All About Vibrant Health

Arthritis and Food – The good, the bad and the ugly...

2007-07-31T12:18:00.000-04:00

Since diseases are caused by our eating habits, our way of life and the air we breathe, we can make changes to restore our immune system.

Our immune system will heal us when we feed it properly. Your health, good or bad is in your hands.

Please remember, you are the master of your own body. You, and only you, can control what you put into your body.

For the Optimum in health it is important we do not eat "foodless foods". Most people are well fed and still are MALNOURISHED.

Here is a list of what you should and should not eat. Since everyone is different you will have to see exactly what it is you are eating that is causing you problems with your health.

The things that you should give up, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD are:

Coffee: More than one cup is not good for you.

More than 4 cups of coffee a day, the rate of heart attacks increases to 50%.

No sodas or anything that says diet, sugar free, decaffeinated or “Lite”.

You can have herbal teas, and green teas. If you absolutely have to have a sweetener, use a sugar substitute that can be found in a health food store. Beware... Some sugar substitutes have been known to cause cancers.

Please stop eating all white flour. Read the health report Dangers Of White Flour

You should not eat flour of any kind. Please give it up for at least 3 weeks and see how you feel. If you then want to add it back into your diet, add it back slowly to see how it makes you feel.

No more sugar of any kind. You can have a small amount of real honey that is unprocessed and raw. If it is not unprocessed, do not buy it. The best source is a health food store or a local beekeeper. Look for them in the yellow pages.

No cheese, yogurt, milk or cottage cheese. You CAN have real butter and real cream.

Oleo/Margarine is the world's worst food. Read the health report The Margarine Hoax

WHAT YOU CAN HAVE...

Meat: At least 70 grams of meat protein a day. Chicken, fish, pork, turkey, seafood, tuna, salmon etc.

Eggs: They really are a perfect food. After all they have all it takes to make a chicken!!

Vegetables: You will need to test ones like tomatoes and potatoes, they can have a bad effect on some people. The green and orange vegetables are marvelous.

Try to introduce a new vegetable from the market every time you go. Try vegetables from other countries.

Onions and garlic and all seasonings are fine. Do not use salt. You can get salt-free seasonings at any market.

Fruits: They are touchy, you will need to test which ones your body can tolerate fruits that are mostly sugar. They can have a bad effect on some people.

Some good fruits are grapefruits, kiwis and berries but not strawberries. You can have them fresh or frozen. Just read the label and make sure there is no sugar or additives added.

Do not eat bananas, peaches, oranges, pineapple, pears, and melons of any kind. Or any fruits that is sweet. At least not until your health is better.

Water: Drink the equivalent of half your body weight in ounces of water. If you weigh 150 pounds drink 75 ounces of water, etc. The best way is to put the total water for the day in one container and be sure it is gone by at least 3 hours before bed. Don't want to be up all night, do we?

Best of Health,
Margie “The Arthritis Lady”

I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too
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The Importance of Enzymes

2007-07-23T14:12:00.000-04:00

Even vitamins, minerals, and hormones cannot do their jobs without enzymes. They are the catalysts, the dynamic power that gives us our ability to function at the highest level of good health.

Our bodies cannot exist without enzymes.

I will be talking about digestive plant enzymes. For proper digestion to happen, 4 major enzymes are required.

Amylase

Amylase aids the digestion of carbohydrates and starches. (Fruit, vegetables, pasta, and bread)

Protease

Protease enzymes digest proteins (red meats, fowl, fish, and nuts. If improperly digested, protein putrefies in the system, causing indigestion and toxicity.

Lipase

Lipase breaks down fats and assists in balancing fatty acids. Fats not thoroughly digested turn rancid and create pungent odors and poor cholesterol balance.

Cellulase

Cellulase breaks down cellulose (the fiber found in vegetables and other plant materials) however; the body does not produce cellulase. Undigested fiber leaves a wax like residue in the small intestine and adds to absorption ills.

Enzymes are destroyed by the heat produced when we boil, microwave, or pressure cook food. When the temperature rises above 118 degrees Fahrenheit while steaming, even that process can destroy enzymes.

80% of our body’s energy is used by the digestive process. If you run down, are under stress, living in a very hot or very cold climate, pregnant, or a frequent air traveler, enormous quantities of extra enzymes are required by your body.

You must supplement your enzymes. The medical profession tells us that all disease is due to a lack or imbalance of enzymes.

Our very lives depend on enzymes particularly when you have any sort of inflammation in your body.

Research has known for years that enzymes are effective in aiding the body to properly use the nutrients provided in food and other supplements.

This is particularly helpful with regard to proper digestion. Equally as important, but not nearly as well know, is the fact that enzymes play a critical role in promoting healthy joints and a healthy response to body inflammation such as all forms of the over 100 types of arthritis.

Research shows that, in addition to other factors, joint pain stems from undigested proteins and fats which form uric acid crystals that get “caught” in joints.

Enzymes stimulate the healthy production of cytokines that stop inflammation. They also aid the body in cleaning up undigested food, debris, swollen joints and tissues.

By helping keep the body free from inflammation, natural healing and normal joint health can be achieved.

A body of physical labor can really take it toll on a body. Any of the NAIDS harm the body. Joint challenges that drugs can cover up, can be aided with the proper enzymes.

TRILLIONS of cells work constantly to maintain an acceptable balance of enzymes to keep the body working. Then something happens…could be a virus, strenuous exercise, an emotional crisis, breathing unclean air, staging a temper tantrum or eating a fat-laden meal.

Then the balance of enzymes is depleted. The solution is to make a daily intake of enzymes.

Plant enzymes in liquid form will save your digestive process, fortify your tissues, and fuel the metabolic enzyme activity that keeps you alive and functional.

Unfortunately seating some raw fruits and vegetables will not provide an adequate amount as they only contain enough enzymes to digest their own particles.

Use only NUTRITIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE PLANT ENZYMES.

Did you know that in the time it takes you to read this sentence over 10 MILLION cells just died!

There are at least 1 HUNDRED TRILLION cells at work in your body right now! It takes 13 hundred enzymes to make one cell.

It takes 28 hundred enzymes for the life process to take place. And this all comes from our food. Are you eating foodless foods? Most of us are. I was. I am not now.

There are 45 nutrients in their proper amounts derived from the food we eat are needed nourish each and every cell.

These are :

19 minerals, in prescribed amounts
13 vitamins
9 amino acids
1 fat
1 water
1 carbohydrate
PLUS 1300 ENZYMES

But getting those everyday you have just made billions of red blood cells. With the liquid supplement I take I get over 200 vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

As Linus Pauling said…he is a 2 time winner of the Nobel Peace prize…”Every ailment, every disease, every sickness can be traced to a mineral deficiency.”

And the JAMA, the Journal of American Association, in its June 2002 issue said…

“Most people do not get an optimal amount of nutrients by diet alone… and sub-optimal intakes of nutrients are associated with increased risks of chronic diseases including but not limited to cardiovascular disease… cancer and osteoporosis.”

Does the body really need to have its immune system strengthened or rebuilt? Absolutely and done as soon as possible.

First steps to take would be to avoid food and water containing agricultural chemicals, as well as limit sugar which stress our pancreas, kidneys and liver.

We can add regular exercise… three times a week… for at least 20 to 30 minutes. And make sure you only think positive thoughts.

Everyone can improve their health by getting the proper enzymes.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison “The Arthritis Lady”
mailto:arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com
I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too

An Arthritis Drug Warning

2007-07-18T12:58:00.000-04:00

Before I overcame my arthritis naturally, I spent 43 years dreading every day, taking untold amounts of drugs and then fearing the dangerous side effects they would cause.

Please do your due diligence and research each and every drug you are taking or about to take.

The following is an ad, which I read in a health magazine for HUMIRA and I want to share it with you.

*** Beginning of Ad ***

Shows a beautiful young woman, smiling…

“You’re doing all you can about your rheumatoid arthritis”

BUT IS YOUR TREATMENT?

Important safety information about HUMRA.

It is approved for reducing the signs and symptoms, slowing the progression of joint damage, and improving physical function in adult patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who have not responded well to other RA medicines.

Called DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) suca as methotrexate, Humra can be used alone or with methotrexate or other DMARDs.

Do not start taking Humira if you have any type of infection.

An infection can be in one part of your body, such as an open sore, or it can be an illness such as the flu.

Tell your doctor if you’ve had any infection in the past that keeps coming back, or have any problems that increase the risk of infections. BEFORE YOU TAKE HUMIRA, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis (TB)

Tell your doctor if you’ve ever had TB or been near someone that TB. If signs of TB (a dry cough that does not go away, weight loss, fever, night sweats, or any other infections appear after taking Humira. Tell your doctor immediately.

Tell your doctor if you feel any numbness or tingling or if you have ever had a disease that affects your nervous system such as multiple sclerosis.

Also tell your doctor if you have been treated for heart failure. Once you start taking Humira, tell your doctor right away or seek emergency care immediately if you have an allergic reaction (a bad rash, swollen face or trouble breathing).

Also tell your doctor right away if you have signs of a serious blood disorder (persistent fever, bruising, bleeding or paleness)

There have also been rare cases of serious and sometimes fatal infections.
Lymphoma, rare cases of nervous system disorders and serious blood disorders have occurred in patients taking the TNF blockers, including HUMIRA.

There have also been rare cases of serious and sometimes fatal injections, Lymphoma, rare cases of nervous system disorders and serious blood disorders have occurred in patients taking TNF blockers, including HUMIRA.

Tell your doctor about all the medicines you are taking or considering.

The combination of HUMIRA and Kineret (anakinra) is not recommended.

Check with your doctor before you receive any vaccines. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant, or plan to be pregnant.

The most common side effects of HUMIRA are injection site reactions, upper respiratory and sinus infections, headaches, rash and injection site pain.

*** Personal Note *** ALL of the above warnings were in tiny letters on a purple background which was very difficult to read.

*** Personal Note *** This is what they had at the top of the ad in black letters on white background.

***Ad continues ***

“Many treatments may help stop the pain of RA, but not slow the progressive joint damage it causes. That’s why more and more hematologists are prescribing HUMIRA It’s strong enough to slow the progression of moderate to sever RA and can be injected at home, usually every other week.

See if your treatment is doing enough. Request your free Personal RA Profile
Your profile will show you the severity of your condition, and its impact on your life, compared to other RA patients. You will also receive information on current treatment options and tips on talking with your doctor.

Call 1-800-351-8709 or go to www.HUMIRA.com

*** End of Ad ***

*** My Personal Comments ***

Do you seriously think you should ever try a drug like this?
Please do your due diligence and research each and every drug you are taking or about to take.

Ask yourself… Is this for me? Would I be better off to make my immune system stronger or should I take all the chances spelled out above.

It is your body and you are the one who will benefit or pay the price of having other health issues when using drugs.

Doctors tell us to keep doing your exercises, continue dieting to keep our weight down and take our medications.

What else is a doctor going to say? The pressure to use more and more drugs is overwhelming. It is not their fault! It is ours!!

We go to them for a magic bullet and expect them to heal us... Is this fair to the doctors? Of course not!

There are alternative methods to treat arthritis without the use of drugs and the dangerous side effects. Send me an email with your questions. mailto:arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison “The Arthritis Lady”
I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too - Naturally

Relief For Arthritis Sufferers

2007-07-12T14:35:00.000-04:00

How your body and mind affects your arthritis. Three things you can do that will help relieve your arthritis.

Did you know no matter how bad you hurt or how sick you are, that everything you do, think and feel will have an effect on your body?

This is particularly true for people that suffer from arthritis.

Take a close look at your mental attitude, your diet and your exercise. Mental activity, diet and exercise all work together. These three aspects of your life will either continue to make you sick or they will help you to become and stay well.

Let’s take a look at the mental attitude part of this.

Take a look at your attitude.... What has positive and negative affects on your attitude? You will make a great difference in the way you feel mentally and physically by enhancing on the positive and removing the negative influences in your life.

Every thought you have your body will reacts to that thought.

Positive thoughts and feelings will create positive results, while negative thoughts and feeling will create negative results.

So if you are a calm and positive person your health will be better than a person who is anxious and negative.

To make yourself more serene, stand tall, throw your shoulders back, lift up your head and smile. Try it. Don’t you feel better?

Now stand up and look down, slump your shoulders and frown. Now how do you feel? Did you feel the difference?

Here is an example of what I am talking about.

When I was 16 my bedroom was on the third floor on a semi-busy street. One afternoon my girl friend and I were leaning out the window watching people as they walked by.

Down the street came a man in his 20’s, who we thought looked older… dragging himself along. His shoulders drooped. He shuffled his feet and his clothes just hung on him.

