I found that this simple assessment tool is a great way to help you to find out what your dominant learning is, therefore, helping you to take in information a lot more effectively.
It’s so sad that we live in a society where self-esteem (aka confidence), is at an all-time low. There are many books, audio CD’s and blog posts giving you strategies on how-to build confidence.
We have found out that a fair few of our customers who brought our Nature’s Sunshine Paw Paw did so to try and help themselves or a family member overcome cancer.
It is great to see all sorts of people getting down the gym and making an effort to get in shape. But for the most part, they are not going about it in the correct or most optimal way.
There are so many supplements on market that claim to help to boost, balance, detox, clean, relax, heal, grow, repair and stimulate the systems of body. It can get quite confusing with what to use.
I have worked on a few clients who have taken part in the London Marathon (and marathons in general) and it does worry me sometimes with what they put their bodies through.
We have sold more Liquid Chlorophyll than anything else in 2011, and it looks the same for 2012. But what actually is Chlorophyll?
Chlorophyll is also considered the “blood” of the plants. Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in plants, algae and cyanobacteria. It is a very important molecule that is used in the process of photosynthesis (a chemical process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds). One of the main compounds is sugar, which the plant give to the fungi and microorganisms to the humus in the soil in exchange for nutrients out from soil. This is also know as the “love principle.”
Chlorophyll molecules are found in organelles called chloroplast. So what are chloroplast?
“Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms that conduct photosynthesis. Chloroplasts capture light energy to conserve free energy in the form of ATP and reduce NADP to NADPH through a complex set of processes called photosynthesis.” Wikipedia
Chlorophyll is also a protein bonded to magnesium and resembles hemoglobin structurally. Chlorophyll looks green because it doesn’t absorb light energy in the green portion of the spectrum very well, and that energy is then reflected from the surface of chlorophyll-bearing structures, making them appear green.
Below is a basic picture (taken from Wikipedia) showing how sunlight is taken in by the plant. It then uses this “solar” energy to convert water and carbon dioxide, again, taken in by the plant, turning it into oxygen (for life on the planet).
1: Chlorophyll has the power to regenerate our bodies at the molecular and cellular level.
2: It is known to help cleanse the body, fight infection, help heal wounds, and promote the health of the circulatory, digestive, immune, and detoxification systems.
3: Chlorophyll consumption increases the number of red blood cells and, therefore, increase oxygen utilization by the body.
4: Chlorophyll also reduces the binding of carcinogens to DNA in the liver and other organs. Chlorophyll also protects against a whole host of carcinogens found in fungus-laden foods such as nuts and grains, the toxins from cooked meats, and air-borne carcinogens (from pollution). It blocks the metabolism in the body of harmful chemicals known as procarcinogens that damage DNA.
5: Chlorophyll breaks down calcium oxalate stones for elimination, which are created by the body for the purpose of neutralizing
and disposing of excess acid.
6: Chlorophyll contains high levels of the vitamins A, C and E, chlorophyll has strong antioxidant capacity and has also been found to help reduce inflammation.
7: Chlorophyll is one of the most important chelates in nature. It’s ability to bind to and remove toxic heavy metals such as mercury.
8: Chlorophyll acts as a great antiseptic. Although chlorophyll doesn’t actually have antiseptic properties of its own, it, quite remarkably, does have the ability to aid our body’s tissue in destroying germs. By strengthening tissue, it increases the disease resistance of cells and, at the same time, prevents the growth of bacteria!
9: Chlorophyll has a double-action remedy for bad breath. Firstly, as a deodoriser, it will eliminate odours in the mouth and throat, but secondly (and more importantly) it promotes a healthy digestive tract – which is the primary reason for bad breath.
10: Chlorophyll has a highly alkalising effect on the body and helps to deliver much needed oxygen to cells and tissues and rapid delivery of magnesium.
Extra benefit: Chlorophyll contains vitamin K, C, folic acid, iron, calcium, protein: which are all also essential in building and repairing red blood cells and boosting our immune system.
