Acids the Good and the Bad

Acids Good And Bad

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April 25, 2011 by Bob Livingston

There are good acids and bad acids in the body. Unfortunately, most people spend their time and money neutralizing the good acid with over-the-counter medications while they increase levels of the bad acid with a diet of processed foods, too much meat and exposure to toxins and pollutants.

The body needs to be slightly alkaline with a homeostatic pH of 7.35 to 7.45. (The term pH refers to the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, 7.0 being the neutral level of most water. The pH scale runs from 0 to 14. Above 7.0 represents increasing levels of alkalinity. Below 7.0, substances become exponentially acidic.)

The bad acid is the acid that builds up in the body tissues. Excess acid in the body — or low pH — causes fatigue and shortness of breath and prevents apoptosis (normal cell death). This leads to malignancies and the breakdown of body tissues and organs. Individuals with chronically acidic systems use up oxygen reserves quickly, whereas the body in an alkaline state produces oxygen.

Over-acidity leads to toxin accumulation and oxygen depletion. The body tries to combat excess acidity by trying to neutralize it with oxygen. To do so it must continually divert oxygen away from its primary metabolic functions and direct it toward the acidic cells and tissues. This means that as we get more acidity we have less oxygen and shorter breath.

Older people are, of course more acidic. Acidity interferes with our electromagnetic currents, creating more acid in the body. An acidic body means death.

Blood pH must be in balance (slightly alkaline) to prevent clumping of red blood cells so they can flow into the smallest capillaries to deliver oxygen.

Acid actually strips away the negative charge of red blood cells and causes them to clump. This means less oxygen gets to your cells.

Acid also weakens red blood cells and they begin to die. We get fewer nutrients and our energy level begins to drop.

Infectious micro-organisms thrive in low pH or acid environments.

The modern American diet of refined foods is highly acidic. This creates a volume of waste acids which is symptomatic of acid indigestion or "heartburn." This is discomfort from fermenting waste acids, not from too much of the good acid, which is the hydrochloric acid (HCl) in the stomach.

Instead, it is a symptom of too little HCl. Adequate HCl would prevent organic acids (waste acids) in the first place, and negative symptoms would never appear.

HCl is the only acid the body produces. All other acids in the body are toxic acids of fermentation created by our environment and diet.

HCl is absolutely essential for life. Without it the body cannot make the proper chemical conversions to alkalinity.

The life-giving and life-sustaining function of HCl is to break down food as it arrives in the stomach. If HCl is insufficient, food becomes a mass of poorly digested acid waste residues called organic acids of fermentation. It manifests itself in what is termed acid indigestion and heartburn. Acid reflux is a symptom.

As most of you know, the pharmaceutical answer to this is antacids. These compound the problem by making the low and insufficient stomach acid even lower. Temporary relief hides this fraudulent commerce.

If you take antacids you must understand that all they do is temporarily quiet the waste acids of fermentation caused by low stomach acid in the first place. The only therapy for low stomach acid — or low HCl — is more hydrochloric acid, not less.

Over time, reduced HCl foretells and guarantees illness — and finally death — with stomach cancer.

Hydrochloric acid begins a disturbing decline around age 40, though today it shows up at all ages because of our refined carbohydrate diets.

Adequate HCl is our first line of defense against the various destructive microbes that enter the body by way of food. HCl actually kills and digests pathogens. It also cleans up detrimental waste acid byproducts. Therefore, it is critical that everyone understands that adequate HCl levels greatly reduce tissue acid waste buildup.

HCl keeps us alive by maintaining proper alkaline/acid balance and then becomes alkaline after its vital job in the digestive process is done. Eight essential amino acids, two vitamins and 15 minerals are dependent on proper HCl for absorption. Vitamin B12 and folic acid simply will not be absorbed from food sources without adequate HCl in the stomach.

So what can we do to help our bodies maintain a proper pH and proper levels of HCl?

First, diet is essential. There foods and drinks that help prevent high acidity:

Water — Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day. To every other glass of water you drink add one-fourth teaspoon of sea salt (unless you are salt sensitive or have high blood pressure). Be sure to alkalize your water using an alkaline supplement available from a company that sells nutritional supplements.

Fruits and vegetables — Most fruits and vegetables are alkaline-forming foods, especially citrus fruits, which are acidic but turn alkaline when consumed. They are best eaten in raw form as often as possible. At the top of the list are pears, apples, watermelon, bananas, strawberries, cucumbers, egg plant, onions, pickles, string beans, asparagus (even canned asparagus is an acid reducer), shiitake mushrooms, spinach, carrots, radishes, cabbage, squash, sweet potatoes, turnips and turnip greens and garlic.

