NOPAL – An Abundant Nutritional Reservoir! And boy is that an understatement. Nopal cactus fruit defends your body against dangerous toxins that threaten cellular health, lead to inflammation and trigger a whole host of diseases.

So how did this new super fruit get it’s start?

History:

Nopal is a large cactus with a woody trunk and large top, many oblong joints, small, yellow barbed spines, bright yellow flowers and red fruit with a juicy, white, sweet flesh and numerous black seeds. It is said to be a native of Mexico, where it is considered the symbol of identity of the Mexican people and is even included on the Mexican flag, depicting a Mexican golden eagle perched upon the Opuntia cactus, devouring a snake.

About twenty thousand years ago, Opuntia (or Nopal) began to develop as a food, and the plant’s development was said to enable human settlement and cultural development in many parts of the arid lands, where it was considered the lifeblood of those ancient cultures, particularly in times of drought.

Approximately 5000 to 7000 B. C., prehistoric indigenous groups began the cultivation of a series of native plants, including beans, opuntia, peppers and agave, etc., and in Pre-Columbian times, Nopal was considered an important staple food (for both humans and livestock), a beverage, a medicine, a source of dye and was included in religious and magical rites. During the Spanish Colonial Period, Nopal gained further importance as forage when cattle was introduced to the semiarid areas and there was a consequent depletion of grasslands. Its beneficial uses as a medicine and beverage were also gaining in reputation.

In the De la Cruz-Badiano Codex of 1552, it was noted that Nopal treated several ailments and was used to cure burns and soothe wounds, and Friar Motolinia said, “these Indians, from a land so sterile that they lack water, drink the juice of these leaves of nopal.” Nopal received its botanical genus name, Opuntia, from Tournefot, who thought the plant was similar to a thorny plant that grew in the town of Opus, in Greece.

After the Spanish conquest, Nopal spread from Mexico to practically all the Americas (from Canada to Patagonia, in Argentina) and may now be found in tropical and arid regions throughout the world, including the southwestern United States. It grows in Israel, where the Prickly Pear is called tzabar (Hebrew:) and it is the origin of the slang term, Sabra, meaning a native-born Israeli Jew.

Some of the constituents in Nopal include water, fat, mucopolysaccharide soluble fibers, carbohydrate, protein, saponins, glycosides, a flavonoid (quercetin), minerals and large amounts of B1, B6, niacin, riboflavin and pantothenic acid.

So there you go…a bit of history behind the Nopal cactus and it’s wonderous super fruit the basis of TriVit’s premier product called Nopalea.

If you too wish to experience the Nopal Super Fruit and it’s wondrous health benefits, you don’t have to go out to the desert and find a Nopal cactus, all you need to do is visit this site for more information on TriVit’s premier product called Nopalea

See you do learn new things every day!

Kim Buchanan
Helping YOU Reach Optimal Health
& Prestigious Wealth
530.383.3041
http://trivitaproduct.info/sonoranbloom.html

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnosis, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

References

1 – “Antioxidant betalains from cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) inhibit endothelial ICAM-1 expression.” C Gentile, L Tesoriere, M Allegra, M A Livrea, P D’Alessio Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, Università di Palermo, Italy. 2 – Allegra M, Tesoriere L, Livrea MA. Free Radic Res. 2007 Mar;41(3):335-41. 3 – Lee MH, Kim JY, Yoon JH, Lim HJ, Kim TH, Jin C, Kwak WJ, Han CK, Ryu JH. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep;20(9):742-7. 4 – Galati EM, Mondello MR, Lauriano ER, Taviano MF, Galluzzo M, Miceli N. Phytother Res. 2005 Sep;19(9):796-800. 5- Broad Health

I’m always into sharing information I find and/or receive regarding our health. Today I’d like to share an article I received regarding inflammation and its affect on the development of Alzheimer’s disease. I’m including the article in its entirety to prevent any misinterpretation.

The article is written on October 22, 2009 by Patrycja Podrazik for Health Resources News. If you suffer from any form of inflammation or you know someone suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, I highly suggest that you read this article.

A recent study has shed light on inflammatory mechanisms that may contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative condition.

Research by Dr. William A. Banks, professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, suggests inflammation causes a blood-brain barrier transporter known as LRP to malfunction.

