21 Day Body Makeover

eating healthy does not make you healthy

2009-07-20T10:13:00.000-07:00

People often think if they eat healthy then they are health.
In today’s environment nothing can be further from the truth. While it is best to eat healthy for fat loss and energy and sleep needs, it is only part of the puzzle today.
There are hundreds of studies showing the negative effects of certain pollutants. From carcinogens in soy products that have been processed under high heat and the burnt part of steak to phthalates which are linked to hormone imbalance.

Your body is most likely holding onto toxins it CANNOT let go of without the proper nutrients to assist your bodies normal ability to detoxify.

There has been a debate for quit a long time about the possible negative effects of phthalates.
We are seemingly unable to dodge these chemicals since they are found in plastic bottles, cosmetics, some toys, hair conditioners, and fragrances, even some man made food has plastic like compounds that affect our health.

Now the tables are turning in favor of the few who are not influenced by big money big money companies and truly care about the truth behind the thousands of new chemicals discovered each year.
Scientists have linked only a few of these 10’s of thousands of chemicals to sexual deformities in babies and more modern diseases like obesity and diabetes.

The problem is that phthalates suppress male hormones and sometimes mimic female hormones.
“Commonly used phthalates may undervirilize humans,” concluded a study by the University of Rochester. The study, which was small, based its conclusion, in part, on measurements of “anogenital distance” — the distance between the anus and the genitals, which is typically twice as long for males as for females. Some scholars believe that shrinkage of this distance reflects “feminization” of male anatomy.
In China, researchers found that female rats given phthalates gave birth to males with a penis deformity called hypospadias (in which the urethra exits the side or base of the penis, not the tip).

Hypospadias is found in boys in which the urinary tract opening is not at the tip of the penis. Bending of the penis on erection may be associated and is known as chordee.
Many other animal studies around the world have found similar results.
“Accumulating human epidemiological data point to a relationship between adverse fetal development and phthalate exposure,” concluded an article this spring in the journal Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. In June 2009 the Endocrine Society — composed of thousands of doctors in the field — issued a powerful warning that endocrine disruptors including phthalates are “a significant concern to public health.”
Increasingly, endocrinologists are concluding that the mounting evidence is enough to raise alarms.

Now of course the American Chemistry Council is looking out for their butts and all who pay their salaries, arguing that phthalates are not a problem, that they do not migrate out of products easily and that they quickly break down in the body.

What??? Okay, can you believe the sentence you just read?

First they denied the chemicals migrate out of the products, then they said the chemicals break down quickly in the body. Are you freakin kidding me? Who cares if they break down quickly or not? I don’t want them entering my body I the first place.

First of all it’s obvious by their statement we do absorb them because we cannot get away from them. It’s not like we’re exposed to these products only once per week or month.
Secondly, many registered dieticians and doctors will say our body has a natural ability to detoxify itself. While that was true at one time, that time has come and gone it was many years ago before modern mans toxic pollutants. Let’s get this straight.
YOUR BODY CANNOT BREAK DOWN ALL OF THE CHEMICALS IT IS EXPOSED TO ON A DAILY BASIS.

It is overwhelmed with pollutants and once again eating well is a small battle in a huge war against chemicals in our society today.

James Yager, a professor of toxicology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, agrees that there are huge uncertainties but says that pregnant women and children should be cautious. “When my wife was pregnant, we worried about drinking or smoking,” Professor Yager said. Now, he said, he would be more focused on exposure to chemicals such as phthalates in baby bottles.
Dr. Theo Colborn, the founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, goes further. She tells researchers working with her to toss out plastic water bottles and use stainless steel instead. “I don’t have plastic food containers in my house,” she added. “I use glass.”

Certain phthalates have been banned from new toys sold in the United States, but kids continue to be exposed to these chemicals from the moment they are conceived. Dr. Ted Schettler of the Science and Environmental Health Network says that the way regulators examine risks — studying the impact of one chemical at a time — is bankrupt, for we’re exposed to a cocktail of them daily. So do we ask to be piliced onve again by big brother? Or can we handle this on our own without more regulation? i tink we all know the answer. There is too much money to ose and we do not have the funds to fight them so we much rely on big brother to get a clue from all who care to make that change for us all. Our voices have never been more powerful than they are today. So speak up.

Regulation is so pathetic that there’s not even disclosure when products contain phthalates.

So ya think we need to cleanse our systems or what?
This is the reason I have the best cleanse on the market and it has helped many thousands of people to become healthier and many have been taken off of their blood pressure, diabetes and/or cholesterol meds by their doctors due to the change in their lifestyle.
remember my slogan, Change your mind Change your life and live by it.

I ranked 12 fitness trends of 2009 from worst to best

2009-07-02T07:19:00.000-07:00

Looking at the trends for fitness this year. What I have been talking about for the past several years of has finally caught up to mainstream exerciser and trainers.

What is the #1 exercise trend in 2009? I have 12 of the best but only 1 is on my list

The high-tech stuff was great for a while but no matter how high tech a piece of equipment is, it cannot substitute natural momvents of the body in a low tech environment.

Infomercial gadgets are great, but they always become a great place to hang your clothes.

Almost everybody in America now has a treadmill with underwear on it in the corner and/or weights under their bed being weighed by years of dust-bunnies they have collected. Oh my god did I just write dust-bunnies?

48 percent of gym memberships will decrease in 2009.

The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America’s leading authority on fitness and announced the top ten fitness trends for 2009 based on an annual survey of its extensive worldwide network of personal trainers, group fitness experts, advanced health and fitness specialists and lifestyle and weight management consultants.

My last place pick, the worst of the best:

#12 Stability balls

Originally developed for physical-rehabilitation patients, stability balls challenge the stabilizing muscles of the spine and work core muscles..

Pros: almost anyone can use the ball to increase CORE strength and stability and decrease back pain and it can be fun

Cons: You may need an instructor, it's difficult to learn proper form, the thought is since it’s a good workout that it's all you need to do. On the contrary, this type of workout should not be performed more than twice per week, then after gaining the strength you need, back off to once per week or once every-other week. It is important to challenge yourself and progress in your workouts. Over working stabilizers can cause injury. So it is not an ongoing routine.

#11 • Technology-Based Fitness on T.V.

Look for 2009 to provide more interactive video games like Wii or Dance Dance Revolution that provide fitness benefits, as well as new inventions to make exercising a more engaging experience. This is for the person who really doesn’t care to exercise. Or is intimidated to enter a health facility. While these ideas are great for getting people moving they will have limited benefits.

Pros: WII is great for getting your kids off their butt while on the PC and adults who are intimidated by the gym or too lazy to go. This mind-set toward movement or exercise is the best thing to come along in the fitness world to help people work out longer.

Cons: Research from the University of Michigan Health System shows that actual sports burn three to four times more calories than virtual exercise.
Everybody loves gadgets, but what ends up happening is it becomes a great place to hang your clothes. Almost everybody in America now has a little treadmill in the corner with clothes on it or a fold-up one under the bed.
Video games shouldn't replace "real" activities that challenge the body in real life situations. I feel Wii or Dance Revolution is on the cutting edge of helping more people to move and I applaud their efforts, but it is not the answer to being fit. It’s only a stepping stone to more.

#10 Pilates yes pliates beat stability balls and WII

Originally used by dancers focuses on core stabilization. Breathing and spine alignment are emphasized.

Pros: slow and controlled, it's low impact and good for those with bad knees and previous injuries. Less worry about injury b/c of instructor with you and it can be used several times per week. Can help to strengthen joints.

Cons: you can’t do it at home you must have an apparatus and /or instructor. Has a false sense of strength., You will not gain any kind of real strength that is going to keep you safe in the long run b/c you are lying down and not mimicking daily life and an emergency like running after your child into the street which requires explosive energy and strength.

#9 Yoga

Pros: offers greater flexibility, it’s relaxing, releases tension in the body, and helps to stabilize the mind as well as adding strength. And you are not lying down, the body is challenged in many different positions.

Cons: emergency like running after your child into the street which requires explosive energy. Explosive type of movements are used more than you may think. When surprised, catching yourself when you trip, making split decision when riding a bike to stop from falling or playing any sport. Strength is limited in yoga vs adding weights to mimic daily movement.
i.e. picking up a basket of laundry although not explosive, how can yoga prepare you for a lift in this position when weight is not used in yoga?.

• #8 friend activities:

Basketball, volleyball, training for a marathon, or taking a day-long bike ride are great ways to compete with others.

PROS calling your friends get out and move with a friend. Remember move more today than you did yesterday. Progressive changes are most beneficial.

CONS people often limit themselves to weekends only with these exercises and it can cause injury. The body never adapts and when you are in your late 30’s and older your connective tissue is less forgiving due to competitive inactivity. And If you are one of the ladies and decide you want to enlist another female partner to walk with in the morning to gain health and talk together you are NOT exercising if you are not out of breath and able to talk gossip.

#7 Individual and group personal training

In one-on-one time with a personal trainer, you can have a plan created that suits your body and lifestyle. The group training trend offers the same benefits, but in a small group.

Pros: Accountability, personalization, and great workouts CAN make personal training effective. Group personal training is cheaper than private training and can offer better results. When people exercise in a group they work 10 times harder than alone.

Cons: Personal trainers are still not regulated in any way, most trainers suck even in the best health club.
And regardless of their great ability to motivate and have the greatest education, if they do not apply what you have learned then what good are they? This happens more than you may know. The fitness industry is moving toward becoming regulated.

#6 Kranking

Pros: Arm-ergometer or upper-body cycling exercise. It’s increasing in popularity and fitness centers in 2009.

One of the best core and cardio-training exercises is upper-body rotation while standing. Kranking is a great alternative for people with lower body limitations. Foot surgery, pregnant women, obese people who can’t walk…to those who want o give their legs a break and changing your routine from the traditional workouts.

Cons: it is hard and can be boring. Try 10 minutes with varied resistance. and it limits workouts to the upper body

#5 Zumba and other dance workouts .

Dance-based classes are all the rage this year! Zumba, a fitness program inspired by Latin dance, combined with cardiovascular exercise. Look at dancing with the stars contestants. Some start in good shape and others are in ok shape. By the end they are as fit as they have ever been.
Keep in mind cardiovascular training does not mean you are training in an aerobic state, nor do you need to perform aerobics to become aerobically fit.

Pros: Zumba, you'll burn calories, feel energized, and do moves that your body has not done since you were a child.
What many may not realize is you are not limiting your results by working your cardio vascular system only. It takes strength to perform these moves.

Cons: can be hard for uncoordinated people to keep up with the choreography and it is important to change the routine like any other exercise program to gain the results you seek for fitness. You body will adapt if you do not make weekly changes to increase your intensity.

#4 Interval training

Bouts of high- and low-intensity exercise routines have been used by trainers for a long time. Sprinting and jogging between sets of strength training exercises.

Pros: Intervals increase calorie expenditure and after-burn, so calories are burned even long after the exercise is over.
Research has shown this to be the most beneficial way to lose fat fast. Burst training type routines are THE way to become fit fast. Good news is your exercise session will be over in 30-40 minutes max.

Cons: high- intensity intervals can be There's no social aspect like gossiping with your friend during the training. You will have to find the competitor inside to stay motivated to keep high intensity..

#3 boot-camp style workouts

Finances are tough for some and boot camp workouts are not limited to a brick and mortar building.
It's costing many memberships for health clubs who don’t conform.

• Pros:
boot camp programs can expend up to 600 calories depending on the persons metabolic rate and fitness level. The exercises are diverse and you are part of a team that is routing for each other. Another form of HIIT

Better than aerobic training b/c the cardiovascular and musculo-skeletal systems all work in unison.

Cons: It will ruin your ego guys, listen to your body and admit to the instructor what your past injuries are to help modify any moves until such you may be able to perform at a higher level.

Note: if you were in perfect shape then you would not need to boot camp class. It’s always god to have something to look forward to.

