Benefits of Vitamins, Herbs, Minerals, and Other Supplements

Consider taking the following as daily supplements. (Always consult with your health provider before adding any new supplement to your regimen.)

Calcium

Calcium is crucial in growing new bone and maintaining bone strength. Calcium supplements are standard for treating and preventing osteoporosis -- weak and easily broken bones -- and its precursor, osteopenia.

Calcium is used for many other conditions. It's an ingredient in many antacids. Doctors also use calcium to control high levels of magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium in the blood. There's good evidence that calcium can help prevent or control high blood pressure. It also may reduce PMS symptoms as well as play a role in preventing certain cancers. According to some research, calcium with vitamin D, for instance, may help protect against breast cancer in premenopausal women. Other research, however, has not come to this conclusion. Calcium also has been looked at for other uses, for example, aiding weight loss. But so far, these studies have been inconclusive.

The people at highest risk of a calcium deficiency are postmenopausal women. Since dairy products are one of the most common sources of calcium, people who are lactose intolerant or vegan are also at increased risk of calcium deficiency. (WebMD, November 13, 2018).

Copper

CoQ10 - Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is an antioxidant that your body produces naturally. Your cells use CoQ10 for growth and maintenance. Levels of CoQ10 in your body decrease as you age. CoQ10 levels have also been found to be lower in people with certain conditions, such as heart disease. CoQ10 is found in meat, fish and whole grains. The amount of CoQ10 found in these dietary sources, however, isn't enough to significantly increase CoQ10 levels in your body. As a supplement, CoQ10 supplement is available as capsules, tablets and by IV. CoQ10 might help treat certain heart conditions, as well as migraines and Parkinson's disease. (MayoClinic, October 13, 2017).

D3 vitamin

Vitamin D (ergocalciferol-D2, cholecalciferol-D3, alfacalcidol) is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus. Having the right amount of vitamin D, calcium, and phosphorus is important for building and keeping strong bones. Vitamin D is used to treat and prevent bone disorders (such as rickets, osteomalacia). Vitamin D is made by the body when skin is exposed to sunlight. Sunscreen, protective clothing, limited exposure to sunlight, dark skin, and age may prevent getting enough vitamin D from the sun.

Vitamin D with calcium is used to treat or prevent bone loss (osteoporosis). Vitamin D is also used with other medications to treat low levels of calcium or phosphate caused by certain disorders (such as hypoparathyroidism, pseudohypoparathyroidism, familial hypophosphatemia). It may be used in kidney disease to keep calcium levels normal and allow normal bone growth. Vitamin D drops (or other supplements) are given to breast-fed infants because breast milk usually has low levels of vitamin D  (WebMD).

Magnesium

Magnesium is a cofactor in more than 300 enzyme systems that regulate diverse biochemical reactions in the body, including protein synthesis, muscle and nerve function, blood glucose control, and blood pressure regulation. Magnesium is required for energy production, oxidative phosphorylation, and glycolysis. It contributes to the structural development of bone and is required for the synthesis of DNA, RNA, and the antioxidant glutathione. Magnesium also plays a role in the active transport of calcium and potassium ions across cell membranes, a process that is important to nerve impulse conduction, muscle contraction, and normal heart rhythm (National Institute of Health).

Omegas

• Omega-3 fats are essential fats that you must get from your diet. They have important benefits for your heart, brain and metabolism.
• Omega-6 fats are essential fats that are an important source of energy for the body. However, the Western diet contains too many.
• Omega-9 fats are non-essential fats, since they can be produced by the body. Diets that replace some saturated fats with omega-9 fats may have benefits for metabolic health.
• The best sources of omega-3s are oily fish, whereas omega-6s and omega-9s are found in plant oils, nuts and seeds.
• Combined omega-3-6-9 supplements provide optimal ratios of fatty acids, but likely provide no additional benefits compared to omega-3 supplement (Healthline, January 15, 2017).

Probiotics

Probiotics balance friendly bacteria, reduce the symptons of digestive orders, and improve the immune system. They may help some mental health issues, improve heart health, reduce severity of some allergies and eczema, help lose weight and reduce belly fat, and prevent and treat diarrhea  (Healthline, Aug. 23, 2016).

