A day at the Market in Tepozlan, MX
Scott Brumfield, Arturto Morales, Orlando Leon and I went to Tepozlan to see the sites. An amazing temple high in the mountains and this flea market. Scott really enjoys these markets. Everybody wants to have their picture taken with him. It’s really a lot of fun working with these guys. You need to come visit too!
Arthritis simply means pain in the joints. It has been classified into two types, inflammatory and degenerative, but the fact of the matter is that most sufferers have a bit of both. Both cause pain, and pain killers only increase the problem because they subdue the pain for a while and allow you to use those joints that need a rest, and basically compound the problem. So, what can you do when you have arthritis, regardless of the type? Well, many people have a mixture of degeneration and inflammation, so the answer to what you can do is the same, let’s take a look at the steps you can do to help your arthritis, most of which deal directly with nutrition:
1. For the best arthritis nutrition, take a standard regime of nutritional supplements – especially the essential fatty acids and vitamin C. It would also be good to take Vitamin D if you are not getting enough sun time, as it is essential to prevent osteoporosis. A good source of all of these would be the Moringa oleifera, or “miracle tree”, however, if the actual tree is not available in your area you can use the all natural health supplement NutriMor, which was made from the tree, and retains all of its healing properties in a convenient powder you mix with water.
2. Find sources and intake such sources for the essential fatty acids. These will feed into the series of immune modulators which tend to reduce inflammation. Fish oil is a common source, but options such as all natural NutriMor or directly eating leaves and seeds of the Moringa tree are a tastier and easier option.
3. Cut out dairy products, and other processed and refined foods for 6 weeks to allow your body a chance to heal. If you do not think you can do this, at least cut back on these products and increase your consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, and supplement the nutritional areas in which you are lacking. This can be done effectively with one to two scoops of NutriMor daily.
4. Get more trace minerals. Arthritis is common in countries where there is a lack of boron in the soil and rare in countries where it is plentiful. Boron is a trace mineral, and other trace minerals will also help. So, either eat foods that are rich in these minerals, or be sure to mix and drink one scoop of NutriMor each day as it will provide you with many of the minerals you need, including selenium, zinc, iron, and calcium.
5. Get plenty of antioxidants. Damage to joints is thought to be mediated by free radicals – these are highly reactive and destructive molecules produced as a part of normal metabolism. Antioxidants mop these up before they cause damage. There are lots of different natural antioxidant or you can find several synthetic antioxidants on the market. Natural is better, and plenty are found in NutriMor. In fact NutriMor, or Moringa oleifera is one of the best natural sources of antioxidants available.
6. One way to effectively avoid some pain in your joints is to keep your joints warm. Joints have a very poor blood supply, the oxygen has to diffuse a long way from the blood vessels before it gets into the joint. When there is cold weather the blood supply to the joints is reduced and so the oxygen supply cut off. This causes a build up of free radicals and therefore pain. It is vital to keep all joints warm!
7. Exercise is also vital. All joints benefit from strong muscle supporting them, so keep fit generally and you will feel much less pain, as well as having other positive side effects.
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Eric Glenn is the successful owner of multiple global health and wellness businesses and frequently advises clients and customers on health, nutrition and creating a global business. Eric strongly recommends the use of supplements to improve your overall health. Learn more about supplements that can help to improve your health at http://www.ericglenn.com or the Synergy Worldwide health supplements site http://www.synergyteamglobal.com.
At ruins near Cuernavaca called Xochicalco
Scott Brumfield, Orlando Leon, Arturo Morales and I went to Xochicalco for part of a day. We had a lot of fun and it was very interesting. Mexico is so rich with history and many ruins. I hope you all get to visit there sometime.
Learn from Leaders: Interview of Mike Dillard (author of ‘Magnetic Sponsoring’)
Mike Dillard is interviewed by Eric Worre on how Mike made himself successful in this business. Great information. I found this interesting. The key they speak of is in the article HERE.
Successful Business Building Training: Personal Effectiveness with ProArgi9 Plus
Hi again. Here is another in the series of trainings I put together to help a person get started on the road to massive success with their Synergy Worldwide business. This is on building belief and passion about Synergy’s flagship product ProArgi9 Plus. Please comment and let me know what you think. These will be posted in the back office of www.synergyteamglobal.com for your easy viewing.
Editorial comment: The present system used to take this measurement is a device manufactured by HealthStats located in Singapore. They provide an officially FDA registered device that has been field proven and clinically verified.
(CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH)
Digital Pulse Wave Analysis Offers Non-
Invasive Early Heart Risk Assessment
By August West
Contributing Writer
Central Aortic Systolic Pressure (CASP) is one of the most powerful early predictors of cardiovascular risk. New digital pulse wave analysis technology is putting this valuable test in the hands of prevention-focused primary care doctors.
Safe and non-invasive, pulse wave analysis applies the principles of sonar to assess the pliability of the vascular tree, including the major central vessels as well as the small peripheral vessels. Central aortic vascular compliance, or lack thereof, is a key indicator of vascular health or lack thereof.
