New Program Available For Your Group For The Times We Are In

I’ve developed a new keynote and seminar program for the difficult times we are experiencing. It’s called Managing Your Stress In Difficult Times. It’s aim is to give attendees very positive things they can do to better handle the level of stress they may be experiencing. For more information, call or email Sandra Lee – 800 77-RELAX , Sandy@Teplitz.com.

MP3 Players Can Damage Listener’s Hearing
The European Union committee responsible for warning of emerging health risks reports that nearly 10% of the people who listen to MP3 players (and iPods) risk going deaf if they tune in an hour a day for five years. The Royal National Institute of Deaf People, a U.K. service organization for the hearing impaired, reports that 60% of people age 16 to 30 were unaware of the risks to their hearing from these players.

On a personal note, a number of years ago, I purchased noise-canceling headsets to use when I fly to reduce the impact of the jet’s noise. After a number of months of using them, I noticed that I had developed ringing in my ears, called tinnitus. I realized it was from using the headsets and immediately stopped using them. While the ringing is still there, it has not gotten worse.

So…tell your kids and anyone you know about the danger. Suggest that they at least lower the volume below 100 decibels and use the player less than an hour a day.

The Way You Talk To Seniors Can Affect Their Health
Did you know that the way health care professionals talk to older people that can actually affect their health? Some examples are:

·         When the doctor talks to adult children about their elderly parent, who is right there, instead of talking directly to the person;

·         The clerk who assumes that an older person needs to be addressed slowly or in a loud voice; or

·         An older person is addressed by the health care worker using the familiar term “dear”, rather than the person’s name.

As reported in The Virginian Pilot, these innocent insults can have health consequences. A long-term study of 660 people over age 50 in a small Ohio town was published in 2002 by Rebecca Levy, a Professor at Yale University. Levy found that those who had positive perceptions of aging lived an average of 7.5 years longer.

Other studies found that older people exposed to negative portrayals of aging performed worse on memory tests, walked slower and had higher levels of stress. One study, to be published in December, used video tapes of older people with mild to moderate dementia and their care givers. It was observed that when the nurses used phrases like “good girl” or “How are we feeling?” patients were more aggressive and less cooperative or receptive to care.

The health care workers in those videos thought the statements that they were making conveyed that they cared. Instead the patient was interpreting the message as saying that the older person was incompetent.

So…when you are with an older person, talk to them and treat them as an adult.

Seniors Save Money Going To The Gym
In a study reported last January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that seniors who went to the gym two or more times a week over two years averaged health care cost savings of over $1,200 more than those who went less than once a week. Since regular exercise helps control weight, strengthens bones and joints, lowers pain and anxiety, reduces cardiovascular disease and increases brain health, it’s not surprising that all these added together for a bottom-line dollar impact in people’s health care costs.

With all the changes about to happen in health care, regardless of who is elected, why don’t you start your own savings program by exercising two or more times a week?

Increase Melatonin With Special Blue Light-Blocking Glasses
Melatonin has been shown to be of value for many things. It can help us sleep better, reduce headache frequency by around 50%, reduce the length of time a migraine lasts, decrease irritable bowel syndrome abdominal pain, lower nighttime blood pressure and protect us from cellular and mitochondrial DNA damage, which can cause cancer.

While all this sounds great, we may not be producing enough melatonin in our bodies to receive these benefits.  Melatonin is produced at night and bright lights dramatically reduce the production of melatonin in our bodies. Recent research has discovered a way to stop bright light’s interference with melatonin production – wear blue light-blocking glasses. These glasses filter out just the blue wave length, which is the part of the spectrum that suppresses the production of melatonin.

Canadian researchers exposed volunteers to a bright light for an hour during the middle of the night. The volunteers wore either the blue lenses or gray lenses. The researchers then compared the volunteers’ melatonin levels to their levels on a night with no light exposure. They found that the gray-lenses group had a 46% decline in melatonin, while the blue-lenses group had a slight increase in production. Other reports have found that the blue glasses reduce daytime sleepiness, depression, as well as pain from fibromyalgia. Kids with ADHD also experienced an improvement in symptoms.