Its no wonder that some of the strongest animals in the world such as gorillas and elephants eat grass and leaves as the main staple of their diets. It must be all that Chlorophyll!
Watch the video below the to see the benefits of Nature’s Sunshine Liquid Chlorophyll, which is currently our number best seller!
The alfalfa plant, from which Nature’s Sunshine’s chlorophyll comes, is an excellent source of chlorophyll.
Our Liquid Chlorophyll makes water into a great tasting, refreshing drink that you can enjoy throughout the day.
Whats your learning style? For the most part, most people dont know. Anyhow here is a great free assessment tool developed by business / self-help guru Brian Tracy. In previous blog posts I have wrote about learning styles and left/right brained thinking (see below) so I thought I would share this with you.
I found that this simple assessment tool is a great way to help you to find out what your dominant learning style is, therefore, helping you to take on information a lot more effectively.
“The ‘Personal Learning Assessment’ is the first critical step in the process to help you think differently, so that learning becomes more effective and easier for you, based on your personal learning style. You’ll be able to discover your dominant learning sense simply by answering a series of questions about your actions, phrases you use, and even your emotions.” – Brian Tracy
“It’s not simply just a case of being confident and being unconfident, it’s all relative” – Joe Dimon
According to www.dictionary.com, confidence is ‘the belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities.’
It’s so sad that we live in a society where self-esteem (which is how sure someone feels about themselves from building confidence), is at an all-time low. There are many books, audio CD’s and blog posts giving you strategies on how-to build confidence. Sadly most of the individual’s that produce such materials don’t really have that much confidence themselves.
Just because someone is loud and talkative doesn’t mean they are truly confident. A lot (not all) of people on TV and in the movies have little confidence- it’s just a facade. They sometimes make up for this low self-esteem by being loud and over-the-top.
I can just take one look at their posture, how the move and walk, to see how truly confident they really are. A lot of people, who have low-levels of self-confidence, perceive people who have more confidence than they do, as being arrogant. This is not true. It’s just their current perception that they are projecting onto others. Arrogance is a symptom of low self-esteem.
I know, I used to somewhat like this. But I was more on the quite-side. But over the years, with more and more life experiences and improving strength and body shapeI have become more confident. Later, I will talk about internal verses external confidence and difference between the two.
Why are some people more introverted or extroverted, and why balance is so critical?
In short, there’s a part of the brain that needs a certain amount of stimulation, to allow an individual to interact fully with others. In the extreme extrovert, this part of the brain need a lot more stimulation (by constantly talking, being loud, being center stage etc), to allow balance to occur. As with the extreme introvert, it becomes over stimulated too easily, therefore, they need go within themselves (by being quieter), more often, to stop “mental overload” so-to-speak.
“Animal research has provided evidence to support the theory that a series of neurological interactions are responsible for variable levels of reaction to an incentive stimulus. First, the incentive is recognized in a series of signals between the medial orbital cortex (the eye), the amygdala (the emotional control center) and the hippocampus (memory center) (3) (2). Next the brain evaluates the intensity of the incentive stimuli in a series of interactions between the nucleus accumbens, ventral palladium, and the ventral tegmental area dopamine projection system (2). This creates an incentive motivational state which can be motivating a response by the motor system (2). Differences in individuals incentive processing are thought to be due to differences in the ventral tegmental dopamine projections which are directly responsible for the perceived intensity of the incentive stimulus (2). Genes and past experience are the sources researchers believe most affect a person’s dopamine projections and so, the perceived intensity of incentive stimuli and the person’s motivation to pursue the incentive: their degree of extroversion.”
In an ideal world we all need to have balance of being extroverted so we can express our ideas to others with clarity and also be introverted enough to allow self-time (introspection) for ourselves. If not, we will never truly get to know ourselves. This is what gives someone a more balanced personality.
Below are the classic, typical signs and symptoms of someone who has low self-esteem / confidence. The list below is just an overview.