We both gave a “wolf whistle” and the man looked all around not knowing where the whistle came from. He then straightened up, put his shoulders back, and strutted down the street whistling.

It made a lasting impression on me because he felt a positive feeling which caused a positive effect.

Just think back to your childhood. When you were praised how did you look and feel? When you were scolded how did you look and feel?

When your body is tense or you feel unhappy or have negative thoughts your body will react and your arthritis will hurt more than when you are calm, happy and have positive thoughts.

Be aware of your mental attitude and note how different situations have an effect your arthritis. Then you can take charge and change the affects they have on your arthritis. Out with the Bad and in with the Good!!!

You are not responsible for what others do or say, you are only responsible for how you react to what others do or say.

Now about the foods you eat

When you have arthritis it is more important that you have a diet made up of 75% raw and 25% cooked foods.

Eating raw fruits takes less energy to digest than eating cooked foods therefore taking less energy to clean out the toxic waste in your body. The less toxic waste you have in your body the less your arthritis will hurt.

We are the only species that eats cooked foods and we are the only species that suffer with so many degenerative diseases.

Arthritis is one of the main degenerative diseases. Over 90 Million people in the United States have arthritis.

Exercise relieves the pain of arthritis

If you have arthritis you know how hard it is to get up after sitting for any period of time. You’re so toxic and tense that you hurt to move.

Try some simple exercises in your chair.

1. Swing your arms around in circles.
2. Lift up one leg at a time.
3. Turn your body as far to the right as you can and then to the left.
4. While sitting tighten your buttocks and lift your body up from the chair. You won’t lift it far if at all but you will feel the body lift.

Start with just doing these simple exercises three or four times each for a few minutes and working yourself up to 10 times three or four times a day. If you like to walk start slow. If it is only 10 feet, walk 10 feet. Everyday increase it another 5 feet.

You will be amazed how better you will feel.

Swimming or exercising in water is marvelous. In the water your body is weightless. You do not have to swim you can just walk back and forth or do the above exercises. Try doing this at least 20 minutes three times a week.

The trick to exercising and staying with it is to do something you enjoy and with a friend or a group when possible.

My daughter Susan and I meet at the pool where I live 3 times a week for 20 minutes to half hour. It is fun, we get to chat and we do our exercises. It is better than meeting in a restaurant and sitting and eating bad foods.

Always ask your doctor before starting an exercise program of any kind.

You are the only one that can change your life. Do you want to shuffle along or do you want to strut along whistling? The choice is yours.

Remind yourself daily... If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me!

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison “The Arthritis Lady”
I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too

Mono-diets and Arthritis

2007-07-07T13:27:00.000-04:00

What is a Mono-diet? It is the First-and Most Powerful-Principle of Care.

Periodic Mono-dieting is in my opinion the first step to recapture your health and lesson your pain. It is what started me to get absolute relief after suffering 43 years with arthritis. Use it in the right way and maintain the level of health you desire.

The greatest benefit is it is simple and easy to do. Anyone who desires to make a life style change can use this method. It is key to preventing ill health while nurturing vibrant health.

How do you start? First by understanding that you will not be hungry…you will be satisfied…and it will work if you work it.

There are 3 different ways to do this.

1. Drinking only fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 1 to 3 days to a week.

2. Drinking only vegetable juices and fresh fruit juices and eating whole fruits and vegetables for 3 days to a week.

3. Drinking only fresh fruit and vegetable juices and eating only fresh fruit and vegetables and salads for 1 to 10 days.

Why?

First: This type of eating allows the body to use the least amount of energy in digesting your food. This leaves the rest of the body’s energy to cleansing, detoxifying and rejuvenation of the lymph system.

Second: Because the purpose of this type of eating is to obtain the maximum amount of fuel and nutrients and enzymes from the food you do eat.

Eating raw fruits takes less energy to digest that eating cooked foods. We are the only species that eats cooked foods and we are the species that lead in degenerative diseases. And arthritis is one of the main degenerative diseases. Over 90 Million people in the United States have arthritis.

In 1979 when I went for 43 years of agony to complete relief in less than 3 months 1 in 20 people had arthritis. Now it is one in three and fast becoming 1 in every two people. This can be stopped.

To gain the greatest benefit from Mono-dieting, make it part of your routine. Start with any of the above changes. Make the 3rd one for you to do once in the spring and again in the fall and again in the winter. In between do it one day a week.

This way of cleansing your body gives your immune system a chance to revitalize its activities.

Mark your calendar. Mark it “My special time!” because you are doing this for YOU. If you wake up some day and feel like having just fruit or vegetables…raw…then just do it.

You will feel liberated. The other benefits are you will be helping your body to prevent disease and getting this fantastic surge of energy and well-being as a result.

Take charge of your life. Who puts the food and drink into your mouth? It is not some genie or friend or ad. It is YOU!!!

You will now be taking charge of getting rid of your body wastes and toxins. These toxins area saved in your body and clumped together. If you feel these little lumps all over you now know what that is, is JUNK. This junk is ruining your health and keeping you from living to your fullest.

And guess what? You get to control this. IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME.

Go from being a slave to food to being a master of food and you will your body will benefit. You will look younger, feel younger, have more energy and let’s face it. ENERGY is everything.

Digestion uses a great deal of energy. This way your body uses less energy to digest the food you eat and more to rebuild your body.

Proteins and starches are very concentrated foods requiring a huge amount of energy output for digestion. Fruits and vegetables are not concentrated and so require less energy to digest.

Ever have a stomachache? Or acid reflux? Or acid indigestion? Or heartburn or gas pains? Or that heavy, bloated feeling after eating? You are headed toward many bad diseases if you do. It is the start of ulcers and colitis which leads to cancer.

Do you want that? YOU have the power to stop that. The two biggest selling prescription drugs are Tagamet and Zantac. Both are for stomach disorders. This is what gave my husband Warren cancer and ended his life at 72. He had been taking both for 40 or more years. His oncologist said these two drugs actually caused his cancer.

Dr. Walford is a medical doctor and did experiments on mice. A mouse has a life span of about 2 years. He fed one group whatever mice eat and the control group he fasted them 2 days a week. What happened? The control group lived 4 years.

That is the only change he made in their diets.

There is only one rule in this change in your life. NOTHING COOKED.

That includes all processed foods. You eat only raw foods. That is IT.

The average person eats over 50 pounds of sugar yearly. It is in such great amounts of food it is mind-boggling. It is in ketchup. Check the labels. If any of these are on it don’t eat it.

In fact write this out and place on your refrigerator.

“If it has a label, do not eat it. That is the first thing I was taught when I started my journey to freedom from arthritis.

You can add raw nuts but only 10 or 12 nuts a day is enough.

Eat one large salad a day. Use a salad dressing of olive oil and lemon juice and your favorite herbs and spices. You can have other types but make sure they have no chemical additives.

Of course, continue with your 20 minutes exercising 3 times a week. Anything that is enjoyable, preferably outside.

We now know that those who spend that time outside in the yard or the woods or meadows are healthier than those who do their walking or swimming indoors. This is due to the “green” theory.

There is something about the oxygen when you are around green things that are healthier. So take that bike ride in the park, or that walk. Or even the beach is okay. We need fresh air and sunshine.

You have heard about the tiredness you get from long flights? It is due to many things but mainly that you are breathing the same air over and over in the plane.

Swimming in an indoor pool is not as healthy as in an outdoor pool. Walking in the mall is less healthy that walking in the park or where there is grass and trees. It is why farmers and gardeners are usually healthier than inside workers.

Think about this. We are not talking about expensive things to do. Just do simple and easy things outside in the fresh air and sunshine.

You body will thank you, your family will thank you and you will live longer.

I personally do not care how old I am when I die. I just do not want to wake up each morning feeling tired, sluggish and unhealthy. I want to feel energetic and alive. So far at 80 I can and am doing just that.

You can too.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison “The Arthritis Lady”
I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too

Fluoride and How It Affects the IQ of our children.

2007-04-11T16:28:00.000-04:00

The practice of dumping toxic-waste fluorosilicates into public water supplies in the name of fighting tooth decay has just received another damper.

According to a recently released Chinese study, there is a clear relation between fluoride levels in the water that is consumed by a population and low Intelligence quotient scores of children who do the consuming.

I wonder why there is a generalized push to introduce fluoridation in some countries.

When will the authorities that are supposed to protect our health finally wake up to the fact that they are doing us a disservice by following big money contributions from chemical companies and their manipulated "science" in making decisions on important health matters?

From Fluoride Action Network
Monday, August 25, 2003

Children's intelligence declines as their natural drinking water fluoride levels increase, concluded a Chinese study in the May 2003 journal, "Fluoride."

Children scored inferior IQ's even when fluoride levels were similar to that added to U.S. water supplies to prevent tooth decay(1).

"As the fluoride levels in drinking water increased, the IQ fell and the rates of mental retardation and borderline intelligence increased," write researchers Xiang, et al.

Tested were 512 children, aged 8-13 years from Wamiao, a high-fluoride village, and Xinhuai, a low-fluoride village. The high-fluoride village was divided into five subgroups by water fluoride levels, from 0.62 mg Fluoride per Liter to 4.38 mg F/L. As water fluoride levels increased within the high fluoride village, IQ decreased.

"When the data from the 512 children in the two villages were considered as a whole, a significant inverse correlation was found between IQ and the level of fluoride in urine," the researchers report. "These results are consistent with the findings recorded by Li at al.(3), Zhao et al.(4), and Lu et al.(5) of an inverse correlation between intelligence and dietary fluoride from either contaminated food or drinking water," they report.

Neither village experiences coal burning pollution nor do residents drink brick tea, two common fluoride sources in China. Children with brain disease or head injury history were excluded. Only water fluoride levels differed between the two rural, low-income villages situated in the same province (Jiangsu) and county. Neither blood lead levels(2) nor urinary iodine differed between the test groups. The authors also controlled for family income and parental education.

Fluoride crosses the blood-brain barrier producing biochemical and functional impairment of the nervous system during the developmental periods of infancy and childhood, the authors report.

"...despite growing evidence of serious neurotoxicity for both fluoride and lead, U.S. safety standards for fluoride in water have been moving in the opposite direction to those for lead in blood. From a scientific standpoint, this is very difficult to understand or to justify," says organic chemist Albert Burgstahler, Ph.D., Editor, Fluoride(5a).

Chemistry Professor Paul Connett, Ph.D., explained these and other fluoride adverse-effect studies, published since 1993, to the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council (NRC) panel studying "Toxicologic Risk of Fluoride in Drinking Water"(6) on 8/12/03.

"Two neurological studies are particularly important," says Connett. "In 1995 Mullenix and colleagues(7) discovered fluoride gets into the brain, contrary to former beliefs. Then Varner and his team, in 1998,(8) found that even 1 part per million fluoride, the amount purposely added to U.S. water supplies, facilitated uptake of aluminum into rats' brains causing amyloid deposits similar to Alzheimer's patients," says Connett.

The American Dental Association (ADA), a union that represents dentists' interests, told the NRC panel "... the ADA urges the subcommittee to support retaining the current (1993) regulations...Since that time, there has been no published scientific evidence that should change those conclusions," according to the ADA news.(9)

"Contrary to the ADA's assurances of fluoridation's safety, the ADA is disregarding new adverse fluoride studies," says Attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. "The ADA can't be relied on by the media, legislators, health officials and the public about fluoride and fluoridation's safety or bodily effects," says Beeber.

*** Personal from Margie… I just love my Brita. The best water purifier is reverse osmosis but is very expensive.

With my Brita I can have good water without dragging home gallon jugs.

If you want more information on some superior waters email me at
mailto:arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com

“Do Calcium Pills Work?”

2007-02-05T14:07:00.000-05:00

Please Take Heed of This Message!

Any woman who has been faithfully swallowing her daily calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis and colorectal cancer can be forgiven for being confused by news last week that TWO major studies found that the pills provide little or NO benefits against either condition.

A study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and vitamins D supplement for 7 YEARS had No significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures in the spine, arms and hips, although it did lead to a 1% improvement in hip-bone density.

The message you should get from this is Calcium and Vitamin d supplements are no magic bullets, but if you’re going to try to take them, try to take them every day.

*** Personal note from Margie…

These women where taking calcium in powder form and according to research, when taking calcium in powder or capsule or tablet form…their bodied can only absorb about 10% and the rest is flushed out of the body.

They have wasted 90% of their money but much worse is that they thought they were being protected.

And taking calcium without magnesium is another reason they get no benefits. Both have to be present together.

I know, I know, I am always telling you to send an email to me. Well, if this information bothers you need to know what I take. At 80 I out do most all other 80 year olds and look much, much younger.

