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Good morning everybody and welcome to The Balancing Act.
We're so glad you're here.
I'm Julie Moran.
And I'm Olga Villaverde.
Today we're talking health.
Lots of interesting and diverse topics which can effect all of
us Julie.
From ways to getting a better night's sleep.
Love that.
Plus, we're in the kitchen with a triple threat.
A dietary fiber, a pre-biotic...
Ok.
And a low calorie sweetener all rolled up into one incredible
food product.
The Balancing Act starts right now.
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Dr. Heith Durrence is back by popular demand with today's
sleep tip of the day.
Thanks Olga.
Like it or not, we are creatures of habit including when we
sleep.
With that in mind today's tip is stick to a sleep routine.
I recommend you find a relaxing activity that you can do about
an hour before bed time every night to help you wind down.
Something like reading for example.
But remember when you do this relaxing pre-bed activity make
sure it's something you can do without having to
use bright lights.
Another habit I recommend is avoid electronics like laptops
and tablets before bed.
In fact you should remove electronics from your bedroom
completely because as we learned in our last tip your bed should
only be used for sex and for sleeping, not working.
Finally, if you stick to the same basic bed time every night,
including weekends, this will really help your body clock to
stay regulated and your sleep will be more satisfying.
Great stuff doctor.
Thank you so much and for more information on a healthier
night's sleep log onto AGoodDayStartsAtNight.com.
In the meantime...
Sweet dreams (in unison).
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It's seems like all of us are becoming more health conscious
especially when it comes to what we eat.
We're looking for foods or products containing ingredients
for a healthier lifestyle.
I know I am.
And our next guest has plenty of insight and first hand knowledge
on that subject.
I want you to meet Dr. Steve Jakeway, VP Business Development
for BioNeutra.
We are so glad you stopped by the set today.
Julie, thank you very much for having me around today.
We're gonna have a good conversation.
You know, you've got so many goodies out here and let's face
it, when we are wanting to be healthier we don't want to give
up all of our sweets, right?
That's exactly right.
And we don't have to.
Do we?
No, exactly.
Most of us want our cake and eat it to and we want to find a way
where we can get the most health out of those things with out
giving up on the taste and flavor of things.
So true.
And the best way to know exactly what we're getting is like to
bake it and put it in our own foods, right?
Exactly.
I've got two kids at home, two boys they love being in the
kitchen with me and making products.
So things like the pancakes or the waffles or even a smoothie.
They love to do it with dad.
So and is that this is completely an alternative to
sugar, right?
Yes, but it's more then that.
It's a three in one product.
It's got dietary fiber, its' got pre-biotics, and a low calorie
sweetener.
And all this is really important for maintaining a healthy
nutrition.
Ok, you've got me there.
I know probiotics, but I have no idea pre-biotics.
I'm in the dark.
What's the difference?
Both have a huge impact on our gut health.
Ok.
Gut health has been linked to lots of different things in
things like obesity, cholesterol, anxiety,
depression and even cancers.
The impact of a healthy gut, we're just beginning to figure
out.
Umm-hmm.
But we've got to find some way to help maintain a healthy guy
and fiber is one way to do that.
A plant based fiber and a product like VitaFiber gives
those bacteria that gives us those nutrients a real boost.
Ok, so good to know because sometimes we're trying to eat
healthy but we really don't know what we're doing and we're
eating things that don't taste good.
This actually I'm gonna taste a couple things later, but I've
tried it.
It really tastes good.
And you put it in everything.
Tell me about it.
Exactly, you know, we've shown some things today like pancakes
and waffles and muffins.
They can use the powder.
The smoothie that also uses the powder.
We've got protein bars and protein bars are really really a
really really big right now and we can make them really really
quickly with just a few ingredients.
That's great.
Now I, you know, my kids love smoothies but sometimes they
taste a little tart or something and they want to add sugar.
Or chalky or something like that.
I want to taste it.
So this is just a little VitaFiber mixed in here.
Ok, that's yummy, it tastes even better just taking that tang out
of it.
Exactly and what you've got there is not just a smoothy with
just a bit of sugar in there.
You've got a smoothie now you've got the fiber benefits and the
prebiotic benefits as well.
And the probiotics.
And the taste.
That's so cool.
And the taste.
Exactly.
Alright, they love waffles so I'm gonna really give you my
honest opinion here.
