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Women’s Health

Women’s Health. 5 Major Health Concerns . Heart Disease Mental Health. Osteoporosis Breast Cancer. Hormone Balance. #1 Osteoporosis. What Causes It?. Risk factors for osteoporosis include: A ge Gender (females at higher risk) Race L ow body weight

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Women’s Health

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  1. Women’s Health This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  2. 5 Major Health Concerns Heart Disease Mental Health • Osteoporosis • Breast Cancer • Hormone Balance

  3. #1 Osteoporosis This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  4. What Causes It? Risk factors for osteoporosis include: • Age • Gender (females at higher risk) • Race • Low body weight • Low sex hormones such as during menopause • Smoking • Some medications

  5. Are There Symptoms? • No symptoms actually occur until it results in a fracture. One in three women over the age of 50 will experience an osteoporotic fracture during her lifetime

  6. How Does It Work? • Osteoclasts: Brake down the bone matrix • Osteoblast: Build the bone back up

  7. How Is It Prevented/Managed? • Proper Nutrition

  8. How Is It Prevented/Managed? • Regular Exercise • Bone is an active tissue and it is sensitive to gravitational and muscular forces • Exercise and strength training increase bone mineral density

  9. How Is It Prevented/Managed? • Supplementation Formulated with bioavailable forms of natural nutrients that include vitamins C and D, plus calcium, magnesium, and other trace minerals that support healthy bone density as a woman ages.* • Bone building oils: • Clove • Thyme • Peppermint BONE NUTRIENTLIFETIME COMPLEX™

  10. Vitamin D • Sun exposure • 600-800iu/day • LLV: 1600iu • BN: 810iu

  11. Calcium • You might be surprised to learn that calcium is plentiful in many vegetables. Go for dark leafy greens such as bok choy, Chinese cabbage, and kale. One cup of chopped turnip greens has about 200 milligrams of calcium. • LLV: 500mg  BN: 1000mg

  12. #2 Breast Cancer About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  13. How Do You Know? • Breast Cancer Symptoms • There are often no symptoms of breast cancer, but sometimes women may discover a breast problem on their own. Signs and symptoms to be aware of may include: • A painless lump in the breast • Changes in breast size or shape • Swelling in the armpit • Nipple changes or discharge • Breast pain can also be a symptom of cancer, but this is not common. WebMD 2011

  14. Prevention Is The Key? Raw Foods • Provide the beneficial enzymes needed to utilize the nutrients present in the food • Have living nutrients that give life enhancing energy to the cells of the body

  15. Prevention Is The KEY! Exercise

  16. Cancer Fighter • Protection From an Exotic Spice • Curcumin is the main ingredient in the Indian spice turmeric and a potential cancer fighter. Lab studies show it can suppress the transformation, proliferation, and invasion of cancerous cells for a wide array of cancers. WebMD 2011

  17. More Cancer Fighters!

  18. Prevention is the KEY! • Vit & Minerals • EFA’s • Antioxidants • Anti- • inflammation • CPTG Essential • Oils Life Long Vitality

  19. Essential Oils & Breast Cancer • Frankincense • Rosemary • Lavender • Lemongrass • Clove • Sandalwood • Oregano • Marjoram

  20. #3 Heart Disease • Heart disease is the leading killer of both men and women. In women, the condition is responsible for about 29% of deaths, reports the CDC. This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  21. How Do You Know? Risk Factors • Smoking • High blood pressure • High cholesterol • Obesity • Excessive alcohol • Lack of nutrition • High stress • Physical inactivity

  22. Prevention Is KEY!

  23. Prevention is the KEY!

  24. Heart Healthy Foods!

  25. Take Charge of Your Health! • Cardiovascular • Strength Training • Nutrition • Supplementation

  26. Supplementation Life Long Vitality and Heart Health • CoQ10 • Improves endothelial cell function • Improves mitochondrial function • Resveratrol and Grape seed extract • Help prevent damage to blood vessels and heart cells • Help reduce LDL "bad" cholesterol • Help prevent blood clots • Attenuate cardiac diseases such as atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease • Omega-3 EFA’s • Protect against several types of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, atherosclerosisand hypertension • Decrease LDL and increase HDL

  27. ONLY THE BEST! • Vasodilators: • Rosemary • Eucalyptus • Marjoram • Heart Tissue: • Peppermint • Cinnamon • Rose • Atherosclerosis: • Lemon • Lavender • Ginger • Cholesterol: • Lemongrass • Clary sage • Helichrysum

  28. #4 Mental Health • According to the CDC it’s estimated that 25% of adults in the U.S. have a mental illness and 50% will throughout their lifetime • Two-thirds of people in nursing homes have a mental illness • This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  29. Many Types Of Disorders • Clinical depression (7 to 9%) • Anxiety disorders (14%) • Bipolar • Dementia (Alzheimer's) • Obsessive compulsive disorder • ADD and ADHD • Etc. Around 35,000 suicides per year

  30. How Are They Prevented/Managed? Proper Nutrition One large handful of cashews has the beneficial mood enhancing effects of the equivalent of one dose of Prozac

  31. How Are They Prevented/Managed? Exercise All types • Rhythmic cardio • Weight lifting • Sports • Dance • Yoga • Tai chi • Walking • Rock climbing • Etc.

