Vitamin D May Lower Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease

A study published in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Science reported that the highest average intakes of Vitamin D reduced the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by a whopping 77%.

The researchers concluded that low consumption of Vitamin D precedes the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

The researchers analyzed data from 498 women with an average age of 79.8 who did not take Vitamin D supplements. The researchers assessed the intake of Vitamin D from food frequency questionnaires and followed the women for seven years.

They found that the highest levels of Vitamin D had the lowest risk of Alzheimer’s.

If you take a Vitamin D supplement to make sure you are getting a sufficient amount, make sure its Vitamin D3 and you can take around 5000 IUs per day.
 

Berries, Another Way To Keep Brain Function


A study published in the Annals of Neurology found that the regular consumption of blueberries and strawberries appeared to delay cognitive aging such as thinking, remembering and reasoning by up to 2.5 years.

It appears that it is the flavoniod anthocyanidins in the berries that helps protect the body’s cells from damage and reduce inflammation.

The researchers used the data from the U.S. Nurses’ Health Study, which began in 1980 and collected dietary information every fours years on 16,000 female volunteers. The nurses that had the best benefit had the highest intake of berries, which was more than a ½ a cup once a week.

I suggest 1/2 cup per day!
 

There’s A Third Way To Slow The Loss Of Mental Function – B Vitamins

Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Oslo found that daily supplements of B Vitamins may slow the decline of mental function in people who have mild cognitive impairment.

The researchers found that folic acid and Vitamins B-6 and B-12 were associated with a 30% reduction in the levels of the amino acid homocysteine, and improvements in a range of mental tests. High homocysteine levels have been linked to the loss of cognitive function.

In this study, the participants that had high levels of homocysteine gave a 69% higher likelihood of correct word recall compared with the placebo group.

So,,,take some Vitamin D3, berries and B Vitamins and watch it improve your cognitive function and reduce brain loss.
 

A New Look At How We Build Muscle In Our Body

It used to be that the wisdom was for the body to build muscle, you needed to eat lots of protein and carbohydrates because carbs fuel your muscles. According to Ori Hofmekler, author of several nutritional books, the body can still build muscle even when it’s deprived of food.

You might be saying, “Huh, how can it do that?” It turns out that the amino acid leucine in your body can signal genes in your muscle to grow and build protein even during times of food deprivation so long as these amino acids are circulating in your blood stream. To get enough leucine, you need to be eating dairy products especially quality cheese and whey protein. The one draw back is that you’ll need to eat a lot of these leucine containing products to get the quantities of leucine to build muscle. The one exception is whey, which gives you be amount of leucine you need by eating 3 ounces per day.

Another study published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise found that eating 20 grams of whey protein 30 minutes before resistance training boosts your body’s metabolism for as much as 24 hours after a workout! This means you’ll burn more calories even when you are doing the same things as someone else during that 24 hour period.

So…a little whey protein a day, keeps those muscles growing.
 

Eating Chocolate To Lower You Body Mass, Yum

Chocolate may lower your body mass index (BMI). Researchers from the University of California, San Diego published a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine followed the chocolate consumption of 970 men and women between the age of 20 and 85 who were from of heart disease, diabetes and abnormal cholesterol levels.

Even though chocolate consumption is linked to higher calories and increased intakes of saturated fat, the more frequent the chocolate consumption the lower the BMI. While this sounds counter intuitive, it appears that the chocolate increased mitochondrial and capillary function, muscular m=performance and lean muscle mass.

While the study didn’t measure the type of chocolate, there has been a ton of research validating the positive impact of dark chocolate. So…let’s do a toast with dark chocolate…lots of it!
 

Can you Overdose on Water?

Can you over hydrate if you are an endurance athlete? The advice has been when you are an endurance athlete like a runner that you should drink ahead of thirst. This advice is being challenged by Dr. Tim Noakes.

Dr. Noakes used to believe that drinking ahead of thirst was the correct approach. However, since he accepted into this recommendation 30 years ago, he’s seen a dozen deaths that have occurred in endurance events due to drinking too much fluid. He’s written a book called Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports.

He’s actually found that over drinking can actually worsen an athlete’s performance. When you consume too much water, your cells will start to swell leading to gastrointestinal upset, dizziness and soreness. Drink way too much and your sodium can drop to dangerously low levels. Dr. Noakes says to use our thirst mechanism to trigger when to take a drink of water since it’s a 300 million year old warning system for telling us when we need water.

Now, while there isn’t a lot of evidence for drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day, it probably will not cause you any harm. And…if you’re an endurance athlete, use your thirst mechanism to tell you when your really need extra water.
 

Using Resveratrol May Extend Your Life

Resveratrol has been extensively studied and found to have positive effects on everything from cataracts to Alzheimer’s disease.

A recent study has also found that it may have the power to expend your life by mimicking the benefits of dramatic calorie restricts, without the hunger pains.

In this double blind study, researchers gave obese but otherwise healthy men either 150 mg of Resveratrol or a placebo for 30 day. The benefits from the Resveratrol included reduced blood pressure, triglycerides, inflammation and fatty deposits in the liver.

The researchers described these benefits as a combination of calorie restriction and/or endurance training. Not a bad deal for taking around 150 mg of Resveratrol a day.
 

Men Having A Heart Attack Are Better Off Being Married

A study looked at how being married affects man’s behavior when he is having a heart attack.

The researchers found that married men having a heart attack arrived at the Emergency Room 30 minutes sooner than single guys. Here’s the interesting part, the wives didn’t even have to be there when the symptoms occurred.

The study’s lead author suggested that “the husbands knew what their wives would say and didn’t want them to be angry if they delayed medical attention.”

By the way, married women having a heart attack didn’t arrive at the hospital sooner than a single woman.

Now…for the single guy - to get you to the hospital sooner, you can picture what your mother would say. That should do it!
 

NEW: Now You Can Become a Certified Brain-Gym Instructor From the Comfort of Your Home Anywhere in the World

You can now get certified to teach the Brain Gym® International approved Switched-On Selling, Switched-On Management and Switched-On Network Marketing seminars via long distance.

That’s right, you can get certified from the comfort of your own home.

Let me tell you the steps in the process. There are two categories of persons that these steps apply to – one is Currently Certified Brain Gym 101 Instructors.

The other is people who are not
Brain Gym Instructors who want to teach any or all of these seminars.

Steps for Brain Gym 101 Instructors

1. Contact me if you are interested in being certified and for which seminars. Call me at 757-496-8008 or email me at Jerry@Teplitz.com.

2. We will either mail you a video of the course for you to watch or you can stream the videos to your computer, your choice.

3. We will either mail or email you the Instructor’s Manual which contains the participant manual, a full script of the seminar and marketing materials.

4. After you have reviewed the videos and the script and are comfortable with the materials, we will arrange a several hour phone call (on a Skype call if you are in Canada or international) where we will discuss teaching, marketing and other details.

5. You will need to do an audio recording of your teaching a portion of a live seminar to complete certification process.

6. The fee is currently the same for taking this live training or the long distance version which is $675.

Steps for Non Brain Gym Persons wanting to be certified

1. Steps 1 to 6 above apply.

2. You must also do a video of your doing the Brain Gym Movements for me to review.

3. You have to take a Brain Gym 101 Class as part of your Certification.
 

Depending on the demand for long distance training, the fees may be going up, so contact me today to answer any questions you may have! 

THANKS, THAT'S IT FOR THIS MONTH!