Understand, then Advocate

Last week Liz Szabo from USA Today sent me a note asking me if I'd be willing to talk with her regarding the revised guidelines regarding breast cancer released by the USPSTF.

So I said, "Absolutely, I'd be honored."

I'd already been following much of the discussion and was amazed how quickly the issue flared.  One by one all the major cancer institutions and hospitals published their own recommendations and made their physicians available for interviews. Still, there's a lot of information/misinformation about the recommendations we need to keep in mind.

1) The guidelines are recommendation developed by an independent panel made up of representatives from excellent organizations, universities and think tanks.  They ranked/rate six different methods for breast cancer detection.

2) The recommendations were based on scientific analysis of existing data -- I have the actual report -- its about twelve pages long.  It doesn't readily condense to tweets, blurbs or anything like that, unfortunately.

3) Mammography has been controversial for a long time. Nothing new here. It under-detects some cancers (like mine) and over detects others that may not have ever developed into invasive disease.  Mammography is problematic in detecting cancer in younger women.  Most of the young survivors I know and have spoken with FOUND THE LUMP/discharge/change themselves and pursued their concern aggressively.

4) The recommendations  have been the standard in Ireland since 2000. Are the comparative rates of breast cancer widely different?  I don't know but will certainly check that out. I would be surprised if they are.

5) The recommendations are for "the average woman," the woman without risk factors. Women with risk factors are excluded.  How those risk factors are defined will become an issue.  I've already asked MD Anderson how they define 'risk factors' and as yet  have received no answers.  When I was diagnosed ('98) the doctors who examined me felt that two great aunts with breast cancer and an extensive family history of cancer on both sides of my family did not constitute a "risk factor."  I said "oh, really?" then and would use the same tone of voice now.

All this said I wouldn't budge from the 2002 recommendations for a minute -- but not for the reasons you might think.  The beauty of the existing system is:

1) It gets women in the doctor for some minimum of health care on an annual basis when other problems might be discovered;

2) We already have millions of uninsured women who are NOT being screened -- do we really want to add more to a potential public health catastrophe?

3) The health of the US public is already bad, growing heavier and exercising less (obesity a factor for BC);

4)The guidelines are based on past data and make no provision for the existing health care problems existing in the US.

I'm long winded but understanding is truly critical.  We need to advocate for better detection methods for younger women -- the 50% under the median age of 61.  We need to advocate for prevention, and continue advocating the benefits of the healthy lifestyles. We need to keep up the great example of understanding our own health.

So when Liz asked me if I thought the guidelines were fair?  I said that numbers are numbers (I'm not going to deny a statistical modeling process I can't even describe) but no number or guidelines are fair if applied by insurance carriers to deny tests to women or men who need them. No way.  That isn't fair at all.

Best regards to all of you,

jody

The Measure of My Days

Psalm 39:4 "LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is! (RSV)

