All in the Mind

“Visualize it and it’s yours”. Yeah right! I’ve been visualizing a Lotto win for years. It works well on kids. I would visualize a peaceful evening move the clocks forward, feed them dinner early and convince them it was 8pm bedtime when it was only 6.30pm. Ahhh bliss.

The power of suggestion is not to be under-estimated, so I decided to delve more into the techniques. I’ve read about psychosomatic influences. The power of suggestion. There’s even research where they compare people who had knee ops with those who just had a cut and stitches on their knees but believed they had the full operation. The recovery and success rates for both groups was identical! People believe they are cured and so they are.

How does it work? Little is known about this aspect – but it’s all to do with belief. If you believe you will recover, you enjoy a much higher chance of success. I also discovered that 69% of the response to vitamins was apparently psychosomatic too. So I decided to use myself as a guinea pig. I’ve taken vitamins all my life and TRY and eat healthy and walk or jog about 20-30 minutes a day. I don’t believe in straining myself too much!

I made an appointment with the Nutritionist, Kate Gray at http://www.lifespark.co.nz/  She stood me on this amazing electronic machine, holding onto two handles while an painless electric current went through my wayward body – thankfully she didn’t tell me how it worked until afterwards! It calculated my water and fat content, my muscle tone….in fact about 40 different measurements – even the percentage of fat around my critical internal organs. In conclusion, Kate told me, I was 15 years younger than my biological age! Yippppeee that makes me younger than my husband!

After a conversation about diet with Kate I decided to pull myself back on track. More walking, water drinking and less sugar. At this rate I’ll be 18 by Christmas! Of course it also means I may be working until I’m 90 to pay for the extended years of shopping I’m determined to enjoy!

I didn’t dare confess that the occasional glass of wine and bar of chocolate sometimes consumed at the same time was my secret to success! But it did make me think about the Health Script vitamins I take. Do I really need them? I decided to stop them completely and carry on with my usual routine.

Initially I didn’t notice a thing. But after about a week I started to feel down, tired, every little thing seemed a struggle. I’d suffered disruptive and broken sleep, and just couldn’t be bothered with much…. I pressed on. It’s been nearly three weeks now and I am firmly back on the health supplements. After a week of pill popping I noticed what was missing. Not the power of suggestion, but the power of good quality nutrients. As we age we gradually suffer from vitamin deficiency, out bodies less able to extract some of those critical minerals and vitamins from our food. After taking Health Script Vitamins again I felt like I was flying during my morning walk/jog. I now feel upbeat and energized. I slept through the night for the first time in three weeks. The PM does the trick for a good, relaxing night’s sleep and along with the AM to kick start the mornings, I’m firmly back on track.

I wasn’t going to say anything – almost felt I couldn’t – shamelessly promoting my own products. What a cheek! I was telling a good friend and she said, “ hell yeah – blog it. Tell them about your response – people can take it or leave it. But even I can see the difference in your whole demeanor!”

So that’s it then – give it a go with good quality health supplements that deliver potent anti-aging antioxidants and all those rich minerals you maybe missing in your diet. Get to feel 15 years younger too! Of course the downside is you’ll be paying taxes for longer – groan – unless you marry a younger work-horse or seven – Liz Taylor had the right idea!

See www.healthscript.co.nz for more information including details about every top quality ingredient used in these products. Gluten and dairy free.

Why do You Need Multi-Vitamins?

Ummm What am I looking for again? Uh-uh can’t remember her name? Having trouble sleeping? Or worried about things that didn’t used to bother you before? Before what? Lack of sleep, stress, low levels of nutrition and poor lifestyle habits can contribute to irritating changes in brain and body function and a sense of operating under par as we age. Add to that the prospect of mid-life crises for men and menopause for woman and your whole wellbeing goes out of whack.

Contributing to this mix is the depleted nutrient level and over processing of foods we eat and toxins in our environment. This is a recipe for under performance in day to day life, at work or recovering from exercise. Feeling tired and unmotivated is just a symptom of the greater picture. As we age our bodies are less effective at extracting vitamins from our food and our bodies become starved of essential nutrients to function at our optimum. Stress impacts harder and we tend to cope less effectively with all kinds of issues.

New Zealand soils are deficient in selenium, magnesium, zinc, and boron. These essential minerals are critical for a healthy body and mind, keeping hormone systems in balance and maintaining immunity, especially during winter. Also a number of chronic diseases have been linked to diets lacking in these elements.

I was talking to a Charge Nurse this week, whose worked in NZ hospitals for the past 32 years. She made an interesting comment about our over drinking of water in recent years. “I see what would be healthy patients, but they drink so much water that they flush all the nutrients through their system. They take vitamins and they eat healthy but they wash all the goodness out of their body,” she explained. Later she talked about a “fluid restricted” diet for those with kidney damage. These patients functioned on 800ml of fluid a day as their kidneys were so damaged from overworking and processing so much fluid for so many years. So while it’s good to maintain normal fluid levels, remember drinks other than water are also fluid and 8 glasses a day should be more than enough for normal body function, which will not flush vitamins out of your system.

There are a total of 13 essential vitamins, including vitamin A, B-complex, C, D, and E.  Each vitamin plays an important role in improving and maintaining your health.  A good quality multi-vitamin will often have other ingredients too like antioxidants to support healthy aging and other nutrients to support cell regeneration and body recovery, etc. A quality multi-vitamin can help in all the metabolic processes of your body and brain, as well as boost your energy levels. Health Script believes a good multi-vitamin supports and maintains your health and shouldn’t be used as a substitute for a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables and grains.

What Makes a Quality Multi Vitamin?

Complete: Women in particular, need at least 30 different vitamins and minerals says the latest scientific research.

Guaranteed  Quality: The best health supplements are put through rigorous quality testing so you get exactly what it says on the label.

Bio-available: The nutrients must be in the most bio-available form. Natural  and Free of artificial preservatives, dyes, allergens or other contaminants.

You be the Judge: Try another formula if a multi-vitamin doesn’t make you feel better within the first 30-60 days. All your symptoms my not have improved in that time, but you should notice a real improvement in your overall energy levels and wellbeing.

Find out more about top quality vitamins, formulated and made here in New Zealand at: http://www.healthscript.co.nz/

Is Resveratrol Up to Close Inspection?

Resveratrol is based on the high anti-oxidants found in red wine but latest research shows that’s it’s not the wine, the grapes or its’ flesh that has the magic anti-aging qualities.

Grape Seed Extract is very high in Anti-aging Anti-oxidants

“Grape Seeds are a particularly rich source of PC’s  containing more than any other grape product, such as red, white or rose wine or grape juices. ..” Herbs & Natural Supplements; 2007, L Braun & M Cohen pp 397)

Read the labels of vitamins you have and check the levels of GRAPE SEED EXTRACT. After undertaking thorough research we put 6,000mg of this active antioxidant in our Health Script AM FEEL Alive formula along with 23 other ingredients to boost your energy and improve your immunity. Ideal multivitamin to ward of winter bugs! See our customer feedback:

http://www.healthscript.co.nz/Feedback.aspx