LPOH MARCH BLOG - GET EXCITED, GET VERY EXCITED 21 MARCH 2019

SUPER FULL MOON IN LIBRA  21ST MARCH 2019

1.43AM LONDON TIME

SPRING EQUINOX 

COMPLETIONS AND NEW BEGINNINGS 

THE ENERGY IS ABOUT  COMPLETION , TIME TO WELCOME NEW ENERGY , BLESSINGS AND BEGINNINGS RIGHT AFTER THE SPRING EQUINOX 

ITS ALSO THE FIRST OFFICIAL ASTROLOGICAL DAY OF SPRING 
ITS THE BIGGEST TIME OF 2019 FOR TRANSFORMATION,
IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO TAKE ACTION ON YOUR DREAMS AT THIS AMAZING TIME !!

SEEING THINGS FROM A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE, MENTAL CLARITY

CLEANING YOUR SURROUNDING CLEAR CLUTTER, 
FILTER OUT SITUATIONS, PEOPLE , ENVIRONMENTS FOOD, THAT DO NOT MATCH YOUR VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY, 

THE ENERGY WILL INCREASE OVER THE NEXT DAYS,

 TO KEEP GROUNDED, GO OUTSIDE WALK ON THE EARTH, DRINK FILTERED OR SPRING WATER, EAT ROOT VEGETABLES, THIS WILL KEEP THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS FROM BECOMING SCATTERED
NB; KEEP CALM, SIT WITH THE BIGGEST CRYSTAL YOU HAVE ON YOUR LAP AND TAKE TIME TO RELEASE ALL THAT NO LONGER IS ALLOWING YOU TO BE THE BEST YOU 
BRING IN THE NEW THAT YOU ARE WISHING TO COME IN. 
'THOUGHTS ARE THINGS'

CRYSTALS TO GO OUTSIDE UNDER THE MOON WEDNESDAY 20TH MARCH AT  SUNSET. 

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HOUSEKEEPING 

INVESTMENT IN YOUR WELLBEING WORKSHOP

SATURDAY 30th MARCH  12-15 - 5.15pm

-       On this workshop select a crystal grid set the intention and manifest thought into reality, restore the wholeness and wellbeing,

-       A hatha yoga class that suits your limitations.

-       A topic of conversation! ‘THE PLANET VIBRATION IS MOVING FROM THE 3RD MATERIAL INTO THE 5TH HEART CENTRED DIMENTION,   All these questions and more will be answered.

-       2 X Fresh cleansing juice breaks, free from snack break.

-       Pilates class to strengthen the core and back and spine, stretch and relax. Home,

            

Date:                     Saturday 30th March 2019, 12.15 -5.15 PM

Price PP:              £29.99

Venue:               Yogaananda centre, 46 Albert Rd N, Reigate RH2 9EL

Noticeboard:     suggestion of a change of comfortable top for workshop, and water bottle.

FOR BOOKINGS, enquires please email : calvert38@aol.com 07772 975 575

THIS IS MY LAST WORKSHOP UNTIL OCTOBER, I HAVE BEEN BOOKED PRIVATELY UNTIL THEN, SO, HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT, NAMASTE

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NUTRITION

VITAMIN B12 AND ITS IMPORTANCE.

Are you struggling with fatigue, low energy levels, mood changes and a lack of focus? This can be a sign that you’re dealing with a vitamin B12 deficiency. If that’s the case — you’re not alone. About 40 percent of people have low levels of vitamin B12, which is an issue that needs to be addressed because this is an essential vitamin for the production of red blood cells and DNA, not to mention all the vitamin B12 benefits it provides. 

Vitamin B12 deficiency is thought to be one of the leading nutrient deficiencies in the world, with a 2004 study showing that it’s a major health concern in many parts of the world, including the U.S., India, Mexico, Central America, South America and certain areas in Africa. This is a big deal because vitamin B12 benefits so much of the body, and without it, those vitamin B12 benefits are lost. That’s why it’s important to get vitamin B12 foods into your diet.

So what does it do? Vitamin B12 benefits your mood, energy level, memory, heart, skin, hair, digestion and more. It is also an essential vitamin for addressing adrenal fatigue, multiple metabolic functions — including enzyme production, DNA synthesis and hormonal balance — and maintaining healthy nervous and cardiovascular systems.