Potatoes — They are alkaline-forming when eaten with the skin on.

Other foods — Coffee, egg whites and cayenne pepper.

Natural sea salt mixed in water or a supplement of betaine hydrochloride can help you maintain adequate levels of HCl in the stomach, which can eliminate the symptoms of heartburn or acid indigestion.

HCl therapy to combat infections was an oft-employed tactic in the first half of the 20th Century. Burr Ferguson, M.D., and Walter Bryant Guy, M.D., advanced the knowledge and use of the principles of HCl therapy.

They and a few other forward-thinking physicians administered HCl intravenously and intramuscularly with astounding results in patients showing severe distress, high fever or with large tumors. The results were recorded at the time in The Medical World Journal. That research was compiled into a book, Three Years of HCl Therapy, by Roy W. Huntsman.

Among the success stories of people were treated with HCl therapy:

• An 87-year-old woman whose large colon tumor disappeared in four months.
• A 50-year-old man with a growth in his gallbladder who was told he was near death but had his tumor vanish in less than a year.
• An 8-year-old girl with tuberculosis whose lungs were healed.
• A 73-year-old woman had her breast cancer disappear.
• A 15-year-old girl, near death with a massive infection after childbirth and suffering from extremely high fever and delirium, recovered after a couple of weeks.
• A 43-year-old man received complete relief from migraines after two weeks of therapy.

There are many more stories just like these. They are stories you never hear from mainstream medicine.

The information for this article was taken from the books Acid and Alkaline by Herman Aihara,Alkalize or Die by Dr. Theodore A. Baroody and Three Years of HCl Therapy.

The book, Three Years of HCl Therapy is no longer in print. It is currently selling on Amazon.com for as much as $51. It contains documented cases of HCl therapy success stories in treating diseases and conditions like diabetes, pneumonia, malaria, meningitis, toxemia and many others.

Acetaminophen may boost blood pressure

For people with cardiovascular disease who need relief from aches and pains, acetaminophen (Tylenol, generic) has long been touted as a safer alternative to aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen. A small but important Swiss trial warns that it may not be. This work doesn’t mean you should ditch acetaminophen if it helps you, but does suggest you should give it the caution that it — and every medication — deserves.

A closer look at acetaminophen

The Swiss team set out to fill a surprising gap in medical knowledge: the effect of acetaminophen on blood pressure among people with coronary artery disease. This includes folks with angina (chest pain with exercise or stress) along with anyone who has had bypass surgery or angioplasty or who has been diagnosed with cholesterol-clogged arteries.

The researchers asked 33 men and women with one or more of these problems to take either 1,000 milligrams (mg) of acetaminophen or an identical placebo three times a day for two weeks. Then, after a two-week break, each volunteer took the other treatment. The amount of acetaminophen used in the study is a standard daily dose for pain.

When the participants took acetaminophen, average systolic blood pressure (the top number of a blood pressure reading) increased from 122.4 to 125.3, while the average diastolic pressure (the bottom number) increased from 73.2 to 75.4. Blood pressure stayed steady when participants took the placebo. These increases aren’t large. But they indicate that acetaminophen, like NSAIDs, somehow affects the cardiovascular system.

A larger, longer trial would have given more reliable results. It would also have been unethical, since none of the participants were in pain. That means they couldn’t reap any benefit from acetaminophen, but could only be harmed by it.

Making choices

The sudden removal of the popular painkiller Vioxx from the market in October 2004 over concerns that it caused cardiovascular problems put all pain relievers under the spotlight — except acetaminophen. It avoided the “black box” warning about increased risk of cardiac problems that the FDA now requires on the labels of all NSAIDs. And the American Heart Association later recommended it as a safe alternative to NSAIDs.

Acetaminophen is easier on the stomach than aspirin and other NSAIDs, and is probably a good option for people who take warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven, generic) or clopidogrel (Plavix). But because it is so widely used and perceived as safe, people tend to take it without thinking, one reason acetaminophen is a leading cause of liver failure and transplantation in the United States.

If you have some form of cardiovascular disease, it makes sense to take acetaminophen rather than an NSAID for a fever, headache, pulled muscle, or other occasional problem. But if you need relief every day for pain from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, acetaminophen may not be a better option than an NSAID — it doesn’t work that well against inflammatory pain and, like an NSAID, may slightly elevate blood pressure.

