Foods to boost libido and better sex

Tons of guys have been asking me what foods can boost libido and performance in bed. Some experience low libido, some suffer from mild to severe erectile dysfunction, and for women, low sex drive is becoming more of an issue now. We are facing more people who are experiencing infertility and reproductive problems, having difficulties to conceive and be as reproductive as how we have evolved. 

Reproductive system is extremely important, and if it's weakened or impaired, we will become extinct in future, in time to come, as we can't reproduce anymore. With sick genes, developed sick generations, and eventually we cannot reproduce anymore. Hence, human extinction. 

Consider this as a holiday or New Year's gift from me to all of you, I hereby give you my best pick of top foods which is heart healthy and natural aphrodisiac to sexual performance you have been craving for. Happy New Year and happy holidays to all of you.

1) MACA (Organic Raw) - A super food, read my MACA post. Peruvian ginseng used for generations to improve libido, fertility by populations primarily in Bolivia and Peru. But, not everyone is suitable with usage of this superfood.

2) Avocado - Heart healthy food, which is vitally needed to keep your heart beating strong circulating blood to all the right places. Aztecs called it 'testicle tree'. 

3) Oysters / Seafoods - Rich in zinc and cholesterol, which are needed to produce sex hormones. And yes, cholesterol is a precursor for all steroidal hormones including your needed 'bullets' sex hormones. 

4) Goji Berries - Another superfood, go read my other goji berries post. The only food known to have stimulate production of HGH, thus, triggers testosterone release.

5) Citrus fruits - Any types of citrus fruits high in antioxidants, trace minerals and folic acid, which is important for reproductive health.

6) Almonds - Nutrient dense and rich in trace minerals such as zinc, is essential for reproductive health.

7) Caviar - Zinc levels are high, stimulate production of testosterone, but a rare food item which is not known by many people.

8) Quaill/Goose eggs - Generally any animals eggs which has high cholesterol, which is needed as raw material for production of sex hormones. Both these eggs are exceptionally higher in cholesterol and properties which boost libido and get your rock and rock in bed!

9) Cacao - Of course, one of my favorite foods apart from avocado. It contains 'bliss molecule' (anandamide), and libido boosting methylxanthines. It also contains phenylethylamine, "love chemical",which triggers dopamine production from your brain pleasure center during sex. 

10) Reduce sugar/ do sufficient exercise!  - Yes, want better blood circulation? Stop being a couch potato!

Earthbound Farm: Organic Salad

Just tried out this organic food product recently, baby greens salad with organic walnut and dried cranberries. The whole product is organically grown with different vegetable salad as well as walnut and dried cranberries. Might be a little pricey for most people, well, you pay for what you get, eating real clean organic whole foods. You could choose to spend RM12-14 or so on a large McDonald's value meal, or spend it on an easy pre-packed raw organic salad meal. For whoever in hectic schedule and don't have that much time for their lunch meal during office hours, bring this to your office, and an avocado to add on with this meal would be a good mixture or healthy fats, fiber and low glycemic as well. Try it out, eat it raw. 

The Story of Sugar...are you overdose?

Ever wonder why, you often 'crash' and feeling sluggish all the time? Low energy levels and feeling sleepy during at work or school? Your waist line kept increasing, poor cognitive performance and often fall sick? Ever realize why often has mood swings or not feeling that great mentally? How about hypertension, diabetes, poor lipid profiling, obesity and even cancer and heart disease? Below, is the short story of chronic consumption of excessive sugar (food or beverage). Everyone, is sugar addict. 

As I've wrote a long post about sugar(especially fructose) earlier, below are some simplified consequences of chronic excess of sugar.

• Obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and Type II diabetes
• Elevated triglycerides and LDL levels
• Elevated blood pressure
• Liver disease such as cirrhosis and liver cancer
• Depletion of vitamins and minerals as unbound fructose, found in large quantities in HFCS, can interfere with your heart's use of minerals such as magnesium, copper and chromium.
• Cardiovascular disease, arthritis, gout, and cancer

Breakfast

Lunch

     

Tea Time

Dinner

Total amount of sugar consumed daily

Obesity

Diabetes

Heart Disease

Cancer

Well..end of story of your life..

