If your body is not sufficiently hydrated, the cells will draw water from your bloodstream, which will make your heart work harder.  At the same time, the kidneys cannot purify the blood effectively.   When this happens,  some of the kidney’s workload is passed on to the liver and other organs, which may cause them to be severely stressed.   Additionally, you may develop a number of minor health conditions such as constipation, dry and itchy skin, acne, nosebleeds, urinary tract infection, cough, sneezing, sinus pressure and headache.

So,  how much water is enough for you?   The minimum amount of water you need depends on your body weight.   A more accurate calculation,  is to drink an ounce for every 2 pounds of body weight.

Correct timing to intake water will maximize it’s effectiveness to human body!!!

*  2 glasses of WATER 30 minutes before meal,  helps digestion.

*  1 glass after waking up, helps activate internal organs.

*  1 glass before sleeping, helps avoid stroke or heart attack while asleep.

*  1 glass after taking a bath, helps lower blood pressure.

Let’s do it!!!!!!

1.  MOVE - Longevity all-stars engage in regular, low-intensity physical activity, whether it be hiking, shepherding, gardening, walking, yoga, or something else. The data suggest that moderate, even easy, activity done on a daily basis will extend your life.
2. ” HARA HACHI BU” - This Okinawan saying means “Stop eating when your stomach is 80 percent full.” Clear enough? Cutting calories by a mere 20 percent will extend your life.

3.  GO HEAVY ON THE PLANTS -  While almost all of us  knows that higher-protein diets can be really healthy, that doesn’t rule out a diet that’s also loaded with vegetables.   All of the long-lived peoples investigated  ate a plant-based diet with almost no processed foods.  

4.  DRINK SOME ALCOHOL - In Sardinia, it’s wine. In Okinawa, it’s sake. Whatever you prefer, alcohol in moderation seems to reduce both stress and inflammation.  But remember that women who drink need to be getting plenty of folic acid in their diets. (Even moderate drinking raises the risk of breast cancer – but only for women who are folic acid deficient.)   

5.  SEE THE BIG PICTURE -  Okinawans call it ikigai. Nicoyans call it plan de vida.  In both cultures, the phrase translates to “why I wake up in the morning.”  Develop a strong sense of purpose, connection to others, and community.  It’s the best anti-aging “medicine” you can find.     

These are not hard to follow…..right?   Let us all do it and we will all live longer only if we will also be very careful not to meet accident that will cause to end our lives.

Keeping our brain in great shape turns out not to be too different from what we need to do to keep the rest of our body in great shape. Great brain fitness requires the right amount of sleep, aerobic exercise, a good diet and sustained mental activity.

A large amount of research have proven that sleep affects neuroplasticity.   Sleep allows us to consolidate learning and memory.   When we learn a skill during the day, we will be better at it  the next day if we have good night’s sleep.   This has been proven in one of experiments done by the experts.

On the other hand, sleep deprivation severely impacts our brain.    Research has shown that people who consistently get less sleep than others have overall decreased brain function.  People who get less than seven hours of sleep a night have lower activity in the temporal lobes, the part of the brain involved in learning and memory.   Sleep deprivation is also associated with depression and attention deficit disorders.   It has been suggested that we have to try to sleep at least seven to eight hours each night, that we avoid as much caffeine and nicotine as possible, and avoid exercise before going to sleep.

There a relationship between exercise and mental alertness.    Though this is intuitively obvious, it is important to understand the brain’s need for oxygen.   According to study, “moderate exercise improves the heart’s ability to pump blood throughout the body and helps maintain healthy blood flow to the brain which increases oxygen and glucose delivery.  It has  also been noted that the regular habit of physical exercise is very important to prevent age-related memory problems.    Numerous studies show the benefits of exercise on cognition.   A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared to those who are sedentary.    The good news is that our brains can reap the benefits of exercise even though we may have led sedentary lives.    Again, numerous studies show that “when couch potatoes are enrolled in an aerobic exercise program, all kinds of mental abilities begin to come back online.”

The right kind of diet affects our brains, and conversely a bad diet will damage our brains.   We know that we feel better when we eat better, but we also think better when we eat better.   Experts suggests a number of brain-promoting nutritional tips as follows:.

