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allowing Welcome to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams, Scientific
director at Invite Health, and happy Saturday morning to everyone. I have a
lot to cover today. I thought it would focus kind of on a food
based show because I talk so often about adherence to a Mediterranean style way of
eating, and I think it's always very important to understand why it is that
the Mediterranean diet and I don't like that weird diet because I always look at
diet as being like somehow caloric restriction, where as in Mediterranean style eating,
that's a really a better way to describe this. So when we understand the
science behind the foods and the components of the foods that are contained within that
Mediterranean range or that variety. We can start to then put those pieces of
the puzzle together. And there are many fascinating studies that have been conducted on
the Mediterranean diet across all aspects of health. So when it comes to not
just cardiovascular health, and I think originally this is where a lot of the
initial focus and attention was was, you know, if you eat these healthy
fruits and vegetables and good healthy fats, high fiber foods, this is going
to help balance your cholesterol. Very beneficial for the blood vessels. But then
they are to kind of expand outwards and look at how it is that the
Mediterranean style of eating was actually yielding much more cellular protection than they initially thought.
So even in the setting of cancer research, there has been a large
body of research and evidence out there showing how beneficial this is. Same thing
when it comes to bone loss, which I always find incredibly fascinating when we
start to understand that when we are adhering to this style of eating, how
beneficial that is to kind of prevent oxidative stress and inflammation that can create significant
bone turnover. And so looking at all of the different science and like,
oh, hey, if I eat this way, it's great for my brain,
it's great for my heart, it's really good for my bones, it's
wonderful for my muscles, good for my mood, and it just makes sense.
So we have so many different formulations that fall into that category of being
very adherent to the Mediterranean style way of eating. So I thought, you
know what, I'm going to do a show or I highlight some of these
different products for you. So I'm gonna get into all of that today Today
there are so many things going on in the world, as we all know
every single day, but as you probably know something about me, I am
a huge sports fan across all aspects. So today's a big day for Wimbledon.
You have the women's final, tomorrow's the men's final. So for you
tennis junkies out there, this is your weekend to really take all of that
in. I am a huge Tour de France fan, so today is stage
fourteen. And actually just before I came on the air, I was watching
the Tour de France and there was a big crash, which is really it's
always such a shape because I mean these guys train and train and train,
and to France is such a long it's I mean, it's twenty one different
stages, so it's three weeks long that these guys are out there biking.
So there was just a big pile up and so that's never a good thing.
But it just rained and so the roads were kind of slick, So
hopefully it all concludes safely for the rest of today for all of those riders.
And there's so many American riders who are in the Tour de France,
so it's always nice for me. I'm not into biking myself, but I
really do find watching these cycling races just so exciting and understanding the difference between,
you know, who are the sprinters, who are the mountain climbers,
so it's always really fascinating. So I'm hooked on my Tour to France right
now, and I love to look at the beauty of just seeing them go
through different villages and the countryside and it's just so pretty. So if you
want a good way to decompress, check out the Tour de France, because
even if you're not into, you know, bicycling, it's just really nice
just to see the scenery. So that's my tip for the day, and
then tomorrow have the big Indie race out of Toronto. So I have all
these things that are just action packed. And of course I am here in
South Florida dealing with the horrific temperatures that we've been dealing with. And I've
been in South Florida for many years since I'm used to the heat of the
summer, but this is much different. This is like unbearably hot. It's
been like with our heat indexes well into you know, one hundred and five
hundred and ten degrees. It's just uh and when you talk about that that
stickiness, and it's just it's very, very hot. So I don't know
what's going on in the water. Temperatures around here are just it's it's prime,
let's just say, for for hurricanes. So hopefully we don't have to
deal with anything like that. And another thing today in history, because because
I am from Detroit originally, I thought I would just mention that back in
nineteen oh three Ford Motor Company, which they had just started in June of
nineteen oh three, you know, and Henry Ford, this was his third
attempt as starting a automobile company. And so as I always say, three
times a charm. Well, I guess it worked out for him right.
