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You Are What You Eat – The Effect of Diet on Blood Pressure

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I can’t name the number of people who have started my High Blood Pressure program after being diagnosed with high blood pressure who either didn’t like or couldn’t tolerate the horrible side effects of prescription drugs to lower their blood pressure.

Throughout various correspondences, I have also come to realize the number of people who tried my program, noticed good results and then were encouraged to adopt healthier lifestyles as a result.

Many of these same people indicated that they had no family history of high blood pressure, didn’t smoke or drink alcohol to excess. The only thing they noticed is that they had, over the years, gained weight (sometimes considerable amounts after childbirth, etc.) and/or developed poor eating habits.

There are many diets available today – just type in “Diet” into any web search engine and notice the results. Most of these diets, unfortunately, offer amazing weight loss results in little to no time. Once you drill down deeper, you realize that they are at best, not accurate in their claims – at worst, basically starvation diets.

One may lose a lot of weight but the effects on one’s health, the heart especially, are devastating. Our bodies aren’t designed to gain or lose vast amounts of weight at once. But, for many of these diets, that’s exactly what happens.

The body goes into “starvation” mode with these extreme caloric reduction diets and once we either lose the target weight or more than likely, simply quit out of frustration, our metabolisms already reduced, are forced to deal with “normal” food intake.

The result is rapid weight gain and health issues. Many of my clients informed me that they were even heavier than they were when they started the original diet.

Of course, that’s not to say that all plans to lose weight are wrong. Many of my clients indicated that once they were feeling better from trying my program, they were encouraged to try eating better, and in general, live a healthier lifestyle.

My advice is to go back to the food pyramid. This simple plan we all learned in grade school, does in the end hold good advice. In fact, one client mentioned that when she went back to the “basics” she and her family ended up losing weight, without feeling hungry and “punished.”

One also doesn’t feel like one is on a diet, at least not in the traditional sense. It is in fact, a lifestyle change, meant to go the distance, not just a fad diet.

Add to it that most if not all healthy diet plans also recommend at least eight glasses of water per day and vitamin supplements to ensure effective weight loss. I am a firm believer in vitamin supplements, ONLY, keep in mind that you should go with an established company with proven results – vitamins and other health supplements are often times not regulated by any health agency.

I highly recommend a well balanced diet promoting all food groups, even fat, just in limited and realistic quantities.

I also highly recommend both my High Blood Pressure program to lower blood pressure with all natural and amazing results or my Weight Loss Breeze program if you are looking to lose weight with all natural breathing and relaxation exercises.

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High Blood Pressure Causing Vertigo?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

A usually happens in my chosen career, I’ll hear feedback from clients about how successful my program was for them (no surprise) but then sometimes they will tell me how my program has helped them in other ways.

One recent example of this is my High Blood Pressure program. A client wrote to tell me that my program not only lowered her blood pressure to a healthy number but she also noticed that she didn’t suffer from vertigo which had affected her intermittently, for years.

She didn’t see how a program for high blood pressure could affect another disorder but could it really be a coincidence that this condition happened to clear up at the same time as her high blood pressure?

First let’s discuss what vertigo is.

Vertigo itself is not a disease but rather a symptom of another disorder. The most common type of vertigo is a disorder of the structures of the ear, also known as the peripheral vestibular system.

The most common type of peripheral disorder is benign benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV. Symptoms include: dizziness (naturally), nausea, vomiting, perspiration, hearing loss, impaired cognitive ability, and weakness in the muscles in the face. The symptoms come on without warning but generally last less than a minute.

Although not as common, vertigo can also be caused by irregular blood pressure (both low blood pressure and high blood pressure), migraine associated headache (MAV), atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and irregular blood sugar (often associated with diabetes).

If the above conditions can cause the symptom of vertigo, then how do we alleviate these conditions?

Regulate blood pressure – one way is to avoid high sodium (salty) foods which can temporarily raise blood pressure. Over time, the affect can become permanent.

Migraine headache – avoid “trigger” foods which can cause a headache such as: cheese, alcohol, MSG, nuts, chocolate and non fresh meats.

Atherosclerosis – this hardening of the arteries is actually caused by high cholesterol. Avoid a diet high in fat or fried foods. Replace them with a diet enriched with fresh vegetables and fruit.