To see me at 78 go to http://www.thearthritislady.com

But do send me an email to see what I take in calcium and magnesium mailto:arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com with Calcium in the subject field.

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison
arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com

We Need Vitamins and Minerals

2007-01-03T10:23:00.000-05:00

To live fully, experience the health and vitality that is your birthright. Until now you did not know the secret of true Vibrant Living through proper nutrition.

America leads the field in nutritionally depleted soil. At the Earth Summit Statistics meeting in 1992, experts revealed information conclusively showing that farmlands in North America were 85% micro-nutrient depleted.

In 2002 the Journal of the American Medical Assoc, June 2002, reported that leading medical researchers and clinicians recommended that every person use a daily multi-nutrient supplement.

Here is what each vitamin and mineral is and why they are needed.

VITAMIN A

Vitamin A is fat-soluble. It is found in green and yellow fruits and vegetables, milk, milk products, fish liver oil, apricots (dried), liver, spinach and carrots. The bones, eyes, hair, skin, soft tissue, and teeth are all affected by the lack of this vitamin.

It aids body tissue reparation and maintenance (resists infection), visual purple production (necessary for night vision). The symptoms, if you are deficient, are allergies, appetite loss, blemishes, dry hair, fatigue, itching burning eyes, loss of smell, night blindness, rough dry skin, sinus trouble, soft tooth enamel, susceptibility to infections…

Vitamin A will help acne, alcoholism, allergies, arthritis, asthma, athlete's foot bronchitis, colds, cystitis, diabetes, heart disease, hepatitis, migraine headaches, psoriasis, sinusitis, stress, tooth and gum disorders.

VITAMIN B1

Vitamin BI is water-soluble. It is found in black strap, brewer's yeast, brown rice, fish, meat, nuts, organ meats, poultry, and wheat germ. Also in peanuts, sunflower seeds and Brazil nuts.

Our appetites, blood building, carbohydrate metabolism, circulation, digestion (hydrochloric acid production), energy, growth, learning capacity, muscle tone, maintenance of intestines, stomach and heart, are all affected by this vitamin. The symptoms, if you are deficient, are lose of appetite, digestive disturbances, fatigue, irritability, nervousness, numbness of hands and feet, pain and noise sensitivity, pains around your heart and shortness of breathe.

VITAMIN B2

Vitamin B2 is water-soluble. It is found in black strap molasses, brewer's yeast, nuts, organ meats, whole grains, almonds, Brussels sprouts and liver.

It affects our eyes, hair, nails, skin, and soft body tissue. It aids in antibody and red blood cell formation, cell respiration, metabolism (carbohydrate, fat and protein). The symptoms, if you are deficient, are cataracts, corner of mouth cracks and sores, dizziness, itching, burning eyes, poor digestion, retarded growth, red, sore tongue.

Vitamin B2 will help if you have acne, alcoholism, arthritis, baldness, cataracts, diabetes, diarrhea, indigestion and stress.

VITAMIN B6

Vitamin B6 is water-soluble. It is found in black strap molasses, brewer's yeast, green, leafy vegetables, meat, organ meats, wheat germ, whole grains, desiccated liver, prunes, brown rice and peas…

It aids in antibody formation, digestion (hydrochloric acid production), fat and protein utilization (weight control), maintains sodium/potassium balance (nerves). The symptoms, if you are deficient, are acne, anemia, arthritis, convulsions in babies, depression, dizziness, hair loss, irritability, learning disabilities, and weakness.

Vitamin B6 will help arteriosclerosis, baldness, cholesterol (high), cystitis, facial oiliness, hypoglycemia, mental retardation, muscular disorders, nervous disorders, nausea in pregnancy, overweight, post-operative nausea, stress and sun sensitivity.

VITAMIN B12

Vitamin B12 is water-soluble. It is found in cheese, fish, milk, milk products, organ meats, cottage cheese, liver, tuna fish, and eggs.

It aids in appetite, blood cell longevity, and healthy nervous system, metabolism (carbohydrate, fat and protein).

The symptoms, if you are deficient, weakness, nervousness, pernicious anemia, walking and speaking difficulties.

Vitamin B12 will help alcoholism, allergies, anemia, arthritis, bronchial asthma, bursitis, epilepsy, fatigue, hypoglycemia, insomnia, overweight, shingles, and stress.

BIOTIN

Biotin is water-soluble. It is found in legumes, whole grains, organ meats, brewer's yeast, lentils, mungbeans, sprouts, egg yolk and liver. It aids cell growth, fatty acid production, metabolism (carbohydrate, fat, protein), and vitamin B utilization.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are depression, dry skin, and poor appetite. Biotin will help baldness, dermatitis, eczema and leg cramps.

CHOLINE

Choline is water-soluble. It is found in brewer's yeast, fish, legume, organ meats, soybeans, wheat germ, lecithin, liver, egg yolks and peanuts.

It aids in lecithin formation, liver and gall bladder regulation, metabolism, (fats, cholesterol) and nerve transmission.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are bleeding stomach ulcers, growth problems, heart problems, heart trouble, high blood pressure, impaired liver and kidney function and intolerance to fats.

Choline will help alcoholism, arteriosclerosis, baldness, cholesterol (high), constipation, dizziness, ear noises, hardening of the arteries, headaches, heart trouble, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia and insomnia.

FOLIC ACID

Folic acid is water-soluble. It is found in green, leaf vegetables, mild, milk products, organ meats, oysters, salmon, whole grains, brewer's yeast, dates, spinach and tuna fish. It aids in appetite, body growth, and reproduction, hydrochloric acid, protein metabolism, and red blood cell formation.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are anemia, digestive disturbances, graying hair, and growth problems. Folic acid will help alcoholism, anemia, arteriosclerosis, baldness, diarrhea, fatigue, menstrual problems, mental illness, stomach ulcers, and stress.

INOSITOL

Inositol is water-soluble. It is found in black strap molasses, citrus fruits, brewer's yeast, meat, milk, nuts, vegetables, whole grains, lecithin, oranges, and peanuts. It aids in artery hardening retardation, cholesterol reduction, hair growth, lecithin formation, and metabolism (fat and cholesterol).

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are cholesterol (high), constipation, eczema, eye abnormalities, and hair loss.

Inositol will help arteriosclerosis, baldness, cholesterol (high), constipation, heart disease, and overweight.

NIACIN

Niacin is water-soluble It is found in brewer's yeast, seafood, lean meats, milk, milk products, poultry, desiccated liver, rhubarb, and peanuts.

It aids in circulation, cholesterol level reduction, growth, hydrochloric acid production, metabolism (protein, fat, carbohydrates), and sex hormone production.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are appetite loss, canker sores, depression, fatigue, halitosis, headaches, indigestion, insomnia, muscular weakness, nausea, nervous disorders, and skin eruptions.

Niacin will help acne, baldness, diarrhea, halitosis, high blood pressure, leg cramps, migraine headaches, poor circulation, stress, and tooth decay.

PANTOTHENIC ACID

Pantothenic acid is water-soluble. It is found in brewer's yeast, legumes, organ meats, salmon, wheat germ, whole grains, mushrooms, elderberries, and orange juice.

It aids in antibody formation, carbohydrate, fat, protein conversion (energy), growth stimulation, and vitamin utilization.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are diarrhea, duodenal ulcers, eczema, hypo-glycemia, intestinal disorders, kidney trouble, loss of hair, muscle cramps, premature aging, respiratory infections, restlessness, nerve problems, sore feet, and vomiting.

Pantothenic acid will help allergies, arthritis, baldness, cystitis, digestive disorders, hypoglycemia, tooth decay, and stress…

PARA AMINOBENZOIC ACID - PABA

PABA is water-soluble. It is found in black strap molasses, brewer's yeast, liver, organ meats and wheat germ. It aids in antibody formation, carbohydrate, fat, protein conversion (energy), intestinal bacteria activity, and protein metabolism.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are constipation, depression, digestive disorders, fatigue, gray hair, headaches, and irritability.

PABA will help baldness, graying hair, overactive thyroid gland, parasitic diseases, rheumatic fever, stress, and infertility. It shows externally by burns, dark skin spots, dry skin, sunburn, and wrinkles.

PANGRAMIC ACID - B15

Pangramic acid is water-soluble. It is found in brewer's yeast, brown rice, meat (rare), seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin), whole grains, and organ meats.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are heart disease, nervous and glandular disorders.

Pangramic acid helps alcoholism, asthma, arteriosclerosis, cholesterol (high), emphysema, heart disease, headaches, insomnia, poor circulation, premature aging, rheumatism, and shortness of breath.

VITAMIN C - ASCORBIC ACID

Vitamin C is water-soluble. It is found in citrus fruits, cantaloupes, green peppers, and strawberries.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are anemia, bleeding gums, capillary wall ruptures, bruise easily, dental cavities, low infection resistance (colds), nosebleeds, and poor digestion.

Vitamin C helps alcoholism, allergies, artheroscienrosis, arthritis, baldness, cholesterol (high), colds, insect bites, overweight, prickly heat, sinusitis, stress, and tooth decay.

VITAMIN D

Vitamin D is fat-soluble. It is found in egg yolks, organ meats, bone meal, sunlight, milk, salmon, and tuna.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are burning sensation (mouth and throat), diarrhea, myopia, nervousness, poor metabolism, softening bones and teeth.

Vitamin D helps acne, alcoholism, allergies, arthritis, cystitis, eczema, psoriasis, and stress.

VITAMIN E

Vitamin E is fat-soluble. It is found vegetables, eggs, liver, organ meats, vegetable oils, desiccated liver, oatmeal, peanuts, tomatoes, and wheat germ oil.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, falling hair, enlarged prostate gland, disease, heart disease, Impotency, muscular wasting, and sterility.

Vitamin E helps allergies, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, baldness, cholesterol (high), crossed eyes, cystitis, diabetes, heart disease (coronary thrombosis, angina pectoris, rheumatic heart disease), menstrual problems, overweight, phlebitis, sinusitis, stress, thrombosis, and varicose veins. Externally, helps burns, scars, warts, wrinkles and wounds.

VITAMIN F

Vitamin F is found in vegetable oils, safflower, soy, corn, wheat germ and sunflower seeds.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are acne, allergies, diarrhea, dry skin, dry brittle hair, eczema, gallstones, nail problems, under weight, and varicose veins.

Vitamin F helps allergies, baldness, bronchial asthma, cholesterol (high), eczema, gallbladder problems or removal, heart disease, leg ulcers, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, overweight and underweight…

VITAMIN P - BIOFLAVONOIDS

Vitamin P is water-soluble. It is found in fruits (skin and pulp), apricots, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, lemons, and plums.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are anemia, bleeding gums, capillary wall ruptures, bruise easily, dental cavities, low infection resistance (colds), nosebleeds, and poor digestion.

Vitamin P helps asthma, bleeding gums, colds, eczema, dizziness (caused by inner ear), hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, miscarriages, rheumatic fever, rheumatism, and ulcers.

MINERALS

CALCIUM

Calcium is found in milk, cheese, molasses, yogurt, bone meal, dolomite, almonds, and beef liver.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are heart palpitations, insomnia, muscle cramps, nervousness, arm and leg numbness, and tooth decay.

Calcium helps arthritis, aging symptoms (backache, bone pain, finger tremors), foot and leg cramps, insomnia, menstrual cramps, menopause problems, nervousness, overweight, premenstrual tension, and rheumatism.

CHROMIUM

Chromium is found in brewers yeast corn oil, whole grain cereals.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are arteriosclerosis, and glucose intolerance in diabetics.

Chromium helps diabetes and hypoglycemia...

COPPER

Copper is found in seafood, kelp tablets, and iodized salt. The symptoms, if you are deficient, are general weakness, impaired respiration, and skin sores.

Copper helps anemia and baldness.

IODINE

Iodine is found in seafood, kelp tablets and iodized salt.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are cold hands and feet, dry hair, irritability, nervousness, and obesity. Iodine helps arteriosclerosis, hair problems, goiter, and hyperthyroidism.

IRON

Iron is found in black strap molasses, eggs, fish, organ meats, poultry, wheat germ, desiccated liver, and shredded wheat.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are breathing difficulties, brittle nails iron deficiency anemia (pale skin, fatigue), and constipation,

Iron will help alcoholism, anemia, colitis, and menstrual problems.

MAGNESIUM

Magnesium is found in bran, honey green leafy vegetables, nuts, seafood, spinach, bone meal, kelp tablets, peanuts and tuna.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are confusion, easily aroused anger, nervousness, rapid pulse, and tremors.

