Overcoming
The Sugar Blues and Getting Off Prozac
A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are
strongly linked to the consuming of 'pure' refined sugar
In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may
result in a number of other significant consequences. Sugars increase our
body's production of adrenaline by four times, which puts the body into
a state of 'fight or flight' stress, without anything to fight or flee
from , except the consumption of sugar. This stress reaction increases
the production of both cholesterol and cortisone. Cortisone inhibits immune
function. more
Did
you know that the average person consumes over 125 lbs of sugar per year?
Or that sugar is in most of the foods we eat on a daily basis, like breads,
pasta, potatoes, cereal, mayo, peanut butter, ketchup, and most processed
foods? It's no wonder diabetes, heart
disease and cancer are at an all time high ...
sugar feeds the disease! Excess sugar in one's diet acidifies the
body and opens the gates to serious diseases.This creates the need for
more calcium consumption to counter act this dilemma (alkalize the body).
It is almost impossible even for the health conscious in today's world
to eat correctly. Sugar has been linked to hundreds of diseases and conditions.
Do some research and findout for yourself how harmful sugar really is.
The following are just a few of the many detrimental effects that sugar
has on our bodies:
- Sugar can suppress the immune system
- Sugar can upset the body's mineral balance
- Sugar can contribute to hyperactivity, anxiety and depression
- Sugar can cause premature aging
- Sugar can negatively affect cholesterol levels
- Sugar can cause gastrointestinal problems
- Sugar can damage organs
- Sugar can weaken eyesight
- Sugar can contribute to weight gain and obesity
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have a long standing reputation for assisting the body in glucose stabilization.
Whencombining these miracle elements with eating a good diet, effective
exercise, hydrating with good water and other good health practices, you
will be on the path to optimum health and longevity.
"A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly linked
to the consuming of 'pure', refined sugar. Sugar taken every day produces
a continuously overacid condition, and more and more minerals are required
from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally,
in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones
and teeth that decay and general weakening begin.
Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially,
it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the
liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the
required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon.
When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is
returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every
part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the
buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
Hugo Rodier M.D. - "We can say that consumption of refined sugars,
which is rampant and addictive in our society, constitutes a source of
toxicity to the cell membranes.With these types of foods, cell membranes
also become inflamed, since they lack the micronutrients to quell the fire produced
by our metabolic furnaces. These processed foods lack antioxidants to neutralize
all the oxidating free radicals produced by our metabolic furnaces, and
by toxins in the environment. Thus, our cell membranes also become oxidized.
Since the mitochondria (our cell furnaces) also depend on healthy cell
membranes (composed of the right sugars, fats, and proteins) to produce
energy, or metabolize, poor nutrition will cause mitochondrial dysfunction:
These are the most basic mechanisms known in modern medicine (J. American
Medical Association 2004;291:358.)"
Artificial
sweeterners such as Aspartame (NutraSweet, Splenda, etc) appears to
cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate
reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10
years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible
changes in health over long-term use. Dr. Ralph
Walton, M.D - "Aspartame has a profound effect on mood
and cognition....depressed mood, anxiety, dizziness, panic attacks, nausea,
irritability, impairment of memory and concentration." more...
Sweet
and Deadly Sugar addiction is a complex process that starts with the stimulation
of the sweet sensors in our mouth and ends with a twisted whole
body immune response and a severely malfunctioning endocrine system.
Sugars are known to cause massive dislocations in our endocrine system leading
directly to a national obesity epidemic and the eventual and certain loss
of the body's ability to metabolize any sugar. The result of an out of
control sugar addiction is often diabetes, obesity, kidney failure, blindness,
amputation of the extremities and an early and miserable death. The price
of being allowing ourselves to be deceived by fraudulent labels and of
failing to cope with a sugar addiction is very high.
When the per capita consumption of sugar was on the order of twelve
pounds per year, it posed little danger because most people can handle
that amount without adverse effects. Today's per capita consumption is
approaching 150 pounds per year, with certain subgroups, teenagers for
example, consuming much more; and, the negative health consequences are
devastating.
The damaging effects of sugar are worsened dramatically by two other
dietary changes that were introduced in the early 1970's. These changes
act in synergy with sugar consumption to enhance the damaging effect of
sugar and to guarantee epidemic diabetes, overweight and obesity. One change
was the substitution of cheap junk oils for the highly beneficial coconut
oil we once had in the American diet. The awful health consequences
of this substitution have been widely exposed by
many students of these issues. Another factor was the widespread addition
of MSG to the food supply for the purpose of creating food addictions.
MSG is so well understood to reliably cause obesity, that a strain of lab
rats noted for their obesity and widely used by scientists in their obesity
studies, is identified as MSG rats. It was when these dietary changes were
introduced that obesity began to assume epidemic proportions in the US.
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Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain.
The
key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found
in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic
acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a "proceed"
or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by
symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is
taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins
gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate
and remember is lost." William Dufty
It’s hard to imagine, but a vast array of modern processed foods contain
more sugar than a glazed doughnut! Sugar in some form is present in nearly
every packaged product, from spaghetti sauce, salad dressing, and peanut
butter, to mayonnaise and ketchup, just to name a few. This outrageously
excessive sugar consumption has caused people’s appetite regulation system
to go awry. Leptin, the hormone responsible for satiety, isn’t working
properly anymore in a majority of people. It has now become clear that
limiting sugar – and fructose in particular -- in your diet is a key to
longevity for a number of reasons.
For example, according to Dr. Richard Johnson, author of The Sugar Fix,
about 25 percent of all Americans consume over ½ a pound of added
sugars a day, and this statistic dovetails nicely with the statistics showing
that one in four Americans is either pre-diabetic or has type
2 diabetes. Diabetics have, on average, a reduced lifespan of about
15 years. Your blood glucose levels rise slightly every time you eat. This
is natural. However, excessive sugar consumption will typically cause your
blood glucose levels to become excessively elevated and then stay that
way. It is a well proven fact that sugar increases your insulin and leptin
levels and decreases receptor sensitivity for both of these vital hormones.
This can lead to:
Studies have found significant links between high-sugar diets and mental
health problems such as depression and schizophrenia, even though they
were not focused on the presence of inflammation per se. For example, a
2004 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that a
higher dietary intake of refined sugar and dairy products predicted a worse
2-year outcome of schizophrenia. In addition, a low dietary intake of fish
and seafood (sources of healthy omega-3 fats) predicated high prevalence
of depression. The authors also pointed out the link between depression
and physical illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes, stating that
they all share epidemiological features. Noted British psychiatric researcher
Malcolm Peet conducted a provocative cross-cultural analysis of the relationship
between diet and mental illness. His primary finding was a strong link
between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia.
There are at least two potential mechanisms through which refined sugar
intake could exert a toxic effect on mental health. First, sugar actually
suppresses activity of a key growth hormone in the brain called BDNF. BDNF
levels are critically low in both depression and schizophrenia. Second,
sugar consumption triggers a cascade of chemical reactions in your body
that promote chronic inflammation. In the long term, inflammation disrupts
the normal functioning of your immune system, and wreaks havoc on your
brain. Once again, it’s linked to a greater risk of depression and schizophrenia.
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In
the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their
rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar
made the transition from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's confection.
