New Herbal Supplement Replaces NSAIDS For Bodybuilding

If Only There Was Some Easy To Take Substance
That Could Alleviate Pain...

Now there is.

  It is known how bodybuilders push their bodies to the limit so much that they need to include pain relievers like Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs into their regimen. A lot of times that limit gets pushed too far and in the wrong way, which leads to major abuse of the body. Then when the body is not given the proper nutrients to recover, it gets double the abuse as the routine continues.

  NSAIDS are commonly abused because they are often needed just to be able to perform at the same level the athlete is used to. Some athletes get addicted to them psychologically, and coming off after long term use can be shocking enough to the system physically. This consistent use is necessary because NSAIDS never get to the root of the problem. Common side effects include reduced post-workout protein absorption, renal failure, ulcers, tendon damage, torn muscles, and even interference of proper healing. These are all symptoms of the same problem that these pain relievers worsen.

  The first symptom that needs to be taken care of is the pain, it's the result. Pain, is not the cause of something, unless there is an instant injury. "Pain reliever" is a misleading term. Relieving pain is only part of the problem. All pain relievers do is numb sensations in order to feel less pain. They don't heal anything because they don't address the cause. The cause of pain is inflammation.

  Bioprin, on the other hand goes right to the root cause and reduces inflammation along with the pain. This allows for true healing of injuries to occur, more intense training, less fatigue, and the prevention of future injuries from weakened areas. New possibilities suddenly open up for all athletes with the availability of an herbal formula like Bioprin.

JBNI makes the only formulas I know that are extremely powerful with absolutely no side effects.

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Colon Hydrotherapy Danger

Colon Hydrotherapy has become a popular way of cleansing. It's a way to break up and clear built up food residue inside the upper and lower bowel. The danger of using this method of cleansing too much is very serious. Just like how any muscle that doesn't get used can get weak, the same goes for the receptacles of the body, or the main yang organs, which are the large intestine (colon), gall bladder, small intestine, stomach and urinary bladder.

If these organs are not allowed to do their job, then they get weak. Weakness can occur either by burden (overwork), or inactivity (underwork). Burdens can be caused by toxic chemicals that the body cannot digest or a severe imbalance of flavor. Sugar and salt are the most common flavors to have too much of AND are the most common ingredients in unnatural and processed foods. They cause weakness in the kidneys, urinary bladder, spleen, pancreas and stomach. It becomes obvious why the most common diseases exist.

The only logical solution is to stay balanced through eating all five flavors from natural sources and properly exercising your muscles and organs. How do you exercise your organs? You massage them through deep breathing and exercise. 

Colon hydrotherapy may be an okay way to jump start the cleansing process but it's not anything that has to do with a healthy lifestyle, and it's defintely not something to rely on. External technologies have been around long enough to teach us that there are no real shortcuts in this sense, and for that, is what they are most valuable for.

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Important Technique For Exercise Beginners

The most important thing to develop while performing exercises is the mind-body connection. Beginners sometimes do not make this connection right away, it takes some practice. This is the only time I will have someone isolate a muscle group and not have them activate the glutes and abdominals. Usually they are not even using a weight. I have them perform the movement just by flexing the individual muscle. This is why one of the worst things a beginner can do is get on an exercise machine. The idea is that machines are easy and great for a beginner. The problem is that machines can teach improper form, which is why it's the exact worst thing for a beginner. Until proper form and balance is learned with free weights, machines have no place in a beginners workout regimen. There are many other things wrong with machines but that's another discussion.

You will be surprised how great of a workout you get just by squeezing your muscles as hard as you can, with no weights at all. This practice develops the mind-body connection and improves form greatly. Go ahead and try it. Do four sets of standing biceps curls with no weights. Squeeze as hard as you can. You may feel areas of your arm you never knew you had before.

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Obsolete Techniques From The Diet World - Portion Control

Portion Control. It seems logical. It seems as though if we only had enough will power, we would look and feel the way we wanted all the time. Like all the rest of the dieting techniques, it's not fun to have to approach food in this way. Sometimes it can even make the addiction worse. Take something away from someone and they only want it more.

Think about why you want to control your portions in the first place. One, because not controlling portions has a side effect. An effect that is not beneficial. If nothing happened as a result of eating big portions then you wouldn't have this conflict of how much or how little is ok to eat, would you? Would you even make as big a distinction between big and small portions?

The second reason is because there is a belief that if you eat too much you will gain weight. Simple right? The belief itself is obvious, but WHY you believe that is true is not so obvious. Looking into why this side effect of gaining weight happens, whether you eat a lot or a little, helps complete the whole picture.

People gain weight from any size portion of food because of the processing of the food and because of imbalances and weakness of the body. Food does not get absorbed or digested properly because of both these reasons and they each keep making the other worse, so it's a vicious cycle.

The reason why some people have to eat so much to get full is because there are no nutrients in what they are eating, so they have to fill up on calories while never satisfying their cells. When you eat the proper food for your body, your metabolism gets balanced, your body gets cleaned out and you can digest properly. Once this happens extreme weight gain is not possibl.

FulL-fillment cannot be achieved through food.

Can you believe this cake is way healthier than the portion controlled substances above? It is. It's an all raw Chocolate Cake, with raw Vanilla Ice Cream and raw Peanut Butter Cup Chunks in the middle. You're more likely to even lose weight eating the cake.

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Obsolete Techniques From The Diet World - Portion Control

Portion Control. It seems logical. It seems as though if we only had enough will power, we would look and feel the way we wanted all the time. Like all the rest of the dieting techniques, it's not fun to have to approach food in this way. Sometimes it can even make the addiction worse. Take something away from someone and they only want it more.

Think about why you want to control your portions in the first place. One, because not controlling portions has a side effect. An effect that is not beneficial. If nothing happened as a result of eating big portions then you wouldn't have this conflict of how much or how little is ok to eat, would you? Would you even make as big a distinction between big and small portions?

The second reason is because there is a belief that if you eat too much you will gain weight. Simple right? The belief itself is obvious, but WHY you believe that is true is not so obvious. Looking into why this side effect of gaining weight happens, whether you eat a lot or a little, helps complete the whole picture.

People gain weight from any size portion of food because of the processing of the food and because of imbalances and weakness of the body. Food does not get absorbed or digested properly because of both these reasons and they each keep making the other worse, so it's a vicious cycle.

The reason why some people have to eat so much to get full is because there are no nutrients in what they are eating, so they have to fill up on calories while never satisfying their cells. When you eat the proper food for your body, your metabolism gets balanced, your body gets cleaned out and you can digest properly. Once this happens extreme weight gain is not possibl.

FulL-fillment cannot be achieved through food.

Can you believe this cake is way healthier than the portion controlled substances above? It is. It's an all raw Chocolate Cake, with raw Vanilla Ice Creme and raw Peanut Butter Cup Chunks in the middle. You're more likely to even lose weight eating the cake.

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Chemotherapy and Cancer

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY ...

