Health Secrets of the World’s Oldest People

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Doctors say healthy eating habits and healthy lifestyles will help us get around to celebrating our 85th, 89th, even 95th birthday. Any older and we’ll probably have to pray on a medical miracle. However, there’s been lots of people who have made it to their 100s, in good shape. Whether it be accounted for due to healthy lifestyle, eating habits, or simply genetic gift, we researched just how they did it. Read on to find out how being old, and I mean really old, and in good shape, is actually possible. We can all start to make a better impact in our lives today.

We cannot deny the fact that our nutritional diets account for a major part of our health, mental well being, spirituality, and physical ineptness. The largest demographic of healthy old persons were from Okinawa, Japan. Being such a rural town, the people there relied on organically grown fruits, vegetables, and grain. Their diet was high in grains, vegetables, fish, and in contrast to the rest of us, low in eggs, meat, and dairy products. We looked at the typical diet of most Americans and saw a record high percentage of meats and foods high in fat content. This may offer some perspective on how we should adapt our diets toward more organic fruits and vegetables and fish over meats.

What about sodas? A woman who rarely drank any soda throughout her entire lifetime just turned 101 years old. It’s all about balance and not consuming sugary drinks in excess. So coffee, alcoholic beverages would be healthy as long as we find a healthy balance. Two to three alcoholic drinks a week should be a healthy maximum and a good rule of thumb.

We’re not saying, don’t indulge, just indulge a little bit. A chocolate cookie every now and then, a hamburger once in a while, a milkshake maybe every two weeks. It’s all about portion control. Along with a healthy diet, comes the commitment to keeping your body busy everyday. Small exercises, running errands, cooking, and cleaning goes to great lengths to keep your body active and in good shape.

Don’t underestimate the power of taking a walk. Exercise doesn’t have to be strenuous, in fact, for older people, taking a few minutes out of your day to take a breezy walk does great things for your health and metabolism. Keeping your stamina up is a great way to exercise without an expensive gym membership.

Now, to take care of our mental well being is also another crucial component. Staying mentally sharp involves keeping your brain active. Lots of older people do this by doing daily crossword puzzles, trivia shows, and math games. Even fun brainteasers will do the trick. I have picked up learning and playing a musical instrument, which helps you improve your mental processing.

Posted on January 17th 2012 in Health Biodevicepartnering

3 Ways To Increase Penis Size

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While the penis is not a muscle, with the proper exercise, it can get bigger. If you are a guy that is looking for a good penis enlargement method, surely, this news makes you happy. Many men out there want to have a bigger penis, but they will not talk about it to other men. Instead, they may turn to the Internet and anonymously talk about it in order to get the information they need. Right now, there are so many men that are not as confident as they could be simply because they are not happy with the size of their manhood.

The penis has two Corpora Cavenosa chambers that are expandable with a third smaller chamber running under them. These chambers are able to expand when blood is in them, this is how a man gets an erection. The more amount of blood they are able to hold, the larger the penis will be. These chambers are surrounded by the tunica. When a man does penis exercise, the penile chambers along with the tunica will adjust to the tension in order to hold a larger volume of blood, which is going to increase the size.

Apart from the chambers and the tunica, you have many ligaments running through the penis – they attach the penis to the pubic bone. By u sing various stretching methods, these ligaments can be elongated.

Penis Squeeze – The penis squeeze is going to increase the girth. Many women love it when a man has some extra girth to him. The penis squeeze is going to help increase the girth. You will notice the results shining through after a couple of weeks of doing this exercise. Basically, the penis squeeze technique is going to make you have thicker erections. In order to perform this exercise, you will need to have a full erection. You can find the basic squeeze exercise by searching online.

Kegel Exercise - The Kegel Exercise will work the Pubococcygeal muscles. When you strengthen these muscles, you will find yourself having an erection that is stronger and lasts much longer. This exercise will help force more blood to your penis. The Kegel exercise will also help you with ejaculatory control, assisting in the treatment of premature ejaculation.

Jelq – This is an exercise that many men are turning to because of how good it works. Take note that if you do not do the exercise exactly right, it may not work as well. This exercise is going to push more blood into the penile champers. Make sure you make a routine out of doing these exercises as it is going to help expand the penile tissues so that it can hold a larger volume of blood. When you do the Jelq exercise correctly, it is going to increase both the width and the length of the penis. Many men see an increase in the erection strength.

When you are doing these exercises, it is important that you create a schedule and stick to it. If you do not stick to the workout schedule, you are not going to get the results you expect to get. You also need to consider how your penis is feeling. In other words, if your penis is sore and the quality of the erection is down, do not work out until you feel things improving. If you work out too much to the point where it hurts, then you will not get the desired results.

