Why So Tired ?

You're overbooked and overworked. Between your job, your family, your fitness routine and all the to-dos on your list, it's no wonder you're tired sometimes (or, um, all the time). But if you feel as if you're running on empty most days and find that getting more sleep hasn't helped, you may have an underlying health problem, says Molly Cooke, MD, the president of the American College of Physicians. Here, six surprising conditions that can leave you drained. By Hallie Levine Sklar Where's My Mojo? You need more vitamin D. Up to 40 percent of us are deficient in D, the vitamin that protects against osteoporosis and several autoimmune diseases and may also help fight cancer and high blood pressure. "You have vitamin D receptors in your muscles and in almost every organ of your body, including your heart and brain," explains Sue Penckofer, PhD, a professor at the School of Nursing at Loyola University in Chicago. If you're low in it, you may have no energy. Another sign of a deficiency: a dull pain in your bones or muscles that persists even when you're not working out, says Michal Melamed, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. The Rx: Ask your primary care doc to run the 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood test to measure your level of D, which should be between 20 and 40 nanograms per milliliter. If yours is less than that, your physician may suggest supplements that contain more than the 600 to 800 international units found in most multivitamins. Patients treated with vitamin D reported less muscle weakness and fatigue, according to a study presented at the Society of Endocrinology's annual meeting last year. You're stuffed up all the time. Chronic sinusitis affects about 12 percent of adults -- or almost 30 million people -- according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Your sinuses become inflamed and swollen over a period of weeks, which causes mucus to build up," explains Scott Stringer, MD, the chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Symptoms include fatigue; congestion; pain and tenderness around the eyes, cheeks and nose; a reduced sense of smell and taste; and bad breath. Fighting sinusitis leaves you too exhausted to do much of anything else. The Rx: A saline nose spray or a neti pot can help flush out your sinuses. If symptoms persist, your primary care doc can prescribe a steroid nasal spray to shrink nose and sinus membranes. If that doesn't help, go to an ear, nose, and throat specialist, Dr. Stringer suggests. She will look up your nose with a thin tubular device called an endoscope to see what's going on and then prescribe a treatment: antibiotics for an infection, antihistamines or a nasal steroid for an allergy-related condition, or oral steroids for nasal polyps (tissue growths in the nose), which are common among adults. You've got gluten problems. More than 2 million people in the United States have celiac disease, and about 70 percent are women, according to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. If you're among them, eating anything with gluten -- which is found in wheat, rye and barley, triggers an immune response in your small intestine, producing inflammation that prevents the absorption of nutrients and leaves you malnourished and with an upset stomach. As a result, you don't have the fuel to get through the day, says Peter Green, MD, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Sensitivity to gluten, which affects another 18 million people, can also trigger fatigue. Diarrhea and weight loss are the classic signs of gluten problems, but most sufferers have symptoms that are more subtle, says Alessio Fasano, MD, the director of the Center for Celiac Research at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston. "They include fatigue, bloating, body aches, chronic headaches, and short-term memory loss." The Rx: Your GP can order a blood test to look for elevated levels of antibodies that indicate celiac disease. If the result is positive, you'll need to consult a GI specialist to check for damage to the lining of your small intestine, Dr. Green says. Steroids may help relieve symptoms, but they can have significant side effects. To treat celiac, follow a gluten-free diet: Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, fish, beans, and nuts as well as naturally gluten-free grains like quinoa and rice. If your blood test is negative but you suspect you have gluten sensitivity, avoid foods containing the substance for a month to see if you notice a difference, Dr. Fasano advises.

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HEALTH BENEFITS OF GUAVA

1. Rich in Calcium, Potassium, Iron, Fiber, Vitamin A-B-C and Content Folic and Nicotinic Acid.

2. Prevents Prostate Cancer and High Blood Pressure.

3. Remedy for Prolonged Menstruation, Asthma, Acidosis, Catarrh.

4. Cough and Cold Fighter, acts as a Respiratory track disinfectant.

5. Relief Constipation, improve Digestion system, helps Losing Weight.

6. Battles Diabetes by lowering blood glucose levels and avoid scurvy.

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20 Things to Start Doing in Your Relationships .