"The great confinement of the insane", as one historian calls it,10 began
in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed
in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to
more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London
had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms of
the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical
symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were
no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed.
Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was
sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first
Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint
from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with
their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior
citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics-anyone
wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital
succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane
method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work
of street sweeping in return for royal favours.
Initially,
when the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal decree, one
per cent of the city's population was locked up. From that time until the
20 century, as the consumption of sugar went up and up-especially in the
cities-so did the number of people who were put away in the General Hospital.
Three hundred years later, the "emotionally disturbed" can be turned into
walking automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs.
Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr Abram Hoffer,
Dr Allan Cott, Dr A. Cherkin as well as Dr Linus Pauling, have confirmed
that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely
the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle
the stress of sugar dependency.
In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr Pauling writes: "The functioning of
the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate
of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues.
I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction
rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal
molecular concentrations of essential substances... Selection of food (and
drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological
change may often be far from the best."
Julian
Whitaker, M.D., believes there is a direct link between the violent
shootings and the increased and indiscriminate use of popular antidepressant
drugs. Dr. Whitaker points out that many of the gun-related massacres
that have made the headlines over the past decade have a common thread:
they were perpetrated by people taking Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil, or
a related drug. A documented side effect of these drugs -- known clinically
as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) -- is akathisia, or
physical and mental agitation. Dr. Whitaker says "akathisia is to violence
what a match is to gasoline. And this condition has been reported in a
significant number of Prozac users." Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration
has received over 40,000 reports detailing adverse effects related to Prozac.
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"Sugars that heal" it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it's
the key to one of the most important breakthroughs in recent medical science.
We've all been bombarded with warnings about the evils of consuming too
much sugar. But, in fact, for our bodies to function properly, we need
small amounts of eight essential sugars, only two of which--glucose and
galactose--are commonly found in our limited, overprocessed diets. When
all eight sugars are available, the health benefits can be breathtaking:
Individuals regain their ability to fight disease, reactivate their immune
systems, and are able to ward off infection. Based on cutting-edge research
in the rapidly evolving science of glyconutrients, Sugars That Heal is
an exciting new approach to health and disease prevention.
As
medical doctor and scientific researcher Emil Mondoa explains, these eight
essential sugars, known as saccharides, are the basis of multicellular
intelligence--the ability of cells to communicate, cohere, and work together
to keep us healthy and balanced. Even tiny amounts of these sugars--or
lack of them--have profound effects. In test after test conducted at leading
institutes around the world, saccharides have been shown to lower cholesterol,
increase lean muscle mass, decrease body fat, accelerate wound healing,
ease allergy symptoms, and allay autoimmune diseases such as arthritis,
psoriasis, and diabetes. Bacterial infections, including the recurrent
ear infections that plague toddlers, often respond remarkably to saccharides,
as do many viruses--from the common cold to the flu, from herpes to HIV.
The debilitating symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and
Gulf War syndrome frequently abate after adding saccharides. And, for cancer
patients, saccharides mitigate the toxic effects of radiation and chemotherapy--while
augmenting their cancer-killing effects, resulting in prolonged survival
and improved quality of life.
Sugars That Heal offers a revolutionary new health plan based on the
science of glyconutrients--foods that contain saccharides. It gives authoritative
guidance for getting all eight saccharides conveniently into your diet
through supplements and readily available foods, as well as detailed information
on correct dosages. Here, too, are chapters dealing with the special nutritional
needs of people suffering from cancer, heart disease, asthma, and neurological
disorders, and methods for using glyconutrients to treat depression, obesity,
and ADHD.
Dr. Omelchuk suffered a massive cerebellar aneurysm in 1987 that nearly
cost him his life. Glyconutrients played a major role in his recovery.
Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr., director of pediatric neurosurgery at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, cured his prostate cancer with glyconutrients.
The
more doctors learn about glyconutrients, the more excited they become about
their long-term fundamental health benefits. Now, with this new book, the
breakthroughs in the study of glyconutrients are available to everyone.
Whether your goal is to prevent disease, live longer and better, or treat
a serious illness that has eluded conventional medicine, Sugars That Heal
is your essential guide to complete health.
"The Healing Power of Sugars" covers many subjects ranging from the
use of glyconutrients during pregnancy, to child development issues to
sports medicine, inflammation and disease cases. The science of glyconutrients
is very technical, yet these doctors do a remarkable job of bringing the
science down to a lay level without neglecting the concerns and issues
that will appeal to the medical and scientific audience as well. According
to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review, February 2003, "If
you don't have glycosylation, you don't have life." Significantly, this
book unlocks
the mysteries of glycosylation (the adding of a polysaccharide (chain
of sugars) to a polypeptide (chain of amino acids) in order to make a glycoprotein)
and how glyconutrients are vital for this process.
These doctors have put this "emerging technology" in front of the public
in an easy to read work showing how glyconutrients will change the face
of health care forever in the area of nutritional science. Moreover, this
book will surely impact the exploding field of Glycobiology, which is the
study of how sugars impact living systems. And finally, with this work,
the term "glyconutrients" has entered into the public lexicon.
Martin
Milner, N.D., - "We are finding glyconutrient deficiencies associated
with a large range of diseases."
Dr
John Axford - "Sugars are going to be the molecules of the future.
Glycobiology is one of the last frontiers of science to be conquered and
is going to be at the cutting edge of a large number of discoveries and
therapies over the next decade." Dr Axford
is immediate past-President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section
of Clinical Immunology and Allergy.
Dr.
John Rollins - "Glyconutrients are one of the most important healthcare
discoveries of the 21st century." Dr. Rollins
is the former Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Howard University’s
School of Medicine
Dr.
M. Schlachter, MD - "The Biggest revolutionary change in the
war against disease is represented by Glyconutrients"
Fenugreek is used as
a spice and medicinal herb throughout the world. Traditional Chinese
herbalists use it for a multitude of conditions including kidney problems,
male reproductive infections, constipation, atherosclerosis, high triglycerides
and high cholesterol. However, the number one reason fenugreek is used
universally, is for diabetes and sugar-intolerance problems. (Fenugreek
is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
Chromium Polynicotinate
- In the 1950s it was found that chromium was necessary for the maintenance
of normal glucose tolerance. Although it
used to be found in many foods - whole grains, cereals, spices, mushrooms,
raw sugar and meat Brewer’s yeast is the best source available. (Chromium
Polynicotinate is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
Nopal Cactus (prikly
pear cactus) has been used in Mexico to treat diabetes, stomach
problems, fatigue, shortness of breath, easy bruising, prostate enlargement
and liver disease for over 1,000 years. It has been thoroughly documented
for over 500 years. Legend has it, the Aztecs consumed the “prickly pear”
to control or actually cure “sweet urine” (diabetes) disease in adults.
