Wall Street Journal Article: Healthy Living and Cordyceps

This is a great article that I found in the Wall Street Journal.  I’ve highlighted some parts of the article and posted them below in bold italics.  I really believe in combining eastern and western medicine.  Most people call it “alternative” which I don’t understand why. Years ago most people never knew the benefits of green tea, acai or even raw chocolate.  I view herbs and cordyceps the same way I do when  I drink green tea.  They are nutritional supplements to complement my health regiment.  For example, the reason I take a multi-vitamin is that it acts as a safety net in case you missed out on a vital nutrient in your busy schedule.  I know sometimes I forget to eat enough green veggies on a busy Monday.   If you’re interested in adding cordyceps to your diet and more about preventive medicine you can reach me at hannahtran1@gmail.com.  I am a distributor of pharmaceutical grade Nu Skin brand cordyceps.  NuSkin is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, and a global direct selling company that develops and distributes personal care products and nutritional supplements that are sold worldwide under the Nu Skin and Pharmanex brands and a small number of other products and services.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577157180044949356.html

The most expensive item right now are cordyceps, a caterpillar fungus imported from Tibet that is good for the liver and kidneys and overall health. The price: $1,000 an ounce.

Mrs. Su works at Gouverneur Healthcare Services on the Lower East Side. She’s a medical doctor, an internist.  “I believe in the combination of the two,” she said of Eastern and Western medicine. “I believe acupuncture and herbal medicine and Western medicine” complement each other.

Huffington Post Article: Six Cancer-Fighting Medicinal Mushrooms

Today I found an interesting article in the huffinton post about cordyceps as one the top cancer fighting mushrooms being used today.  Lately,  I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research about the health benefits of cordyceps, and have found numerous research articles supporting the health benefits.    You can find a small excerpt  from the huffington posts article along w/ the link to the full article below.   If you’re interested in buying a supply of cordyceps email me at  hannahtran1@gmail.com.  I am a distributor for Nu Skin, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, and global direct selling company that develops and distributes personal care products and nutritional supplements that are sold worldwide under the Nu Skin and Pharmanex brands and a small number of other products and services. http://www.nuskin.com

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nalini-chilkov/cancer-foods_b_1192207.html

Cordyceps sinensis Chinese Caterpillar Fungus Dong Chong Xia Cao

Cordyceps acts an immune stimulator by raising cancer- and virus-fighting T Cells and Natural Killer Cells and prolongs the life of white blood cells, improving resolution of infections. It has demonstrated anti-tumor properties and also protects the kidneys from chemotherapy side effects. It is one of the most widely used tonics in anti-cancer formulas in Chinese Medicine.

The Smart Money Went Here to Avoid the Markets Onslaught

The markets fell big today, and they fell pretty hard.  Let’s just say, today was a ride!  The markets were brought down by the oil and silver markets.   Oil which was $114.80 a barrel broke below $100. Silver dropped from $49.80 to 35.00 in five days.  That’s a huge percentage.  Anyone that was involved with silver over the past four weeks got hurt.  While they were getting hurt, the smart money was allocating their funds to consumer goods in the personal products area.   The best performing companies were, Nuskin (NUS), Estee Lauder (EL),  United Gaurdian (UG), Energizer Holdings (ENR), Alberto-Culver Company (ACV).    Everyone needs personal care products and are resilient during harsh economic times.  The numbers don’t lie.  Institutions and investors put their money in companies that generate profits.  Companies generate profits when their products sell.  Products sell when consumers like and use their products.  People like Apple’s iPod even though it was technologically inferior to Microsoft’s Zune.  We can see that in Apple’s price vs. Microsofts.   Price doesn’t lie, b/c  people put their money in companies with future growth and increased dividens.  It’s free market capitalism.   Nuskin and Estee Lauder are the strongest.  Nuskin has exposure to China’s economic growth.  While the markets were falling, Nuskin’s price actually moved higher.   I don’t believe in catching a  falling knife.  I buy strength and not weakness.

