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Quit sugar and lose your wrinkles: In Part 2 of our DEFINITIVE series, a leading skin expert reveals how to kick the new nicotine

• Sugar can be more ageing for the skin than a lifetime of lying in the sun
• Conquer your sugar cravings for good with this sugar detox
  
• You'll halt your habit in three days - and completely change your life in 30
  

By Dr Patricia Farris
PUBLISHED: 23:23 GMT, 19 January 2014 | UPDATED: 23:23 GMT, 19 January 2014

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Every year women spend millions of pounds on high-tech moisturisers, seduced by the promise that a miracle potion might hold back the years. But here's the bad news: if you have a sweet tooth, you could be completely wasting your money.
As a dermatologist who specialises in ageing skin, I noticed that many of my patients who were seeking cosmetic procedures did not have the usual symptoms of sun damage, but their skin was still excessively wrinkled with a marked loss in elasticity.

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Sweet tooth: A diet laced with sugar and refined carbs can be more ageing for the skin than a lifetime of lying in the sun


When I questioned them about their diet, I found they had one thing in common: poor nutrition and excessive sugar consumption.

In fact, research shows that a diet laced with sugar and refined carbohydrates can be more ageing for the skin than a lifetime of lying in the sun.
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That's why I teamed up with top nutritionist Brooke Alpert to devise The Sugar Detox, a plan based on clinical evidence and research conducted on real patients that will help you conquer your sugar cravings for good. Today, the Mail continues this major new series that shows you how to halt your sugar habit in just THREE days - and completely change your life in 30.
With delicious recipes that will replace your beloved sugary treats and conquer those cravings, clever meal plans and top tips to keep you on the detox straight and narrow, let us help you beat your sweet tooth for good. Follow our detox and you will lose weight, you will feel great, and you will look years younger, as cutting out sugar immeasurably improves your skin and vitality.

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Sugar Detox: Sugar is the new nicotine. Eliminate it from your diet and you'll see the improvement in your skin


Indeed, I now routinely recommend the Sugar Detox diet as part of a comprehensive treatment plan for patients who suffer from premature ageing, acne, and many other skin conditions, too. In Saturday's paper we highlighted the addictive nature of sugar, and introduced the 3-Day kick-start to the Sugar Detox.

Today, we take you through the second phase of the detox - and explain the destructive toll sugar can take on your skin.
More and more experts now believe our diet is a major contributor to the appearance of our skin. Nutricosmetics is the study of how nutrition and your diet affects your appearance, and is a subject of growing interest among dermatologists.
Early researchers in this field reasoned that if we can reduce the chances of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and other age-related illnesses by dietary interventions, then surely we can improve the way people look as well.
Scientific studies and extensive research have concluded that they could be right.
The link between sugar and premature ageing lies in a process called 'glycation'. This chemical process happens when blood sugar levels become excessively high.
Sugar molecules then circulate in the blood and bind to other components to form substances known as protein-sugar complexes - also called advanced glycation end-products, or AGEs.
These can be found in virtually all organ systems around the body - from the kidneys, brain and nervous tissue to the skin - and trigger an inflammatory response, causing tissue damage and premature ageing.

Glycation should just be part of the natural aging process that starts when you are in your mid-30s and increases with age. But we now believe the speed at which glycation occurs is directly related to your dietary intake of sugar.
HIDDEN TOLL IN SAVOURY FOODS


Think only desserts contain sugar? You might be surprised by how many teaspoons of sugar some of your favourite savoury products contain . . .

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  New Covent Garden Minestrone soup (half carton serving): 2 tsp
• Tesco Thin Crust Hawaiian Pizza: (250g) 4.5 tsp
• Yeo Valley fat free natural yogurt: 3 tsp
• Sharwoods sweet and sour chicken with rice: 5.5 tsp
• The Saucy Fish Company Salmon fillets in tomato and Chilli Chutney (half pack): 2.5 tsp
• Marks & Spencer Chicken Enchiladas: 2 tsp

The collagen and elastin molecules in the skin that help your face defy gravity are extremely susceptible to being attacked by sugar. When these molecules are turned into AGEs, their soft and supple fibres become more rigid. This leaves skin saggy, baggy, and wrinkled.
So, the more sugar and refined carbohydrates you consume, the more your collagen and elastin will be attacked - and the older your skin will appear.
A high-sugar diet not only contributes to ageing of the skin, but it can lead to the skin becoming unhealthy, dry, and vulnerable to infection.
It can also exacerbate acne. This is because high blood-sugar levels trigger high levels of the hormone insulin, which can set off a hormonal cascade that stimulates oil production and increases the proliferation of skin cells that can block pores - causing acne.
I strongly believe cutting back on sugar is one of the best possible things you can do for your skin.
But by increasing consumption of foods such as apples, which contain anti-glycating antioxidants - chemicals that fight the glycation process - you can further assist your skin.
The Sugar Detox diet that we have devised is packed with skin-enhancing foods that really could be the answer to your skin problems.
GETTING STARTED