Magnesium helps alcoholism, cholesterol, depression, heart conditions, kidney stones, nervousness, prostate troubles, sensitivity to noise, stomach acidity, tooth decay and overweight...

PHOSPHORUS

Phosphorus is found in eggs, fish, grains, glandular meats, yellow cheese, and milk.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are appetite loss, fatigue, irregular breathing, nervous disorders, overweight, and weight loss.

Phosphorus will help arthritis, stunted growth in children, stress, tooth and gum disorders.

MANGANESE

Manganese is found in bran cereals, celery, bananas, egg yolks, green, leafy vegetables, legumes, liver, nuts, pineapples, and whole grains.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are ataxia (muscle coordination failure), dizziness, ear noises, and loss of hearing.

Manganese will help allergies, asthma, diabetes, and fatigue.

POTASSIUM

Potassium is found in dates, figs, peaches, tomato juice, black strap molasses, peanuts, raisins, seafood, apricots, bananas, flounder, potatoes and sunflower seeds.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are acne, continuous thirst, dry skin, constipation, general weakness, insomnia, muscle damage, nervousness, slow irregular heartbeat, and weak reflexes.

Potassium helps acne, alcoholism, allergies, burns, colic in infants, diabetes, high blood, heart disease (angina pectoris, congestive myocardial infarction).

SODIUM

Sodium is found in salt, milk, cheese, and seafood.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are appetite loss, intestinal gas, muscle shrink-age, vomiting, and weight loss...

Sodium helps dehydration, fever, and heat stroke.

SULPHUR

Sulphur is found in bran, cheese, clams, eggs, nuts, fish, and wheat germ.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are not known.

Sulphur helps arthritis. Externally, helps skin disorders (eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis).

ZINC

Zinc is found in brewer's yeast, liver, seafood, soybeans, WHICH I RECOMMEND THAT NO ONE EVER, EVER EAT, spinach, sunflower seeds, and mushrooms.

The symptoms, if you are deficient, are delayed sexual maturity, fatigue, loss of taste, poor appetite, prolonged wound healing, retarded growth, and sterility.

Zinc helps alcoholism, arteriosclerosis, baldness, cirrhosis, diabetes, internal and external wounds, and injury healing, high cholesterol (eliminates deposits), and infertility.

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison
arthritislady@yoursuccesslinks.com

Drug vs. Supplement Dangers

2006-11-09T11:24:00.000-05:00

The marketing budget alone of the drug companies is 50% greater than the total retail sales for every vitamin, mineral, or herbal product sold in the United States. and:

If we put these statistics into monetary figures it is estimated that the cost of drug-related illness and mortality is likely now over $200 billion annually. To put this dollar amount into perspective this amount is more than the total cost of treating diabetes or heart disease in the United States...

It amazes me that adverse reactions (ADRs) to prescription drugs are estimated to kill over 106,000 Americans every year (These sobering statistics do not include the number of ADRs that occur outside the hospital or the estimated 350,000 ADRs that occur in U.S. nursing homes each year, yet all it seems that the media is interested in is inaccurately portraying the dietary supplement industry as dangerous and "unregulated." I think a little perspective is in order.......

First, more people are being placed on drugs than ever before. For example, roughly 4 billion prescriptions were filled last year. That is about 12 prescriptions for every person in the United States.

Second, more and more people are being placed on a combination of drugs - many times to deal with side effects caused by some of the other drugs. The rate of ADRs increases exponentially after a patient is on 4 or more medications.

Third, many of the newer drugs are more dangerous than older drugs. The FDA has approved many of these drugs without complete safety data. Drug companies can now pay a fee to speed up approval. Of the 548 new drugs approved by the FDA from 1975-1999, 56 of these (10%) were given a new black box warning because of severe ADRs or were withdrawn from the market because of reports of deaths.

Lastly, the majority of health complaints patients see doctors for owe their origin to dietary and lifestyle factors.

Trying to treat the symptoms with a drug (a biochemical band-aid) fails to address the underlying cause and leads to side effects as a result..... the marketing budget alone of the drug companies is 50% greater than the total retail sales for every vitamin, mineral, or herbal product sold in the United States through any channel of trade.

Direct to consumer advertising is estimated to have increased the number of prescriptions last year by nearly 30 million.

As an example of the power of direct to consumer advertising, the sexual potency drug, Viagra, can probably serve as the poster child. Within a few months of its introduction, several million men began taking Viagra, and many serious side effects, including fatalities, suddenly appeared."
A range of commonly prescribed drugs including antibiotics may be responsible for around 15,000 sudden deaths each year in Europe and the United States, researchers claim.

The drugs interfere with electrical activity controlling the heartbeat. A study in the Netherlands found they were associated with a three-fold increased risk of sudden death due to cardiac arrest. Medical system is leading cause of death and injury in the United States.

This is why I have been on a passionate crusade for 25 years to help you understand that you must take the state of your health into your own hands.

I am NOT saying... do not go to doctors when needed.

I am saying to take charge of what you put into your body so your immune system will take care of you.

I spent 43 years dreading every day. Taking untold amounts of drugs and then fearing the dangerous side effects they would cause.

Please do your due diligence and research each and every drug you are taking or about to take.

Our bodies are lacking nutrition, minerals and vitamins, not drugs.

Dr. Linus Pauling stated, “Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced to a mineral deficiency... and can be reversed by using the proper mineral and vitamin supplements.”

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

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Best of Health,

Margie Garrison
arthritislady@yoursuccesslinks.com

My life is dedicated to bringing you ways and means to do this. And because I have been taking these particular supplements for over 13 months I want you to be fully aware of them and what they are.

High blood pressure? Don't be fooled by the new “guidelines”

2006-10-29T10:00:00.000-05:00

You have probably seen in the news the new “guidelines” for determining a healthy level of blood pressure. It used to be that 120/80 was considered optimal, 120 - 129/80-84 was normal and 130 - 139/85-89 was high normal. If your readings were over 140/90 you were considered to be at Stage 1 which was referred to as mild hypertension. Stages 2, 3 and 4 went up in various increments and they reflected increasing degrees of severity of hypertension.

But, this is no longer the case! Based on new USA guidelines if your blood pressure is in the “normal” range with a systolic pressure anything above 120 you are now considered to be prehypertensive and should according to the new guidelines be taking "two or more hypertensive medications to achieve goal pressure".

So if you were previously healthy before this recent announcement with a systolic blood pressure between 120 and 140 I am sorry to say that you along with 45 million other Americans are no longer considered to be healthy! In fact you will be pressured to take a drug to “restore your health”.

My last mandated visit to my doctor, I have to go every 3 months whether I want to or not…. My blood pressure was 120 over 80. A little high for me. It is usually 110 over 80. In fact my doctor said to me on my first visit that he has patients who would die to have your blood pressure… This same doctor on this visit said your pressure is getting a little high. I will give you a prescription to help that.

I said no, you know I don’t take ANY medication. He just gave me a funny look. Last time he tried to give me some drugs for a urinary infection he said I had and I did not have. Wouldn’t take that either.

My daughter keeps telling me to get another doctor. I have found them all in the past 6 years to be like this so what is the point.

Frankly, I think that the new recommendations are nothing short of scandalous! Hypertension is NOT a disease to be treated by drugs... it is a SYMPTOM of an underlying problem. Treating it without determining the cause is dangerous and is akin to giving drugs to reduce a high temperature whilst ignoring the cause of the high temperature.

In fact just like treating the symptoms of high temperatures which can be fatal in some people so can the potential flow on effects from treating high blood pressure! If you have high blood pressure you have it for a reason. That reason is because parts of your body are lacking in blood and the extra pressure is needed to get it there. If you artificially suppress that pressure with drugs whilst ignoring the underlying cause of it you are on the start of a slippery slide down to permanent ill health.

You may be thinking "But, if these recommendations for blood pressure are supported by the government then it must be desirable to keep within them. After all the government independently reviews all the information before endorsing new health guidelines... doesn't it?"

The short answer is yes it should, but no, it doesn't… at least not in this case! I'll explain.

This will make you furious!

The new guidelines for hypertension are referred to as JCN-7. JCN stands for the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. The report that they issued was their seventh, thus the reference number JCN-7.
All sounds pretty official and impressive, and given that the report was presented by government spokespersons at government press conferences as the latest government guidelines then it must have been well reviewed and debated... at least that is what you would think!

In fact that is what you should reasonably expect and indeed the law provides for this to safeguard the interests of the public! I quote the following excerpt from a paper by Paul Rosch, MD, FACP who is a clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at New York Medical College.

"The law requires that all important Federal rules, including guidelines that affect the public must be written and promulgated according to the Government Code. This code mandates formal selection of a committee, pre-announcement of all meetings, open meetings that encourage testimony from all interested parties as well as written records, all of which must be preserved in a special docket. Everything is then reviewed in order to provide a written discussion of all the relevant evidence leading to the final rules or guidelines that must be published in the Federal Register. In addition, if the published guidelines are not consonant with a logical review of the evidence presented, the recommendations may be overturned by legal action."

Rosch researched the JNC-7 report which is now the “official” government guideline for hypertension and which has been issued to physicians and found that it is NOT on the Federal register and that in essence the legal system has been bypassed. Officials at the NIH (National Institute of Health) have admitted that the new guidelines were written by a non-government committee of “experts” that they had selected and were therefore not subject to the Federal Register regulations!

The guide lines were published in JAMA the Journal of the American Medical Association, NOT the Federal Register. The committee established these new guidelines with NO public meetings, NO meetings were open to the public, NO public input was solicited and NO detailed records of committee meetings were kept!

I am sure you get the picture! Now, back to the issue of hypertension!

As I mentioned earlier, hypertension is a symptom not an ailment.

By treating the symptom it is likely to exacerbate the cause. There are currently over 100 drugs being used to “treat” hypertension and most of them are given to patients on a trial and error basis. How many people do you know that have been given multiple drugs to reduce their blood pressure... and how many have had adverse side effects?

If you have been diagnosed with “high” blood pressure you owe it to yourself to learn as much as you can about it and also to TRULY determine if you do have high blood pressure. Most people are not aware just how much their blood pressure can vary. Temporary increases of 50% are not uncommon. These increases can come about just from a bit of tension combined with talking. It has been clearly documented that people who are considered to be hypertensive are really not although their readings are high.

When you go into a doctor's waiting room and you know your blood pressure is going to be taken and you are concerned about it that in it self can be sufficient to raise it enough to be considered hypertensive. Then when you start taking medication and go back for another check you will be even more concerned and the reading will be even less accurate often resulting in a higher dose rate... and so on it goes.

So, be careful out there and question all recommendations when it comes to blood pressure medication AND do not ignore the CAUSE of the symptoms.

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

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Best of Health,

Margie Garrison
arthritislady@yoursuccesslinks.com

Arthritis Cure – Search For Truth

2006-10-02T18:28:00.000-04:00

When doctors (specialists of arthritis) condemned her existence to a lifelong suffering of pain and increasing doses of harmful and addictive drugs, saying, "Bear with it, there is no cure for arthritis ...you will be in a wheelchair within five years," Margie did not accept their verdict. She figured out all by herself, "There is a cause for arthritis and if there is a cause, then there must be a remedy . . . . If the doctors did not know anything about it, it did not mean there was no remedy. And with this optimistic rational, she charged into the pathway of "Search for Truth".

Margie tells us the story of her "Painful Odyssey through the Medic-World," and her pleasant adventures into the world of knowledge of nutrition and optimum health. Needless to say, she cured her arthritis..."THE INCURABLE DISEASE." The Medical Establishment will call this "spontaneous remission," yet Margie can turn her arthritis on and off to the tune of a melody. She has learned which foods trigger her arthritic pains and aches.

When Margie first came to my office for Nutrition Consultation, her main concern was her obesity, at 260 pounds for her 5 ft., 5 1/2 inches.

After two hours of questioning, I realized that she did not consider a major problem the fact that she still had about 20% of her arthritic pains and aches. For her having suffered constant pain for almost forty years, having cured herself of 80% of her pains was such a heavenly blessing she could bear slight aches and ignore them.

When I mentioned to her the fact that I could I could not put her on any weight reduction program until her aches were cured 100% and until she felt super-duper, her eyes sparkled with incredulous amazement and pleasure. Apparently, being free of pain 100% of the time had been to her such a "Sweet and unattainable dream" that she embarked on her new program with the enthusiasm of a pioneer. At the time of writing this book, she made a confession that when she first came to my office; she thought nutritionists were mainly concerned with such things as dieting, weight loss, and special diets for diabetes. The conventional "Dietetics" approach to nutrition. She thought...putting it in her words..."I was afraid to tell you; I thought you would pooh-pooh me for telling you I had cured my arthritis by eliminating certain foods from my diet... arthritis is supposed to be an incurable disease."

