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Dear healthwellness82@gmail.com, If you feel drowsy in the middle of the day or just drained from stress -- Evangeline Lausier, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, has five simple on-the-spot fatigue-fighting strategies that can help you feel refreshed, reinvigorated and relaxed. She also shared her little-known energy- boosting beverage to give you lasting stamina! Investing in the stock market doesn’t always have to be so risky ... in fact, there’s an easy but profitable way to play it safer. Certified financial planner Sheryl Garrett, author of Just Give Me the Answers: Expert Advisors Address Your Most Pressing Financial Questions, tells about a trading technique that can protect you against serious losses and increase your profit-making odds. All the best,  Jessica Kent Editor BottomLineSecrets.com  Blast Away High Cholesterol. Lose 67 Points in Just 28 Days Boost Your Energy in 8 Minutes or Less Evangeline Lausier, MD When you feel drowsy or droop with fatigue, every task seems monumental and even fun activities feel like work. Helpful: Take a double-pronged approach to invigoration -- including on-the-spot techniques for an immediate energy burst... plus simple strategies that take just minutes to do, yet give you long-lasting stamina day after day. FOR AN INSTANT ENERGY SURGE... Wake up your nose -- and the rest of you will follow. Aromatherapy stimulates the brain’s olfactory center and heightens awareness of your surroundings. Dab a drop of therapeutic-grade rosemary essential oil (sold at health-food stores) on the pulse points behind both ears, as you would perfume... or dampen a cloth with cool water, sprinkle it with four drops of therapeutic-grade lemon essential oil, then place it on your forehead or the back of your neck for five minutes. Do not dab full-strength essential oil directly under your nose -- it could be too strong. Belt out a few bars. As you sing, you inhale deeply, bringing more energizing oxygen into your lungs and increasing circulation throughout your body... and exhale through your mouth, efficiently expelling the waste product carbon dioxide. Bonus: Choosing a favorite cheerful song lifts your mood. Give yourself a good stretch. Stretching opens the chest, straightens the spine, expands the lungs and relieves energy-sapping tension in neck and shoulder muscles. Try... Seated stretch. Sit in a sturdy chair, feet flat on the floor, hands clasped in front of you. As you inhale, straighten arms and slowly raise them over your head, turning your wrists so palms face the ceiling. Gently press arms as far back as possible, holding for a count of five. Slowly exhale, lowering arms to the starting position. Repeat three times. Doorway stretch. Stand in a doorway, a few inches behind the threshold, with feet about six inches apart. Raise arms out to your sides and bend elbows to a 90-degree angle, placing hands and forearms on either side of the doorjamb. Keeping your back straight, lean forward slightly to feel a stretch across your chest. Hold for 15 seconds. Repeat three times. Take 800 steps. A moderately brisk walk -- at a pace of about 100 steps per minute -- is an excellent way to get blood flowing to your heart and brain. Exercise also triggers the release of endorphins, brain chemicals that make you feel alert and energetic. If possible, walk outdoors -- the sun’s rays activate the synthesis of mood-enhancing vitamin D. Just breathe. The beauty of this is that you can do it anytime, anywhere, and instantly feel more alert. Good deep-breathing technique: Inhale deeply through your nose, filling your lungs for a count of four... hold your breath for a count of seven... slowly and deliberately exhale through pursed lips (to regulate the release of air) to a count of eight. Take three normal breaths, then repeat the deep-breathing exercise twice more. Rationale: This technique pulls the diaphragm downward and creates a negative pressure that draws more blood into your heart. As the heart pumps this blood around your body, all your tissues receive extra energizing oxygen. TO REFUEL ENERGY RESERVES... Eat a stamina-boosting breakfast -- one cup of fortified, whole-grain cereal. Whole grains are complex carbohydrates that enter the bloodstream slowly, providing sustained energy by keeping blood sugar levels stable. Avoid starting your day with simple carbohydrates, such as white toast or a doughnut, which cause blood sugar and energy levels to spike and then plummet by mid-morning. Also: With your cereal, have one-half cup of low-fat milk or fortified soy milk. Its calcium and vitamin D nourish your bones... its protein is used to build and repair muscle and other tissues. For snacks, go nuts. A handful of almonds, cashews, walnuts or other type of nut provides a sustained energy boost, thanks to blood sugar-stabilizing complex carbohydrates and tissue-building protein. More benefits: Though relatively high in calories at about 160 per ounce, nuts tend not to cause energy-depleting weight gain because they promote long-lasting satiety and stave off hunger. Nuts also are rich in unsaturated fats that promote cardiovascular health. Take a green tea break three or four times a day. Green tea contains catechins, antioxidant plant chemicals that support the immune system by neutralizing cell-damaging free radicals, fighting bacteria and easing inflammation. When your immune system is operating at its peak, you have more pep. Green tea also boosts metabolism, stabilizing blood sugar and helping to ward off weight gain... and protects against many debilitating chronic conditions, including heart disease and diabetes. Convenient: If you are going to be out and about during the day, before you leave the house, brew up enough tea to fill a thermos and take it with you. While green tea does contain some caffeine -- enough to provide a slight energy lift -- its caffeine content generally is low enough not