Vitamin E and Total Health

May 8, 2013

 

Yesterday, I talked about the rumors about Vitamin E in relation to prostate health and cancer. Below are some studies about why Vitamin E is good for you especially those that are not synthetic ones.

 

 

It is important to recognize that ‘tocopherols’ is a general term used for four different forms of vitamin E, namely alpha-tocopherol, beta-tocopherol, delta-tocopherol and gamma-tocopherol, which are found naturally in food sources
containing vitamin E, vegetable oils in particular.
 

 

Vitamin E in food sources also contains four other compounds, these being referred to as tocotrienols (again, alpha-, beta-, delta- and gamma- forms), but these normally occur at trace levels. However, the synergistic role of all 8 forms of vitamin E as essential nutrients is being increasingly well elucidated through research. Of the tocopherols in corn oil and soybean oil, for example, gamma-tocopherol contributes to 77 and 70 %, delta-tocopherol to 2 and 23%, and alpha-tocopherol to 14 and 7%, respectively (personal communication, Professor Tom Saldeen, internationally recognised expert on vitamin E).
 

 

Alpha-tocopherol, being just one form, exhibits different biological responses in humans and animals compared with natural blends of tocopherols (referred to as ‘mixed tocopherols’, as used in the Total Health supplement). Alpha-tocopherol, at higher dosages, may trigger responses which are antagonistic to normal metabolic function and are likely to be important factors in the seeming conflict between large numbers of epidemiologic studies, which have consistently shown that higher intakes of vitamin E in foods are associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and a number of randomized controlled trials, undertaken always with alpha-tocopherol (synthetic or purified naturally-derived, pharmaceutical form, notably alpha-tocopheryl acetate) and not ‘mixed tocopherols’.
 

 

It is therefore generally not possible to extrapolate the results from randomized trials using alpha-tocopherol as a means of demonstrating probable effects on either efficacy or safety. Nevertheless, it should be stated at the outset, even with the most cynical view of the literature, that the dosage of tocopherols (including alpha-tocopherol) within the Total Health supplement is well within the range of consumption found in the UK population.
 

 

One IU of vitamin E is defined as the biological equivalent of 0.667 milligrams of RRR-alpha-tocopherol (formerly named d-alpha-tocopherol, or of 1 milligram of all-rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate (commercially referred to as dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, the form widely used in randomised trials). The EVM (2003) estimated maximum intakes for vitamin E (food and supplements) as 690 mg of d-alpha-tocopherol equivalents.
 

 

 

The amount of vitamin E in the Total Health supplement is 250 IU (d-alpha-tocopherol equivalents) which equates to 169 mg, ensuring that it is less than 25% of the maximum intake determined by the EVM. Seen in the context of risk assessment, including the fact that the Total Health Supplement includes mixed tocopherols, rather than only alpha-tocopherol, means that this dosage does not constitute any risk to health and therefore could not give rise to any side effects (for further interpretation of the safety of vitamin E in relation to the Total Health supplement see section entitled Vitamin E risk assessment by the EVM, below). Vitamin E you may have somebody visiting you

 

 

 

In a study on more than 20,000 men, patients who developed prostate cancer had significantly lower blood levels of gamma-tocopherol than men who developed prostate cancer (Huang HY, Alberg AJ, Norkus EP, Hoffman SC, Comstock GW, Helzlsouer KJ. Prospective study of antioxidant micronutrients in the blood and the risk of developing prostate cancer. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2003; 157: 335-44; Helzlsouer KJ, Huang HY, Alberg AJ, Hoffman S, Burke A, Norkus EP, Morris JS, Comstock GW. Association between alpha-tocopherol, gamma-tocopherol, selenium, and subsequent prostate cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000; 92: 2018-23). The higher the blood gamma-tocopherol levels, the lower the risk of prostate cancer.