• #2 Kettlebells:

Pros kettlebell training gets back to basic training that requires functional, whole body movements and strength.
You will simultaneously developing strength, cardiovascular health and create muscular balance. not just biceps and chest during one workout then back and tris for another. Kettlebell routines and the like are whole body workouts and will make you fit in a short period of time.

CONS can be hard to start with this type of program and you need an instructor.

#1 CrossFit and cross-training

Pros: requires little or no equipment, there's a feeling of belonging.
The online workouts are free and you exercise your whole body.

Focuses on short, high-intensity workouts. The functional moves are simple and often left out of a training routine when exercising on machines. Pull-ups, squats, gymnastics drills, and kettle-ball exercises are the most important exercises anyone, regardless of the goal must have as part of their daily routine. This type of training will enhance our efforts to attain your goals in a shorter period of time than those who just perform the exercise itself. You’ll jog longer without training to jog longer, play tennis longer without playing tennis longer and so on.
You workouts are short like kettlebell training and HIIT

Cons: it’s challenging and you will progress past limitations and muscles that have not been used and challenged for a while. Usually those who sit many hours per day have the most limitations.

Six hours of exercise in 6 minutes

2009-06-26T08:44:00.000-07:00

I love being right. Who doesn't?

Here is an article in the NY times proving my historical results though science and application rather than just application and nothing else to back it up as I did for so many years when i trained elite athletes and CEO's of fortune 100 companies.

I am not going to put a twist on it . You can refer to what I wrote on one of my first blogs called "Hate aerobic training? then don't do it"

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week/?em

just in case the link is erased over time I copied the text and placed it below.

Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

A few years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Japan put rats through a series of swim tests with surprising results. They had one group of rodents paddle in a small pool for six hours, this long workout broken into two sessions of three hours each. A second group of rats were made to stroke furiously through short, intense bouts of swimming, while carrying ballast to increase their workload. After 20 seconds, the weighted rats were scooped out of the water and allowed to rest for 10 seconds, before being placed back in the pool for another 20 seconds of exertion. The scientists had the rats repeat these brief, strenuous swims 14 times, for a total of about four-and-a-half minutes of swimming. Afterward, the researchers tested each rat’s muscle fibers and found that, as expected, the rats that had gone for the six-hour swim showed preliminary molecular changes that would increase endurance. But the second rodent group, which exercised for less than five minutes also showed the same molecular changes.

The potency of interval training is nothing new. Many athletes have been straining through interval sessions once or twice a week along with their regular workout for years. But what researchers have been looking at recently is whether humans, like that second group of rats, can increase endurance with only a few minutes of strenuous exercise, instead of hours? Could it be that most of us are spending more time than we need to trying to get fit?

The answer, a growing number of these sports scientists believe, may be yes.

“There was a time when the scientific literature suggested that the only way to achieve endurance was through endurance-type activities,” such as long runs or bike rides or, perhaps, six-hour swims, says Martin Gibala, PhD, chairman of the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. But ongoing research from Gibala’s lab is turning that idea on its head. In one of the group’s recent studies, Gibala and his colleagues had a group of college students, who were healthy but not athletes, ride a stationary bike at a sustainable pace for between 90 and 120 minutes. Another set of students grunted through a series of short, strenuous intervals: 20 to 30 seconds of cycling at the highest intensity the riders could stand. After resting for four minutes, the students pedaled hard again for another 20 to 30 seconds, repeating the cycle four to six times (depending on how much each person could stand), “for a total of two to three minutes of very intense exercise per training session,” Gibala says.

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Each of the two groups exercised three times a week. After two weeks, both groups showed almost identical increases in their endurance (as measured in a stationary bicycle time trial), even though the one group had exercised for six to nine minutes per week, and the other about five hours. Additionally, molecular changes that signal increased fitness were evident equally in both groups. “The number and size of the mitochondria within the muscles” of the students had increased significantly, Gibala says, a change that, before this work, had been associated almost exclusively with prolonged endurance training. Since mitochondria enable muscle cells to use oxygen to create energy, “changes in the volume of the mitochondria can have a big impact on endurance performance.” In other words, six minutes or so a week of hard exercise (plus the time spent warming up, cooling down, and resting between the bouts of intense work) had proven to be as good as multiple hours of working out for achieving fitness. The short, intense workouts aided in weight loss, too, although Gibala hadn’t been studying that effect. “The rate of energy expenditure remains higher longer into recovery” after brief, high-intensity exercise than after longer, easier workouts, Gibala says. Other researchers have found that similar, intense, brief sessions of exercise improve cardiac health, even among people with heart disease.

There’s a catch, though. Those six minutes, if they’re to be effective, must hurt. “We describe it as an ‘all-out’ effort,” Gibala says. You’ll be straying “well out of your comfort zone.” That level of discomfort makes some activities better-suited to intense training than others. “We haven’t studied runners,” Gibala says. The pounding involved in repeated sprinting could lead to injuries, depending on a runner’s experience and stride mechanics. But cycling and swimming work well. “I’m a terrible swimmer,” Gibala says, “so every session for me is intense, just because my technique is so awful.”
Meanwhile, his lab is studying whether people could telescope their workouts into even less time. Could a single, two- to three-minute bout of intense exercise confer the same endurance and health benefits as those six minutes of multiple intervals? Gibala is hopeful. “I’m 41, with two young children,” he says. “I don’t have time to go out and exercise for hours.” The results should be available this fall.

brain fitness

2009-06-19T13:25:00.000-07:00

It was once thought that the frontal lobe of our brain stopped learning by an early age. Dr joe dispenza author of “Evolve your brain” said we now know the frontal lobe continues to grow and learn until we die.

Michael cole was on my radio show and talked about how to stimulate your brain and make it fun at the same time. He also talked about the importance of it and comments on his partner Dr. Paul Nussbaum's approach to brain health.

Dr. Paul Nussbaum promotes a 5 pillar approach to a healthy brain:

1.) Nutrition: Omega 3, healthy foods, etc
2.) Physical Fitness: regular forms of exercise
3.) Socialization: Connecting with friends and family (opposite of isolation)
4.) Spirituality (Yoga, Prayer, Mediation, etc) (Down time, stress relief, inward focus)
5.) Brain Fitness (complex and novel forms of mental stimulation)

www.fitbrains.com provides many of the stimulus needed for brain health. I played all of the games and loved them. Got pissed a couple of times because i ran out of time while trying to figure a higher level out.

Try these games daily, even for 10 minurtes per day and reap the rewards of a healthier brain.

I love being cutting edge. STOP drinking tap water

2009-06-12T15:12:00.000-07:00

I love being cutting edge and have guests on my show that share information the world needs to know about.
This article came from the San Francisco chronicle about the dangers of water in water treatment plants. This is NOt an isolated incident, all water treatment plants across America need to be replaced.

My guest was Llano and he wrote a book called "Don't drink the water" He is am expert on water contamination.

Stop drinking your tap water NOW.

That is what he calls the gaping wound near Redding known to everybody else as the Iron Mountain Mine, which is widely regarded by scientists as one of the most polluted places in the world.

The project manager for the Environmental Protection Agency said he once dropped a pen in some running water inside the mine and when he recovered it, it was coated in copper. The water is so acidic that droplets eat holes in blue jeans and dissolve the stitching on boots, much like battery acid.

Sugarek stood Thursday in a shaft once known as the Richmond Mine. It is the source of the toxic stew that has polluted the Sacramento River and its tributaries for more than a century, killed thousands of fish and turned a once-majestic mountain into a hellish breeding ground for nasty bacterial slime that helps create what geologists say is the "world's worst water."

But on this day Sugarek was full of hope, despite the dismal surroundings. The EPA was recently awarded $20.7 million in federal stimulus funds to clean up the heavy metals that have flowed into and accumulated at the bottom of the Keswick Reservoir for decades, threatening fish if not people. Sugarek said the metals have settled to the bottom and do not affect the quality of the drinking water.

The money, combined with $10 million already budgeted for the project, will pay for construction of three pumping stations, piping and the hydraulic dredging of the 170,000 cubic yards of fine toxic metals that to this day coat the bottom of the Spring Creek arm of the reservoir.

Separating out the solids

"What we're trying to deal with now is the 50 years of stuff that has accumulated at the bottom of the reservoir since it was built," said Sugarek, who has been working at the Toxic Superfund site for 20 years. "This is an important management area for California's water supply, and toxic chemicals are flowing down."

Sugarek said the idea is to clean up the site, not restore the ecosystem, so other areas are not contaminated. He said a storm could stir up the sludge in reservoir. The plan then is to dredge the area over the next 18 months, pump the fine sediments up to a treatment center that will separate out the solids. The toxic sediments will then be dried out and dumped into a 12-acre pit on nearby federal land. The pit will be lined with thick plastic sheets and then covered and planted over.

Prospecting in 1860s

The work is expected to employ as many as 300 people over three years. In the end, Sugarek hopes, the threat to waterways, including the Sacramento River, should have ended.

The trouble began in the 1860s when gold and silver prospectors first discovered the mountain, about 9 miles northwest of Redding.

Poisonous runoff

The real damage began when a company called Mountain Copper took over the 4,400-acre mine in the 1890s and began to supply sulfuric acid to refineries in the Bay Area. At the turn of the century, it was the largest copper mine in California, and a small city of laborers lived on the mountain. Twenty cavities the size of office buildings were drilled into the mountain.

Much of the work on the Richmond Mine occurred during World War II, leaving the entire mountain scarred.

The mining operation turned to rubble what was originally a 200-foot-thick by 3,000-foot-long underground deposit of pyrite, exposing it to oxygen, water and bacteria that combined to create the poisonous runoff. Water that flowed out of the shaft where the pyrite lay formed bluish blocks of acid salt, which deer sometimes used as salt licks.

The Bureau of Reclamation built an earthen dam in 1963 to block the steady flow of sludge, but it would often overflow during heavy winter rains and the copper and metals would get into the Sacramento River.

The mine was finally abandoned in 1966 and collapsed in on itself shortly after that. The problem, it seemed, only got worse.

Lethal blend of copper, iron

Tens of thousands of fish have been killed since then. By the time the EPA took over management of the area in the 1980s, a ton of acidic water and heavy metals a day were flowing into the river, Sugarek said. The water in the debris dam was blood red from a mixture of iron and copper.

Desperate, the EPA built the Slick Rock Creek Retention Dam in 2004, which captured 98 percent of the sludge. The sludge is dried and dumped in the open pit mine on top of the mountain. Now the EPA is concentrating on the leftover mess.

But money cannot completely resolve the problem. Researchers recently found six unique strains of bacteria that live in a bed of pink slime that is part of a little-understood biochemical cycle that devours iron, produces sulfuric acid, and creates a nightmarish broth of copper, zinc and arsenic. That toxic broth will continue pouring out of the mine forever, or until someone figures out a way to neutralize the chemical and biological reactions, scientists say.

"We spent a good deal of time trying to see if we could shut it down, and our conclusion was that we couldn't," said Sugarek, adding that the only hope is for some future innovation or new technology. "We know we can continue what we are doing for 100 years. The estimate is that it will take the mountain about 3,000 years to use up all the pyrite."

The damp, dark passage where Sugarek stood Thursday was nothing compared with the hellish alien environment deeper inside the mine. There, chemical reactions drive temperatures up to 130 degrees, the water is almost pure sulfuric acid, and stalactites and stalagmites of acid salt cover the walls.

Dissolving aluminum, skin

"If you go back 1,500 feet, the temperature is 100 degrees, you start to see the acid salts and it smells like sulfur," Sugarek said. "You don't want to use an aluminum ladder because it will just dissolve."

A NASA scientist once sent a robot into the bowels of the mine. It did not return, Sugarek said. Nobody that he knows of has been killed, but Sugarek said a worker testing the water above the debris dam suffered "some exfoliation of the skin" after his rubber raft was punctured and he was forced to swim to safety.

