Knowing What is Your DNA Telling You

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

Genetic Profile and What is Your DNA telling You

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

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

What is your DNA telling you at Beyond Good Health

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

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Super Food Drink for Your Health

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

Super Food Drink: It’s Many Benefits

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

How to Make a Simple Super Food Drink

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

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

Enjoy your super food drink now!

Great BGH Healthy Recipes

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

Basic Hot Chocolate Healthy Recipes 

Ingredients:

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

2 tablespoons raw cacao powder

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

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

Pinch of sea salt

Directions:

Heat the water until it is at a low boil.

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

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

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

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

Optional ingredients you can add to your healthy recipes

1 tablespoon Maca powder

½ – 1 tsp shilajit powder

½ tsp of Mucuna

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

2 tablespoons nut milk or organic cream

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

More Variation Healthy Recipes You Can Try

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

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

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

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

Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease Everyone Must Know

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

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

Fructose: Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease

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

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

Avoiding this Non-Alcoholic Cause of Liver Disease

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phytonutrients protect your body’s cells, keep you youthful, cleanse your insides of toxins, strengthen your organs, and prevent and fight major diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases and cardiac disease. In addition to that, when you eat more phytonutrients, your body is getting more of the nutrients it needs to function at its peak and give you loads of energy.

Yet most of us just don’t eat enough of the foods that are rich in phytonutrients. Some of us stick to the same familiar foods – apples, carrots, perhaps a few greens now and then. Some people hardly even do that, or if they do eat plant foods, they’re so processed and overcooked that the food’s just plain dead.

If that’s you, then you’re missing out on some powerful protection. Here are just a few of the valuable phytonutrients you could be getting from Nature’s rainbow larder:

Chlorophyll – essential for all plant life, this compound is a powerful detoxifier, cell rejuvenator and energizer. It also protects genes from damage that leads to cancers. Found in wheat grass, spirulina, barley grass and leafy greens.

Ellagic acid – In a 9 year study, the Hollings Cancer Institute at the University of South Carolina found that this Ellagic acid is inhibited cancer cell division with 48 hours, and normal cell death within 72 hours for breast, pancreas, oesophageal, skin, colon and prostate cancer cells. This cancer-preventing compound is found in pomegranates, grapes, raspberries, and strawberries. Glutathione – a powerful immune regenerator that is essential for liver health and maintaining your DNA found in red foods like watermelon and green foods like asparagus

Lycopene – this cancer-fighting compound that also benefits the heart is found in tomatoes, guava, papaya, pink grapefruit, watermelon and rosehips

Quercetin – an anti-inflammatory antioxidant that has been used to treat cancer, prostatitis, heart disease, cataracts, and respiratory diseases like bronchitis and asthma. A study in the British Journal of Cancer reported that skin and prostate cancers treated with quercetin and resulted in 90% death of the cancer cells within 48 hours. Quercetin is found in many foods, including apples, citrus, onions, grapes, broccoli, leafy green vegetables, cherries, cranberries and turmeric

Resveratrol – this compound helps prevent cancer and inhibits the progression of existing cancers, and also reduces the risk of age-related diseases. Research at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Ohio State University found that resveratrol can also help to inhibit cardiac disease. Find high levels of resveratrol in the skin of purple/red grapes (especially Muscatel grapes), blueberries, raspberries, mulberries, bilberries, and cranberries.

As you can see, a colourful, varied diet is not a luxury. It’s vital to your and your family’s health and wellbeing. And to ensure you’re getting the very best protection from disease without toxic pesticides and additives, eat what’s in season and grown as close to home as you can find…if possible, organic.

Physicians have known for thousands of years that digestion is the key to health. Ancient Chinese and Aryevedic medical writings, the teachings of the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, and the medieval physician Paracelsus all stress the importance of a good digestion, and that digestive problems are behind most diseases.

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Allergic Rhinitis is a condition where the mucous membranes of the nasal passage are inflamed, and produce a clear discharge. If you or your child only experience this seasonally, it is called hay fever. If the condition is persistent, you have chronic of perennial allergic rhinits. What causes the inflammation is histamine, a chemical released along with other inflammatory substances during an allergic reaction. These result in your symptoms: runny nose, sneezing, swollen tissues, watery eyes, congestion of the ear and throat.