The key message from this study is that acetaminophen isn’t free from cardiovascular side effects. It is worth a try as a first-line drug for pain relief, but if it doesn’t control your pain, it is reasonable to switch to an NSAID

These 150 Calories Go Straight to Your Bulging Belly

The Sleeping Habit That Can Make You Hungrier, Plumper, and Forgetful

Provided from the Dr Mercola site:


Experiments on mice have shown that throwing off their ancient circadian rhythms by artificially altering the length of their days has a substantial impact on their bodies and brains. This suggests that the modern, round-the-clock lifestyle, made possible by electric lighting, could disrupt metabolism and interfere with learning in ways that are only just beginning to be understood.

Researchers put mice through 10 weeks in 20-hour light-dark cycles, instead of their natural 24-hour circadian cycle. After six weeks, the mice got fatter, showed less mental flexibility and were more impulsive.

Science Daily reports:

"The researchers believe that [the effects of an altered circadian cycle] may affect how an individual, whether animal or human, responds to additional challenges to the immune or metabolic systems, such as infection ... They are also working on models to understand the impact of different kinds of light-dark shifting such as those experienced by flight crews, shift workers, military personnel and medical residents."

Science Daily February 27, 2011

Time and again, research shows us the hidden price we pay for our 24/7 lifestyles. Lack of sleep due to over-crowded day planners, e-mail, web surfing, and other distractions take a toll on your health whether you realize it or not.

Amazingly, 95 percent of those surveyed in the National Sleep Foundation's 2011 Sleep in America poll report using some type of electronic device within an hour of going to bed, and about 20 percent reported being awakened by phone calls, text messages or email, at least a few nights a week…

As you probably know, the physiological functions of virtually all organisms are governed by 24-hour circadian rhythms.

When your circadian rhythm—which acts like a built-in time-tracking system—is disrupted by late-night artificial light exposure, or being roused from sleep by beeping phones, it can have a profound influence on your physical and mental health and well-being.

One of the worst things you can do to disrupt your body clock is to engage in regular night shift work. I realize many may not have a choice once they've chosen these professions, but it is vital to understand that when you regularly shift your sleep patterns because of a job like police, fire, or ER work, you are in fact sacrificing your health and longevity—in more ways than one.

Round-the-Clock Lifestyle Damages Your Health in a Number of Ways

In this latest study, mice were kept in 20-hour light/dark cycles for 10 weeks to evaluate the effect on their metabolism, mental acuity and behavior. After six weeks, "the disrupted mice got fatter, showed less mental flexibility and were more impulsive than mice kept on their natural schedule," Science Daily reports.

The authors found changes in metabolic hormones, and "loss of dendritic length and decreased complexity of neurons in the prelimbic prefrontal cortex, a brain region important in executive function and emotional control."

Since the circadian system "drives" the rhythms of biological activity at the cellular level, disruptions tend to cascade outward throughout your entire body, which explains why the health effects of sleep deprivation and sleep disruption are so numerous.

The Many Ways Disrupted Sleep Patterns Can Impact Your Health

For example, your circadian clock influences your:

• Short term memory -- Your circadian clock controls your daily cycle of sleep and wakefulness by alternately inhibiting and exciting different parts of your brain through regulating the release of certain neurotransmitters. The part of your brain known as the hippocampus must be excited in order for the things you learn to be organized in such a way that you'll remember them later.
  
  
  If your internal clock isn't functioning properly, it causes the release of too much GABA. According to a previous study, an excess of GABA inhibits your brain in a way that leads to short term memory problems and the inability to retain new information.
• Creativity and learning performance – Proper sleep enhances performance, learning and memory by improving your creative ability to uncover novel connections among seemingly unrelated ideas.
• Weight gain/loss – In addition to the study above, previous research has also demonstrated that lack of sleep affects levels of metabolic hormones that regulate satiety and hunger. For example, when you are sleep deprived, your body decreases production of leptin, the hormone that tells your brain there is no need for more food. At the same time it increases levels of ghrelin, a hormone that triggers hunger.
• Diabetes and heart disease risk -- Both too little and too much sleep may increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. A 15-year study of more than 1,000 men found that those getting less than six or more than eight hours of sleep a night had a significantly increased diabetes risk.
  
  
  A similar pattern has also been observed in the relationship between sleep and coronary heart disease.
• Immune system – Research has found that when you are well-rested you are likely to have a stronger immune response to viruses than when you have not gotten enough sleep. It's believed that the release of certain hormones during sleep is responsible for boosting your immune system.
• Cancer risk -- Disruption of your circadian clock may influence cancer progression through changes in hormones like melatonin, which your brain makes during sleep, and which is known to suppress tumor development.
  