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Beat temptation: The first three days of the detox is completely sugar-free


The diet is broken up into four one-week week blocks that kick off with the 3-Day Detox plan we introduced in Saturday's paper.
To recap, for those first three consecutive days, you should not eat or drink:

• Milk, yogurt or cheese. Dairy products contain lactose, a type of sugar, and so it is banned for the first three days to completely cleanse your system.
•  Wheat or other carbohydrates (pasta, cereal, bread, rice).
• Added sugar of any kind.
• Artificial sweeteners.
• Alcohol.
• Fruit (except lemon or lime juice).

Instead, you should fill up on lean meat, fish, eggs, or vegetarian forms of protein such as lentils, chickpeas and beans. You should also eat plenty of salad or low-carbohydrate vegetables.
Avoid starchy root vegetables like carrots and parsnips. It is important to drink lots of water - still or sparkling - and green, black or herbal tea. Use the guidance below as your basic meal plan for those vital first three days.
Breakfast: Three large eggs cooked however you like, with herbs and/or low-carbohydrate vegetables.
Snack: Handful of nuts.
Lunch: Up to 6oz/170g chicken, turkey, fish, shellfish or tofu with salad or low-carbohydrate vegetables.
Snack: Sliced pepper dipped in hummus.
Dinner: Up to 8oz/230g chicken, turkey, fish, shellfish or tofu with steamed vegetables.
Once your 3-Day Detox is complete, you're ready to move on to the next stage.

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Veggie delight: Introduce plenty of salads into your diet


Each week, the basic health-giving components of the diet stay the same, but you also get to re-introduce different foods to increase your intake of antioxidants that will undo the damage caused by sugar-charged glycation and slowly build up your body's resistance to sugars. The foods are added each week in a specific order to maintain optimal nutritional balance, so that healthy fats and proteins can offset the negative actions of any sugars being introduced by slowing their transit through your system.
All the foods are selected for their health-giving properties - and even include red wine, which contains several powerful antioxidants including resveratrol, which has been linked to lowering blood sugar and cholesterol, preventing damage to blood vessels, and increased longevity.
YOUR BASIC SHOPPING LIST


This gives you all the ingredients you will need for your 3-day kick-start and, with each passing week, you'll be able to add extra foods to your diet.
Protein: Eggs, lean red meat, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, shellfish, tofu, lentils, beans, edamame peas.
Vegetables: Asparagus, avocado (½ per day), bok choi, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage (Chinese, red, green), cauliflower, celery, courgettes, cucumber, kale, lettuce, mushrooms, olives (up to 10 per day), peppers, spinach.
Fruit: Lemons and limes.
Nuts and seeds: Almonds, cashews, chia seeds, flaxseeds, hempseeds, macadamia nuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, walnuts.
Fats: Butter, coconut oil, olive oil.
Condiments: Balsamic vinegar, apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, marjoram, rosemary, sage, tarragon, turmeric.
Drinks: Water (still or sparkling), coffee (unsweetened, black), green, black, or herbal tea (unsweetened).


WEEK 1

The first week following the three-day Detox is the most important week of the plan, as this is when you will start seeing some great changes in mood and energy levels.
The ban on sugar should continue, and you should avoid most carbohydrates this week, but you can slowly allow some natural sugars (dairy products, high-fibre crackers and an apple a day) into your diet.
Alcohol is back on the menu, too - but only red wine, and only one medium-sized glass up to three times this week.

• Eat at least 3 x 6oz/170g servings of approved low-fat meat/fish/pulses (see basic list).
• Add 1 portion of dairy (1oz/30g cheese, small pot natural yogurt or cottage cheese).
• Unlimited vegetables (from the basic list) but you can now add raw carrots, onions, mange tout and tomatoes to your selection.
• 1 apple a day.
• A handful (1 oz/30g) of nuts up to twice a day plus a handful (1oz/30g) of sunflower seeds as an extra snack.
• At least 3 servings of healthy fats (olive oil or coconut oil, olives, ½ avocado).
• 2 high-fibre crackers (such as Finn Crisp).
• 1 medium-sized glass red wine (up to a maximum of 3 per week).
• Up to 2 cups unsweetened coffee with milk (optional) or unlimited green, black or herbal tea.
• 2 litres water.

