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11 Ageless Being Staying vibrant in mind, body, and spirit

by Kathleen Barnes

14 The Swedish Dentist Hot and cold tooth sensitivity

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healthbriefs Yoga Boosts Brain Gray Matter

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esearch from the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University Medical Center has found that a regular hatha yoga practice increases gray matter within the brain, reversing the loss found among those with chronic pain. The researchers tested seven hatha yoga meditation practitioners and seven non-practitioners. Each of the subjects underwent tests for depression, anxiety, moods and cognition levels, along with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans.

The scientists found that the brains of the yoga meditation practitioners contained significantly greater gray matter by volume in key brain regions, including the frontal, temporal and occipital cortices, plus the cerebellum and the hippocampus, compared to the non-yoga subjects.

The yoga meditation practitioners also had more gray area in the prefrontal cortex regions that are involved in decision-making, reward/consequence, control and coordination.

Support Groups Keep Artery Patients Mobile

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esearch published in the Journal of the American Heart Association has determined that when peripheral artery disease patients engage in behavioral support groups that encourage exercise, they realize increased mobility.

The researchers from Northwestern University followed 194 patients for a year, testing subjects at six months and again at 12 months. The patients were divided into two groups; one attended weekly intervention group meetings, while the control group attended weekly lectures.

After six months, the researchers found that only 6.3 percent of those who attended the support group meetings experienced mobility loss, compared to 26.5 percent of those that didn’t attend the meetings.

After one year, the support group attendees again showed positive results.

The control group had 18.5 percent loss in mobility, while only 5.2 percent of the support group attendees did.

Smog Increases Stroke Risk

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esearch from Germany has found that the high particulate numbers in smoggy areas increase the risk of stroke. The Heinz Nixdorf Recall study followed more than 4,400 people between the ages of 45 and 74.

The researchers began the study in 2000. They compared stroke and heart attacks to air pollution particulate matter (PM) levels of PM10 (particle sizes of 10 micrometers or less) and PM2.5 (2.5 micrometers or less).

The study found that stroke incidence was more than two-and-a-half times higher among people with long-term exposure to PM10, while stroke incidence increased by more than three times among people with long-term exposure to PM2.5 smog.

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Chamomile Tea Helps Us Live Longer

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n a study of 1,677 MexicanAmerican men and women older than 65 from the Southwestern U.S., researchers have found that drinking chamomile tea decreases the risk of earlier mortality by an average of 29 percent.

Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch followed the study population for seven years.

Among those tested, 14 percent drank chamomile tea regularly. These were primarily women, and those women who drank chamomile tea experienced a 33 percent reduced mortality during the study period. The small group of men who drank the chamomile tea regularly did not register a significant difference in mortality.

Chamomile has a long history of use in folk medicine and is primarily used to settle digestion and calm the mind. It is a leading natural herbal tea in many countries and contains no caffeine.

While various species may be used, chamomile tea is traditionally made by infusing the flowers of either German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) or Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) into hot water. In Spanish-speaking regions, chamomile tea is often referred to as manzanilla tea—consumed in Mexico and other Spanish cultures for centuries.

Daily Exercise Adds Five Years to Life

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esearch published this year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has determined that just 30 minutes of exercise, six days a week, can result in a reduced risk of early death by 40 percent, regardless of the intensity of the exercise.

The researchers followed nearly 15,000 men born between 1923 and 1932.

The men’s exercise and sedentary levels were measured along with the number of deaths that occurred during two 12-year study periods. In the second 12-year period, the researchers followed almost 6,000 of the surviving men. The researchers compared those men who were sedentary with those who exercised either moderately or intensely and found that moderate to intense exercise increased their average life span by five years. This improvement was comparable to the difference between smoking and non-smoking, according to the researchers.

The data comes from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, in Oslo. The scientists’ finding confirms that public health practices for elderly men should include efforts to increase physical activity, along with efforts to reduce smoking.

Muscle-Building Supplements Linked to Testicular Cancer

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ew research published in the British Journal of Cancer has found that taking muscle-building supplements can increase the risk of testicular cancer by up to 65 percent. The study monitored 356 cancer patients and 513 control subjects, all from Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The case-control study was conducted by researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and the Harvard School of Public Health, and tested for testicular germ cell cancer.

About 90 percent of testicular cancers originate from germ cells.

The researchers found that subjects who used multiple musclebuilding supplements and those who began using the supplements when they were younger had the greatest risk of developing cancer.

Green Tea, Apples and Cocoa Protect Against Cancer and Arterial Plaque

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esearch published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research has found a new mechanism that may provide the key to why some foods are particularly healthy. The researchers found that epigallocatechin gallates, a class of polyphenols contained in green tea, apples, cocoa and other herbs and foods, blocks vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, which is implicated in the buildup of plaque in the arteries, as well as cancer growth.

Blocking VEGF helps prevent angiogenesis—when tumors form new blood vessels that help them grow.

The researchers, from the Institute of Food Research, in Norwich, in the United Kingdom, tested the polyphenols, as well as human cells, in the laboratory.

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on-smokers aren’t the only ones to suffer from passive smoking.

New research from the Technical University of Braunschweig, in Germany, has determined that plants can also absorb nicotine from cigarette smoke, soil and pesticide sprays.

The data showed that many plants yield higher quantities of nicotine residues from periods when pesticides used contained nicotine. Plants that were mulched with tobacco leaves also absorbed nicotine into their leaves.

“Tremendously elevated nicotine levels were detected after fumigation with cigarette smoke,” says Dirk Selmar, lead author of the study.

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The bill removes the requirement that foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) be labeled as such, preventing consumers from the right to know whether or not the foods they purchase contain potentially harmful ingredients.

If it becomes law, H.R. 1599 will preempt state labeling requirements, including the pioneering Vermont GMO labeling law scheduled to take effect next year.

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De-Salting Water Could Help Drought-Stricken Areas

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team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jain Irrigation Systems has devised a method of turning brackish water into drinking water using renewable energy. This solar-powered machine is able to pull salt out of water and disinfect it with ultraviolet rays, making it suitable for both irrigation and drinking.

Electrodialysis works by passing a stream of water between two electrodes with opposite charges. Because the salt dissolved in water consists of positive and negative ions, the electrodes pull the ions out of the water, leaving fresher water at the center of the flow. A series of membranes separate the freshwater stream from increasingly salty ones.

The photovoltaic-powered electrodialysis reversal system recently won the top $140,000 Desal Prize from the U.S. Department of Interior. “This technology has the potential to bring agriculture to vast barren lands using brackish water,” says Richard Restuccia, Jain’s vice president of landscape solutions. The prize was developed to supply catalytic funding to capture and support innovative ideas and new technologies that could have a significant impact on resolving global water demand.

