1. A GOOD MULTIVITAMIN
     In a perfect world, we would get all the vitamin, minerals, and antioxidants from the food we eat. But with less than optimal eating habits, soil depletion, and restaurant foods, most of us can’t count on our eating habits or foods to provide all the vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants we need.

Generic and popular brands of multivitamins provide the basic vitamins and minerals. A multiple vitamin is far less expensive than taking vitamins and minerals individually. It also insures that vitamins and minerals are in healthy proportions to each other. (Too much of one vitamin or mineral can inhibit the use of certain other vitamins or minerals.)

      Besides cost, the differences between a generic or common brand name multivitamins and premium multiple vitamins are that the premium brands are more likely to:

• use higher dosages


• use the most effective variations of vitamins and amino acids
  Example: Vitamin E has eight chemical variations with four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Many multivitamins use less expensive variations of E rather than the more effective bioidentical d˗alpha variation with d˗gamma tocopherols.


• use multiple versions of a vitamin.
  Example: Vitamin D has two physiologically relevant forms D2 and D3. While D3 is believed to be metabolized more effectively, the vitamin is poorly understood and D2 may have a unique contribution to our health. Thus, some multiple vitamins include both.


•  include trace minerals and antioxidants (e.g., extracts from vegetables, fruits, and berries).

    Thus, I take a very good comprehensive multiple vitamin with trace minerals and antioxidants. If you are willing to invest in the extra insurance of a premium multivitamin, there are several highly regarded premium multivitamins. My preference is SeaHealth|Plus, which has 17 fruit and vegetable extracts and 72 trace minerals.

2. PARTICULAR HEALTH ISSUES

    If you have particular health risks, you may want to consider supplements that help with that issue. For example, if you have frequent urinary tract infections you may want to drink cranberry juice or spare the calories and take cranberry juice extracts (if you aren’t taking SeaHealth|Plus which has cranberry extract anyway). If you recently took an antibiotic, you might want to eat some yogurt that is rich in probiotics or take a probiotic supplement such as acidophilus.

    Being a male I take saw palmetto to reduce my risk or prostate cancer. Since I am high risk for cardiovascular problems, I take supplements as well to enhance cardiovascular health. I get several blood tests a year and use the results to help make adjustments in which supplements I use and the doses. 

3. FISH OIL
 
   Cardiologists have been behind the times on this but now even the American Heart Association recommends:

Fish intake has been associated with decreased risk of heart disease. On the basis of available data, the American Heart Association recommends that patients without documented heart disease eat a variety of fish – preferably omega-3-containing fish – at least twice a week. Examples of these types of fish include salmon, herring and trout. Patients with documented heart disease are advised to consume about 1 gram of EPA + DHA (types of omega-3 fatty acids), preferably from fish, although EPA+DHA supplements could be considered, but consult with a physician first. For people with high triglycerides (blood fats), 2 to 4 grams of EPA + DHA per day, in the form of capsules and under a physician’s care, are recommended.

    A shift in Americans’ diet to more processed foods, corn oil, and soybean oil greatly increased omega-6 fatty acids in our diets. Further, these days few parents give their children cod liver oil (which is high in omega-3 fatty acids). Consequently, the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids has gone from a healthy 1:2 to 1:20. Having too much omega-6 fatty acids relative to omega-3s results in inflammation. There is an increasing consensus among researchers that inflammation is the common denominator of most chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

    You could correct the imbalance by eating lots of fish such as tuna, salmon, and sardines, but that would expose you to a lot of PCBs, mercury, and other toxins in the fish. Unless highly refined, cod liver oil has the same problem. The easiest way to increase omega-3s is to take fish oil supplements.

    While an aspirin is an aspirin and vitamin C is vitamin C whether it is generic or a brand name, with fish oil it is extremely important to remove the PCBs, mercury, and other toxins the fish have consumed. This requires an expensive distilling and refining process. The person who has done the most research on fish oil and is extraordinarily thorough in removing the toxins is Dr. Barry Sears. You may choose to take chances on the quality of other vitamins but don’t compromise on quality of the fish oil you consume.

    Dr. Barry Sears is the creator of the Zone Diet, which balances healthy carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in Mediterranean style diet. In his latest best seller, Toxic Fat, Dr. Sears describes how inflammation is a major underlying cause of chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and arthritis.

     Benefits of fish oil:

• Cardiovascular health The best known and best documented benefits are cardiovascular. Even the American Heath Association, which tends to focus on prescription medications and shun supplements, recommends fish oil supplements. Research finds that fish oil:
• reduces plaque deposits that “clog” arteries
• reduces heart arrhythmias
• reduces triglycerides
• lowers LDL “bad” cholesterol
• slightly raises HDL “good” cholesterol
• slightly thins the blood, which reduces the risk of heart attack

Side effects: While thinning the blood is usually desirable (the reason daily low dose aspirin is recommended), thinner blood slightly increases the risk of bruising or bleeding, nosebleeds, or stroke from hemorrhaging. It tends to have a cumulative effect with aspirin, Plavix, or Coumadin.

