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Safe Herbs For Muscle Pain – InVite Health Podcast Episode 554
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Safe Herbs For Muscle Pain – InVite Health Podcast Episode 554
Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.
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InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InViteⓇ Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started!†
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Jerry Hickey, Ph.: [00:00:40] Anybody can suffer with muscle pain. Even the most elite athletes, in fact, especially the most elite athletes, because they push their body so hard, they tend to have muscle injuries. But what about people who are sedentary? You know, they’re sitting on the couch binging TV shows. For those people, even mild or modest physical activity can lead to a lot of pain, muscle pain, stiffness, backaches. And of course, this can lead to muscle injuries, which takes quite a while to heal, like it takes six weeks for a soft tissue injury to heal. So what do you do? Well, of course stretching really really really important and some level of physical activity everyday. So today I’m going to discuss a very safe herbs that are useful for muscle pain.† [00:01:37]
[00:01:38] So welcome to my episode my name is Jerry Hickey, I’m a licensed pharmacist. I specialize in nutrition, I studied it for many decades. You can find, by the way, all of our InViteⓇ Podcast episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or just call to invitehealth.com/podcast. And you know, if you can subscribe and leave us a review, we’d all like that. You can also find us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at InViteⓇ Health. Now, so today’s episode is Herbs for Muscle Pain. Now, when you are experiencing muscle pain it tends to last for two days at most people, and the inflammation makes you fatigued. So it’s not just pain there is stiffness there is fatigue. It really cramps your lifestyle. I mean, it’s just not good for your quality of life. So there’s a recent study in the Journal of Applied Medical Sciences. Now it’s a well powered study for this kind of indication. It’s 232 healthy people who suffer with sharp muscle pain, we call that acute, you know, sudden after exercise or sports. So after physical activity, I mean, that could include gardening, right? So they gave them a placebo, which is a fake pill, or they gave them a blend of turmeric and frankincense. And there was a big difference. I’ll go into that? I’ll go on to what the herbs are and kind of what they do, because that’s complex, but we’ll spend a little time on it. Now, these people, they had neck pain, back pain, arm and leg pain. They had stiffness they were suffering. And on a scale of 1 to 10, the pain, the level of pain that these people experience had to be at least five. So it’s true muscle pain. The placebo had no effect. You wouldn’t get an effect that quickly. But the herbal combination quickly and strongly reduce the pain even up to 100% pain relief.† [00:03:50]
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[00:03:54] So it was a blend of turmeric extract. Now turmeric is the source of curcumin, the rhizome, this thick root they get the ingredients out of and it’s the source of curcumin. But there’s many, many there’s over 100 ingredients in there bismuth oxy curcumin, curcumin aromatic turmerone. So it’s good to get the entire plant. The problem is the plant is poorly absorbed. So there are several products on the market where they have enhanced absorption and they might call it curcumin or curcumin extract or curcumin complete. But the ones I’m talking about, they really have the entire plant, the entire herb. And frankincense is pretty cool. It’s also called boswellia. It has ingredients in it caused by boswellia acids. It’s also known as five loxin because of the pathway, it tends to inhibit, which is the five lipoxygenase pathway. So turmeric, the ingredients in turmeric tend to disrupt parts of the immune system that cause severe inflammation. That’s been shown to be helpful with depression, with memory, with fatigue, with muscle pain, with certain cancers, with arthritis, with arthritic joints. It’s very useful. It’s very useful. So it disrupts typically the Cox two pathway, the cyclooxygenase two pathway that’s involved with arthritis, but it inhibits a lot of different chemicals released by the immune system. Now the frankincense, the boswellia. Richard Boswellia acids that disrupts the five lipoxygenase system which is a little bit different. That’s most of what it disrupts. Five lipoxygenase is involved with skin problems like psoriasis and eczema. It’s involved with arthritis also, just like the the Cox two enzyme is involved with arthritis. So both of these pathways are involved with arthritis that’s involved with asthma and lung conditions and breathing issues. It’s involved with painful periods. It’s involved with problems with the prostate. It’s involved with the growth and spread of cancer. So it’s not a bad thing to inhibit the five lipoxygenase pathway.† [00:06:03]
