Archive for November, 2010

Money talks and health walks in the American way of life. Money buys convenience. It provides a measure and method of fueling and soothing the trip through life.

When the focus becomes the accumulation of cash then the news changes and its importance creates a dilemma. 

The outlook goes from centered to one of sheer numbers. We see the issues immerging in America. What does this have to do with health, the answer is everything. Money is a lubricant that makes life easier. However, it isn’t something to get emotional connected to. In America it seems to hold a prime place in our psyche. It seems to make us lose sight of the war against time. The real currency for any human is time.

It is interesting the way we view money as if it is a separate entity. Logistically this makes us forget the many other currencies is life. We give up health, family time, meaningful relationships and time for the allure of a large bank account. Looking back is when we may see the palette of our life and the diffusive green aura over it.

Interaction with money is very individual, but our culture creates not only opportunities to amass it, but to underutilize our humanity. Money has captured our attention and become the key driver in many people’s life. Its fine to connect with wealth, but it is a must to distinguish when it engages too much of our time. It should be an organic and ethical supply that we seek.

What we observe in our society is that it doesn’t only supplement our personal life’s trip, but becomes our personal life’s trip. The accumulation of it engages our time in a way that our loved family members can’t compete with.

Even our health is up for grabs as we wolfed down our lunch or skipped meals and sleep to engage in activities that are going to determine our future wealth.

We have to create an income stream and it is an activity that may take up a good part of our life. It however should not determine the pattern of our life. Few people are ambidextrous, working well with both hands. In this case the right or left side is out of balance. The right side is the side than is clearly in tune with what is essential for a greater life based on health, love and using every bit of time wisely.

All the elements in life give it texture, color, and ability to blend the elements to make it an enjoyable experience. There is a vast difference from our biological needs for shelter, touch, caring and love to nurture us and the impact of being dependent on currency to give us emotional, physical responses.

The gap between developing ourselves as humans and allowing the smell of money to excite us to the point that we have time for only a token presence in our love ones lives may make money the most expensive commodity. .

A majority of people know that medicinal compounds found in plants find their way to pharmaceutical labs. Plants are what makes and shapes the pharmaceutical industry. To restructure plant compounds into more effective drugs is enabling the drug companies to expand.

The demand for new and better drugs is at the center of this search. For a long time humans have used a variety of plants for medicinal purposes. The difference now is that chemists have found new ways to expand plants pharmaceutical value through genetic engineering.

Pharmacology

Pharmacology tries to improve the original structure. They have seen glimmers of hope by doing this. The real breakthroughs is not in capturing some variation, but in the shrinking our reliance on modifying through technology. Turning a plant into something different and expecting it to exceed its already majestic properties is the wrong focus.

What we really need is the soil quality that was present before we depleted the mineral quality. Genetic manipulation doesn’t offer benefits and will challenge the future of our food supply. All the public can do is wait, wonder and worry if there will be unintended consequences.

Natures Healing

This is a way to take natures powerful healing plants and turn them into cash cows. So what they have are literally doing is crossing a cash cow and a natural resource. Turning plants into a more bankable substance may not be real progress. Science may be taking natures powerful healing ability and changing it into an unnatural compound.

Engineering new genes into plants has been going on for awhile. Scientists developed corn that could produce and insecticide, which comes from a bacterial gene. Corn which was altered to produce an insecticide is polluting the water and streams near the corn fields. Bloomberg reports that 85% of the corn grown in the U.S. is genetically modified. This toxic corn is feed to livestock.

If plants are the way to treat disease, why haven’t we utilized the healing properties by consuming them as a diet staple, and ensuring that they grow in nutrient rich soil? Plants are already nutritionally potent and complete concentrated sources of healing compounds. They can protect, stimulate, regenerate cells and are easy-to-assimilate. They come as a balanced formula.

Science

While science spends so much time to see that we have a diet of engineered foods that devours our nutrients, they are looking to fix the health problems that are produced by bombarding our systems with prescription drugs. Now, they will take the foods that heal and turn them into pills, and powders that are easy and convenient t to take. They have restructured a fresh whole food, shrinking its nutritional value, and inflating its monetary worth.

Stem cells are essential for health. Stem cells are a natural part of our body. Natural healing in the future will use stem cells in their arsenal of treatments. This comes back to taking nature’s powerful healing ability and using it.

Stem cells are a natural and effective treatment for most conditions. It is a real solution that holds some incredible promise. The fact is drugs are not the answer. They may be effective in mitigating some symptoms, but they are worthless in riding us of lingering illness. Real progress and breakthroughs will come when we look to the power of our body to generate healthy stem cells.

Stem Cells the Future

Stems cells are the future, and they have nothing to do with the controversy going on. We don’t need embryonic research to harness stem cells. The bottom line is we have methods to harvest them from the person who needs them 

The bottom line is we have some power over our stem cells. A study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies revealed that stem cells can sense a decrease in available nutrients and respond by retaining only a small pool of stem cells for tissue maintenance. When conditions are favorable, stem cell numbers will multiply.

This is enormous news. Here is the catch, stem cells extensively proliferate in early embryos, but by adulthood only a few stem cells remain. Our bodies are maintained by our stem cells response.

Making the most of what you’ve got

The adult stem cells have the potential to develop into most tissues in the body and have the capacity to migrate toward damaged areas. According to the National Institutes of Health, the main roll of adult stem cells is to maintain and repair tissue. Aging affects the number and the ability of stem cells to maintain a healthy immune system.

Wild blueberry supports the proliferation of stem cells. Green tea extract enhances the proliferation of stem cells in the body. Vitamin D supports adult stem cell renewal, and also helps these cells become immune cells.

Until stem cell research catches up the answer may be in our actions.