My 13 yr old son was born with a low immune system.
In infancy he continually had colds, coughs, congestion, etc. It slowly turned into bronchial infections which eventually turned into asthma. By the time he was a young toddler (around 2), he was on 4 pharmaceutical grade medications, using an at home breathing machine daily, along with frequent runs to the doctor or emergency room.
FINALLY, after a few years of seeing NO results from the medications, I started turning to alternative choices and looked into diet changes and natural supplementation. Eventually we made our way to a D.O. who tested my son's saliva. The DNA results proved my son's body did not hold nutrients well and he was in a great need to change his eating habits, as well as, use some whole food supplementation.
A few weeks after making these changes my son was better, but still struggling a bit. Fast forward a few more years where my family was introduced to some wonderful products through David and Stacy Whited. Today my son is DRUG FREE, and has COMPELTE remediation. We have not visited a doctor or an emergency room for the past 2 years due to Market America products.
The products my son takes on a daily basis are as follows: 3 doses of Isotonix OPC-3, 1 dose of Isotonix ORAC, 2 scoops of Complete Greens, 1 dose of Isotonix B-Complex, 1 dose of Isotonix Multi-Vitamin w/iron and Heart Healthy Omega III's (www.marketamerica.com/hollyw Keywords seperately: Isotonix, Complete Greens, Omega III).
We praise God for bringing the Whited family and Market America into our lives!
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Chris and Crystal offer some help.
My wife and I have been very pleased with the performance of the Might-A-Mins Spectrum products (www.marketamerica.com/hollyw Keyword: Might-A-Mins Spectrum). We have an autistic son (PDD/SID) who is now 7 years old and has been on these products for almost a year. In this time, both ourselves and his therapists, have noticed great progress in his recovery and emergence from many of the barriers he has had since his diagnosis almost 4 years ago. His therapy and classroom work is much more productive and he is acting more like a neuro-typical kid everyday. We have also seen significant improvement in his digestive issues since using the products( www.marketamerica.com/hollyw Keyword: Might-A-Mins Spectrum Probiotics).
My wife Crystal, and I, are very active in the autism community and always make ourselves available to help out other parents who have loved ones on the autism spectrum. Sometimes it helps just being able to talk with others and share our experiences, ideas, and support with each other. Chris
My wife Crystal, and I, are very active in the autism community and always make ourselves available to help out other parents who have loved ones on the autism spectrum. Sometimes it helps just being able to talk with others and share our experiences, ideas, and support with each other. Chris
7 in 10 U.S. Kids Have Low Vitamin D
Kids' Low D Means Heart Risk, Rickets, Weak Bones
By Daniel J. DeNoonWebMD Health News
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
Aug. 3, 2009 -- Seven out of 10 U.S. children have too-low vitamin D levels, putting them at risk of heart disease, rickets, and weak bones.
Nearly one in 10 kids -- 7.6 million American children -- are actually deficient in vitamin D. Low vitamin D is risky, but vitamin D deficiency is a serious health threat in which the body begins to reabsorb calcium from the skeleton.
The new findings come in a study by Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH, of Montefiore Medical Center; Michal Melamed, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and colleagues.
"We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking," Kumar says in a news release.
Rickets, a bone disease of infants caused by too little vitamin D, has been on the rise. It's not the first time: A U.S. epidemic of rickets at the end of the 1800s ended only when the U.S. fortified milk with vitamin D.
It's now apparent that more must be done. People get vitamin D from foods like milk and fish, but it's hard to get enough from diet alone. The body makes its own vitamin D, but only when a person gets at least 10 minutes of direct sunshine a day, before putting on sunscreen.
Most people need regular vitamin D supplements (www.marketamerica.com/hollyw Keyword: Isotonix Vitamin D). Indeed, the Kumar study found that children who took vitamin D supplements were least likely to have low vitamin D levels. But only 4% of kids get these supplements.
Some kids were at particularly high risk of low vitamin D levels:
· Older children
· Girls
· African-American children
· Mexican-American children
· Obese children
· Kids who drank milk less than once a week
· Kids who spent more than four hours a day watching TV, playing video games, or using computers
Melamed noted that the widespread use of sunscreens keeps kids from getting vitamin D from sunlight.
"It would be a good idea for parents to turn off the TV and send their kids outside," she says in the news release. Just 15 to 20 minutes a day should be enough. And unless they burn easily, don't put sunscreen on them until they've been out in the sun for 10 minutes, so they get the good stuff but not the sun damage."
