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Get ready for tomorrow's Nutritional Science Today right here, right now. Hello, and welcome to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams, Scientific director at Invite Health, and happy Saturday morning to everyone out there. It sounds like it's going to be a somewhat nice day for all of you up
there in New York. It's hot here in Florida as usual, and we have our eyes to the sky on that big old hurricane that's out there, and it looks like it's going to take a direct line north and head up your way. Hopefully it keeps curving out into the ocean and it doesn't affect any of us. But I know I'm keeping my eye on Hurricane Lee out there. But I have great news to share with everybody this morning, and that is that our Labor Day buy one, get one freesale is still going
on. So I know last week you heard from Jerry Hickey and he was telling you and highlighting all of our different products that are on special during this Labor Day sale, So you still have time. The sale runs through the end of the day tomorrow. Our stores are open and our nutritionists are there to help you help yourself, So do take advantage of speaking to one of
our experts because they have years of experience. We have naturopathic doctors who have spent countless amounts of hours in the classroom and in the real world really understanding the importance of nutrition and terry supplementation. So you're in good hands when you're speaking with one of our nutritionists and they can help get you on the right path. So we have so many wonderful formulations. I'm gonna highlight some of
those for you today. It's a big sports day, so as you all know, I am super pumped up whenever September is here because it's football season and I am a huge college football fan in particular, so Michigan plays U and LV today, so I will be tuning into that I also have the final indie race of the year that I must watch. It's kind of a it's already a sealed deal. We know who won for the season, but nonetheless I still have to take in that that last race. So that'll be
tomorrow. So my weekend is packed with sports, and I'll probably watch some NFL games as well. I must say, as all of you may or may not know, I am from Michigan originally, so of course I am a diehard Detroit Lions fan. And I always say, you know, and I'm sure that you can relate to this if you're a Jets fan or a Giants fan, like, oh, there's always next year. But I tell you what, the Lions looked pretty good the other night coming out and beating
the Chiefs, so I was super pumped up about that. So it's a it's been a good start to September for me. And of course it's a it's a great thing going on at Invite Health with our ongoing Labor Day sale. So let me get right to it, because there are some new studies that have come out that I find really interesting. And what is on Omega
three fatty acids? And I always talk about why omega three so taking either fish oil or kryll oil, or say, for example, if you want to use a vegetarian form and you use flax, why that's so important to your daily supplementation routine. Because we know that our diet just doesn't give us enough omega threes, So supplementation is really quite critical. And I don't say that in a way to sound doom and gloom by any stretch of the imagination.
I say that because we know that omega three fatty acids are essential. And when we say that something is essential in the human body, that means that we have to have it. And when it comes to omega three's they are involved in so many facets of how the body functions each day and regulation of inflammation. And you know, I go on and on about inflammaging, and we don't want to accelerate our aging process because we are puffy on the
inside. And that's what's interesting about chronic inflammation is you don't visibly see it. It's not like a cute inflammation like you stub your toe when you look down and you can see the swelling. Chronic inflammation is this I always say, it's like the slow burning like forest fire that you can see it, but you're standing there with your fire extinguishers saying, maybe I'll wait till it gets a little closer before I try and put it. So we don't want
to ever be marching down this path of chronic inflammation. And we definitely know that omega three's helped to regulate and keep inflammation in check. And so this new study came out looking at the association between higher intake of omega three fatty acids coming from the diet also coming through dietary supplementation, so hence taking your
fish oil every day or taking things like krill oil. And in this particular study the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, they started to assess the data. And this is an amazing study because this isn't just some random put together, Oh let's look at these hundred people over here. They looked at the data from over three hundred thousand individuals. So this was men and women who are enrolled in what is known as the Million Veterans Program, and they were looking
at their omeg A three intake or lack thereof. So are they following a standard American diet and they're not supplementing with things like fish oil. So they assessed this over time and then they did this follow up and they were looking at the rate of developing atrial fibrillation. Well, we know that AFIB is definitely a very common problem, especially here in the United States, and we can always draw upon a couple of different things for why that rate is so
high, especially in individuals over the age of sixty years old. And so there's two main factors to this. So we can look at magnesium and magnesium insufficiency, which we clearly know is a major problem here in this country. Our magnesium intake is not where it should be, and so when you look at the average American and how much magnesium they take in in their diet,
it's always lacking. And so that's why estimates, you know, fifty to seventy five percent of the US population at any given point is insufficient or technically deficient in magnesium. So that's one aspect when we think about a FIB. And why is that, Well, we look at the electrical conduction system of the heart and the way that the heart itself is firing, so you have the different nodes. So not to get super duper technical, and with the
anatomy and physiology of the heart. But you have your heart chambers and you have these little electrical nodes, and so you have this firing pathway and it's reliant on different electrolytes, including magnesium. Well, if we know that magnesium is needed for proper heart firing and the heart starts to misfire, and we know that we have a magnesium insufficiency or deficiency, well then whilah, we have our root cause right on four. Fortunately, even cardiologists don't ever look
at magnesium as being a driving force to this. So what do they do. You present with a fib and right away they're like, we're putting you on a blood thinner and there you have it. Have fun taking that for the rest of your life. So we don't want to be going down that road. So we also know that omega three fatty acids are very important with the regulation of heart rhythm for a couple of different reasons. One is the
inflammatory component to this. So if we can ease inflammation within the vascular system because we have adequate omega threes to keep everything functioning right, that's one area. But we also know that those omega threes are kind of working in that sense of like proper lubrication for everything, you know, so we if we think about a wheel and a crank, we want to make sure that everything has the ability to work upperly. We don't want like a squeaky door.
