B-Vite for Depression Astounds

From eNewsletter 6/14/2023

DID YOU KNOW that to our delight, a study from a major psychiatry journal, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, lauded the active form of folic acid, L-methylfolate (LMT) for patients with major depressive disorder? The B-vitamin LMT can be an effective adjunctive treatment for patients with major depressive disorder with an inadequate response to antidepressants. Treatment response was highest in those with obesity and inflammatory biomarkers. "If clinicians try LMF on their patients with treatment-resistant depression, the treatment is very robust in patients who have high BMI or inflammatory biomarkers, and it’s worth a try even in patients who don’t have these indicators, since it’s safe and well-tolerated, with no downside," the authors postulate. You may recall that we have used this folate source for years because it circumvents potential genetic mutations that would blunt its efficacy.

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Steve Minsky MS, HWC As a Health and Wellness Counselor, he will analyze and offer solutions to optimize not only the food you eat, but every aspect of your lifestyle, whether for prevention or healing. More information on Steve's services.

Text Us If It Is Convenient OUR NUMBER HAS CHANGED! We accept text messages (except for Bonnie). Type (847) 497-0902 and text away!

Pet Wellness Start your pets off right this year with our dietary supplement line for dogs and cats! ThorneVet has an impeccable reputation among veterinarians. To order from our wellness shop, please visit here (for prices, enter the Guest Area password: discount2018). Carolyn Martinelli a.k.a. "Coach Care" is available to answer your questions about ThorneVet pet supplements at nutroconpet@gmail.com. Please leave detailed contact information as well as the name, age, sex, breed, and/or health issue(s) and med(s) of your pet so Carolyn can respond accordingly. Online Gift Cards Giving the gift of wellness has never been easier. Order your gift cards here.

Upcoming Wellness Screenings

Food Intolerance Blood Draw Options to set up a Biotrition food intolerance test blood draw. By appointment only:

1. One Saturday per month at Biotrition in Glenview - next date July 15th

2. Tu, Wed, TH 9AM-3PM at NICL Labs in Northbrook

Text, email, or call us to set up your appointment. Thermography Screening Friday, July 14th For those interested in an upper torso or whole body thermography scan, please book your session by emailing: illinoisthermography@gmail.com (tell Eniko you would like to schedule your thermography scan at Schuster Chiropractic on Friday, January 20th. She will get back to you with times available, type of scan; openings are limited and first come first serve). To find out more about thermography, please read the following.

Infection Support

Prevention or During Infection COVID-19 is endemic, meaning it is here to stay. Moreover, we are exposed to many other endemic viruses including influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), norovirus (stomach flu), adenovirus (common cold), monkeypox, and four other coronaviruses (common cold), among others. Support your immune system year-round with our Free Prevent and Fight Viruses 2.0 Protocol here.

Have a happy, healthy day! Steve and Bonnie Minsky

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Amazing Evidence for Physical Activity

