The Role of Amino Acids in Recovery from Surgery

Here's the latest from the Discovery Wellness Alliance, from their blog post: DWA Antioxidants - Recovery from Surgical Procedures: Surgical Preparation and Targeted Nutritional Strategies:

Amino Acids
The amino acids arginine, glutamine, and taurine are conditionally essential amino acids, which means that under certain stressful conditions (including trauma and surgery), the body cannot synthesize them in normal amounts; it must therefore rely on external supplemental sources (Kendler 2006; Sole 2002).

• Arginine. Arginine provides a substrate for nitric oxide production, which enhances blood flow by relaxing blood vessels (Grimble 2005). It also stimulates and activates immune system cells (Fukushima 2004). Trauma and surgery increase levels of the enzyme arginase, which reduces arginine levels (Bansal 2005). Arginine supplementation, alone or in combination, has been observed to enhance wound healing (Moskovitz 2004) and prevent pressure ulcers (Singer 2002).
• Glutamine. Glutamine is a major component of proteins produced during clotting (Weisel 2005). Supplementation with glutamine also speeds wound healing (Peng 2004).
• Taurine. Taurine is required for mitochondrial energy production and efficient utilization of other nutrients (Jeejeebhoy 2002). It has been documented to improve cardiac surgery outcomes by protecting heart muscle against ischemic damage (Keith 2005).

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How DLPA Suppresses Hunger

When you feel stress, do you feel a natural reaction to reach for a potato chip or piece of chocolate? If you do, then your body is working properly, but maybe not in a way that helps you attain your weight loss goals. Your body is protecting itself, although it is depleting some of its essential amino acids, resulting in the cravings you are experiencing.

What is an Amino Acid?

An amino acid is the basic building block of proteins. Our body produces around twenty of them. Of those, eight or nine (depending on the research you read) have been deemed "essential." A combination of the foods we eat and our body's activities creates these essential amino acids. All amino acids help the body build proteins that are important to our existence.

What is DLPA?

DL-Phenylalanine (DLPA) contains two forms of the amino acid phenylalanine. The "L" form is found naturally in protein rich foods. The "D" form is synthetically created. Much research has been conducted on DLPA, showing how it naturally helps with pain management and, as we are going to find out, with stress-related hunger management.

Now, Back to the Potato Chip

If you feel stress on a regular basis and find your hand in the snack jar, DLPA can help. When stressed, your body creates a hormone called cholecystokinin also known as CCK and pancreozymin, which provides the signal to eat. DLPA naturally counteracts that mechanism, controlling your body's natural reaction to eat.

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Appetite & Craving Suppressants Now up to 20% Off

Dr. Chad Prusmack's CravePruTect Nutritional Supplement and WeightLossPruTect Weight Loss Bundle Are Now on Sale for a Limited Time

Highlands Ranch, CO— May 30, 2013—PruTectRx, the leader in supplying nutritional supplements to accelerate surgical recovery, optimize daily wellness and to naturally suppress the appetite and cravings for patients and consumers, today announces that CravePruTect and WeightLossPruTect are now up to 20% off, for a limited time.

CravePruTect: Feed Your Brain, Not Your Body
CravePruTect is a nutritional supplement that reduces cravings by replacing the essential amino acids 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), DL-Phenylalanine (DLPA) and L-Tyrosine. These amino acids are depleted due to stress and/or a low calorie diet, particularly for those on restricted diets.

• 5-HTP: occurs as a natural precursor to serotonin, and certain serotonin receptors have been shown to reduce appetite
• DLPA: regulates the release of the brain's hunger signaler, cholecystokinin
• L-Tyrosine: counteracts the effects of elevated stress levels, which deplete the body's resources of certain neurotransmitters which suppress appetite

CravePruTect boosts 5-HTP, DLPA and L-Tyrosine levels in the brain, which satisfies our "reward cascade." This feeling of satisfaction keeps you from craving calorie-rich carbohydrates, alcohol and other things that we do not need.

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WeightPruTect consists of highly potent green tea extract (600 mg), which helps to suppress your appetite and increase your body's metabolism, giving you a thermogenic metabolism boost. Each WeightPruTect capsule is equivalent to drinking about 10 cups of green tea.

On Sale Now
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About PruTectRx
To provide greater public access to the highest quality and most effective nutritional supplements to accelerate recovery from surgery and to optimize daily wellness, Dr. Chad Prusmack, MD, created the PruTect Series. Available exclusively on www.prutectrx.com, the PruTect Series features GMP certified, all natural, gluten-free nutritional supplements used personally used by Dr. Prusmack and which he also recommends to his patients, highlighted by SurgiPack and WellnessPack. For more information about the PruTect Series line of nutritional supplements, please visit www.prutectrx.com.