So the omega threes are beneficial for that components. So in this study of over three hundred veterans, so men and women, they could see this direct correlation between higher dietary intake of omega three fatty acids and a significant reduction in the development of atrial fibrillation. So what does this mean for you? You sit here and you're listening and you're like, well, I'm not you know,
a former veteran. What does this have anything. Well, the point of the study is that they had this huge data pooling that they had over three hundred thousand individuals to look and assess the direct correlation between your fish oil intake coming from your diet as well as from supplementation and developing this very common and problematic heart condition, this irregular heart rhythm known as a fib atrial fibrillation.
So if we can do something as simple as making sure every day we are taking magnesium and we are taking our fish oil we're off to the racist folks, and that's where we want to be. Because when I was in medical school and being in the cardiac unit, you see so many things, and at the time, I wasn't in my world of nutrition obviously as heavy as I am now. So that's one of the things that has never brought
up. And I would be quite convinced if I walked into a cardiac unit of any hospital in this country now, it's still not going to be a focus. They're not going to say, well, you know, maybe this person needs some fish oil, maybe this person needs some magnesium. Of course
they're not going to be looking at those things. But when we understand the actual physiology of the heart, and we say, well, if we have this essential fatty acid and we know that the average American surely is not meeting that mark, and then we have this very important mineral magnesium, and we know that the average American is not meeting that mark either, why aren't we starting there. Instead, we're giving people these really powerful blood thinners. Where
now you have all these concerns, can I eat this? What happens if I have a cut? You know for men? You know what if I'm shaving my face and I get a little nick and that won't stop bleeding because now I'm on this blood thinner for the rest of my life because my heart rhythms off when it could have been a direct result of having inadequate magnesium or
not having adequate omega threes. And just to give you an idea for when you look at omega threes in the blood, and doctors don't look at this, by the way, but if they were to, and you're looking at the fatty acid levels in the blood, you should have a level that comes out to two to one in a perfect world, So two omega six for every one omega three. Well, if you were to look at the serum blood levels of omega threes of an American, that ratio is going to be
about twenty to one. So for every twenty omega sixes that they take in in their diet, they're only getting one omega three. And that's where the problem comes into play because now we've just tilted the scale from being nice and balanced to being pro inflammatory. So now we have all this excess inflammation that we are now dealing with, which is just creating problems all over the body, and in turn, we end up with resulting chronic conditions, and we
can even look at arthritis as being a player in this. Anything that drives up inflammation, and if we don't have enough omega threes, we're going to have a very difficult time ever combating that or overcoming that situation. So it's really quite fascinating, but it's a great study. There's another study that came out that I do want to share with you, and it's on eural lighting A. Now this was in the Nature Aging Journal, and it's really quite
fascinating. Eural lighting A is a compound that is made from ellagic acid which comes from pomegranates, and the way in which it's working in the human body is really quite fascinating. I want to tell you about this study and why when we think about pomegranate extract we have our blue granite TX formulation for example, which combines blueberry extract and pomegranate why that is so beneficial for the entire system, not just for looking at the vascular system, but for the entire
body. So I want to tell you about this study, but I do need to squeeze in a quick break, So stick around with me. You're listening to Invite Health Radio. I will be right back, and here's today's special. Buy two bottles of any of today's featured items and get forty percent off at free shipping. Double up, that's four bottles, and also receive today's free gift. Here's the number and write it down because you could speak
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health dot com. When placing your order, type in a promo code Radio you can hit the live chat button for answers to your questions or listen to podcasts of our recent shows, all at Invite health dot com. It can also follow Invite on Facebook or Twitter. For today's special is our number again is eight hundred four four one seventeen seventy, And welcome back to Invite Health
Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams. Happy Saturday morning to everyone. We have our Labor Day, Buy one, get one freesell still going on. It goes through the end of the day tomorrow, so you've got time. You can go into one of our stores. You can go onto our website invite health dot com and check out all of our products. We have a very extensive product line. If you have been a customer of ours for you know, many years, you know that we have a very extensive line.
