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How To Protect Hair From Damage?

January 24, 2018 By Nemira Leave a Comment

Hair is part of the image. Hair guards us against cold and the heat.  How do you protect hair from damage? Nowadays, we encounter and experience more harmful factors such as acid rain, unpredictable change in temperatures, the lack of proper nutrition, and polluted air and water.

 Take Care Of Your Hair


How To protect Hair From Damage

We can take care of hair in the same way as we watch after our bodies and minds.

However, people come in different shapes, sizes, and colors. Hair is not an exception. Compare Asians and Europeans, Native Americans and people from New Zealand. The care for different hair can have many variations. However, natural products never will harm but will help.

Hair does not like direct sun and cold. With the fast temperature change, the dry air can damage the outer layers. Tight bandana headbands or rubber fixations can break hair.

You can thinkwonder why my friend has no problems with hair or why hair becomes thinner with age. It depends on many factors, such as genes, environment, and nutrition.

 We Are Different And Unique


I wondered why people living on different continents have different hair. Nature is thousands of times brighter and knows how to protect us.  African people have curly hair. They brought these traits to other continents. It is in their genes. Curly hair protects from heat.

How does it happen?


Curly hair creates the layer between the head and surface of the hair. The air is more cooling by the head and does not let overheat soas fast as it would be for people with straight hair. I think that it is astonishing how the environment shapes us.

 How To Protect Hair From Damage?


 Nutrition


People who get vitamins, proteins, enzymes, and minerals from food can reap the benefits of proper nutrition. Organic food and supplements provide the needed material for the growth and excellent appearance of hair.

Care of Hair


Protection from heat, sun, and cold makes a difference. Hair does not like constant changes in temperatures.

How To Protect Hair From Damage

Chemicals in dyes can influence the hairthe hair damage. Fortunately, there are plenty of colors nowadays which are enriched with vitamins. Beauty companies invent new products which benefit informed consumers.

When you go to a hairdresser, you must ask what products they use. Fewer chemicals are in beauty products, and less harm your hair will get.

There are significant factors to keep your hair happy.

Water


Water used for showering and washing hair can be full of chemicals. Chlorine in the water makes hair dry.  Chlorine makes the skin itchy and irritant. Besides, you can get dandruff. It is advisable to use filters in a showerhead. Water-free of other stuff such as chlorine will make hair clean.

How can you protect your hair and skin in the shower?

  • Using shower filters. The Pure Earth company makes KDF shower filters. (www.pure-earth.com)
  • Radiant Wash shower filters are filled with vitamin C. It sounds like the trick, but vitamin C converts chlorine to pure salt.

Masks and Treatments


There are plenty of costumes made by beauty companies. However, home remedies can provide the same and better results without harming health.

You know that the FDA does not test beauty products, do you? It means that consumers must be attentive and careful with choices regarding their health. Chemicals can go into your skin and give unwanted problems such as allergies or rashes.

What does it mean? We can use home remedies rom our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.

For example, onion. Maybe you do not like the smell and the taste, but this vegetable is full of benefits. The sulfur does tricks.

How To Protect Hair From Damage

The mask with onion overnight can make a difference.

How to do it:


  • Pick an onion
  • Cut into small pieces
  • Put everything on the excellent cotton cloth and wrap it around your head. Try not to scatter pieces.
  • Use fa ew more of cotton pieces to hold everything together warm
  • You can put a  wool cap on the head for the whole time.

It is beneficial to hair to have onion throughout the whole night. One thing if you sleep not alone, your partner cannot be happy with the smell. I parade with onion on my hair during the day when nobody is home — the peace of the mind.

In the morning, you remove the neon and clothsclothes clothes.

To remove the smell of onion, you can use lemon juice or vinegar. After rinsing with it, the hair will smell fresh.

Sesame Oil Treatment


It perfectly works for thin and tired hair.

