Dr Pete's Health Secrets

    There are lots of supplements and multivitamins out there being marketed aggressively by big pharma, no wonder we get confused.  When one of the highest paid sportswomen in the world, tennis star, Maria Sharapova, failed a drug test, she tested positive for Meldonium.  She claimed that she used the drug to treat a magnessium deficiency which adversely affected her health and exercise tolerance. Whatever the merits of her case, it brought into the limelight the importance of magnesium a largely overlooked mineral. Magnesium is a very valuable mineral to the human body, but it is not a nutrient you usually hear about. For the rest of us we probably don't know we are deficient. Unfortunately, because of this lack of information about the mineral, many people come out as magnesium-deficient. It is the 4th most abundant mineral in the body after Calcium, Sodium and Potassium. Yet 60% of American adults are deficient in Magnesium. The daily requirement of t...

      Women over the years have been fed the false notion that wearing a bra prevents sagging of the breasts.  Apart from firm support for sports women and preventing milk dripping in lactating women, the bra could be doing more harm than good. Bras are said to combat sagging of breasts, especially those who are on the larger side. Aside from that, many of these bras are marketed to provide greater comfort and even less backaches. “A bra will hold up your breasts to give you the shape and look you want, but it can't prevent further sagging, which is caused by age and gravity,” says Dr. Mills.  It does make breast sagging worse. For more than 15 years, from 1997 to 2014, Jean-Denis Rouillon, a French professor and sports science expert, has been studying women’s breast.  He discovered that those who wear a bra experience more sagging on average than those who don’t! Yes they do. A full 7mm sag was observed after one year of wearing a b...

     There are simple ways to lose weight and keep it off! You just have to follow a routine and stick to what will be good for you and your overall health, fitness and happiness. Here are 6 weight-loss tips you will enjoy doing. In this article lets look at easy fun ways of keeping fit and loosing weight that you can sustainably incorporate into your lifestyle. 1. Rest Losing weight is not just about exercise and eating healthy. You should be setting some time for relaxation and rest. Relieve the stress about your being over-weight or unfit.  Stress hormones make you eat more. Resting between your routines, helps to prevent injury. 2. Gum One way to tell if you are really hungry or not is to chew a gum. Sometimes you might think that what you are feeling are hunger pangs, but it could be that you would just like to chew something or just feeling thirsty. 3. Water You may feel hungry. But once you drink a full glass of water the hunger goe...

TESTOSTERONE In addition to a balanced diet the following are required to increase testosterone naturally,  VITAMIN D The two main ways to  get vitamin D  are by exposing your bare skin to sunlight and by taking  vitamin D  supplements. You can't  get t he right amount of  vitamin D  your body needs from food. The most natural way to  get vitamin D  is by exposing your bare skin to sunlight (ultraviolet B rays) ZINC Nuts and seafoods such as Oysters and Crabs are rich in Zinc . Zinc is also available as supplements. 25mg is the optimum daily requirement.  REGULAR  EXERCISE Regular exercise especially resistance exercise helps maintain and build muscle mass, which stimulates testosterone production. Share 4a healthier World    #healthsecrets