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Egg Lies, Vitamin K2, Better Aspirin, Preventing Alzeheimer’s, 5 Easy Fitness Tips

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Egg Lies, Vitamin K2, Better Aspirin, Preventing Alzeheimer’s, 5 Easy Fitness Tips

In This Issue: 

    • Egg Lies!
    • Why Take Vitamin K2?
    • Spicy Alternatives to Aspirin
    • Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease
    • 5 Easy Ways to Get More Exercise

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Message from Bernadette Wulf

Happy New Year 2020!Greetings and Happy New Year!

Heck, Happy New Decade! It feels like big changes are in the works as we slide into the 2020s. I hope they will be good ones. We face a lot of challenges in the coming decade, but we also have a lot of ingenuity and wisdom to share – if only we will collectively wake up and use it.

I know you will. It’s those OTHER people I’m talking about. Yeah, I’m sure we can all stand to wake up a little more, be more conscious, clean up our “footprint,” and spread a little more kindness and joy around. It’s a worthy goal, anyway.

Dr. Greger's new book is excellent!Before I go off on that tangent any more, I want to say how much I’m enjoying Dr. Greger’s new book, How Not to Diet. I picked up a copy at Costco a couple of weeks ago and have been chipping away at it ever since.

It’s thick! 596 pages with fairly small print – and jam packed with the latest and greatest nutritional information. Even if you don’t have a pound to lose, I highly recommend reading the book just for all the fascinating studies, and of course Dr. Greger’s easy style of making the science understandable to the layperson. It’s not just about losing or maintaining weight. It’s about how to stay as healthy as possible – and the side effect is weight loss if you need to lose a few pounds.

Read on for some very interesting articles on eggs, Vitamin K2, spicy aspirin substitutes, how pollution contributes to Alzeheimer’s, and a little fitness motivation.

I would love to hear what you want to read about. Feel free to send your requests, suggestions, questions, or any sort of feedback. I always appreciate hearing from my readers – Please do not reply to this email, but use this link Email Bernadette to contact me.

To your health and happiness!

Bernadette Wulf

HealItAll.com & Plant Based for Life

eggs raise TMAO levelsEgg Lies!

The egg board has been working really hard to make sure you keep eating their products. After all, those chickens wouldn’t be crammed into tiny cages with artificial lighting forcing them to lay eggs nonstop without a really good reason. Right? Well yeah, but the reason is money.

The findings:

  • Multiple studies have shown that high TMAO levels in the blood are directly proportional to incidence of heart disease.
  • According to other studies, eating choline in eggs is clearly correlated with raising TMAO levels.

From nutritionfacts.org:

These findings did not thrill the egg industry. Imagine working for the American Egg Board and being tasked with designing a study to show there is no effect of eating nearly an egg a day. How could a study be rigged to show no difference? If we look at the effect of an egg meal [ ], we see it gives a bump in TMAO levels. However, our kidneys are so good at getting rid of TMAO, by hours four, six, and eight, we’re back to baseline. So, the way to rig the study is just make sure the subjects hadn’t eaten those eggs in the last 12 hours. Then, you can show “no effect,” get your study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and collect your paycheck.

It is really unfortunate that these sorts of lies and falsified reports go on all the time in medical and nutritional studies. Thank goodness we have Dr. Greger to “put it to the test.” Bottom line, eggs are far from the “perfect food.”

Read more about how the egg industry has been duping us – https://nutritionfacts.org/2019/12/31/how-the-egg-industry-tried-to-bury-the-tmao-risk/

Why Take Vitamin K2Why Take Vitamin K2?

Like Vitamin B12, Vitamin K2 would ideally be made in our gut by healthy gut bacteria. Unfortunately, due to the widespread use of antibiotics, food sanitation, and poor diets, few people have the ideal gut microbiome. That means it is essential for most of us to take a B12 supplement. (The results of B12 deficiencies can be devastating, so why take a chance?)

You might also want to consider taking a K2 supplement. On top of helping to strengthen bones and teeth, and even clearing calcified plaque from arteries, Vitamin K2 appears to help prevent Type 2 diabetes.

From naturalhealth365.com:

In a 2016 study published in the prestigious American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that subjects who increased their dietary vitamin K intake reduced their diabetes risk by a whopping 51 percent.

The team even discovered a precise formula for measuring the reduction: a 17 percent less risk of type 2 diabetes for every additional 100 mcg of vitamin K a day. This encouraging study was only the beginning of a cascade of research highlighting the preventative effects of vitamin K on diabetes.

Once known as the X Factor, so named by Dr. Weston Price, K2 was first discovered in animal products. The only known plant sources are natto (pretty disgusting) and sauerkraut. If you don’t eat a lot of sauerkraut, the best supplemental form of vitamin K2 is MK-7 from fermented chickpeas. By the way, if you take Vitamin D, it is a good idea to take K2 along with it to help with calcium regulation.

I was excited to learn that Vitamin K2 may help prevent diabetes, since diabetes is one of the fastest growing health threats of our time (mostly due to widespread consumption of high-fat diets and refined junk foods). It looks like K2 might help to counteract these poor food choices.

