Thursday, April 03, 2008
Newsletter Archive
HFL September 2007
Here is the latest HFL news:
Affiliate Program
Join HealthFitLabs sales affiliate program and earn extra income by telling your friends and family about HealthFitLabs.
The successful Sales Affiliate will be one of the following:
1. A practitioner of alternative healthcare.
2. A person with a health newsletter either about people or pets.
3. A person who teaches physical fitness to others, such as a personal trainer or aerobics instructor.
4. A person knowledgeable in natural health who has a broad network of friends and neighbors. 5. Fund-raising organizations, such as churches, athletic teams or gyms.
6. A corporate wellness or benefits group.
How does it work?
As a Sales Affiliate you will receive an additional discount on all products purchased. You determine how much of that discount you give to your friends to use your code, and how much to keep for yourself. Every time you refer a friend who purchases product from the HealthFitLabs website using your affiliate code as the coupon code, you will receive the agreed upon split of the discount.
How do I sign up?
We will provide you with an affiliate sales code. You will receive a welcome email containing the promotional and sales affiliate codes. Both must be used during registration . Write the code on the back of your business card and tell your friends to visit www.healthfitlabs.com, and instruct them how to enter the coupon code on the billing screen.
How will I get paid?
HealthFitLabs will send you a check every month based on the number and type of subscribers who sign up. You will typically receive a check by the 25th of the following month.
Become an affiliate today! Visit our affiliate page and fill out the form. Be sure to enter your correct email address. Please contact rmartin@HealthFitLabs.com or call 630-563-0199 if you have any questions.
Promotions
Customers that shop at HealthFitLabs.com for the first time get a 20% one-time discount! Just enter FIRST as the coupon code at checkout to redeem your coupon.
Any returning customer can use this 10% discount every time they shop on our site. Enter REORDER to redeem this coupon at checkout every time you shop at HealthFitLabs.com.
Free shipping on orders over $75. No coupon needed, just fill up those shopping carts. Order larger sizes to gain an even larger savings.
Our Mission: At HealthFitLabs we sell only the highest-quality natural vitamins and nutritional supplements, as well as bath and personal care products. We're passionate about customer service and dedicated to helping our customers and affiliates meet their personal health goals.
As always, please forward this on to your friends and family (they can subscribe at the bottom of the newsletter and get a $5 coupon for a future purchase!). Thank you for your support!
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CoQ10's Best Benefits
The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 9,000 die each year from skin cancer. About 7,000 of these deaths are from melanoma; the other deaths are related to other types of skin cancer. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that from 1973 to 1992, the death rate for melanoma increased 48 percent in U.S. men. And in 1996, the CDC reported that the rate was continuing to rise, despite how easily the disease can be prevented or treated (if detected early). One explanation for this trend is increased recreational exposure to the sun.
If melanoma is caught early (stage O) when lesions are small and then removed, prognosis is excellent. If a melanoma enters Stage I or II before detection, the rate of metastasis (spreading to other sites) over the next 10 years is high. There are no treatments commonly in use for Stage I and II melanomas after surgical removal that significantly improve survival rates without interfering with quality of life.
One treatment available is injection with the immunostimulator, interferon. It is used predominantly in stage III and IV patients but not in stage I and II patients. It often produces flu-like symptoms that cause severe discomfort affecting the quality of life of the patient. Additionally, the benefits in early stage melanomas are not clear. Interferon stimulates the immune system to recognize and destroy any leftover cancer cells but this requires large amounts of energy in the form of ATP. CoQ10 boosts ATP levels and is known to be lower than normal in melanoma patients. Because of these observations, this group of researchers developed a study to see if adding CoQ10 to a treatment protocol using interferon would lead to better tolerance of long term treatment and fewer metastases.
Thirty-two Stage I and II melanoma patients recruited for this study received interferon (IFN) (2 injections per day of 600,000 IU) plus 400mg per day of CoQ10 for 3 years after surgery, while forty-nine received only interferon. Patients were monitored for metastasis for an additional five years after treatment ended.
