How Your Emotions Affect Your Bone Health

Your bone health and your emotions are linked, but when you think of improving your bone health, you likely think about doing physical things - perhaps exercise more, especially weight bearing. Or eat higher quality food. Or take certain supplements.

While these are all important and valid in and of themselves, they do not complete the picture of what it takes to achieve full health of bones. That's because bones exist in bodies, and bodies are affected by emotions.

But can there be a link between bone health and emotional health? Or if there is, is it significant enough to affect bone health for better or worse?

The short answer is yes, absolutely. Here is one way your emotional health affects your bone health, and affects it significantly.

First, every emotion you feel has a corresponding 'molecule of emotion'. That's the term Candace Pert, PhD., used to describe how thoughts become physical and direct our bodies. That's how we're designed.

The problem comes in when we have emotions we don't resolve. In other words, we don't get done with them. What happens then is that they keep replaying, and when they replay, they bathe our bodies in those same 'molecules of emotion' over and over. The short story is that in this kind of circumstance, those molecules make our bodies run more acid than is good for us.

But a bodily state that's too acidic means all manner of physiological processes can't run the way they need to. And the symptoms we may develop are our bodies' way of telling us that. "Hey, we're too acid, we can't do our work in here!" is what they're saying, but they say it via symptoms. We're too acid and we experience nervous irritability, feelings of suffocation, lump in the throat, dry mouth, we sigh frequently, are overly sensitive to bright light, noises, are easily breathless, abnormally sensitive to pain, preferring to be alone rather than in social contact etc.

These are symptoms that are occurring in our bodies but originating in our emotional selves. How is our body to deal with this?

Since our bodies are smart and self-balancing, they work to correct this situation right away. And the way they do that is to take calcium from our bones and return it to circulation so it moves things back in the direction of alkalinity.

So, an emotional state that's 'stuck on replay' is an emotional state that sets the body up to rob the bones.

Given the new science about these links between our emotions and our bones, it's a good time for our conversation about bones to include 'emotional osteopenia' and 'emotional osteoporosis.'

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What You Should Know About High White Blood Cell Count

Elevated white blood cell count (also known as leukocytosis) indicates that there is an increase in the production of white blood cells (WBC or leukocytes) in the body. It is the opposite of leukopenia, which is the decrease in the number of WBC. The main function of leukocytes is to fight infections within the body, which can be caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. High white blood cell count in the body can indicate an underlying health issue, such as anemia, bone marrow tumor, inflammatory disease, emotional or physical anxiety, tissue damage, infectious diseases, or even leukemia. However, further examination must be done to figure out the exact cause of the condition.

The tests performed may vary from one patient to another, depending on their medical history. If you have leukocytosis, your doctor will most likely do a blood test called complete blood test (CBC). He or she will be able to determine the cause and the suitable treatment options through the test results. Your doctor may even go through the list of medications that you are currently taking. If the test shows that the condition is very serious, you may have to undergo a bone marrow biopsy since the high WBC might be a sign of a bone marrow disease.

High WBC can also lead to infertility in both women. A woman who has leukocytosis might be allergic to her partner's semen. Her body may misrecognize sperm as an invasive object and thus develops antibodies that can damage or even kill sperm. In order to overcome this problem, her doctor will prescribe her antibiotics so that her allergic reaction level to semen can be reduced, or even eliminated. However, you shouldn't worry too much because this condition is very rare.

Leukocytosis can also occur during pregnancy. Commonly, when a woman is pregnant, the WBC in the uterus produce antibodies. The leukocytes can misidentify the fetus as an invasive object and attack it, causing miscarriage. The baby can also carry high white blood cells and therefore a pregnant woman must avoid several kinds of meats that can increase the production of WBC, such as sausages and salamis. With a healthy diet, the risk of miscarriage and high WBC in the baby can be reduced.

Symptoms include fever, bleeding or bruising, difficulty breathing, sudden weight loss, fatigue, dizziness, and pain or tingling in the arms, legs, or abdomen. If you suspect that you might have high WBC, you should seek medical attention immediately.

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Juicing - The First Step On The Road To Better Health Through Proper Diet

Most of us have tried to walk, and sometimes run, down The Road To Better Health without much success. There are a lot of potholes, curves and detours as you go down that road and that makes it very difficult to stay the course. However, the rewards can be great if you are able to stay the course for the duration.

To achieve better health you have to change your eating habits and that requires commitment to a change in your life style. And if you don't make that commitment you will see your weight, and your health, go up and down continually. However, that change in life style can be made easier with the proper tools.

If you are really serious about achieving better health through proper diet the first thing you should do is build a healthy eating home center. What does a healthy eating home center consist of? The right small appliances that will assist you in making food that is significantly better for your health.

The first small appliance you should put in your healthy eating home center is a quality juicer. There are basically three different types of juicers on the market today, centrifugal, single gear and twin gear juicers. I would recommend that you make your first addition to your healthy eating home center a twin gear juicer. Twin gear juicers operate at low RPMs which helps maintain the nutritional benefits of the juice and they are very versatile.

Before we discuss some of the foods that can be prepared with your new twin gear juicer lets look at some of the benefits of juicing.

Freshly juiced vegetables and fruits give your body an instant boost of nutrients, enzymes, vitamins and minerals in a form that your body can easily assimilate, absorb and digest. Studies show that the nutrients from juiced vegetables and fruits are absorbed into our bloodstream within 30 minutes of consumption.

At the most basic level, juicing allows you to add many more vegetables and fruits to your daily diet, and to increase the amount of raw food you consume giving your body energy and boosting both the body's immune system and cleansing process. Juicing is one of the easiest and fastest ways to start on the road to better healthy.

Now lets look at just a few of the things you can make with your new juicer. A good, versatile twin gear juicer will not only make great tasting and nutritious juices it will also mince and grind coffee beans, seeds and seasonings. It can also double as a pasta maker that will make fresh home made pastas without the preservatives you find in pastas you buy at the grocery store. You can also make fresh, frozen fruit sorbet to replace the fattening deserts that kill any diet.

In addition, you will be able to make juice from wheatgrass with a good twin gear juicer. Wheatgrass juice is a whole food with no toxic side effects. It is full of vitamins and minerals and it is a natural appetite suppressant that will help you control your appetite for proper diet and weight control.

If you have a newborn or infant child that is still eating baby food you will be happy to hear that your new twin gear juicer will also make fresh, preservative free baby foods. As good as the manufacturers claim processed baby foods to be there is no substitute for fresh, home made baby foods. Feeding your baby fresh made baby food is a good way to start your baby's eating habits on the right path.

As you can see the benefits of a twin gear juicer are many. As the first investment in your healthy eating home center your new juicer will serve you well for many years to come.

Barry Hall was always interest in a good glass of wine and some fine chocolates before learning the value and pleasure of healthy eating. He has also educated himself on the proper food preparation tools to use when preparing foods that are good for your health and good to your palate. Visit his web site at JuicersandFoodProcessors.com to see the tools that you need to prepare healthy foods.

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