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6, to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetics, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements that strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc., and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation, while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but not while the cancer cells are still detectable. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. A better alternative is sea salt for every day use and tao salt for detoxification.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened hemp or rice milk, cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, and nuts help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells, drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine. Green Tea Extract is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. It's best to drink purified spring water to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (Mushrooms, Essiac, antioxidants, vitamins, sepecifically vitamin C, minerals, Essential Fatty Acids, etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Antioxidants MUST be taken to avoid too much oxygen in the body, which causes oxidation. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

17. No water bottles in the freezer or left in the heat.

18. No plastic wrap or auminum foil in the oven.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. There's an easy solution that eliminates the use of both of these things. Don't use a microwave!

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Immortal's Black Garlic

    

     “In Taoist mythology, six-clove black garlic is used as part of the process of modifying a Taoist’s genetics. It supposedly endows the users immortality by intensifying their vital energy. Recorded history of garlic in Korea indicates that the traditional six-clove black garlic was given to women to bless them with supernatural powers and immortality.” Garlic has been a source of exponential vitality throughout history. But when common household garlic was scientifically tested, the results have been less than breathtaking. The Boston Globe published a report dated Feb 27, 2007 stating that ‘garlic stinks for lowering cholesterol.’ “Health benefits have been thought to come from … allicin,” The article continues, “’directly applied to cells has been shown to prevent cholesterol production. But any direct benefits to the body from allicin may be diluted when garlic is eaten,’ said Gardner, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University.” Scientific results like the above are not surprising. Over the centuries, across cultures and continents, allium sativum L. (common household garlic) has mistakenly taken the credit for its more powerful garlic cousins. Among these, the garlic species with the most healing properties is Korean Six Clove Black Garlic.

     JBNI has taken this genetically superior six clove garlic and further cultivated it using an ancient botanical process. This botanical process is a closely guarded secret among Korean Herbologists that yields the superfood: Immortal’s Black Garlic. Some of the mythical powers incorrectly attributed to common household garlic is the ability to reduce cholesterol, fight the flu, kill bacteria, restore vigorous male potency, fight tuberculosis, cancer, high blood pressure, and even is even being used to ‘treat AIDS in an uncontrolled test done in China. One case where credit was mistakenly given to common garlic includes making the Israelites stronger than the Egyptians. This garlic diet apparently gave them the strength to build the pyramids. Others include epic battles involving Greek and Roman sailors who consumed garlic. This lead to legendary victories (See: Rawlinson’s Herodotus and Virgil, Ecologues). And of course, garlic is purported to offer the power to ward off vampires. This is not to say that common household garlic is altogether without merit. Even basic garlic was observed to demonstrate antibacterial activity by Louis Pasteur as far back as 1858. Later, garlic was used as an antiseptic to prevent gangrene during world wars I and II. In any case, many mysterious powers were credited to common household garlic while it’s truly potent cousin, alchemically cultivated 6 clove black garlic, quietly stood by out of the spot light.

 

The Strongest Garlic Available

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Organics School

 

We would like to introduce you to The Nature Lyceum, a Not For Profit School for Environmental Horticulture and Irrigation “, home of the Green Guerrilla” in Westhampton, NY.

 

Jeff Frank founded The Nature Lyceum in 1993 and has dedicated his life and school to teaching organic horticulture across America and to spreading the word on the environment.  Depending only on donations, he has given seminars and the two-day “Green Guerrilla” classes around the country, in Phoenix AZ, Houston TX, Kent CT, Philadelphia PA, and Westhampton, NY.  Jeff shares 40+ years of Organic and Biological and business wisdom. In addition to being a noted author, he also has consulted to Yankee Stadium and hundreds of green Industry companies, golf courses, school systems and wineries across the country.

 

The two-day course in organics offers introductions to organics, soils, microbes, organic turf & tree programs, compost and compost teas, micorrhizae, bio-dynamics, water, organic tree care, biological responses to insect problems, plant health care and people health care taught by top instructors in the green industry. At the end of this course you will be able to teach organics, urban farming, consider alternative methods of treating tree and landscape problems and, at the same time nurture healthier plants at reduced costs and water. Graduates can receive Organic, International Society of Arborists and NYS Dept. Of Environmental Conservation credits and Green Guerrilla Certification and diploma as well as gourmet organic lunches, Official Green Guerrilla Hat, textbook, handouts, and samples from the top organic companies in the green industry.

 

If you would like to join hundreds of graduates from around the world, become a Teacher for the Environment, sponsor a seminar or two-day course in organics or to receive more information please call 631-728--0218. You can also visit our website: www.thenaturelyceum.org

 

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Masters Of Knowledge

In ancient times, people lived holistic lives.

They didn't overemphasize the intellect, but integrated mind, body, and spirit in all things.

This allowed them to become masters of knowledge

rather than victims of concepts.

If a new invention appeared, they looked for the troubles it might cause,

as well as the shortcuts it offered.

They valued old ways that had been proven effective, and they valued new ways

if they could be proven effective.

If you want to stop being confused, then emulate these ancient folk:

join your body, mind and spirit in all you do.

Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.

Rely on your own body for transportation.

Allow your work and your recreation to be one and the same.

Do exercise that develops your whole being and not just your body.

Listen to music that bridges the three spheres of your being.

Choose leaders for their virtue rather than their wealth or power.

Serve others and cultivate yourself simultaneously.

Understand that true growth comes from meeting and solving problems of life

in a way that is harmonizing to yourself and to others. 

If you can follow these simple old ways, you will be continually renewed.

-Hua Hu Ching

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The Designs Of Food

Sacred Geometry and Chakra Magic is everywhere. If two things are structurally and mechanically similar, then the energy of the bonds that hold those structures in place must be similar also.

 

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The  pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the  eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes  are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on  the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuro-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

 

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.    

Avocados, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

   Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the 

blood sugar of diabetics.

 

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries  

 

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other citris fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

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Tobacco Is A Killer; Smokers, You May Be Shocked

Author of Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart was asked,

"What's the most wicked plant of all?"

"Tobacco. It's killed over 90 million people. That's a truly wicked plant."

Here's a quote from Patricia Jones who supposedly helps people stop smoking in Britain.

"Tobacco is a serial killer and we actually pay for the dubious pleasure of risking our lives - crazy isn't it."

T

NO, IT ISN'T. The only crazy thing is how distorted things get in the absence of investigation.

How easy it is to blame a plant. Human blames plant, and the plant is supposed to blame...

who?

Tobacco is dangerous? You can't get poisoned by touching it and you cannot be poisoned by ingesting moderate amounts. So where's the danger compared to a plant you eat and it kills you by the time it reaches your bloodstream? Tobacco may not cause the damage we think. Let's look into this a little further and get the facts straight, forget opinion.

Tobacco is a not a natural plant. It's a nightshade. It has to be cross bred with another plant in order to be produced, just like eggplants, peppers and tomatoes. Evidence for its use may go back as far as 3,000 years in South America, with ritual tobacco going as far back as 8,000. Shamans traditionally used tobacco for ceremonial purposes. High doses of tobacco were either masticated or smoked, and produced strong hallucinations that put some men in a stupor for the greater part of the day or night. They came back to their senses with reports of visions and visits to the gods. Sorcerers chewed and smoked it before casting a spell, chiefs blew tobacco smoke on their tribes believing it gave them fortitude to overcome their enemies and some medicine men chewed it with coca leaves in order to diagnose diseases in patients. Indians used balls of tobacco to relieve thirst and hunger when they went on long trips without food and water. Tobacco use in South America was almost exclusively limited to horticultural peoples.