Signs and symptoms of low self-esteem include:
1 – Nasty sarcasm
2 – Bullying
3 – Not being direct in conversation, and at the same time having no tack
4 – Indecisiveness
5 – Thinking you know everything
6 – Being a perfectionist
7 – None or not much eye contact when talking to others
8 – Being too loud and over talkative (jabbering on)
9 – Sniping about other people all the time, behind their backs
10 – Lack of inner-stability and calmness
11 – Making weak-minded excuses, all the time
12 – Getting a job for the sake of it- where power over others is needed e.g. being policeman. Rather than doing to job to help society for the better.
13 – Self-medicating with spending (a sign of low self-worth)
14 – Being generally jealous of others all the time
15 – Constant feeling of insecurity
16 – Taking the Mickey out of others- for the sake of it
17 – Feeling like being judged all the time and unable to cope with small problems
18 – Nit picking at others / destructive criticism towards other
19 – Having an inferiority complex / always feeling small (usually why some guys get so freakishly big in the gym)
20 – Lack of self-liking / love
21 – Glaring at other (more confident) people- I seem to find a lot of people glare at me. Be it friends, family, co-workers and even people walking down the street.
22 – Over consumption of alcohol when going out. This is big problem for most people! On a side-note to this point, when I have been out in the past to bars and I have gone to approach a girl (when they are more sober), just to say “hello how are you” most would just look down and / or away. Approach them a few hours later when they are “pissed” of their heads, I may get more of a conversation. It’s a shame it has to be like this. What a sad-state of affairs!
23 – Passive aggression online (and offline), but a very common problem online. Just look at a lot of the comments on YouTube. It’s so easy to be nasty and confrontational behind a keyboard. I guarantee you that most of the individuals who write such comments, would, no-way have the “confidence” to say it face-to-face!
24- Lastly, the most obvious sign of low self-esteem / confidence is sloughed “poor me” posture with forward head.
Many people have told me that I am arrogant or have a big ego. Funnily enough, none these individuals had any inner-stability and self-confidence themselves. We all have an ego and you best off having a big one rather than a small one.
What’s better?
Being sure of yourself or being unsure of yourself?
Liking yourself, or disliking yourself?
Having a big ego (big ideas about yourself) or a small ego (small ideas about yourself)?
Causes of low self-esteem
1- Diet and health
Another reason why is may have been so quite when I was younger, was due to fact I had a lot of dental work done, therefore, a lot of mercury fillings in my mouth. One of the main symptoms of having too much mercury in your body is shyness, which is interesting!
Mercury fillings can turn people into introverts due to the depressing affects it has on the brain. The mercury may suppress the individual’s dopamine “happy, get-up-and-go” brain hormone, as well as causes other health problems. It all depends on the individual’s genetic make-up.
Also, not eating and drinking right for you can affect your mood. Have you ever experienced feeling of being subdued and quite after eating too many carbohydrates, fats or protein?
Or, on the other hand, have experienced feeling of being the “life and soul” of party after drinking too much alcohol? Pretty much all of us have, right?
When your diet is right for you, your brain chemistry is balanced, therefore, mind is more balance. Your personality becomes balance. Read more on diet here.
2- How the third (solar plexus) chakra may play a role
Throughout the body, there is a subtle energy system called the “chakra” system (chakra means wheel). These seven spinning energy vortexes run up the body from the anus to above the head. Find out more on this system here. In short, the chakra system is also known as the “emotional body.”
Again, the first charka is at the bottom of the spine and the seventh one is over the head. So, the third one (which is related to self-worth / power), which I’m talking about, is situated by the stomach, liver, pancreas, kidneys and intestines.
People with particularly low-self esteem / confidence, may be pre-disposed to chronic digestive problems and even diabetes, due to the imbalance in the thirds chakra- with other physical factors involved.
The third chakra is where we hold concepts about our external abilities, how we look, our natural physical abilities, how smart we are, our professional abilities to name but a few.
