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The use of aloe vera for health and healing is popularly known. We have used aloe vera for health and healing for centuries. The aloe plant is related to the onion/garlic plant and also the lily plant. It’s appearance is very similar to cactus.

Aloe vera contains nineteen amino acids, twenty minerals e.g. calcium and magnesium, enzymes, polysaccharides, nitrogen and twelve vitamins.

These compounds account for its popularity as a source of nutrition, a healing agent, and valuable cosmetic enhancing agent as aloe aids in the elimination of dead skin cells.

Aloe is most popularly known for it’s external application for skin disorders, wounds, and sunburn.

However, many of us are discovering the tremendous health benefits of aloe for internal use taken in juice form.

Aloe vera helps heal internal tissue damage as effectively as it helps heal external tissue damage and promotes new cell growth.

Aloe vera has been used as an anti inflammatory in treating various stomach disorders. Those of us suffering from indigestion or irritable bowel syndrome have received relief from aloe vera juice.

Used for it’s laxative action, aloe vera helps eliminate toxins e.g. heavy metals.

Aloe vera also reduces stomach acid which is the cause of heartburn i.e. acid reflux. A healthy digestion system is essential for maintaining optimal health and preventing illness and disease caused by toxins that are reabsorbed into our bodies if they are not eliminated.

Because of aloe vera’s beneficial effects on our digestive system, it has become an efficient and effective aid for weight loss.

Aloe vera helps to reduce and stabilize our body mass index as it promotes the metabolism of fat content.

As aloe vera juice helps to assimilate protein in to our bodies and provides a high content of collagen protein, it helps promote the availability of more energy for our daily physical activity.

Many of us use aloe vera juice before, during and after our exercise sessions as it promotes muscle development which is vital for the burning of fat and weight management.

Aloe vera juice also reduces the amount of time food stays in our intestinal system through it’s elimination promoting properties.

This greatly promotes cleansing of toxins and waste which is essential when we are participating in a weight loss program.

Along with strengthening our immune system with vitamins and minerals, aloe vera juice balances blood sugar levels and aids in the reduction of cholesterol and blood fat lipid levels.

Also vera actually helps our bodies absorb the vitamins and minerals we are receiving from other sources giving greater nutrition to our cells.

Aloe vera as an enzyme aids in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and protein. Aloe Vera juice improves our blood circulation by stimulating our capillaries to dilate and helps regulate our blood pressure as well as fighting infection in our blood and body with anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties detoxifying our blood.

This action in our blood helps our immune system protect us from onset of disease and so gives us a feeling of well being and energetic living.

As an anti inflammatory, aloe vera promotes the healing of our bones and joints.

We have used aloe vera externally in gels to soothe sore muscles and joints due to stress, over use, arthritis, etc.

Used internally, aloe vera juice promotes the relief of pain and the increase of recovery from the inside.

Drinking aloe vera by itself can be a daunting task because of the taste.

However we have available to us various aloe vera juices flavored with natural fruit juice flavors to enable the drinking of aloe vera juice to be a very pleasant as well as a beneficial health experience.

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Preparation for fasting:

In preparation for fasting it is recommended that you

• stop smoking
• eating sugar
• red meat and
• drinking caffeine drinks

for a week before the fast. This will cut down side effect of fasting such as may dizziness and headaches.

Reduced you meals:

• Don’t overeat before you begin you fast, as it will only make you hungrier. Start eating smaller portions and add more vegetables to you meals. This will help with the transition.

• Juicing: Prepare you juices from raw vegetables. If you can afford it, as it is healthier. Juice a combination or raw  fruits and vegetables at the time you are ready to drink them.
• Portions: Drink from 32 to 64 ounces a day. Drink eight ounces five or six times a day. If you are still hungry just drink more juice. Also drink lots of water to help hydrate and flush out toxins
• How long to fast: If you have never fasted before, start with one day. Eventually build up to three to seven days. Set a goal before you start and if you feel good continue.
• Results of a juice fast: The benefits of a juice will vary depending on your physical condition when you start, but everyone will experience some benefit. You will feel lighter, your mind will be clearing you will feel more energetic and you will lose weight.
• What if you are sick: Always check with you doctor, before going on a fast. If you are on medication, do not stop taking medications while fasting.

