Greetings, NectrHeadz,

There is literally so much news today that I don't know where to start. 
How about first with CALM?

This from the news:

A new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that for healthy, normal-weight people aged 45 and older, getting less than six hours of sleep a night could boost the risk of stroke. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.Click here to go to video.

More on the subject, (also found on Fox News):

By JoNel Aleccia

 

Attention, busy middle-aged folks. You may be healthy and thin, but if you habitually sleep less than six hours a night, you still could be boosting your risk of a stroke.

Getting too little shut-eye appeared to more than quadruple the risk of stroke symptoms among healthy, normal-weight people aged 45 and older, according to a study of some 5,600 people followed for up to three years.

“The really important take-home message is this: Don’t blow it off. Sleep is just as important as diet and exercise,” said Megan Ruiter, the University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher who led the study.  Experts recommend that healthy adults get between seven and nine hours of sleep a night. But about one in three U.S. workers regularly gets less than seven hours of snooze time, according to a recent government health report.

Ruiter and her colleagues reviewed data from some 30,239 people participating in the REGARDS study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

Of those, they teased out some 5,666 people who were healthy at the start of the study – no history of stroke, stroke symptoms, so-called “mini-stroke” or transient ischemic attack, or elevated risk for sleep apnea and other sleep-disordered breathing problems.

“We eliminated all the people who were high risk,” Ruiter said.

But when they looked more closely at the sleep habits of those people and adjusted for their weight, they found what Ruiter said were unexpected results.

In people who fell into normal weight categories -- a body mass index of 18.5 to nearly 25 -- those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were at about 4.5 times greater risk of developing stroke symptoms than whose who slept seven and eight hours a night. 

That’s dismaying news to Mark Wolfe, 49, a busy teacher, husband and father of four from Corvallis, Ore., who has run the Boston Marathon eight times and routinely gets six hours of sleep or less, waking at 4:05 a.m. on weekdays in order to train.

“Because I’m leading a very active and healthy life, I don’t expect to drop dead from a stroke,” said Wolfe, who is tall and thin, with a BMI of about 21. 

But there’s no question, adults function best with more sleep than six hours a night, experts say. Chronic sleep deprivation caused by getting too little most nights may boost the risk of stroke because it causes changes in the autonomic functions of the body, including blood pressure, heart rate, inflammation and glucose levels, said Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, associate director for Sleep & Circadian Biology at the Northwestern University School of Medicine.

“It not only affects the blood vessels to the heart and body, but also to the brain,” said Zee, who was not involved in the study presented at the meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

It will take more research to determine whether short sleep actually results in more full-blown strokes for the REGARDS participants. But in the meantime, Ruiter said the study offers cautions for Wolfe and other middle-aged people who maintain their weight but scrimp on sleep.

“The important thing now is just to have physicians and people be more aware that the amount and quality of sleep might be important for how they feel and the quality of their health,” she said.

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So, CALM!  CALM!   CALM!

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 From the Testimonial File:

Bright and early this morning we received call from local doctor who met with Mike last week.  Mike gave him some samples and he was checking out everything about Terra-bioTech.  He called and said "I'm in!"  We'll get with him later this week to walk him through the sign up process and get him trained and going.

BUT -- he was like a little kid talking about CALM.  He said he took it Saturday night (half a bottle) and slept like a baby.  He was searching for a word to describe how he felt and came up with 'serene'.  He said "I didn't feel drugged, I didn't wake up groggy or listless.  I was just so serene and comfortable!"   He said he usually wakes up at 6 or so no matter what, but on Sunday he slept until 9 am and woke up refreshed and rarin' to go.

You'll be hearing more from Dr. W!  He is trying CORE today.  Took 1 oz. of RIZE yesterday and will try the rest today.

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FROM THE NEWS:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that "Diabetes affects 366 million people worldwide, killing one every 7 seconds and incurring annual health care costs of $465 Billion, the International Diabetes Foundation estimates."   The article is in the current mag issue, Pharmaceuticals section, title:  "In Search of a One-a-Day Diabetes Pill".  

If somebody comes up with such a pill, it will generate $10 Billion in annual sales from the get-go.

And we already know that CORE can be a big help in reining in diabetes. Just read through the results from happy TBT users here and in related blogs.  (As, ValleyNectr.com)

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And, lastly, a little training video on effective communication: