Excessive Cardio May Do More Harm Than Good

Joseph Mercola reveals the health dangers of too much cardio exercise. More is definitely not better.

... In the TED talk above, Dr. James O'Keefe, a research cardiologist and a former elite athlete, discusses an important point that can be difficult for some to accept, namely the fact that extreme cardio can actually do more harm than good...

I am about two years older than Dr. O'Keefe and had a similar running history. Dr. O'Keefe actually won the largest sprint distance triathlon in Kansas City five years in a row, from 1999 to 20041 . Although I was never an elite athlete like Dr. O'Keefe, I had run a 2:50 marathon previously. It is satisfying to hear Dr. O'Keefe validate what I have been writing about for years now. I suspect we both wised up and stopped running at about the same age, after many decades of intense endurance training.

The myth that extreme endurance cardio is good for your heart took off at full speed when, in 1977, Dr. Thomas Bassler boldly proclaimed that "completing a marathon confers immunity against heart attack." Many die-hard runners still believe this to be true. Read more

We Need Cholesterol and CoQ10

Margaret Durst explains why we need cholesterol and CoQ10.

At least 12 million Americans take a prescription statin drug. These include Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor and Pravachol. There is even a natural statin available at health food stores that is very popular now – this is Red Yeast Rice.

Before banning cholesterol, consider its beneficial functions in the body. These include production of hormones for balancing blood sugar levels, for regulating mineral levels, and for promoting healing and balancing the tendency towards inflammation. Cholesterol is vital to proper nerve function. It plays a key role in the formation of memory and the uptake of hormones in the brain, including serotonin, the body’s feel-good chemical. Cholesterol is the precursor to vitamin D and bile salts used for the digestion of fats. It is also an important component of cell membranes which help differentiate the inside of cells from the outside of cells. Cholesterol is also the body’s repair substance – scar tissue contains high levels of cholesterol.

It’s important to understand why the body makes cholesterol and what situations actually cause excess cholesterol or the wrong ratios of the good and the bad cholesterols. Read more

10 Natural Ways to Reverse Hair Loss

Most men and many women lose hair as they age and want it to regrow it. Losing your hair can cause you to lose your confidence as well since your hair greatly affects your appearance.That’s why numerous products are sold to help reverse hair loss. Each year, millions of people consult their doctors or pharmacists for the magic cure to help reverse hair loss,. but hair growth chemicals don’t always work as well as some natural remedies.

 Here are ten natural ways to reverse hair loss.

1) Apply a few drops of almond oil to your hair every day.

2) Mix coconut oil with avocado and spread on your hair. This combination eliminates flaking and gives your hair a healthy boost to help reverse hair loss.

3) Simmer hibiscus flowers in coconut oil and spread on your hair to condition it. Rinse lightly and style as usual.

1) Massage coconut milk into your scalp, leave on for 30 minutes, and then rinse with warm water. Repeat three times per week until your hair loss decreases and healthy hair grows in.

5) Mix two tablespoons of amla (Indian gooseberry), reetha (from the soapnut tree), and shikakai, which comes from a shrub native to India. Add an egg and form a paste. Apply on scalp and massage throughout your hair. Let sit for 25-30 minutes and then rinse and cleanse with a mild shampoo. Try this three times per week for one month to help hair reverse hair.

6) Fo-ti. Also known as He shou wu (Chinese for “black-haired Mr. He”), this herb has been consumed as tea or in herbal medications to help increase hair growth and reduce hair loss.

7) Ginseng. This Chinese herbal medicine is said to rejuvenate the scalp, increase blood flow, and help reverse hair loss.

8) Gotu kola. This herb is available in at many health food stores and can stimulate hair growth.

9) Saw palmetto has been used to treat hair loss for decades. It is the primary active ingredient found in the vast majority of natural hair loss remedies and can help reverse hair loss.

10) Stinging nettle, one of the most common herbs used in traditional folk medicine, is said to help reverse hair los.

All of these natural remedies can help reverse hair loss. They’re easy to use and could make a difference in your rate of hair growth in just a few short months.

In 17 days or less, you can stop your hair loss with a revolutionary lotion that is cheap and easy to prepare. The lotion consists of three herbs easy to find anywhere and two items found in your local pharmacy. To get the formula to stop your hair loss, click here!

44 Health Benefits of Coconut Oil

With its long shelf life, coconut oil is a prepper's panacea, says Daisy Luther. You don't have to be a prepper to enjoy its 44 health benefits though.