“In the Tropical Forest tobacco was the principal and nearly universal intoxicant used (Steward 1949:678).”

However, in the united States Of America tobacco is used as a stress reliever. When smoking a cigarette, the deep inhalations cause the daiphragm to expand and it gives the body a false impression of relaxation. Anyone who wants to quit smoking would do well practicing simple deep breathing exercises. Besides its use, the way it's grown is very different also.

Tobacco grown in the U.S. is often fertilized with the mineral apatite, which partially starves the plant of nitrogen. This is done so a more desired flavor will be produced. Apatite contains radium, lead 210, and polonium 210 — which are known radioactive carcinogens. Combine those chemicals with the other 4,000 chemical substances added to one single cigarette and you don't have a tobacco product, you have a chemical product with a little tobacco in it.

The nicotine in tobacco is the major alkaloid. While commercially made cigarettes and freshly rolled tobacco differ, tobacco is still water element and activates kidney energy. Smoking it can cause fear, anxiety, dizziness, increased blood flow to skeletal muscles and cooling of the skin's temperature by restricting blood flow. Nicotine is excreted through the kidneys through urination. The reason why heavy smokers crave salty and fatty foods like steak, fries, cheese and chips is because of weak kidneys. One of the easiest ways to balance this energy out is to eat more vegetables. A major detox of the kidneys and liver would help strengthen these organs.

"I've been smoking my own cigarettes for about 3 months now and it took 3 days for me to stop wanting to buy commercial tobacco when I switched to using only my home grown tobacco. I'll bet there's something other than nicotine in commercial tobacco that is addicting."                      -Anonymous Tobacco Grower

The dangerous part of tobacco seems not to come into the picture until greedy humans do. The result is another plant getting a bad name because of ignorance.  

 

 

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Fitness Industry Collapse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was bound to happen. I saw it coming 4 years ago, ever since I started to approach health and exercise from a holistic perspective; which is how the body really works, as one whole system. I realized how ineffective and incomplete conventional training was. Now there are books being written about the fitness industry collapsing, and it's no surprise. Conventional Personal Trainers, Medical Doctors, and anyone else who claims to heal and develop by dividing parts of the body from it's whole will not survive. Here is an excerpt from the book called The Purposeful Primitive:

 A shakeout of monumental proportion is underway in the wide world of all things fitness-related, and a lot of fitness professionals, fitness facilities, nutritional supplement and equipment makers are drowning in the ongoing economic tsunami. The reason for their predicament is predictable: trainers and products that do not garner gains for clients become incidental, superfluous and therefore unaffordable. The core commandment of all-things fitness is, was, and always shall be...

"Thou shalt provide measurable physical gains for clients and students on an ongoing and consistent basis."

In these tight times those that fail to adhere to the 1^st Commandment of Fitness are swept away. One seasoned professional saw it coming for a long time and was unsympathetic when asked about the ongoing fitness shakeout. "Most (personal trainers) either didn't know enough or didn't care enough - or both."

The "Fitness Revolution" began in the mid-eighties and ended with the collapse of Wall Street. September of 2007 marked the end of the Fitness Revolution. It's a new day and a new time and the fitness paradigm has shifted. The fitness game has been shaken to its core. Most fitness professionals and most fitness organizations, most corporations and most equipment makers are having tough times - yet this is not the case for all fitness professionals. The savvy and alert professional, the nimble corporation possessing the ability to pivot and reposition quickly, the innovative fitness tool maker, are all able to prosper despite the ongoing tsunami. For a savvy few this calamity presents (to use another hackneyed expression) a golden opportunity to make fitness lemonade out of bitter financial lemons.

How do real fitness pros and real fitness products prosper in tight times? They obey the 1^st Commandment of Fitness and obtain spectacular physical results for their clientele on a regularly reoccurring basis. In all things fitness related, the overarching goal is to aide and amplify the efforts of sincere clients - clients that make a real effort to follow your advice and use your strategies and incorporate your recommendations. They are paying you to transform them, from what they are into what they want to be. Orchestrate dramatic physical transformations on a regular and consistent basis for normal people leading regular lives and the fitness world will beat a path to your door.

Personal trainers and fitness tools that consistently obtain dramatic results for regular people leading normal lives living on tight budgets in tight times can and will prosper. Those unable to induce progress in paying clients soon run out of clients.

Greetings from the cusp of the abyss

       In times of plenty most any fitness professional located in a well-populated urban or suburban area possessing a smooth rap, good looks and a lean body was able to successfully ply their trade as a Boss Personal Trainer. These ineffectual personal trainers depended on charm and 'the churn,' a steady influx of new clients. Perfectly coiffed, tanned with perfect teeth and college degrees, these Boss PTs would use canned speeches and rote methods to "train" and "tone" clients using glitzy exercise machines in pristine fitness facilities. These rico suave types promised incoming clients (with lots of disposable income) astounding physical results attained with little or no physical effort in a lightning fast timeframe. Fast, easy, effective - but not cheap!

 The gullible client was initially transfixed and signed up with sky high expectations for big dollars. After months of sub-maximal effort the client inevitably quit on account of no tangible results. They became just another in a long and unbroken string of unending fitness failures for the superficial Boss PT. The blame was predictably passed onto the client: "They must not have wanted it bad enough!" Or "They were undisciplined!" Or "People are so stupid!" It was never the fault of the Boss PT or the fitness methods and tools used. The blame was always attributed to some physical or psychological defect on the part of the client. The effectiveness of grandiose strategies was never questioned. In high times these types had waiting lists for their services. But the high times are over. Now things are different. Now the stupid, undisciplined client that doesn't want it bad enough actually expect results for their hard earned dollars.

 

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Liquid Gold Is An Important Mineral

                                    

     Some medical doctors and conventionally trained health practitioners are scared away from such rare and precious elements like gold. Some say that it has not been through extensive tests to show the benefits of it. Others say they do not like to deal with metals such as colloidal gold or silver. Wait a second...there is a big difference between toxic heavy metals and nutritious precious metals. It is known and accepted that we need metals as part of our basic nutrition. Magnesium, zinc, iron and copper are all dietary metals we need to be in balance for proper functioning. How could something as precious as gold be left out? It's been used for thousands of years.