 

 

Men with the highest levels were 80% less likely to develop prostate cancer compared to men with the lowest levels. Gamma-tocopherol has the ability to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells to a greater degree than alpha-tocopherol
(Gysin R, Azzi A, Visarius T. Gamma-tocopherol inhibits human cancer cell cycle progression and cell proliferation by down-regulation of cyclins. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal 2002; 16: 152-4; Moyad MA, Brumfield SK, Pienta KJ. Vitamin E, alpha- and gamma-tocopherol, and prostate cancer. Seminars in Urologic Oncology 1999; 17: 85-90). Gamma-tocopherol and delta-tocopherol have also been found to be superior to alpha-tocopherol in inhibiting neoplastic transformation of certain cells (Cooney RV, Franke AA, Harwood PJ, Hatch-pigott V, Custer LJ, Mordan LJ. Gamma-tocopherol detoxification of nitrogen dioxide: superiority to alpha-tocopherol. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences USA 1993; 90: 1771-5; McIntyre BS, Briski KP, Gapor A, Sylvester PW. Antiproliferative and apoptotic effects of tocopherols and tocotrienols on preneoplastic and neoplastic mouse mammary epithelial cells. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 2000; 224: 292-301). Additionally, a relatively recent pilot, randomised controlled trial, namely the Prevention Research Veteran Affairs E-vitamin Nutrition Trial demonstrated positive results and no side effects of vitamin E in relation to prostate cancer risk (Hernaandez J, Syed S, Weiss G, Fernandes G, von Merveldt D, Troyer DA, Basler JW, Thompson IM Jr. The modulation of prostate cancer risk with alpha-tocopherol: a pilot randomized, controlled clinical trial. Journal of Urology 2005 Aug; 174(2):519-22).

 

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Rumors about Vitamin E

May 7, 2013

Many of my readers have pointed out to me articles recently published in the media in respect of vitamin E. These suggested that vitamin E supplementation could actually increase the danger of getting prostate cancer.

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That is complete rubbish and let me explain why.

 

Once again, the pharmaceutical corporations are funding scare stories about vitamins. You should be aware that the dirty tricks department of these corporations are not only very well funded but are expert at getting others to produce studies that will confirm the results that they wish to promote.

 

Unfortunately, the media always take such deeply flawed studies seriously. Why would they know any different? And the result is that the studies receive significant headlines which the studies do not deserve. It is of course what the pharmaceutical corporations want.

 

 

They see any natural supplements as a threat (albeit a relatively small one) to the continued sale of their toxic drugs.

 

 

So what is the truth of the matter?

 

 

 

Well before I deal with the specific study let me just make some general comments, since such a study is not the first and will certainly not be the last. In fact the Cleveland clinic has generated several ridiculous negative studies on the subject of vitamin E and other vitamins over the last few years.

 

No doubt the Cleveland Clinic have a close relationship with some pharmaceutical corporations although I am not an investigative journalist and I have neither the time nor the inclination to find and expose that link.

 

First, let me reassure you that every single supplement that I manufacture is based upon peer-reviewed scientific evidence that confirms the benefit of every ingredient in my supplements. If I do not have such evidence I never put the ingredient in.

 

 

Second, most studies undertaken about vitamins E or indeed any other vitamins are based on the use of synthetic vitamins. Synthetic vitamins are not the same as natural ones and inevitably have an entirely different physiological effect.

 

Unsurprisingly, synthetic vitamin E which is what this study is based upon, do not do much if any good and indeed if the study is correct can actually do harm. Most commercially available supplements use the synthetic form of vitamin E.

 

 

I do not.

 

 

 

 

The vitamin E in total health is mixed tocopherols which are entirely natural.

 

Let me explain briefly why natural vitamins can only be beneficial and can never be harmful. The human species has evolved and adapted to its environment over many thousands of generations. The food environment of the human species includes many foods that contain vitamin E.

 

 

There is no way that any nutrients provided by food that has been eaten by human beings for tens of thousands of years can possibly be harmful. If it were harmful, human beings would long ago have ceased
cultivating those foods or indeed human beings would long ago have adapted to them.

 

On the other hand, all the prescription drugs that are manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry are new and alien to the human body. That is the complete opposite of foods to which human beings have had a chance to adapt. That is why all drugs are toxic, which is why they all produce negative side effects.

 

 

It is also why pharmaceutical corporations have to study many thousands of drugs before they find one that is not too toxic to sell to people. They need to get permission to manufacture a new drug.

 

 

Even then, despite so-called scientific studies, many of the drugs released over the last 50 years have subsequently been found to be extremely dangerous and even fatal to those who take them.

 

 

In 2003 Dr. Penn of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation bashed vitamin E using another deeply flawed study, he said “. . . given our results and the lack of mechanistic data supporting [the] efficacy of vitamin E as a potent antioxidant in vivo, we do not support the continued use of Vitamin E treatment and discourage the inclusion of vitamin E in future primary and secondary prevention trials in patients at high risk of coronary artery disease.”

 

 

He got the headlines he wanted. I will not bother to point out why that particular study was flawed since it is already ancient history and has long since been thoroughly debunked, but suffice it to say that the conclusions were unjustified nonsense.

