Ageing to Sageing

Can We Grow Younger?

We are fond of saying, “People will do for vanity what they won’t do for sanity!” But vanity is not only skin deep. The effects of natural anti-aging products go far deeper than the surface so you do not have to feel shallow if aging concerns you. In fact, the newest word in anti-aging is Nucleotides! Some of the information here may seem just a bit technical but the reason is to underscore the importance of nucleotides.

Here is a definition of the word, Nucleotide: A subunit of DNA or RNA. To form a DNA or RNA molecule, thousands of nucleotides are joined in a long chain. These nucleotides are targeted to specific receptors. Each organ has its own receptors for these cell rejuvenators.
The organs in the body are made up of protein but on a more detailed level, that protein is made up of amino acids and nucleo-proteins called nucleotides that are the building blocks of RNA and DNA. These nucleotides store genetic information in our cells. Whenever a cell divides, the body needs nucleotides to make a complete copy of the DNA for the new cell. At times of stress, the need for new cells increases, which requires millions of nucleotides. The synthesis of new nucleotides requires considerable time and energy for an already-stressed body.
Dietary nucleotides support cell multiplication and optimal health. Nucelotides are especially important in areas of the body where rapid cell division occurs. All body systems already regenerate on their own schedule, over days, weeks or months. That means we replace all of the cells in a particular organ with brand new cells every so often. Your heart, liver, lungs, digestive tract, skeletal system and even your skin regenerate during their own cycle.
Giving the body the protein it needs in a form it can use can help the body to make better, stronger new cells, like you had when you were younger! See the anti-aging connection? Cellular Build by NSP is the first step because it contains the targeted nucleotides, targeted for the receptors for the brain, the skin and even the heart! We all want to be young at heart, don’t we?
Match this product with Collatrim™, which is primarily collagen, the fibrous protein in bones, tendons and connective tissues. It provides the building blocks of protein and amino acids. Your body can utilize the amino acids in Collatrim™ to rebuild muscles and strengthen lean muscle mass. Remember that muscles are not only biceps and triceps. Muscles keep those jowls from sagging and the heart pumping strongly!
Free Amino Acids is probably the most underrated product in the entire NSP line. Free Amino Acids with Magnesium & l-Carnitine is primarily a must for individuals involved in strength and endurance training, especially for times of physical activity, stress and recovery. Amino acids are building blocks of protein that help develop, build and maintain solid muscle tissue. Twenty amino acids are needed by the body to make proteins, 12 of which the body manufactures. The other eight essential amino acids must be supplied in the diet. The eight essential amino acids in this product are formulated to meet the Food and Agricultural Organization/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) amino acid pattern that helps ensure the most efficient use of amino acids by the human body. The added l-Carnitine helps transport fatty acids into the mitochondria, where they are burned for energy. Magnesium acts as a cofactor to help activate enzymes necessary for carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism.
It is not vain to want to look and feel younger. After all, what is the alternative? Do every natural thing you can do to keep your body working, looking and feeling younger and healthier. Ten years from now, you will be glad you did! We can’t stop the clock but we can give our bodies the tools it needs to keep the clock ticking!

Care and Feeding of the Adult Brain: Three Areas of Activity to Help Avoid Alzheimer’s and Dementia*

You can take easy steps in three areas to help avoid the onset of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and mild cognitive impairment. Those areas are intellectual activity, physical activity, and nutrition.

