Supplement For The Healthy?

Aloe & Sea Vegetables: Why Healthy People Need Them

I'm Healthy so Why do I need to Take a Supplement?

Its a great question. If you've generally enjoyed good health, why should you need to consider a supplement like the aloe-sea vegetable blend? First of all, most serious, debilitating health conditions - such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease - don't just occur overnight. They usually take years to form and progress. Consequently, the symptoms of these diseases aren't seen until it's well into its progression - and often too late for optimal recovery.

Needless to say, prevention is crucial, and it can be accomplished in a variety of ways. In addition, individuals who consider themselves healthy can often find areas to improve in if they'll just look objectively. Our level of energy is one such area - physical and mental fatigue, and the inability to get through the day are some of today's top health complaints. Immune function is also one area that constantly needs attention, especially with threats such as viral and bacterial infections, cancer, and environmental toxins lurking around us. Finally, digestion is often overlooked as a key to optimal health. But many experts feel that a poorly function digestive system can lead to a variety of ills throughout the body.

Disease Prevention: Key to a Longer, Healthier Life

Just because you're healthy today doesn't mean you'll be healthy tomorrow. We all know that as we age, our risk of disease increases. And just because we can't feel or see the symptoms of a particular disease doesn't mean that it's not in its early stages, growing and progressing. Considering all of this, many experts believe that skiing to prevent disease is an overlooked key to maintaining optimal health.

How can the phytonutrients from aloe and sea vegetables help prevent disease? First, the powerful nutrient profile from these foods provides the body with the components needed to keep itself strong and healthy. the following are just a few of the key nutrients found in aloe and sea vegetables:

- Vitamins (including several B-Vitamins and Vitamins, C, D, E and A)
- Minerals (including calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper, magnesium and selenium)
- Amino Acids (including arginine, glutamic acid, glycine, leucine and phenylalanie)
- Fatty Acids (including DHA, EPA and other omega-3 acids)
- Enzymes (including amylase and lipase)
- Anthocyanidins
- Chlorophyll
- Flavonoids
- Fucoidan
- Giberlins
- Glucomannans
- Lignins
- Lycopene
- Lutein
- Tannins
- Zeaxanthin
- Essential Sugars ( Sacchardies or glyconutrients), including the "essential 8"

Closely related to disease prevention is the ability of the body's cells to function optimally. And the phytonutrients available from aloe and sea vegetables appear to provide a substantial amount of support for the intercellular communication and activity of all the body's cells.

Another important area of disease prevention is centered on oxidative damage. Not surprisingly, both the aloe and several sea vegetables contain several different antioxidant agents - compounds that neutralize and minimize the effects of free-radical damage. An ever-growing body of research has strongly linked free-radical damage with many modern lifestyle diseases; cancer, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes are just a few. In the end, any measure that can reduce the damage of free radicals, or eliminate them from the body, can potentially reduce the risk of disease down the road - even for a healthy person.

Building Fences: Immune Function

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the more we can do to improve our immune performance, the greater level of wellness we'll enjoy. Recent studies on the primary nutrients in aloe an sea vegetables have demonstrated that they can potentially have a positive effect on the immune function. In one recent study, research exposed cancer cells in vitro to fucoidan, a powerful saccharide in sea vegetables. Fucoidan was able to induce apoptosis, resulting in the eat of virtually all cancer cells in the sample. Apoptosis - the body's cancer cell self-destruct program - is supposed to kick in any time a cell becomes cancerous, but many experts believe that dietary and environmental factors inhibit this potentially life-saving process. The Glyconutritional power of aloe vera and sea vegetables may not only block the effects of cancer-causing impurities, but may also support the body's built-in cancer defenses.

Another area of immunity that is particularly alarming to health professionals is that of autoimmune dysfunction. What this means is that for a variety of reasons - many of them not understood - the body's immune powers turn on the healthy cells and tissues, damaging them and creating a wide variety of problems.

According to Dr. Doris Lefkowitz, the vicious cycle of inflammation comes from abnormal "cross-talk" between immune cells that don't have sufficient levels of essential glyconutrients to communicate effectively. N-acetyglucosamine and N-acetygalactosamine are powerful antioxidants that work in the joints to scalage inflammation-causing free radicals.

Energy Enhancement

Described in simple terms, the body's energy comes in the form of ATP, a sort of "currency" of energy for use in the cells. And for the most of us, our energy levels affect all aspects of our lives - our work, home and family life, our mental capacities, and even our libidos - even if we do consider ourselves healthy. In the end, our energy levels usually are affected by a myriad of factors - diet, disease, stress, sleep, and overall health are just a few.

For instance, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) are two complex conditions characterized largely by fatigue and loss of energy. Because of their complexity, I believe that several of the phytonutrients available in the blend of aloe and sea vegetables are probably especially helpful: N-acetylncuranmic acid, gibberellin, fucose, glucose, mannose, N-acetyglucosamine, and fucoidan. Particularly, N-acetylneuraminic acid is a known brain helper.

A study published in integrative and Physiological Behavioral Science examined a group of test subjects with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The subjects consumed an aloe vera extract rich in glyconutrients. nearly all who were tested noted an improvement in their symptoms and fatigue.

Digestive Health

Digestive health complaints are high on the list of most westerners. Deteriorating dietary and overall lifestyle habits make this so. Thankfull, superfoods like aloe and sea vegetables can help protect the digestive tract and improve overall gastrointestinal health.

For instance, researches have found that fucoidan has the ability to relieve stomach ailments like ulcers and indigestion. Other research also suggest that aloe - which has long been used in traditional cultures for digestive ailments - can also have a protective effect on the digestive system. A recent scientific study found that aloe helps rebuild the mucous lining of the intestinal tract, which plays a role in maintaining the healthy and vitality in many areas of the body. Other research indicates that xylose, one of the "essential 8" glyconutrients found in sea vegetables, may help prevent cancer of the digestive tract. Finally, scientists have linked deficient levels of n-acetylglucosamine, another essential glyconutrients, to several gastrointestinal disorders.