Healthy lifestyle Journey

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) March 29, 2012

A new drug that prompts the pancreas to create and control insulin could offer new ways to treat diabetes, according to researchers at Salt Lake City-based Optimum Clinical Research.

Its a unique medication, Optimum Clinical Research spokesman Jared Shields said. It stimulates the pancreas to create additional insulin for you, but as your blood sugars come back to normal, the medication becomes inactive in the body.

Diabetics gain weight when their bodies produce too much insulin, Shields explained. Until now there has not been a diabetes medication that shuts off extra insulin production once the body has enough. Too much insulin may cause blood sugar levels to drop rapidly, which could result in shakiness, blurred vision and extreme hunger.

The other problem with over producing insulin is it causes you to gain weight, and that is counterproductive for diabetics, Shields said. With this medication we have more control over when and how you are producing insulin.

Diabetes is a common disease that causes a persons body to not create enough insulin or not respond to the insulin that is produced.

If we can better control diabetes, we can help reduce other things like obesity, heart disease, loss of eyesight and kidney disease, Shields said. All of these things are affected by diabetes.

But scientists are still not sure they know all the causes of the disease.

We probably know more about our planet than we know about ourselves. Life is so complex. Every day is just this perfectly orchestrated balance of hormones and proteins and electrolytes. Everything has to be just perfect for you to even wake up in the morning, Shields said.

According to Dr. Jackson Rhudy, principle investigator at Optimum Clinical Research, this medication closely mimics what your body should be doing naturally.

Clinical trials of the new medication have been successful at stimulating insulin production when blood sugar levels are high then regulating the insulin as levels return to normal, Shields said, adding that the third phase of the study is currently underway in Salt Lake City.

This is the final stop before the medication is submitted for approval to the Food and Drug Administration, Rhudy said.

Everything that happens in the future will be built upon what we are researching today, he added.

Researchers have screened a handful of diabetes patients in Utah who have qualified to participate in the study. For information about the study or to find out whether you qualify to participate contact Optimum Clinical Research at 801-363-7353 or visit http://www.ocresearch.com/.

Were looking for two groups of patients, Shields said. The first group includes people who have not taken any diabetes medication in the past three months. Their diet and exercise isnt working and they legitimately need other help.

Patients in the second study group have seen their diabetes symptoms worsen despite taking the drug Metformin.

Later in the year well be looking for a diabetic population that has a high risk of cardiovascular disease, Shields said. This medication might help reduce the risk of heart disease in diabetics who are not meeting their goals.

Alberta Lea, MN (PRWEB) March 28, 2012

SmartMune is a new and intelligent supplement for immune system support. Developed with a unique natural ingredient, Wellmune WGP?, it is clinically proven to safely prime the immune cells that keep the body healthy year round. SmartMune will be unveiled to consumers in a nationwide Direct Response media launch on March 31, 2012.

The long-form infomercial, featuring Dr. Shawn Talbott, advises consumers about the clinically proven benefits of SmartMune and the importance of a healthy immune system. With remarkable testimonials from SmartMune users, and testaments from Dr. Shawn Talbott about SmartMunes abilities to safely prime the immune system, this infomercial aims to educate consumers across the United States.

After seeing this commercial, consumers of all ages will begin to understand that SmartMune is an essential supplement for their daily health, said Glenn Sherburne, President of MunaCare, LLC, the marketer of SmartMune. This infomercial was developed by a talented team and effectively captures SmartMunes strength and its unprecedented characteristics.

Dr. Talbott, a World Renowned Nutritional BioChemist and spokesperson for SmartMune, explains how SmartMune is the dietary supplement for a healthy immune system. Having authored books like The Secret of Vigor and The Immune Miracle, Dr. Talbott has a vast background on health and wellness products and their effect on the human body. He is also a triathlete and marathon runner, demonstrating that he practices what he preaches. Dr. Talbott explains how SmartMune helps prime the innate immune cells, which are the first line of defense of an immune system.

Most people dont event think about their immune system until there is a problem, said Dr. Talbott in the SmartMune infomercial. Thats the wrong way to think about our immune systems. We want to have our immune system functioning in an optimal way, year-round, 365 days a year, and thats what SmartMune was developed to do.

Sherburne turned to Dan Molloy and Robert Barnes of revDRTV to define the SmartMune brand and produce a compelling infomercial and Direct Response campaign. RevDRTV chose successful Direct-Response television writer Terry Finn Direct to script the SmartMune infomercial.

