Heart Health

Electrolyte Imbalance = Poor Health

Replace The Electrolytes You Use Everyday!

Not enough health advisers/practitioners talk about electrolytes and yet so many health issues can be resolved by keeping an electrolyte balance.

Electrolyte replacement is NOT just for athletes. It is critical for athletes but still imperative for everybody. Just about everyone is running around deficient in electrolytes. Electrolytes are essential for active bodies…this means shopping, working, driving, sleeping…you’re losing electrolytes all day and all night long.

Feeling Fatigued? There’s A Good Chance It’s Because You’re Deficient In Electrolytes!

Electrolytes give the body the electrical charge that keeps the heart, muscles and nervous system working properly. Fatigue, heavy sweating (or not sweating at all), cold hands or feet and susceptibility to colds are sign of a really bad imbalance.

There are, of course, many other signs of electrolyte imbalance and to see more information on these health problems visit: http://www.healthtoheart.com/electrolytes-electrolyte-imbalance.htm

When your electrolytes are truly balanced, there are all types of little health nuances you may have that will just go away. Let’s face it, we all have little health issues and we aren’t sure what causes them. Anyone with any type of illness, disease or major health concern should start taking electrolytes immediately.

The Usual Misconceptions About Electrolytes!

Usually if someone feels dehydrated, they drink water or a sports drink. I used to do the same. Sports drinks provide carbohydrates, which are important for active people. Sports drinks have lots of glucose in them. Marathoners, endurance athletes, hikers and bikers crave quick energy when working, so it’s easy to see why they would grab a sports drink.

Water dilutes electrolytes and creates a greater electrolyte imbalance. Drinking water is very important and honestly, most people don’t drink enough. Drinking water unfortunately makes people with electrolyte imbalance worse off. Mineral water contains a variety of minerals that upsets electrolyte balance.

How Do You Get Electrolytes?

In the “old” days people used to get their electrolytes from cooking down animal bones into soups and broths. Even though it’s not a perfectly balanced way of getting electrolytes, electrolytes can be replaced this way.

Even though drinking a bone soup broth may be hard to swallow after a hard workout or during the summertime when soup really isn’t on the menu, there are other ways (thanks to science) of getting the perfect balance that’s VERY convenient.

Beware of Electrolyte Mixes!

I’ve seen powdered mixes of so called electrolytes. There are salt tablets, minerals, vitamins. None of these will replace and balance your electrolytes.

The essential minerals for electrolyte replacement are: Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Chloride, Bicarbonate, Phosphorous and Sulfur.

Individually these electrolytes cannot provide CONDUCTIVITY necessary to transmit the electrical pulses that operate the nerves, muscles and heart! Together, in the proper ratio, they regulate the nervous system, muscle function, maintain the body’s acid/alkaline balance and regulate the amount of water in body fluids and cells!

That’s important stuff!

As an athlete and the author of Health to Heart, I’ve tried everything and will try just about anything. For the athletes reading this, Endurox and other mixes are not electrolyte replacement. They are for recovery after training and while I use such formulas, I’ve never gotten the results that I’ve had with the Life Balances Electrolytes.

While on my own health journey I came across a group of products from a small, family owned company whose founding member was a chemist.

The Life Balances Electrolytes Are The ONLY Electrolytes On The Market That Will Perfectly Balance Your Electrolytes.

It’s such a smart product that the chemist who created it made it taste sensitive, so you know EXACTLY how much you need based on taste. His philosophy is that everyone’s chemistry is unique and different. He created products that are taste sensitive based on the fundamentals of principles of human chemistry so that everyone can give themselves the proper amount of minerals, vitamins and electrolytes.

These specially formulated electrolytes are also isotonic (meaning they have the same consistency as blood), balanced, taste sensitive, and are charged. You may receive a small static shock when opening a bottle. * It’s not harmful. It’s just due to potency of the formula and the balance of the electrolytes.

PL Fields
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/electrolyte-imbalance-poor-health-677484.html

saturated fat is good for heart health?

what do you think? anyone willing to consider that everything they’ve ever heard on this topic is wrong?
nope, i mean good quality saturated fat. Your body needs it for functioning and it is very good for you – it is not the reason the arteries get clogged. Ever heard how the Eskimos eat blubber? Before they were introduced to modern day diets they had almost no heart disease. or diabetes for that matter… that’s just one of many examples.

Ummm – how about NO. Saturated fat is the one way to guarantee that plaque will build up on your artery walls. That would explain why Mediterraneans (who eat lots of omega 3 fats – the unsaturated ones) live long, and cardiovascularly healthy lives and Americans, who eat TONS of saturated fats are dropping like flies of heart disease at very young ages. Can you convince me otherwise? I think not. It’s called the scientific method and it’s a pretty effective way to "prove" a theory.

Plant Sterols – the Secret for the Heart Health Benefits of the Acai Berries

The acai berries contain a chemical class known as plant sterols in abundance. Plant sterols, or phytosterols, have long been known to improve the cardiac health in humans apart from several other benefits. People who subsist on a diet of plant foods that are rich in sterols are known to have a better heart longevity than other people and they are also better protected from other cardiovascular problems such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and the risk of seizures. In fact, the benefits of plant sterols are so prominently accepted in today’s health-conscious world that manufacturers of several food products are actually going ahead and fortifying their foods with both natural and synthetic plant sterols. However, the benefits that these products contain are always of a very dubious nature.

This is where acai berries score greatly. These berries are renowned for several health benefits, but one of the most important benefits that they carry is the presence of a high concentration of plant sterols. There are various sterol compounds presently, but it is most important to speak about beta-sitosterol, which occupies up to 70 to 90% of the total sterol content in the acai berries. Beta-sitosterol is a compound that is chemically quite similar to cholesterol (which is also a sterol, by the way), but it has a very peculiar action on cholesterol. It can act with the cholesterol that is present in the blood and reduce its density. Thus, beta-sitosterol works in the metabolism of cholesterol in the body so that it does not tend to accumulate.

Cholesterol is the main culprit behind most of the heart diseases prevalent in the human race. It can accumulate in the lumens (bores) of the arteries and thus reduce the flow of blood in them. If the cholesterol accumulates in the coronary artery (the artery leading to the heart), it can reduce the blood flow to the heart, which will result in impaired heart function. In time, the excess pressure on the heart can give rise to diseases and even risks of heart seizure. If the accumulation is built into any other artery of the body, then it can give rise to high blood pressure, which again is a very dangerous condition. With the help of the plant sterols present in it, acai berries ensure that a person having their diet can lead a healthier life with benefits to cardiac health.

Acai berries have been hailed for several benefits in recent times, but the most important benefit seems to be their effectiveness in reducing harmful cholesterol from the body. This is in light of the fact that the greatest share in world mortality today is of heart-related problems. It is conjectured that if all people of the world were to go on an acai berry diet, then the human mortality would drastically come down. Also, the fact that the acai berries can act at reversing some of the aging symptoms and make the person ‘feel’ younger and not just ‘look’ younger, these berries are being looked upon a potential source for a healthy heart and a prolonged life.

Steve Gerencser
http://www.articlesbase.com/supplements-and-vitamins-articles/plant-sterols-the-secret-for-the-heart-health-benefits-of-the-acai-berries-698248.html