And this is why also it's important to talk to one of our nutritionists because being that we have so many products, you want to make sure that you're
taking the right things for your specific needs. I really talk about that so much because I've been in this industry, let's just say, for many years, and I've talked to so many folks where, you know, they feel like they're doing the right thing and they're trying really hard, and that's a great, great, you know, goal to have, but maybe they're not taking their supplement the right way, or maybe there's a supplement that would actually
help them more than what their current routine is. And for me, I'm always looking for the best path to wellness, and you know, how can we achieve that? How can we incorporate in the right nutrients every day? What should we be doing as far as our diet and our exercise. And when I say diet, I don't want people to think about, you know, cutting calories and losing weight, you know, dietary intake. What are
you eating every day? These are the areas that we like to help folks with because sometimes that's where you're kind of out there, you know, in your own, you know, little world, and you're like, ah, am I doing Should I eat this for breakfast? Or should I have this? So we like to give you that guidance. You know. Maybe it's stress, I mean, goodness, gracious, A lot of people have a whole lot of stress for a variety of different and some people are great at
managing their stress, but the most people don't. You know. I look back at my life and I think, you know, I think I've done pretty well for the most part managing stress. But I think now I'm much
better at stress management than I ever was before in the past. I wish I had my you know, my same stress management techniques that I used today when I was back in medical school, because goodness gracious, I always say the only thing that you know was my savior back then was my age, you know, being younger and having lots of coqueten available in my system. Because medical school is a very stressful time. And it's not just medical school.
You know, everyone always says, oh, you went to medical school. That's you know, that's such a big thing. It is, But you can go, you know, not to school and you have a very stressful job, or you know, you you're in just college. You know, for high school students, that life can just be stressful. That's my point. And we know that with stress comes destruction to our cells, and
stress is just majorly problematic. We know all of the areas and I'll talk about this in a few minutes, all of the areas that get disrupted with stress. So you don't want stress to go unchecked. If you're feeling stressed out, and you know, maybe it's just a cute period of time in your life where you're like, uh, you know, I just I have this going on or that going on. You want to be able to manage that because you don't want to have negative effects of stress, because it really
is, it's not good at all. Now back to eural lighting A. This I just I love talking about eural lighting A. It comes from pomegranate, So we have our blue granite formulation, so it's a it's just a straight tincture, so it's very high potent blueberry extract combined with pomegranate. So most folks when they see this product in our product line, they right away
think circulatory health. And that's a great way to think because we know the power of blueberry extract for facilitating you know, optimal blood flow into your brain and helps to fight off free radicals in the brain, which is all wonderful great things, and same thing with pomegranate extract. The circulatory support is quite amazing. But they did this study where they were looking at this eural lighting A. This compound that's made from ellagic acid that's the primary active constituent that
is found in pomegranate extract. You can find it in other berries and nuts as well, but it's a very high amount of ellagic acid is in pomegranate. And they were looking at the anti aging properties to eural lighting A and they could see how it's working directly within the immune system. And this is where it's really quite fascinating because when you see the gut based benefit of taking
pomegranate extract, it's remarkable. So for folks who have irritable bowel, for folks who are dealing with things like acid reflux, for example, maybe you would never think, oh, hey, I'm gonna head over to Invite Health and I'm going to get that blue granite product. I'm gonna get this tincture.
But I'm telling you, if you have things like acid reflux or irritable bowel, or you know, you've been diagnosed with Crohn's disease alterative colitis, it would be incredibly wise to start using that blue granite tax take two full droppers of that, add that in to about four to six ounces of water, and it doesn't have really any taste to it, but it's a powerful extract of these two potent antioxidants, and you add that in with water and
you sip on that during the day. The benefit of those antioxidants being able to, you know, make their way into your gut is really profound.