 

So let me deal with this latest study purporting to prove that vitamin E can cause prostate cancer. As I have already mentioned, that was based on a  synthetic form of vitamin E that we do not use in total
health. What we do use is mixed tocopherols and below I cite a pivotal study which showed that the natural vitamin E which we use in conjunction with selenium reduces the level of prostate cancer by up to 42%

 

 

A recent pivotal study published  further supports the view that the nutrients, and especially the combination of nutrients, present in the Total Health supplement, are above all likely to be beneficial
(the risk assessment demonstrates that at the dosages used there is no risk of harm).

 

 

The study was conducted by a group of researchers from a range of USA and Danish institutions, including Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the National Cancer Institute and the US National Institutes of Health (Peters U, Foster CB, Chatterjee N, Schatzkin A, Reding D, Andriole GL, Crawford ED, Sturup S, Chanock SJ, Hayes RB. Serum selenium and risk of prostate cancer—a nested case-control study.

 

 

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007, 85(1): 209-217). in this study, serum levels of the mineral selenium as well as other vitamins in 724 people withprostate cancer and 879 healthy  controls were evaluated over an 8 year period.

 

 

The authors found that although selenium intake, independently, had no direct bearing on prostate cancer rate, it contributed to significant reductions when higher blood selenium levels were found in conjunction with above-average intakes of other nutrients. In the case of those with higher intakes of vitamin E (in excess of 28 IU/day), high selenium intakes contributed to a 42% reduction in prostate cancer risk, while multivitamin users benefited from a 39% risk reduction.

 

 

Even smokers who were in the high selenium intake group experienced a 35% reduction in prostate cancer risk.

 

 

This latest study used Alpha D Tocopherol which is a synthetic Vitamin E derived from oil. In our supplements we use natural Mixed Tocopherols which are completely different.

 

 

 

I wish you good health,

 

Ben Ong

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Omega 3 and an Early Warning

April 28, 2013

I have received a number of emails about articles that have recently appeared very widely in the media suggesting that supplementing Omega three could actually increase your risk of prostate cancer.

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Please don’t stop taking your flax oil, this is not a significant result as I explain below.

 

 

The results were not from a new study but they were data mined from a study that completed in 2003. The actual study in question was not about Omega three it was about men taking Finasteride.

 

 

Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found when reviewing the past data, that men who had the high levels of decosahexaenoic acid, a common form of omega-3 fat, were two and a half times more likely to develop aggressive high grade prostate cancer than men with the lowest levels.

 

Conversely, those who had the highest levels of Trans fat, which has been shown to cause inflammation and heart disease, had the lowest risk of developing prostate cancer. The researchers said that the seemingly paradoxical findings may indicate that what is good for the heart is not necessarily good for the prostate.

 

The media love to hype up a controversial finding and this finding is controversial because there have been dozens of studies specifically to find whether Omega three provides benefits. And the all of such studies have agreed that there are benefits both for the prevention of prostate cancer and more obviously for the prevention of heart disease (which in fact kills even more men than prostate cancer does).

 

 

Similarly, dozens of studies have found that trans fats cause heart disease and encourage the development of cancer.

 

 

One swallow does not make a summer and one study does not prove anything conclusively. I believe it is highly unlikely that these contrary results will ever be replicated by any subsequent study.

 

 

I should also add that this data was taken from men who are also taking finasteride and that factor by itself could be the cause of such contrary results.

 

 

That is one of the disadvantages of going back and examining the results from a study that was never intended to come to any conclusions about what you are now examining.

Having said that there are better ways both to get fiber and Omega 3 which are the two things that you get from flax seed. Omega 3 is very important both for the prostate and general health.

 

 

I do food powders which are based on chia seeds. These have more soluble fiber, more Omega threes and do not need grinding. For the best source of Omega 3 however, you should really get my Antarctica Krill oil. I take four capsules of that every day. That is pure, virgin, natural and not only do you get unprocessed highly concentrated Omega three. You also get phospholipids which are the same Omega three found in the brain and they also transfer through cell membranes very rapidly, so they are very bio-available. Plus you get astaxanthine which is a very powerful antioxidant .

 

 

These are all naturally present in krill, which is caught in Antarctica, where there is no pollution. That is why they do not need to processed.

 

 

The food powders are really quite expensive so I would recommend you go for the krill oil. Below is the link where you can read about it. As for fiber, I recommend you eat a Hass Avocado  every day. I just put some vinaigrette, seasalt and black pepper on mine for breakfast.

