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mineral balance

The balancing act between, calcium & magnesium, sodium & potasium, copper & zinc

Your body will balance itself no matter what you think, do or say. This is one of the many things they don’t teach us in school. And not much is written about it.

For instance, your body insists the calcium in your body be balanced with the magnesium in your body. Well, everybody’s heard about taking calcium to protect your bones, so we take extra calcium not realizing that it may not be doing us any good. Most of us have a magnesium deficiency. As long as your magnesium level is low, your body will keep dumping calcium out of the body until they balance. Well, not entirely. Some of the calcium seems to get lost on the way out and ends up where it doesn’t belong-in our arteries. It appears we get enough calcium through diet and shouldn’t supplement with calcium at all, and what is really needed is extra magnesium so that our bodies will us the calcium we already have in our diet.

There’s also the deal where the body wants to balance sodium and potassium. When you swear off salt, your body dumps potassium, which raises your blood pressure. So the doctor says to really, really cut out salt, which ends up lowering your potassium even more. and thus increases your blood presssure. Ditch table salt, though. They process the life out of it, then bleach it, then add bad stuff to it. Use sea salt. You get good sodium-plus more than 80 trace minerals our bodies need.

And how about copper and zinc? They also have a ratio to maintain. But birth control pills-and other sources of bogus estrogen really raise women’s copper levels big time and effects our copper/zinc ratios. A whacked out copper/zinc ratio leads to thyroid problems big time. Half the population has thyroid problems, but most don’t know it.

So what do we learn?

Magnesium will help your body take up and use calcium. If you have a calcium problem, it might mean you are lacking magnesium. Try it and see if it helps.

If you have a potasiuim problem, (thnik high blood pressure) it might mean you need a little more sodium in your diet. Try it with your potasium and see if your HBP reduces.

If you have thyroid problems due to high copper levels, take extra zinc and see if you feel better. …

BrainTrust Canada’s annual Okanagan Conference in May

message from BrainTrust Canada:

Greetings,

Please join us May 4th – 6th in Naramata, BC for BrainTrust Canada’s annual Okanagan Conference on Brain Injury. This interactive conference allows clients, care-givers and professionals to not only receive excellent information but to also gain personal support and insights to brain injury.

This years conference theme is Gaining Ground: Topics in Continuing Brain Injury Recovery. As service providers, we at BrainTrust Canada see how individuals have difficulties with the transitions from the acute-care setting to rehabilitation and then from rehabilitation to getting on with life. This year we are proud to bring in presenters who will provide practical skills for living well through the challenges of brain injury.

For more information please visit our WEBSITE. Also attached below is a copy of our conference program and registration form. If you have any questions regarding the conference or the registration process please email or contact us at (250) 762-3233.

more information here

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Comox Valley Head Injury Society Conference in June

A message Comox Valley Head Injury Society:

On behalf of the Comox Valley Head Injury Society (CVHIS), I am pleased to announce our 18th Annual G & J Johnson Brain Injury Conference:

Caring for Caregivers: Connecting Local Resources to Promote Caregiver Wellbeing in the Brain Injury Community and Beyond.

This conference aims to provide participants with practical information about family caregiving and promote the health and wellbeing of family caregivers through skills development.

The G & J Johnson Brain Injury Conference will be held on Thursday, June 16, 2011, at the Crown Isle Resort in Courtenay, BC.

more information here

Disability Tax Credit

Perhaps one of the most commonly missed and often the most valuable tax credit available to people with disabilities is the Disability Amount. This credit is most often called the Disability Tax Credit (DTC).  It is a non-refundable tax credit which can reduce the amount of tax that a person with a disability has to pay.

If the DTC is not required by the person with a disability to reduce their taxable income to zero, then it may be transferred in whole or in part to a family member who supplied some or all of the basic necessities of life such as food, shelter and clothing to the person.

This can save you THOUSANDS of dollars and is retroactive!…

The Brainscan newsletter – Issue 1 Volume 2

In this our second issue of the Brainscan we bring you more relevant articles of interest to brain injury survivors and those living with brain injuries. Our Brainscan contributing editors bring you more fun stuff.

We are pleased to add Linda Amundsen  and Sandra Haszard (Garden Corner and Haszard’s Ahead respectively) as editors.  I have added the Bad Brain joke of the month to lighten the general serious tone of the newsletter.

I hope you enjoy our second issue. ~Josh, editor

The Brainscan newsletter – Issue 1 Volume 2

think about it …

“Stats show that upwards of 80 percent of kids in the juvenile detention system have some form of brain injury. Think about having an H1N1 virus twice a year, and the kids that survived are going to prisons … It’s literally a public health crisis.”

– CBS Chicago