But in July July fifteenth of nineteen oh three is when he took his first
order for the Model A automobile. So I just thought thought it was very
fascinating. I said, it was a dentist out of Chicago that ordered this
vehicle. So I like things like this about history, especially when it can
tie back to, you know, where you're from. I know the New
Yorkers like to hear the history of New York and I'm very much into anything
that's motown. And you know, with all of the car industry up there
in Michigan, I have so many family members that still work for whether it's
four or GM. So I always find it in treguing. But today,
first time that an order was put in for the old Model A vehicle,
So just interesting. It's a travel through history, one can say. Now
let's get back to the science. Let's talk about the Mediterranean style way of
eating. Why is this so important? And because I know sometimes I feel
like I like I talk about it a lot, but I do this because
I feel in a way slighted that I went through medical school. You know,
I did my four years of undergraduate. I have my two years that
I did for my master's degree in public health, and then I did four
years of medical school, and we never zeroed in on the importance of diet
and why foods matter. And then I take a step back and I say,
but you know, Pocratey said, let food be thy medicine. So
I find it very important that now that I understand this so much better and
it's my passion, then I share this with folks. And so if you
hear me a lot of times talking about, you know, it's not just
about this supplement. You also have to partner it with, you know,
healthy lifestyle and stress management and healthy foods. It's because I see the difference
even in myself. I said to my husband the other day, I said,
oh, my goodness, I couldn't imagine like eating the way that I
used to eat, you know, twenty years ago. Goodness gracious, if
I was eating that same way now, I would not have any energy.
Likely, So I do. I adhere to a Mediterranean diet. I feel
really good, I sleep good. Of course, I partner this up with
the supplements that I'm taking every day, and I partner it up with different
mindfulness techniques because stress management, to me is really very important and that was
one of the key aspects that I was missing from my routine. But then
I went and I did a certification through the Center for Mind Body Medicine,
and I learned so much about how I really wasn't doing a good job with
how I manage daily stressors. So now I feel, you know, good
on a regular basis, And that's a nice thing to be able to say
to really you know, say, you know, I feel energetic, I
feel healthy. This is It's what I think most people are seeking out from
Invite health, and that's what our goal is. Our goal is to help
you help yourself. So when it comes to the foods, we always have
to have that conversation. We have to talk about what are you eating and
if right now you're doing kind of all the wrong things, that's okay because
you're not alone, because we know that the majority of Americans are not doing
the right things. But there's always that opportunity to make changes, and once
you start to make those changes, you will start to see and feel the
difference. So looking at the Mediterranean diet, obviously we know that this is
going to be packed with powerful plant polyphenols, all of those wonderful antioxidants that
we get from green leafy vegetables for example, as well as you know,
berries, seeds, nuts, seeds and nuts are actually really wonderful because they're
loaded down with healthy fats, fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals. So
next time you're thinking what should I snack on during the day, a handful
of nuts would be a very good idea. And is there a difference between
nuts, Of course there are. You know, there's certain studies that come
out that show, hey, you know, stick with walnuts. Other studies
where it's you know, you know, almonds are very good for you,
pistachio. So at the end of the day, just zero in on making
healthier choices. So instead of grabbing that bag of potato chips, get yourself
a handful of nuts. This is something that you can easily partner up with
some berries. It's summertime, it's easier to have access to fresh fruits and
vegetables. But we want to be able to get sufficient polyphenols. I talked
about the studies recently where they have shown that higher carotenoid intake. Remember,
the carotenoids are going to be coming from like green leafy vegetables for example,
as well as those orange, red, and yellow pigmented fruits and vegetables,
and higher serum blood levels of carotenoids are directly associated not just with protection for
your eyes, but also when it came to the support for the cardiovascular system,
so we know that it's wonderful for your brain, also very good for
your heart. So this is why your foods really do matter. And we
know the longevity benefits of adhering to a Mediterranean style way of eating that there
has been so much focus on, well, which component is it? Is
it the extra virgin olive oil, What is actually providing the most support and
what it is? It's the comprehensive blend of all of these nutrients working synergistically
together. And this is why we have so many formulations that mimic that Mediterranean
style way of eating. So we can look at formulas like the reds HX
or the greens HX, and we can zero in on how those fruit and
vegetable combinations, which are also partnered up by the way with powerful probiotics to
help to enhance our immune defenses, how this works in the body to create
that balance for cell energy, for cell protection, and so this is a
wonderful way for us to get exposure to what the Mediterranean offers us through taking
a scoop of red ZHX or taking a scoop of the greens HX every single
day. And even if you're not doing it every day, even if you
take our red ZHX and you say, you know, I use it three
times a week, it's better to do that than to not do that at
all. So I'm going to talk about these different formulations, talk about the
science behind them, why it is so beneficial, how it can help to
enhance nitric oxide production. You know that that's important because that will help with
vasodilation, so for better optimal blood flow, for example. So I'm going
to get into all of that, plus much much more on the flip side
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We want to talk about the reds Hax, the Greenshax, and the
greens Ahax. This is also very unique in its own way because we think
about daily detoxification and so having the power of those different herbal extracts and things
like Clarella and Spirollina in this formulation really helps the liver kind of filter through
all of the crud that we get exposed to each and every single day.