Doritos and Pepsi...Not Bad For You?

Its a mad mad world! What happen to our food? Today, I would like to share with you all, about Doritos and Pepsi. Yes, the popular so called 'snack' or what I would call it 'empty calories junk'. What's up with Doritos and Pepsi? A friend of mine just forwarded to me this video interview with Pepsi CEO about the claim and comments on Doritos and Pepsi. My my, what can I say? Doritos and Pepsi are not bad for you? Watch the video.

Pepsi CEO said "Nothing more than corn mashed up, fried up in oil, and flavored in the most delectable way." Pepsi was discovered for stomach ailment by pharmacist??" <---- ABSURD! 

Flavored in delectable way? Perhaps she might think that MSG excitotoxins are like vitamins to her? I won't be surprise if she would care less about trans fat consumption. Although the packaging labels that it has no trans fat, but any partially or hydrogenated vegetable oil is trans fat. Not to mention corn syrup solids or fructose and genetically modified corn used in this junk food as well. This Pepsi CEO also mentioned in the interview that Pepsico products are highly nutritious and good for you! This is nuts! Food and beverage industries are seriously pathetic! 

Video link: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FJ1qPic5_r0

Contaminated Vaccines: Link with Cancer!

Folks, watch this video which reveals the truth about vaccines (Gardasil) and studies with compeling evidence which link cancer with this vaccine. As I've posted earlier on vaccination back in Dec2010, this video exposes the whole truth about vaccines and impact on human body. The doctor in the video, who was the developer of Merck's vaccine program, confesses in the interview (video).

In 2002, the journal Lancet published compelling evidence that contaminated polio vaccine was responsible for up to half of the 55,000 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases that were occurring each year. What was it contaminated with? SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus! 60 different lab studies have confirmed the results, and SV40 has been found in a variety of human cancers, including lung, brain, bone, and lymphatic cancer.

For years, researchers suggested that millions of vials of polio vaccine, contaminated with SV40, infected individuals between 1953 and 1963 and caused human tumors, and by 1999, molecular evidence of SV40 infections were showing up in children born after beginning of 1980's. Still, the FDA and health authorities turned a blind eye! In addition, just like Gardasil may well increase your risk of cervical cancer rather than reduce it, the live polio vaccine has also been found to cause polio.

Meanwhile, last year, the US FDA suspended the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix after an independent lab discovered it was contaminated with a substantial amount" of DNA from the porcine circovirus. In pigs, this virus causes poor growth, weight loss, weakness, enlarged lymph nodes, skin rashes, difficulty breathing, jaundice, stomach ulcers, and sudden death.

Anyway, I'll leave you guys to watch this video carefully, and stay away from vaccination, unless you life totally depend on it for survival. 

Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vgBBwOnmy3w

Neotame: Sweeeeet poison!

It is darn sweet. Yes, it is 13000 times sweeter then table sugar! And yes, you didn't read it wrong. What is it? Today, it will be another post about artifical sweetener, a new introduction to the already condemned 'sweeteners' family. The name is Neotame. This is the latest man made creation of chemical based artifical sweetener, which is 'approved' for the use in foods and beverages all around the world. 

In Malaysia, I have yet to notice any processed food products using Neotame as artifical sweetener. Maybe it is already been introduced and used in my country, but I have yet to see one so far. I have wrote in previous posts about Sucralose and Aspartame, but by all means, check this one out. 

Neotame is a chemical derivative of aspartame, and judging by the chemicals used in its manufacturing, it appears even more toxic than aspartame, although the proponents of Neotame claimed that increased toxicity is not a concern, because less of it is needed to achieve the desired effect. 