Unlike any other wellness product on the market, SmartMune primes and enhances the bodys immune system to fight harmful effects instead of boosting or over stimulating the immune system. By strengthening the function of key immune cells, SmartMune helps maintain energy, vitality, and mental clarity, as well as supporting general health and wellbeing. Wellmune WGP, the active ingredient in SmartMune, is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) under U.S. FDA regulations, is free of any genetically modified organisms, and is non-allergenic.

About SmartMune

SmartMune is a natural supplement whose active ingredient Wellmune WGP is clinically proven to safely strengthen your bodys key immune responses. SmartMune activates billions of innate immune cells that are part of the bodys natural defenses, to prime the immune defenses without over stimulating the immune system. This unique ingredients patented, year-round protection is the culmination of more than $ 300 million in research with leading university and government institutions. Clinical studies demonstrate that the active ingredient in SmartMune strengthens the function of key immune cells, maintains energy, vitality and mental clarity, and activates key immune cells to protect against the harmful effects of stress.

Additional wellness products include: SmartMune Extra Strength, SmartMune Stress Relief with Relora, SmartMune for Kids and SmartMune Anti-Aging Moisturizing Cream. For more information, visit: http://www.SmartMune.com.

About Wellmune WGP?

Wellmune WGP? is a natural carbohydrate that is clinically proven to strengthen key immune cells that keep the body healthy. This unique food, beverage and supplement ingredient is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) under U.S. FDA regulations. It is also patented, Kosher, Halal, non-allergenic and free of genetically modified organisms. This award-winning ingredient is a product of Biothera, a U.S. biotechnology company dedicated to improving immune health.

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Yoga, you don’t have to be a Yogi to practise yoga! Everybody can do yoga and go to yoga retreat. If you ever practise yoga before, an hour or 2 might lead to want more, a yoga retreat is a good choice. Yoga retreat comes from the traditional yoga to luxury ecotourism yoga.

 Find a time in your busy daily schedule and plan your yoga trip. Search for your accommodation carefully. And if you are lucky, you can find cheap hotel,discount hotel or hotel deals for your selected yoga retreat accommodation. You will be surprised after your yoga retreat vacation that you will find the ultimate relaxation!

As Yoga has become more popular these days, the number of people who is practising yoga is also growing. Yoga not only can bring relaxation, awaken your energy that lies within and bring revitalization, but also is said to improve circulation, lower blood pressure and also decrease migraine or head tension.

 At the same time, hotels or accommodations that also provide Yoga practise has been growing too! Below are the best yoga retreat places in the world:

Fairmont Orchid on Hawaii

Famous for its ‘Spa Without Walls’, now Fairmont Orchid is also add to its list ” Flo-yo” (Floating Yoga). Flo- yo connects body and mind while balancing above the Hawaii’s water. Its a fun workout too, incorporating both body and mind with beautiful and tranquil surrounding. Flo-yo is a new level of yoga!

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Jangala Retreat, Iquitos, Peru

Imagine having your Yoga holiday in the middle of Amazon Rainforest! Not only the Yoga retreat is fantastic, the food is fresh and healthy too! Eating vegetable and fruits from locally grown produce and fresh fish from the river, its Heaven on earth

Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Nassau, Bahamas

This is a right place for Yoga lover. Located in one of the most romantic place in the world, you will Wake up early in the morning, and meditate till dawn. In addition, you will also do chanting until tea time and have vegetarian meal. Spent your yoga away from the bustling city life in the place that is surrounded by clear blue water, white sand and charming palm trees; Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat

Sao Carlos, São Paulo. Jatoba Terra Prana Lar Yoga, Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos (Brazil) .

Jatoba Terra Prana Lar Yoga in Brazil has many yoga activites; Partner yoga, Karma yoga, silent walks, scared dances, mantras, meditation, zen shiatsu and many more. Its truly a yoga holiday! The place also provides vegetarian meals with homemade bread, cheese and yogurt. The place also provide program to help its guest to connect to mother eart. For those who are with children, Jatoba Terra Prana Lar Yoga also offers program for children.

Shreyas Yoga Retreat, Karnataka, Banglore(India)

Experience authentic traditional Yoga in exclusive hotel in Bangalore, India.In Shreyas, you will also be served organic food that is grown locally and freshly handpicked from the hotel’s 20 acres field. It is a small exclusive hotel with just 14 rooms and accommodate up to 25 people.

 Other than the places above, there are still a lot of good Yoga retreat places for your holiday around the world such as Black Turtle Eco Lodge (Costa Rica), Yachana Eco Lodge (Ecuador), Ard Nahoo Health Farm(Ireland), The farm Sanctuary(New York), Willka T’ika Garden Guesthouse (Peru). Wuinta da Calma Holistic Retreat Centre (Portugal), The Ashtanga Yoga Retreat (Spain), Yoga on Skyros Island.