Posted on January 11th 2012 in Health Biodevicepartnering

How To Last Longer In Bed For Men

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The topic of this reading is how to last longer in bed for men. A fulfilling, romantic relationship is the foundation for a happy and understanding family life. When a man is unable to sustain his sexual performance then this may contribute to strain within a relationship. It can even lead to the distress of a couple splitting up. Premature ejaculation problems contribute to a loss of confidence and self-esteem. It makes the matter a whole lot worse for a man if his partner isn’t understanding or supportive. There are many methods to influence how to last longer in bed for men which will lead to a more satisfactory sex life.

Stamina and sexual strength are very important for heightened sexual performance. The combination of both mental and physical fitness from a man and his partner is likely to make intercourse more enjoyable and rewarding. The erection of the penis is undoubtedly the most important part for males to perform sexually, and it requires very good blood circulation to this male organ. When this occurs in the right way then enlargement of the penis takes place in the natural way and delivers full satisfaction to both the man and his partner. If the blood flow to the penis is restricted when sexually aroused then sensation and feeling will be confined and may result in premature ejaculation.

To help avoid this, indulging in activities like a work out, walking or other exercise to increase circulation and staying power might help you to improve performance when learning how to last longer in bed for men. Mental control and deep breathing are necessary for a reasonable heightened sexual performance which once mastered you will find truly rewarding. By understanding how to regulate breathing during sexual intercourse, you will be making use of just about all the natural solutions. Improper breathing during intercourse spoils the rhythm and inhibits you from being relaxed and centered on what you are doing. That is, you lose control over your sensations and cannot hold off ejaculation leaving both you and your partner equally unhappy. To stop this, it is essential to attempt to avoid inhaling and exhaling too shallowly through the top portion of your torso. You have to discover ways to get more fresh air and improve strength to your entire body by deeper inhaling and exhaling for a successful performance.

By adopting the recommended methods, having patience and sticking with a few of the easy to follow techniques; and with the co-operation of your partner you’ll be able to see how to last longer in bed for men and when you get better at these simple strategies you will become so much more confident and enjoy a happy and fulfilling sex life.

Focusing on your partner and providing them with additional kinds of pleasure throughout the foreplay phase of sexual intercourse will assist a lot in the arousal of your respective partner and take them up the edge of orgasm even before penetration. When penetration occurs and even after a short time this will be sufficient to push them to the peak and accomplish orgasmic pleasure. An uncomplicated process that may be used while engaging in the sexual intercourse is the stop and start strategy. When this is coupled with the squeeze tactic, it is possible to overcome the issue of premature ejaculation and will assist you towards a more than satisfactory sex life.

Everyone is different and different options will suit some better than others and as they say, there is no right or wrong way but learning how to last longer in bed for men will be the most important issue if you are suffering from premature ejaculation.

Posted on January 3rd 2012 in Health Biodevicepartnering

Vitamin C – Do We Need to Supplement?

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Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can be controversial. There are debates about how much is safe to supplement and a widespread lack of knowledge about how it is stored and used in the body.

Vitamin C in the body.

Vitamin C is used in the body in a number of ways:

  • Formation of collagen, a connective tissue protein that is present throughout our body. Vitamin C contains 4 hydroxyl groups (HO), which can be added to collagen, changing its conformation and making it stronger. Collagen is involved with the function of blood vessels, tendons, ligaments and bones as well as contributing to a firm skin tone. Without it we would wrinkle up and our blood vessels would start leaking.

 

  • Formation of norepinephrine a neurotransmitter that affects our mood and our ability to get going. Norepinephrine levels are increased by some anti-depressant drugs.

 

  • Synthesizing carnitine a molecule that transports fat into our mitochondria that improves our ability to burn fat. Lack of carnitine could contribute to fatigue, one of the early symptoms of the vitamin C deficiency disease, scurvy.

 

  • As an anti-oxidant that prevents our cells from being damaged by harmful free radicals. Its ability to regenerate other antioxidants such as vitamin E, makes it particularly useful in this regard.

From the above list you will probably conclude that it would be beneficial to have sufficient vitamin C in your body at all times.

Vitamin C storage.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, and I’ve heard people say that it is easily excreted from the body in our urine. This is not true. In fact vitamin C is retained in our body by most of our organs and also in our blood plasma. Levels in blood plasma are kept to about 1.4mg/dL. If they fall below this level the kidneys reabsorb any vitamin C that passes through them. If it goes much above this kidney reabsorption decreases and more vitamin C is excreted. Our organs try to store vitamin C at levels well above that in blood plasma. For instance the adrenals, pituitary, thymus and retina all have more than 100 times the concentration of vitamin C than blood plasma.

