Let's Talk About Health

Energy and Cellular Nutrition

2011-05-26T14:25:00.000-07:00

Cellular Nutrition

When we think of health and nutrition, few of us imagine the cell. Our bodies are made up of 100 trillion cells and every one of them is more complicated than a big city. There is a lot going on in the cell in order to keep us alive, healthy and energetic.

The cell is the source of the body’s energy supply; it’s what keeps us not only functioning at optimal health, but functioning at all. In fact, as soon as the cells lose any of their capacity to produce energy for the body, the result is a decline in health and our body starts to deteriorate.

Healthy cell life produces vitality - a healthy level of energy and resistance to stress and disease. But how do we make sure our cells are working at full speed at the energy front? The scientific research shows that the key to vitality is good nutrition.

Cells and energy

To understand how eating a particular diet can affect our cells, and therefore our energy levels, it’s useful to have a rough idea of how the cells actually work and how the cell produces its energy.

That particular task falls to the mitochondria, the "power plants" of the cell. There are hundreds of these in a typical cell, every one containing a unique pattern of DNA, and their job is to facilitate cellular respiration, a process through which they transform oxygen and nutrients into energy and water. The many finger-like folds in the mitochondrial inner membrane house respiratory chains where this process happens.

Amazing! Isn't it?

Optimal cellular nutrition

Many experts now agree that this is most easily done by boosting our natural defenses through optimal cellular nutrition. This simply involves providing ALL nutrients to the cell at optimal levels, which allows it to decide what it actually does and does not need. So, cellular nutrition is just the simple process of ensuring that we feed our body, our cells the right nutrition so that they can deliver on the job. That is as simple as that.

But consuming good nutrition will not really make a difference if our body is not able to fully absorb the nutrients from our foods or supplements. When the cells are full of toxins, they need to detoxify in order to absorb nutrients. Cleansed of toxins they can then produce new healthy cells and keep us energized and in good health.

More About Energy

2011-02-09T15:48:00.000-08:00

This time, we want to look at and understand precisely what is energy. In textbook form it is a source of power. Energy never dies but changes forms. In the human body, energy is the means that sustains life itself and represents various forms and values. These forms of energy are generated from the fuel intake to be converted. The fuel in human energy is fired up by various components and combinations of components found in food supply. Some of these components add to the bodies mass in cell reproduction, some are used as fuel to communicate from brain to all the various organs of the body. The body is designed to be automatic, such as heart beat, breathing, organ function, digestion, etc. If one of these automatic functions becomes inoperable, the whole machine comes apart at the seams. We believe that the part of this failure comes from improper repair from lack of raw material necessary to make complete and perfect repair. Daily use of energy by your body causes a natural wear and tear, if we have improper energy and raw material to rebuild with, we have a defective machine. Beneficial (not empty calories) foods and right nutrients can beat the lack of energy and fatigue and fight disease.

Energy

2010-12-29T12:56:00.000-08:00

By: J. Gruber

More and more our product is referred to as energy formula. When you consider the word energy, what does that mean to you? To me it means a host of things. Yes, the formula, like food, gives energy to our physical body by supplying necessary ingredients for the body to work with. What a beautifully designed creation our body is! Give it what it needs and it gives back in response what the brain commands. However, we should think in terms of the entire being, that which is called man. Let us examine how we use our basic energy. Do we create negative feedback by producing negative thoughts or action? The spoken word for example: not only energy is felt from the spoken word (positive or negative) but positive or negative results are produced. We have the ability to uplift those around us or destroy their spirits. Being positive or negative also produces chemical results in our own body either constructive or destructive.

So let us consider not only feeding our body with the essential nutrients to support our bodily functions, but use the energy produced in a positive way, thus creating an environment within ourselves and around us that produces positive results for our own health sake. Let that be our New Year's resolution!

Happy and Healthy New Year!

BALANCE IN TAKING SUPPLEMENTS

2010-11-12T12:36:00.000-08:00

Balance, balance, balance, this is the most important thing to remember when taking vitamins. A lot of people are spending large amount of money making themselves sick.

When anything is taken to excess, the body chemistry is put out of balance. Large doses of anything can become toxic to the body. The combination of nutrients is also very important. Calcium, for example, cannot be assimilated by the body without the help of other nutrients, such as magnesium, vitamins A & D and estrogen helping in uptake of this mineral. Bogdana's formula is perfectly balanced. This is the reason you feel the result. This is also why the body start reacting immediately to clean up its act. Give the body the substances it needs to make its chemicals and leave the rest up to what God has designed within our body to work. As we say at Bogdana: Give your body what it needs and it will perform miracles in return!
Bogdana has also taken a lot of work out of body's need to break down the nutrients and has added an energy dimension to our product.
To stay healthy in the winter flue season, consider supporting your health with a good dietary supplement.

Cholesterol and Heart Disease

2010-06-16T12:29:00.000-07:00

According to American Heart Association 75 million Americans suffer from heart disease, 20 million are diabetic and 57 million are pre-diabetic. These disorders are affecting younger generation in greater numbers every year. 25 percent of our population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact that we have reduced the fat content of our foods, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before. Fat and cholesterol got a bad wrap, even though is is important for our health. Contrary to popular belief, the level of cholesterol found in the blood of most people have little or nothing to do with the fats consumed in our diet. Our liver manufactures cholesterol from hormones in the amount that is necessary for the body to perform various functions. Only about 20% of cholesterol levels are affected by the food we eat. So what we eat has a little effect on our blood cholesterol level.