Naturally, what Margie discovered was that I not only believed in her claims, but encouraged her to complete her self-cure. I can substantiate her claims that she is 100% free of pain. Free of swelling. Although pain is a subjective feeling, and only a "Symptom" and not a "sign" for the skeptical doctor to substantiate or quantify it, pain has a unique characteristic to register itself on the face of the bearer. Margie has become her perky, cheerful self and, despite her busy schedule of working in the family business and extensive traveling, managed to write her book.

She has two important messages in her book. To the layman, her message says, "Annie, get your gun" and start singing "Anything you can do, I can do better." Put your body in your own hands and use the right bullets. Use nutrition, exercise, relaxation and aim at your health, your "optimum health." With some trial and error you, too, will learn to aim correctly. To the doctors, her message simply says, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most knowledgeable of them all?" It is time that doctors and medical students assess the type and amount of knowledge they are receiving from "The Establishment." Are they getting their dollar's worth?

Going to medical school is a very expensive investment and if they are being short-changed and because of this their patients will abandon them and seek self-cure, within the next few decades, a doctor may be an obsolete figure in our society, not because there will not be sick people, but because sick people, distrustful of their doctor's knowledge and abilities, will seek help elsewhere than the doctor's offices. Sick people who become disenchanted with their doctors do not necessarily find another doctor who is knowledgeable in Preventive Medicine, since although the ranks of this new breed of doctors are increasing, it is still difficult for the average person to locate one in his/her neighborhood.

What the sick people have easy access to are: popular books, health food stores, lay nutritionists and various non- conventional outlets. By trial and error, by reading, the determined person does improve his/her health to a degree that most describe as, "I cannot describe how miserable I was and how much money, time I wasted going from one doctor to another. If the cure for my problem was such a simple thing as changing my eating habits and a few vitamins and minerals, how come all these doctors do not know anything about it? I feel like suing the doctor for malpractice. It is a blessing I have come so far and I consider this a great improvement." What the sick person has access to does not necessarily guarantee what he/she really needs. This is the case of many clients who walk into my office for Nutrition Consultation.

Invariably, while their nutrition is along the lines of healthful eating and they have a bag full of bottles to show me what supplements they have tried, I find several major gaps and sometimes in their haphazard trial and error. I do not condemn the lay-nutritionists, nor the efforts of the patients for self-cure. On the contrary, any patient who comes to my office with such a background gets a friendly pat on the back.

The point I want to raise is for the doctors. If there were doctors who were trained in the gold mine of "Nutrition Therapy," then patients would not seek the lay and the non-conventional help. Americans do depend upon their doctors for their health just as they depend upon their cars for transportation. It is part of the American way of life. There is no such thing as an "INCURABLE DISEASE." ALL diseases are curable if we only knew and applied the right measures. For all diseases are preventable by maintaining optimum health through ortho-molecular nutrition and ortho-molecular environment. Correct molecular environment inside and outside of our bodies, guarantees not only a disease-free body, but optimum health. It is a pleasure to present to you Margie Garrison "THE FIRST SELF-CURE SPECIALIST."

Felor Jourdikian, Ph.D.

Dear Reader,

The book that Dr. Jourdikian is referring to is “I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too” that I wrote, self-published and is featured on www.cureyourarthritis.com.

If I can be of any help with your “Search For Truth”, please feel free to contact me at: arthritislady@cureyourarthritis.com .

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison
arthritislady@yoursuccesslinks.com

Billion Dollar Hoax - Part IV - The Real Facts About Your Pills & Tablets

2006-09-22T22:02:00.000-04:00

If your home is like most, your cupboard is filled with mineral and vitamin pills or tablets. Unfortunately, the majority of these products were made in the exact opposite fashion appropriate for the body. In fact, their engineering is specifically designed for bottom dollar profit, not better health!

To understand this dilemma, let’s you and I do a quick exercise. Let’s suppose we decide to go into business together. In fact, we decide to go into the traditional supplement business to sell tablets and pills.

Well, let’s get at it!

First off, let’s pick a product how about a calcium supplement? Next we need raw materials to make the product with. Since we are in business our goal is to turn a profit, right? So we want to buy low cost raw materials. How about the number 1 used ingredient in most calcium supplements and fortunately it’s one of the cheapest you can find too, calcium carbonate, the blackboard chalk we talked about earlier!

Second, we need machines to put the product together. The traditional machine used to make supplement tablets is called, appropriately, a “tablet press.” These machines use intense pressure and heat to form the tablet. A very dense packed tablet is now formed think about the last time you tried to cut one in half it’s packed so tight you can barely break it. Just maybe this wasn’t the form nature had in mind for our body to liberate nutrients from, but never mind, we’re in business!

Now, we also need materials to help the machine run smoothly and substances to help GLUE the tablet together so it keeps its shape. In fact, as we learn our new business, we now know that on average, 50% of the tablet isn’t even nutrient! It’s filled with glues (like povidone or some type of sugar) and other substances called flow agents. These flow agents are substances used to help the powders run smoothly through the machinethings like magnesium stearate or calcium stearate.

In addition, we learn that the majority of pill, tablet, and capsule manufacturers have standardized molds for their supplements with specific size requirements. Simply put, in order to have a standard size tablet, other things beside nutrients will need to be added to fill up the space.

These other things, known as excipients, act as insoluble binders, lubricants, colorants, preservatives, and flavoring agents, which are mainly intended to help the machinery last a long time and run better. These also aid in the preservation of the tablet.

Now, these fillers may help the machines run more smoothly and help to keep water out of the product, but are not designed to benefit human cells and tissues.

In fact, they can actually be harmful to the body since the majority of these fillers are derived from sugars, starches, yeast, or powders that the consumer is unaware of. The result, as recent studies have shown, is these substances are used so frequently so many products, that people are actually developing allergies and food intolerances to these components.

And if that wasn’t enough, many of these ingredients interfere with digestion because they are not watersoluble they actually bind and help glue the product together making it nearly impossible for the body to use. Substances like magnesium stearate, calcium stearate, and stearic acid, are all wax like substance that coat nutrients, making them virtually insoluble in water. What’s worse, these substances actually interfere with the normal digestive process. To see it for yourself, crush a tablet of empty a capsule with a stearate ingredient into a glass of water, stir vigorously, and watch the nutrients float to the top, undissolved.

Now let’s get back to business. We have another issue to address in the making of our product, it’s the shelf life. Now, do we want our products to last a little or along time on the store shelf? As long as possible, right? One of the things in food science to ensure this happens is to keep water out. That’s why candy bars are wrapped and cereals are sealed to keep moisture out. Tablet manufacturers often coat the outside of their tablets with shellac or waxsubstances like hydroxypropyl methycellulose and that’s why so many tablets or pills have a shiny look to them when you pull them out!

And so finally we’re finished. We’ve created a product with a cheap raw material, we’ve run it through a pressing machine with glue and other substances, and then coated it with wax to further keep water out! Congratulations! Our potential customers can now buy a cheap, halfnutrient, condensed, pressed, glued, and waxed over tablet with a three to five year shelf life. Get this, our customers might even believe it’s going to help them because we also put some great commercials on TV and wrapped the product in a pretty pink label.

Don’t believe it. Well let’s go through the label of one of America’s bestselling supplements to drive the point home... if you’ve got one at home, grab it right now off your shelf and look for yourself.

What’s in my Calcium Supplement?

1. First ingredient, Calcium carbonate, well we know that’s blackboard chalk or bathtub scum, insoluble in water.

2. Second ingredient, Maltodextrina type of sugar that gets sticky when wet and helps GLUE the product together.

3. Third ingredient: Cellulosethis is a common, NONnutritive filler to help take up space.

4. Fourth Ingredient: Soy Polysaccharides—another sticky substance to help hold it all together.

5. My favorite ingredient, number five: Hydroxymethyl proppyl cellulosea waxy coating agent to keep water out.

6. Number six: corn starchanother filler/binder.

7. Number seven: Vitamin Dthat’s all it saysVitamin D – technically by law they need to tell you what type of vitamin D it is because there are different forms to pick form. I hope they picked a good one.

8. Anyway, ingredient number eight: Polyethylene glycol. WOW! Isn’t ethylene glycol in antifreeze? What is its related compound doing in my supplement?

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a, waxy solid that is used extensively in the cosmetic and toiletry industry! Did you know that it is used to stabilize types of wood to keep it from cracking, splitting or shrinking?

Here they are, one of the top selling calcium products in the countrypromising hope to every consumer who’s seen their ad on TV, in the magazines or in the newspapers. And unfortunately the same product Grandma Ray has been WASTING her money on for the last 30 years, because she simply didn’t know.

Other common ingredients you may find are povidone, magnesium stearate,
stearic acid, triacetin, calcium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, or titanium dioxide!

And don’t forget your FD&C artificial colorants! And these are just the top of the list!

Now, this information is not meant to describe ALL pills or tablets as not of value. Some manufacturers and tablets designs are better than others; the challenge is finding those of value. However, and this is important, no matter the form of the pill or tablet, no matter who makes it, DIGESTION is absolutely required to start the nutrients on their way to being used.

Ionic Minerals and a Cell-Ready Design

A key component to minerals being bio available to the body requires cells and tissues to recognize them as nutrients. When you go to your brother or sister’s house and ring the doorbell, most likely they go to the door and look out the window first to see who it is. Then, by seeing you and recognizing you, the door quickly swings open for you to enter. This same principle applies inside the body.
The key phrase to remember is “recognizable physical characteristics” or a cellready design.

If it can, digestion is the process that helps our bodies recognizes what we put into it as nutrients. Realize that the digestive process is complicated, with literally thousands of functions and requirements to run smoothly. And one of the main goals of digestion is liberate minerals. During this process, mineral particles, which are polar substances, are then activated to an ionic form. This ionization process is essential, not only for absorption, but for the assimilation of minerals into the cells. It is that absorption, but for the assimilation of minerals into the cells. It is that ionic or polar charge on the particle that helps our cells recognize things as nutrients.

Without this ionization process occurring, there is no way a mineral particle will ever be efficiently allowed into the cells of the body. Simply put, it is not cell-ready!

As Professors Rosenberg and Solomons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known as MIT, concluded, after numerous studies on mineral absorption in humans:

“The mechanical process of mastication, dissolution, dispersion and often digestion are important preparative steps to absorption. At the conclusion of this process, minerals generally emerge as charged ions.”

Unfortunately, the majority of tablets, pills and chelated products are not designed to be easily digested. Remember talking about the ingredients and how these products are made? And even colloidal products, despite having mineral particles suspended in liquid, are simply putting ROCKS into our bodies.
Remember what happens to the swallowed copper penny?

The single biggest challenge in ionizing either tablet, pill, chelated or colloidal mineral products, is the fact their mineral ingredients, again, crushed up rocks, are not soluble. They human body cannot efficiently ionize things that are not soluble it is impossible! And rocks are not soluble as we discussed earlier. In short, tablets, pills, chelated and colloidal mineral products, no matter how hard the body may work on them, are not in a cell-ready design.

Don’t Be Fooled By Products Labeled As Ionic

Many powders, chelated and colloidal products parade themselves as ionic, but as we’ve learned, are not. The crushed rock used as ingredients in these products cannot be digested nor ionized by the body. That too, is worth repeating Insoluble rocks cannot be digested nor ionized by the body. Ironically, the term ionic has been so heavily manipulated, misused and cleverly exploited by nutritional marketers, that most people consuming products labeled as ionic are simply consuming advertising pixie dust.

Unfortunately, the challenge of ionization not only depends on what we put into our bodies, it also depends on our body’s digestive ability. Remember, the digestive process helps to ionize the products we put into our bodies. How many of you have ever run across a good organic supplement that worked will for you, only to find after introducing it to a friend, that it didn’t work for them?” You give it to another friend to try, and the same thing happens. What’s another friend to try, and the same thing happens. What’s going on? Why did it work for you, but not for them?

Even if we have a terrific organic supplement, most people’s bodies and specifically their delicate digestive systems, are not in the best condition for ionization to take place. Just look at what we put into our bodies, a couple cups of coffee and a jelly doughnut for breakfast, preservativeladen and hormone induced fast foods for lunch. A twinkie for an afternoon snack so full of preservatives it has a shelf life of three years!

Now don’t forget the colas, dews, and other soft drinks and the microwave dinner, and it’s no wonder the “soldiers” in our digestive system are under so much stress. They’re working overtime, all the time becoming exhausted, and eventually breaking down. Add to that the natural process of aging and genetics even if we were getting nutrient rich food or appropriate supplements, those tattered soldiers in our digestive system are having an awful time trying to ionize those nutrients and make them cell-ready. It is much easier for the body to just send them “right on out.”