Here's an excerpt from GeneKeys.com explaining the important role Gold may play in development:

"it appears that in humans the brain and central nervous system are not composed entirely of organic matter; they also contain up to ten percent of the following six precious metals: gold, iridium, osmium, palladium, platinum, and rhodium"

"Renowned historian Sir Laurence Gardner, bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail and Genesis of the Grail Kings, offers evidence that these six extraordinary metals that form part of the angelic or triune cortex and central nervous system not only exist in humans but can be made to align their atomic spins so as to become higher-dimensional and thereby create an internal source of “torsion” bioenergy that manifests as light. Certain “areas of the brain can be stimulated to extend human consciousness beyond any imagining”

"By employing sound and intention to activate our internal “chassis” of precious metals, we can stimulate creation of what has been called the lightbody from within"

"I offer that such “ener-genetic” activation is capable of initiating a progressive monatomic “high-spin” effect that produces bioacoustic and bioelectric signals capable of turning the body's liquid crystals from hexagons into interlocking tetrahedrons or merkabahs, an ancient Hebrew term meaning “vehicle of light”

"and all DNA in the body is surrounded by water–it has the vibratory power to transfer its new molecular structure to the genome via “jumping DNA,” mobile DNA units also known as transposons that can be manipulated by conscious intention or belief"

"In the case of tetrahedral water molecules (whose tripartite form recalls the trinity), this highly structured and energized liquid compound penetrates the membrane of cells, harmonically signaling “junk” or potential DNA to begin creating the lightbody. Potential DNA, in turn, projects a new unified frequency or “consciousness field” around the body. The ener-genetic precondition for the next biological expression of the human species, the lightbody, the Unified Consciousness Field is no longer composed of energy gradations in the form of electromagnetic or auric bands (or for that matter, chakras) but is truly a gestalt that gradually comes to resonate throughout at Source's elemental, signature tone–called by investigative mythologist William Henry the "tone of Ge"–at which point the individual consciousness grounding itself in the lightbody can be considered fully unified with Source, or enlightened. "

"...the "tone” of Ge is not really a frequency as we understand the term but rather absolute Silence, the omnipotent creational Stillness of unconditional love that differentiates into torsion waves of sound and then light during the threefold process of universal manifestation"

"This archetypal “common relative” of light and sound, I contend, is Silent Stillness"

"The divine triune structure of Silent Stillness giving rise to Sound (the Word or Holy Spirit) which then becomes Light (the sun or Son) is one way of conceptualizing the Sacred Trinity (Figure 2). When this trinitized energy has finally expressed itself in and as the Unified Consciousness Field, our cells can begin to replicate a new tetrahedral crystallinity, a biological trinity, based on the lightbody template. This is a deeply personal and internal process that, in the end, requires the individual to adapt his or her own belief system (the spiritual body) to accept enlightenment as a biological reality. Creation of such a biological reality is, I propose, the ultimate form of healing or “wholing.”"

"The creational trinity composed of nothingness, sound and light is not unique to the Western worldview; it is also foregrounded in many Eastern philosophies. In Taoism, to cite one example, Silent Stillness is referred to as the Tao. The Tao gives rise to what Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching, calls the “ten thousand things” (the light-based holographic multiverse) by way of the breath (sound). From this perspective, Lao Tzu's references to “Immortals” are likely not metaphors but indicate those “sages” who have arrived at bio-spiritual transcendence through immanence (“Holy Flesh” in Catholic terminology) by activating their lightbodies"

"Many ancient peoples believed that to survive and thrive through the Galactic Alignment that is now occuring, an event the Izapans immortalized as December 21, 2012, in their sacred “Long Count” calendar, one must develop a lightbody–an evolved biology that throughout history has been called by many names"

"the light codes within the human form may be viewed as spiritual DNA … the inner forces that trigger the process of enlightenment. The ultimate maturation of the god-seed … is divinity, an example of which is Christ consciousness"

"On a species level, accessing Christ or unity consciousness, and ultimately assuming its corresponding physiology, implies being capable of naturally utilizing hypercommunication...To evolve and experience individuality, and ultimately individuation, humans chose to abandon hypercommunication almost completely. Now that we are relatively grounded in our individual consciousness, we are in a position to create a new network of group consciousness: one in which we obtain access to all information via our DNA...one can “upload” data into the biological Internet that is DNA, “download” data from it, and even “email” other participants..."

"It is my personal belief, one I share with perhaps millions of others, that the time is quickly approaching for the maturation of the god-seed and global lightbody activation leading to a hypercommunication revolution with the ability to unite all of humanity as a differentiated, enlightened consciousness. “The age that has been written about, whispered about, and spoken about is upon you,” writes Barbara Marciniak. “It is the age when humanity physically mutates … and literally turns into something … it was not a short time before … multidimensional beings.” For the ancient Incas, our generation, which is fortunate enough to experience the “end of history” with the Galactic Alignment of 2011-13, is poised to become the true chakarunas, “the bridge people” tasked with creating Heaven on Earth."

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Forget Cutting Out Carbs & Reducing Calories, Replace Factory Farmed Meat!

     Another reason why cutting out carbs and reducing calories is more harmful than useful; it takes the focus off of more important information. Like the fact that chemicals and hormones are causing your body to be so toxic that it can't get rid of excess weight. The body doesn't know what to do with these chemicals so they get stuck in the tissues and organs, causing imbalances in the systems of the body.

     The only reason you would want to cut out carbohydrates is if you were doing a specific cleanse like for candida or cancer, diabetes, etc. For dieting it may work temporarily, but when the diet ends and you're craving for carbs goes even higher than it was before you started, you've only made things worse. Your body needs carbs, exactly how much depends on your individual metabolism. Good sources are rye bread, sprouted grains, baked potatoes and activated barley.  

     An experiment you can do is to stop eating meat for awhile. When you start eating it again you will notice something interesting, it makes you more hungry. This can be useful if you use that hunger towards doing productive things. But if you're just going to eat more food as a result, then maybe it's best to stay away from it. Especially if you want to detox and lose weight.

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Value Of Food No Longer Ignored

 

New Solutions to Old Problems: An Interview with the Producers of Food Matters

Sometimes I feel that it would be infinitely easier to pretend that our world’s healthcare problems do not exist. It would be bliss to trust that our food industry operates with the public’s best interests at heart and that the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are committed to human health. I suspect however that you already realize that this is currently a fairy tale dream. Or perhaps you’re like many others and understandably feel confronted by criticism of these paradigms. Whatever the case may be, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch have learnt the hard way.

In 2003, James’ father experienced a severe health crisis. After decades of working in stressful conditions and consuming a typical western diet, Roy Colquhoun’s body completely shut down. Bedridden for months with depression, chronic fatigue, anxiety and severe flu-like symptoms, Roy sought the best medical care available. Psychiatrists and medical specialists recommended a myriad of drugs that did nothing to alleviate Roy’s physical ailments and, Roy asserts, actually worsened his mental condition.

“My life was a psychotic daze and spiraling downward out of control,” Roy recalls. “Ultimately, this lead to my psychiatrist admitting me to a specialist psychiatric hospital for a period of thirty days. This hospitalization did not help and all that was achieved was a change in the ingredients of my cocktail of prescription medication... Feelings of hopelessness started to predominate my life. Suicide was becoming a frightening and very real option.”

As a professional businessman with obstinate faith in conventional practices, Roy was initially very unreceptive when James and Laurentine encouraged him to read about the natural health methods they were learning about. Roy explains his attitude at the time was, “If the best of the medical profession could not help me, how could my son and daughter-in-law with their nutrition and vitamin-based approach help?”

James and Laurentine understood that it would take powerful measures to shock Roy into kicking his dangerous pharmaceutical drug habit. After realizing that he wasn’t reading the books that they sent him, the duo set off around the world interviewing experienced doctors, researchers, naturopaths and journalists. Their reasoning was that if Roy wouldn’t read the books then maybe he would listen to these experts on DVD.

“They arrived on my doorstep and I was told they were not leaving until I recovered,” Roy remembers. Seeing the filmed footage of all these experts clearly had its desired effect. “After five years on heavy doses of anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, anxiety medication and sleeping tablets, I started taking therapeutic doses of vitamins and minerals and within a week had withdrawn from all prescription medication.” Also, with some not-so-gentle persuasion according to Roy, “I was ordered onto a ten day detox, eating only raw food and no alcohol and continuing on a special cleansing diet thereafter.”

