Tag: Peculiar

As reported in the first part of this series, CELLGEVITY is inching its way to the centre-stage of Senior Citizen medicine. There, like the foundation cream of a woman’s multi-level facial make-up, it would be the foundation medicine in the treatment of virtually all diseases. The reason is clear…diseases occur because the immune system is weaker than the germs or other intruders which confront it; the master antioxidant, GLUTATHIONE, which should empower the immune system and destroy the attackers, has lost steam or is not available for defence in the right quantum; so far, Cellgevity would appear to be the only nutritional supplement or conventional medicine which enables the body to produce vast amounts of Glutathione, strengthen the immune system, protect all the cells against germs and their other enemies, guarantee a reservoir of energy in the cells and keep them youthful for longer than they would otherwise have kept at lower levels of glutathione supply.

To understand these scenarios, an understanding of the perennial “wars” going on in our bodies is necessary.

The stage for these wars is set when, the body becomes acidic from the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink, when we undergo more stress than we can stand, when our emotions are negative, when we are exposed to dangerous chemicals, when we cannot sleep well, when we are psychologically disturbed, when we are depressed…Inside our cells, live micro-organisms called microzymas. In acidosis, they devolve into bacteria and other germs, yeast, fungi and mold. If the liver and the cells produce enough glutathione, these germs are destroyed, and we do not know any “war” has taken place. Glutathione also helps us to “disarm” heavy metals such as lead and cadmium which poison the cells and organs, when they accumulate without serious checks.

Glutathione is considered the master antioxidant because, of the antioxidants, it is the most abundant and most effective in the body, and, besides, it is about the only antioxidant which recycles itself and other antioxidants.

In the first part of the series, it was shown that glutathione tissue levels drop as we age and that stress, microbial overload, insomnia, disease and other factors which engage glutathione in multiple “wars” may deplete its stocks to the point that a shortage may arise which may cause the body’s defences to be overrun by its “attackers”. Mother Nature provides not only that glutathione be recycleable but to also be manufactured from three of the amino acids…Glycine, Glutamic acid and Cysteine. Of the three, Cysteine would appear to be the most critical because it is easily affected by stomach acid and may not reach its destination in the liver and cells “unharmed”.

So, since the discovery of glutathione in 1889 by British biochemist Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), researchers have not been able to satisfactorily solve this problem. Nor even since about 30 years ago when scientists gained more understanding of the functions of glutathione has a solution been found, even with the emergence in 1968 of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) which the World Health Organisation (WHO) places on its Essential Medicines List. By 2012, for example, no fewer than 100, 775 medical articles on glutathione had been published. A summary of these is attempted by www.immunehealthscience.com when it answers the question…what does glutathione do in BODIES system? It says: “GSH is at the heart of all immune functions and low GSH levels are seen in many diseases such as AIDS, advanced diabetes and cancers. Raising and maintaining GSH levels can help minimise the risk of diseases.

“Glutathione exists in reduced (GSH) and oxidised (GSSG) states. In healthy cells and tissues, more than 90 percent of the total glutathione is in the reduced form (GSH) and less than 10 percent exists in the oxidised form (GSSG). An increase GSSG-to-GSH ratio is considered indicative of oxidative stress. The ratio of reduced glutathione to oxidised glutathione within cells is often used scientifically as a measure of cellular toxicity.”

 

Acetaminophen

This is the professional or chemical name of popular pain killer in Nigeria, which goes by many brand names such as Panadol, Paracetamol, Tylenol, Mapap. There are many analgesics which contain Acetaminophen. Ever since I learned that Acetaminophen may accumulate in the liver and cause havoc there, especially when it is abused as many people do in Nigeria when they experience one type of pain or the other, I turned my back on it. In this regard, a study by the University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, is interesting. It sought to determine the glutathione (GSH) blood, plasma and red blood levels of elderly patients over 70 years old who took Paracetamol repeatedly for pain. According to the website clinicaltrials.gov: “Paracetamol is one of the most widely used analgesics in the world, especially for chronic pains in the elderly. The metabolism of paracetamol occurs in the liver and involves the Glutamly, Cysteinly and Glycine. (Glutathione (GSH)) medications such as Paracetamol, may reduce the reserves of GSH because it is used for detoxification and elimination. It is well known that the concentration of GSH decrease after the administration of paracetamol in humans and animals. Aging is associated with decreased concentration of GSH in cells and tissues. In the elderly, a decrease of GSH in plasma or red blood cells is associated with decreased physical and mental health. We wish here to determine in subjects aged over 70years, the blood concentration of glutathione (GSH) and urinary loss of cysteine in the detoxification of Paracetamol when taking Paracetamol treatment repeatedly.”

