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Age-related vision loss is a sad fact of life for a vast number of adults. But there is one misconception that tends to float around. It comes in one word: inevitable. In fact, vision loss is not an inevitable part of aging. Researchers have proven that your ability to see details may actually increase as you get older.

With that in mind, there are many ways to protect your eyes and stop the threat of vision loss. It’s a blend of easy, insignificant lifestyle changes complemented with some excellent antioxidant supplements proven to help keep your two tiny windows to the world clear.

Part 2 of a 2-part article.

In Part 1 of this article, I explained how certain behaviors and foods we’ve over-consumed such as carbohydrates, sugars and omega-6s create inflammatory illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. In Part II, I’ll explain the new science on fat cells and the essential nutrients you need to reduce inflammation in your body.

Step No. 3 Lose Weight to Eliminate Inflammatory Fat Cells
If you’re one of the 30% of the population not overweight or obese, you can skip this step. If you follow Steps No. 1 and 2 in Part 1, you will soon be part of that 30%.
This isn’t about being fashionably thin —it’s about being healthy. As little as 10% weight loss drastically changes your cardiovascular risk by lowering inflammation, improving high blood pressure and diabetes, and helping to prevent Alzheimer’s and other aches and pains related to inflammation.

Most of us have heard that drinking a warm glass of milk before bed will help you sleep. Is there any research to back up this assertion? While milk is high in calcium and tryptophan, both nutrients that promote better sleep, according to MayoClinc.com there is little evidence that warm milk actually helps you to fall asleep.¹

But even though the old warm milk remedy isn’t backed by science, it is true that what you eat and drink can influence falling asleep and staying asleep.

Part 1 of a 2-part article

It is an admirable goal that the President and Congress are debating various proposals known as “Health Care Reform.” Every American citizen should have insurance but something is missing.

Lost in the debate and headlines is the fact that having health insurance does not increase your chances of being healthy. It gives immense peace of mind for catastrophic costs of illness, but another choice far more rewarding is getting healthy and remaining healthy.

The first time my patients ask me about their prostate health is when they notice they are getting up more than once in the night to urinate. If I discover that it’s not their evening liquid intake of large amounts of coffee, alcohol or soft drinks (all very good diuretics) that produce these symptoms, I will proceed with a digital rectal exam (DRE). Many times this routine examination will indicate some prostate enlargement and a PSA blood test will be necessary.

A high PSA score isn’t always bad news. It simply means that your prostate is enlarged for some reason. You could have an infection, inflammation, or a noncancerous enlargement.

Dr. Sears has developed a revolutionary system to optimize male sexual health. Learn the details of his cutting-edge products and how to use them in this special feature.”

When doctors offer a pill as a solution for sexual problems, they have the right idea. You see, today’s pills increase your blood flow, helping you get oxygen-rich blood to your sex organ at a moment’s notice.

But they make a big mistake. A mistake that goes unnoticed by all of mainstreammedicine. Even most of the “alternative” doctors aren’t aware of this.

They don’t realize your body has a built-in defense mechanism that sabotages its effectiveness.

If you give your body outside help, you’ll get decent short-term results. But the effects will start to wear off. And after a few months you’re right back where you started.

Think of it as the “coffee effect.” The first time you had coffee it probably knocked your socks off. For me, I was in college. I remember thinking, “Wow, this stuff is great!” I started drinking it every morning and whenever I needed that extra boost when I was studying.

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? I must admit, I have a bit of a perfectionist streak in me. It’s something I’m learning to resist. In fact, Dr. Mollie Marti, founder of BestLifeDesign.com, recently suggested that I “strive for excellence, not perfection.”¹ I let that sink in and realized we don’t have to be perfect. Perfection is totally unattainable anyway, so why not be the most “excellent” we can be in all areas, including the way we look and feel?

People ask me all the time, “What is Aging Backwards? It sounds like a great idea, but too much work.” The reality is, you can look and feel younger with minimal effort if you break it down into small, manageable daily habits, striving for excellence rather than perfection. Here are just a few practical and realistic tips for looking and feeling younger and healthier, excellently:

1) Free hormone balancing. They don’t call it “beauty rest” for nothing! Our bodies seem to tune up while we’re sleeping. Sleep deprivation has actually been shown to alter the production and action of hormones.

According to a recent research presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, teeth grinding in preschoolers has been linked to withdrawn behaviors.¹

I was recently made aware of huge news on statin drugs from the labs at Iowa State University, where a researcher has confirmed something I have long suspected regarding cholesterol-lowering drugs — that they could seriously harm brain health.

The concern comes from simply knowing that brain cells, like liver cells, also manufacture cholesterol. Brain cells need cholesterol for a variety of functions. For instance, cholesterol is a primary component of the protective nerve coating called myelin. If your brain cells didn’t need cholesterol, they wouldn’t make it.

In the past it was assumed that statins primarily affect the production of cholesterol in the liver. However, as a pharmacist I have always thought it was naïve to think that a drug (statins) that circulates throughout the whole body would not affect other cholesterol-producing cells at all. My fears have now been proven correct.

Yeon-Kyun Shin, a biophysics professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Iowa State, says his research shows that statins do indeed slow the production of cholesterol in the brain which then interferes with efficient brain function.¹ His study will soon be published in the Journal of the National Academy of Sciences.

Shin found that too little cholesterol in brain cells significantly affected a protein that is needed for the release of neurotransmitters. Cholesterol is needed to change the shape of this critical protein, and in his words, “to stimulate thinking and memory.”

I cannot overstate how important this information is, and how big a ripple this news will cause as it is more widely reported. At least, I hope it will be widely reported.

Did you know that you can help reduce stress on your body just by making sure that most of the carbohydrates (carbs) you eat are they type that keep your blood sugar from rising too fast?