The results? Nothing short of spectacular. Roy suffered none of the serious drug withdrawal side-effects cautioned by the medical profession. Today, he is disease-free, drug-free, twenty kilograms lighter, running twice a week and enjoying a happy retirement. Roy’s return to health was incredibly inspiring evidence of the power of nutritional therapy. “What we learned throughout this journey was so astounding that we wanted to share it with others, and so Food Matters the documentary was born,” James explains with his characteristic passion.

The beauty of Food Matters is that its message has ubiquitous relevance - not only to those who are as sick as James’s father was but also to those looking to prevent illness in their lives but who seem to have become bewildered by the often contradicting health information available to them. With raw honesty, Food Matters cuts through this confusion to reveal how a poor diet coupled with a pill-popping dependency serves the longevity of big business - but not you. In the words of featured nutritional therapy expert Dr. Andrew Saul, “Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars”.

“We’re not suggesting that pharmaceutical drugs don’t have their place, we’re suggesting that our overburdened healthcare practitioners perhaps do not have the time to educate people about nutrition and healthy living,” James points out. “Food Matters was created to help fill that void”.

Experts such as Charlotte Gerson explain that the human body is self-curative when it functions in good health. She is adamant that “a normal healthy body can not and will not develop cancer or any other illness for that matter”. Conversely, when our innate healing systems become damaged by an un-natural diet and a toxic environment, disease manifests. Whilst drugs have their place in medical emergencies, chronic use merely masks the symptoms of disease and impedes profound healing.

The journey to good health can sometimes feel too overwhelming to start. Part of the magic of Food Matters is that it is an entertaining and solution-oriented springboard for taking your first step toward feeling good. Food Matters does not involve hours of lecturing scientists or extremist New Age diet ideas. It’s just eighty minutes of powerful common-sense, practical solutions to our current health crisis.

It is very seductive to pretend that our current healthcare problems do not exist. What I’m beginning to realize is that I may never be able to change the way people eat but I can do my very best today to make choices that serve my body and our planet. Food Matters delivers the message that only you are capable of transcending the madness of our current ‘sickcare industry’ and reclaiming the vibrant health that is rightfully yours. 

Get the DVD HERE and discover for yourself why this film managed to gain such strong momentum worldwide and sparked a revolution in natural healthcare solutions.

-Kali Gray

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What NOT to do if you have Cancer, Even though your doctor may recommend it anyway

I usually like to focus on things TO do, but when I hear people getting such horrible advice while their life is at risk, I need to make these ridiculous things known. Keep in mind this is real advice people told me they've been given by doctors, nurses and dieticians regarding cancer.

1. Eat fast food to keep your weight up.

Eating calorically dense food has nothing to do with healing. Even if it did, fast food would be a really poor choice. The reason why people lose weight when they're sick is because their immune system is so weak. How is fast food going to boost the immune system? The same applies for diseases such as AIDS. People who have AIDS are at risk of losing weight and wasting away; not because they don't eat enough, but because their immune system is attacking all their cells, it's autoimmunity. It doesn't matter whether the immune system is underactive or overactive, both are a result of weakness.

2. Eat whatever you want.

What to eat and what not to eat is one of the most important things in healing a disease. Everything that goes into the body has an effect, whether that effect can be felt or not. Some foods will contribute to the disease and some will kill or even trick malignant cells into killing themselves. But the medical community still insists, "Food for healing is dumb, chemicals are smart." How can this be?

3. Don't eat a lot of healthy foods because cancer wants to eat everything up and take control over your body.

With all the logical, solid, scientific evidence out there, how could someone (a doctor) legitimately believe this?

Cancer feeds on sugar, especially any processed sugar and high fructose corn syrup, so it needs to be cut out. Dairy and meat also create an environment that feeds cancer by creating mucous. There are a lot of foods that actually stop blood flow to cancer cells so those need to be added. What else does cancer feed on that is not talked about as much? Fear. Emotion plays a huge role in the creation or healing of a disease. Those who have cancer benefit greatly by surrounding themselves with loving people, NOT people who are going to make them worry and fear more. It is also a great time to give themselves love. Love kills fear.

NEXT TIME YOU GO TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR, ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND DEMAND ANSWERS. IF THEY CAN'T EDUCATE YOU AND BACK UP WHAT THEY SAY, FIND ONE THAT WILL.

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An Often Overlooked Condition - Candida

By Bee Wilder, Nourished Magazine

What is Candida?

Candida is the short name used to describe yeast overgrowth in the body. The technical term is Candidiasis. Like their “cousins” the molds, they live all around us. One family “Candida Albicans” lives in all mucus membranes, i.e. intestines, eyes, ears, bladder, stomach, lungs, vagina, etc. It is one of the billions of other friendly organisms that serve a useful purpose in the body. One of its important functions is to recognize and destroy harmful bacteria. However, candida is not intended to overgrow and get out of control while the body is alive. This is only intended to happen when the body dies, when it’s function and characteristics change in order to break down the body.

How Does Candida Affects Us?

When Candida Albicans is under control it poses no problem, but when it gets out of control it begins to overgrow causing numerous symptoms and health problems from the top of the head to the tips of the toes, from migraines to nail fungus. It can result in symptoms inside (pain and malfunction of organs, even brain lesions) and outside (eczema and hives). It can also cause problems with the mind and emotions.