(Nopal cactus is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
Bitter Melon - grows
in tropical areas, including parts of the Amazon, eastern Africa, Asia
and the Caribbean. It is also cultivated throughout South
America as a food and medicine. Its use dates back over 5,000 years in
China. In the Amazon it is being used for expelling worms, intestinal
gas, stimulating and promoting menstruation, as an antiviral for measles
and hepatitis, but it is especially used for diabetes or “sweet
urine. To date, close to 100 in vivo (human) studies have demonstrated
the blood sugar lowering effect of this bitter fruit. The fruit has
also shown the ability to enhance a cells uptake of glucose, to promote
insulin release and to potentiate the effect of insulin. (Bitter
melon is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.) Bitter melon
educational information
Gymnema Sylvestre - is
a woody plant that grows in the tropical forests of central and southern
India. The leaves are used in herbal medicine preparations. The plant,
when chewed, actually blocks the sugar receptor sites, which explains the
Hindi name gurmar or “sugar destroyer.” Gymnema has been used in
India for the treatment of diabetes for over 2,000 years. (Gymnema
Sylvestre is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
Cinnamon - is found in
many parts of the world from India, China, Madagascar, Brazil to the Caribbean.
The use of cinnamon dates back as long ago as 4,000 years. It has a broad
range of historical uses in different cultures, including the treatment
of diarrhea, rheumatism, as an antibacteria, digestive aid relieving gas
and bloating as well as certain menstrual disorders. But the most significant
use recently discovered by Dr. John Anderson
of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is for regulating
glucose. As you know, sugars and starches in food are broken down into
glucose, which then circulates in the blood. The hormone insulin helps
the cellular receptor sites attract glucose to be used as energy or made
and stored as fat. (Cinnamon is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
For an anti-diabetic remedy,
American
ginseng is very effective. In the Archives of Internal Medicine (2000),
it was reported by the University of Toronto, Canada, that American
ginseng produces a “significant reduction” in blood sugar in people
with diabetes. Even at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago,
Dr. Jing-Tian Xie, reported in the Pharmacology Res. 2004, “American ginseng
possesses significant antihyperglycemia and thermogenic activity and may
prove to be beneficial in improving the management of Type 2 diabetes.”
He also said, “American ginseng berry possesses significant antihyperglycemic
and antiobese effects.” From a 2,000-year-old history of the Chinese using
Asian ginseng, to our 300-year-old history using American ginseng, there
is plenty of evidence that ginseng absolutely lowers glucose. Now comes
the magical herb fenugreek. (American Ginseng
is part of the Cinnamon6
supplement formula.)
Ralph Walton, M.D. - "Aspartame (NutraSweet)
appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not
have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year,
five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible
and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. "Aspartame
has a profound effect on mood and cognition....depressed mood, anxiety,
dizziness, panic attacks, nausea, irritability, impairment of memory and
concentration."
H.
J. Roberts, M.D. - "I have observed severe intellectual
deterioration associated with the use of aspartame products (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/Canderal/Benevia,
etc.) It was usually manifest as great difficulty in reading and
writing, obvious problems with memory and grossly impaired orientation
to time, place and person."
Ralph
Walton, M.D. - "Aspartame has a profound effect on mood and
cognition....depressed mood, anxiety, dizziness, panic attacks, nausea,
irritability, impairment of memory and concentration."
(Learn about the Legal class
action against aspartame. )
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Popular
sweetener is toxic for dogs A sugar substitute found in a variety of sugar-free and dietetic cookies,
mints and chewing gum is proving highly toxic, even fatal, to snack-snatching
dogs. Xylitol, popular in Europe for decades but a relative newcomer to
the U.S. alternative-sweeteners market, can be "very, very serious" to
dogs when ingested, says Dana Farbman, spokeswoman for the Animal Poison
Control Center of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. "It doesn't take a whole lot (of xylitol), and the effects are
so rapid that the window of opportunity to treat the dog is extremely small,"
Farbman says.
Depression is "public enemy number one" when it comes to psychological
illness. It descends upon 40 million US citizens every year. It removes
all the joy from their lives, leaves them unable to function and causes
their family and friends much distress. It is a terrible thing to have
to happen to you. What’s even worse is they are told the same old story
about their depression and prescribed powerful anti-depressants to "cure"
them. These
drugs may help temporarily. But that’s it. And if you aren’t told what
depression really is, how can you defeat it? If you suffer from anxiety,
depression, panic attacks, nervousness or you have a feeling of sadness
which just won’t go away, this book will change your life. And if you care
for someone who’s suffering from a depressive illness, say your spouse,
your lover, your family or your friends, get this information for them.
You’ll be helping them enormously. “During the first six months of 2005,
I was under a spell of depression to the point of suicide. I was chronically
fatigued, sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day, drinking heavily, eating unhealthy
foods, and smoking tobacco. After months of this self destructive cycle,
I awoke one morning and decided that I was either going to severely hurt
myself or make a decision to live. I chose the latter.
The
Prozac Alternative: Natural Relief from Depression With St. John's
Wort, Kava, Ginkgo, 5-Htp, Homeopathy, and Other Alternative Therapies
by Ran Knishinsky
A comprehensive guide to the use of St. John's wort and other alternative
therapies for treatment of depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders
- Offers a comprehensive look at St. John's wort--the most significant
natural remedy for depression--including its history in herbalism, current
clinical uses, safety, and side effects - Discusses other natural alternatives
such as Kava, Melatonin, and 5-HTP as treatment options to depression In
the early 1990s the sale of Prozac exceeded the sale of all other antidepressant
drugs in both American and world markets. But today St. John's wort is
recommended 3 to 1 over Prozac as a primary treatment for depression in
European countries such as Germany--and its sales continue to skyrocket
in the United States. Safe, all-natural, and less expensive than synthetic
drugs, St. John's wort is the ideal natural therapy for many people's depression,
anxiety, and other related mood disorders. The Prozac Alternative offers
a comprehensive look at St. John's wort, including its history in herbalism,
current clinical uses, and safety and side effects, as well as how it compares
with other natural alternatives such as Kava, Melatonin, and 5-HTP. It
also discusses other uses of these natural substances as treatment alternatives
to Western medicine for a variety of medical conditions.
In
1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food
a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of "poison" was:
"Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within
the body, which causes or may cause disease. Physically: Any substance
which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical
or enzyme that activates a reaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader
definition for "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted
of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure,
refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and
carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present.
Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to
metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess
for other added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results
in the formation of 'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal
sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain
and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These
toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot
get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of
the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body
and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides
only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories.
It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane.
In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches
the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion,
detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system.
So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide
against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals such as sodium
(from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables), and calcium (from
the bones) are mobilised and used in chemical transmutation; neutral acids
are produced which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of
the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and
more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt
to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much
calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening
begin.
Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially,
it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the
liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the
required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon.
When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is
returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every
part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the
buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty
acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys.
These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to
fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability, and abnormal
blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous system is affected;
and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or
paralysed. (Normal brain function is rarely thought of as being as biologic
as digestion.) The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the
quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white
cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance
and immunising power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly
to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain.
