Cleanse Your Colon Fast with These 8 Remedies!

Cleanse Your Colon Fast with These 8 Remedies! - Unfortunately, a large part of the American population suffers from excessive waste in the colon. These deposits lead to weight gain and obstruction of nutrient absorption and proper waste removal. When the colon is full of toxins, a person is unable to lose weight. In order to remove the waste, cleanse the colon, and start losing surplus weight, it’s crucial to find the adequate ways to achieve this. Here are beneficial ways to do this:

Consume more fiber

Women aged 19 to 50 need 25 grams of fiber daily whereas men at the same age need 38 grams; Women older than 50 need 21 grams whereas men need 30 grams.  In order to intake these amounts, you need to eat foods rich in fiber such as avocados, prunes, figs, okra, berries, coconut, Brussels sprouts, etc.

Drink more water

Often times, colon blockage is caused by dehydration. Therefore, drink up to 2 liters of water per day and even 3 if possible.

Do a cleanse with ACV

The enzymes in vinegar encourage probiotic growth and the acidic nature of ACV will ease the removal of toxins in the colon. You will need to mix 2 tbsp of apple cider vinegar, 2 tbsp of raw honey, and 8 ounces of warm water and stir the mixture well and then drink it. It will regulate your bowel movement and thus, encourage the breaking down of the waste and its easier removal from the body.

Do a prune juice cleansing

This juice is rich in fiber so drink 8 ounces prior to breakfast and then 8 ounces after dinner. Reduce the daily amount as your bowel movements become more regular.

Drink lemon juice

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant, and lemon has been proven to better the health of the colon, to improve the metabolic rate and to enhance the body’s ability to remove waste. Drink a glass of warm lemon water every morning before breakfast.

Eat flaxseed

Flaxseed contains omega-3 fatty acids that relax the colon and fiber which encourages the removal of the accumulated toxins. Add it to your daily diet, but make sure not to consume too much as it may cause diarrhea.

Drink ginger tea

Ginger will warm the body from the inside and speed up the slow digestion and bowel movements. In order to prepare ginger tea you need 2 tsp of grated ginger, ¼ tsp of turmeric, and 5 cups of spring water. Add the two first ingredients to the water and bring the mixture to boil. Once it boils, leave it to simmer for 10 minutes and then remove it from the stove. Add a bit of honey if you want a sweeter taste.

Add more probiotics

Probiotics are healthy bacteria which regulate bad bacteria causing the colon blockage. Although the body has enough probiotics, its amount may lower due to numerous reasons, one being antibiotics. The following foods are rich in probiotics and you should add them to your daily diet: kefir, yogurt, pickles, kombucha, dark chocolate, and sauerkraut.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: If you’re pregnant, make sure to consult your physician prior to trying some of the advice mentioned above.

11 Natural Remedies to Lower High Blood Pressure

11 Natural Remedies to Lower High Blood Pressure - Unfortunately, 1 in 3 adult Americans or around 67 million people, suffer from high blood pressure or hypertension. And, to make things worse, this number will only continue to grow in the future. 95% of the cases are primary hypertension which is high blood pressure without an underlying medical problem. The 5% of cases is a result of conditions like kidney disease.

Blood and circulation are crucial for sustaining life because they supply important nutrients and oxygen to all the body cells and organs. Also, they eliminate waste and carbon dioxide from the body and when the heart beats, it creates a pressure that pushes the blood through the veins and arteries. This pressure is the blood pressure.

It’s made of two forces pumping blood through the body. One is created by the heart pumping blood out into the arteries and the other happens when the heart rests in between beats and when blood is being drawn back into the muscle. However, when the blood pressure increases, the chance of damage to this system is high.

The heart of those who suffer from high blood pressure needs to work additionally in order to pump blood through the body. What’s more, even though healthy arteries are made of semi-flexible muscle, the force of the high blood pressure will cause these walls to overstretch. This leads to tiny tears in the blood vessels; and it leaves tissue which may catch cholesterol/plaque and other blood cells.

In return, this causes an increased risk of blood clots and over time the walls also weaken. Due to lack of oxygen, the tissue of the arteries becomes damaged. The conventional therapy for high blood pressure is consisted of high blood pressure medications; however, it should be noted that healthy lifestyle changes like a healthy diet and regular workout play an important role in the reduction of the pressure. If possible, you should avoid blood pressure meds since they come with a lot of unwanted side effects. Here’s what you can do or consume if you’ve been diagnosed with hypertension:

Avoid salt

Excessive amounts of sodium impede the fluid balance in the body. In order to remove surplus salt from the system, water is being taken from the surrounding tissues and the higher volume of liquid makes the heart work harder in order to pump blood.

