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Can Acts of Kindness Improve Your Health

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/08/2017

One of the top New Year Resolutions that you can make to improve your health would be acts of kindness.

Random acts of kindness have become a hot topic in science and psychology today. And the reason why is that there are multiple studies that demonstrate how compassionate giving and benevolence improve the health of both the giver and the receiver.

To help you understand how acts of kindness can improve your health let’s break this down into two categories. Here’s the first:

Acts of Kindness – Physiological Effects

Here’s a list of the physiological benefits that your body will derive when you engage in acts of kindness. When you see this list, I hope it encourages you to make it a daily goal to engage in a random act of kindness for both you and the receiver. Both will enjoy health benefits.

Turbo Charge Your Energy – Increase Polyphenols

Posted by Dan Hammer //

12/08/2016

According to Dr. Steven Gundry, the most effective way to increase your energy is to increase polyphenols and eliminate lectins from your diet. This means there are two parts to your energy equation:

Learn how to eliminate lectins

Learn how to increase polyphenols

In this post we’ll focus on how to increase polyphenols in your diet. Click here to read our post on how to eliminate lectins from your diet.

What Are Polyphenols and What Do They Do?

Polyphenols are phytochemicals or phytonutrients that have antioxidant properties. They’re mainly found in plants with over 8000 that have been identified.

As antioxidants they help protect the cells in your body, especially cell membranes, from free radical damage. Free radical damage plays a critical role in the aging process. There are three major groups of antixidants:

Turbo Charge Your Energy – Eliminate Lectins

Posted by Dan Hammer //

12/01/2016

According to Dr. Steven Gundry, the most effective way to increase your energy is to eliminate lectins from your diet and increase polyphenols. This means there are two parts to your energy equation:

Learn how to eliminate lectins

Learn how to increase polyphenols

In this post we’ll focus on how to eliminate lectins from your diet. Our next post will focus on how to increase your polyphenol consumption.

What Are Lectins and What Do They Do?

Lectins are a group of proteins found in nearly all plants and animals. There are over 100 know types but 12 major lectins that typically cause health issues.

Plants usually have a higher quantity of lectins because they use them as a natural pesticide to protect themselves from being eating by insects. In fact one of the dangers of GMO foods is that lectins have been spliced into their genetic coding to make them more resistant to insects.

While this may help protect crops from insects and reduce the need for pesticides, they increase the risk for stealing your energy and causing you health problems.

Here’s how.

22 Reasons For L-Arginine Supplementation

Posted by Dan Hammer //

11/01/2016

L-arginine supplementation has become big business in the nutrition industry. What was once reserved for body builders has now been brought into the mainstream health consumer marketplace.

This increased awareness for L-arginine supplementation started with the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine when 3 American researchers were recognized for their discovery of how your endothelium, which lines all of your cardiovascular system, converts the semi-essential amino acid L-Arginine into Nitric Oxide – the master signaling molecule of your entire cardiovascular system.

Since the discovery of this L-Arginine / Nitric Oxide connection there has been a frenzy of interest in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry. An interest that has spilled over in the general population as Dr. Oz and others have emphasized the need for L-Arginine supplementation for improved cardiovascular health and overall wellness.

Immune System Power Foods

Posted by Dan Hammer //

10/22/2016

If you Google the term Immune System Power Foods you’ll find hundreds of articles and suggestions on which foods to eat to boost your immune system. As well as which foods compromise your immune system. As the picture to the right clearly show you have a daily choice, which affects your health and the health of your children.

And, as I write today’s blog post two items are in full play:

Children Have Returned To School

The Flu Season Is Almost On Us

My wife is a teacher and already students and teachers are sick. And it’s only going to get worse. Unless you take steps to incorporate immune system power foods into your daily diet.

Noticed I said “Daily Diet!”

If you want to boost your immune system, then you need to make a conscious effort to eat foods everyday that are going to optimize your immune system.

To help you in this process I’ve compiled the following table of immune system power foods recommended by 5 key authorities in this area. Once you’ve looked over this list, then I’ll give you my suggested 7 immune system power foods.

Mistica Clinically Proven Antioxidant Beverage

Posted by Dan Hammer //

10/15/2016

Mistica is a clinically proven antioxidant beverage which features the remarkable wellness properties of the Brazilian Açaí berry in combination with a rainbow of other nutritionally dense foods! This post will discuss why antioxidants are so important to offsetting the damage from free radicals. And, why Mistica is the leading antioxidant beverage.

Let me start out by asking you a very important question:

Are You Interested In Slowing Down The Aging Process?

If you are like most of the 76+ million Baby Boomers, then the answer is YES!

Mistica Clinically Proven Antioxidant Beverage

The leading cause of aging is free radical damage to our cell membranes.

In very simple terms a free radical is an atom or molecule that is missing an electron in its outer orbit. This makes it extremely unstable. Because of this it will try to steal an electron from a different atom or molecule to stabilize itself. This process causes the affected atom or molecule to become unstable and develop into a new free radical. This begins a chain reaction that can cascade until the final free radicals steal electrons from the cell membrane of some tissue resulting in damage to a living cell.

This constant process of free radicals stealing electrons from living tissue results in the aging process we all experience.

An antioxidant is a molecule that freely gives away its outer electrons. Thus, it will give the free radical its needed electron to return it back to a stable compound. Now, you might be thinking that the antioxidant will become a free radical.

Here is the really impressive aspect of this process. An antioxidant doesn’t become a free radical because they are stable in either form (with or without an even number of electrons in their outer orbit).

The stability of antioxidants allows them to act as free radical scavengers to help prevent cell and tissue damage.

The MIND Diet for Cognitive Protection

Posted by Dan Hammer //

08/22/2016

Have you ever heard of the MIND Diet? I hadn’t until I saw this headline:

“New Research Shows MIND Diet Keeps Brains 7.5 Years Younger”

Now who wouldn’t want a diet that would help them keep their brain younger. Well, MIND is short for Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. Its a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH eating plan designed to control blood pressure. It was developed by the nutritional epidemiologists at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center.

Before I share with you the results of their study, here is a brief summary of the MIND diet:

Four Metrics to Healthy Living

Posted by Dan Hammer //

08/01/2016

There are four metrics to healthy living. But before we look at these metrics you need to understand the growing trend that’s beginning to wreck havoc on our overall well being. It’s obesity and overweight issues that lead to metabolic syndrome health issues like diabetes and heart disease.

Currently, of the five billion adults living on the planet Earth, one in eight are clinically obese.

When you do the math that 625 million people.

And a fifth of these obese adults live in six high-income countries: United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Currently, the United States government estimates that more people die of too much food than too little.

A Primer on Strawberry Nutrition!

Posted by Dan Hammer //

07/22/2016

Strawberries have long been the most popular fruit and now strawberry nutrition is becoming just as famous. With over 600 varieties, this fruity, heart-shaped valentine does more than just promote love. It promotes health!

Because of its high ORAC value and nutritional density, I use strawberries as one of my ingredients in my ORAC Salad and ORAC Shake. Here’s a brief overview of their health benefits and why it’s important to include strawberries in your diet:

A Primer on Spinach Nutrition!

Posted by Dan Hammer //

07/15/2016

Whether you eat it steamed, cooked, canned or raw, spinach nutrition can provide a foundation in your battle to slow down the aging process and prevent degenerative diseases. This leafy green vegetable is one of the most nutritious foods you can consume. Because of its high ORAC value and nutritional density, I use spinach as the base for my ORAC Shake and Salad. Here’s a brief overview of its health benefits and why spinach is important to include it in your diet:

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