Knowing What is Your DNA Telling You

It is vital that you should know what is your DNA telling you. Understanding your own unique DNA language is the single most powerful tool to enhance your personal health, fitness, energy and vitality. When you are not in harmony with your personal DNA, your body begins to tell you through troublesome symptoms such as low energy levels, aches and pains, increased mental stress, decreased clarity, hard to shift weight gain and headaches. More importantly, many chronic degenerative diseases can be prevented by acting upon the messages you receive from your DNA profile.

Genetic Profile and What is Your DNA telling You

By having a personal Genetic Profile that tests for 40 genes associated with health and performance outcomes, you can find out what is your DNA telling you, as well as, your biological DNA weaknesses and strengths (that your ancestors gave you) that can be targeted with specific nutrigenomic and lifestyle interventions.

Instead of only “predictive” genetic testing that identifies the genetic risk of diseases such as dementia or breast cancer (and what can you do about it), the Fitgenes profiling tests for 40 genes is responsible for biochemical pathways and cellular responses which influence various physiological functioning of the body. What is your DNA telling you through this test and knowing these genes allow us to match your profile with the most appropriate nutrigenomic and lifestyle interventions to maximize your health and performance, and thereby prevent a whole host of diseases.

What is your DNA telling you at Beyond Good Health

Good News! Genetic Testing and Profiling is NOW available at Beyond Good Health. Ask your practitioners about this once-in-a-lifetime valuable genetic testing and discover your blueprint plan for true health insurance today!

Want to know what is your DNA telling you? 

Super Food Drink for Your Health

You can now enjoy a super food drink any time you want. A hot, frothy chocolate elixir on a cold day can warm you up for hours.  You can add some powerful concentrated herbal extracts to it that when consumed regularly, will charge your body with everlasting strength, healing and energy. This is because the mucopolysaccharides, beta glucans, alkaloikds, and phytonutrients present in these herbs have the capacity to intelligently heal your body. It also gives you the energy and strength you need each day. Thus, it becomes a super food drink. This is where food truly becomes your medicine.

Super Food Drink: It’s Many Benefits

I have been experimenting and incorporating these supertonic herbal elixirs into my daily regime for months now. I can really feel its benefits coming through as an increased adaptability and resistance to stress, additional stamina, and energy. The added benefit to this is the fact that it also tastes great! Certainly, this super food drink is a far cry from the usual foul-tasting, horrible smelling herbal medicines we have come to equate with healing.

How to Make a Simple Super Food Drink

To make this simple super food drink hot chocolate elixir, you can take any tea base (gynostemma — my favorite, goji berries, cinnamon, pau d’arco etc), coconut oil and/or cacao butter to create a creamy consistency, add any additional powders to give the drink substance along with your favorite sweetener for added flavor.

From this basic recipe, you can build upon it and expand the ingredients you use to create your own unique, delicious and healthy beverage.

Enjoy your super food drink now!

Great BGH Healthy Recipes

You can now enjoy great-tasting, healthy recipes that are both stimulating and mood/energy lifting especially if you are a lover of hot chocolate drink. Below are some healthy recipes that you can follow:   

Basic Hot Chocolate Healthy Recipes 

Ingredients:

500ml Hot Tea base (tea bags, gynostemma, gogi berries, cinnamon sticks, etc)

2 tablespoons raw cacao powder

1-2 tablespoons raw organic honey (or stevia to taste)

1 tablespoon coconut oil and/or cacao butter (cacao butter is optional)

Pinch of sea salt

Directions:

Heat the water until it is at a low boil.

Pour the hot water over your tea leaves or tea bags and steep for 10 minutes.

If you are using Gogi berries and/ or cinnamon sticks, bring the water to low boil, then add in 2 tablespoons of organic Gogi berries and /or 6 Ceylon cinnamon sticks and simmer for about 30 minutes.

Strain tea and place in blender. Blend the tea and the oils first to emulsify the oils. Add remaining ingredients and blend it on high for 30 seconds.

Pour your healthy recipes into a mug and sprinkle with a small amount of cacao powder.