Among 13 desalination projects under consideration along the California coast, the Carlsbad Desalination Project will be the largest in the Western Hemisphere once it is completed in the fall.

Source: EcoWatch.com

Secular Socialization

Today’s Young Adults Are the Least Religious Ever

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esearchers led by San Diego State University Psychology Professor Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., found that millennials are the least religious generation of the last six decades, and possibly in the nation’s history. They analyzed data from 11.2 million respondents from four nationally representative surveys of U.S. adolescents ages 13 to 18 taken between 1966 and 2014.

Results published in the journal PLOS One conclude that recent adolescents are less likely to say that religion is important in their lives, report less approval of religious organizations, and find themselves feeling less spiritual and spending less time praying or meditating. “Unlike previous studies, ours is able to show that millennials’ lower religious involvement is due to cultural change, not to their being young and unsettled,” says Twenge, who is also the author of Generation Me.

“Millennial adolescents are less religious than Boomers and GenXers were at the same ages,” she notes. “We also looked at younger ages than the previous studies. More of today’s adolescents are abandoning religion before they reach adulthood, with an increasing number not raised with religion at all.”

Source: San Diego State University

AGELESS BEING Staying Vibrant in Mind, Body and Spirit

by Kathleen Barnes

Agelessness: Engaging in and experiencing life without fear of falling, failing or falling apart.

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n a nutshell, that’s the philosophy of visionary women’s health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup, of Yarmouth, Maine, as explored in her latest book, Goddesses Never Age.

“We’re long overdue for a paradigm shift about how we feel about growing older,” says Northrup. “You can change your future by adopting a new, ageless attitude that will help you flourish physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. We don’t have to buy into modern medicine’s promotion of the idea of the pathology of aging.”

One of Northrup’s primary admonitions: “Don’t tell anyone how old you are. Another birthday means nothing.”

Maintain a Sound Mind

Our Western society fosters a belief system that we will become decrepit,

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frail and mentally feeble at a certain age. “When my mother turned 50, her mailbox suddenly filled with ads for adult diapers, walkers and longterm care insurance,” Northrup quips.

The point is well taken. Think vibrant, healthy, gorgeous and yes, sexy Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Chris Rock and Brooke Shields—all 50 or older—as the targets of ads for Depend.

We’re living and working longer, and many of us are feeling, looking and staying young longer. So is 60 the new 40? Yes, say State University of New York at Stony Brook researchers, and further note that we’re generally leading longer and healthier lives.

Centenarians are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. In the 2010 census, 53,364 people had surpassed their 100th year, an increase

of 40 percent over the 1980 census, and more than 80 percent of them are women. The National Institute on Aging projects that this number could increase tenfold or more by 2050.

What we think of as “old” has changed. Many baby boomers refuse to buy into the mythology of aging, bristle at being called senior citizens, and especially dislike being called elderly.

Their position is backed by science.

Stem cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., author of Biology of Belief and currently a visiting professor at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, in Auckland, is best known for promoting the concept that DNA can be changed by belief, for good or ill.

Lipton explains that we all have billions of stem cells designed to repair or replace damaged—and aging—tissues and organs. “[These cells] are profoundly influenced by our thoughts and perceptions about the environment,” Lipton explains. “Hence our beliefs about aging can either interfere with or enhance stem cell function, causing our physiological regeneration or decline.”

“Yes, we are destined to grow older, but decrepitude and what we call aging is an optional state,” Northrup adds.

“Our genes, nutrition and environment are under our control far more than we may have thought.” More, she says, “Words are powerful. Don’t talk yourself into believing your brain is turning to mush just because you are over 40.”

Take Control of the Body

“Manage the four horsemen of the aging apocalypse,” encourages nutrition and longevity expert Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., a Los Angeles board-certified nutritionist and author of The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer. He says the aging process, including disease, loss of physical or mental function and the general breakdown of systems, is caused by one or more of four factors: oxidative damage (literally rusty cells); inflammation; glycation (excess sugar, metabolic syndrome); and stress.

“Collectively, they damage cells and DNA, wear down organs and systems, deeply damage the vascular pathways that deliver blood and oxygen to the entire body, and even shrink brain size,” explains Bowden.

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While it may seem like a tall order to make lifestyle changes that vanquish these four horsemen, Bowden says they can be broken into manageable elements by employing an arsenal of healthful weapons: whole foods, nutrients, stress-reduction techniques, exercise, detoxification and relationship improvement. “All of these actually do double duty, battling more than one of the four processes that can effectively shorten your life,” he reports, based on his 25 years of study.

Oxidative Damage

Consider what rust does to metal. That’s what free radical oxygen molecules do to cells. Over time, they damage them and cause aging from within.

“Oxidative damage plays a major role in virtually every degenerative disease of aging, from Alzheimer’s to cancer to heart disease and diabetes, even immune dysfunction,” says Bowden.

His recommended key to destroying free radicals is a diet rich in antioxidants, including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy fats, nuts, grassfed meats and organic dairy products.

Avoid environmental free radicals that show up in toxic chemicals by eating as much organic food as possible and avidly avoiding residues of the poisonous pesticides and herbicides sprayed on crops eaten by people and livestock.

Inflammation

Long-term inflammation is a silent killer because it operates beneath the radar, often unnoticed, damaging blood vessel walls. Like oxidative damage, inflammation is a factor in all the degenerative diseases associated with aging, says Bowden.

His suggestion: First, get a C-reactive protein (CRP) test to determine the levels of inflammation in our body. A CRP level over 3 milligrams/liter indicates a high risk of a heart attack. Anti-inflammatory foods such as onions, garlic, leafy greens, tomatoes, beans, nuts and seeds have all been widely scientifically proven to reduce chronic inflammation.

Glycation

This is the result of excessive sugar that glues itself to protein or fat molecules, leaving a sticky mess that creates advanced glycation end (AGE) products that damage all body systems and are

Compute Your Real Age Lifestyle choices can make our bodies older, or younger, than our number of orbits around the sun, according to Michael Roizen, a doctor of internal medicine and author of This is Your Do-Over: The 7 Secrets of Losing Weight, Living Longer, and Getting a Second Chance at the Life You Want. “Seventy percent of aging is in the simple things you do or don’t do,” he maintains.

