Relaxation Series | Holosync Solution | Cinmamon and Blood Sugar

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2. Link of the Week: The Holosync Solution

3. Question of the Week: Does Cinnamon Lower Blood Sugar

Your HRH Program E-book and Bonuses

If you haven’t yet purchased the HRH Program e-book, there’s no time like the present! Go to www.heartratehealth.com to get a copy, plus nearly $100 in bonus material. And remember, if it doesn’t work for you for any reason, you have a full year to return it for a full refund.

Relaxation Series Introduction

As we get fully into the holiday season, I wanted to do a little series on great products that are absolutely guaranteed to help you reduce stress. Ideally, the holidays are supposed to be a time of rest and relaxation with family and friends.

Realistically, though, at least in the U.S., the holidays are a time of added burdens and expectations that can really do us all in. And for people with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, depression, and weight problems, stress will only add to an already—shall we say—“ballooning” problem around our waistlines.

And the food! Let’s not forget the food. Tomorrow, we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving by stuffing ourselves like turkeys with, errr, turkey. Mmm…tryptophan…I feel sleepy already.

And then the shopping starts the next day. The products I’ll recommend below will make a better holiday gift for a loved one than the HRH Program e-book. Who wants to get the “gift” of everyone knowing they need to lose some weight?

However, don’t hesitate to get yourself the HRH Program e-book this season. If you can stick with the program even moderately well through the next five weeks, you stand a great chance of coming into the New Year without an extra 10 pounds, even if you do occasionally stuff down far too many cookies.

OK, on with the first installment of the “Relaxation Series”….

Link of the Week: The Holosync Solution

You will learn so much from reading through the text of the following link, you just can’t miss out on it. Seriously, this is critical if you suffer from any stress or emotional upheaval in your life.

Many people have asked me how I came up with the exact exercise formula that makes up the HRH Program. Essentially, a combination of three different ideas came together to produce the specifics of the HRH Program, and I want to spend a little time introducing you to a couple of them over the next few weeks through this series.

Ironically, most of the exercise ideas came from proven stress reduction program. And I’m proud to say that it seems like using them in conjunction with the HRH Program dramatically improves results in all areas.

(I’m so excited to be introducing next week’s topic, though, that I can’t resist a teaser. It’s called the HeartMath method, and I’ve just been approved to sell their amazing technology on the HRH Program web site. You’ll be getting a special announcement in next week’s newsletter—if I can wait that long!)

Today, though, I want to introduce you to the Holosync Solution by the Centerpointe Research Institute. This program was what first got me interested in the crucially important DHEA/Cortisol hormone balance, which is a major part of the HRH Program.

But I can’t spell it out as well as Bill Harris, a fellow Oregonian who discovered the Holosync audio technology and is now considered one of the top personal development specialists in the world. So I’m just going to give you the link and let him take over. Click here to go to the Centerpointe web site. And make sure to read all the way down to learn about the DHEA/Cortisol connection. You won’t be disappointed!

Question of the Week: Does Cinnamon Lower Blood Sugar?

The short answer to this is a resounding YES. But I always prefer the longer answer, as you know!

Researchers investigating blood sugar levels were quite surprised to find that eating apple pie does not result in a huge blood sugar spike. (Please don’t stop reading here and have a slice, though.)

By studying the ingredients that could reverse the usual effect of apple pie on blood sugar, they discovered that cinnamon did a great job at mimicking insulin, which chases the blood sugar out of the bloodstream. (You can read more about the studies here: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4413 )

There are two ways to lower blood sugar. One is to increase insulin, and the other is to increase the amount of insulin taken in by the cells. In the latter case, less insulin does the same amount of work as more.

I consider getting the cells to uptake insulin so less is required to be the preferred way to go. The reason for this is that recently there have been some studies indicating that insulin-like growth factor (or igf-1) leads to an increase in potentially cancerous cell growth.

Since cinnamon falls into the insulin-like category, I’m hesitant to tell you to pour it on everything you can.

On the whole, I don't think our bodies were designed to produce and deal with the insulin levels we currently need to get food into our cells. Our ancestors just didn’t eat the high amounts of sugar that we consume now, and our genetic background makes us better suited for time long past than our present pattern. If we can get the blood sugar levels down with less insulin, I can't see how that wouldn't be better than the alternatives.

If you do have a problem with insulin resistance, like thousands of other readers of this newsletter, then I would recommend following the HRH Program to increase your sensitivity to insulin.

But if you want to stir a little cinnamon into your tea for some flavor, I don’t see any reason why that would hurt every once in a while. (As always, check with your doctor first, especially if you are on blood sugar lowering drugs already, as I don’t want you getting all hypoglycemic on me.)

Remember also that cinnamon is usually put on things with huge caloric counts from processed white sugar, like the apple pie I mentioned in the beginning. And sugar will hurt your health whether or not you “take it” with cinnamon. In other words, take the cinnamon without the sugar for best effect.