Responsible consumers know how to look at products critically and find ones that will fit their needs. In your quest to become a healthier and happier person, being on the lookout for new products that can help you eliminate bacteria and toxins from your body is always a good thing.
We all have a digestive tract that the foods we eat are processed through. Inside the tract are a wide variety of bacterium.
No matter where they on in the tract, they perform a very function. These bacteria can be divided into the “good” and the “bad”. When the two are in balance, there is no problem. When there are too many bad bacteria, that’s when health and digestive problems occur.
An overly acidic pH level in the body is one of the most reasons for these types of problems, but they can also be caused by stress or a poor diet.
These bacteria in the digestive tract are called flora. As we discover more and more about the body it is becoming clearer that dysfunctional flora may be the cause of a number of diseases. The Life Enthusiast Co-op offers a stellar product called Strata-Flora. It is designed to restore your digestive system in good working order. 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.
Our Strata-Flora contains a spectacular probiotic formula that strengthens the natural, positive bacteria in your digestive tract. These good bacteria stops us from suffering degeneration and disease, just like bad bacteria can cause us to become ill.
Notice that probiotic means “for life”, while the antibiotics usually prescribed by doctors mean “against life”.
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.
One of the fantastic algae products we provide at the Life Enthusiast Co-op is our Vision E3 AFAMend. You can order these as either 75 capsules or as crystal flakes of 50g or 460g. Aside from displaying plenty of the very beneficial qualities of algae, they also forestall and ease inflammation, support your body’s joints, offer an overall feel of well-being and act as a strong anti-oxidant and anti inflammatory. We recommend they be taken every day for the best chance of them seriously augmenting the quality of your life.
The main ingredient in AFAMend is a proprietary cyanophyta extract. This special extract contains a great amount, in great concentration also, of an important blue pigment known as phycocyanin. This pigment makes up a big part of blue-green algae while acting like a powerful and natural antioxidising agent. In isolation, the blue pigment phycocyanin has been shown to have extremely strong antioxidant properties. It also has great power to heal, reduce and stop inflammation in all areas of the body.
The capsules are to be taken one each day, with a steady increase to 2 capsules or more if or as needed. They should be taken ideally before or after a meal and early in the day. Drinking lots of pure water, if it’s energised water all the better, will ensure the very best results.
As you know by this time, algae is a necessary part of nourishment that most people in the modern western world don’t get to enjoy and benefit from. Algae is alive in a time when far too many of the foodstuff we eat are not bursting with the vibrant life they once were. It also has no shortage of nutritive virtues, assisting a large appetite, healthy blood sugar levels, sharpening eye sight, keeping cholesterol levels down and regulating blood sugar levels.
As a business man, and as importantly someone that intends to make a change in the way folks live their lives, I’ve been concerned with health and wellness for many years. I had a life-changing private experience that convinced me that things needed to change for the better. In 1977, I wanted to have some dental work done. Primarily based on my dentist’s opinion of what was best for my continued dental health twelve mercury amalgam fillings were installed in my mouth. After this, for months I became progressively sicker and sicker, but I was oblivious of the cause. I later found out I had mercury poisoning. My health continued to go downhill and I thought I was going to end up a cripple in a wheelchair. Mainstream medicine offered me painkillers, steroids, surgery with an unpredictable result, or this consoling statement ‘You will need to learn to live with this.’
I was not satisfied with these options in the least, so I started to look for others. I discovered homeopathy, chiropractic and naturopathic therapies and started learning how the human body works. I discovered that not everybody sees or interprets sickness the way conventional medication did. They saw it as an invasion from outside that needs to be fought like a war in a series of battles. The new approach I discovered described it more as an expression of issues in one’s cellular terrain.
I found the ideas that interested me had been in literature since the 1880s. Historic figures like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford practiced Natural Hygiene and others have been living it in the early twentieth century.
The ideas I will be deliberating in future blog posts are really simple. They start with 4 simple steps : cleanse, nourish, exercise and balance. Very straight forward. Removing toxins from your body, eating only healthy foods and ensuring you have the proper nutrients are the keys to a healthy and contented way of life.
If you’re new to alternative health, feel free to browse around our Health Education Page to get you stated.
Sometimes I worry that the focus of this blog curves too often into increasingly difficult, specialized health tips. More and more I am finding that it is truly the fundamentals of good health that will let us live the life-style we want.
One of my fave analogies for demonstrating this to people is basketball. Just a while back, I had to chance to watch Tony Robbins interview John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches known for his work with the LA Lakers. He spent ten years training 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 basics 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 fundamentals of the game. A significant proportion of the training for the team was doing simple drills such as lay-ups and free throws.
This makes sense if you consider the follow eventuality : 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 five seconds of the game there’s a foul committed by the away team. Now you must sink two free throws to win the game. The group is cheering you on in anticipation.
Making the free throw, you have no time to consider anything. You simply must let your body do what it already can do. But if you are not grounded in your basic coaching or if your intelligence interferes, you won’t be in a position to make the shot. It’s the same in our everyday lives, which get busier each year. Without the basics components of nutrition, we will never be able to live how we’d like.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