  32. Benefit Of Exercise On The Brain! • Release of positive neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine) • Reduce immune system chemicals that worsen depression • Stimulates formation of new brain cells (memory and cognitive function) • Boosts confidence • Increase social interaction • Increase levels of "brain-derived neurotropic factor" (BDNF) 30 minutes of vigorous exercise 3-5 times per week is like taking a daily dose of a prescription antidepressant

  33. How Are They Prevented/Managed? • Bacopa • Increased memory and cognitive function • Decrease the “FOG” feeling • Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) • 15-30% of the brain are made up of EFA’s • Increase cognitive function • Positive effect on neuronal membrane dynamics and therefore on receptor, transporter and neurotransmitter function • Alpha CRS+ Antioxidants • Increase cellular metabolism and proliferation, making the cells in the brain function better • Curcumin(Turmeric extract) • Inhibit Amyloid beta plaque in the brain, helping with dementia • Micro Plex VMz • Increase nutrients essential for proper brain health Supplementation

  34. Only The Best! • Memory/cognitive function • Rosemary • Peppermint • Frankincense • Alzheimer's • Sandalwood • Frankincense • Anxiety disorders • Lavender • Elevation • Balance • Depression • Lemon • Citrus Bliss • Melissa • Frankincense • ADD/ ADHD • Vetiver • Serenity • Lavender

  35. #5 Hormone Balance • Hormonal balance is your body’s natural state. • When there are too many demands on your body, its ability to balance your hormones is overwhelmed. • The demands that create hormonal imbalance tend to peak in perimenopause which gives rise to hot flashes and/or night sweats This Information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, cure or prevent illness and disease. Seek your healthcare provider before starting any exercise or nutritional program

  36. What other time? Imbalance of hormones

  37. PMS 5 to 11 days

  38. A Long Time

  39. Hormone Imbalance • Women can experience hormonal imbalance at any stage in their lives. It’s just your body’s way of asking for help.

  40. Hormones What are they? • Chemicals made in the Glands • Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone

  41. Pituitary Gland • Sends Messages • Regulate production • Other Places • Adrenal glands • Adipose tissue & liver

  42. Estrogens? Estrone • Estriol Estradiol • Produced primarily during • pregnancy • If not enough is produced • it can cause chromosomal • or congenital anomalies • Most dominant hormone • during menstruation years • Develops secondary sex • characteristics • Greatest impact on bone • strength and density • Plays a big roll in mood • balancing, especially post- • partum depression • Predominant estrogen • in postmenopausal • women • Can be made from belly • fat; in excess increasing • risk for heart disease • and breast cancer

  43. Xenoestrogens!What are those? • The word xenoestrogen is derived from the Greek words (xeno, meaning foreign) and literally means "foreign estrogen" • Also called "environmental hormones" or "EDC" (Endocrine Disrupting Compounds). • They are widely used industrial compounds such as PCB & BPA (basically all plastics) • The Endocrine Society, regard them as serious environmental hazards that have hormone disruptive effects on both wildlife and humans

  44. What do they do? • Xenoestrogens may act as false messengers and disrupt the process of reproduction. • Xenoestrogens can increase growth of the endometrium, increasing the risk of endometriosis • Xenoestrogens play a big roll in some cancers, such as; Prostate and testicular (in men), breast & ovarian (in women)

  45. Now what?

  46. Help is on the Way! • Blend of natural plant extracts that support hormone balance throughout the different phases of a women's life. • Standardized soy extract with genistein, a powerful phytoestrogen that binds with estrogen receptors in cells • Concentrated extract of flax seed lignans to help manage potentially harmful metabolites that are produced when estrogen is metabolized in the liver PHYTOESTROGENLIFETIME COMPLEX™

  47. Help is on the Way! • Blend of Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® essential oils that have been traditionally used to balance hormones and manage symptoms of PMS and the transitional phases of menopause. • Solace is a topical blend of clary sage, lavender, bergamot, Roman chamomile, cedarwood, ylang ylang, geranium, fennel, carrot seed, palmarosa and vitex that provides temporary respite from cramps, nausea, hot flashes, and the emotional swings sometimes associated with regular hormone cycles in women. SOLACE™ MONTHLY ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND

  48. Hormone Balance Balancing hormones and managing harmful metabolites by eating a healthy diet rich in phytoestrogens and other essential nutrients, exercising, and managing weight can: • Help reduce uncomfortable symptoms associated with PMS and the transition through menopause • Supports healthy bones, heart, breast tissue and other body structures and functions as a women ages.*

  49. Women’s Health Make The Commitment! Take Charge of your LIFE! FIND BALANCE

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