Health Solutions 4 Seniors

Chief among the 'problems' modern retirees face today have to do with their health and wellness. Recent surveys have shown that in America, obeseity is rampant, diabetes is epidemic, and chronic disease is sky rocketing. This is caused by the excess intake of calorie rich foods like soft drinks, desserts, sweets, alcoholic beverages and salty snacks. Americans get plenty of calories, but less nutrition.

But, many health service providers are coming to realize that at the root of much of this declining health is the affects of long-term and unrelenting stress modern lifestyles must endure (including the unhealthy dietary practices mentioned above.)

Modern civilization has produced an unusually stressful environment for humans and animals alike, with extremely high demands on our physical and mental abilities. The last one hundred years have brought unique new challenges for all. It doesn’t take much reflection upon the obvious, and not so obvious sources of stressors today to realize the average person endures a lifetime of extraordinary physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual stress.

Unfortunately, the continual assault of these daily modern stressors result in severe consequences upon our health and well-being.

Are you aware that 80% of all illness and disease today is stress related? That 25% of all prescriptions written are due to issues stemming from the root problem of stress. That one of the three top selling drugs in North America is a tranquilizer and 2/3rds of all visits to family physicians also stem from stress.

What can be done about it?

The answer is, to reduce the degenerative affects that this unrelenting stress has on our bodily systems and organs BEFORE they degenerate into a disease.

Over 45 years ago, extensive research by Dr. Isreal Brekhman, in the then Soviet Union, produced an answer to this problem. Dr. Brekhman discovered that the extracts from a combination of seven different herbal plants produced what he designated as 'adaptogens', which significantly reduce the damaging effects of stress on the human body. Dr. Brekhman named his formula PRIME ONE.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he brought his formula to the West that it may be shared with the world.

What are Adaptogens?

Adaptogens are biologically active substances found in certain herbs and plants, which help the body and mind of humans and animals adapt to the change and stresses of life.

The History of Adaptogen Development

The world-renowned Russian research scientist, Dr. Israel I. Brekhman PhD, is hailed world-wide as the father of extensive Adaptogen Research. He was a professor of medicine, and a physiological pharmacologist.

The Soviet Union and The Russian National Parliament bestowed on the good doctor the Order of Lenin, The Lenin Medal for valiant work, as well as the coveted Certificate of Honor. These awards were bestowed upon him for his lifetime work with Adaptogens.

He also held 40 patents, published 22 monographs, several hundred scientific articles, and wrote many books.

Dr. Brekhman pioneered a vast “top-secret" scientific effort funded by the Russian government involving 1200 of their best scientists. Directed by Dr. Brekhman, this scientific community applied scientific methodology to the study of plants. They explored plant biological codes and analyzed their molecular structures.

Entire populations of towns, schools, hospitals, and factories became his test subjects. In one case study, for example, they analyzed an entire town and all its inhabitants including the animals for twelve long years. This still stands today as one of the most massive, sustained and successful programs of human and animal testing in recorded scientific history.

After 45-years of consistent research and thousands of clinical trials, the final patented formulation, now known as Prime One, was created. The primary herb is ‘Eleutherococcus’ also known as Siberian ginseng. This phenomenal herbal blend was subsequently found in clinical trials to have surprising synergistic qualities in which the blend of these seven herbs together was significantly more effective than any of the single herbs taken alone.

Prime One, the herbal based dietary supplement contains rare trace minerals, co-enzymes, metabolites, anti-oxidants, and vitamins. These phyto-nutrients address entire classes of body functions. They enhance human resistance to a broad variety of physical, emotional, metabolic, and environmental stresses filling a nutritional void addressed by no other dietary element.

In 1962 Eleutherococcus, the prototype Adaptogen, was declared an official herbal medicine by the USSR Minister of Health and was included in their National Drug Guide, the pharmacopoeia. Also, “Brekhman’s formula was used on par with diabetes medications to help balance blood sugar levels", as reported in the Morton Walker medical journal report on Innovative Biologics, July 1994.

How Adaptogens May Improve Your Health

Why are Adaptogens important to our health you might ask? Well, stressors such as: toxins, pollutants, oxidants, and chemicals in processed foods, radiation, depression, and fatigue – are now thought to be the cause of DNA mutations that produce cancer. Adaptogens are the missing nutrients from nature that protect us from the chemical hormonal assault of such stressors. The frequency of cancer was 3.3 times lower in the animals taking the Adaptogens than in the control group of animals not given Adaptogens.

But the paramount question for each of us concerned about health is whether we can find a way to reduce, undo and buffer these damaging chemical effects of stress. That is precisely what Adaptogens are all about.

Testing and Research

The Soviet scientific community tested these particular plant extracts, on large groups of people under physical and mental stress. Russian cosmonauts, top athletes, aircraft pilots, military personnel, truck drivers, and factory workers, were all given Adaptogens.

They found dramatic improvements in performance, fewer errors, less illness, less accidents, and an significant improvement in their focus and function.

The Russians spent more than 500 million dollars in Soviet government sponsored monies backing this massive secret research. Dr. Brekhman’s, Prime One, is one of the most researched, scientifically sound nutritional food supplements in the natural products market place today -- bar none!

Initially, for political reasons, the adaptogens formulas contained in Prime One were kept a highly guarded secret from the rest of the world for some time. Perhaps only in the Soviet Union could such an undertaking have been considered. Only in a totalitarian state could this massive testing have ever been carried out. Certainly, it would never have found adequate funding, or the number of test subjects in Canada or the United States.