So in this study they were looking directly at how euro lighting A is working within the immune system, and what was fascinating was its action on stem cells, and a lot of folks have heard about stem cell therapy and how this can help to combat and reverse different, you know, disease conditions, and they were seeing how the euro lighting A was actually going in and in those immune cells, correcting the break down or the dysfunction that was occurring within the
mitochondria. So remember your mitochondria, that's the little powerhouse of the inner component of your cell. So it was going in and saying, hey, you're a little dinged up and you're not really producing energy and you're not doing the action you're supposed to do as a key immune cell. So this euro lighting a went in and kind of cleaned this all up and helped to really enhance
the immune defenses. So I was I like anything that's science based obviously, but when it comes to microbiology and immunology, neurology, all this stuff I find incredibly fascinating. So we can see the impact that euro lighting a is having on the entire system and really working as an anti aging this stem cell
kind of regenerating nutrients. So it's really fascinating. There was another study that was done a couple of years ago in the Trends of Molecular Medicine Journal looking at the way in which eural lighting A was working in the body once again as this anti aging nutrient. And then clearly there's been numerous study that have assessed the impact of your lighting A when it comes to you know, muscle
strength and of course intestinal integrity. So it's really quite fascinating. But we do have this available for you in the form of that blue granite TX, so definitely check that out. Now, we've got to get to the heart of the season here. We know that even though it's still warm right now and you feel like, yeah, maybe some are still kind of here and it is technically, but we know fall is literally right around the corner.
We have to always be thinking about our immune system and what we should be doing to kind of prep ourselves for the just right around the corner cold and flu season. We know it's there and we should be proactive to this. You know, want to wait until you get sick and then say, okay, now what do I do? We want to try and give the immune system the new trians that it needs. So, as you know, we have our brand new immunity multi vitamin. So during this Labor Day, buy
one, get one freesale. This would be a perfect way for you to get that multi vitamin and start taking that. You can take that every day if you want to take it every other day, because perhaps you're already taking our performance multi vitamin, or maybe you're already on our Men's Multi our women's and you say, well, I've been on this for years and I like it. But I hear I'm hearing you. I hear that there's benefit to
take in this immunity multivitamin. What do I do well? So then one day you take your Men's Multi and the next day you take the immunity. The point is we always want to build a nice, steady state of these new Trians. So we have the Immunity Multivitamin, which is a complete daily multivitamin, comes in a packet. It contains the activated B vitamins, which is important for you know, cellular detoxification, for our mood, for our
energy, and of course for the immune system. Both your innate and your adaptive. So the immediate and the delayed immune system response are relying on those B vitamins. Whenever we think about the immune system, a lot of times we want to think about vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc, and of course those are key components to our immune defenses, but there are other vitamins and minerals that play a heavy hand in our immune system. Be vitamins
included into that. So when you're taking the immunity multivitamin, you can already say, Okay, I'm getting my activated B vitamins, I'm getting all of my other powerful vitamins and minerals, I'm getting my natural vitamin E spectrum. Of course I get the benefit of having the krotnoise blend in there, so great for my brain, great for my eyeballs. But then we also add
in to this immunity multi vitamin the nucleotide complex along with elderberry extract. So elderberry extract, as we know, has just been a go to in the medicinal nutritional medicinal world for years, for decades because it works. So if someone has a upper respiratory infection or they just you know, are starting to feel like, oh gosh, am I starting to get a scratchy throat,
you know, as my nose starting to run. We know that elderberry extract has been studied extensively and shown to be able to really shave down the duration of the common cold or even the severity of influenza. So that's been studied and shown. So but once again, what if we know if we already have the common cold or if we have the flu, and we say, okay, now I'm going to start taking elderberry extract. What is the result.
It shortens the length of time that we're sick. But what if we take the elderberry extract before we even get sick, Well, that already is giving us that layer of protection to try and combat any incoming viruses that are trying to invade our body. So we have this in the immunity multi vitamin, So every day you're getting this lovely exposure to elderberry extract. And then that also contains the nucleic acids. So nucleic acids are RNA, so you
have ribonucleic acids. So I go back to my world of genetics and we think about the double helix of DNA and you have the deoxy ribonucleic acids. But the ribonucleic acids is what's contained in our immunity multi vitamin, and they work to go in and talk to those immune cells kind of how you're lighting a is going in and cleaning up the mitochondrial damage within the immune cells.