TYPICAL WEEK 1 MENU
Breakfast: Full fat Greek yogurt (small pot) with 2 tbsp ground flaxseeds and 1 tbsp sliced almonds, sprinkled with cinnamon and 1 tsp vanilla extract, cup of coffee or green tea with lemon.
Snack: Sliced apple with 2 tbsp peanut butter.
Lunch: Up to 6oz/170g portion of grilled fish or chicken (in herbs and spices) on mixed greens with sauteed mushrooms.
Snack: ½ avocado with sliced red peppers.
Dinner: 6oz/170g portion of prawns with green salad and French beans, plus a glass of red wine.
DELICIOUS DESSERTS


With no sugar in your diet, your taste buds will be on over-drive, and these healthy desserts will taste temptingly sweet.
BAKED APPLE PIE SLICES

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From week 1 onwards. Serves 4

• 4 large apples, peeled and cored
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground cloves

Preheat oven to 180c. Slice the apples into 1cm/½in slices. In a bowl, mix the vanilla, cinnamon and cloves. Add the apples and mix well.

Fill a large baking tray with ¼in/6mm water and lay the spiced apples in the water in a single layer.
Bake for 30 minutes. Drain and serve warm, sprinkled with crushed nuts.
NUTTY CHOCOLATE BARK

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From week 2 onwards.



Serves 16 (1½ squares per serving)

• 10½ oz/300g 65 per cent dark chocolate, chopped
• 4oz/100g macadamia nuts
• 40z/100g unsalted almonds

Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Fill a small saucepan with a few inches of water and bring to a simmer over medium heat.

Turn off the heat, set the bowl of chocolate over the water, but not touching it, and stir until melted. Line a 9in-by-9in baking pan with parchment paper.
Pour two-thirds of the melted chocolate over the paper and spread evenly. Sprinkle the macadamia nuts and almonds over the chocolate and then cover with the remaining chocolate.
Chill the bark in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or until firmly set. Remove from the pan and cut into 16 squares.
CHOCOLATE-COVERED STRAWBERRIES

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From week 3 onwards. Serves 4

• 3½oz/100g 65 per cent dark chocolate, chopped
• 20 strawberries (with stems)

Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Fill a small saucepan with a few inches of water, bring to simmer. Turn off the heat, set the bowl of chocolate over the water but not touching it, stir until melted.

Line a plate with waxed paper. Holding a strawberry by the stem, dip into the chocolate, lift, and twist. Set the strawberry on the plate and repeat.

Chill for 30 minutes until the chocolate sets.
GRIDDLED FRUIT WITH CINNAMON SPICED RICOTTA CHEESE

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From week 3 onwards. Serves 4

• 4 peaches, plums, or nectarines, halved and pitted
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 8 oz/200g ricotta cheese
• Fresh mint sprigs, for garnish

Place on a hot griddle and cook until marks appear, 2 to 3 minutes per side.

Combine the cinnamon and ricotta in a small bowl. Top each half of fruit with the ricotta mixture.

Garnish with a mint sprig and leave to set for a minimum of two hours before serving.


WEEK 2

By now you should be feeling clear-headed, energised and slender. Sugar cravings should be a thing of the past, it's safe to add in more food choices to liven up your detox diet. This week you increase your dairy intake to two portions a day, and berries and popcorn are on the menu.

• Eat at least 3 x 6oz/170g servings of low-fat meat/fish/pulses (as before).
• 2 portions dairy (add a matchbox-sized portion of cheese, a small pot of full-fat yogurt or 2  tbsp of cream cheese for dipping).
• Keep piling your plate with unlimited salads and vegetables, but you can now add cooked carrots and peas to your approved list.
• Fruit - as well as a daily apple, you can now add a bowl (4 oz/100 g) of blackberries, blueberries, melon, grapefruit, raspberries or strawberries.
• Nuts - up to 1 oz/30 g twice a day.
• Seeds - up to 1 oz/30 g sunflower or pumpkin seeds twice a day.
• If you want a savoury crunch, you can now treat yourself to 4oz/100g of air-popped salty (not sweet!) popcorn.
• Fats - it is important to keep up your intake of healthy fats, so make sure you have a minimum of 3 servings (as before) of healthy oils, olives or avocado.
• 2 x high-fibre crackers.
• Red wine - continue to treat yourself to a glass of red wine up to three times a week.
• Coffee, tea, water as before.

TYPICAL WEEK 2 MENU
Breakfast: 3-egg omelette with mozzarella cheese, mushrooms and onions with two high-fibre crackers, plus coffee.
Snack: 4 oz/100 g blueberries and 10 oz/30 g almonds.
Lunch: Warm lentil salad cooked with sauteed spinach and a cup of mint tea.
Snack: Cottage cheese with apple slices.
Dinner: Steamed artichoke with vinaigrette, chicken and broccoli stir-fry.
WEEK 3

You've been off sugar for two weeks and this is a real turning point. It's time to reintroduce proper carbohydrates, in the form of healthy wholegrains, and treat yourself to chocolate!