While moderate exercise has been shown to help ease the symptoms of vertigo, keep in mind that you should drink plenty of water to replace the lost fluids during exercise – dehydration can cause vertigo as well.

And of course best of all, use my Natural Blood Pressure Exercise Program. Regardless of your reason for suffering vertigo, my Vertigo and Dizziness program has seen amazing results! I highly encourage you to try it today.

EL331002

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Food and High Blood Pressure

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Utilizing natural methods for controlling and even curing conditions for others is of course not just the basis of my career, but my own personal lifestyle. The advantages of providing the body with the resources to cure itself are almost too numerous to list.

A key advantage includes avoiding serious and even life threatening side effects of many medications.

Blood Pressure medicine while quick and convenient to prescribe and take can leave a person with new and usually surprising problems. Just a few of the reported side effects include headaches, dizziness, nausea, joint pain, fatigue and sexual dysfunction. Some of the more serious side effects even include stroke and heart attack (the very problems the drugs are designed to prevent.)

An important reminder about these medications though is that even if you are experiencing these symptoms, you should almost never suddenly discontinue the medicine. The problems with the drugs should be discussed with your doctor even if you also choose to pursue natural treatments.

One place many people start with when trying to control blood pressure is with the food they eat. This makes great sense especially since choosing and preparing food is within an individual’s direct control. This also happens to be a popular question I get so I’m happy to share some foods I’ve found to be at least somewhat helpful.

Celery acts as a natural diuretic and is also touted to have a “negative caloric effect.” This means it actually requires more calories to digest it than the food even has. You might prefer to drink celery juice or combine it with other roots such as carrots.

Eating papaya on an empty stomach each day for a month is also recommended by many naturopaths. This should be eaten in the morning daily for a month. Eat the papaya alone and refrain from eating other foods for at least two hours afterward.

Another food I’ve tested many times is garlic. You can eat it in its natural form or packed into your meal. I’ve actually witnessed it lowering blood pressure in minutes by taking a reading before the meal, and eating the garlic.

Decreasing the fat, sugar and red meat in your diet can also help lower cholesterol as well as help in controlling blood pressure.

The DASH eating plan even provides specific diet and serving recommendations and is based on scientific studies centered on reduced sodium diets. It was most effective for those suffering high blood pressure but also lowered blood pressure for those who had pre-hypertension.

DASH calls for whole grains, raw vegetables, fruits and non-fat or low fat dairy products. Fats and oils are allowed in limited quantities.

While I do believe that adjusting your diet can be very beneficial for blood pressure as well as weight control and overall health, it is still extremely important to address the underlying stress factors to insure blood pressure remains in a healthy range permanently.

My Hypertension No More program focuses on increased oxygen and eliminating stress. Combining this with a healthy diet can allow you to look at a future free of blood pressure medications. I hope you’ll give your body the chance to heal itself if you are suffering.

EL331001

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Emotional Stress and Its Toll on the Body

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I’ve written before about stress, both good and bad and its effects on one’s health. Stress, by definition, is the state of emotional, physical or mental tension or suspense as a reaction to a force (stressor) on the body or mind.

It’s obvious to anyone who knows me, how in tune I am with knowing what stressors can do to both the body and mind. This is because the mind and body while performing separate functions need each other in order to adequately function. A problem with one affects the other and a cycle of negative effects begins.

Emotional stress is sneaky. It can quietly damage your body and mind in severe ways oftentimes, without you even knowing it.

Picture yourself walking down the road and a car careens out of control and speeds towards your direction. In an instant, hormones like adrenaline and cortisal are released in order to give your muscles a sudden burst of energy to get out of the way of the car and save your life.

More than that, though, blood is diverted away from other parts of the body (like the stomach for digestion) to your large muscles, allowing for more strength and speed. Heart rate and breathing increase dramatically in order to accommodate the sudden need for “fight or flight.”

The body does this by design and most of the time we are grateful for its lifesaving skills. Other times though the stressor could be an angry co-worker yelling at you. For some, it’s the driver that cuts you off in traffic.

Even though the stressor is emotional and your mind tells you your life isn’t in danger, the physical manifestations are the same as those mentioned when dealing with an out of control car coming your way.