So it can come from the air that we're breathing from different chemicals you know,
that are laden on foods. But in any event, we want to
have the ability to remove these types of toxins, and so having that Greenshex
on board really helps at that cell level to generate energy but also to grab
on to those toxins and allow the body a better mechanism to remove those.
So if we just look at the big picture and we say, okay,
well, both the REDSHX and the Greenshex they're these combination powdered formulations, but
they contain fruit and vegetable extracts. So this is a great thing, especially
if you're not one to take in a lot of fruits and vegetables. Now,
what makes our formulation so incredibly unique is the amount of fruits and vegetables
that are actually contained within these formulations. There are many other products that are
out there on the market, you know, that are are touted as being
you know, wonderful replacements for you know, eating fruits and vegetables. I
mean, nothing's an actual replacement for eating a fruit and vegetable. You still
want to you know, eat whole foods. But we also recognize that we
can add in, we can supplement, hence the words supplementation. We can
supplement and we can gain even more support out of these different formulations. And
so you look at our product and you say, wow, this really is
this is packed with you know, you name the fruit, you name the
vegetable. It is likely in the Red's Chex and the greens Chex. There's
some other things that are out there, as I mentioned, on the market
where maybe they have you know, seven or eight different things in the product.
This is loaded with like forty different fruit and vegetable extracts on top of
getting that probiotic, so to enhance once again the immune defenses. And that's
key for year round immune health. So we should never overlook that a lot
of times people want to zero in on their immune system function just when it's
you know, the weather starting to get a little junkie, so you think
about it in the late fall and into the winter. But we should be
thinking about our immune system year round. So this is you know, just
another benefit to you know, having a consistent routine where you are using the
greens HX or using the reds HX. And you know, I always go
back to a study that I remember coming across many years ago, and it
was published in the American College of Nutrition, so that particular journal, and
this was in two thousand and four, so we're talking almost twenty years ago,
and they were reporting on the finds that we're done out of the University
of Texas where they did soil sampling, and they could find that the soil
quality in the United States had significantly dropped from the previous fifty years, and
so the nutrient density that we are obtaining from our whole food fruits and vegetables
is not what it wants used to be. Now, that's an important takeaway
because this is why having the red's ahex or the greens chex adds that added
boost, because we're getting that higher amount of those polyphenales, we're getting a
higher amount of those vitamins and minerals coming from those fruits that we know that
the soil perhaps is no longer rich in. And this is key because they
were able to zero in and say, well, wow, this area over
here in the country, you know, it definitely has much lower B vitamin
content than it did fifty years ago. And you start to look at this
and you say, oh, well, you know, maybe this is why
cardiovascular disease is on the rise, because we understand the importance of B vitamins
when it comes to heart protection. Maybe this is why mood disorders are on
the rise because if we're not getting good enough exposure to things like magnesium and
B vitamins that help the body detoxify and support proper release of neurotransmitters. Maybe
this is why people feel a little bit more anxious now. So we want
to be able to cover those gaps. And this is where supplementing with the
Red's achex or the greens ahex can be really, really helpful. So as
you're taking this, you say, okay, so I'm getting you know,
forty different fruits and vegetables. I get this wonderful probiotic blend. I have
the power of clarella and spirolina and elf alfa extract that are all contained in
the greens Chex. This is a really good way for me to get this
higher exposure, to get all of those true benefit fits that go along with
the Mediterranean style way of eating. And we understand that we want to have
a high exposure of antioxidants in our system each and every single day, because
if we are lacking adequate antioxidants, you can start to see where dysfunction occurs.
And this is an area of medicine or an area of science that I
don't think is zeroed in on enough that the importance of why are we born
with antioxidants? You know, why do we come into this world having you
vitamin C in our body? Why do we come into this world having coenzyme
Q ten already in our system? Because the body is equipped and designed to
have these protective barriers. And if the epigenetic factors, and you think about
what is epigenetics, So we're looking at, you know, other environmental factors,
extrinsically occurring things from the outside that affect the body and then alter normal
gene function. So if we have genes that are regulating a particular process or
a pathway in the body and that is getting screwed up because we don't have
adequate antioxidants coming into our system and we are not generating enough natural or endogenous
antioxidants, well, now we can start to piece all these things together so
we know that mitochondrial dysfunction, which means when you're the energy producer of the
cell starts to wither away. That so much of this is driven because of
inadequate antioxidant exposure. So taking formulations like the REDSHX and the Green's HX gives
the body that support that it is desiring that you're saying, please just give
me some antioxidants so I can handle this world that you've put me in.
