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Tuesday January 27, 2009

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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A NEW YEAR ARE YOU TAKING YOUR HEALTH SERIOUSLY?

The answers to questions submitted to me each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

IF YOU HAVE A HEALTH QUESTION 
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Be sure to give at least your first name, if it is a question you want answered in person feel free to give me a call at 928-636-9425

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

QUESTION:
 
Have you ever heard of MSM (Methylsufonylmethane) having blood thinner, or phenol or  benzene properties?
 
My daughter said
"At one time I had a list of supplements that people allergic should be wary of. I have read that sulfur/MSM has a benzene ring like phenol and also that it is a blood thinner like all the NSAID's are."
 
This is critically needed information for our family...
 
Thanks for you help...
Bettye
 
ANSWER:
 
Bettye, thank you for this question as it is one I have not received before but I can answer it hopefully to your satisfaction... I would also like to publish it in my weekly free "Ask Lena Health Q & A" newsletter as I'm sure others have had some of the same concerns. If you do not wish me to publish that let me know...

Here is a simple explanation of MSM, which I do advise for those with bone or joint problems when combined with two other bone and joint building compounds... By itself MSM - ocean botanical source - is simply a mineral (sulphur).  Human produced MSM can have those rings and therefore we say use only Ocean Harvested minerals... Sulphur is a necessary mineral for building bones, joints and cells in the body. MSM is sulphur - a very needed mineral in all bodies...
 
Here is a condensed version of Ocean Harvested MSM explained;
The body uses MSM to create new and good, healthy cells... Vitamins and amino acids adhere with MSM during this process. Without proper levels of nutritional sulfur, our bodies are unable to build good, healthy cells, and this leads to all kinds of illness and diseases. Only if your diet consists of daily fresh raw vegetables, fruits (7 to 9 - 1/2 cup servings a day) and whole grains will you not require supplementing MSM as it is the 3rd largest required mineral in your body. Our bodies are producing new cells 24 hours per day. If your body doesn't receive proper nutrition and building materials, it will produce bad, dysfunctional cells, deficient in the basic ingredients that constitute a healthy cell. If we want a healthy, flexible cell, capable of maintaining good health, we need to supplement our diets with MSM as well as the other 83 minerals and trace minerals to enable the body to heal itself.  The body will use MSM wherever it is needed most in your system.  As is the case with the rest of the minerals... MSM has slight blood diluting properties. MSM flushes out of the body every 12 hours therefore leaves no residue... If you took large doses of MSM by itself, and ate a lot of green vegetables (3 or 4 cups)in a day it could give the blood diluting effect, be it ever so slightly, too thinning. I don't know of that ever happening to anyone!

An added note; MSM by itself is not a great bone and joint healer without adding chondroitin and glucosamine and sufficient minerals and vitamins. Beware of anything that states: synergistic as that can mean chemical formed added ingredients - as well as some chemically produced MSM manufactures use that term - and not all companies tell you what those additions are.  If those additions are not stated beware and steer clear of that product...

We advocate not taking blood thinners or NSAID's as there are botanical/sea based remedies that work much better and both drugs deplete the body of the minerals it requires to be healthy. That process allows the body to be open for other illnesses or diseases to become ingrained... 


We advocate anyone who does not have signs of arthritic or osteoporosis problems take balanced minerals daily and added MSM will NOT be required... For allergies 1 Tablespoon of Locally harvested honey daily will slowly build up immunity and greatly improve and in a large number do away with food or air borne allergies...

MSM (sulphur), if ocean harvest and in its individual form is actually good for allergies and should not be shunned due to allergies...

Last thought, if you do not know it already... Be careful with the term "natural with any food or supplement", as natural can be anything grown, doesn't mean chemical-free or drug free only that it was grown and not mechanically produced, whether from a tree, bush, corral or field.
 
I hope this helps relieve your mind.
Lena

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Thought for the Day
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ESSENTIAL DAY TO DAY HEALTH

Are you paying $80 a month for vitamins? That's more than some pay for groceries? As you probably already know, multivitamins run the gamut from slick, TV-advertised formulas to generic, bulk retail cheapies to $80-a-month concoctions hyped by nutrition "gurus" you've never heard of before. Confusing, isn't it?

Do we really need a MultiVitamin?

YES, absolutely as our foods are minerals and vitamin deficient. First must be a balance of minerals - that will require a full 84 minerals and trace minerals for balance - to utilize any multivitamin you purchase! Then get a balance multivitamin that hasn't set on your pharmacy or grocer's shelf for months!

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MOTIVATOR
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BUILDING ON VALUES

"I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,'" said the late writer Isaac Asimov. "I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'"

Look at the financial problems of today's world. How many of these problems were the result of inferior products (dubious mortgages, in this case) sold to unaware buyers?

I am convinced that long-range successful businesses, and truly successful lives, are built on values. Two of those values are honesty and integrity.

Over a century ago, clothier John Wanamaker, whose retail business grew into one of the world's first department stores, would have agreed. Wanamaker is sometimes called the father of modern advertising. He instilled the attitude of utmost honesty in his employees.

The story is told of one of his advertising people who was instructed to make a sign promoting neckties that were reduced in price from one dollar apiece to 25 cents. After personally examining the ties, the marketer asked, "Are they any good?"

"No, they're not," he was told.

Wanamaker would have been completely honest, so the ad copy had to reflect the attitude of the store. The necktie advertisement was finally written this way: "They are not as good as they look, but they are good enough at 25 cents." The department sold out of ties almost immediately and was forced to purchase several more weeks' supply of cheap ties to fill the persistent demand (Selling Solutions, Juanita Ruiz, Ed., Oct. 1995).

Wanamaker believed that only a business based on values has real value. And businesses of value are always successful.

Can't it also be said that a life built on values has real value? And when you and I build our lives on honesty and integrity, we will likewise know success.

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