The ribalonucleic acids also go in and they say, hey, we're going to help you guys out because you're starting to look a little rough and we want to do a little house cleaning. We want to make sure that we're really strong, so you know, if the old rhino virus the common cold is heading our way, that we're ready that we can, you know, kind of put on our boxing gloves and start, you know, punching back.
This is the point of taking the immunity multi vitamin. It's a very complete daily multivitamin that's going to enhance your immune defenses so that if in the event you are out and about this fall, we're getting into the winter and you are exposed to some type of lingering virus in the environment, that your immune system is more at the ready. Now. Of course, we have to
look at other factors too. We have to look at you know, are you sleeping good, are you staying hydrated, are you managing your stress? These are all factors that can influence how well the immune system can respond in proper time to a potential pathogen, so it's always multimodal, So we always have to keep that in mind. So when we're thinking about wellness, it's not just one single thing that we have to do. It's many things that
we want to be doing to achieve our wellness goals. So I'm going to talk some more about stress, but I do need to squeeze in a quick break, so stick around. I will be right back. You're listening to Invite Health Radio, and here's today's special. By two bottles of any of today's featured items and get forty percent off with free shipping. Double up,
that's four bottles, and also receive today's free gift. Here's the number and write it down because you could speak with an Invite New Trishna seventies a week. The number for Invite eight hundred four four one seventeen seventy. The number for Invite eight hundred four four one seventeen seventy. That's eight hundred four four one seventeen seventy. Please visit our retail locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Nashoe County and stop by and visit with our nutritionists.
We post infoend studies on our website invite health dot com. When placing your order, type in a promo code. Radio, you can hit the live chat button for answers to your questions or listen to podcasts of our recent shows all at invite health dot com. You can also follow Invite on Facebook or Twitter. For today special is our number again is eight hundred four four one, seventeen seventy and welcome back to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda
Williams. We're having our Labor Day buy one, get one free sale going on right now, so do take advantage of that you still have time. We actually extended the sail because we had some folks who reached out and we're like, oh, we're traveling because of you know, the Labor Day holiday, and they we have a lot of our regular clients who love to go into our stores and it's just not their thing. They don't want to go
onto our website invite health dot com and order their products. They like that interaction with our nutritionness and so you know, we said, well, you know, we recognize a lot of people are traveling, so let's extend it. Let's uh, you know, carry the sail all the way through the end of this weekend, so you do have time, and I always encourage you too if you can make it into one of our stores, go in there, have a have a sit down, have a chat with one of
our nutritionness. It's very it's a great experience. You know. That's something that I take a lot of pride in because you know, when I first came on board at Invite Health, and I remember one of my first conversations with Jerry Hickey and and and I must tell you, Jerry and I we hit it off like right away, and it was funny. And I don't know if it's because we both kind of have like a similar background in a in a sense, you know, him being from Ireland, my entire family
from Scotland. But nonetheless, Jerry and I we have very similar senses of humor, so we can get, you know, bantering back and forth sometimes
and it's it's a real hoot. But when I came on board, and I recognize what Jerry had achieved, you know, in his mission of why he wanted to start Invite Health, and you know, mind you I had already been in this industry for quite some time before I found my way to Invite and you know, having that conversation with him and understanding his passion of you know why it wasn't for him like, oh, I just want to
sell vitamins. He, you know, obviously, being the science junkie just like myself, you know, had this true passion of wanting to read these scientific studies every day and wanting to create these wonderful formulations based off of the science. So you know, right away I was like, Okay, this is right up my alley. But when I could see beyond that and say, wow, you know, he really cares about people's wellness, and this is why he has designed this company the way that he has, so that
people do have access to to these nutritional experts. You know, because Jerry is only one person. He can only you know you get ahold of as many people as he can in one single day. So he knew he needed to build this team of like minded folks around him. And so I think for me, when I came to Invite Health, that just it really just automatically felt like family. And to this day it still does. And you know, Jerry and I still you know, we we bant her back and
forth. It's always a good time we talk sports, We talk everything, and of course we talk our science and uh, you know, he was obviously the mastermind behind the new immunity multi vitamin because if you've listened to Jerry Hickey through the years, you know he loves his nucleotides, and I, you know, swear by that as well, because this is probably maybe this
is well pre COVID. But I started coming down with something and I was at our store location in Boca, and it's unusual for me to you know, even get the common cold, but I could tell, you know, you have that sensation where I started feeling really tired throughout the day and then you start feeling a little bit of that achiness. And I was like, oh goodness, please, please don't tell me I'm getting sick. So right away I was like, okay, you know, think through this. You're
here in the store, what are you going to do? So I immediately went over. I got some of the green t TX and so I opened that up, went made myself my green tea drink and I actually did three full droppers and I made it very strong, so I put that in with maybe I have four ounces of water, so it was very kind of bitter, but I knew. I was like, I need to get this e GCG on board soon. And I started taking nucleotides and I called Jerry and I was like, okay, I'm taking these nucleotides, you know, for
the first time. How many should I take? And He's like, it takes six, you know, right now, and you know, in another few hours, take another six. I was like, okay, I'm listening to you, and I tell you what. I woke up the next morning and I was like, okay, am I like in the Twilight Songe because I feel good, Like I don't feel tired, I don't feel like I have any scratchy throat, and I'm ready to tackle the world again. And I thought, well, maybe this is one of those Wax and Wayne things.