The recipe:

  • Two yolks
  • One teaspoon of honey
  • Two teaspoons of sesame oil

I use organic ingredients, mixing them in a bowl with a spoonwith a spoon bowl until everything becomes one smooth liquid mass. I apply it to clean hair, carefully spreading and watching that good stuff would cover and donotdo not drop on the floor or clothes. Later on, I wrap it with a cotton scarf or light towel and cover it with a warm cap to keep for a half hour. Later on, I rinse and dry without the fan.

 The Help From Herbs


The famous Maria Treben, a world-renowned herbalist, offers simple recipes for improving hair quality and preventingpreventionpreventing prevention offers simple recipes etoto nhanceenhanceenhance the rate of hair and avoid la oss.

For Hair Growth


Burdock root rinse

  The recipe:

  •   Soak 4 oz of burdock root in cold water for twelve hours
  •  Warm up the infusion and strain it
  •  Wash hair using Castile soap with half of the liquid.
  •  Rinse the soap out with the other half of the infusion.

Nettle rinse

How To Protect Hair From Damage

The stinging nettle is an old remedy to promote hair growth and strengthen them.

  The recipe:

  •   Ten  handfuls of fresh stinging nettles pare ut in saucepan covered with one gallon of water
  •   Heat the water but not boil it
  •   Let nettles stay for five minutes
  •   Strain them and use the liquid to wash your hair

Hair loss

For me, the onion is a first helper. However, Maria Treben offers a couple of recipes for hair loss whichthat are easy to follow and apply.

  Walnut Leaf lotion

  •   Chop two full teaspoons of walnut leaves
  •   Pour hot water into the cup with walnut leaves
  •   Let’s stay for half of the minute
  •   Strain the liquid
  •   Massage the lotion into your scalp

 Wild Chicory juice for loss of eyebrow hair and eyelashes

  •    Chew wild chicory stalk
  •    Apply the juice from it with fingers to eyebrows and eyelashes

 Conclusion


Hair needs attention as everything in our bodies and around us. How todo protect hair from damage? First, do not hurt them, exposing them to direct sun and cold or rain. You never know what falls from the sky. Acid rain is the more common thing nowadays.

Second, watch your diet. Junk food does not have vital nutrients. Hair needs minerals, vitamins, proteins, and enzymes.

Third, take good care of them by using safe beauty products and washing with water without chemicals.

Do you have any questions? Please leave a comment below.

Filed Under: Well-being Tagged With: chemicals, chlorine, hair care, hair loss, nettle, nutrition, onion, shower filters, Vitamin C, water, wild chicory

How To Get Ready For the Holiday?

November 27, 2017 By Nemira Leave a Comment

How to get ready for the holiday? The holiday is supposed to be the best time when we can relax, experience something new or spend time with family or friends. The funny is that the holiday can be a nightmare for plenty of people.

People who travel get jet lags. Time difference and excitement, seeing friends and family can throw off balance.

Somebody who waits for guests can be exhausted after food preparation, decorating the house, and sorting things out such as gifts, seating places, or picking clothes for the rest of the family.

  List


Having a list of things to do, helps immensely. It brings peace to mind.

Sometimes people want to make the holiday perfect. It is understandable, but the preparation can significantly affect everybody who overestimates themselves.

Making things simple works a long way. Dividing tasks between family members or friends would take plenty of responsibility for somebody who wants to get ready for the holiday in the best way possible.

The list helps visualize and get the bigger picture of what is going on. If you forgot something, you would write it down. When you finish or accomplished task, you cross it and will do the next one.

The list provides stability. The holiday must be a joyful time, not a crazy one.

 Planning The Time


Having free time before the final day when guests gather is a blessing. We can take of ourselves, gather thoughts, and rethink activities and tasks. When we have time, we can relax and meet guests with a smile.

Of course, not everybody has the luxury of preparing food or decorating a house or apartment. People work, take care of other members or go to school. In this case, the list and careful planning of time will help too.