What’s worse, many times we introduce a product to someone when they’re feeling ill, or have some preexisting health condition a signal that their body is already not working properly. How about people taking medications or going through therapy?

As a matter of fact, the more medications a person consumes, the more likely their body is out of balance.

When it comes to mineral supplementation, unless what you put into your body is already in the correct particle size, already water soluble, and immediately cell-ready— requiring no work from your digestive system—chances are you will never achieve the degree of health you are looking for!

A Breakthrough in Technology

But what if there was an alternative? A breakthrough! A mineral supplement having the correct particle size, already watersoluble, and immediately cell-ready.

What if it had such a powerful ionic charge before it entered your body…that it required no digestion?

Then the full potential of the minerals and their positive effects could be experienced within the body. For example:

· Magnesium is the body’s work horse mineral. It is critical for ease of joint movement, steady functioning of the cardiovascular system, proper sugar balance, healthy bones, longterm mental clarity and is involved in 300 plus enzyme systems in the body. And most importantly, without proper concentrations of magnesium in the body, calcium supplementation is virtually useless.

· Copper is the handyman because it is needed by all tissues for many reasons. It plays a central role in promoting normal cardiovascular health and circulation, and formation and maintenance of strong bones.

· Chromium is the body’s balancer. It helps promote healthy sugar levels in the body.

· Zinc is the potency mineral. It is critical to the formation and activity of enzymes in the cells that support the maintenance of a healthy immune system. It is critical to the formation and activity of enzymes in the cells that support the maintenance of a healthy immune system. It is also involved in many chemical reactions in the brain and central nervous system and helps support hormone production and sex drive. Zinc also promotes healthy prostate function and is important for the proper maintenance of the male reproductive system.

· Manganese is the quiet helper. It is an essential part of enzymes necessary for the metabolism of proteins and fat.

Remember, when it comes to minerals, the benefits are many. But when it comes to mineral supplementation, it needs to be in the right design for use by our bodies. It must be in the correct particle size, it must be water soluble, and must be immediately cell-ready, requiring no work form your digestive system.

What if all this potential could be harnessed? How would your health be different?

How would living your life be different? What if you could take the preexisting condition of your body out of the wellness equation?

Just as John F. Kennedy believed America’s future could be astonishingly different, and led our country to a new frontier in space, a different kind of company is leading our nation to a new frontier in wellness.

That company is the Eniva Corporation. You may not have heard of them before, but most certainly will. Because in its Class 10,000 research and development facility along with an in–house team of biochemist’s engineers, and award-winning scientists, breakthroughs in nutritional wellness are everyday occurrences.

There is an astonishing wellness alternative. It’s happening right now. Things other said couldn’t be done are being done, while changing lives by the thousand.

I hope you have found this information both helpful and informative. In closing, remember that proper nutrition for your body is not like taking antibiotics something that you do for two weeks and then stop. It is a lifelong, daily commitment to achieve better health and a vibrant lifestyle. So go through your shelves and countertops and see what you’ve got.

· Are they in the correct particle size?
· Are they water soluble?
· Are they ionic?
· Are they cell-ready?

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The Billion Dollar Hoax – Part III - Chickens Have Gizzards, Not You!

2006-09-15T10:28:00.000-04:00

Now let’s address Solubility.

If you think about visiting the physician in an emergency situation, the drugs and medicines used are started immediately, or intravenously. When injecting medicine into the blood, it is delivered in an aqueous or water-soluble form. This is done because it meets the body’s requirement for proper delivery to all organs, tissues, and cells. As stated from the textbook Pharmaceutical Dosage: “Drugs or nutrients administered in solution are absorbed much more rapidly than those administered in solid form, since the process of (digestion) is not required.” In applying this to nutritional supplements, the same logical thought process can be used. As further stated in Pharmaceutical Dosage: “…water-soluble solutions are in a form most conducive for absorption into the bloodstream…”

When applying this specifically to mineral supplements it is especially important, since minerals are found naturally as metallic compounds or simply put ROCKS.

Rocks by nature are not soluble, put one into a glass of water, or acid, and it will still be there, undissolved, 100 years later. Minerals, or rocks, are insoluble.

We know that the human body cannot use rocks even if they’re in small pieces.

That’s why when a child swallows a penny, even though it’s made of a mineral— copper—it comes out shiny. We were not designed to ingest, digest, or utilize rocks, no matter how small they may be crushed up.

But please don’t take my word for it. Graphic evidence of this is seen in wastewater treatment plants and outdoor portable toilets across America.

Thousands of pounds of undigested pills and tablets, many with name brands still readable, regularly pose a challenge for facility operators. And if you know someone who has a colostomy sack, ask them what’s one of the most irritating aspects of their condition, and they’ll most likely tell you it’s cleaning the undigested tables and pills out their bag.

One of the most amazing aspects of plants is their ability to take metallic compounds, or minerals, and transform them into a design that is water-soluble, and thus usable, by the human body.

Unfortunately, tables, pill, chelated, and colloidal mineral supplements skip this step and do not contain minerals that are water-soluble and the net effect is shocking!

As stated in the Physicians Desk Reference, of PDR found in every doctor’s office and medical school in the country:

“Supplements in tablet of pill form are on 10% absorbed by the body.”

That means if you’ve been spending $100.00 per month on nutritional mineral supplements, a minimum of $90.00 is literally going straight down the drain.

Many people notice that when they take nutritional supplements, their urine becomes discolored and cloudy. This “cloud” in the urine is the unusable mineral particles being excreted. If you want to literally see this for yourself, swallow a traditional tablet or pill, wait a coupe of hours, and then retain some of your urine in a clear cup and place in the refrigerator.

Wait an hour and then look at the solution. You will be able to see sediment at the bottom of the cup. There’s your $90.00

And what about the $10.00 that did get into your bloodstream? Just because it got in, doesn’t meant it’s usable. Let’s take a traditional 1000mg calcium tablet, where 100mg may get absorbed into the bloodstream. The number one ingredient in 70% of calcium supplements on the market is something called calcium carbonate.

What is Calcium Carbonate?

Calcium carbonate is a natural metallic compound. It is found naturally in our soils, as rock, but before ever making it into our bodies, it was intended to go through the “plant process” which breaks the bonds that compound to free up the calcium.

When the plant process is skipped, and calcium carbonate is used as the straight source of calcium, we are in trouble. There is no plant on earth that delivers calcium as calcium carbonate to our bodies. Likewise, there is no plant that delivers chromium as chromium picolinate, magnesium’s magnesium stearate, or zinc as zinc picolinate.

Would you eat blackboard chalk on a daily basis? Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

Well, calcium carbonate is nothing more than blackboard chalk! It’s the scum around your faucets and the ring around your bathtub. Calcium carbonate is the same as that 15 lb bag of limestone they sell at the he local feed store for $5! It was never intended to be used as nutrition for our bodies!

And when ingested and absorbed into the bloodstream, this “chalk” floats around, gumming us up, until it is deposited in the soft tissues, again, making us susceptible to:

· bone spurs
· calcification of joints
· kidney stones
· hardening of arteries
· gall stones

And its not just ingredients used for calcium supplements, but the majority of ingredients used in most tablets, pills, and colloidal products. Think of it this way, the friend you invited over to help clean your house, once he got inside, just sat around, and actually, instead of cleaning, made his own mess. That friend, whom you hoped would be useful, became “useless” and you soon want to kick him out as soon as possible, before he creates more problems for you. In the same way, despite the pretty labels and clever commercials, the majority of products you invite into your home or body, just like that friend, are useless if not in the correct design—a design that is the correct particle size, is water-soluble, and what we’ll talk about in a moment, ionic.

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The Billion Dollar Hoax - Part II - The Billion Dollar Hoax

2006-09-01T13:12:00.000-04:00

Now, the nutrition industry has known for years that the body could not make minerals on its own, and it came to realize that nature was not being given the chance to produce mineral rich foods. This, combined with knowledge of Americas’ bad eating habits, set the stage for our next topic…..The Billion Dollar Hoax.

Over the last several decades, the nutrition industry has developed a real fast ball.

They knew nutrient deficient foods were coming to us from our crop land. They realized processing was robbing us of any trace minerals that could be found and finally, they knew we were cooking any remaining nutrients right out of our food.

Now, go ahead and add aging baby boomers, and you’ve set the stage for the creation of a multibillion dollar industry Mineral Supplements.

Unfortunately, the majority of these supplements are not doing to your body what you believe or hoped and in fact, can result in toxic accumulation while having devastating defects on your health.

To understand the ineffectiveness of the majority of currently mineral supplements and to learn what our bodies are really looking for in terms of supplementation, all we need to do is look to nature. For years it has provided us with a perfect blue print for the form and design of our nutrition. When this blue print is not followed, supplements have very little or no impact upon improving health, and even worse, can actually contribute to harmful toxicity conditions.

The presence of nutrients in plants has been known for centuries. As simple as it sounds, minerals are rocks. The natural process is for minerals and other nutrients to be absorbed from the soil by plants. Humans, then, consume the plants – after the plant has changed the metallic compound into a design that is usable by the body. In this way, through the miracle of Mother Nature, we receive our mineral nutrition.

Three Basic Requirements for Proper Absorption

Now there are three basic requirements for mineral particles to be effectively absorbed and used by the cells of our bodies.

1. Correct Particle Size
2. A Water-Soluble Form
3. An Ionic Charge.

The first requirement to address is particle size. In simple terms, minerals are rocks. And each tablet you take, or colloidal mineral you drink, has minerals that are crushed-up into a certain sized particle. The size of the particles in your supplements may actually be prohibiting you from receiving positive benefit. And if they re not in the correct particle size, they may actually be contributing to a whole host of conditions or diseases you’re not even aware of. So what impact does the size of these mineral particles have on their usefulness to the body? How well can these mineral particles be absorbed? And if they are absorbed, where, and what effect, are they having on your body?

Let me ask you a question, if I gave you a watermelon and asked you to squeeze it through a hole the size of a bb, what would you say? Impossible, right! Well, when it comes to minerals, all minerals used by the body are angstrom sized or smaller.

That’s worth repeating, all minerals used by the body are angstrom sized or smaller.

It seems to reason then, that larger sized particle, micron sized particles for example, are not properly used by the body. For the sake of comparison, it would take 10,000 angstrom on a horizontal plane to cover the distance of just one micron. For those of you who are wondering, if you split a human hair, the tip would be about one micron in size. Remember, mineral particles usable by the body are angstrom sized.

We’ve evaluated mineral supplements on the market including metallic minerals, which are things like oyster shell, dolomite, calcium carbonate, limestone, and seabed minerals, which often come in tablet form. We evaluated chelated minerals, which often come in tablet form but have an amino protein or enzyme chain wrapped around them and we even evaluated minerals labeled as colloidal, and found they all have mineral particle sizes of a micron size or larger.
They were not soluble, not ionic, and not effectively used by the body. Therefore, they would be thousand of times too large to be absorbed by the cells of the body!

Can The Body Absorb Micron Size Minerals?

Your body can absorb mineral particles a micron in size or larger into the blood stream, bit it won’t allow them into the cells. Once in the blood stream, these mineral particles, too large to enter into the cells float around until deposited into the soft tissues of the body, many times encouraging toxic conditions which can result in debilitating health challenges.

Everybody knows too much of a good thing is a bad thing at the same time, too much of a good thing, in the wrong form, can be even worse.

One of the key contributors to toxicity in the body is incorrect particle size. Too much of any mineral is unhealthy. A lack of it is just as unhealthy. But in the wrong form, can be even worse. One of the key contributors to toxicity is the body is incorrect particle size. Too much of any mineral is unhealthy. A lack of it is just as unhealthy.

But in the wrong form and size, toxicity is inevitable.

Incorrect Particle Size = Health Conditions

The unnecessary accumulation of minerals in your body due to incorrect particle size increases the likelihood of devastating health conditions:

· Calcification of joints, kidney stones and combined with cholesterol, it hardens the arteries one of the leading causes of heart disease.
· Iron particles that are a micron size or larger, also build up in your body causing a disease called hematomachrosis. Where individual often need to be bled ever couple of weeks to remove the iron particles accumulating in their bloodstream through a procedure called a flabodomy.

If the particles cannot get into the cells, they stay in the bloodstream. Iron toxicity is very dangerous, especially for men, where it directly contributes to cardiovascular disease! Ironically many foods fortified with iron contain iron particles in the incorrect size and design. Just finely crush a cereal fortified with iron, run a magnet over it, and you’ll see for yourself the iron particles and remember minerals are ROCKS.

