Genxyz Health, Fitness and Wellness

08/07/2022

For our Indonesian Friends (translated by Mitchelle from askthescientists.com)
See also English translation below about the importance of vitamins
Kursus Singkat tentang Dasar-dasar Vitamin
Definisi paling sederhana untuk vitamin adalah "zat yang membantu tubuh Anda bekerja dengan baik." Vitamin sangat penting bagi kesehatan Anda. Dari situlah sebenarnya "vita" dalam vitamin berasal.
Tapi itu mungkin terlalu mendasar. Mineral sangat penting bagi kehidupan. Mereka juga membantu tubuh Anda bekerja dengan baik. Jadi, apa yang membedakan vitamin?
Vitamin adalah zat organik yang bertindak sebagai koenzim (bagian non-protein dari enzim) dan merupakan komponen penting dari reaksi kimia seluler. Tetapi vitamin tidak menyediakan energi seperti halnya karbohidrat. Dan mereka bukan blok bangunan seperti asam amino atau lemak.
Vitamin adalah tentang mendapatkan reaksi. Ingat, sel-sel Anda pada dasarnya adalah kantong reaksi kimia. Semua reaksi membutuhkan bahan dan mesin. Struktur seluler Anda menyediakan mesin. Vitamin merupakan bagian penting dari bahan. Mereka membantu enzim memicu reaksi - itulah yang dilakukan koenzim.
Tanpa vitamin, reaksi vital (ada kata itu lagi) tidak terjadi secara efisien. Atau mereka tidak terjadi sama sekali. Hal ini akan mengacaukan proses metabolisme Anda - yang sama dengan vitamin yang membantu mengatur - yang tidak baik untuk pemeliharaan kesehatan. (Dan itu sangat ringan).
Karena begitu pentingnya, Anda akan berpikir manusia akan memiliki sejarah panjang dalam memahami vitamin. Tidak. Selama ribuan tahun, orang tidak tahu apa itu vitamin.
Para pelaut tahu bahwa sedikit jeruk akan mencegah penyakit kudis. Tapi mereka tidak tahu mengapa. Akhirnya, para peneliti menemukan bahwa tidak adanya beberapa zat memiliki konsekuensi yang mengerikan bagi kesehatan. Zat-zat ini akhirnya diisolasi dan diidentifikasi. Mekanisme dampak seluler mereka dipetakan.
Ketika vitamin baru ditemukan, vitamin itu diberi huruf. (Huruf-huruf dimulai dari "A," melewatkan beberapa - "F" hingga "J" - dan akhirnya berakhir di "K.") Dan saat ini ada nilai harian untuk membantu Anda menghindari defisiensi, dan informasi tentang tingkat optimal untuk kesehatan.
Sekarang, ilmu pengetahuan telah menyoroti zat-zat esensial ini, dan menunjukkan bagaimana masing-masing zat memainkan peran yang berbeda dalam tubuh. Sekarang Anda memiliki informasi yang Anda butuhkan untuk merencanakan jalan bagi kesehatan terbaik Anda melalui diet dan suplementasi. Jelajahi vitamin-vitamin penting dan lihat mengapa dan bagaimana vitamin-vitamin ini merupakan bagian penting dari diet Anda.
A Crash-Course in Vitamin Basics
The simplest definition for a vitamin is “a substance that helps your body work properly.” They’re vital for your health. That’s where the “vita” in vitamin actually came from.
But that’s probably too basic. Minerals are essential for life. They help your body work properly, too. So, what sets a vitamin apart?
Vitamins are organic substances that act as coenzymes (non-protein parts of enzymes) and are important components of cellular chemical reactions. But they don’t provide energy the way carbohydrates do. And they aren’t building blocks like amino acids or fats.
Vitamins are all about getting a reaction. Remember, your cells are basically bags of chemical reactions. All the reactions require materials and machinery. Your cellular structures provide the machinery. Vitamins constitute an important part of the materials. They help enzymes spark a reaction—that’s what a coenzyme does.
Without vitamins, vital (there’s that word again) reactions don’t happen efficiently. Or they don’t happen at all. This throws off your metabolic processes—the same ones vitamins help regulate—which isn’t good for the maintenance of health. (And that’s putting it lightly.)
Since they’re so important, you’d think humans would have a long history of understanding vitamins. Nope. For thousands of years, people had no idea what vitamins were.
Sailors figured out a little citrus would stave off scurvy. But they didn’t know why. Eventually, researchers figured out that the absence of some substances had dire consequences for health. These substances were eventually isolated and identified. The mechanics of their cellular impact were mapped out.
When a new vitamin was discovered, it was assigned a letter. (The letters started at “A,” skipped a few—“F” to “J”—and eventually ended at “K.”) And today there are daily values to help you avoid deficiency, and information about optimal levels for health.
Now, science has shined a light on these essential substances, and showed how each play a different role in the body. Now you have the information you need to plot a course for your best health through diet and supplementation. Explore the essential vitamins and see why and how you they’re an essential part of your diet.