1. Free yourself from negative people.
2. Let go of those who are
already gone.
3. Give people you don’t
know a fair chance.
4. Show everyone kindness and respect.
5. Accept people just the way they are.
6. Encourage others and cheer for them.
7. Be your imperfectly perfect self.
8. Forgive people and move forward.
9. Do little things every day for others.
10. Pay attention to who your real friends are.
11. Always be loyal.
12. Stay in better touch with people who matter to you.
13. Keep your promises and tell the truth.
14. Give what you want to
receive.
15. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
16. Allow others to make
their own decisions.
17. Talk a little less, and listen more.
18. Leave petty arguments alone.
19. Ignore unconstructive, or hurtful comments.
20. Pay attention to your
relationship with yourself.
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How to Be Happy ?!

Happiness–it's what we all strive to find and keep, even when it's as elusive as ever. Nobody is jolly and elated all the time, but some individuals are definitely more fulfilled than others. Studies reveal that happiness has little to do with materialistic needs, goods, or wants, or high achievement; it boils down to your outlook on life, the quality of your relationships, and basic amenities like good governance and community resources. Read on for more tips and tricks on how to unlock the happier you.
Be optimistic. In the 1970s, researchers followed people who'd won the lottery and found that a year afterward, they were no happier than people who didn't. Thishedonic adaptation^[1] suggests that we each have a baseline level of happiness. No matter what happens, good or bad, the effect on our happiness is temporary, and we tend to revert to our baseline level. Some people have a higher baseline happiness level than others, and that is due in part to genetics, but it's also largely influenced by how you think.^[2]

• Add up all the little joyful things that happen to you during the day. For example, there was no traffic on the road, you had a very decent and scrumptious breakfast, your friend said something uproariously humorous that made you laugh, you took your dog out for a walk in the park and played with it. All of these matters added together account to one big chunk of happiness.
• Feel deeply grateful for the things you have. This is a very effective way to be happy. If you feel grateful for the things you have, you not only become more happy but it also helps you to bring more into your life.
  
  Be optimistic. In the 1970s, researchers followed people who'd won the lottery and found that a year afterward, they were no happier than people who didn't. Thishedonic adaptation^[1] suggests that we each have a baseline level of happiness. No matter what happens, good or bad, the effect on our happiness is temporary, and we tend to revert to our baseline level. Some people have a higher baseline happiness level than others, and that is due in part to genetics, but it's also largely influenced by how you think.^[2]
  • Add up all the little joyful things that happen to you during the day. For example, there was no traffic on the road, you had a very decent and scrumptious breakfast, your friend said something uproariously humorous that made you laugh, you took your dog out for a walk in the park and played with it. All of these matters added together account to one big chunk of happiness.
  • Feel deeply grateful for the things you have. This is a very effective way to be happy. If you feel grateful for the things you have, you not only become more happy but it also helps you to bring more into your life.
    
    
  • Own yourself. This means accept and embrace your habits, your personality, mistakes, the way you talk, looks, your voice, and most importantly 'You'. Try to be comfortable in your own skin and subconsciously communicate others that 'This is me take it or leave it'. It means don't apologize to anyone for something which is a part of you, like your personality, your voice, habits (good or bad), basically anything; remember there is always someone who likes you for the way you are. For example if you want to wear something which is weird but you find it cool, wear it, no one is stopping you. Its a deeper step towards building a good relationship with yourself.
    
    Make enough money to meet basic needs — food, shelter, and clothing. In the US, that magic number is $60,000 a year. Any money beyond that will not necessarily make you happier. Remember the lottery winners mentioned earlier? Oodles of money didn't make them happier. Once you make enough to support basic needs, your happiness is not significantly affected by how much money you make, but by your level of optimism.^[4]
    • Your comfort may increase with your salary, but comfort isn't what makes people happy. It makes people bored. That's why it's important to push beyond your comfort zone to fuel personal growth.
      