With such a finding, by not only this hospital but by several others, it is surprising that hospital patients in Nigeria who take Paracetamol repeatedly are not advised about the implications to their health, or helped to replenish their Glutathione blood, cell and tissue levels, by adding, for example N-acetylcysteine (NAC) to their prescriptions. It is common knowledge abroad among medical people that NAC taken intravenously, inhaled as vapour or taken by mouth as a dietary supplement is used to raise glutathione levels under panadol poisoning and to detoxify panadol toxins.

 

The brain

Although it is only about two percent of the body’s weight, the adult human brain may consume as much as 20 percent of the body’s oxygen expenditure. It is not surprising, therefore, that the brain generates a high rate of oxygen free radicals, in particular Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) and Super Oxide (SO) which require large amounts of glutathione to destroy. Compared with the kidneys and the liver, the brain is under more assault from free radicals because it is a fatty organ and fats are easily damaged in the absence of antioxidant protection for them. This may account for why people under severe stress suffer from brain fogging and why the elderly, sometimes with shrunken brains and/or lost brain neurons, suffer from memory loss or dementia as lost adult brain cells are irreplaceable. The evidence of a compromised Glutathione system in the brain is probably Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s or other neurological problems. The foregoing underscores the need to build up the Glutathione stores in the body, so that every part of it is well protected against those factors which challenge its health and well-being.

 

Energy

Many people tire easily. Co-Enzyme Q10 (CoQ10) or its more biologically available variant, UBIQUINOL, has been shown to help. The answer to an energy crisis lies in the mitochondria. These are sites or structures inside every cell where energy is produced. It is like an electricity generator. The more CoQ10 or Ubiquinol a person consumes in the diet or as a food supplement, the more the chances of more mitochondria springing up in the cell to produce more energy. But in the process of producing energy in the cell, more free radicals are generated which may damage the mitochondria and its DNA. Not only that, other components of the cell such as proteins and fats may be damaged as well. In the cell, Glutathione is made, as stated, from Glutamate, Cysteine and Glycine. Glutathione, as Glutathione S-Transferase (GST) binds glutathione to Xenobiotics, that is cancer-causing agents, drugs, pollutants, pesticides, hydrocarbons and food additives. Once bound, these can be excreted from the cell and the body. Apart from making the work environment conducive for the cell to make energy, Glutathione makes energy which can be stored as Adinosinetriphosphate (ATP) and for use when needed. Low energy levels correlate with low Glutathione levels.

 

The eye healer?

Many studies suggest that high Glutathione levels in the eye support the prevention of cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and blindness caused by diabetes. It should be of interest to glaucoma patients that glutathione has been found to detoxify the inner chambers of the eye, the Vitreous humor, and promote fluid outflow from the front chamber, the Aqueous humor. Glutathione is plentiful in the lens of the eye to maintain its transparency in conjunction with other factors working for this and other common purposes. Sulphur rich foods promote glutathione levels. These include, but are not limited to, garlic, onion, asparagus, and glutathione-rich foods such as broccoli, grapefruit, potato, watermelon and raw vegetables such as spinach and kale. Sulphur-rich food supplements such as Alpha Lipoic Acid and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) also help to boost glutathione levels. Vitamin C helps to regenerate glutathione levels in all tissues. But many people take far too little of it even in food supplements.

 

Mildred Frank’s story

According to www.chiro.org:

“Many people with deteriorating vision are seeing nutritional therapy as a successful alternative to conventional medicine or surgery. An example is Mildred Frank of Ormond Beach, Fla., who experienced a dramatic improvement in her vision that was not the result of lasers or lens implants.Her vision improvement began with a can of kale.