You can buy the prepared dish, make the salad, improvise with ingredients, and have some dessert before the holiday. Nowadays, there are plenty of good choices from stores such as Trader Joe’s. Everything is tasty, affordable, and can stay a few days longer until the holiday.

 Having Remedies


It is not a secret that people consume too much food and alcohol during holidays. It puts a burden on health. Who feels the holiday spirit when the head spins around, and the rebellious stomach rejects the best piece of food?

Herbal tea, such as chamomile or green tea, helps smooth the little bit of turmoil in our body.

Taking ReAline capsules, vitamin C helps remove toxins and waste from the body.

The sauerkraut soup is a longtime remedy in Europe. It helps digestion and hangovers.  Spirulina provides support for the liver during the time of overeating and overdrinking.

 Conclusion 


The holiday is the time to celebrate, not exhaust ourselves. People can have fun with simple things such as warm food, warm smiles, and long, meaningful conversations. The holiday is to celebrate and relax. People are the most important. Paying more attention to them can clear a lousy mood if the ham is too spicy or the cake loses shape.

Filed Under: Self-improvement Tagged With: hangover, holiday, overeating, realine, spirulina, Vitamin C

Get Rid Of Hot Flashes Naturally

November 19, 2017 By Nemira Leave a Comment

Get rid of hot flashes naturally using therapies and safe methods.  The transformation of the female body occurs at different times. Somebody does not experience at all hot flashes. However, plenty of women do not like this condition if it happens continuously.

 What Are Hot Flashes?


We can blame LH( leuteinizing hormone) on the pituitary gland. This hormone stimulates estrogen levels in the ovaries. When women reach a particular time when menopause occurs, ovaries do not produce enough estrogen. So what? It means that when ovaries are lazy, there is not enough estrogen, LH levels rise, and hot flashes occur.

Hypothalamus, the heat-regulatory center in the brain, is involved in this mess. When there is not enough estrogen from the ovaries, and LH(leuteinizing hormone) increases,  trying to stimulate estrogen levels creating how flashes. It is no fun.

Besides it, sweat glands do not cool the body — the lack of estrogen influences the quality of sweat glands.

 Do We Have an Escape Route?


Thankfully, there are ways to transition from one stage of life to another safely and pleasantly.

One thing that I know is that women differ in having experiences during life. It is nothing wrong; we all live in different places, eat other food, and have different habits, genetic inheritance, and lifestyles.

Fortunately, we can pick what best suits us. Feeling our bodies and using common sense, we can find ways how to rid of hot flashes naturally.

 Ways To Rid Of Hot Flashes Naturally


 Diet Is Important


Eating foods full of phytoestrogens and progesterone helps alleviate menopause symptoms. Apples, cherries, coconuts, and plums; tubers such as yams and carrots; grains such as buckwheat, rice, and wheat germ; nightshades such as peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes will help ease up hot flashes.

Having plenty of high-quality animal-based omega-3 fats helps deal with increased stress levels.

Exercising helps increase vitamin D levels naturally.

 Supplements for Hot Flashes


  • Folic acid. Folic acid is B vitamins. It is vitamin B9. It can be from 5mg to 20 mg daily.
  • Desiccated adrenal. One or two tablets twice a day, on mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
  •  Vitamin C. It supports adrenal glands, together with reducing hot flashes and stress. The immune system benefits too.
  •  Pantothenic acid. It is a B vitamin which supports adrenal glands. Dose 500 mg three times a day.
  • B complex. It supports the liver, strengthens stress, and nerve control.
  • Vitamin E. Vitamin E protects the liver and heart. Take 400 I.U. one to two per day.
  • Evening Primrose Oil or Black Currant Seed Oil. It works as the sedative and a diuretic. It is essential for hot flashes and the production of estrogen.