  
  Melatonin is an antioxidant that helps to suppress harmful free radicals in your body and slows the production of estrogen, which can activate cancer. When your circadian rhythm is disrupted, your body may produce less melatonin and therefore may have less ability to fight cancer.

Chronic Diseases Made Worse By Lack of Sleep

Furthermore, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), lack of sleep can further exacerbate other serious and chronic diseases, such as:

• Parkinson disease (PD)
• Alzheimer disease (AD)
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Gastrointestinal tract disorders
• Kidney disease
• Behavioral problems in children

Disrupted Circadian Cycle Unleashes Stress

Making matters worse, poor sleeping habits also tends to raise your levels of corticosterone, the stress hormone associated with road rage.

When your body is under stress, it releases hormones that increase your heart rate and blood pressure. Your muscles get tense, your digestive processes stop, and certain brain centers are triggered, which alter your brain chemistry.

Left unchecked, this stress response can eventually lead to a variety of health problems including:

• Headaches
• Indigestion
• Increased anxiety
• Depression
• High blood pressure

As you can see, the ramifications of engaging in a 24/7 lifestyle runs the gamut from minor stresses to life-threatening health problems! Yet judging by the poll responses mentioned at the very beginning, precious few are willing to take a much-needed look at their sleeping habits and make the required readjustments to their schedules and habits. I strongly urge you not to be part of the majority in this regard...

Instead, take the following advice to heart.

Reestablish a Natural Rhythm by Optimizing Your Light Exposure

Part of living in accordance with your natural circadian rhythm is to have consistent, regular exposure to bright light during the day, and sleeping in absolute darkness at night.

This optimizes your natural melatonin production.

Unfortunately, while over-exposure to light in the evenings is typical, most of us are also under-exposed to light during the day! Most incandescent- and fluorescent lights emit very poor quality light, and what your body needs for optimal functioning is the full-spectrum light you get outdoors.

If you're stuck in a windowless office for the majority of your day, using full spectrum light bulbs can help ameliorate this lack of high quality sunlight.

The reverse is true for the evenings. Ideally, once the sun sets, you'll want to reduce the overall amount of light you're exposed to. Here, using "low blue lights" can help. These light bulbs emit an amber light, opposed to the blue that suppresses melatonin production. Therefore, these bulbs are ideal for areas such as your living room, bedroom and bathroom.

TVs and computers also emit quite a bit of blue light, which will zap your melatonin if you work past dark, so ideally, you'd want to turn these items off once the sun goes down.

Once it's time to sleep, make sure your bedroom is pitch black.

I strongly recommend installing blackout shades for this reason, or use thick drapes. Make sure all the lights are off in your room and that no light enters your room from other areas, such as night lights in your bathroom or hallway.

It's important to realize that even a small amount of light, like that from a night light, or turning on the bathroom light to go to the restroom, can be enough to suppress your melatonin production for that night. So, if you have to get up, try to resist the temptation to turn on the light.

This may be a bit more than you are willing to invest, especially if you live in temporary circumstances. So what I have found that works really well is a high quality eye mask.

Fine-Tuning Your Sleeping Pattern for Optimal Health

Optimizing your light exposure as described above can go a long way toward reestablishing your natural circadian rhythm and a healthy sleeping pattern.

The next question then becomes, how much sleep do you need?

The right amount for you is based on your individual sleep requirements and not on a one-size-fits-all prescribed number of hours. That said, research has shown that, in general, chronically sleeping less than eight hours a night can have significant cumulativeconsequences. In short, your best bet is to listen to your body and adjust accordingly.

If you feel tired or sluggish upon waking or during the day, you're likely not getting enough.

However, it would be very unusual for anyone to require less than six hours of sleep. The sweet spot is more likely between 7 and 8 hours. There are other variables though, such as the:

• Number of times you awake at night
• Time it takes to fall asleep
• Percentage of your sleep at REM, and
• Time spent in deep sleep.

Later this year I will be providing some articles that go into this topic more deeply.

Unfortunately, many people are quick to pop a pill once they start having sleep problems. But sleeping pills come with numerous side effects and can cause more harm than good. Better alternatives include using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), listening to abrainwave synchronization tape, or trying a natural remedy that can help you relax without the side effects.

Summary of Key Points to Remember to Keep Your Body Clock Running Smoothly

It's important to realize that even if you do everything else right – eat nutritious meals, exercise, manage stress – if you aren't getting high-quality sleep your health is bound to suffer in any of the numerous ways mentioned above. So please, take your sleep seriously, and do your best to live your life in closer alignment with your circadian rhythm.

