Archive for April, 2008
Struggling With Chronic Sinus & Headaches? Cayenne Pepper Nasal Spray May Be Your Savior
Albany, NY December 19 2003–A long time headache sufferer claims he’s found a potential cure for chronic headaches and sinus symptoms. Wayne Perry says although nothing works for everyone, the capsaicin nasal spray he created, cured his cluster headaches and chronic sinus congestion.
Capsaicin is the natural chemical found in hot pepper plants from the Capsicum family which inlcudes the popular cayenne pepper plant. “I believe capsaicin could eventually lead to a complete cure for most if not all chronic headaches”, says Perry. And he may not be too far off — several clinical trials also support his findings concerning capsaicin.
One particular trial involved a group of cluster headache patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The link to this capsaicin trial can be found at (www.sinusbuster.com). After 7 days of treatments (applying capsaicin pepper extract to their nasal passages), all the headache patients showed a significant improvement concerning both the frequency and intensity of their headaches.
Wayne Perry started developing his pepper nasal spray about 5 years ago, after he discovered the power of capsaicin quite by accident. Perry was a nationally recognized self defense expert who was big on the talk show circuit during the mid 1990s. He was a major advocate of self defense pepper sprays, and appeared on many national shows including Oprah Winfrey. As Perry’s headaches got worse, he had to limit his public appearances, and his situation became quite desperate. Perry was on all kinds of medication, but his headaches kept coming.
As a self defense expert, Perry would occasionally volunteer to be sprayed by “REAL” self defense pepper spray to help promote its effectiveness. One day Perry agreed to be sprayed for a local news report in Albany, New York. Shortly before he was about to be sprayed for the “live” broadcast, Perry got one of his terrible cluster headaches. Knowing the show had to go on, he followed through and allowed the reporter to spray him with defensive pepper spray.
The effects of course were horrible, but Perry immediately realized his headache had completely disappeared. Right away, he knew it was due to the natural pepper extract called (oleoresin capsicum) used in self defense pepper sprays. Perry knew the active chemical in this natural resin was capsaicin, and he immediately went to work searching for a way to bottle capsaicin as a headache and sinus reliever. After several years of research, he came up with a formula that appears to be one of the most effective remedies for most sinus troubles and headaches. He named it The SINUS BUSTER.
Furthermore, his all natural formula has been touted as the one nasal spray that can relieve sinus and allergy related congestion almost instantly. Perry has been selling his capsicum pepper nasal spray locally for nearly a year, but has recently launched a major internet campaign to push the product into the mainstream consumer healthcare market. Sales have been brisk, and this unique pepper nasal spray is also selling well on ebay.
Since launching (www.sinusbuster.com) on November 1st, Perry has sold hundreds of pepper nasal sprays across North America. “We can barely keep up with the demand. Obviously the medicines that doctors are offering the millions of chronic sinus and headache sufferers aren?t doing the job for everybody, but now we may be on our way to permanent relief for these people”, Perry exclaims.
It is true the feedback has been tremendous. Many people are claiming Perry’s one of a kind pepper nasal spray has relieved a variety of their sinus and headache related symptoms. Migraines, hormonal headaches, sinus headaches, sinus infections, and allergies — Perry has a testimonial ready for all these symptoms.
Wayne Perry is available for interviews, and free samples of The SINUS BUSTER are available for all legitimate media personnel. There are also photos and video of Perry being sprayed with defensive pepper spray available for media use as part of this story. To learn more about clinical studies concerning capsaicin, and to learn more about this unique pepper (capsaicin) nasal spray — visit: (www.sinusbuster.com)
Virtual world therapeautic for addicts: UH study shows
Patients in treatment to overcome addictions have a new arena to tryout their coping skillsthe virtual world. A new study by University of Houston Associate Professor Patrick Bordnick observed that a virtual reality (VR) environment can supply the climate essential to spark an alcohol craving so that patients can practice how to say no in a realistic and safe setting……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Open, Full and Imperfect: What You Must Know About Your Heart
Last Friday was National Wear Red Day, an intentional opportunity to wear a red dress as a symbol of awareness of the fact that heart disease is the number one killer of women in America.
I didn?t wear a red dress, but I did get my very first electrocardiogram.
I wish I could say that I had planned it that way.
The truth is that I was experiencing chest pain, a terrible squeezing sensation in my left shoulder and left arm, and an alarming tingling running up my neck. I headed into Urgent Care. The next few days brought a series of tests involving all kinds of electrodes, ultrasounds, and my personal favorite, running on the treadmill. I?m still waiting for the results.
I?m a 43-year-old woman, fit and active, with low blood pressure, a stupendously healthy diet, and zero history of cardiac problems in my family. I?ve never smoked, I drink a small glass of wine most evenings, I have low cholesterol, and I?ve been meditating for over twenty years. You?d be hard pressed to find a woman with a lower degree of risk for any kind of heart disease. Yet, here I am, hanging out in the cardiologist?s office with a bunch of 75-year-olds.