What we see then is that our kidneys are tightly controlling the amount of vitamin C that is present in the body based on our vitamin C status. Our vital organs need a fair amount of the stuff to be present and if it is not then our plasma levels drop and we start conserving more vitamin C. However we do need to have enough of it. The question is how much is enough.

The recommended daily amount of Vitamin C.

The RDA of vitamin C used to be 60 mg and has now gone up to 90 mg. RDAs are normally set at levels that are sufficient to prevent overt deficiency symptoms in 95% of the population. When you think about it, that means it must be far below what people should be having. Why is that? Well consider overt deficiency, which in the case of vitamin C is called scurvy. This overt deficiency disease occurs over a period of months. The RDA takes no account of long-term disease processes such as heart disease which are also thought to be affected by vitamin C status. Also, if you are just above the overt deficiency threshold you are in danger of falling below it if you get injured or ill. Any physical trauma tends to lower vitamin C levels quite markedly. Smoking counts as physical trauma for these purposes also, and it has been shown that despite the fact that most smokers also consume less vitamin C, they also have lower levels due to their smoking alone. It is also worth noting that frequent aspirin use and the birth control pill both decrease vitamin C levels.

It is also commonly thought that you can overdose on vitamin C, with symptoms such as kidney stones being frequently mentioned. The evidence for this is poor with many studies showing no increased likelihood for kidney stones even with regular daily intakes of greater than 1500 mg. Even greater amounts of vitamin C are regularly used intravenously by some practitioners of complementary medicine, for instance 28,000 mg every four days. The practice is fairly widespread for the treatment of cancer, fatigue and chronic infection. Investigations into the practice of intravenous mega-dosing of vitamin C seem to indicate that it is surprisingly safe, with very few people experiencing any negative side effects. Both my experience and research indicate that high levels of supplemental vitamin C are safe for all but people with kidney insufficiency. People with the common male hereditary disorder, G6PD deficiency, may also be adversely affected, but serious complications for them are highly unlikely. Having said the above, quite a few people will experience stomach distress such as nausea and diarrhoea if they take large quantities of oral vitamin C. The best advice is to try it and limit it to below the level at which any stomach distress occurs.

Why do we need vitamin C?

Vitamin C is synthesized by most animals. However humans, chimps, monkeys, bats, guinea pigs and capybara are among a few that don’t. It is interesting to note that the animals that do synthesize vitamin C produce one heck of a lot of it. For instance, goats weighing the same as a slim human adult, have been reported as producing 13 g of vitamin C per day. That is 140 times more than the current RDA. Equally other primates, who cannot produce their own vitamin C reportedly consume at least 10 times as much vitamin C in their diet as the current RDA. While some of the functions of vitamin C may be carried out by uric acid in humans it seems very likely given the evolutionary evidence from other animals that we should also be consuming a lot more than the current RDA.

Vitamin C is also associated with reduced risk of some major illnesses. Risk of heart disease is likely reduced by 25% or more in those who supplement more than 400 mg daily. Risk of cancer is also likely reduced as vitamin C can help to starve a rapidly growing tumour of its oxygen supply. Gout is one other condition where there is good evidence that supplemental vitamin C can help in prevention or reduce symptoms.

So how much do I recommend?

Given the evidence above I am convinced that vitamin C should be consumed at amounts significantly greater than the current RDA. My recommendation for most people is to consume a diet containing plenty of vitamin C. Depending on how much you eat somewhere between 300-600 mg per day from fruits and vegetables would be a reasonable aim. For those with conditions that may benefit from supplemental vitamin C amounts greater than 1 g (1000 mg) may well be worth trying.

Does vitamin C prevent colds?

Vitamin C has a mixed record in trials to demonstrate its ability to prevent colds or reduce their duration. However a lot of the trials have tested amounts as little as 200 mg/day, which may be too small to be effective anyway. Trials with those under duress such as people doing hard exercise or who have been ill do seem to help prevent colds and reduce their duration and severity. For the ordinary couch potato it seems that prevention is not so effective, but that the severity and duration of colds can be reduced by regular supplementation. My own preference is to take a mixture of vitamin C and zinc at the first sign of a cold.

Where can I get my C?

Vitamin C is available primarily from plant sources. The list below shows the amount of vitamin C available in 100 g of certain plants high in vitamin C:

  • Peppers 150-250 mg
  • Parsley 130 mg
  • Kiwi fruit 90 mg
  • Greens 30-90 mg (Broccoli 90 mg, spinach 30 mg)
  • Oranges 50 mg
  • Banana 9 mg, Apples 6 mg – so oranges have far more than banana and apples!
  • Vitamin C is also available from animals although not in as great an amount as many plants:
  • Liver 12-36 mg
  • Oysters 30 mg
  • Milk 2-4 mg
  • Meat <0.1mg so no good for vitamin C
Posted on December 20th 2011 in Health Biodevicepartnering