Here are a few sobering examples: n An unresolved major life stressor, such as a divorce, being sued, the death of a close relative or other traumatic events, can add up to 32 years to chronological age. Managing the stress adds a relatively insignificant two years. n Swap out saturated fats (cheese and meat) for monounsaturated fats (olive oil, nuts and avocados). Subtract 2.5 years from chronological age. n Get up out of the chair every 15 minutes and also take a 10-minute walk every two hours. Subtract 2.1 years from chronological age. n Have close friends. Subtract 2.1 years from chronological age.

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acknowledged culprits in the dreaded diseases associated with aging.

Bowden’s basic answer is to minimize intake of sugar and simple carbs; anything made with white flour or white rice. Also avoid fried dishes and any foods cooked at high temperatures that actually skip the glycation production in the body and deliver harmful AGEs directly from the food. He advises taking 1,000 mg of carnosine (available in health food stores) daily to prevent glycation.

Stress

The long-term effects of physical, mental or emotional stress are tremendously damaging to the human physiology.

Sustained exposure to the stress hormone cortisol can shrink parts of the brain, damage blood vessels, increase blood sugar levels, heart rate and blood pressure, and contribute to chronic inflammation, according to wellestablished science recorded in the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Bowden warns, “Stress management is not a luxury.” In its many forms, including prayer, meditation and breathing exercises, it should be part of any agelessness program. Deep, restful sleep is as vital a component as ending toxic relationships, having a nurturing circle of friends and doing familiar, gentle exercise such as yoga or tai chi.

Overall, Bowden adds, “Rather than thinking of such endeavors as antiaging, I strive to embody the concept of age independence. I admire former Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who resigned from the court when he reached age 90 because he wanted to play more tennis.”

Bowden recommends embracing the concept of “squaring the curve”, meaning that instead of anticipating and experiencing a long downhill slope of poor health leading to death, “I look at a long plateau of health, with a steep drop-off at the end.”

Wellness guru Dr. Michael Roizen, chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute, contends that although our chronological age can’t be changed, “Your ‘real age’ [calculated from data he collected from 60 million people] is the result of a wide variety of factors that are within your control. Dietary choices alone can make you 13 years

younger or older than your actual age.”

Roizen adds uncontrolled portion sizes, tobacco use and physical inactivity to the list of life-shortening lifestyle options.

Align with Spirit

“If you don’t have some kind of spiritual foundation, literally, God help you,” says Northrup. “God isn’t confined to a book or a church, mosque or synagogue. Divinity is the creative loving, vital flow of life force that we’re all part of and connected to. Our bodies are exquisite expressions meant to embody, not deny our spirits.”

Touch, pleasure and sex can be part of it, too. Individuals who have the most fulfilling sex lives live the longest, according to researchers conducting the University of California, Riverside’s Longevity Project. “Pleasure comes in infinite forms,” says Northrup. “It can mean the exquisite taste of a pear or the sound of an angelic symphony, the kiss of sun on skin, the laughter of a child, spending time with friends or creating a pastel landscape. When you experience pleasure, God comes through and you become aware of your divine nature.

You’ll find that joy comes in ways that are unique to you.”

Connection with the natural world is an essential element of agelessness, says Northrup. “The human body evolved to walk on the Earth, drinking its water, breathing its air and basking in its sunlight.” The bottom line is, “Agelessness is all about vitality. Taking all the right supplements and pills, or getting the right procedure isn’t the prescription for anti-aging,” says this renowned physician. “It’s ageless living that brings back a sense of vibrancy and youthfulness.”

We could live to be well over 100 years old and, as Northrup likes to paraphrase Abraham Hicks, of The Law of Attraction fame, “Wouldn’t you rather have your life end something like this: ‘Happy-healthy, happy-healthy, happy-healthy, dead.’ Isn’t that a lot better than suffering sickness, decrepitude and frailty for years?”

Kathleen Barnes is the author of numerous books on natural health, her latest being Food Is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden. Connect at KathleenBarnes.com.

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Age-Defying Exercise

by Kathleen Barnes

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pecially designed movements performed to music can dramatically improve memory, as well as slow the process of physical aging, according to Denise Medved, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, the founder of Ageless Grace.

Medved’s foundational physical and mental exercise classes involve 21 exercises that promote brain plasticity by activating all five functions of the brain: analytic, strategic, kinesthetic learning, memory/recall, and creativity and imagination. Find videos of Ageless Grace exercises by searching YouTube, including this one: n While sitting in a chair (all exercises are taught in this position to develop core strength), make a circle with the right lower arm. n Add a triangular motion with the left foot. n Next, add a horizontal movement with the left hand. n Finally, do the entire series in reverse.

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Hot and Cold Tooth Sensitivity

by Perry Ekstrand, DDS, LVIF, The Swedish Dentist

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oes even the thought of a cold drink make your teeth hurt? Does drinking iced tea or eating ice cream make a shiver go down your back and your toes curl?

You are experiencing sensitive teeth.

You probably figured this out already and maybe you have been living with it for a long time. It might even be crimping you lifestyle. So why do some people have sensitive teeth?

Well, read on!

There are several causes for cold sensitivity. The most obvious one the patient thinks about is decay. They come in and say: “Doc, I think I have a cavity. Cold drinks are killing me.”

While this is most often not the case, a cavity can certainly cause cold sensitivity.

More often than not, I find exposed root surfaces that are causing the problem.

Let me back up here and talk a bit about tooth anatomy. The tooth crown you see in your mouth is covered by enamel. Enamel, like hair and nails, has no sensitivity. The enamel covers the dentin. The dentin has zillions of small tubes that reach into the nerve that is in the center of the tooth. The dentin stretches all the way down to the root tip. Below the gum line and in the bone, the dentin root is covered by cementum. The enamel and cementum protects all these little tubes that reach the nerve. If these tubes are exposed, irritation on the surface travels down to the nerve. So if you have decay, those tubes can be exposed. If you have receding gums because of gum disease, the root surface of the tooth is often exposed. If you have a good layer

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of cementum, though, you probably do not have sensitivity. However, if the cementum has been worn off, you probably would have some sensitivity.

If you have notches along the gum line caused by a bad bite, they also can reach the dentin and cause

sensitivity. In this case, you might have worn your teeth so short that you have exposed dentin there as well.

If you look at the top of your lower incisors and they are worn, you can see the different layers—the enamel on the outside, then the dentin, and the darker area right in the middle is the space where the nerve used to be.

The darker dentin is called secondary dentin. This is what the nerve produces when an outside trauma irritates it. If the irritation is slow enough, the nerve backs down in the tooth and covers itself with secondary dentin.

This process can make sensitivity, wherever it occurs, come and go. This is what happens. Let’s say you have receding gums and some root exposed.

The root is still covered by cementum.

