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MITOCHONDRIA HEALTH

Mitochondria health and aging will be the center of new research. This is the place to look when you encounter neurodegenerative issues, and other prevalent health problems. Mitochondria health is what you depend on to survive. Energy is something you can’t live without. When the mitochondria can’t meet the energy demands, cells die, organs break down, and aging takes place. Aging is akin to a steam engine losing steam; it slows down to a crawl and then just stops.

An older engine shows signs of wear, and so does the human body as it ages. Mitochondrial genetic material is vulnerable to damage, and not that good at making repairs. Mitochondria damage can come from the environment. The source of the assaults can perhaps be from pharmaceuticals, chemical food additives, and pesticides. Clinical trials are now looking at the mitochondria and age-related diseases. What is being studied; will high doses of antioxidant reverse or slow progression in Parkinson’s patients. What is being studied right now is Coenzyme Q-10. Waiting for the conclusion of research may not be wise. Evidence is already mounting that Cells depend on nutrients.

NUTRITION

Optimized nutrition has helped people with just about every condition, improve their vitality. Mitochondria health is dependent on nutrition, every cell in the body utilizes the material we supple it with. The slightest drop in mitochondrial energy can bring about weakness, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties. With age the mitochondrial function becomes less efficient. This is precisely why aging itself without a chronic condition, brings about disability, and loss of function.

Mitochondrial restoration is essential, for anti-aging. Since mitochondrial energy production is necessary for strength, energy, stamina, and the very things we start to lose with age, which makes us function less efficiently. Mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the principal causes of age related decline. Anti-aging physicians, plus scientists know a number of nutrients can alleviate and restore a good part of the mitochondrial function. It is by using a combination of nutrients that help normalize the cells function. This delays the decline that comes with aging, and also may prevent chronic conditions from presenting themselves.

AGING

Aging is accompanied by both a decline in mitochondrial function and insulin sensitivity. These are both blamed on age and/or lifestyle-related factors. The beneficial effects of lifestyle on mitochondrial function and insulin sensitivity are known. Exercise is used to delay the onset of age-related decline. Use it or loss it holds true for mitochondria health and aging. It is important to remember to feed the cells what they need for proper function.

America can be called the processed food nation. We have lost touch with nature. Our food choices, personal care solutions and household products are innovation and formulation driven, that incorporate imaginative new technologies. Modern cosmetology, repairs, regenerates, has anti-gravity effects, and is formulated by the same companies that provide unprecedented range of preservatives, emulsification, flavors, surfactants, fragrance, and coloring agents.

Your food did not come straight from the farm. The same production line operation will insure your breakfast, lunch, and dinner will have flavor, aroma, and texture. The formulating that will go into a home cooked like – packaged meal, will deliver the distinctive taste that does not stem from the food itself. A mixture of cottonseed oil/canola oil and a touch of beef tallow, dextrose, natural flavor, or artificial flavor, and plenty of man made additives and you have dinner.

More significantly most processed food gets its taste from additives. The canning, freezing, and dehydrating techniques destroy the foods flavor, if the food used had any flavor to begin with. The price of the pre-packaged food includes the packaging, appearance, and advertising. The least amount is spent on the food. Quality does not determine if it is bought again, taste does. So the least natural product can also have a shot at our pocketbooks. About 90 percent of the money that Americans spend on food is on processed food.

Making processed food palatable is the job of the chemist as much as the food taster. The flavors do not originate in a kitchen, but in a laboratory. The flavor industry is located in refineries, and chemical plants. Dozens of companies manufacture flavors.  Men and women in white lab coats produce the smells of and aroma that will be used for cosmetics, food, and personal care items.

Different laboratories, and pilot kitchens, test and create flavors. Laboratories create the flavored potato chips, corn chips, crackers, cereals. Also, they formulate the flavors for ice cream, cookies, candies, toothpastes, mouthwashes. At the same time they work on flavors for soft drinks, sports drinks, wine coolers, “all natural juice drinks.”

All these aromas are made through essentially the same process: the manipulation of volatile chemicals. The basic science behind the scent of your shaving cream is the same as that governing the flavor of your TV dinner.

When a diet consists of cola’s, frozen entrees, chips, and corn dogs, we are not only a processed food nation, but a country of processed people. There are hundreds if not thousands of food choices, what you choose is what you become. The flavor industry has revenues of about 1.4 billion a year. Every year there are thousands of new choices on the shelves, filling the frozen food cases. All our cells are being built from this designer food. The flavor in soft drinks costs a few cents, the expensive part; you will be responsible for the medical bills.

The federal Food and drug administration does not require companies to disclose the ingredients of their color or flavor additives so long as the chemicals in them are considered by their agency to be GRAS (“generally recognized as safe”). This enables the companies to maintain the secrecy of their formulas. The fact that the flavor compounds, has the majority of the ingredients, the food is just the canvas.

Often the same food coloring is used in cosmetics and food. At the fast food chains the same coloring agents have been added to the soft drinks, salad dressing, condiments and buns etc.

Some of theses materials may find their way into food, personal care items, and household products: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol),-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent

A processed food nation may be innovative, financially profitable, but clinical research shows that the price is impaired health.

There is a strong consensus that to overhaul our healthcare system will determine the health of the nation’s citizens. I think that nothing could be further than the truth. To overcome some of the tough and growing health care problems the trend has to be away from researchers looking for another pharmaceutical breakthrough, and cranking up our independent responsibility

Longevity does not come from a test tube; it is the product of a balanced lifestyle. It is a characteristic of function, physical, intellectual, and spiritual.  Health is the expression of the sum total of what we do. Mixed results have come from western ideology on the health front, and it has not been a cause for applause. On the one hand pharmaceutical intervention have saved numerous lives, on the flip side it has caused very questionable long term results. Side effects of drugs are too numerous. The collateral damage of mixing these chemicals has only helped the pharmaceutical companies’ bottom line.

The fact is that these drugs will not stop the suffering that comes from declining health. The difficulties and disappointing results of many of the chemical aids, leaves the consumer with apprehension about the long-term commitment to these modalities. We welcome something more than a combination of drugs to solve the growing health problems. This is where the conversation starts, and not where it ends.  Here we will introduce you to all the strategies that will enhance your health, so your body can operate as it was intended to.