So this is why taking these formulations is so beneficial. Now here's another little
fun fact. When it comes to taking products like the red ZHX, it's
almost kind of like your own form of natural SPF. So we're in the
heat of the summer, you start taking your red ZHX. It's helping with
your hydration because it's going to force you to drink water and all of those
powerful carotenoids that are contained in that give the body an internal mechanism to fight
off harmful V exposure coming from the sun. So when people are using the
red ZHX, they will oftentimes say, you know, I feel like my
skin has this lovely healthy glow to it. I feel like my skin is
more hydrated because it is it's supporting the cellular function from the inside out.
So to me, the red ZHX is kind of the summer go to along
the orange X. I like that one too, But the red X is
a wonderful option because remember we're also getting that probiotic blend in that, so
we know that the higher intake of those healthy bacteria are going to allow for
better colonization of other healthy bacteria within the intestines, and all of this is
important. And then we have those fruit extracts and the vegetable extracts with all
the powerful polyphenols. But it also leads to a path of allowing for eural
life in a production. So what's eural life in a that's coming from pomegranate,
So when people eat pomegranates, it actually goes in and it works within
the gut microbiome. So it allows the bacteria, the healthy bacteria to create
this eural life in a which actually can then help our body lessen inflammation.
So we're taking the redshex or the GREENSHAX. We're getting these powerful polyphenols that
help to facilitate that process, which is a great thing. So many times
people don't think about the REDSHX or the GREENSHX in those settings, but they
really are very much so kind of an anti inflammatory supplement because getting that exposure
to all of those fruits and vegetables is doing so much to support daily cell
function. And of course, if you're using the greens and you get that
spirollina and you get that clarella, they in and of themselves are almost like
little superfoods because they're loaded down with key vitamins and minerals. Healthy fats are
actually even contained in the clarella and the spirollina, so it really is very
beneficial. And they've studied the way that the clarella and spirollina is working in
the human body even outside of the setting of detoxication, because we know that
they do a wonderful job these little elgis just they pack a punch to be
able to grab onto things like heavy metals and you know, any of those
VOCs, those volatile organic compounds that we're exposed to. But we also recognize
that they do a wonderful job when it comes to immune system regulation. So
for those who have seasonal allergies, they may find hey, you know,
I started using the greens HX and I see a huge difference. You know,
is it the probiotic that's in that formulation that's helping, or is it
because I'm getting higher vitamin C which regulates histamine, or is it the spiroalina
and the corella. Well, it's a combination of all of them. And
so this is why when we look at ideal supplementation and adherence to Mediterranean style
way of eating the reds and the greens is very comprehensive. And can you
do both together? Of course you can. My husband likes to do that.
Sometimes he'll take a scoop of the reds and then he combines that with
the scoop of the greens. So you can get very creative with these different
formulations in terms of how you are taking them. They're also really good for
even younger folks who maybe you're a little bit picky the red zhex. We've
had great success with that particular product for those younger, untrained palettes that maybe
are finicky when it comes to to certain you know, eating fruits and vegetables.
Maybe they're like, I don't want to eat fruits and vegetables. But
then you give them the red ZHX. You can mix it in with something
like an organic apple sauce, for example, and it's a wonderful way to
once again get these powerful antioxidants, these vitamins, minerals those probiotics into the
system so that they can really do what we know the power of those fruits
and vegetables are actually providing for us. So it's just a it's a great,
great product. We look at all the multiple benefits, the improvement of
mood, the improvement of heart health, brain health. I mean, this
is one of the big things that I always talk about with the meta trains
and diet is you know, do you want to be in the skinny brain
line or do you want to be in the fat brain line? And you
know, much of this comes down to the you know, obtaining of good
healthy fats. So this is why when we talk about omega three fatty acids
on this show, you hear Jerry Hikey talk about krill oil advanced, or
you hear me talk about fish oil. Why those are so important because it
helps to maintain brain volume. But another thing that we know helps to maintain
brain volume, it are all of these polyphenols, all of those powerful antioxidants
that actually can fight off neural inflammation. And fight off free radicals that can
do damage to our neurons, dinging them up, creating them to a state
where they just don't function anymore. So then the brain starts to atrophy or
shrink. So if we're taking red'SHAX or grains atax, we kind of
are avoiding those problems we're giving the brain. The Nutrians, of course,
we want to partner this up with eating whole food, fruits and vegetables and
getting those healthy fats in. So snacking on your seeds and your nuts,
making sure that you are incorporating in healthy fatty fish in your diet at least
a couple of times a week would be a very good idea. You know.