Steve: You know that physical activity is important for your overall wellbeing. But did you know how important? The following provides the evidence. Walking Published in the Journal for Alzheimer's Disease Reports, a study examined the brains and story recollection abilities of older adults with normal brain function and those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment before and after 12 weeks of fitness walking. Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) so researchers could measure changes in communication within and between three brain networks that control cognitive function. After 12 weeks, researchers saw significant improvements in participants' story recall abilities. The brain activity was stronger and more synchronized, demonstrating walking actually can induce the brain's ability to change and adapt. These results provide even more hope that exercise may be useful as a way to prevent or help stabilize people with mild cognitive impairment and maybe, over the long term, delay their conversion to Alzheimer's dementia. Running Results of a study in the journal eNeuro show long-term running wires 'old' new neurons, born during early adulthood, into a network that is relevant to the maintenance of episodic memory encoding during aging. Long-term running profoundly benefits the aging brain by increasing the survival and modifying the network of the adult-born neurons born during early adulthood, and thereby facilitating their participation in cognitive processes. Long-term running may enhance pattern separation ability, our ability to distinguish between highly similar events and stimuli, a behavior closely linked to adult neurogenesis, which is among the first to display deficits indicative of age-related memory decline. Tai Chi In a randomized clinical trial from JAMA Network Open including older adults with type 2 diabetes and mild cognitive impairment, tai chi was more effective than fitness walking in improving global cognitive function. The findings support a long-term benefit, suggesting the potential clinical use of tai chi as an exercise intervention to improve cognitive function for older adults with type 2 diabetes and mild cognitive impairment. Weights According to a study from British Journal of Sports Medicine, lifting weights at the gym or even doing some heavy lifting around the house for just 30 minutes a week cuts the risk of dying early by up to a fifth. Researchers report that muscle strength training for 30 to 60 minutes each week cuts the risk of death from heart disease, diabetes and cancer by 10 to 20 percent. And when combined with aerobic exercise the risk can drop by 40 percent. Conclusion Whether you incorporate only the gentlest of these exercises, tai chi, or all four, if you consistently do them over decades, you will be doing yourself a great service. Moreover, we can help you pinpoint which form of exercise works best for your genetics so you can get the most out of it.

Multi Boosts Memory Study Says

From eNewsletter 6/12/2023

DID YOU KNOW that late last month, results from a study in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a daily multivitamin improved memory and cognition in adults over 60? The study made national news.

The multivitamin used in the study was Pfizer's Centrum Silver. As we always announce special interests and funding in drug trials, we must be fair and disclose that Pfizer funded this multivitamin study. The lead author was also a paid consultant to Pfizer.

We have never liked Centrum Silver for the following reasons:

The source ingredients are awful, especially the B-vitamins, calcium, and magnesium. Not to mention that the selenium source is sodium selenate, a cyanide byproduct.

The inactive ingredients are worse: Maltodextrin (corn sugar), Modified Corn Starch (corn again), Blue 2 Lake (artificial color that will soon be outlawed), Corn Starch (corn again), Polydextrose (more corn filler), Red 40 Lake (artificial color that will soon be outlawed), Talc (Johnson and Johnson just settled a lawsuit for the use of this in baby powder), Titanium Dioxide (filler soon to be outlawed).

If a multi with all this junk can still create positive results, imagine how much better a quality multivitamin would do!

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Services Update

Steve Minsky MS, HWC

As a Health and Wellness Counselor, Steve analyzes and offer solutions to optimize not only the food you eat, but every aspect of your lifestyle, whether for prevention or healing. More info on Steve's services.

Text Us If It Is Convenient

OUR TEXT NUMBER HAS CHANGED!

We accept text messages (all except for Bonnie). Simply type (847) 497-0902.

Pet Wellness

Our dietary supplement line for dogs and cats, ThorneVet, has an impeccable reputation among veterinarians. Carolyn Martinelli "Coach Care" can answer your questions about ThorneVet pet supplements at nutroconpet@gmail.com. Please leave detailed contact information as well as the name, age, sex, breed, and/or health issue(s) and med(s) of your pet so Carolyn can respond accordingly. To order from our wellness shop, please visit here (for prices, enter the Guest Area password: discount2018).

Online Gift Cards

Giving the gift of wellness has never been easier. Order your gift cards here.

Upcoming Wellness Screenings

Food Intolerance Blood Draw

Options to set up a Biotrition food intolerance test blood draw. By appointment only:

1. One Saturday per month at Biotrition in Glenview - next date July 15th

2. Tu, Wed, TH 9AM-3PM at NICL Labs in Northbrook

Text, email, or call us to set up your appointment.

Thermography Screening Friday, July 14th

For those interested in an upper torso or whole body thermography scan, please book your session by emailing: illinoisthermography@gmail.com (tell Eniko you would like to schedule your thermography scan at Schuster Chiropractic on Friday, January 20th. She will get back to you with times available, type of scan; openings are limited and first come first serve). To find out more about thermography, please read the following.

