you must realize that the mineral profile that makes up some of the weight that you carry today is part of a true fingerprint of your health, and how your body will perform into the future. So use minerals to make a better you.

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Michael Hennessey is a 30-year veteran of the Natural Products industry. He created an education-based consulting firm working with some of the most progressive and successful nutritional supplement and natural bodycare companies worldwide. Today, Michael is presenting under the auspices of a non-profit, public-education organization, Wildberry Education, that works to share information and empower individual responsibility for ones health. He can be reached at wildberryEDU@aol.com. Michael lives in Washington, DC.

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Berry Good for Your Heart!

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Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom conducted a prospective study among 93,600 women ages 25 to 42 who were registered with the Nurses' Health Study II. The women completed questionnaires about their diet every four years for 18 years. During the study, 405 heart attacks occurred. Women who ate the most blueberries and strawberries had a 32-percent reduction in their risk of heart attack compared to women who ate the berries once a month or less even in women who otherwise ate a diet rich in other fruits and vegetables. "We have shown that even at an early age, eating more of these fruits may reduce risk of a heart attack later in life," said Aedn Cassidy, Ph.D., lead author and head of the Department of Nutrition at Norwich Medical School of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. The findings were independent of other risk factors, such as age, high blood pressure, family history of heart attack, body mass, exercise, smoking, caffeine or alcohol intake.

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Researchers have discovered that women who eat three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries a week may lower their risk of a heart attack by as much as one-third. Blueberries and strawberries contain high levels of naturally occurring compounds called dietary flavonoids, also found in grapes and wine, blackberries, eggplant, and other fruits and vegetables. A specific sub-class of flavonoids, called anthocyanins, may help dilate arteries, counter the buildup of plaque and provide other cardiovascular benefits. "Blueberries and strawberries can easily be incorporated into what women eat every week," said Eric Rimm D.Sc., senior author and Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass. "This simple dietary change could have a significant impact on prevention efforts." Blueberries and strawberries were part of this analysis simply because they are the most-eaten berries in the United States. Thus, it's possible that other foods could produce the same results, researchers said.

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The American Heart Association supports eating berries as part of an overall balanced diet that also includes other fruits, vegetables and wholegrain products. Eating a variety of foods is the best way to get the right amounts of nutrients.
SOURCE: American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report, January, 2013

Multi-tasking For the Aging Brain

Studies have shown that regular physical activity and cognitive training can prevent cognitive decline, but now a new study establishes what occurs in a healthy aging brain. Researchers found that the pattern of blood flow in the prefrontal cortex in the brain alters with age during multi-tasking. Increased blood volume, that is measured using oxygenated hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb), increased at the start of multitasking in all age groups. However, healthy older people had a higher and more sustained increase in Oxy-Hb than younger people. Changes relating to age in the brain occur at the earliest in the prefrontal cortex. It is associated with memory, emotion, and higher decision

making functions. Also changes to the prefrontal cortex are associated with depression and dementia. Researchers compared brain activity during single and dual tasks for young people (ages 21 to 25) and older people (over 65). The main difference between the groups was only seen when they performed the mental and physical tasks at the same time. Older people had a higher prefrontal cortex response that lasted longer than the younger group of people. "From our observations during the dual task it seems that the older people turn their attention to the calculation at the expense of the physical task, while younger people are able to maintain concentration on both. Since our subjects were all healthy it seems that this requirement for increased activation of the prefrontal cortex is part of normal decrease in brain function associated with aging. Further study will show whether or not dual task training can be used to maintain a more youthful brain, Hironori Ohsugi, a team member for the study, at Seirei Christopher University, was quoted as saying.
SOURCE: BMC Neuroscience, January 2013

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DEVELOPING HEALTHY SKIN HABITS FOR THE UNDER 12 SET

By: Kate Solomon

Studies show that most women begin thinking about anti-aging regimens in their 20s. They are the largest group to purchase products in this category. But few Americans know that sun exposure among children under the age of 18 represents much of ones lifetime-accumulated sun damage. What does that mean for the average child? According to a study conducted at the University of Denver that was published in the Journal of the American Dermatology Academy, young children who are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun can suffer from severe genetic damage to their skin. A sunburn your child experiences next summer, for example, can result in severely damaged skin decades from now. Most parents don't know that when the skin is wet, the sun's rays are actually magnified. And once that sunburn occurs, the damage from the sun's harmful rays that accumulate over the child's lifetime may be irreversible. What's a parent to do? The best course of action is prevention now, while they are young. Other skin consequences of not adopting an early age skin regimen can have a negative impact at a young age. Stripping natural oils from the skin can lead to acne. The Acne Resource Center says over cleansing the skin with strong products can irritate and dry the skin, making acne worse. Over drying the skin can affect the aging process and lead to more lines in the face later in life. Also, persistent dryness can cause the middle layer of the skin to become thinner over time. When the dermal layer of skin becomes thin, it is more prone to become wrinkled because less collagen is produced, and nutrients have a harder time penetrating the skin. So, lets get the under age 12 set practicing healthy skin habits early. They will be sure to thank their parents later. Delicate Young Skin Is Easily Irritated It is interesting to take a look at the differences between children and adult skin. An infant's or small childs skin is extremely sensitive, delicate, fragile and permeable. Newborn skin is 40-60% thinner than adult skin. Its defense system is immature, leaving the skin unprotected against external agents. It can dehydrate easily, turn red and suffer from irritation. The skins dermis has not yet built up and so it absorbs more. The number of environmental toxins we are all exposed to can be overwhelming from air pollution, chlorine, dyes in clothing or detergents. All of this can cause skin irritation, dryness, chafing and rashes. Furthermore, 70% of what goes on the skin penetrates and is absorbed into the body and blood stream very quickly. When you consider all those factors, it's easy to understand the urgency of healthy skin habits when children are young. pH Balanced Natural Cleansers Prevent Over Drying and Acne Younger skin has lower amounts of natural moisturizing factor in the stratum. Children's skin has a higher water content so it can absorb and lose water faster than adults' skin.