Symptoms Caused by Candida Overgrowth

• Allergies, sensitivities and intolerances that worsen in damp, muggy or moldy places or weather that is damp, muggy, humid or rainy.
• Hay fever and asthma.
• Intolerances or allergies to perfumes, odors, fumes, fabric shop odors, grass, cats, dogs or other animals, tobacco smoke, chemicals, smog, molds, dust mites, dust, pollen, and other airborne substances.
• Athletes’ foot.
• Babies - colic, diaper rash, thrush (coated white tongue), and cradle cap.
• Bruising easily.
• Cheekbone or forehead tenderness, pain.
• Cold hands or feet, low body temperature.
• Cold-like symptoms - excessive mucus in the sinuses, nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
• Cravings or addictions for sugar, bread, pasta and other high carb foods, and also alcohol.
• Cysts, abnormal formation of, in different parts of the body, especially around the neck, throat, and ovaries, and in the bladder or scrotum.
• Digestive problems - diarrhea, constipation, abdominal distention, bloating or pain, gas, mucus in the stools, hiatal hernia, ulcers, suffering from bacteria, i.e. salmonella, E. coli, h. pylori, etc.
• Ears - ringing in the ears (tinnitus), sounds in the ears, ear infections, dryness, itchiness, ear pain, ear aches, ear discharges, fluid in ears, deafness, abnormal wax build-up.
• Eyes - erratic vision, spots in front of eyes (eye floaters) and flashing lights; redness, dryness, itching, excessive tearing, inability to tear, etc.
• Fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome or Epstein Barr or a feeling of being drained of energy, lethargy, drowsiness.
• Flu-like symptoms.
• Glands – swollen, too little saliva (dryness in the mouth), blocked salivary glands, swollen lymph nodes.
• Hair loss, scum on the scalp, dandruff, itchy scalp, scalp sores and dryness.
• Heart palpitations and irregular heart beat.
• Headaches, migraines, brain fog, dizziness, etc.
• Hemorrhoids, and rectal itching, rash, irritation and redness.
• Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), and diabetes.
• Hypothyroidism, Wilson’s Thyroid Syndrome, Hashimoto’s disease, hyperthyroidism, erratic thyroid function, etc.
• Irritability, nervousness, jitteriness and panic attacks.
• Lesions on the skin, and inside the body, i.e. the brain.
• Male associated problems - jock itch, loss of sex drive, impotence, prostitis, penis infections, difficulty urinating, urinary frequency or urgency, painful intercourse, swollen scrotum, etc.
• Female health problems - infertility, vaginitis, unusual odors, endometriosis (irregular or painful menstruation), cramps, menstrual irregularities, pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), discharge, painful intercourse, loss of sexual drive, redness or swelling of the vulva and surrounding area, vaginal itching or thrush, burning or redness, or persistent infections.
• Fungal infections of the skin or nails, i.e. ringworm, saborrheic dermatitis, dark and light patches on the skin (tinea versicolor), etc.
• Joint pain, stiffness or swelling (arthritis).
• Kidney and bladder - infections, cystitis (inflammation of the bladder with possible infection), urinary frequency or urgency, low urine output, smelly urine, difficulty urinating, burning pain when urinating.
• Lack of appetite.
• Mind and Mood - anxiety attacks, crying spells, memory loss, feeling spaced out, depression(including suicidal feelings), manic feelings, inability to concentrate, mood swings, irritability, etc.
• Mouth sores or blisters, canker sores, dryness, bad breath, a white coating on the tongue (thrush) and blocked salivary glands.
• Muscle aches and pain, numbness, burning or tingling, and lack of strength and coordination.
• Nasal congestion, postnasal drip, itching, dryness.
• Odor of the feet, hair or body not relieved by washing.
• Respiratory - cough, bronchitis or pneumonia, pain or tightness in the chest, wheezing, shortness of breath, asthma.
• Sick all over feeling.
• Sinus inflammation, swelling and infections.
• Skin – dryness, dry red patches, acne, pimples, hives, rashes, itching skin, eczema, psoriasis, seborrhoea, ringworm, contact dermatitis, rosacea, etc.
• Stomach – h. pylori bacteria (causes ulcers), heartburn, indigestion, hiatal hernia, acid reflux, belching, vomiting, burning, stomach pains, needle-like pains, food that seems to sit in the stomach like a lump, etc.
• Sleep - insomnia, waking up frequently, nightmares, restless sleep, etc.
• Sore throat, hoarse voice, constant tickle in the throat, laryngitis (loss of voice), etc.

What Causes Candida to Get Out of Control?

A healthy immune system keeps Candida in balance with the other micro-organisms in the mucous membranes but under certain conditions it begins to overgrow and get out of control. The causes of immune system dysfunction are varied and complex, but antibiotics are the biggest culprits because they wipe out friendly micro-organisms, in the digestive system. Because Candida is resistant to antibiotics the imbalance of micro-organisms allows it to take over. It begins to change its shape and starts to overgrow; raising large families called colonies.

These colonies excrete toxins that circulate throughout the body further weakening the immune system and creating havoc throughout the body. The Candida produces very long root-like structures that penetrate intestinal walls leaving microscopic holes which allows toxins, undigested food particles, bacteria and yeast to enter the bloodstream. This condition is known as the “Leaky Gut Syndrome”, which causes food allergies and many health problems. These root-like structures also causes considerable damage to the walls of the intestines resulting in malabsorption of nutrients.

Adding to the problem of malabsorption are nutritional deficiencies that also weaken the immune system. Today’s standard diet lacks the necessary nutrients to maintain a healthy immune system. It is loaded with sugar, carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils and fats (trans-fats), white flour products, processed foods, food additives, preservatives, pesticides, and heavy metals. This, in addition to foods being irradiated (exposed to high levels of radiation to extend shelf life), and being grown in nutrient depleted soil, long storage and transportation time, and improper handling, cooking and microwaving that goes on in most homes, further depletes nutrients available. All of these factors contribute to a weakened immune system.

Testing for Candida at Home

First thing in the morning, before you put anything in your mouth, fill a clear glass with room temperature bottled water.

Work up a bit of saliva, and spit it into the glass of water. Check the water every 15 minutes or so for up to one hour.

If you see strings (fibers) traveling down into the water from the saliva floating on the top, cloudy specks (particles suspended in the water) or cloudy saliva that sinks to the bottom of the glass you have a candida problem.

Diagram from www.ninazu.com

The Candida Control Program

In order to get Candida overgrowth under control five things need to be done simultaneously:
1. Eliminate foods that feed Candida
2. Build up the immune system
3. Kill off Candida overgrowth
4. Plant good bacteria in the digestive tract
5. Manage the healing crisis

1. Eliminate foods that feed Candida

Candida overgrowth is mainly fueled by sugar, refined carbohydrates and gluten. Let's look at each of these separately so you know what to avoid exactly.
Sugar

Candida’s main food supply is sugar and all forms of it, such as lactose contained in dairy products, honey, glucose, fructose, and sugar substitutes, i.e. Nutrasweet, aspartame, saccharin. Eliminating sugar is the most important part of the Candida Program. All fruit, except lemons, are also very high in sugar and should be extremely limited during the initial stages of the program, along with some vegetables that are very high in sugar, such as sweet potatoes, parsnips and beets. Sugar also contained is most processed foods such as smoked luncheon meats, ketchup, cereal, and yogurt making it important to read labels carefully. Following is a partial list of the names for sugar and sweeteners.

Names for Sugar and Sweeteners

Aspartame, carob powder, corn starch, crystalline carbohydrate dextrin, dextrose, disaccharides, galactose, glucose, levulose, malts of any kind, maltitol, maltodextrin, maltose (malt sugar), manitol, mannitol, mono-saccharides, sucrose, Nutrasweet, polydextrose, polysaccharides, ribose, saccharin, sorghum, suamiel, succanat, xylitol.

It has been known for many years that sugar greatly depresses the immune system. In the 1970s Linus Pauling knew that white blood cells needed a high dose of vitamin C. That was when he came up with his theory that high doses of vitamin C were needed to combat the common cold. But vitamin C and glucose have similar chemical structures and they compete for one another upon entering the cells. If there is more glucose around less vitamin C will be allowed into the cell, and interestingly taking vitamin C also helps curb sugar cravings.

These are a few of the negative effects sugar has on health:

• Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection
• Sugar upsets mineral relationships in the body
• Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium
• Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein
• Sugar can change the structure of protein
• Sugar can increase the body’s fluid retention
• Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances
• Sugar is an addictive substance and can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol
• High carbohydrates

Candida also feeds on high carbohydrate foods such as starches and grains, i.e. breads, pasta, pizza, cereals, baked goods and potatoes.

Gluten Grains

Most Candida sufferers are gluten intolerant. Gluten is an elastic and gluey protein found in wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, kamut, triticale and it is hidden in an endless variety of processed foods. Triticale is a new hybrid grain with the properties of wheat and rye, while spelt and kamut are gluten-containing wheat variants and are likely to cause problems similar to other wheat varieties. Gluten-containing grains have come to be used extensively in breads and other baked goods because of their “glutinous,” sticky consistency.

