Detox Part 1: How to Keep Your "Filtering System" in Tiptop Shape (Jan 1, 2013)
Optimizing Your Health, Part 11: Optimizing Kidney and Bladder Function
Dear Readers,
Your body is about 60% water. There's water inside your cells and out. There's water in your bloodstream and in your organs. There's even water inside your bones (synovial fluid) and your spinal cord (spinal fluid).
Like any healthy body of water — a swimming pool, a lake, an ocean — the water in your body needs to stay CLEAN. And to stay clean, it needs a FILTER.
Fortunately, your body has one. In fact, it has two — your kidneys.
They filter out toxins and wastes and send them to the bladder for disposal.
The kidneys also help control the alkaline/acid balance of the body (critical for optimal health), cellular levels of electrolytes (potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium), and blood pressure levels.
Meanwhile, your bladder is the storage container that holds your urine, so you can control your urination to when it's convenient. Unless of course your bladder is irritated, in which case you go when IT wants you to!
If your kidneys and bladder are in tiptop shape, you'll feel clean and clear from the inside out, helping you maintain abundant energy and a sharp mind.
Here are a few simple but highly effective tips for the care and maintenance of your filtering system.
Love & blessings,
Dr. T
Research Briefs
Encouraging News About Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women
Women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for 11 years lived longer and healthier lives than women not taking HRT — with 50% less heart disease, and no increase in the risk of breast cancer, stroke or blood clots, reported a team of Danish researchers in the October 9 issue of the British Medical Journal.
Less Sleep, More Fat
A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that sleep deprivation cuts the ability of cells to respond to insulin — a metabolic problem that is the first step on the road to obesity and type 2 diabetes. The study may help explain why people with CFS gain weight.
See a report on the study | See the study
Is Curcumin as Good as Exercise for Your Arteries?
A new study from Japanese researchers in the October, 2012 issue of Nutrition Journal showed that postmenopausal women who took a daily dose of the potent antioxidant curcumin for two months and didn't exercise had arteries that were just as healthy as women who exercised regularly during those two months.
Cool Stuff
Historic Photos
Russian peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920.
Funny Stuff
Crazy Laws in New Jersey
It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
You may not slurp your soup.
If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates.
It is against the law to "frown" at a police officer.
Automobiles are not to pass horse-drawn carriages on the street.
It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.
It is illegal to frown in Bernards Township as the town is a "Frown-Free Town Zone."
You may not dance or wear shorts on the main avenue in Caldwell.
It is forbidden for a woman, on a Sunday, to walk down Broad Street without wearing a petticoat in Elizabeth.
In Manville it is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals at the local zoo.
In Newark it is illegal to sell ice cream after 6 pm, unless the customer has a note from his doctor.
In Ocean City raw hamburger may not be sold.
In Sea Isle City there will be no boiling of bones on the property.
In Trenton pickles are not to be consumed on Sundays.
In Trenton you may not throw a bad pickle in the street.
Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the world's leading integrative medical authorities on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. He is the lead author of eight research studies on their effective treatments, and has published numerous health & wellness books, including the bestseller on fibromyalgia From Fatigued to Fantastic! and The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution. Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the most frequently quoted fibromyalgia experts in the world and appears often as a guest on news and talk shows nationwide including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, and Fox News Health.
