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Multitasking Is a Stressor in Contemporary Society

The advancement of technology does not simplify life: it makes life multi-faceted, requiring multitasking. It is not uncommon that we are performing two or more tasks concurrently. As a matter of fact, contemporary views it as a good sign - a positive sign of productivity. If there is a problem, someone comes up with an idea to facilitate the process of multitasking.

Yesterday, I was watching a commercial on TV about a new kitchen gadget that enables you to prepare your meals in just a few minutes: it does all the chopping, blending, processing - a multitasking kitchen ware with one-year limited warranty. Well, we are no more different from that kitchen ware, and our limited warranty is shorter lifespan

In our high-wired, fast-pace world, there are so many distractions and interruptions that give us alternative other than performing multitasking if we wish to be deemed productive, capable of accomplishing more in less time. Maybe by so doing, we could earn more and gain more respect from our peers and coworkers. But we accomplish multitasking at a price - stress! Multitasking is a stressor, a silent killer in contemporary society. Stress shortens lifespan.  Stress elevates adrenaline and cortisol levels, and thus instrumental in damaging brain cells. Unlike most other body cells, brain cells do not regenerate. Therefore, the effects are subtle and long-term.

Some of the drawbacks of multitasking are as follows:

1. It diminishes your effectiveness in performing your tasks.

2. It makes you more vulnerable to mistakes.

3. It increases your stress response in the brain, with long-term damage to brain cells.

To me, the greatest price you pay for multitasking is: you lose the present moments of life. We live only in the present moment: the past is gone and the future is uncertain. Therefore, we should be mindful of every present moment we are living. Mindfulness is the key to health, wellness, and ultimate happiness in life. Mindfulness is focusing on the present moment. Drive when you are driving - not talking on the cell phone. Mindfulness is simplicity living at its best.

Visit my website: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (the wisdom on healthy living)

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The Wisdom of Ancient Natural Healing and Health Systems

Wisdom is the ability to interpret information in order to influence one' s choices in actions that will ultimately transform the body and mind.

The wisdom of some of the ancient health and healing systems manifests the importance of well-being and the power of natural healing:

1. Hippocrates (born around 450 B.C.) was the Father of Medicine. His Greek medical system was based on moderation for a balanced lifestyle in harmony with nature for natural healing. Hippocrates once said: "A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession, and learn how to treat his illnesses by his own judgment."

2.  The Tibetan health system came under the influence of Buddha, and Tibetan monks practiced compassion and mindfulness. Tibetan medicine emphasizes virtuous conduct, a healthy diet, regular daily activity and seasonal routines to promote all-round health and natural healing. In addition, its medical system heavily relies on herbal cures for natural healing.

3. The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) also embraces an extensive herbal medicine. For thousands of years, Chinese doctors have believed that "qi" (internal life energy) flows throughout the body by way of channels or meridians. This internal life force is capable of continuous circulation provided there is balance between opposite forces of "yin" and "yang" which are energies of the universe. Imbalance results in stagnation or blockage of "qi", which is the cause of disease.

4. The Ayurveda system in India is the "science of life" that has been practiced for thousands of years. This medical system advocates all inclusiveness for natural healing. Essentially, any doctrinal or ideological imperative must defer to the well-being of the patient. In other words, Ayurveda not only eliminates the process of disease but also restores the health of the patient to its original physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

The major difference between the wisdom of these long-standing health systems and that of modern Western medicine is that the former focuses on the prevention and natural healing, while the latter emphasizes the cure and the removal of disease symptoms There is a saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail to you. For Western doctors, their hammers are the prescription drugs. They emphasize eliminating the symptoms of disease, instead of eradicating the causes. 

For more information on Tibetan natural healing, go to: The Five Tibetan Rites.

Also, visit my web pages: Chinese Natural Healing and Zen Is the Way.

Stephen Lau

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The Antidote to Stress

Stress is the common denominator of all diseases and illnesses.

