Dead Sea Herbs

We love to use these packs during winter cold evenings and in summer after exercise. Feels great!

Organic herbal shoulder pack

We use herbal packs every day during winter and occasionally for minor pains in summer.

We will be forced to find an alternative sooner or later  like it or not.

This is not politics. Our lives are at stake.

The real price of oil

Just found out about the bamboo Socks!
Today, almost 1 million acres of forest vanish per week. This alarming rate of deforestation has forced many world economies to rethink their business and manufacturing practices. A sixty-foot tree cut for market takes 60 years to replace. Meanwhile, a sixty-foot bamboo cut for market takes 59 days to replace. Bamboo is officially recognized as the world’s fastest growing plant and has a tensile strength comparable to steel.

Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on this planet and provides the best canopy for the greening of degraded lands. (Some species of Bamboo grow as much as 4 feet a day). Its stands release 35% more oxygen than equivalent stands of trees. Bamboo can also lower light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays

General Description: A mixture of herbal extracts in olive oil with a calming effect. Helps to treat hyperactive children. Relaxes stress and improves the quality of sleep.
The general effect on the nervous system provides effectiveness for treating pains caused by convulsions (stomach muscles, motoric muscles, vomitting etc.). In low dosage, may be used before examinations (reduces stress).
Properties: Reduces overall muscles tonus Enhances the para-sympathetic nervous system activity Induces sleep (at high dosages)

Herbs of KEDEM is an Israeli R&D and production company specializing in therapeutic skin care and body care in the form of 100% natural products containing Judean Desert Herbs. They are presently the first in the world to cultivate agriculturally such herbs.

Drink your Resveratrol

TUESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — Strenuous exercise appears to stop the body’s cells from killing themselves as they’re programmed to do, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that cells of people who had just run a marathon didn’t engage in what is called apoptosis — the natural death of cells.

“Apoptosis is a normal physiological function dependent on a variety of signals, many of which can be modulated by strenuous exercise. Here, we’ve shown for the first time that exercise modulates expression of the sirtuin family of proteins, which may be key regulators of training,” study lead author Gabriella Marfe, of the University of Rome, said in a news release.

Marfe and colleagues took blood samples from 10 male athletes who’d taken part in a 42-kilometer run and found a shift in the balance between expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic genes after the race.

The researchers think that proteins in the sirtuin family may play a protective role in preventing cell death through exercise.

So should you go out for a run? Be careful if you haven’t been training, Marfe said. “Untrained amateur athletes often do hard training without professional advice. Such intense and exhaustive exercise can be harmful to health,” she said. To achieve beneficial effects, the authors recommend that exercise be part of a lifelong regimen with expert medical advice and supervision.

The study was published May 10 in the journal BMC Physiology.

More information

St. George’s University of London has more about apoptosis.

I do not run marathons. But I take Resveratrol in isotonic form. Resveratrol promotes apoptosis (programmed cell death) in unhealthy cells

SOURCE: BioMed Central, news release, May 10, 2010

Sun is good for you

I have a question to all of you:

How do you feel about sunlight? Does it cheer you up.

Do you like to be tan? Does sun tan look good?

Of course we have to be aware of the possible risks and damages from sun (especially for tanners, who overexposure themselves), but we can’t be let to believe that sun doesn’t do anything good. Sun is the reason we live!

Because of sun this planet is alive!

This is the reason you feel good about the Sun. Sun made all of us.

For years we have been told to cover up in the sun to cut the risk of getting skin cancer. But now it has come to light that sun is actually good for the body.
Recent studies have shown that a sensible amount of UV light reduces your risk of several cancers and health conditions. It’s all thanks to Vitamin D, which is made through our bodies through the action of UVB rays on our skin.
Professor Michael Holick of Boston University School of Medicine is the author of “The UV Advantage” book. “We get about 90 to 95% of our vitamin D from the sun,” says Holick.
He advises people should get 5 to 15 minutes of sun exposure three times a week to boost vitamin D levels.

Tanning controversy

More recently, some researchers have advised that tanning in moderation may be healthier than is commonly believed. Edward Giovannucci, professor of medicine and nutrition at Harvard states that according to his research, people who have sufficient vitamin D due to UV exposure, and other intake, may prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer.[14] His research also suggests that diet accounts very little for vitamin D3 necessary for curbing cancer. Michael Holick, Boston professor of dermatology, claimed that moderate exposure to sunlight probably reduces risk to many forms of cancer, diabetes, seasonal affective disorder, and other diseases.[15] These researchers are vigorously opposed by most dermatologists, for example, Dr. Elewski, president of the American Academy of Dermatology, argued that minutes of exposure to sunlight can be dangerous, and that people can get all the vitamin D they need through supplements. Large clinical studies have found vitamin D produced both through exposure to sunlight and through dietary supplements dramatically decreases cancer risk, and helps cancer recovery. See Vitamin D for more details.