• At least 3 x 6 oz/170 g servings of low-fat meat/fish/pulses (as before).
• 2 portions of dairy (as before).
• Vegetables (as before).
• Fruit - in addition to an apple, chose a portion of berries, as before, or alternatively chose from one serving, per day, of the following: cherries (10), 2 clementines, 4 oz/100 g grapes, 1 nectarine, orange or peach.
• Nuts, seeds and popcorn as before.
• Fats as before.
• Carbs - as well as your daily 2 high-fibre crackers you can now enjoy one 4 oz/100 g portion of the following: cooked oats, wholegrain pasta, buckwheat, barley or quinoa.
• Red wine - if you enjoy a drink, and you want to treat yourself, you can now have 1 medium glass up to 4 times per week.
• 1 oz/30 g dark chocolate per day.
• Coffee/tea/water as before.

TYPICAL WEEK 3 MENU
Breakfast: 4oz/100g bowl of porridge with 1 tbsp almond butter, plus 4oz/100g blueberries and 2 tbsp flaxseeds on top with a mug of green tea.
Snack: 1 apple and a lump of Cheddar cheese.
Lunch: Tuna salad with French beans, vinaigrette and 2 high-fibre crackers.
Snack: Guacamole with carrot batons.
Dinner: Large warm salad of poached chicken on mixed greens and goat's cheese with a mustard dressing, plus 2 large dark-chocolate dipped strawberries.
WEEK 4

This is the last week of the plan and you are so nearly there. Time to reintroduce more healthy carbohydrates - and up the wine quotient!

• The rules and portions are the same as week 3.
• Carbs - as well as your 2 high-fibre crackers, you can now enjoy 2  x  4oz/100g servings per day of cooked oats, wholegrain pasta, buckwheat, barley or quinoa, plus a 4oz/100g serving of brown rice, a bowl of high-bran breakfast cereal or 1 slice of wholemeal bread.
• Red wine - 1 medium glass up to 5 times per week (if you like!).

TYPICAL MENU WEEK 4
Breakfast: Open sandwich on multigrain bread of 2 slices turkey bacon, a slice of tomato, ¼ avocado with ½ grapefruit.
Snack: 4oz/100g ricotta cheese with sliced apple sprinkled with a pinch of cinnamon.
Lunch: 3-bean chilli with high-fibre crackers.
Snack: An orange and a handful of pumpkin seeds.
Dinner: Salad with feta cheese, grapes and celery, served with grilled trout. Finish off your meal with 1oz/30g dark chocolate.
If you have any medical problem or blood sugar condition such as hypoglycemia, insulin resistance or diabetes, see your GP before starting any diet. The plan is not suitable for people who exercise intensively.
Extracted by Louise Atkinson from The Sugar Detox: Lose Weight, Feel Great And Look Years Younger, By Brooke Alpert and Patricia Farris MD, published by Bantam Press at £8.99. To order a copy for £7.99 (incl p&p) call 0844 472 4157.
© 2014 Brooke Alpert and Patricia Farris.
PAMPER YOUR SKIN - AND BOOST YOUR DETOX



If you have got used to a diet packed with sugar, the first three days of the Sugar Detox are likely to be the most difficult as you go through withdrawal. So, try a pampering regime of soothing, healing beauty treatments, each of which has detoxifying benefits to make the programme more effective. You can use them through the whole 30-day detox, even after your 3-day kick-start is over.
DAY 1 - Sea Mud Mask

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Sea mud mask: It cleanses the skin, removes surface oils and discards dead skin cells


A sea mud mask is a skin-nourishing treatment you can apply as a treat on your first detox day. Look out for commercial brands or even real sea mud available online.
Try to pick one embellished with antioxidants, aloe vera, jojoba and essential oils, if possible. Sea mud is composed of 19 minerals, including the skin savers magnesium, zinc and sulphur, and has natural healing properties.
It cleanses the skin, removes surface oils, and discards dead skin cells. And not only can it restore your skin's pH balance, it also helps maintain skin hydration and has natural anti-ageing properties.

Wash your face with a gentle cleanser and apply a thin coat of the mud, avoiding sensitive areas (such as just below your eyes and eyelids). Remove by rinsing with warm water, then apply a little moisturiser if your face feels dry.
DAY 2 - Ancient Beauty Bath
On the second day we recommend a long, warm, soaking bath full of sea salts, which you can buy from any chemist or health shop. This will relax you and ease any aches and pains you may be feeling as your body gets used to life without sugar.
Adding sea salt to your bath can stimulate circulation, ease muscle aches and pains and soothe the body. Dead Sea Salt has a particularly high concentration of magnesium (which improves skin hydration, reduces redness and inflammation) and other minerals including sodium, potassium and calcium. Before you get in the bath, we suggest you dry brush your body with a natural-bristled brush, running it across your skin in short, brisk stokes, using an upward motion.
Start at the soles of your feet, moving up your legs, brushing upward towards your heart. Don't forget the trunk of your body and brush up your arms, too. Dry brushing like this improves circulation and removes swelling from the tissues by improving lymphatic drainage. It will also enhance the therapeutic benefits of the sea salt bath.