For pre-teens and teens in particular, over dryness of the skin can lead to "acne vulgaris," one of the most common and devastating skin disorders. To many preteens and teens, severe acne outbreaks can have a damaging psychological, as well as physiological impact. Acne can make them shun social encounters, give them low self-esteem and give their peers something to jeer about that further ostracizes victims of acne. In a study of the perception of teens with acne sponsored by the American Acne & Rosacea Society, teens with acne are more likely than teens without acne to be viewed by their peers as shy, lonely followers, and - worst of all - "nerdy." Teens with clear skin are seen as happy, self-confident, fun and intelligent, when compared with teens with acne. They are often viewed as leaders, rather than followers. The best thing to do from day one is to find reliable, chemical-free, natural pH balanced cleansers. High pH and unnecessary chemical agents will cause over drying and irritation. Sulfates, a chemical surfactant, make cleansers in non-natural products lather, but strip the natural oils from hair and skin. That also causes over drying. Again, use sulfate-free shampoos and cleansers. That's especially true for preteens and teens. Sunblock- Zinc or Titanium Oxide is the Answer Melanin production is underdeveloped in young skin. Melanin is the first defense against the sun, as it absorbs the UV rays before they cause serious lesions to the skin. If your baby will be exposed to the sun, then the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends two key ingredients, zinc and titanium dioxide. Both sit on the skins surface and reflect UVA and UVB sunrays; these natural minerals are in the best options for baby sunscreen safety. Studies have demonstrated that sunscreens containing only nanoscale zinc oxide or titanium dioxide filters do not penetrate beyond the stratum corneum in a childs skin. Delayed full functioning of melanocytes, thinner stratum corneum, and smaller skin cells all place infants and young children at enhanced risk of skin damage from UV light exposure. It's critical to remember that as kids move from toddler to teen - be aware - use zincs without chemicals or other non-natural ingredients. Zincs are truly the best, safest and most effective form of sun protection. While zinc oxide has been the best line of defense, children, teens and adults have traditionally grumbled about the stark white color that calls attention to noses, lips, ears and more. When shopping for the solution, look for no-see-um, all natural, zinc oxide formulas that go on and stay on completely clear. Make sure it's an SPF 30. Young children all have thin sensitive skin and should use fewer irritating products. Chemical fragrances, preservatives and sulfates, and oil stripping ingredients erode skin's natural protections and can lead to irritation, over drying, acne and ultimately early aging. We are fortunate today to have effective natural and organic product options available to us that are composed of safe, sensible, effective ingredients for our children. So lets put our youth on the right path for a thank you later in life!
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Armed with a Harvard degree and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Kate Solomon joined the Peace Corps and taught beekeeping to entrepreneurial women farmers in South America. After years of leadership in the prestige hair care industry at LOral, Parfums Givenchy and Avon, Solomon got the entrepreneurial bug herself when she could not find healthy, safe grooming products for her own children. So she founded her own line, Babo Botanicals, using plant-based science and certified organic botanical ingredients. Kate has three children of her own proving that women can do everything and fulfill their multi-faceted missions in life.
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DHA:
(docosahexaenoic acid) : the most predominant EFA in our brain tissue. Low levels of DHA are linked to mental problems like depression, memory loss, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders, hostility, Alzheimers disease, and senility. Studies show that DHA even protects against Alzheimers and promotes clearer thinking. DHA can lower blood fats, and normalize high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. An 18-year study published in the journal Pediatrics, reveals that breast-fed infants have academic advantage! The determining factor for this effect seems to be the high content of DHA in breast milk! Food sources include sea foods, sea plants and eggs.
By: Dr. Linda Page

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Dr. Page is a member of The American Naturopathic Medical Association, The California Naturopathic Association, The American Herbalist Guild, The American Botanical Council and The Herb Research Foundation.

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4 large bell peppers 2 cups cooked whole grain rice 3 small tomatoes, chopped 1/2 cup corn 1 small sweet onion, chopped 1 cup black beans

3/4 cup shredded cheese substitute 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 tsp cumin 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1/2 cup water

Effective Forms: Tea, capsules, eyewash, extract. Therapeutic Profile: An anti-bacterial and astringent herb, effective in maintaining optical system health; a specific anticatarrhal for sinusitis and other congestive states. Stimulates the liver to clean the blood and relieve conditions that effect clarity of vision and thought. Antiseptic properties fight eye infections. Strengthens all parts of the eye and provides an elasticity for nerves and optic devices responsible for sight. Also useful for inflammations because of its cooling and detoxifying properties. Rich in vitamins A and C; contains B-complex, vitamin D, E, Iron, Silicon, and traces of iodine and zinc. Primary Uses: A specific in combinations to treat eye problems, such as conjunctivitis, cataract formation, glaucoma, weak eyesight and eyestrain; to help remove cysts caused by chronic eye inflammation; externally for rapid relief of redness and swelling in conjunctivitis.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut tops off bell peppers and remove seeds. In a large bowl, combine the rice, tomatoes, corn, onion and beans. Stir in your favorite cheese substitute, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper. Spoon into peppers. Add 1/2 cup water to baking dish. Add stuffed peppers and bake for 20-25 min until peppers are tender.
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