{"id":4472,"date":"2013-10-29T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T06:32:15","slug":"preventing-diseases-and-achieving-well-being-and-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/preventing-diseases-and-achieving-well-being-and-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing diseases and achieving well-being and longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Countless times I have been asked whether\u00a0Biestmilch\u00a0does help in this or\u00a0this or this condition\u2026 Yes, it may, I always use to say. But what is rarely\u00a0a matter of people\u2019s concern are preventive aspects.\u00a0Unfortunately, we do not see any reason for changing anything in our way of living until\u00a0a diagnosis such as a heart attack or cancer hits us.\u00a0Then maybe we start reconsidering our lifestyle. At that point, reversing the disease is possible but a lot more difficult.
\nA hundred years ago, many people died from preventable infectious diseases because they had no cure. Today again, a majority of people die from preventable conditions like coronary heart disease, cancer, lung diseases or the complex disease of diabetes.\u00a0Combined, they kill nearly 9 in 10 people.\u00a0But\u00a0this time it\u2019s in our hands – at least in our societies – to do something about it, something that lies beyond the options medicine offers us.<\/p>\n

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we don’t inherit longevity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Researchers have estimated that 90 percent of us could live up to age 90 with some simple lifestyle choices. What\u2019s more, we could live free of common diseases that make our final years miserable. Even if we have a family history of heart disease or cancer, most of our fate is in our control.\u00a0A recent study suggests we do not \u201cinherit\u201d longevity and wellbeing as much as previously believed. Instead, the sum of our habits determines our life span.\u00a0If we don\u2019t inherit our life, if we decide upon it to a great extent ourselves, why then is our life not one of our major concerns?<\/p>\n

How long we live is more about how we live our life and less about how long our parents lived<\/strong><\/p>\n

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spices in all colors not only improve our mood but also delight our metabolism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A certain lifestyle which includes sleeping, eating and moving\u00a0determines how we grow old and what diseases we are going to suffer
\nfrom.\u00a0No matter how healthy we are today, regardless of our age, we can make better choices in the moment, we can take preventive measures. Small decisions\u2014 about how we eat, move, and sleep each day\u2014count more than we think.
\nThe quality of what we eat matters far more than the overall quantity. This is the primary finding from a landmark Harvard study that tracked more than 100,000 people for two decades. The researchers discovered that the types of foods we consume influence our health more than our total caloric intake. Quality of food matters even more than levels of physical activity.
\nBut the body takes a long time to react to dietary changes, usually a year or more, according to experts. Instead of worrying about which diet fad to choose, we should accept that preventing is better than curing which means that the choices of the moment matter for how we age, how we feel and how we die in the end. In our Western societies we are lucky we got this choice, so why to spoil it!<\/p>\n

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act preventively and a life full of energy and joy will unfold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a rule of thumb: less is more! less\u00a0sugars, less processed meat,\u00a0less carbohydrates, less fat\u00a0\u2026 How and what we ate during the last decades brought us to a great extent obesity, vessel diseases, diabetes, coronary heart diseases, cancer, lung diseases\u00a0\u2026 they all have one common ground: the\u00a0deterioration of the otherwise controlled inflammatory condition of our body (see below). They all could to a large extent be prevented. There is never a 100% in biology!<\/p>\n

How inflammation may be to blame for some of the biggest killers – and the key to curing or\u00a0preventing it<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a headline from the new TIME Magazine Special. The\u00a0magazine presents inflammation as the killer, and this is right and wrong in the same time. Inflammation is by far more than a killer, it is the survival strategy of the body, and\u00a0well controlled a feature of well-being and longevity.<\/p>\n

If we are feeling well, then the\u00a0multiple systemic inflammatory processes within our body and along all mucosal linings – the frontiers to the outside –\u00a0are well controlled and balanced. They don\u2019t\u00a0exceed the threshold\u00a0beyond which we start feeling sick. Inflammations that surmount the\u00a0clinical silent barrier induce the typical signs of illnesses such as fever, headache, joint pains, sore muscles, loss of appetite, fatigue, lack of motivation, sleep disturbances\u00a0etc.
\nAnd now to cut a long story short, inflammation is first of all the territory of the immune system.<\/p>\n