1. Increase water intake;

2. Eat fewer calories;

3. Eat more fish and fish oil and other types of unsaturated fats;

4. Eat lots of dietary antioxidants; and

5. Make sure you get a good balance of protein, good fats and carbohydrates.

Finally, mental exercise is an important element in maintaining and increasing our brain’s plasticity.   It is often said, and it is true, that our brain is a muscle and can be improved by exercise.   So how does this work?  It has been suggested that the best mental exercise is learning new things, gaining new knowledge, and doing activities you have not done before. “Whenever the brain does something over and over, even a complicated task, it learns how to do it using less and less energy.   Learning new things or learning a new hobby or even a new game “helps establish new connections, thus maintaining and improving the function of other less-often-used brain areas.”   A large number of studies show that engaging in these types of mental activities in older age can significantly decrease our chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

I hope that this article I have shared to you will make you decide to start taking care of your brain.    It doesn’t need a lot of complicated procedure to take care of your brain.  It is just a matter of attitude and understanding the right kind of foods to feed your brain.

Here’s something that everybody should know.

One nutritionist said that you should pay attention when you go to the bathroom.  Look before you flush!!!

If your stool floats, you have enough fiber!

If your stool sinks, you need to eat more fiber!

If you fart a lot, you have too much fiber in your diet!

So that’s  how to determine the amount of  fiber we have taken.   Next time take a look before you flushhhh

One example which Mr. Jim La Valle gave in his presentation was about diabetes in relation to high blood pressure.  According to him Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of disorders that includes insulin resistance, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and obesity.  The comulative effect of these disorders can lead to type 2 diabetes and heart disease.   Most physicians will prescribe the drug hydrochlorthiazide (HCTZ) for early blood pressure problems and Metformin for insulin resistance.

The problem is, HCTZ causes depletion of nutrients like magnesium, potassium, zinc, CoQ10, and sodium, but the package level only warns you of potassium depletion.   By unknowingly losing all of these vital nutrients, your body cannot properly metabolize glucose.  So the end result is that medication being prescribed to manage blood pressure pushes the insulin resistant person right into the path of becoming a type 2 diabetic.

And that’s not all.  Metformin will deplete B12 and folic acid causing your homocysteine levels to rise to dangerously high levels.   This can result in kidney and cardiovascular damage and contribute to Alzheimer’s disease —– all known consequences of type 2 diabetes.   So by taking Metformin and not supplementing with B12 and folic acid,  you could be accelerating the complications of the very disease you are trying to prevent :((

Here’s another piece of information that I think is new to many doctors.   That because HCTZ causes the loss of magnesium, Restless Leg Syndrome can develop.  So after people take HCTZ for awhile, they complain to their doctors that they can’t sleep at night because of restless legs or muscle cramps.  The doctor then prescribes Requip for Restless Leg Syndrome, when the solution is really to take more magnesium.

I was made to imagine how many doctors now a days still unaware of these facts.   If you care please spread this great learnings and save a life.   I am unearthing every day new knowledge about diabetes because my father is a diabetic and most of the employees in the company where I worked in are also diabetic.   I wanted to impart health teachings in preventing the disease.

1.  Don’t overreact -  You need to acknowledge that mistakes   will happen.

If people in your organization are afraid to communicate problems or emergencies because of
your overreaction to their news, they may wait as long as possible or even stop telling you when
things go wrong.

2. Figure out if it’s a real crisis or just seems like one - Often you’ll  discover that what appears to be urgent crisis turns   out to be nothing at all.   A real crisi is something that is truly important that requires your immediate attention.  If the situation is a real crisis, then you may have to drop everything you are doing and eal with it.  If it is not a real crisis, and it  doesn’t require your immediate attention,  you can often delegate it and treat it as a training experience.

3. Avoind management by crisis - Management by crisis is allowing unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies to dictate your priorities and actions.

Sometimes we do need to react quickly to a crisis and contain it before it does more damage.   The  problem comes when crisis management becomes the routine rather than the exception.   If you spend more of your time putting out fires than doing your work, you are managing by crisis.

When crisis management becomes the routine, it can easily lead to what Stephen Covey refers to as “Urgency Addiction.”