Hans Selye was the first physician to introduce the concept of stress. Scientific studies have documented that stress can create enough pressure - physical,  chemical, emotional or electromagnetic - to cause the increase of adrenaline in the blood, elevation of blood sugar and insulin in the body to cause distress, which is the initial stage of disease. After repeated exposure to the same stressor, stress reaction no longer occurs. It is this adaptation to stress that lowers the threshold for new stresses. This vicious cycle will ultimately cause the individual to "burn out" or to snap.

The antidote to stress is its exact opposite. If you are tense, then relax through relaxation techniques, such as natural sleep, meditation techniques, aromatherapy, and color therapy. If you are pressed for time, then learn better time management. If you find yourself too focused on the self, then be mindful of others. If your heart always beats fast, then do some breathing exercises, and learn how to breathe right. 

Visit my new website on healthy living: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Stephen Lau

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Liver Health - From the Chinese Perspective

In Chinese medicine, liver health is longevity health. The liver is responsible for promoting the smooth flow of "qi" (which is internal life energy) and "blood" throughout the body. Hence, a healthy liver is extremely important for the overall wellness of an individual.

In Chinese medicine, "qi" is the invisible energy that flows through the universe, and the human body is a microcosm of the universe. If the flow of "qi" is disrupted for any reason, virtually any of the body system will be in jeopardy.

In Chinese medicine, "blood" is quite different from that observed in Western medicine. To the Chinese, "blood" serves three major functions in the body system:

1. It nourishes the body by providing nutrients. After your food and drink are digested in you stomach, they are extracted by your spleen and transformed into blood.

2. It moistens and lubricates the body by giving it movement and flexibility.

3. It anchors the mind, making your thoughts clear and stable.

In Chinese medicine, a healthy liver regulates the amount of blood circulation. If you are active, you liver will produce and release more blood, and your blood flow will be strong and flexible. If our liver is impaired, your blood flow will be disrupted. Liver disharmony, due to liver damage, often leads to emotional disharmony, such as anger and outbursts. Emotional problems are often stress-related. People suffering from mental depression often have a weak liver constitution.

Because liver function also affects your blood, liver problems also have an adverse impact on tendons, that is, your movements and flexibility. Liver problems are manifested in your nails and your eyes. Nails are seen by the Chinese as tendons. Good liver health is indicated by strong nails, and liver problems result in pale and brittle nails. Your eyes, considered by the Chinese as "windows" of your internal health, require nourishment of your liver. A health liver gives you good vision, while liver damage results in inability to see clearly, both visually and mentally.

Eat healthy for a healthy liver. Do not damage your liver with alcohol. If you have a drinking problem, stop alcohol addiction right away. From the Chinese perspective, the liver is more than just an organ for detoxification. Asian Detox Secrets shows you how to detoxify your body the Oriental way.

For more information on Chinese health and healing, visit my web page: Chinese Health and Healing

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The Dangers of Extreme Weight Loss

Given that an ideal body weight not only gives you a better body image but also makes you healthier, many people become obsessed with weight loss that they would do anything just to lose pounds or to lose belly fat. But fast weight loss may have many health hazards, including sudden death syndrome.

You can lose weight through weight loss exercises, but compulsive exercise may overstress your heart as well as result in stress injuries.

You can lose weight through smoking or not giving up smoking. Nicotine can eliminate calories, but at the expense of damaging your heart and lungs. Give up the nicotine addiction.

Dieting is the most common method of weight loss. There are too many "fad diets" in the consumer market, and many simply "starve" you. Calorie deprivation is the cause of yo-yo dieting and the failure of many weight loss attempts.

Induced vomiting to lose extra pounds is common among adolescents and young adults. Use of laxatives and water pills may lead to eating disorders. In addition, the loss of potassium and dehydration contribute to gallstones, cardiac disorders, and hair loss.

Obesity surgery does not solve weight loss problems. In addition to many complication, obesity surgery can bring weight control only for the first few years.