Because of its wide-reaching roles within the body, a vitamin B12 deficiency can show up in many different negative symptoms, many of which are very noticeable, such as potential chronic fatigue, mood disorders like depression, and chronic stress or feeling run down.

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What Is Vitamin B12? B12’s Role in the Body

Vitamin B12 actually exists in many forms, and it contains the mineral cobalt, which is why compounds with vitamin B12 are collectively called cobalamins. Two forms of vitamin B12 that are active in human metabolism are methylcobalamin and 5-deoxyadenosylcobalamin.

Vitamin B12 benefits the central nervous system in many important ways: It helps maintain the health of nerve cells — including those needed for neurotransmitter signaling — and helps form the protective covering of nerves, called the cell’s myelin sheath. This means that when vitamin B12 levels are low, almost every cognitive function can suffer.

Vitamin B12 also helps with digestion and heart health, so a deficiency can lead to both digestive disorders and an increased risk for heart disease. It can come in food sources, hydroxocobalimin vitamin B12 injections or as an intramuscular vitamin.

Top 9 Vitamin B12 Benefits

Wonder how vitamin B12 functions as a health-promoting vitamin? Vitamin B12 functions as a beneficial substance in the following ways:

1. Helps Maintain Energy Levels

Vitamin B12 benefits your metabolism because it’s needed to convert carbohydrates into useable glucose in the body. Glucose from carbohydrate foods is used as a form of energy, so this is the reason why people with vitamin B12 deficiencies often experience fatigue.

Vitamin B12 is also needed for neurotransmitter signaling that helps your muscles contract and gives you energy to go about your day without feeling tired and run down. 

People often wonder whether vitamin B12 benefits weight loss. Because a vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to sluggishness, chronic fatigue, and mood and appetite changes, it can be hard to lose or maintain weight with these symptoms. It’s not that increasing your vitamin B12 levels alone will make you lose weight, but correcting a deficiency will boost your energy levels and regulate your appetite so you can continue your health regime.

2. Prevents Memory Loss and Lowers Risk of Neurodegenerative Disease

A vitamin B12 deficiency may cause various neurologic and psychiatric disturbances. Because of its role in nerve health and neurotransmitter signaling, vitamin B12 benefits cognitive function and is used to lower the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s diseaseand dementia. 

A systematic review published in International Psychogeriatricsexamined 43 studies investigating the association of vitamin B12 and cognitive impairment or dementia and 17 studies reporting the efficacy of vitamin B12 therapy for these cognitive conditions. Researchers found that low vitamin B12 levels are associated with Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and Parkinson’s disease. On top of this, vitamin B12 supplements were effective in correcting a biochemical deficiency and improved cognition in patients with pre-existing vitamin B12 deficiency. 

3. Boosts Mood and Helps the Nervous System to Properly Function

One of the most researched vitamin B12 benefits is its ability to help in healthy regulation of the nervous system, including reducing such mood disorders as depression and anxiety. Vitamin B12, along with folate, is needed as a major determinant of one-carbon metabolism, which produces the compound called SAM (S-adenosyl methionine). SAM is crucial for neurological function, dealing with stress and mood regulation. 

Vitamin B12 is also needed for concentration and cognitive processes, such as learning, so a vitamin B12 deficiency can result in difficulty focusing and an increased risk for attention disorders.

4. Plays a Role in Maintaining Heart Health

Vitamin B12 benefits cardiovascular health in several ways, which is important considering the fact that heart disease is currently the No. 1 cause of death worldwide. Vitamin B12 helps reduce elevated homocysteine levels, which is now considered a major risk factor for heart disease. Homocysteine is an amino acid, and its levels in the blood are influenced by blood levels of B-complex vitamins, including vitamin B12.

Vitamin B12 helps protect against heart disease like a heart attack or stroke by lowering high homocysteine levels in the blood. There is also some evidence that B12 can help control high cholesterol and high blood pressure levels. B vitamins are also able to control atherosclerotic diseases, in which someone experiences a dangerous buildup of plaque in the arteries. 