If someone has a particularly bad inferiority complex, they may fear criticism, even if it’s constructive, and if they are criticized they may feel discomfort in the gut / intestinal area. Clearing this area can help to improve confidence.
3- Pre-programming
Also how we are programmed in our early years (0-12 years of age), will also have a huge affect on our emotional body. A lot of us will need to “pull” ourselves out of this programming, in order to improve our confidence. Once classic example of bad childhood programming: is to hear our parents saying “NO” to us all the time. Keep hearing the word “no” subconsciously puts us into a state of thinking we can’t do too much when we get older.
Yes, we all have certain confidence in our own unique abilities. For example, if someone knows they have a good voice- they would be confident to get up and sign. If someone was a good dancer they would be confident to get up and dance, if asked to.
Even if you were a good signer and you sang a couple of nights a week for an hour or two, you would only feel more confident whilst you where performing for the few hours the week. What about the rest of the time you are consciously awake?
External VS internal confidence
External confidence is again, being confident in doing things your good at, such as singing, writing well, public speaking, working on computers and sports etc.
Internal confidence is being confident with whom you are, and the body you are in.
Examples of “false sense of confidence”
Lifting too heavier weight for you in the gym
Trying to keep up with the “Jones,” bit it, in a sporting situation and life
Getting too big in the gym
“Bowling” whilst walking around!
We all have out doubts and fears. But it comes down to this; it’s simply just a matter of getting honest with yourself and doing something (that is needed for you) to create some inner-stability and true confidence.
The one thing that will build your confidence more than anything else is to build a body- to the best of your abilities- that you are proud of being in. You’re in it 24/7. So why not be in something that makes your feel good? You know when you are, because you like looking at yourself in the mirror.
Having a great, natural body is the best “internal” confidence builders ever, much more so than any book or course out there.
If you take a look at the video below from Shannon Cunningham’s “Health for Happiness” seminar, here we are performing a group exercise, to help expand your comfort zone, which is not easy to do! This is an example of “external” confidence, which is needed to get alone in life. But it must be balanced with “internal” confidence.
As you can see in the video, learning how to get more and more out of your comfort zone is a great way to overcome fear. Fear stands for:
False
Evidence
Appearing
Real
We all fear things, which we have not yet experienced, it’s a natural way for the body (nervous system) to protect its self… from possible pain.
To finish off, if you play any type of sport where you have to get an object (usually a ball) into a hole or net like pool, snooker, football, golf and basket ball. Have you ever been in that “zone” of confidence where you know the ball has gone into the hole or net even before you took a shoot?
Well, imagine being in that kind of zone nearly all the time with whatever you do. That’s a true feeling inner of confidence.
To finish off, here are five top things you could do to improve your confidence
I had a full blown debate with a girl about the common saying / phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This debate almost turned into a nasty argument (well she got nasty with me, which is a common sign of low self-esteem).
It is true that we all have preferences to who we “go for,” and we define all beauty differently because we all perceive things differently. Why? Because we have different minds, therefore, different opinions.
But remember this: how clearly one perceive something depends on how clear his or her mind is!
There’s not doubt about it, some people are just genetically more attractive than others. So in its truest sense, that saying / phrase is NOT true.
“Bilateral symmetry. Attractive faces are more symmetrical than unattractive faces. Bilateral symmetry (the extent to which the facial features on the left and the right sides are identical) decreases with exposure to parasites, pathogens, and toxins during development, and with genetic disruptions such as mutations and inbreeding. Developmentally and genetically healthier individuals have greater symmetry in their facial and bodily features, and are thus more attractive.” Satoshi Kanazawa Beauty is only skin deep
I would add to this skin complexion (which is mainly down to gut health), and quality of facial features. Both play a big part in how someone looks.
So a side-note, have you also noticed that women are getting better looking, relative to men? If you were to line up a 1000 men next to a 1000 women, I would guarantee that you would be able to pick out more attractive women compared to men. No matter what your sexual preference is.