You wear off some cementum and you start to get sensitivity. The tubes you have exposed are now an irritation to the nerve. The nerve starts to build secondary dentin to cover these

specific tubes. Sensitivity goes away, maybe after a few months, and you forget about it. Then you wear off some more cementum and the process starts all over again.

Sensitivity can also be caused by worn or lost fillings. Again, you expose some dentin, and ice cream is not a happy food anymore.

Toothpastes that have tartar control and whitening formulas can, for some patients, cause sensitivity.

Get off it for a few weeks and see what happens. Use a toothpaste formulated for sensitive teeth. It might help.

How does the dentist solve the problem? Well, we have to cover those tubes. We can sometimes fill the area, but severely worn teeth require crowns/inlays/onlays. If a tooth becomes extremely sensitive, especially to hot things, it might require removal of the nerve i.e. root canal. If the patient does not want a root canal (and we do not do, or recommend this procedure), the tooth could be extracted and replaced with a bridge or an implant. If the root is exposed, it might be fixed with a gum graft. If you have the notches along the gum line, your bite might have to be fixed so they do not recur.

The best way to avoid these challenges is to see your dentist on a regular basis. If you suffer from these symptoms, have a nice long visit with your dentist to learn your options so that you can enjoy your hot and cold moments without the pain.

Till next time … this is the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth ©2015 Perry Ekstrand. Visit our private office setting for a cappuccino or espresso and meet the team that can help you find joy, function, and a more youthful you through mercuryfree, biologic dentistry. Information: Exceptional Dentistry of The Villages, 352-391-9897, TheSwedishDentist. com.

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of AGE crosslinks in collagen in human adult articular cartilage seems a plausible mechanism to explain the observed age-related increase in collagen network stiffness in human articular cartilage. As a result of this stiffening, accumulation of cross linking AGEs may make the cartilage collagen network more brittle.

Increased stiffness and brittleness may, in turn, contribute to the age-related failure of cartilage to resist mechanical damage, and thus be a factor that predisposes aged cartilage to damage and, eventually, the development of osteoarthritis.

Everyone can begin implementing a prevention and reversal of AGEs damage by avoiding the abovementioned factors.

References: n www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/10976109 n www.jbc.org/content/275/50/39027. long n International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds September 2012, vol. 11 no. 3 224-230 n Chen AC, Temple MM, Ng DM, Richardson CD, DeGroot J, Verzijl N, et al. Age-related crosslinking alters tensile properties of articular cartilage.

Transact Orthop Res Soc 2001; 26: 128.

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ast month, we discussed the importance of optimal foodcooking temperatures for health.

This month, we will move on to the effects of the deadly process called advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that accumulate in the brain, kidneys, arteries and on the skin. It speeds up the breakdown of the skin matrix, decreases the skin’s elasticity, while accelerating aging, wrinkles, loose and dry skin.

This process of glycation not only occurs by cooking foods at high heat, or grilling, but also from consuming refined carbohydrates, and sugar such as fructose or glucose.

Advanced glycation end products have also been presented as a factor involved in the development and progression of chronic heart failure.

Assessment of advanced glycation end products’ accumulation in endstage renal disease, and in patients undergoing renal replacement therapies, has become of great importance. Cardiovascular and connective tissue disorders are very common in patients with end-stage renal disease, and the accumulation of advanced glycation end products is significantly increased in these patients.

Dermatological problems in diabetes might play an important role in the ulcers and impaired wound healing seen in diabetic patients. It is shown that the accumulation of AGEs in diabetic skin tissue induces an oxidative damage of fibroblasts and acts as an important contributor to the thinner diabetic abdominal skin.

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in & Tonic

by Melody Murphy

Back-to-School Blues

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very year around this time, when back-to-school commercials begin to air, I immediately feel as bummed out as if I were ten – until I remind myself, You don’t have to go back, silly. I graduated from high school 21 years ago, but I still feel a sinking sensation of dread in my stomach the first time I spy back-toschool supplies in a store – followed by a great surge of relief that no one can make me go back, because adulthood.

I didn’t have a dreadful time in school. I made very good grades in the subjects that interested me and came naturally to me, average grades in the ones to which I was indifferent, and poor grades in math. I have always skewed strongly to the verbal.

It isn’t that I disliked being educated. I have always enjoyed learning and research – I just prefer to do it on my own. Give me a subject that interests me, a book to read on my own timetable, and some solitary peace and quiet to study it in, and I can become an expert, as know-it-all as Hermione Granger. I also had plenty of friends and had a grand time with music and drama, so it wasn’t that my school years were lonely or traumatic.

I just really, really liked summer and wasn’t ready to let go of it.

My summers weren’t overscheduled. I had chores, but I also had a wonderful old-fashioned thing called free time. I slept late, rode my bike, swam, roller-skated, hung

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from the monkey bars, watched TV, attended Vacation Bible School, played outside, had sleepovers, listened to records, re-enacted the Civil War with my Barbies. (You just need two Kens for that one, if you play it right.) Best of all, summer in Florida meant plenty of rainy days and lots of time to read. We also took trips to visit relatives, went to the beach and Disney World. It was a true vacation.

School was not. You were all kinds of scheduled, and you were supposed to be mentally present for all of it. How was I supposed to save the Titanic victims by way of the north Atlantic mermaids in my head if you expected me to focus on long division?

Honestly.

School also meant more rules and more adults telling me what to do.

My parents were strict. I had enough instruction without relishing more. I have never submitted to authority with a meek heart free of rebellion.

I also did not care for school’s timetable. In elementary school, I had to get up at 6 a.m. to ride the bus for an hour to go to school in the next town over. In high school, home room began at 7:10 a.m. That’s just wrong to ask of teenagers whose brains don’t function until third period. School made me tired, and when I was tired, I was cranky. Thus, school put me in a bad mood.

As for homework, I found it incredibly offensive that not only were teachers making me do things I didn’t

want to do all day long, but they also were infringing on my personal life by asking me to spend part of my precious little free time at home in these same distasteful pursuits. Quite frankly, I found it rude. And the stress of report cards? No, thank you.

But in summertime, I was wellrested, under less jurisdiction, and could daydream all I wished. And, because these were the days before teachers gave summer assignments, the dreaded spectre of schoolwork did not haunt my glorious, seemingly endless summer days.