      
    • Treat your body like it deserves to be happy. It may sound cheesy to say, but your brain isn't the only organ in your body that deserves to be happy. Researchers have found that exercise, healthy diets, and regular sleep are key factors in growing more happy and staying that way.
      • People who are physically active have higher incidences of enthusiasm and excitement.^[5][6] Scientists hypothesize that exercise causes the brain to release chemicals called endorphins that elevate our mood.
      • Eat right. Eating healthy foods — fruits and vegetables, lean meats and proteins, whole grains, nuts, and seeds — gives your body and brain the energy it needs to be healthy. Some scientists speculate that unhealthy diets, especially those rich in processed carbohydrates, sugars, and industrial vegetable fats, is responsible for brain shrinkage and certain brain diseases like depression and dementia.^[7]
      • Get enough sleep. Study after study confirms it: the more sleep you get, the happier you tend to be.^[8][9] Getting just a single extra hour of sleep per night makes the average person happier than making $60,000 more in annual income, astoundingly enough.^[10] So if you're middle-aged, shoot to get at least eight hours of sleep per night; the young and elderly should shoot for 9 to 11 hours of sleep per night.^[11]
        
        
      • Stay close to friends and family: Or move to where they are, so you can see them more. We live in a mobile society, where people follow jobs around the country and sometimes around the world. We do this because we think salary increases make us happier, but in fact our relationships with friends and family have a far greater impact on happiness. So next time you think about relocating, consider that you'd need a salary increase of over $100,000 USD to compensate for the loss of happiness you'd have from moving away from friends and family.^[12]
        • If relationships with family and friends are unhealthy or nonexistent, and you are bent on moving, choose a location where you'll make about the same amount of money as everyone else; according to research, people feel more financially secure (and happier) when on similar financial footing as the people around them, regardless of what that footing is.[13]
          
          Be compassionate. Compassion is all about doing something kind for someone in need, or someone less privileged than yourself. A brain-imaging study (where scientists peek into people's brains while they act or think) revealed that people gain as much happiness from watching others give to charity as they do receiving money themselves!^[14]
          • Think of easy, quick, and effective ways that you can make your community a better place by being compassionate:
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            • Tutor, volunteer, or get involved in a church group. Countless children are looking for someone to teach them and act as a role model.
            • Make a microloan. A microloan is when you give someone (usually in the developing world) a very small sum of money for an economic project of their own. Many microloans have 95%+ repayment rates.^[15]
            • Give a person in need food, clothing or shelter. It's so basic we often forget to think about it, yet so easy to do.
              
              

What is Glutathione?

Glutathione is a simple molecule produced naturally in the body at all times. It’s a combination of three building blocks of protein or amino acids — cysteine, glycine and glutamine.

The best part of glutathione is that is contains sulfur chemical groups that work to trap all the bad things like free radicals and toxins such as mercury and heavy metals in our body then flush them out. This is especially important in our current world of heavy metal bombardment.

Where Can You Get Glutathione?

The body makes it, but it’s often not enough in our strenuous environment. Here are some food sources that either contain glutathione or its precursors to help the body produce more.

• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Avocados
• Peaches
• Watermelon
• Cinnamon
• Cardamom
• Turmeric (Curcumin)
• Tomatoes
• Peas
• Garlic
• Onions
• Red peppers

Notice they are all healthy foods we often don’t get enough of? This is another big issue with our diets. We consume a lot of junk, meat, dairy and processed foods, items that clinically have been proven to be the number one causes of heart disease and illness yet we consume  them in huge quantities. The key is to limit these and eat a lot of fresh, lively foods that provide nutrients and don’t ask the body to perform a mega job to digest.

You can also increase your exercise as glutathione production increases when you exercise. Breathing and sweating are also great ways to get rid of toxins in the body.

Glutathione Protects Against Chronic Illness

What makes glutathione so important and powerful is that it recycles antioxidants. When your body is dealing with free radicals, it is essentially passing them from one molecule to another. They might go from vitamin C to vitamin E to lipoic acid and then to glutathione where they are cooled off. Antioxidants are recycled at this point and the body can now regenerate another glutathione molecule to go back at it again.

Glutathione is crucial for helping your immune system fight chronic illness as it acts as the carrier of toxins out of your body. Like a fly trap, toxins stick to glutathione and they are carried to the bile into the stools and out of the body. Glutathione is also powerful enough that it has been shown to help in the treatment of AIDS greatly. The body is going to get in touch with oxidants and toxins, the more we can deal with those the better our body will be at staying strong, this is why glutathione is so important.

9 Final Tips

Dr. Mark Thyman has given 9 tips to increase your Glutathione levels. Check them out!