The Kumar study is an analysis of data gathered in the 2001 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of a nationally representative sample of 6,275 children aged 1 to 21.
Low Vitamin D, Future Heart Disease
Kids who have low vitamin D levels are at serious risk of heart disease in adulthood, find Johns Hopkins researcher Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues.
Reis' team analyzed data from 3,577 12- to 19-year-olds in the NHANES database.
They found that even after controlling for all kinds of factors that affect heart disease risk -- obesity, exercise levels, race/ethnicity, age, gender, and socioeconomic status -- low vitamin D put kids at risk of heart disease as adults.
Compared to the 25% of kids with the highest vitamin D levels, the 25% of kids with the lowest vitamin D levels had:
· a 2.36-fold higher risk of high blood pressure
· a 2.54-fold higher risk of high blood-fat levels
· a 50% higher risk of low levels of good HDL cholesterol
· a nearly fourfold higher risk of metabolic syndrome, a set of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.
Kids with low vitamin D levels were more likely to be obese, but even non-obese kids with low vitamin D had more risk factors for heart disease in the not-too-distant future.
The Reis study appears alongside the Kumar study in the September issue of Pediatrics.
Kids' Low D Means Heart Risk, Rickets, Weak Bones
By Daniel J. DeNoonWebMD Health News
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
Aug. 3, 2009 -- Seven out of 10 U.S. children have too-low vitamin D levels, putting them at risk of heart disease, rickets, and weak bones.
Nearly one in 10 kids -- 7.6 million American children -- are actually deficient in vitamin D. Low vitamin D is risky, but vitamin D deficiency is a serious health threat in which the body begins to reabsorb calcium from the skeleton.
The new findings come in a study by Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH, of Montefiore Medical Center; Michal Melamed, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and colleagues.
"We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking," Kumar says in a news release.
Rickets, a bone disease of infants caused by too little vitamin D, has been on the rise. It's not the first time: A U.S. epidemic of rickets at the end of the 1800s ended only when the U.S. fortified milk with vitamin D.
It's now apparent that more must be done. People get vitamin D from foods like milk and fish, but it's hard to get enough from diet alone. The body makes its own vitamin D, but only when a person gets at least 10 minutes of direct sunshine a day, before putting on sunscreen.
Most people need regular vitamin D supplements (www.marketamerica.com/hollyw Keyword: Isotonix Vitamin D). Indeed, the Kumar study found that children who took vitamin D supplements were least likely to have low vitamin D levels. But only 4% of kids get these supplements.
Some kids were at particularly high risk of low vitamin D levels:
· Older children
· Girls
· African-American children
· Mexican-American children
· Obese children
· Kids who drank milk less than once a week
· Kids who spent more than four hours a day watching TV, playing video games, or using computers
Melamed noted that the widespread use of sunscreens keeps kids from getting vitamin D from sunlight.
"It would be a good idea for parents to turn off the TV and send their kids outside," she says in the news release. Just 15 to 20 minutes a day should be enough. And unless they burn easily, don't put sunscreen on them until they've been out in the sun for 10 minutes, so they get the good stuff but not the sun damage."
The Kumar study is an analysis of data gathered in the 2001 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of a nationally representative sample of 6,275 children aged 1 to 21.
Low Vitamin D, Future Heart Disease
Kids who have low vitamin D levels are at serious risk of heart disease in adulthood, find Johns Hopkins researcher Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues.
Reis' team analyzed data from 3,577 12- to 19-year-olds in the NHANES database.
They found that even after controlling for all kinds of factors that affect heart disease risk -- obesity, exercise levels, race/ethnicity, age, gender, and socioeconomic status -- low vitamin D put kids at risk of heart disease as adults.
Compared to the 25% of kids with the highest vitamin D levels, the 25% of kids with the lowest vitamin D levels had:
· a 2.36-fold higher risk of high blood pressure
· a 2.54-fold higher risk of high blood-fat levels
· a 50% higher risk of low levels of good HDL cholesterol
· a nearly fourfold higher risk of metabolic syndrome, a set of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.
Kids with low vitamin D levels were more likely to be obese, but even non-obese kids with low vitamin D had more risk factors for heart disease in the not-too-distant future.
The Reis study appears alongside the Kumar study in the September issue of Pediatrics.
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