Weight loss is a complex and complicated health problem. Get a FREE copy of my e-book All-Round Weight Loss to find out more.

Stephen Lau

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An Ideal Body Weight for Longevity

Any individual who has an ideal body weight lives longer.

What is an ideal body weight? An ideal body weight is based on a person's height, weight, and bone structure calculation. Any increase in body weight away from the ideal body weight increases your chance of ending up dead before your time is due. However, underweight (that is, a decrease in body weight away from the ideal body weight) is even more dangerous than overweight, because too little body fat does more harm to the body than too much body fat.

The moral here is: maintain an ideal body weight with little deviation. To put you in perspective, your life expectancy will decrease by two to three years for every 10 percent you exceed your "ideal weight." This is worse off for you if you are short in stature, because it is more difficult for you to distribute your fat, as compared to a taller individual.

In addition, the ratio of your waist line to your hip measurement is critical. Therefore, it is in your best interest to lose weight until you attain your ideal body weight. 

Use the calculator here to find out if you are overweight.

If you are, then you should strip that fat until you reach your ideal body weight.

For more information on weight loss, go to Weight Loss for Longevity

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Maintaining Mindfulness While Being Busy

Humans learn how to deal with the pain of loss. As a matter of fact, we learn at an early age that being busy is a way to deal with the loss of a loved one. In other words, many people deal with grief by staying busy.

Last week, my father-in-law passed away, and a memorial service was held last weekend. My wife had been busy preparing for the memorial service, such that she seemed oblivious to her loss.

I must say getting busy has immediate payoff. In life, many of us use the same strategy to deal with difficulties in our lives: we keep ourselves busy to avoid unpleasant or difficult experiences. We keep ourselves busy to earn more money, to gain more respect, or both. We get busier and busier - it has become addictive. Unfortunately, at the end, everything falls apart, and we become distressed and disillusioned.

Be mindful of your busyness. Mindfulness requires you to take time to explore your inner self - that is,  what is most important to you. You can be busy, while maintaining your mindfulness.

A Buddhist teacher once said: "When you are washing dishes, wash dishes. When you are talking on the phone, talk on the phone." But many people are talking on the phone, while driving!

Mindfulness is "concentrated" relaxation because your mind focus on the present moment, not the past, and not the future. Remember, only the present is real to you.

For more information on mental wellness, go to: Mental and Spiritual Wellness.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

Miracle Drink for the Diabetic

My wife was diagnosed with diabetes last year. In the first few months, her blood sugar level was high, and in spite of the medications, it fluctuated on the higher end.

Recently, her blood sugar level has come down dramatically with a miracle drink recommended by her friend.

Here is the recipe for that miracle drink for the diabetic:

1 bitter melon (obtainable at any Chinese supermarket).
1 cucumber.
1 green pepper.
2-3 stalks of celery.

Chop all ingredients, and put them in a powerful blender. You may juice them. But I prefer to add one cup of water, and place them in a powerful blender. You get the fiber as well.

This potent drink is excellent for diabetes.

She drinks 2 cups a day, and her blood sugar is now normal without any drugs. Bitter melon is such a potent vegetable that its extracts are now available in supplement and sold over the Internet. My wife has not tried the supplement. I think the natural vegetable drink is much better, especially the celery for controlling high blood pressure (often a symptom of diabetes).

For more information on diabetes, go to The Diabetes Miracle Breakthrough.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

Is Alcohol Good For You?

According to CNN (21 April 2009), recent studies show light drinkers are healthier than those who abstain. But they also have higher rates of liver disease.

Alcohol research can be baffling and confusing, with one finding contradicted by the next.

Is alcohol good for you?

"One drink a day for women and no more than two for men is thought to be good for coronary heart disease," said Dr. Samir Zakhari, director of the division of metabolism and health effects at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

And is beer good for you?

Beer may cause your blood sugar to drop drastically, thus stimulating you to eat more.