[00:06:06] So like I said, this is a well powered study. A well powered study means there were plenty of people and sufficient time. So it’s 232 healthy people. They gave them the combination of well absorbed turmeric with high quality frankincense, also known as Boswellia, and they got rid of pain. Now, that’s not all. Turmeric is also good for knee pain after a workout. So if you’re experiencing muscle pain now we have many people who’ve written us letters over the years at InViteⓇ Health, using our products for their muscle pain, eye or knee pain or back pain. And it’s been very, very helpful. I have several dance instructors who previously were professional dancers, and I have several younger dancers who are still active professionally and they have all kinds of muscle pain and back stiffness, etc. and they take a product we have called Bio-curcumin 5-Loxin with their food has been very good for morning stiffness, muscle pain, rigidity, getting these people back on track for physical activity. But it’s also really good for knee pain related to exercise. We’re not talking about arthritis. We have spoken a number of times about Bio-Curcumin 5-Loxin or turmeric. What boswellia for arthritic joints? We’ve discussed it a number of times.† [00:07:38]
[00:07:41] But it’s also helpful for people who don’t have arthritis, but after they play tennis or after they exercise or ride their bike they have knee pain. So it’s the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Advances in Applications. That’s a pharmacy journal. That’s a 90 day randomized, placebo controlled human clinical trial. So once again, it’s a well powered study plenty of time 96 people. And these people suffered with knee pain consistently after exercise. And when they gave them a well absorbed turmeric, it absolutely helped with the pain. It absolutely helped with the stiffness and the suffering. And it absolutely got the back of their feet quicker. And they’re finding many things that occur with these herbs. That they help you with pain, muscle pain or knee pain after exercise and physical activity.† [00:08:44]
[00:08:46] I remember there was this study of people who did a downhill race after a downhill race. You could get severe thigh pain. When I gave them turmeric, a well absorbed turmeric, starting two days before the day of the trial and for two days after, didn’t have muscle damage. They didn’t have pain. They looked at things such as creatinine kinase and their blood serum. Creatinine kinase is released from the muscles when they’re damaged. And there was no increase in creatinine kinase and they recovered faster and they had less pain, less cramping, less fatigue.† [00:09:23]
[00:09:27] So here’s an interesting study on people who are sedentary. These are people who are sedentary. Now, of course, they tend to have the worst level of muscle pain, even with just mild physical activity. I mean, you take somebody who’s sedentary and you put them in a backyard gardening and they have terrible, terrible muscle pain, shoulder pain and also back pain. So they found that the turmeric and the boswellia even help people who are sedentary with muscle pain, it’s in the journal Oxidative Medicine and so cellular longevity, it was a systematic review and meta analysis. Now that’s important a systematic review they went through all of these electronic databases like Ovid and Embase and web of science and PubMed. Legitimate sites that store research. And they called through with terms such as turmeric, curcumin, muscle pain, stiffness and they came up with five clinical trials and people who are out of shape and people who are couch potatoes and people who were sedentary and they found that the turmeric absolutely reduced muscle damage in these people. For instance, once again, they saw less creatinine kinase released into their blood serum. They had much less muscle soreness at speed up to recovery of their muscle. That’s important because a sedentary person, it’s very easy for them to damage their muscle if they if they use their muscles and they start to get rigidity and pain and stiffness and then they get back into whatever they’re doing too quickly, they can literally have a tear, but it also reduced their fatigue.† [00:11:17]
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[00:11:21] Now, here’s the last one I’m going to cover. It’s the British Journal of Sports Medicine. They looked at 69 eligible studies, Curcumin and Boswellia clinically important reductions in pain, a large effect for reducing pain. But they also helped with nerve pain like sciatica, back pain, not just muscle pain, joint pain, tendinitis. And a review showed that they’re as good as the prescription drugs on the over-the-counter. drugs over-the-counter means it’s a drug you could get without a prescription in the United States like Advil, Aleve, Celebrex without the toxicity.† [00:12:01]
[00:12:04] Now, Curcumin and Boswellia have a lot of research behind them for brain health, for memory, a lot of research behind it for muscle pain, musculoskeletal pain, a lot of research behind them for nerve pain, a lot of research behind them for arthritic pain. They really do work. They are very safe. Take them with food they’ll be absorbed better. So thanks for listening to today’s episode. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts, or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast and if you could subscribe and leave us a review, it would be much appreciated. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at InViteⓇ Health. Thank you for listening. Hope to see you on the next episode of the InViteⓇ Health podcast. Jerry Hickey. Signing off.† [00:12:04]
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Summer The Mediterranean Way For Healthy Skin – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 552
Summer
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The Mediterranean Way For Healthy Skin In The Summer – InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode 552
Hosted by Amanda Williams, MD, MPH.