“Frank had two retinal disorders: macular degeneration, which is the loss of central vision, and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which initially manifests as night blindness and progresses to a permanently constricted field of vision. Frank’s friend said kale might help resolve her eye troubles, so she began eating a can of cooked kale a day. Within weeks she noticed some improvement in her vision.

“Although anecdotal, Frank’s success with nutritional therapy isn’t unprecedented. The journal Optometry recently reported on 16 night-blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa who took 40 mg/day lutein for nine weeks and 20 mg/day for 17 additional weeks. Ten of the participants also took 500 mg/day docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an essential component of retinal light-receptor cells, along with a vitamin B complex and digestive enzymes for the entire 26-week study. Although the research was a preliminary pilot study, with no placebo controls, improvements reportedly began two to four weeks after supplementation started and plateaued at six to 14 weeks. Visual acuity gains were four times greater in blue-eyed people compared to those with dark eyes.

“Vision researchers recognise that lutein and zeaxanthin—plant pigments plentiful in collards, kale, mustard greens and spinach—play important roles in maintaining a healthy visual system. Lutein supplements have been available since 1995; commercially, it is extracted from marigold flower petals. A February 2001 study between Johns Hopkins University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong indicates a new rich source of zeaxanthin with traces of lutein is an extract of the berry of Fructus Lycii (Lycium barbarum).

“Lutein and zeaxanthin work because they act like sunglass filters to protect the retina. The retina, about the size of a postage stamp, contains millions of light receptor cells. Normal, healthy retinas exhibit a yellow spot in their visual centre, the macula. Lutein and zeaxanthin are concentrated in the central retina, overlying the macula, a pinpoint-wide zone where colour vision and central vision is produced. Yellow pigmentation of the central retina of animals disappears when lutein and zeaxanthin pigments are removed from the diet.

“Both types of carotenoids—the carotenes such as beta-carotene and the xanthophylls such as lutein and zeaxanthin—are essential to maintain human vision. Beta-carotene converts to vitamin A in the liver and then travels to the retina where it is converted into rhodopsin, the night-vision chemical. Intense sunlight exposure can bleach out rhodopsin from the night-vision cells (called rods) during the day and prolong visual adaptation at dusk.

“Foods such as cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potato, yams and yellow squash are rich in beta-carotene but provide no lutein. Dark-green leafy vegetables such as collards, kale, mustard greens and spinach are rich sources of beta-carotene as well as lutein and zeaxanthin. Blue-eyed individuals need more lutein and zeaxanthin because they have less of these protective pigments in their retinas.

“Although kale therapy is far from mainstream, researchers are observing connections between nutrition and macular degeneration, cataracts, and glaucoma.”

 

Dr. Gutman

Dr. Jimmy Gutman tells us in www.immunehealthscience.com:

“To be more specific about the articles I have researched to date, raising GSH has been CLINICALLY proven to be beneficial to people afflicted with AIDS, Alzheimer’s, asthma, burns, all CANCERS, cataract, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, auto-immune disorders, diseases of liver, kidneys, lungs, heart and digestive system, flukes, fibromyalgia, glaucoma (open angles only, close angles not affected), hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, physical trauma, skin disorders, seizures, tumours and more. To state something is beneficial to your health is one thing, but to prove it clinically is to give it validity. Do not under appreciate the profound meaning of this statement…raising your GSH level is CLINICALLY PROVEN TO BE BENEFICIAL for a wide range of health concerns. The research continues at an amazing pace. If you want to know what research has been done for your particular condition, go to PubMed and simply type in your condition. It would list the abstract of related articles. If you want to know what influence GSH plays in your condition, type in “glutathione and your condition” then hit search. I was amazed at what has been researched.”

 

Foundation medicine

It is such a description of the functions of Glutathione as these which recommends it to me as a foundation medicine when the doctor prescribes an antibiotic or an analgesic or even a steroidal drug. We know the prescription is a double-edged sword. It will not only perform the task for which it is employed besides, it would leave the body more toxic than it found it. This would drain body of its Glutathione store. Thus, a regular user of these drugs is more likely to see his or her doctor on a regular basis, as a possible Glutathione deficiency may be sparking off one trouble after another. Wouldn’t it be better, then, to prescribe a Glutathione formula along with every prescription? I believe it would.