“This is a really great test for people who are seemingly without symptoms, but who are about to have lots of disease,” explained J. Joseph Prendergast, MD, director of the Endocrine Metabolic Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Prendergast is among the pioneers of pulse wave analysis, particularly as it applies to the prevention of heart disease among people with diabetes.
He noted that diabetics tend to show a pattern of atherosclerosis distinct from what one typically sees in non-diabetic CVD. “Diabetics get more long artery atherosclerosis, whereas in non-diabetics, you tend to see the plaque only in smaller branches, and at the points where the vessels branch off.” Pulse wave analysis opens a window into the condition of the long vessels.
Measuring the Bounce
Arterial pulse wave analysis has been available as a research tool for about ten years, and has just begun to enter clinical practice. In essence, it measures reflection of pulse waves off the walls of the aorta and the peripheral vessels. As the pulse travels down the aortic trunk, it hits smaller arteries and is reflected back. This bounce-back wave runs headlong into the oncoming pressure wave from the subsequent heartbeat, augmenting pressure on the vessel walls.
The general principle is that higher pulse reflection scores indicate stiffer, more plaque-bound vessels, and therefore greater imminent risk of cardiovascular events. “It’s like dropping a ping-pong ball on a carpeted floor versus a hard marble floor. The harder surface will give a stronger bounce, while the carpet will absorb the force.”
Dr. Prendergast said state-of-the-art technology allows assessment of, “all sorts of reflections and pressure subtleties.” But from a practical viewpoint, you really only need to look at two key measures: the central aortic pulse (CASP) reflection, which shows the flexibility of the aorta and, by extension, the major vessels, and the pulse reflection in the small arteries. “The small vessels can tell you about metabolic syndrome. But the bigger vessels tell you about imminent cardiovascular risk.”
In a certain sense, pulse wave analysis is a modern elaboration of the ancient art of pulse diagnosis developed thousands of years ago, and still used by practitioners of traditional Chinese and traditional Indian medicine. TCM and Ayurvedic practitioners will spend considerable time evaluating the pulses, sensing in them subtle indicators of health or disease.
The new pulse wave technology is based on a similar premise that the health of the vasculature, indicated by its degree of elasticity, is a key indicator of overall physical health. Pulse wave analysis quantifies the signals and opens up vast new dimensions of study in this domain.
“I Had to Re-Think Everything”
Dr. Prendergast’s interest in this field grew out of his effort to meet his own health challenges. Back in the 1970s, at the age of 37, he was diagnosed with advanced atherosclerosis, though he was asymptomatic and had fairly normal serum cholesterol. Given that his father had a stroke at age 42, he became very concerned.
Faced with a serious health threat, he realized the limitations of his medical knowledge. “Medicine, at that time, really had nothing for me. I had to re-think everything. I knew I couldn’t rely just on pharmaceuticals,” said Dr. Prendergast, who today is in his 70s and very healthy.
A friend and colleague, Victor Dzau, MD, now chancellor for health affairs at Duke University, introduced Dr. Prendergast to L-arginine, an amino acid which, when taken supplementally, can increase endothelial nitric oxide release. Many researchers and clinicians believe that when used properly, arginine improves vascular health and reduces CV risk. Arginine quickly became a cornerstone not only in Dr. Prendergast’s own personal heart health regimen, but also in his treatment protocols for patients at risk.
He began looking at pulse wave analysis after meeting Stanford University researchers who were the emerging technology to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and CVD. He saw in it the potential to be a useful guide in determining who really needs arginine therapy. He is currently consulting with CardioGrade, LLC (www.cardiograde.com), a California company focused on bringing this emerging technology into wider clinical use.
Looking Upstream
Conventional treatment of cardiovascular disease, a complex multi-system aggregation of dysfunction, is often guided by fairly simplistic measurements: serum LDL, HDL and Triglyceride levels, and blood pressure as measured by sphygmomanometer cuff readings at the brachial artery.
Dr. Prendergast sees brachial artery pressure measurement as convenient but primitive. Over-reliance on it is one reason that anti-hypertensive therapy often fails to prevent life-threatening CV events. “When you put the cuff on someone’s arm, all you’re really looking at is the download pressure back into the hands. All it really tells you is the condition of the vessels in the wrist. You need to go upstream into the central vessels.” He added that many drugs will lower brachial pressure but not reduce risk.
Pulse wave devices also take readings from the wrist, but there is no arterial occlusion as with a standard pressure cuff. “The wave forms of the pulse tell you what’s going on in the aorta and the other vessels,” he said. It gives a very different type of information than standard BP measurements.
The discrepancy between the brachial arteries and the central aortic trunk was underscored in the Conduit Artery Function Evaluation (CAFÉ) study. Researchers compared beta-blockers plus diuretics versus calcium-channel blockers in hypertensive, high-risk people, and found that while both treatments gave similar and significant reductions in standard brachial artery pressure, the central aortic systolic and pulse pressures were substantially lower in patients on calcium-channel blockers (Williams B, et al. Circulation. 2006; 113(6): 1213-25).