Here are two relevant and interesting articles, regarding how women are getting better looking the men. Which is something I noticed years ago.
Here is a great clip from my friend Shannon Cunningham on how to become more attractive energetically, which is also another key to becoming more “beautiful.”
How can health affect beauty?
“Far from being only skin deep, beauty appears to be an indicators of genetic and developmental health, and therefore of mate quality; beauty is a “health certification.” More attractive people are healthier, have greater physical fitness, live longer, and have fewer lower back pain problems.” Satoshi Kanazawa Beauty is only skin deep
This statement is so true! If you don’t look after yourself to the best of your abilities, your looks will suffer regardless how genetically gifted someone may be in the looks department. What good is it wearing expensive, beautiful clothes and not looking so good underneath them?
Its so sad when I see very good looking (or not so gifted looking people) lose their looks over time, from bad lifestyle choices. Famous, well known examples include:
Don’t let this be you, and don’t use age as an excuse either. If you follow these health tips they will keep you looking younger and better looking over your lifetime more then anything else. A lot of people think I look a lot younger then I am. Maybe its because I do my best to follow these tips myself.
Research has also shown that lack of sleep, is one of, if not, the number factor for not looking as good, as you could. This makes sense, because having less sleep will cause bags under the eyes, dark circles under the eyes, toxicity of the body, poor skin, craving for sugary foods and even weight gain.
There must be some truth in the saying: “I really need my beauty sleep.” So try and get to bed on time, pretty much all of the time!
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Over the last few months, we have seen that our Paw Paw product has become more and more popular. We have found out that a fair few of our customers who brought our Nature’s Sunshine Paw Paw did so to try and help themselves or a family member overcome cancer. I’m not surprised as it has so many benefits.
If you take the time out to watch the hour video (below) from the PawPawReaserch.com webiste – which is the number one source for information about Paw Paw on the Internet – Dr. Jerry McLaughlin presents the many wonderful benefits of Paw Paw and how it can help people with cancer and much more. He also talks about how the traditional cancer treatments don’t always work so well!
Jerry McLaughlin actually works with Nature’s Sunshine on developing their Paw Paw products. He mentions that the Nature’s Sunshine’s Paw Paw has many wonderful benefits. Please take the time out to watch this video. Its very interesting and highly fascinating.
Is the Paw Paw fruit and Papaya fruit the same thing?
I found this great answer to this common question on Yahoo Answers.
“No the Paw Paw (Papaya) is more similar to the mango. There’s a small town in West Virginia named Paw Paw because so much of the fruit grows there.
The Paw Paw is the largest edible fruit native to America. Individual fruits weigh 5 to 16 ounces and are 3 to 6 inches in length. The larger sizes will appear plump, similar to the mango. The fruit usually has 10 to 14 seeds in two rows. The brownish to blackish seeds are shaped like Lima beans, with a length of 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches. Paw Paw fruits often occur as clusters of up to nine individual fruits. The ripe fruit is soft and thin skinned.”
Papaya Paw Paw
I personally don’t deal with people who have cancer. But I do that we all make cancer cells every day, its just if our immune system is strong to kill them off.
Also remember this: sugar suppresses the immune system, and all tumours love sugar. It makes them grow! Our health tips page will be a good starting point to help get your immune system back “online” along with using Paw Paw.
If you do want some natural one to one help with cancer, these people that I personally know can help you:
In the first part of this series I mentioned it’s great to see all sorts of people getting down the gym and making an effort to get in shape. But for the most part, they are not going about it in the correct or most optimal way. Anyhow, here is the next four types of members you may see or BE at the gym.
5 The lost one / getting in the wayery
This type of member is almost always getting the way. Not sure what exercise to do next and even why he or she is at the gym. They have no real plan, no real strategy and probably no real reason to be at the gym (other than the fact they don’t like the way they look in the mirror).
