In the course of my next few blog posts, I’d like to talk about the different elements that one should be aware in order to strong and healthy. I tend to think of health and nutrition as being made up of five essential elements. These elements are enzymes, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and water.
If you read this blog, you probably know about Excela-50, one of our finest and most popular superfoods. If you don’t, it is a product that really stands out for me, not least because it offers plenty of enzymes. Excela-50 is specially manufactured so that the enzymes are not destroyed the way they are in so many of the foods we buy at the supermarket these days.
This is true of all our products. Preservation is often a mixed blessing because it can make a product less “alive” and less digestible. The upside is that the product will not go bad, but the reason for this is that you’ve actually removed the organic living parts of the product that will deteriorate, leaving behind the parts with less nutritional value. Fortunately, at the Life Enthusiast Co-op we are aware of this dilemma and have found two different methods that allow us to preserve our products without compromising their nutritional value in the slightest. Nothing gets lost in transit!
Everyone needs to have good supply of minerals in their bodies. Both major minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and phosphorus, and also the lesser known minerals called trace minerals, are vitally important to healthy nourishment of the body.
Chromium, molybdenum, germanium, copper and zinc all appear as trace minerals. When you give the body sufficient quantities of these essential trace minerals, the electrolyte, the medium inside each individual cell, is enhanced. It starts functioning properly and when that happens the actually voltage in the cell shoots right up. This is a very common problem with most people. They have low battery power in all their cells. If you have well-functioning electrolytes, the battery works at full power.
Controlling the quality of the electrolyte in the human body is like controlling the dimmer switch on the dining room light. We want that light as bright as possible, and the minerals we ingest help us do that.
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Martin, Digestive Health, Health, Nutrition, February 14, 2010 6:09 pm
Dr. Vickery’s program to fight inflammation using Platinum Plus amino acids is one of the best I know. I have used it myself to help deal with the effects of my own pain caused by heavy metal poisoning. The Vickery program is designed to rebuild tissues that have broken down – free form amino acids are required, and are not readily available.
Brice E. Vickery is a graduate of Lincoln Chiropractic College in the year 1951. He then promptly took up his post graduate work at Lincoln College and Spears Chiropractic Hospital. He is very well known is his field, has appeared on radio and television, and is the author of The Pocket T.S. line Manual and a great deal of excellent magazine articles. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Chiropractic Association for two terms and is a certified Applied Kinesiologist. Dr. Vickery also has accreditation in Electro-acupuncture according to Voll (EAV). He is listed in the 1999-2000 Who’s who in Medicine and Healthcare.
Brice has been practicing over fifty years, most of which was spent in the CT Holistic Chirpractic Offices. He now heads his own company known to the public as the Supernutrient Corporation. They are an extremely popular nutritional consultant. Vickery also continue to provide invaluable masterclasses and seminars around the world.
His product, Platinum Plus, is second to none in eliminating chronic inflammation that was previously thought to be permanent.
People who have chronic inflammation that they grown to live with for a good number of years assume it is permanent and that it just magically appeared one day and will never go away. This could not be more false, since this type of condition has been destroying tissue over a long period of time. Therefore, the tissue needs to be restored and this will also require time. Cellular damage can without question be reversed it is just a question of time and effort.
That’s where Platinum Plus comes in. I have probably heard more miraculous success stories from customers using this people than any other. You owe it to yourself to give it a try.
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Natural salts provide your body with required trace minerals. Ingesting the natural salt brine gives your body the power to nourish the cells with the minerals, supplying the electrolytes that they need to function correctly.
All of your nerve impulses and all your cellular function is powered by electrolytic exchanges. One of them is called sodium-potassium pump, which involves sodium on the outside and potassium on the inside of the cell. That is the mechanism that moves nutrients in and toxins out of your cells.
The other major nutrient pair I mentioned in the past, magnesium and calcium, controls the autonomic nervous system, the major switching system between high stress fight-flight vs relaxation, digestion and rebuilding.
Minerals are needed and sodium is important. Salt deficiency is very common, especially in people who eat meat. When a baby is in the womb, the amniotic fluid it floats in has the same salinity as your tears, 0.9% solution of salt in water. If we would like to create a similar environment that is calming physically and emotionally, one that will help draw toxins out, we need to create the 0.9% solution. That means a kilo of salt in a 25 gallon bathtub. We have to be “brave” and use the whole $20 box of salt on a single bath.
Take the entire kilo, 2.2 pounds, of the salt and throw it in the tub and dissolve it. Spend half an hour in the hot water. When you do that, you are getting the full benefit.