In a perfect world we live out the "measure of our days" in good health then gently fall asleep, never to wake again.
       That's death via Norman Rockwell. 
       In the Norman Rockwell world 70% of Americans want to die at home. In the real world, only 30% do.
       Last year Atul Gawande brilliantly described the emotional and factual cost of end-of-life care in his award-winning article, "Letting Go," published in the August 2, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.  He dared to ask at what point medical treatments intended to extend life actually result in more intrusive treatments, more suffering and a greater financial burden on the patient's family.
        The story - or what he called the 'dire reality' -  was told through the life of a mother who had inoperable non-small cell lung cancer. She was young. She was hopeful. The unraveling  tale of chemotherapy followed by increasingly intrusive interventions to counteract the side affects accumulated and spiraled down, one episode after another. How could her story have been changed?  Could it have been? Can we direct the trajectory of our final months?  
        I believe we can.
        You may find me off center, talking about death on the heels of a gracious holiday and in the advent of another. I do so because I fear death much less than unnecessary and unwanted care. Intubation. Chest tubes. Forced feeding. IV antibiotics to stave off this infection or that. CPR.  
       Hang around health care long enough and you'll find it won't take long before you find what you DON'T want. And if you live life on your terms, and pride yourself in doing so, you'll want to die on your own terms as well as much as is humanly possible. To do so you need to write it down.
        "You only die once," Gawande wrote.  
        I also write this today because I've just returned from dealing with an 88-year old man who has not thought through his end-of-life issues. This has to do with how you want to live and be treated, not who will handle the funeral. He has an opposite problem from the young women Gawande wrote about; who so wanted to live she couldn't understand death was near.  
         My father-in- law still thinks he'll always drive his car and take care of himself.  He never considered there might be a point where he couldn't. And the rest of us, his children by biology and marriage, are left deciding the issues for him. Things he used to care about, like filling the bird feeders before the winter winds hit, or making sure the water softener has been cleaned out, are immaterial now. He moves from his bed, to the kitchen table to his lounge chair, where he quickly falls asleep. He doesn't think he's dying either, but his mind diminishes by the day.  It's too late for him. 
        We all need to make our wishes known. Or someone else will.  Write your own last chapter.  Outline it.  Think it through and write it down. It's your life and it will - hopefully much later rather than sooner - be your death. November, if you didn't already know, is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month.  In this incredible video, Engage With Grace posted by Renee Berry, speaker Alexandra Drane encourages all of us to answer these five questions:


Five simple questions:
1) Where do you fall on the medical spectrum: from supportive and comfort care only to take all measures possible?
2) If there were a choice, would you prefer to die at home, or in a hospital?
3) Could a loved one correctly describe how you'd want to be treated in the case of a terminal illness? 
4)  Is there someone you trust whom you've appointed to advocate on your behalf when the time is near?
5)  Have you completed any of the following: written a living will, appointed a healthcare power of attorney, or completed an advance directive?  


Cancer and its treatment teach you about mortality. It can leave you feeling powerless. Turn the table and empower yourself. By determining what you don't want you very well might define how strongly, how vividly, how incredibly, you are living your life today.


All good things to you,
Jody

Your Mind on Chemo

Mentioning chemobrain to a group of cancer survivors is the equivalent of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater.
             Yesterday it was impossible to miss the collective shouting when the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced the results of a small study demonstrating the physiological process behind the symptoms that plague so many of us.
             Now there is a scientific explanation behind that freaky and disabling symptoms that make up the word "chemobrain." While sometimes used derisively, sometimes jokingly, sometimes teasingly, there is now no getting around the fact that administering chemotherapy causes significant and demonstrable changes in brain metabolism.
            Makes sense, you think.
            And it does.  But common sense isn't science; and even those medical professionals who listened sympathetically to their patients had little to offer in return.  Part of the answer came in the way the scientists approached the problem.
            Instead of studying chemotherapy's effect on the brain's appearance, Rachael A Lagos, D.O., and colleagues at the West Virginia Univeristy School of Medicine instead looked at its effect on brain function through an analysis of PET/CT brain imaging results utilizing special software.

             What a difference that made.  The proof was in the scans where "statistically significant decreases in regional brain metabolism" were noted.  Those changes were seen in areas associated with contentration and memory.
             Long story short:  your brain has as much difficulty processing chemotherapy drugs as the rest of your body does.

By now you all know that Robert Bazell, heath/science correspondent and author of The Making of Herceptin covered the story for NBC Nightly News and a crew came to talk with me yesterday morning about my chemobrain experience.
             My experience may have been different from yours.  Mine may have lasted longer. You may have had sypmtoms that disappeared overnight.  I don't know how much of the cognitive problems I encountered can be attributed to chemo or simply the totality of treatment --  radiation, multiple surgeries, and tamoxifen, the ultimate in brain scrambling medications.  But I don't need a study or PET/scan of my brain to say that definitively about Tamoxifen.  After seeing this short and doable demonstration from a radiation resident (the RSNA study was a poster session, mind you) from just ONE aspect of cancer treatment is more than enough for me.

Exercise works for easing chemobrain. Truly does.

