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  • Your penis is trying to tell you something🍆 . Erectile dysfunction and coronary artery disease are actually two manifestations of the same disease, inflamed clogged and crippled arteries. For 2/3 of men showing up at the emergency room with crushing chest pain, their penises have been trying to warn them for years that something was wrong with their circulation. Erectile dysfunction it’s just the flaccid tip of the iceberg in terms of a systemic disorder! . A study found that men who ate 3 to 4 handfuls of pistachios per day for three weeks experienced a significant improvement in blood flow through the penis accompanied by significantly firmer erections. The study concluded that three weeks of pistachios resulted in a greater improvement in erectile function without any side effects. . This is not just a male issue. Women with high cholesterol levels report significantly lower arousal, orgasm, lubrication and sexual satisfaction. Atherosclerosis of the pelvic arteries can lead to decreased vaginal engorgement. This is thought to be a factor in some female sexual dysfunction. . Sources: The Harvard Nurse Health study found that eating two handfuls of nuts weekly may extend a woman’s life as much as jogging four hours a week. So eating healthier may not only extend your love life but also your entire life! . Consumption of plant seeds in cardiovascular health: epidemiological and clinical trial evidence. Journal of circulation, 2013 Risk factors for mortality in the nurses health study: a competing risks analysis American Journal of epidemiology, 2011 Hyperlipidemia and sexual function in pre-menopausal women. Journal sexual medicine, 2009 Pistachio diet improves erectile dysfunction parameters in serum lipid profiles in patients with erectile dysfunction. international journey of impotence resolution, 2011 #hownottodie #michaelgreger #thehealthymelissa #functionalmedicine #erectiledysfunction #sex #sexhealth
  • Know a airline pilot, steward/stewardess, frequent airline traveler or someone who works in radiology? Tag them! 🌱 Because you’re exposed to more cosmic rays from outer space at higher altitudes, just one round trip, cross country can subject you to about the same level of radiation as a chest x-ray. Thankfully it’s highly unlikely that you’d be glowing in the dark from it LOL. . Is there anything you can do to mediate this radiation risk? . One study used human white blood cells and pretreated the cells with ginger root before blasting them with gamma rays. They found that the cells pretreated with ginger root had significantly less damage than cells not treated with ginger root. . Compounds in ginger root protected DNA nearly as well as the leading radiation sickness drug at 150x lower the dose. . Ginger tea, juicing ginger can protect you in more ways than imagined! #hownottodie #michaelgreger #radiology #xraytech #pilots #airlinestewardess #ginger #radiation #gingertea #benefitsofginger #thehealthymelissa
  • Know an x-ray technologist? Tag them. 🌱 Last week someone DMed me about ways to Protect herself from radiation as she had to have a chest x-ray, and was concerned about exposure. This post and the next couple of ways to protect yourself from radiation is for you girl (wherever you are!) 🌱 Hospital workers who routinely operate x-ray machines have been found to have more chromosomal damage and to have higher levels of oxidative stress when compared with other hospital workers. 🌱 For this reason, researchers had a group of x-ray techs and ask them to drink 2 cups of lemon balm tea each day for one month. Even in the short timeframe of one month, the lemon balm tea boost the level of antioxidant enzymes in their bloodstream while also reducing the amount of DNA damage they suffered from exposure to the X-Ray machines. 🌱 Lemon balm is also called #MelissaOfficinalis 😃 @medicalmedium also speaks on the power of lemon balm to fight the #EpsteinBarrVirus. It also suppresses #Herpesvirus 1 and 2. 🌱 #lemonbalmtea #lemonbalm #hownottodie #michaelgreger #thehealthymelissa #xraytech #radiation #mammogram #hospitalworkers
  • The emergence of colorectal cancer can be broken up into three stages. The first sign might be what are called aberrant crypt foci, or abnormal clusters of cells along the lining of the colon. Next, polyps that grow from the inner surface. The final stage is thought to occur when a benign polyp transforms into a cancerous one. The cancer can then eat through the wall of the colon and spread throughout the body. To what degree can curcumin block each stage of colorectal cancer? 🍯 studying smokers, who tend to have a lot of aberrant crypt foci, investigators found that curcumin consumption could reduce the number of those cancer associated structures in their rectums up to nearly 40%, from 18 down to 11, within just 30 days. 🍯 What if polyps have already developed? Six months of curcumin along with another Phytonutrient called quercetin, that is found naturally in vegetables and fruits such as red onions and grapes, were found to decrease the number and size of polyps by more than half in patients with a hereditary form of colorectal cancer. 🍯 what if polyps have already transformed into cancer? In the last effort to save the lives of 15 patients with advanced colorectal cancer who did not respond to any of the chemotherapy or radiation, oncologist started them on turmeric extract. In 2 to 4 months of treatment it helps stall the disease in 1/3 of the patients. 🍯 If we were talking about some kind of chemotherapy drug that only helped 1 in 3 people you’d have to weigh that against all the serious side effects. But when it’s just some plant extract shown to be remarkably safe, even if it just helped 1 in 100, it would be worth considering. #curryislife #turmeric #curcumin #yellow #spices #colorectalcancer #coloncancer #ibd #pouch #ibs #polyps #preventionisthecure #hownottodie #micharlgreger #thehealthymelissa
  • From @thehealthymelissa ・・・ Researchers asked women who were scheduled for a breast reduction surgery to drink broccoli sprouts juice an hour before their procedure. Sure enough, after dissecting their breast tissue post-surgery, the researchers found evidence of significance of sulforophane buildup. 🥦 In other words, we now know that the cancer fighting nutrients in broccoli do find their way to the right place when we swallow them. 🥦 You would have to eat at least 1/4 cup of broccoli sprouts a day to reach the concentration of sulforophanes in breast tissue that would suppress breast cancer stem cells. 🥦 #broccoli #broccolisprouts #plants #cancerprevention #preventionisthecure #vegan #gersontherapy #hownottodie #michaelgreger #thehealthymelissa #plantbasednutrition 📸 photo from sproutpeople.org
  • BREAST Women who eat flaxseeds may see a rise in their levels of Endostatin in their breasts. Endostatin is a protein produced by your body to help starve tumors of their blood supply. Women consuming muffins with flaxseeds on average witness their tumor cell proliferation decrease, cancer cell death rates increase and their c-erB2 scores decrease. . C-erB2 is a marker of cancer aggressiveness; The higher your score the higher potential for breast cancer to metastasize and spread throughout the body. . PROSTATE Higher levels of lignans tend to be found in the prostate fluids of populations of men with relatively low rates of prostate cancer. . Lignans have also been shown to slow the growth of prostate cancer cells in petri dishes. Researchers decided to put lignans to the test by asking men with prostate cancer scheduled for prostate removal surgery the following month to consume 3 tablespoons of flaxseed‘s per day. . After surgery their tumors were examined. within just a few weeks of flaxseed consumption, the flax consumption appeared to have lowered their cancer cell proliferation rates while at the same time increasing their cancer cell clearance. . Even better, flaxseeds may also be able to prevent prostate cancer from advancing to that stage in the first place. This may be because flaxseeds block 5 alpha reductase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. If 5 alpha reductase is too high, this causes more testosterone to be converted to DHT which stimulates prostate hypertrophy. this will be evidenced by difficulty in urinating, PSA that’s >4.0, changes in sex drive and morning erections. #flax #flaxseeds #prostatehealth #breastheath #psa #plantbasednutrition #hownottodie #michaelgreger #thehealthymelissa 📸 photo by nuts.com
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