Little help from owner

The elderly owner of the property, Ted Arman, who bought the 3,500-foot mountain from the last mining company for $100,000, has not been much help, proposing a resumption of mining in addition to construction of a 200-foot-tall marble statue of Jesus Christ.

Sugarek said rockslides and dam failures are still concerns.

"We have shut the leak off," he said. "What we're worried about is that a discharge from the debris dam during a big storm could cause an environmental disaster."

Sun, pill, sunscreen. Which is useless, good and best?

2009-06-12T07:05:00.000-07:00

Are all sun screens the same? do we need the SUN for vit D or can we just take a pill? The latest info you must know to protect your skin? UVA UVB SPF LMNOP.
confused? So am I.

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Leading Dermatologists say, high SPF numbers alone don’t offer enough!

Dermatologists are warning that SPF protection is important to protect skin from the sun's UVB rays . But unless you’re also protected from UVA rays, your skin is still at risk.

Damage from exposure to UVA rays is the #1 cause of premature aging in women and men.

THE DANGERS OF medication sunscreeen and the sun

Antibiotics like tetracycline, certain antihistamines and topical antimicrobials can cause sun sensitivity and are among the most common meds.

Few people know a number of common medications can intensify the effects of sunlight, greatly raising the risk of burning, rashes and other skin problems, even after only a little time in the sun.

Visible symptoms can be delayed 24 hours to several days. And phototoxic reaction occurs when a person ingests the drug or substance, then spends time in the sun exposing the skin to ultraviolet rays exciting molecules of the ingested substance,

This causes damage to tissue — severe redness and sunburn, for example — that is almost immediately apparent.

It's been shown that an SPF of 8 will reduce the production of Vitamin D by 95%.
There are a variety of foods that contain Vitamin D. Eggs, sardines, and mackeral all contain Vitamin D at various levels.

Linus Pauling Institute recommends 2,000 IU's of Vitamin D per day.

The proper balance is important and you should probably be tested for your levels. Too high Vit D can pull calcium from the bone. Too low can prevent mineralization of the bone and lower immune system and may have a role in lung, breast and colon cancer.

Research is shows that with the chemical sunscreen can increase the absorption of the bug repellent.

Canadian study, applying the chemical sunscreen then a bug repellent increase the aborption by 10 percent when compared to using the repellent on its own.

Applying the repellent first then the sunscreen increase permeation by 47 percent and mixing the two together showed a 630 percent absorption of the sunscreen.

When using the combination sunscreen/bug repellent together it could create a very toxic siutation for children. Simply because sunscreens need to be applied more frequently and bug repellents only once. Children are more susceptible because their skin is thinner and the chemical is easily absorbed and they have less body mass to deal with the excessive chemicals.

There are some natural alternatives that are very effective without creating a toxic load on the body.
Zinc oxide is a mineral that provides a physical sunblock of UVA/UVB rays. The one downside is the white film it leaves. There are some micronized formulations of zinc oxide that reduce the white appearance of the product.
In the realm of bug repellent Cactus Juice contains the natural prickly pear and emollients that can really deter assaults of mother nature.

Now that was a ton to absorb, but certainly needed because most people don't care to put on protection in the first place, doing it in vain with the wrong type of protection would be frustrating.

Dallas Stars strength coach JJ McQueen on benefits of burst training

2009-06-04T12:04:00.000-07:00

youtube video link below

JJ and I worked out together and since we both are strong believers of burst training for any goal in fitness we decided to put this little video together.
You'll see JJ training a couple of the younger players. It starts out slow, watching one person workout for 40 seconds. Then you will see the clock for 40 seconds. Why the clock? I have no clue. lol.

Then you will see more exercises I'll bet you have not seen before or thought they may not be for you and your goals.

Everyone, no matter the fitness goal, even if you just like to jog or perform yoga burst training will launch you towrd your goal.
You can refer to the blog I wrote called "Hate aerobic training? then don't do it" for detailed info about burst training in one of my earliest blogs.

Watch the whole video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WYkRkUVxk

Stress No More- end sugar cravings, cold hands and feet, lose fat

2009-06-04T04:53:00.000-07:00

Many people have too much stress in their life and over stimulate their adrenal glands. The best thing you can do is support your adrenal glands. Many say to breath deeply, mediate and all that jazz, While I am aware of the power of mediation and do not dismiss it. I will say if you drink energy drinks, have caffeine and mental stress everyday, you will not be able to relax your mind long enough to gain benefit from meditation because you will not be able to pay attention long enough to get into that state.

Being sleep deprived is a big concern for many, you will notice the blog next to this one talks about the importance of sleep and fat loss as well as immune strength.

You may want to sleep earlier and sleep through the night but may not be able to due to the stress your body is under from caffeine, stimulants in some supplements for weight loss, mental stress such as family and finances, and not sleeping. See the cycle here?

One of the best supplements one this planet is called Stress No More. It does NOT cut out cortisol nor would I ever promote such a silly thing you may have seen on T.V.
What Stress No More does is supports the adrenal glands which are constantly being stimulated and the allows them to work the way they want to. Stress No More does not stimulate them to work harder like the stressors mentioned above which shows up as symptoms like these.
Cold hands and feet, sugar cravings, trouble sleeping, fat gain, being moody and low energy.
These are just a handful of more symptoms of adrenal fatigue.
Visit www.21daybodymakeover.com and learn more about Stress No More
Get your life back

Tips for the World's Best Protein

2009-06-03T14:58:00.000-07:00

If you ordered the 21 day cleanse, 30 day fat loss or the World's Best Protein by itself make sure to watch this video on youtube for tips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGl3VeM9oo>

Do you sleep uninterrupted from 11pm to 6am? If not you may have fat to lose

2009-06-03T11:20:00.000-07:00

Amended at the bottom:
Resolution for interrupted sleep and trouble falling asleep:

What is normal sleep? Most people think they sleep well when asked. The typical response when I ask is more often than not is that they sleep well. Only when I probe deeper do they reveal they get up once or even twice per night to go to the bathroom. But they go right back to sleep. In this blog you will find how interrupted sleep even once per night to go to the bathroom will increase your chances of adding fat or preventing you from losing what you have.

The conclusion of some groundbreaking research shows exercise is most likely not enough; including two new studies released Monday.
Scientists have found and known for several years now that sleep deprivation increases levels of a hunger hormone and decreases levels of a hormone that makes you feel full. The effects may lead to overeating and weight gain.
It could explain why so many Americans who are chronically sleep-deprived also are overweight.
Nutritionist, personal trainers and those alike in the health care industry that keep themselves informed about the latest in the health and fitness industry have been sharing this with their clients for some time.

"We know the obesity epidemic is due to overeating — too big portions, too much rich food and too little activity — but why do we crave too much of these rich foods?
Sleep does indeed appear to be an important piece of the weight-control puzzle, says Stanford University sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot, who also is releasing new research.
This percentage takes on a special significance when balanced against the fact that an estimated 63% of American adults do not get the recommended seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. In fact, the average adult gets 6.9 hours of sleep on weeknights and 7.5 hours on weekends, for a daily average of seven hours. The key here is uninterrupted.
Van Cauter has spent 25 years doing research on the hormones that are affected by sleep. She says sleep deprivation activates a small part of the hypothalamus, the region of the brain that also is involved in appetite regulation. She is especially intrigued by, and has done several studies on, two critical hormones involved in regulating food intake: gherkin and leptin.
How much is enough?
Sleep needs vary, but in general most adults need seven to eight hours a night, experts say. There are some people who can do with less, and others who need more.

Yet, many people don't know exactly how much sleep they need.

Sleep researcher Eve Van Cauter, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, recommends going to be no later than 10:30 pm.

If you wake even once during the night, three nights per week, you are more likely not to lose fat and even gain fat. In addition you will begin to eat more feeling as though you are hungry. This is a false indicator.

They influence eating in different ways. Gherkin is an appetite-stimulating hormone released mostly by the stomach. When gherkin levels are up, people feel hungry, Van Cauter says. On the other hand, leptin, considered a satiety or fullness hormone, is released by the fat cells and tells the brain about the current energy balance of the body.
When leptin levels are high, that sends a message to the brain that the body has enough food, and the person feels full, she says. Low levels indicate starvation and increase appetite.
The hormones "have been called the yin and yang of hunger," Van Cauter says. "One is the accelerator for eating (gherkin), and the other is the brake (leptin)."
Hungry for sleep — and food
The effects of those who were sleep deprived on these two hormones was, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
She had 12 healthy, normal-weight men, average age 22, come into a hospital laboratory to sleep, and eat dinner and breakfast.
On one occasion, they were limited to four hours in bed for each of two consecutive nights. At another time, they were allowed up to 10 hours non-interrupted sleep in bed for two nights. Their blood was drawn at regular intervals, and they were asked about their hunger. Findings:
• Leptin levels– remember the brakes on food-were 18% lower and gherkin levels- creates hunger- were 28% higher after they slept four hours.
• The sleep-deprived men who had the biggest hormonal changes also said they felt the most hungry and craved carbohydrate-rich foods, including cakes, candy, ice cream, pasta and bread. Those who had the smallest changes reported being the least hungry.

What has not been mentioned here is that between the hours of 11pm and 3 am are the most vital times we need to be asleep to help the body recover. We do not heal and reset so-to-speak the stress hormones that, when properly balanced keep us from craving sugared foods, from being tired, strengthen our immune system aaanndddd helps us lose body fat. Like that way I wrote “and”? really wanted to emphasize the link and importance of sleep during those times
Link found to body mass index. FAT indicator
• People who routinely slept five hours a night had a 14.9% higher level of gherkin and a 15.5% lower level of leptin than those who slept eight hours. This means they were hungry more often and didn't feel full 15.5% of the days worth of eating.
• Those who regularly had 7.7 hours of interrupted sleep had a slightly higher (fat) body mass index (BMI). Oppose to those who slept deeply for the same amount of time.
Researchers found that people who sleep two to four hours a night are 73% more likely to be obese than those who get seven to nine hours. Those who get five or more hours of sleep a night are 50% more likely to be obese than normal sleepers. Even those who slept six hours of interrupted sleep are 23% more likely to be obese. However, those who slept six to eight hours all night long without interruption had the lowest BMI
Sleep-deprived people eat more because they're hungrier; they're awake longer and may be tempted by foods everywhere they go. They often consume far more calories than they burn in the extra hours they're awake.

Trouble getting to sleep?

Many people have too much stress in their life and over stimulate their adrenal glands. Refer to my blog next to this one to read about Stress No More and how it can help you end symptoms like these. Cold hands and feet, sugar cravings, trouble sleeping, fat gain, moody and low energy. these are just a handful of more symptoms of adrenal fatigue.
Visit www.21daybodymakeover.com and learn more about Stress No More

STOP using machines if you want healthy long lasting results!

2009-05-29T19:25:00.000-07:00

Do NOT use machines when you workout

Stationary machines, or fixed paths of motion will create injury. It’s only a matter of time. In addition, you will limit the use of other muscles which are normally recruited when you have to balance and move the weight, even your own body weight, in a bio-mechanically sound path of motion.
As we age we tend to lose strength in muscles like our (glutes) butt due to sitting too much. If someone does not teach you how to squat properly, you can become injured. Ironically no one taught us how to sit, squat, bend over and run when we were a child. People become injured when muscles are left out so-to-speak, whether that is due to sitting at a desk and not exercising, or trying to take the easy way out by exercising on a machine.

Defenders of stationary equipment argue that machines are designed to limit what you can do wrong.
Those who exercise and rely on machines often put heavier weight-mostly talking about men at this point- which allow them to move more weight for bragging rights. The issue here is not how much you can move opposed to how much you may have trouble moving in the future. That is to say, you may have serious issues in your joints and become weaker NOT stronger when you rely on a fixed path of motion for your workouts instead of free weights.