Beer has about 7 calories per gram of alcohol, which may go right to your stomach, leading to weight gain. One 12-ounce serving of beer every night may add up to an extra 10-15 pounds per year, if you do not burn those extra calories.

Your liver, in the process of detoxifying excess quantities of alcohol, may become filled with fat, resulting in a characteristic “beer belly.” Typically, fat distribution shifts to your belly and trunk, and some men may even grow “female breasts” as estrogen accumulates in their system. If you want to retain your body shape, simply drink less.

If you have problems with alcohol, maybe it is time to quit the addiction.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

The Emotional and Psychological Changes of a Calorie-Restriction Diet

Calorie restriction can bring about unfavorable physical changes that may impact your long-term health at the expense of weight loss..

In addition, a calorie-restriction diet may bring about emotional and psychological changes, which may lead to eating disorders.

If you are consuming 3,000 calories a day, you start slowly and gradually reduce your caloric intake to about 2,500 calories. That’s OK. However, any drastic and dramatic reduction in weight loss will damage your health. Do not let your diet becomes a “starvation” diet with less than 1500 calories.

Research studies have documented emotional and psychological changes resulting from a calorie-restriction diet. These changes include:

• Personality changes: such as loss of ambition, a narrowing of interests, decline in intellectual pursuit

• Lack of concentration; inability to perform daily tasks

• Decrease in sexual interest and loss of libido

• Extreme sensitivity to noise

• Poor judgment, inability to make decisions
• Irritability and moodiness, and even depression
• Deterioration in personal appearance and grooming
  
• Increased preoccupation with food (especially food talk and food thoughts)
  

Calories are important to weight loss. Without reduction in calorie intake, there is no weight loss. However, too drastic and too dramatic reduction often leads to eating disorders.

Just beware! You need to know How To Eat Less.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

The Physical Changes of a Calorie-Restriction Diet

Calorie restriction can bring about longevity in animals. Calorie restriction can help you lose weight.

But a calorie-restriction diet may bring about physical changes that affect not only your weight, but also your physical being, in fact your overall wellbeing.

If you are consuming 3000 calories a day, and you start slowly and gradually reduce your caloric intake to 2500 calories. That’s excellent. You kill two birds with one stone: you lose weight and you improve your overall health.

However, an individual needs 2000 calories for optimum health maintenance. If you reduce your calories to 1500, you have put your body in a starvation mode. The diet becomes a starvation diet.  Worse, if your caloric intake falls below 1500 calories to 1000 to 1200 calories

With a reduction of calories, and accompanied by vigorous activity, you can lose up to 20 percent of your body weight. This is what most weight watchers would go for.

However, research studies have documented physical changes resulting from a calorie-restriction diet. These changes include:

• Weight loss of 20 percent

• Decrease in body size, especially in the upper thighs and upper arms

• Reduction in heart volume by about 20 percent, followed by diminished work output of heart per minute by as much as 50 percent, as well as a slower pulse rate

• Reduction in body temperature

• Accumulation of body fluid in the ankle and the wrist.

• General fatigue

• Decline in sexual activities

• Thinner and drier hair

• Frequency of urination

Calories are important to weight loss. Without reduction in calorie intake, there is no weight loss. However, too drastic and too dramatic reduction will have adverse effects on the body. Beware! You need to know How To Eat Less.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

Can Calorie Restriction Stop Aging?

Research on animals has indicated that calorie restriction can prolong life.

But is this applicable to humans? Can calorie restriction really stop aging? Scientists do have any consensus opinion, let alone definitive answers.

What is calorie restriction?

Calorie restriction is eating less than what your body needs to maintain health.  Your caloric needs are based several factors, including your height, your weight, and metabolic rates (i.e. the amount of your physical activities.

Say, if you need 2000 calories a day, and you consume only 1600 calories, you are on a calorie restriction diet.