 

A long search

Between 1889 and 2017 is a whopping 128 years. In this period, so much was learned about Glutathione, but so little about how to make the body produce it abundantly. The Glutathione food supplements sold world-wide until the emergence of NAC 50 years ago hardly did the job. Some of the ones sold today contain inorganic substances or were pharmaceutical caricatures of the living substances which make up the Glutathione magic matrix. The stumbling block of many of these efforts was CYSTEINE. Stomach acid always altered its form so that, by the time it arrived in the cell along with Glutamic acid and Glycine, it was no longer CYSTEINE perse and therefore, was inert in the tripartite chain. But the mountain was not insurmountable.

 

Enter Cellgevity

One of the efforts to subdue this mountain bore fruit a few years ago in dietary supplement CELLGEVITY. As mentioned in the first part of this series, this name comes from CELL and LONGEVITY. It was developed over 45 years by Professor Herbert T. Nagasawa, Ph.D., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Minnesota and marketed by MAX INTERNATIONAL, three of whose products are currently selling in Nigeria.

Cellgevity, the star product, is based on what MAX INTERNATIONAL calls RIBOCEINE technology. Again, Riboceine comes from RIBOS and CYSTEINE. Since Cysteine in the Glutamate – Cysteine – Glycine matrix is transformable before its absorption, it has to be dressed up, figuratively speaking, like an astronaut on the moon whose apparel protects him from cosmic rays. The apparel for CYSTEINE in this case is RIBOS. So, Ribos takes the Glutamate – Cysteine – Glycine matrix through the digestive tract and delivers it into the bloodstream. From there, the tripartite amino acid molecule finds its way to the liver and to the cells. Ribos is not lost. It goes into the cell to participate in the production of energy. And this is why Cellgevity is at the same time a glutathione booster and an energy producer which Max International says is three hundred times more effective at raising Glutathione levels than N-acetylcysteine (NAC).

Among Nigeria’s Senior Citizens, CELLGEVITY is a new health defence word. The word stands for cell and longevity or longevity of the cell. In other words…extended lifespan. Thus, CELLGEVITY excites aging people who want remission for one health challenge or the other. I thought about it on November 29, that is two Wednesdays ago, as the health movement world-wide observed yet another SENIOR CITIZEN’S DAY. But I did not feel inwardly driven well enough to consider this event for a column until when, last Saturday, one of my acquaintances since the 1970s, who, like me, is a Senior Citizen, telephoned me to announce that a mutual acquaintance of ours, himself also a Senior Citizen now, had a stroke overnight. Then, I thought of the many health challenges a Senior Citizen, male or female, may encounter as the twilight years approach, and some of the many natural remedies available in Nature’s pharmacy or in proprietary forms which may help them overcome these nuances which may occur anywhere between the head and the toes. It is not out of place, therefore, to begin this exploration from the rave of the moment…CELLGEVITY.

 

Cellgevity

This product has to do with making the body’s master antioxidant most abundant in the body. To understand the role of this master antioxidant, GLUTATHIONE, in the body, we need a few minutes in the classroom. Mother Nature put antioxidants in our bodies to destroy free radicals which we inhale with air, ingest with food and water, or produce in our bodies when we convert food to energy and other things, or when our immune system, soldiers of our bodies, wage war on disease germs with these destructive molecules, or these germs hurl them at the immune defences, or when heavy metals which many of us do not deliberately remove from our bodies run riot against us.

Modern anti-aging research is showing us that we can live much, much longer than we now live, free of disease and pain, if we have enough antioxidants in our bodys to neutralise these free radicals. These free radicals have been implicated in more than 200 diseases, many of them degenerative. They include cancer, asthma, glaucoma, diabetes and many more. Free radicals are unstable molecules which punch holes in our cells to steal electrons from them to stabilise themselves. As these cells are bombarded, as though they were planets bombarded by meteorites, their cellular walls break and their contents leak. They struggle to seal the leaks, produce little or no energy, become weak, vulnerable to disease germs, become diseased, prematurely aged and die. Imagine a cell hit about 100,000 times in one day! Somewhere else, I likened this scenario to a family whose residence is bombarded everyday for one month by armed robber assaults. Every member of that family would become psychically distressed, depressed and may even become insomniac or insane. Ultimately, the family would flee the apartment which would become inhabitable thereafter.