The pinch of table salt you put in your meals isn’t enough to cause a rise in the blood pressure and in fact only 6% of our consumption of salt comes from table salt. We intake the most salt from the processed foods we eat. For example, a microwave roast turkey meal has salt in the meat, the flavoring, the graving, the stuffing, and in the potatoes, i.e. 5,400 mg of sodium!

The maximum daily intake of salt is 2,300 mg and less than 2,300 mg for African Americans and anyone older than 51. These groups should consume less than half a tsp of salt per day. In order to avoid excessive amounts of salt, you need to add as less salt as possible to the meals you cook. Also, when you buy food, you need to pay attention to the label. A fat better solution would be to exclude processed foods or to limit their intake as much as possible and focus more on homemade meals.

According to research, the more salt we eat, the more salt we need. Interestingly, we are not born with the need for salt. Namely, according to a study in which one group of children were given salty foods and the other group ate more fruits and veggies, the former group developed a craving which didn’t exist prior to the study. Nowadays, young generations can easily ‘get hooked’ to salt since their diets contain foods rich in salt like store-bought soups, chips, crackers, pizza, salad dressings, fries, etc.

Drink hibiscus tea

Studies done in the past decade show that hibiscus has a diuretic effect and thus, it pulls sodium from the bloodstream and reduces the pressure on the arterial walls. This tea was found to mimic ACE inhibitors- a common group of pharmaceutical drugs used for treatment of high blood pressure. Even though it’s not as powerful as the ACE medications, it can still have a positive effect. Here’s how to prepare hibiscus tea:

2 tsp of dried hibiscus

A cup of water

A tsp of organic honey -optional

One lemon- optional

1 cinnamon stick- optional

Preparation: First, boil the water and then add the hibiscus and the cinnamon stick and leave the mixture to steep for 5 minutes. Next, squeeze a bit of lemon.

Drink it 2 to 3 times per day.

Drink coconut water

Coconut water is found inside the shell of unripe coconuts and it is rich in potassium and magnesium which are known to regulate muscle function. According to studies, coconut oil affects the systolic blood pressure. Although further research is needed in order to show the connection between coconut water and high blood pressure, a lot of people swear by it to have helped them lower their blood pressure. You should drink 8 ounces of coconut water 1 to 2 times per day. Drink it in the morning and at night.

Fish oil

Fish oil is successful in reducing high blood pressure and triglycerides while increasing the good cholesterol. Heart transplant patients are often given fish oil in order to decrease the chance of hypertension. You should buy high quality fish oil, preferably liquid, and drink it according to what the label of the product says.

Hawthorn

Hawthorn is a staple herb and it’s rich in flavonoids. Flavonoids have been found to have a positive effect on arrhythmia, palpitations and they also betters the function of the capillaries and regulate the glucose metabolism; they also lower the arterial blood pressure and the risk of hypertension.

How to prepare this herbal medicine:

4 tbsp of powdered hawthorn berry

1 tbsp of cinnamon powder

Organic honey

Water

Cocoa powder

Preparation: Mix the cinnamon and hawthorn and then add enough honey and water to make a paste. Thicken the mixture with cocoa powder until you get dough that you need to roll into smaller balls, not bigger than your index fingernail. Then, place the balls on a cookie sheet and put them in the oven at less than 150 degrees Fahrenheit and wait for them to dry. Afterwards, take them out of the oven and transfer them into a glass jar. Keep the jar out of direct sunlight and in a cool area.

Work out regularly

Since the heart is a muscle, it will become stronger with exercise and it will become easier to pump blood and this will result in less effort and the heart’s condition will significantly improve and result in reduced force exerted on the arteries and a lowered blood pressure. The only ‘side effect’ of exercising is a healthy weight loss.

All you need is half an hour of exercise per day. Sometimes, even simple household chores like scrubbing the floor can be beneficial. In fact, anything that increases the heart and respiration is recommendable.