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Relaxing: We recommend a long soaking bath full of sea salts


DAY 3 - DIY Detox Face Mask
By day three you should be seeing visible improvements in your skin. Today's beauty regime - a moisturising antioxidant mask - will help neutralise those tiny molecules known as free radicals that might be speeding the skin-ageing process. It will also protect your skin and treat troubled areas, such as puffy under-eye bags.
Choose a cream-based mask and check the ingredients for antioxidants such as blueberry, green tea, black tea, rosemary extract, resveratrol or algae extract. For a rejuvenating home-made face mask, try blitzing in a blender 1 cup/ 8oz of full-fat Greek yogurt, 1 tbsp of porridge oats, 1 tbsp of honey and a handful of crushed blueberries.
The yogurt contains exfoliating lactic acid, oatmeal is a natural anti-inflammatory, honey has healing properties and acts as a natural moisturiser, and blueberries contain powerful antioxidants.
Apply a thin layer of the mixture to your face, leave for ten minutes, then wash off with warm water.




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I will be visiting my local health store tomorrow. I have a good friend that has acres of olive trees but due to a price drop in olive oil, she has neglected the farm.

she must have been selling to the wrong outfit or the middleman is gouging, the price sure hasn't gone down here! Unless $36 a gallon is cheap...

 

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Neanderthal genes linked to host of health problems including diabetes

DNA from Neanderthals has been linked to a host of health problems including diabetes and bowl disease, scientists revealed today.

By: Dion Dassanayake
Published: Wed, January 29, 2014





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Genes passed on from Neanderthals have been linked to a host of health problems [AP]
The remnants of caveman genes have been associated with Type 2 diabetes, digestive problem Crohn's disease and lupus and biliary cirrhosis which are liver issues.

It is also associated with thick hair, tough skin and nails and curiously addiction to cigarettes.

Between two and four per cent of the genetic map of Europeans and Asians is believed to be a legacy of interbreeding between Neanderthals and the ancient Homo sapiens.

The two were separate human subspecies who co-existed on Earth for thousands of years until the Neanderthals became extinct around 30,000 years ago.

The study, published in international journal Nature, compared the genomes of 1,004 people with the toe bone of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman.

The remnants of caveman genes have been associated with diabetes and smoking addiction [AP]
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We may learn more about what Neanderthals themselves were like
Professor David Reich
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Study leader Professor David Reich, from Harvard Medical School, said: "Now that we can estimate the probability that a particular genetic variant arose from Neanderthals, we can begin to understand how that inherited DNA affects us.

"We may also learn more about what Neanderthals themselves were like."

The study found one genetic variant linked to Neanderthals was associated with smoking and was specifically related to Euroepans.

The research also found Neanderthal ancestry could be seen in genes for keratin filaments, a protein that lends toughness to skin, hair and nails.

This may have provided those who migrated out of Africa to the cooler environments of with Eurasia thicker insulation.

Professor Reich added: "It's tempting to think that Neanderthals were already adapted to the non-African environment and provided this genetic benefit to (modern) humans."

 

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First British women to have £1,000 'no-frills' IVF: Budget procedure inspired by Alka-Seltzer to be available within weeks

• Newly developed method economises on expensive drugs and incubators
• Instead it uses cheap test-tube set and reaction inspired by hangover pills
• However, expert warns that the new procedure may not work for all women
  

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A ‘no-frills’ IVF treatment costing under £1,000 should be available to British women within weeks.
The budget procedure, which was developed last year, economises on expensive drugs and incubators.

Instead, it uses a cheap test-tube set and a chemical reaction inspired by Alka-Seltzer hangover tablets.

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Despite its low-tech approach, a pilot study showed the treatment to be at least as effective as the conventional equivalent, which costs up to £15,000.
Dr Geeta Nargund, of the Walking Egg foundation, who is bringing the procedure to Britain, believes it will allow the NHS to pay for more IVF treatments.
Thousands of women are denied IVF each year because health trusts cannot afford the cost, leaving patients to choose between finding the thousands of pounds needed to go private or remain childless.
The cheap new technique has been tested in Belgium, where a third of the women involved became pregnant, resulting in 16 births. Dr Nargund’s London clinic, Create, will now treat 50 women aged 37 or younger, comparing their progress with 50 given normal IVF.