Summer was my birthday, fireworks, blackberries and cold creek water in the mountains of Tennessee, fireflies and watermelon in Alabama, peaches and cider stands and pecan groves in Georgia. It was salt water, grilled hamburgers, ice cream, daylight past bedtime, chalk drawings on the driveway, coloring books, popsicles, gardenias, the Disney Sunday-night movie. It was swinging high and jumping off to soar through the air, getting lost in The Chronicles of Narnia, splashing in puddles, leaping through the sprinklers, going fishing, fighting the wasps for the ripe plums on our trees, managing not to get killed when I jumped off the top of the backyard slide with an umbrella like I thought I was Mary Poppins (thank God for thick, flourishing St. Augustine grass) or making a wagon train out of chairs and pretending to be Laura Ingalls crossing the prairie. Summer was a time of imagination, freedom, and creativity – a time to romp, rest, and recharge. Which is exactly what children need.

One good thing about being a grownup is that I never have to experience that apocalyptic feeling of the last Sunday night of summer.

And I also get that annual surge of joy when I can roll right on by the school supplies and my heart leaps up like a wily mullet eluding a net. Slipping away down the river of adulthood has its own rewards.

Melody Murphy is a native Floridian and writer living in Ocala.

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The Adventure of Couchsurfing

Stay with Locals, Explore, Learn, and Make New Friends

by Lisa Rosinky

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aniel Sperry, a “couchsurfer” in his late 50s, decided a few years ago to quit his day job and make a living by performing cello music and reciting poetry in living rooms across the country. “I didn’t know it would become a catalyst for bringing communities of local people together,” he says, but his first gig, a “little shotgun shack” in Elko, Nevada, became more than a once in a lifetime experience.

Years later, his Elko host remains a close friend and hosts a regular (and lucrative) stop on his cross-country tours.

Not only does creating connections with strangers make us happier—as University of Chicago social scientists have proven—it leads to fun travel stories. If we choose to see the world via the decade-old organization at Couchsurfing.com, we might find ourselves sleeping on a sailboat in the Irish Sea; meeting backpackers by solar-powered light in a cave in Petra, Jordan; sharing a room with a pet bird that falls asleep listening to sappy love songs on the radio; or jamming to old-time As a traveler, offer an banjo and fiddle tunes in a ethnic meal, good story North Carolina kitchen.

The global community or how to say hello in of couchsurfers, now 10 a different language. million strong, considers strangers “friends you haven’t As a host, be open to met yet.” They currently are hosting and organizing more what guests can teach. than half-a-million events Keep a travel log in more than 200,000 cities and guestbook to worldwide this year. The aim is to make travel easier record memories. and more affordable, build people’s faith and trust in one another and create meaningful connections across cultures.

It’s easy to become a member by creating a profile as a host and/or a traveler, which includes verified identification.

Guests don’t need to reciprocate by hosting or leaving gifts, although lasting friendships are a common result. Hosts and guests are encouraged to leave honest reviews for each other, which helps ensure ongoing safety and good behavior all around.

Meanwhile, non-members also are welcome to explore

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couchsurfing events in their city. Fun opportunities to make new connections include weekly language exchanges, skill swaps, outdoor activities and potlucks.

“For me, it’s undeniably about the community, the kind of person it tends to attract,” says Joseph Abrahamson, a couchsurfer in his mid-20s. “A room full of couchsurfers is full of stories and listening and sharing and trust. It changes a person in a positive way… people who travel like this for long enough can no longer survive with closed minds.”

Lisa Rosinky is a freelance writer in Boston.

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who notes an increase in doctors, nurses and therapists attending the Yoga as Medicine seminars he and his wife Eliana teach internationally and from their Simply Yoga Institute studio, in Summit, New Jersey.

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Mounting Evidence

Yoga Enters the Medical Mainstream Research Proves its Health Benefits

by Meredith Montgomery

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fter practicing internal medicine for 10 years in Boston, Dr. Timothy McCall became a full-time writer, exploring the health benefits of yoga. As the medical editor of Yoga Journal and the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing, he says, “In the late 90s, the conveyor belt of patient care continued to speed up and I got frustrated. There was less time to form relationships with patients, which is essential to providing quality care without excessive tests and drugs.”

Initially, McCall found that most of the documented research on yoga was from India, and notes it was low in quality from a Western perspective (though it is now excellent). In the West, the first notable scientific yoga article was published in 1973 in The Lancet on combining yoga and biofeedback to manage hypertension. According to the International Journal of Yoga, the surge in yoga’s popularity here finally gained academic interest in 2007,

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and there are now more than 2,000 yoga titles in the National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database, with 200 added annually.

Initially, yoga teacher and economist Rajan Narayanan, Ph.D., founded the nonprofit Life in Yoga Foundation and Institute to offer free teacher training. Within a couple of years, the foundation’s focus shifted to integrating yoga into the mainstream healthcare system. “We realized that to make a real difference, we needed to teach doctors about yoga and its scientifically proven effects,” he says. Medical providers can earn credits to keep their licenses current by attending courses

by Life in Yoga, the only yoga institution independently certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

Currently, even if physicians don’t practice yoga, it’s likely that many of their patients do. “You now see it everywhere from major medical centers to mainstream advertising,” says McCall,

“Yoga may help prevent diseases across the board because the root cause of 70 to 90 percent of all disorders is stress,” says Narayanan. Yoga increases the body’s ability to successfully respond to stress by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which slows the heart and lowers blood pressure. That in turn suppresses sympathetic activity, reducing the amount of stress hormones in the body.

Studies collected on PubMed.gov demonstrate that yoga has been found to help manage hypertension, osteoporosis, body weight, physical fitness, anxiety, depression, diabetes, reproductive functions and pregnancy, among other issues.

Studies at California’s Preventive Medicine Research Institute have tracked amelioration of heart disease. A growing body of research is validating yoga’s benefits for cancer patients, including at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. A small study at Norway’s University of Oslo suggests that yoga even alters gene expression, indicating it may induce health benefits on a molecular level.

Cultural Challenges

“For yoga to be effective, a regular practice must be implemented, which is challenging in a culture where people can’t sit for long without an electronic device. It’s more than just popping pills,” says Narayanan.

McCall says, “Even if people can commit to just a few minutes of yoga practice a day, if they keep it up the benefits can be enormous.”

“There are no sales reps telling doctors to use yoga therapy like there are for pharmaceuticals,” remarks Narayanan, and until yoga is funded by health insurance, it will be challenging to gain full acceptance in mainstream medicine.

Another barrier is certification standards. The International Association of Yoga Therapists (iayt.org) and the Council for Yoga Accreditation International (cyai.org) are both beginning to

Any physical exercise done with breath awareness becomes yoga; anything done without the breath is just a physical practice.

offer certifications for therapy training programs and therapists.

Narayanan is hopeful that certification could lead to yoga being covered by insurance.