Now where we need to go is to continue the discussion on working through the disability. That's why the crew filmed the additional segments that they did.  Those weren't random.  Both cycling and quilting were activities I took up AFTER treatment to help cope. There is no doubt that physical exercise, intense aerobic activity, is one of the best possible things you can do to cope with chemobrain, fatigue, and regain strength and vitality.  Taking up quilting involved learning a compelte new set of tasks, and yes, not seriously injuring myself or anyone else when using a rotary cutter.  A third way to help anyone suffering cognitive impairment would be assistance with organizational skills.  Anyone who knows me and looks at my waning organizational skills can attest to that. A good text on ADD probably woundn't hurt either.  Stress management is also key.

Quilting is something I took up after cancer treatment....it's soemthing creative and stress managment all in one. Here I'm using English paper piecing of 3/4" hexagons. There's no way to machine piece them accurately.

With Debbie Strauss of NBC News.

          When I watched both the broadcast and web footage last night  I was reminded that for many of us, the cancer itself wasn't a problem but recovering from treatment WAS.  While we were talking I told correspondent Debbie Strauss that during those difficult months I remember staring at a blank piece of paper trying to write a simple paragraph.
           A paragraph.  Something I used to do in my sleep.  Something I could do upside down or inside out.  No, writing a paragraph has never been the same.  But never has the sense of accomplishment carried such a sweet ring, either. And that will always be enough.

 
More where this came from:
Reserarchers Find Evidence of Chemobrain
Healing from ChemoBrain Gradual

BoingBoing: Chemobrain....Isn't All in Your Head

Great blog on chemobrain  AnneMarie Ciccarella and this recommendation: Your Brain After Chemo, by journalist Idelle Davidson.

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[Fruit] Health Benefits of salak for diet and eye (Salacca, Salacca edulis)

[Fruit] Health Benefits of salak for diet and eye (Salacca, Salacca edulis)

We want to share about Health Benefits of salak for diet and eye (Salacca, Salacca edulis). As may you know, Salak is a species of palm tree native to Java and Sumatra. It is cultivated in other regions as a food crop, and reportedly naturalized in Bali, Lombok, Timor, Malaysia, Maluku and Sulawesi.

Here are some health benefits of salak fruit :

Maintain Eye Health
Fruits contain beta-carotene which is very good for maintaining eye health. And bark are also 5.5 times greater than mangoes and 5 times larger than a watermelon.

Diarrhea drug
When you do not stop-stop bowel movement or diarrhea you should consume these fruits, because the bark has a high fiber so it can be able to treat diarrhea.

helping Diet
For those of you who want to lose weight or diet, it is good for your fruits kosumsi. With the content of phytonutrients that exist in the bark can help your diet. Salak also has 2mg of Vitamin C. Why fiber can help? because the fiber can make you full faster and longer lasting.

But, you also need to know. If you consume too much in a day will have an impact of constipation or difficult bowel movements. And eating the right fruits in a day is only about 4-5 pieces. When eating fruits, lots of people peeling bark or cleaning the epidermis. And it is wrong, even in the husk has high fiber. So, if you now want to consume fruits.


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Health Benefits of Green Tea for prevent tumor growth and heart health

 

Health Benefits of Green Tea for prevent tumor growth and heart health

Green tea is made from the leaves from Camellia sinensis that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing. Green tea originated in China, but it has become associated with many cultures throughout Asia. Green tea has recently become relatively widespread in the West where black tea has been the traditionally consumed tea

As may you know,  Green tea has many health benefits for your body. here are some Health Benefits of Green Tea for prevent tumor growth and heart health :

overcoming Hydration
   
Maybe a lot of people who think that by drinking tea can even make the body hydration it constituted their caffeine content in tea, but do you know that actually the consumption of tea in large quantities, our bodies still gain a lot of fluids so that it can cope with hydration.

Tea Can Shrink Tumors
   
Why is that? This is based on that tea has the content or chemical compounds called flavonoids, especially tea and having this content is green tea. The content is what will make this tea drink can shrink the tumor disease that you suffer.
   
Minimize the risk of heart attack.
   
