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3 Key Strategies for Effective Weight Loss

Posted by Dan Hammer //

05/15/2019

In my Yahoo News Feed there was a feature on Michael Watson, an 18 year old high school senior who has lost 115 pounds. Micheal’s story was also picked up by Good Morning America.

I would like to feature Micheal, and what he had to say, to highlight 3 key strategies for effective weight loss.

Effective Weight Loss Strategy #1 – Exercise

Most people think they have to go to the gym and work out on a stair climber or treadmill to help them lose weight. Or pay a personal trainer to motivate them to exercise hard enough to burn the needed calories. Here’s a quote from the Yahoo article on what Michael did:

“Watson, now a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, started by walking to and from school every day, more than 40 minutes round trip.”

For Michael it was a simple walking program. And he did it in segments. Once in the morning and once after school.

At the start of his Junior year in high school, Michael decided to walk to school instead of riding the bus. He did this 5 days per week. Rain or shine.

He didn’t jog to school. He didn’t run to school. He just walked to school.

A simple walking program that almost anyone can do.

By making the commitment to walk, Michael began his journey towards effective weight loss, which brings us to the next strategy.

Effective Weight Loss Strategy #2 – Progress Over Time

Michael didn’t lose 115 pounds in a couple of months. Michael lost the weight over time. He started in his Sophomore year and continue his efforts through his senior year. I like this quote from the Yahoo article:

“I’d see that I was 290 [pounds] and say, ‘Let’s get to 280, come on Michael, you got this,”

Michael didn’t set his goal at 115 pounds. He set small goals that helped him make progress over time.

As he reached the smaller goals that he set for himself, this built up his confidence. He saw and felt improvements to his looks and overall health. Which helped him set his next goal. And continued his progress over time.

But the key strategy that Michael implemented, that I believe made the greatest difference, is the next one.

Effective Weight Loss Strategy #3 – Diet

Michael changed his diet. Not a restrictive diet.

Instead he change the foods he ate each day. Here’s a quote from the Yahoo article:

“Watson also changed his diet, working with his dad to learn how to count calories and then forgoing his normal fast food meals for salads, oatmeal and soup.”

Michael switch his diet from fast food meals to plant based nutrition. And he acknowledges that it was hard at first. But became easier has he consumed more plant based food sources.

Michael discovered “The New Secret to Weight Loss!”

It’s powerful because what Michael did was change his microbiome or gut health.

He stopped feeding the microbes of his small intestine with the food they love: carbohydrates, animal protein, and vegetable oils. These microbes produce toxins and cause you to store fat.

As Michael switched to plant based food sources he began to change his microbiome. The new microbes flourished and provided him with more energy and didn’t store his food as fat.

Michael also found it easier to maintain this diet because the cravings went away. Instead his microbiome wanted the plant based nutritional sources.

He discovered that if you change the gut you change the outcome!

If you don’t know the new secret to weight loss, then I would suggest watching the following video I produced to help people discover what Michael discovered:

Your Microbiome Significantly Impacts Your Weight!

The video is below. It’s short and to the point. Take the time to watch it today.

Now that you understand the new secret to weight loss, you just need to implement the 3 key strategies that Michael did. If you do, then your chances of experiencing improved health will significantly increase.

Blessing Lives Through Nitric Oxide Therapy!

Dan Hammer

An Aspirin a Day – Not Any More!

Posted by Dan Hammer //

03/22/2019

An aspirin a day has now become a big controversy in the medical and pharmaceutical industry. What has been preached in TV ads, and at doctor offices, has been thrown out the window.

At least for a large segment of the population.

This controversy around an aspirin a day has created the following headlines. From Yahoo Health News we get:

“Don’t take an aspirin a day to prevent heart attacks and strokes: Doctors reverse recommendation”

Now if you didn’t read the article you would think this applies to all people. And that aspirin can’t prevent heart attacks and strokes.

The following headline from USA Today is more accurate to the newly published study:

“Low-dose aspirin has no effect, causes harm in some older people, study says”

Sounds a bit like Yoda from Star Wars talking about this new study.

Well before we talk about the study, I want you to understand that this controversy is not new. In fact, I created a YouTube video on this topic 6 years ago. And my opening statement is,

“There is a new medical controversy about the use of aspirin for the prevention of heart disease especially in the area of preventing heart attacks and strokes.”

I’ve placed this video below. As you can see by the title “Aspirin vs Nitric Oxide for the Prevention of Blood Clots”, there is a natural ingredient that your body produces that keeps blood platelet cells from sticking together.

Learning how to optimize your nitric oxide levels can help you naturally reduce your risk for heart attacks and strokes.

As Aspirin a Day – Current Study

Let’s get back to the current controversy about an aspirin a day and what this new study actually says. The title for this study is:

Effect of Aspirin on Disability-free Survival in the Healthy Elderly

There were over 19,000 people in this study with a median age of 74 years old. They were randomly assigned to receive either an aspirin or a placebo.