Medical school curricula have started shifting to embrace complementary approaches to wellness, with many textbooks now including information on mind/body therapies. The Principles and Practices of Yoga in Healthcare, co-edited by Sat Bir Khalsa, Lorenzo Cohen, Mc~Rajan Narayaran Call and Shirley Telles and due out in 2016, is the first professional-level, medical textbook on yoga therapy.

“Yoga has been proven to treat many conditions, yet yoga teachers don’t treat conditions, we treat individuals,” says McCall. “Yoga therapy is not a one-size-fits-all prescription because different bodies and minds, with different abilities and weaknesses, require individualized approaches.”

While medical research is working to grant yoga more legitimacy among doctors, policymakers and the public, McCall says, “I believe these studies are systematically underestimating how powerful yoga can be. Science may tell us that it decreases systolic blood pressure and cortisol secretion and increases lung capacity and serotonin levels, but that doesn’t begin to capture the totality of what yoga is.”

Meredith Montgomery, a registered yoga teacher, publishes Natural Awakenings of Mobile/Baldwin, AL (Healthy LivingHealthyPlanet.com).

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Sick Care vs.

Wellness/Corrective Care You Choose What’s Best for You!

by Dr. Michael J. Badanek, DC, BS, CNS, DACBN, DCBCN, MSGR/CHEV

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ith all the changes in the insurance industry, making your health care work for you is more important than ever before. With the enactment of Obamacare, we the American consumers are paying more for insurance and getting far less than we expect from our health care providers.

We currently have sick care, not wellness/corrective care in America today. Last year Americans spent $2.8 trillion dollars on health care. That is approximately $8,000 per person in this country. So does this mean we are all healthy and living to our fullest capacity?

Absolutely not. In fact, we lead the world in heart disease, obesity and cancer. It has been estimated by medical scientific studies that five out of six Americans will be diagnosed with either cancer or heart disease in their lifetime.

If we were spending the most money in healthcare in the world and had the healthiest people, then all the money spent would be worth it. But we are spending the most money and have the least healthy people. In a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of the 37 different developed countries in the world, the United States ranked 37th—dead last—in terms of overall health of the population.

So where is all the money being spent in health care?

When we go to our doctor when we are sick or in pain, we get prescriptions to help with our symptoms. What do we do when that medication has a side effect or no longer works? We go back and get more, different medications to treat the side effects of the first medication prescribed or get a new medication. You cannot effectively treat any underlying

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condition by masking symptoms with medication. Remember, 90+% of all medications have two specific tasks: to block a receptor site on a cell membrane, or change or shut down an enzymatic reaction in the cell or the liver. This is what we call today sick care in America: Blocking or suppressing symptoms and not getting to the root causes of the disease. It is a fact that 80% of all health care expenditures are in the last 30 days of life, sick care indeed.

Americans make up roughly 5% of the world’s total population, yet we consume 85% of the world’s medication. Last year, 1.1 million Americans died because of medications—and these are not street drugs like heroin or other illegal drugs.

These were from properly prescribed medications, for the right conditions being treated, the right amount, and for the right time.

What about the other sick care facilities that cost large sums of money such as nursing homes and cancer treatment centers? We have so many sick and ailing people in our population that we are seeing more and more long-term nursing facilities coming into existence. People may be living longer, but we are not living better.

The focus on wellness needs to change. We cannot be okay with a health care system that has no regard for health. It is time to take the focus off of sick care and focus on wellness/corrective care. And that responsibility relies specifically on you.

You hold the keys of health and wellness, not your doctor or health care facility.

Let’s look at two cases to help you understand the gravity of sick care vs. wellness/corrective care.

Case in point Number One: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension). The American consumer suffering with high blood pressure sees their health care provider.

Classically they are given antihypertensive and heart medications, which are usually taken for the rest of their life (sick care).

Never are those same patients ever diagnosed as to why they have the condition, nor addressing and treating the causes (wellness/corrective care).

Case in point Number Two: Psychological Diseases (Depression, Mood Swings, Personality Issues, etc.) The number one prescribed medications in America today deal with mind altering medications. These medications are prescribed by licensed providers due to subjective complaints of patients. These patients come in and tell the provider their symptoms and are prescribed medication to alter the thought processes and actions of the brain. In most instances the patient will take them for the rest of their life (sick care). Rarely if ever does the provider address the cause of the mental disease by checking neurotransmitters, chemical imbalances of the body, gut issues or mineral deficiencies directly related to proper mental function (wellness/corrective care).

Many people believe genetics are to blame for the disease we see in our society today, but only 2-5% of degenerative illnesses are actually caused by genetics.

So that leaves 95-98% of chronic disease that is caused by lifestyle. The foods we eat, the liquids we drink, toxic exposures and the habits we live are the main causes of the increase in disease in this country today.

Our office is focused on health care.

We recognize that health is not just about what you eat and whether or not you exercise. Our office implements maximum functional/integrative health care encompassing all aspects of clinical and diagnostic means to correctly address your complaints by finding the root cause(s) of your presenting symptoms. We address the body as a whole and not just focusing in on specific symptoms in one part of the body. We offer full health and wellness care to our patients which excludes drugs, vaccinations and harmful combinations. Our goal is to make sure our patients live the healthiest life possible.

Please contact our office and speak directly to Dr. Badanek. Our facility has been in existence for 34+ years serving Marion and surrounding counties with the absolute best in integrative and functional medicine. Visit www.DrBadanek. com and read and view the full scope of care we offer the health challenged. Our office number is 352-622-1151. The first visit is complimentary.

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Choose Happiness Four Tips to Flip the Joy Switch

by Linda Joy

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recent Harris Interactive poll indicates that only one in three Americans are happy. Success, education and increases in annual household income create only marginally more happiness. So what will it take to go the distance?

Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness endeavors to discover just that. Its collection of intimate stories from more than two dozen women reveals telling insights— most profoundly, that happiness is a choice that anyone can make, regardless of their history or circumstances.

Four tips from contributors to the book show how we all can rise up out of our troubles to the other side, shining.

Let Go of ‘Supposed To’

Family, friends and society exert pressure on us to achieve certain goals or impose their definition of success.

When our soul doesn’t fit the mold, exciting things can happen.

Happiness strategist Kristi Ling seemed to have it all: a high-powered job in Hollywood, significant income and the envy of all her friends—but her

success felt empty. She writes from her home in Los Angeles, “Each morning I’d get up thinking about who I needed to please, and then prepare myself to exist for another day. I looked and felt exhausted just about all the time. The worst part was that I thought I was doing everything right!”

After a middle-of-the-night epiphany, Ling left her job and set out to discover what her heart wanted. She began following a completely different life path as a coach and healer, in which success means manifesting joy.