The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found
in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic
acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a "proceed"
or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by
symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is
taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins
gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate
and remember is lost. SUGAR:
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- Naturally Sweet and Healthy. Change Your Life! Native to Paraguay, Stevia is a herb which has a delicious and refreshing
taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar. Stevia is extremely nutritious
containing such vitamins as Magnesium, Niacin, Potassium, Vitamin C, and
more and is used throughout the world as a no-calorie sweetener and in
the U.S. as a dietary supplement. Stevia is a safe, all-natural alternative
to artificial sweeteners and refined sugar in the diet. It has been used
for centuries and consumed safely in massive quantities world-wide for
the past 20 years. The Japanese use it in sugar-free versions of Wrigley's
gums and diet Coke. Recently there have been studies linking stevia extract
with normalization of blood sugar and insulin in diabetics. In China stevia
and stevioside is used in herbal medicines and toothpaste. In China, Korea
and Japan Stevia extract Stevioside is used as a table top sweetener because
it has 0 calories, 0 carbohydrates, 0 fat and is many times sweeter than
sugar. Stevia has no fat, no carbohydrates, making it perfect for diabetics,
low-carb diets, and people with candida. It has undergone dozens of tests
world-wide and was found to be free of toxins.
Stevia - Natural sweetness without the calories.
The Stevia dietary supplement extract is a clear 1 oz. liquid concentrate.
Its small squeeze dispenser makes it convenient to carry in your pocket
or purse. Research shows that Stevia contains unique compounds called steviosides.
These steviosides have been reported to be 300 times sweeter than sugar
and are believed to support healthy blood pressure. * Our Stevia formula
also contains grapefruit seed extract, well known for its anti-microbial
properties. Historical accounts tell us that as early as the 1840's natives
of South America used the leaves of the Stevia plant for medicinal purposes.
* Currently it is being researched for its many beneficial properties.
Fifty-two tested recipes using the white powder Stevia extract. Contains
a full range of dessert and beverage recipes including muffins, quick breads,
cakes, cookies, bars, puddings, pies, toppings, sauces and more. The book
also contains a glossary, baking tips section, substitution chart, directions
for making Stevia extract, and a resources section.
Gras affirmation petition submitted on behalf of the American Herbal
Products Association, April 23, 1992 "Stevia leaf is a natural product
that has been used for at least 400 years as a food product, principally
as a sweetener or other flavoring agent. None of this common usage in foods
has indicated any evidence of a safety problem. There are no reports of
any government agency in any of the above countries indicating any public
health concern whatsoever in connection with the use of stevia in foods."
Note from Shirley:
In my diet I use delicious and healthy sugars such as raw
unfiltered honey, maple syrup, date sugar or palm
sugar. (palm sugar is my favored and it is available in Asian
stores). These natural sugars contain important minerals, trace minerals
and vitamins. Shirley
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More than 25 million adults in North America alone suffer from depression,
and over 22 million prescriptions for Prozac were written last year. This
book is an eye-opening resource for the millions of people who are looking
for safe, effective, natural treatments for depression and other mental
health problems. In Prozac-Free, bestselling authors of Ritalin-Free Kids,
Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W., and Robert Ullman, N.D., offer
a homeopathic treatment for depression, anxiety, and other mental and emotional
problems. Using over 40 successful cases from their clinical practice,
they demonstrate the long-term effectiveness of homeopathic medicine.
"I have been suffering from depression sinse I was a young teenager
and attempting to use anti-depressants to treat the problem for the past
12 months, to no avail. Then I read "Prozac Free" and found that I really
identified with some of the contributers' stories, so I sought out homeopathic
treatment and havn't looked back since. That was 3 months ago now. I haven't
had 90 good days in a row in over 15 years!" S Steele,
Australia
"...research supports the contention
that Prozac leads some users to become suicidal or violent. In his book,
Dr. Breggin says that it is the drug's ability to cause a variety of psychological
and neurological disorders that underlies such destructive behavior. Five
of these disorders--agitation, panic, anxiety, mania and akathisia--can
prompt suicidal or violent acts, says Breggin. Four other conditions caused
by Prozac--depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behavior,
and insomnia--may precipitate the irrational fears, suicidal thoughts and
despair that lead to violent thoughts or actions"
Natural
treatment for depression and stress Poor mood, depression, emotional
disturbance and low energy affect tens of millions of men, women
and children. There are natural antidepressant therapies which can restore
emotional health, from herbal remedies, vitamins and dietary adjustments
to visualization exercises and sleep therapy.
Alternative Treatments for Fibromyalgia and Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia is a painful disorder for which mainstream medicine has
no solution other than heavy, and often ineffective, use of painkillers.
Perhaps you have been told by a well-meaning but uniformed doctor that
you will "just have to learn to live with it." Actually, Chronic fatigue,
fibromyalgia and environmental
illness can be permanently reversed using nontoxic alternative medicine
treatments.
The book that tells the reader the truth behind the testing of prozac
and its potentially frightening side effects. Find out what Prozac's label
doesn't say; the panic and anxiety Prozac can cause--not cure; what Prozac
has in common with cocaine and amphetamines; cases of sexual dysfunction
from Prozac, particularly in men; and much more.
"This is the perfect book for anyone who wonders why she or he feels
WORSE -- whether emotionally or physically -- when using psychiatric drugs
like Prozac or lithium. Both easy to understand and thoroughly
researched, "Your Drug May Be Your Problem" explains why the drugs are
dangerous, how to safely stop using them, and how to deal with emotional
crises without resorting to drugs. In a culture in which psychiatric drugs
are pushed by everyone from the White House down to the neighborhood elementary
school, this book is a refreshing change. I WISH I'd had the information
contained in this book six years ago when doctors put me on a nightmarish
regimen of psychiatric drugs. All in all, a fascinating and enlightening
read."An amazon.com reviewer
78 Ways Sugar Can Ruin
Your Health In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess
sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. See a listing
of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals
and other scientific publications.
Sugar, Diabetes and Incurable
diseases Sugars increase our body's production of adrenaline by four
times, which puts the body into a state of 'fight or flight' stress, without
anything to fight or flee from , except the consumption of sugar. This
stress reaction increases the production of both cholesterol and cortisone.
Cortisone inhibits immune function.
THE DANGERS OF PROZAC
By Gary Null, Ph.D. and Martin Feldman, M.D. "...research supports
the contention that Prozac leads some users to become suicidal or violent.
In his book, Dr. Breggin says that it is the drug's ability to cause a
variety of psychological and neurological disorders that underlies such
destructive behavior. Five of these disorders--agitation, panic, anxiety,
mania and akathisia--can prompt suicidal or violent acts, says Breggin.
Four other conditions caused by Prozac--depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive
thoughts and behavior, and insomnia--may precipitate the irrational fears,
suicidal thoughts and despair that lead to violent thoughts or actions"
THE NATURAL PROZAC
By
Amy Weintraub There are billions to be made by the pharmaceutical industry
with the promotion of the concept that what ails us is our brain chemistry,
and if we take a pill, we'll be okay.
Chemicals
and Toxins Are The Primary Cause of Illness, Disease and Obesity Substances that are toxic to our bodies come at us from all directions:
the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the cleaning products
we use, and the metabolic waste produced inside us. Toxins build-up in
the body contribute to premature aging and chronic and degenerative diseases.