Optional ingredients you can add to your healthy recipes

1 tablespoon Maca powder

½ – 1 tsp shilajit powder

½ tsp of Mucuna

(You can also use any variation and combination of Reishi, Cordyceps, Ho Shou Wu concentrated herbal extract)

2 tablespoons nut milk or organic cream

You can blend any of these additional ingredients in and adjust the cacao powder and sweeteners to taste. Pour into a mug or glass and enjoy!

More Variation Healthy Recipes You Can Try

To create a delicious variation of “Mexican Hot Chocolate” healthy recipes, you can add a pinch of Cayenne pepper to the drink before you blend. This will warm you up on those cold winter nights. Cayenne pepper boosts metabolism and is also known as an aphrodisiac. Ooh la la!

You can also add Mucuna which has a dark coffee-like flavor. Another ingredient to add is Shilajit which has a rich and smoky taste that if combined with cacao powder will give you healthy recipes that are very delicious! Mucuna contains a cocktail of ingredients that are precursor to “dopamine” which has a considerable influence on the mind and libido. This beverage is one of the many healthy recipes that is mildly stimulating, mood-lifting, makes you feel mentally clear and gives you a boost of energy for several hours.

Reishi, Cordyceps and Ho Shou Wu are thee of the most touted and revered herbs in Chinese Herbalism. Together or individually, they have a very calming, grounding and uplifting effect. They are gently nourishing, adaptogenic and always work to restore balance within your body. The herbs are slightly bitter and earthy, which in synergy with the cacao and other ingredients, give you an end result that is a superb elixir — gently stimulating and tonifying. These healthy recipes are great replacements for a latte or cappuccino without producing the usual adrenal crash.

Experiment with these different blends and healthy recipes and you will soon work out your favorites, as well as, be on your way to improved and vibrant health!

Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease Everyone Must Know

Do you know that there is an insidious non-alcoholic cause of liver disease?

It is referred to as “insidious” because it is hidden in popular soft drinks and many packaged foods. This non-alcoholic cause of liver disease is not considered a toxin, yet it is known by researchers to be very harmful to your health.

Fructose: Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease

What is this ingredient? It is called Fructose.  You will be surprise to know that it is actually a high fructose corn syrup which is found in soft drinks, sodas and many bottled juices.

Fructose is lipogenic. This can change even non-fatty foods into body fat. It makes you fat which can affect all parts of your body. It also promotes inflammation in the body. Inflammation is a major factor in almost every modern disease, including allergies. It also increases the risk of obesity and fatty liver disease. A vicious circle, isn’t it?

Avoiding this Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease

Instead of sodas and bottled juice, choose fresh juices instead or just plain clean water. Your liver will love you for it.

 the next time you reach for a soft drink or bottled juice, think about this insidious non-alcoholic cause of liver disease.

Feeling Tired All the Time Means Something is Wrong

Do you feel tired all the time?

It could be your thyroid gland. Over the years, I have treated many patients with low thyroid condition, as well as, those whose thyroid is underactive due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Hashimoto’s disease is an autoimmune condition wherein the immune system has become confused. It begins to attack the thyroid gland which leads to an inflammation which disrupts the thyroid activity.

Thyroid Dysfunction: Tired all the time is a Health Condition

Like all health conditions, thyroid dysfunction is usually the culmination and result of a combination of factors. This would include toxic load, deficiencies in magnesium, iodine, iron and vitamin A; stress; hormonal imbalances, lack of sleep, depression, overwork, chronic infections, heavy metals, petrochemicals and solvent exposure.

In my experience, hypothyroidism commonly escapes detection by standard thyroid tests. Other than you feeling tired all the time, it can sometimes be detected by a low basal body temperature. To do this, take your temperature with an oral mercury thermometer when you wake up in the morning. Do this for three days in a row.

For menstruating women who feel tired all the time, take your temperature during day 2 to day 4 during your period. If your temperature stays below 36.3 degrees C, your thyroid may be under-active and you need to consult your health practitioner.

Possible Signs of Low Thyroid Aside From Being Tired All The Time

• Low basal temperature in early mornings average over 7 days
• Slow movements, slow speech, slow reaction time
• Muscle weakness
• Excessive tiredness
• Thick tongue (seemingly too big for mouth)
• Swollen feet, face or eyelids
• Pale lips or yellowish skin
• Enlarged thyroid gland
• Frequent sore throat or husky voice
• Dry mouth or eyes
• Excessively dry or coarse skin
• Very low blood pressure
• Decreased ankle reflexes
• Loss of outer one-third of eyebrows.