Neotame is bad science originally brought to you by the Monsanto Company. Yes, Monsanto again! Why is Neotame dangerous? If any of you aware of the harmful affects of Aspartame, please be aware that Nutrasweet company 'improved' the Aspartame formula, making Neotame 7000-13000 times sweeter than table sugar and 30-60 times sweeter than Aspartame!! 

Monsanto applied for FDA approval for neotame, 'based on the aspartame formula' with one critical addition, 3-dimethylbutyl, which just happens to be listed on the EPA's most hazardous chemical list. So, not only is Neotame potentially more devastating to your health than Aspartame, it is also approved for use in a wider array of food products, including baked goods, because it is more stable at higher temperatures.

Neotame is manufactured by combining Aspartame with 3,3-dimethylbutyraldehyde, which was added to block enzymes that break the peptide bond between aspartic acid and phenylalanine, thereby reducing the availability of phenylalanine. This eliminates the need for a warning on labels directed at people who cannot properly metabolize phenylalanine.

However, 3,3-Dimethylbutyraldehyde is categorized as both highly flammable and an irritant, and carries risk statements for handling including irritating to skin, eyes and respiratory system. In other words, the NutraSweet company assures you that Neotame is perfectly safe, while at the same time they manufacture Neotame through a chemical reaction between aspartame and a substance that is highly flammable and a skin, eye and respiratory irritant. 

Now, why are these chemicals approved for human consumption? I'm sure some of you must be asking yourself why are all these artifical sweeteners approved and 'declared' safe for human consumption? The FDA is packed by pro-business, pro-corporation advocates who often have massive conflicts of interest when it comes to protecting the health of the public. In fact, the revolving door between private industry and government oversight agencies is so well established these days, it has become business as usual to read about scandal, conflicts of interest and blatant pro-industry bias, even when it flies in the face of science or the law. What can I say?  

One of the biggest marketing and PR tactics for man made chemical sweeteners has been the claim that they help in the battle against obesity. Folks, they don't! They never have and they never will. The research and the epidemiologic data suggest the opposite is true, and that artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame and Neotame tend to lead to weight gain. As I've often said, there's more to weight gain or weight loss than mere calorie intake. One reason for aspartame and Neotame's potential to cause weight gain is because phenylalanine and aspartic acid, the two amino acids that make up 90 percent of Aspartame and are also present in Neotame, are known to rapidly stimulate the release of insulin and leptin, two hormones that are intricately involved with satiety and fat storage. Bear in mind, insulin and leptin are also the primary hormones that regulate your metabolism.

So, although you're not ingesting calories in the form of sugar, Aspartame and Neotame can still raise your insulin and leptin levels. Elevated insulin and leptin levels, in turn, are two of the driving forces behind obesity, diabetes, and a number of our current chronic disease epidemics. Over time, if your body is exposed to too much leptin, it will become resistant to it, just as your body can become resistant to insulin, and once that happens, your body can no longer 'hear' the hormonal messages instructing your body to stop eating, burn fat, and maintain good sensitivity to sweet tastes in your taste buds.

What happens then? You remain hungry, you crave sweets, and your body stores more fat. Leptin resistance also causes an increase in visceral fat, sending you on a vicious cycle of hunger, fat storage and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and more.

Artificial sweeteners cost a great deal less than real sugar, corn syrup or molasses, so the processed food and beverage industry saves money by using LESS of these man made chemicals to create MORE sweetness in their products. Unfortunately, one byproduct your body creates by breaking down aspartame is formaldehyde, which is extremely toxic to your health even in very small doses. The NutraSweet Company claims the addition of 3,3-Dimethylbutyraldehyde to Aspartame makes it more stable at higher temperatures, and reduces the availability of phenylalanine. But, nowhere do they discuss the formation of formaldehyde when your body breaks down Aspartame, which is the main ingredient of Neotame. 

Before any of you ever think of consuming another dose of Aspartame or Neotame sweetener and thinking that it will help you lose weight, think twice! Stay away from these artifical sweeteners. Till then, stay tuned.