Just because you can lift heavy weight does not mean it translates to real life daily activity challenges.
Dr. Stuart McGill, PhD author of Ultimate Back Performance and Fitness and professor of spine -biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario has been a guest on my show several times. We discussed damage occurred to joints when the body fights its natural movements.

How many times have you seen people perform a squat on a Smith machine? Ladies!
I cannot recall the last time I saw someone perform a squat correctly on a Smith machine, and if I did, I am sure the question crossed my mind about why they were on it and not free squatting. Often I see members and trainers alike on the Smith machine with their feet and knees forward. The thought behind this is that you will work your glutes, (butt) more. NOT!!!!

What you will do is work your knees and lower back more. I know you are smart enough to recognize this is not healthy. The bar is attached to a sliding track — we were not meant to work in a linear motion. A natural arched free movement is what’s needed. A squat on a Smith machine puts undue stress on the knees, shoulders, and lower back limiting results.

Some may say they feel it in their butt and have no issue with their knees. What is important to know here is how forgiving the body is. UNTIL, you perform many reps and age and introduce a not-so-healthy diet.

You do not have to have all of these variables to become injured, add all of them together and you have a recipe for disaster when performing incorrect bio-mechanics, (improper movements of the body) fighting your body’s ability to move the way it was made to move.

Another fixed path of motion machine I HATE is the knee extension. While you will work your thigh muscles and strengthen them, the irony here is that it strengthens a motion in your legs they were not designed to do. Just because they can perform the motion does not mean it should be taxed with resistance at the ankle moving up toward the ceiling and back down again.

It puts undue strain on the ligaments and tendons surrounding the kneecaps. Again you may have been doing these for years without pain. However, you WILL feel pain and are damaging your joints. It’s only a matter of time before your knees start talking to you.

Jogging is one of the worse things you can do to become fit. Yet everyone thinks that is the way to go when they have fat to lose. You can refer back to an earlier blog titled “Hate aerobics? Then don’t do it” where I wrote about what we were designed to and not to do. If you have been a jogger or some years then you can relate and even the pros will tell you it's only a matter of time before injury sets in.

If you want to strengthen your Quads (thigh) muscles perform lunges, jump lunges, body squats, jump squats, sprints, ride a bike in low gear pedal hard.

Find a trainer that can show you the proper way to perform a weighted squat without loading your spine.
Loading the spine is not necessarily a bad thing, loading it with a lot of weight all of the time is if the goal is to be healthy is. Now if you’re looking to see how much you can lift, then by all means do it. Just recognize the risk/reward.

Certain machines are a disaster waiting to happen but even the most high-end health clubs carry them like the inner and outer thigh machine you ladies love. Many girls have been irate with me and stated their case about how their legs are smaller and tighter in the upper inner portion of their legs due to using these machines. NOT!!! Let me go on record and say I am not a betting man but here I would bet that your loss of fat in that area has absolutely nothing to do with that goofy dangerous machine. Side note: this exercise can be useful with resistive tubing for rehabilitation purposes only.

The muscles you are working on these machines are small and are easily worked when performing a squat, lunge, sprint, leg press, and almost any kettle-bell exercise you can think of. Even yoga and standing on one leg contracts these muscles.

So why are they in health clubs? Because they sell memberships!!! Club owners know they are crap yet they buy them because that is what uneducated trainers and hard-headed girls who think they are great want.

Here’s is another over used non healthy fixed path of motion machine. The shoulder press machine which works the front of your shoulders. One question for you, do really we need to work more of our shoulders when we are performing flat bench, incline bench, decline bench, push-ups and the same angles again with dumbbells? NO!

Why do we do it? Because that is what everyone else does
Overhead pressing puts undue stress on the shoulders, and limits you from recruiting other muscles like those that surround your hips to assist in pressing the weight up. Being stabile on a machine limits caloric expenditure as well because of the lack of muscles we would normally use to press something over-head when standing.
I can go on and on stating my case on every fixed path of motion machine you can think of. I will spare you my passionate tone and hope you will observe and seek out a trainer who does not put their clients on a machine with a fixed path of motion unless there is a real good reason for it.

I will also say, I broke a small bone in my hand and cannot use dumbbells, or perform push-ups for my chest and am therefore forced to use either light weight dumbbells, resistive tubing or a MACHINE.
Why a machine, because I am able to keep balance in my routine with everything else I am doing and only use it once per week. In addition I am not looking for anything other than keeping from too much atrophy (muscle loss).
I hope you understand this blog and can recognize relying on fixed path of motion exercises create imbalance in the risk reward scenario

Why do we NEED high quality professional grade supplements?

2009-05-16T07:57:00.000-07:00

Why do we need Supplements

Whole food supplements are getting more and more attention these days as we look for an easier way to add good nutrition to our diets for becoming and staying healthy.

We all know whole foods like fruits and vegetables and high quality protein are good for us. While buying an off the shelf multivitamin can give you a couple dozen nutrients it cannot replace food or a high quality professional grade supplement.

Did you know eating a food like fruits and veggies will give you thousands nutrients which are already perfected by nature and can improve your immune system?

Some isolates, however, are needed that cannot be acquired by the food we eat since the food today does not have the same nutrient content it once did, hence the reason for supplementation.

An apple does not have 15 mg of this and 200 mg of that. It is already whole in nature. There is no ingredient list that can break down what is in the apple. We do have an idea that an apple has about 1000 nutrients in it.

If you break down an apple and chemically and synthetically put it in a bottle to ingest later, you don’t automatically have an apple again.

There are two main factors about why we need high quality whole food based supplements.

First, our soil is not as rich in nutrients as it once was 50 years ago. No one will argue that.

To get the amount of iron today that was in 1 cup of spinach 50 years ago you would have to eat more than 16 cups today. We can’t get children and adults to eat three bites of spinach let alone 16 cups.

Another reason we need supplementation is our food choices to eat healthy are not made priority. Our taste buds have changed and crave man made food which has a profound negative effect on our everyday lives.

Sleep disruption, gaining fat, anxiety, disease, low energy and a whole host of other issues that poor food choices play a role in. Our body does not recognize these man made foods to help it to function at its optimal level. Our body is amazing at adaptation and compensation.

It adapts to handle the stress we put on it with a poor diet by allowing us to breath, think and function in everyday life. When you think about it, people who are 400lbs can breath, think and function to get up and go to the bathroom, work and do other things but they are limited in what they can do and their quality of life sucks.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love the occasional brownie and pizza, but the majority of my diet is great. 85% is good 15% is bad food. I live to eat but I compensate for that cheat. From exercise to adding certain supplements that add in the nutrients I rob from my body when eating poorly.

The body compensates for a muscle pull or lower back pain by allowing us to operate a car or walk up stairs.

However, the quality once again with which this is done is poor and limiting.

You may wonder why the title of this blog is “Why do we need supplements” if you have back pain or some other ailment.
What’s not widely know is the role of nutrients to help us to heal as well as prevent sickness. You can heal from an injury faster with proper nutrients and you can prevent and/or shorten a cold or flu.

Does his mean you have to eat healthy everyday? Not at all. Only the days you want to feel good and be healthy.

High quality professional grade supplements can help rid your body of pain and some disease in accordance with a healthier lifestyle. Aahhh you thought I was going to say the supplements would do the trick as long you stayed on them right?

We need to identify what a supplement is supposed to do. It is suppose to “supplement” what you do not and cannot get from food. Not be a miracle fix for eating poorly. Supplements enhance your efforts in everyday life. If you took steroids to be big and strong but never worked out you would become fat in addition to creating hormonal imbalance. Of course this is only an example. DO NOT THINK ABOUT USING THEM

Supplements do NOT take the place of healthy food and lifestyle. If they did they would be called “in lieu of” pills
Professional grade supplements cannot be purchased over the counter. They are only sold through professionals. Why? Because they work. They are not a bottle on a shelf that claims to do something and can be unhealthy or not fulfill your goal.

High quality professional grade supplements can drastically change your life. But you have to know what you need to “supplement” and what needs to be taken out before to attain your goal.

I sell the highest quality professional grade supplements and am able to sell what most everyone person living in America desires and needs.
A multi vitamin, the highest quality protein shake made from raw whey protein, and supplements that support the stressful environment we live in and make.

We do not use fake folic acid (vitamin B) or synthetic, harmful vitamin E like 99% of all multi’s you can buy over the counter. Research has shown some nutrients which are not in its whole form are not only NOT beneficial but can be dangerous.

It is vital to know the goal when taking supplements. I know we don’t say or think “let’s take something that will hurt us and waste our money”. But believe it or not that is exactly what you are doing when you buy the cheapest ones you can get just to save money.

From multi’s to protein shakes, people often think having more protein per serving from a powdered protein shake is what they need to buy. What is not widely known is that you will not absorb all of the protein in the most popular protein shakes therefore you are wasting your money.

You WILL absorb all of the protein in the “World’s Best Protein” This can help you lose fat and stabilize blood sugar as well as help you recover from a workout.

So do your homework and remember a supplement cannot save your life and alleviate negative symptoms of your everyday actions.

A game plan of that uses several angles-exercise, food and supplementation can.

Want to lose more fat and feel better? Drink more water

2009-05-09T09:48:00.000-07:00

So you’ve been working out hard and wonder why you can’t lose those extra 5-10 lbs. The solution can be as simple as drinking more water.

In this write up I will share the importance, often neglected, and not appreciated nutrient called water

Water is a nutrient your body needs to survive and function properly.

Fluid losses occur continuously everyday all day. From skin evaporation, breathing, urine, and stool. You even lose water by sweating while playing/swimming in a pool or any body of water.

Here are five reasons to make sure you're drinking enough water every day:

1. Your body is composed of about 65% water. The functions of these fluids include digestion, absorption, circulation, creation of saliva, transportation of nutrients, and maintenance of your body temperature.
Through your pituitary gland, your brain communicates with your kidneys and tells it how much water to excrete as urine or it holds onto the fluid for reserves.

2. Water Helps Energize Muscles. Cells that don't maintain their balance of fluids and electrolytes shrivel, which can result in muscle fatigue, low energy and can even affect your mood.

Drinking enough fluids is important when exercising. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that people drink about 17 ounces of fluid about two hours before exercise.

I have never done this before exercise but I do check my weight before I exercise, during exercise and after. Why? I want to make sure I do not lose weight. I want to maintain my weight or increase it during that time to make sure I am staying well hydrated.
Now girls, I know you’re thinking that you want to lose weight after you exercise that’s your goal. However any weight lost immediately after exercise is a false sense of weight lost. It is NOT fat, it's only water. If you go into a steam room to lose weight you will accomplish your goal, however you will gain it all back as soon as you drink water because the cells are starving for it.

3. Water Helps Your Kidneys. Body fluids transport waste products in and out of cells. The main toxin in the body is blood urea nitrogen, a water-soluble waste that is able to pass through the kidneys to be excreted in the urine.
Your kidneys do a good job of ridding itself of toxins as long as your intake of fluids are proper and adequate. Basically if you are drinking coffee and soda you are dehydrating, NOT hydrating your body.
This is the reason for drinking water to hydrate or green tea. Not bottled green tea. Don’t be fooled by the marketing.
When you're getting enough fluids, urine flows freely, it's light in color and doesn't smell, unless you have asparagus. haha
When your body is not getting enough fluids, urine concentration, color, and odor increases because the kidneys trap extra fluid for bodily functions.

If you chronically drink too little, you may be at higher risk for kidney stones, especially in warm climates.

4. Water Helps Maintain Normal Bowel Function. When you don't get enough fluid, the colon pulls water from stool to maintain hydration -- and the result is constipation.
Adequate hydration keeps things flowing along your gastrointestinal tract and prevents constipation. For some reason many women want to rely on coffee to help them go to the bathroom. While this can help in the short term, it is not the fix all. The caffeine can stimulate the process, but a huge glass of water (more than 20 oz) as soon as you wake can do the same thing. If that does not work, add 400mg of magnesium per day and you will go m ore easily.