5. Needed for Healthy Skin and Hair

Vitamin B12 is essential for healthy skin, hair and nails because it plays a major part in cell reproduction. Vitamin B12 benefits skin health by reducing redness, dryness, inflammation and acne blemishes — and can be applied to the skin for psoriasis and eczema. It can also reduce hair breakage and help nails become stronger. 

6. Aids in Digestion

Due to its role in helping with digestive enzyme production, vitamin B12 is needed to support a healthy metabolism and the breakdown of foods within the stomach. One of the ways that vitamin B12 benefits digestion? It helps foster healthy bacteria within the gut environment. The elimination of harmful bacteria in the digestive tract — and simultaneously the presence of beneficial bacteria — is what prevents digestive disorders like inflammatory bowel disease or candida. 

7. Needed for a Healthy Pregnancy

Vitamin B12 is needed to create nucleic acid, or DNA — the basic genetic material that’s used to create the entire body. Therefore, vitamin B12 is not only a key nutrient for growth and development, but a vital component of a healthy pregnancy.

Vitamin B12 also interacts with folate in the body, so it may help lower the risk of birth defects, such as neural tube defects. When a pregnant woman’s vitamin B12 supply is low, the folate that’s needed for DNA synthesis remains trapped and cell replication is impaired. Studies report a two- to four-fold increased risk of neural tube defects with low vitamin B12 status.

8. May Help Prevent Cancer

Vitamin B12 supplementation is now being studied as a way to help lower the risk of certain kinds of cancers, especially when taken with folate. Some preliminary research shows that vitamin B12 benefits the immune system enough to potentially help prevent cancer, including cervical, prostate and colon cancers.

9. Helps Produce Red Blood Cells and Prevent Anemia

Vitamin B12 is needed to help produce a healthy level of red blood cells. It helps prevent a type of anemia called megaloblastic anemia, which results in symptoms like chronic fatigue and weakness. 

• The best vitamin B12 foods include beef and chicken liver; fish like salmon, herring, mackerel and tuna; yogurt; and raw milk.

Since animal foods are usually the best sources of vitamin B12, those who follow a vegan diet and don’t eat any animal products are also most likely to have a deficiency. Therefore, both older adults and plant-based eaters are advised to take a daily vitamin B12 supplement. 

Other groups that are at a higher risk of having a vitamin B12 deficiency include smokers (since nicotine can block absorption), alcoholics, those with anemia, and anyone with a digestive disorder like celiac or Crohn’s disease.

Bottom line — your ability to properly absorb vitamin B12 depends on the health of your digestive system. If you aren’t able to digest foods that contain vitamin B12, like animal meat, then you will end up with low vitamin B12 levels.

Animal foods are the best food sources of vitamin B12, including organic, grass-fed dairy products, cage-free eggs, grass-fed meat, wild-caught fish, organic poultry and organ meats, plant foods do not naturally contain vitamin B12 unless they are synthetically fortified.

Vitamin B12 can be found to some degree in fortified plant foods like nutritional yeast, fortified grain products and algae sea vegetables. However, most of these are not thought to be nearly as absorbable as natural animal sources.

According to the NIH, two steps are required for the body to absorb vitamin B12 from foods and experience the vitamin B12 benefits mentioned above:

Although the exact rate of absorbability depends on the person’s digestive health, here are the top food sources that provide vitamin B12:

1. Beef liver: 1 ounce: 20 micrograms (over 300 percent DV)
2. Sardines: 3 ounces: 6.6 micrograms (over 100 percent DV)
3. Atlantic mackerel: 3 ounces: 7.4 micrograms (over 100 percent DV)
4. Lamb: 3 ounces: 2.7 micrograms (45 percent DV)
5. Wild-caught salmon: 3 ounces: 2.6 micrograms (42 percent DV)
6. Nutritional yeast: 1 tablespoon: 2.4 micrograms (40 percent DV)
7. Feta cheese: 0.5 cup: 1.25 micrograms (21 percent DV)
8. Grass-fed beef: 3 ounces: 1.2 micrograms (20 percent DV)
9. Cottage cheese: 1 cup: 0.97 microgram (16 percent DV)
10. Eggs: 1 large: 0.6 microgram (11 percenT
11. supplement of b12 from reputable source,