The key question here is not whether it will prolong life. Consuming fewer calories will definitely reduce weight, and weight maintenance is an important factor in longevity, as evidenced by centenarians who are never overweight.

The crucial questions are: Is calorie restriction safe? Do you get adequate nutrients to maintain health for longevity and anti-aging living? How much less should you eat?

Nobody has the answers because your constitution and makeup are uniquely yours. Only you can tell what your body needs. The bottom line is: simply eat less. As for anti-aging and longevity, leave that to your Creator.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer

Lose Weight Without Losing Health

The recent obsession with dieting can have a devastating effect on your longevity health. This is particularly true in the Western world, where body image is of utmost importance, as evidenced by the billions of dollars spent on keeping fit and slim.

Are these millions of people improving their health through their weight loss efforts?

I don’t think so! Many individuals simply jump on the band wagon, oblivious to the fact that drastic weight loss can have detrimental effects on every part of the body, and can even be fatal.

Weight loss should be a health-related endeavor, but, unfortunately, this may not be the case. Even many medically supervised weight loss programs seem to brush aside the detrimental effects with the rational that the end justifies the means. A case in point is that high-risk patients are commonly subjected to high-risk treatments just to reduce their body weight. Maybe this has everything to do with the mentality of the general public – everybody wants a quick fix with immediate results. This mentality is further fueled by the powerful weight loss industry that preys on the gullible public, and its entrenchment with policy makers. The result is an array of every method imaginable aimed at weight loss: pills, surgery, diets, starvation, and purging.

But there is little research to support the effectiveness of these methods at weight loss. And why would money be spent on these research studies when the public are ready and willing?

There are certainly safe ways to reduce fat and lose weight. Try Fat Loss Secret,  and Yoga Weight Loss Secrets to lose weight without health risks.

Stephen Lau

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Why Routines Are Important to Longevity Health

Routines are an integral part of longevity living, and hence critically important to longevity health.

Why is that?

Routines put you in a positive state of mind: it makes you not only more mindful of what you are doing, but also more likely to become more disciplined. Without discipline, it is difficult in this day and age to have a healthy lifestyle leading to longevity, given that we are living in a society of excess and indulgence.

When you wake up in the morning, what do you do? And how do you spend your time? Be mindful of what you do. If you have no real control over the various things you do regularly, you most probably have poor time management.

Learn to organize your daily routines, making doubly sure they contribute to your longevity health, such as exercising and having a nutritional breakfast. Other things like reading the papers and checking your computer are not important to your daily routines, especially in the morning.

Changing your habits is setting good routines for longevity health. Routines prepare your mind for what is ahead of you in the day. Depressed individuals often lack routines in their lives. Learn to control your mind in order to control your body. Rethink your thinking to become younger and healthier for longer!

Stephen Lau

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Meditation Is Medicine!

Meditation is mind-body medicine. It is the most potent mind-body therapy not only for disease prevention but also for curing disease.

Meditation has been associated with religion because during meditation it is easy to conjure up images of divinity or the metaphysical. However, nowadays, in this world of stress and turmoil, meditation therapy is getting attention in the medical field.

Meditation is medicine in that your mind controls your thoughts, which control your actions, and your actions are often responsible for your health. Contemporary life is stressful, in particular in the present economic environment, which generates emotional reaction, anxiety, anticipation, and worry. Naturally and inevitably, your mind focuses on the past or the future, or both. The past is the breeding-ground for stress: your memories of past difficulties or failures are projected into the future, which become real and almost tangible to you.

Remember, in life, nearly all your thoughts, including your desires and fears, are based on either the past or the future. These festering thoughts may begin to feed on the mind, generating negative emotions that affect your hormone secretion, and thus affecting your overall health.

Meditation is medicine in that it provides a break or relaxation for your thinking mind. Your body needs rest, and so does your mind. It is a myth that when you sleep, your mind is resting. No, it is not, because your mind still works in your dreams.

Meditation is mind-body therapy because it helps you focus your mind on the present to the exclusion of past and future thoughts.

