The wonderful thing about algae is that it is so primitive. Its nutrients can keep you alive for months, youthful and vibrant too when you supplement it. Algae helps shape your appetite within normal range, helping to keep sugar cravings low. Some research has also shown algae to stabilize mood swings, sharpen and focus your eyesight, promote healthy cholesterol, enhance metabolic functions, purify the blood and encourage complete and thorough digestion. This is only off the top of my head, so be sure to check our website for more algae information!

In addition to this, research has shown that what your body assimilates and absorbs is more important than the specific foods you eat. In the end, it doesn’t matter how many nutrients, vitamins and minerals are in the foods you eat, but how much of them your body actually absorbs. Since algae are at the bottom of the food chain, they provide an extremely simple yet extremely essential form of nutrition. The soft cell walls of AFA algae are very easily digested by the body, but also assimilated and absorbed. Your required vital nutrients will be present for you to reach your full potential.

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Nothing fizzy (as is carbonated drinks). Anything sold in an aluminum can. Anything with refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup. Get rid of potatoes. Starch. Cakes and pastries. It may take you three weeks to wean yourself off the carbs and convince your body that it needs to burn fat for energy, but once you make the switch, you will be feeling so much better.

Being overweight is such a vicious cycle. You feel hungry. You eat carbs, mainly empty calories. Your body asked for nutrients, but you gave it empty calories. It does not take long before the body is asking for more. It is asking for nutrients, but usually gets more calorie rich and nutrient poor commercially prepared “food”.

This is how you become overweight. Your body says “feed me”, and you cannot resist that command. The correction that is neededis this: eat only nutrient (not calorie) rich foods. Or else you will end up with metabolic stress.

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Unfortunately, in the times we are living in we are bombarded by advertisements. Many of these advertisements are telling us to eat their products, the majority of which are fast food no-nutrients products that are not going to help us stay healthy.

Even if you are stopping to get a nice sandwich or salad, a problem can arise if the vegetables have been grown in soils depleted of nutrients. These vegetables grow too quickly, pushed by fertilizers, to absorb essential trace minerals from the soil.

Nutrient poor and calorie rich foods go straight to your waist, and no one wants that, right? Check out superfoods instead.

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I believe that labels on food products do not adequately describe their content, because the really important aspects of food quality don’t even make it on the label.

It is hard to tell if a product is healthy just by looking at the label. Let’s say that one ingredient we find on a health food label is alfalfa. There are a number of questions we should be asking ourselves about this ingredient. Was it grown organically? Was it grown in a field rich with the minerals and nutrients? Was it harvested “at the peak of perfection?” Was the whole plant used, or only the selected beneficial parts? How was it preserved? Was it milled carefully to protect all enzymatic activity? The list of additional points about each of the ingredient could go on for a long time. The simple word “alfalfa” suddenly tells you next to nothing.

Some companies have even gone so far as to hide the ingredients they are using. Many people are now aware that MSG, a flavor-enhancing agent most commonly used in Chinese food, is not very healthy. However, I have become aware of companies advertising their products to be MSG-free, but simply mixing the MSG in with a spice or other ingredient. The same idea applies to foods with “zero trans-fats” that often contain twice as many calories because of it.

The biggest issue that is missing from the label is “vitality”. If you compare a bag of almonds that are raw and full of life force against a bag of roasted almonds, the labels will be identical. And yet, one will nourish you, and the other will be a health reducing bar-food (maybe barf-food).

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A while back I listened to Tony Robbins interview John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches known for his work with the LA Lakers. He spent ten years coaching the club and during these ten years the club won the championship nine times.

As I was listening to this interview, I was struck by the emphasis Wooden put on the fundamentals of the game. Tom Robbins asked him at a point, “What exactly do you do as a coach?” Wooden’s answer was very simple; he trained his players in the basics of the game. A large percentage of the training for the team was doing simple drills such as lay-ups and free throws.

This makes sense if you consider the following scenario: The clock is running down. There is only a minute left in the game and your team is behind by a single point. In the last 5 seconds of the game there is a foul committed by the opposing team. Now you must sink two free throws in order to win the game. The crowd is cheering you on in anticipation.

Making the free throw, you have no time to think about anything. You simply must let your body do what it already knows to do. If you are not grounded in your basic training or if your mind interferes, you will not be able to make the shot. It’s the same in our everyday lives, which get filled with all manner of excitement. Without the basic building blocks in place, running on muscle memory automatically, we will never be able to live how we want.

So just what are the basics that are important to our health and well-being? They include the habits that maintain your body’s pH level, amino acids, enzymes, minerals, water, air. Be sure to check out the Health Education page of our website for more information.

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Exsula also offers another great product called Strata-Flora. This product is designed to restore your digestive system to its proper, optimal state. It eliminates viruses, bad bacteria, yeast, parasites and infections while seeding your intestines with good bacteria to promote optimal bowel regularity with fewer toxins and aches and pains. This product supports your immune system in its fight against colds, flus and infections.