Dr. Steve Nugent, the past president of the American Naturopathic Medical
Association, reported recently that "in the typical American home there
are more toxins inside the home than outside the home! Your cells actually
contain over 400 new toxins that didn't even exist 45 years ago and we
are losing the battle against toxins!" It's a fact. There are increasing
amounts of toxins and chemical agents in the water we drink, the food we
eat and the air we breathe - they all contribute to the breakdown in cellular
communication and disease. more
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Beat
Your Depression Naturally Depression is "public enemy number one" when it comes to psychological
illness. It descends upon 40 million US citizens every year. It removes
all the joy from their lives, leaves them unable to function and causes
their family and friends much distress. It is a terrible thing to have
to happen to you. What’s even worse is they are told the same old story
about their depression and prescribed powerful anti-depressants to "cure"
them. These drugs may help temporarily. But that’s it. And if you aren’t
told what depression really is, how can you defeat it? If you suffer from
anxiety, depression, panic attacks, nervousness or you have a feeling of
sadness which just won’t go away, this book will change your life. And
if you care for someone who’s suffering from a depressive illness, say
your spouse, your lover, your family or your friends, get this information
for them. You’ll be helping them enormously.
Kavazon
- Naturally Feel at Peace and Relaxed - This formula is a natural
herbal combination designed for individuals with a high stress lifestyle.
Kava Kava is a member of the pepper family and contains unique phyto chemicals
called Kavalactones. These Kavalactones have been researched in numerous
studies for their anti-anxiety effects. This formula may promote a state
of peace and relaxation.
How Sweet It Is
By Marge Hartwig, Master Herbalist
She called in tears; a young girl, 19, from Southeastern U. S., going
to school in Los Angeles. Like so many people, she was desperately in need
of help. Her doctor, after a brief consultation, matter-of-factly prescribed
Prozac.
It's not for me to question his diagnosis, but I had a girl on the phone
asking for help, who could barely speak above her sobs. She was depressed
when she was alone and she couldn't talk to another without uncontrollable
tears. Prozac not only frightened her, she didn't like what it did to her.
When she arrived, I saw a beautiful, slim, athletic young woman who
burst out into tears as her story came tumbling out. She had been in Los
Angeles since September. The first few months were great, then she crashed.
I learned there had been a radical change in her diet. While still living
at home, Mom prepared three meals a day. Now, on her own, she was living
mostly on fast foods with marginal food value. What she ate was much better
than the burger and coke of most people her age, but it was much too high
in refined sugar.
Sure, the move to Los Angeles, new places and new people, was stressful.
But this very sharp young woman was dealing with it quite well. Her body,
on the other hand, could not tolerate the bombardment of highly refined
sugar and it surfaced as severe a emotional problem.
We began at 9:00 AM and she stayed until after 5:00 PM. Throughout the
day she drank fresh fruit juice, fresh vegetable juice and herbal teas.
At my suggestion, she read "Sugar Blues". As she read
and we talked, she literally changed before my eyes. The tears were gone.
She was smiling and laughing and asking questions with a real thirst for
knowledge. We went over a nutritional program that she could live with
in her lifestyle. Leaving, she gave me a hug and promised to stay away
from sugar. "Now that I have the truth," she said, "it will go with me
the rest of my life."
Two weeks later, she called, bubbling with excitement. She was off Prozac
and doing great. Admittedly, she was not eating as well as she could, but
with the cleansing of her elimination organs; a special morning drink instead
of breakfast and no white sugar, she was flying.
Refined sugar is addictive. Some bodies handle it reasonably well but
it is at the bottom of some very serious problems for most of us. To fully
understand the dangers of this man made menace I encourage you to read
"Sugar Blues", by William Dufty. You'll find it in
paper back in book stores.
Biography: Marge Hartwig, Master Herbalist is dedicated to helping
people gain and/or maintain optimum health through natural methods. A student
of Dr. Richard M. Schulze, M.H., N. D.; she is a graduate of the School
of Natural Healing founded by Dr. John R. Christopher M. H., N. D., and
also studying for her certification as Naturopathic Doctor from Trinty
College. She can be reached at the Herbal Educational Research Foundation,
Los Angeles: 818- 899-1034 - Marge regularly publishes Newsletters containing
articles such as the one above. If you'd like to recieve them, email jdrinc@earthlink.net
with your request.
Understanding, treating, and preventing hypoglycemia
The prevention and treatment of low blood sugar is a key factor in living
a healthy life with diabetes and avoiding diabetes-related complications.
The authors, both of whom have had type I diabetes for more than 50 years,
give a thorough and complete guide to understanding, preventing, and treating
hypoglycemia. Interspersed throughout Beating the Blood Sugar Blues are
personal stories from doctors and patients.
From the Back Cover
Blood sugar lows got you singing the blues? The closer you come to
normal blood sugar levels the easier it is to slip too low. Learn how to
stabilize your blood sugars, predict lows, avoid risks and complications,
and overcome the toll that low blood sugar can take on your lifestyle.
Beating the Blood Sugar Blues shares first hand knowledge from two doctors
who have more than 100 years of combined experience with the day-to-day
balancing act of blood sugar and diabetes.
Paula Caplan, an APA "Eminent Psychologist", clearly explains the pitfalls
and dangers inherent in the process, and the implications for the lives
of millions of clients.
February 16, 2002 - There is no drug that can cure modern psychiatry.
This is a profession that is close to routinely practicing medical terrorism
by shamelessly over-prescribing drugs to people of all ages, often for
phantom diseases and for purposes that have no rational basis in science.
What’s needed is something akin to a War Crimes Tribunal to investigate
psychiatry’s relationship to major pharmaceutical companies. Haul all the
big product champions and psychiatry associations in and determine their
involvement with money-grubbing schemes and the abuse of patients. And
let me re-emphasize this point: this is a medical specialty that is second
to none in ripping off and abusing patients.
The situation has long been out-of-control. It is no longer a matter
of a few bad apples screwing everyone left and right. It’s become a full-scale
assault on humanity.
Nicholas Regush produces medical
features for ABC News
Bach
Flower Remedies: Aid in Emotional Balancing The Bach® Flower Remedies
are 38 plant and flower based remedies, each one specially devised to treat
a different feeling. They help you to manage the emotional demands of everyday
life, the kind of feelings that affect everyday life in the 90s.
The Bach Flower Remedies
work by stimulating the body’s own capacity to heal itself, by balancing
negative feelings, helping you to take control, feel good about yourself,
and get more out of life. The Bach Flower Remedies are unique, simple to
use, suitable for the entire family.
Learn
more about Bach Flower: Condition Usage Guide
How to Choose for Yourself
Examples of Use
Instructions for Taking
Questions and Answers
Available Bach Supplements
A British origin Doctor - discovered flower therapy between 1930-1936,
which is called Bach flower therapy later on. He was a renowned physician
and bacteriologist. While practicing as an allopathic doctor he realized
the meaning of old dictum that "There are no diseases, only sick people".
When he was treating the factory laborers prone to various diseases, he
observed that the workers were working under some unknown fear - the fear
that they would be jobless. Thus when the mind is under constant pressure
of fear, terror, uncertainty, despondency and despair, it is obvious that
the harmony between mind and body gets imbalanced. The vital force of life
gets disturbed resulting into illness. This also makes the immunity of
body frail and the physical body gets easily susceptible to the diseases
or conditions. Therefore the patient is more important than the diseases.
His mental make up is vital in determining the correct line of treatment
and every ailment is the result or expression of mental disturbances due
to accumulated various mind obstructions originating either itself from
mind or surrounding environment
The Nervous System: Healing with
Medicinal Plants and Diet Nowhere is the efficacy of diet and herbalism more evident than in
problems related to thenervous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression
are intimately connected with most illness
(On
page 45, Dr. McGarey describes in a paragraph onhyperactivityhow
he
cured Tommy's hyperactivity with castor oil packs.)