Extra virgin olive oil, of course, try and find something that is
actually a good quality. There's so many bad extra version olive oils out there
on the market unfortunately, but yeah, it's not that difficult to find good
quality extra virgin olive oils. So these are the things that we want to
think about every day when it comes to how do I get more onto that
Mediterranean style way of eating. So and it's not just limited to fruits and
vegetables. There are many other components that fall into that Mediterranean style way of
eating. So I'm going to talk about some more products on the flip side
of this break because it is key to understand how these nutrients are working and
why it would be beneficial to consider having them into your daily supplementation routine.
So stick around with me. I will be right back. You are listening
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Our number again is eight hundred four four one, seventeen seventy and welcome
back to Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams managing the heat down
here in South Florida. It has just been so sticky. And my husband
he goes out into the to the yard and he's tending to all of his
fruit trees. And you know, it's not just the little pest that you
have to deal with because you know, he's not putting any pesticides on anything.
So he's out there, you know, having to pull little caterpillars off
of you know, we have our night Jasmine which got attacked by these little
moth caterpillars. And it was it was interesting because one night we went back,
they're like, oh my goodness, it smells so lovely back here because
the night Jasmine. And then like a week later we're like, what is
happening to this night Jasmine. You could see it starts, you know,
you could see something's eating it um and the flowers we're going away, so
we're like, mm, what is this. Since then he discovered um that
indeed it was the old pesky caterpillars. So he has since removed those.
He's relocated them to a different area. And but you know, with this
heat, it is really a challenge because you know, we have passion flowers,
we are palm trees. They're they're happy. They don't mind the it
being just humid and hot, and even though we're not really getting that much
rain down here, but you know, we have our avocado tree. I
mean, there's so many things. Uh. So he's dealing with that every
day. And then we have, you know, our little cats that run
around and even they are attuned to it. It's like they go out in
the morning and they're like, okay, we are ready to come back inside
because it is too hot out there. So it's funny how even pets they
they modify their their life's based off of the weather as well. Um So
talked about the red ZHX the greens as why they're so beneficial. Remember,
both of those contain not only that forty fruit and vegetable extract, but it
also contains that probiotic blend. So supporting the immune system. Something else that
we always have to look at when you think Mediterranean are you know things like
olives, obviously just eating whole olives, onions, garlic, mushrooms. Now,
mushrooms. This is one for me. It took me a long time
to become a fan of mushrooms, and I think I was just a very
picky eater growing up. Now I love mushrooms, and thank Gosh, I
do because they are so healthy for you. And we actually have an eight
mushroom blend called Mushroom HX. Now, oftentimes if you talk to someone to
invite health and you ask them about the mushroom HX, so sales for your
immune system, because that's the primary focus of how mushrooms have been studied.
But we now know that mushrooms do much more than just support our immune system.
We actually look at mushrooms now as a mechanism for anti aging. So
if you mentioned anti aging to me, I am all on board with that.
My goal in life is to die healthy. I remember when someone said
that to me many years ago. They said, you know, my goal,
Amanda, is to die healthy, And I thought, well, isn't
that strange, and then I was like, oh, no, that actually
makes sense. I want to be on that plan too. So for me,
looking at the science of mushrooms and understanding how they are physiologically working in
the body, this different bioactivity that it creates is so incredibly fascinating. And
there was a really great study where they were looking at the data from fifteen
thousand Americans across the country. It was not you think about how many Americans
are, but this is still this is a good size data pulling and they
assess these folks dietary intake over the course of twenty years and they found that
those who had a higher consumption of mushrooms and their diet had a close to
twenty percent decrease risk in all cause mortality. So you think just having mushrooms
dropped by risk of having all these different disease states by twenty percent. Well
that's that's a pretty good reduction just eating mushrooms. Okay, sign me up
for that. So once again, this is where we tie in, you
know, whole food along with supplementation. So we have our mushroom HX,
which has these eight different types of mushrooms in it, and you know,
many of the mushrooms that are in here, people are familiar with when you
hear you know, shitaki mushroom and core de SEPs mushroom and mataki mushrooms.