So…you might experiment with these special blue light-blocking glasses for a month. If you don’t want to do that but you still want to get the benefits of melatonin, you can take a supplement with 3 mg of melatonin 30 minutes before bedtime.

(Reported in Whitaker Wellness Report, February 2008)

Stopping Cold Sores and Canker Sores
Some time ago, I wrote in the Teplitz Email Report about products that stop cold sores and canker sores called Cold Sores Begone and Canker Sores Begone (See Teplitz Report #53, Vol. 2 #4, April 2003). The creator, Robin Barr, recently emailed me to say that he has a new phone number at 888-877-6315. You can also learn more at www.csbegone.com.

Making Sure You Have Enough Vitamin D In Your System
As I’ve reported before, Vitamin D is becoming more and more important in disease prevention and healing. We are also discovering that many of us are deficient in Vitamin D. Even though your own body can create it by being out in the sun without sunscreen, most of us spend very little time in the sun. This means we need to consider taking supplemental Vitamin D3 (D3 absorbs the best).

So how do you determine what level of Vitamin D you have in your body? You can get a baseline measurement by having a blood test, but you need to make sure your doctor is requesting the right one. The best blood test is called 25(OH)D which translates to 25-hydroxyvitamin D. For optimum health your results should be higher than the normal range. Normal is 20-56 mg/ml, while optimal is 45-50 mg/ml. Also, make sure your level is never below 32 mg/ml.

Finally, ask what analysis system the lab is using. One testing method called the Quest system gives false results that appear to be 25-40% higher than the better test, the DiaSorin assay, which is available at LabCorp. In addition, the LabCorp test costs less than half of the Quest test.

So…get your Vitamin D level measured  make sure it’s the right test and it’s being done by the right method.

Getting The Most Ink From Your Printer
You’re tired of spending money on replacement inkjet printer cartridges. An article in Slate Magazine, August 21, 2008, reported an easy option you can use. The writer of the Slate article, Farhad Manjoo, had his printer abruptly stop printing. Since the pages coming out hadn’t been fading, he wondered if there was still ink in the cartridge. Here’s what he did: he covered up a sensor on the side of the toner cartridge with a piece of electrical tape, which tricked the printer into thinking the cartridge was full. The cartridge was still printing hundreds of copies later. To find out more go to www.FixYourOwnComputer.com.

The New Way To Protect Our Foods – Cinnamon
Yep…you read it right – cinnamon. Cinnamon is being acknowledged as a way to protect our foods from molds and fungus. It turns out that cinnamon kills microbes. As an example of the impact of cinnamon, researchers took bread that was already tainted with mold and covered it with wax paper made with 6% cinnamon oil. The cinnamon wax paper inhibited mold growth by 96% and prolonged freshness by up to 10 days. A separate study reported in the International Journal of Food Microbiology found that adding a few drops of cinnamon essential oil to carrot broth inhibited the growth of bacteria for 60 days. The results were so powerful that the researchers called cinnamon a viable “alternative to traditional food preservatives.”

Maybe it’s time to eliminate some of the chemicals that are going into our foods, and to preserve them with cinnamon. So…anyone want a hot chocolate with cinnamon or apple cider with cinnamon?

(Reported in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, August 13, 2008)

Bank Relights Entire Building
One of our clients, a bank in Indiana, did some experimenting with the full-spectrum lighting that I talk about at many of my programs. At my suggestion, they lit the lower level of the bank offices, where there are no windows, with full-spectrum lighting. The feedback was so positive that they have now relamped the other two floors of the building.

Special offer this month for subscribers of the Teplitz Email Report – order one case (up to 3 cases) of tubes and you’ll receive an extra 5% discount for a total discount of 25%! This offer is only good until November 18, 2008. Go to https://teplitz.com/order-lights.htm and Enter Coupon Code : 413632