How to Overcome Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Here’s a breakdown of the best ways to overcome a vitamin B12 deficiency:

1. Start consuming more natural food sources of vitamin B12. Foods provide a complex network of vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and other substances that benefit health in ways that supplements usually cannot. You can prevent a vitamin B12 deficiency and get the most vitamin B12 benefits by adding good quality animal foods, like beef liver, grass-fed beef, wild-caught salmon, grass-fed lamb and raw dairy products, to your diet.
2. Take a probiotic supplement daily. Taking a high-quality probiotic on a regular basis can help to improve the health of your gut and your body’s ability to properly absorb vitamin B12 and other nutrients.
3. Work on healing your gut. Again, in order to properly absorb vitamin B12 and other nutrients, you need a healthy digestive system. Improve the health of your gut by cutting out inflammatory foods, add more whole foods to your diet and take a probiotic supplement.
4. Take the right supplements. You can take a high-quality vitamin B12 supplement or take a B-complex vitamin. There are also vitamin B12 sprays available. But remember, dietary supplements might help in some serious situations to alleviate a deficiency, but it’s not a good idea to rely on them solely for your nutrient needs. Your diet is the most important factor in avoiding nutrient deficiencies.
5. If you have a confirmed vitamin B12 deficiency, another option is intramuscular vitamin B12 injections, which can be done under the care of your doctor or health care practitioner 

According to the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin B12 is: 

• Infants 0–6 months: 0.4 microgram
• Infants 7–12 months: 0.5 microgram
• Toddlers 1–3 years: 0.9 microgram
• Children 4–8 years: 1.2 micrograms
• Children 9–13 years: 1.8 micrograms
• Adult men and women over age 14: 2.4 micrograms
• Women who are pregnant: 2.6 micrograms
• Women who are breastfeeding: 2.8micrograms

The recommendation that adults over 50 years take a daily vitamin B12 supplement or consume foods fortified with vitamin B12. The recommendation is to take between 25–100 micrograms per day, as this amount has been shown to maintain healthy levels of vitamin B12 levels in older people.

Final Thoughts on Vitamin B12 Benefits

• Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble nutrient in the vitamin B complex that the body needs in small amounts to function properly.
• Vitamin B12 benefits your energy levels, mood, memory, heart, hair, skin and digestion. It’s also essential for the production of DNA and red blood cells.
• Vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to a number of health issues, including chronic fatigue, mood disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, heart issues, anemia and neural tube defects in infants.
• To reverse a vitamin B12 deficiency, consume more natural sources of vitamin B12, including beef liver, organic meats and wild-caught salmon. You should also take a probiotic daily and work on the health of your gut by eliminating inflammatory foods.
• If you are at risk of a vitamin B12 deficiency because of your dietary choices or age, consider taking a whole foods-based B complex supplement.

NB - all findings are DR AXEs and all findings are exact and accurate


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CONCLUSION FOR MARCH 

I AM SUPER EXCITED AT THIS TIME AS SO MUCH IS CHANGING ON A VIBRATIONAL LEVEL, UNCOMFORTABLE IT MAY BE, BUT THIS IS TO GROW US AS A COLLECTIVE 

TO BRING THE MUCH NEEDED CHANGE OF HOW WE SEE THE WORLD 

HOW WE INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER 

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 HOW WE CAN SERVE, 

IF ONE DOOR HAS CLOSED, INSTEAD OF SEEING THE LOSS, SEE THE LESSONS, 

THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS WAITING FOR YOU,

 AS LONG AS YOU ARE TAKING ACTION ONE STEP AT A TIME, 

THEN IT IS ALL YOU CAN ASK OF YOURSELF, 

I WILL BE WALKING WITH YOU AS YOU GO FORWARD

POSITIVE THOUGHTS POSITIVE RESULTS, NEGATIVE THOUGHTS NEGATIVE RESULTS.

"ITS NOT HOW MUCH TIME WE HAVE . ITS WHAT WE DO WITH OUR TIME THAT COUNTS"! 

 MAY YOUR DAYS BE BLESSED, NAMASTE

SEE YOU ALL IN APRIL MLMXXXX
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