But then there's other mushrooms that are in this such as naga and turkey tale
and lions maine that perhaps people haven't necessarily heard of, but we know that
scientifically speaking, all of these eight individual mushrooms have all been studied and shown
to help support the human body in so many aspects. And one of the
things that researchers have recently kind of stumbled upon is how is it that these
mushrooms are working outside of just the immune support, because we already know powerful
immuno modulatory nutrients, but how are they working as anti aging? And it
comes down to their antioxidants. So mushrooms have a high amount of ergothionine in
them, and ergothionine is a very potent antioxidant. We also recognize through research
out of Penn State, Penn State, the Niitney Lions, they love their
mushrooms. They love to study mushrooms, which I'm all about. So you
know, they are continuously putting out new information on mushrooms and you know,
whether it's mushroom extracts or whole food mushrooms. And remember, this is what
today's point is is, how do we how do we combine the two?
You know, how do we have a rainbow of color on our plate?
Natural? Of course, folks, we're not talking about artificial colors, but
how do we have a rainbow of colors on our plate? And then how
do we enhance that and take it up even to another higher level through adding
in formulations like the reds X, the green's HX, the mushrooms HX.
And this is where we look at these studies and we say, huh.
So these Penn State researchers, they're looking at mushrooms and they say they have
not only just a high amount of ergothioning in it, but also a really
high amount of glutoth ione. So I know all of our invite health radio
listeners are they hear that and they go, huh glutothione. I know I've
heard about this before. I know I've heard Jerry Hickey for years talk about
the importance of glutoth ione, and I've heard a man to talk about glutothione.
So yeah, what is that again? And why is that important.
It's one of the bodies most important antioxidants. And when we think about liver
health in particular, remember all of the things that your liver has to do
for you each and every single day, has to filter through all of the
cred that we put into our system, and as well as things that are
occurring and becoming toxic inside of the body. So you think about like hormone
metabolites for example. So having adequate glutothione really helps the liver go through those
different phases of detoxification. So the researchers at Penn State, we're like,
huh, well, maybe this is where we get these anti aging benefits from.
This is having this high concentration of ergothionine along with this wonderful amount of
glutathione. So this is a great thing. So, say we're eating mushrooms
in our diet. This is a good thing because we know that the mushrooms
themselves work in a sense as a prebiotic, so it helps to promote the
health of your gut microbiome. So hence this is where that immune support is
coming from. But then we also look at the actual active constituents contained in
those mushroom extracts. So looking at the powerful antioxidants, this is where we
get this heightened level for not just the immune system, but for actual cellular
longevity. So to me, I look at the mushrooms HX as not just
a product that we offer this wonderful eight mushroom blend for immune system support,
and we have a lot of folks who will take our mushrooms HX in the
winter, for example. But I look at the mushrooms HX as being something
that can extend the lifespan of ourselves. And we can see this, we
can see that protective level that's occurring within our cellular DNA. And so having
a cap of mushrooms HX every day is an excellent way for us to once
again heighten our body's ability to fight off all of the things that we are
unfortunately exposed to on a regular basis. And so if we partner the tomb,
we say, okay, well let me be more conscientious, let me
start to have mushrooms in my diet, and let me know every day take
a capsule of mushrooms HX. It's a really good way for us to be
in tuned with that Mediterranean style way of living and that's really what it comes
down to. It's not just about you know, actual food. We have
to look at everything in totality. We have to look at the mindfulness component
to this. I always say mindful eating is really key. That's one of
the things that I learned when I did my training at the Center for Mind
Body Medicine. We got to the part of the course where they were like,
now we're going to move into mindful eating and I'm sitting there like,
what are they talking about mindful eating? And they did these different activities.