Infection Section

Prevention

COVID-19 is endemic, meaning it is here to stay. Moreover, we are exposed to many other endemic viruses including influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), norovirus (stomach flu), adenovirus (common cold), monkeypox, and four other coronaviruses (common cold), among others. Support your immune system year-round with our Free Prevent and Fight Viruses 2.0 Protocol here.

Have a happy, healthy day! Steve and Bonnie Minsky

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• Understanding Lab Tests: Uric Acid

• Green Lifestyle: Air Purifying Superplant

• Wild Card: Traffic Noise & Work Performance

• eInspire: David Beckham

• Action Plan of the Month: Blood Sugar Balance

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• Before, During, & After Pregnancy

• June 20% OFF Sale Items

• Pure Genomics

• Watch: Choline Synthesis

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Before, During, and After Pregnancy

Steve: We've always placed great emphasis on preparing clients for pregnancy, optimizing pregnancy, and nursing optimally. Going back to when Bonnie did her public health internship at the March of Dimes to look at folic acid preventing neural tube defects, we have believed there is no better way "to pay it forward" than to optimize yourself throughout the process. This is true for both partners. The following are a few major research findings. Today's Well Connect Feature covers much more.

Parental Lifestyle Patterns Preconception Crucial

A study from Frontiers in Nutrition found that high parental body mass index, smoking, low diet quality, or high sedentary lifestyle before or during pregnancy were associated with higher risk of overweight and obesity in children.

Most Prenatals Stink

According to a damning study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, almost no US dietary supplements provide key nutrients in the doses needed for pregnant women. We know this to be true. This is why we worked with a supplement manufacturer many years ago to create one.

Vitamin D Sufficiency Is Critical

A study from The Journal of Nutrition confirmed a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy, and revealed evidence of an association between lower gestational vitamin D and childhood behavioral problems. Interventions to correct vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy would improve childhood behavioral outcomes.

A study from Nutrients found that increasing vitamin D levels during pregnancy could be protective against chronic intestinal inflammatory disorders in offspring.

Neuroscientists in Journal of Neurochemistry have shown how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in the brain's dopamine circuit, which may lead to the dopamine dysfunction seen in adults with schizophrenia.

Midwifery Is a Major Value Add

Midwives provide safe primary care for pregnant women who are at various levels of medical risk, new data in Canadian Medical Association Journal suggest. For midwifery clients, birth outcomes were similar to or were better than birth outcomes of patients who had physician-led or obstetrician-led care. In addition, midwifery clients were less likely to experience preterm births or have low-birth-weight babies and to experience cesarean deliveries or births involving instruments.

The First 1000 Days

The National Center for Complementary and Integrated Health started a campaign to focus on optimizing the first 1000 days - the from conception through the first 2 years of life - and how it can lead to long-term health outcomes, such as substance use disorders, depression, obesity, cardiovascular disease, impacts that can be passed down through generations. When we think about infant and child development, we naturally consider factors like maternal exposures to chemicals or substances, illnesses, or suboptimal nutrition. But the evidence shows that a far wider range of factors, like chronic stress, poverty, racial discrimination, housing insecurity, or persistent community disruptions, are also linked to early mortality in communities most impacted by these factors. Conversely, protective exposures, like strong family relationships, community involvement, and mentoring, can help mitigate these negative factors and create resilience.

Allergenic Mislabeled Supplements

From eNewsletter 6/7/2023

DID YOU KNOW the last several weeks have reminded us why we need to be vigilant about our dietary supplements being well vetted, tolerated, and efficacious? A recent study in JAMA found that of 25 brands of melatonin gummies, 22 were incorrectly labeled with variation of melatonin spanning from 74% to 347% of the amount advertised. This milligram dosage spanned 1.3 mg to 13.1 per serving. Certainly, 13.1 mg is way to much for anyone, especially for a young person. Having a trusted retailer who consistently looks at source material and lot number lab assays is very important. Additionally, a recent study presented at the annual meeting of the American Contact Dermatitis Society warned that dietary supplements are potential sources of allergens. Most do not have the expertise to understand the ingredients that are allergens in the supplements. Moreover, less than transparent brands may add allergenic fillers that may not be on the label. For these reasons and more, it is good to have trusted professionals like ourselves who have been using dietary supplements safely and effectively since 1985.