They are usually very new to they gym, and may have never used a gym before. Which is OK, as we all new to something at some point in our life’s.
What they need to do:
1- Get clear on what they need to do, and why they are at the gym in the first place. In other words, having a clearly written out goal(s) and purpose(s) big enough to make that goal(s) happen.
2- Have a training diary to keep track on what they are doing.
Usually always a male, and almost always walking around with terrible posture. Usually under the delusional mind-set that if he has a bigger chest and arms hes going to get more “pussy.”
He’s usually not the best looking of gym members, and sometimes has an inner conflict with his (or her) dad. This inner conflict can lead to excessive pushing (or punching) movements in or out of the gym.
What they need to do:
1- Start working on the muscles that they cant see in the mirror.
2- Cut back or eliminate any type of chest work if needed for a while untill their posture improves.
3- Stretch or massage out the tight muscles in the front of the body before doing any type of (corretive) back work. This will stop the tight muscles at the front of the body robing all the energy from the back muscles when working them out.
4- Mobilize their thoracic spine if needed.
5- Make up with their dads (if possible), or just forgive them internally if needed.
6- Do more lower body work which is usually always the case.
7 The glove / strap wearing softy
It is understandable that the members who do wear weight lifting gloves don’t want to develop any hard skin on their hands, especially if they do a job which requires them to have soft hands such as massage therapy.
The thing is, when you use gloves and / or straps it makes you brain think that do lifting a weight lighter than it really is, therefore, your brain will not let all the muscles needed in any certain lift “fire up” fully. This can lead to injury. Especially back injuries! I have told a few people to stop wearing gloves / straps and they feel stronger within weeks.
What they need to do:
1- Just stop using gloves and / or straps. They may have to reduce the load by 25% without the old support so their body can get used to “real” load that they are lifting. In time their hands will become tougher, their forearms will become more stronger / more developed, and all the small stabilizer muscles in their bodies will work better.
Most, but not always, these individuals have no real physical development (usually have the calf development of a parrot, and the forearm development of a celery stick).
As a fitness professional, they have got caught up into trying to be biomechanical genius and forgot the basics of training. I have know a few trainers say they can asses all the joints, and different movements of the body which is a great skill to have. But they are living off pasties, energy drinks, don’t know how to eat, don’t understand how organs can affect movement, have terrible posture, are fat and are usually complete weaklings for their size.
They then get gym members to start bouncing around on swiss balls, swinging off TRX’s, throwing the ViPR around, doing over the top multi-directional movements and then juggling Kettle bells around! Usually these members are also living energy drinks, don’t know how to eat, don’t understand how organs can affect movement, have terrible posture and are overweight.
What they need to do:
1- They need to ask themselves: Why are they doing, what they are doing?
2- Just get back to the basics of real weight training (if they can do it safely).
First off, I would like to say that my sincere condolences goes out to Alexander’s friends and family.
But another fit but possibly sick athlete dies. Alexander was reported to have suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday the 30th of April, at around 9pm after his training session. Some suspect it could of been from an enlarged heart from years of intense training.
Keep in mind, just because someone is lean, big and muscular, doesn’t always mean that they have a healthy visceral (organ) system.
“Fitness is the physical ability to perform athletic activity. Heath however, is defined as the state where all the systems of the body- nervous, muscular, skeletal, circulatory, digestive, lymphatic, hormonal, etc- are working in an optimal way.” – Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within
Athletes at all levels seem to be dieing from heart attacks more and more often now. Most athletes of any type / level are performing well in spite (not because) of their training and eating programmes.
Using rubbish supplements and energy type drinks because they are sponsored by companies who make them. So they are paid to use them.
Having too much pressure from a coach (who rarely “walks the talk”).
Having too much pressure from family members and fans.
Pushing themselves too much, too often.
In some sort of adrenal fatigue.
Are dehydrated.
Unrested.
On drugs to make up for the above (and more).
