Nutrition. Vitamins. You.
We’ve all experienced the feeling of staying out late but still having to get up early for work or class the next morning. If you’ve ever burnt the candle at both ends like this, L-Tyrosine may help!
Taurine is a unique amino acid that works alone in your body, unlike other amino acids. It plays an important role in the functioning of your heart, muscles, eyes, brain, and certain blood cells called platelets. On today’s episode, let’s discuss the benefits of taurine on your heart.
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Lycopene is a red pigment in fruits and vegetables, so it’s a carotenoid. Unlike some other carotenoids, it is not converted into Vitamin A. It stays as Lycopene. The best known source for Lycopene is tomato products, like tomato paste, tomato sauce and tomato juice. The Lycopene is stuck in the fiber of the raw tomatoes, so you really want tomato products to help with absorption. It is also found in very ripe watermelons, red oranges, pink grapefruits, apricots, guavas and mangoes.
Studies have shown that if you have a lot of Lycopene in your bloodstream, your skin is less damaged by the sun. It has some photoprotective activity. It doesn’t really replace the need for sunscreen, but it offers you some protection from the inside out. But there is also a lot of evidence indicating the use of Lycopene for cancer prevention. Lycopene has been related to reducing the risk of certain cancers, like prostate cancer and some forms in the digestive tract. While doing research on the relationship between Lycopene and our skin, I found 72 meta-analyses about Lycopene and cancer prevention. That’s a huge amount. That means there’s so many studies involved because each meta-analysis can contain anywhere from 5 to 100 studies.
THE RESEARCH
A meta-analysis done by the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston in conjunction with Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute looked at carotenoids and breast cancer. Lycopene was found to reduce the risk of breast cancer by 22% when comparing the highest and lowest intakes of the nutrient. Breast cancer is a very common cancer, so reducing the risk by that much is very powerful because it affects many, many, many thousands of women in a very good way.
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Another meta-analysis, completed by the US National Cancer Institute, John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, the Keck School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of California San Francisco and additional international institutions, looked at the relationship between Lycopenes and prostate cancer. The analysis, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at 15 studies and found that Lycopene reduced the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 35%. That’s really important. Many prostate cancers are very mild and never become life-threatening. In fact, people die of old age with these types of prostate cancer. But if it becomes an aggressive form of prostate cancer, it could spread into other parts of your body and become life-threatening. It’s very difficult to treat. For more studies indicating the effects of Lycopene on cancer prevention, make sure to tune into the full podcast episode!
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For many people, the change of seasons can bring about respiratory changes as well. Let’s discuss how beneficial omega-3s can be for respiratory health.
Rhodiola rosea, also known as Viking Ginseng, offers support for stress, mental and physical fatigue and energy. It can also support your immune system.
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When it comes to detoxification, there is something that we all must understand, and that is that the body goes through metabolic detoxification each and every single day to try to rid the body of all of the different chemicals and pollutants that we are exposed to on a regular basis based of our environment and intake of different foods and medications. It is important to understand that when it comes to giving your body an overall cleansing, there are ways to do this in a healthy and effective way. Doing a crash detox is generally not something that would be advisable, such as some crazy fast where you’re only taking in water and cayenne pepper. Those detoxes are much different because they can create significant imbalances in terms of electrolytes, which can throw off a lot of different things in our bodies.
I do like to focus in on seasonal changes and detoxing the body. When you think about giving your body a helping hand along the way, there’s no better time to do that than as the seasons change. As you transition from one season to the next, it’s always advantageous to consider doing a complete detox and doing it in the correct way, where we are not going to be creating issues such as disrupted electrolytes.
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Today, we’re going to focus in on how we can achieve healthy detoxification. As I mentioned, we have metabolic detox that occurs every single day. There are three different phases to this and it’s done predominately through the liver, but the kidney is also involved. This is heavily reliant on vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that are consumed from our foods, as well as antioxidants that are produced within the human body. This is our body’s way of trying to keep ourselves clean and non-toxic.
NUTRIENTS THAT SUPPORT METABOLIC DETOX
As we transition from season to season, it’s a really good idea to consider taking in nutrients that we know can be very beneficial and targeted towards enhancing that metabolic detoxification process and those 3 different phases. We can look at different things such as dandelion extract and milk thistle extract, for example. We know that these have been used for hundreds of years in terms of human health and proper cleansing. Many people do not realize how many wonderful nutrients are in dandelion extract. It’s packed full of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin C, Vitamin B, Vitamin D, potassium and zinc. If we use something like dandelion extract that is packed with nutrients, it makes sense that we will be enhancing our body’s normal metabolic detox phases.
When we talk about detoxifying, we want to think about what nature has to offer us that we can incorporate into a daily routine. When we talk about seasonal detox, we look at it as maybe a 2 week period where you’re going to take supplements like Detox Hx® or Hepatox Hx®, or even a combination of both. This is going to incorporate things such as dandelion extract and milk thistle. Milk thistle is really targeted towards the liver and is really helpful for giving your liver cells a helping hand during the different phases of detoxification. It can also be beneficial for the immune system and nervous system. For more information about the benefits of dandelion extract, milk thistle and other nutrients, tune in to the full podcast episode.
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There are also many things in nature that can impede the body’s functions, such as synthetic agents that work against what the body is trying to do. These agents include things like chemicals in the air and pesticides on foods. With every season, we have to be cognizant of this. We have to consider if we spend months breathing in different toxins, not eating organic foods, or taking a lot of pharmaceutical medications. If this is the case, then it would be advantageous to help your body along by taking this 2 week approach to incorporating dandelion extract, milk thistle and other nutrients into your routine to allow the 3 different phases of metabolic detoxification to go by much smoother.
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