1. Consume sulfur-rich foods. The main ones in the diet are garlic, onions and the cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, watercress, etc.).

2. Try bioactive whey protein. This is great source of cysteine and the amino acid building blocks for glutathione synthesis. As you know, I am not a big fan of dairy, but this is an exception — with a few warnings. The whey protein MUST be bioactive and made from non-denatured proteins (“denaturing” refers to the breakdown of the normal protein structure). Choose non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics. Immunocal is a prescription bioactive non-denatured whey protein that is even listed in the Physician’s Desk Reference.

3. Exercise boosts your glutathione levels and thereby helps boost your immune system, improve detoxification and enhance your body’s own antioxidant defenses. Start slow and build up to 30 minutes a day of vigorous aerobic exercise like walking or jogging, or play various sports. Strength training for 20 minutes 3 times a week is also helpful.

One would think it would be easy just to take glutathione as a pill, but the body digests protein — so you wouldn’t get the benefits if you did it this way. However, the production and recycling of glutathione in the body requires many different nutrients and you CAN take these. Here are the main supplements that need to be taken consistently to boost glutathione. Besides taking a multivitamin and fish oil, supporting my glutathione levels with these supplements is the most important thing I do every day for my personal health.

4. N-acetyl-cysteine. This has been used for years to help treat asthma and lung disease and to treat people with life-threatening liver failure from Tylenol overdose. In fact, I first learned about it in medical school while working in the emergency room. It is even given to prevent kidney damage from dyes used during x-ray studies.

5. Alpha lipoic acid. This is a close second to glutathione in importance in our cells and is involved in energy production, blood sugar control, brain health and detoxification. The body usually makes it, but given all the stresses we are under, we often become depleted.

6. Methylation nutrients (folate and vitamins B6 and B12). These are perhaps the most critical to keep the body producing glutathione. Methylation and the production and recycling of glutathione are the two most important biochemical functions in your body. Take folate (especially in the active form of 5 methyltetrahydrofolate), B6 (in active form of P5P) and B12 (in the active form of methylcobalamin).

7. Selenium. This important mineral helps the body recycle and produce more glutathione.

8. A family of antioxidants including vitamins C and E (in the form of mixed tocopherols), work together to recycle glutathione.

9. Milk thistle (silymarin) has long been used in liver disease and helps boost glutathione levels.

The Surprising Benefits of Kissing

Affectionate communication—including, of course, kissing—has long been regarded as important and productive.

Such affection has long been considered one of three fundamental human needs (Schutz, 1958). My own work has documented that affectionate communication is indicative of relational commitment and satisfaction (Horan & Booth-Butterfield, 2010) and helps us understand responses to partner transgressions (Horan, 2012). Kory Floyd, of Arizona State, has programmatically studied, and revealed the physiological benefits of affectionate communication.

One such study, focused on romantic partner kissing, will be reviewed here. The findings make a surprising case for more kissing between partners.

What Kissing Does for Us

Floyd and his colleagues wanted to understand how increases in the frequency with which romantic partners kissed related to their general indicators of stress and well-being. To that end, they studied couples, both married and dating, who lived together full-time. Over a six-week period, half the couples were instructed: “Over the next 6 weeks, we would like you and your spouse or romantic partner to kiss more frequently than you normally do. At first, you might set aside a few minutes each day specifically for kissing. Over time, you will probably find that it becomes a more routine part of how you interact. The point is for the two of you to kiss each other more often and for longer periods of time than you typically do right now."

Although a number of factors were examined, key differences were seen among the study's participants with regard to relationship satisfaction, stress, and cholesterol levels. Specifically, over the six-week period, individuals who increased their frequency of kissing reported both lower levels of stress and higher levels of relationship satisfaction. And importantly, their physiological assessments of cholesterol, via blood draws, also decreased.

The results further underscore the importance of kissing in relationships. The decrease in cholesterol levels was an especially significant finding given the health complications associated with cholesterol. In fact, healthcare providers regularly recommend that people work to decrease cholesterol levels through diet and exercise. Findings here suggest that an additional—and potentially more fun—behavior, in the form of kissing, might be added to that list.

The next time you’re stressed, consider making some time for your partner for a potentially productive make-out session.