How to build and maintain healthy joints?

These days, there are way too many people who have joints problems. I've heard all over the place from friends, colleagues, relatives, family members, etc. Why is this issue becoming increasingly worrying? Why is it so common these days that even young adults are suffering from joints problem such as back ache, knee pain, etc? 

Today, I will write a bit about joint problems and ways on how to ensure we can have healthy joints and improve your condition of joint dilemma and feels better, towards pain free living. First of all, let me ask you, what is the first thing you do, when you have regular joints ache or pains? Take painkillers? Rub DeepHeat cream? How about taking so called 'joints supplementation" such as chondroitin and glucosamine? Before we start off with further discussion about how to maintain and build strong joints, let me describe a scenario for all of you who is reading this right now. 

Now, let's take an example of a marathon runner, or someone who loves to run a lot regularly. The person is suffering from a knee pain on and off and has been on chondroitin and glucosamine supplementation. This person, then goes to see doctor and ask for help. What happen next? Doctor A, prescribes him anti-inflammatory drugs to ease off his knee pain. Then, this person goes to see another different doctor, and ask for different opinion and help. Doctor B, then prescribes him some mild steroids and painkillers and tell this person to finish off the drugs and the condition will improve. Then again, this person goes to see another doctor, hoping this other doctor could help him and fix his knee problem. Doctor C, then gave him some oilment cream to relieve his 'soreness' and pain condition. 

Alright folks. We have 3 different doctors prescribing 3 different treatments for this reoccurring knee joint problem. Can anyone tell me the solution for this person's knee problem? The answer is common sense. Yes, use your brain and apply common sense! What happen when you want to put out the fire of a burning house? Do you keep spraying water? Or catch the culprit who is hiding and continuously starting the fire? This is no Einstein question and solution. No rocket science, just plain common sense. Of course most of you would by now, realize that the answer to this knee joint problem, is to STOP RUNNING! Torturing your knee joints running or jogging for miles regularly day in day out, especially on hard surface such as pavement of the road, is nothing short of plain stupidity. I know I may sound blunt and mean, but this is unfortunately painfully true. I know a friend, who joins triathlon/Ironman competition in my country, when I told him that all my friends and colleagues who runs and train marathon by running primarily on the road surface, he answered "What? You serious??" "How stupid is that?" Yup, I would have to say he is a wiser athlete who trains smarter.  

Let's get started with the discussion about ways on how to build a stronger joints and ensuring it is healthy and flexible. I'm sure all of you want to be able to go outside the park and playground and play with your kids or grandchildren. Perhaps being able to continue play your favorite sport, walk down the stairs properly, and even a simply basic 'squat ' when you go to toilet. Well, below, are some of the key points on how we could achieve that: 

Weight management

Achieve your optimal weight to improve your bio-mechanic function. One of the outstanding benefits of exercise is its ability to help you achieve and maintain your ideal weight,  which is highly beneficial to your joints. Overweight and obese people compromise joint comfort more than those who are carrying their ideal load. Each additional kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body mass increases the compressive load over your knee by roughly 4 kilograms (nearly 9 pounds). Research shows that a weight loss of as little as 11 pounds can have a positive effect on joint function. And those who are at their optimal weight experience increased joint health as compared to those who are obese or overweight. So you go full circle, losing weight reduces the load on your joints and makes it easier to exercise, and exercising helps you lose weight and supports your joint health. 

Eat a higher quality diet. 

Eliminate sugar and starchy carbs from your diet. And definitely stop drinking soda. These foods do absolutely nothing to support healthy joints or a healthy body. In fact, their potential for damage is well documented. I believe you should limit your total fructose from ALL sources to no more than 25 grams per day, as it raises uric acid levels, which is hard on your joints. Now, chances are, you consume substantially more than 25 grams per day. Approximately quarter of Americans consume a whopping 134 grams of fructose every day! I wish I could dig out data of fructose consumption by Malaysians(too bad, no luck so far). Also, in my opinion, you should base your food choices on your nutritional type to ensure you optimize your ideal macronutrient ratios.