The benefits of tea are the last in this article is that it can prevent the body from the possible risk of coronary heart disease, and tea are best used to maintain the health of your heart is green tea. If you want to avoid a heart attack you simply consume as much as 3 cups of green tea per day.

Blood Pressure Can Make Descending
   
Now that further benefits of tea is that it can lower blood pressure in the body, so that your blood pressure may be normal again, as for the way he is eating or drinking tea Black with continuous / routine every day until your high blood pressure to normal. Well if you are someone who is already taking blood pressure-lowering drugs this tea will not bring change to decreased blood.

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I am thankful

Note:  Yesterday Brooke McMillan at Livestrong put up a simple, but powerful entry on Posterous about gratitude.  After the wonderful Life Beyond Cancer Retreat this past weekend and with Thanksgiving in mind  I wanted to share a few thoughts of my own.  Blessings to you and yours.  

Photo:  Debbie M. Thomas

I am thankful for health, for the alignment of cells that brings remission.
I am thankful for the love that surpasses all understanding.
I am thankful to taste mystery, each and every day.


I am thankful to have touched my nephew's head when he was just moments old,
and to access that moment of benediction and grace,
by simply remembering it
and there, to this day
is the touch of hair like silk.


I am thankful for my family, the funny, offbeat, whipsmart, messy, really messy and deeply charged lot of us.


I am thankful that I no longer stress that the other shoe will drop.
They have dropped and will again
but when engaged in now shoes recede,
the love that surpasses all understanding
brings us through somehow.


For too many years I thought I was lucky,
now I am thankful.

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Interesting article from today's Wall Street Journal: "Grateful people are healthier, happier, long after the leftovers are gobbled up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704243904575630541486290052.html

The Cone of Uncertainty

Anyone living along a coastal area knows about the cone of uncertainty.  These are widely ranging swaths of land that lie in the projected path of a hurricane or typhoon.  The cone starts small, at the point of landfall, then widens exponentially to include every blade of grass or bird that could possibly be impacted by the storm event. 

At one point prior to Hurricane Ike the weathermap showed IKE sucking up heat as it moved across the entire Gulf of Mexico, then striking the Houston Ship Channel and barreling up a narrow corridor until it landed directly on my house. I was sure of that. This was not a happy moment. I crawled into the bathtub with the dog and ate almonds and chocolate while the storm ripped all the leaves off the trees for miles around and anniliated large sections of beach and homes in Galeston, which suffered the most devastating damage.  

Hurricane Ike's Cone of Uncertainty 

This came back to me again because I've been living in a cone of uncertainty for the last month or so.  My thoughts darkened.  I felt like I was sheltering in place, treading water, as I waiting for results from tests and as importantly, learning what those tests meant in the context of my life, my health. This is especiallly important in cancer, where an errant fact might look bad yet fit in a cohesive narrative on an indivual level.  From what I knew? I could be in trouble. Or not.  And I wouldn't know the answer for a number of weeks.  

            At the end of October metastatic breast cancer was found in the lining of my stomach.  My oncologist had ordered an endoscopy to check out my gut's workings when I continued to lose weight and suffer from bouts of nausea and vomiting without rhyme or reason.  None of these episodes could be related say, to a batch of minor food poisoning or a 24-hour virus running through the community. 

            Metastatic lobular breast cancer,  this little darling of a breast cancer I have (only comprising from 10-15 percent of all breast cancers) can weasel its way anywhere, sneaking along through the lymph system and even wedging between the lining of the stomach and the muscle. When my oncologist explained this yesterday, drawing a decent stomach, esophagus and upper intestine, he penciled in how the cells line up between the two layers. From there it was a mental skip and a jump to grasp what is described medically as a "plastic-type" presentation. As the cells accumulate the stomach itself becomes more rigid and and lead to the symptoms I've been experiencing. 

           But the stomach mets did not represent progression.  No progression.  In cancer land there's no better music to one's ears.  The stomach mets were mostly likely present when I was diagnosed with metastatic disease in April.  These would not have become apparent on CT until they formed tumors and given the symptoms I've already had, I shiver to imagine how ill I would have been by then. 

