Vitamin Supplements Reduce Hospital Stays & Readmissions
 

Researchers from Stanford, USC and the University of Chicago looked at 11 years of hospital data and compared outcomes with Medicare patients who were prescribed nutritional supplements with those who were not. The researchers found that the patients receiving the supplements received significant health benefits.

The researchers found that 30-day readmission rates were reduced by 10.1% for patients with heart failure, 12% for those with acute heart attacks and 8.4% for any other diagnosis. The supplements even reduced the average hospital stay by 1.65 days which saved $3,000 per admission.

In these studies, supplements were only begun when these people were admitted to the hospital. So…imagine if these patients were taking supplements as part of their every day lives, they might not have even had to go to the hospital!
(Reported Health & Healing, Dr. Julian Whitaker, June 2014)

The Benefits Of Grass-Fed Beef

When it comes eating beef, you have two choices, you can eat organic grass-fed beef or you can eat beef raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFO). Are there any real benefits to eating organic? The answer is yes for a number of reasons. Organic beef doesn’t have antibiotics feed to them, which prevents the spead of antibiotic resistant diseases. Grass-fed beef also has 3 to 5 times the levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) which has been found to help us fight cancer, decrease insulin resistance and improve body composition. The organic beef also has higher levels of vitamins and minerals and a better ratio of omega 6s to omega 3s.

Grass-fed cattle also are rarely sick. So… while organic grass-fed beef may be more expensive, you are paying for a much healthier food source.

(Reported Mercola.com, May 21, 2014)

New Benefits To Cholesterol

That’s right, there are benefits to having higher levels cholesterol than what is recommended today. Recent research has reported that cholesterol plays a key role in regulating protein pathways involved in cell signaling and it may also regulate other cell processes. Since we have trillions of cells in our body, they need to be able to interact with each other. Cholesterol is one of the molecules that allow these signaling interactions to take place. 

Your brain actually contains 25% of the cholesterol that is in your body. It is critical for the formation of synapses which are how two neurons communicate with each other. This allows you to think, learn new things and form memories.

And if these aren’t reasons enough to relook at your cholesterol levels, it is also involved in the production of steroid hormones which includes your sex hormones.

You can figure out the right cholesterol level by dividing your HDL level by your total cholesterol level. This percentage should be above 24. If it is below 10%, it’s a significant indicator of risk for heart disease. Also, your triglyceride/HDL ratio should be below 2.

So… rather than immediately jumping into taking drugs for your cholesterol levels, do some math first; otherwise, you may be losing the benefits that cholesterol can have on your body.

(Reported Mercola.com, January 16, 2013)

 
New Neurons Cause Childhood Memories To Disappear

A study published in Science found that as the brain adds new neurons it deletes or makes older memories foggier. What the researchers did was to condition mice to fear an environment where they received repeated electric shocks. The researchers then had some of the mice run on wheels which boosted the number of new neurons their brains created while the other mice were sedentary. After six weeks of running or being sedentary, the mice were put back in the environment where they were shocked. The runners had largely forgotten their fear while the sedentary mice were still traumatized.

So…exercise may have an added benefit of getting rid of early child trauma memories.

(Reported DiscoverMagazine.com, May 9, 2014)

  
Supplements To Stop COPD
 

COPD is know as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which is a progressive disorder that affects breathing. It is the third leading cause of death and kills 138,000 Americans every year. There are some powerful natural options for effective treatment.

One is using the supplement N-acetylcysteine (NAC) which finds and helps break up the excessive mucus in the lungs, inhibits bacteria from adhering to the lungs and has anti-viral activity. It is also a precursor to glutathione which is the most active antioxidant in the lungs. By boosting glutathione levels, you can help control COPD. One study compared COPD paients who took 600 mg of NAC twice a day verses a placebo group. The researchers found that the group taking NAC had half as many exacerbations, shorter hospital stays and fewer readmissions, while they also experienced improvements in forced air flow.

Besides taking NAC, you should also consider getting a special prescription for glutathione that you can spray into the lungs. Since glutathione in pill form is absorbed poorly by the body, spraying it into the lungs avoids the absorption problem by delivering the NAC to right where it is needed.

Finally, stem cell treatments can also make a difference. Dr. Julian Whitaker has treated almost 200 patients using stem cells. His patients have reported improvements in lung function. So…you’ve got some options you can pursue that might make a major difference in the quality of life of a COPD patient.
(Reported Health & Healing, Dr. Julian Whitaker, June 2014)

A Way To Drop COPD Readmissions

The Carolinas HealthCare System was able to drop its COPD readmission rate from 21.8 percent to 13 percent within four years. The way they did this was by applying a concept called root-cause analysis which wound up proving that some assumptions the health care system was making were wrong.

Initially, project leaders thought that most COPD readmissions were the result of lax patient adherence to follow-up treatment. What the root-cause analysis revealed was that problems with patients’ home equipment, inadequate patient education, and poor access to primary care were actually more prevalent reasons for COPD readmissions. So…imagine if root-cause analysis was used throughout the health care arena, it may alter the assumptions that are causing harm to patients.

Dr. Teplitz Speaking At eWomenNetwork Conference

On August 7, I will be doing a special program on The Switched-On Entrepreneur at the eWomenNetwork International  Conference and Business Expo in Dallas, TX. The conference runs from August 7 to10 and to learn more about the conference go to http://ewomennetworkconference.com/

Cynicism May Be Dangerous To Your Health

Cynicism is a deep mistrust of others and psychologists consider it a kind of chronic anger that develops over time. It’s been linked in studies to a higher rate of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer related mortality in women . In a recent study published in the journal Neurology, cynicism was also linked to an increased risk of developing dementia. The study had 1,449 participants with an average age of 71. The subjects took two tests. One measured the level of dementia and the other measured the level of cynicism.

The people with the highest level of cynicism had a 2.54 times greater risk of dementia verses those with the lowest cynicism rating. These studies go along with all the studies that I have reported comparing optimists to pessimists. So…if you’re reading this and saying you don’t believe these findings, then welcome to the world of the cynic.

(Reported Jen Christiansen, CNN, May 28, 2014)

SPECIAL: Managing Your Stress: Succeeding in Difficult Times

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