 

Antarctican Krill Oil

 

I wish you good health,

 

 

Ben Ong

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Reality Check on Supplements

March 10, 2013

I often wonder why people who read my newsletters and my book buy supplements from lots of different sources and often really don’t have a clue what they are buying.

 

 

Here is an example of an e-mail from Beverly and my response. A thought this is information I should really share with you.

 

 To Mr. Ben Ong    

 
 
I took John to his urologist yesterday and the decision was that surgery is not going to help John. So with your advice and my looking up in the books I have already bought, Uncommom Cures for Everyday Ailments. a serious of books I believe the supplements you are talking about are in that book.  Saw Plmetto, zinc picolinate or The Postate Formula sold in most Health Food Stores. I have convinced John not to eat stew more than every other day, and eventually once a week. Because we are getting older I do not want to deprive him of all the things he likes to eat, he eats a good healthy diet otherwise, including Papaya daily.
 
 
 
Beverly P.
 
 

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Hi Bev,

 

You are doing things the hard way. I can make it much easier for you.

 

First of all it will be more expensive for you to buy the ingredients individually. Besides, there are many details that no layman is likely to know.

 

For example, the names that you read on a supplement may not be what you are really getting. Labels can very misleading. It is perfectly legitimate to label Alpha D Tocopherol as Vitamin E but it is the synthetic version of vitamin E and is actually useless. Only mixed natural Tocopherols as Vitamin E (which is more expensive) actually is useful. And how is any layman supposed to know that? My total health only uses the mixed natural tocopherols even though they are far more expensive to source than the synthetic vitamin E.

 

Most labels do not tell you the source of an extract or its level of concentration, so you can have two supplements, one being 10% extract another 90% extract but the label will be exactly the same. With my Total Health supplement, you get 750mg of 90% extract Beta Sitosterol and my label actually specifies that.

 

Very few labels will ever state the percentage extract.

 

I could go on but I think the point is made that the layman really doesn’t know what he is buying. There can be different nutrients of course but also different strengths and qualities and dosages and combinations, all of which will affect the efficacy of that particular supplement. That is why you need to buy from a trusted source.

 

There is another problem which is that it is a known fact that about a quarter of the supplements that are on the market have labels that actually mislead by mentioning ingredients that either are not present or are not present in anywhere near the dosage mentioned on the label.

 

My factory in Seattle uses the highest standard of GMP for quality control. So we do a pre-production laboratory analysis of every ingredient before it is added to a supplement. Plus there is a follow-up analysis after production to check again that everything which is on the label is 100% accurate. I would say that not more than 1 out of 100 factories do that level of GMP.

 

Your best bet remains getting your husband to take my Total health supplement. That has 27 of the ingredients that I detail in my guide. If you want to go beyond that and can afford to, I have supplements that incorporate every single ingredient mentioned in my guide.

I understand your point about not wanting your husband to do without the food that gives him pleasure. but I think you should be aware that pleasure from food is a habit and that habits can be changed. It takes exactly 30 days of doing something differently for most people to get totally used to that. So it is only 30 days of pain, if you like, for the gain.

 

I have just changed my diet to a completely raw vegan diet. I have also done that for health reasons. Believe me, it was tough at first to sit down with my family who were having roast chicken and roast potatoes which is my favorite food and I had to munch on a raw green salad. But after three weeks, I’m getting to enjoy my salad so much, that it no longer bothers me when they are eating my favorite foods that I do not wish to eat any more.

 

I tell you this because it really is important for him to make significant changes to his diet and you should be aware that it is possible. Let him try it for 30 days, no matter how hard it will be at first. He may be surprised how he will lose the habit of eating the stew.

 

I wish you good health,

 

Ben Ong

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Libido and Longevity

February 12, 2013

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Why do I link longevity with libido? The fact is that one of the best indicators of your general health and indeed how long you are going to live is the power of your libido.

 

 

 

There are a few other indicators. Many men as they age start slowing down. They lose stamina and strength and the suppleness in their joints. Does it have to be that way? To some degree, yes. But the degree can vary enormously.

 

 

 

Some men can remain vigorous and relatively supple into their 90s. Others start walking and moving slower and stiffer at the age of 50. Apart from your genetic inheritance, it is essentially diet and exercise that will determine your rate of aging.