The study showed that the rate of death, dementia, or persistent physical disability was almost identical for both groups. For the aspirin groups it was 21.5 per 1000 people and 21.2 per 1000 people for the placebo group.

And compliance was not the issue. In the final year of this study the participation percentage was close to being identical. 62.1% for the aspirin group and 64.1% for the placebo group.

And here is the stated conclusions taken directly from this study about an aspirin a day:

CONCLUSIONS

Aspirin use in healthy elderly persons did not prolong disability-free survival over a period of 5 years but led to a higher rate of major hemorrhage than placebo.

As you can see from these conclusions, the authors of this study do not believe an aspirin provides any benefit to older adults in lowering their risk for disease. And that the use of aspirin increased the probability of experiencing major hemorrhaging.

Which is want the video I produced 6 years ago was all about.

Now there have been additional articles written to help people adopt lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk for heart attacks and strokes. Here’s one just posted on March 19, 2019 with the following headline:

Aspirin is out. Here’s how healthy older adults can prevent heart attacks, strokes without pills

And the 4 lifestyle changes the author recommended were:

Eat these foods (mainly plant based nutrition)
Regularly exercise
Keep a healthy weight
Don’t smoke

And while all of these recommendations are good, this author and the medical profession still do not list nitric oxide therapy as a valid way to help keep blood platelet cells from sticking together to naturally reduce your risk for a stroke or heart attack.

I’m a firm believer that nitric oxide naturally does what aspirin tries to do. But without the negative side effects. So watch the video above. This way you can make your own decision on what you should do to help lower your risk.

Blessing Lives Through Nitric Oxide Therapy!

Dan Hammer

The Health Benefits of Magnesium

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/14/2019

Today I’d like to focus on the health benefits of magnesium. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been writing a series of video scripts on how to address a Leaky Gut.

Once I produce this video series I’ll be sure to share it with you.

There are 5 key steps to healing a Leaky Gut and step five centers on the health benefits of magnesium.

Most of the literature about magnesium ignores this benefit.

So let’s start our discussion on the health benefits of magnesium by addressing how it can improve your gut health.

Magnesium For Improved Gut Health!

Magnesium is a crucial mineral required for the function of hundreds of enzymes in the gut to improve immunity, digestion, regularity, and energy production.

As your gut microbiome improves, magnesium aids in the production of healthy chemical compounds that can provide the following overall health benefits:

Helps Increase Energy
Calms Nerves
Treats Insomnia
Aids Digestion
Relieves Muscle Aches and Pains
Regulates Calcium and Potassium Levels
Is Important for Heart Health
Prevents Migraine Headaches
And Helps Prevent Osteoporosis.

One of the keys to improving your gut health and reducing the potential for a Leaky Gut is to reduce inflammation. Magnesium helps in a big way.

As your body uses magnesium to help you properly digest your food, this reduces the potential for toxins. Toxins create inflammation, which damages the lining of your small intestine.

Less toxins produced, less damage to the lining of your small intestine to decrease your probability of having a Leaky Gut.

Other Health Benefits of Magnesium

In addition to having a significant impact on maintaining good gut health, magnesium has three overall health benefits:

Benefit 1 – Needed for Cellular Energy
Benefit 2 – Necessary for DNA Synthesis and Repair
Benefit 3 – Combats Chronic, Low-Grade Inflammation

When you break these overall health benefits down, they play the following role in helping your body and organ systems function better. For example:

Bone Density – Half of your total body magnesium is stored in the bones. It’s needed for bone remodeling. This is a process that your body uses to break down old bone structure to reform new bone structure.

And your blood levels of magnesium are critical to your bone density. If deficient, then your body will take magnesium from your bones, which can decrease your bone mass to contribute to osteoporosis.

This also triggers pro-inflammatory cytokines to increase inflammation.

Cardiovascular Health – Magnesium has several roles in heart health. One is helping to maintain good heart rhythm. If your magnesium levels are low, then your become more susceptible to irregular heartbeats or what the medical community calls arrhythmias.

Magnesium also improves the function of your endothelium, which lines all of your cardiovascular system. This improvement helps to dilate the blood vessels for improved blood flow. And can aid in keeping your blood pressure under control.

Metabolic Syndrome – This is a group of health risks like abdominal obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and cholesterol concerns. When taken together, these health risks increase your potential for developing cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes.

Research studies have shown that magnesium can reduce the incidence of metabolic syndrome. Specifically, higher magnesium intake was associated with lower stroke risk. One study showed that for men who had the highest magnesium intake, they reduced their risk for stoke by 41%. This also applied to having lower rates of heart failure.

Health Benefits of Magnesium – Nutritional Supplements

While you can try to get your magnesium from the food you eat, the best way is to use a good nutritional supplement.

Make sure the magnesium supplement you choose is in either the citrate or chelate form.

Magnesium Chelate is highly absorb-able by your body. It’s the form naturally found in foods. Because it’s bound to several types of amino acids, this aids in restoring your magnesium levels.