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if metabolic regulation goes astray, then inflammatory processes turn into clinical symptoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the regulatory processes of the immune system are all in line\u00a0then the illness will mainly be mild and disappear within days. The situation becomes detrimental if the\u00a0inflammatory processes turn chronic. This is the case, if the causes cannot be eliminated by the system. Bad food, inactivity, environmental or other stress factors e.g. can on the long run be such irritations that finally lead to diabetes, obesity, vessel diseases etc. and even cancer. All these chronic diseases flourish on the soil of chronic inflammatory processes. This is why the TIME\u00a0magazine calls inflammation the killer.
\nEating, moving and sleeping, making the right choices for yourself everyday can tame this process and if not reverse the disease process at least slow it down. The three are also the path to aging without being miserable.<\/p>\n

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eating moving and sleeping may avoid getting rusty and miserable early in life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But once and for all we need\u00a0inflammations for survival. Suppressing inflammatory processes and the\u00a0immune system\u2019s potential to initiate\u00a0inflammations and\u00a0appease them is\u00a0deleterious. It leads to impaired wound healing or in the case of cancer to fatal infections and the spreading of metastases. It can bring about allergies and autoimmune diseases. It\u2019s all about preserving the\u00a0systems\u2019 regulatory and modulatory capacities. Eradication is the wrong avenue to walk on, but the one mostly taken. This is the lesson we have to learn, and this is the lesson\u00a0that Biestmilch taught me.<\/p>\n

Act preventively before the dice is cast or profound changes take time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biestmilch is definitely preventive due to its ability to modulate the inflammatory milieu of cells, and increase the robustness of the body\u2019s balance. There are lots of studies giving evidence thereof. The best ones are the flu study, the NSAID study or the leaky gut study. But also the many people who take Biestmilch during the cold season to avoid the epidemics of virus infections\u00a0that move over the globe every year give Biestmilch a strong voice.
\nExperience proves that if you take Biestmilch on a regular basis your body turns more and more robust over the years. Asthma gets better, allergies subside, cancer activity calms down, virus infections become a rare phenomenon, symptoms of autoimmune diseases improve, relapses get less and overall it changes the course of the chronic disease. After all Biestmilch turns into a powerful preventive agent. Taking it over years makes you suddenly\u00a0realize that you rarely have been ill.<\/p>\n

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fruits add the colors to your day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You personally will\u00a0never know what would have happened if you didn\u2019t take a specific decision in your life, because all future is and will always be uncertain.\u00a0But the\u00a0thousands of examples you can read about or observe yourself give you proof that acting preventive changes the way you live and age.
\nTo\u00a0summarize, prevention stands for a\u00a0mindset not for a single act once in a while, a\u00a0process over years. Until we feel the difference in our bodily\u00a0composition, in the\u00a0stability and increased balance of our immunity and our stress behavior may take years.<\/p>\n

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a good day’s sleep is inevitable for wellbeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we are young the body excuses a lot of small and big mistakes. His potential to recover and regenerate is huge. Even though there is a limit to what a body can endure in young age too. We can easily observe that in all the obese, diabetic and hypertensive kids in our society.\u00a0To put the reverse gear in place is always possible, but the older you get the slower the reverse process, the more the regeneration\u00a0abilities of the body decline.<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by Tom Rath: Eat Move Sleep: How small Choices Lead to Big Changes
\nTIME Specials: Your Body, the science of keeping it healthy<\/p>\n

Playford RJ, MacDonald ChE, Calnan DP, et al.:\u00a0Co-administration of the health food supplement, bovine colostrum, reduces the acute non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced increase in intestinal permeability.\u00a0Clinical Science 100, 627\u2013633,\u00a02001<\/p>\n

Cesarone MR, Belcaro G, Di Renzo A, et al:\u00a0Prevention of Influenza Episodes With Colostrum Compared With Vaccination in Healthy and High-Risk Cardiovascular Subjects: The Epidemiologic Study in San Valentino.\u00a0Clin Appl Thromb Hemost.\u00a013: 130,\u00a02007<\/p>\n

Marchbank T, Davison G, Oakes JR, et al:\u00a0The nutriceutical bovine colostrum truncates the\u00a0increase in gut permeability caused by heavy exercise\u00a0in athletes.\u00a0Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 300:G477-G484, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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