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Steve Minsky MS, HWC Despite 115 degrees on the track, your favorite Health and Wellness Counselor took gold in the 400 meter sprint and silver in the 200 sprint for the 50-54 age group at the Illinois State Championships Saturday at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Steve will be competing at nationals in July!

As a Health and Wellness Counselor, he will analyze and offer solutions to optimize not only the food you eat, but every aspect of your lifestyle, whether for prevention or healing. More information on Steve's services.

Text Us If It Is Convenient OUR NUMBER HAS CHANGED! We accept text messages (except for Bonnie). Type (847) 497-0902 and text away!

Pet Wellness Start your pets off right this year with our dietary supplement line for dogs and cats! ThorneVet has an impeccable reputation among veterinarians. To order from our wellness shop, please visit here (for prices, enter the Guest Area password: discount2018). Carolyn Martinelli a.k.a. "Coach Care" is available to answer your questions about ThorneVet pet supplements at nutroconpet@gmail.com. Please leave detailed contact information as well as the name, age, sex, breed, and/or health issue(s) and med(s) of your pet so Carolyn can respond accordingly. Online Gift Cards Giving the gift of wellness has never been easier. Order your gift cards here.

Upcoming Wellness Screenings

Food Intolerance Blood Draw Options to set up a Biotrition food intolerance test blood draw. By appointment only:

1. One Saturday per month at Biotrition in Glenview - next date July 15th

2. Tu, Wed, TH 9AM-3PM at NICL Labs in Northbrook

Text, email, or call us to set up your appointment.

Infection Support

Prevention or During Infection COVID-19 is endemic, meaning it is here to stay. Moreover, we are exposed to many other endemic viruses including influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), norovirus (stomach flu), adenovirus (common cold), monkeypox, and four other coronaviruses (common cold), among others. Support your immune system year-round with our Free Prevent and Fight Viruses 2.0 Protocol here.

Have a happy, healthy day! Steve and Bonnie Minsky

In Today's Issue...

• WC Feature* Misunderstood Cholesterol

• Pre, Pro, Postbiotics & More

• June 20% OFF Sale Items

• Case Report

• Chiro Corner NEW!

• Pure Genomics

• Blog Briefs NEW!

• Well Connect Member Benefits

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Pre, Pro, Postbiotics & More

Steve: One of my goals as a health professional is to make sure that your stomach and intestinal microbes are in balance. You need good and bad bacteria, but often there is more bad than good. However, because of the ever-growing potency of probiotic supplements, I have been seeing more cases of having too many good bacteria. But I digress. I thought it would be a good idea to define ways in which we can balance gut flora and their terms, as it has gotten more complicated over the years. Prebiotics Prebiotics are not alive nor digestible. However, they are sources of food for beneficial microbes. Probiotics Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. Postbiotics Postbiotics is a relatively new term. These are metabolites of the probiotics or other microbes that you’ve ingested. Metabolites are substances necessary for metabolism. You may have heard of butyrate. Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid that's produced in the small intestines. The good gut bacteria in your intestines produce butyrate when they ferment dietary fiber, thus butyrate is considered a postbiotic. Vitamin B12 can be a postbiotic when produced by probiotic strains such as lactobacillus acidophilus. Antibiotics Medications that intentionally destroy good and bad bacteria to ameliorate bacterial overload. Conclusion Gut balance is multifactorial, which is why I never suggest self-prescribing with any of these substances. Come see professionals like ourselves first.