Even this would be an acceptable body response to a given emotional stressor at any one time. The problem is when these stressors or the mind’s perceived stressors are chronic.

Over time, the “fight or flight” response which leads to neither fighting nor fleeing builds up in our minds and bodies. Physically, side effects include: headache, back pain, TMJ (temporomandibular joint pain due to bruxing or repeated grinding of the teeth), heart palpitations, stomach pain and/or ulcers muscle, joint and even bone degeneration.

In conjunction with the above physical symptoms, chronic stress can lead to emotional and psychological problems as well. Anxiety, anger and depression can be the result.

And here begins the cycle. If you are feeling the above emotions (oftentimes in conjunction, we just say we’re “on edge” and it’s understood), you aren’t likely to exercise to remove the muscle tension and so it just builds up creating larger problems.

Additionally, feeling depressed angry or anxious leads to sleep and eating disorders which can lead to obesity, snoring, sleep apnea, self medicating through alcohol or drugs…you get the picture. Long term, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other life threatening diseases are the result.

Obviously, to remove the stressor is the key to not enduring a particular stressful event, however, reality often gets in the way. Continued stress over a major project at work, unpaid bills or other chronic events is most of the time just a part of life.

What’s important is to deal with the negative emotions as they arise. If you can’t, then it’s time to consider talking to a professional. If you aren’t sure what is making you stressed, I also recommend some sort of breathing and exercise program designed to relax both the mind and body.

My programs have proven to thousands of my clients that they can help relieve stress and increase health. If emotional stress is the culprit, any of my programs can help you (especially the Natural Blood Pressure Program). They can be located on the right hand side of my natural health blog page.

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Alzheimer’s and Oxygen Deprivation – Explaining the Link

Monday, July 27th, 2009

“Did you hear that there is new research out there indicating that eating a heart healthy diet may help prevent Alzheimer’s?” These are the types of questions which seem to come from nowhere from a good friend of mine. Generally, it’s over lunch and his seemingly off the wall questions lead to many interesting discussions from which I sometimes draw ideas.

My friend, by the way, is not a doctor, nutritionist or the like. Rather, he is an avid reader. He, like many of us, takes more than a passing interest in health issues that could be coming his way in the future.

Of course, he rarely remembers every bit of the article nor does he bother to take note of the journal or magazine name/issue. I must be creative in eliciting information from him. Then, I go home, and perform my own research. This is actually quite easy to do, once I get started, so I never complain to my friend/muse.

Now why would eating a diet to maintain heart health affect Alzheimer’s? For starters, the heart, like the brain is an organ. “You are what you eat,” rings true for so many diseases, why not Alzheimer’s?

Studies have already produced results that indicate that people with a history of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, as well as those in the elderly category of aging were at a risk for Alzheimer’s. Great to know… but why?

In 95% of Alzheimer’s cases, genetic disposition did not play a factor.

New research is telling us that oxygen deprivation is the root cause.

Many studies have produced results supporting the theory that a gene is responsible for converting a harmless protein into a plaque creating protein. This can in turn, cause neuron death.

Consider the plaque as built up trash. Consider oxygen as the sanitation company which sends teams to remove the trash. Reduce the oxygen and you both reduce the number of available “workers” to remove the plaque/trash as well as increase the bad protein which causes the plaque.

While research is ongoing as to the effect of treatment after Alzheimer’s symptoms are developed, what is important about this study is that all evidence points to being able to stave off Alzheimer’s if one can continue to deliver necessary oxygen to the brain!

There is even more to this which I’ll share later.

Although there are many drugs out there to combat the effects of Alzheimer’s as well as new drugs to potentially reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, I must stress that all drugs contain harmful side effects, some of which are life threatening.

Plus no drugs tested today even indicate a cure for Alzheimer’s.

See your doctor to determine if you are at risk for developing Alzheimer’s and don’t be afraid to express concerns about medications, even preventative ones.

My Alzheimer’s program will be available soon and I am very excited about its release. In the mean time, if you are at risk for heart disease due to high blood pressure, or are overweight and therefore at risk for diabetes, both of which put you at a risk for Alzheimer’s, I encourage you to try both my High Blood Pressure program and my Weight Loss Breeze program, respectively.