The blood-brain barrier is a system of cells that regulates the exchange of substances between the brain and the blood, and LRP removes amyloid beta protein—the same compound that is found to accumulate in the brains of those affected by Alzheimer’s—from the brain and into the bloodstream.

“We induced inflammation in mice and found that it turned off the LRP pump,” explains Banks.

“It also revved up an entrance pump that transports amyloid beta into the brain. Both of these actions would increase the amount of amyloid beta protein in the brain,” he adds.

Natural compounds including antioxidants and vitamin D have been proven to reduce inflammation as well as contribute to weight loss and control, heart health and cancer prevention.

For those who may not get enough antioxidants from their diet, nutritional health supplements may be a good alternative. (ADNFCR-1960-ID-19265496-ADNFCR)*

I’ve written many articles about inflammation, and it seems that inflammation continues to be at the root of most diseases. I know what Hippocrates said, “all disease is one”, and I wonder if he was referring to inflammation. Today, inflammation is the number one medical issue facing people in North America.

Fighting inflammation is an ongoing problem. There are many man-made prescription anti-inflammatory drugs on the market today. However, many of them can had adverse side-effects, especially if you’re taking other medications. That’s why TriVita has developed and tested Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™.

Nopalea helps to fight inflammation naturally, through betalains, a very effective anti-inflammatory fighter found in the Nopal cactus. When these betalains enter into your system, by drinking Nopalea™, they begin to restore your vitality on a cellular level. By helping the body reduce the toxins surrounding your cells and enabling essential nutrients to reach each cell, the betalains in Nopalea™ can reduce the inflammation in your body that leads to disease.

To learn more about TriVita and Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™, click on the previous links.

Jeffrey Sloe
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
TriVita Independent Business Affiliate, 12871028
Sonoran Bloom

Sources:
* www.betterhealthresearch.com/news/inflammation-may-be-responsible-for-alzheimers-disease-19265496/?LOC=issue&SC=HIZ4309R&sale=1&emc=el&m=526070&l=44&v=13c4b40e89

Chronic Pain and Diabetes

One of the groups of people who are particularly challenged with chronic pain is diabetics.  Diabetics of course are dealing with elevated blood sugars and sometimes with a lot of complications from those elevated blood sugars.

One of the key components to a diabetic being in good control is developing a good exercise program.   Good exercise generally means regular daily exercise.   This is crucial because it improves the ability of insulin to work in the body (reverses insulin resistance) and also burns extra calories.  

Now if you have a lot of pain as people with chronic pain do, it can be a real challenge to exercise regularly.  Paradoxically, regular exercise can help reduce the pain in chronic pain! 

I have long promoted a strategy that uses a water based exercise program for this dilemma.  In essence it kills 2 birds with one stone.   It helps to control the diabetes and it helps to decrease the chronic pain.

Before we go much farther though I should define things:  what is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”. 

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody— and I repeat nobody— should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation. 

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe.

More recently I have been promoting nutritional strategies to complement the control of chronic pain and there have been some exciting new discoveries surfacing.

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called  “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help chronic pain at this site.   Be sure to go there now to learn new chronic pain strategies.

Stanley Lang

Whole health wellness coach

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Look out Acai Berry! A new Super Fruit has emerged!

Our vast planet over the years has yielded some of the most amazing natural healing properties known to man from some of the most uncommon places. As such it only stands to reason that today’s new super fruit follows suit! And boy does it!

From the extreme conditions of the desert comes a little known miracle that grows amongst the tumbleweeds, snakes and lizards. This prickly customer not only can create a tasty omelet when it’s palm is diced and sliced into eggs. It also produces a powerful anti-inflammatory from an antioxidant called Betalain from within it’s juicy, sweet fruit. What is this sticky wonder? Why it’s the Nopal cactus.

Yes, you heard me right, the Nopal cactus that grows in the desert. Betalains are a rare and potent class of antioxidants that flourish in the No pal cactus fruit. Opal harnesses the power of this desert super fruit and its betalains to bring you scientifically proven health benefits.

What they are

Betalains are the pigments that give the Nopal cactus fruit its vibrant pink color. But that’s just the beginning. They’re also natural antioxidants—and they’re only found in a few of the world’s plants.