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How Boosting Serotonin Levels Can Lead to Weight Loss

Low Serotonin Levels & Weight Gain

What makes us happy? Surely, the people in our lives and our environment play major roles, but so too does the neurotransmitter serotonin.

For some, low serotonin levels may help explain why some may feel down when there is no other obvious reason. For many, low serotonin levels can simply have us feeling unsatisfied, leading to cravings for food when we are not necessarily hungry. This is why people with persistently low levels of serotonin may struggle to maintain a healthy weight.

Low serotonin levels in most are caused by stress. Take away the stress and serotonin levels may normalize on their own. However, since we live in the real world, people may need help from nutritional supplements to boost serotonin levels in addition to seeking a less stressful lifestyle.

The Role of Nutritional Supplements

Why do we need nutritional supplements to boost serotonin levels instead of making simple dietary changes? Because serotonin is not found in the food we eat. Instead, serotonin is derived from 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), which is also not found in food but is found in tryptophan, an essential amino acid.

While tryptophan is well known as being found in turkey, and largely responsible for that feeling of sleepiness after Thanksgiving dinner, it is not found in a high enough quantity in any food to elevate serotonin levels. However, nutritional supplements that contain at least 100mg of 5-HTP are able to increase serotonin levels.

How an African Plant Can Boost Your Serotonin Level

5-HTP found in nutritional supplements is typically derived from the seeds of a plant called Griffonia simplicifolia, an ivy-like shrub found in West and Central Africa. These seeds are then ground into a powder and packaged in a vegetable gel capsule. Once ingested, the body converts the seed powder into 5-HTP and then serotonin. Elevated serotonin levels then help to give us a feeling of well-being that can lead to improvements in mood, sleep and happiness and decrease feelings of hunger, anxiety and depression.

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What Is The Benefit Of Vitamin D3?

What is the benefit of Vitamin D?

Did you say to strengthen bones? That’s what I originally thought. But this is not entirely true. As it turns out, this is likely just because I associate Vitamin D with milk, and I associate milk with calcium which helps to strengthen bones. The true benefit of Vitamin D, however, is that it helps your intestines absorb more nutrients. In this way it does help strengthen bones, but it does so by allowing the body to absorb more calcium.

Not a Vitamin?

Vitamin D was added to milk in an effort to increase the availability of this critical vitamin. Or should I say nutrient. You see, Vitamin D, likely the most popular vitamin this side of Vitamin C, is not even technically a vitamin. A vitamin is defined as something that is not readily available to us without actively ingesting it. Because as humans we can absorb Vitamin D from the sun it cannot technically be considered a vitamin. But because we do supplement our diets with Vitamin C in order to ensure we are getting a sufficient supply at different times of the year (like for those of you who trudge through the long, cloudy winters) we still get away with calling it a vitamin.

Surgical Benefits

After surgeries it is extra important to make sure your body is absorbing the proper nutrients and vitamins in order to recover as quickly as possible. When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. If you have a bone fracture it is going to be essential to healing that your body takes in as much calcium as possible. Surgeries also typically result in the need to take medication for pain, and painkillers are notorious for causing constipation. Vitamin D then becomes increasingly important for your intestines to absorb key nutrients that aid in digestion so that you can be as comfortable as possible as you recover.

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Presently and for the past six years, TA-65 has been the only product on the market proven to transiently lengthen short telomeres through telomerase activation. Years of research have shown TA-65 to safely and effectively activate telomerase transiently.

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Peppercorn: How a "Fruit" Supports Brain Health

What is your favorite fruit? Apples or bananas? Blueberries or raspberries? Mangos, perhaps?

How about... pepper?

That's right. Although we know it better in its dried and ground form, pepper is technically a fruit. It is the dried fruit called a peppercorn that is ground into the spice with which we are so familiar. And this "fruit" is packed with nutritional benefits.

Piperine
What gives pepper its kick, and also provides its nutritional punch, is called piperine. Piperine is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, and it helps support overall digestive health. One of its most important benefits, however, is that it enhances the bioavailability of nutritional compounds. More simply, piperine supports nutrient absorption in the intestines.

It has even been shown to increase absorption of curcumin and its source, turmeric, by 2,000%. Otherwise, curcumin would simply pass through the body and we would miss its ability to improve brain function.

Where is Piperine Found?

Piperine can be extracted from black pepper and is available as BioPerine. BioPerine is found in the nutritional supplement, NeuroPruTect.

NeuroPruTect supports brain health with 200mg of turmeric rhizome extract (95% curcuminoids) by boosting mental acuity, improving memory, increasing alertness, and providing antioxidant support. NeuroPruTect also aids in surgery preparation and recovery as part of SurgiPack.

SurgiPack is a specially formulated line of supplements developed to speed surgery recovery times and was developed by neurosurgeon Dr. Chad Prusmack. If you will soon be undergoing surgery, or if you recently have had surgery, SurgiPruTect will help accelerate your recovery.