If the study is a success, the technique could be generally available by later this year.
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Although the no-frills women will be charged under £1,000, and Dr Nargund insists this will be the cost of the procedure, other doctors have warned that the final commercial price may be higher.
The huge savings are possible because the new treatment does without an array of expensive equipment.
An embryo must be grown in a nutrient mixture that is neither too acidic nor too alkaline. This is achieved by pumping expensive, medical-grade carbon dioxide into an incubator, which itself must be in a room kept sterile with purified air.
But Professor Jonathan Van Blerkom, of the University of Colorado, showed it was possible to provide the gas by dissolving an Alka-Seltzer tablet in water. He then moved on to using baking soda mixed with citric acid.

Inspiration: Professor Jonathan Van Blerkom showed it was possible to make the gas needed for IVF by dissolving Alka-Seltzer tablets in water


Rather than an incubator, he used two rubber-stoppered test-tubes costing 7p and connected by a plastic tube. The gas is made in the first and travels up the tube to the second.
The eggs and sperm are injected into the second tube, where, if all goes well, at least one egg is fertilised.
The stoppers keep everything airtight, removing the need for purified air, and the embryos grow inside the tube.
After three to five days, they are ready for transfer to the womb.
The process uses fewer drugs at lower doses, which cuts costs and should lead to fewer, higher quality embryos, meaning the costs of selecting screening for genetic faults and freezing spare embryos should be reduced.
There may also be less need for expensive sperm injections.
Professor Van Blerkom, whose main aim was to help couples in the developing world, said: ‘The embryos don’t know if they are living in an expensive incubator and a lab with purified air or in a little tube. They don’t care. There’s nothing magical.’
Dr Nargund, whose Walking Egg Foundation is planning to launch the kit in the developing world, said: ‘I see couples in my NHS work who are in tears when they learn there is no funding and they have no money to pay for private treatment.
‘We have an obligation to reduce costs as much as we can and increase accessibility.’
In an editorial in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Martin Johnson, emeritus professor of reproductive sciences at Cambridge University, described the results so far as ‘encouragingly impressive’.
However, he warned against raising false hope, saying that the technique won’t be suitable for all couples.
This will make it difficult to lower costs in western clinics, because they will still need to have the staff, equipment and expertise to offer conventional treatments.
Dr Allan Pacey, a Sheffield University fertility expert, said: ‘We should be realistic about how and when it might change the face of IVF in high-resource countries like the UK. This may never happen but it is laudable to try.’


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Start Each Day with a Healthy Sole

The ideal way to use Himalayan Crystal Salt is in the form of a sole (so-LAY). Drinking the sole when you awake each morning is like getting up on the right side of the bed. It provides the energizing minerals you need daily to recharge your body, and it helps set the stage for a day of vitality.
Essentially, a sole is water saturated with Himalayan Crystal Salt. The sole contains about approximately 26 parts of salt to 100 parts of water. Prepare the water and salt combination in advance (see directions to the right). Each morning place a teaspoon of the sole mixture in a glass and fill with 8 ounces of pure spring water. Drink it immediately or sip it while getting dressed, checking emails or preparing breakfast. The water helps transport the electrolytes throughout the body to all the many places they are needed.
How to Prepare Sole

Sole is a mixture of water and salt. The object is to saturate the water with dissolved salt so it can’t hold anymore. You’ll know that you’ve created sole when there are undissolved salt crystals in the water. You can’t oversaturate the water with salt. The crystals will simply drop to the bottom of the container.
Place several Himalayan Crystal Salt stones or Himalayan Crystal Salt granules about an inch deep in a glass container. (A canning jar works well.)
Cover the salt with two to three inches of pure, spring water. Let the salt dissolve for 24 hours.
If all the salt dissolves in 24 hours, add more salt to the container. The sole is finished when the water can no longer dissolve the salt and the salt crystals drop to the bottom of the container. There will always be salt crystals in the jar. It doesn’t matter if you have only a few crystals or many. The water is saturated and is now sole.
Cover the container to prevent the water from evaporating. Since salt is a natural preservative, the sole will keep forever. It can’t spoil or go “bad.”
The vibrational energy of the Himalayan Crystal Salt remains in your body for 24 hours.
A teaspoon of sole contains 480 mg of sodium, or 20% of the Daily Reference Value of 2400 mg based on a 2,000 calorie per day diet.



Speaking of minerals the magnesium and potassium in "pink" salt keep you in the pink.