According to Dr. Dwight Lundell, cholesterol does not cause heart disease. In the last 25 years, Dr. Lundell performed 5000 heart surgeries and he noticed that his patients had one thing in common - noticeable inflammation in the arteries of their hearts, even though their cholesterol was normal in more that half of his patients. Dr. Lundell came to the conclusion that it is the inflammation that traps cholesterol in the artery wall. Cholesterol is not evil as science shows and decreasing cholesterol through medication is not enough without addressing the inflammation.

So let's look at the inflammation: without it being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the veins as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped. Inflammation is not complicated, it's simply our body's natural defense to foreign invader such as virus, bacteria or toxin. However we can chronically expose our body to injury by toxins of foods that human body was never designed to process and cause so called chronic inflammation. The biggest culprits of chronic inflammation are overloads of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (white sugar, flower and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 oils like corn, soy been and sunflower that are found in many process foods. We are consuming as much as 30 times more omega-6 in proportion to omega-3 oils.

There is a way to lessen our susceptibility to inflammation. They key is to get back to the natural food of our grandparents, whole grains and natural sugars from fruits instead from processed foods. More fish for omega-3, more salads and fresh steam vegetables. And in case you worry about your high cholesterol, choose a product that helps to reduce the amount of fat before it gets to your blood stream. With the help of good diet, Omega-3, Vitamin C and a good dietary supplement we can beat the heart disease.

Wishing you the Best of Health!

A LETTER

2010-06-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

I would like to share with you a letter I received from someone who became our dear friend through Bogdana:

Dear Bogda,

I had a pleasure of meeting Joseph Gruber in 1991, your husband and the scientist who invented Bogdana Nutritional Formula.

Having listened to a health show aired in New York during which the advanced science within the Bogdana Liquid Nutritional Formula was being discussed. I was motivated to order the formula.

At the time, I had a serious illness that continued to worsen. When I started taking Bogdana formula, my journey toward health restoration had begun; it was not an overnight sensation for me; my improvement was more like two steps forward and one step backward. Along the way, I frequently spoke with Joseph Gruber who guided me as to the best way to take the liquid nutrients to get the best results. Seeing the results in improvement of my health, I became a distributor for the Bogdana Corporation and eventually represented Bogdana as a radio host for "Let's Talk About Health", a show that aired on numerous stations throughout the United States.

I believe that Bogdana Rejuvenating Nutritional Formula was largely responsible for the eventual restoration of my health, and I give credit to Joseph Gruber who had a great positive impact on many aspects of my life. He now lives on in my heart where I still relate to him.

Sincerely,
Robert W Anderson
New York

IMPORTANCE OF WHOLE NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS

2010-04-26T15:36:00.000-07:00

In a perfect world the food we eat would be all we need to keep our body healthy and fit. That's how it must have been in the beginning I suppose, but today we are far from that perfect place. Most of Americans don't eat the minimum recommended servings of vegetables and fruits. On top of it, the produce that we eat is being grown in the same depleted soil, with added chemical fertilizers, that do not restore many of the nutrients back to the earth. No wonder that JAMA study in 2002 concluded that vitamin deficiency may be the cause of many chronic diseases.

Negative living conditions, daily stress and the chemicals that are being added to our food and water supply are not at all beneficial to our health. All this considered, adding supplements to our diet is a good idea. Especially dietary supplements that provide a whole spectrum of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, essential amino acids and other important nutrients necessary to optimum health. We don't need mega doses of vitamins. Actually too much of one particular vitamin can produce a deficiency of others. A supplement that supplies all essential nutrients would be a perfect choice.

Bogdana Rejuvenating Nutritional Formula is such supplement, containing 150 nutrients in micro doses. It was carefully balanced and formulated to provide nutrients that are missing in our diets. Why not give it a try?

TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH L GRUBER

2010-04-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

I couldn’t start this blog without first writing a tribute to my late husband Joseph L Gruber who was the scientist behind Bogdana products. Together we founded Bogdana Corporation 24 years ago. Without him, Bogdana and the wonderful products he developed wouldn’t exist.

Many of our customers know him from our radio show “Let’s talk about health”, which he produced, hosted and later was as a guest of. Many of you met Joe personally or talked to him on the phone. Time permitted, he was always available to talk to his “family”, as he called our customers. I know those of you who knew him, would agree that he was an incredible human being, kind and wise, always ready to help someone with his advice, time or resources.

He was a scientist at heart, always years ahead of his time. He had a desire to get to the bottom of things. He never stopped studying everything that interested him in great detail, and for the last years of his life he studied everything he could about the human body and how it works. The study resulted in developing a dietary supplement, Bogdana Rejuvenating Nutritional Formula, containing 150 nutrients he felt are necessary for the body to stay healthy, or get back to wellness. He found out that taking just certain vitamins in mega doses is a wrong approach. He discovered that a balanced formula of many nutrients in micro-doses was better way to supply, especially lacking nutrients in our diets, in a liquid form for better absorption and assimilation of nutrients. He felt that the formula was “God given” (which is the meaning of the name Bogdana in Slavic lanquage).

I am sure Joe would like to thank all of our wonderful customers, many of which are still with us since the beginning of our company, for their trust and support.
He was a wonderful husband and father. I miss him every day and I am looking forward to that day when I’ll see him again.