Aside from the unpleasant cold-like symptoms, allergic rhinitis can cause sore throats because you may have to breathe mostly through the mouth, whicdh dries the throat tissues. Tooth decay is another consequence, for the saliva that normally helps protect your teeth is not able to do its work when you breathe through your mouth. Also, your sense of smell and taste are affected, so you may have a poor appetite, and may become deficient in nutrients. This is especially a problem with children.

Airborne allergens can trigger the production of excessive mucus, causing congestion. If there is too much mucus, the nasal passages cannot be cleared. Because of their smaller noses, small children are particularly affected by stuffy nose.

Rhinitis Usually Comes With Other Allergic Conditions

If you have allergic rhinitis, you either also have other inflammatory allergic conditions or are at high risk of developing them. The chronic inflammation of mucous membranes in allergic rhinitis is part of a widespread pattern of mucosal inflammation that affects different parts of the body. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes and gastro-intestinal tract is often part of this pattern. Therefore, your allergic rhinitis indicates a higher risk of asthma. In fact, rhinitis and asthma occur together in many allergic children, and the rhinitis tends to aggravate the bronchial inflammation of asthma. Children with rhinitis and asthma also commonly suffer from otitis media (inflammation of the middle ear, often called ‘glue ear’).
What Causes All This Inflammation?

Your nose and throat filter the air to remove any particles that can damage your lungs. Your respiratory organs are lined with mucus and millions of tiny hair-like projections that move foreign particles to the throat where you can cough them out or swallow them so they can be eliminated or destroyed. The function of mucus is to trap irritants before they get into the lungs so they can be removed. This requires a moist internal environment.

If the air is dry or your body is dehydrated (which is more common than you might think), the mucus can dry out the mucus so that it is no longer able to protect against airborne particles. Because there is not enough mucus, irritants can then come into contact with the membrane, irritating it and causing inflammation. This weakens the membrane so that particles can pass through it into the body’s fluids. The immune system may over-react to these particles, leading to the development of allergy. Other factors that can contribute to damage of the mucous membranes are poor diet, environmental toxins, and oxidative stress. Your allergic rhinitis can be triggered by any airborne allergens, such as pollen and mould spores, fungus and its spores, smoke, dust mites, animal dander, air pollution, and perfumes.

What You Can Do?

Various natural remedies can be to improve allergic rhinitis. These include homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, acupressure, and nasal irrigation.

Nasal irrigation

You can relieve the swelling and congestion of rhinitis by flushing out your nasal passage with warm salt water (sea salt). It has been shown to quickly reduce levels of histamine (the chemical causing the swelling) and remove excess mucus.  Use the treatment morning and night, or as needed. Bathing in the sea in warm weather is also helpful.

To flush out your child’s nasal passage, dissolve about 1-2 teaspoons salt per quart of warm water, and use a bulb or large syringe to squirt the water towards the back (not the top) of your child’s head. You can add a teaspoon of baking soda to the solution, also. Adults can use a stronger solution. If it stings, start with a weaker solution and strengthen as you become accustomed to it. You can also sniff in the solution from a bowl, one nostril at a time; then hold your head back to allow the solution deep into the nasal passage. Try to avoid swallowing the solution, though you can safely do so.

Vapour Inhalation

This is another traditional remedy that has been shown very effective in reducing congestion and histamine levels. You can sit with your head over a bowl of steaming water with a towel over your head. Otherwise, use a vaporiser with water heated to about 41 – 43° C.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is particularly effective in reducing symptoms of rhinitis, and in desensitizing people to allergens.
Acupressure

To releive nasal congestion, Drs. Kail et al suggest this in their book, Allergy Free. With your index fingers, press on the groove where each nostril meets the cheek, increasing the upwards pressure for a few moments. This also relieves sinus headache.

Desensitization to allergens

If you want lasting relief from allergic rhinitis, you want to re-program your brain and body so that they no longer react to the allergens that trigger this condition in you. You can find information under ‘Your Bio-Free Health Centre’ on this webpage .