The results have been amazing for so many of my clients. I would love to add you to their numbers!

EL331002

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Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome – So That’s Why I’m so Tired!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

“I have fibromyalgia,” my friend casually mentioned, over lunch some time back. I knew that she had been suffering from daytime sleepiness and more recently, overt fatigue, dizziness and snoring.

I was actually relieved to know that her doctor had diagnosed her, given the medical community’s difficulty accepting fibromyalgia (a disease characterized by excessive fatigue, overall chronic pain, pain when pressure is applied to the body, joint stiffness or pain, sleep disorders and sometimes difficulty swallowing) as a real medical condition.

What I soon came to realize is that my friend never made it to see the doctor. Rather, she “Googled” her symptoms and decided upon fibromyalgia. While her sleepiness, fatigue and snoring could be considered symptoms, I stated that this was NOT a sound diagnosis.

“But you’re the one who doesn’t like doctors.” This led to a discussion which I feel it necessary to share. I have a great respect for those who study hard and dedicate their lives to both saving and enriching the lives of other people, namely, doctors.

What I don’t agree with is hearing only a few symptoms, providing little to no testing and then prescribing medication to alleviate a condition the patient may or may not actually be suffering from.

I do, however, want to state that doctors are necessary and that rather than decide to forgo them altogether and self-diagnose, one should demand to have one’s symptoms taken seriously and to follow up with the doctor if medication doesn’t work or the side effects of that medication are as bad or worse than the actual condition for which it’s being treated.

This leads me back to my friend. Upon hearing my advice to actually visit her doctor (especially since she was suffering from none of the usual symptoms of pain that fibromyalgia sufferers tend to report), she was sent for further sleep studies and eventually diagnosed with Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome, or UARS.

Like sleep apnea, with UARS, sufferers have their airways restricted when sleeping. This is generally because the airway is already smaller than usual and when sleeping, it relaxes to a point that air is restricted, usually causing (but not always) snoring.

Unlike obstructive sleep apnea, the airway doesn’t completely close so the sufferer doesn’t stop breathing completely. Also unlike sleep apnea, the main cause for concern in UARS is actually low blood pressure, not high blood pressure. This condition tends to affect premenopausal and menopausal women more than others.

This is still of concern to one’s overall health because if one’s blood pressure is too low, it does not provide enough pressure to force the blood through the veins and arteries and onto the organs and permanent organ damage can result.

If you are suffering from UARS, I highly recommend both my High Blood Pressure program and my Stop Snoring program. My High Blood Pressure program is designed to help sufferers of low blood pressure because it’s designed to regulate blood pressure. My friend was able to go from using a CPAP machine every night to only using my all natural programs. I believe this can help you as well!

EL331002

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Menopause – What Health Issues Accompany this Life Change?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Every day we are reminded that we are getting older. Whether it’s your doctor suddenly ordering tests after the age of 35 that you had deemed for, “old people” or your body itself suddenly not acting the way it did just a couple of years ago.

It’s a fact of life that we all age and it should be accepted. What I believe shouldn’t be accepted is that there is nothing to be done about it and we should get used to being in pain or discomfort.

One common theme I consistently see when reading client feedback about my program concerns menopause. This is the time in a woman’s life when her menstrual cycle ends.

While at one time in our history, this did mark the beginning of the end of the lifecycle of women, this is no longer true today. With advancements in diet, medicine and technology, women now spend over a third of their life in the post-menopausal stage.

Common health ailments actually tend to start in the perimenopausal stage which can last between 5-10 years before menopause (defined by not having a menstrual cycle in over a year).

During this time and into menopause, women typically experience the following symptoms at least temporarily: Hormone changes affecting mood, hot flashes, fatigue, headache, and anxiety and depression, although women in this age group are no more likely to suffer long term depression than young adult women.

For some, though, other more serious medical conditions can arise. Migraine headache is one example of typical menopausal symptoms gone awry.

Studies have shown that migraines can start during the perimenopausal phase and are usually worse if the sufferer has experienced migraines in the past. Taking hormone replacements like estrogen has proven to be a migraine trigger.

Vertigo is another disorder reported in some perimenopausal and menopausal women. Sudden dizziness or feeling like you or objects in the room are spinning when they are in fact not.

