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Healthy immune system

While vitamin C is probably the first thing on most people’s minds, there are plenty of other vitamins, minerals and nutraceutical ingredients that can help protect the body. Researchers around the world are always looking for new ways to boost immunity. And later this month, a number of those researchers are gathering in one place.

Drink your vitamins

There will also be presentations on how antioxidants can help protect the skin, early-life nutrition and the links between immunity, obesity and gut microbes. But probiotics will be center-stage at the event, a topic that the Isotonix Blog and maBlog have discussed in the past.

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Excerpts from Chicago Tribune and other sources.

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The drug he most often talks about — Lilly’s Strattera, approved for patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — is a “second-line therapy” at Streamwood that can be prescribed only when a preferred therapy fails, McNally said

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Below you will find an interesting article regarding the side effects of Codeine, a common pain killer, which apperantly is dangerous that we thought it is.
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Canadian medical journal warns codeine can kill

4 Ontario deaths
Fast metabolism can provoke morphine overdose
By SHARON KIRKEY, Postmedia News October 5, 2010

Codeine can be lethally toxic even in normal doses, and now Canada’s leading medical journal says it’s time to seriously consider phasing out the popular painkiller.
The Canadian Medical Association Journal says codeine -a drug that has been in use since the 1800s -has never been subjected to the safety testing now mandatory for modern-day drugs, and that a person’s genetic makeup can leave them vulnerable to life-threatening or fatal reactions.

“Health professionals and the public generally believe that codeine, used responsibly, is safe, a perception fostered by the availability of codeine-containing products for purchase over the counter in many countries,” the journal says in an editorial published this week.

“However, recent advances in our understanding of pharmacogenetics raise serious concerns about the safety of codeine, including emerging evidence that the narcotic can cause death even at conventional doses.”

The liver converts codeine to morphine. But some people are ultrarapid metabolizers, meaning their bodies break codeine down far faster than most, leading to a toxic accumulation of morphine that can be deadly.

Researchers from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children were the first to report the case of a healthy, 12-day-old breastfed baby who died from a morphine overdose five years ago. The baby’s mother had been prescribed codeine for postpartum pain. Lab tests revealed she carried the genetic variations that made her an ultrarapid metabolizer of codeine, which led to high levels of morphine in her baby’s blood, although she was taking less than the recommended dose.

Last year, the Sick Kids team warned using codeine after tonsil surgery could be fatal for toddlers after reviewing a coroner’s case involving an otherwise healthy 2-year-old who was sent home with a prescribed dose of codeine and acetaminophen syrup after a tonsillectomy. He died two days later. Genetic tests revealed he was a hyper converter of morphine. He died of a morphine overdose.

The researchers know of two more cases involving Ontario toddlers -one of whom died.
The chance of being an ultrarapid metabolizer varies among populations. Health Canada estimates it to be one per 100 people for those of Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic descent, and one to 10 per 100 for Caucasians. North African, Ethiopian and Arab populations have the highest prevalence, at 16 to 28 per 100 people.

Improvement of body luster and general health-When your mind focuses on a particular part of the body, the blood flow to that part increases and cells receive more oxygen and other nutrients in abundance. Today, many of the film stars and fashion models include meditation in their daily regimen.

Improvement in concentration - Many of the athletes and sports professionals regularly employ meditation methods. Studies have found a direct correlation between concentration exercises (meditation) and the performance level of sports professionals. Meditation strengthens the mind, it comes under control and is able to provide effective guidance to the physical body to effectively execute all its projects. Psychological Exercises are a powerful way of improving concentration and improving mental strength.

Slow Down Aging with Meditation?

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t.

By William J. Cromie

Harvard University

Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

In one area of gray matter, the thickening turns out to be more pronounced in older than in younger people. That’s intriguing because those sections of the human cortex, or thinking cap, normally get thinner as we age.

The researchers compared brain scans of 20 experienced meditators with those of 15 nonmeditators. Four of the former taught meditation or yoga, but they were not monks living in seclusion. The rest worked in careers such as law, health care, and journalism. All the participants were white. During scanning, the meditators meditated; the others just relaxed and thought about whatever they wanted.

“The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about the sensory experience,” Lazar explains. “For example, if you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen to it rather than thinking about it. If your leg falls asleep, you just notice the physical sensations. If nothing is there, you pay attention to your breathing.” Successful meditators get used to not thinking or elaborating things in their mind.

So from time to time get out of the squirrel cage, slow down, meditate.

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Obesity epidemic

Weight loss pills

Americans spend a whopping 40 billion dollars a year on diets and diet related products. On any given day you can see commercials and read advertisements about fat blockers, carb cutters and appetite suppressants.

With all of these amazing pills on the market and the billions of dollars being pumped into the diet industry, why is it that America’s obesity problem has reached epidemic proportions?

The problem is that many people believe the magic bullet or rather, supplement that’s going to solve all of their overweight problems. Many people want a quick fix or an easy solution.

Diet pills come in many forms ranging from pills marketed as appetite suppressants to others marketed as carb blockers, fat blockers and metabolism boosters. Many of them include Ephedrine and use the name “thermo”, “lean” or “fat burner.”

According to the FDA, products containing ephedrine extracts have caused hundreds of illnesses, including seizures, heart attacks, strokes and even death. They are amphetamine-like compounds with powerful and potentially lethal stimulant effects on the central nervous system and the heart.

There are many prescription diet pills on the market as well including the popular and most commonly prescribed prescription appetite suppressant Phentermine. It is sold under the brand names: Lonamine and Adipex. These supplements, like most others, suppress the appetite and stimulate the central nervous system.

Each diet pill has its own set of potential side effects. Many, especially stimulant-based diet pills, are habit-forming and lend themselves to abuse. Abuse of these drugs may lead to psychological and/or physical dependence.

Appetite suppressants.

When you consume TOO FEW calories, your metabolism actually slows down. As your metabolism slows, the amount of weight you lose also slows down. Eating too much or eating too little may have devastating effects on the body. The best thing to do is to find a healthy medium. Did you know that in order to lose weight safely, effectively and long-term you have to actually consume a moderate amount of calories?

Fat blockers, like Xenical, may have many side effects as well including; oily spotting, anal leakage, intestinal cramping, gas with discharge, nausea, diarrhea, oily discharge, fecal urgency, loose and oily stools, fecal incontinence, frequent bowel movements.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that two in three Americans are overweight and one in three are obese, and the drug market is hungry for an effective diet pill. But the idea has been difficult to pull off.

There has not been a prescription pill for weight loss approved since 1999, when Xenical, which works by blocking the absorption of fat, was approved.

And although the FDA allowed a version of Xenical known as Alli to be sold over the counter, doctors say gastrointestinal side effects such as diarrhea have kept many consumers from taking it for long periods.

Prescription diet pills have had trouble winning respect with consumers and doctors because of safety issues and side effects. In 1997, a diet drug combination known as fen-phen was yanked from pharmacy shelves after it was linked to heart valve damage.

Following the panel’s decision on Qnexa, Biotech Stock Research, a research firm that follows drug development, Tweeted that it believes “no drug will ever be proven to be as safe as exercise in the minds of reviewers.”

So what is the answer? I think everybody knows the answer. In a few words: Eat properly

Reduce stress

Get enough sleep

Don’t eat out more than oce a week.

Physical activity-get your butt off the couch!

Exercise regularly

Some natural supplements can help.

One of the more useful programs is Transitions Life Training”

And last but not the least: educate yourself. Read about proper diet, organic food, exercise.

There is no magic bullet (pill)