 

[Mossy]

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CO2 Medicine & Bath Bombing Your Way to Health

Posted by STAFF - Matheus on January 28, 2014 | Filed under Medicine

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Ladies, you are looking at the power of carbon dioxide medicine. This is the same woman before, after one year and after two years of daily application of a carbon dioxide gel that is applied directly to the face. What this will do to the skin this will do to one’s internal tissues when CO2 levels are increased and wait to you see what it does to a person’s toes if they have diabetic foot disease.
Carbon dioxide gas (CO2) is generated and delivered to skin tissue and it results in intensive oxygen release from blood vessel. It activates erythrocytes to supply more oxygen to dermal cells and therefore, activates cell metabolism. Natural biological functions of the skin can be maximized and all kinds of skin problems can be settled at cell level.
Key Functions of CO2 Gel Mask:
Moisturizing – Brightening – Revitalizing -Firming – Skin Radiance – Soothing
There are many beauty products that make a lot of promises but this one, I predicted in my book Sodium Bicarbonate, ahead of time like a theoretical physicist. This effect is already known in the beauty industry and it has important applications in medicine. Interestingly, the beauty industry employs lasers set to the frequency of carbon dioxide to bring renewed beauty to the skin.
My wife did not believe that the above woman transformed herself or that it was the same woman. Another said to me that the before picture looked like the mother of the stunning young woman to the right. No doubt, professional makeup and special lighting are on display but the fact remains that CO2 is serious medicine. Not only is it used in emergency rooms but also CO2 is an essential food, not only for plants but also for us. We simply do not work right when CO2 and bicarbonate levels are low in the blood.
Look at what this same medical power applied to the feet. Diabetics especially want to know about carbon dioxide medicine. The following show treatment effects of CO2 medicine for diabetic foot. Carbon dioxide footbath therapy was developed as a means for healing diabetic foot and other ischemic ulcers. (See my books Transdermal Magnesium Therapy and New Paradigms in Diabetic Care for more information about magnesium treatments for diabetes.)

This is before then one month and three months after treatment. The only treatment that comes close to helping diabetic foot like this is magnesium therapy, which combines beautifully in baths with sodium bicarbonate and CO2 medicine therapies.
Among the most severe complications associated with diabetes mellitus are the deep tissue lesions of the foot known collectively as "diabetic foot." Until recently, the lack of an effective therapy for diabetic foot has led many patients with such complications down an inexorable and tragic path toward amputation of the foot.
In my upcoming book Anti-Inflammatory Oxygen Therapy we see that oxygen delivered at higher concentrations gives the same effect. The secret to this is that oxygen and carbon dioxide are twin sisters or two sides of an interesting coin. Less oxygen is delivered in the face of carbon dioxide deficiencies while healthy CO2 levels insures plenty of oxygen gets delivered.

My book Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment tells one side of this amazing medical mystery.

Bath Bombs
In addition to this gel there are what are called Bath Bombs that can be added to a person’s bath that can be crucial in helping a person recover from diseases including cancer. The same Japanese company that makes the gel for women makes a tablet that you put in the bath and one soaks in the CO2 right from the bath water. It is like loading up the tub with sodium bicarbonate but in this case it is sodium bicarbonate but mixed with citric acid, which breaks down the sodium bicarbonate into CO2 micro bubbles, which is much more absorbable then sodium bicarbonate. CO2 permeability through cell membrane is 25 times more than O2.
The good news is that you can make Bath Bombs yourself or buy them with a variety of good smells for delicious medicinal baths. Treatment using natural carbon dioxide springs was common in Germany long before treatment with artificial CO2-enriched water began in Japan. But if you go to any of the many Bath Bomb sites you will not find a word about the medical effects.
C02 water bathing helps reduce pulse and high
blood pressure score, improves venous blood returning
to heart, and increase of peripheral blood flow.
Why does it Work?
Most of the CO2 in the body is in the form of bicarbonate (HCO3-). Therefore, the CO2 blood test is really a measure of your blood bicarbonate level. The normal range is 23-29 mEq/L (milliequivalent per liter).
If the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower
than normal, then this leads to difficulties
in releasing oxygen from haemoglobin.
Some background medical information is quite revealing about the power Bath Bombs and sodium bicarbonate baths (as well as oral administration), as well as rebreathing retraining, all of which help restore blood CO2/bicarbonate levels to normal.
Some of the diseases that are related to low CO2 levels are:

• Addison disease
• Diarrhea
• Ethylene glycol poisoning
• Ketoacidosis
• Kidney disease
• Lactic acidosis
• Metabolic acidosis
• Methanol poisoning
• Salicylate toxicity (such as aspirin overdose)

The official story is that Carbon Dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas with a slightly acidic taste. It is a “waste product” of the metabolic process in humans and is also consumed by plants during photosynthesis. Carbon Dioxide occurs naturally in the atmosphere and makes up approximately 0.03% of the atmosphere.
Through the years I have laughed at the detractors of using sodium bicarbonate to treat cancer knowing that they had not the slightest idea of what they are talking about. Medical Grade Carbon Dioxide USP is utilized in critical care areas of the hospital! The medical uses of carbon dioxide include the following but be sure to add cancer and diabetes to the list:

