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Why You Should Listen To Your Heart

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8623L7KwaxVxbuRV3Tzo2IsjRT_8Ws02pRW7e_Fv7moTyHu-Ll4mSEJmXKPJNl_udBwch8-ALWJ9XkUrQnEOmiqatjFqxLnY_FCaroo3hLnpIIkhWMgIbCz1g-Vz0kNt6-W1Vu2XuyCPd/s1600/Heart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8623L7KwaxVxbuRV3Tzo2IsjRT_8Ws02pRW7e_Fv7moTyHu-Ll4mSEJmXKPJNl_udBwch8-ALWJ9XkUrQnEOmiqatjFqxLnY_FCaroo3hLnpIIkhWMgIbCz1g-Vz0kNt6-W1Vu2XuyCPd/s1600/Heart.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5317548953f6c5466707159" style="display: inline;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5317548953f6c5466707159" style="display: inline;">In the 1930s, Dr. Walter Cannon of the Harvard Medical School showed that the heart responds to external nerves and hormones to help with a fight or flight response to keep us healthy.<br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;">New research is <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">showing that the heart controls the brain much more than previously thought.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">1. Some researchers refer to the heart as the "little brain."<br />There are 40,000 sensory neurons relaying information to the brain from the heart, leading researchers to call the heart the “little brain” and to coin the field as neurocardiology.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">2. The heart communicates to the brain and the body.<br />It does so in four ways, via:<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">• nervous system connections<br />• hormones produced in the heart itself<br />• biomechanical information via blood pressure waves<br />• energetic information from the strong electrical and electromagnetic fields.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">The fact that the heart produces hormones released into the blood stream affecting all of the body was first demonstrated 30 years ago and has led to tests routinely performed in hospitals across the country.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">3. There is more information sent from the heart to the brain on a daily basis via these four means of communications than vice versa.<br />Indeed, the neurons within the heart enable the heart to learn, remember, and make decisions independent of the brain's cerebral cortex.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">4. The heart emits more electrical activity than the brain.<br />The heart emits an electrical field 60 times greater in amplitude than the activity in the brain and an electromagnetic field 5,000 times stronger that of the brain.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">5. The electromagnetic field of the heart is incredibly strong.<br />It not only can be measured anywhere on the body (using an EKG with electrodes on the ankles and wrists) but also for several feet outside the body, too.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">6. Activity in one person's heart can be measured in the brain waves of another person.<br />The electromagnetic field of two individuals (human or pet and human), touching or within a few feet of each other, can interact so that energy activity in the heart of one individual is measured in the brain waves of the other. The act of touch for healing therapies can be postulated to be due to this method of communication.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">7. The electrical activity of the heart and the brain can be guided into a synchronous electrical rhythm easily measured and displayed by simply focusing on positive and loving emotions emanating from the heart.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">This state of organ “coherence” is associated with improved higher level functioning, lower blood pressure and cortisol levels, and improved immune system function.<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="userContent"></span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Exciting scientific findings are providing a dramatically different understanding of the heart and its relationship with the brain and the human body. The rich neurologic and endocrine structure of the heart makes it possible to “train” the heart from acting in a frenzied and disordered manner during stress and anger to working in an optimal manner from lessons of peace, love, and harmony.</span></div><span class="userContentSecondary fcg" style="color: #89919c;"> </span></div>

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Dr. Robert O. Young's Research Validated in New Study - A High-Protein Diet Increases Risk of Cancer and Death