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Tips to Help You Drink More

Have water or green tea every 15-20 mins before or after a meal. No tap water! NEVER. Read “Don’t Drink The Water” by Llano he has been on my show and talked about some factual information we are all able to find but are unaware of since most are not seeking it.

Eat more fruits and vegetables. Their high water content will add to your hydration. About 20% of our fluid intake comes from foods.
Keep a bottle of water with you in your car, at your desk, or in your bag. Make sure it’s not a plastic bottle, especially when it gets hot in the car. Bad idea. Buy glass if you can. There is a ton of info about BPA (bisphenol A) in plastic bottled water that shows to disrupt hormone balance. Adding estrogen. You do Not want extra estrogen, male or female.

I owned a bottled water company and the water is only good when it is put in the plastic bottle. the trucks are not air conditioned during transported and you are not sure ho long it sat in the warehouse and on the shelf before you bought it.
now drink a huge glass of filtered water and gain energy as well as feel good.

Losing weight fast will always make you gain it back just as fast. Has this happened to you?

2009-05-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON – Government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop-using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.

Maker of the dietary supplement has agreed to recall 14 Hydroxycut products.

The FDA took this off the market once before. Banned ephedrine/ephedra, then approved it again saying it was not dangerous in proper amount of small doses.

While many supplement companies didn’t add it back in, hydroxycut being one of them, they did find another ingredient that worked well like ephedrine in addition to caffeine and other stimulants.

The FDA received 23 reports of liver problems, including the death of a 19-year-old boy.
The teenager died in 2007, and the death was reported to the FDA March 2009.

Symptoms range from jaundice, yellow skin, to liver failure.

One person received a transplant and another was placed on a list to await a new liver.

I have been beating these supplements up for years. While it does give you energy, it is the kind of energy that makes you want to clean your house when it’s already clean. Continuous nervous energy is dangerous. Stimulants work on our nervous system that stress's the body even more and in an already stressed society wouldn't you say this is the last thing we need?

This is THE REASON I have formulated my STRESS-NO MORE supplement.

It helps balance the body’s functions by SUPPORTING adrenal function; it does NOT stimulate it making it work over time, which is damaging to the body.

Other than liver damage, having adrenal stress can show up in several other negative ways.
Sugar cravings, sleep issues, low energy, nutrient depletion and an inability to deal with stress when we need it the most, leaving us to stress more about something that may not be so stressful.

All of this just to lose fat and get in your skinny jeans? Come on; let’s use our head.

When the risk out-ways the benefits it’s time to look in another direction. One that supports our goals.

Remember this always, whatever results you gain fast in the healthy and fitness world, you can and often do lose just as fast.

Losing weight fast will always make you gain it back fast. Has this happened to you?

Those stupid yet genius-marketing words “lose 10 lbs in 10 days” hooked so many people, but the weight loss never lasts.

Dietary supplements aren't as tightly regulated by the government as

The FDA relies on voluntary reports to detect such problems, and many cases are never reported, officials acknowledge.

Keep in mind the drug industry send their own reports to the FDA as well.
The FDA does not have enough money or agents to look further into the validity of the so-called studies that show benefit from drugs.

Health officials said they have been unable to determine which Hydroxycut ingredients are potentially toxic, partially because the formulation of the products has changed several times. A medical journal report last month raised questions about one ingredient, hydroxycitric acid, derived from a tropical fruit. The article said it could potentially damage the liver.

Stop relying on what is NOT proven and can be dangerous and start reading what does from those who are knowledgeable and non-bias about what not only works, but what works without negative side effects.
Visit www.21daybodymakeover.com to order Stress No More to help support adrenal fatigue and stop sugar cravings, sleep well and lose fat without stimulants.

You cannot attain 100% results if you only put in 60% effort

2009-04-28T06:01:00.000-07:00

You CANNOT expect to attain 100% of the results if you only put in 60% of the effort.

To begin read about Glycemic snacks below.

The glycemic index of food is a ranking of foods based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. Carbohydrate foods that breakdown quickly after being consumed have the highest glycemic indexes.

Carbohydrates that breakdown slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes. Low glycemic index means a smaller rise in blood sugar.

Why is this important? Other than not experiencing the highs and lows after consuming a high glycemic food, you will be less likely to put on fat and help control established diabetes. It can lower blood lipids (fat), improving the body's sensitivity to insulin. Basically this means you will use the energy rather than having it turn to fat.

Now how do you find these high and low glycemic foods? Go here. http://www.lowglycemicdiet.com/gifoodlist.html

You will notice many of the food choices you may have thought was healthy may not be so healthy. In addition, certain food like fruit, once again thought of as healthy, does not mean we can eat all we want.

Do low glycemic foods taste bad? No. They are normal foods but are arranged with a value of a high # let’s say 100 down to 1. 1 being the lowest.

By using low glycemic foods, hunger is minimized, and there are fewer tendencies to "cheat" or overeat.   Even for those whose main objective is not fat loss, foods that are low on the glycemic index can help alleviate mood swings and regulate energy levels.
Foods that stimulate insulin surges can cause us to eat 60 - 70% more calories in your next meal. People who consume foods relatively high in glucose (such as white bread, most commercial whole wheat bread, and raisins) eat an average of 200 calories more at the next meal than those who eat fructose (sugar found in fruits).
It's important to keep in mind, though, that the glycemic index does not take portion size into account. The actual amount any food raises blood sugar has to do both with how glycemic it is, and how much of it you eat. Keep in mind as I stated in other posts, fruit, while good for us, can put on unwanted weight if the sugars are not used. Berries are good healthy low glycemic snacks. Strawberries, raspberries, black berries and blue berries have their glycemic from 30-40.

I am not saying to live and cheat once in a while. I am, however, saying if you’re goal is to lose fat and stabilize blood sugar and sleep better at night as well as have sustained energy throughout the day, you may want to begin paying attention to what is going in your mouth.

Basically too much sugar even from good food can have a negative impact on our lives and can cause disease like type 2 diabetes. Exercise and a balanced eating plan will be your best friend.

FYI, not sure if I have ever mentioned this on my blog but 85% of my diet is perfect. The other 15% brownies, pizza and anything else I want that is bad.

How can I do this? I compensate for added calories and am in good health already. People who have to lose fat and become healthy must find and adhere to a plan that can help them attain a fun filled goal like my eating plan.

Per the title of this blog, I put my 100% of hard work in and I am loving life baby. I live to eat. NOt eat to live. you can too, just

have to know what is going in your mouth and control our urge to eat poorly.

Use the supplements I suggested in previous posts for sugar cravings and fat loss. Or visit www.21daybodymakeover.com and click the order page to read more.

Poison-baby bottles and plastic containers holding food in it

2009-04-21T05:54:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone I have produced several shows about this on my radio show and wanted to expose you to the latest information about it. I did not write this article and wanted to send it in its original form.
if you have children or consume food in plastic bottles/containers (who doesn't) this is a MUST read.

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO Fourteen of the largest public packaged food and beverage companies still use the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in their packaging despite studies linking the synthetic sex hormone to developmental problems, heart disease and diabetes, according to Seeking Safer Packaging , a new report by investors Green Century Capital Management (Green Century) and As You Sow.   
BPA is used in can linings and some hard clear plastic containers. The chemical is known to leach from packaging into food and beverages. In March, rising consumer concern about BPA led the six largest baby bottle manufacturers to announce that they would phase out BPA from all bottles sold in the U.S.   Given the number of studies linking BPA to serious diseases and developmental disorders, its continued use poses unnecessary risks for companies in the packaged food industry, states
Amy Galland, who helped write the report as Research Director of As You Sow.   For the report, Seeking Safer Packaging , investors asked 20 publicly-traded companies what actions they are taking to respond to concerns regarding BPA. Green Century, an environmentally responsible investment advisory firm and manager of the Green Century Funds, initiated outreach to companies in November 2008. Of the fourteen companies that responded, the report found that all but four had failed to develop safer alternatives, and only one company had begun using a substitute.   Seeking Safer Packaging awarded top scores to Hain Celestial, Heinz, and Nestlé. These companies were leaders because they research and test alternatives to BPA and because they plan to phase out the chemical in some products. According to the report, Heinz is the only respondent already using a substitute to BPA in some of its can linings.   The other companies contacted were Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Chiquita, Dean Foods, Del Monte, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, J.M. Smucker, Kellogg, Kraft, McCormick, PepsiCo, Sara Lee, Sysco, and Unilever.   According to Green Century and As You Sow, companies that continue to use BPA in food and beverage packaging face competitive, reputational, and potential market exclusion risks.  Green Century is very concerned about the lack of urgency with which the packaged food industry is addressing BPA, states Larisa Ruoff, Director of Shareholder Advocacy for Green Century. Alternatives to BPA exist for many products. We believe companies should implement all feasible alternatives and increase investments into substitute can linings for all products, including highly-acidic foods.  

As You Sow
As You Sow is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting corporate accountability, social justice, and environmental protection. The Corporate Social Responsibility Program is one of the nations leading proponents of shareholder advocacy. As You Sow is based in San Francisco, California. For more information about As You Sow, visit http://www.asyousow.org .

Green Century Green Century Capital Management is an investment advisory firm focused on environmentally responsible investing. Founded by a partnership of non-profit environmental advocacy organizations in 1991, Green Centurys mission is to provide people who care about a clean, healthy planet the opportunity to use the clout of their investment dollars to encourage environmentally responsible corporate behavior. Green Century believes that shareholder advocacy is a critical component of responsible investing and actively advocates for greater corporate environmental accountability. For more information about Green Century, visit http://www.greencentury.com   You should consider the Green Century Funds' investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. For a prospectus that contains this and other information about the Funds, call 1-800-93-GREEN, visit www.greencentury.com or email info@greencentury.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. Distributed by UMB Distribution Services, LLC 4/09

Are you exercising in vain? Pro inflammatory foods can keep you from losing fat

2009-04-20T07:15:00.000-07:00

So you love to workout hard but don’t reap all of the benefits like fat loss, muscle gain/retention and strong immune system. This may be due improper recovery and inflammation.

Here are some quick guidelines to help you make weekly progress and not look the same in the mirror month by month that makes most people lose motivation.
These anti-inflammatory guidelines below will help you heal faster- whether healing from an injury or a hard workout in the gym to lowering your risk of cardiovascular disease as due to chronic inflammation.

Whenever you experience injury or micro tears in a muscle from a hard workout you have created inflammation- the bodies natural defense to protect us from disease and helps us to heal.

First. Add omega 3 fatty acids to you diet today. Omegs 3's help lower inflammation quickly.
When adding fish to your diet for omega-3 benefits make sure to severely limit or avoid Atlantic fish varieties, and only eat wild Pacific or Alaskan salmon (unless organically farm-raised). The toxins in the Atlantic fish contribute to poor health.

Fish oil EFA supplements are most effective or reducing inflammation, but if you are a vegetarian, algal sources can be used with good result too. Just be sure your EFA supplement has been tested and proven free of mercury and other heavy metals — otherwise it can do you more harm than good.  

Add either 6 almonds and 7 walnuts nuts in your diet daily, especially walnuts and freshly ground flaxseed, which are good sources of omega-3’s. Some also recommend adding an omega-6, 1 tsp of sesame oil per day in addition to the fish oil. This would be good to add only if you’re taking fish oil to balance them out. Note: fish oil capsules that make you burp up a fishy taste/smell are rancid. Take them back this is NOT suppose to happen.

Sardines, anchovies, and shellfish are still good choices. Even though these fats are good they are high in calories so make sure to compensate for them and you do not need to take all o these suggestions for ft intake every day. Change it up daily.

