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Over the years I’ve been amazed at the confusion most people have about average lifespan statistics.  This confusion arises from the fact that the statistics generally shared in the media are for lifespan at birth, not lifespan from your present age. Let me explain:

If you are born today your average lifespan in the U. S. is 77.8 years (both sexes, all races).  But if you’re 75 today, your average lifespan is not another 2.8 years, but another 12 years! The longer you live, the more your expectancy average increases simply because you’ve dodged more of the things that would take your life.  Statistically you have fewer “opportunties” to lose your life the older you get.   Each year you live the average lifespan extends a little, as shown in these 2005 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control:

AGE          REMAINING YEARS          TOTAL LIFESPAN

0                             77.8                                      77.8

5                             73.5                                      78.5

10                           68.5                                      78.5

15                           63.6                                      78.6

20                           58.8                                      78.8

25                           54.1                                      79.1

30                           49.3                                      79.3

35                           44.6                                      79.6

40                           39.9                                      79.9

45                           35.3                                      80.3

50                           30.9                                      80.9

55                           26.7                                      81.7

60                           22.6                                      82.6

65                           18.7                                      83.7

70                           15.2                                      85.2

75                           12.0                                      87.0

80                             9.2                                      89.2

85                             6.8                                      91.8

90                             5.0                                      95.0

95                             3.6                                      98.6

100                           2.6                                     102.6

Note that at age 5 or at age 10, odds are you’ll live to be the same age — 78.5 years, but if you live to be 100, your average lifespan will have increased 4.0 years over what it was at age 95.

Monte Kline

Source:  Life Expectancy at Selected Ages by Race and Sex:  United States, 2005, http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/Life%20expectancy%202005.html

One of the most fascinating findings of nutrition research in recent years concerns Vitamin D on two counts:

1. Deficiency is linked to many common health problems.

2. The great majority of the population is deficient as confirmed by blood tests.

Yesterday I ran across yet another article, not on a specific health problem and vitamin D’s role, but on death itself.  A USA Today article from 8/11/08 (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-08-11-vitamin-D-death_N.htm) reports on a study published that week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.  Bottom line it found that people with low vitamin D levels were 26% more likely to be dead at the end of the study than those with higher vitamin D levels.

Study author, Erin Michos, assistant professor of cardiology at Johns Hopkins said:

We took into account 30 different variables — including age, weight, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood     pressure, whether they exercise, smoking — and we found that low vitamin D levels, independent of all these other risk factors for heart disease, predicted an increased risk of dying from any other cause.  So we found a new risk factor for death.

Another study concludes that vitamin D deficiency causes one million deaths per year through increased breast and colorectal cancers.  (Nutrition Reviews, August 2007, Volume 65, Supplement1, 91-95)

Some of the other health problems we now know are connected to vitamin D include:

• Breast, colon, prostate, bone and skin cancer
• High blood pressure
• Autoimmune diseases — MS, Type I diabetes, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis
• Psoriasis & eczema
• Flu & colds
• Asthma
• Depression
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Heart disease
• Migraines
• Crohn’s disease
• Autism
• Macular degeneration
• Osteoporosis
• and more

Most authorities I am reading suggest 4,000 iu per day of vitamin D-3 — 10 times the amount in the typical multi-vitamin.  This is especially true in the winter months when you cannot get vitamin D from the sun.  I recommend our Vitamin D4000 product, that I use and that gives you 4000 iu’s of D in just one capsule per day.  To order, copy and paste this link:

http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/shop/avactis-system/admin/catalog_editproduct.php?Vitamin_D_4000-pid883.html

What’s your experience with vitamin D?  If you’ve noticed improvement in any particular health problems after increasing your levels, I’d love to hear your story.

Monte Kline

Over 30 years ago the co-author of my first book, Eat, Drink & Be Ready, told me about a new concept in exercise called Rebounding.  I tried it and was hooked and have been selling rebound exercisers as part of my clinical practice since the beginning.  I think this solves most exercise problems like:

• Winter weather — who wants to go outside?
• Jogging on hard surfaces damages the feet, knees, back, etc.  (I never had back problems until I was exercising by running on sidewalks when we lived in Bozeman, Montana in 1971-73.)
• Walkiing or running outdoors may not be safe (especially for women)
• Health clubs are expensive and time-consuming
• Most exercise isn’t fun — it’s boring!