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I think that Himalayan Crystal Salt is the best salt on the planet. Here’s why:
The Himalayan Crystal Salt is not everyday, 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 some of the most primitive life forms were swimming. We think of it as the amniotic solution from which life on Earth developed. 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.
This salt tastes better – you will need to use about one third less – it enhances all food flavors. Himalayan Crystal Salt will help you eliminate unwanted toxins from your body, nit cause you ill effects associated with too much sodium in your blood stream. Sodium retention is caused by cortisol, a hormone released as response to stress.To lower your blood pressure you need to relax, not eliminate salt from your diet.
Remember to get active: you need to sweat – it helps regulate your electrolyte levels, and it also helps you detoxify your skin.
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Abundant supply of Omega-3 fatty acids will help you attain your ideal weight. Latent, sub-clinical inflammation goes away (inflammation is one of the main causes of aging) and the metabolic processes in the body begin to work more efficiently. The metabolic rate goes up and you burn off the “wrong” jiggly blubbery fat.
I recently read a story about two farmers who wanted to fatten up their hogs. They imported inexpensive high calorie fuel – palm oil and coconut oil – with the idea that this calorie rich food would fatten up their hogs. They were very surprised to find that the more of these oils they fed to their hogs, the skinnier they became. The farmers were obviously unaware that Omega-3 fatty-acids tune up metabolic reaction toward slim and youthful. Dr. Nicolas Perricone found the same thing when he supplemented omega-3 oils to skin care clients to reduce wrinkles – they became slim as a side effect.
Omega-3 acids are the acids that rancidify the fastest. If you purchase a bottle of vegetable oil in the grocery store, it’ll have these acids removed (refined vegetable oil) because if they were left in, the product would be rancid by the time you brought it home.
Omega-3 trans acids form an essential part of the cellular balance of our bodies. These fats are very tough to store, in truth they need to be stored in a freezer. Despite this, a lot of them keep very well, including coconut oil, flax oil, hemp seed oil and primrose oil.Thankfully, the LEC has a great whole food supplement, ZoeTein. This product is rich in Canadian organic cold pressed hemp protein concentrate. It not only boosts the levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in the body, but it also has a great protein value and loads of absorbable amino acids also. One of the other key ingredients of ZoeTein is lecithin, which help deliver the nutriments to your individual cells.
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Martin, Digestive Health, Health, Nutrition, February 8, 2010 9:28 pm
Toxins are a popular health topic that many folk discuss, generally within the context of what we drink and eat. I find it amusing that people seldom consider alternative ways that toxins might get into the body. It is important to recollect that you consume everything you put on your skin, as well as everything you drink and eat. Many people having a look at their diets have been bewildered when they find a detoxifying bath to be the solution they were looking for from the beginning.
What enters through the skin must exit through the skin. Sweating is one of the finest methods to get rid of these toxins, and what is one of the best paths to sweat? Through exercise! Exercise is naturally invaluable to good health in the first place.
As an example, if you’ve got an alkaline environment on one side of the surface and an acidic environment on the opposite side of the membrane, they are going to want to balance one another out. If the body’s balance is too acidic, we are able to set up an alkalizing bath by adding alkalizing minerals to the bath water that has been treated with a soap to make the skin more permeable. This allows the poisons to exit the skin simpler, making for a more effective detoxification.
Auto-intoxification or self-pollution is when the body is unable to eliminate the toxins that are in its blood. It can affect your thinking in a big way. These poisons start in the lymphatic system and if things are not moving, they will not be ready to get out of the body.
Toxins your body receives frequently get ’set aside’ in the colon in undigested, putrefied pieces. When your body extracts water from the bowel for its internal wishes the toxins are carried with the water into the blood vessels. 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.
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Martin, Digestive Health, Health, February 7, 2010 12:33 am
Did you know that when your body is unable to get rid of the toxins present in the bloodstream, it affects your brain, your thoughts and the way you feel – your emotions?
One important thing a person can do for their health is to be aware of the toxins that they let into their body every day. Many people experience symptoms like head spinning, a lack of concentration and other abnormal feelings, not knowing that they are being caused by an excess of toxins in their body. This feeling is not akin to feeling sick with a head cold or flu, but rather it is far closer to the feeling that people who suffer from chronic fatigue and Candida infection feel all the time.