What shelf stable item can be used (nutritiously) in place of butter, shortening, and cooking oil, and then pressed into duty as a health and beauty aid?

Coconut oil!

One of my favorite pantry items is my big jar of organic virgin coconut oil, and the crazy thing is, I don't even like coconuts. If you slip me a cookie that has those nasty little flakes of coconut in them, I'll probably spit it out – I really, emphatically don't like coconut! I am stressing this point because coconut oil has a place in the kitchen of even the most die-hard coconut hater (like me!). Read more

Feds Keeping People Sick: The Vitamin D Story

Dr. Lee Hieb reveals how the federal government is keeping people sick by concealing the benefits of high doses of vitamin D.

No one said it better than Michael Crichton – who, in addition to being a best selling author, was also a physician.

During a lecture at Cal Tech, he said, “Let’s be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right. … The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.” Read more

3 Large Meals a Day Healthier Than Many Small Meals

Eating three large meals per day might be the healthiest choice for people struggling with their weight, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Missouri and published in the journal Obesity.

One of the more ridiculous dietary fads of recent years is eating 5-6 small meals a day instead of the traditional three. David Gutierrez explains why eating the way your ancestors ate is better than following a dietary system invented by the manufacturers of protein shakes and bars.

With obesity rates having doubled worldwide since 1980 and still on the rise, health researchers are continually searching for ways to help people keep or regain healthier weights. Obesity is strongly linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes, various types of cancer, and early death, and has also been implicated in an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. More than one-third of all people in the United States are now classified as obese.

Yet, much popular dietary advice - even that promoted by health professionals - has not necessarily been scientifically tested for accuracy, or for its applicability to people who are already obese.

"The mass media and many health care practitioners often advocate eating several small meals throughout the day," lead author Tim Heden said. "However, when we examined the literature, we didn't find many studies examining or supporting this popular claim. This lack of research led to our study, which is one of the first to examine how meal frequency affects insulin and blood-fat levels in obese women during an entire day of eating." Read more

Sleeping an Extra Hour Every Night Lowers Blood Pressure

Researchers found people showing early signs of high blood pressure could restore readings to healthy levels by sleeping an extra hour every night

Going to bed an hour earlier than usual could help to ward off high blood pressure, according to a new study.

Researchers found people who were showing the early signs of high blood pressure were able to restore readings to healthy levels in just six weeks if they had an extra hour in bed every night.

The study, carried out at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, looked at men and women who regularly slept for only seven hours or less a night and were beginning to have borderline high blood pressure readings. Read more

Reverse Hair Loss with Home Remedies

Nobody likes the idea of going bald, but it's something that affects a lot of men as well as some women.  If you're suffering from situational baldness or male/female pattern baldness, you may laugh about it among your friends. Chances are, however, that you're crying about it in privacy. Fortunately, there are several proven home remedies to reverse hair loss and the personal embarrassment that results from it. Best of all, you probably have the ingredients at home already.

How do you feel about onions?  Did you even stop to consider that the same food you put on your hamburger could also help you to regrow a bit of hair? Most people are not huge fans of onions, but the benefits to your scalp are potentially huge.  Taking a piece of onion and rubbing it over the bald part of your head until it is slightly red, and then applying honey for a short period has been shown to help improve the circulation of the scalp and in turn improve hair growth.

Another popular choice is coconut milk and aloe vera gel.  By mixing together equal parts of the gel and coconut milk, you will have a paste that you can use to spread onto your scalp to help stimulate the hair follicles to regrow hair.  It is very important that you leave the paste on for at least thirty minutes each time and do this a minimum of three times each week.  After a couple of weeks, you should begin to notice some very small hairs regrowing.

Everyone knows that apple cider vinegar is a truly remarkable natural remedy.  This can also be used to reverse hair loss as well.   Add equal parts of the apple cider vinegar to a bit of sage tea and use it to rinse out the hair.  This will help to also stimulate the hair follicles and help you to regrow hair.

If you do not see any noticeable improvements after a few months, try not to give up hope.  There are several reasons why you might not see immediate results. This can range from a bad diet, to stress, to even problems with your overall health.  Check with your doctor to ensure that you are not experiencing any serious medical problems that could be affecting your hair growth.

In 17 days or less, you can stop your hair loss with a revolutionary lotion that is cheap and easy to prepare. The lotion consists of three herbs easy to find anywhere and two items found in your local pharmacy. To get the formula to stop your hair loss, click here!