E-Trade Baby Makes Big Mistake. “Boom boom boom” LoL

Protecting Yourself from Radiation Poisoning

“Adding tumeric, reishi and cordyceps mushrooms can protect bone marrow. Antioxidants such as berries can help the body defend itself. A HEPA filter can keep free radicals at a minimum.”  

http://www.t2conline.com/news-room/headliners/1443-curing-yourself-safely-from-radiation

 

“The good news is the earthquakes are lessening. As of today 539.  The bad news, volcano activity is on the rise.  Mount Karangetang, located on Siau island off the coast of Sulawesi island, began spewing jets of hot clouds and lava, prompting authorities to order the evacuations of three villages.  As the threat of radiation looms, what are the natural approaches to protecting oneself?

Potassium iodide protects against high doses of certain types of radiation. Anyone who has had a thyroid problem knows of this. The best kind is Iodine Nascent. Three drops, three times a day can cure a thyroid problem as well. Add Magnesium Oil and Selenium and you can naturally cure an under or over active thyroid problem. I know because I was diagnosed with Hoshimoto’s and could not take the synthetic pills. They made me ill. Within three weeks of a regime of the above three, the diagnosis was reversed.

If ingested immediately after a nuclear accident, potassium iodine, can help reduce the dose of radiation to the thyroid and thus the risk of cancer. Iodine Nascent is Iodine in its purest form and you can get it from E-bay and other internet sites. This really is the best way to buy it, so look for the word “nascent” attached.

Wind can carry radiation as can airplanes and people. Since we are about to import many Japanese, as well as Americans living and working in Japan, to the U.S., we need to think about protection. If you travel overseas everything is checked, but with this crisis looming how do we save lives and keep radiation at a safe distance? Holistic protection is our best bet.

Adding tumeric, reishi and cordyceps mushrooms can protect bone marrow. Antioxidants such as berries can help the body defend itself. A HEPA filter can keep free radicals at a minimum.

Gingko biloba protects against DNA damage.

If you have other helpful remedies, please post.”

Journal of Biological Chemistry: Cordycepin Continues to be an interesting Lead Compound for Cancer Therapy

Cordyceps miltaris and has been proposed as the active component of traditional medication that is reputed to alleviate a large variety of ailments (1,–,3). It has been reported to have numerous biological activities, including the inhibition of cell proliferation (4,–,6), induction of apoptosis (7,–,10), inhibition of platelet aggregation (11), inhibition of cell migration and invasiveness (4, 12), and inhibition of inflammation (13). In mice, cordycepin can reduce tumor formation in a model of metastasis (12) and has therefore been proposed as a cancer drug.

Read the rest here:

http://www.jbc.org/content/285/4/2610.full?sid=e9817901-3b30-415c-9cf1-49e36226a2f9

 

Journal of Biological Chemistry: Cordycepin Continues to be an interesting Lead Compound for Cancer Therapy

Cordyceps miltaris and has been proposed as the active component of traditional medication that is reputed to alleviate a large variety of ailments (1,–,3). It has been reported to have numerous biological activities, including the inhibition of cell proliferation (4,–,6), induction of apoptosis (7,–,10), inhibition of platelet aggregation (11), inhibition of cell migration and invasiveness (4, 12), and inhibition of inflammation (13). In mice, cordycepin can reduce tumor formation in a model of metastasis (12) and has therefore been proposed as a cancer drug.

Read the rest here:

http://www.jbc.org/content/285/4/2610.full?sid=e9817901-3b30-415c-9cf1-49e36226a2f9

Business Week Article: The Power of a Chinese Supplement

 

We all understand the power of living healthy now for a better future.  It’s the little things that count.  Lately, I’ve been studying up on Asia’s most prized supplement called Cordyceps.   If you think back just 5 – 10 years ago there was little talk about Acai, Pomegranate, green tea or raw chocolate.  Nobody, really made an effort to make sure they had antioxidants in their diet.  Next thing you know some celebrity is talking about her Acai diet, and the guy changing my oil is giving me advice on how to get enough antioxidants in my diet.   Get ready to take it up notch by saying that you drink youR acai infused green tea w/ your daily cordyceps…booyah!  Cordyceps are well known for thousands of years to strengthen immune system respons and restore youthful vitality.  Pharmaceutical companies have found benefits of cordyceps to treat multiple sclerosis.