A fascinating analysis of a medical doctor's research on and verification
of the healing properties of castor oil packs, first recommended by the
noted psychic Edgar Cayce as an adjunct for many ailments that resist traditional
medical treatment.
This natural oil has amazing healing properties. It has been used
in virtually every major civilization since antiquity for the cure of normally
fatal disabling conditions. In India, they called it erand. In ancient
Greece it was known as kiki. It is mentioned in the Bible and in the most
ancient Egyptian papyrus yet found. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, it was
used by some to cure the plague. They called
it the "palma christi" or the "hand of Christ." This extract of the castor
bean is a safe, gentle, easy to use remedy for virtually any illness -
when it is used externally.
Diabetic condition improved with fulvic acids, B12 vitamin,
bitter melon, and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) found in borage oil, and herbal
remedies.
JUVENILE DIABETES AND VACCINATION: NEW EVIDENCE FOR A
CONNECTION
Vaccines have been proven to cause insulin dependent
diabetes and many are seeking compensation from the US government for this
vaccine induced injury.
Sweet
Poison:
How the World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing
Us - My Story by Janet Starr Hull
Millions of dieters using chemical sweeteners will be shocked by firefighter
Janet Starr Hull's story. Diagnosed with a deadly case of Grave's Disease
after she collapsed on the job, Hull was told she would die. Searching
for the cause of her illness, Hull discovered that the chemical sweetener
aspartame found in Nutrasweet was to blame.
After a personal illness caused by the artificial sweetener aspartame
found in NutraSweet/Equal, Hull exposes the hidden truths behind the dangers
of this popular sugar-substitute. Don't pick up another diet drink until
you have read her riveting story.
Her book details how the FDA first determined that aspartame was unsafe
for humans, then later reversed itself. She obtained documents revealing
the chemicals that constitute aspartame and how those chemicals behave
in the human body.
Sweet Poison is a must-read for anyone consuming food or drinks containing
aspartame. At the least, it will open your eyes to what you're putting
in your body. It might even save your life.
Toxicology Sourcebook: 250 p. compilation of reprints of actual studies
from peer-reviewed medical journals showing aspartame artificial sweetener
capable of causing great harm [even death] to humans. Includes ten pages
of children's products containing aspartame and a whole chapter on children.
Praised by top scientists and health care professionals all over the world
as a valuable resource. The section on Flying and Aspartame includes the
USAF warning to pilots. Amazing secrets of illegal industry dealings with
government agencies revealed. Never before told stories of deaths and coverups
- media blackouts and more. Brain Tumors/Pancreatic Tumors/Breast Tumors/Uterine
Tumors - all linked to aspartame ingestion. You'll want to get one for
yourself and one to give someone you love. No parent should be without
this valuable resource. There are adverse reaction questionnaire forms
to fill out and a Consumer Action Agenda you won't want to miss. The information
in this! book could save your life.
Epidemic
of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus related to aspartame
"H. J. Roberts, M.D., said in his first press conference that
if something wasn't done about aspartame then in 5 or 10 years we would
have a plague on our hands. Now Dr. Roberts has declared aspartame disease
to be a world epidemic and is in the process of publishing the medical
text on the world plague."
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is widely believed to be an immune system disorder
that causes the body’s own antibodies to attack the myelin sheath in the
brain and the spinal cord causing inflammation and scaring. The myelin
sheath is a fatty type wrapping that surrounds the nerve fibers throughout
the nervous system of the body. The disease is progressive and slowly degenerates
the entire central nervous system. The term Sclerosis actually means "to
harden" and Multiple refers to "many locations" throughout the central
nervous system.
"I
have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
on ASPARTAME, marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In the
keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of
multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand
what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained
that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol
in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in
turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the
sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics
multiple sclerosis;
thus people were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error.
The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity
is.
In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost
as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially in Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi
drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three
to four 12 oz. Cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic
lupus,
which is triggered by ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that
the aspartame is the culprit . The victim continues its use, aggravating
the lupus to such a degree, that sometimes it becomes life threatening.
When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually
become asymptomatic. " more
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s own immune system
attacks the skin, blood vessels, joints, and other tissues of the body.
It is believed that there may be a virus that causes the development of
antibodies, which then attacks good body tissues. Visual symptoms may include
a butterfly shaped rash on the checks or the nose or in other locations
on the body. Woman make up 90% of the people with Lupus and it is even
more prevalent in Asian women.
There are many case histories in homeopathic
literature who have reported success with multiple sclerosis and lupus.
Also, holistic doctors have had success with Transfer
Factor to modulate the immune system in their autoimmune disorder cases.
Cat's
Claw (Una De Gato) Uncaria Tomentosa, is being called by many the "Miracle Herb from the
Rain Forest of Peru". The highly effective properties contained in the
inner bark of the cat's claw (Una De Gato) plant have demonstrated, through centuries
of usage dating back to the time of the ancient Incas, to have a profound
and positive influence on the body's defense system. Studies conducted
since the 1970s at research clinics in Peru, Austria, Germany, England,
Hungary and Italy validate the traditional usage and indicates that this
herb may be beneficial in ameliorating a host of modern day afflictions
which have no answers from the orthodox medical arena. It is known to help
nutritionally support the body's defense, circulatory and gastrointestinal
systems through its antioxidant and build properties.
Cat's Claw is known to support a wide range of health problems associated
with immune and digestive problems; such as gastric ulcers, arthritis,
intestinal disorders, certain skin disorders, herpes, candidiasis, chronic
fatigue, lupus, and tumors. It can also be used as an aid for stomach
and bowel disorders including: Crohn's disease, leaky bowel, colitis, diverticulitis
gastritis, ulcers, intestinal flora imbalance, and hemorrhoids. Cat's Claw
prevents the formation of blood clots, lowers blood pressure, increases
circulation, and inhibits the formation of plaque. It is helpful for inflammatory
conditions; such as arthritis, bursitis, and rheumatism. It is also helpful
with female hormonal imbalances, irregularities of the female cycle and
with symptoms of PMS. It is also beneficial in support of diabetes and
organic depression. Cat's Claw (Una De Gato) also protects from environmental toxins
Uña De Gato (Cat's Claw) - Support your immune system
and total well being.
Uña de Gato is considered by many as perhaps the most important
botanical of our time because of its ability to support the immune system.
* Also known as Cat's Claw, Uña de Gato has an amazing spectrum
of beneficial qualities. Our “spygyric extract” formula has superior potency.
Defense against harmful effects of modern life is fundamental to good health.
With Uña de Gato, the body's natural defense system is enhanced
by a unique group of elements known as oxindole alkaloids. Uña de
Gato is also known as a cleanser. It supports the digestive system, intestinal
tract and helps with bowel functions. Another vitally important feature
of Uña de Gato is its array of phyto-chemicals, including polyphenols.
These assist the body's anti-oxidant response and serve as free-radical
scavengers. * Free radicals can damage and mutate healthy cells.