Intellectual Activity
• Learn new things
 Study outside your discipline (continuing ed, audit)
 Take up a new hobby
 Play a musical instrument
 Listen to music with a binaural beat
 Listen to radio shows and visualize events described
 Learn a(nother) foreign language (Rosetta Stone)
 Solve puzzles—crossword, sudoku
 Play strategy games

Physical Activity
• Sleep—the brain is very active during sleep. It uses sleep to process all the events of the day and integrate new knowledge and associations with old. Sleep sorts and reorders the mental file cabinet; it also supports the immune system.
 Pick a bed time and stick to it—routines associated with sleep are important. With a consistent bed time, your body will begin to anticipate it, and you will start to get tired as the regular bed time approaches.
 Plan to get eight hours of sleep (hours before midnight count as two).
 Eat lightly if at all before bed or energy gets diverted from brain to digestion.
 Stop consuming liquid 40 minutes before bedtime.
 Avoid computer use for 30 minutes before bedtime.
 Do not sleep with the television on—remove the temptation by keeping the television out of the bedroom. Otherwise, your brain will continue to process the lights and sounds and will not get a chance to do the work it is supposed to.
 Sleep in darkness or wear an eye mask.
 Consider taking melatonin, a hormone produced in the brain that controls the sleep cycle, or tryptophan, an essential amino acid that helps maintain serotonin levels for healthy mood and supports natural, restful sleep.
• Breathe—use breathing exercises to decrease cortisol, a brain-damaging stress hormone.
• Exercise
 Do 30-40 minutes of moderate activity four to five days a week
• Helps to clear cortisol from the brain
• Enhances circulation

Nutrition
• Drink plenty of water—the body is 70% water.
• Nutrition is probably the key component. In a perfect world, we would be able to get the appropriate nutrition from the food we eat. However, time pressure, conflicting schedules, and other factors often keep us from preparing nutritious meals—it is just easier to grab a burger or a pizza on the run. The other major issue is the actual food value of what is available on the grocery shelves. Much of the available food is grown in mineral depleted soils using petroleum based fertilizers on factory farms. Food is then irradiated or treated with preservatives and shipped hundreds or thousands of miles before it gets to the store shelves—all of which depletes food freshness and value.
• In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of 30 years “of English language articles about the relationship between vitamins and chronic disease.” The review authors “recommended that ‘all adults take one multivitamin daily.’” The article summary stated that “a large proportion of the general population has less-than-optimal intakes of a number of vitamins, putting them at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis” (Lieberman & Bruning, 2007, p. 21).
• Multivitamin supplement considerations:
 Potency
 Capsule, rather than tablet form, for digestibility
 Bioavailability—easily absorbed
 Antioxidants
 Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) and Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs) help prevent nutritional deficiency diseases; Optimum Daily Intake (ODIs) doses aim for optimal function—at the peak of health.