Nu Skin (NUS) develops and distributes anti-aging personal care products and nutritional supplements under its Nu Skin and Pharmanex brands, respectively. As of December 31, 2009, it had a global network of over 761,000 active distributors. During the year ended December 31, 2009, approximately 84% of its revenue came from its markets outside of the United States. The Company markets its personal care products under the Nu Skin brand and its science-based nutritional supplements under the Pharmanex brand.

Nu Skin cordyceps can be order at

• Hannah Tran

• 301 801 4395
• alphahealthsolutions@nsedreams.com

hannahtran1@gmail.com

 

 

 

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_12/b4220023617603.htm

From Soup to MS Drug: One Fungus’s Journey

Gilenya, Mitsubishi Tanabe’s parasite-derived pill for multiple sclerosis, could be a blockbuster

By Kanoko Matsuyama

 

Tetsuro Fujita’s eureka moment about a Himalayan fungus came in 1985. As the scientist was driving over a bridge between Japan’s Shikoku and Honshu islands on his way to conduct research on traditional herbal remedies, Fujita was contemplating ways to keep patients’ immune systems from rejecting transplanted organs. He was particularly intrigued by the example of a parasitic fungus used in a Chinese medicinal soup. Known in Asia as “winter insect, summer plant,” the Cordyceps fungus invades an insect larva during winter, feeds on it for months, and then grows out of the host by summer. Fujita suddenly realized that the fungus must be suppressing the immune system of the insect larvae on which it grew to maturity.

His research on Cordyceps at Kyoto University eventually helped Japanese drugmaker Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma produce Gilenya, a treatment for multiple sclerosis that Novartis (NVS) licensed and began selling in the U.S. in October. UBS (UBS) says annual sales of the medicine, the first pill to treat the autoimmune disease afflicting more than 2 million people worldwide, may exceed $5 billion annually by 2018. That would rank it among the 10 best-selling drugs worldwide, based on data from researcher IMS Health. Mitsubishi Tanabe will likely book royalties equivalent to 10 percent of sales, based on the median of estimates by four analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.

“Little did I think that it would be a treatment for multiple sclerosis,” says Fujita, 80. “I knew nothing about the disease back then.” Multiple sclerosis causes the immune system to attack the myelin sheath, which protects nerve cells, leading to symptoms including numbness, difficulty in coordination, and memory loss. In its severest form, multiple sclerosis also can shorten life.

Gilenya, approved to treat the relapsing-remitting form of multiple sclerosis, the most common, competes with injected drugs including Biogen Idec’s (BIIB) Avonex and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ (TEVA) Copaxone. The Novartis pill cut the number of relapses by more than half compared with Avonex, according to a study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine.

European regulators are expected to make a decision on the drug by the end of April. Gilenya is also being reviewed by regulators in Japan. In the U.S. the drug is priced at $4,000 for a monthly prescription. A month’s supply of prefilled Avonex syringes costs $2,414.99. Analysts expect Gilenya to be cheaper in Europe.

Current medicines require patients to inject themselves every other day or once a week, says Kyoko Nakata, chairman of Japan’s MS Cabin, a support group. “Gilenya would make it easier to treat the disease, as it saves time and brings patients closer to having a normal life,” says Nakata.

That’s gratifying to Fujita, now a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. “Although it took a quarter of a century,” he says, “I’m happy it’s become a drug while I’m still alive.”

The bottom line: According to analysts’ estimates, Mitsubishi Tanabe will likely book royalties equivalent to 10 percent of sales from its new pill to treat MS.

Matsuyama is a reporter for Bloomberg News.

 

The Importance of Detoxing

Think of your body like a high performance car.  You have to routinely clean out all the soot and grime that builds up in the internals such as the engine and radiator.  If you neglect it will build up, and have problems running.  Even the highest octace race fuel won’t help it.  It’s the same with the health of your body.  You have to clean it out once every once in a while.  Even if your diet is clean, organic and all that… it won’t be much help.

http://www.cochraneeagle.com/2011/02/herbalist-speaks-to-the-healing-benefits-of-detoxes-and-mushrooms/

Forbes Rates Nu Skin as 100 Most Trustworthy Companies

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/05/most-trustworthy-companies-personal-finance-audit-integrity.html?boxes=financechannellatest