As a summary, the following guidelines can help to keep your circadian rhythm in its natural cycle:

• Use full-spectrum light bulbs in your home and office during daytime hours.
• Use "low blue lights" in areas where you spend most of your time in late evening, such as your living room, bedroom, and bathroom.
• Turn off computers and electronic gadgets once the sun sets, and avoid watching TV late at night. Again, the blue light emitted from TV's and computer screens mimic the blue light found in daytime sunlight, which can alter your melatonin production.
• Sleep in total darkness! This is the "hidden" secret that most people tend to ignore, but which can dramatically improve the quality of your sleep. Personally, I sleep in a room that is so dark, it's even pitch black at noon. Liberally use blackout shades and drapes to achieve this.
• Sleep when it's dark outside and get up when the sun comes up. At minimum, strive to sleep between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. This means you should be in bed, with the lights out, by 10 p.m. and be up by 6 a.m.
• Avoid working the night shift. It's been linked to significantly lower levels of serotonin, which may cause sleep problems, anger, depression and anxiety. If you currently work the night shift, I would strongly suggest trying to switch your hours, or at the very least not keeping the night shift for longer than a couple of months at a time (and giving your body a chance to readjust in between).

For even more helpful guidance on how to improve your sleep, please review my 33 Secrets to a Good Night's Sleep. If you're even slightly sleep deprived I encourage you to implement some of these tips tonight, as high-quality sleep is one of the most important factors in your health and quality of life.

NEW Studies Reveal Alarming Hidden Cause of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide and breast cancer rates are increasing rapidly. 

A compelling number of studies, though not all, have shown that free iron concentrations in breast tissue, especially the ductal tissue, is playing a major role in stimulating cancer development and eventual progression to aggressive, deadly cancers.^1,2

Cancers are Very Dependent on Iron

Iron is needed for DNA replication in rapidly dividing cells.³ A recent report from the Department of Biomolecular Sciences in Urbino Italy, found that fluid taken from the nipple of cancer patients contained significantly higher levels of aluminum than did nipple fluid taken from women without breast cancer—approximately twice as much aluminum.⁴ A number of studies have found that extracting nipple fluid by a breast pump (in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women) is a simple way to study the microenvironment of the ductal tissue, the site of development of most breast cancers.⁵ Examining this ductal fluid is an excellent way to measure such things as iron levels, ferritin (an iron-binding protein), CRP (a measure of breast inflammation) and aluminum.

The researchers also found that women with breast cancer had much higher levels of ferritin, an iron transport protein, in their breast fluid, which was 5X higher in women with breast cancer.⁶
This observation has been confirmed in other studies. In previous studies researchers found that one's intake of iron did not necessarily correlate with risk of breast cancer, but rather the release of iron from its protective proteins, such as ferritin and transferrin was critical.⁷ 

This distinction is very important and explains why some studies found no link between iron intake in the diet and breast cancer incidence.⁸

Free Iron Can Be Very Dangerous

Over 90% of iron absorbed from your diet is normally bound to these protective proteins. Recent studies have shown that some things we do can cause too much of the iron to be released into surrounding tissues, and if this iron exists as free iron, it can trigger intense inflammation, free radical generation and lipid peroxidation. Bound iron is relatively harmless.

So, what can cause these protective proteins to release their iron? One factor is an excessive alcohol intake. Studies by Lee et al have shown that women who drink greater than 20 grams of alcohol a day significantly increase the free iron in their breast tissue and have a higher incidence of invasive breast cancer—the most deadly form.⁹

It has also been shown that excessive estrogen can displace iron from its protective proteins, thus increasing free iron levels and associated breast cancer risk. ¹⁰ This helps explain the link between high estrogen levels and breast cancer.

Of more importance than the total intake of iron is where the iron ends up that is absorbed from your food. As stated, most of it is bound to protective proteins, such as transferrin in the blood and ferritin within cells. If you have a lot of extra space within these proteins for binding iron, then a high dietary iron intake would be less harmful.

Previously it was thought that a spillover of free iron occurred only when the protective proteins (tranferrin and ferritin) were fully saturated, as we see with the condition hemochromatosis.

How Aluminum and Alcohol Worsen Iron Toxicity

We now know that both aluminum and alcohol can displace the iron from its protective proteins, raising the level of harmful free iron, even when these protective proteins are not fully saturated with iron.⁹

If this occurs within the breast, as this study demonstrates, free iron levels in the breast ductal tissue can become dangerously high and over time induce malignant tumor formation.

The question to be asked is--where did the aluminum come from?

The authors of the paper suggested underarm antiperspirants as a possibility. But, there is another source that is becoming increasingly a problem and that is from vaccine adjuvants.