Herbal Helpers for Menopause and Hot Flashes


  • Chinese herbal patent medicine for menopause is Women’s Precious Pill or Eight Taste. It helps prevent hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and anemia.
  • Horsetail
  • Buckwheat greens
  • Elderberries and flowers
  • Hawthorn flowers and leaves
  • Rose hips and flowers
  • Royal Macha from authentic sources in Peru provides the adaptogenic effect.
  • Women’s Precious Pills or Eight Taste, a herbal patent medicine provides help dealing with hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and anemia.
  • Sage leaves help rid of hot flashes. My friend drunk this tea and did not have any problem with the transition period. No hot flashes or excessive sweating. It worked for her.

 Conclusion


Herbal remedies are a gentle way to help the body with menopausal symptoms. It is advisable to pick organic sources and reliable sellers. Herbs may aid with stress and fatigue, reducing or removing hot flashes. It worked for many women before and will work now.

A healthy diet, exercises, a low refined carbohydrate diet, herbal remedies,  and consultation with knowledgeable health practitioners will benefit.

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Filed Under: Well-being Tagged With: B complex, desiccated adrenal, Eight Taste, exercises, folic acid, healthy diet, herbal remedies, horsetail, pantothenic acid, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Women's Precious Pills

Are Best Antioxidant Supplements?

November 10, 2017 By Nemira Leave a Comment

Are Best Antioxidant Supplements

Are the best antioxidant supplements on the market? Yes, doctors recommend antioxidants as the prevention against free radicals avoiding sudden aging and deterioration of body systems. Some of the antioxidants come with diet.

Before talking about antioxidants, it would be good to start with oxidation.

 What Is the Heck the Oxidation?


You know that atoms or molecules have electrons that spin in orbit around the nucleus. It is a natural process. Unfortunately, some agents such as oxygen or chlorine can strip an electron from the atom. These molecules or atoms become defective and useless. Cells die and vanish. It is the reason why aging occurs. It does not matter what it is: the human or metal.

You see how iron rusts. It does not take a long time to turn metal into corroded metal.

Oxidative stress happens when natural and artificial radiation affects cells. Free radicals begin to form when electrons are stripped from atoms. These free electrons search for prey because they cannot be unattached. They bombard new molecules taking the next particle. This process starts the chain reaction. Without defense systems such as antioxidants, the body would suffer intensely.

  Antioxidants: What Is It?


Nature has natural defense mechanisms against oxidation. Photosynthesis is one of the protective ways. However, it counts just for plants. How about humans?

We are lucky that we have these barriers:

  •  Physical barriers which contain free radicals in their places of production within cells
  •   Enzymes which neutralize reactive oxygen species(ROS)
  •   Substances from the diet such as vitamins C and E. These vitamins can donate electrons to free radicals, stopping them from harming cells.
  •  Repair mechanisms which help fix  damage from the oxidation  of DNA, proteins, and membranes
  •  Master control genes which are activated when the body is in need.

Antioxidants help the body to repair and detoxify after attacks of free radicals. The speed of metabolism plays a role in the number of free radicals and oxidative stress. When slow metabolism, the slow is the production of free radicals.

We can help ourselves take an appropriate diet full of antioxidants such as enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients.

 The Best Antioxidant Supplements


The market is full of claims that this or this supplement will make miracles. I prefer advice from scientists and doctors. Let’s check out what do they offer for us :

  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin E
  • Beta-carotene
  • Green tea extracts
  • Curcumin
  • Pycnogenol
  • Indole-3-carbinol (I-3-C)
  • Juvenon
  • Co-Q-10 (coenzyme Q or ubiquinone)
  • Alpha-lipoic acid
  • Resveratrol

These antioxidants are supported by science and used to protect from free radicals and oxidative stress.

Okay, let’s start to check closer to these antioxidant supplements.

 Vitamin C


What does vitamin C?

  •  Strengthens blood vessels
  •  Helps heal wounds
  •  Increases resistance to invaders
  •  Helps maintain production of collagen
  • Aids for healthy gums

Vitamin C is famous and is praised as an effective antioxidant. Unfortunately, our bodies do not produce vitamin C. We must get it from the diet. However, how much vegetables and fruits can you consume during the day? Vitamin C supplements would solve this problem.