We are constantly assaulted by free radicals due to the proliferation of
stress and toxins in our daily environment. In addition, research shows
the presence of still more phyto-chemicals called alkaloids, glycosides
and phytosterols which show promise in helping to maintain cardiovascular
health. With the many proven benefits of Uña de Gato, it’s no wonder
it’s considered such an important supplement to our health and well-being.
THERE IS HOPE FOR MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS! by Dudley Delany
I am a 60 year old retired chiropractor, massage therapist, and registered
nurse.I developed multiple sclerosis during the summer of 1991.Some of
my symptoms included numbness, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, tremors,
muscle spasms, depression, fatigue, failing memory, slurred speech, and
bladder dysfunction.In the fall of 1991, I began using a painless, inexpensive
treatment suggested by the late Edgar Cayce... more
The Nervous System:
Healing with Medicinal Plants and Diet Nowhere is the efficacy of diet and herbalism more evident than in
problems related to the nervous system. Stress,
anxiety,
tension
and depression are intimately connected with most illness
Epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus also related to
canola
oil
Lupus:
Alternative Therapies That Work Moore suffered from lupus for 14 years. After taking control of her
health care, though, and drawing on alternative therapies (usually called
"complementary" therapies), she has "recovered." Books by lupus patients
aren't unusual, but hers is the first to go into complementary medicine
in detail. Nutrition and dietary supplements played major roles, Moore
says, and naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and mind-body medicine
were in the mix, too.
Lupus
Novice : Toward Self-HealingRecommended by Andrew Weil in Natural Health,
Natural Medicine, Lupus Novice gives a moving account of the author's successful
struggle with "incurable" SLE 9 systemic lupus erythematosus), affecting
mostly women. Ms. Chester shares the personal discoveries behind her recovery,
and a meditation on what it means for a body to be "attacking itself."
Healing with Medicinal and Nutritional
Herbs from the Amazon Rain Forest Disease is a symptom of one or more body systems in distress. When
you nourish and balance the systems, you give your body what it requires
to resist, repair and overcome disease, and to achieve optimal health.
As living foods, these herbal remedies have the ability to support good
blood chemistry, balance energetic frequencies in the body, help cleanse
and detoxify, and more. Unlike most nutritional supplements on the market
today, the botanicals in Amazon Herb formulas have not been altered or
fractioned. They have not been extracted from their original composition.
These herbs are never fumigated, irradiated, genetically engineered
or exposed to pesticides and industrial poisons. The integrity and life
force of these plant is maintained. They are living foods
that work, just as nature intended! more
Amazon Herb formulas offer you the purest,
most nutrient-rich herbal remedies in the world. Their wild botanicals
are sustainably harvested in the lush, virgin terrain of the Amazon Rainforest.
They undergo a rare and superior preparation technique to retain their
full essence and bioavailability.
Envirozon
- Purify your body. Assists the body's natural
ability to cleanse and restore balance after exposure to environmental
impurities. We deal with toxic exposure on a daily basis. Down loading
and detoxifying environmental challenges is an integral part of optimizing
health. Rainforest botanicals include Jerubeba, Quebra Pedra, and Uña
de Gato. Jerubeba facilitates the body's ability to reduce toxic excesses.
Quebra Pedra fortifies the body's natural filtering organs while stimulating
the immune system. Uña de Gato's reputation as an overall cleansing
agent is well known and documented.
Gravizon
- An enhanced immune, circulatory and lymphatic
formula. It contains the whole-leaf spagyric extract of graviola. Graviola
is a small evergreen tree from the Amazon. Rainforest natives have a rich
history of using this herb for its profound healing properties – among
them, immune, circulatory and lymphatic support. Research since the 1940s
has validated and expanded understanding of this herb and its unique phyto-nutritional
qualities.
Rebuilding the
Immune System: The body's defense department Your immune system is your bodyguard. It works both pro-actively and
protectively to shield you from anything in your world that threatens your
life and limb. The immune system is not responsive to drugs for healing.
By rebuilding immunity, health is naturally restored and disease disappears.
If health and immunity are thereafter conscientiously maintained, the individual
is no longer vulnerable to disease. According t o Dr. George C Pack, MD,
a cancer specialist at Cornell medical School, almost everyone has cancer
cells present at times in our bodies. If our immune system is working properly,
these cells are killed or reabsorbed by our defense system before they
begin to grow and threaten our health. The only real defense against cancer
is the immune system. Everyone gets cancer every day but if the immune
system is where it should be those cancer cells are eliminated and we never
know it.
Water The Great Healer
and Detoxifier! Water therapy has been used for centuries to heal the sick. Hydro-
and hydrothermal therapy are traditional methods of treatment that have
been used for the treatment of disease and injury by many cultures, including
those of ancient Rome, China, and Japan. Water therapy has been around
for centuries. The ancient Greeks took therapeutic baths. Water is an important
ingredient in the traditional Chinese and Native American healing systems.
more
F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
- "Every function inside the body is regulated by and depends on water.
Water must be available to carry vital elements, oxygen, hormones, and
chemical messengers to all parts of the body. Without sufficient water
to wet all parts equally, some more remote parts of the body will not receive
the vital elements that water supplies. Water is also needed to carry toxic
waste away from the cells. In fact, there are at least 50 reasons why the
body needs sufficient water on a regular, everyday basis. Without sufficient
water to constantly wet all parts, your body's drought-management system
kicks into action. The histamine-directed chemical messenger systems are
activated to arrange a new, lower quota of water for the drought-stricken
areas. When histamine and its subordinate "drought managers" come across
pain-sensing nerves, they cause pain. This is what I discovered in my research
that I mentioned earlier."
Dr.
Hidemitsu Hayashi, M.D. - " Water has the ability to attract
and accumulate bio-energy. It also stores an energy memory of harmful or
helpful vibrations to which it was exposed in the past. Chlorinated
tap water is polluted with non-biological chemicals and negative energy
imprints. It is also devoid of bio-energy and so may be regarded as being
badly polluted as well as 'dead'. Alkaline
living water is regarded by a growing number of health care professionals
as the best water to drink and is listed as a medical device in Japan for
the treatment of degenerative diseases." Benefits
of Alkaline, Ionized Water.
Safe, toxin-free,
Ionized,
Energized, Drinking Water helps to naturally flush toxins and acidic
waste from the body and is a powerful antioxidant. Ionized Water makes
more oxygen available to our cells than distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered
only, bottled or tap water and is the best possible drinking water. "Disease
and early death is more likely to be seen with the long term drinking of
purified water. Avoid it except in special circumstances." Zoltan P.
Rona M.D
Joseph
M. Price, MD - "Chlorine
is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times. It is an insidious
poison."
Albert
Schatz, Ph.D - "Fluoridation
is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated
on more people than any other fraud has." Professor
Albert Schatz, Ph.D. (Microbiology), Discoverer of streptomycin and Nobel
Prize Winner
Matthew Silver, MD
- "An associate in her early fifties who had suffered for many years from
the toxic effects of chlorine poisoning from inhaling vapors from
an over-chlorinated swimming pool. This had resulted in many severe
health challenges including extreme chronic fatigue and breathing difficulty
that kept her housebound and dependent on oxyn. Even minimal exertion led
to extreme shortness of breath. After just three days of drinking glyconutrients,
she reported that all of her symptoms improved dramatically and that she
was able to leave her house without oxygen and work in her garden, which
she had not been able to do in years." The sugars found on all Glyconutrients
(saccharides) also address the workings of the brain and nervous system
– from memory and sleep to anxiety and depression.