With all of that said here are the foods/beverages that are considered pro-inflammatory (increases inflammation) soda-yes of any kind-coffee, red meat, sugar, wheat, alcohol eggs, dairy, are some of the most common dietary irritants.  

Keep in mind, I am not saying all of these foods like red meat are bad for you. I am, however, saying for injury and to recover fast, limit your exposure to them to get you back in the game again.

Taking a high quality multivitamin is one of the easiest ways to ensure that your body has adequate levels of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients when it needs them most. (To learn more, visit www.21daybodymakeover.com click on Ingredients.) 

In addition, many herbs and foods such as turmeric, oregano, garlic, green tea, blueberries, and ginger contain bioflavonoids and polyphenols that limit free radical production.

It's okay to exercise intensely which can make you sore 2 to 3 workouts per week, but stay away from the mind set of the “no pain no gain”. Begin to think “no brain no gain” This muscle-head theory will damage your body's ability to recruit your strongest muscle fibers and keep you sore longer. This translates into slower fat loss and muscle gains. Due to taking longer to recovery.

Recovery drinks post-workout:

Drink A Post-Workout, high quality, RAW whey protein shake and piece of fruit as soon as you're finished exercising intensely. This will stop muscle breakdown right away and begin repairing as well as adding the glucose back into the muscle for energy the next workout. Note: if your goal is fat loss and you have more than 10 lbs ti lose, you do not need a high sugared fruit post-workout. a green apple, berries or cherries will do fine.

Get Wet:

When you're showering immediately after a workout, make the water as cold as you can handle it, and let it beat on the muscles you trained for one minute. Then immediately turn the water to as hot as you can withstand for another minute. Repeat the process a few times. The contrasting temperatures flush more blood into your muscles, providing essential nutrients that speed healing.

Sleep:

Your body releases growth hormone and balances stress hormones while you sleep. Staying up late every night robs it of the ability to build muscle and lose fat. Make sure you get 7 to 8 hours of hard uninterrupted sleep. Here is the most important part of proper sleep, you must be i bed and asleep by 11pm.
I know this can be hard for most of you but a study showed that just three night per week of interrupted sleep and increases your chance of becoming obese.
While you may have been doing this for many years and not obese, you may notice that the fat you are trying to lose will not come off even though you are very active and eating well. Yes all because of improper sleep

Rework or massage affected area:

Believe it or not exercising a sore muscle due to intense exercise the very next day with low weight and one set of high reps will help the muscle recover fast and/or get a massage. If your legs are sore no weight is needed. Just perform body squats.

Use a high quality full body cleanse program a two to three times per year.

It’s impossible to completely eliminate your exposure to environmental toxins, so it’s a good idea to periodically cleanse the whole body. For more information on how to do this visit www.21daybodymakeover.com

Dead-lift vs squat. Girls don't be afraid. You WILL lose fat

2009-04-15T13:56:00.000-07:00

The Dead-lift Exercise is one of the best core and over-all full body exercises, and I consider it safer than a spine-loaded weighted squat.

Now girls do not fear these exercises they are both healthy and needed exercises.

Goals, technique and form are all factors when making the decision to use them or not.

When I think about most people’s goals of fat loss or changing the shape of their body, I think about using one exercise that will contract as many muscles as possible all at the same time. The dead-lift.

Since dead-lifts activate muscles throughout the entire body make sure to refer back my blog on Burst training then you will quickly realize that dead-lifts can and will put you in that state of being a major caloric expenditure machine.

When we take a look at the pros and cons of these two exercises and the results gained from specific lower body movements the dead-lift is my favorite.

The squat with weight loaded on the back can be important for power lifter’s, athletes, bodybuilders.

Squats are great and help with improving mobility and function around the hip and knee joints. Muscles of the hip are often left out when talking about core strength and stability just your abs and back.

However, in my 20 yrs of experience in working with athletes/clients like Dennis Rodman I used my brain to be innovative and rely on what I have been taught.

Although I do not train anymore, getting back to basics can propel you passed other who are stuck on the latest and greatest machines in the gym.

With that said, I've come to realize that the squat is not for everyone unless you have goals of an athlete or powerlifter and bodybuilder.

Whether it is because of injury, limitation issues, or an inability to perform the correct form due to femur (thigh) tibia (shin born) relation, there is no need to squat with weight on your back.

Too much squatting with the load/weight on your back can contribute to injury due to the repetitive motion, improper alignment (poor bio-mechanics) once again I emphasize with weight on your back/shoulders. The squat is very healthy for you to perform for many goals, just not with weight on your back.

With all of that said the dead-lift is greatness for maximal strength, adding to sports performance, and strengthening the lower back as well as fat loss. All of the benefits only come when this exercise is performed properly.

Although the squat is more of a daily "sit-down, stand-up" motion we never carry heavy weight on our shoulders let alone squat with it in everyday life.

However, the dead-lift emulates ADL (active daily living) exercises like picking up your child, a basket of clothes, starting a lawn mower, and touching your toes then back up again.

The dead-lift, adds more movement in the hip and takes out most of the bending at your knees.

So ladies less quadriceps (thigh) contraction and bulk and more butt work for you! To use those thigh muscles to stay fit for over-all muscular balance to keep them in the equation, perform lunges, body squats, jump squats and jump lunges.

Remember, the dead-lift mind-set I am discussing is for everyday ultimate fitness, not just the body builders or sport related exercises that require explosive strength from BOTH of these movements.

Everything from the calves, hamstrings, glutes, erector spinae (low back), trapezius, and deltoids are active with the dead-lift. Name the muscle and it is used when lifting heavy dead-lifts.

The activation of all of those muscles allows us to put on more lean muscle which will increase your metabolism and create the ‘mirror changes" that many of us are looking for. I call it mirror changes because that is what we should be looking for. The scale should be your mirror and your clothes not something you step on that shows number.

As far as lower back pain is concerned, the dead-lift exercise and its variations when performed with correct form can put you in a healthy posture the body wants to be in and should recognize.

Unfortunately many people sit for too many hours and have poor posture because of the deactivation of certain muscles that will not allow them to bend and squat properly not matter how hard they try. Their butt muscles are literally turned off. They will not activate at all for some people who sit most of the day.

Make sure to higher a personal trainer for a time or two to learn proper form and find where you should state.

Many people who are not familiar with the dead-lift are afraid it will hurt their back. That load you use and proper form can actually create a safe environment (posture) for the lower back and strengthen it.
What you may not realize is the dead-lift is THE proper way to lift everything.

Here is an exercise protocol for Burst training and those who are familiar with proper form already for the dead-lift.
Use medium weight, about 65% of your heaviest weight for one repetition. Perform as many as you can for 3 sets. DO NOT LOSE FORM!! STOP ONCE YOU DO. what many people don't realize is that you can often conti ue to move the load (weight) at times but the form is lost. this is when you invite injury.

This routine will make you WILL huff and puff and increase your metabolism for up to 48 hours afterward. Incorporate a few other exercises in your burst training session that day. Dumbbell chest press is another good one with the same rep routine for I just gave.

For lifting heavy to gain strength, try this routine. 5 sets of 5 reps for 5 days.

Lift your heaviest for 5 reps 5 sets for 5 days with proper form for several weeks this way. You WILL become strong no doubt within the first week.
Good luck and be safe

Women want more sex and you guys can't keep up

2009-04-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

Common thought is that women have a low libido while a man’s sex drive is as aware and ready to go as a marine waiting to deploy for war.
Complaints for the desire for more and frequent sex are beginning to change gender.
Low libido in men is a much more of a common complaint than previously thought.
In couples seeking counseling, as much as 40% of men complained about their significant others desire for sex being too much for them.
Now, we can either go back in time to Paleolithic man and look at his role to procreate and take sex when and how he desired. He didn’t care about what his girl wanted or when because she was not going anywhere and her feelings didn’t mater.
Or we can look at modern man in modern day. We, the men, thought we had it figured out. Get in touch with our feminine side and talk more and listen better. Right? Wrong. We begrudgingly talked and listened more only to learn that isn’t enough to keep her satisfied. SHE WANTS MORE SEX DAMN IT! Who’d a thought?
While some of us may be excited about this information, remember there is always a catch. Oh she wants more sex alright, but she wants it her way. We have to kiss her neck, massage her and do everything else you were suppose to remember t do while you were “listening better.”
Want to keep your relationship strong? Hell for some how about just keeping your relationship these days.
Now I am not saying sex is the most important role in keeping a relationship together and happy. I am, however, saying it is a form of bonding that has a give and take mentality and application to keep it relationship healthy. Just as “listening” “talking” and getting in touch with your feminine side will keep you out of hot water and keep her desire to want you.
For the ladies here is a little insight about men.
We will romance you to get you. If and when we fall in love with you we will still desire you but we will fall prey to the comfort zone and begin to change priorities for our work in many cases. If we didn’t we would all be poor. Because sex would rule out lives and we would get nothing done. It’s not that you are not important, you are, but we tend to need a nudge at times with your, oh so perfect communication skills. We do not need nagging! Why do we need this nudge? I can blame it on self-deprecation and say I/we are too stupid to recognize what you want until we are in the dog-house. Or that we do NOT play guessing games so communicate to us want you want.
Going back thousands of years again to Paleolithic modern man’s function and role was to provide and procreate. Can we apply ourselves and be more caring today than we use to 5000 years ago? Of course but primordially we are not always going to take the initiative in the way you want at the times you want so stop beating us up for it.
In addition, since this is about a man’s decline for sex, there a few things you need to know about a man’s hormones and how lifestyle affects them and his sex drive. Keep in mind some of the lifestyles I will address affect females as well in an adverse way toward sex.
Modern day man-for the most part- is not fit, eats horribly, is stressed and takes some form of over the counter medication or prescription that influences his or her desires for sex.
In the beginning of a monogamous relationship it is common, as it should be to be to hanging from the chandelier and have twice per day sex. Especially if the man is in his 20’s or 30’s and fit. Roughly from puberty to 40 a fit man will happily oblige when and how often you want it. Interestingly we all have the ability to have sex until we are old and die, keep in mind as hormones decline so does the sex life. So if you are 45 year old man with a new bride of 25 you may need assistance keeping up. I am not referring to the first six months, but everything after that, well have fun keeping up
Here are some of the top reasons men complain about their lack of desire for sex.
Here's a list of ten common reasons why men may not want sex:
1. Medications. Antidepressants (SSRI-type) and antihypertensives (blood pressure medication) are often the culprit when a man has a lowered interest in sexual activity. These can also cause sexual dysfunction.
2. Lack of sleep. When a man is in his teens or twenties, the opportunity to have sex will often overwhelm the desire to sleep. This is often true also when a relationship is brand new. But, as people and relationships age, sex can lose its compelling nature and a good night's rest can be quite can take over.
3. Hormonal levels. The most important physiological stimulant of sexual desire is testosterone. Low testosterone will suppress sexual desire. When man is in his later 30’s and 40’s he will often have less desire for sex. Some choose to look into hormone replacement therapy others can do it the natural way. Exercise and eat well. Proper exercise will raise hormone levels and change his desire within a week or so.
p.s the same exercise and eating changes can be said for a women who is not healthy
4. Identity issues. Identity Issues at work or is out of work, faces the death of an important family member, becomes disheartened about a formerly held strong belief, and questions his understanding of his own sexual orientation
5. Turn-off to aspects of the sex. Some men will turn away from sex rather than have sex that is not fulfilling to them. Lack of fulfillment can be related to specific things the female does during sex. It may just seem like too much "work." He may have sexual interests that he knows or fears his partner may not like. Yes we know ladies you have similar issues when the man does not turn you on, but this is about why a man’s libido is low

6. Arguments or Disagreements. Yes men, like women shy away from sex when there is constant arguing. Men may just plain refuse their partner's advances.
7. Financial and family related Stress. Loss of a job, trouble paying bills, challenges at work, and parenting can all have huge impact on sexual desire.
8. Thinking of another. Masturbation while thinking of another or thinking of you in different roles, clothes and/or positions that you will not do. Or men are afraid to ask. This comes back to effective communication.
9. Prolonged time between sex, fear of initiation. It can be awkward, almost like being with someone for the first time even though you have been together for months or years. It is strongly suggested you seek couples therapy
This is a common cause of declining sexual frequency in couples.
10. Difficulties functioning sexually. Many men who have an erection dysfunction (ED), or believe that they ejaculate too soon -- or too late (if at all), may avoid have sex.

