Ultra Metabolism

    I love the sound of that- " Ultra metabolism". Sounds like a fat burning machine! Basically that is the thinking behind Dr. Mark Hyman's New York Best Seller. He has some great, sound advice in his book about stress, our diet , how our sleep patterns all contribute to creating a slower metabolism as we age.

A lot of these things I have heard before relating to our metabolism, but he has a whole chapter dedicated to how oxidative stress hinders our metabolism's from working efficiently. Here is a quote from the book:

" Oxidation is commonly seen in the visible world as rusting of a car or a sliced apple turning brown. It is also responsible for the wrinkles on your face when you have been exposed to too much sunlight over the years. The problem is the rust not only exits in the visible or outside world. we actually rust on the inside. And this contributes to impaired metabolism, weight gain, and aging. Think of it as wrinkles on the inside".

    He talks about other factors that contribute to an aging, slowing metabolism, so oxidative stress is not the only factor. I just find it interesting that science has come so far to see that it is not always as simple as just what we eat.

If you would like to order the book, I ordered it from here: Ultra-Metabolism

When it hits home

      When I started taking Protandim last September, the first people I shared with was my family. My Dad is one of the people I told Protandim about, he listened to me and said he would take it for awhile to compare blood work over the course of a few months.  He is a skeptic, but tells me he is willing to be my guinea pig. Over the course of the last six months there a couple obvious changes that people around him can see. The most obvious one is his breathing. He smoked for 50 plus years and even since he has stopped smoking he breathes with a wheeze, he has COPD.( He is also on a number of inhalers, allergy medicines, but has always wheezed , even while taking those). He came with me to church on Easter Sunday and I noticed for the first time that I could not hear him wheezing when it was quiet in church. If you know my Dad, you know the wheeze I am talking about ! It is GONE. The second thing I noticed  was something my sister pointed out to me, his hands are shaking less when he is working on tasks that might involve a fine motor skill.

 His  recent finding has to do with his cholesterol and blood pressure. One of the things that Protandim can do NATURALLY is lower your blood pressure. When it lowers your oxidative stress your bodies natural systems are able to work better on their own. So Protandim is not a supplement to cure high blood pressure or cholesterol or allergies, etc, but it will lower your oxidative stress so that your body's systems that are designed to naturally regulate those things can work more efficiently.

My Dad is starting to see that. His doctor took him off of one of his blood pressure medications and has halved his cholesterol pill. This is BIG in my Dad's world. He complains that every time he goes to the doctor they tell him to go on another drug. Taking away the drugs is the way to go!