Natural Anti-inflammatory

Found in small amounts in most foods, the natural sulfur known as MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) has been used for years to treat pain associated with joints and muscles.

Sulfur is a necessary part of proteins, including those proteins that make up the cartilage, muscles, hair, nails, and skin. Since it is a component of all these things, it is not surprising that arthritis sufferers who supplement their diets with MSM report stronger nails and faster-growing hair.

MSM absorbs very well even through the skin, and can be used in cream form for topical application. No matter the form it comes in (cream, liquid, powder or pill) MSM is an anti-inflammatory and often found with other supplements known to be beneficial for arthritis such as glucosamine. Unlike glucosamine, MSM does not work to rebuild cartilage and connective tissues, nor does it help lubricate joints the way chondroitin is reported to work. Instead, MSM helps the body transport nutrients through cell membranes and into the cells where they are needed most.

Some animal lovers may know MSM better by another name. It is actually a more refined version of a supplement known as DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide). This supplement was used extensively for large livestock, and veterinarians applied it to the legs of racehorses for pain. The medical field studied DMSO for its ability to transport other substances through cell membranes, and uses it today to protect human tissues (such as bone marrow) when frozen for storage. Unfortunately, DMSO never became a popular supplement for people because it has a strong garlic odor. MSM retains all of the anti-inflammatory properties but without any odor or taste.

When combined with glucosamine and other nutrients known to aid arthritis, MSM users report pain relief very quickly, usually in less than a week. The effect on hair and nails seems to take a little longer time to be apparent; results are usually noticed after a month. There is no unsafe amount of MSM. Even people who have reported allergies to sulfa-based prescription medicines find they are not allergic to the naturally-occurring sulfur of MSM.

- Jacob, MD, Stanley. The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain. Berkley Trade, 1999.
- Whole Health MD website: www.wholehealthmd.com
- The Arthritis Foundation website: www.arthritis.org

BIOMETICS’ complete line of advanced liquid nutritional supplements provide vital nutrients in a highly absorbable form. FLEXI-CARE PLUS contains MSM, as well as Glucosamine and several other nutrients for joint health.*

*The material provided here is for educational purposes only and is not intended as diagnosis, treatment, or prescription for any disease. Anyone suffering from any disease, illness or injury should consult with a physician.

"Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers." 3 John 2

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Your Heart Is In Your Hands

Making healthy decisions now will lead to a happy, healthy heart.

There are so many men and women having and dying from heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. When the heart muscle dies, there is little one can do.

It’s an epidemic!

We take the family out to eat at fast food places or to a nice restaurant to enjoy a good, big fat steak, baked potato with lots of butter and a cocktail.

You may ask, “How can one huge meal, even with all those fats, trigger an attack?“

It’s not from just that one meal, it’s from a lifestyle of eating. Nearly one million Americans die each year of heart and blood vessel diseases, and heart disease accounts for 30 percent of deaths worldwide. People, we are dying of heart disease because of the way we eat.

You cannot take one pill, no matter how powerful, and then follow it with a huge fat meal of pork ribs, French fries, ice cream and soda.

Reduce your intake of foods that may be killing you.

Don’t wait for a symptom!

If your waiting for a signal, it will probably come too late. Approximately 40 percent of people will develop a heart attack and not even have a symptom.

Don’t think, “Well, when I have chest pains, or I start feeling something in my heart, then I’ll change my behavior and change my eating habits.” A heart attach strikes when you least expect it.

The heart is an organ about the size of your fist that beats day and night, at sixty to eighty beats a minute. Two main arteries encircle the heart, supplying it with blood and oxygen.

As time goes on, you get nicks or little injuries, in the lining of those arteries from thing like high blood pressure, stress, inhaling smoke, or eating the wrong foods. In order to heal the injuries, the body deposit’s a cholesterol type of band-aid patch on the injuries, leaving a cholesterol deposit. Year after year, you have more and more of these patches lining your arteries, that allows less and less blood to flow through. Leading to heart disease.

The treatment…angioplasty and stent. A procedure in which a tiny plastic tube (a stent) is inserted to an already blocked artery, allowing blood to flow through.
Then there is bypass surgery. These are NOT the TRUE answer to the problem of heart disease!

We must start to focus on the ROOT CAUSES of the disease and avoid foods and other substances that cause injury to the lining of the blood vessels. Cardiac bypass surgery cost up to $44,000, angioplasty, up to $15,000 with each stent that is put in costing $2,000 each.
Prevention of heart disease costs mere pennies on the dollar.

Many say, “It’s heredity. My dad, and grandfather had it, I guess I’ll have it too.”

In most cases heart disease is not a problem of heredity but of lifestyle, diet and nutrition…what we are putting into our bodies. More often than not, your family is passing down bad eating habits, not heart disease.

What foods do I avoid?

Foods high in sugar and foods that are highly processed. Avoid trans fats completely, limit fried foods and saturated fats and choose healthy fats.

The most important thing you can do to fight heart disease is to understand that your body, according to 1 Corinthians 6:19,20, does not belong to you but belongs to God, and we are to glorify God in our body.

How do we glorify God in our body?

By choosing to lay on the altar foods that are destroying our health. It could be French fries, ice cream, fried chicken, or before bedtime, cookies soda or potato chips.

God desires that you have perfect health both spiritually and physically.

"Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers." 3 John 2