1. Inflation gas for minimal invasive surgery (laparoscopy, endoscopy, arthroscopy) to enlarge and stabilize body cavities for better visibility of the surgical field
2. To increase the depth of respiration and help overcome breath holding and bronchial spasms during various procedures
3. To stimulate respiration for various reasons (i.e. chronic respiratory obstruction removal, hyperventilation, etc.)
4. To increase cerebral blood flow during some surgeries
5. For clinical and physiological investigations

Carbon dioxide gas protects against tissue damage in the operative field in open-heart surgery. Carbon dioxide insufflation into the abdominal cavity results in the reduction of oxidative stress. Without CO2 we would all die as well as everything else on earth. So why on earth would anyone want to tax a good thing?
Carbon Dioxide Good or Evil

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gaseous waste product from metabolism. That is what everyone thinks. Waste means toxic but everything is toxic, including water, in the allopathic paradigm where the dose makes the poison in everything. CO2 is a waste product that we need. It is essential for life. It comes from living life and it goes back into creating life.
Al Gore is a phenomenon who runs around blubbering about carbon dioxide and why it is such a big problem. He is exactly wrong. NASA knows how waste can be turned to food and obviously, God knows about this too.
Carbon dioxide gas makes plants grow. It is a life gas not a death gas. You can treat cancer with it because increased systemic concentrations of pH buffers leads to reduced intratumoral and peritumoral acidosis and, as a result, inhibit malignant growth of cancer.
Meanwhile Gore is dancing on a 24-hour online global broadcast. “We are putting 90 million tons of carbon pollution in the earth’s atmosphere every day as if the atmosphere were an open sewer. The accumulated amount of manmade CO2 and global warming pollution now traps as much heat every day as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off every day.”
A UN panel of climate scientists recently found with 95% certainty that humans are responsible for the earth’s warming temperatures, up from 90% certainty six years ago. They concluded that only a rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could possibly reverse the global warming trend.
Notice these people are in doubt. Forget what the actual numbers are because they vary from computer to computer depending on what kind of assumptions scientists are making. NASA says that carbon dioxide is actually having a cooling effect in the upper atmosphere and on earth Gore is saying we are frying down on the surface with all these carbon based nuclear explosions. That must have been a typo or a joke but carbon dioxide medicine is where we establish CO2 truth. I seriously do not think any of us would be surviving more than a few days with “400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off every day.”

Back to Medicine
The blood carries carbon dioxide to your lungs, where it is exhaled. More than 90% of carbon dioxide in your blood exists in the form of bicarbonate (HCO3). The rest of the carbon dioxide is either dissolved carbon dioxide gas (CO2) or carbonic acid (H2CO3). Your kidneys and lungs balance the levels of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and carbonic acid in the blood.
Taking sodium bicarbonate orally or bathing in a tub saturated with it results in a shift of the body’s pH to less acidic and more alkaline. That is because baking soda is an electron donor. As the pH rises, so does cellular voltage and cellular oxygen levels.
These bath bombs or tablets take sodium bicarbonate medicine to another level by breaking down the sodium bicarbonate, with citric acid, to make CO2 micro-bubbles. CO2, which is only an alternative form of bicarbonate, is much more absorbable. Instead of loading up the bath with a kilo or two of bicarbonate, these tablets or Bath Bombs do the trick with just ounces of sodium bicarbonate.
We increase cell voltage, raise energy and performance levels of cellular activity when we supplement with sodium bicarbonate, which has long been known as an excellent medicine for the kidneys, and dialysis units use bicarbonate regularly but they, like everyone else, don’t want to brag about it.

Sodium bicarbonate+Citric acid+Water=Radical chemical reaction produces CO2 with lots of –HCO3 and +HCO3 with PH of 7.45
For the women there is the CO2 masks.

The best way to produce carbon dioxide is from physical activity but most people with chronic illness and cancer unfortunately do not exercise. Understanding how important bicarbonate and CO2 physiology can be to the chronically ill person involves understanding the basic physiology of carbon dioxide. Yes, women can make themselves more beautiful with CO2 masks but we can make patients more beautiful and a lot more comfortable when we resolve their bedsores, gangrene, eczema and fatigue with CO2.
Physical activity and sports is good for us because it raises CO2 concentrations though there are limits to everything including a good thing like CO2. Therefore, we do have, as we do for magnesium and everything else, a way of blowing off excess.

 

[Root]

Who knew bath bombs were so good for you!
I use Epsom Salts in mine, I wonder if the magnesium flakes would work.
I'll have to wait until it stops raining and there isn't so much moisture in the air.

 

[Mossy]

I Saw that Bath Bomb info and Thought of you Immediately......More Tools for our Med Kit huh..?..

 

[Root]