They are indigestible by the body. They do not breakdown.

Supplements must be presented to the body in a form that is water-soluble, ionized, and in the correct particle size for maximum effectiveness. These requirements are also necessary for excretion form the body as well.

What about Colloidal Minerals?

Right now, sitting in stores across America, are colloidal multi-mineral drinks that are toxifying people’s bodies.

Chromium, a common ingredient in these drinks, in its colloidal form causes hearing loss and liver failure.
Selenium in its colloidal can be fatal.

Copper in its colloidal form causes mental disorders and violent rages, vascular collapse, and induces coma.

Taking colloidal products is like drinking dirt! Just because a supplement is in liquid form, doesn’t men its minerals particles are in solution!

What’s worse? Mineral particle sizes in mineral tablets and pills are generally even larger than the particle sizes in colloidal products! Right now, millions of
Americans are taking tablets, pills, chelated, and colloidal products that are having devastating effects on their body, while absolutely throwing their hard-earned dollars away!

Folks, watermelons will never fit through a hole that is bb sized. It just doesn’t work! Remember, one of the required characteristics in order for your body to maximize the potential of mineral supplements is correct particle size.

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The Billion Dollar Hoax - Part I - What Really Causes Disease?

2006-08-25T14:39:00.000-04:00

Everywhere you turn you hear or see the evidence of disease in our society. Heart disease, autoimmune disease, bone disease, gum disease. What is with this word “disease”? It’s actually become a common phrase, a normal word in our everyday vocabulary. As common as it is, there’s seems to be a lack of understanding on what disease really means what actually causes it.

Is it stress? Is our environment making us sick? If someone could just develop the right immunizations, would we be disease free? Can we blame disease on lack of sleep, a virus, or something we’ve inherited?

The information on this book is intended to explain some simple concepts that seem to be overlooked, forgotten, or intentionally neglected in today’s world of health awareness. This information may shock, or even anger you. But it is a message that must be heard.

What I am now about to share with you, will forever change your understanding of what causes disease.

So let’s begin…but first, the following information is not intended to treat, diagnose, or cure any disease. In addition, its foundation is not based upon clever advertising phrases or incomplete truths, but rather is based upon fact, award winning scientific principles, and years of scientific research.

What if someone were to tell you that the vitamin and mineral supplements that you’ve so faithfully purchased and depended on for over the last 10 years to support the health of your body, have not been helping you, and in fact, may actually be harming you?

Would you feel, disappointed, betrayed, and even outraged?

I wouldn’t blame you. The truth is many of the vitamin and mineral supplements sitting in your cupboards or gym bag most likely ARE NOT doing to your body what you indeed believe them to be doing. In reality, you may have been neglecting your body’s very needs for decades, even though persuasive advertising may have convinced you otherwise.

Dr. Linus Pauling, one of the most decorated and applauded scientists of this century, and two time winner of The Nobel Prize, repeatedly stated in his works,

“Every ailment, every sickness, and every disease can be traced…to a
MINERAL DEFICIENCY”. - Dr. Linus Pauling, 2X Nobel Prize Winner

America: The Country of Abundance

America has long been known as t the nation of abundance. We are fortunate to live in a country where food is readily available and plentiful and of course, able to provide the essential nutrition to keep our bodies healthy. Now, if this were not the case, we would’ve certainly heard about it, right?

If I were to read you the following quote, when would you say it was written?

“The alarming fact is the foods, fruits, vegetables, and grains now being raised on millions of acres of land in this country no longer contain enough certain needed minerals and are starving us, no matter how much of them we eat.”

Would you say 1992? 1983? 1976? The answer is shockingly, 1936! And who would you say compiled this information? Would you say local FFA members, a county extension agent, or environmental activists? Actually, these findings were presented to Congress in a study called US Senate Document 264, at the 74th congress. In other words, we’ve been consuming foods unable to meet the nutritional needs of our bodies for over 6 decades!

Do Fertilizers Help?

Don’t fertilizers add to the nutritive value of our food? Actually, fertilizers make matters worse. At the end of WWII, there was a surplus of bomb making materials including nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous. Since it was known these components were the main ingredients needed for growing large and plentiful crops, this surplus of chemicals made its way into the agricultural fertilizing realm for the first time.

And this continues today, unfortunately fertilizers being applied in record high quantities are not fortified with the other micronutrients needed by the soil. Yields may look great on the outside, but are nutrient poor on the inside.

Even recently, the results of the 1992 Earth Summit confirm this startling information:

Its statistics revealed that the farmland in North America were 85% nutrient deplete. And to make matters worse, the farmlands specifically in America showed the worst mineral depletion in all categories.

The net effect is a nation where people are fed, but nourished. The net affect is you must eat 70 bowls of spinach today to get the same nutrient content of one bowl in 1968. The net effect is America is the most overeaten nation in the world, leading all countries in rates of obesity, yet is nutritionally starved. The net effect is America leads the world in osteoporosis, new autoimmune disease, heart disease, and many forms of cancer. In fact, money spent in America on health care exceeds that of the National Defense.

Why is it that Americans eat and eat, yet continue to make midnight trips to the refrigerator? Simply put, we are starved for nutrition. And our bodies, and quality of life, suffer because of it. The old cliché: “It only takes 3 square meals a day” is just that, an old cliché.

Does The Government Know?

US Senate Document 264, written and published in 1936, also stated in it: “99% of the American people are deficient in minerals and a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in…disease.”

Even recently, the highly respected Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, in its June 2002 issue, published research from two Harvard Medical doctors, Dr. Robert H. Fletcher MD and Kathleen M. Fairfield, MD PhD of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, who cite in their research, “Most people do not get an optimal amount of nutrients by diet alone… and suboptimal intakes of nutrients are associated with increased risks of chronic disease including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis.”

These highly regarded individuals and their respected research findings definitively confirm that all diseases find their roots in nutritive poor, and specifically, mineral poor, nutrition. And this lack of minerals in the body manifests itself in disease.

· Lack of iron can contribute toward blood deficiencies.
· Lack of calcium contributes to bone disease.
· Lack of magnesium contributes to heart abnormalities.
· Lack of copper contributes to anemia.

In short, minerals are critically essential to maintain and promote health.

The Human Body Cannot Make Minerals

Yet even with the knowledge of this information, the most alarming fact not readily known, shared, or understood by the majority of people, is the human body CANNOT make minerals. This fact can’t be emphasized enough. The human body cannot make minerals!

We are completely dependent upon external sources for our mineral nutrition.

From the day we are born, our mineral stores begin to deplete. And if we’re not replenishing them with what we put into our bodies, in the correct form and design, a form that is water soluble, ionic, and the proper particle size, significant health challenges result. Ironically, the average American suffers from over 14 different mineral deficiencies, and doesn’t even know it.

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Nutrient Dense Food? ... What the heck is that?

2006-08-23T16:53:00.000-04:00

In the next few minutes you are going to hear the story of nutrient dense foods and how this information can change your life.I think you are going to love the story of nutrient dense foods for several reasons.

1. It is interesting.

2. It will change the way you think about every bite of food you consume for the rest of your life....in a positive way.

3. It will help you become healthier, live longer and have more energy.

4. It will help you reach your weight goals...and much more!

OK, let's get started. The easiest way for me to explain what nutrient dense food is all about is to first talk about a food that we are all very familiar with, "bread."

Most of us eat bread on a regular basis. There are many, many varieties of bread, but for now I am only going to talk about 2 varieties....white bread, and whole wheat, (dark) bread.First, let me give you a little history on white bread. Do you know why white bread came into existence?In the days of our grandparents, farmers grew vegetables, grains, etc. on local farms and the harvest went straight from the fields to your grandparents’ dinner table. This was a time when local farms were the main source of food, when bread was baked fresh every day with fresh-harvested grains.

Milk came from cows who lived in natural, stress-free environments, and were not injected with hormones and antibiotics.As the population grew, farms become bigger and centralized. Distribution channels were set up so that farmers could sell their products to consumers hundreds of miles away.

But, there was a problem....a very big problem.Farmers began to notice that their nutritious bread was spoiling and growing moldy before the consumers even had a chance to buy it. The "shelf life" of the nutritious bread they were shipping was very low. They needed to increase the shelf life of their bread products.Enter "White Bread."White bread is bread made from wheat flour from which the bran and germ have been removed, in contrast to whole wheat bread made from whole wheat flour, in which these parts are retained and contribute a brownish color. In addition, this white flour is generally bleached using potassium bromate or chlorine dioxide gas to remove any slight yellow color and make its baking properties more predictable.

Most of the vitamins inherent in wheat are removed along with the germ or destroyed in the bleaching process.OK, so what does this have to do with the nutrient dense food story?I want you to think about the difference between a one ounce slice of bleached white bread and a one ounce slice of whole wheat bread.Which of these 2 kinds of breads do you think has a higher nutrient density?

You guessed it....the wheat bread which still has its germ and vitamins intact has more nutrients per ounce than the white bread.OK, so now let's take this formula and apply it to all the foods that we eat. What we want is to consume as much "nutrient dense" food as possible.

Why? The human body is an extremely complicated machine; it requires a wide variety of nutrients to maintain a constant state of health. But the simple truth is that the average American does not get the nourishment needed to maintain a healthy body free of disease. The reason is that they are consuming processed "nutrient poor" foods. They are getting calories but they are not getting quality nutrition.We can take the knowledge we gained from the story of "nutrient dense" foods and apply it to our lives for positive change.How do we do that?

It is actually very easy. Make it a habit to start thinking about the food that you consume on a daily basis. Think about the nutrient density of the food. If it is processed food it will likely have a poor nutrient density.

If it is an organically grown fresh vegetable it will likely have a high nutrient density. The idea is to eat more nutrient dense foods. Look for foods that are closest to their natural state such as fresh fruits and vegetables and other raw foods. Fresh foods have higher nutrient values than processed food.

Read the nutritional labels of the food you buy.

I am here to help you, help yourself, enjoy a Vibrant Life.

Best of Health,

Margie Garrison

Why Vitamins, Minerals And Antioxidants Are Vital To Maintain Vigorous Health.

2006-08-16T12:37:00.000-04:00

BLOOD COMPONENTS

Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body and supply individual cells with the life giving element. They live for only 90 days and over a 12-week period the whole blood supply is completely renewed and replaced. White blood cells are the basis for the immune system and require nutrients to perform their significant function of attacking and destroying invading bacteria and viruses which otherwise would cause illness or death of the biological system. Plasma is the liquid phase of blood, which carries red cells and white cells throughout the body and provides nutrients such as vitamins and minerals to those cells as well as those required by all of the cells exposed to the circulatory system.

CHEMISTRY

There are three ways that materials are dissolved in liquids for introduction into our bodies.

The first is called an emulsion. An emulsion can best be explained as a mixture of oil and water. In order to make them mix one must break the oil part into very fine bubbles and stir them into the water but they won’t stay mixed. The tiny bubbles of oil would soon come together and separate themselves from the water. To get them to stay mixed one must add other chemicals called emulsifiers (like soap) to maintain the emulsion.

The second way to dissolve materials in a liquid is to add a chemical compound that will dissolve in the liquid like the addition of table salt into water. The salt once added to water breaks down into the two elements that it is made of and forms ions, which are particles with an electrical charge. Salt is made up of two elements. Sodium is a nutrient required by the body and Chlorine is an element that is poisonous to the body. We must be careful what substances we put into our bodies.

The third way of mixing substances with liquids in order to introduce them into our bodies is new technology and is proprietary but it involves breaking substances into their atomic form (measured in Angstrom Units) and forcing those atoms into solution with pure water. The result is water containing the atomic form of various nutrients without other chemicals or contaminants that are either harmful or unnecessary.

Solid introduction of nutrients is also a chemical problem. If you look at any pill form of nutrients you will note a list of chemical compounds that are required to combine with digestive juices and result in ones body benefiting from that process. This requires much faith and results in a great deal of profit for the manufacturer.

MINERALS

For cell reactions to occur properly, all of the necessary vitamins, minerals, etc., must be present together and in the correctly balanced concentration. An excess of one can stop another from being used efficiently. Minerals, which form the basis of our cells, have to work in combination with other nutrients: this is called nutrient synergy.

Minerals are unique. Plants cannot manufacture minerals, but like us they need to absorb a range of minerals for their own cell construction and reactions. When rain falls on mineral-rich soil, the minerals dissolve and the plants absorb them through their roots.

