Dear LEC Reader,

As you may know, I speak with several of you (our readers and customers) in nutritional consultations every day. It has been a very consciousness expanding experience for me to interact with you about the daily challenges you run into in your quest for vibrant health. I have been walking the same path, learning more as I go.

Most of the calls I handle involve some long term debility (what a loaded word this is!) - some initially small thing that has slowly eroded your ability to cope, slowly added to the load until finally you reach a point when you start looking for help outside of the most common places (the establishment medicine).

It usually takes the proverbial last straw that breaks the camel's back to bring a person to face the need for personal responsibility for his own health. For me, 25 years ago, it was getting out of an airplane after a 4 hour flight and not being able to straighten up. Literally. I traveled across the country to a business meeting. I spent the next three days lying on the floor, standing instead of sitting, and taking long time to move from one position to another. My next option according to the doctors I consulted was going to be a back surgery ... but I decided to pursue the CAUSE instead of the SYMPTOMS. That lead me to a very different set of outcomes.

In this newsletter I want to expose you to an important issue that if not taken care of in time may very likely give you prostate cancer or breast cancer or perhaps ovarian cancer, depending on your gender. So if you are already past 45, you need to really take care of it now, because your 25 years is already up.

There are two parts to it ...

To your health,

Martin Pytela

Some 11 million Americans have either a hypothyroid (low, underactive) or a hyperthyroid (overactive) condition. Thyroid hormones control and regulate digestion, heart rate, body temperature, sweat gland activity, nervous and reproductive system, general metabolism and body weight.

Just because you don't have a goiter does not mean that you have enough iodine. Deficiency has been recently associated with breast and prostate cancer.

Iodine in combination with the amino acid tyrosine is manufactured into the thyroid hormone thyroxin. Iodine intake is usually insufficient, and since Americans have begun restricting their salt intake at the advice of their physicians, deficiency has become epidemic. The average person takes in 170-250 mcg/day of Iodine. Japanese ingest about 100 times more because of their consumption of seaweed. Japanese subjects were fed Chinese cabbage, turnips, buckwheat, and noodles with 2.0 mcg of Iodine, soybean or seaweed - goiter developed in all groups except the seaweed group.

In the 1960's, one slice of bread in the USA contained the full RDA of 0.15 mg iodine. The risk for breast cancer was then 1 in 20. Over the last 2 decades, iodine was replaced by bromine in the bread making process. Bromine blocks thyroid function and may interfere with the anticancer effect of iodine. Now, the risk for breast cancer is 1 in 8 and increasing 1% per year.

The RDA limits for vitamins and minerals were established after World War II. One of the last essential elements included in the RDA system was iodine, established in 1980 and confirmed in 1989. The RDA for iodine was based on the amount of iodine/iodide needed to prevent goiter, extreme stupidity and hypothyroidism. The optimal requirement of the whole human body for iodine has never been studied. Therefore, the optimal amount of this element for physical and mental well being is unknown. And it is certainly not promoted by the pharma-medical industry.

Symptoms: Fatigue, Cold intolerance, Muscle aches & pains, Heavy or more frequent periods, Low sex drive, Brittle nails, Weight gain, Hair loss, Muscle cramps, Depression, Constipation, Elevated blood cholesterol, Puffy face, Dry skin and hair, Inability to concentrate, Poor memory, and Goiter.

The classic jokes about women with PMS - that's about iodine deficiency! Irrational mind, bloaty body, fibrocystic breasts and painful periods. All for a lack of some sea weed.

What you should also know is this: your thyroid will steal available iodine at the expense of your reproductive organs. That is a logical strategy - if you were to shut down your metabolism, you'd be dead within a few days! If you allow the deficiency to carry on for years, you will compromise your prostate or your ovaries and breasts.

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Magnesium is the most important mineral the body requires for cellular health. It soothes the sympathetic nervous system (providing deeper rest), and is essential for the production of amino acids that are critical for virtually every chemical reaction in the body. When you restore vital magnesium to the body, you make cellular regeneration possible.

DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, is the most prevalent and one of the most essential hormones in human health. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans lose 80-90% of their optimal DHEA between ages 30 and 80.

According to Dr. Norman Shealy, every known illness is associated with a magnesium deficiency and low levels of the hormone DHEA. DHEA is the health and youth hormone. If DHEA is low, magnesium is low. They go together. Even a 10% increase in magnesium and DHEA levels is associated with a 48% decrease in death from cardiovascular disease and a 36% decrease in mortality: from all causes. The human being has the only body that has a significant level of DHEA.

It is striking that low levels of both DHEA and magnesium characterize most illnesses. A connection between these essential chemicals appears to be basic the understanding of health, wellness and the restoring and maintaining of youth. Low levels of DHEA are found in women up to nine years BEFORE development of breast cancer. And men may have low DHEA levels for four or more years prior to development of prostate cancer. There is a long list of DHEA/magnesium deficiency symptoms. They are anxiety, hyperactivity, confusion, depression, diarrhea or constipation, faintness, fatigue, hyperventilation, lack of coordination, insomnia, intestinal problems, muscle cramps, muscle tightness, pain, poor memory, seizures, tinnitus and vertigo; and these are just the symptoms!

Diseases associated with DHEA/ magnesium deficiency include asthma, atherosclerosis, cancer, chronic fatigue, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart failure, depression, diabetes, emphysema, hypertension, intermittent claudication (leg calf pain), kidney stones, migraine, osteoporosis, panic attacks, PMS (premenstrual syndrome), benign prostate hypertrophy and strokes.

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There is a single simple solution that addresses both of these issues: a deceptively simple product formulated by Dr. Norman Shealy and developed by Jim Carter - an energetically charged magnesium chloride solution with extracts of sea weed (kelp) and alfalfa that instantly delivers through your skin the much needed nutrients.

This is a big deal! If you try to take magnesium at high dosage orally, you end up with loose bowels - here we are able to deliver not only the minerals, but also other nutrients directly into your bodily fluids that bring them quickly to your starved tissues.

It's the ideal supplement that you do not need to swallow. Apply it onto your skin, and it quickly soaks in, delivering the much needed magnesium, vitamins, minerals, & essential amino acids, extracted from alfalfa and kelp.

Alfalfa is known to relieve joint & soft tissue pain, reduce cholesterol & blood sugar levels, promote liver health, detoxify, alleviate peri-menopausal symptoms (hot flashes), increase energy, and reduce fatigue. Like other members of the legume family, alfalfa is a good source protein, vitamins & minerals including calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and potassium.

Kelp (commonly known as seaweed) contains many times more minerals than land grown plants, especially since our soils have been depleted of essential minerals. With nutrients that are vital to well being, kelp is known to improve skin, nails & hair, protect against radiation & toxic metals, heal ulcers, alleviate constipation, and improve intestinal flora. It is known to be beneficial for the brain, spinal chord, & nervous system, and contains iodine which stimulates the thyroid. Kelp contains chlorophyll, and naturally chelated minerals including calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, iodine, and sulfur.

If you aren't supplementing with magnesium and iodine yet, you should seriously consider it. It is good for you. And this way it is very easy to take.

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