When a women’s desire for sex is not met; criticism, arguing or comments on his manhood exacerbate the situation. Time, patients and learning how to address the problems will be your best bet. Together!

Have your cake and eat it too. Literally

2009-04-09T15:33:00.000-07:00

Let’s face it there is always an event like a birthday party, sports watching party, wedding, for some a funeral and any other excuse to eat bad food.

So I decided to share -what I felt for a long time could be damaging to the fragile non-disciplined person-the way to cheat without the guilt.

When people look at me they think I don't have fun in life by eating fun, fat adding, serotonin robbing, diabetes causing, and depression contributing food. lol (i.e. Ice cream, brownies, cake, cereal ect...)

I am going on record, as I have for years on my radio show to tell you 85% of my diet is perfect, the other 15% off the charts, brownies, a whole pizza and the like.

How do I stay defined and in shape? I compensate for my poor food choices with a plan that does not allow me to feel guilty nor put on fat.

If you read my blog about Burst training and how I applied it my entire exercise life then you know one piece of the pie- haha sorry had to do that- to burning more calories at rest than doing goofy aerobic exercise.

If you have not read the Burst training piece I highly encourage you to add this to your training program for life no matter the goal.

Secondly, 20 minutes before your cheat meal have a good source of fat. From cod liver oil to 6 raw almonds or walnuts. This helps to balance blood glucose but having with the meal will not work. It must be 20 minutes before.
Third, FIBER! A round tablespoon of Psyllium husk, buy it at your healthy grocery store. Have this right before you ingest your cheat meal. What this does is helps to absorb some of the calories from that meal and minimizes an insulin spike and assists the good fat source you had 20 minutes prior.

Does this mean you will not absorb all of the calories? NO! You will, however, minimize them and not have the guilt and weight gain associated with a cheat meal.

Reasons we cheat are: waiting too long between meals, eating sugared foods which makes you crave more sugar, sleeping poorly and adrenal fatigue

Remember to always come home by cleansing your body and ending carb/sugar cravings with the 21 Day Body Makeover program. visit www.21daybodymakeover.com

phases of a healthy cleanse.

2009-04-08T05:08:00.000-07:00

There are two phases of cleansing the entire body.

Our body doesn’t speak to us in English, it speaks in disease, pain, allergies, restless nights of sleep and other symptoms….

When sensitive organs such as the brain and nervous tissue are stressed from additives/chemicals of poor food choices those tissues and organs protect themselves by allowing more fat to accumulate which helps to dilute the concentrations of these pollutants and environmental waste.

Fat is very efficient at storing most of these chemicals because most pollutants are fat soluble.

By safely eliminating the chemicals we eat through infusing highly concentrated antioxidant and mineral rich supplements and a proper food protocol, excess fat cells are no longer needed to help dilute pollutants from the additives of bad food so we immediately begin to lose fat.

Phase two begins on day 11 and finishes on day 21.

The only the highest quality, professional grade, whole food based supplements eliminate everything from every organ and gland of the body that helped to create those extra fat cells, cravings and water retention.

Insulin levels and blood sugar levels begin to normalize, which often helps minimize all negative food and soda cravings, creates a full night sleep, loss of excess water and fat.

When insulin levels are high, the body retains high amounts of sodium that hold excess water outside of the cell (where it is not needed). By re-establishing proper insulin levels, excess sodium and pounds of excess water is shed. The water you lose is the water that causes edema and swelling.

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The Best Protein On the Planet

2009-04-07T05:53:00.000-07:00

World’s Best Protein Powder
You are not absorbing all of the protein from over the counter supplements and simply wasting money buying anyother protein.

Why is it the Best?

Our World’s Best Protein powder is made with Proserum® native whey protein. It is the best because it is produced using proprietary filtration and drying which involves minimal processing. This sounds like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, but this unique production method ensures that the whey is not subjected to temperatures that would destroy the original components. We do not use cross-flow filtration, microfiltration, hydrolyzation or ion exchange methods which denature the original proteins. This full range, biologically active, complete amino acid profile protein naturally contains an exceptional amount of the critical glutathione precursor covalent-bonded cysteine. Additionally it contains the full range and exceptional levels of the most important protein components, which are lactoferrin, immunoglobulins, serum albumin, growth factors, active peptides and covalent bonded amino acids.
Proserum® is a registered trademark of Wellwisdom, LLC
Bottom line this means for you:
Enhanced protein intake
Clean, lean protein source which can benefit body fat loss
Increased basal metabolic rate, which means you burn more calories
Improved immune support
Protection from catabolism, loss of lean tissue/muscle
Balanced blood sugar (which can reduce cravings and improve potential issues with diabetes, insulin resistance and or hypoglycemia)
What else you need to know….
The milk harvested for this product comes from cows that graze on pesticide and chemical-free natural grass pastures. Milk from grass-fed cows has many times higher levels of CLA and contains a proper balance of essential fatty acids. The milking cows are never fed grain or subjected to any growth hormone treatment, chemicals, antibiotics, genetically modified organisms, hyperimmunization or injected pathogens.
Why is World’s Best Protein from whey is better the any other soy or rice protein source?
Bottom line, it is a clean, complete protein source with a low allergenic profile unlike soy (which can be detrimental to the thyroid in addition to very allergenic) and rice.
Our World’s Best Protein contains exceptional levels of cysteine, which is the critical precursor for the intracellular production of glutathione. Cysteine is very scarce in our modern diet and therefore glutathione production is limited and deficiency is prevalent.
If cysteine undergoes any heating or processing, as all conventional whey products do, it is denatured and converted to cystine which cannot be utilized for efficient glutathione production.
World’s Best Protein should raise glutathione levels exceptionally well because the cysteine comes naturally bound to glutamine and glycine. Glutathione is known as THE master antioxidant in the body, responsible for helping the liver during detox and helping the body daily with free radical defense and removal. It is great to know that this complete protein also contains considerable amounts of the important amino acid glutamine, known for its muscle building, gut healing and immune boosting properties.

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Aspartame: It can keep weight on and cause many health issues

2009-04-05T08:39:00.000-07:00

Aspartame:

