Saturated fats and cholesterol have been a part of people’s diets since the beginning of time as they were acquired through animal fats. Healthfully sourced saturated fats are not harmful and are a necessity in everyone’s daily life.
Saturated fats found in well-sourced animal products are much easier for the body to break down, hold up better under heat, and are a better option for maintaining a healthy weight. Polyunsaturated fats found in nuts & seed oils do not hold up well under heat and create more free radical damage in the body, thereby creating more inflammation. While the oils in fatty fish are essential for brain and heart health, their oils go rancid easily and should be consumed from fresh sources, avoiding fish oils that tend to go rancid.
“Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts” (healthline).
Meditating can radiate positive energy through practitioners, leading them to pour out this energy into the world to the people around them.
When thinking of pain as a mindset, practitioners may be able to control the level of pain they feel through meditation as they remove stress and focus on meditating.
Estrogen alone is not the issue when it comes to increasing the risk of breast cancer. The real issue is how is your estrogen being metabolized.
Two components in cruciferous vegetables are indole-3-carbinol (I3C) and diindolylmethane (DIM). Studies have found that these compounds can inhibit the formation of the "bad" 16-alpha-hydroxy estrone estrogen metabolite. One study found that DIM had the ability to decrease its production by 50 percent while increasing production of the "good" 2-hydroxy estrone metabolite by 75 percent.
According to the senior author of the study, William Baldwin, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso, the chemical called 4-nonylphenol binds to estrogen receptors in breast tissue which increases the risk for breast cancer.
Part of the problem is that the chemical, which mimics estrogen, may last longer in the body than natural estrogen.
Leptin, a recently discovered hormone, regulates body weight by suppressing food intake and/or increasing energy expenditure.
Leptin is a very powerful and influential hormone produced by fat cells.
Science has discovered that leptin is the most powerful metabolic regulator that tells your brain whether you should be hungry, eat and make more fat.