           So the good news definitely is no progression.  The obvious news is learning to live with a stomach that's been damaged by cancer.  Some, but not all, of the damage will ease as Femara continues its work.  An aromastase inhibitor, which works by blocking the enyme that allows androgen to convert to estrogen, Femara has done remarkable work in my system in six months, nearly knocking out the extensive lymph node involvement I presented with.  This is like removing the tree trunk from all the limbs. The more we continue to shut down the feeding system, the fewer malignancies -- like these monsters creeping along in my stomach -- will be there to find.  

          In the meantime my disease falls back into the manageable, chronic category. If I continue to take the daily medicine I could be fine for many, many months.  I'll have scans again in eight weeks.  But no one is a fool, either.  There are some indescriminate lesions we want to remain boringly, indescriminate. We want them to stay as boring as they are now. 

          I'll watch, yes, I'll be mindful, but I certainly am not qoing to stick around and wait for trouble.  No one can say when the next inevitable progression or drug resistance will occur, when the cone of uncertainly will hover again.  All of us know that cancer can change its mind in a moment, fake out your immune system, and even recruit a few buddies to help its do its dirty work.  We do what we can. Stay rested, eat well, exercise.  Don't give the creeps an inch.

          I felt hope growing yesterday, small, but true, and deep. 

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Happiness in a Storm

Wendy Harpham, MD

 Wendy Harpham never wanted to be known for her significant contributions to cancer survirvorship.

Given her dreams, she wouldn’t have coined the phrase “healthy survivorship” either, or been the author of several best -selling books on the topic. And the appearances on Oprah or the Today Show?  Those weren’t on the agenda in l983 when she obtained her life’s dream and opened a solo practise in internal medicine.

Like the survivors gathered this weekend for Life Beyond Cancer’s 10^th Annual Survivorship Retreat in Austin, Wendy Harpham didn’t have cancer on the agenda.  But this is how it happens to thousands of people diagnosed with cancer every day.   Like that, your life changes.

Just seven years after opening her practice, and by then the mother of three young children, Wendy was diagnosed with a Stage III non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She was 36. Disease at this stage is not curable.  

As a physician she understood the odds and the challenges. 

As a woman, as a wife and mother, she faced them.  Seven different recurrences. From the repeated courses of chemotherapy and resulting illnesses came the heart-breaking, but necessary, decision to close her practise. Cancer made managing a busy office impossible.  Careful management of her energy was essential.  This is how her talk this morning “happiness in a storm” holds such depth. 

“It’s important to separate expectations and hope," she said.  "Hopefully accepting the likely outcome while hoping for the best possible outcome. While I could expect that my cancer might recur, I could still hope to live as fully as possible.”  

When I spoke with Wendy by phone about a month ago one of the first things that I noticed about her is the strength – not just the sound –of her voice.  In her photos, she is petite, with a beautiful ivory complexion and deep blue eyes.  But make no mistake, her strength, calm confidence and intelligence come through loud and clear, especially when I asked her what she tells newly diagnosed women with cancer.

            “Cancer is not a death sentence, “ she said.  “Cancer is an illness that is treatable.  Obtain sound knowledge, nourish your hope, and act effectively.”

The physician speaks. And the survivor knows. “You have to use all your strengths as a woman to become a healthy survivor."

More about Wendy and the gifts she brings to the survivorship community will come.  

All of us here at the Life Beyond Cancer Retreat have affirmed:  she's our new best friend. 

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Acceptance

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Of all the emotions associated with cancer acceptance doesn't get that much play.  Grief and anger certainly grab their fare share of cancer talk time.  Mind-numbing disappointment is right up there as well.  The same goes for the kinetic sense of shock felt upon hearing a cancer diagnosis.  

On the other end of the spectrum is gratitude. Totally problematic.  No one I know needed cancer to appreciate the beauty in a moment, the significance of a child's love, or the fleeting nature of time. Let's get serious. The majority of survivors I know weren't emotional or spritual reprobates before they were diagosed.  None of us, before or after cancer, are sensitive and luminous beings about every single thing all the time. That is too gooey for words.

