Your heart and blood vessels make up your circulatory system, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to every cell in your body. A healthy circulatory system is the key to a physically robust life at any age, but especially as you get older. To a great extent, the health of your heart and blood vessels determines how far you can walk, how late you can dance, and how long you can garden.

The heart is a muscle with four hollow chambers. When it contracts, it pushes blood out through the arteries to the lungs, where the blood picks up oxygen. From the lungs, the oxygen-rich blood returns to the heart and is pumped to the rest of the body. Once the blood has delivered oxygen to the cells, it circulates through the veins back to the heart, where the whole process starts again.

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Everybody knows that sexual behavior is an important aspect of marriage. Though in many societies, the learning of sexual techniques and attitude is too often left to chance. In these societies, it is not discussed in public. People are too embarrassed to talk about it. Families may find very hard to discuss on this topic. The consequence is that many young people start out with lack of information or harmful misinformation that can impair their sexual adequacy. Couples with sexual problem typically practice insensitive, incompetent and ineffective techniques.

Many women in these societies have been subjected to early training that depicted sexual relation as immoral, dirty and sin. The attitudes and inhibitions thus established can lead to a great deal of anxiety, conflict and guilt where this relation is concerned. Many experts have concluded that most sexual dysfunction are due to crippling fears, attitudes and inhibitions concerning sexual behavior, often based on faulty early learning exacerbated by later aversive experiences. (more…)

It would be nice to think that as we get older we become wiser, and so make better food choices for ourselves. After so many years of exposure to information about eating a nutritionally balanced diet, you’d think that we’d know all about how to prepare healthy meals, and that we’d have had plenty of practice doing so.

Sadly, however, that’s not always the case. This means that many seniors don’t get the vitamins and minerals they need to help their aging bodies fight off the onset of various debilitating conditions, or the signs of aging. Bodies become less efficient as we age, and they so they don’t do as good a job of processing nutrients. A lot of seniors also tend to get ill more easily, and so often take a lot more medications than other age groups. These medications can also reduce the body’s ability to break down nutrients.

It’s common for seniors to live along, and it can seem like a big effort to make a meal at all, let alone prepare a nutritionally balanced meal. It’s also true that many seniors don’t do any moderate exercise regularly, which helps compound the problem. So it’s hardly surprising that many seniors exhibit vitamin deficiency symptoms. Despite our highly advanced society, many of our seniors are classified as undernourished. (more…)

You have a few more birthdays under you belt than your twenty year old college kid. You just naturally expect to age and joke with friends and co-workers that you are slower and tired more because you are middle aged. But is that all it is, or could you possibly slow the hands of time or even turn the clock back a little. Don’t we all think about looking younger rather than catching a glimpse of ourselves in a mirror and seeing a tired face and dull skin?

Do you wake up after going to bed early enough to get a good night’s sleep, yet wake up feeling tired and sluggish? Is this simply old age or is it lack of good nutrition and health. Odds are, if you are like most people, it’s a combination, we age and we tend to do less for our bodies than we did in our younger years. It you have been reading this, and are thinking there is nothing you can do, think again. Today there is a healthful food on the market that’s a power house of health workers in a simple berry. (more…)

Since childhood just spinning around a few times would make me dizzy and start my stomach reeling. Sometimes just rolling over in bed would create the sensation of dizzy). I often had viral ear infections where everything spins around behind my eyes causing nausea and vomiting. Just moving my head will cause the dizziness sensation. The reaction of the body to repel the virus is for middle ear fluids to thicken, that is when our balancing mechanism in the middle ear is compromised and dizziness occurs. It can be serious as when my wife thought she was well from a viral infection and discontinued her homeopathic treatment. The following day she made a $4,500 one day trip to the local hospital emergency room with an overnight stay. After the MD analysis we quickly resumed the homeopathic treatment and she was better in only 3 hours but the doctors would not let her go till the next day. Our homeopathic cure for that virus was Conium in 6C potency. (more…)

Snoring is the creation of unpleasing noises during the night while sleeping that is caused due to obstruction of the free flow of the air passages. The obstructed passage is in the region pertaining to the back of the mouth and the nose, and the proper flow of the air is not allowed during breathing process. The collapsible spot is where the upper throat and the tongue meet are the uvula and the soft plate which vibrates creating noise. Snoring occurs when these soft tissues strike against each other with the flow of air and causes noisy vibrations.

Snoring can sometimes be a moderate problem or it can be considered a very serious problem. Snoring may cause several disorders and it can affect women during the pregnancy. It is directly related to causing sleepless nights and making a person become very irritable during the day due to sleep deprivation. Snoring can also be in the dire zones of sleep apnea, and this could call for a sleep specialist. (more…)