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June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month

Take charge of your brain health and join us in the fight
to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.

Worldwide, more than 55 million people are living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Take action now — for yourself, your loved ones and for the fight to end Alzheimer’s. What actions can you commit to taking this month?

Positive, everyday actions can make a difference in brain health, even lowering the risk of cognitive decline and possibly Alzheimer’s and dementia. Incorporate some or all of these habits into your life to help maintain a healthy brain.

Incorporate some or all of these 10 Healthy Habits into your life and share them with someone you know!

Challenge your mind

Be curious! Put your brain to work and do something that is new for you. Learn a new skill. Try something artistic. Challenging your mind may have short- and long-term benefits for your brain.

Stay in school

Education reduces the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Encourage youth to stay in school and pursue the highest level of training possible. Continue your own education by taking a class at a local library or college, or online.

Get moving

Engage in regular exercise. This includes activities that raise your heart rate and increase blood flow to the brain and body. Find ways to build more movement into your day — walking, dancing, gardening — whatever works for you!

Protect your head

Help prevent an injury to your head. Wear a helmet for activities like biking, and wear a seatbelt. Protect yourself while playing sports. Do what you can to prevent falls, especially for older adults.

Be smoke-free

Quitting smoking can lower the risk of cognitive decline back to levels similar to those who have not smoked. It’s never too late to stop.

Control your blood pressure

Medications can help lower high blood pressure. And healthy habits like eating right and physical activity can help, too. Work with a health care provider to control your blood pressure.

Manage diabetes

Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or controlled by eating healthier, increasing physical activity and taking medication, if necessary.

Eat right

Eating healthier foods can help reduce your risk of cognitive decline. This includes more vegetables and leaner meats/proteins, along with foods that are less processed and lower in fat. Choose healthier meals and snacks that you enjoy and are available to you.

Maintain a healthy weight

Talk to your health care provider about the weight that is healthy for you. Other healthy habits on this list — eating right, exercising and sleeping well — can help with maintaining a healthy weight.

Sleep well

Good quality sleep is important for brain health. Stay off screens before bed and make your sleep space as comfortable as possible. Do all you can to minimize disruptions. If you have any sleep-related problems, such as sleep apnea, talk to a health care provider.

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June Product of the Month

Para-Cleanse

Detox in 10 quick days…Jump on the trend…without the hassle…with Para-Cleanse! Para-Cleanse is a 10-day focused herbal program providing targeted intestinal support for cleansing and detoxification, as it creates an environment that supports the health and viability of “healthy” microorganisms, also known as intestinal flora. Para-Cleanse also features ingredients traditionally used to “unwelcome” the intestine’s foreign invaders. Para-Cleanse provides a powerful combination of herbal supplements, neatly organized into morning and evening packets. Many people experience undesirable gastrointestinal effects as a result of activities that include: Traveling internationally, eating undercooked foods, drinking contaminated water, exposure to daycare centers, having a pet or use of antibiotic drugs. Para-Cleanse contains herbal formulas that work synergistically to help improve bowel function and support the body’s cleansing and detoxification process, while also helping to make the intestines inhospitable to foreign invaders.

Artemisia Combination this combination of Artemisia, mugwort, sweet wormwood, elecampane and other selected herbs contribute to a friendly environment for intestinal flora.
Herbal Pumpkin is an innovative, plant-based formula that supports colon and digestive health and helps create a balanced microbiome.
Black Walnut provides traditional support for gut health and helps protect against intestinal invaders.
Paw Paw supports the body’s cellular turnover and provides antioxidant benefits that contribute to overall health.

Benefits:

• Supports intestinal & bowel functions
• Targeted cleansing & detoxification support
• Convenient individual serving packets
• Featuring non-GMO Paw-Paw

Ingredients: Each packet contains 2 capsules of Artemisia Combination, 2 capsules of Herbal Pumpkin, one capsule of Black Walnut, and one capsule of Paw Paw.

Quality Assured: Nature’s Sunshine pioneered the use of paw paw trees for the immune system. Carefully analyzed before its release, Paw Paw was found to have highly concentrated levels of acetogenins. These compounds have the ability to modulate the production of energy in cells.
Our wild-crafted trees grow in nutrient-rich soil in the central US where they are harvested using methods that provide for maximum sustainability.
Our Paw Paw is non-GMO verified and Kosher-certified.

Recommended Use: Take the contents of one packet (6 capsules) with breakfast and with dinner daily for 10 days. Drink one glass (8+ ounces) of water with the capsules.
Do not exceed recommended dose. Not for long-term use.
A healthy diet is recommended, focusing on vegetables (especially green leafy), fresh fruits and whole grains; minimizing red meat, coffee, alcohol, sugar, processed, and fried foods.