“You can get similar pressures in the arm but very different pressures in the central arteries, depending on what the drugs do to the wave reflections,” explained Bryan Williams, MD, of the University of Leicester, UK, who led the CAFÉ study. “Beta blockers and diuretics, which we use very commonly, while they lower blood pressure and reduce risk, are less effective…in preventing the reflected wave from coming back at the wrong time. You get a slightly higher central pressure with those drugs than you do with amlodipine and perindopril.”
Dr. Williams had high praise for pulse wave analysis, which in the CAFÉ trial was done with the Spygmocor system (www.atcormedical.com). “I think this type of technology is going to be increasingly used in clinical trials because it gives us information that we haven’t had before. It can be easily used and can produce very effective results.”
A Surge of Research
Pulse wave analysis has attracted vigorous research interest of late, with well over 50 studies published just in the last 6 months.
Investigators at Fukuoka University Hospital, Japan showed a strong correlation between aortic augmentation index, a type of pulse wave measurement, and severity of atheromatous plaques in a cohort of 96 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. High augmentation scores correlated with age, plasma LDL, aortic stiffness scores, and other risk indicators, leading the researchers to conclude that this represents, “a novel tool for determining the severity of central aortic atheromatous lesions.” (Sako H, et al. Circ J. 2009; Apr 16; Epub ahead of print).
Augmentation index and central aortic pressure also correlates with smoking, according to researchers at Dokkyo Medical University, Japan. They looked at 443 otherwise healthy normotensive men, and found that the augmentation index was markedly higher in current smokers compared with never- and former- smokers. Central systolic pressure was higher in current and former smokers compared with lifelong non-smokers. Interestingly, brachial systolic pressure was not significantly different among these groups (Minami J, et al. Am J Hypertens. 2009; Mar 26, epub ahead of print).
The good news is that most aortic pressure risk indicators will normalize when people quit smoking. A multicenter Portuguese study looking at pulse wave patterns in 71 long-term heavy smokers showed that after 6 months, those who quit showed significant reductions in peripheral systolic pressure, augmentation index, pulse wave velocity and other risk indicators compared with the men who continued smoking (Polonia J, et al. Blood Press Monit. 2009; 14 (2): 69-75)
Dr. Prendergast noted that because pulse wave analysis is noninvasive, it is an excellent office-based tool for tracking patients’ response to treatment over time. In his clinic, the therapy revolves around diet and lifestyle change, as well as intensive use of nutraceuticals like L-arginine, vitamin D, resveratrol, and others. “People still need to change their diets. You cannot totally over-ride a bad diet with arginine or any other supplements,” he said.
Currently, digital pulse wave analysis systems cost roughly $10,000, said Dr. Prendergast. But he expects the prices to come down as the technology improves and gains in popularity. Ultimately, he hopes to see the systems streamlined and simplified to the point where they can be used by patients at home. “We’re not there yet, but we’re working on it!”
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Digital Pulse Wave Analysis Offers Non-
Invasive Early Heart Risk Assessment
Central Aortic Systolic Pressure (CASP) is one of the most powerful early predictors of cardiovascular risk. New digital pulse wave analysis technology is putting this valuable test in the hands of preventive primary care doctors.
Vol. 10, No. 2 Summer 2009
Editorial comment: The present system used to take this measurement is a device manufactured by HealthStats out of Singapore. They provide an officially FDA registered device that has been field proven and clinically verified.
Team Global Mexico Leadership meeting
Team Global Mexico Leadership meeting on Tuesday morning following the Synergy event the night before. The leadership came for further instructions from Alfonso Santana, David Montejo and Adolfo Avalos on how to conduct business in Mexico with Synergy. Mr. Adolfo Avalos is providing indespensible leadership for Synergy Worldwide working hard and long for all of the team members. Thank you Mr. Avalos!
Tour of Synergy Team Global Mexico offices
Come take a quick tour of the completed Synergy Team Global Mexico offices. Located in the heart of the business district and close to the subway it is a magnet for Team Members. It is open from 11 AM until 5 PM Monday through Friday.
Eric Glenn, the camera man gets called up to speak at Mexico event!
Eric Glenn, the camera man gets called up to speak at Mexico event! So all you get to view is the introduction…as the camera man was busy sharing his appreciation for Synergy and all of its leadership. Thank you.
Scott Brumfield, Pearl Executive, at the Synergy Worldwide Mexico event
Scott Brumfield, Pearl Executive, at the Synergy Worldwide Mexico event shares his story of passion and determination. As a retired NFL player he has an amazing story to share that really motivated all of Synergy Mexico. We are extremely fortunate to have a man of his caliber and leadership in Synergy. Thank you Mr. Brumfield for supporting all of us!