People that are addicted to urgency enjoy putting out fires, they like stepping in and solving problems, and their bosses often reward them for doing so. They have no incentive to avoid or prevent the fires because they get a payoff
every time they put one out.

When crisis management becomes your normal way of doing business, it’s usually pointing to a more fundamental problem that you need to solve.

An old Chinese proverb says, “The superior doctor prevents sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The inferior doctor treats sickness.”

Don’t just treat the symptoms of the latest crisis, cure the underlying disease and prevent it from recurring.

For all arthritis cases, follow these simple rules for diet:

1. Drink 8 glasses of filtered water each day.
2.  Limit or eliminate the consumption of red meat, which may be eaten     occasionally if digestive enzymes are used.
3.  Avoid refined sugar.
4.  The vast majority of the diet should be based on vegetables, grains (except wheat), legumes, fruits, nuts, and seeds.
5.  Try to exercise when possible, and reduce body weight.

Here are also Phytotherapy and Herbal Medicines that can help us manage arthritis.

1. Turmeric (curcumin): This has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, lending itself in the support of rheumatoid complaints.
2.  Bromelain: This enzyme is derived from pineapple.  Its action is to decrease inflammation and it works well when combined with turmeric.

In the past, arthritis meant that you would have to learn to live with it and modify your lifestyle.    But today, dietary and lifestyle changes, combined with the use of natural agents, can provide support, and may actually improve symptoms of arthritis.    Ask your pharmacist about the wide variety of high quality natural products available to you.

It’s amazing that we have an unconventional way to recover victim from stroke.  Please take time to read this.  Through this you  can help save life one day.  Please keep this very handy.  You’ll never know you can use this someday.

When stroke strikes, the capillaries in the brain will gradually burst.

When this occur stay calm.

No matter where the victim is, do not move him/her.  Because if moved, the capillaries will burst.

Help the victim to sit up where he/she is to prevent from falling over again and then the blood letting begin.

If you have in your home an injection syringe that would be the best.

Otherwise, a sewing needle or a straight pin will do.

1.    Place the needle/pin over fire to sterilize it and then use this to prick the tip of all 10 fingers.

2.   There are no specific acupuncture points, just prick about an mm from the fingernails.

3.   Prick till blood comes out.

4.   If blood does not start to drip, then squeeze with your fingers.

5.   When all 10 digits is bleeding, wait a few minutes then the victim will regain consciousness.

6.   If the victim’s mouth is crooked, then pull on his ears until they are red.

7.   Then prick each earlobe twice until 2 drops of blood comes from each earlobe.

After a few minutes the victim should regain consciousness.

Wait till the victim regains his/her normal state without any abnormal symptoms then take him to the hospital.

Otherwise, if he was taken in the ambulance in a hurry to the hospital, the bumpy trip will cause all the capillaries in his brain to burst.

This blood letting technique in managing stroke is from a Chinese Traditional doctor, Ha Bu Ting, who lives in Sun Juke.

Furthermore,  here’s a practical experience by a Chinese professor who was teaching in Fung Gaap College in Tai Chung way back 1979.

One afternoon when she was teaching a class, her co-teacher came running to the classroom telling her that their supervisor had a stroke.    She immediately went to where the supervisor was and saw him pale and with slurred speech.    His mouth was crooked - basically all the symptoms of stroke.

She immediately asked one of the practicum student to go to the pharmacy outside the school to buy a syringe, which she used to prick the victim’s finger tips.

When all 10 fingers were bleeding, after a few minutes, Mr. Chen’s face regained its color and his eyes returned to normal also.

But his mouth was still crooked.  So she pulled on his ears to fill them with blood.   When his ears became red she pricked this twice to let out 2 drops of blood.

When both earlobes were already pricked, his mouth returned to normal and his speech became clear.

They let him rest for awhile and gave him a cup of hot tea.  Then he was userred down the stairs and drove him to Wei Wah Hospital.   He rested one night and was checked out the next day and returned to school to teach.   Everything worked normally.

There were no ill effect on that blood letting procedure.

If we can all remember this blood letting method, we can revive a victim and regain 100% his normal state.