What Killed Ranjan Das, CEO of SAP India?

A month ago, many of us heard about the sad demise of Ranjan Das from Bandra, Mumbai.

Ranjan, just 42 years of age, was the CEO of SAP-Indian Subcontinent, the youngest CEO of an MNC in India.

He was very active in sports, was a fitness freak and a marathon runner.

Just after Diwali, on 21st Oct, he returned home from his gym after a workout, collapsed with a massive heart attack and died. He is survived by his wife and two very young kids.

What is the Cause of Ranjan’s Untimely Death?

It was reported that Ranjan used to make do with 4-5 hours of sleep.

In an earlier interview on NDTV in the program ‘Boss’ Day Out’, Ranjan admitted that he would love to get more sleep (and that he was not proud of his ability to manage without sleep, contrary to what others extolled).

Lack of sleep will certainly lead to more stresses and other diseases and thereby putting stress on our bodies and hearts!

Here’s some findings:

· Short sleep duration ( <5 or 5-6 hours ) increased risk for high BP by 350% to 500% compared to those who slept longer than 6 hours per night. Paper published in 2009. As you know, high BP kills.

· Young people ( 25-49 years of age ) are twice as likely to get high BP if they sleep less. Paper published in 2006.

· Individuals who slept less than 5 hours a night had a 3-fold increased risk of heart attacks. Paper published in 1999.

· Complete and partial lack of sleep increased the blood concentrations of High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-cRP), the strongest predictor of heart attacks. Even after getting adequate sleep later, the levels stayed high!!

· Just one night of sleep loss increases very toxic substances in body such as Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-alpha) and C-reactive protein (cRP). They increase risks of many medical conditions, including cancer, arthritis and heart disease. Paper published in 2004.

· Sleeping for <=5 hours per night leads to 39% increase in heart disease. Sleeping for <=6 hours per night leads to 18% increase in heart disease. Paper published in 2006.

Ideal Sleep

Sleep is composed of two stages: REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) and non-REM. The former helps in mental consolidation while the latter helps in physical repair and rebuilding. During the night, you alternate between REM and non-REM stages 4-5 times.

The earlier part of sleep is mostly non-REM. During that period, your pituitary gland releases growth hormones that repair your body. The latter part of sleep is more and more REM type.

For you to be mentally alert during the day, the latter part of sleep is more important. No wonder when you wake up with an alarm clock after 5-6 hours of sleep, you are mentally irritable throughout the day (lack of REM sleep). And if you have slept for less than 5 hours, your body is in a complete physical mess ( lack of non-REM sleep ), you are tired throughout the day, moving like a zombie and your immunity is way down ( I’ve been there, done that ).

Finally, if you are a long-distance runner, like Ranjan was, you need an hour of extra sleep to repair the running related damage.

If you want to know whether you are getting adequate sleep, you can try the Epworth Sleepiness Test at http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/epworth.html

Interpretation: Score of 0-9 is considered normal while 10 and above abnormal. :-0

In conclusion:

Barring stress control, Ranjan Das did everything right: eating proper food, exercising (marathoning!), maintaining proper weight. But he missed getting proper and adequate sleep, minimum 7 hours.

If you are not getting enough sleep (7 hours), you are playing with fire, even if you have low stress.

Unfortunately, Ranjan Das is not alone when it comes to missing sleep. Many of us are doing exactly the same, perhaps out of ignorance.

Do you have enough hours of sleep each day?

Sleep is as important to the human body as food and water, but most of us don’t get enough sleep. Insufficient sleep or disruptions to the sleep¬wake cycle (such as those that occur with shift work or travelling to a different time zone) cause the physiological state known as fatigue.

A fatigued person is accident prone, judgement impaired and more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions. Staying awake for 24 hours leads to a reduced hand-to-eye coordination that is similar to having a blood alcohol content of 0.1. This is why sleep deprivation contributes to road accidents and work injuries.

How much sleep is enough?