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What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why
are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around the
world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands
of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually,
as well as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness.
Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing that diabetes
rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive hepatitis B
vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates also went up
sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were introduced.
More pictures
of vaccine damage available to view at the
CDC
website
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in childhood
through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The Economist, a prestigious international
magazine read by world leaders in government, business and public policy,
and Science News, a magazine read by both health care professionals
and the general public, explored the reported links between vaccines and
chronic diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues.
Homeopathy
can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox, measles,
whooping
cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids? Government
Enforced Vaccinations Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government programs
that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when it comes
to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40 or so years
and they're impossible to repeal. Also, learn about Legal Requirements
and Exemptions
Are Vaccines Damaging Our Pets?
Routine Vaccination: Is
it really safe and effective? Most recently, an article
appeared in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
entitled "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?" Read about the comments of veterinarians
who believe that vaccines are damaging our pets.
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Home:
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site site dedicated to help promote holistic health for you, your family,
and your animals.
Shirley was once a victim
of the never-ending flow of propaganda from the medical establishment who
wants to maintain a monopoly on the word "cure" and who wants us to believe
that we have no control over our own health and that our only hope to get
"well" is with drugs, surgery and radiation. You can read an account
of Shirley's
journey into health without drugs, surgery or radiation.
Dr. Jimmy Gutman, M.D
- "Clinical evidence links low glutathione
levels to the most common illnesses of our time as well as newly emerging
diseases. Glutathione levels diminish as we age and many diseases normally
associated with aging have been linked to glutathione deficiency."
Dr. Allan Somersall M.D
- "To raise glutathione levels is to
reduce premature oxidation, to quench destructive free radicals and help
detoxify the poisons inside each cell when it needs to. Only Immunocal
is clinically proven to do that in a safe, effective and convenient way."
Learn
more...
The Truth
About the Drug Companies : How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
"The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals whose
main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic
of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this, anything
goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal salespeople
of the drug companies. " Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.
Dr. Jerry Tennant, M.D.
says
that marine phytoplankton contains almost everything
one needs to sustain life and to restore health by providing the raw materials
to make new cells that function normally. These nutrients improve mental
function, and memory. They reduce depression, harmful effects of stress,
and mood swings. Profound Life-Giving Properties
of Marine Phytoplankton
A
growing number of holistic doctors, pediatricians and veterinarians use
transfer
factors as an alternative to, or in conjunction with conventional
medicine for their acute and chronic cases, including cancer and other
serious health conditions, with excellent outcome.
Dr. Rob Robertson, MD
- "There is no other product in a nutritional substance, nor a drug, that
has this kind of power and ability to affect our immune system. With the
increase of killer viruses, mutated germs, super-resistant germs, and food
contaminations, our only hope and defense, must lie within our own immune
system." Transfer factors and the immune sytem
Teas
Are One of The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs Teas can help fight depression
and anxiety, heal skin conditions and gastrointestinal disorders, regulate
hormone imbalances, improve your sex life, prevent illness, and help
you heal faster.
Many diseases and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also
be treated naturally with healing herbs. These treatments can be safer,
less expensive and possibly even more effective than traditional methods.
Dr.
Myklebust, MD: "Teas are rich in antioxidants called polyphenols which
are plant chemicals that may help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other
diseases" More
MagnesiumTherapy
Magnesium helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart
rhythm steady, and bones strong. Dr. Sidney Baker - "Magnesium deficiency
can affect virtually every organ system of the body. With regard to skeletal
muscle, one may experience twitches, cramps, muscle tension, muscle soreness,
including back aches, neck pain, tension headaches and jaw joint (TMJ)
dysfunction." more
Natural
Stem Cell Enhancers The first natural plant-based
stem cell enhancers have shown to trigger the release of millions of adult
stem cells from the bone marrow very quickly. These stem cells can then
migrate and attach to any cells, tissue, bone, muscle, cartilage, organ
anywhere in the body needing repair. Learn more
Chia
Seeds: The "Aztec" Wonder Food with Healing Power. The ancient Aztec
civilization used Chia seed to provide them with radiant health, endurance,
and boundless energy.
The
acid-alkaline balance of the body has an enormous impact on a person’s
health. When the pH of the body gets out of balance (too acidic), we
may experience low energy, fatigue, excess weight, poor digestion, aches
and pains, and even more serious disorders. When the body is excessively
acidic, vital organs and individual cells are subject to damage or destruction.
This condition, known as acidosis, can be a cause, an effect, or even a
symptom of almost any health condition. By balancing the body's acidity
levels, this simple plan can help toward curing various medical conditions,
including arthritis, hepatitis, insomnia, alcoholism, and kidney disease.
The
Native Americans call it "Ee-Wah-Kee" meaning "The-Mud-That-Heals".
In addition to the role it plays as a potent detoxifier, therapeutic
clay has also been used extensively in the treatment of pain, open
wounds, colitis, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, intestinal problems,
acne, anemia, and a variety of other health issues. more
The
Healing Power of Original Himalayan Crystal Salt For centuries,
the energy/information content, in the form of vital mineral elements
locked away within these perfectly formed crystals of mineral rich salt,
were utilized by doctors for treating most every disorder known to humans,
and with unfailing success. Recently. this ancient knowledge was once again
uncovered by biophysicists and brought to light in the acclaimed book,
Water
and Salt, The Essence of Life , by Dr. med Barbara Hendel and biophysicist
Peter Ferreira
Natural
Herbal Solution just for Women: Thyroid Problems - Varicose
Veins - Urinary Infections - Skin Wrinkles / Skin Damage - Sexual Desire
/ Fulfillment for Women - Yeast Infections / Candida / Candidiasis - Menopause
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Herbal Solution just for Men: Herbs: Prostate Protector -
Natural Male Sexual Enhancer - Sports / Strength / Lifting - Athletes Foot
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Stressed
out? Anxious? Worried? Panic Attack? Insomnia? Today's fast paced
living can translate into a highly stressful environment. Our bodies are
continually challenged physically and emotionally, in the workplace and
in our personal lives. Calmazon helps our body to relieve stress naturally.
It produces a calming effect by assisting the body's natural processes
and supporting its nutritional needs. learn
more
The
Ugly Side of Cosmetics Make-up and body care products have been linked
to allergic reactions, birth defects, and even cancer. It is a medically
recognised fact that our body absorbs significant amounts of what we put
on our skin. With Certified Organic food rapidly becoming the nutrition
of choice by the health conscious amongst us, why would you accept any
less for your skin?.
Optimal Prostate Health and
Prevention Measure to prostate enlargement.
Prostate Cancer: a drugless
approach
Homeopathic approach to impotence,
bladder infections, prostate problems etc.
The Male Andropause (like menopause)
Male Herbs for Impotence
Peter R. Breggin,
M.D - "The drugging of children has gotten
so out of hand that America is waking up to this. This is a national catastrophe."
more
Julian Whitaker M.D -
"Class
action lawsuits have been filed in Texas, California and New Jersey charging
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, maker of Ritalin,
with conspiracy to create the psychiatric disorder known as ADHD in order
to fuel the market for their product." more...
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