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EMC embraces integrative health with new Eisenhower Wellness Institute
Financial Health
Your next vacation has been planned for months, but what about your retirement?
Family Health
Teaching your children how to achieve their greatest potential for a happy and rewarding life
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Women’s Wellness
Desert Health reviews the benefits a of “therapeutic” facial
Fitness
When is the right time to get back to your sport following an injury?
Natural Choices
Acupuncture is now commonly used in western medicine, but what is the science behind it?
Senior Health
Hiring a caregiver is one of life’s hardest challenges. When is it time?
Sunny Side of the Street
If you are tired of feeling trapped by an unforgiving past, maybe it’s time to let go…
Living Wellness
Positive energy is within your control. It all starts with intention.
Health is a Choice
Hard to Change Habits? Blame Your Killer Genes By Lauren Del Sarto
Dr. Steven Gundry is a world-renowned Cardiologist/ Cardiac Surgeon who pioneered infant and pediatric heart transplants and (with his partner) has performed more such transplants than any other surgeon in the world. He is the inventor of leading surgical technology and is considered one of the fathers of robotic surgery.
Gundry is also an inquisitive researcher who never
stops asking ‘why?’ And it is this quest that changed his life when he encountered a heart diseased patient he refers to as “Big Ed.” Big Ed was sent to Gundry by another physician as ‘inoperable’ and an angiogram confirmed the diagnosis. Six months later Ed returned weighing 45 lbs less and requesting that Gundry repeat the angiogram to see if the diet, herbs and supplements
he had been taking somehow improved the state of his blood vessels.
Gundry told Ed that “worthless supplements only
made expensive urine”, but agreed to repeat the an- giogram. Surprisingly, Ed’s blockages had shrunk by more than 50%. Gundry had never seen such a reduc- tion. Following successful bypass surgery, he met with Ed to discuss the diet, vitamins, mineral and herbs that had transformed his body.
This experience started a personal quest for Gun-
dry that changed his preconceived notions about the underlying cause of heart disease, cancer, obesity and other rampant diseases. Gundry himself was over-
Continued on page 18 Photo by Mark Barkaway Let’s face it. Lately the sun has got-
ten a bad rap. Many fear the sun’s rays and worry about skin cancer. But most of us live in the Desert by choice and 350+ days of sunshine has some- thing to do with it. So can we enjoy the sun?
“I think the current message that all unprotected sun exposure is bad for you is too extreme,” states Michael Holick, M.D. director of the Vitamin D Research Lab at Boston University Medical Center. “The original message was that people should limit their sun exposure, not that they should avoid the sun entirely. I do believe that some unprotected exposure to the sun is important for health.”
“Nobody wants to get skin can-
cer, but we’ve gone from sun wor- ship to sun dread,” states Dr. Rob- ert S. Stern, chair of the Depart ment of Dermatology at Harvard af- filiated Beth Israel Deaconess Medi- cal Center. He has coined the phrase “solar-phobes”: people so concerned
about getting skin cancer that they stay inside or cover every bit of skin.
The marketing of ultra-blocking
sunscreens and special sun-protective clothing plays into these fears. How- ever, the same UVB wavelengths that these sunscreens are designed to block also do some good: They kick off the chemical and metabolic chain reaction that produces vitamin D and research now shows that many peo- ple have low vitamin D levels.1
All agree that the sun’s radiation
can help processes in the body work better, so let’s take a look at some of the positive benefits of the sun as de- termined by recent medical studies.
Body Benefits Boost the immune system: Vitamin
D is essential to and can boost your immune system helping to fight off disease more effectively. 2
Lower cholesterol: Cholesterol is converted into Vitamin D by sunlight,
therefore avoiding the sun will like-
wise undermine our ability to synthe- size vitamin D.3
Boost metabolism: Sensible sun ex-
posure can help increase metabolism, increasing the rate at which you burn calories aiding in weight loss and fit- ness.4
Enhanced kidney function: There
is a high prevalence of vitamin D de- ficiency in those with chronic kidney disease. The Kidneys remove waste from the body, so getting proper sun exposure can help decrease the toxic- ity in your bloodstream.6
Stronger skeleton: Because of its
role in helping the body to absorb cal- cium, getting sufficient sun exposure for the production of Vitamin D can help prevent bone disease resulting in less brittle bones. 7
Bright Minds Reduce stress: Taking some time to
enjoy the sun can reduce stress aiding Continued on page 8
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Why We Should
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