The Nopal fruit isn’t just included in this small group of special plants, it actually leads the group by containing one of the highest amounts of betalains in all of nature.

How they heal

When you drink Nopalea, you take these betalains into your system, where they begin to restore your vitality on a cellular level. By helping the body reduce the toxins surrounding your cells and enabling essential nutrients to reach each cell, the betalains in Nopalea can reduce the inflammation in your body that leads to disease.

Scientific research shows that betalains help to

Reduces the risk of blood clots—betalains protect the thin lining of your blood vessels; this helps reduce the inflammation that makes your blood sticky and leads to clots

Reduces bad cholesterol—betalains strongly reduce oxidized LDL cholesterol

Protects cells from toxins—betalains protect many types of cells, especially brain cells, from toxins known to trigger tumors.

Protects your liver—betalains provide significant protection from toxins that directly affect your liver If you too wish to experience the Nopal Super Fruit and it’s wondrous health benefits, you don’t have to go out to the desert and find a Nopal cactus, all you need to do is visit this site for more information on TriVit’s premier product called Nopalea See you do learn new things every day!

Kim Buchanan
Helping YOU Reach Optimal Health
& Prestigious Wealth
530.383.3041
http://trivitaproduct.info
http://trivita-sonoran-bloom.blogspot.com/
http://trivitaproduct.info/sonoranbloom.html
http://sonoranbloom.isgreat.org

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnosis, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

References

1 – “Antioxidant betalains from cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) inhibit endothelial ICAM-1 expression.” C Gentile, L Tesoriere, M Allegra, M A Livrea, P D’Alessio Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, Università di Palermo, Italy. 2 – Allegra M, Tesoriere L, Livrea MA. Free Radic Res. 2007 Mar;41(3):335-41. 3 – Lee MH, Kim JY, Yoon JH, Lim HJ, Kim TH, Jin C, Kwak WJ, Han CK, Ryu JH. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep;20(9):742-7. 4 – Galati EM, Mondello MR, Lauriano ER, Taviano MF, Galluzzo M, Miceli N. Phytother Res. 2005 Sep;19(9):796-800.

Chronic Pain and Courage

One of the most important challenges that you can experience in your life is dealing with chronic pain, if you ever challenged to experience this problem.   When somebody starts experiencing chronic pain one of the first things they also experience is fear.  This fear can be a huge problem.   The fear then becomes it’s own problem and literally magnifies the pain.   Fear becomes paralyzing.

Courage is “doing the right thing in spite of fear”.    Many people think that a courageous person is one without fear.   Actually courage is “doing the right thing in spite of or in the face of fear”.   When somebody is dealing with chronic pain and experiences fear that begins to disable that person’s life, courage calls that person to go against the flow.  Courage leads the person with chronic pain to go against what fear is telling the person to do.   Growing from the point of fear to the point of courage is truly “growing”.   This person will become a more complete and whole person—- is spite of their chronic pain!

Perhaps it’s time to ask: what is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”.  

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody— and I repeat nobody— should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation.  

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe.  

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help you or someone you love deal with chronic pain at this site. 

<P>Look out Acai Berry! A new Super Fruit has emerged!

<P>Our vast planet over the years has yielded some of the most amazing natural healing properties known to man from some of the most uncommon places. As such it only stands to reason that today’s new super fruit follows suit! And boy does it!

<P>From the extreme conditions of the desert comes a little known miracle that grows amongst the tumbleweeds, snakes and lizards. This prickly customer not only can create a tasty omelet when it’s palm is diced and sliced into eggs. It also produces a powerful anti-inflammatory from an antioxidant called Betalain from within it’s juicy, sweet fruit. What is this sticky wonder? Why it’s the Nopal cactus.

<P>Yes, you heard me right, the Nopal cactus that grows in the desert. Betalains are a rare and potent class of antioxidants that flourish in the No pal cactus fruit. Opal harnesses the power of this desert super fruit and its betalains to bring you scientifically proven health benefits.<BR>

<P><B>What they are</B><BR>

<P>Betalains are the pigments that give the Nopal cactus fruit its vibrant pink color. But that’s just the beginning. They’re also natural antioxidants—and they’re only found in a few of the world’s plants.