As expected, patients with stage II disease were about 14 times more likely to develop metastases than stage I patients (Odds Ratio (OR)=14.32 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.7090--20.0029)). However, taken together, both stage I and II patients treated with IFN+CoQ10 were about 13 times less likely to develop them than IFN patients (OR=0.078 (95% CI: 0.0093--0.6569)). Also, the addition of CoQ10 to the interferon therapy reduced the self-reported flu-like symptoms of the patients. Twenty-four patients experienced no or mild symptoms in the IFN plus CoQ10 group, while only 9 did in the IFN alone group.
This study was very small, but since the results were so encouraging, this group is actively recruiting melanoma patients for a larger study to improve the statistical strength of the data.
Skin diseases are more common than once thought, according to a 2005 government report, and cost Americans an estimated $36.6 billion annually. Among the most economically burdensome skin disorders are skin ulcers and wounds, melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, contact dermatitis and acne, with costs of $22.8 billion in 2004.
*Find CoQ10 on our site! Search here! And remember sun protection, too!*
Abstracted by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem., July 25, 2007, from Rusciani, Luigi; Proietti, Ilaria; Paradisi, Andrea; Rusciani, Antonio; Guerriero, Giuseppe; Mammone, Alessia; De Gaetano, Andrea; Lippa, Silvio. Recombinant interferon and coenzyme Q10 as a postsurgical adjuvant therapy for melanoma: a 3-year trial with recombinant interferon and 5-year follow-up. Melanoma Res 17(3), June 2007, pp 177-183.
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Make Your Own Body Scrub!
Recommended for: all skin types except acneic (use with care on sensitive and environmentally damaged skin)
Use: 1 to 2 times per week
Follow with: moisturizer if necessary
Prep time: approximately 10 minutes
Blending tools: medium-sized bowl and whisk
Store in: wide mouthed plastic or glass jar
Yield: approximately 2 cups
Ingredients:
2 cups sea salt (preferably finely ground, but regular granular will do)
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive base oil or base oil of choice
40--60 drops peppermint, spearmint, grapefruit, geranium, or rosemary essential oil
Directions:
In a medium-sized bowl, combine the sea salt and the base oil. Using a whisk, stir to blend. Add the essential oil drop by drop, blending after each addition. Spoon into a storage container with a tight-fitting lid. No refrigeration is required, but for maximum freshness and fragrance, please use within 6 months. Application tips: Massage approximately 1/4 to 1/2 cup of scrub onto premoistened skin using circular motions. Rinse.
*Find other recipes in our Healthy Library*
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Healthy Humor
The Aging Explorer
A young reporter went to a retirement home to interview an aged but legendary explorer. The reporter asked the old man to tell him the most frightening experience he had ever had.
The old explorer said, "Once I was hunting Bengal tigers in the jungles of India. I was on a narrow path and my faithful native gun bearer was behind me. Suddenly the largest tiger I have ever seen leaped onto the path in front of us. I turned to get my weapon only to find the native had fled. The tiger lept toward me with a mighty ROARRRR! I soiled myself."
The reporter said, "Under those circumstances anyone would have done the same."
The old explorer said, "No, not then -- just now when I went ''''ROARRRR!''''"
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Autumn Allergies
by Dr. Daniel Gerwig
As summer comes to a close and we approach the long days of autumn, a lot of us who suffer from seasonal allergies are in for our toughest time of the year. The good news is that there are ways to diminish your symptoms from allergy attacks. Chiropractic treatments have proven to be quite effective in the decreasing the symptoms of asthmatic attacks in children, adolescents and adults. I know, you're saying, "How can adjusting my back help me with allergies?" Adjustments help in several ways. First, to inhale as much air as possible a person's rib cage needs to expand to allow the lungs to fill with air. This is especially true for asthmatic patients, and chiropractic treatments can ensure that the patient's rib cage expands as it should. When asthmatics have an attack, they tighten their chest and upper back muscles, and these muscles don't relax on their own. Chiropractic treatment can help these tight, overworked muscles to relax. Finally, we know that allergies play a role in asthma attacks. Finding out what allergies an asthmatic patient has and eliminating as many of them as possible can help to prevent the frequency and intensity of the asthma attacks. Finally, Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to facilitate the immune system response to allergens and decrease the intensity and frequency of asthmatic attacks.
If you have any questions or would like a chiropractic asthma and allergy evaluation, call Dr. Gerwig at his office today to set up a consultation (630) 790-1422.