Grace’s Blog

Is Stress Making You Sick? It is very possible.  Stress affects the heart, weight, the skin and more. 

Under stress, the heart beat increases and the heart has to work harder.  Blood thickens and clots more easily.  Blood clots that form when there is no wound, is not good.

The Immune System slows down substantially and you are more susceptible to illness, infection and degeneration,

Colon function is impaired, resulting in constipation, diarrhea, and gas produced by undigested food.  The digestive process turns off causing stomach upsets.

Adrenal secretions increase, pumping adrenalin into the blood stream to temporarily give you strength, speed, and stamina. 

If you are being attacked by a bear, this needs to happen, but in everyday life, the “fight or flight” syndrome day in and day out takes a toll on your health.

Under stress, the skin may break out with acne, psoriasis, hives or rosacea.

Stress can change the balance of chemicals in the brain and narrow the blood vessels which may cause headaches.  Tension in the shoulders and neck may make them worse.

Things you can do to lessen stress are:

Identify what is stressful; talk with someone important to you; plan ahead; exercise; tackle problems 1-1; have a positive attitude; avoid alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, caffeine and sugar; know what you can and cannot change; Supplement your diet with nutrients that feed the cells.

The body manufactures 55,000 new cells every second!  Cells require protein, vitamins minerals and more.  Under stress these nutrients are used up extremely fast and must be replenished.

Our family uses quality nutritional supplements, one of which is Stress Relief Complex. I invite you to view a short video “The Shaklee Difference.“  There is a difference in supplements.

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Genetic regulator Nrf2, pronounced Nerf 2, is a key genetic regulator of longevity.

Results of a randomized, placebo controlled clinical study by scientists at State University of New York at Buffalo using Shaklee’s Vivix will soon be published.

This was an independent study.  Shaklee did not do it.

When we are young and eat a high fat, high carbohydrate, low protein meal, it triggers an increase in Nrf2. This in turn increases production of our body’s own antioxidant defense mechanisms.

What does Nrf2 do?

Besides increasing the production of antioxidant defense mechanisms, it triggers our detoxification mechanisms and gets rid of all the artificial food additives and preservatives.

It triggers our immune balance mechanisms and anti-stress mechanisms. High fat meals depress the immune system and can cause inflammatory and autoimmune responses.

These mechanisms slow down cellular aging and reduce the risk of degenerative diseases.

As we get older, Nrf2 responses are no longer triggered by all the high fat bad foods we eat and we lose our natural protective mechanisms.

When that happens, we are more at risk for heart disease and stroke because our arteries are clogged from all those high fat meals.

Enter Shaklee’s Vivix.  The clinical study took a group of volunteers who consumed a 910 calorie breakfast at a well known fast food restaurant.  Half took Vivix immediately after breakfast and the other group took a placebo.

In those that took the Vivix, the Nrf2 increased dramatically within the first 3 hours after the meal.

The other group who took the placebo had their Nrf2 levels actually decline.

What does this mean?  A dose of Vivix containing resveratrol and ellagic acid has beneficial polyphenols that get into the bloodstream and have their intended anti-aging benefits.

Vivix will be even more effective when used with a good diet.  Vivix turns on Nrf2 whether you eat a bad diet or not.  Keep your system working at tip top shape with Vivix and make better choices in the foods you eat.

Click HERE to learn more about Vivix, a remarkable anti-aging tonic.  There is nothing like it anywhere.  It is backed by multiple patents and a soon to be published peer-reviewed clinical study.  Increasing Nrf2 is only one of the benefits.  When published, we will know more of all the benefits of using Vivix.

 Shaklee Independent Distributor

Lactoferrin.  What is it and why is it important? 

Lacto=milk, ferrin=iron.

Lactoferrin is found naturally in breast milk, tears, and other body fluids.  It is really important in building the immune system in infants. 

Once an infant stops nursing, continuing to have lactoferrin in a child’s diet can prove beneficial. 

In some cultures, mothers continue to nurse their children far longer than in Western civilizations giving their children extended immune support.

Lactoferrin is an iron-containing protein which is easily absorbed.

Iron is absolutely necessary for the immune system.

When the immune system is weakened it is one of the first signs of an iron deficiency.

Lactoferrin increases the nutrient-absorbing cells in the intestine enhancing the absorption of other nutrients a child needs for a healthy immune system.

Some studies suggest that lactoferrin acts as a prebiotic.  Prebiotics feed the beneficial bifidobacteria, or good bugs, which support a healthy digestive system.

Having a healthy digestive system is one of the body’s first defenses against invaders.

Lactoferrin may also activate immune cells whose job it is to gobble up foreign materials such as killed bacteria and viruses, and digesting them so they are no longer harmful.

Lactoferrin is extremely important in helping infants develop a healthy immune system.  Once developed it would be great if it continued to operate at peak performance, but we know our foods are loaded with ingredients not conducive to keeping a child healthy.

In addition there is an overuse of antibiotics that kill the good bacteria which keep the immune system healthy.

Shaklee’s new CHILDREN’S MULTIVITAMIN is the first in the U.S. with lactoferrin, to help keep the immune system supercharged long past the time the child stops nursing.

Shaklee Dist.

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On March 31, 1980, Time Magazine featured a revolutionary treatment for cancer on its front cover: Interferon. 

Natural interferon is produced by the body, but a renowned scientist discovered how to produce it as a synthetic drug.

His discovery offered new hope for patients with a number of types of cancers as well as Hepatitis C and other illnesses.

Synthetic interferon is very expensive and very toxic to the body.

After his discovery of the synthetic interferon, THIS DOCTOR began a long an arduous 40-year journey to find natural plant extracts, which would help the body produce more of its own natural interferon. 

He evaluated hundreds of compounds and over 200 different herbs and isolated four botanicals, which had the most profound effect.

Everyday we are exposed to dangerous microbes through the air we breathe, the foods we eat, the objects we touch.

There is one thing that stands between the dangers lurking about us and what protects us.  It is our Immune System.

Our immune systems are under attack from pollutants, stress, lack of sleep, smoking caffeine and on and on. 

What can a person do to protect themselves? 

USE A PRODUCT that will strengthen the immune system and help ward off illness.

 Only one company has the world-wide rights to this product. 

LEARN ABOUT NATUAL INTERFERON.

Understand how it boosts the body’s production of natural interferon and optimizes your natural immune response process.

 Shaklee Dist.