LIVER SUPPORT

LIVERS TOP FUNCTIONS

The liver performs 500 different functions daily so supporting the liver should be part of your daily maintenance routine. Some of the functions are:

                                                        
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    · Everything we ingest has to go through the liver, it is called the first pass in the body

    · Breakdown and metabolize fats

    · Convert glucose to its stored form glycogen

    · Assemble amino acids essential and non-essential that go on to produce the body’s 50 thousand different proteins

    · Detox harmful substances from the body and bloodstream

    · Stores vitamins and minerals (vitamins A, D, K, and B12)

    · Maintain a proper level of glucose in the blood

 

Most people today are walking around with anywhere from 50% to 60% liver function. This is because the liver, like other aspects of the body's cells, tissue and organs have specific nutrient requirements.  Its no wonder so many struggle with cholesterol.  As liver function becomes compromised it dumps dietary fats into the bloodstream elevating blood lipid (cholesterol) levels.   

The liver is the second fastest replicating cell of the body, as such its nutrient demands are enormous. The reason most people are walking around with compromised liver function is that the liver is starving for the specific nutrients that keep it healthy.

Nutrients for the Liver 

LIVER CONCENTRATE 

* Contains nutrients that feed and rebuild the liver and it also contains the antioxidants, superoxide dismutase and catalase, which help to prevent damage to the liver from chemical, viral (hepatitis) or bacterial causes. 

MILK THISTLE (80% Silymarin) 

* Silymarin repairs and rebuilds a damaged liver and through its

   antioxidant properties protects liver cells from free radical damage.

* Silymarin increases glutathione levels allowing the liver to neutralize  

   chemical toxins, drugs and other mutagenic agents before they go out

   into the body and do damage.

TUMERIC EXTRACT

* Possesses ant-inflammatory properties, protects the liver against

   chemicals. 

DANDELION EXTRACT 

* Dandelion Leaf helps promote bile excretion from the liver so the body can more efficiently process foods and liquids while also purging harmful toxins. In addition, improved bile flow makes it possible for the body to better metabolize fat, which helps optimize the body's cholesterol levels.

GREEN TEA EXTRACT

* Green tea prevents lipid peroxidation, a contributor to arterial plaque or hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and helps lower cholesterol, blood pressure and platelet clumping (aggregation).

ARTICHOKE EXTRACT 

* Stimulates liver function by promoting circulation within the liver. Artichoke extract inhibits oxidation of LDL cholesterol and boosts healthy levels of HDL cholesterol. Artichoke extract has been shown to aid digestion by stimulating bile synthesis, which supports detoxification and the absorption of fat-soluble nutrients.

Sincerely,

Richard Helfrich
Health Spectrum at The River
71-800 Hwy.111,A149

Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

(760) 340-5935, http://www.richardhelfrich.com/or http://www.healthspectrumpalmdesert.com/

ANTI-AGING

Could you describe your philosophy/attitude to the ageing process and the anti-aging industry?

Having written my latest book on this subject "Young Inside and Out", I can tell you that aging is one of the hardest things for the body to do. You have to expose the body to oxidative stress (from exposure to sun, chemicals, pollution) and you have to starve it. 

So, you have two objectives to slow or even reverse the aging process, repair and prevent the mutations occurring within the cells and make sure you are feeding the body's two hundred different cell types to make sure you are building the healthiest cells possible. 

Most approaches to anti-aging marketed today are aimed at temporary solutions that give a temporary result like Botox, fillers and dermal applications. None can or do achieve the objectives I have stated.    

Do you think it's important to take a holistic approach to anti-ageing, and why?

You really have no choice if you are seriously interested in slowing or reversing the aging process but to take a holistic approach.  We are a nutrient dependent organism, there is very little the body makes (about 30% of its nutrient needs, but you need to ingest the 70% it does not make for it to be able to make the 30%).

Feeding the body its' nutrient needs is the most important first step to anti-aging.
I am always asked for the sound bite or bullet that sums up aging and health and it is such an easy response, most people are just starving to death. There is so little understanding out in the general public about what it takes to achieve the body's nutrient needs on a daily basis.

What is your attitude to cosmetic surgery?

Cosmetic surgery can provide benefits for some people, but most people are not even candidates for cosmetic surgery.  The reason being that their skin is not healthy enough, the dermis is dry and the collagen matrix of the skin has lost its’ youthful elasticity. The results can looked pulled with scar tissue forming at the incision sites due to the inability of the skin (collagen matrix) to heal properly.

Most people do not realize that when you cut into the skin, no different when you cut yourself and a scar forms that dermis does not knit back together but the collagen matrix skin is built on cross-links together to seal the wound forming a scar.

When advising people who are considering plastic surgery, the advise is spend a year feeding the 60% of skin that is fat and the 40% that is collagen and then if you decide you still want to proceed you will be at least working with healthy skin.

When it comes to looking younger for longer, how do you rate skincare in importance, compared to nutrition/lifestyle factors?

 As stated above if 60% of skin is fat and 40% is collagen then healthy skin has to start from the inside out. Skin is the fastest replicating cell out of the body's 200 cell types, as such skin has the most voracious appetite for nutrients daily and again the body makes none of them, they have to come from exogenous sources. You give the body these nutrients and it builds healthy, supple, beautiful skin.

