5 Natural Solutions for Varicose Veins

Are varicose veins or spider veins ruining your ability to wear short shorts? Or are they actually affecting your health by causing you to feel tired, especially in your legs, ankles, and feet?

Varicose veins, those bulging veins in your legs, are the result of weakness in walls of your veins and leaks in the valves that connect your veins. Health-wise, varicose veins are a sign that your vascular system isn't working as well as it should be. Luckily, there are 5 easy natural solutions that can support your body's vascular system.

1. Take natural antioxidants like wheat sprouts, coenzyme Q10, or rutin to reduce swelling and inflammation.
2. Increase your intake of essential fatty acids found in nuts, fish, and blue-green algae.
3. Add the herbs Butcher's Broom, nattokinase, and hawthorne to your daily regimen to increase circulation and strengthen venous walls.
4. Up your fiber and water intake while decreasing your consumption of meat, dairy, and fatty or refined foods.
5. Lose weight if you are overweight, and avoid standing for long periods of time.

These natural solutions are especially important to follow if you are a woman, as women are four times more likely to be affected by varicose veins than men. If your varicose veins are extremely bothersome, consider applying a witch hazel or apple cider vinegar compress twice daily.

Finally, get out and move your body! Life is all about movement, and conditions like varicose veins are simply messages from your body telling you that you are not moving nearly enough!

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Daily Energy--Feed Your Cells, Silly!

In college my friends and I used to joke about the fact that we
never listened to our bodies. We ate when we were tired, and we
slept when we were hungry. As a result, we didn't have as much
energy we would have liked for, well, doing whatever people did
in college [you fill in the blanks with your imagination!].

But it turns out that if you need more daily energy, just feeding
your body better food won't totally deliver what you want. You
will feel better, but you won't get as much daily energy as you
seek.


Daily Energy--Feed Your Cells Instead
It turns out that for our bodies to have peak daily energy, we
need to not only feed our bodies with the food we eat, but we
need to feed our cells as well. It makes sense when you think
about it because we are built of a mass of cells.

So what do we feed our cells? What do cells "eat"? Cells need:

• essential fatty acids (EFAs)
• proteins
• amino acids
• complex sugars
• vitamins and minerals

In addition, the mitochondria inside the cells, which are the
actual producers of cellular energy, need CoEnzyme Q10.

Finally, our brain cells need TWICE the energy of regular body
cells yet are more difficult to "feed" than regular body cells.
Why? Because brain cells are protected by a barrier called the
blood brain barrier, which only allows very small molecules to
pass to the brain. Thus some people's brains are actually starved
for complex sugars, micro-nutrients, and other small molecules
that feed the brain.

A Menu from which to Feed Your Cells
So now you know what your cells need to provide you with plenty
of daily energy, what's on the menu? If you want to keep the menu
short, simple, and sleek, check out these three simple
supplements:

- Alpha Sun blue-green algae: Feeds cells on a macro level and
provides all the basic "cellular foods." Anywhere from 1 to 4
capsules daily can make a difference.

- CoEnzyme Q10: Feeds the mitochondria so it can churn out
cellular energy. Adding 1 to 2 gel caps daily can provide the key
nutrient mitochondria need to stay active.

- Omega Sun blue-green algae: This "stripped down" version of the
blue-green algae is small enough to slip through the blood brain
barrier to feed hungry brain cells. Taking 1 to 4 capsules daily
can help with mental clarity and stamina.


That's a pretty simple menu of cellular food that will give you
plenty of daily energy!

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Let Your Body Tell You What You Need

I'm all for daily regimens, especially when it comes to nutrition and supplements. Daily regimens keep us on track and make sure that our bodies get all the support they need for physical strength, mental clarity, and emotional balance.

But ... it's 2012, and this year is all about native wisdom, listening to your inner voice, and a little bit of experimentation. If you want to add a little fun into your daily routine, you might try this simple experiment with your daily nutritional regimen. This little exercise gives your body a chance to express what it needs in terms of nutrition. How do you do this exercise? Easy.

Morning and night, and anytime in between, pick up any of your supplement bottles, especially the ones to which you feel most drawn (note: this does NOT include medications). Open the bottle and dump as many pills as want to come out of the bottle into your palm. This is how many pills your body is telling you it needs.

This exercise works great for supplements like vitamins, minerals, probiotics, whole food supplements like blue-green algae, and antioxidants. If you're not comfortable doing this experiment for long, try it for just a day or two. This will at least give you some idea of what your body craves. That's important information to take into account when planning your nutritional regimen. In this economy, when many of us are picking and choosing just which supplements to keep around, this experiment can prove very useful.

Enjoy the experiment!


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Enzymes for Digestion--Why Bother?

You are what you eat, so if you eat well then you should be feeling pretty smug, right? Right ... but you could be doing more for your health.

If you eat organic, get regular exercise, and feel healthy, you might ask, "Why bother?" when it comes to enzymes for digestions. After all, you are already taking really good care of your body.

So why take enzymes? What do enzymes do?

Why Take Enzymes?
The goal of taking digestive enzymes is to enhance your digestion and increase the nutrient absorption of what you eat. If you buy organic and eat a high-fiber low-sugar diet, the enzymes simply help your body absorb more of the healthy food you eat.

On the other hand, if you love junk food and your hardest workout is lifting a doughnut to your mouth, enzymes can still help you. Enzymes increase the digestion of any good nutrients in the doughnut, and lessen any digestive upset that comes from eating junk food.

So enzymes help your body whether you eat well or eat poorly. That's pretty neat.

Do Enzymes Work? TIM Says Yes!
Scientists in the Netherlands have been using a certified artificial digestive system, nicknamed TIM for short, to study the human digestive system. Using TIM, they have discovered the answer to the question, "Do enzymes work?"

The answer is a resounding "Yes!"

By feeding TIM a FDA-type test meal (a mix of proteins, carbohydrates, and fat) mixed with water and saliva, they were able to see how a human digestive system would work with and without enzymes. Here's what TIM showed them:

• digestive enzymes significantly improved the digestibility and absorption of nutrients in the various parts of the system (such as the small intestine)
   
• digestive enzymes significantly  improved digestion when TIM was operated under perfect conditions, and ALSO when TIM was operated in impaired conditions (with 70% reduced gastric and intestinal secretions)

What's the Bottom Line?
Like my dog, some of you may be reading through all these statistics and acronyms and processing them like this: "Blah, blah, blah ... digestive enzymes ... blah, blah, blah ... TIM (whoever HE is)..."

If so, don't worry. The bottom line is simple:

Taking digestive enzymes will help your digestion whether it is operating perfectly or operating poorly. Enzymes will also help you get more nutrition from the food you eat.

Translation: Take enzymes. Feel better. Get more bang for your buck at the grocery store.

Get it? Got it? Good!

Not got it? Contact us ... we'll talk you through it!

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