It was amazing. I was like, oh, you know, I never
realized I was pretty much mindless when it came to eating. I was eating
healthy, but I was not mindful about eating. Now I am. And
when you are mindful about eating once again, we're getting better regulation of your
sympathetic nervous system the parasympathetic nervous system, so that the foods that I'm taking
in are actually going to be utilized in the appropriate way. And it's amazing
because you'll see a lot of folks who you know are eating on the run
and you think, well, you know, your body's already stressed. You
know, how is it that the intestines are going to be able to properly
process those nutrients when you're already under this level of stress. So we have
to be able to identify you. Now, where is it in our day
that we can take five minutes, ten minutes ideally, but even five minutes,
and we can focus in on the foods that we're eating, and just
in that five minutes of just being mindful, looking at your plate and saying,
okay, I have my mushrooms. Great, I have tomatoes, I
have onions, and maybe you make yourself a salad or something and you think
about that, You say, I wonder where these tomatoes are from. Did
they come from a local farm? You think about that. Just that pause
is enough to allow the entire digestive system to be more balanced. So,
now all of the powerful carotenoids that are contained in those tomatoes, those vitamins
and minerals, the ergothionine, the glutothione that are in your mushrooms, you
have onions, you're getting corsitant, So all of those are actually going to
be able to make their way into the bloodstream. Now, if you're eating
healthy foods but you're stressed out and you're eating on the go, the body's
going to have a more difficult time obtaining those nutrients properly. So mindful eating
folks very very important. And mushrooms HX also very important. And once again,
this is one of those products where even if you're not taking it every
single day, maybe it's like your weekend routine. You're like, on the
weekends is when I take my mushrooms HX. Remember, taking this at least
a couple of times a week is much better than not taking it at all.
And you know, they did a really fascinating extrapolation of data looking at
longevity in the association of ergothionine. So remember this is that main antioxidant and
mushrooms, and they looked at it across different countries and they said, okay,
well here in the US, you know, what's the average ergothionine,
you know, consumption of an American It's very very low. And then you
know, now let's look at you know, France, let's look in Italy,
and you could see the countries that had much higher intake of ergothionine from
their diet have much longer lifespans. So really very fascinating, and it's not
just the ergothionine. Remember it's everything in totality that's partnered up with, you
know, having better stress techniques, having better sleep cycles. All these things.
At the end of the day, they compound and they lead to longer
life span. So I have a couple more products that I do want to
highlight for you, but I'm looking at the clock. I've realized I do
need to squeeze in a quick break. So stick around with me. You
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Our number again is eight hundred four four one seventeen seventy and welcome back to
Invite Health Radio. I am doctor Amanda Williams. Happy Saturday morning to everyone,
and hopefully talking about all of these foods are making you think I need
to go out to the local farmers market and I need to stop by Invite
Health because remember, we want to supplement on top of what our diet is
already giving us, so we can supplement with our reds ajax, the greenshax,
the mushrooms ahax. For those of you who have that little bit of
a sweet tooth, I can you know, well, I can understand that
Coco, the Coco HX. I have that on Special today, and you
think about the power once again of the flave and alls contained within cocoa bean.
So Coco definitely we will categorize that in with our Mediterranean style way of
eating. Now this is to be completely deciphered from milk chocolate bars. No,
no, no. On the milk chocolate, yes yes, yes.
On Coco chex or having a dark chocolate bar that's seventy percent or higher,
that's very bitter. So a lot of times people are like, I struggle
with that. I get that. I mean, I, you know,
had to make the switch many years ago to really growing to like dark chocolate.
Now, if you gave me milk chocolate, there's just no way I
wouldn't eat it. Um, So I'm very accustomed to eating high percent coco
in a chocolate bar now, so it's usually I'll eat seventy five percent,
eighty percent. I've even done that eighty eight percent. That's very bitter.
But nonetheless, we can include in Coco HX. We're still getting the power
of those flavanols, and the Cocohx that we offer is a very strong flavanol
percent. And this is key because many years ago, when Jerry Hickey formulated
this product, he understood obviously the science behind coco and how beneficial this is
across all spectrums. It's not just beneficial for cardiovascular health, it's very beneficial
for cognition, for memory, for mood. So all of these ways that
taking a scoop of COCOHX can help to support you. And but he said,
you know what, let me take this up a whole nother notch.
Let me actually add in another powerful component to this product. So there's a
fruit and vegetable blend that's added in with the X. Now sometimes people hear
that, they're like, I'm not sure do I want to have vegetables with
my coco. But you're not going to. You can't taste those vegetable extracts.
So the hour of the coco flavanols is such that you are really just
you know, tasting just that like chocolate. And so remember it's not milk
chocolate. So we have the COCOHX and we look at all of the cardiometabolic
benefits to go along with this, for blood sugar regulation, for management of
cholesterol. And this is always a nice way to kind of, you know,
step into that lane of how can I get creative with something that's sweet
and healthy. COCOHX is definitely the go to in our product line. And
I remember looking at a study that was assessing multiple clinical research trials on coco
flavanols, and in this meta analysis as they oftentimes refer to them as this
was in the Journal of Nutrition, looking at the cardiometabolic benefits to me kind
of sealed the deal on understand why it is that we tout coco, not
milk chocolate, but coco as being such a powerhouse for human cellular health because
these flavanols, these antioxidants are doing so much to not only fight free radicals
in the body, but also to improve the function of things like your insulin.
