Detoxify or Die

Detoxify or Die

Body Fat

Mar 19, 2019 | Body Fat

The Importance of Detoxification

Chemicals and toxic heavy metals to which we are sometimes exposed that can lead to disease and degeneration. The most common and well studied is mercury. Lead can also be a major problem in some industries. Mercury is an extremely toxic heavy metal that can lead to neuro-degeneration as well as musculoskeletal disease. There are several tests that can be done to assess each individuals load or burden of toxic heavy metals. One involves hair analysis and another is a blood test.

In the absence of laboratory testing, there’s a number of excellent detoxification therapies that one can engage in which will dramatically lower your toxic heavy metal burden. We also encourage every patient to get a colonic or begin doing coffee enemas which have been shown to safely and gently detoxify the entire colon.

A detox cleanse that will change your life

At Nutritional Medicine, our passion is to help you take charge of how you look and feel. We know that most people have limited time to address their health so we have designed a system to cleanse the entire body without drastic diets or fanatical fasting. After 20 years of helping chronically ill patients, we are confident that cleansing and detoxifying the colon, the liver and the gallbladder dramatically affects the whole body. The result of the Peak Performance Body Cleanse is great energy, improved sleep, better digestion, less bloating and healthier looking skin.

Your health is not expensive–it’s priceless

When is the last time you gave your body a tune-up or an oil change? We all know that our cars need this kind of regular maintenance but how many of us know that our colon, our liver and our gallbladder need a regular cleanse or flush to function properly? Many people end up in the ER with gallbladder disease or colon cancer that would have been largely avoidable had they simply done the Peak Performance Body Cleanse.

The magic of our 10 day body makeover

The Peak Performance Body Detoxification is a gentle yet effective whole body detox flush that really works to turn back the clock of pre-mature aging.

We have never found a whole body cleanse that so positively affects our long term health and performance that will flush and detoxify the colon, the liver and the gallbladder as thoroughly as the Peak Performance Body Detoxification. To reverse years of accumulated toxic waste in our bodies, we must take a proactive approach to cleansing these important organs that are critical to good health.

Real wealth is the enjoyment of great health

The Peak Performance Body Cleanse is a 10 day whole body detox flush that thoroughly cleanses the colon, the liver and the gallbladder. We are confident that once you have completed this cleanse, you will see and feel the difference. When it comes to our body and our health, none of us can afford to neglect this amazing gift from God.

Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk?

Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk?

Body Fat

Mar 5, 2019 | Body Fat

By Roni Caryn Rabin

In a study, those who ate more organic produce, dairy, meat and other products had 25 percent fewer cancer diagnoses over all, especially lymphoma and breast cancer.

People who buy organic food are usually convinced it’s better for their health, and they’re willing to pay dearly for it. But until now, evidence of the benefits of eating organic has been lacking.

Now a new French study that followed 70,000 adults, most of them women, for five years has reported that the most frequent consumers of organic food had 25 percent fewer cancers over all than those who never ate organic. Those who ate the most organic fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meat and other foods had a particularly steep drop in the incidence of lymphomas, and a significant reduction in postmenopausal breast cancers.

The magnitude of protection surprised the study authors. “We did expect to find a reduction, but the extent of the reduction is quite important,” said Julia Baudry, the study’s lead author and a researcher with the Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. She noted the study does not prove an organic diet causes a reduction in cancers, but strongly suggests “that an organic-based diet could contribute to reducing cancer risk.”

The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, was paid for entirely by public and government funds.

Nutrition experts from Harvard who wrote a commentary accompanying the study expressed caution, however, criticizing the researchers’ failure to test pesticide residue levels in participants in order to validate exposure levels. They called for more long-term government-funded studies to confirm the results.

“From a practical point of view, the results are still preliminary, and not sufficient to change dietary recommendations about cancer prevention,” said Dr. Frank B. Hu, one of the authors of the commentary and the chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

He said it was more important for Americans to simply eat more fruits and vegetables, whether the produce is organic or not, if they want to prevent cancer. The American Cancer Society recommends consuming a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains instead of refined grains and limited amounts of red meat, processed meat and added sugars.

Dr. Hu called for government bodies like the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Agriculture to fund research to evaluate the effects of an organic diet, saying there is “strong enough scientific rationale, and a high need from the public health point of view.”

The only other large study that has asked participants about organic food consumption with reference to cancer was a large British studyfrom 2014. While it found a significantly lower risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among women who said they usually or always ate organic food, it also found a higher rate of breast cancers in the organic consumers — and no overall reduction in cancer risk.