 

 

 

The main indicators as to health and longevity in a man are how often he has sex, the length and speed of his stride, the capacity of his lungs (how long he can take with a slow deep inhale and slow exhale) and the capacity of his heart (the speed of recovery after exertion).

 

 

 

So how often should a man have sex? Obviously this will vary also with circumstances, a new wife or girlfriend will spike these results. Also, the amount of leisure time a man has will influence the results. Below I give you some general indication of average performance.

 

 

 

20s – can never get enough 30s – most days and usually more than once a night 40s – at least four times a week and more than once a night at the weekends. 50s – at least three times a week 60s – at least twice a week 70s – at least once a week 80s – once every two weeks 90s – once every three weeks 100 plus – anything is a bonus.

 

 

 

So what about men that lose their sexual appetite or ability to perform?

 

 

 

Erectile dysfunction or a reduction of male energy or a loss of libido can come from three causes:

 

 

 

The first is mainly as a consequence of decades of eating the wrong food and living a sedentary existence. As a result, a man can develop a hormonal imbalance which then leads on to failures in sexual performance and a general feeling of a lack of energy.

 

 

 

prostate_recoveyThe first step to improving that balance is to improve diet and to start doing some exercise; you can read more about that in my guide. However, although such steps may in the long-term significantly improve your sexual vigor and energy, the trio of tinctures will help you more rapidly. I strongly advise combining the two for optimum results.

 

 

 

The second is psychological and that is rarely disconnected from the first cause. If you start feeling low and having sexual performance problems, you begin to fear failure and that fear itself causes the stress which can make you fail to perform.

 

 

 

Of course, psychological pressures can also arise from personal relationship issues. Very often the physical improvement from diet exercise and supplements can help overcome the psychological issues.

 

 

 

The third is physiological where some damage has been done to the nerves in the sexual system. This can be from any traumatic situation but is most commonly the consequence of conventional medical treatment of the prostate. If the cause of Erectile is purely physiological, this trio tinctures will not help.

 

 

 

However, sexual problems are not always that simple, and even where some physiological damage has occurred, it may be a combination of causes that produces the results. Depending on how widespread the physiological damage is, the trio of tinctures may provide some assistance.

 

 

Why a trio? Most herbal supplements that claim to assist with erectile dysfunction do nothing more than stimulate the sexual glands. These may help some in the short term but they really do not deal with the underlying problems.  I wanted something more effective that in conjunction with changes to diet and exercise would improve the health of the prostate and also general health.

 

 

 

I have developed these three tinctures to help a man overcome prostate issues (especially prostatitis) consequent erectile dysfunction (ED), increase his male energy and regain his libido. They work in conjunction with one another to produce this result.

 

 

 

If you wish to feel virile once again, to strengthen your erection, to regain your sexual energy and to increase your libido these three tinctures in combination with an improved diet and some exercise will help you. It may also help you to take my total health supplement in conjunction with the trio of tinctures.tincture_organic_garlic_base

 

 

 

The way I deal with erectile dysfunction is very comprehensive. I use tinctures because they are particularly powerful as they go straight into the bloodstream. There are three tinctures that work synergistically:

 

 

 

The first one is the organic garlic which clears out the capillaries and facilitates stronger blood flow to the penis and therefore stronger erections. (but also by the way also clears the capilaries in the prostate, heart and lungs).

 

 

 

The second one is an Ayurvedic formula based on Indian herbs which is very powerful for cleaning out the prostate so that it can properly facilitate ejaculation.

 

 

 

The third one is Male Boost tincture which uses some significant South American herbs that increase testosterone and also nitric oxide, therefore facilitating stronger libido and also stronger longer erections. You could order it at this link:

 

 

 

Let me also tell you how it is best to take them. You can take them after any meal, one tincture immediately after the other and I recommend you do it in the following order, organic garlic tincture, prostate recovery, Male boost.

 

 

 

With each one, I recommend that you hold the content under your tongue for about 10 seconds before swallowing. This enables the active ingredients to enter the bloodstream almost immediately and is very effective.

 

 

 

I wish you good health.