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InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed healthcare professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InViteⓇ Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code PODCAST at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started!†
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Amanda Williams, MD, MPH. : [00:00:40] The heat of the summer is right around the corner, and for many folks, this means this is your time that you get outdoors and you are staying more active. And I have some tips for you as to how you can make sure that you’re staying hydrated and keeping your skin protected from the sun.†[00:00:55]
[00:00:56] I am Amanda Williams, MD, PMH. Scientific Director at InViteⓇ Health and I absolutely love the summer. They’ve done polling and it varies sometimes Americans as a whole really like spring, other times it’s the fall. But summer is always really consistent throughout the country. People really just enjoy that warmer weather and having more sunshine, especially if you’ve been in an area where you’re you’ve dealt with a long harsh winter. As soon as that sun comes out in the spring and the summer, you just want to get out there and you want to enjoy it. But I want to make sure that you are doing the right things to make sure that your body isn’t taking a beating in the process. And this is really important because at the end of the day if we are exposing ourselves to greater amount of U.V. radiation. We certainly don’t want to accelerate any type of photo aging or making the skin itself age quicker because of sun damage.† [00:01:58]
[00:01:58] So what should you do? Well, most of the time, people think, well, let me just lather on a bunch of SPF. Well, keep in mind that SPF, which is the most common way that people try to protect their skin from the sun, that can create a couple of problems. One, it can actually block your natural absorption of vitamin D, which can be problematic because we certainly understand that vitamin D is critical to so many functions in the human body. It’s actually a hormone so we have to make sure that we always maintain good, healthy, stable levels of vitamin D. The other thing that we know about SPF is all of the chemicals that we are then putting onto our bodies largest organ, which is our skin. So as soon as that SPF and all those chemicals start absorbing in, now your poor liver has to deal with this. So while I’m not saying don’t use SPF, I am trying to encourage you to try to find much cleaner ways to keep your skin safe and protected from the sun’s harmful rays. Because I know you want to get out there and you want to enjoy it, but you want to do it in a very healthy way.†[00:03:04]
[00:03:05] So one thing that we definitely know is that the foods that we can actually provide a natural barrier of U.V. protection. So maybe we don’t even need to run out to our local drugstore and get an SPF that’s loaded down with chemicals. Maybe if we are doing the right things when it comes to the foods that we are eating. Let me just give you an example. There was an interesting study that was published over a decade ago in the Nutritional Review Journal looking at how nutrition can actually yield sun protection. The way that they were addressing this study is analyzing areas in the world where high levels of solar radiation or UV exposure is very high. But then also correlating that to low rates of skin cancers. And in the Mediterranean region in particular, they found this to be very prevalent they found that people in the Mediterranean areas had much higher rates of exposure to UV light, but yet much lower rates of skin cancers. So melanomas, when you think about squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and so what they drew that back to was their dietary intake of antioxidants and vitamins and minerals and all of these powerful phytochemicals, in addition to omega three fatty acids.† [00:04:31]
[00:04:32] Now, certainly, there have been multiple clinical trials that have shown the importance of staying hydrated from the inside out. So with the use of things like vitamin E and Omega three fatty acids, we know that this can help create this barrier of protection for our skin. We know that UV radiation has really deleterious effects on our skin, and the more we can start to increase our omega three intake the better we do when it comes to offsetting the harmful effect of the sun’s rays. Quite interesting, right? Well, there was a study that was published in the Experimental Dermatology Journal also about a decade ago that looked specifically at this looked at omega three fatty acid intake. So when we think about fish oil or krill oil or maybe you prefer a vegetarian options such as flaxseed, we know that when people have higher intake of those very powerful and essential omega three fatty acids, this actually led to skin protection. So it made the skin less impacted by acute and chronic U.V. exposure. They’ve even done studies showing how dietary fish oil supplementation could actually eliminate or greatly reduce the likelihood of getting sunburns. Which is very interesting. We know that our foods matter. We certainly understand that if we have a strong adherence to a Mediterranean style diet, this is beneficial for every single system in the body, including your skin.† [00:06:10]