Magnesium Citrate combines the magnesium with citric acid. For some this might have a laxative effect.

Now the dosage amounts vary with age and sex:

Age 14 – 18: 410 milligrams for men and 360 milligrams for women

Age 19 – 30: 400 milligrams for men and 310 milligrams for women

Age 31 and older: 420 milligrams for men and 320 milligrams for women

As you can see not a lot of difference based on age so make sure you’re taking at least 400 milligrams per day for men and at least 300 milligrams per day for women.

Since the majority of Americans do not get adequate amounts of magnesium in their diet, it would be to their best health interest to increase their consumption of this key mineral. Here are the top 10 foods listed based on highest intake of magnesium:

Food Source	Amount Need	Magnesium Intake
Leafy Greens like Kale or Spinach	1 cup	157 mg
Seeds like Flax, Pumpkin or Chia	1 ounce	150 mg
Legumes like Lentils, Beans, or Chickpeas	1 cup	120 mg
Nuts like Almonds or Cashews	1 ounce	82 mg
Whole Grains like Wheat, Oats, or Barley	1 ounce	65 mg
Dark Chocolate	1 ounce	64 mg
Avocados	Medium	58 mg
Fatty Fish like Salmon or Mackerel	Half a fillet (178 grams)	53 mg
Tofu	3.5 ounces	53 mg
Bananas	1 large	37 mg

You can decide which method is best to help you enjoy the health benefits of magnesium: food or supplements.

Blessing Lives Through Nitric Oxide Therapy!

Dan Hammer

What Foods Contain L-Arginine and L-Citrulline?

Posted by Dan Hammer //

03/22/2018

I’ve written many articles about the need for L-arginine and L-citrulline. How critical they are for nitric oxide production. How your endothelial cells use these two amino acids to create nitric oxide, the master signaling molecule of your cardiovascular system.

Quite frankly, you could not live without nitric oxide. It’s a critical molecule in many biological functions but especially for good cardiovascular health. So, I’m often asked:

What foods can I eat that contain L-arginine and L-citrulline?

To answer that question I went shopping, bought some foods and put together the following video. Enjoy the video and I’ll have some observations to make after you watch it:

Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Gain

Posted by Dan Hammer //

01/08/2018

The controversy over artificial sweeteners and weight gain has been brewing for a long time. The manufacturers claim that there is no association. However, recent information from the scientific community is showing that artificial sweeteners and weight gain is real.

And with the ongoing research in the world of the micriobiome, especially your gut microbiome, this association is revealing a cause and effect on how artificial sweeteners and weight gain occurs.

This is especially important since overweight and obesity issues continue to increase. Over 60 percent of the adult American population are now either overweight or obese.

So let’s look at the scientific information to help you make a decision to avoid the use of artificial sweeteners. Read More →

Nitric Oxide Therapy Addresses High Blood Pressure

Posted by Dan Hammer //

11/22/2017

A little over a week ago 31 million Americans were classified as having high blood pressure. Yet no one in the medical community is helping them understand how nitric oxide therapy addresses high blood pressure.

This post contains a link to Our Nitric Oxide Therapy ebook.

This ebook will help you understand how the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to 3 American researchers for discovery how the lining of your cardiovascular system (called the endothelium) converts the amino acid L-arginine into nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide has been called the Miracle Molecule for what it can do to help regulate your cardiovascular system for improved blood flow.

With the awarding of the Nobel Prize there was an explosion of research in this area. Currently, there are over 100,000 peer reviewed clinical studies in the area of nitric oxide therapy. Yet even as we end the year 2017 most people have never heard of this natural way to address most cardiovascular health concerns including high blood pressure. Read More →

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.

12 Steps to Liver Cleansing and Support

Posted by Dan Hammer //

11/08/2016

Today’s post provides 12 easy steps to liver cleansing and support. This is key because your liver is one of the most important organs in your body. Over 500 chemical and metabolic functions take place in the liver. Your overall health and wellness, as well as how you age and fight disease, will be impacted by the health of your liver.

The more you can improve the health and function of your liver the greater your opportunity to live a healthier life and slow down the aging process.

Now like all lists and suggestions don’t try to incorporate all of them at one time. My suggestion to liver cleansing and support is to read through these 12 suggested steps. Write down the top 4 that stand out to you. Then look at these 4 liver cleansing steps and pick the 2 that you believe you can incorporate into your lifestyle.

Apply them for the next 30 days, and then repeat this process. You might not ever incorporate all 12 steps to liver cleansing and support, but each step you do benefits your liver and over all health.

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.

Merry Christmas and 5 New Year Suggestions

Posted by Dan Hammer //

12/23/2015

We’re only a couple of days from celebrating the Reason for the Season, which is Christmas Day! So from my family to yours we want to wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

With all the last minute shopping, the gift wrapping (that’s what I’ll be doing tonight), office parties, cookie making, and tree decorating activities please take time to make room in your heart and home for Baby Jesus. Read More →