 

 

Ben Ong

                   

 

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Heat and Ice Cubes

February 7, 2013

One of the things that seem to be most confusing to my reader is understands the difference between conventional medical treatment that includes prescription drugs and invasive treatments, and natural holistic healing.
It seems hard for people to grasp the difference between dealing with symptoms and dealing with the underlying cause. I have an analogy which I hope will be helpful to those who remain uncertain of the difference.
Imagine you have a pot full of boiling water on top of a stove. The water is boiling because it is being heated by the stove. Think of the stove as disease and the boiling water as the symptoms of that disease.
So what does conventional medicine do, they add ice cubes to the boiling water. As a result, the water cools down. But as the heat is still being applied, the water will boil once again, unless additional ice cubes are constantly inserted. In other words, the symptoms are being controlled, but only as long as toxic drugs are continued.
So what does holistic and natural healing seek to do? To continue the analogy, instead of adding ice cubes to the boiling water, holistic healing seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate the heat being applied to the water.
The object of holistic healing is to heal the whole body in order to enable it to heal itself of the disease. In other words, it tries to eliminate the disease, as a result of which the symptoms will eventually subside.
For the latter part of this blog. I’m going to reproduce an e-mail received by me from one of my customers and my reply. I think you may find both illuminating and interesting.
Ben,

 

I’m relatively new to your health program and have been taking your total health tablets for the last 3 months. I have been diagnosed with a fatty lever disease by my doctor. He advised me to lose weight and stop any alcohol intake. I had already started on your total health tablets at that time of his diagnose but when I mentioned the supplements I was taking he downplayed their role  as a waste of money. Fortunately I read your book all about the prostate prior to that visit and I have stopped getting up 2 to 3 times a night to urinate as a result.

 

My question is do you have any suggestions for treating the fatty liver that might help?

 

Hi Bert,

I’m glad to hear that total health has helped you and your own experience was a good guide to enable you to make a judgment about what your Dr was telling you. May I use your comments in my promotions? Obviously I will not divulge your contact information.
Yes I can help you with fatty liver. This is something that most doctors will tell you cannot be reversed. But of course it can be. It does take a serious and disciplined effort to make changes to your diet and it is not easy but it is important because when you have a fatty liver there are all kinds of consequences.
A fatty liver leads to metabolic syndrome which makes it very difficult to lose weight. It also mostly leads to pre-diabetes and eventually diabetes type 2 with all the complications of that. On average diabetes will shorten your life by 20 years at least.

 

There are some supplements to make the process easier. The first thing is you need to take my B complex mega plus if because apart from the B vitamins which are helpful it contains something called TMG.
It takes about a year of TMG to reduce the existence of fat on the liver. But that also presupposes that you make the effort to change your diet and take additional supplements to reverse the effects of metabolic syndrome.
The supplements are the easy part providing you can afford them. The harder part will be to make the radical changes to your diet which is to make your diet largely raw vegan.
I can help you make the transition to such a radically different diet because I am organizing an anti-ageing diet to help men who wish to make that transition. Do you have enough control over your own lifestyle and either time or assistance to prepare food to enable you to make that change if you wish to do so?
I should add that although you will be doing all this in order to combat the effects of your fatty liver and prevent yourself from getting diabetes, it will also have some amazing positive effect on your entire health profile. If you can do it, you will feel a new man and look 20 years younger. Although you will see very positive results within a few months, this is a process that will take years to complete.
You need to take two capsules a day of the B complex mega plus. And that means a bottle will last you three months. There are four additional supplements which combine to help you reverse the metabolic syndrome. You can read about them at this link and if you wish you can buy them online.

If you make the decision to follow my advice then I will find a way to give you a preview of my video course to help you make that transition to a largely raw vegan diet. Please let me know if you decide that is what you want to do and I will support to my ability.
I wish you good health,
Ben Ong

PS
If you have any health issues, not just prostate, I would like to help you if I can. I cannot help with all issues but I certainly have a lot of experience of all metabolic diseases. So feel free
to reply to this blog and I will help you if I can.

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Strawberry: Cure for Prostate Cancer?

December 27, 2012

As I’m always saying, there is no such thing as a silver bullet to cure cancer.
 

What prompts this newsletter is that recent research has looked at organic strawberries compared to industrially grown strawberries.
 

Dr John Reganold led the study at Washington State University in the U.S. Researchers analyzed the taste, nutrition and quality of three strawberry varieties growing on 13 organic and 13 conventional farms in California, as well as 31 chemical and biological properties of the soil where they were grown. The organic fruit had ‘ significantly higher’ levels of antioxidants – nutrients that mop up potentially dangerous and cancer-causing ‘free radicals’ in the body.
 

In my guide and in all my correspondence I always stress the benefits and value of organic produce. Very often, governments and official bodies try to dismiss the idea that there is any difference in the nutritional value of organic compared to conventional produce. They try to suggest that eating organic is no more than a lifestyle choice. That is baloney, encouraged by a rich and powerful agricultural lobby.