[00:06:10] So as we trend into the hotter months where your likelihood of having greater exposure to the sun’s rays, we want to make sure that our diet is also following this pattern of healthiness. So we have to make sure that we include in fresh fruits and vegetables, those green leafy vegetables, those, bright colored berries, all those powerful anthocyanins are certainly very beneficial. When you look at the individual vitamins, vitamin E and vitamin C, we know that that combination of vitamin E and. C certainly leads to a protection against that skin damage that UV rays can actually produce. So this is why we want to have that high intake of those fruits and vegetables. Dietary antioxidant intake is essential when it comes to having this photo protective ability within our skin.† [00:07:05]
[00:07:06] And of course, we. Always have to make sure that we stay hydrated. So hydration is really quite essential. I always turn to our alkalizer powder, which is a wonderful combination of magnesium, potassium along with the amino acid beta alanine, which is incredibly nourishing to muscles that get kind of fatigued when they’re overworked. Well many times in the warmer months maybe you’re out there and you’re pushing yourself a little harder than you normally would riding your bike or running and you get home at night and you think, Oh gosh, I have muscle cramps. Well, if we start to incorporate in that alkalizer powder during those hot summer months, this many times can minimize that potential of stripping the electrolytes out of your muscles. And this is always key. So hydration has to come down to being cognizant of the fact that we have to have a good intake of water from the minute we wake up to the minute we go to bed. This is very important because during the hot, humid months we have more of a tendency to lose a lot more fluid than we actually recognize. I’m not talking about just pure out sweating. We lose a lot of that hydration and many times people aren’t quite aware of that and you can get yourself to a point where you are slightly dehydrated or worse than that fully dehydrated.† [00:08:28]
[00:08:29] And this can really lead to significant problems of electrolyte imbalances. So water, water, water, this is important. Not drinking sugary beverages so put away the sodas, the sugary juices. Those are not going to be your friend, certainly during the hot, humid months. So you can always look, as people oftentimes say, I don’t like to drink water, I don’t like the taste of water. And I always say, well, water is not supposed to have a taste, but if you are a flavor type of a person and you want to have that punch of taste, then I would certainly look at incorporating in things like the Oranges HxⓇ, or the Purples HxⓇ, which are loaded down with powerful anthocyanins coming from fruit and vegetable extracts. So we’re going to be powering up all of those vitamins and minerals, those powerful phytochemicals and antioxidants, to give our skin that protection once again from that UV damage. We know that the power of carotenoids is really essential when it comes to being able to fend off all of that harmful light. This is also true when we think about our eyes this is why things like lutein and zeaxanthin are so essential to protect our eyeballs from the blue light damage that comes off of your computer screen or from your cell phone.† [00:09:47]
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[00:09:47] Well, we also want to make sure that we include foods. That are high in those carotenoids, those are your orange colored fruits and vegetables. So power up on all those green leafy vegetables, your berries, of course the orange pigmented fruits and vegetables during the summer. And stay hydrated. This is all very important to make sure that we don’t increase our chances of photo aging. We don’t want to accelerate the aging of our skin just because we want to spend some more time out in the sun.† [00:10:19]
[00:10:20] So that’s all. That I have for you for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning. In to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Remember, you can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or by visiting invitehealth.com/podcast. Now do make sure that you subscribe and you leave a review. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at InViteⓇ Health and we will see you next time. For another episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast.† [00:10:20]
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