to interfere with sleep, provided that you avoid drinking it within four hours of bedtime. If you want to minimize caffeine, let the green tea bag steep for just 30 seconds, then discard that water and replace it with fresh hot water, allowing it to steep for several minutes. If you prefer coffee: Be aware that, with its higher caffeine content, coffee may leave you feeling even more sluggish once the caffeine buzz wears off. Limit caffeinated coffee to no more than 16 ounces per day, and consume it prior to midafternoon so it doesn’t interfere with your sleep. Try energizing supplements. Various herbal and dietary supplements help support immune function and/or reduce energy-sapping stress. Each has its own benefits as well as risks (such as possible side effects or interactions with medications or other supplements), so it is important to discuss their appropriateness and dosage guidelines with your doctor before taking them. Options to consider: Astragalus... calcium plus magnesium... coenzyme Q10... ginseng... rhodiola... vitamin B complex. Express yourself to lower stress. Play the piano, pen a poem, paint a picture or just doodle. The purpose: Creative self-expression is stimulating -- it alleviates energy-draining stress by helping you reconnect with your deep inner well of emotional well-being. Bottom Line/Women’s Health interviewed Evangeline Lausier, MD, director of clinical services at Duke Integrative Medicine and assistant professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, both in Durham, North Carolina. She is an internist specializing in women’s health and complex multisystem illnesses, with an emphasis on preventive lifestyle.  Tricks for Getting Better Prices on Stocks Sheryl Garrett, CFP Buying low and selling high is the goal with stocks, but unfortunately, we sometimes end up doing just the opposite. Knowledgeable investors use a few automated tricks to help improve their odds. How these tricks can help you... PICKING WHEN TO BUY A buy-limit order allows you to automatically buy shares of a stock if and when they hit a predetermined price. Stocks often fluctuate 1% to 2% within a day, and fast-moving stocks can drop by as much as 3% to 4% before bouncing back. A buy limit can help you catch the lower end of the price range. Example: Last spring, I decided to invest in Citigroup. I noticed that the stock’s trading range in recent days had moved between $1.17 and $1.70. I put in a buy-limit order for $1.20 per share, which saved me as much as 50 cents a share. That adds up if you are buying hundreds or thousands of shares. Citigroup has since rebounded to as high as $5.23 a share. Of course, if a stock price is shooting straight up day after day, this trick doesn’t work, but that’s rarely the case. What to do: Go to http://Finance.Yahoo.com, type in the symbol of the stock you want and you’ll see the high and low share-price range for that day. Or if you are dealing with a broker, ask him/her for the day’s range. Choose a buy-limit price a few cents higher than the low of the day. Reason: Stocks often approach their lows of the day and then turn back up. You often will miss executing your order if you set it at or below the low of the day. Use a buy-limit order only if you are willing to miss out on buying the shares altogether -- otherwise use a straight market order, which means you will buy immediately. PICKING WHEN TO SELL A stop-loss order allows you to automatically sell shares of a stock if they drop to a predetermined price. Example: I had a client who bought Bank of America stock in October 2008 for $20 per share. It rebounded to nearly $25 per share, and many investors thought it had avoided the worst of the financial-sector meltdown. But my client wanted to protect some of his profits, so he set a stop-loss order for $22 per share. By March 2009, Bank of America had plummeted to $3 a share. My client had turned a potential catastrophe into a small profit. What to do: I generally set stop-loss orders at 10% below my purchase price for stable, blue-chip large-caps... 20% for smaller or more volatile stocks. This strikes a reasonable balance between not selling on every short-term market swing... and cutting my losses before they really damage my portfolio. If I put a stop-loss order on a stock and the price rises, I reset my order with my broker every time the stock goes up by 10% or 20% above my initial price. Example: I bought Google at $380 per share in February 2009 with a stop-loss order of $312. The stock rose to $470 per share by September. I expected it to go higher but wanted to protect my downside, so I set a new stop-loss order for 20% below $470, or $376. TIME LIMITS For both the buy limit and the stop loss, you need to indicate the time limit that your order will be in effect. A good-till-canceled order stays in effect until it is executed or until it reaches a specified time limit, which some brokers cap at 30 days. A day order keeps your order in effect only during that trading day, in case you want to reconsider your instructions the next day. Bottom Line/Personal interviewed Sheryl Garrett, CFP, founder of Garrett Planning Network, a network of fee-only financial advisers, Shawnee Mission, Kansas. www.GarrettPlanningNetwork.com. She is coauthor of Just Give Me the Answers: Expert Advisors Address Your Most Pressing Financial Questions (Kaplan Business). Important: Help your friends get much more out of life -- forward this E-letter to them. Better: Send it to many friends and your whole family. This is a free weekly e-mail service of BottomLineSecrets.com and Boardroom Inc. Boardroom Inc. 281 Tresser Boulevard Stamford, CT 06901-3229 ATTN: Web Team You received this e-mail because you have requested it. You are on the mailing list as healthwellness82@gmail.com. Or... a friend forwarded it to you. Disclaimer: Bottom Line Secrets publishes the opinions of expert authorities in many fields. 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