There is some of history about vitamin C. The scientist, who discovered vitamin C and got the Nobel prize, was Albert Szent Gyorgii. He finds out that ascorbic acid or vitamin C does not have the same active properties when it is stripped to the one formula. Proteins, enzymes, and minerals surround ascorbic acid in nature. Think about citrus fruit. You do not consume just ascorbic acid. You eat the whole fruit which is full of various nutrients. This composition gives us benefits.

Unfortunately, the discovery of Albert Szent was adopted by companies. They started to produce vitamin C synthetically. The difference between vitamin C from whole food and synthesized vitamin C is enormous.

Decide for yourself. Pharma companies use hydrogenated corn sugar, usually from GMO plants, affected with acetone. As I know, acetone is used for the removal of nail polish.

The company Grown By Nature produces vitamin C from organic citrus fruit concentrate.

Do you see a difference? Organic components are friendly to our bodies. Chemicals are chemicals, nothing more.

 Vitamin E


What does vitamin E?

  •  Protects red cells from oxidation
  •  Participates in the immune system
  •  Protects cell membranes from free radicals

Vitamin E does stop the attack on reactive oxygen species. Without protection, oxygen could go inside the cell through membrane or fat. You would ask what is about fat? Lipid molecules react with reactive lipid radicals to form stable products.

Interestingly, vitamin E has many forms. Vitamin E belongs to a group of compounds. They include both tocopherols and tocotrienols.

Dr. Andrew Weil recommends the dose of vitamin E to be 80 to 160 milligrams of the whole complex.

Vitamin E must consist of tocopherols and tocotrienols because it provides the benefits from Nature. In nature, you can find the complex of vitamin E. It includes eight molecules: alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta tocotrienols.

 Beta- Carotene


Beta-carotene is a precursor for vitamin A. However, it is not advisable to use it alone because it can work as a pro-oxidant and increase cancer risks for some people, such as smokers and ex-smokers.

Beta-carotene must be in the multivitamin of high quality together with alpha-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, astaxanthin, lycopene, and others.

 Green Tea Extracts


Green tea is known thousands of years ago. It originated in China but now green tea spread in the whole world. Asia produces green tea too.

Are Best Antioxidants Supplements?

Green tea contains phytochemicals. They consist of polyphenols and caffeine.

Polyphenols contain:

  • Epigallocatechin gallate ( EGCG)
  • Epicatechin gallate
  • Epicatechins
  • Flavanols

These constituents act as antioxidants, anticarcinogens, anti-inflammatory, and anti-radiation agents.

Green tea contains flavonoids. They are:

  • Kaempferol
  • Quercetin
  • Myricetin

Active ingredients in green tea act as antioxidants.

 Curcumin


Curcumin is the main constituent of turmeric in the ginger family. It is widely used in Asia kitchen but now starting with Timothy Ferris morning habits continents enjoy benefits of turmeric tea and turmeric supplements.

Turmeric has a beneficial effect on Alzheimer’s. Individuals who live in rural India have one of the lowest rates of this disease globally.

When looking for turmeric supplements, pick organic because fresh products without chemicals work best.

 Pycnogenol


Pycnogenol is the product of the bark of the pine tree. It is a French maritime pine bark extract. Pycnogenol is a combination of natural and robust antioxidants.

Pycnogenol contains active bioflavonoids. According to manufacturers, Pycnogenol fights free radicals, which are a reason for deterioration and aging.

Bioflavonoids help the immune system stay strong.

 Indole-3-carbinol


Indole-3- carbinol or I-3-C  is found in cabbage family vegetables. I-3-C is a phytonutrient. This antioxidant can help reduce breast cancer risk. It happens by influencing estrogen metabolism.

Cabbages, kale, or Brussels sprouts are tasty. However, it is better to take supplements. We can not eat so many vegetables and get the required amount of I-3-C to prevent cancer.