Vaccines are a Major Source of Aluminum for Many

Many inactivated vaccines contain aluminum salts to boost the immune reaction. Studies have shown that this aluminum is slowly dispersed all over the body and may be concentrated in breast ducts.¹¹

The amount of aluminum in vaccines is tremendous, especially in such vaccines as the anthrax vaccine, hepatitis vaccine and tetanus vaccine.

Since many American children are being exposed to multiple doses of aluminum containing vaccines by the time they are 6 years old, one would expect very high exposures to injected aluminum.

A recent study by Lucija Tomljenovik and Chris Shaw found that a newborn receives a dose of aluminum that exceeds FDA safety limits (5mg/kg/day) for injected aluminum by 20-fold, and at 6 months of age a dose that was 50-fold higher than FDA safety limits.¹² 

Aluminum at this young age will accumulate in various tissues and with new vaccine recommendations, children and young adults may be exposed to many more aluminum containing vaccines every year throughout life.

With the ability of aluminum to displace iron from its protective proteins, we may not only see a dramatic increase in breast cancer, but also other iron-related diseases, such as liver degeneration, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, heart failure and atherosclerosis.¹³ No one is addressing this very real danger.

References

• ¹ Wu T et al. Serum iron, copper and zinc concentrations and the risk of cancer mortality in US adults. Ann Epidemiol 2004; 14: 195-201.
• ² Cade J et al. Case-control study of breast cancer in southeast England: Nutritional factors. Epidemiol Community Health 1998; 52: 105-110.
• ³ Kalinowski DS, Richardson DR. The evolution of iron chelators for the treatment of iron overload disease and cancer. Pharmacol Rev 2005; 57: 547-583.
• ⁴ Mannello F, et al. Analysis of aluminum content and iron homeostasis in nipple aspirate fluids from healthy women and breast cancer-affected patients. J Appl Toxicol 2011; Feb 21,(ahead of print)
• ⁵ Mannello F et al. Iron-binding proteins and C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluids: role of iron-0driven inflammation in breast microenvironment. Am J Transl Res 2011;3: 100-113.
• ⁶ Mannello et al and Shpyleva SI et al. Role of ferritin alterations in human breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 126: 63-71.
• ⁷ Lithgow D et al. C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluid: relation to women's health factors. Nurs Res 2006; 65: 418-425.
• ⁸ Kabat GC et al. Dietary iron and heme iron intake and risk of breast cancer: a prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007; 16:1306-1308.
• ⁹ Lee DH et al. Dietary iron intake and breast cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study. Proc Am Assoc Cancer Res 2004; 45: A2319.
• ¹⁰ Wyllie S, Liehr JG. Release of iron from ferritin storage by redox cycling of stilbene and steroid estrogen metabolites: a mechanism of induction of free radical damage by estrogen. Arch Biochem Biophys 1997; 346: 180-186.
• ¹¹ Flarend et al. In vivo absorption of aluminum-containing vaccine adjuvants using Al-26. Vaccine 1997 15, 1314-1318.
• ¹² Tomljenovic L and Shaw C. 2011 in press.
• ¹³ Weinberg ED. Iron toxicity. Ox Med Cell Longevity 2009; 2: 107-109. 

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Personalidades con otro Nombre

A  Brief Description of the Four Personality Types

Esto lo encontre en el internet

1.       Red Sharks- These people are direct with their communication and closed about their relationships.  A general description of a Red Shark can be summed up as money-motivated. Some of their natural strengths are self-confidence, ambition, and leadership potential. Some natural weaknesses are impatience, arrogance, and rudeness. Lo mismo que un "Choleric"

2.       Blue Dolphins- These people are direct with their communication, and they are open with their relationships. One word to describe a Blue Dolphin is fun. They are motivated by having a good time. Some of their natural strengths include being outgoing, motivation skills, and the ability to tell a good story. Some natural weakness include being unorganized, unreliable, and whimsical. Lo mismo que un "Sanguine"

3.       Yellow Whales- Yellow Whales are generally indirect with their communication, and open with their relationships. They can be characterized by their desire to help others. Some of their natural strengths are being dependable, patient, and good listeners. Some natural weaknesses are lack of assertiveness, being easily taken advantage of by others, and lack of self confidence. Lo mismo que un "Phlegmatic"

4.       Green Urchins- Green Urchins are indirect, and closed. They have a strong need to know, and to be right. One word used to describe Green Urchins is factual. Some of their natural strengths are being very organized, great planning skills, and usually being very neat and detail oriented. Some natural weaknesses are procrastination, being critical of others, and struggling with depression and insecurity. Lo mismo que un "Melancholic"

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Objeciones de prospectos por Tim Sales

This fellow has some good advice... you should read his stuff.
Terry,

The secret to why some people get more prospects than they can handle is something YOU also possess inside of you. If you're not currently getting all the prospects you want, the only difference between you and the "naturals" is that you haven't developed that ability yet.