I know this. You know, in the medical world, like with viruses in particular, you have times in the day where it's like, okay, I feel okay, and then all of a sudden, it's like it hits you with a sledgehammer. So but honestly, like, I just felt fine. So I kept taking my nucleotides, it kept taking my green tea, and I, you know, got a hold of Jerry. I said, yeah, you are so right the way that those nucleotides work. So
that became like my thing. So when people would come down to Florida, they're like, oh, you know, Amanda, I'm coming down there. I'm gonna be in your area. We're going on a cruise. And I was like, listen, if there are two things that you need, if you were going on a cruise going out of the Port of Miami, going out of you know, Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale, take two things with you. Take the nucleotide complex and take the probiotic ahex. Those are the
two thing. If you forget everything else, if you forget your bathing suit or your flip flops, that's fine, you can buy those somewhere else. But you need to have the nucleotide complex and you need that probiotic because of you. When you're on those cruise ships, you never know what you're going to be around. I mean not only the food based contaminant stuff, but just the viruses too. I mean, that's a lot of people in a
dense area. So any who's we have to get back to to thinking about our immune system, and we know that the immune system is definitely going to be impacted by stress. So we have the new immunity multi vitamin, has the nucleotide complex, has the elderberry. But think about all of the different ways in which stress affects us, and then think about how these things can lower our immune defenses. So when most folks think about stress, you right
away may think cortisol. You know, that's our primary stress hormone, and so if I have high stress, that means my body is really kind of you know, seeping out all of this excess cortisol. Well, once you start to have excess cortisol, now that has an influence on every other hormone pathway. So now it's going to affect your metabolic rate because it's going to affect your thyroid. It's certainly going to have an influence on your serotonin pathway,
and hence your melatonin pathways. Now, even our sleep cycle can get disrupted, and we have to look at the direct correlation between cortosol and insulin. And so for say a diabetic, for example, if they get sick, their blood sugar levels get real squirrely, or if they you know, get any type of an injury, and cortosol the normal response of cortosol. When the body's under you know, fight or flight stress response, that can really screw up their blood sugar levels. So there's one aspect. But we
know that stress affects our neurotransmitters. When a lot of people feel stress, you know, now you're we're not releasing enough gabba. You know, we're feeling like all tensed up. So we want to turn to nutrients such as elthonene. We know elthing that comes from green tea is an excellent choice. They've done head to heads trials where they've looked at elthenine use for anxiety versus
the benzodiazepines. So your benzodiazepine class of drugs, which we know are highly addictive, things like xan x for example, we don't want to be taking those. We especially don't want to be taking those long term. And it's amazing how many doctors will prescribe people benzodiazepines for sleeping, like, oh,
you're a little tense at night, here, take this benzodiazepine. Next thing, you know, you're taking this drug every single day, and then if you ever try and stop that, good luck, you're gonna have some severe rebound anxiety. And I've seen it, you know many times when people say, oh, I've been taking this you know drug for you know, the last four months. I'm gonna stop taking it. It's like not a good
idea because you are not going to be feeling very good. You're probably going to go into a full fledged panic attack, end up at the you know er thinking that you're having a heart attack. Thank you side effect from a drug. But we know that althening's not going to do that. Althening coming from green Tea is going to create this nice calm and this nice balance in the body. I tell everyone. I remember telling my mom this years ago.