And "cancer as gift?" We won't go there. If cancer's a gift my friend Katie Ford Hall said, "then I'm demanding a refund." Stop by customer service, thank you very much.

Acceptance is the middle ground. Acceptance is pragmatic and realistic, it means that cancer (or any threatening illness) is something I will have to deal with for the rest of my life.  Acceptance, though stark, frees you. It empowers you to take positive steps to address your diagnosis, from seeking a second opinion,  to making lifestyle changes after treatment. It means that you live with the knowledge cancer could return without living in fear of that happening. Sometimes I tell friends, as if to remind them, "you don't have cancer today." Acceptance helps keep our feet on the ground.

Accepting cancer in your life doesn't equate to being at peace with it; and it doesn't mean that grief is bypassed since few things in life, other than a ruler, are linear.  You can accept your diagnosis and be actively mourning the loss of safety and certainly your family is experiencing. Lost time hurts.  Acceptance demands that we look at the problem, rather than away. At it's simplest it is life on life's terms.

That's where I am right now: life on life's terms.  I've been thinking about this since Friday when @liftweights4jc (Jason) asked on Twitter, "Does anyone ever come to a place where they have peace about having had BC?" My answer is yes, I think so, but I don't know what your experience is or has been.  Nothing would be more rewarding for all of us, espeically during the holidays, to explore the question.

So I quickly dropped a note to my #BCSM co-moderators, Deanna Attai, MD, and Alicia Staley.  Were they interesting in discussing this?  The answer was a resounding yes.  I hope you can join us tomorrow night at 9 pm ET/8 pm Central/6 Pacific on Twitter.

And if you can't, I'd still love to hear your answer to: "Have you come to a place where you have peace about having had cancer?  How did it happen?"

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. You are such bright lights in my life,

Jody

10 Amazing Health Benefits of Radish for Skin, Cancer and Eye

10 Amazing Health Benefits of Radish for Skin, Cancer and Eye

Hello, Hello, we want to show you about 10 Amazing Health Benefits of Radish for Skin, Cancer and Eye. The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times. Radishes are grown and consumed throughout the world, being mostly eaten raw as a crunchy salad vegetable.

Here are some Amazing Health Benefits of Radish for Skin, Cancer and Eye

Skin: Radish is very good for his deep skin has Vitamin A and antioxidants that will protect the skin than the light of the sun. Radish stonewall acne, dry skin, pre-mature twitch and help you to get a brighter skin
Eyes: Radish is a rich source of Vitamin A and B which help you to produce better vision.
Cancer: Radish increase imuniti power and also help to combat kanser.
Cholesterol: Eating a red radishes every day helps you to remove bad cholesterol than the body.
Brain: Radishes have more calories which helps to increase the power of a childhood memory.
Pressure: For the relief of stress, drinking a glass of red radish juice every day.
Healthy Heart: Radish enriched with beta-carotene, alpha-carotene and lutein which helps reduce the risk of heart disease.
Cleaning Agency: Radish has fiber which helps to cleanse the colon and reduce fat in the liver.
Strong antiseptic: Sources say herb horseradish may be used to prevent outbreaks. They may be used in cooked or chopped raw wound.
Anti-Aging: Beta-carotene is found in red radish helps slow the aging of cells in the body.

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Benefits of Seedling for your skin

Benefits of Seedling for your skin

Hello, we want to show you about Benefits of Seedling for your skin. A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle, the hypocotyl, and the cotyledons. Wikipedia

Here are some Benefits of Seedling for your skin :

Eating a healthy diet is the best way to ensure that the skin better. Seedling contain nutrients that are beneficial for maintaining healthy skin and increase the brightness.

Free radicals caused by sun exposure and environmental pollution. Antioxidants in the seedling will get rid of free radicals to protect skin from sun damage and pollution.

Seedling rich in B vitamins which prevent the production of excess sebum, and helps the formation of healthy skin. Seedling drinking a glass of juice every day to get hydrated and moist skin.