• Other health benefits   Research indicates that fish oil also:
• helps with weight loss
• helps reduce arthritis, diabetes, and other autoimmune diseases
• enhances brain functioning and the brain’s gray matter volume
• reduces macular degeneration (an eye disease)
• may help with Alzheimer’s, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia
• fosters healthy skin, hair, and nails

    With most supplements, the risk from using a generic brand is low—just that they may have cut corners to keep the prices low and dosages may be unreliable. With fish oil, however, the risks are high. Inexpensive fish oil is likely to contain lead, mercury, and PCBs.

      Dr. Barry Sears has focused his career on fish oil. His Omega|Rx fish oil is the gold standard. It goes through two refining processes to make sure it is the purest anywhere—and I believe it is the only fish oil that has every single batch tested. Consequently, it is the best there is and the safest there is. Cut corners if you must on other supplements, but do not cut corners on fish oil.

    I’m delighted to be able to offer you a 10% discount on your first purchase of Omega|Rx, SeaHealth|Plus, and other Zone health, weight loss products, and books.

    Just click here and use the promotional code AGELESS at checkout. There is a lot the zonediet.com website. My recommendation is to select Omega|Rx fish oil and SeaHealth Plus. I also highly recommend a copy of Dr. Sears’ latest best seller, Toxic Fat, in which he shares his latest research on inflammation, metabolism, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and what it really takes to lose weight.

CLICK HERE and use the promotional code AGELESS at checkout OR call 1-800-404-8171 and use the promotional code, AGELESS.

If you can just afford two supplements, Omega|Rx and SeaHealth|Plus should be the ones.

Life Makeover Program

The Life Makeover Program to take your life to a higher level

If you do what you always have done, you will get what you always gotten.

Are you willing to settle for that?
Are you willing to settle for less than you can be?

Dr. Brickey’s Life Makeover Program is not for people:

• who just want to learn more about themselves
• who are not willing to do some serious soul searching and planning
• who are not willing to make major changes in their lives

It is for men and women who are serious about taking their lives to a higher level.

If you are serious, Dr. Brickey will work with you one on one in ten individual 50-minute phone sessions to guide you through the process of:

• Becoming crystal clear about
  • who you are
  • what you want
  • why
  • how to achieve it
• Developing a written plan for your life
• Improving the quality of your beliefs, goals, self-concept, and dreams
• Achieving you enhanced goals and dreams

Dr. Brickey’s Life Makeover Coaching was featured in six issues of Let’s Live magazine.

Life Makeover Program Outline

Preparation:

• Complete the “History” and “Goals and Motivation Assessment” forms.

These assignments:

• increase your awareness of your motivations
• increase your awareness of how your past got you where you are now, and
• help me understand these before we even start session one

• Complete the Quality of Life Indicators assessment. This 15-minute instrument gives a profile of strengths and weaknesses in 16 life areas. Later we will do a post-test to see how these have changed.

Session #1:  Defining the big picture

• We review your Quality of Life Indicators results.
• We identify your goals and priorities.
• We write a first draft of your Vision and Mission statements for your life.
• We tweak the goals and priorities

Session #2:  Primary question and scripts

• We fine tune your vision, mission, and goals (from session 1).
• We discover your “primary question.”
• We experiment with other primary questions that might give you better results.
• We consider scripts you have been living and scripts you want to live.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #3:  Your weakest link

• We check how your primary question and scripts are working (from session 2).
• We consider what your weakest link is.
• We develop strategies for strengthening your weakest link.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #4:  Attitudes

• We check to see how your weakest link strategies are working (from session 3).
• We assess your attitudes.
• We consider whether attitude shifts would help you be more successful.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #5: Beliefs

• We check on how your attitude shifts are working (from session 4).
• We assess your beliefs and how they affect your success at following your life plan and achieving your goals.
• We consider whether belief shifts would help you be more successful.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #6:  Beliefs affecting

• We check on how your belief changes are working (from session 5).
• We assess beliefs and lifestyle practices that affect longevity.
• We consider what changes you want to make in longevity beliefs.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #7:  Toward and Away Rules

• We check on how your belief changes about longevity are working (from session 6).
• We assess your Toward Rules and Away Rules.
• We consider shifts in your rules that might help you be more successful.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #8:  Capabilities and optimal environment

• We check on how shifts in your rules are working (from session 7).
• We assess your self-concept of your capabilities.
• We consider shifts you may want to make in your self- concept.
• We assess how well your environment fits with and supports your life plan.
• We consider changes you may want to make in your environment.
• We work on achieving your goals.

Session #9:  Integration and summing up

• We check how shifts in your self-concept and environmental changes are working (from session 8).
• We make sure your life plan is complete and well integrated.
• We plan how to make sure you follow through with your plan.

Session #10:  Follow-up one month later

• We have you take another Quality of Life Inventory and compare it with your initial one.
• We assess how you are doing at following your life plan and achieving your goals.
• We fine tune your life plan and strategies to achieve it.
• We consider any new goals you want to add.

If you are asking yourself what it costs,
ask yourself first:

• What is it worth to you to have a clear sense of who you are, what you want, why, and how you are going to achieve it?
• What is it worth to become so clear about your dreams that motivation comes naturally and sucks you into achieving your dreams?
• Which will have more impact on your life—a weekend getaway or Dr. Brickey’s Life Makeover Program?
  

Call 614-237-4556 to see if you can be accepted for this program.

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