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Archive for October, 2007

Healing Nutrition and Sport’s Injuries

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Healing nutrition can help anyone who has an ailment. However, one group of individuals who can make the most of it are those afflicted with a type of sports injury. When an athlete is hurt, the best way to help them is to provide adequate nutrition.

Another thing that can help while having healing nutrition is to incorporate a herbal products diet regime into it. This can only help to enhance a person’s immune system when they need it the most.

When a person is injured while playing sports, one of two things happen. A repetitive motion trauma can occur or a direct trauma that results from a fall or some kind of accident.

No matter how the injury took place, a diet filled with such nutrition can help to alleviate the injury. Both herbal products organic material and a diet rich in nutrients can help to heal an athlete quickly and very effectively.

One of the best ways that healing nutrition and herbs can be incorporated into the diet is through supplements and vitamins. Adequate vitamin intake is essential when trying to heal injuries.

Vitamins are readily available to purchase, but when healing an injury it is best to buy herbal products or vitamins that are enhanced with essential vitamins of C, A, E, and beta carotene. These are vital if the injury sustained is a tissue injury.

Other wildcrafted herbal products that can be found in healing nutrition are bromelain, arnica, and aloe vera. Bromelain is found in the pineapple and can be used to treat a variety of injuries.

Bromelain inhibits the formation of a hormone substance that can increase an athlete’s inflammation. This is the last thing that a healing person needs when they have been injured.

Arnica is known to increase the healing rate when bruising and swelling are the main components of the injury.

A person can rub it on their skin the heal sprains and bruises quickly and holistically. However, a mild rash could develop from using these wildcrafted herbal products and a person may need to discontinue using this with their healing nutrition regime.

And the most well known herb for healing is more than likely aloe vera, and this can definitely help a person who is recovering from an injury. By just rubbing this particular herb on the injury, everything from swelling to joint pain can be helped.

Healing nutrition for sports injuries can be a great thing especially if one combines a herbal products diet with their nutrition.

A ton of great information can be found by asking the treating physician or searching the internet for references on holistic healing or alternative medicines with sports injuries.

Stress – disease of modern life

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Are you anxious, irritable, and feeling rundown? Do you find it hard to concentrate? Are you forgetful? Do you worry a lot and find it hard to sleep at night? Do you have a lot wrinkles?

If you answered “yes” to the above questions, chances are you’re suffering from stress, one of the most common maladies of our time.

Experts say stress is the body’s way of coping with the world around us. It helped cavemen escape from predators and other physical threats. When the body is under threat, it responds by releasing catecholamines or stress hormones. These hormones arouse key organs and prepare a person or animal under threat to fight or run.

“The fight-or-flight response was essential to survival in a time when human beings faced physical threats, such as wild animals, that caused acute stress and could be dealt with effectively by either fighting or running away. By contrast, the stresses we face in modern life are much more likely to be psychological and interpersonal and not able to be handled by fighting or fleeing. Unfortunately, the body reacts to today’s stresses as though it were still facing a real physical threat,” according to Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier of the Stanford University School of Medicine in “Mind/Body Medicine.”

Stress not only makes you nervous, tense, and tired. It can also make you ugly by giving you lots of wrinkles. Worse, too much stress can lead to several serious diseases.

“Under conditions of chronic, long-term stress, the perfectly normal responses that occur under short-term stress are abnormally protracted and can lead to chronic disease or contribute to the development of disease. With chronic stress, the immune system tends to be suppressed or become less active and blood-cholesterol level rises. When protracted over time, the normal short-term increases in blood pressure can become hypertension, increased muscle tension can lead to headaches or aggravate pain, unusual changes in the activity of the intestinal tract can lead to diarrhea or spasms, increases in heart rate can raise the risk of an arrhythmia. In addition, depressed immunity may make an individual susceptible to colds and the flu or possibly to more serious diseases,” Pelletier added.

While you probably can’t change the stressful world we live in, you can stay healthy and take control of stress by managing your time, delegating tasks, being realistic, and learning to live with your limitations.