Seedling Include in your daily diet to improve the process of healing and skin rejuvenation. It also helps to heal wounds more quickly and replace the damaged tissue. It will also lighten skin color, such as camouflage spots due to age.

Vitamin C in the seedling will promote the production of collagen for better skin, so it gives elasticity to make skin younger. Proteins in the Seedling also supports the body's tissues and organs together, to rejuvenate the skin from within and reduce skin wrinkles and other aging symptoms.

Seedling contain high levels of omega 3 fatty acids, which are useful to reduce inflammation, reduce the risk of acne and other skin problems. Also helps to reduce skin problems such as pruritus, scaling, and erythema. Thus, taking Seedling will provide smooth skin and look younger, by way of disguise inflammatory conditions such as acne and psoriasis.

Seedling contains silica, a nutrient that the body needs to build and regenerate connective tissue of skin back. It also will eliminate toxins from the body which usually seep into the bloodstream and cause skin dull and lifeless.

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5 Benefist of Bamboo shoots for Health

5 Benefist of Bamboo shoots for Health

Hello, we want to show you about 5 Benefist of Bamboo shoots for Health. Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are the edible shoots of many bamboo species including Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys edulis. They are used in numerous Asian dishes and broths. 

Here are someBenefist of Bamboo shoots for your health:

Bamboo shoots can reduce levels of bad cholesterol. The content of these antioxidants can counteract radiation-free compounds that are harmful to humans. While the types of antioxidants found in bamboo shoots his name was Phytosterols.

Shoots reduce the risk of cancer. The high fiber content of bamboo shoots can reduce the risk of cancer, particularly cancer of the digestive tract. In the intestines, the fiber can function as a brush that is able to get rid of impurities as well get rid of the triggers of cancer.

Shoots for diet program. For those who are in a slimming program, fiber will make the stomach feel full until your appetite more easily controlled. In addition, bamboo shoots in fat and low sugar making it suitable as a support in the natural diet.

Shoots can maintain healthy cells. These vegetables contain many proteins that function to maintain healthy cells in the body to function properly.

Shoots reduce the risk of stroke. Foods rich in potassium, at least 400 mg, known to be very helpful to reduce the risk of stroke. Stroke patients are usually deficient in this mineral.

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Health Benefits of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) for cancer, Antioxidants and protect DNA

Health Benefits of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) for cancer, Antioxidants and protect DNA

Hello, you know pomegranate fruit, this fruit are have many benefit. i want to show you about Health Benefits of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) for cancer, Antioxidants and protect DNA. The pomegranate, botanical name Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing between 5 and 8 m tall. follow this page for more information about Benefits of pomegranate for face skin

Benefits of Pomegranate

Boost the immune system
Pomegranate and pomegranate juice boost immunity. Known pomegranate loaded with vitamin C.

Preventing and treating cancer
Pomegranate fruit has efficacy in preventing and treating various types of cancer. Studies in Israel show that pomegranate juice destroys breast cancer cells while allowing healthy cells. Pomegranate may also prevent the formation of breast cancer cells.

Fermented pomegranate seed extract is rich in polyphenols promote the recovery of leukemia cells back to normal.

Protecting liver and kidneys
Recent research suggests that pomegranate extract to prevent kidney damage and protect the kidney from harmful toxins. In addition, pomegranate also protects your heart and helps to regenerate damaged heart.

rich in Antioxidants
Recent research shows that pomegranate is rich in anthocyanidins are efficacious antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Pomegranate juice is said to have antioxidant greater than the "super foods" such as red wine, green tea and blueberries. Antioxidants fight free radicals which can damage cells. This cell damage associated with all kinds of diseases including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's.

protect DNA
Phytonutrients and antioxidants in pomegranates interact with the genetic material of the body to protect it.

allergenic
Pomegranate is rich in polyphenols which have been shown to high doses reduces the biochemical processes associated with allergies.