My doctor is my stepfather?s cardiologist. I know he?s good because he has done about a dozen surgeries and procedures to keep my stepfather alive and kicking over the last 20 years. Dr. Toren is a great guy. Still, I never quite imagined I would need to visit him myself.
It?s been rather disconcerting, to say the least.
But it?s also given me an opportunity to think about my heart in a whole new way. I am appreciating this fantastic organ and its ability to beat over a billion times in an average lifetime without (much) assistance.
Like most healthy people, I?ve taken it for granted. I?ve allowed it to go about its work, and only in rare circumstances when it decided to pound?middle school crush walking past me, parachute not opening fully while skydiving, snatching children out of harm?s way?did I ever really pay attention to it.
Poor heart. So unappreciated.
Not anymore. In the last few days, I have felt every beat of my heart. I note the blood coursing through my arteries with every pulse. Becoming hyperaware of my heart?s magnificence has resulted in an indescribable sense of awe. I?ve been greatly humbled.
I?d always sort of figured that I was in control of my body. I?ve been certified as a personal fitness trainer, and I know a lot about how to change your shape or size or strength through exercise. I?ve been healthy enough to actually think that I was the one in charge. How ridiculous of me to believe that my body will do exactly what I want it to. It?s been running the show since before I was born.
Anyone suffering from any kind of illness, injury or decreased ability already knows this. I am guilty of ignoring my body on the most important level?recognizing its power over me. In my continuing effort to connect body, mind and spirit, I?ve forgotten that the three don?t always share equal billing.
Empedocles, a philosopher and scientist who lived in Sicily in the 400s BC, was the first to state in any sort of medical way that the heart was the origin of human emotions. I guess we?re supposed to believe, based on current research, that this is completely inaccurate. Our emotions are actually connected to our brains.
But really, it just isn?t as satisfying to think of love as being a head thing. Our hearts seem more poetic, more romantic, more likely to be swept away by the sheer force of nature that is love. We understand what it means and how it feels to be brokenhearted. We feel an ache in our hearts in quite a literal way. A headache is nothing like a heartache.
We use a lot of language that calls attention to this link between our hearts and all that is good, true, beautiful, and just. Whether we?re listening to our heart, opening our heart, connecting to our heart, trusting our heart, or simply living to our heart?s content, we regard it as the seat of the soul and the source of tremendous compassion and tenderness.
Women are supposed to have a pretty good handle on all this, and that?s why I believe that we haven?t really considered women as being susceptible to heart disease. We?re great at picking up on the importance of being aware of breast cancer, but when it comes to the heart, we want to believe that we are somehow protected from what we have come to think of as the stressed-out man?s disease. Or the fat person?s disease. Or the don?t-pay-any-attention-to-your-health disease. We hope that by simply being aware of our emotions, our habits and their effect on our bodies that we?re somehow immune.
I guess what I?m trying to say is this: if you have a heart, then you are at risk. It?s that simple. It?s terribly important to do all the right things, but even then, you?ve still got this ticker that needs tending. You need to know your risks, and you know to know how to reduce them.
I?m not sure what I?m going to learn about my heart when all is said and done, but I?ve already learned an extremely valuable lesson. My heart may be open, it may be full of love, but that doesn?t mean it?s perfect.
I?m hoping for some seriously good news for Valentine?s Day this year. I?ll be waiting, and wearing red.
Maya Talisman Frost is a mind masseuse. Her work has inspired thinkers in over 80 countries around the world. She serves up a unique blend of clarity, comfort and comic relief in her free weekly ezine, the Friday Mind Massage. To subscribe, visit http://www.massageyourmind.com.
Spice Up Your Meals
Usually, when you think of nutritional sources of antioxidants, a variety of food choices come to mind. In addition to antioxidant rich foods, such as blueberries, everyday spices and seasonings add not only flavor to your foods, but increase your antioxidant intake at the same moment.
The addition of herbs and spices plus has the benefit of enhancing food’s flavor without adding fat or calories. Spices are only recently being studied for their nutritional value to us. Areas of research on the study of spices realated to our health include undoubtful spice’s possible ability to reduce inflammation, boost our metabolism and promote a feeling of fullness after we eat.
Some of the ordinary everyday spices that seem to have the greatest possible benefit to our health are ginger, cinnamon, oregano, red popper, thyme, tumeric and rosemary. Herbs and spices are categorized as fruits and vegetables and since we eat them in a dehydrated mold, they deliver lots of antioxidants in small portions.
Adding a variety of spices to the entrees you enjoy eating anyway can be very simple and will only manufacture your meal more palatable as well as better for your health. For example, cinnamon is a welcome addition to cereal, oatmeal or toast for your breakfast meal. Oregano can easily be added at lunch or dinner meals. Oregano enhances the flavor of soups, salad dressings and any Italian food.
Ginger and cinnamon are wonderful flavor additives for any fruit or dessert. At dinnertime or lunchtime, side dishes such as roasted or mashed potatoes can be livened up with a sprinkling of rosemary leaves. Rosemary is additionally a delicious seasoning for any chicken or poultry dish.
By adding spices to your food, you’ll be adding flavor and enjoyability to your meals without the calories and with lots of antioxidants. Overall, adding spices to your diet is a very health conscious strategy.