<P>The Nopal fruit isn’t just included in this small group of special plants, it actually leads the group by containing one of the highest amounts of betalains in all of nature.

<P><B>How they heal</B><BR>

<P>When you drink Nopalea, you take these betalains into your system, where they begin to restore your vitality on a cellular level. By helping the body reduce the toxins surrounding your cells and enabling essential nutrients to reach each cell, the betalains in Nopalea can reduce the inflammation in your body that leads to disease.

<P><B>Scientific research shows that betalains help to</B><BR>

 <P>Reduces the risk of blood clots—betalains protect the thin lining of your blood vessels; this helps reduce the inflammation that makes your blood sticky and leads to clots

 <P>Reduces bad cholesterol—betalains strongly reduce oxidized LDL cholesterol

 <P>Protects cells from toxins—betalains protect many types of cells, especially brain cells, from toxins known to trigger tumors.
 
 <P>Protects your liver—betalains provide significant protection from toxins that directly affect your liver

 If you too wish to experience the Nopal Super Fruit and it’s wondrous health benefits, you don’t have to go out to the desert and find a Nopal cactus, all you need to do is visit this site for more information on TriVit’s premier product called Nopalea

 See you do learn new things every day!

 <P>Kim Buchanan<BR>
 Helping YOU Reach Optimal Health<BR>
 & Prestigious Wealth<BR>
 530.383.3041<BR>
 http://trivitaproduct.info<BR>
 http://trivita-sonoran-bloom.blogspot.com/<BR>
 http://trivitaproduct.info/sonoranbloom.html<BR>
 http://sonoranbloom.isgreat.org<BR>

<P>These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnosis, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

<P>References

<P>1 – “Antioxidant betalains from cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) inhibit endothelial ICAM-1 expression.” C Gentile, L Tesoriere, M Allegra, M A Livrea, P D’Alessio Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, Università di Palermo, Italy.
2 – Allegra M, Tesoriere L, Livrea MA. Free Radic Res. 2007 Mar;41(3):335-41.
3 – Lee MH, Kim JY, Yoon JH, Lim HJ, Kim TH, Jin C, Kwak WJ, Han CK, Ryu JH. Phytother Res. 2006 Sep;20(9):742-7.
4 – Galati EM, Mondello MR, Lauriano ER, Taviano MF, Galluzzo M, Miceli N. Phytother Res. 2005 Sep;19(9):796-800.

Chronic Pain and Creating a New Life

Unfortunately many people in this life must deal with something called “chronic pain”.  These people often experience an abrupt and sometimes permanent change in their life.  They are unable to play with their kids, recreate with their spouse, enjoy any recreation.

In some cases the chronic pain patient loses the chance to continue their work— permanently.   This latter change sometimes causes the biggest effect on a sense of self-worth.   Losing the ability to provide for self and/or family has an lasting negative effect on some people.   In a sense it’s a little like a person losing their job from downsizing and having no prospect of getting re-hired.   This person often has to choose between staying put and being chronically unemployed or moving across the country to get a new job.  This “starting over” can be very intimidating and very often people will not make the move.  A person with chronic pain often feels the same.   They really don’t want to leave their old job and learn something new— yet it becomes their only real option.

It feels a little like creating a new life— this can be exciting — or it can be intimidating, but it really is the only way for them to have a new life.   Even so, they are still dealing with the chronic pain and there is still a need to try to treat and control it as this person tries to build a new life.  Finding ways to control the pain that allows even the increased activity of re-training is crucial to the success of “creating a new life”.    But before we go on to that subject we need to ask what is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”. 

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody— and I repeat nobody— should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation. 

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe. 

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get a hold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help chronic pain here — go here right now and plug into this powerful product and feel the difference.

Stanley Lang

Wellness Mentor, Health Coach

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“Chronic pain lasts at least 6 months after your body has healed. Sometimes, people who have chronic pain don’t know what is causing it. Along with discomfort, chronic pain can cause low self-esteem, depression and anger. It can also interfere with your daily activities.”

“Treatment of chronic pain usually involves medicines and therapy. Medicines used for chronic pain include pain relievers, antidepressants and anticonvulsants. Different types of medicines help people who have different types of pain. You usually use long-acting medicines for constant pain. Short-acting medicines treat pain that comes and goes.”