Be Grateful Now

While we’re striving to change our life or wishing things could have been different, we often forget to pay attention to what we have right now.

Boni Lonnsburry, a conscious creation expert and founder/CEO of Inner Art, Inc., in Boulder, Colorado, writes about the morning she decided to choose happiness, despite the enormous challenges she was facing, including divorce, foreclosure, bankruptcy and possible homelessness. “I thought to myself, ‘Yes, my life could be better, but it also could be a hell of a lot worse. I’m healthy and smart—why, I even have some wisdom. Why am I focusing on how terrible everything is?’”

Using the power of her choice to be happy right now, Lonnsburry not only found joy amidst the adversity, but created love and success beyond her wildest dreams.

Let Love In

We all want to feel loved, but when we’re afraid of getting hurt, we put up barriers to

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protect ourselves, even against the love we want.

Certified Relationship Coach Stacey Martino, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, writes, “From the first day we met, I’d been waiting for [my boyfriend] Paul to end our relationship. I begged him for another chance—not for our relationship, but to be my authentic self—to figure out who I am and show up in our relationship as the real me.”

Fourteen years later, Martino and her boyfriend, now husband, are still exploring the depths of their love for one another. For them, the choice to be vulnerable was the gateway to happiness.

Look Inward Instead of to Others

If we can’t own our pain, how can we create our joy? Choosing happiness means taking full responsibility for our state of mind, with no excuses.

Lisa Marie Rosati, of Kings Park, New York, who today helps other women catalyze their own transformation, writes: “I didn’t want to accept what was going on inside [me], so I looked outside for a way to make things better. I depended on intimate relationships to complete me, and on friends and acquaintances for entertainment. My self-esteem floated on incoming compliments and I absolutely never wanted to spend a minute alone with my own thoughts, lest they erode whatever happiness I possessed at the moment. I was exhausted, frustrated and quite frankly, pissed off.”

It took a flash of insight to set Rosati free of her patterns of blame—and then realizing she could create her own fulfillment was all it took to catapult her into a place of empowerment. Look out, world!

As Los Angeles happiness expert and Positive Psychology Coach Lisa Cypers Kamen says, “Happiness is an inside job.” Joy, love and inspired living are ours for the taking—all we must do is choose.

Linda Joy is the heart of Inspired Living Publishing and Aspire magazine. Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness is her third in a series of bestselling anthologies. Next up is Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy. Learn more at InspiredLivingPublishing.com.

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the social problem solving is largely extrinsic, facilitated by coaches, referees or parents. During a child’s formative stages, between the ages of 5 and 12, having the freedom to develop, create and innovate is critical.”

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A Better Alternative

Whole Child Sports Free Play Earns the Winning Score

by Luis Fernando Llosa

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any parents concerned that their children are getting engulfed by social media often turn to sports to spark physical activity. They scramble to sign up their toddlers for swimming lessons, T-ball and soccer practice, hoping these activities will teach their kids about motivation and leadership, while getting them off the couch and out the door. They hope sports will be a conduit for their kids to learn what it takes to drive toward a goal and succeed in later life.

As a result, more than 40 million kids across America are engaged in organized play. But youth sports are not a panacea; while parental intentions are good, they sometimes don’t realize the potential for negative consequences.

Those who have studied the phenomenon believe that youth sports—which on the surface, appear to provide a perfect environment for children to learn life lessons and develop critical social and physical skills—might hamper our children’s physical, social, psychic and creative development.

Too Much Too Soon

It seems that many young kids playing on teams today are over-coached by controlling, command-oriented adults.

As Jenny Levy, head coach of the Uni-

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versity of North Carolina’s 2013 NCAA champion women’s lacrosse team at Chapel Hill puts it, “Kids are kind of like overbred dogs, mimicking the drills we run in practice. They aren’t wired to think creatively. They do what they know. What’s safe.”

This kind of behavior can start at an early age, when kids should be engaging in free play with minimal adult supervision in unstructured settings. Parenting expert Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline, says, “Parents are giving in to enormous societal pressure to push kids into high-performance sports settings several times a week. It’s an ‘arms race’ of sorts, with the clear victims being the kids themselves who are robbed of their childhoods.”

There’s a much more holistic way kids can experience play, including sports. An American Academy of Pediatrics study attests that free and unstructured play is healthy and essential for helping children reach important social, emotional and cognitive developmental milestones, plus managing stress and becoming resilient.

Payne observes, “In free play, children have to actively problem solve and take one another’s feelings into account if the play is to be successful. In sports,

It’s crucial to consider the whole child, not just the budding athlete. To revive a child’s imagination and create better conditions for developing creativity, resiliency and flexibility, contemplate the option of taking a child out of organized youth sports for a while to provide the time, space and opportunity to rediscover childhood play and games. Then support them in re-entering organized athletics when they’re a bit older and more physically and emotionally ready.

Also, some kids who get heavily involved in highly structured youth sports too early may be prone to behavioral problems and serious physical injuries. The best thing a parent can do for a young child who is active and interested in sports is roll up their sleeves and join in unscripted backyard or playground family play. Kids thrive on the attention offered from mom or dad, regardless of parental athletic skill levels. Also, organize play dates with other neighborhood kids of varying ages, because they love to learn from each other, including how to work out disagreements.

Once kids are socially, emotionally and physically ready, organized sports can be an amazing platform for funfilled learning. Having already experienced healthy free play, a child will be ready for and thrive in a more focused, competitive, organized and structured play environment. Fortified by a creative foundation in earlier years, a youngster is better able to identify and express their own mind, body and spirit.

Luis Fernando Llosa is the co-author of Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment and co-founder of WholeChildSports.com.

A writer, speaker and former Sports Illustrated reporter, he lives in New York City, where he coaches his five kids. For more information, visit LuisFernandoLlosa.com.

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AET is a blend of non-invasive procedures from Western and Eastern healing practices that help to minimize, even eliminate, allergies of all kinds. The technique was developed by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad in 1983; NAET stands for Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques.

In NAET, an allergy is viewed as a condition of unusual sensitivity to one or more substances which are generally harmless to others. In the allergic person, the allergic substance, known as an allergen, is viewed by the immune system as a threat to the body’s well-being.

For our purposes, we look at allergies in terms of what a substance does to the energy flow in the body. When contact is made with an allergen, it causes blockages in the energy pathways called meridians, and it disrupts the normal flow of energy through the body’s electrical circuits. This energy blockage causes interference in communication between the brain and body via the nervous system. This blocked energy flow is the first step in a chain of events that can develop into an allergic response. Energy imbalances in the body, therefore, can result in allergies and lead to a diminished state of health in one or more organ systems.