The first thing to do when selecting the Yoga retreat place to go is to know where is the Yoga location that you would like to go. After knowing the location, the next step is to select which yoga program that you would like to practise, the climate in which you would like to practice your yoga, and the food that you are comfortable with.

You would want your yoga holiday to be as comfortable as possible! Enjoy your getaway, reviving and self-searching yoga! Book your holiday hotel as soon as you find out where you are going, especially if you are staying in new york hotel, sydney hotel,las vegas hotel, paris hotel etc.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012

Shaft Medical San Diego (SHAFT SAN DIEGO), the areas premium aesthetic medicine practice providing the full range of advanced cosmetic procedures, announces the availability of the PowerX and Lipotherme Liposuction San Diego procedure for managing hard to treat love handles.

Those collections of fat on the abdomen and sides are colloquially known as love handles. A recent survey showed that three out of four people want to treat their love handles.

Its a truly sobering time in anybodys life when one day you look down and find that youve got those dreaded love handles! For many women, this is the moment that our San Diego liposculpture procedure starts to sound like a wonderful idea.

Even with diet and exercise, its possible to end up with areas of fat that just dont seem to shift, such as back fat, tummy rolls, bingo wings, and of course, love handles. You can now permanently eliminate your love handles with a relatively simple outpatient liposuction San Diego procedure.

Liposuction of love handles with the PowerX and Lipotherme San Diego Liposuction procedure fat involves permanent removal of fat cells resulting in greater definition and skin tightness. This technique reduces or eliminates the side bulges associated with love handles.

Produced by Sound Surgical, the recently FDA-approved PowerX Lipo System is an innovative power-assisted liposuction device that makes it easier for the cosmetic surgeon to remove fat. The cannula rotates, allowing fat to be removed quicker, more efficiently, and with less effort. It is also very quiet, unlike other mechanical liposuction devices.

Lipotherme is a new FDA-approved 980 nm wavelength laser lipolysis technology developed in France. Using a small laser housed in a specially designed and patented cannula, fatty deposits below the skin are disrupted with heat, facilitating their removal and the look and contour you desire. Laser lipolysis with Lipotherme is often used in areas where traditional liposuction would not be successful and in parts of the body where diet and exercise is not able to reduce fatty deposits.

Now, with PowerX and Lipotherme, there are new and effective options in liposuction technology.

The PowerX technique substantially reduces surgical time as compared to traditional liposuction. Combining a unique rotational handpiece with multiple power settings, PowerX enables more precise body sculpting and contouring. Capable of superficial work to large volume fat removal, the PowerX allows cosmetic surgeons more control by reducing aspiration time and physician fatigue.

PowerX offers physicians and patients the ability to custom-tailor body contouring treatment. PowerX can be used alone or in combination with other liposuction technologies such as SHAFTs exclusive Lipotherme laser lipolysis system.

Lipotherme laser liposuction offers smooth and consistent contouring results, allowing cosmetic surgeons to target the smallest and most stubborn pockets of fat. Lipotherme is the perfect solution for small, precise areas like the face, neck, back, parts of the abdomen and arms. This technique reduces bruising and bleeding, and only a local anesthetic is needed which reduces both cost and risk to the patient.

ABOUT SHAFT SAN DIEGO

Specializing in the very latest advanced aesthetic medicine procedures Shaft Medical San Diego features NeoGraft Scar Free Hair and Eyebrow Transplantation and MiXto SX Fractional Skin Laser for acne scars, skin rejuvenation, and nonsurgical lift of the face, eyes neck and chest. Our practice also offers PureLight Cellulite Heliotherapy, PowerX and Lipotherme Minimally Invasive Liposculpture Surgery, LAVIV Skin Cell Cloning Therapy and NeoGraft LTS Acne Cold Laser as well as BOTOX, Juv?derm, Radiesse, LATISSE for eyelash growth, varicose vein and spider vein treatment, and MeDioStar laser hair removal. SHAFTs modern and highly discrete office serves clients throughout Southern California including San Diego, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.

For more information about PowerX and Lipotherme Liposculpture San Diego, please see the Company’s website at http://www.shaftsandiego.com.

Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) April 04, 2012

Professional Development Resources is a national provider whose mission is to provide health care professionals with accredited continuing education home study courses on topics that are vital to contemporary clinical practice. Heading the list of clinical topics today is the group of conditions known as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), which affects millions of families and demands early and aggressive intervention in the areas of language, behavior, and social skills.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ASDs are a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. People with ASDs handle information in their brain differently than other people. ASDs are spectrum disorders, meaning that they affect each person in different ways, and can range from very mild to severe. It is 4 to 5 times more common in boys, affecting 1 in 54 males compared with 1 in 252 females. People with ASDs share some similar symptoms, such as problems with social interaction, but there are differences in when the symptoms begin, how severe they are, and the exact nature of the symptoms.

Of particular concern as Autism month 2012 begins is a new and troubling CDC report, which states that more than 1%, or 1 in every 88 children age 4 – 21, is diagnosed with autism today. This is a 78% increase in 6 years (2002-2008) and a 10-fold (1000%) increase in reported prevalence over the last 40 years. The report states that the extent to which these increases reflect better case ascertainment as a result of increases in awareness and access to services or true increases in prevalence of ASD symptoms is not known.

A further troubling finding of the CDC report is that many children with ASDs do not receive a diagnosis until they reach preschool or kindergarten age, missing opportunities for earlier therapies that could potentially improve communication and socialization while these skills are developing. It has been known for some time that early identification (birth to age 3) and intervention are essential to successful treatment for ASDs.

One of the reasons we are featuring our autism courses this month is that we believe it is vital for all health professionals to be able to recognize the symptoms, says Leo Christie, PhD, CEO of Professional Development Resources. If every clinician who sees young children were alert and trained to detect possible ASD symptoms, we would be able to offer more families the benefits of early intervention. That means beginning the process of parent education and child training while the child is still less than 3 years old.

In support of National Autism Awareness Month 2012, Professional Development Resources is offering special discounts on all of its autism courses during the month of April. It has also pledged to donate a portion of the proceeds from every autism course purchased to the Autism Society of America. The company offers an online catalog of over 200 accredited healthcare and mental health CE courses. Within this catalog, eight courses relate specifically to various aspects of ASD. They address the complexities of accurately diagnosing ASD and the many challenges of instituting successful intervention strategies, including parent education and involvement.

About Professional Development Resources, Inc.

Professional Development Resources is a Florida nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1992 by licensed marriage and family therapist Leo Christie, PhD. The company, which is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association) as well as many other national and state boards has focused its efforts on making continuing education courses more cost-effective and widely accessible to health professionals by offering online home study coursework. Its current expanded curriculum includes a wide variety of clinical topics intended to equip health professionals to offer state-of-the art services to their clients.

Contact:

Leo Christie, PhD, CEO

Professional Development Resources, Inc.

904-645-3456

http://www.pdresources.org/

ACRX announced the re-release of the American Consultants Rx community service project of where arrangements have been made to donate over 20 million ACRX discount prescription cards throughout the country. One of the main locations in the Ocilla,GA area that received an initial donation of ACIRX free prescription cards,is Irwin County Health Department. The ACIRX discount cards are to be donated to anyone in need of help in defraying the high cost of prescription drugs.

Due to the rising costs, unstable economics, and the mounting cost of prescriptions, American Consultants Rx Inc. (ACRX) a.k.a (ACIRX) an Atlanta based company was born in 2004. The ACRX discount prescription card program was created and over 3 million discount prescription cards were donated to the community across the country free of charge between 2004-2005.

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The ACRX cards will offer discounts of name brand drugs of up to 40% off and up to 60% off of generic drugs. They also possess no eligibility requirements, no forms to fill out, or expiration date as well .One card will take care of a whole family. Also note that the ACRX cards will come to your organization already pre-activated .The cards are good at over 50k stores from Walgreen, Wal mart, Eckerd’s, Kmart, Kroger, Publix, and many more. Any one can use these cards but we are focusing on those who are uninsured, underinsured, or on Medicare.

ACRX made arrangements online for the ACRX card to be available at ACIRX org where it can be downloaded as well. This arrangement has been made to allow organizations an avenue to continue assisting their clients in the community until they receive their orders of the ACRX cards. We made it possible for future request to be made from online as well. We also developed a unique marketplace at 2spendless where you can also click on the ACIRX blue banner and download your free discount prescription card as well as find other key discounts.

With a backorder of over 40 million cards ACRX is working diligently to assist as many people and organizations as possible. ACRX will be working over the next few months to fulfill as many backorders as possible. It should be noted that while many other organizations and companies place a cost on their money saving cards, we do not believe a cost should be applied, just to assist our fellow Americans. ACRX states that it will continue to strive to assist those in need.