07/07/2022

The Two Main Categories of Vitamins
Vitamins are split into two major groups—water soluble and fat soluble. The difference is in the absorption and storage.

Water soluble vitamins (C and the B vitamins) are easily taken into the body with a little help from water. Those substances are not stored long-term, and are tightly regulated by the kidneys.

Fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) require fat for absorption into your body. Once they’re inside, these four vitamins are used or stored for later in—you guessed it—fat. They’re also packed away in the liver.

Knowing whether a vitamin is water or fat soluble is valuable information. The way a specific vitamin is absorbed and stored helps you understand how to optimize your intake. That might mean taking a different approach to meal planning or timing your supplementation to maximize their absorption.

06/07/2022

The human brain is an incredible organ. But it is also a hungry one. Weighing in at only around three pounds, your brain is an apex feeder. It uses 20 percent of all blood and oxygen produced in the body. So, it’s important to understand the connection between your diet and brain health so you can eat to support your cognitive functions.
Your brain does a lot, and it needs glucose to do all that work. Glucose is a type of carbohydrate—sugars found in fruits, grains, vegetables, and milk products. But the brain can’t store any of that glucose itself. It must continuously receive a supply from the body.
Because your body must absorb and metabolize sugars before they make it to the brain, it’s actually best to focus on eating complex carbohydrates. They power your body and keep your brain operating at optimal levels. This means focusing on whole, natural foods and limiting processed foods high in simple carbohydrates and low in fiber and micronutrients.
But what’s the best diet type to help your brain? Here’s a good rule of thumb: what helps your heart, helps your brain. Let’s dig deeper to examine popular diets and discover how to be mindful of what you eat.
Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Sea connects Europe, Asia, and Africa. Since the time boats were first put into the water for fishing, trade, and conquest, the Mediterranean has been the aquatic breadbasket of the Western world.
There are over 500 different species of fish in the Mediterranean, including omega-3 rich, oily fish like sardines, mackerel, and herring. Traditional trading routes connect different cultures with regional foods: protein-rich chickpeas from Israel, Egyptian figs, Greek olive oil, Libyan couscous, and Italian tomatoes.
The nations bordering the Mediterranean focus on a daily consumption of fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and healthy fats, like olive oil. Weekly, they consume oily fishes plus poultry, beans, and eggs for protein. Diets here have a limited intake of dairy products and very little red meat.
An abundance of cruciferous vegetables, nuts, and fresh fish supply the primary benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Oily fish are packed with omega-3s, a type of polyunsaturated fat the brain uses as a cell-building nutrient. Omega-3s are also important for normal brain function, preserving cell membrane health, and facilitating neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form new neural connections.
The Mediterranean diet’s focus on vegetables, fruits, nuts, and limited red meat supports your brain and heart health. The connection between the two is important. Your brain requires 20 percent of all blood and oxygen supplies, so helping your heart will aid your brain (askthescientists.com).