As stated earlier, Mother Nature put some antioxidants into our defence systems to prevent free radicals from cutting our lives short. Anti-aging researchers have proven the value of antioxidants in this regard by feeding some animals with more antioxidants than they normally obtain in their regular forage and watching their lifespans grow, sometimes, by 100 percent. From this, it was concluded than man could live up to 150 years if, by the present knowledge, his diet was well stuffed with antioxidants.

Thus, attempts have been made before now to improve the amounts of GLUTATHIONE, the master antioxidant, in the body. For Glutathione levels in the cells begin to decline and even fall remarkably from about the age of 40. Incidentally, this is about when many people begin to complain about one health problem or the other, which has led to the joke that after age 40, man enters into the second half of a football match of earthly existence, likening the creaks and cranks of this time to the tiredness of footballers in the second half of a football match.

In the past, Glutathione was manufactured and sold as a dietary supplement. But it was observed that little or none of it reached the cell. For the digestive system interfered with it before it could be absorbed. Thus, the major option available for obtaining Glutathione was by consuming foods rich in all the amino acids, some of which are the components of Glutathione, in the hope that Mother Nature would make Glutathione out of them inside our bodies. But the fact that many people still came down with diseases showed that they weren’t producing enough Glutathione, or stress, anxiety, disease, heavy metals et.c were consuming large chunks of this master antioxidant, thereby creating a deficiency of it.

 

Max Glutathione

This company broke through the barrier with a new technology which is believed to have solved the old problems and makes Glutathione readily available in the cells, ascending to the literature review of CELLGEVITY, its prime Glutathione product. A crucial element in the production of Glutathione is the substance L-Cysteine. In other proprietary Glutathione products, it is so transformed by stomach acid that it is not easily available to make Glutathione in the liver for distribution to the cells. But Max International rapped it up in substances which protect it against stomach acid. The technology is called RiboCeine. It is said to solder together 13 ingredients which the cells require to produce Glutathione. These 13 ingredients are (1) Vitamin C (2) Broccoli (3) Turmeric Root Extract (4) Resveratrol (5) Alpha Lipoic Acid (6) Curcumin (7) Grape Seed Extract (8) Milk thistle (9) Selenium (10) Black pepper (11) Cordyceps (12) Aloe leaf (13) Quercetin.

Incidentally, these are food supplements we consume on their own everyday. It has probably taken RiboCeine other ways and means technology to make them get the cell to produce an abundance of Glutathione. In the package, Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA), a powerful antioxidant active in both fluid and fat media of cells, fights off oxidative stress and recycles other antioxidants. ALA and Glutathione synergically protect fluid (water) and fat parts of the cell against free radical attack and damage. Broccoli Seed Extract boosts antioxidant activity, prevents DNA damage, detoxifies the cell of toxins and even carcinogens (cancer causing substances). Turmeric provides Curcumin, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, activate enzymes which support detoxification. Resveratrol is well known in the French paradox story. The paradox is that French people eat a lot of fat but hardly get fat. This is because they drink a lot of red wine from red grapes, the skin of which is rich in Resveratrol, a fat dissolving and fat-burning substance. Resveratrol protects the heart and the blood vessels, a plausible reason why French people, according to studies, suffer less from heart and blood vessel related problems.

Grape Seed Extract is antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial. It is about 50 times more powerful as an antioxidant than Vitamin A and E. Vitamin C is well known for its immune boosting activity and for supporting the production of collagen which gives form to all bodily structures. It supports wound healing and, at about 3,000mg daily, helps natural fluid drainage in the eye, thereby helpful in glaucoma, according to two-times Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling, arguably the father of modern Vitamin C research. Quercetin, a bioflavonoid, is anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and immune boosting.

Some Senior Citizens I know who take Cellgevity say it has improved their energy potential apart from improving their well-being. One reader of this column said it was introduced to her by a two-times former minister who said the product took away his crutches.

Arthritis is an inflammatory condition. As an anti-inflammatory, Glutathione can rescue the joint from arthritic damage. So much about Cellgevity.