I was like, Mom, you know I have to tell you all women, you know, because most women are carrying around a little handbag or a person like every woman should carries a bottle of elthening with them because you never know throughout your day, what can you know set you off or get under you. Just having some lthening that you can turn to take your althening one or two caps, get that nice sense of calm. It's not going to make you feel, you know, like your gumby. And that's important
too. It's that's not the idea. The idea is not to take something that you know puts you down in the couch for the rest of the day. You want something where you can still have focus, you can still have attention, but it's giving you this nice, steady sense of calm. So that's where Althenian can be beneficial. So so we're looking at stress and we say, okay, well, we're affecting different hormone pathways, we're affecting neurotransmitter
release. We clearly are affecting inflammation, and the release of all these pro inflammatory cyto kinds can start occurring when we have stress. It's not going to be beneficial for our gi system. So if we're feeling it in our gut, and a lot of people will say that when I'm stressed, I feel it in my gut. When you have that feeling, that should be a direct clue in right there that oh goodness, this is affecting my immune system. Because what do we know about our gut. Seventy percent of our immune
system is located in the gut. So if your gut is feeling tense, we have to immediately think I'm at a greater likelihood of being open to getting
a cold. And you see this with marathon runners. I always go back to this because marathon runners, who are some of the most well trained athletes out there, after they run a marathon, the body is at such a heightened state of fight or flight that the cortisol action and then we start to have this influence, this trickle down effect of all of these other systems being
impacted due to that high stress that they just put on their body. That there is this window after they run a marathon where they are very very exposed, very prone to coming down with a cold or coming down with the flu if they're exposed to that. So this is why you know someone's going to be running a marathon. Make sure or that you are taking your nucleotide complex, make sure you're taking your immunity multi item, and these things are very
very important because we don't want to have any resultant problems. But across every single system, stress is just a just a nightmare, you know, energy depletion, all of the different things. If you want to know a lot more detail on the difference between like stress and burnout, I did a podcast. You can check that out. I won't drone on and on about stress this morning because we're trying to be in a good mood, happy mood.
But we do have to recognize that stress can lower our immune defenses, and when that happens, that is a big problem. We don't want that to occur. So have some more nutrients that I want to highlight for you. But I'm looking at the clock. I realize I do need to take one more break, So stick around with me. I will be right back. You were listening to Invite Health Radio, and here's today's special by two bottle. So of any of today's featured items and get forty percent off at free
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dot Amanda Williams. Happy Saturday morning. Hopefully you've got some plans for the weekend. Do something healthy. Maybe I know I'm going to do my best. I'm very fortunate because my husband loves to cook, so he went to culinary school and then once he finished, he says, oh, you know what, I don't think I want to work in a kitchen in a restaurant for the rest of my life. So but I still get the benefit of this because he is an excellent cook, and I look at him as kind
of in his own right. He won't say this, but I would say he's like a master baker too. He can make just the most amazing things. But he loves cooking Mediterranean style. So every day I get to eat these healthy meals and he just He's very creative and he tries different things all the time, and I just love it. So when it comes to eating healthy, that one, I have my check off every day. Okay, check, got that down, and then all of my different supplements that I
take. I always tell people that I rotate my supplements a lot, because obviously, you know, I talk about all of these products on a daily basis, and I myself see the benefit of so many of these products that I want to take them, but I only have so many hours in a day, so I rotate a lot of the different products. Even green tea is one of the things that I will rotate in and out. Sometimes I
take the green Tea tincture. We also have white tea too, so if you want the liquid and this is a once again a perfect time of year, so you can take advantage of it during the bywin get one freak, go over and get yourself your two bottles, because sipping on that throughout the fall is a really good way to help your immune system. We know just from the clinical research trials done with green tea, they could see that when they gave people green tea. This was an actually a nursing home study,
but they had folks who were living in a nursing home. They had them gargling with green tea. And the point of this was to get that e G CG, those powerful catekins from the green tea to coat the back of their throat. Because when you think about respiratory viruses, the way in which they come in. You know, when you breathe them in through your nose, they go down the fair knecks, so they go down the throat.