Occasionally, women suffer from a combination of these two conditions known as migraine associated vertigo (MAV). This is dizziness which accompanies the migraine.

Another health concern for women at this stage in life is weight gain. While yes, our metabolism and physical activity tend to decline as we age, studies have shown that it is during menopause that many women gain weight when they never did before.

Given that weight gain can affect one’s health in so many ways, this is important. Overweight people tend to have more fat in the throat and neck area which compresses the airways and can lead to snoring and sleep apnea. Left untreated, this can lead to an enlarged heart, high blood pressure and other heart diseases which one is already at risk for if she is overweight.

Smoking and drinking to excess are two other bad habits that tend to increase during menopause. These on their own can lead to heart disease and stroke, let alone when combined with weight gain.

No matter what the reason if you find yourself suffering from headache or migraine headache, vertigo, MAV, weight gain, snoring, mild sleep apnea or high blood pressure, I highly encourage you to try one or more of my all natural programs. You can find links to each of them on the right hand side of my blog.
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Diabetes and High Blood Pressure – What’s the Connection?

Friday, June 12th, 2009

A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, (also known as adult onset or non-insulin dependent diabetes). This was a surprise to her as she didn’t seem to suffer any symptoms typical of this disease, frequent urination, lack of energy, thirst and weight loss.

In fact, the only reason she discovered she had diabetes is because her doctor ordered a test at her yearly physical.

I, along with her doctor took this diagnosis very seriously as my friend had previously been diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension, a few years ago.

What’s the big deal? For starters, over two thirds of people with diabetes also have high blood pressure. OK…so?

Let’s start with what diabetes is. Diabetes is a disorder in which the body can’t properly process sugar. There are two types: Type 1 diabetes is when the pancreas does not produce insulin which is needed to regulate blood sugar in between meals. Sufferers of this type of diabetes must inject themselves with insulin in order to regulate their blood sugar.

Type 2 diabetes is a condition where the body does actually produce insulin but it is unable to properly process sugar. Of the over 5 million sufferers of diabetes (experts believe this number is actually double and that many people suffer from the disease and don’t realize it), between 90-95% of those suffer type 2 diabetes.

For those with type 2 diabetes, tissues become targets of the uncontrolled sugars and begin to erode. The most susceptible are the eyes, nerves, kidneys and heart. In fact, diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure and the sixth highest cause of heart failure.

Like high blood pressure, the sufferer often feels no symptoms at all so their major organs and eyes are literally under attack for years.

Add to that a potentially life threatening disease like hypertension, which, surprise – also harms the eyes, kidneys and heart. In fact, those with high blood pressure and diabetes are over 75 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke!

While medication is needed for many with diabetes, the good news is that you can help delay or prevent the effects of the disease from spreading simply by maintaining a healthy weight and exercising. Additionally, avoid excessive alcohol intake.

Like diabetes, there are many things that those who suffer from high blood pressure can do to reduce the effects, they include, maintaining a healthy weight, not drinking alcohol to excess, not smoking and exercise. Medications are available but have serious side effects, exacerbated by a parallel condition like diabetes.

If you suffer from high blood pressure and would like an all natural proven treatment, I recommend my High Blood Pressure program. It’s natural breathing and relaxation exercises have helped thousands like you and it may even help for your type 2 diabetes since the two are closely connected.

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High Blood Pressure and Dizziness – Are they Related?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

“Whoa, that was strange!” This was the comment recently from a friend who was standing in line for a movie with me recently. Always interested in “strangeness” I asked my friend to expand on that statement. “I just had that dizzy feeling again like when you stand up to quickly from a seated or lying position.”

The fact that this dizzy feeling was happening “again” indicated a pattern to me so we began to discuss this symptom. I knew my friend had been diagnosed with high blood pressure a few months back and through our discussion, I learned that this is also when the dizzy spells started happening.

This is not so surprising, as one of the symptoms of chronic high blood pressure is dizziness, in addition to headache, blurred vision and fatigue. My friend, however, had none of these symptoms before a routine physical indicated a high blood pressure reading and more tests were ordered.

Additionally, much research on dizziness and blood pressure indicates that low blood pressure is generally the culprit. When the blood pressure drops, dizziness is a common side effect.

