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Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) - An Essential Nutrient For Energy
The nutrient Coenzyme Q10 is so essential to our body's energy production that we cannot function optimally without it.
Although Co10 is present in food, realizing the diminished quality of our food supply, it is probably a smart choice to take an additional CoQ10 supplement daily. I suggest you try at least 100 mg additionally daily.
Ginkgo Biloba's History and Benefits
Have you heard of the Ginkgo Biloba tree?
This tree has been around for 200 million years and has shown its power because it can get one thousand years old! Throughout time its leaves have shown benefits for overall circulation in the body affecting our heart and brain.
So many of us can enjoy health benefits from taking Ginkgo Biiloba in a supplement form daily.
Estrogens & the Environment
Hormone-specific prescription drugs for both promoting and deregulating natural hormone production not only affect the inside of our body, but after they’ve done their job, the body eliminates the residue back into the environment.
Look at the effects of TAMOXIFEN® and LUPRON® on the body after they've been described to patients with hormone-related cancers.
Yes, we need hormones to live a quality life, but they have to be natural, otherwise they may negatively affect the environment.
Estradiol Levels Have Been On The Rise During the Last 50 Years.
Estradiol is a beautiful hormone both women and men produce. It has excellent benefits, but it needs to be in the right balance with progesterone (women) and testosterone (men).
During the last 50 years there has been an increase in environmental estrogens, which has cause disruptions in these balances. We owe it to ourselves to understand these hormones a little better.
Testosterone for Both Men and Women
Men and Women both make testosterone. Men make it pretty much all their life; women drop their monthly production when they get into menopause.
I dare to say 99% of men do NOT know that from testosterone we make two more hormones?
What happens is there are two different enzymes that start “pulling” on testosterone and converting it into other hormones.
Aromatase converts testosterone into the female hormone called ESTRADIOL.
Then there is the enzyme called 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE, which converts testosterone into DHT (or Dihydrotestosterone).