 

The Seniors

I believe the Senior Citizen is a person not below age 50. The experience peculiar and general ailments. We can undertake a quick excursion from head to toe.

 

Memory loss

A Senior Citizen may easily forget names and directions. Some may keep the car or house key in their pocket and search for it hours on end, until someone helps out. They forget dates, too, missing appointments. I remember a couple dressed in party dress who arrived at the home of a friend of theirs one full week before his birthday party! What about spellings? They may be awful in this. On television, some oldies fail to balance their tenses, and are no longer smart in their word power. When it comes to this, there is need to protect the brain with improved blood circulation for more oxygen delivery and waste evacuation, apart from giving it antioxidant protection. We would have to return to Cellgevity for more glutathione supplies to the brain. Additionally, Ginkgo biloba is indispensable for micro blood circulation in the brain. Cayenne and Ginkgo biloba promote blood circulation to the brain. Lecithin ensures choline and inositol supply to the nerves of the brain. Grape Seed Extract, which is one of the few substances to easily cross the Blood/Brain Barrier, is an antioxidant and antimicrobial agent good for brain health. And Alpha Lipoic Acid? It has already been mentioned that it is one of the few antioxidants which function simultaneously in the fluid (water) and fat content of cells. The brain has a lot of fat content. We cannot depart from the brain station without mentioning Vitamin A and E, both antioxidants for fat media, and Lion’s Mane Mushroom which helps the brain to produce Nerve Growth Hormone or Nerve Growth Factor. This supports nerve energy flow in the nerves to keep the brain in particular young and active. The subject of a Nobel Prize Award to Italian Dr. Rita Levi Montalcini, who discovered that it helps in the regeneration of damaged nerves, it has kept this woman going well into her 104th year on earth…she still writes and read!

 

Insomnia

Recently, I was told of an 83-year-old woman who had sleep disturbances. What helped her were the proprietary product Calmful sleep and Chamomile capsules. Calmful sleep is a variant of Natural Calm, another proprietary formula. They are both Magnesium-leased but the quality of Magnesium which the body easily assimilates. There are many other recipes that can do the job. These may include Lecithin and Mag phos from the cell or tissue salts category. There is Bell’s Sleep and Relax tea, Melatonin, Ginkgo (if blood circulation to the brain is poor).

 

Headaches

There may be many potential causes. The blood may be thick due to dehydration. Water should be drunk about 30 minutes before a meal to provide resource for the production of Pancreatic enzymes which aid digestion in the intestine. Two hours after a meal or thereabout, water should be drunk for a flushing and dilution of absorbed nutrients. If there is no water for dilution, the blood may be so thick that, osmotically, it sucks up water from surrounding tissue, dehydrating them. In the brain, this causes the pain of headache. Indigestion may throw up gasses which, traveling in the blood to the brain, may disturb the brain cells. Digestive enzymes and fiber help out. I often recommend Pawpaw leaf juice or powder. The juice or powder contains enzymes which digest fats, carbohydrates and proteins. The leaf or powder also helps to stop bleeding by supporting the production of platelet cells in the bone marrow, which should be good news for people about to undergo chemotherapy or those going through it. Sometimes, I eat pawpaw fruit, pawpaw seed and take some pawpaw leaf powder as a meal. The effect on my bowels is tremendous.

Ringing in ears

This may present also as noises. The nerves can be calmed with Magnesium and Chamomile which blood circulation is improved using Cayenne or Alligator pepper.