 

Strawberries and indeed all red, blue, purple and black berries can help to combat cancer providing they are organic and part of an appropriate diet with appropriate supplements.
 

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, and Lund University compared extracts of five organic and conventional cultivars for their ability to inhibit the proliferation of human and breast cancer cells. They found that extracts from organically grown strawberries inhibited cell proliferation more effectively than extracts from the conventionally grown ones, and in both types of cancer cells.
 

Bioactive compounds in foods, especially the plant phenolic antioxidants, are well known to prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease. Phenolics are present in many crops, particularly fruits, and it has become clear that organic foods are richer in cancer fighting antioxidants.
 

Bengt Lundegardh and Anna Martensson at the University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden believe that the benefits of organically grown foods have a lot to with activating the plant’s defense mechanisms to synthesize its own protective agents because synthetic pesticides are excluded.
 

In other words organically grown plants are rich in secondary metabolites which are great for fighting diseases like cancer. Many of these compounds are actually part and parcel of the plant’s own defense against pests and disease.

Organic vegetables and fruit are healthy because:

•    They are richer in vitamins, micronutrients and essential minerals and trace minerals that are virtually nonexistent in industrial he produced agriculture.

•    They are rich in antioxidants and other compounds that fight cancer and heart disease.

•    They are low in nitrates and contain little or no harmful pesticide residues. It is such residues that the body tends to store in the prostate where they cause damage and possibly cancer.

•    They contain little or no antibiotics that can harm your beneficial natural gut bacteria

•    And they taste better.
 

So keep in mind that what is good for the strawberry is good for all fruit and vegetables.

 

I urge you to eat organic produce wherever you can. Apart from taking my supplements you should avoid all animal protein or if you must have animal protein then just fish and chicken. Avoid all fried foods, all processed foods, all dairy foods and try to have at least one, or better two, raw salads every day.

 

If you do not already have my guide or are not using my supplements, please consider getting them.
 
I wish you good health,
 

Ben Ong

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Urinating Successfully

December 20, 2012

First let me tell you a thing or two about urinating successfully when you are having difficulties or pain.

 

 

If you already taking my Total Health and following my diet and exercise advice, then your situation will probably already have improved. But there are additional things you can do.

 

 

Let me explain.

 

 

Part of the reason why you may be feeling urgency or suffering difficulty is because your prostate may be enlarged and inflamed. That enlargement causes the prostate to press upon the urethra and restricts the flow of Urine.

 

 

An enlarged prostate otherwise known as BPH is not just inconvenient. It can have considerable knock on effects on your health.

 

 

There is a great deal of evidence that having interrupted sleep patterns and not getting enough sleep is detrimental to health. Inadequate sleep puts you at greater risk of heart attacks, strokes and cancer.

 

 

Diet and my supplement Total Health will eventually eliminate the inflammation and reduce the size of your prostate.

 

 

But there are other factors at work as well. Stress and tension will probably mean that you will unconsciously keep your sphincter muscles and all the muscles along the Urethra clenched.

 

 

You will probably be unaware off that tension. But you can become aware and consciously relax it.

 

 

First off, instead of urinating standing, I recommend that you sit. Lean the top half of your body forward supporting yourself with elbows on knees and make a conscious effort to relax.

 

 

You need to become aware of any tension and seek to let your inner muscles relax. It takes time and patience, but after a while you’ll feel your muscles relaxing and you will be able to empty your bladder fully. Just let it flow, do not push.

 

 

If you are having any difficulties or pain urinating, I strongly recommend that you take my Total Health and read my guide “All about the Prostate”.

 

If you have difficulty urinating, do not push the urine through. That is the opposite of my advice above, which is to relax.

 

 

If you push, you increase the back pressure upon your kidneys. Your kidneys are very sensitive to pressure and very easily damaged. You really do not want to give yourself kidney disease.

 

 

So now, let me tell you about my four new supplements. They work very well together with Total Health.

 

 

In conjunction with a low glucose diet, they will actually cure most people of type II diabetes and certainly prevent anyone who is pre-diabetic from becoming diabetic.

 

 

But that was not the reason why I formulated them. It was primarily to help people lose weight, healthily, and in a sustainable way. It turns out however that these four supplements have such powerful and useful ingredients, that they also cure a host of ills.

 

 

These supplements reduce the levels of sugar in the blood which is why they are so good for people who are either diabetic or prediabetic. It is also why it can help you lose weight.

