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  • Today’s Shot 92

    Today’s Shot 92

    Nature Ride

    Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) – A Powerful Immune Booster

    ALA is a vitamin-like chemical (naturally occurring fatty acid) known as an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect our cells from damaging free-radical cells which are caused by such things as environmental toxins, aging, inflammation and stress.

    While our bodies naturally make a small amount of ALA – which helps turn glucose into energy (thereby helping with diabetes), it can also be found in vegetables such as spinach, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, beets, broccoli, peas, carrots, tomatoes, and in foods such as brewers yeast, potatoes, and organ meats like liver and kidney.

    As we age, our bodies make less of this antioxidant, and so supplementing can be very beneficial. It is easily absorbed and is water soluble.

    One of the most powerful antioxidants in our body is called glutathione and ALA helps boost this protective antioxidant as well.

    Some of the Benefits:

    • Helps to detoxify the liver
    • Helps with energy production
    • Lowers blood sugar
    • Treats nerve pain from diabetes
    • Boosts the immune system
    • Good for heart and brain function
    • Powerful antioxidant!
    • It works with your B, C, & E vitamins
    • Slows down aging
    • Boosts glutathione!
    • Helps with HIV
    • Helps with MS
    • Helps with weight loss
    • Helps with insulin resistance
    • Boosts T-cells
    • Inhibits Influenza and flu viruses
    • Helps with Neuropathy
    • Lowers blood pressure (when taken with L carnitine)
    • Anti inflammatory
    • Helps with retinopathy
    • Crosses the blood-brain barrier
    • Good for skin

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    Case Study Reviews on ALA and Dosage Recommendations by Dr. Paul Haider

  • Today’s Shot 73

    Today’s Shot 73

    Sky Gazing

    Through

    Winter’s Branches

    Baking Soda

    I had not tried all of these uses for baking soda and didn’t realize it was used for so many things. I think my most memorable use of baking soda was with our calf many years ago. When he would get bloated, I would put some baking soda into his formula. After he drank it, I would take him for a walk and pretty soon, he was all better again.

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    A few uses:

    • Digestive Issues
    • Detox Bath
    • Put a box of baking soda into a bath for sunburns. (Try with other burns as well)
    • 1-2 teaspoons of baking soda in a glass of water for ulcer pain
    • Make a paste and rub onto itchy bug bites
    • Helps to balance PH
    • 1-2 teaspoons in a glass of water can help with heartburn and indigestion
    • Anti-fungal (this makes a great foot soak for toe nail fungus – especially with added tea tree oil) or as a paste that you can spread onto trouble areas
    • Kills streptococcus bacteria
    • Great as toothpaste (tooth whitener – kills germs)
    • Household cleaner (oven cleaner! Mix baking soda with vinegar, spread over oven, let soak and then scrub off)
    • Carpet deodorizer (I add essential oils, mix well, and then spread over carpet. I let it sit on the carpet for a few hours before vacuuming up)
    • In the Journal of American Society of Nephrology, research showed with 134 patients, that taking a little bit of baking soda every day helped kidneys function a little better and prevented some patients from having to be on dialysis.
    • Helps with urinary tract infections
    • Helps with muscle fatigue and aching muscles
    • Foot scrub / face rub (follow with moisturizer)
    • Deodorizer
    • Hair cleanser (condition after)
    • Make a paste for canker soars. Apply 3-4 times a day.
    • Grease Fires
    • Scorched pots and pans
    • Freshen up pet beds and pet areas
    • Fresh produce soak (add 1-2 teaspoons of baking soda to water and soak fruits and veggies in it).
    • Silver cleaner…? (Never tried this)
    • My favorite use: pour some baking soda down a clogged drain. Pour vinegar over the top. Wait 10-15 minutes and then follow with boiling water.
    • Cleaning coffee pots
    • Stinky shoe deodorizer (let sit overnight)

    Contraindications:

    • High Sodium (1 tsp contains about 1250 mg)
    • Can raise blood pressure
    • Do not use if you have edema
    • Do not use if you have heart or circulatory issues, liver or kidney disease
    • Don’t use if you are pregnant or nursing
    • Do not use for small children
    • Can increase potassium processes
    • Can interfere with prescription drugs (take two hours before or after medications)
    • Can interact with aspirin, herbs, supplements, and diuretics
    • Can be drying
    • As with any beneficial product – too much can be poisonous – causing seizures, vomiting, abdominal pain, coma and even death.

    Sources

    Dr. Paul Haider

    ASN – BAKING SODA: FOR COOKING, CLEANING, AND KIDNEY HEALTH?

    Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

    -Walter Russell