Yea, the syrups great on waffles and pancakes as well.
You can even put the VitaFiber right inside the waffles in
replace of sugar.
Ok.
I didn't know I was going to like it that much.
This is really good.
My kids would love this.
Exactly.
It's being able to give those your kids healthy choices and be
able to show that you can have something and still maintain a
really good taste, but still be healthy for you.
Ok, I hear that you've been around for years not really
known in the retail world.
VitaFibers been around.
It has been.
We've been around for 11 years.
Wow.
We've been selling to food manufacturers for seven or eight
years and things like the protein bars that you see here.
And a number of other products that customers are starting to
launch.
It's only the last two years that we've been approached by
customers that say, you know what I eat these products all
the time but I don't know where to get it.
Ohhh ok.
How do I do it..
How do we get it.
How do we do it.
Yea exactly.
You can get VitaFiber on our website at VitaFiber.com.
Great, I'm so glad you stopped by.
You've given me some choices today.
I love choices.
Absolutely.
It's been fabulous.
Thank you so much.
Thank you and for more information on VitaFiber and
it's benefits visit our website TheBalancingAct.com.
You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
See you later.
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Over active bladder also known as OAB is a condition that
effects millions of people nation wide especially women.
It's not a normal part of aging.
It interferes with every aspect of a woman's life.
Today, in Health Matters we begin a three part series that
addresses just how some women are coping with this
very common problem.
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I'm a single woman and I love going on dates and meeting new
people, but it's so embarrassing when I have to go to the
bathroom all the time and it makes me feel self conscious
especially when I'm on a date.
My husband and I have a very active social life.
We have alot of friends that we love doing things with, but
sometimes my overactive bladder does get in the way and I feel
like that's in control of my life.
Barbra and Susan have alot in common.
They both suffer from Over Active Bladder, which while not
a normal part of aging is very common in people over 45.
There's several factors that incorporate and develop this
situation.
As time goes on and depending on any medical problems the
patients' may have as well as there behavior with regards to
urinating over the years the bladder can become lax so as it
expands it gets used to expanding and you see this in
certain professions such as people who don't have the
opportunity to go to the restroom on a regular basis and
they hold it for hours.
And then what happens over time is the bladder gets used to
being extended and then it gets to a point it
says, Ok I'm going.
For me it started with menopause and my Over Active Bladder just
kept getting worse and worse.
I started noticing it after eating spicy foods and even
drinking coffee.
It seemed to make my symptoms alot worse.
Probably one of the most common symptoms is the patients will
come in and they'll talk about a progressive change in
their urinary habits.
It's rare that they just come on in all at once and say they're
having the trouble.
They'll say it's been going on for six months to a year and
what will happen depends on how much water they're drinking.
If they drink alot of fluids before they go to bed, their
kidneys are going to open up, they're going to make more
urine, they're going to get up more frequently.
They'll say that they know exactly where every bathroom is
in the mall.
Getting diagnosed with Over Active Bladder isn't difficult,
but your doctor can't help if you don't ask.
Unfortunately many people don't ask for help.
They may be to embarrassed, don't know what to say or think
there are not any treatments available.
It's important to see your physician early and go over all
of the symptoms that you have.
The symptom menology will guide him into what direction his
diagnostic steps will take.
Once your diagnosed there are plenty of ways to treat and have
a full and active social life.
Over Active bladder doesn't have to slow you down.
Both Susan and Barbra found their own solutions with the
help of their doctor.
Well my doctor recommended medication and I feel like a new
woman.
After speaking withy my doctor I've learned to avoid the foods
that made my Over Active Bladder symptoms worse.
So far seems to be working.
Don't be embarrassed to speak to your physician about this.
This is a very common problem and it can be easily treated
with behavioral changes, changes in diet, what their drinking,
there's medication available there's several different
aspects all which can be tailor made to the individual.
Over Active Bladder doesn't have to slow down your social life.
You want know more?
Log onto TheBalancingAct.com and don't forget to tune in to part
two of the special series, Dealing with Over
Active Bladder on the Job.
If you've had to watch a friend or a loved one go through the
stages of Alzheimer's you'd know it's devastating effects on both
the patient and those who love them.
Thankfully there's some good news when it comes to
Alzheimer's prevention and Dr. Chad Larson who specializes in
auto immune and environmental disease testing and prevention
is back to tell us all about it.