What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouAspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.by: Dr. Joseph MercolaAspartame is the technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It was discovered byaccident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goodson July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner inAugust 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle's research practices caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made SearlePharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactionsare very serious including seizures and death.(1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as beingcaused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain,rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathingdifficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can betriggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame:(2) Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome,parkinson's disease, alzheimer's, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. The book "Prescription for NutritionalHealing," by James and Phyllis Balch, lists aspartame under the category of "chemical poison." As you shall see, that is exactlywhat it is.What Is Aspartame Made Of?Aspartic Acid (40 percent of aspartame) Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, recently published a bookthoroughly detailing the damage that is caused by the ingestion of excessive aspartic acid from aspartame. Blaylock makes useof almost 500 scientific references to show how excess free excitatory amino acids such as aspartic acid and glutamic acid(about 99 percent of monosodium glutamate (MSG) is glutamic acid) in our food supply are causing serious chronicneurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.(3)How Aspartate (and Glutamate) Cause Damage Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron toneuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into thecells. This influx triggers excessive amounts of free radicals, which kill the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused byexcessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as "excitotoxins." They "excite" or stimulate the neural cells todeath.Aspartic acid is an amino acid. Taken in its free form (unbound to proteins) it significantly raises the blood plasma level ofaspartate and glutamate. The excess aspartate and glutamate in the blood plasma shortly after ingesting aspartame orproducts with free glutamic acid (glutamate precursor) leads to a high level of those neurotransmitters in certain areas of thebrain.The blood brain barrier (BBB), which normally protects the brain from excess glutamate and aspartate as well as toxins, 1) isnot fully developed during childhood, 2) does not fully protect all areas of the brain, 3) is damaged by numerous chronic andacute conditions, and 4) allows seepage of excess glutamate and aspartate into the brain even when intact.The excess glutamate and aspartate slowly begin to destroy neurons. The large majority (75 percent or more) of neural cells ina particular area of the brain are killed before any clinical symptoms of a chronic illness are noticed. A few of the many chronicillnesses that have been shown to be contributed to by long-term exposure to excitatory amino acid damage include:
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
ALS
Memory loss
Hormonal problems
Hearing loss
Epilepsy
Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease
Hypoglycemia
AIDS
Dementia
Brain lesions
Neuroendocrine disordersThe risk to infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly and persons with certain chronic health problems from excitotoxinsare great. Even the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), which usually understates problemsand mimics the FDA party-line, recently stated in a review that:"It is prudent to avoid the use of dietary supplements of L-glutamic acid by pregnant women, infants, and children. The existenceof evidence of potential endocrine responses, i.e., elevated cortisol and prolactin, and differential responses between malesand females, would also suggest a neuroendocrine link and that supplemental L-glutamic acid should be avoided by women ofchildbearing age and individuals with affective disorders."(4)Aspartic acid from aspartame has the same deleterious effects on the body as glutamic acid.The exact mechanism of acute reactions to excess free glutamate and aspartate is currently being debated. As reported to theFDA, those reactions include:(5)
Headaches/migraines
Nausea
Abdominal pains
Fatigue (blocks sufficient glucose entry into brain)
Sleep problems
Vision problems
Anxiety attacks
Depression
Asthma/chest tightness.One common complaint of persons suffering from the effect of aspartame is memory loss. Ironically, in 1987, G.D. Searle, themanufacturer of aspartame, undertook a search for a drug to combat memory loss caused by excitatory amino acid damage.Blaylock is one of many scientists and physicians who are concerned about excitatory amino acid damage caused by ingestionof aspartame and MSG.A few of the many experts who have spoken out against the damage being caused by aspartate and glutamate include AdrienneSamuels, Ph.D., an experimental psychologist specializing in research design. Another is Olney, a professor in the departmentof psychiatry, School of Medicine, Washington University, a neuroscientist and researcher, and one of the world's foremostauthorities on excitotoxins. (He informed Searle in 1971 that aspartic acid caused holes in the brains of mice.)Phenylalanine (50 percent of aspartame) Phenylalanine is an amino acid normally found in the brain. Persons with the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) cannotmetabolize phenylalanine. This leads to dangerously high levels of phenylalanine in the brain (sometimes lethal). It has beenshown that ingesting aspartame, especially along with carbohydrates, can lead to excess levels of phenylalanine in the braineven in persons who do not have PKU.This is not just a theory, as many people who have eaten large amounts of aspartame over a long period of time and do nothave PKU have been shown to have excessive levels of phenylalanine in the blood. Excessive levels of phenylalanine in thebrain can cause the levels of seratonin in the brain to decrease, leading to emotional disorders such as depression. It wasshown in human testing that phenylalanine levels of the blood were increased significantly in human subjects who chronicallyused aspartame.(6)Even a single use of aspartame raised the blood phenylalanine levels. In his testimony before the U.S. Congress, Dr. Louis J.Elsas showed that high blood phenylalanine can be concentrated in parts of the brain and is especially dangerous for infantsand fetuses. He also showed that phenylalanine is metabolised much more effeciently by rodents than by humans.(7)One account of a case of extremely high phenylalanine levels caused by aspartame was recently published the "WednesdayJournal" in an article titled "An Aspartame Nightmare." John Cook began drinking six to eight diet drinks every day. Hissymptoms started out as memory loss and frequent headaches. He began to crave more aspartame-sweetened drinks. Hiscondition deteriorated so much that he experienced wide mood swings and violent rages. Even though he did not suffer fromPKU, a blood test revealed a phenylalanine level of 80 mg/dl. He also showed abnormal brain function and brain damage. Afterhe kicked his aspartame habit, his symptoms improved dramatically.(8)As Blaylock points out in his book, early studies measuring phenylalanine buildup in the brain were flawed. Investigators whomeasured specific brain regions and not the average throughout the brain notice significant rises in phenylalanine levels.Specifically the hypothalamus, medulla oblongata, and corpus striatum areas of the brain had the largest increases inphenylalanine. Blaylock goes on to point out that excessive buildup of phenylalanine in the brain can cause schizophrenia ormake one more susceptible to seizures.Therefore, long-term, excessive use of aspartame may provid a boost to sales of seratonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozacand drugs to control schizophrenia and seizures.Methanol (aka wood alcohol/poison) (10 percent of aspartame) Methanol/wood alcohol is a deadly poison. Some people may remember methanol as the poison that has caused some "skidrow" alcoholics to end up blind or dead. Methanol is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group ofaspartame encounter the enzyme chymotrypsin.The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is createdfrom aspartame when it is heated to above 86 Fahrenheit (30 Centigrade). This would occur when aspartame-containingproduct is improperly stored or when it is heated (e.g., as part of a "food" product such as Jello).Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin. An EPAassessment of methanol states that methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it isabsorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic." Theyrecommend a limit of consumption of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing products consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 timesthe EPA limit.(9)Symptoms from methanol poisoning include headaches, ear buzzing, dizziness, nausea, gastrointestinal disturbances,weakness, vertigo, chills, memory lapses, numbness and shooting pains in the extremities, behavioral disturbances, andneuritis. The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressivecontraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness. Formaldehyde is a knowncarcinogen, causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication and causes birth defects.(10)Due to the lack of a couple of key enzymes, humans are many times more sensitive to the toxic effects of methanol thananimals. Therefore, tests of aspartame or methanol on animals do not accurately reflect the danger for humans. As pointed outby Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, director of the food science and nutrition laboratory at Arizona State University, "There are no humanor mammalian studies to evaluate the possible mutagenic, teratogenic or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration ofmethyl alcohol."(11)He was so concerned about the unresolved safety issues that he filed suit with the FDA requesting a hearing to address theseissues. He asked the FDA to "slow down on this soft drink issue long enough to answer some of the important questions. It'snot fair that you are leaving the full burden of proof on the few of us who are concerned and have such limited resources. Youmust remember that you are the American public's last defense. Once you allow usage (of aspartame) there is literally nothing Ior my colleagues can do to reverse the course. Aspartame will then join saccharin, the sulfiting agents, and God knows howmany other questionable compounds enjoined to insult the human constitution with governmental approval."(10) Shortlythereafter, the Commissioner of the FDA, Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, hethen left for a position with G.D. Searle's public relations firm.(11)It has been pointed out that some fruit juices and alcoholic beverages contain small amounts of methanol. It is important toremember, however, that methanol never appears alone. In every case, ethanol is present, usually in much higher amounts.Ethanol is an antidote for methanol toxicity in humans.(9) The troops of Desert Storm were "treated" to large amounts ofaspartame-sweetened beverages, which had been heated to over 86 degrees F in the Saudi Arabian sun. Many of themreturned home with numerous disorders similar to what has been seen in persons who have been chemically poisoned byformaldehyde. The free methanol in the beverages may have been a contributing factor in these illnesses. Other breakdownproducts of aspartame such as DKP (discussed below) may also have been a factor.In a 1993 act that can only be described as "unconscionable," the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous fooditems that would always be heated to above 86 degree F (30 degree C).Diketopiperazine (DKP) DKP is a byproduct of aspartame metabolism. DKP has been implicated in the occurrence of brain tumors. Olney noticed thatDKP, when nitrosated in the gut, produced a compound that was similar to N-nitrosourea, a powerful brain tumor causingchemical. Some authors have said that DKP is produced after aspartame ingestion. I am not sure if that is correct. It is definitelytrue that DKP is formed in liquid aspartame-containing products during prolonged storage.G.D. Searle conducted animal experiments on the safety of DKP. The FDA found numerous experimental errors occurred,including "clerical errors, mixed-up animals, animals not getting drugs they were supposed to get, pathological specimens lostbecause of improper handling," and many other errors.(12) These sloppy laboratory procedures may explain why both the testand control animals had sixteen times more brain tumors than would be expected in experiments of this length.In an ironic twist, shortly after these experimental errors were discovered, the FDA used guidelines recommended by G.D.Searle to develop the industry-wide FDA standards for good laboratory practices.(11)DKP has also been implicated as a cause of uterine polyps and changes in blood cholesterol by FDA Toxicologist Dr.Jacqueline Verrett in her testimony before the U.S. Senate.(13)References(1) Department of Health and Human Services, Report on All Adverse Reactions in the Adverse Reaction Monitoring System,(February 25 and 28, 1994).(2) Compiled by researchers, physicians, and artificial sweetner experts for Mission Possible, a group dedicated to warningconsumers about aspartame.(3) Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.(4) Safety of Amino Acids, Life Sciences Research Office, FASEB, FDA Contract No. 223-88-2124, Task Order No. 8.(5) FDA Adverse Reaction Monitoring System.(6) Wurtman and Walker, "Dietary Phenylalanine and Brain Function," Proceedings of the First International Meeting on DietaryPhenylalanine and Brain Function., Washington, D.C., May 8, 1987.(7) Hearing Before the Committee On Labor and Human Resources United States Senate, First Session on Examing the Healthand Safety Concerns of Nutrasweet (Aspartame).(8) Account of John Cook as published in Informed Consent Magazine. "How Safe Is Your Artificial Sweetner" by BarbaraMullarkey, September/October 1994.(9) Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D., R.D., "Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health," Journal of Applied Nutrition, 36 (1): 42-53.(10) US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 84-1153 Community Nutrition Institute and Dr Woodrow Montev. Dr Mark Novitch, Acting Commissioner, US FDA (9/24/85).(11) Aspartame Time Line by Barbara Mullarkey as published in Informed Consent Magazine, May/June 1994.(12) FDA Searle Investigation Task Force. "Final Report of Investigation of G.D. Searle Company." (March 24, 1976)(13) Testimony of Dr Jacqueline Verrett, FDA Toxicologist before the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources,(November 3, 1987).© Copyright 2009 Dr. Joseph Mercola. All Rights Reserved. This content may be copied in full, with copyright, contact, creationand information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit format. If any other use is desired,permission in writing from Dr. Mercola is required.
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2009-04-04T07:38:00.000-07:00

On the show today, low tech fitness equipment that can make you fitter, leaner and stronger than limiting yourself in a fixed path of motion in a gym setting using machines.

www.punchgym.com and www.artofstrength.com to see what I mean

Hate aerobic training? Then don't do it

2009-04-03T05:35:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone I wanted to come out of the gate and start a topic that is controversial to the main stream trainers and doctors alike, but has massive amounts of proof showing its long term benefits and fast results.

Performing aerobic training such as jogging for long distances is out. It is not the 1970's.

Get with the program.

Burst Training

Benefits of Burst Training

Greatly reduced amount of time required (15-30 minutes per day)
Increases fat burning and fitness levels.
Increases Growth Hormone which improves healing and increases energy.
Increases Testosterone which increases muscle tone and increases energy.
Decreases Inflammation which reduces pain and risk of chronic disease.
Less impact on the adrenal glands- better energy levels and better sleep.

How to Perform

Complex/Compound movements only- move multiple joints and use multiple muscle groups (push-ups, bench press, pull-downs, chin-ups, squats, leg press, etc).

Perform rapid movement while maintaining control of the weight.

Complete failure due to lactic acid burn should be attained within 60 seconds or less.

Rest 1-3 minutes between sets to completely catch your breath.

Total workout should be 30 minutes or less. Can be broken into 2 sessions (morning and evening).

No zone cardio (stationary bike, treadmill, power walking, stair-master, etc. for 30 -45 minutes).

Perform burst training 3-4 times per week.

Running intervals, or sprints with intermittent rest periods, burns three times as much fat as running at slow, consistent speeds, according to new research from the University of New South Wales, in Australia.
We've developed a six-week plan to rev up your body's natural fat burners.
Start by taking a baseline measurement of your endurance at high speeds. Head to a track, football field, or other measured area with room to run. Sprint for 45 seconds and record your distance. Rest for 60 seconds, then sprint again for 45 seconds. If you don't regularly run intervals or don't participate in intermittent sports, your second span will probably shorten by as much as 25 percent, says Craig Ballantyne, M.Sc., C.S.C.S., owner of TurbulenceTraining.com. "A distance drop of only 10 percent between runs is excellent," he says.
Use this plan to improve your endurance and burn fat, measuring your progress every week.

Exercise is Medicine:
The anti-inflammatory effects of high intensity exercise
Inflammation is the body’s natural means of stimulating healing, but when continuous and chronic it becomes damaging and detrimental to health.
In modern day we are confronted with persistent stress. lifestyle, not forced to exercise on the land. As a result, we face chronic low level inflammation. This type of inflammation is less detectable by objective or subjective measures making it more insidious in nature. The lifestyle of 100’s or thousand of years ago humans had substantial risks, yet their movement patterns kept chronic inflammation at bay.

Burst training exercise increases the healing response that couples both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mechanisms to repair, regenerate, and grow tissue stronger.
High intensity short duration movement that is tailored to the individual, uses short rest periods, and engages the whole body may be the chief means of attaining anti-inflammatory effects from exercise.

These are only a few examples:

1 kettlebell training- works every muscle in the body Find a certified trainer for a routine. Great cardio, strength, fat loss

2. wrestling – works every muscle in your body. Great for the competitive side in you and makes you stronger and leaner

3. martial arts- works every muscle in your body. Great for the competitive side in you and makes you stronger mentally and physically

4. all contact sports All sports which require the use of every muscle to instantaneously contract all at the same time.( i.e. being tackled in football, tackling someone else, blocking, teeing off in golf.) Once again any sport or movement that contracts every muscle at the same time under force for a short period of time over and over again for 30min.

5. Deadlifts. works every muscle in the body, makes you stronger helps shape the body and muscular balance. Keeps you safe when performing this move in everyday life.

6. Squat- works every muscle in the body makes you stronger helps shape the body. Keeps you safe when performing this move in everyday life

7. Sprinting, works every muscle in the body. SEE A COMMON DENOMINATOR HERE? Leaner, muscular-balance. Can also help with back pain abs strength. Do NOT sprint if you have not performed this type of exercise in a while and are limited physically.

8. Sprinting on a bike. Outside or spin classes, sprinting on a bike is a great form of burst training as long as you come down and have a rest period so you can sprint again for 20 seconds.

Testosterone and especially growth hormone are known to be factors linked closely with intensity. The best way to exercise is to deplete glycogen, i.e., significantly reduces the bodies muscle and liver sugar stores. Only two types of exercise are able to produce these effects long duration exercise lasting hours or short intense sprint type exercise.
This type of exercise also makes sense because it creates a hormonal environment that produces sustained fat burning as well as muscle growth 42-44.

http://metaboliceffect.com/me_pages/program.html

and http://www.completehealthdallas.com/

keep in mind even if you are Not in the best shape you can perform WITH A QUALIFIES TRAINER burst training. It is Not limited to these exercises above. Burst training can be performed by using weights in a gym with the larger muscles of the body involved, lifting the weights 30-50 repetitions. This will help pull the glycogen out of the muscle and make no mistake about it, this exercise will burn the muscles. This is exactly what you want to happen. You will sleep better at night and your metabolism will freak out for over 40 hours after you have performed burst training.
I have been using this type of workout my whole life. It is only recently that it has been labeled.
ALWAYS CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING ANY EXERCISE PROGRAM.