05/07/2022

Shelah Brewer Ogletree relates how she was able to overcome
depression: “One day, my daughter and son-in-law gave me a gift
that I felt was ugly, sad, and unattractive—an orchid with a
gangly stem leaning to the left and with tiny brown pods weakly
clinging to the lackluster plant. The pot was plain, dull, and simple,
too. This plant reminded me of my pitiful condition—a mother,
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grandmother, and a widow with no one to be with as my daughter
was living with her husband far from me. I decided then to place
this dull orchid in our basement for my daughter said that it should
be placed in a cool dark place. After six weeks, to my surprise, there
it was! It was the most beautiful plant I have ever seen! It had
blooming creamy white petals around the cherry red centers. The
blossoms were so alive yet delicate. It became a treasure because
both friends and strangers noticed it when I displayed it on the
porch. It was also an instrument of renewed friendships and birth
of new acquaintances. It even became special when my daughter
called me up informing me of their transfer to a place near me.
Indeed, this gave me a lesson for appreciation of the things I had
and of my present life. Just like the orchid, I saw myself as ugly and
useless, not seeing my true worth” (Success Stories in Overcoming Stress and Depression from Chicken Soup for the Soul).

04/07/2022

"Defend Your Immune System
Above, you’ve read about the way a normal, healthy immune system functions. But your defenses can be impacted by your environment, diet, stress, sleep, travel, and other lifestyle factors.

Healthy immune function is a whole-body effort, and maintaining it takes a holistic approach. Here’s a few things that can help:

Get at least seven hours of sleep a night—and avoid pulling any all-nighters.
Exercise regularly to promote memory cells, enhance skin immunity, and mobilize immune cells.
Minimize stress as much as possible or practice healthy coping strategies, like exercise.
Eat a healthy, balanced diet full of fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins to provide essential micro- and macronutrients and important phytonutrients. A healthy diet (that includes healthy amounts of fiber) will also provide your microbiome with what it needs to maintain good gut barrier function.
Practice good hygiene, including frequent handwashing, so your body doesn’t have to deal with as many pathogens in the first place (askthescientists.com)."

01/07/2022

01/07/2022

Kickboxing moves

01/07/2022

Kickboxing with Coach Jojet

27/06/2022

Strategies for How to Deal with Picky Eaters
So your suspicions have been confirmed: picky eating isn’t exactly healthy and is certainly not ideal. What’s next? Fortunately, picky eaters don’t have to be picky for life. There are a variety of strategies you can use to help a picky eater broaden their tastes—it’s just a matter of choosing the right strategy for the situation.

Studies suggest many food aversions can be overcome with repeated exposure. This means a picky eater may come to enjoy a food they avoid if they try it enough times. Say your child hates tomatoes—if you offer them tomatoes enough times, in a variety of forms, they may eventually come to enjoy them. If you’ve heard the term “acquired taste,” the same principle applies here. It’s just a matter of helping your child acquire a taste for certain foods.

Children respond to modeling. If you don’t eat your veggies, there’s a good chance your child won’t either. Don’t prepare separate meals for you and your child—sit down and eat the same food together. Show your picky eaters that you enjoy the tricky foods. Additionally, preparing food in a variety of ways can help a child branch out to new foods. If they hate raw carrots, try steaming them (https://askthescientists.com/picky-eating/).

01/03/2022

A healthy body is a healthy mind, a healthy spirit

08/02/2022

24/01/2022

Investing with your health is tantamount to investing money with the aim of increasing your wealth.

13/01/2022

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12/01/2022

Health is wealth.

22/05/2021

Mlm success is earned through hard work and communication. This is the number one problem in business problems. You and your mate will have to find strengths and weaknesses and complement them carefully. Be open and honest with another and communication can flow. One partner may have stronger skills in administration, while the other is more of a people person. By defining your strengths, you and the loved one can then define roles in the business. Keep work and personal life separate, what happens at work stays at work. People have two different personalities, one for work and one for everyday life.

MLM success tips or failure should never set on one shoulder, unless it is truly a partner’s fault. Don’t blame the other for failure, be responsible for your own actions and words. Encourage and empower one another daily, not just in work. Having finances is great, but losing a partner due to issues is not acceptable. Make time to relax and unwind, it is important to keep in mind that you both got together over mutual respect, not because of a business.
https://onlinemlmcommunity.com/building-your-mlm-business-as-a-couple/

20/05/2021

Usana Tribe Dumaguete welcomes another beautiful couple Dante & Liza Viallarante from Bacong Negros Oriental.

Marriages flourish when a couple works together as a team: when both husband and wife that winning together is more important than keeping score. Good marriages don't just happen. They are a product of hard work.

09/05/2021

For Mental Stress