Strata-Flora is a very special probiotic formula that strengthens the natural, positive bacteria in your digestive tract. This good bacteria prevents us from suffering from degeneration and disease, just like bad bacteria can cause us to become ill.

Notice that probiotic means “for life”, while the antibiotics prescribed by doctors mean “against life”.

Inside your digestive tract are large quantities of different bacteria. They perform a very important function. “Good” bacteria co-exist with the “bad” bacteria to create a balance or equilibrium. It is only when the bad bacteria outnumber the good that problems arise.

Some of the causes of this imbalance are use of antibiotics, chlorinated water, infections, stress, poor diet, overly acidic pH levels and poor lifestyle.

The bacteria in your intestinal tract are known as flora and more and more research is showing that many diseases are closely linked to a failing intestinal flora. Strata-Flora allows good bacteria to flourish by providing and stimulating an environment conducive to their existence. These bacteria are closely connected to your body’s ability to deal with the food you eat in a way that is beneficial to your health and well-being.

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The food you eat is (mostly) comprised of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Enzyme supplements containing protease, amylase and lipase are extremely useful for keeping your body in a good shape. These three ingredients should be on your radar screen at all times. Without enzymes all life comes to a halt.

Allegany Nutrition enzymes offer a great value – their formulas are published in the open – unlike some “proprietary blend” enzymes. You can easily what a great value they offer by comparing their individual components and their potency to the products offered in typical store brands.

Enzymes are really important for the proper assimilation of nutrients. You need to select a product with high level of activity and a good balance of the important components.

Ionic Trace Minerals help digestive enzymes to perform their proper function by increasing their enzymatic potential. These minerals serve the body as co-factors that make the use of the enzymes more productive. They also give more strength to each separate enzyme molecule.

Allegany Nutrition uses high grade ingredients – why else would we select it? Digestive enzymes are extremely important and once this is realized by the health community at large, we will be making a huge step forward in providing ourselves with the tools we need to reach our bodies’ full potential.

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When your body is unable to get rid of the toxins within the bloodstream, it affects your brain, your thoughts and the way you feel without you even realizing it.

Toxicity is most common in the lymphatic system. The reason? The lymph does not have a pump, it moves only when you are moving. When you don’t exercise enough, nutrients aren’t getting where they need to go and toxins are not getting expelled by the body the way they should be.Cellular metabolites need to be removed from cells, transferred to your blood and filtered out by your kidneys.

Toxin overload generally starts in the colon where your body will extract water for its internal needs. The toxins come with the water and enter the bloodstream. Your body will try to expel them but if your kidneys and liver are overwhelmed with the amount of filtering they need to do, the toxins will be backing up in the lymphatic system.

One of the best things you can do to counteract this process is eat lots of fiber, which keeps things moving in your colon, easing your overall toxic load.

You can do a fairly easy salt brine bowel flush – drink 2 quarts of water with a teaspoon of salt in each – and your bowel will flush itself within an hour.

Himalayan Crystal Salt is the best salt of the planet, very different from the common refined salt which the mainstream media keeps telling you is so bad. Rather, this salt was crystallized over 250 million years ago from the ocean, where trilobites and other primitive life forms were swimming. We think of it as the amniotic solution from which life springs. This is actually true, since the primordial ocean was like the womb of the planet from which all life as we know it was formed.

Our Himalayan Crystal Salt is also powerful vibrationally – the crystals dissolve into a very potent brine. It will help you eliminate unwanted toxins from your body.

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Start with your prepared saturated salt brine. Mix six tall (8 oz) glasses of good water with 1 to 2 teaspoons (5 to 10 ml) of the saturated brine, and drink them all in quick succession. This will give you a full intestinal and colon cleanse. You will be spending the next hour or two near a toilet, because everything that is inside of you is going to be flushed out of your intestinal tract. You could massage your belly as the liquid is going through you …

This is the most economical cleanse. It has been done since time immemorial. It is an ancient yogic practice.

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Auto-intoxification or self-pollution is when the body is unable to get rid of the toxins that are in its elimination systems. It can affect your thinking in a big way. These toxins start in the gut, get into your blood, your lymphatic system and if things don’t change fast, they will be deposited in low areas of your body – your feet and your pelvis [maybe that's why your feet smell bad?].

Toxins get “set aside” in the colon in undigested, putrefied pieces. When your body extracts water from the colon for its internal needs, the toxins are carried with the water into the bloodstream. The body then tries to get rid of them. If the filtering capacity of the liver and kidneys is overwhelmed, the toxins will be sent to the lymphatic system. The next step is to hide the toxins in a low circulation tissue: fat, bones and cartilage.

Drinking alkalizing water, exercise and eating lots of fiber are good ways to start counteracting this process. I’ll be posting about other more specific ways in the next few hundred posts.

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