Gluten grains feed Candida because they have a high glycemic index just like sugar, and like sugar, creates insulin resistance within the cells which leads to blood sugar problems like hypoglycemia and diabetes. The cells become resistant to insulin as they try to protect themselves from the toxic effective of high doses of insulin caused by high intake of sugar and simple carbohydrates. As the cells become insulin resistant, the pancreas produces more insulin which creates a vicious cycle. This exhausts the pancreas eventually leading to its breakdown resulting in diabetes.

Gluten grains contain a protein that is difficult to digest and interferes with mineral absorption and causes intestinal damage. This damage makes the intestines incapable of absorbing nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and even water in some cases. Our grain food supply also contains mycotoxins (a toxin produced by a fungus), especially found in corn and wheat. Mycotoxins can suppress our normal immune function. See the section on Yeast, Mold and Fungus for more information.

2. Build up the immune system

Building up the immune system requires:

• Eating the right foods
• Taking essential supplements
• Avoiding yeast, mold and fungus

If the wrong diet is constantly consumed, or if yeast overgrowth damage is never reversed from previous drug and antibiotic use, a cure can almost never be achieved. Eating the right foods is the most important aspect of getting Candida under control and building up the immune system. The “Candida Control Diet” is high in protein and good saturated fats and oils, and low in carbohydrates, and contains no sugars, grains or processed foods. All foods must be as fresh and natural as possible, and free of additives, pesticides, heavy metals, irradiation, mycotoxins, etc.

Meats and fats should be from organic grass-fed free-range animals and from good oils such as coconut, palm and fish. Fish should be from non-farmed sources and as free of mercury and other pollutants as possible. Vegetables should be from reliable certified organic sources. Protein in the diet slows the breakdown of carbohydrates, which decreases the need for insulin secretion by the pancreas. It also stimulates glucagon release, that hormone that unlocks our stored fuel.

Good Fats and Oils - Good fats and oils are equally important to protein in the diet and they are essential to getting Candida under control. They not only increase the body’s ability to absorb nutrients from the foods eaten but also provide the most efficient source of energy. They also provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances. Good fats act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K and for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption and for a host of other processes. The kinds of fats consumed greatly influence the assimilation and utilization of vitamin D.

Cholesterol is the body’s version of fat, and contrary to popular belief cholesterol, is your best friend. Cholesterol’s job is to repair and protect, and it is essential for nourishing the brain and nervous system. The brain is 70% cholesterol and it could not function properly without it. Hormones like estrogen and testosterone are made from cholesterol. Bile salts (for digestion) are made from cholesterol. Cholesterol is also a powerful antioxidant.

Cholesterol is a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol, in fact your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The eminent American physician and scientist George Mann called the cholesterol theory “the greatest scientific deception of this century, perhaps of any century.”

Essential Fatty Acids - There are also two types of essential fatty acids that must be obtained from the diet and these are omega-3s and omega-6s. They are called essential because we have to get them from food because our bodies can’t manufacture them from other fats. Most people’s diets contain an excessive amount of omega 6 fats, therefore it is important to ensure the diet contains more omega 3 rich foods to offset this imbalance.

Avoid all newfangled fats and oils (trans fats) - Candida sufferers cannot afford to jeopardize their health by consuming toxic oils and fats and must avoid all of the newfangled polyunsaturated fats and hydrogenated vegetable oils (margarine, Canola oil, safflower oil, etc.), called trans fats. These newfangled fats and oils are not only toxic and increase the body’s need for vitamin E and other antioxidants, but also depress the immune system. All trans fats, found in margarine and shortenings used in most commercial baked goods and most processed food, should always be avoided even by healthy people.

All of these fats and oils are extracted by a process called hydrogenation. This process employs: 1) High heat, 2) A metal catalyst such as nickel, zinc, copper, or other reactive metals and 3) Hydrogen gas. This is a volatile combination that results in an extremely toxic product that the body reacts to like plastic.

Even when refrigerated, hydrogenated oils stay liquid and go rancid very easily. Vegetable oils should never be heated or used in cooking, except for extra virgin olive oil, which must be handled with care. The more appropriate kind of fat for health is saturated fat, in spite of what we’ve been led to believe, which plays many important roles in body chemistry. But saturated fats have been given a bad name by the oil and food manufacturing industry with the sole purpose of selling their products. This is also true for drug companies who perpetuate the cholesterol myth and low-fat diets in order to sell drugs.

The truth is, natural fats and oils have components found only in them, which are health-promoting, and the newfangled trans fats are now known to be disease-causing. These health-giving saturated fats are stable and do not become rancid easily and they do not draw upon the body’s reserves of antioxidants nor do they initiate cancer or irritate the artery walls.

Coconut Oil - Coconut oil is another healthy saturated fat that contains many properties that are beneficial to Candida sufferers which are anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal. It also kills off yeast overgrowth. Coconut oil supports immune system function, supplies important nutrients necessary for good health and improves digestion and nutrient absorption.

The fat in coconut oil is easily digested and absorbed, unlike the newfangled trans fats that act like plastic in the body. It puts little strain on the digestive system and provides a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing. Coconut oil is absorbed directly from the intestines into the portal vein and sent straight to the liver, whereas other fats require pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units.

Look for unrefined coconut oil, since most commercial coconut oils are refined, bleached, and deodorized. It is highly resistant to spoilage and has a long shelf life (up to 2 years at room temperature). Coconut oil has a high burning point and is a perfect oil for cooking. Coconut oil can be taken by the tablespoonfuls with meals to aid digestion. A good therapeutic dose is 1 to 2 tablespoons with fat containing meals.

Fish oils - Fish, unlike mammals, birds and reptiles, do not respond to sunlight and rely on vitamin D found in phytoplankton and other fish. They must feed on phytoplankton and other fish in order to obtain and store significant vitamin D in their fat, flesh, skin, and organs.

Unfortunately, eating most fresh fish, whether from the ocean, lakes and streams, or farm-raised, is no longer recommended because of their dangerously high mercury levels. Try to source line caught and wild fish where possible.

Carbohydrates - Low carbohydrate consumption is an important aspect of the Candida Control Diet since high carbohydrate foods feed the Candida. Carbohydrate foods are any foods that are not protein or fat, including all vegetables, grains and fruits. Since grains and most fruit, except lemons, are eliminated on the Candida Control Diet this leaves a wide variety of vegetables that are healthy to consume. Vegetables with the lowest carbohydrate index are green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, turnips, spinach, asparagus, celery, peppers, kale, mustard greens, and Chinese cabbage. Some vegetables also inhibit the growth of Candida such as raw garlic, onions, horseradish, cabbage, broccoli, turnip, and kale.

Avoid Soybean and Soy-based foods - Soybeans contains large quantities of natural toxins or “anti-nutrients,” including potent enzyme inhibitors that block the action of enzymes needed for protein digestion. These inhibitors are not completely deactivated during ordinary cooking and can produce serious gastric distress, reduced protein digestion and chronic deficiencies in amino acid (proteins) uptake. In test animals, diets high in enzyme inhibitors cause enlargement and pathological conditions of the pancreas, thyroid malfunction and other diseases including cancer. Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin, a clot-promoting substance that causes red blood cells to clump together.