In the 1960’s, Professor Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel prizes, proved that there are over 60 deficiency diseases, some as debilitating as arthritis, others as well known as osteoporosis, which can be traced to mineral deficiencies alone. After further research, he summarized his revolutionary findings as:

“YOU CAN TRACE EVERY SICKNESS, EVERY DISEASE AND EVERY AILMENT, TO A MINERAL DEFICIENCY”

DNA MOLECULE

Protein-based cells including the unique life-giving DNA, are all replaced in 6 months. Sometimes during DNA synthesis, a programming problem can arise and faulty cells are generated. If these combine, they could form a tumor, which may result in cancer. Provided your immune system is in top condition, these faulty cells are destroyed as they are formed. Minerals and vitamins are essential for DNA health and regeneration.

BONES

In 5 years, every bone cell in the spine will be renewed and in 8 to 15 years, the bone cells in your thighbones are completely replaced.

“PERFECT CELLS. . . PERFECT HEALTH”

You can vastly improve your health by continually producing perfect cells. To do so, you must provide your body with all of the nutrients in the right balance, every day.

Nutrients are used to continually rebuild old and damaged cells, including those of your immune system. The immune system controls your ability to fight off infections and diseases ranging from colds and flu to heart disease and cancer.

“ . . . ABSORBING AS LITTLE AS 10% . . .”

As we age, our bodies have increasing difficulty in absorbing many of the nutrients that we consume. Enzymes release the vitamins and minerals from our food, so the nutrients can be absorbed through the intestine walls into the blood stream and used for cell activity.

By the 40’s, we can only absorb 50% of the nutrients we could when we were in our 20’s. By our 60’s, we may be absorbing as little as 10%

WHY DO WE SUFFER FROM VITAMIN AND MINERAL DEFICIENCIES?

“ . . . SOIL DRAINED OF ESSENTIAL MINERALS . . .”

Centuries of cultivating the same surface soil have slowly drained it of minerals. Most crops are grown on the same farmland and in the same soil, which has been tilled, year in and year out for centuries. Pesticides and herbicides kill beneficial soil microorganisms which keep the soil fertile. See Senate document 264 "even Congress knows"

Chemical fertilizers are added to replace only the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium because these chemicals will force crops to achieve maximum yield. Essential minerals, trace minerals and rare minerals are not replaced and food crops have become severely deficient in them. The crops will not contain many of the 90+ nutrients that we need. Even organic farming is not able to replace the depleted minerals.

Government Reports!

Alarming scientific findings about soil infertility for the last 60 years confirm that the situation is worsening. Typical statements include:

“No man can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn’t big enough to hold them.” Senate Document No 264 (1936)

“. . . a varied diet will NOT provide all the ESSENTIAL trace elements. . .” US Department of Agriculture Report (1977)

“. . . continuing MAJOR declines in the mineral values in farm and range soils, throughout the world” 1st Rio Earth Summit (1992)

NOBODY CARES

Supermarkets, commercial growers and even consumers are not concerned with the vitamin and mineral content of fruit and vegetables. There is absolutely no guarantee, usually, not even any information, regarding the actual nutritional content of the fresh fruit and vegetables we buy.

The US Congress as summarized it:

“Never have so many people been so well-fed and fat yet so badly nourished”

Unfortunately, most mass market supplements are still based on old technology-they have not been reformulated to benefit from the new discoveries of this new technology.

Many people, who take such supplements, still suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiency ailments because the range of nutrients is very limited and only provides up to 10% absorbsion.

Don’t be fooled by others who claim their product to be 100% absorbable and are not!! According to the physician’s desk reference pills and powders are only about 10% absorbable by our bodies and that is only if you have no digestive problems. Our minerals are in pharmaceutical grade level 4 water and are broken down to ionic particle size that's 10,000 times smaller than the tip of your hair and they are truly 99.9% absorbable and 100% organic without stomach upsetting side effects that pills can sometime cause....

WHAT MAKES “THE DRINK” SO DIFFERENT!

What makes “The Drink’s” Minerals the most unique product in the world, and what makes “The Drink’s” mineral product different than other liquid mineral product on the market today?

“The Drink’s” Manufacturing process: when dehydrated, form crystals. They are non-metallic and are in simple, elemental form. This means that “The Drink” mineral supplements and vitamins are in a form that are 100% absorbable by the body.

In the natural world, plants take elemental metallic particles from the soil and change them into an ionic/water soluble form. This process takes the minerals from the soil and puts them into a form our bodies can use – in a particle so small the body can absorb it completely. No physical machine, leaching (soaking) process, or any other means could produce particles this small, until now. “The Drink” distributes minerals that are made by an advanced revolutionary delivery process resulting in 99.9% + pure, water-soluble minerals in a super saturated solution. The result of this life-changing technology is "the answer" to all who desire a longer, healthier, more active life while also preventing occurrences of mineral deficiency disease.

Mineral Balance: Through the efforts of Scientific officer Ben Bechlor, Staff Chemists, and Staff Researchers. They have researched the latest scientific and medical studies on minerals and their synergistic action with other minerals inside the human body. What the staff has learned is, that certain minerals need to have exact proportions of other minerals present in order to be effective in the body. In doing this research, it has allowed them to assemble the most powerful line of mineral blends, designed specifically for different mineral deficiency needs that can exist in the human body This is further explained in the Wellness Protocols.

“THE DRINK’S” MINERALS ARE ANGSTROM SIZED.

The minerals within “THE DRINK” MINERALS are angstrom sized. Due to the microscopic size of these minerals; they can immediately penetrate into the human cell. An angstrom is one hundred-millionth of a centimeter in size. In comparison, a sheet of paper is approximately one million angstroms thick. In other words, the minerals get to work right away within the human body.

Angstrom size particles: How are angstrom size products made? By a highly technical, proprietary process allowing elemental minerals to exist in perfect atomic / water-soluble form.

1. “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS ARE WATER-SOLUBLE.

In other words, minerals are completely dissolved in water so that they actually become a part of the water. For example, throughout plant growth, minerals are being absorbed through the root system. These minerals are then dissolved within the plant itself. Since “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS are water-soluble it allows the human body to easily absorb the needed nutrients.

2. “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS ARE IONIC.

Ionic minerals contain an electrical charge. An easy way to understand this concept is to visualize a plant. Plants have the ability to change minerals that were absorbed through the soil into minerals that are electronically charged. Due to this ionic charge, the minerals are then accepted by the living cellular structure.

3. PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE PURE WATER.

Pharmaceutical Grade Pure Water is used in the formulation of “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS. An ohm rating measures the amount of electrical resistance. “The Drink’s” ohm rating exceeds the ratings of other distilled or spring drinking waters! The water purification used within this product utilizes reverse osmosis, micron series filtration, UV light processing, and ozone application; thus producing a pure drinking water used in “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS.

4. “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS are produced within a state of the art Class 10,000 facility focused on a healthy environment.

5. “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS are created within a closely monitored atmosphere where strict environmental controls are constantly being manipulated in order to produce the best product possible! Such factors as air quality, pressure, and temperature are taken into consideration to ensure both safety and efficacy of “THE DRINK’S” MINERALS.

6. CELL READY – “The Drink’s” Minerals not only absorb into the blood stream, they are instantly
absorbed into the human cell. Through the synergy of science and nature, “The Drink” has pioneered a revolutionary health technology providing superior mineral nutrition. In unprecedented design, the fundamentals of nature required for maximum absorption and assimilation of life-giving minerals are now available to the human body through “The Drink’s” products.

What is the difference between atomic /water soluble and colloidal mineral solutions?

The criteria we use for proper utilization of all minerals is dependent on the size and absorption of the mineral. Just because a mineral is in a colloidal solution does not insure that it will absorb correctly. A colloidal solution consists of a mineral particle that is suspended (not water-soluble, meaning dissolved in solution) between water molecules. One of the simplest examples of a colloidal solution is water that comes from copper pipes. Many of us have tasted water coming from a copper pipe and noted its distinct flavor. In this example, the copper particles are simply suspended in the water. This solution is, by definition, a colloidal solution. In this form, most minerals are toxic and can cause major health problems. When testing a colloidal solution, you can shine a flashlight or laser pointer through the suspension and see the mineral particles refracting the light. This is know as the 'Tyndall Effect.' Our solutions have ionic minerals that are in dissolved aqueous solution with the water molecules, therefore, no 'Tyndall Effect' from suspended solids in the water. When mineral particles are truly water-soluble, they provide significant health benefits superior to any colloidal mineral solution.

Interesting enough, the testing of many colloidal mineral products resulted in some very "curious" observations. These products tasted bad or had some kind of matter growing and/or floating in the bottle, and/or had a distinct acid or vinegar taste. These observations led us to check the pH of the products because the contents, as advertised on the labels, should not produce those types of characteristics. Upon checking the pH, we found most of them having an extremely acidic condition. This curious fact can only be caused by the addition of foreign ingredients such as acids during the leaching process. In fact, we found most products tested did not have the characteristics of the actual minerals claimed except for color, which was not derived from the minerals in the product.

“The Drink’s” Solutomic technology is cell ready. It enters into the cell because it is water-soluble, and then provides life-giving, ionic mineral nutrition to the cell -- allowing proper repair and function to take place.

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CALL TO WELLNESS: REGENERATIVE HEALTH 101

2006-08-11T14:50:00.000-04:00

Today is the day you can begin to learn and take action that will help you to achieve your health and wellness goals. We understand that with this information and knowledge comes power... the power to change your life, the power to heal, the power to find health, energy and happiness again.

This is designed to explain some vital concepts about your body and nutrition.

Welcome to Regenerative Health 101

Every Sickness & Disease Begins On a Cellular Level

The human body contains around 80 to 100 TRILLION CELLS! It is an incredibly complex system of resources that is necessary to keep this machine called a human body working. If we are to address any issue in the body or help keep the body functioning, we must learn how to provide our bodies with the necessary resources it needs in the correct form. This all occurs on a cellular level.

Around 60 million of body cells die and rebuild EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY! To keep this fantastic process going 24 hours a day, we must provide each and every living cell in our bodies 5 specific resources:
- Minerals - Vitamins - Oxygen - Water - Proteins

The Bloodstream Is the "River Of Life"

Our blood circulates through our body for very important reasons, to carry oxygen and other key elements INTO every cell in our body and to carry dead cells, wastes and contaminants OUT OF our body through natural biological processes.

Because this must occur to keep our trillions of cells alive, the bloodstream is literally the "River of Life". It is the messenger which transports the RESOURCES in the form of NUTRIENTS throughout the body. The level of cellular health within the body can be directly traced to the types of resources we consume through food and drink everyday. If we were to look at our cells under a microscope, we could identify many, many "inferior" dying or mutated cells in people who consume low nutrient or poorly preparedfoods. Conversely, we could identify many, many "superior" health cells in people who consume well-prepared or raw foods high in nutrient value.

The key is simple; everything you put into your mouth hasconsequences. What you eat and drink everyday has a direct result reflected in your current health and energy levels. When cellular resources deplete, the aging process begins to accelerate.

The 4 Stages of "Degenerative Health

As we grow older, we often find that we have less energy, we are sick more; issues, re-occurring symptoms, conditions, and often diseases begin to occur more often. Fundamentally, this is a direct result of depleting cell health. We call this condition "Degenerative health -or- the Aging Process.

The 4 Stages of "Degenerative Health (The Aging Process)

Stage 1 -Cell Health Depletes

- No symptoms are visible.
- You feel fine regardless of what you are eating.
- Your body is responding to nutritional deficiencies without any symptoms.

Stage 2 -Organ and Gland Reserves Are Drained

- Still, no outward symptoms are visible.
- Internally, your body is working hard to balance cellularresources.
- Your internal organ cellular health is changing and beginning to mutate.
- Gland and organ are no longer functioning at a normal level.

Stage 3 -Microscopic Changes in Living Tissue

- Sub-clinical symptoms begin to surface
- You begin to feel different or worse. Your energy is down.
- Occasional internal or external pain is occasionally noticed.
- Gland and organ are now functioning at nominal levels.
- Worry begins to creep into your conscious thoughts and habits.

Stage 4 -Macroscopic Changes in Living Tissue

- Clinical symptoms appear.
- Disease often sets in and is diagnosed.
- Many physical and mental challenges begin to surface.
- Often physical exhaustion and difficulty sleeping occur.
- Glands and organs are now functioning at low levels.
- Real fear sets in and people often don't know where to turn.

Although the above information is accurate and somewhat disturbing, there is always hope.

Your body CAN regenerate cellular health from Stage 4 (or any other stage) and return to optimal health with RESOURCES and a PLAN.

!! IMPORTANT!!

Please call this toll-free number for a free 15-minute message that will help you to understand this information better. This call is absolutely free and is not a sales message, we call it our "Call to Wellness" message and it is a key to understanding "The Drink" and its Solutomic Technology.

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To You Vibrant Health,

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