Original post by EatingToLive
Muscle Mass Training
February 18, 2004–To be able to handle the stress of modern intense bodybuilding workouts you have to have been blessed with a car battery central nervous system. Only these people can grow large amounts of muscle from today’s training systems. What this means to normal people is they have to be extra careful about how they use their supply of nervous energy. If they are to ever reach their true muscular potential then they would have to find a training system that could stimulate muscular growth, but not drain the central nervous system’s limited supply of nervous energy.
Shocking the central nervous system affects the way the body secretes various hormones and the way the immune system does its job. A whole chemical imbalance results which sends the whole body into a state of red alert. The body starts working over time trying to regulate itself back to normal?which results in even more nervous energy demand. When the immune system is not operating at 100% efficiency it will also not be able to neutralize the catabolic hormone cortisol.
In times of physical stress the body releases cortisol to help the body cope with the stress put on it. Unfortunately if the excess cortisol is not neutralized by the immune system then the hormone cortisol becomes catabolic which spells disaster to anyone trying to build muscle. Until now only people blessed with highly superior central nervous systems could grow from the type of training that is practiced today. Natural bodybuilders with just average genetics were doomed to a training history of disappointment.
The “Hyper-Growth Muscle Mass Training” program has been specially designed for people with just normal or below normal genetics. It is unfortunate that the bulk of research that is done on building muscle and strength has been done on genetically gifted athletes. What was never taken into consideration was an average person like you and me.
The body has the potential to grow very large amounts of muscle, all it needs is the system that will work and can be adopted by anybody’s genetic blue print.
“Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves” Mountain Herb Festival
June 10, 2004 — “Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves” Herb Festival “Mountain Herb Festival” is back this year.
It has been billed as one of the most unique festival in our Appalachian area of Kentucky for 2004, because it is put on by people who have little in luxuries but, they are trying to do something for the environment and others.
Held on the full moon with creeks and lake all around. If you enjoy pristine wilderness settings way back on 3 miles of gravel roads with the singing creek by your campsite; this is where you need to be.
The unique “Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves”, Mountain Herb Festival is back for its fourth year. 2004. Come see what all the talk is about.
Aug. 26-28, 2004.
Alternative healers, environmental lovers of Mother Earth and diverse multicultural experts and artists of from all over the country.
Savor exotic herbal, vegetarian, and Appalachian food, see, dance, come alive, enjoy stories that will intrigue you, learn skills of the mountains and listen to music that will make you reflect on the generations past and to come.
Learn how to make soap, herbal medicine, wine, make a basket, grow and preserve herbs, grow and use ginseng and other mountain herbs, make solar panels, live off the grid, living green, research your family genealogy, and much, much, more.
Oh and let’s not forget that we have, hands-on children’s projects.
Now we will whip up your appetite for some unusual festival cuisine! It will be hard to decide when your choices include stinging nettle soup, in our Appalachian section and in black sweet rice pudding with pear and ginger sauce, grilled vegetarian whole wheat pizzas, vege burgers with whole wheat buns, and again much, more!
Be sure to stop by and visit our latest additions to the festival. With all these choices and more you won’t go home with an empty stomach.
Mountain Herb Festival will be bringing together leading herb lovers, environmental classes and alternative healers from throughout the country and locally to share with us their knowledge of the Earth, plants and natural healing methods as well as healing the earth workshops.
Delicious Appalachian meals and vegetarian meals.
Event Contacts:
Linda Heller: 606-672-6444
Email: beyondyonder@webtv.net
Website link for more info:
http://geocities.com/beyondyonderrd/festival
Ali Vincent Wins Biggest Loser
I don’t watch the show, but have a friend who is an avid fan of “The Biggest Loser” television show where ordinary folks compete against one another to see who can lose the most weight and the winner takes home a cash prize, as well as a new self esteem and health thanks to dramatic, needed weight loss.
I’d say that’s a win/win situation, and while I’m generally not a huge fan of “exploitational” reality tv, I’d say that show has something special considering not only do the contestants learn to eat right and exercise and get their bodies into the prime shape it should be in for their own happiness and longevity, but it additionally has inspired many others to do that same, and that’s what America needs right now at the peak of the obesity epidemic - inspiration to get back to basics and whip ourselves back into shape.
We need to kick processed and fast foods to the curb to do that, and that takes a lot more work and discipline than many of us think, particularly those of us with busy lives and lots of stress, who use food as a crutch. Ali Vincent was cute girl who had by hundred pounds to lose to become her healthiest self, and shed down to a good size and good body fat ratio to be in the best of health.
Over a hundred pounds is a TON of weightloss, no matter how heavy you start off as, and Ali pulled through, reportedly with a great attitude that she WAS the winner from the beginning, and a great desire to become the first female contestant to win the weight loss reality show. The show pursues the contestants through eating, through their ups and downs, exercising, and mental support, and even with that, it’s still a relatively short moment frame to be expected to lose nearly half of your body weight. I can’t even imagine losing that much, so kudos to Ali for becoming the first female victor!
Original post by EatingToLive