Here are some great questions and answers that will give you the "secret" too:

**QUESTION**

"Tim, how do you recruit someone who has heard of your network marketing company and immediately says, 'No.'"

>> My Comments:

So, the question is, "How do you recruit someone who immediately says 'No.'? Well, my answer is don't recruit them. Alright? No is no. But make sure you've listened to the Inviting Formula and you fully understand it, because the approach of "this is my company and this is why it's so great" is NOT the approach that I recommend.

The approach I'd recommend on someone like that is to just absolutely forget recruiting them for a little bit, get to know them, find out what they DO WANT. Right now, we know what they don't want, and that's your company. Fine. Find out what they do want, alright?

**QUESTION**

"Hi Tim, thank you for all you do. My question is, for those prospects who think the product they are presently using is giving them what they want and I know it's not, but my product will, how do I educate them without seeming to be a pushy salesperson?"

>>My comments:

Oh my gosh, this is such a great question. I love this question because I've been there so many times. Specifically, you have to get the greeting in there really good and then very cleverly find a chink in the armor.

See if you can locate something they're not happy about with that product or service. So, if I'm talking to somebody and this person is saying that they take supplements, and they get them at Costco, and the number one reason that they buy them is because they get a box of a thousand for $2 or something - You know, they just buy the things on sale - And so they think that they're doing good by taking those supplements, what you want to do is see if there'sanything at all that they're unhappy with about it.

You ask them a couple of questions but quite honestly, you can't give people solutions who don't have a problem, right? I'll say it again:

You can't give solutions to people who don't have a problem.

So, in other words, if they think that their problem is already solved, a lot of times it's a losing battle for you to try to convince that person that it's not solved. But what I like to do is to take responsibility for helping that person because "you don't know what you don't know". And certainly that is the case with a lot of people who are taking supplements that are out there.

**QUESTION**

"What's the best way to handle a cold lead prospect when he responds to your asking if they are looking for a home business by saying they are just looking to see what is available?"

>>My comments:

Alright. This is what the question is: You start off the conversation with a lead and you say, "You filled out a questionnaire on the internet indicating an interest in wor.king from home. I'm just calling to talk to you about that." And then the prospect says, "Oh, I'm just wanting to see what's out there." And then he goes silent.

Here's what you do: I call it "pull the string". So, if someone says something to me like that, then I say, "Oh, okay, so, you know, you don't really have an idea. You're just looking around. And if it interests you then you'll continue on and if not, you won't, right?"

So I've said a little something to let him feel a little bit comfortable and normally he'll go "Yeah, right." And I'll go, "Well, alright, that's fair enough. Let me ask you this, something caused you to get off the couch and actually fill out a form. What are you looking for? Not necessarily the business, but why would you want a business?"

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To your success,

Tim

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Blog 16

           Comunidad ALPHA              11 de octubre de 2010

La conferencia de Comunidad ALPHA comenzó a las 7:45 de la noche cuando el Dr. Félix Carrillo dio la bienvenida a las personas presentes.

Pasó a explicar en que consiste ALPHA, y por qué fue creada.

Nos dejó saber que la educación ha perdido su valor significativo hoy día, pues está basada en preparar a la gente para posiciones que ya no existen, que están obsoletas, o saturadas. El mundo laboral ha cambiado, las universidades nos entrenan para ser empleados de ocupaciones que ya no tienen razón de ser en el mundo moderno. Por tal razón el Dr. Carrillo nos presentó y pasó a explicar el cuadrante del flujo de dinero de Robert Kiyosaki.

Este se divide en dos cuadrantes,  el del lado izquierdo compuesto de empleados y profesionales como doctores, abogados, contables, o dueños de su propio negocio, los cuales intercambian tiempo por dinero. Las universidades nos entrenan para permanecer en este lado del cuadrante, donde se haya el 95% de la población mundial, pero solamente el 5% del dinero. Si queremos transicional al cuadrante del lado derecho donde se encuentran los dueños de grandes negocios corporativos, y los inversionistas, debemos de educarnos en las finanzas, educación que no es ofrecida por las universidades.