So the more e G CG that they could get into their system and have the kind of this nice little layer along the throat, they had less likelihood of getting influenza. So that's that's a very important study. And I will always go back to that one because the proof is in the pudding on that one. So we have our green t t X. We also have our white t TX and these are really good choices, so start drinking those every day. I always say the best way is taking two full droppers, add
then and with about four to six ounces of water. I get the question all the time, you know, can I add this in and then you know, warm it up? Can I have it hot? Yes? By all means, if you want to drink it like a regular tea. That's fine. You're not going to destroy those catekins if you heat them up. So EGCG is pretty tough stuff. And we know that EGCG the epigallo catekin gay light, which is what that that stands for. This is just a
powerhouse when it comes to targeting inflammation. One of the ways that it does this is it actually can turn off this major driver of inflammation. So there's this switch. We can look at it as like a light switch known as HMGB one. So HMGB one when that is activated, we get this kind of this big flood of inflammation. If we have this big flood of inflammation going on, that's not good. So when we're taking green tea or white tea, it helps to come in and turn that switch off. And that's
important because what we're then doing is we're dealing with inflammaging. We are making sure that we don't have excessive inflammation going on that's going to accelerate our aging process. And you can look at how elevations in HMGB one has been associated with so many different chronic disease states out there. You know from GI issues, Crohn's disease, alterative clite is, diabetes, other autoimmune conditions, clearly looking at arthritis, so we know that too much activation of that HMGB one
is very problematic, and that's why green tea has been shown. At Washington State University did a study many years ago, probably close to about a decade now, where they were assessing green tea's actions, so looking at the EGCG when it came to rheumatoid arthritis, which is really fascinating because and thinking about rheumatoid arthritis, we're clearly thinking autoimmune. The immune system itself is attacking the
exposed collagen fibers, say around the knee or in the hand. So you have this exposure of collagen and the immune cells say, oh, that's not supposed to be there. Even though it is, but the immune cells say that's not supposed to be there. We have to go heart and heavy at this and attack it. That's where the problem comes in. So we know that the EGCG can actually help to regulate that inflammatory response. It was published in the Journal of Arthritis and Rheumatology, so it was a really big and
important study that they did out at Washington State University showing that EGCG. Can you really block that inflammatory action that occurs in rheumatoid arthritis. We know that the British Heart Foundation, for example, they looked at egg as being a potential for preventing heart attacks, which is really quite fascinating. But once again, it came down to the way that it was regulating inflammation and looking specifically
at athrosclerosis. So the plaque build up within the vascular system that drives up inflammation. So the way in which green tea and white tea for that matter too have been studied across multiple spectrums, you know, from weight loss because we know that has the natural thermogenesis properties to it, and you know, the way that's been looked at for cardiovascular health and blood pressure regulation really incredibly impressive. So we have the tea extracts, So do think about that.
Now I have more that I want to cover for you here. Let me pull one more study for you when it comes to green tea. I think that this one is very important and this is one of those studies that when you start to to recognize t extract and the immune system and the way in which the t extract is really down regulating, not just that HMGB one. But the way that it enhances the actual immune cells is so incredibly impressive, and this is part of the reason why we also look at our green tea
capsules. So when we have individuals who are going through different treatments, perhaps they've been unfortunately diagnosed with a particular type of cancer, and they will come and they will talk to myself or talk to Jerry Hickey and they say, you know, should I be using green tea? And we'll look at the green tea HX that is our capsulated form. It has the green tea extract along with black tea, So the theoflavins from the black tea really once again
helped to regulate inflammation. And then you have the power of that EGCG which have been shown to be highly beneficial at cell regulation and cell division. So in the setting of things such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, EGCG has been shown to be an incredible powerhouse for that immune system support. And the reason why I wanted to bring that up is because when we think about the
immune system, we just think cold and flu. That's one area to that, but we also have to look at the immune system as being cellular division, and if we have disregulation that's occurring within the immune system, that is a big problem. And so this goes beyond that of just an autoimmune condition. We can also look at this at dysplasia and metaplasia. This is bad cell division. Whenever we think about bad cell division, we have to think
about cancer. So not that I'm going to go into all of the major scientific research done on green tea and cancers, but it is a point to be noted that the green tea extract and the power of EGCG has been studied extensively across so many systems in the human body, from cardiovascular health, to
brain health to cellular health support. So it's just a very good nutrient to have on board, which is why I said I rotate my supplements, and the green tea happens to be one of those nutrients that I take on a very regular basis because I understand the cellular division support of that, and I always think that we should all have concerns on making sure that ourselves are working properly kicking out adequate energy and that they are dividing correctly, because if we
don't, then that is a big problem for us. We never want that to happen. So we have so many different products. As you know, we have our Green TTX, we have the White TTX, we have the Green t HX capsules. Talked about the immunity multiviemin. The importance of regulating stress is so critical and we can turn to nutrients such as lthenin. All of these nutrients are on special during our Labor Day buy one, get one free sale. If you happen to have questions for me, certainly reach out
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