Sleep requirements differ from one person to the next depending on age, physical activity levels, general health and other individual factors. In general:

• Primary school children - need about nine to 10 hours. Studies show that increasing your child’s sleep by as little as half an hour can dramatically improve school performance.
• Teenagers - need about nine to 10 hours too. Teenagers have an increased sleep requirement at the time when social engagements and peer pressure cause a reduction in sleep time. Lifestyle factors such as early school start times deprive them of the required sleep-in. There is evidence that around the time of becoming a teenager, there is a shift in the sleep - wake cycle to being sleepy later in the evening with a preference for waking later.
• Adults - need about seven to eight hours, depending on individual factors. We tend to need less sleep as we age, but be guided by your own state of alertness - if you feel tired during the day, aim to get more sleep.

TNJ does not interact with Coumadin/Warfarin.

Many people have their Stress response “turned on”.

This in turn activates the “Reactive Inflammatory Response” that is a primitive immun type response from the Liver. This makes increases all the clotting factors in the blood and makes them HYPERCOAGULABLE.

TNJ reduces this Inflammatory Response, reduces the clotting factors back toward normal, returns their Coagulation back into normal range. When they are Hypercoagulable they require high levels of Coumadin, frequently 5 to 7 mg/day. When coagulation is normal they would reqiure less medication, usually 1 to 2 mg/day. So, we recommend people drink TNJ regularly at 4 to 8 oz daily(120 to 240 ml/day), measure their INR blood test weekly until it is stable for 3 weeks in a row then test monthly. As they require less Coumadin their doctors will decrease the dosage for them.

I had a sort of a revelation this morning and I can’t wait to share it with you.

You know, how sometimes we tend to go for the cheapest in price? …

Well it happened to me one day when I took back home a set of sticky notepads. It looks like the famous 3M sticky notepads and I can’t feel the difference between the two.

The telling difference, however, surfaced straightaway when I start to use it.

Check out the 2 pictures below:

Need to be held in place with a scotch tape

So which one is from 3M?

Yes, the one at the bottom… the one that does not require a scotch tape to hold it in place… you see, the sticky glue behind the cheaper one couldn’t hold it in place!

The one on top actually costs about a third of the 3M product.

This brings to mind Tahitian Noni Juice and other noni products.

Now, do you know the difference between TNJ and the others?

Do you know why TNJ may cost more than the ones you find in a local store?

Health is Wealth!

Learn how to take control of your health through these 3 simple steps:

T-N-J

3 Steps to Take Control of Your Health

Step 1:

Take your noni.

Step 2:

Next do your exercises (breathing and stress relief)

Step 3:

Just ensure proper hydration

Continuing from our earlier post on “Full Immune Boost”, I have put these up on slides for easy reference.

Check it out below.

Lots of people have been asking Doc what is the formula for the full immune boost.

Here’s the formula:

1. TNJ 4 oz/day for a week.
2. 8 oz/day for 2 weeks.
3. A bottle a day for 4 days
4. Then 8 oz/day for 2 months.

Formula for other situations:

- In urgent situations you can start with 8 oz/day for 2 days then proceed with a bottle/day, etc.

- Pre surgery you can give 8 oz/day for 3 to 5 days then 1/2 bottle for the last 2 days before surgery, then 8 oz/day for a week after.

Note: Hydration is VITAL to get the benefits of TNJ.

Applications: To optimize healing and repair. Also for autoimmune disease like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, MS, and others; tumors, pulmonary fibrosis from many causes, heart and liver failure with some modifications, major trauma and burns, chronic and severe infections, immuno-suppression from HIV or medication.

Based on Dr. Williams’ fieldwork, at least 15 body systems can benefit from taking TNJ:

1. Nervous System

2. Mental Health

3. Pulmonary (Lungs)

4. Cardiovascular

5. Renal

6. Hepatic (Liver)

7. Immune

8. Blood Related

9. Metabolic

10. Healing and Inflammatory

11. Genito-Urinary (GU)

12. Gynecologic

13. Gastrointestinal (GI)

14. Musculo-Skeletal

15. Skin

When is the best time to take care of our health?

Think about this for a moment.

Many of us CHOOSE to do something only when something happens to us.

“Did you take that brisk 30-minutes walk today?”

“Have you taken your servings of fresh fruits and vegetables? How about your glass of Tahitian Noni Juice?”

“Did you do your stretching routines so that you won’t get all the aches and pains?”

How much time do you need to do these physical exercises?

I would say not much, maybe between 30 minutes to an hour each day.

And if you don’t have a full stretch of time, you certainly can break them up into bite-sized chunks of ten minutes each.