En este lado derecho del cuadrante es donde se haya el 95% del capital mundial, pero solamente el 5% de la población mundial tiene acceso a él. ¿Por qué las universidades no ofrecen educación financiera a sus estudiantes? ¿A qué debemos esta falta de educación e ignorancia financiera? ¿Qué ha llevado a este desbalance económico social? Regresemos a  comienzos del siglo veinte durante la época de la revolución industrial en Estados Unidos de Norte America, cuando magnates como  Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, y J.P. Morgan controlaban la economía del país. Robert Kiyosaki nos dice en su libro “Conspiracy of the Rich” que en el año 1903 John D. Rockefeller tomó posesión del sistema educativo de la nación americana cuando fundó “The General Education Board” la cual decidía lo que los niños en las escuelas debían aprender. Desde ese momento en adelante la educación en Estados Unidos ha estado bajo la influencia de los intereses de los ricos. Por tal razón las asignaturas relacionadas al estudio del dinero, y las finanzas no se enseñaban en las instituciones educativas. El propósito era educar para producir empleados que trabajasen para estos ricos magnates y sus corporaciones.

Todavía,  hoy día la gente va a la escuela, y luego a la universidad para aprender a trabajar para obtener dinero, pero no se les enseña como hacer que el dinero trabaje para ellos. La educación esta dirigida a entrenar a las personas a permanecer en el cuadrante izquierdo, el de los empleados,  profesionales, o dueños de pequeños negocios, pero no se les educa para posicionarse en el lado derecho de los ricos empresarios.

Desgraciadamente estas personas que se hayan en el cuadrante izquierdo, durante el transcurso de sus vidas transicionan através de un plan de 45 años. Durante este tiempo sus ingresos comienzan a ir en ascenso gradualmente durante los primeros 30 años de trabajo, luego se mantienen más o menos igual hasta que se retiran a los 65 años de edad, cuando se reduce a un 50%. Desgraciadamente lo que acumularon para el retiro, y lo que reciben de seguro social no les da para poderse mantener durante su edad madura cuando mas lo necesitan. Por tal razón se ha creado Comunidad ALPHA para enseñarnos educación financiera para así poder enfrentar la crisis económica que se avecina.

Seguidamente después de haber expuesto el tema anterior, el Dr. Carrillo pasó a hablar del tema de la semana.

TEMA SEMANAL

¿Qué son los círculos de influencia?

Nuestra vida esta basada en círculos.

I - Primer Círculo

Eres tú: La gente va a ver de ti lo que tú ves en ti mismo.

II – Segundo Circulo

La Familia: Tus familiares nunca van a querer hacer un negocio contigo. Te van a decir: “Después de tantos años de estudio. ¿Cómo vas a empezar un negocio?  Dr. Carrillo contó que un primo suyo, él cual el apodaba el “Rey Midas”, pues tenía la habilidad de hacer dinero en cualquier negocio que comenzase, le dijo cuando él le propuso su negocio, “que él estaba loco”.  Un año después le estaba pidiendo a Carrillo entrar en su negocio.

III – Tercer Circulo

Tus Amigos: Cuando entres al mundo de los negocios te vas a percatar, que de tus 5 amigos, ahora solo te queda uno (1).

IV – Cuarto Circulo

Compañeros de Trabajo:

Tus compañeros de trabajo te van a escuchar pues han visto que has sido responsable, honesto, y por tal razón te respetan.

V – Quinto Circulo

Los que tu no conoces: Estos si van a creer en ti, y es muy posible entren en tu negocio, pues no tienen ningún tipo de prejuicio hacia ti. A más lejos de ti, y menos conocido seas, mayor oportunidad de negocio vas a tener con ellos. Si por casualidad te dicen que no, no te lo están diciendo a ti sino a ellos mismos.

Una manera efectiva de hacer acercamiento con desconocidos es decirles lo siguiente. “Eres excelente en lo que estas haciendo. Tu serias muy bueno en lo que yo hago……”. Esta es una forma efectiva de contactar a desconocidos.

Hemos visto en el tema del día que hay círculos de efectividad para contactar a las personas con el propósito de establecer alguna forma de negociación.

Como ya sabemos como contactar, podemos percatarnos que una de las razones por la cual se ha creado ALPHA es para enseñarnos a contactar. Por tal razón Carrillo pasó a explicar el Circulo del Éxito, el cual consiste en Compartir, Formar un Equipo, Adiestrar, y Sistematizar.

Hay que perder el miedo de recomendarse a si mismo. Antes de comenzar todo negocio debes de: Evaluar, Comenzar, y Decidir. Este es el proceso del Crecimiento. Los que logren tener crecimiento van a tener mucho éxito. Con estos sabios consejos el Dr. Félix Carillo terminó magistralmente su muy interesante conferencia.