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Benefits of pomegranate for face skin

Benefits of pomegranate for face skin

Hello, we want to show you about Benefits of pomegranate for face skin . The pomegranate, botanical name Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing between 5 and 8 m (16–26 ft) tall. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from September to February, and in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact arils or juice, pomegranates are used in cooking, baking, meal garnishes, juice blends, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine.The pomegranate, botanical name Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing between 5 and 8 m (16–26 ft) tall. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from September to February, and in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact arils or juice, pomegranates are used in cooking, baking, meal garnishes, juice blends, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine.

Pomegranate is very good because it contains a lot of antioxidants and other nutrients needed skin. Not many are aware, but this fruit has long been used in a wide range of skin care products. follow this page for full information about other benefits of pomegranate for health and beauty

Here are some Benefits of pomegranate for your face skin.

• As you know, the skin consists of several layers. Pomegranate can protect the outer skin layer or epidermis while stimulating cell regeneration in all layers of the skin.
   
• Pomegranate can also be used as a natural sunblock because it has a very good ellagic acid to fight the causes of skin cancer. In addition, pomegranate also can overcome various signs of sunburn and sun damage other.
  
  
• The content of premature aging in this fruit has been often used to combat various signs of premature aging. Not only wrinkles and fine lines, pomegranate is also able to prevent black spot.
   
• The most well-known function of the pomegranate is to smooth and tighten the skin, by stimulating the formation of collagen and elastin in the skin.
   
• The greatness of the latter is the pomegranate can be used on all skin types. No matter if your skin is dry or oily. The fruit is very good for the skin problem. For dry skin, pomegranate oil can sign up to the deepest layer of the skin and moisturize skin from within as well locking. This is because the pomegranate is rich in omega fatty acids 5. As for oily skin, pomegranate oil is very good for fighting and preventing acne.

Now there are many beauty products with the basic ingredients of pomegranate, you just need to adjust it as needed.

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Benefits of Purple mangosteen for fetuses and pregnant women

Benefits of Purple mangosteen for fetuses and pregnant women

Hello, we want to show you about Benefits of Purple mangosteen for fetuses and pregnant women . The purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), colloquially known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. It grows mainly in Southeast Asia, and also in tropical South American countries such as Colombia, in the state of Kerala in India and in Puerto Rico,[1] where the tree has been introduced. The tree grows from 6 to 25 m (19.7 to 82.0 ft) tall. The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary.Seeds are almond-shaped and sized.

The content contained in the mangosteen fruit is able to provide nutrition during pregnancy. Mangosteen fruit contains vitamin C plays a role in the immune system during pregnancy and maintain the elasticity of your skin during pregnancy due to fetal growth increasingly membersar. Other content contained in the mangosteen fruit is folic acid and manganese. Folic acid helps in lowering the risk for premature infants or fetal abnormalities such as deformed babies organs. While manganese to protect you and the fetus from environmental threats and some foods such as free radicals, other functions of the manganese is in helping the formation of cartilage and the framework of the fetus. follow this page for full information about other benefits of blabla for health and beauty.

Benefits of Purple mangosteen for fetuses and pregnant women :

Sources of Vitamins and Minerals
By consuming mangosteen fruit during pregnancy, meaning the mother indirectly provide for the nutritional needs of the fetus she was younger. This is because the fruit has a different mangis natural ingredients such as: the content of vitamins and minerals that it contains.

For vitamin content itself is very striking its Vitamin C content.  

As we know that it is rich in Vitamin C benefits for skin and health. Similarly, the C content of the fruit mangosteen Viatamin this, other than beneficial for the skin "of the pregnant mother skin elasticity" of vitamin C can also boost the immune system of the mother.

Folic Acid
These natural addition to the above, mangosteen also contains folic acid which is a lot, and of course the content is beneficial both for the health of the fetus so that the fetus later in childbirth can be healthy without any defect increments.

Ingredients and Other Elements
In addition to 3 content that has been written above, the mangosteen fruit also has a lot of natural ingredients that are good for health and pregnant women. And it is a substance content of manganese. This natural substance is beneficial for the formation of cartilage and its framework at the age of fetal growth.

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