Welcome back.
Thanks for having me.
No, thanks for being here.
You know, really important topic Alzheimer's Disease.
Have experts really found out what is the pre-cursor to it?
What the current data is telling us is that these neuro
inflammatory conditions like Alzheimer's Disease really
have their root in inflammation.
And when I say inflammation what I think alot of people have in
mind is if you sprain your ankle and your ankle swells up and it
looks like it's we say, oh you've got an inflamed ankle.
That's not what we're talking about.
We're not talking about swelling here of the brain.
What we're talking about is an imbalance of bio chemicals in
the brain and what happens in a neuro inflammatory condition
like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, other conditions like
that there's an imbalance of bio chemistry and these inflammatory
chemicals get kind of out of control and the brain is such a
vital organ that this inflammatory immune system is
much more reactive in the brain then the rest of the body.
The rest of the body works more like a sharp shooter and the
brain it works more like a shot gun or a machine gun and it just
it tries to go after what ever the trigger might be, it goes
after that trigger in almost and over active way.
If that happens enough times the neuro inflammation is going to
happen and that can eventually lead to a neuro degenerative
condition like Alzheimer's.
And so what are these triggers?
Yea, there's lots of potential triggers that can follow up the
immune system of the brain, but there's a couple key ones that I
think are really over looked and they're actually quite common.
One is gluten.
Gluten from wheat is well documented to affect a certain
part of the immune system causing inflammation and that
inflammation can go to the brain and start to deteriorate the
brain.
It can cause damage to the brain in such a way where the brains
not working properly, inflammation happens and then a
condition can really start to manifest from that.
Another one is called LPS or Laco Poly Sachorides.
This is from the gut.
The gastrointestinal track has a bunch of bacteria in it.
Good bacteria, bad bacteria, but LPS comes from bad bacteria and
if this is allowed to really proliferate in the gut it could
start to chew away at one of the key barrier systems that
separates the gastrointestinal track from the rest of the body.
And if this barrier system becomes compromised LPS is
allowed to get into the circulation where it's not
supposed to be and there's very good recent literature that
shows when LPS is in the circulation it can go to the
brain and cause inflammation and lead to neuro
degenerative damage.
Now the last time you were here you shared with us some ground
breaking test for gluten and wheat reactivity.
Is that test also something that could help us to prevent
Alzheimer's?
Yea, Cyrex Labs, their real main focus is auto immunity and
immune disregulation and they have a test that's really second
to none for evaluating gluten.
Instead of just checking for one gluten peptide they evaluate for
multiple gluten peptides to really decrease the chance of a
false negative because gluten is such a well known trigger for a
variety of inflammatory conditions we want to make sure
that we get it right the first time that we test it.
So they have an excellent test for that.
It's called a Array 3.
It's a multi gluten peptide analysis and then they have
Aray 2 which evaluates for the gut
barrier problem.
It let's us know if there's what we call leaky gut where the gut
is no longer bound together the way it's supposed to and it's
compromised in such a way that bad guys are allowed to get from
the gut into the circulation where they're not supposed to
be.
Another barrier system that we need to really care about is in
the brain.
It's called the Blood Brain Barrier.
Where the gut barrier separates the gut from circulation, we
don't want things to cross into the brain that aren't supposed
to so there's a barrier system called the Blood Brain Barrier.
There's also a test for that from Cyrex Labs so it's a great
way to have a really comprehensive evaluation.
The key thing to keep in mind her Olga is that these
laboratory tests are the first of their kind.
And when we talk about these tests should everybody get these
screenings?
It's a good test for a whole variety of conditions, but
especially if you have a family history or a personal history of
any kind of inflammatory neurological problem.
Like if you have a family history of Alzheimer's Disease,
if you have a family history of Parkinson's or even Multiple
Sclerosis, other kinds of auto immune conditions, but also
things like depression and ADHD have been tied to neuro
inflammatory problems.
Doctor for anybody that would like more information where
would they go to?
Yea, they can go to JoinCyrex.com.
Join C-Y-R-E-X .com.
Thanks for all the information.
Thank you.
And if you want to head to our website TheBalancingAct.com
we've got more information there on these ground breaking
medical diagnostic tests.
That's TheBalancingAct.com.
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