Soy also contains one of the highest percentages of pesticides of any of our foods and is 99% genetically modified. Soybeans are also high in phytic acid, present in the bran or hulls of all seeds, which blocks the uptake of essential minerals - calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and especially zinc - in the intestinal tract. Candida sufferers must avoid soy and all soy products in order to get well.

Salt and Spices - Salt is a very important part of a balanced diet, along with other beneficial spices. It plays an important part in the primary processes of digestion and absorption. Salt activates the first enzyme in the mouth, salivary amylase, and sodium chloride (salt) is used to make hydrochloric acid, a secretion needed for digestion. It is also important in keeping the proper balance of salt to potassium.

Salt has gotten a bad name just like the conspiracy against saturated fat. But most salt consumed today is not good for health since it highly-processed and is loaded with heavy metals and other harmful substances.

The best salt to consume is a good ocean sea salt that is hand-harvested, unprocessed, certified, and contains a natural balance of minerals. One such salt is Celtic Sea Salt which contains over 90 minerals and is very similar to the chemical make-up of our own blood. Taking this salt is the best way to obtain trace minerals. An excellent electrolyte drink is simply pure water with about 1/4 teaspoon of Celtic Sea Salt for every 6 ounces.

Taking essential supplements

Candida sufferers need to build up their immune system by supplementing with certain essential vitamins and minerals, that are yeast-free and sugar-free, including:

• Chlorella is a whole-food that contains a wide array of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. It helps build the immune system, detoxifies heavy metals and other pesticides in the body, improves the digestive system, improves energy levels and normalize blood sugar and blood pressure. Take two capsules three times a day.
• Vitamin B Complex (non-yeast), 50 mgs. twice a day.
• Vitamin C with bioflavonoids, 1,000 mgs. twice a day.
• Vitamin D (with vitamin A) - take 1 teaspoon per 50 lbs. of body weight per day of a high quality cod liver oil or fish oil.
• Vitamin E, containing natural alpha tocopherol, (d-alpha tocopherol is synthetic), that is not from a soy source, 400 IU twice a day.
• Calcium/Magnesium Citrate, with “elemental amounts” containing 800-1,200 mgs. of calcium with an equal ratio of magnesium.

3. Kill off Candida overgrowth

There are many anti-fungal agents that kill off Candida overgrowth, including raw garlic, apple cider vinegar, olive leaf extract and Pau d'arco.

Garlic - Garlic contains a large number of sulphur containing compounds that exhibit very potent broad-spectrum anti-fungal properties. Among the most studied are allicin, alliin, alliinase and S-allylcysteine.

Fresh garlic is significantly more potent against Candida albicans than any other form, including tablets, oils and pills. Fresh garlic is also a suitable alternative to drugs for serious systemic yeast infections in patients with severe immune suppression. Adding fresh garlic to food (raw and crushed), or crushing and swallowing raw clove is a cheap and powerful anti-fungal treatment. Garlic also stimulates the immune system, improves circulation, lowers high blood pressure, kills intestinal parasites, and is a powerful antioxidant and antibiotic, in addition to many other health benefits.

To obtain the most benefit from garlic buy certified organic garlic and crush it. Crushing breaks the cell walls releasing garlic’s beneficial properties. To kill off Candida overgrowth take 4-5 average sized cloves per day mixed in foods or with meals. Another alternative is to drink 3-4 cups of garlic tea per day.

Raw apple cider vinegar - Raw apple cider vinegar and Candida do not get along. Take a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and mix it with a glass of water and drink before every meal. The apple cider vinegar helps to fight off the intestinal yeast overgrowth by actually killing the yeast, creating a die off reaction. Raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar creates an unfriendly environment for the yeast, while helping create a good environment for friendly gut flora.

Olive Leaf Extract - Olive leaf extract can kill invading fungus rather than just inhibiting its growth. It contains a a phenolic compound called oleuropein, which has antiviral, anti-fungal, antiprotozoal, and antibacterial properties. Take as directed on the product label.

Pau d’arco - Pau d’arco is the bark of a rainforest tree which is inherently anti-fungal (also known as Taheebo or Lepacho tea). Pau d’arco may be taken in a capsule or a tea. Take capsules as directed on the product label or drink 3 cups of tea per day.

4. Plant good bacteria in the digestive tract

As the yeast overgrowth is being killed off by anti-fungal agents it is important to ingest a constant supply of probiotics. These are the ‘friendly’ or ‘beneficial’ bacteria, or micro organisms, that live in the digestive tract. As yeast colonies are reduced space becomes available for colonizing the other healthy bacteria. The most numerous bacteria found in the small intestines are species of Lactobacilli. In the colon the majority are mainly Bifidobacteria.

The easiest and least expensive way to plant healthy bacteria in the digestive tract is to take Cabbage Rejuvelac. But probiotic supplements can also plant good bacteria in the digestive tract. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as just buying the first probiotic supplement and assuming it will do the job. The best probiotic supplements will contain specific strains of bacteria that have been studied and verified as effective, and they will identified on the bottle as a series of letters or numbers after the name of the bacteria to indicate a specific strain. Some of the most studied strains include Lactobacillus acidophilus DDS-1 and Lactobacillus GG. Probiotic supplements should be at least 500 billion organisms per gram, contained in dark bottles to avoid deterioration by heat and light, and kept refrigerated, even in the store. Take according to instructions on the bottle.

Yogurt - Usually yogurt or kefir would be good sources of probiotics, however many Candida sufferers are intolerant of their lactose (sugar) content. They are not recommended as a good source of probiotic therapy but good quality yogurt free of sugar or Kefir made with raw milk would be ideal to include in the diet once Candida is again in balance.

5. Handling Symptoms of the Healing Crisis

The Healing Crisis is brought about when the body becomes overcrowded with waste and toxins. Cells and tissues begin to throw off the waste and carry it from the bloodstream to various eliminating organs including the bowels, kidneys, lungs, skin, nasal passages, ears, throat, and genital organs. These organs in turn become congested and irritated producing symptoms such as colds, boils, kidney and bladder infections, headaches, open sores, diarrhea and fevers.

Die-off symptoms are caused by high numbers of yeast being killed off which releases a high number toxins into the system. In medical terms this is called the Herxheimer’s reaction, or yeast die-off phenomenon. Die-off symptoms resembles the flu and can be very uncomfortable. They can be alleviated by:

• Taking 1,000 mgs of Vitamin C (preferably in powdered form in pure water) several times a day or whenever needed.
• Taking an Epsom salts bath also draws toxins out through the skin and helps minimized die-off symptoms (add two cups, or 500 grams, of Epsom salts to warm bath water).

The most important aspect of the healing crisis is to never go to extremes in making changes to your diet or lifestyle. It is important to gradually introduce changes one at a time, allowing the body to adapt to the changes and adjust itself. The keys to successfully overcoming Candida are: 1) sticking to the Candida Control Program, 2) being patient, and 3) being persistent. You will get well. I was on the Candida Control Program for two and a half years and I have been healthy and well ever since.

Source: www.nourishedmagazine.com.au

 

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