NOTE: This product contains cascara sagrada. Read and follow directions carefully. Do not use if you have or develop diarrhea, loose stools, or abdominal pal because cascara sagrada may worsen these conditions and be harmful to your health. Consult your physician if you have frequent diarrhea, or if you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or have a medical condition. * These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease

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Article of the Month

Nutrition – Making the Brain-Gut Connection

“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard that before. You may have noticed that you feel better when you eat certain foods, but have you ever really thought about the fact that what you feed your gut directly affects your mental health? Science is beginning to understand that the foods we eat directly control how your mood and brain functions. That’s great news because it puts you back in control of your body and your mind with a few easy changes to your diet.

div>Your brain is your most valuable asset. It is always working for you. It controls your thoughts, movements, breathing, heartbeat, senses. It is working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no vacations. That means what you fuel your brain with is vitally important. What you eat can directly impact your brain and its function. Studying how what you eat affects mood and other aspects of mental health is developing into a new science called Nutritional Psychiatry. This is an opportunity for clinicians to better help patients with alternative interventions for mental health issues. Many doctors do not routinely discuss nutritional choices with their patients beyond the normal “eat a healthy diet” advice. The science of nutritional psychiatry is helping to fill this void by exploring what foods are most beneficial for mental health.

What You Eat Affects How You Feel

How does our diet affect our brain? Your gastrointestinal tract contains over a hundred million nerve cells. Your digestive system doesn’t just digest food, it also affects your brain and mood via these neural pathways. Neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, regulate sleep, appetite, mood, and pain, and 95% of the serotonin you make is made in your gastrointestinal tract. Putting good fuel in your gastrointestinal system by the foods you eat, and supplementation, helps protect you against toxins, inflammation and helps regulate your mood.

When you take a good probiotic or eat foods that are nutritionally dense, anxiety, stress and mental outlook improve. A study published in the journal, Molecular Psychiatry, found that a diet that mimics the diet of the Mediterranean region can help lower the risk of depression. Specifically, a diet that incorporates fish, nuts, vegetables and olive oil appears to benefit our moods. The study also found that people who followed a Mediterranean diet had a 33% lower chance of being diagnosed with a mood disorder such as depression. This also means that eating foods that are highly processed and full of sugar are likely to not only increase our waistlines but also affect our mood. Five studies of 32,908 adults in Spain, France, the UK, Australia and the United States found that poor diet can be linked to increased chances of developing depression or anxiety.

What Can You Do Today for the Best Brain Health?

The obvious answer is to eat a healthy diet, but with all the conflicting information out there, how do we really know what we should eat? Before we can eat mood-boosting foods, it’s important to know what foods we should avoid. Refined carbohydrates such as sugar, candy, soda, fruit juice, syrup and more, cause your blood sugar to spike giving you a burst of energy followed by a mood-busting crash. Refined starches such as rice, bread, cookies and crackers probably make you feel great while you’re eating them, but they won’t help your mood stay sunny in the long run.

Foods you should incorporate into your diet for the best brain function include:

• Omega-3 Fatty Acids – fatty fish, walnuts, olive oil
• Probiotics – yogurt, kefir, fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut, Korean kimchi, miso, tempeh, and pickled vegetables.
• Folate from leafy green vegetables – spinach, edamame, artichokes, okra, turnip greens, avocado, and broccoli
• Foods rich in Vitamin D – Alaskan pink salmon or sockeye salmon with bones, cheese, egg yolks, soymilk.
• Caffeine in moderation – approximately 1.5 cups of coffee a day or chai tea

Pay attention to how your diet is affecting your mood and energy levels–not just when you eat it but over the next hours and the next day. Change your diet to a “clean” diet for a few weeks just to see how you feel and test the difference in your brain function and energy levels. Try adding fermented foods such as kimchi or kombucha. Try going dairy free and grain free as well. Once you’ve incorporated these healthy changes for a few weeks, add foods back into your diet one by one and check your reaction to each one. Most people can’t believe how much better they feel when they eat clean both physically and emotionally, and how much worse they feel when they reintroduce certain foods back into their diets.

If you find it hard to change your diet, incorporate BrainTap into the mix. BrainTap is specifically designed to help you make healthy habit changes easily and naturally without the stress of conscious thought.

Our Weight Wellness audio series helps you release bad habits, put an end to stress-eating, and restores your brain’s natural ability to choose healthy, natural clean foods that will benefit your brain and emotional health. Want to try before you buy?

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