Blurry vision

It is important to consult an ophthalmologist to determine the roots of any problem. Dr. William Bates shows in his book BETTER SIGHT WITHOUT GLASSES that not all cases of lens or refractive problems require eye glasses. This book teaches eye exercises that can be performed to improve vision, where the causes of trouble are not degenerative questions. Sometimes, eye problems are simply the outcome of nutritional deficiencies. Some oldies lack Vitamin A. Some people take the oil-soluble Vitamin A, but their bodies cannot easily convert it to the usable form. Some convert well but do not have enough Zinc in their bodies. Without enough Zinc in the eye, Vitamin A is not well utilised by the eye. Being someone who does not easily convert beta carotene to Vitamin A, I get round this by adding Zinc to my water-soluble (solubilized) Vitamin A. The eyes need about 18 antioxidants which include Bilberry (to protect the retina), Zinc, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin B-complex, Selenium, Lutein, Zeazanthin, Astazanthin et.c. Some of them are combined in proprietary supplements such as Eye Max, Eye Max plus, Maxi Vision, Eye Promise, Optic Nerve Formula, Vision Saver, Bell’s 20/20 Vision (Vision Day and Night), Forever Vision et.c. It is important to check labels for dosages and array of ingredients to reduce eye tension, good daily dosages of Vitamin C are advised along the ophthalmologist’s prescriptions which may include Bitter Kola eye drops developed by ophthalmologist Professor Bukunola Adefule-Oshitelu. There is a huge role Cellgevity can play in vision health. I am not surprise, therefore by stories that it helped some cases of Cataract. The antioxidants in Cellgevity are well indicated for the eyes. I was diagnosed with glaucoma about 22years ago and, since then, I have not failed on regular bases to take many, if not all, of the ingredients which makeup cellgevity. For people who ask about cataracts, CATARACT CLEAR and VISION SAVER from Nature’s Gift for Life may be worth a try.

The mouth

Far too many questions than can be addressed here are sometimes involved in Senior Citizen health. The mouth may be smelling. The gums may be swollen and bleeding. The teeth may be loose in their sockets and falling off. Oral antibiotics help. These include Bitter Leaf juice, Basil juice, Pawpaw Leaf juice, Garlic, Onion, Clove oil, Oregano oil spray, Apple Cider Vinegar mouth wash, Cinnamon, Banana peel and Orange peel mouth cleaning. Activated Charcoal cleaning and Grape Seed Extract mouth rinses.

The throat

Swallowing difficulties should be promptly investigated. A growth or a lump may be developing which may result in a cancer if care is not taken. Phlegm buildup should not be treated lightly. Ditto tickling sensations and even unproductive cough. If coughing persists despite the use of medicines, the doctor should be consulted. Such coughs may be warning signals that the heart is enlarging or has enlarged. In this case, it pumps blood to the lungs for oxygenation but is unable to pump it out. Meanwhile, irritated, the lungs try to get rid of the irritant. This condition is known as Congestive Heart Failure. (For more information about this and other heart problems which yield to home remedies, you may wish to visit www.olufemikusa.com for the posts titled…How Healthy are your heart and blood vessels?). Sometimes, a throat problem may affect the wind pipes, resulting in upper respiratory infections. Sometimes while it may be worse, as in bronchiestasis where the wind pipes have lost motion capacity. Golden Seal Root may help clear infections as should Colloidal Silver, Oregano oil and many more. It should be noted, however, that nasal and throat infections which persist for more than 3months and tend to defile antibacterial medication may not be caused by bacteria but by fungi. This was the finding in a 2010 study which MAYO CLINIC carried out with thousands of patients.

The stomach

This is the domain of peptic ulcer, esophageal reflux, hiatal hernia, indigestion and, sometimes, the origin of bad breadth. If foods are miscombined, this may lead to indigestion. A miscombination may involve eating fruits over solid meal as is the culture of three-course meal. Fruits take about 30 minutes to digest, complex carbohydrates about two hours and proteins, such as beans and meat, much longer. Therefore, fruits, already digested, may decompose into acids while awaiting the digestion of more complex foods. This may cause acidosis, heartburn and such irritation to the stomach as may end up in peptic ulcer. Decomposition and fermentation of foods trapped in the stomach may cause gas buildup, some of which is evacuated through the mouth by way of burping and belching. The smell may be foul. In this type of stomach germs may buildup such as Helicobacter pylori, which is believed to cause peptic ulcer and found at the sites of ulcers. If this germ travel up the throat, they can cause infections and damage their. The situation may be worsened by the fact that many Seniors leave Sedentary lives. Digestive enzymes help Seniors a lot because, in any case, their bodies may not be producing enough of them and, despite this, they may be eating voluminously. I find that the proprietary product ACIDIC STOMACH AND ALKALINE BALANCE help this condition. Ditto Apple Cider Vinegar and Slippery elm.

• To be continued.