Cultures around the world have enjoyed chocolate in its many forms for a thousand years or more. In its earlier days, the Mayans and Aztecs sipped a chocolate beverage during sacred and religious ceremonies. Later, Europeans enjoyed chocolate enhanced by refined sugar and milk as dessert and candies. There are powerful scientific properties and findings [...]
Women's Hearts Beat Faster Than Men's A female human heart pumps about six beats faster per minute than a male heart, which can be explained by the gender difference in heart size. A male heart is bigger (by about 25 percent), so it can pump more blood in a single beat. But having a quicker [...]
A Cold Heart Isn't Always a Bad Thing! Therapeutic hypothermia is actually a form of treatment for cardiac arrest. According to American Heart Association guidelines for inducing hypothermia, doctors cool a patient’s body to 91 degrees F, 7 degrees below average, in order to slow damage to brain and other organs that begin when the [...]
The all-important heart is constantly at work, pumping blood (about 2,000 gallons a day) filled with essential oxygen and nutrients to your body’s organs 24/7. Everything about the heart and how it works is interesting, but here are some nuggets of information we found particularly fascinating. The Heart Sits in the Center of the Chest, [...]
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times. - By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel. - Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day. - It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, [...]
-- It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. -- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! -- Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn. -- Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other [...]
-- The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips. -- Pain occurs when sounds are above 130 db (decibels). -- Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue. -- Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood flow to other parts of [...]
Your adrenals didn’t go out of whack overnight, and they surely won’t get back into whack overnight. You don’t want to try balancing your endocrine system without professional support. The feedback messages between your adrenals, pituitary and hypothalamus are quite complex and are easily disturbed by uninformed tinkering. Please don’t try to go it alone. [...]
What Follows is an Example of What an “Adrenal” Patient Will Need to know in Order to lose Weight (Especially Fat). First, let's take stock. Have you had any of these in your life? Injury, pain, surgery, infection, illness, divorce, financial stress, job stress, poison ivy, giving birth, irritable people, starvation diets, the menstrual [...]
Nervous System – This pillar of optimized health is really the master computer that controls every function in your body. When it’s out of sync, you’re out of sync. I show you ways to “re-boot” it for optimum performance and efficiency. This allows wellness care to become 95% self-care. You benefit by being able to [...]