Supplements from health stores can help solve it. Dr. Andrew Weil recommends I-3-C for women to use as a dietary supplement.

  Juvenon


     Juvenon is a product created by Bruce Ames, a professor of biochemistry and microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an expert on the causes and prevention of cancer.

Bruce Ames discovered that rats fed with dietary supplements such as alpha-lipoic acid(ALA) and acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) become energetic, and their brain functioned better. Rats looked like young animals.

You would think that the fountain of youth was discovered? Who knows, but Bruce Ames established his company, and the product is called Juvenon.

The secret is in the enzymes which help mitochondria produce energy. Besides it, it decreases insulin resistance and helps to deal with complications of diabetes, such as peripheral neuropathy.

 Co-Q-10


The body produces coenzyme Q. It acts as an antioxidant and can increase oxygen usage at the cellular level.

Coenzyme Q increases the function of heart muscle cells.

Dr. Andrew Weil recommends it for cancer, diabetes, and gum disease patients. Sixty milligrams per day of the newest coenzyme Q is the recommended dose from Dr. Andrew Weil.

Caution: when you look for the supplement, you need to see how much active ingredient is in it. Bioavailability is essential because when the active ingredient is absorbed by 99 percent, we get most of the benefits.

I would compare it with juice. Would you like to have a glass of 100 percent orange juice or diluted with water and full of artificial sugar?

  Alpha-lipoic Acid


Alpha-lipoic acid has few benefits. It helps:

  •  Decrease insulin resistance
  •  Increase the body’s antioxidant defenses

Individuals can benefit from alpha-lipoic acid if they complain about metabolic syndromes such as HDL cholesterol, the tendency to get fat around the abdomen area, or high blood pressure.

ALA is a dietary supplement. Starting from 100 milligrams a day and taking up to 400 milligrams a day is recommended dose by Dr. Andrew Weil.

 Resveratrol


Resveratrol is a natural antioxidant found in the skin of grapes. Researchers found out that grapes produced more resveratrol when they grow under stressful conditions. Cold, rain, lack of nutrients, attacks of fungi create an unpleasant environment for grapes. Luckily, grapes survive and have significant amounts of resveratrol in their skins.

Researchers discovered a gene called daf-2. This gene seems to be a master regulator of many other genes which deal with metabolism and defense.

Later on, the gene called sir-2, which mediates the response to restrictions of calories, was discovered.  When living beings eat less, they live longer and have increased body defense. Scientists looked for a substance that could activate gene sir-2 without starvation. This material is resveratrol, the component from grape skins in the red wine. Resveratrol was responsible for the health benefits of red wine.

 My recommended antioxidants:

  • Vitamin C: www.grownbynature.com.
  • Vitamin E: www.grownbynature.com
  • Beta-carotene: from Solaray
  • Green tea extracts: from True Veda
  • Curcumin: from True Veda
  • Pycnogenol: from Horphag Research
  • Indole-3-carbinol: by Thorne Research
  • Juvenon: by Juvenon
  • Coenzyme Q: by www.grownbynature.com
  • Alpha-lipoic -acid: by Now
  • Resveratrol: by Now

   Conclusion


Antioxidants play a role in our well-being. Being healthy is not a privilege; it is a necessity. We must be robust to enjoy life, help others, and create a better environment for ourselves and our children.

Antioxidants do not harm. They protect us from toxins, pollution, stress, and invaders such as bacteria. The immune system does not mind if we help her deal with the burden of civilization, such as radiation, inadequate nutrition, and stress.

Taking antioxidants for our wellbeing will provide the body with nutrients vital for the metabolism, defense, and immune systems.


Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: alpha-lipoic acid, antioxidants, beta-carotene, coenzyme Q, curcumin, enzymes, green tea extracts, Juvenon, master control genes, minerals, Pycnogenol, Revestrol, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, vitamins

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