And you wouldn't usually think, oh, coco and blood sugar, but
yes, the cocohx helps folks when it comes to not having those peaks and
valleys when it comes to your blood sugar. We don't want to be on
a rollercoaster when it comes to your blood sugar. This is not ideal.
It's not something we should be striving for. And this is where the COCOHX
can help create that balance because it goes in and it says, hey,
insulin, you need to wake up because the blood sugar is on the rise
and we need to respond to that. So it's really quite fascinating when we
see how it is that the coco is actually working. Now another study that
was conducted, this was in the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology in two thousand and
six, and once again this is an interesting study because they already were recognizing
that when people were having exposure to high coco flavanols, they were getting these
improvements on all of these different cardio metabolic markers. Their blood pressure improved,
for example, their blood cholesterol levels were improving. But they said, well,
let's look and see if this can actually benefit outside of just the basic
cardiovascular system. Can this help the cerebral vascular system. And the way that
they set the study up is of course one of my favorite things. They
did functional MRIs. So they gave these individuals who were in this study coco
flavanols and then they did a brain image and they could see that after consumption
of the coco flavanols, like what you're getting in the COCOHX, they can
see areas in the brain that we're lighting up, areas that are important for
memory, for focus, attention, for mood. And this is why when
people are consuming cocox once again, they start to have this overall sense of
well being and it makes sense when you start to understand functionally what it is
that these nutrients are actually doing once they make their way into our system,
into the bloodstream, how they're working. I have individuals who said, you
know, Ma, and I had some skeletal muscle you know pain, and
I was drinking my cocohx like I do every day, and next thing I
knew my muscles were less achy. Well, we understand through the science that
the coco can really support the myocytes. So those are the cells of your
muscles. So this is why looking at the Mediterranean style way of eating and
we say, well, okay, if we want something sweet, we can
go with you know, fresh berries, but we can also look at coco
and the coco flav and alls contained in cocohx is a wonderful way for me
to achieve this. Now, I have two more products that I have on
special for today. One is the Beats HX, and to me, Beats
kind of makes sense. We have this partnered up with the tart cherry extract.
The tart cherry extract is coming from Traverse City, Michigan, from my
home state, and I always like talking about that because I know exactly where
these these cherries are coming from and these are cherries that have been studied in
human clinical trials. So that's why we use this form of cherry extract in
our beats Chex product. So it's actually called cherry pure. So it's been
studied in athletic studies for performance, for muscle recovery in the setting of arthritis.
The cherry pur has been studied in those settings, and we partner that
with the beat root extract. You know, the beat root definitely very beneficial
when it comes to cardiovascular function because it helps with that nitric oxide release once
again, so we think Mediterranean will think, yeah, beats and cherry.
So we have the Beats HX and then finally I have the grape seed extract
on special I cannot say enough about the OPCs that are contained in grape seed
extract. That's the oleego merit proanthocynodins. Our grape seed extract that we use
is called Endenna. This is a registered trademark form of grape seed extract.
It has been studied in human clinical try else once again to show it has
this high absorption rate, so it can actually potentiate a benefit for you when
it comes to your circulatory health. So we have many individuals who maybe deal
with problems such as chronic venus insufficiency, high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease,
hemorrhoids, and they start to use the grape seed extract and they're like,
oh wow. And the reason why our grape seed extract stands alone is
because the power of the science behind this form that we are using. Not
all grape seed extracts are created the same. And hence this is why we
use the endenna form, because the endenna form is the most powerful form of
those OPCs that you can actually supplement with, and we want you to yield
those benefits. We want you to be able to take a grape seed formulation
that's go going to help to support your blood pressure and your overall vascular health.
And we know that for many individuals who are dealing even with some hormone
imbalances, they start taking that grape seed extract and they get that wonderful sense
of well being back in their system. So I went over a lot of
different things today just to kind of recap for you what's on special. I
have the cocohex, have the grape seed extract, have the Beats Achex,
the red Zchex, the greens Hx, as well as the Mushrooms Achex.
Do make sure that you stop by one of our store locations. You can
speak with one of our nutritionists. That is a free service. If you
happen to have questions for me, certainly reach out to me A Williams at
invitehealth dot com and I certainly wish you all a happy and healthy one in
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