Exercise

There's a common urban legend that exercise is bad for your joints. Most people have little appreciation for how powerful exercise can be in supporting joint function. Vigorous low impact exercise is beneficial, for your joints, as well as for cardiovascular, pulmonary, and other systems in your body. 

It's simply a myth that you can 'wear down' your knees just from average levels of exercise, and/or normal activity. In fact, inactivity causes your muscles to become weaker and actually works against optimal joint flexibility and comfort. One caution, however when using this valuable tool, you need to start slowly if you have not been exercising regularly, and build up to higher activity levels otherwise you risk incurring an injury that could really set you back. If typical vigorous exercise is not easy for you, try walking, tai chi and yoga as they are very low impact, yet offer many health benefits. By all means, reduce or avoid long endurance running on hard surfaces. Non of our primal ancestors jog or run for 21, 42 or even 80km of marathon. 

Optimize your vitamin D levels

Vitamin D also supports a healthy immune response. Please recognize that during the fall, winter and early spring in most of the U.S., Canada, and Europe, your vitamin D levels can drop precipitously. If your levels fall, you give up the support this vitamin offers for your joints and your whole body.

Omega-3 fatty acids

Get plenty of omega-3 fatty acids from krill or high quality fish oil. Omega 3's support your joint health. 

GlycosAminoGlycan

Introduction of this precious nutritious 'food recipe' is important, and it will certainly help on building and repairing the joints in the body. And No, I don't think you can get it in any form of supplements sold in the market. 

By the way, a lot of people came to me and asked "Is Glucosamine or Chondroitin good for the joints?" Well, the answer is yes, it will temporarily ease off for maybe couple hours after the run or training/marathon competition, but it will certainly NOT fix your knee joint problem. Again, common sense. Tackle the root cause, not symptoms. 

As for both these supplements, the pills are usually quite large and many may find them difficult to swallow,  and you are often required to take large numbers of them every day. Only a small fraction of the glucosamine you take is actually utilized by your body. In the case of pills and capsules, the studies demonstrate that only about 15-20% is absorbed. Much of the glucosamine on the market is derived from shellfish, specifically crab, lobster, and shrimp shells, which is a common allergen. Obviously, you should avoid glucosamine if you’re allergic to shellfish. The long awaited NIH trials on glucosamine showed disappointing results. There were no significant differences between glucosamine alone, chondroitin alone, or the two combined, when tested against placebo. While generally considered to be free of side effects, some people do experience gastrointestinal upset from it. Also, chondroitin molecules are large, making it difficult for your body to digest, which could be what causes problems for some people. 

Folks, take care of your joints, if you screw with your joints, you are practically screwed for the rest of your life, it doesn't matter back pain, knee pain or shoulder pain, whichever joint problem. Till then, be consistent with exercise routines, and exercise correctly and stop being a couch potato. 

Burzynski : A very powerful documentary about cancer!

I was very touched, I felt anger, I feel like screaming out loud "Everyone MUST watch this documentary!!". After I watched this powerful, yet very touching documentary about cancer, I just have to share it with as many people as I could. Everyone, and I mean everyone, MUST watch this documentary, and especially the ones who is diagnosed with any form of cancer.

Burzynski, is a documentary, which exposes all the truth, politics, and corruption about conventional cancer treatment and of course, probably one of the greatest discovery of medicine, the treatment of antineoplastons, which primarily turn off the unhealthy genes "oncogenes" and turn on the good genes "tumor suppressor genes" involving a special type of protein/amino acid. 

Folks, please, download or buy this documentary, have an open mind and watch it. Still deciding to undergo chemo and radiotherapy? Watch this powerful documentary and decide! Apart from "Dying to have Known" and "The Beautiful Truth" (Gershon Therapy), this is one of the most powerful emotional documentary of all time. Your health, your life, your responsibility, your decision.