Meditation is actually easier than your might imagine. Start meditation by paying attention to your breathing. There is no right or wrong way of meditation. Just practice it. Go to my web page Meditation Techniques to learn how to meditate to enhance your health. Meditation makes you younger and healthier for longer.

Stephen Lau

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Green Tea Makes You Younger and Healthier for Longer!

Scientific studies have shown that polyphenols in green tea, in particular EGCG and ECG (which are naturally occurring compounds in plants to protect them from damage due to free radicals, bacteria, disease, and insect), help you look younger for longer. Green tea is loaded with polyphenols.

 Looking younger requires healthy skin. The sun, the gravitational pull of the earth, free radicals from the environment, and a poor diet may affect how your skin may look. The beauty and health of your skin is determined by collagen, a protein substance in your skin responsible for giving structure and support of the outer layer of your skin.

 As you age, your skin produces less elastin, a substance that controls your skin’s elasticity and smoothness.

 To keep you forever younger, drink green tea daily – and make you own green tea. Remember, not all green teas are created equal. Go to Green4Tea, where you will get everything you need to know about green tea (including weight loss, healthy heart, cholesterol and blood pressure control etc.) to make you younger and healthier for longer. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and polyphenols – the Chinese have been drinking it for thousands of years to keep them younger, just as they have been using ginseng to make them healthier.

 To keep you younger and healthier for longer, you need knowledge, and knowledge is empowering. Go to: Younger and Healthier Super Store to get digital information on every aspect of health – physical health, mental health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health –  to make you younger and healthier for longer.

 Stephen Lau

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Cure Cancer with Mint Leaves

Mint is a fragrant herb that contains important ingredient with potential capability to cure cancer. As a matter of fact, mint has become important medicinally due to its ingredients, which promote digestion by stimulating the flow of bile to your stomach. Mint has been called “the plant of happiness” for a good reason.

But can mint leaves really cure cancer? It is still a controversy among research scientist.

In 2004, researchers in the United Kingdom found that an extract in the leaves of mint can combat cancer. This groundbreaking medical discovery initiated the developing of drugs to see if mint can fight human breast and lung cancers. Research is still ongoing.

The important finding is that mint herb has the medicinal potential of destroying only those blood vessels that promote the growth of cancerous cells, but without damaging the blood vessels of normal cells. This selective targeting of cancerous cells may be a groundbreaking discovery for scientists to use mint leaves to target cancerous cells without damaging normal cells. Conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, are invasive in that they indiscriminately target both cancerous and normal cells.

According to researchers from the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research of the United Kingdom, the extract (scutellaria barbata) from mint leaves has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries to treat tumors..

Visit my web pages: Cancer Treatment Resources and Herbal Cures.  Also, The Herbal Remedy Cures Handbook is excellent for herbal remedies. Remember, pharmaceuticals are dangerous.

Stephen Lau

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Tips on Buying Ginseng

Ginseng is readily available in drug and health food stores all over the United States. However, finding the right ginseng may be challenging.

How to buy your ginseng

You need to determine the type of ginseng: American, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean?

You need to decide on the form of ginseng: root, tablet, powder, or tincture?

You need to know what you are getting for the money you pay: the quality or the grade.

Asian ginseng is the classical ginseng, which is most effective as a restorative tonic for long-term health and wellness: it regulates blood pressure, enhances mental health, control diabetes, suppresses stress, and counteracts alcohol and drugs. Asian ginseng is anti-aging.

American ginseng balances the body metabolism and reduces stress. American ginseng does not have the reputation for revitalizing the body and enhancing overall health and wellness as the Asian counterpart does.

Korean ginseng is well regulated by the government, so the quality is comparable to that of Chinese ginseng. The best Korean ginseng is red ginseng.

Japanese ginseng is of average quality compared to that of Chinese and Korean ginseng.