“Several types of therapy can help ease your pain. Physical therapy (such as stretching and strengthening activities) and low-impact exercise (such as walking, swimming or biking) can help reduce the pain. However, exercising too much or not at all can hurt chronic pain patients. Occupational therapy teaches you how to pace yourself and how to do ordinary tasks differently so you won’t hurt yourself. Behavioral therapy can reduce your pain through methods (such as meditation and yoga) that help you relax. It can also help decrease stress.” [1]

Lifestyle changes are an important part of treatment for chronic pain. Getting regular sleep at night and not taking daytime naps should help. Stopping smoking helps, also, because the nicotine in cigarettes can make some medicines less effective. Smokers also tend to have more pain than nonsmokers.

It has been reported that many forms of chronic pain comes from inflammation. Inflammation is an immune response; a response to an infection, an irritation, or an injury. Immune cells are called to the site through the blood stream. The blood vessels near the site become miraculously permeable and the site becomes warm and red due to the increased blood flow (warm, hence inflammation).

“When most people hear the word ‘inflammation’ they think of the swelling and redness that accompanies an injury such as a sprained ankle. However, inflammation can also be systemic and caused not by injury but by lack of exercise and a poor diet. Systemic inflammation increases the risk of cancer, hypertension, heart disease, gastrointestinal problems, and many other health conditions. In fact, many anti-aging experts believe that inflammation is the greatest cause of premature aging, so preventing it is also vital for looking young. Increasing exercise is one key to decreasing systemic inflammation, and the other key is to consume a diet that does not promote inflammation.” [2]

“Healthy lifestyle habits such as exercising regularly, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and minimizing stress all help to reduce inflammation. But the most important factor in fighting inflammation is the food you eat every day. That’s why all the experts, from diet doctor Barry Sears (The Zone) to alternative medicine guru Andrew Weil (Healthy Aging) recommend an anti-inflammatory diet for everything from weight loss to heart disease prevention.” [3]

“Inflammation as a major cause of disease is not new. It is at least a reasonable consideration that inflammation is involved with, if not the cause of, every other ill from which we suffer as a race. If that has not been true in the past, it is true today. No other cause of disease has a chance to take a foothold. Inflammation troubles have become so dominant that no other process may need to be considered. The cause of this inflammation is chemical toxicity.” [4]

Many health experts suggest that you detoxify your body. In other words, rid your body of all the toxins that are either making certain organs work harder, or not work at all. When your organs aren’t doing their job, your immune system may take over to rid your body of all the chemical toxicity.

One of the best ways of detoxify your body is by drinking TriVita’s Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™. Nopalea™ is derived from the Nopal cactus, a desert superfruit that is loaded with betalains, powerful and formerly rare antioxidants. Betalains are known as a natural and very powerful anti-inflammatory nutrient, one that fights inflammation and thus, helps to relieve chronic pain that is caused by inflammation.

For thousands of years, the people of the Sonoran Desert have tapped into the power of its native healing plants. Now with Nopalea™, you can too.

Stop the pain and help fight inflammation with Nopalea™. Don’t take a man-made drug, like Celebrex, to fight something that is not man-made, but rather caused naturally within your body. Don’t risk damaging other parts of your body, but rather protect the most complex design at a cellular level.

To learn more about TriVita and Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™, click on the previous links.

Jeffrey Sloe
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
TriVita Independent Business Affiliate, 12871028
Sonoran Bloom

Sources:
[1] http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/pain/disorders/551.html
[2] www.naturalnews.com/025862_inflammation_foods_lifestyle_changes.html
[3] www.inflammationfactor.com
[4] Healing Poisoned Medicine, Medicine that Heals v.s. Medicine that Kills (2008), Reed T. Sainsbury N.D.

The above information presented herein is intended for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent disease. Individual results may vary, and before using any supplements, it is always advisable to consult with your own health care provider.

Chronic Pain and Avoiding Divorce

One of the most challenging aspects of dealing with chronic pain is it’s affects on relationships.   Like many chronic conditions, chronic pain can start to take center stage in the relationship and affect many of the things that should be normally part of the relationship.   Especially in spouse relationship, so much will change with the person in chronic pain as the activities gradually or quickly decrease.  Intimacy becomes harder to focus on and paying attention to another person’s needs sometimes takes a distant back seat to dealing with the pain.  In addition many people with chronic pain become irritable and “short” with those they know the best— often the spouse takes the brunt of the pain the person is carrying.