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Catuaba Bark

Catuaba is also used for agitation, trouble sleeping related to high blood pressure, nervousness, ongoing mental and physical fatigue (neurasthenia), poor memory or forgetfulness, skin cancer; and as a tonic. It is also used to heighten sexual arousal and treat male sexual performance problems (RXList, Sep 17, 2019).

Eurycoma Longifolia Jack root  

The root and bark of Eurycoma longifolia are used for treating erectile dysfunction (ED), increasing interest in sex, male infertility, boosting athletic performance, body building, and reducing body fat (RXList, Sep 17, 2019).

10 Steps to Reduce Stress in Your Life

By John Koeberer 

There is no doubt that stress kills.  There are many health professionals and medical analyses that validate the strong negative impact stress has on your health and general well-being, as well as your longevity.  It is the chronic, day in and day out stress that is the problem.  It can exacerbate pain, cause depression, obesity, digestive disorders, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, and even contribute to the advancement of Alzheimer's and cancer.  There is good evidence that uncontrolled stress takes a major detrimental toll in so many areas affecting your good health...physical, mental, and emotional.  There is good reason to learn how to control it.

Stress is the result of receiving some sort of threat to our well-being and your body reacts by secreting cortisol and adrenaline which increases your heart beat, blood pressure, strength, stamina, and general alertness.  That threat can come from many sources but it usually is job or relationship based but other sources can be problems with your children, your health, or your finances along with your own unrealistic expectations.  Your muscles become tight, your senses are heightened, and you are ready for flight or fight.  You learned all that to survive many centuries before.  We all know that prolonged stress is bad stuff...the important thing is knowing how to deal with it effectively.  Here are ten steps to help. 

1. Accept the fact that few escape stress.  Don't think you are immune and not subject to its negative consequences.  Know thy enemy.  Educate yourself more fully on just how stress can manifest itself.
2. Know for certain that you can beat stress.  This is key...it is this inner knowing -- not just believing -- that will make you successful in your head to head with stress.  Go onto the internet and review all the positive stories of those who have dealt successfully with stress and come out on the other end with productive and happy lives.  There is much value in the knowledge that others have experienced exactly your situation and more than survived very successfully.
3. Get comfortable with your own physical, emotional, and mental self-maintenance regimens.  Know that a good diet, a strong exercise program combined with a good self image, and some inaugural low key spiritual practices can prepare you to deal successfully with stress.  Just the knowledge that your mind, body and soul are in sturdy shape is a huge deterrent to stress getting a foothold.
4. Adopt the attitude that "as one door closes another one always opens".  Know that all things happen for a reason and that there is something better just around the corner.  When you start "knowing" this, you will see so many examples magically start appearing in your life.
5. Bring humor into your life... Documentation abounds on the positive impact of humor.  Watch humorous movies, explore humor on the internet, and learn to laugh things off.  When you laugh, your body secretes endorphins - positive mood enhancers.
6. Adopt more positive friends and discard those that are continually negative. These kinds of people have an immense negative impact... avoid them.  Cheer up your living environment by bringing more cheerful, optimistic, and friendly people into your life.  Turn the lights up, take time to smell the flowers and treat yourself on a regular basis to some chocolate, or a splurge dinner or vacation.  It is important to have something to look forward to that makes you smile.
7. Bring more sunshine into your life...literally.  Vitamin D3 is good for positive physical, mental, and emotional enhancement.  Get out from under the umbrella and enjoy the warmth for short periods.
8. Adopt the thought that ... "this too shall pass".  We can all recollect so many times in our life of instances that we thought at the time were real deal killers...only to turn out to be not even a small ant hill.
9. Eliminate the need to be "right".  Needing to be right is so important for so many of us that we destroy relationships and careers and eventually ourselves in its pursuit.  Dr. Wayne Dyer has a great way to diffuse situations in which you find yourself needing to be right.  He says just to say to the offending party, "You're right about that!" and then let it go.
10. And finally and most importantly...Imagine yourself living a life without stress.  Deeply internalize what that life might look like and feel the emotions that accompany that life and then start living your life as if that life was already in and about you.  Adopt some time each day for some contemplative moments to remember to do all these exercises but especially this one. 

Someday, health experts will look back on how we are living our lives and realize how deadly stress was to our 21st century society.