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Body Detox Cleansing

January 22nd, 2012

The process of detoxification helps in healing and protecting the body against diseases, thereby renewing the body’s ability to maintain optimum health. Detoxification as a healing process has been in use since centuries by many cultures, including the Ayurvedic and the Chinese medicine system.

Detoxification is nothing but the process of resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from inside out. By using these natural detoxification options, you’ll help your body eliminate toxins so you can better manage your disease.

This article will explain how to detoxify your body when you have an autoimmune disease. There are toxins in our food and environment more than ever before. If you live with an autoimmune disease such as Crohn’s, celiac, lupus, fibromyalgia or similar condition, your body is much more sensitive to toxic load from stress, the environment and your diet.

Chances are your body also has a harder time eliminating these toxins, leaving you tired, drained and irritable. Your body needs this extra attention and care.

It’s important to understand how to detoxify your body when you have an autoimmune disease. A regular routine of detoxification induces mental alertness and renewed energy.

Some doctors will tell you that everyone should go on a detox diet at least once per year in order to maintain a healthy body. They can be found in plastic containers, cookware, shampoos, deodorants, air fresheners, cars, the air we breathe and the food we consume. They’re everywhere. Therefore, more than ever, it is crucial you know how to detoxify your body. We don’t have to look far to notice these toxins.

American diet contains high saturated fat, trans fat, and other harmful substances such as sugar, caffeine, pesticides, additive substances, and less in fruits and vegetables. These types of harmful substances is toxic.

Our body’s detoxifying functions try to get rid of them everyday, when they fail causing disruption of hormone production, damaging our body’s detoxification organs and weakens our immune system resulting in hormone imbalance and many chronic illnesses consequently.

Author Ann Loiuse Gittleman recommends adding pure cranberry juice to your water in the morning and evening to help detox the liver and kidneys. Drink plenty of pure, filtered water from glass containers daily.

Purify the blood, by eliminating all the toxins from the blood and liver and provide the body with healthy nutrients.

Sprouts and greens are very simple and easy to grow at home, in pots or in sprouters. Examples are kale, parsley, silverbeet, rocket, lettuce and wheatgrass. Sprouts and greens may be used in smoothies or salads.

They are powerful packages of antioxidants, proteins and protective phytochemicals such as sulphoraphane which upregulates the genes which code for glutathione detoxification in the cells and in the liver. » Read more: Body Detox Cleansing

Living With HIV-AIDS – Important General Information For a Better Quality of Life

November 17th, 2011

HIV/AIDS is an Immune System Disorder in which the body’s ability to defend itself against infections, is greatly diminished. HIV is spread primarily through sexual or blood-to-blood contact. To put this simply, in layman’s terms, the HIV virus enters the bloodstream and attaches itself to the service of a white blood cell (the CD4 cell’s receptors). The virus then changes its genetic information into that of the white blood cell. The virus cannot be recognized by other white blood cells and is, over time, able to replicate itself into hundreds of HIV viruses. When the HIV virus has used the cellular material of the white blood cell, this breaks open and the new virus can, and does, spread through the bloodstream.

A person infected with HIV can go through four stages of the disease:

1. Primary HIV infection stage
2. A symptomatic latent phase
3. Minor symptomatic phase
4. Major symptomatic phase
5. AIDS defining conditions; the severe symptomatic stage.

Symptoms of Stage 1 are:
• Sore throat, headache, mild fever, fatigue, muscle and joint pains, swelling of the lymph nodes, rash, and mouth ulcerations.

The CD4 cell count is approx. 800-1200 cells/mm3.

Symptoms of Stage 2 are:
• No symptoms occur as this is the latent stage.

The CD4 cell count is between 500 and 800 cells

Symptoms of Stage 3 are:
• Swelling of the lymph nodes/glands in the neck, armpits and groin.
• Occasional fevers, recurrent chest infections.
• Shingles, skin infections and rashes.
• Recurrent mouth ulcers
• Weight loss up to 10% of the person’s usual body weight.
• Prolonged, unexplained fatigue.

The CD4 count is between 350 and 500 cells

Symptoms of Stage 4 are:
• Persistent and recurrent oral and vaginal Candida infections (thrush)
• Recurrent herpes infections eg cold sores
• Recurrent shingles infections (herpes zoster)
• Recurrent bacterial skin infections and skin rashes
• Fever that lasts for more than a month, night sweats » Read more: Living With HIV-AIDS – Important General Information For a Better Quality of Life