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Family Caregiver HeroesELDER SUPPORT: Antioxidants for Senior Health
Posted in Natural Health on February 4th, 2010
Alpha Lipoic Acid smirk - Keeps the snarly face away
Elder Support: Alpha Lipoic Acid is the antioxidant of antioxidants for senior health.
So what do antioxidants have to do with senior health? If antioxidants can provide healthy elder support and bring a smile to your face – then it’s worth it.
There are many different types of antioxidants, but Alpha Lipoic Acid is called the antioxidants of antioxidants.
My husband Barry has a lot to grin about, because for someone who should have passed away already, he is doing very well.
I know my husband Barry and I would not have survived our caregiving journey together if we both did not take high levels of natural health products such as vitamins, minerals, and high levels of antioxidants. Barry, disabled from a stroke, also has a heart condition, diabetes, and now has kidney disease, with less than 13% kidney function.
Will Barry live long? No, as there is only so much anyone can do, but he has lasted longer than four years without kidney dialysis and looks so much healthier than someone who has 4 times the kidney function than he does.
Keep in mind Barry abuses his body by eating food people with kidney failure should not be consuming. Barry has not changed his life style to conform to what the Kidney Foundation insists is best for him and I refuse to argue with him anymore and let him eat what ever he wants. I try to limit the amount of chemicals in our food chain for my health, but Barry still needs to feed his chemical addiction and will eat processed food.
Why is Barry still alive? The doctor’s keep scratching their heads and wonder about this. Well, it certainly is not love, because there are times I just want to strangle the guy, and can honestly say it is the high levels of antioxidants that have certainly helped keep Barry alive this long.
Barry can be a very rude and mean spirited person, constantly pushing buttons to pick a fight. I have noticed he is in a much better mood, feeling happy and positive, when he takes the antioxidant called Alpha Lipoic Acid, which helps to detoxify his body.
Alpha Lipoic Acid is known for:
• The antioxidant that enhances the performance of other antioxidants and helps to recycle other antioxidants like vitamin C.
• Stabilizes blood pressure, improving blood flow to prevent heart disease.
• Protects the mitochondria which are the furnace in every cell that burns fat enhancing energy metabolism in the mitochondria.
• May help reduce migraines by making the body more alkaline.
• Powerful antioxidant that is both fat and water soluble to neutralize free radicals in all cells.
• Removes heavy metal poisoning.
• Beneficial for stroke victims and who have suffered a clot in the arteries of the heart.
• Prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
• Stimulates the production of insulin, so caution is needed by persons with hypoglycemia, low blood sugar or a tendency towards hypoglycemic.
Antioxidants, such as Alpha Lipoic Acid is one way to help improve the quality of health for the Family Caregiver and their loved one and highly recommend they visit their local health food store.
*Legally, I must say the above is for educational use only and is not to be used as medical advice. The above is Xahnia’s and Barry’s experience only. Please consult with your family doctor before using natural health products. Thank you.
SUMMARY:
ANTIOXIDANTS – As we age, it becomes more difficult to remove toxins from the body. Antioxidants may help provide that added boost to detoxify the body.
SENIOR HEALTH – Seniors have special health concerns Family Caregivers must become familiar with.
ELDER SUPPORT – Learning about the different concerns and health issues regarding elder care is important as our population ages in the next 20 years.
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CAREGIVING SUPPORT: Take Your Vitamins When Stress and Emotions Run High
Posted in Natural Health on January 27th, 2010
Xahnia'a Insights
When stress and emotions get the best of you, vitamin supplementation may help provide caregiving support to pull yourself together.
Caregiving can take its toll on your emotional and stress levels leaving you feeling exhausted to the core.
Consider taking nutritional vitamins for caregiving support to help increase your stamina. Athletes supplement their diets with health products, and so should you, if you want to keep ahead of the game as a Family Caregiver.
Each day, for the last 20 years, I suffered from migraine headaches, facial pain and terrible muscles spasms throughout my body, caused by possible Lyme disease, but that is another story for another time.
On the days that I do feel well, I am sure it is only a buildup of my pain medication in my system giving me the luxury of a wonderful pain-free day.
All this week, I have been in terrible pain. When this happens the pain creates a state of exhaustion, which depletes my brain of nutrition, diminishing its ability to produce happy hormones, emotionally flat lining, I go from being a nice person to an evil crazy person.
My emotions can drop so low, that my loving caring nature turns to pure hatred, with a presence of evilness consuming my whole being. I become temporarily sociopathic.
When I find myself in this evil state, I pull myself out of it by taking 100 mgs of Vitamin B complex every hour until I feel human again. Two hours before I wrote this article, my mind was filled with pure hatred; spitting venom with fire searing out of my eye balls – I must hide away from humanity until the vitamin B complex brings me back from the living dead.
With raging mad thoughts of evilness running through my mind and feeling absolutely no empathy towards anyone; my body no longer had the ability to make more happy hormones as I had used up all the B-vitamins in my body from all the painful stress I was coping with this last week.
Family Caregivers are stressed out enough from all the responsibility they must deal with, but when the stress level depletes your body and brain of the nutrients required to make the happy hormones – then watch out, you will more than likely become a raving lunatic. You are not crazy, evil or a terrible person, you are more than likely nutritionally depleted and need to visit your local health food store.
For myself, I take one 100 mg capsules, every 12 hours for a total of 200 mgs, each day. On my very stressful and painful days, I should – when I can remember, take an additional vitamin B with my afternoon coffee break when I start to feel cranky.
Xahnia
*Legally, I must mention the above is just for informational use only and is not to be used as medical advice.
The above is Xahnia’s experience only. Please consult with your family doctor should you feel physically, mentally or emotionally unwell.
Thank you.
SUMMARY:
EMOTIONS – When you are under so much stress, your emotions can get the best of you. Supplementing with natural health product may help keep your balance.
STRESS – As a caregiver, stress levels are very high creating exhaustion and depression. Supplementing with natural health products may help. Do your research on the internet.
VITAMINS – Go to your local health food store where they also retail organic food and talk to the sales staff who have years of experience dealing with natural health products.
CAREGIVING SUPPORT – Comes in many forms, one method is your nutrition. always provide nutritional support to remain strong.
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