It is easy at this stage for a person with chronic pain to feel guilty or angry or useless.  Not only do they not give as they need to in the relationship, they become burdened by guilt.   So often the emotional juice needed to build a relationship just isn’t there for the person in chronic pain.   It is easy for this person to give into despair, particularly if there does not appear to be any light at the end of the tunnel regarding the chronic pain

This person and spouse need a solution to this kind of chronic pain.  Certainly the health of their relationship depends on it.  But, not only that, they may be able to avoid a divorce.

To attack the problem though we need to ask: “what is Chronic Pain anyway?”

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”. 

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody— and I repeat nobody— should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation. 

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe. 

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called
“betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help chronic pain at this site.

Stanley Lang

http://trivitaproduct.info/sonoranbloom.html

Of all the pain causing disorders, joint pain is the most common problem people face as they grow older. A recent report estimates that 21% of the adult population is affected by some form of joint-related pain. And that number is expected to rise even higher as baby boomers age, so by 2030, almost 67 million people will suffer from joint problems.

What can be done to relieve pain within the joints?

First off, we need to understand joint pain and some causes of joint pain. Joints which bear the most weight are mostly affected, like the knees, hips and spine.

Only as an example, let’s focus on the knee. If you suffer from knee pain, you’re not alone. According to the Mayo Clinic website, “almost one in three Americans older than age 45 reports some type of knee pain, and it’s a common reason that people visit their doctors or the emergency room.” [1]

There is a lot of information on the Mayo Clinic website (see links below), and since I’m not a medical professional, I can only quote the information they have posted. With that said, here is some information regarding knee pain symptoms:

“A knee injury can affect any of the ligaments, tendons or fluid-filled sacs (bursae) that surround your knee joint as well as the bones, cartilage and ligaments that form the joint itself. Because of the knee’s complexity, the number of structures involved, the amount of use it gets over a lifetime, and the range of injuries and diseases that can cause knee pain, the signs and symptoms of knee problems can vary widely.” [2]

Joint pain, not just in the knee, can be due to a variety of reasons. Age is the primary cause of arthritis, but other risk factors are obesity, heredity, injury such as a fracture, or athletes who overuse their joints. These factors are often associated with osteoarthritis.

Joint pain can also be caused by inflammation. Many of you have probably heard the term inflammation many times before. When you joint becomes inflammed, it causes severe pain, and limits your joints range of motion. Inflammed joints, according to some health care professionals, are the main reason people experience so much pain. What is inflammation and how does it relate to joint pain? And how do we get pain relief from that inflammatiom?

Inflammation is a process in which the body’s white blood cells and chemicals help protect us from infection and foreign substances such as bacteria and viruses.

“When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body are released into the blood or affected tissues. This release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury or infection and may result in redness and warmth. Some of the chemicals cause a leak of fluid into the tissues, resulting in swelling. This process may stimulate nerves and cause pain.” [3]

“Increased blood flow and release of these chemicals attract white blood cells to the sites of inflammation. The increased number of cells and inflammatory substances within the joint can cause irritation, wearing down of cartilage (cushions at the end of bones) and swelling of the joint lining (synovium).” [3]

Again, I’m not a doctor or medical professional, but it seems to me that if we fight inflammation, the cause of musch joint pain, we may not suffer from joint pain. So, in my opinion, to get pain relief that lasts, we should fight the source of that pain, and what better way to do that that with TriVita’s Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™.

Nopalea’s betalains and other anti-inflammatory ingredients work directly on the fluid surrounding your cells. There, they draw off the toxins and excess water to reduce inflammation and rebalance the cellular environment.

Nopalea will help you fight inflammation and give you the pain relief you may be looking for. If inflammation is the source of your pain, Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™ is the solution.

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Jeffrey Sloe
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Sources:
[1] www.mayoclinic.com/health/knee-pain/DS00555
[2] www.mayoclinic.com/health/knee-pain/DS00555/DSECTION=symptoms
[3] www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/guide/arthritis-inflammation