Rebound exercise solves these problems.  You’re in out of the weather, you’re safe at home, you’re minimzing structural trauma, and you can do it simultaneously with another activity, using your time twice.  Rebound exercise has perhaps the most powerful effect of any exercise on the lymphatic system.  In addition to this it powerfully stimulates the immune system by temporarily increasing the white blood cell count.  To read my complete Better Health Update #63  on Rebound Exercise, copy and paste the link below:

http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/blog/63-rebound-exercise/

WHAT IS IT?  WHAT DO YOU DO?

For several years I have used the Needak Rebounder and sold this at Pacific Health Center.  It looks like a mini-trampoline 40 inches in diameter and sitting 10 inches off the floor.  It folds in half for easy storage or transportation.  You can run in place, bounce and do various other exercises on it.  It features a “soft bounch” so as to minimize structural stress.  It features a spring attachment method that minimizes breakage (unlike my first rebounder that I constantly broke springs with).  It’s a high quality, American made product that cheap imitations from China can’t hold a candle to. To get the Needak Rebounder, just copy and paste the URL below:

http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/shop/pid-229-Needak_Rebounder.html

Questions?  Want to share your experience with rebound exercise?  I’d love to hear from you.

Monte Kline, Clinical Nutritionist

Fall is here and winter is almost upon us.  This is the time of the year when you really find out how effective your current health-building program is.  I stumbled onto a concept a few years ago that has enabled me, and many of our Pacific Health Center clients, to avoid getting colds or flu.

It all started when I read someplace that the amino acid, L-Lysine, was helpful for preventing tooth decay.  Since one of the side-effects of the corticosteroid drugs I have to take for Addison’s Disease has been tooth decay, I tried it out.  Though it didn’t help with that problem, I noticed that I was no longer getting colds in the winter (I don’t get flu anyway — at least not since college).  As I researched this further, I ran across the work of the late Linus Pauling, Ph.D. and Matthias Rath, MD on the role of l-lysine, l-proline and vitamin C in preventing infections.

Though about everybody knows about vitamin C’s role in this regard, the lysine and proline connection was something new to me.  All three of these nutrients strengthen the body’s connective tissue.  In order to get a bacterial, viral or fungal infection the connective tissue must become weakened and penetrable.  But if the connective tissue remains strong, it provides a barrier to these common infections. I personally use a product combining all three of these nutrients called Collagen Forte (available from Pacific Health Center at http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/shop/pid-370-info.html).

A few years ago I also found out about an amazing product called Celtic Sea Salt, written about in Better Health Update #56 (http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/blog/56-celtic-sea-salt/) and now available from Pacific Health Center (order at http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/shop/cid-56-1-info.html).   I learned that at the first sign of a possible cold to take 1 tsp. of Celtic Salt in a cup of hot water and drink, particularly at bedtime.  Many times I’ve had the symptoms gone when I woke up the next morning.  This product can also be used for Nasal Flushing, as discussed in Better Health Update #62 (http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/blog/62-nasal-flushing/).  These approaches are also helpful if you already have a cold or the flu.

Speaking of flu, for several years Pacific Health Center has recommended homeopathic flu prevention as an alternative to unsafe, ineffective flu shots.  The product we currently use is Flu Nosode (available at http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/shop/pid-875-Flu_Nosode.html).  For flu prevention it’s just taken once/week generally from October through April.  Though I can’t guarantee that you won’t get the flu by using this product, after several years of using this I only recall one client who did.  I would add that conventional medicine won’t guarantee that you won’t get the flu when you’ve had the flu shot.  In fact, 20 or 30 percent of the people who do get the flu did have a flu shot!  What can I say?  It’s a huge con in my opinion.

Would love to hear your comments and experience with these products (or others) for cold and flu prevention.

Monte Kline, Clinical Nutritionist

After several months of work, our new website was launched this month.  Please be patient as we complete some remaining entries for Product Ingredients and the addition of our 76 Better Health Updates (all this should be added by the first part of September.  Features of the new site include:

• Better, more up-to-date design and  visual appeal
• Better navigation with drop downs on the Home Page
• New secure server for product purchases (we no longer use PayPal credit card processing which a number of our customers had problems with)
• Addition of a Blog
• Better Health Updates and News Alerts will now appear under the Blog.
• Signup for our new “Virtual Health Screening Webinar”

Thanks for visiting and allowing us to help with your health needs.

Monte Kline, Clinical Nutritionist