Garlic

Since the beneficial component of garlic, allicin, is deactivated when it comes into contact with a substance with a pH lower than 3, like our stomach acid, it’s better to take garlic in tablet form. However, you need good quality garlic tablets in order to benefit from the allicin.

Watermelon

Watermelon has citrulline which converts into arginine- a chemical building block that causes a production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is in charge of regulating the pumping of the blood throughout the whole body. It will also spread the blood vessels, and thus, lower the blood pressure. You should eat 2 cups of fresh watermelon every morning on an empty stomach. Observe the change with a blood pressure device.

Ginger and cardamom tea

According to a study done in 2009, published in the Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics, participants who were given a tsp of cardamom powder every day for a period of few weeks experienced a significant reduction in their blood pressure.

The combination of cardamom and ginger will better the circulation and improve the heart’s health. Here’s how to prepare the tea:

Half a cup of water

2 tsp of honey

A tsp of cardamom pods

Half a tsp of ginger powder

A tsp of cinnamon powder

One teabag of black tea

Half a cup of milk

A mortar and pestle

Preparation: First, crush the cardamom pods and then mix all the ingredients in a saucepan, except the honey. Bring the saucepan to heat and then leave it to simmer for 9 minutes or until you get a mixture with a caramel-brown color. Add the honey, stir the content, and then strain it into a cup.

Drink 2 cups per day.

Cat’s claw decoction

Cat’s claw is a climbing vine found in Central and South America and natives have been using it as a natural remedy for numerous health problems, one of them being high blood pressure. It’s believed that cat’s claw lowers the blood pressure by dilating the blood vessels and allowing blood to flow through better. It also has a diuretic effect which contributes to a decrease in the blood pressure. A decoction is essentially a tea, but simmered for a longer period of time since it’s made from the woody, tough, and fibrous plant parts like the roots or the bark. If you are pregnant, you should avoid it, otherwise, it’s safe.

For the preparation of the concoction you will need:

2 tbsp of dried herb

2 cups of water

A bit of honey

A lemon

Preparation: Put the water and the dried herb in a saucepan and bring it to boil. Once it boils, cover it, and leave it to simmer for 45 minutes. Then, strain the mixture into a cup and add honey and squeeze a bit of lemon. Drink one cup daily.

Blueberry syrup

Blueberries are rich in quercetin- a flavonoid. For an extra healthy kick, add elderberries. In order to prepare this healthy syrup, you will need:

8 tbsp of dried blueberries or 4 tbsp of dried blueberries and 4 tbsp of dried elderberries

4 cups of water

A cup of honey

A glass jar

Preparation: Add the dried berries (and elderberries) to the water and bring it to simmer over low heat until the liquid reduces in half. Strain the solids out and press them to extract juices and put the liquid back into the pot. Add the honey. If you want thicker syrup, you need to heat the honey and berry juice over medium-high heat for 20 minutes. If you like it thinner, then you should skip this step. In the end, transfer the syrup into a dark bottle and store it in the fridge up to one month. Take 1 tbsp per day.

Understanding blood pressure

The two forces that pump blood through the body are known as systole and diastole and these are the numbers we see on a blood pressure reading. The top number is the systolic pressure and it’s the higher number whereas diastolic is the second, lower number. The first number refers to the force of blood being PUMPED AWAY while the second number shows the heart at rest, refilling with blood. In normal conditions, the systolic number should be less than 120 and the diastolic less than 80.

Put Salt in Your Shampoo before Showering. This Simple Trick Solves One of the Biggest Hair Problems!

Put Salt in Your Shampoo before Showering. This Simple Trick Solves One of the Biggest Hair Problems! - If you want to have a healthier hair, encourage its growth, and solve scalp problems, you needn’t spend a lot of money on expensive store-bought hair care products. There is a very simple but potent natural ingredient that has the power to prevent hair loss and stop scalp itchiness. The ingredient is, believe it or not, salt.

Salt can eliminate dead skin cells through skin exfoliation. Also, it will moisturize the skin, prevent dandruff, and remove surplus oil from the hair.

Types of salt

Even though every type of salt has sodium chloride, there are 4 major types of salt, that is, stone salt, extracted salt, sea salt, and rock salt. Stone salt has 85% sodium chloride and more than 80 minerals. It can balance the body’s pH, eliminate of toxins, regulate water content, and prevent muscle cramps.