Longer fasting has been know to cure sickness lower blood pressure, cholesterold and balance blood sugar.

Article from http://www.bukisa.com/

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Here is an interesting article on salt, magnesium, minerals and blood pressure from Anne Hart at the Sacremento Nutrition Examiner at http://www.examiner.com/.

April 19, 7:41 PM ·

Sodium chloride will raise your blood pressure if you’re salt-sensitive and also have inherited your family’s gene variation for hypertension.

But it’s the chloride in sodium as well as the chloride in calcium chloride (put into some canned vegetables to preserve color) that significantly raises your blood pressure.

Is it chloride in calcium and chloride in sodium rather than sodium by itself that aggravates hypertension?

At the Solay Wellness Inc. site and at Natural News.com, you’ll see an article published Dec 14, 2005 titled, “Blaming dietary sodium for high blood pressure is too simplistic; the real problem may be mineral deficiencies.”

The problem to be solved may be about imbalance in minerals: how too little or too much  of magnesium, calcium, and potassium (out of balance) play a role in your hypertension.

Can ionic multiple minerals that might be more absorbable actually help if your body isn’t absorbing minerals from other sources?

A variation in genes working together may be why some people respond to salt with hypertension and others are salt-resistant. See the book titled, Healing with Vitamins: Straight from Nature, Backed by Science–The Best Nutrients to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Disease (Rodale Health Books) by Editors of Rodale Health Books   (Paperback – Mar 17, 2009)

Research on how sodium alone, as in baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) affects hypertension are ongoing.

Baking soda contains sodium but not chloride. It’s known that calcium chloride put into food cans to preserve color significantly raises the blood pressure in some people that are sensitive to calcium chloride. And sodium chloride also raises the blood pressure of salt-sensitive people.

The best way to handle the issue is to find out which mineral raises your blood pressure. In the meantime, balance is important, the balance of potassium along with magnesium and calcium.

On one hand people can’t live without salt, but salt is found in many foods such as celery, carrots, and animal protein.

Scientists are researching how potassium lowers blood pressure by relaxing small vessels and helping to remove excess water and sodium. But too much potassium can kill you.

If the potassium is unbalanced with other minerals it can raise blood pressure.

A number of studies have found that limiting sodium alone doesn’t lower blood pressure in many people unless potassium intake is upped simultaneously. But some people using the potassium chloride in salt substitute find their blood pressure rising after they stopped eating salted foods. What’s happening?

There are a lot of issues involved. For example, your individual blood pressure problem could be associated with a high level of rennin.

It’s an enzyme released by the kidneys that eventually leads to the formation of angiotensin and the release of aldosterone. These compounds cause the blood vessels to constrict and the blood pressure to increase. If you cut out salt completely, your blood pressure could rise significantly from the imbalance of too much potassium.

See The Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements. It lists foods by their sodium:potassium ratio. Also see Debra’s Natural Gourmet site. Be careful if you’re sensitive to the potassium chloride in salt substitutes.

A teaspoon generally provides 1200-1300 mg, potassium. If your kidneys or heart can’t handle that much potassium chloride, your blood pressure could skyrocket, especially if you’re not eating salt and other minerals in a balanced state. That’s why it’s important to be tested anytime you are taking something like potassium, magnesium, sodium or any supplements. You need tests of what minerals actually are being absorbed in your cells.

What’s happening inside your body? In which minerals are you deficient? What are your cells actually absorbing? Is your doctor ordering the correct test of what minerals are being absorbed by your cells and not just what’s in your blood serum? 

Or if you have “elevated intracellular sodium or decreased intracellular potassium levels,” maybe you’d respond better to magnesium supplementation.

Only you and your doctor can find out by testing or giving you a four-week trial of a mineral such as magnesium to see how your body is reacting to that basic mineral. The goal is to see what could be out of balance or deficient in some areas.