Whilst I was training for my fitness test some years ago - this was what I did. I was watching the television and during commercial breaks, I did pushups… I did situps… The result of these small steps? I passed my fitness test with a “Gold” standard!

Be innovative and creative. Try to build these into your daily routine.

Now back to the question, “When is the best time to take care of our health?”

I think you know the answer.

Resolve to do something for your health starting from today. And rest assured, we at AskDrRichardWilliams.com are here to help and lend the guiding hand.

Here are some fundamental facts about noni that we need to recognize.

TNJ Benefits

1. Is a Nutrient and not a Drug Response.

2. Benefits come from the Optimization or Normalization of our own intrinsic physiologic mechanisms.

3. This indicates Fundamental(Basic) Nutrient Deficiencies on a Global Scale.

Why do we specify Nutrient Response and not Drug or Pharmacologic effects?

1. The Dose/Response Curve shows increasing benefit to a point, then no further increase in benefits or effects even with a 100 fold increase in volume of TNJ consumed.

2. There is no overdose potential. None even with 4 liters in an 8 hour period, or the equivalent of 9 liters/day for 6 months(animal studies).

3. There is no toxicity nor side effects.

4. Affects only Abnormal Function, TNJ does not inhibit normal function. This is clearly seen in:-

a. High Blood Pressure

b. Hyperglycemia(high blood sugar)

c. Healing

d. Immunity (Autoimmune)

e. Stress

5. TNJ does not interfere with medications. In fact, TNJ increases medication benefits.

How did we develop Global Nutrient Deficiency?

The impact of 10,000 years of soil depletion, crop selection and crop limitation.

Our ancestors lived in the forests, fields, and marshes until domestication of animals and cultivation of grain made permanent villages necessary. They lived in full contact with all the nutrients our systems were designed to utilize. They ate more than 600 varieties of plants, fruits, nuts, roots and berries. Today we choose from 50 or less and most people eat 10 to 20 varieties.

Forests and fields are sustainable, they do not need fertilizer and they spring back up after forest or grass fires. That changes the first time you plow and disrupt the earth’s microbial systems. Dr Ralph Heinicke documented the progressively diminished pineapple volume and quality in Hawaii. They were forced to change fields every 12-13 years in spite of fertilizing.

Soil nutrients decreased steadily. Every year they would select the very best for the next seed crop. This is selection AWAY from most nutritional foods. The people also underwent selection and adaptation to the decreasing nutrients in their daily lives.

The physiologic systems they used regularly adapted to impaired nutrition. This we call Level I Function. (You can do this gradually over 10,000 years). The systems that were used infrequently did not have the opportunity to adapt. Level II systems(when we use our bodies at high performance/heavy load), and Levels III and above, that respond to overload, compromise, healing and repair are limited by nutrient deficiency. We see this clearly with Olympic level athletes that benefit from TNJ. We see abnormal function and damaged overloaded systems heal through the benefits of TNJ.

Validate the Gap in Nutrients and Knowledge

I invite all TNJ users, IPCs, and those interested in Health, to join in my personal goal to bring this understanding to the Healthcare Community.

a. We can use example patients to demonstrate our impaired physiologic function from the deficiencies of todays foods.

b. We can show the role of Nutritional Deficiency in Disease and the prevention potential of TNJ

c. We can clarify the role of Nutritional Deficiency in the limitations of Modern Medicine.

A useful resource would be the new DVD set, “Take Control of Your Health�. Read the sypnosis here: http://www.askdrrichardwilliams.com/take-control-of-your-health.html

The article “A Safety Review of Noni Fruit Juice” published in the Journal of Food Science on October 2006 is available for download in PDF format from this link .

Here’s an abstract of this article :

Morinda citrifolia L. (noni) fruit has been used in tropical regions as both food and folk medicine. The recent use of noni as a dietary supplement has increased greatly. To describe the safety of this fruit, a literature review and data from new studies are presented. Several preclinical safety tests and a human clinical safety study have revealed no adverse health effects, even at high doses. The available data substantiate its continued use as a safe food.

Source : B.J. West; C.J. Jensen, J. Westendorf, L.D. White “A Safety Review of Noni Fruit Juice” Journal of Food Science (October 2006) 71 (8), R100–R106.