Having said this skin care is equally important, for example there are a few things that can only be achieved from the outside in.  Dissolving cross-linked collagen associated with wrinkles can only be done this way, you can repair the collagen matrix restoring the elasticity to skin but dissolving the wrinkles has to be from the outside in. There are only a handful of products that can achieve this, most of what is marketed for this purpose is useless.

Keeping the skin hydrated is another benefit skincare provides, forming a moisture barrier that slows down the loss of moisture. Most people do not realize that they can loose up to a pint of water an hour out of their skin on a hot day, the same amount lost in an airplane at 30 thousand feet (one pint an hour.)

There are many cutting edge products that have entered the marketplace that also help reduce the oxidative stress that skin cells receive because they are 60% fat and can receive up to ten thousand free radical hits a day.  Also products that repair the mutations that accumulate within the cells and get carried into subsequent generations which is the genesis of the aging process. Finally, products that inhibit Thymine dimmers and sunburn cells caused by UVA radiation from the sun.

Do you think that nutrition and skincare are merging to create a more holistic and integrated style of skincare - ie many skincare companies are now offering supplements alongside their topical ranges, and using more and more super food-style ingredients in these skincare products (msm etc)?

There is definitely a growing awareness that a vertically-integrated approach to skincare that provides long term results are what the public is demanding. The advent of all the super foods you reference are educating the public on the importance of anti-oxidants and the vital role they play with skin cells as an example are forcing the skincare companies to take notice.

There seems to be a growing demand by the consumer for solutions, not just temporary results.  The problem is understanding what nutrients it takes to achieve this and how they have to be taken to allow the body to realize a benefit.  (I wrote a book called the "24 Hour Body" that covers this subject specifically). Unfortunately there is little understanding or education as to how nutrients get into the body and just because you took something that in principle will provide benefit does not mean that benefit will be realized.

The body has a lot of rules when it comes to how it accesses nutrients and unless you play by those rules do not expect much.  In fact let me throw out a statistic to you, 90% of people who take supplements get nothing from them, because they are taking them the wrong way. The body only recognizes three molecular structures (water soluble, fat soluble and large molecular structures) and treats each one differently in terms of how it assimilates them.

Sincerely,

Richard Helfrich
Health Spectrum at The River

71-800 Hwy.111,A149

Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

(760) 340-5935, http://www.richardhelfrich.com/  or
http://www.healthspectrumpalmdesert.com/

INTRODUCING THEANINE!!

THE ISSUE: CORTISOL

When cortisol is produced in excess over a prolonged period, it can have profound negative effects. Inflammatory mediators can be activated, blood sugar remains elevated and sodium is retained by the cells fueling hypertension caused by stress.

Instead of promoting conversion of protein and fatty acids into energy, cortisol directs everything to be stored as fat, causing the accumulation of belly fat.

Chronically elevated cortisol lowers serotonin, the brain's largest chemical representing eighty percent of the volume of forty chemicals. Headaches, memory, attention span and most importantly sleep is affected.

Sustained elevated cortisol damages the myelin sheath that protects the sixty thousand miles of nerves in the body. Now anything that travels the nervous system, including the herpes family of viruses, psoriasis, eczema, singles and ADHD can manifest.

The last kick in the pants is with long term elevated cortisol depleting all the available DHEA. With this loss women experience the menopausal symptoms of hot flashes, night sweats and bone loss.

STRESS:

The culprit involved in developing these conditions is often the result of stress.  Stress may come in many forms.  Weather it be career, home, family or relationships, responsibilities, etc.  However, it is not always the inability to cope with the psychological effects of stress, but the body’s physiological reaction to it.   Typically expressed in type “A” personalities who’s “can do” attitude encourages them to undertake more than there bodies can handle. 

Even though the causes of stress can be totally non-specific in terms of our daily lives the effect on the endocrine system triggers the same fight or flight reaction as if we were thrown in front of a speeding train.  Whatever the trigger, the reaction from anxiety, stress, anger or surprise causes the adrenal glands to release adrenaline. Adrenaline in turn triggers the release of cortisol.   They work together as a tag team for you cannot have one with out the other. 

THE SOLUTION: THEANINE

L-Theanine is a unique amino acid found in the green tea plant camellia sinensis. Theanine acts as a precursor to dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is the second largest brain chemical by volume and plays a vital role by inhibiting the brain's ability to access adrenaline.  By preventing the brain form accessing adrenaline, cortisol release is inhibited.

Theanine not only inhibits the body from elevating cortisol there for preventing all the complications mentioned above, it rewards you by stimulating relaxing alpha waves in the brain. Now the brain can prioritize thoughts, improve concentration and increases learning ability. At night theanine has the reverse effect by shutting the brain down. This helps the brain from hitting the pillow and doing inventory of the day's events or worse trying to tackle tomorrow’s problems.

Sincerely,

Richard Helfrich

Health Spectrum at The River

71-800 Hwy.111,A149

Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

(760) 340-5935, http://www.richardhelfrich.com/

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