I’m not saying Alexander was any one of the above. For all I know he could of lived a very clean, healthy (responsible) lifestyle. That’s what health is: taking responsibility for ones self.
Also, being exposed to a lot of chlorine which all top swimmers are, can lead to heart problems. There’s a lot of research out there linking heart disease to chlorine.
Jumping into a swimming pool now and again for a swim wont kill you, but being in one 15-20 plus hours a week for years-on-end can’t be good for anyone?
Here are two great articles on the dangers of chlorine
It also looks like Alexander may of had a very, very mild case of pectus excavatum, or should I say, HIS BODY may of had a very, very mild case of pectus excavatum (as we are not our bodies. We are in one).
Maybe if his heart was enlarged the pressure on his chest wall may not of helped. But I am just speculating here. Pectus excavatum rarely, if every, causes any heart problems especially when it barely noticeable on a fantastic, strong body like Alexander’s.
I just wished all athletes -and people in general- followed the foundational health principles in Paul Chek’s book How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy. Which is, by far, the best book ever written on health. Everyone would benefit from using this book, period!
In the book (which came out in 2005), Paul mentions that health and fitness are not synonymous, and that athletes are keeling over from heart attacks more often now than ever in history!
Are you confused about what supplements to use? Well before you use any type of supplement, you should focus on getting your diet and lifestyle in good order. These health tips will be able to help you with that.
There are so many supplements on market that claim to boost, balance, detox, clean, relax, heal, grow, repair and stimulate the systems of body. It can get quite confusing with what to use.
There a lots of good supplement companies out there. Each of them have their good products and not so good products.
For example, company A is well know to make really good vitamin D and not so good at making fish oil. On the other hand, company B makes really good fish oil and not so good vitamin D. Where as company C is well know for making really good digestive enzymes and makes rubbish vitamin D and fish oil.
If you are not sure what supplements to use, here are a few ways to go about using the best (or better) “stuff.”
1- Go by recommendation. If your trainer, teacher or therapist has recommended that you use a certain supplement(s), and he or she is highly creditable, looks healthy and fit themselves, then give that recommendation a go.
2- Do some QUALITY research on the Internet. Find what out supplements can help you with your current health and / or sports performance challenges.
3- Take a look at our systems and symptoms page for our Nature’s sunshine products. The ebook on this page will help you to find out what supplements help support certain systems in the body.
A few other things to think about when using any kind of supplement:
1- Use the least processed supplements as much as possible. They are usually the really cheap ones.
2- Use supplements you are NOT intolerant or allergic to. A lot supplements contain gluten, wheat, nut traces and soy. Always check the labels! Otherwise these so-called great supplements may make you feel worse. If you are OK with gluten, wheat, nuts and soy, then no problem.
3- Try to use supplements that are organic and / or wild crafted (or near to) as much as possible.
4- Use the right supplements with YOUR health and fitness challenges / goals in mind.
A lot of the time you are going have to just experiment with supplements, and use intelligent trail and error to find out what works best for you at this present moment.
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What actually is Osteopathy?
“Osteopathy recognises the relationship between the structure of the body and how it functions. Osteopaths focus on the body’s skeleton and joint structure as well as the underlying muscle, soft tissue and internal organs.”
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I have worked on a few clients who have taken part in the London Marathon (and marathons in general) and it does worry me sometimes with what they put their bodies through. Not all of us are really designed to run for miles and miles.
I do believe that there are only a small percentage of people (native tribal people) who have the genetic ability to run far distances. This is becuase their environment demanded them to run for miles (to hunt and gather), therefore, their genome had to adapt to that demand in order for them to survive.
In the book Born to Run, Christopher McDougall, went to visit the Tarahumara Indians, and found out that they would run after the animals that they were hunting to the point that they (the animals) would collapse in exhaustion.
These guys could run over 50-miles! Now they would make good marathon runners.
If you are thinking of doing next years London Marathon, or any other marathons in general before hand, please be very careful and make sure you are fully prepared before, during and after for your races.
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