Toxins normally begin in the lymphatic area. The reason? Usually it is because nothing is moving there. This a problem for you because it means that nutrients aren’t getting where they need to be and toxins are not getting expelled by the body the way they should be. Toxins generally start 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 at the amount of filtering they need to do, the toxins will be sent to the lymphatic system.
One of the best things you can do to bind toxins with zeolite, a substance with natural affinity to trap electropositive garbage so that it may be flushed out of your body.
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Martin, Cellular Health, Health, February 6, 2010 1:10 am
One of the biggest causes of health problems in the world today is the excess of toxins we have floating around in our bodies. Keeping toxins out of your body is one of the main goals of the LEC. It solves symptoms I hear people describe to me all the time such as head spinning, abnormal feelings and inability to concentrate, all different from the symptoms of a flu or head cold. People who suffer from chronic fatigue feel this way all the time.
Auto-intoxification or self-pollution is when the body is unable to get rid of the toxins that are in its blood. It can affect your thinking in a big way. These toxins start in the lymphatic system and if things aren’t moving, they won’t be able to get out of the body.
Toxins your body receives often 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.
Exercise and eating lots of fiber are good ways to start counteracting this process. We also offer several products designed to flush out the toxins from your system. Fiber is a great way to flush out all the extra gunk in your body and get things running smoothly again. We offer a fantastic Apple Fiber that can help you do just that. It will improve digestion while enhancing nutrient absorption and waste elimination. You will after using this product that your immune system will be stronger and you will feel more vital and alive, a great asset in this time of swine flu panic.
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Martin, Digestive Health, Health, Nutrition, January 29, 2010 10:58 pm
I spent a great deal of time studying healthy living and alternative lifestyles after I suffered mercury poisoning in 1977. This changed my life and what I found through my research was that basically there are only two lanes in the grocery store that I wanted to shop in. Everything else was processed food with “high value added” and I wanted nothing to do with that. Our foods contain very little nutrients as it is without heavy processing.
Our food is so low in nutrients because of our current agricultural situation. One hundred years ago when farmers harvested their crops, there were far more nutrients in the soils than there are today. It also didn’t hurt that one hundred years ago food went directly from the garden to the kitchen. These days our foods are picked under ripe and refrigerated for a week before they get to the store. Add another week’s time for you to purchase it, bring it home, put it in your fridge and eat it. The enzymes in the food during this time keep diminishing as refrigeration continues. We’ve wasted more than time, considering all this food could be much higher in nutrients.
The second issue is that the food is grown in fields that have been under intense agricultural and industrial style production for over one hundred years now. The mineral content of the food today is much lower than it was thirty years ago. Compared to 100 years ago, well there is no comparison. Today, you have issues concerning chemical fertilizers pushing the vegetable to grow quickly. Because of this, nutrients aren’t drawn through the roots as they normally would be. The food that you buy in your typical grocery store is much lower in value today then it was one hundred years ago.
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Martin, Health, Nutrition, January 25, 2010 3:54 pm
When we came up with the idea for Recovery, we wanted it to be an all-natural alternative to everyday Tylenol or Advil which is so popular these days. People seem to pop over-the-counter painkillers like candy but one of the great things about Recovery is that you can do away with the symptoms of inflammation in a very natural way. You can get rid of the fire or the inflammation and get rid of it for good, and you don’t have to do it with Aspirin or Tylenol, products that simply block the signaling. Tylenol, Advil or whatever else is advertised on television that helps you with arthritis, these are pain killers.
You should be able to recognize the difference between an inflammation killer and a pain killer. Imagine there is a fire in your home and you hear the wailing of the sirens of the trucks arriving. So you say, “Oh, let’s just turn off the sirens so I can sleep.” This solves your problem of being able to go to sleep, but your house may burn down in the process.
Recovery, even though it puts out the fire in a more natural way than a pain killer, it does not deal with the primary cause. The primary cause is still there causing the inflammation in the body. Typically it’s because of a lifestyle problem. It’s caused by toxins that are arriving and nutrients that are not.
Recovery is the best treatment I can think of that cures chronic pain. Chronic pain is a terrible problem that brings poor health, joint pain, stiffness and lack of energy. This condition can create a feeling of helplessness that can greatly reduce one’s quality of life. Your well-being is greatly compromised when you are unable to perform in even simple activities.
Can you imagine recovering the ability to move? Can you imagine how much that would mean? This is the power of Recovery. It is the ability to dance, golf, even to go for a walk. Being able to participate in simple activities with young children and other family members.
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Martin, Cellular Health, Health, January 23, 2010 10:02 pm