Extracted salt has a larger grain size than common table salt. Sea salt may contain potassium, iron, and zinc as well. Rock salt is the best one for cosmetic purposes since it has an abundance of minerals, that is, sodium iodides, carbonates, fluorides, and other chemical compounds.

Sea salt is considered to be one of the most beneficial salts for the hair, that is, it can strengthen the hair follicle and nourish the scalp. It will encourage hair growth, increase the volume, and stimulate the blood circulation in the scalp. It will also cleanse the pores and strengthen the cell membranes thanks to the presence of calcium.

How to use it

Simply add 3 tbsp of sea salt to your shampoo, shake the content, and use this mixture to wash your hair.

The first positive results are visible after only a few treatments.

How to Stop a Heart Attack in a Minute

How to Stop a Heart Attack in a Minute - Believe it or not, a very simple, but potent ingredient can stop a heart attack in only one minute. John Christopher, a popular herbalist, discovered a beneficial method for stopping a heart attack. His contribution to alternative medicine is very significant. The ingredient, according to him, is cayenne pepper.

Cayenne pepper is a type of chili pepper and you should always have it in your kitchen cupboard because you can never know whether you will need to save someone from a heart attack. According to the Scoville Heat Units, cayenne pepper has 90,000 Scoville units. Habanero, African Bird, Thai Chi, Jamaican Hot Pepper, Jalapeno, and Scotch Bonet are pepper species with the same SHU value. Cayenne pepper can be found in supermarkets, health food stores, and green markets.

How can cayenne pepper help if a person is having a heart attack?

You should give the person to drink a glass of water mixed with a tsp of cayenne pepper. However, if the person is unconscious, put few drops of cayenne pepper extract under the patient’s tongue.

Being a potent stimulant, cayenne pepper will increase the heart rate and transfer blood to all body parts and thus, it will balance the circulation. Cayenne pepper has calcium, zinc, selenium, and magnesium which are important minerals. It’s also rich in vitamins A and C.

Dr. Schulz’s recipe for cayenne tincture

You will need:

• Cayenne pepper
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• 1 to 3 cayenne peppers
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• 50% alcohol, vodka for example
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• One liter glass bottle
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• Gloves

Preparation: First, put on the gloves and then fill one quarter of the bottle with cayenne pepper and pour the alcohol so that it covers the pepper. Then, in a blender, blend the peppers and alcohol until you get a sauce-like consistency.  Next, add the blended mixture to the bottle to fill 3/4 of the bottle. Then, pour alcohol to the top of the bottle and close it. Store the bottle in a dark place for 2 weeks and shake it daily. After two weeks, strain the content and keep the tincture in a dark bottle. Keep it in a dry and dark place.

Dr. Schulz’ dosing recommendations

Give 5 to 10 drops of the tincture to a conscious patient who has suffered a stroke or a heart attack.

After 5 minutes, give the same dosage again.

Repeat this until the patient’s condition betters.

Put 1 to 3 drops under the patient’s tongue if he/she is unconscious and begin CPR.

Do the same after 5 minutes.

Repeat the same until you notice improvement in the patient’s condition.

Other benefits of cayenne pepper.

It prevents phomopsis and colletotrichum
It encourages the production of gastric juices and relieves gases
The capsaicin in cayenne pepper prevents the development of tumors in patients with lung cancer
It’s very beneficial against stomach problems, flu, migraines, allergies, obesity, arthritis, and toothaches.

You Will Never Get a Mammogram after Reading This

You Will Never Get a Mammogram after Reading This - The results from a 25-year long study that followed closely 90,000 women showed that mammography doesn’t affect breast cancer mortality in any way. During the study, the researchers discovered that the death rate was the same in all women, i.e. the ones who underwent mammography and the ones who didn’t.

Unfortunately, 22% of the screen-detected breast cancers were over-diagnosed, which led to unnecessary treatment. Therefore, the conclusion of the researchers was that there was a need for reassessment of the value of mammography screening. This is a serious concern since it reveals that women don’t benefit from mammography in any way.

The recommendations by the public health agencies should therefore be updated. Namely, according to the American Cancer Society, from the age of 40 onwards, average-risk females should do annual mammograms, whereas the US Preventive Services Task Force advises annual mammograms after the age of 50.

As a consequence, women remain puzzled whether mammography is harmful or not. This year, the Swiss Medical Board made a clear recommendation that systematic mammography should not be done. For a period of 12 months, they examined available data from evidence, but couldn’t find that mammograms were safe or that they were life-saving.

