Yesterday I attended the Health Products Expo in Baltimore and was amazed at the 1700 exhibitors and the 400 exhibitors in the New Products Pavilion. Paul Zane Pilsner was right in his assertion that the next wave of economic boom was going to be in the field of Wellness. Common everyday folks like you and me are going outside the box of traditional “pill for every ill” treatment, and being proactive in maintaining health through nutrition and exercise.

Due to technological advances, outsourcing and the world being so interconnected, inventors and marketers can leverage whatever they need to get to market quickly. Watching one of the presidential debates, it was stated that at the time of the creation of social security, life expentancy was a few months past retirement. We as a population are now living 15 years past retirement age.

The wellness revolution means that not only will those of us who pay attention to diet, exercise and nutrition will live even longer, we will be living a higher quality of life. Octarians are on the golf courses in record numbers and some of the doctors, scientists and inventors I met yesterday are helping to ensure that at age 100 we will be bicycling and rock climbing. I kid you not.

I had a chemistry lesson from a pharmacologist and inventor who wanted me to know in no uncertain terms that 1 gram of vitamin C a day (in any form - abscorbic acid in powder form costs pennies) along with sufficient quantities of Omega-3 oils, will indeed reverse plaque build up in the arteries.

There was a study in Italy among 1st heart attack survivors. One group was given a statin drug that starts with a Z as a treatment to prevent a second heart attack and the other group was given 1 gram of Vitamin C a day. Guess which group had a MUCH lower incidence of 2nd heart attacks? You guessed it. Vitamin C won hands down.

Drinking 5 cups of H2O (water, in laymen’s terms) reduces your risk of heart disease by 50%, so says a study of 7th day Adventist women over those who drank less water. Soda and coffee don’t count. If I can convince you to make one change over the next 90 days, drink more water.

Short List of Heart Health To Do’s:

1. Drink more water

2. Take more Omega-3s

3. Add more Vitamin C to your diet daily in fruit or supplement form.

You may ask, “how much vitamin C?” As much as you can while maintaining a regular soft bowel movement. Oh, did I mention that water and Vitamin C will cure constipation?

At some clinics, cancer patients are receiving 125 grams of Vitamin C through an IV (that’s 125,000 milligrams a day). Cancer cells see the vitamin C and see a glucose molecule and gobble it up. But the Vitamin C is a smart bomb and oxygenates the cancer cells and cancer cannot reproduce in the presence of oxygen.

These studies are out there but not in the mainstream. We are still in the evolution of the wellness revolution and this information has to be sought out, we are still looking under rocks and in caves to find the wise ones. But they are there. Be proactive, ask a lot of questions. Let me borrow a line from my pharmaceutical brothers, “Ask your doctor about Vitamin C.”

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Be well, be encouraged, be happy, smile a lot, and keep breathing (mindfully)

Garey Simmons

PS I always intend to write short emails as your time is so valuable but once I start I forget about the off switch. Somebody, please remind me to share in the next email what I learned about HDL and LDL cholesterol, man oh man. If LDL cholesterol had a good lawyer big Pharma would be paying on a class action lawsuit. Ok, next time.