Underactive thyroid and other hormonal or glandular problems should be treated as they can have serious health effects. At my clinics, we use a combination of natural therapies, including diet and hormonal balancing that help restore many men/women towards complete health and vigor.

Come to our clinics if you feel tired all the time and let us help you.

But are these drugs really beneficial? Not so much for women, researchers say.

Research shows that women do not get the same protective benefits from statins that men do. They are also more likely to experience serious side effects than men, including severe muscle pain, diabetes and memory loss.

So why are so many women taking these drugs? Because they’re afraid of dying of heart disease.

Yet high cholesterol is not a blueprint for heart disease. It’s one possible risk factor. What’s more, in most cases, cholesterol can be reduced with a combination of diet, exercise and fish oil. These same factors strengthen and tone the heart, improve circulation and reduce inflammation.

And learning to de-stress regularly with Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Meditation or deep relaxation removes the real major cause of heart disease and emotional stress.

The only way to avoid these toxic effects on the prostate is through detoxification. You can do this naturally by eating lots of fresh, pesticide-free vegetables and fruits, drinking lots of filtered or good spring water (tea, coffee and juices do not count), exerising every day and keeping your home as free as possible of food additives and environmental and domestic chemicals. Also, avoid cigarette smoke as it contains high levels of radioactive elements.

If your past diet and environment has been less than pristine, or you were regularly exposed to car, petrol or other toxic fumes; cleaning agents; farm chemicals or other toxins in your home or workplace, then your body will need help getting rid of accumulated toxins.

Research has shown that lymphatic detoxification helps prevent prostate cancer and breast cancer. By helping the body eliminate acidifying toxins more quickly, lymphatic detoxification helps to restore your body’s pH to more alkaline condition. This enables the growth of the beneficial intestinal bacteria (flora) which play an important role in protecting your body from infection, parasites and inflammation, and also creates an inner environment that inhibits the growth of cancer cells.

According to more recent research, adults with the highest levels of vitamin C are 60% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with the lowest levels of vitamin C. That’s a very good reason to eat less cereals and potatoes and make fresh fruits and vegetables the major part of your daily diet.

Other than giving fruits a good wash to remove traces of pesticides, eat them as nature provided them. Most vegetables can be eaten raw, or if you cook them, don’t overdo it: lightly steamed or quickly stir fried vegetables retain more nutrients and useful fibre.

If you in the diabetes risk group, take note: Fruit juices, even those you squeeze yourself, are not the same thing as fresh fruit.

Juices dump loads of sugar into the body fast, whereas whole fruits also provide unrefined natural fibre that helps pace the absorbtion and digestion of sugar and nutrients. In fact, research showed that drinking just one fruit juice a day increased the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Here are a few more tips to help keep your tummy quiet and happy. Try just a little to begin with to make sure that you do not react to the natural essential oils found in these plant foods.

Rosemary is especially good at helping the body digest lamb and lamb fat. This herb has strong essential oils, so don’t eat it raw. Instead, cook it with the lamb. It adds wonderful flavour and aroma!

Mint is a a good digestive cleanser. I eat it raw and in my smoothies. It’s also good as an after-dinner cup of mint tea, and to help releive indigestion.

Cardamon is a spice that increases the flow of salivary enzymes which improves digestion. A seed or two in hot water makes a flavourful tea to drink before a meal! In the Middle East, they add a seed of cardamon to their gut wrenchingly strong coffee. In India, it’s often used to flavour warm milk and milky desserts, making them more digestible.

A new study confirms that a vegetarian and gluten-free diet (no animal products, wheat, rye, or barley) significantly improves rheumatoid arthritis. After 12 months, patients on a vegan diet experienced substantially decreased symptoms. The study from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden was published in Arthritis Research and Therapy.

Other studies show that vegan or vegetarian diets also result in easy weight loss, lowered blood pressure and decreased cardiovascular disease.

You don’t have to go vegan or completely vegetarian to reap benefits. Just eating fewer animal products can benefit many health problems and improve wellbeing. Excellent non-animal sources of protein are plant greens, nuts, and legumes.