How low blood pressure drops is of less importance than the fact that the blood pressure is dropping at patterned intervals and so the side effect is important because it could be denoting a serious medical problem.

The important thing to take note of is what your blood pressure readings are when you experience the dizziness whether low or elevated. Purchasing an ambulatory cuff will help with that.

It also occurred to me that my friend’s dizziness could also stem from vertigo (the sensation that objects and people around you are moving when they are not or that you are moving when you are not). Vertigo, quite simply, means dizziness.

There are several causes of vertigo including trauma to the head but the most common is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, or BPPV. This is an inner ear disorder which can suddenly cause dizziness when the head is moved in a certain position.

The fact that my friend’s dizziness started immediately after being prescribed high blood pressure medicine was of concern to me. In fact, his doctor didn’t mention anything about dizziness as a side effect.

His first cause for concern was when he picked up the prescription and noticed no fewer than 4 warning stickers on the bottle indicating severe side effects, the least of which was dizziness.

His doctor at first shrugged off the link but after 4 months and no other causality, he eventually prescribed a different medication. This helped to alleviate certain other high blood pressure symptoms but it wasn’t until my friend tried my High Blood Pressure program that the underlying causes were treated.

Almost immediately, my friend was feeling better and within just a few weeks he was able to go back to his doctor and begin to wean himself off of the medication. My program is all natural and easy to follow, but the most important fact is that it works! I highly recommend it if you suffer from either high blood pressure or low blood pressure. And if you suffer from dizziness or vertigo, my Vertigo and Dizziness program will help you.

EL331002

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Oxygen – The Free Health Food

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Perth, Australia has the most intense white sunlight compared to anywhere I’ve ever been. It lightens up your heart and soul. I spent good quality time with my family there recently. Lying on the beach and body surfing in the ocean was amazing.

It was while lying on the beach and breathing in the beautiful fresh air, that my thoughts led back to the importance of oxygen for our minds and bodies. It is absolutely vital for good health. And the lack of it can create many health issues.

I am sharing a rather simplistic description of this process and why it is so important.

We are all aware that we need food for survival. However, food without oxygen will not do us much good.

Our bodies require energy sources to survive. We do obtain part of that energy from the food we eat. Oxygen, though, is the component that makes it possible for our bodies to turn the raw materials (food) into the energy source.

The oxygen is transported throughout our bodies through hemoglobin to various cells. These cells then turn oxygen into water. Usable energy is then created for our bodies.

The process is kicked off by breathing. We are obtaining oxygen about 20 times a minute through our noses by inhaling. In short, oxygen has to take a rather long and winding journey in order to reach the lungs.

Oxygen passes through the nasal passages, throat, windpipe, chest and eventually the lungs. The process is actually more complicated than this as there are various tubes and so forth that splinter off to deliver oxygen to appropriate destination.

Carbon dioxide is then exhaled more or less in reverse.

When this process is disrupted, problems (often times serious) occur.

Headaches including migraines can occur. The brain is starved for oxygen and eventually the veins and cells around the brain swell up and horrible headache pain results.

You may also experience dizziness or vertigo due in part to the lack of necessary oxygen.

I’ve also dedicated specific articles to the importance of oxygen to weight gain or rather weight loss. In order for anything to burn (including fat), three things are necessary; material to burn, heat to burn it with, and you guessed it - oxygen.

Shallow breathing means we’re not getting enough oxygen supply to adequately equip our bodies to burn the excess fat and we gain weight.

Deep breathing on the other hand allows us to intake necessary oxygen as well as relax our bodies. Relaxing results in stress reduction, which can also help result in normalized blood pressure.

Arming ourselves with improved oxygen flow is something we have to practice. Breathing itself is something that just occurs. But breathing “just enough” to maintain consciousness is not sufficient to ward off health problems.

But think about improving your health as a trip (often times a short one.) Summer is never more than 24 hours traveling time away. The same is true about health and happiness. It’s often much closer than we think. It’s just hard to imagine when all we see is rain.

All of my programs address the importance of oxygen to our bodies and maximizing this process through all natural exercises. In addition, I am elated to share with you that I am currently working on an Alzheimer’s program related to oxygen deprivation to the brain. You can find more information on all of my programs through the links on the right hand side of my blog.

EL331001

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