Other countries such as Germany, Japan, and Sweden, independently conducted their own research and testing validating the research and results of Dr. Brekhman’s work.

The Medical Molecular Biology Institute of Heidelburg, Germany, published an important double blind study in the 1990’s testing one of Brekhman’s Adaptogens, Eleutherococcus Senticosus. This study employing flow-cytometry showed a powerful strengthening of the immune system.

Excerpt from a German Study done in 1990 on Eleutherococcus Senticosus as an Immunodulatory Agent stated that, "Those who received the plant extract during the clinical trials had their immune system markers reveal all T-lymphocyte subsets, including cancer killing cyto-toxic t-cells, indicated a 40% to 80% increase.

In 1984 a very important scientific paper by the renowned Soviet molecular biologist, Dr. Igor Totoroff, reported that the plant extracts (found in Dr. Brekhman’s formula) had wide ranging effects in different organ systems and could suppress excess cortisol production during stress, thus controlling the wide spread damage known to occur from excess cortisol production. These adaptogen extracts also showed increased energy production within human cells.

In fact, leading scientific research center’s world-wide are currently conducting ongoing studies and clinical trials, revealing new and amazing benefits for the human body from the use of Dr. Brekhman’s formula.

One can’t help noticing in various contemporary medical journals and health publications, leading health professionals are reporting that "a human body is as young and as healthy as it's immune system allows." In light of these health facts, Prime One is the much-needed answer for our health and well-being.

Dr. Brekhman’s research was a key factor in the success of the Soviet Space Program. His formulas restored the natural balance of the cosmonauts’ bodies and protected them against the stress that is inherent in space flight, such as motion, vertigo, weightlessness, and inactivity. Dr. Brekhman’s Adaptogen formulas became known as the Soviet “Right Stuff".

Additionally these Adaptogens were exclusively used by the top Russian sports figures that dominated the sports sector, world-wide for decades. Not the least of Dr. Brekhman’s accomplishments was the achievements of outstanding sports success for world-class Russian athletes. Soviet Olympic athletes have for decades routinely included Dr. Brekhman’s adaptogenic formulas in their training programs to give them a clear optimal edge in competition.

More recently, Dr. Brekhman’s formula was administered to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster with success and great benefit. So significant were the results that Dr. Vladimir G. Sprigin, PhD., Principal Scientific Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences, wrote a letter to AMS Health Sciences, right after the terrible tragedy on Sept 11, 2001, stating “Because of ongoing events I would like to tell you that you have in your hands the miracle remedy for the people that passed through such physical and emotional stress" I remember how effective Eleutherococcus (the main Adaptogen) was for this purpose after the Chernobyl catastrophe and you have a preparation that is at least 6 times more powerful".
Vladimir G. Sprigin PhD.,Russian Academy of Sciences

Shortly after the 911 tragedies, world wide associates donated $200,000 worth of Prime One and Prime One Concentrate to the New York Firefighters, and ERT Ground Zero Rescue workers and their working animals.

The fire fighters and ERT workers reported that, “Prime One helped them cope with the stressors at hand, giving them the advantage of working more than normal hours with less exhaustion despite the unfamiliar stressful circumstances".
Phil Cappadora, Firefighter, NY CityKevin Gallagher, President,Firefighter’s Union, New York City

Best selling author Pete Bilac wrote a book about Dr. Brekhman and Adaptogens titled “Managing Stress through the Miracle of Adaptogens." (Pete’s many books are currently available in any of The Chapter’s bookstores.)

One of the world’s leading Biochemists, Dr. Stephen Fulder, PhD, states in one of his many articles on Adaptogens, “The Soviets almost universally used Adaptogens to reduce convalescence, to return patients to health more quickly after heart attacks and other illnesses. It became standard treatment for patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer. Perhaps Adaptogens had their most widespread impact in the area of Russian sports and Dr. Brekhman formulas were routinely used on par with diabetes medications".
Dr. Steven Fulder PhD., Oxford, EnglandInternational Authority on Health and Wellness

Research has convincingly shown that Adaptogens are a powerful protection against radiation. They increase non-specific resistance to stress, inhibits free-radical oxidation, accelerates rehabilitative processes, protects vital organs from stress, has potent anti-viral properties, and has been found to be very effective in helping normalize blood sugar levels.

It has been proven that the chemical hormonal assault on the body from stress lowers the immune system responses. The effects from stress upon the immune system are dramatic, immediate, and well documented.

Dr. Israel I. Brekhman remains a visionary whose dream to enhance human health and to prevent disease talks to a new generation today.

** Information within this site is for educational purposes only. Statements about product efficacy have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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Author Bio: Mair Gauthier is the Wellness Expert for The Adaptogens for Life Group. She helps 100's of people everyday by sharing her health knowledge. The many people that Mair has assisted in finding the right path to optimal health say her advice has been like a miracle for them.

Summary

Modern lifestyles generally do not lend themselves to the pursuit of health and wellness. The advent of digital technology has increased the speed and volume by which information may be stored and exchanged. This technology has increased demands upon our time and performance. Stress levels have increased dramatically, and the availability of healthy foods on-the-go is near impossible for many.

We are living longer, but are less healthy. We have more possessions, but less money. Topping the list of the things most of today's retirees have concerns over is finding health solutions that truly will add to the enjoyment of their retirement years.