When you buy ginseng, consider the following:

Age: The older the root of the ginseng at the time of harvest, the more expensive it is. The age can range from 6 to 12 years. Anything younger than 4 years is not recommended. Ginsenosides, the most important ingredient in ginseng, are accumulated in the root over time. The age of the root is determined by the number of ridges or scars in the root.

Color: Only better-quality ginseng roots are selected for steaming to enhance the medicinal value of the roots. When they are steamed, the color turns from white or pale yellow to reddish.

Texture: Good-quality ginseng is hard and brittle, and the texture is dense.

Taste: Ginseng has a bitter, robust taste, with a tinge of sweetness.

Shape: A good ginseng root has the shape of a man: straight with intertwined rootlets or branches. Curled roots are inferior in quality.

The first choice in buying ginseng is to buy the whole root. Other than that, you can get standardized ginseng extract in tablets, capsules, or tinctures. Standardization is a way of processing ginseng that guarantees a certain fixed amount of ginsenosides in every dose. Buy products with concentrations of 4 to 7 percent of ginsenosides.  Tinctures are concentrated alcohol extracts, and therefore are readily absorbed by the body.

Remember, getting top-quality ginseng makes you younger and healthier for longer.

Stephen Lau

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Sex and Ginseng - Making You Younger and Healthier for Longer

Good sex holds the key to your longevity health. Sex makes you younger and healthier for longer. Ginseng is known and valued as an aphrodisiac and sexual aid in many different cultures worldwide.

According to ancient Chinese herbal medicine, any plant that looked like a part of your body would have the healing power for that body part. In this respect, ginseng resembles a human form, with arms, legs, and even the phallic parts. For this reason, the Chinese have long considered ginseng as a potent plant for enhancing sexual desire and maintaining sexual health.

However, it should be mentioned that the Chinese focus more on the tonic quality of ginseng in enhancing overall energy, including sexual energy, rather than viewing ginseng as an aphrodisiac.

Science says that ginseng may not stimulate sexual performance or solve your erectile problems, except in a psychological manner. But sex is something in the mind and of the mind. If one believes that ginseng enhances sexual performance, then it probably will because confidence may boost one’s virility and enhance one’s sexual responses.

In several scientific studies, ginseng demonstrated its capability to accelerate the development of sex organs in mice; that is, mice given ginseng reached puberty much faster and their prostate glands were 50 percent larger than those untreated with ginseng. The fact is that ginseng contains compounds with sex hormone activity that may delay the decline of male sex hormones due to age. Ginseng is anti-aging.

So, even if ginseng does not literally increase your sex drive, it definitely increases your overall energy and wellness, which are important to your sexual health.

Stephen Lau

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Stop Aging with Ginseng!

Take ginseng regularly to retard aging. In addition to providing energy needed for old age, ginseng prevents disabling disorders, such as arthritis, and heart diseases.

As one ages, the stiffness of joints and inflexibility of muscles are contributing factors to falling, which is the Number One killer among the elderly. The more one is afraid to fall, the more one is prone to falling.

How to use ginseng to help you stop aging:

First of all, take ginseng regularly. In China, ginseng is the best gift for an elderly individual.

In China, it is not uncommon for people to buy the best ginseng roots, put them in bottles soaked with brandy to be used in old age. If properly preserved, ginseng can retain its potency for many years.

To reach the maximum potential lifespan of 100 years or more, one must overcome the vulnerability to diseases and infections, which naturally increase with age. Ginseng may be the elixir of life. The explanation is that ginseng not only acts like a hormone (hormone decline in human is responsible for aging), but also stimulates the body to produce its own hormones. As such, it is anti-aging.

Given that ginseng has hormone-enhancing effect on the body, it can reverse male impotence.  Research studies indicated that mice given ginseng reached puberty much faster than untreated mice.  In human, sexual health holds the key to  longevity health.

Ginseng is anti-aging! It keeps you younger and healthier for longer.

Stephen Lau

Younger and Healthier for Longer