Of course you know I don’t recommend eating a crappy diet and trying to make up for it by taking pills. That’s the medical system’s way of handling disease – but hey, you’ve got to start somewhere. Maybe K2 will be your gateway drug to a new and healthier lifestyle.

Read more about vitamin K2 – https://www.naturalhealth365.com/vitamin-k-type-2-diabetes-3228.html

Replace aspirin with spices!Spicy Alternatives to Aspirin

We’ve all heard that doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin (salicylates) to prevent heart attacks, and now recent studies show that aspirin can also help prevent cancer. That may sound great, but aspirin can also cause ulcers and stomach bleeding. How can we get the benefits without the risks?

Here’s what Dr. Greger at nutritionfacts.org has to say:

Red chili powder, paprika, and turmeric contain a lot of salicylates, but cumin is about 1 percent aspirin by weight. Eating a teaspoon of cumin is like taking a baby aspirin. [ ] “Consequently, populations that incorporate substantial amounts of spices in foods may have markedly higher daily intakes of salicylates. Indeed, it has been suggested that the low incidence of colorectal cancer among Indian populations may be ascribed in part to high exposure to dietary salicylates throughout life from spice consumption.”

That’s pretty cool. Nature has already provided us with rich sources of the salicylates that can help us avoid heart attacks and cancer. And here’s another wonderful finding reported in the same article:

We may also want to eat organic produce. “Because salicylic acid is a defense hormone of plants, the concentration…is increased when plants become stressed,” like when they are bitten by bugs (unlike pesticide-laden plants). Indeed, soups made from organic vegetables were found to have nearly six times more salicylic acid than soups prepared from conventionally grown ingredients.

Doesn’t eating organic veggies flavored with delicious spices (organic spices especially) sound a lot better than swallowing an aspirin? Sure does to me. As Dr. Greger concludes, “What they’re saying is that we should all eat a lot of plants.”

Read more about alternatives to aspirin – https://nutritionfacts.org/2019/12/26/the-foods-with-the-highest-aspirin-content/

Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s Disease

This naturalhealth365.com article was titled “Surprising link found between air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease,” but I don’t think it is surprising at all. Given that Alzheimer’s has been correlated with heavy metals in the brain, and that heavy metals are often found in polluted air, it makes perfect sense. Though this study was done on women, I’m sure it holds true for men as well.

From naturalhealth365.com:

The greater a woman’s exposure to fine particular matter – which is emitted from exhaust fumes and smoke and is easily inhaled and imbedded in the body – the more likely she is to have memory problems and other cognitive impairments that are typical of Alzheimer’s disease. This correlation appears to be mediated by the loss of gray matter (brain tissue), which may be triggered by inflammation and damage caused by the pollutants.

What can you do to protect yourself? Ideally, move to a place with excellent air quality. If you can’t do that, get yourself a good air filter (like AirDoctor) and surround yourself with houseplants at home and at work. Don’t forget the Medical Medium Heavy Metal Detox – I feel so much better since I started it and I plan to keep it up for the rest of my life. You can eat the ingredients separately or combine them in a smoothie.

And, I’m going to get a little political here, PLEASE vote for people who will fight to protect the quality of our air, water, soil, and food supply. Your health and the health of future generations of people, animals, and plants depends on us making good choices in the voting booth (or on your mail-in ballots, if that is what you use). At this point, it seems like the most urgent and important issue we face collectively.

Read more about Alzeheimer’s and air pollution – https://www.naturalhealth365.com/air-pollution-inflammation-3220.html

build muscle with carbs5 Easy Ways to Get More Exercise

Hey, it’s the new year and time to make those resolutions. We can all use a little kick in the rear to get more exercise. Well, at least I can. These tips from naturalhealth365.com will make it a little bit easier to get started:

According to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderately-intense aerobic exercise each week. That means exercising for about 30 minutes on most days at an intensity level where you can still talk but with a little more effort than usual.

Does this mean you have to dedicate 30+ minutes at the gym every day? Not necessarily!

Try these five tips to bump up your daily physical activity level and reduce your risk of an early death:

    1. Your exercise doesn’t have to come all at once. If it fits your schedule and preferences better, try getting in three bouts of 10 minute spurts of activity throughout the day.
    2. Take the stairs!
    3. Take your phone calls on the move – while walking or cycling on a recumbent bike, for example.
    4. Join a class or find a workout buddy – studies show this can help you workout with greater regularity and intensity.
    5. Get that activity tracker. The study mentioned in this article (and others) suggest that wearing an activity tracker such as a pedometer may motivate you to move more throughout the day.

That doesn’t sound too bad. I have resistance to wearing an activity tracker. Wouldn’t they emit EMFs? I don’t know, but they seem nerdy to me. If I’m going to be nerdy it will be about nutrition, LOL.

Read more about how to get more exercise in the new year – https://www.naturalhealth365.com/risk-of-death-mortality-3217.html