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2 class="subtitle" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aKcN1zp6fwDUMrz7ylna6inb8flnmucf0XyOLkWXFwFfvHh4-plK-NIxxPdDw5t9Z3E0SMIThMTh-Ekv2X9i9eazSocn8GnzbNg4Wx4ebHPCWFR8ooA4X0Dl9-lm-SzaF_JwUk4oFLji/s1600/580545_10201382579700416_292521374_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aKcN1zp6fwDUMrz7ylna6inb8flnmucf0XyOLkWXFwFfvHh4-plK-NIxxPdDw5t9Z3E0SMIThMTh-Ekv2X9i9eazSocn8GnzbNg4Wx4ebHPCWFR8ooA4X0Dl9-lm-SzaF_JwUk4oFLji/s1600/580545_10201382579700416_292521374_n.jpg" /></a>A high-protein diet during middle age makes you nearly twice as likely to die early and four times more likely to die of cancer</h2><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">MARCH 4, 2014 — That chicken wing you're eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet — a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"There's a misconception that because we all eat, understanding nutrition is simple. But the question is not whether a certain diet allows you to do well for three days, but can it help you survive to be 100?" said corresponding author Valter Longo, the Edna M. Jones Professor of Biogerontology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Not only is excessive protein consumption linked to a dramatic rise in cancer mortality, but middle-aged people who eat lots of proteins from animal sources — including meat, milk and cheese — are also more susceptible to early death in general, reveals the study to be published March 4 in <i>Cell Metabolism</i>. Protein-lovers were 74 percent more likely to die of any cause within the study period than their more low-protein counterparts. They were also several times more likely to die of diabetes.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But how much protein we should eat has long been a controversial topic – muddled by the popularity of protein-heavy diets such as Paleo and Atkins. Before this study, researchers had never shown a definitive correlation between high protein consumption and mortality risk.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Rather than look at adulthood as one monolithic phase of life, as other researchers have done, the latest study considers how biology changes as we age, and how decisions in middle life may play out across the human lifespan.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In other words, what's good for you at one age may be damaging at another. Protein controls the growth hormone IGF-I, which helps our bodies grow but has been linked to cancer susceptibility. Levels of IGF-I drop off dramatically after age 65, leading to potential frailty and muscle loss. The study shows that while high protein intake during middle age is very harmful, it is protective for older adults: those over 65 who ate a moderate- or high-protein diet were less susceptible to disease.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The latest paper draws from Longo's past research on IGF-I, including on an Ecuadorian cohort that seemed to have little cancer or diabetes susceptibility because of a genetic mutation that lowered levels of IGF-I; the members of the cohort were all less than five-feet tall.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"The research shows that a low-protein diet in middle age is useful for preventing cancer and overall mortality, through a process that involves regulating IGF-I and possibly insulin levels," said co-author Eileen Crimmins, the AARP Chair in Gerontology at USC. "However, we also propose that at older ages, it may be important to avoid a low-protein diet to allow the maintenance of healthy weight and protection from frailty."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Crucially, the researchers found that plant-based proteins, such as those from beans, did not seem to have the same mortality effects as animal proteins. Rates of cancer and death also did not seem to be affected by controlling for carbohydrate or fat consumption, suggesting that animal protein is the main culprit.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"The majority of Americans are eating about twice as much proteins as they should, and it seems that the best change would be to lower the daily intake of all proteins but especially animal-derived proteins," Longo said. "But don't get extreme in cutting out protein; you can go from protected to malnourished very quickly."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Longo's findings support recommendations from several leading health agencies to consume about 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight every day in middle age. For example, a 130-pound person should eat about 45-50 grams of protein a day, with preference for those derived from plants such as legumes, Longo explains.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The researchers define a "high-protein" diet as deriving at least 20 percent of calories from protein, including both plant-based and animal-based protein. A "moderate" protein diet includes 10-19 percent of calories from protein, and a "low-protein" diet includes less than 10 percent protein.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Even moderate amounts of protein had detrimental effects during middle age, the researchers found. Across all 6,318 adults over the age of 50 in the study, average protein intake was about 16 percent of total daily calories with about two-thirds from animal protein — corresponding to data about national protein consumption. The study sample was representative across ethnicity, education and health background.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">People who ate a moderate amount of protein were still three times more likely to die of cancer than those who ate a low-protein diet in middle age, the study shows. Overall, even the small change of decreasing protein intake from moderate levels to low levels reduced likelihood of early death by 21 percent.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">For a randomly selected smaller portion of the sample – 2,253 people – levels of the growth hormone IGF-I were recorded directly. The results show that for every 10 ng/ml increase in IGF-I, those on a high-protein diet were 9 percent more likely to die from cancer than those on a low-protein diet, in line with past research associating IGF-I levels to cancer risk.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The researchers also extended their findings about high-protein diets and mortality risk, looking at causality in mice and cellular models. In a study of tumor rates and progression among mice, the researchers show lower cancer incidence and 45 percent smaller average tumor size among mice on a low-protein diet than those on a high-protein diet by the end of the two-month experiment.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Almost everyone is going to have a cancer cell or pre-cancer cell in them at some point. The question is: Does it progress?" Longo said. "Turns out one of the major factors in determining if it does is is protein intake."</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Dr. Robert O. Young of the pH Miracle Living Center states, "animal proteins from beef, chicken, turkey and prok are highly acidic producing dietary acids of nitric, uric, phosphoric and sulphuric acid.  These acids if not properly eliminated can lead to inflammatory conditions such as gout and cancer of the stomach and bowels." </div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">References:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Cell Metabolism</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The pH Miracle revised and updated</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Morgan Levine, Jorge Suarez and Pinchas Cohen of the USC Davis School of Gerontology were co-authors of the study. The research was funded by the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health (grants: AG20642, AG025135, AG034906, P30AG017265 and T32AG0037) and a USC Norris Cancer Center pilot grant to Valter Longo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>