Mammography was able to prevent one death in every thousand woman screened while causing harm in the rest nine hundred and ninety nine. So, the researchers emphasized the importance of avoiding mammograms and the need for changes in the existing programs. This report was published back in 2014.

However, a lot of women still think that skipping their annual mammogram is irresponsible since they’re not informed about the lack of scientific studies that support the benefits of mammograms. Also, a lot of doctors who are a part of the cancer industry and care only about their profits, not about the health of the patients, refute such findings.

If you also have doubts on whether to go to your annual mammography or not, think of these facts:

Mammograms have even fewer benefits than you think-according to a survey, women thought that this screening reduced the risk of breast cancer death by at least half and that it prevented more than 80 deaths per 1000 women screened. Nevertheless, at best, mammography can reduce the risk for 20% and prevent only one breast-cancer death per 10,000 women.

Mammograms increase the risk of breast cancer in women with a BRCA ½ mutation- According to the BMJ, in case of a specific gene mutation known as BRCA ½, women are prone to cancer due to radiation. Women younger than 30 who had this mutation and who were exposed to a mammogram had two times the risk of breast cancer when compared to the women who didn’t have the mutated gene.

Common false positives– unfortunately, the risk of a false positive test over 10 mammograms in the U.S. is 58% to 77%! Such diagnosis leads to stress, anxiety, distress and unnecessary tests, biopsies, and surgeries.

Mammograms are ineffective in women with dense breasts-often times, in women with denser breast tissue; mammography has problems in deciphering what’s what. The law for breast density has been passed in California, New York, Texas, and Connecticut and radiologists are obliged to inform patients who have this type of tissue that the chance of the screening showing nothing is very high.

Waist circumference is associated with the risk of breast cancer- all women should know that mammography is not prevention. If you want to reduce the risk of this disease, focus on prevention by maintaining a healthy body weight, that is, a healthy waist circumference.

A research done with 93,000 overweight post-menopausal women showed that although their overall health and cancer status were measured by the researchers, their waist circumference was strongly associated with risk of breast cancer. More precisely, a lot of breast cancers are fueled by estrogen, a hormone produced in the fat tissue.

So, the more body fat in the body, the higher the release of estrogen. If a woman has more belly fat than hip fat, the risk of chronic conditions is much higher.

How to prevent the risk of breast cancer properly:

Don’t consume processed foods and sugar, due to the presence of refined fructose which is highly dangerous.

Consume more vitamin D because this vitamin encourages apoptosis, i.e. programmed cell death of the affected cells. If you have cancer, your vitamin D levels need to be between 70 and 100 ng/ml. You can get it through exposure to sunlight, indoor tanning, or through supplements.

Lower the intake of protein; it should be between 40 and 70 grams of protein per day or 2/3 to half of the current portion. If you are pregnant or if you work out regularly, consume 25% more.

Exclude unfermented soy products- this type of soy has plant estrogens, phytoestrogens, and isoflavones. According to studies, soy combines with human estrogen and increases breast cell proliferation and increases the risk of mutations.

Better the sensitivity of the insulin and leptin receptor- avoid eating sugar ad grains and remember to limit the intake of carbohydrates and eat more fiber from veggies.

Work out- workout lowers the risk of cancer by regulating the insulin levels and it also stimulates apoptosis. Reduction in body fat lowers the number of tumors and the estrogen levels and this is how it prevents breast cancer.

Healthy weight- when you lose surplus body fat, you lower the risk of breast cancer since fat is known to produce estrogen.

Avoid synthetic hormone replacement therapy- according to a study published in the journal of the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer rates were lowered when the hormone replacement therapy was decreased.

Add turmeric to your diet-curcumin, the active ingredient of turmeric has been found to prevent breast cancer metastasis. Since it’s not easily absorbed by the body, combine it with other ingredients like black pepper.

Avoid charred meat because it has been linked with an increased risk of breast cancer because the process of baking, roasting, etc. of starchy foods leads to the creation of a carcinogen known as acrylamide.

Increase the intake of iodine since iodine has been found to possess anti-cancer properties and it leads to death of cancer cells in breast cancer and thyroid gland cancer.

Consume high-quality omega-3 fats like krill oil- it has been found that one of the causing factors of cancer is omega-3 deficiency.