Your doctor may want to put you on a month-long trial of taking magnesium. No one wants to be low on magnesium if and when that person ends up in the emergency room.

If you don’t like the way conventional medicine is handling your nutrition questions, talk to a reputable medical doctor who also has training in naturopathy, complementary medicine, preventive medicine, integrative medicine, or alternative medicine and nutrition…and who knows what tests to give.

Is there competition between what big business gains by selling more drugs versus various natural solutions?

And do these solutions appear in a variety of natural health-oriented books? Such solutions include “eating four stalks of celery to lower essential hypertension (for one week on and three weeks off).” I also see studies on drinking beet juice or using slow breathing machines.

In the meantime, I am now reading the label printed on a container of a particular antioxidant supplement that has a little baking soda added to its capsules. I see the following statement: “Research suggests that sodium may impact blood pressure in some individuals only when it is consumed as sodium chloride (NaCl) table salt and not in other forms.”

This means maybe your next topic to research is whether sodium alone, such as found in baking soda has a different effect on your hypertension than table salt, including sea salt and mineral salt, which is sodium chloride. Could that be why magnesium is added to restaurant salt shakers in parts of Finland?

I’d like to read those studies online about sodium alone affecting the hypertensive person differently than sodium chloride. And I’d also like to know how much sodium (as in baking soda) is okay to use to make a dozen muffins rise without making one’s pressure rise as well.

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Juices have the most wonderful qualities incredibly rich in vitamins and antioxidants, healing properties from anti aging to diabetes and even immune system builders against cancer and blood pressure.

Learning to use the benefits of juicing will add good quality health years to your life, help you to detox from all the environmental nasties in in our daily lives and keep your system fully functioning so you can escape conditions such as hemorrhoids which affect nearly 50% of the american population. Mangosteen can help you eliminate toxins from your body and taken with aloe juice will see you improve your health in 21 days or less.

Like other juices, such as pomegranates, blueberrries, acai and cranberries, the health and anti-aging benefits of mangosteen are only now being fully discovered and expored.

Mangosteen, an asian tropical fruit, is discussed in the article below.

Mangosteen Juice by Kerry NG

Although there is no actual evidence that mangosteen juice is effective as a treatment for cancer, there have been studies done that show that mangosteen juice is incredibly rich in antioxidants.

In fact, there have been early research studies done that show it may have promise to help relieve acne, and early small studies in the lab and on rats show that further research should be done in order to find out if it can in fact help with cancer prevention in humans.

It is important to understand at least the basics about mangosteen juice, so that you can truly understand the plentiful benefits that are available in the mangosteen fruit. Such mangosteen juice info includes things like the available nutrients, how the juice is beneficial, and where the mangosteen fruit derives from.

In all actuality, mangosteen juice is a tropical juice beverage that is made by the liquefying of the seeds, rind and flesh of the mangosteen fruit.

All mangosteen juice info should also include the fact of what the mangosteen fruit actually is. Mangosteen is a fruit that is about the size of an apple, with an incredibly thick rind and an interior snow-white colored fruit.

No studies have been able to prove that drinking mangosteen juice on a daily basis would offer any significant improvement in illness. However, research does show that increasing one’s dosage of mangosteen has been proven to boost your absorption of vitamins, therefore strengthening your overall immunity.

Mangosteen juice has been used for centuries as a folk remedy, especially in places around the fruit’s native countries, such as Thailand.

The mangosteen fruit has been widely acclaimed of having the qualities of an anti-histamine, anti-aging ointment, antibiotic, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory. Besides this, it has been shown to help certain medical issues, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, immune deficiency, and even fibromyalgia.

Mangosteen extract has also been generally accepted as being useful in the treatment of arthritis, acid dyspepsia, moderate asthma, otitis externa and eczema. It is considered to be at least as effective and helpful as most pharmacological agents, and diabetics especially are increasingly in favor of its use.

Many diabetic users report the use of mangosteen has decreasing their need for insulin dramatically. Thus, the mangosteen is a fruit with some potentially amazing health benefits.

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