NAET uses Kinesiology (Muscle Responsive Testing) to confirm the presence of allergic reactivity. Once identified, nutrition, spinal manipulation, acupressure and/or acupuncture procedures are used to eliminate the allergy.

The treatment is geared to re-program the negative responses from the brain towards the allergen(s), to a positive response whenever these substances are contacted in the future. Through NAET, health may be brought back into a “homeostasis” or a perfect energy balance throughout the entire body.

Untreated, allergies can produce illnesses, even chronic diseases that can affect every system and organ

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in the body. Conditions that may be allergy-based include: Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, immune disorders, hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, and addictions. It may also include respiratory problems such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma; circulatory problems such as chest muscle pains, poor circulation, rapid heartbeats, heart irregularities; gastrointestinal problems including indigestion, acute abdominal pains, acute appendicitis, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and ulcers; genito-urinary problems such as kidney and bladder infections, prostate troubles, pre-menstrual syndromes and post-menstrual disorders, impotency, infertility; muscular-skeletal problems including unexplained pains anywhere in the body, various types of headaches, backaches, arthritis, restless leg syndrome; and brain and mood symptoms.

In NAET, one allergen at a time is treated. If a person is not severely immune deficient, one treatment may be all that is necessary to desensitize the allergen. However, most people suffer with mild to moderate allergies and it can take as many as 15-20 office visits to desensitize 15-20 food and environmental allergens.

During the first few visits, basic essential nutrients are addressed. Chemicals, environmental allergens, vaccinations, immunizations, etc. are treated after completing treatment centering around ten basic essential nutrients.

NAET can successfully alleviate adverse reactions to milk, peanuts, eggs, aspirin, penicillin, mushrooms, shellfish, latex, ragweed, grass, flowers, perfume, animal dander, animal epithelial, make-up, cigarette smoke, chemicals, pathogens, heat, cold, and other environmental agents.

If you have any questions about NAET for Dr. Perry, or would like to set up an appointment, contact HealthCare Partners Family Medicine at 352-750-4333.

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CommunityResourceGuide Colonics Gentle Waters Healing Center 352-374-0600, Gainesville info@gentlewatershealing.com The therapists at Gentle Waters Healing Center will assist each individual with detoxing using colon hydrotherapy, Far Infrared Sauna, and/or Aqua Chi Lymphatic Drainage. Call Dawn Brower for more information or visit www.gentlewatershealing.com. MA41024, MM15426.

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Lemire Clinic welcomes Susan Snelling Acupuncture Physician to the Lemire team.

Susan has been practicing for many years and combines the traditional needles with cupping, twina tech., pulse diagnosing, Chinese herbs, along with emotional release to bring back into balance mind, body and spirit.

Michael J. Badanek, BS,DC,CNS,DACBN,DCBCN 3391 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Suite #B Ocala, FL 34470 / 352-622-1151 www.alternativewholistichealth.com

33 years in clinical practice with alternative wholistic complementary health services. Treating the body to support all health challenges with Wholistic Integrative Medicine. Treatments include Autoimmune disorders, Lyme disease, Autism, ADD/ADHD, Musculoskeletal conditions, Heavy metal toxicity, Cardiovascular and endocrine conditions, Nutritional deficiencies/testing.

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September 2-27

Peter and the Starcatcher, onstage at The Hippodrome Theatre, Gainesville, 352-375-4477, TheHipp. org.

Saturday, September 5

Cherokee Native American Healing Talk and Private Sessions with Bruce Capin. Talk is at noon followed by private sessions. The talk is free and sessions are $35. Call to sign up. High

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Tuesday, September 8 and 22

Crystal Bowl Meditation, 7pm.

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Ongoing Psychic/Medium Spiritual Development Classes in the British Style of Evidential Mediumship

Workshop British Medium Janette Marshall Saturday, September 12, 10-4:30, $100 Held at Unity of Gainesville. RSVP Check our complete program on the website.

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Thursday, September 10

Unity’s World Day of Prayer is always the second Thursday in September. Noon. Come join us in prayer for the Earth and all of its people. Love offering. Unity of The Villages, 10935 SE 177 Place, Suite 5042, Summerfield, 454-3120, www. unityofthevillages.org.

10-4:30, $100. Held at Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Call for space availability. 407-2477823, www.ifsk.org.

Monday, September 14

Meet the Doctor, Patient Education Seminar. Free, 6pm. Learn what we do, why, and ask questions. Lemire Clinic, 11115 SW 93rd Ct. Rd., Ocala, 352291-9459, www.LemireClinic.com.

Friday, September 11

* 2:00 PM. HealthCare Partners Family Medicine, 1501 US Hwy 441 North, Suite 1700, The Villages Florida. Dr. Nelson Kraucak will speak on Stem Cell Therapy. Join us to learn how your own stem cells and platelets can successfully treat your chronic joint and back pain. Join us for an informative lecture. Please RSVP by September 9: 352-750-4333.

* Talent Show, 6-8pm. Come ready to laugh, have fun and enjoy an evening of live entertainment.

Love offering. Unity of The Villages, 10935 SE 177 Place, Suite 5042, Summerfield, 454-3120, www. unityofthevillages.org.

Saturday, September 19

* “A More Magical Balance and Deeper Vision - Creating our Future with Stellar Beam Calcite and Crystalline Azurite” Workshop with Sharron Britton. 2-4pm, $20. Call to sign up. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.

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Unity of the Villages Metaphysical Movie Third Saturday 11am:

* Metaphysical movie, noon. We provide drinks and popcorn or you may bring your lunch and eat it as you movie watch. Love offering. Unity of The Villages, 10935 SE 177 Place, Suite 5042, Summerfield, 454-3120, www.unityofthevillages.org.

Saturday, September 12 * Chakra Balancing on the BioMat. 12-5pm, $10 or free with purchase of $20 or more. Call to sign up or walk in. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.

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* Mediumship Workshop with British Medium Janette Marshall.

Wednesday, September 23

Equinox (Details and Location TBA); see http://www.meetup.com/ Sensitive-Soul-Soiree-Ocala-area/.

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26th: Reiki, Level 1 with Cindy Zsolnai, PhD, Reiki Master. 11am5pm. $125 with 6 massage therapist CEUs, $100 without CEUs. 27th: Reiki 2, $125/CEUs, $100/without. Call Cindy at 904 806-5109 or call us at the Emporium to sign up. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.

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* Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families meeting, 6:30-8pm. Free. Open to all adults who grew-up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family and need to work to improve emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.

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