• The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book: The Definitive Guide to Designing Your Personal Supplement Program, Fourth Edition, by Shari Lieberman and Nancy Bruning, 2007(www.penguin.com).**
 The case for supplementation, including how to design your own nutritional supplement program
 Fat-soluble vitamins
• Vitamin A and carotenoids are important for:
o Immune system function, protection from cardiovascular disease and cancer, growth and maintenance of the skin, eye health, unique antioxidant activity
o ODI—Vitamin A 5,000-25,000 IU; Beta Carotene 11,000-25,000 IU
• Vitamin D helps:
o Support bone health, prevent and treat several common cancers, mitigate Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cardiovascular disease
o ODI—1,000IU
• Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that plays a vital role in prevention of age-related degenerative diseases:
o Cardiovascular disease, cancer, high cholesterol, inflammation, nervous system degeneration, dementia, and Alzheimer’s
o Synthetic Vitamin E is 1/8 as potent as natural Vitamin E
o ODI—400-1,200 IU
• Vitamin K is:
o Essential for blood clotting, reducing bone loss, preventing fractures—60% reduction in the risk of vertebral fractures and 77% reduced risk of hip fractures.
o ODI—80 mcg
 Water-soluble vitamins
• Vitamin B Complex—B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cobalamin), folic acid, pantothentic acid, biotin, choline, inositol, and PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid). Although each has its own role and properties, as a group, they have so much in common they are often considered a single entity. The Vitamin B complex works together in the body to:
o Reduce the risk of precancerous lesions of the cervix by 50-90%, reduce the progression of cataracts with Vitamin E, act as coenzymes in almost all parts of the body, maintain healthy nerves, skin, hair, eyes, liver, and mouth, preserve good muscle tone in the GI tract, provide energy, metabolize carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
o ODI—25-300 mg
• Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that:
o Prevents free radical damage that contributes to aging and degenerative and age-related diseases including cancer and cardiovascular disorders, plays a major role in the immune system helping increase resistance to a range of diseases including infections and cancer, has an important role in our ability to handle all types of physical and mental stress.
o ODI—500-5,000 mg along with 500-5,000 mg of bioflavonoids
 The minerals
• Calcium ODI—1,000-1,500 mg
• Phosphorus ODI—500-750 mg
• Zinc ODI—22.5-50 mg
• Iron ODI—15-25 mg (men) 18-30 mg (women)
• Copper ODI—0.52 mg
• Manganese ODI—15-50 mg
• Chromium ODI—200-600 mcg
• Selenium ODI—100-400 mcg
• Iodine ODI—0-150 mcg (routinely consuming iodized salt and/or seaweed products)
• Potassium ODI—99-300 mg
• Boron ODI—3-6 mg
 Beyond vitamins and minerals
• Coenzyme Q10
• Essential Fatty Acids—Omega 3, Omega 6
• Flavonoids
• Other Nutrients
 Appendixes and notes, including
• quick reference tables for nutrients (major uses/ food sources/ RDI/ ODI),
• drug-induced vitamin and mineral deficiencies (drug/nutrient depletion),
• at-a-glance nutritional therapy (symptom or disorder/suggested key nutrients)
• a work sheet for individualizing ODI supplementation based on levels of emotional stress and health goals (including enhance immunity; cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and osteoporosis prevention)

Related website: www.mynsp.com/jeanettewolfe

Warren Chaney’s Music Recommendations
Music that Aids with Sleep
o Somewhere in a Dream (Hisham)
o Cristofori’s Dream (David Lantz)
o Violin Concerto in G Minor—Op. 64 (David Wilkie)
o Alegro (Mendelssonn by Heifetz)
o Blue Danube (Strauss)
o Greensleeves (James Galway)
o Beautiful Dreamer (Boston Pops)
o Blue Shadows on the Trail (Sons of Pioneers)
o Braham’s Lullaby (Celine Dion or Montovani)
o Ave Maria (Schubert)
o Brian’s Song (Mancini)
o Young at Heart (101 Strings)
o The Way We Were (Richard Clayderman)
o Somewhere In Time (John Tesh)
o Serenity Suite (Steven Halpern)
o When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Roger Whittaker)

Music that Energizes the Brain
o Beautiful Morning (The Rascals)
o When You’re Smiling (Louis Armstrong)
o Piano Concerto N. 18, Allegretto (Mozart)
o 59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel)
o Happy Jack (The Who)
o Chariots of Fire (Vangelis)
o Walk—Don’t Run (The Ventures)
o Hooked on Classics (Royal Philharmonic)
o Red River Rock (Johnny & The Hurricanes)
o Money in My Pocket (Dennis Brown)
o Drum and Piano (Yanni)
o Voices of Spring—Waltz (Strauss)
o Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (Beethoven)
o Hooked on Mozart (Royal Philharmonic)
o Piano Concerto N. 27 in B Flat Major (Mozart)

Music that Prepares the Brain for Learning
o Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos (Mozart)
o Songs from Laya Vinyas (Trichy Sankaran)
o Symphony in Three Movements (Stravinsky)
o Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)
o Symphony No. 41—Malto Allegro (Mozart)

Background Music (played low):
o Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
o Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
o Brandenburg Concertos (Bach)
o Serenade for Strings in C Major (Tchaikovsky)
o One Man’s Dream (Yanni)
o Sonata in D major (Mozart)
o Symphony in 3 movements (Stravinsky)