 

 

These same supplements will, over time, help anyone who is suffering from Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). That is normally a particularly difficult problem to deal with.

 

 

Every ingredient in these four supplements work together to help reduced bad cholesterol and increased good cholesterol.

 

 

Very significantly, it will also reduce triglycerides, and lower your blood pressure significantly. This combination of benefits substantially reduces your risk of heart disease arterial disease and stroke.

 

 

If you suffer from gout, taking these supplements will enable you to completely come off medication and you will never suffer a gout attack again. Your uric acid levels will come right down.

 

 

And of course, these four supplements will even help to improve the health off your prostate.

 

 

In fact, these supplements are so good for such a wide variety of conditions that if you are over fifty and even if you have nothing wrong with you at all, these four supplements will noticeably improve your health and general well-being.

 

 

If you want to see what my new four supplements look like, and have a list of their ingredients you can click here:

 

 

So, if you have high Cholesterol, or Triglycerides, Or high blood pressure or if you want to lose weight. Or you want to cure your Diabetes, or Hypoglycaemia, or you suffer from IBS or Gout. These four supplements together can help you.

 

 

 

I wish you good health,

 

 

Ben.Ong

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BPH Kills

December 14, 2012

Most men over 50 in the Western world accept that they’re going to be getting up at night at least once if not several times in order to go to the toilet. This is caused by BPH which stands for Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy.

 

BPH simply means a slightly enlarged or inflamed prostate.
 

The word benign indicates that it is not cancer but it does not mean that it cannot be harmful. Most men wrongly believe that BPH is at worst an inconvenience, and they don’t worry too much about it, unless it becomes very inconvenient because they’re getting up three or four or even more times a night.
 

But they are wrong.

 

 

I am always saying that BPH can lead to prostatitis which is more serious, and worse still, it can also lead to kidney disease. That is because the kidney is very sensitive to pressure, and if men try to push their urine out, that causes a backward pressure upon the kidneys which will damage them. And kidney disease of course can kill you.

 

But that is not all. There is also the issue of sleep deprivation. Again, most men think that is at worst an inconvenience. But there are some pretty serious implications. Let me alert you to the dangers. There have been many studies about sleep deprivation. There are two kinds of sleep deprivation. The first is the total amount of sleep. It is absolutely clear that there are health implications both if you sleep less than between 7 to 8 hours a night and if you sleep more than 7 to 8 hours a night.

 

 

But there is also a problem with getting an adequate amount of REM sleep. This is the state of sleep where you dream and dreaming is important because it appears to be the housekeeping of the mind. Without REM sleep, your cognitive skills suffer. In order to get adequate REM sleep you need about three hours of uninterrupted sleep. So if you wake every two hours, you are not getting enough REM sleep.

 

In both cases you are at risk off insulin resistance and diabetes as well as hypertension. These are all conditions that can lead to an early death.
 

There are also cognitive effects which can have serious implications for your effectiveness and decision-making ability. There is little doubt that sleep deprivation makes you more irritable and less able to think clearly. A recent U.S. Army study concluded sleep deprivation reduces emotional intelligence and constructive thinking skills.

 

Other short-term consequences include:

•    Decreased daytime alertness. Loss of just one and half hours sleep can result in a 32% reduction in daytime alertness.
•    Impaired memory and cognitive ability, the ability to think and process information.
•    More than double the risk of sustaining an occupational injury.
•    Impaired immune system.

Long-term consequences can include the following:
•    High blood pressure
•    Heart attack
•    Heart failure
•    Stroke
•    Psychiatric problems such as depression and other mood disorders
•    Mental impairment
•    Increased mortality risk
•    Relationship problems with a bed partner
•    Obesity – (The link between obesity and sleep is an interesting one as lack of sleep can cause weight gain by increasing hunger and affecting metabolism, and extra weight can cause sleep disorders such as apnea which cause sleep deprivation.)
 

 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates conservatively that, during an average year, “drowsy driving” causes 100,000 automobile wrecks, 71,000 injuries and 1,550 fatalities.

 

 

My advice therefore is not to treat BPH lightly. Do something about it now. Make the diet and lifestyle changes I recommend in my book and take my best prostate supplement Total Health.
 

You can buy my book on my website, or if you would like to buy three bottles of Total Health, you get my book free.

 
I wish you good health

 
Ben Ong

 

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Who Needs Three Supplements?

October 26, 2012

 

In my last article I explained the unique B Complex that fits so well with Total Health.

 

So, if someone can afford three supplements what else could be useful?

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