The authors of that study, known as the Million Women study, said at the time that wealthier, more educated women in the study, who were more likely to purchase organic food, also had risk factors that increase the likelihood of having breast cancer, such as having fewer children and higher alcohol consumption.

The organic food market has been growing in recent years, both in Europe and the United States. Sales of organic food increased to $45.2 billion last year in the United States, according to the Organic Trade Association’s 2018 survey.

For food to be certified organic by the Department of Agriculture, produce must be grown without the use of most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and may not contain genetically modified organisms. Meat must be produced by raising animals fed organic food without the use of hormones or antibiotics. Such items now represent 5.5 percent of all food sold in retail outlets, according to the organic trade group.

A representative of the Alliance for Food and Farming, a group that seeks to allay public concerns about pesticides, said consumers should not worry about cancer risks from consuming conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables. “Decades of peer-reviewed nutritional studies largely conducted using conventionally grown produce have shown that eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables prevents diseases, like cancer, and leads to a longer life,” its executive director, Teresa Thorne, said in an emailed statement.

For the study, researchers recruited 68,946 volunteers who were 44, on average, when the study began. The vast majority, 78 percent, were women.

Participants provided detailed information about how frequently they consumed 16 different types of organic foods. The researchers asked about a wide range of foods, including fruits, vegetables, dairy and soy products, meat, fish and eggs, as well as grains and legumes, bread and cereals, flour, oils and condiments, wine, coffee and teas, biscuits and chocolate and sugar, and even dietary supplements. Study volunteers provided three 24-hour records of their intake, including portion sizes, over a two-week period.

The information was far more detailed than that provided by participants in the British Million Women study, who responded to only a single question about how often they ate organic.

Participants in the French study also provided information about their general health status, their occupation, education, income and other details, like whether they smoked. Since people who eat organic food tend to be health-conscious and may benefit from other healthful behaviors, and also tend to have higher incomes and more years of education than those who don’t eat organic, the researchers made adjustments to account for differences in these characteristics, as well as such factors as physical activity, smoking, use of alcohol, a family history of cancer and weight.

Even after these adjustments, the most frequent consumers of organic food had 76 percent fewer lymphomas, with 86 percent fewer non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, and a 34 percent reduction in breast cancers that develop after menopause.

The reductions in lymphomas may not be all that surprising. Epidemiological studies have consistently found a higher incidence of some lymphomas among people like farmers and farm workers who are exposed to certain pesticides through their work.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified two pesticides commonly used in farming — malathion and diazinon, as well as the herbicide glyphosate — as probable human carcinogens, and linked all three to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

One reason an organic diet may reduce breast cancer risk is because many pesticides are endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogen function, and hormones play a causal role in breast cancer.

The Profound Way That Psychological & Emotional Factors Influence Chronic Disease

The Profound Way That Psychological & Emotional Factors Influence Chronic Disease

Chronic Illness

Feb 25, 2019 | Chronic Illness

Many people don’t think about their psychological or emotional health when faced with a chronic illness but the connection—according to recent studies—is unavoidable. Over the years, I’ve seen thousands of people with various chronic disease conditions that have tried dozens of different approaches to remedy their problem. Most of these approaches involved conventional medicine, Chiropractic, acupuncture and nutritional therapy but few had utilized any specific therapy to address their mental or emotional health as an adjunct to addressing a chronic disease.

As a population, we sometimes have different ideas about how to address our mental and emotional health depending on our up-bringing, our worldview and our education. I will be presenting some suggestions that I know to be helpful but my recommendations are not to be construed as the only solution. We are all on a learning curve so this advice is given humbly recognizing that this subject is the most complex area that makes up the human experience.

Studies have shown that stress, anxiety and other negative mental states can manifest physical symptoms and lead to underlying changes in various tissues and organs including the muscles and joints of the body. There’s an entire field of study called Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology. (Say that fast 3 times). This field of inquiry actually conducts studies to examine the relationship of our phyche to our nervous, immune and hormonal systems. Some very interesting findings have emerged in recent years with respect to the effects of stress upon the physiology of the human body. People who engage in certain stress reducing activities have a better immune response. Those individuals who go to bed early and have good quality sleep tend to have less chronic disease. Folks who attend church on a regular basis tend to live longer. These are just a few examples of how our mind which comprises our psyche, our emotions and our belief system influences our physical bodies.

Hypercortisolemia, the excess production of the adrenal stress hormone cortisol, has been shown to cause a variety of negative physical symptoms including anxiety, fatigue, arthralgia (joint pain), myalgia (muscle pain), insomnia, excess body fat accumulation and depression. Since this subject matter is so vast, I will present what I believe to be the three main categories that must be modified in order to achieve optimal results.

Dysfunctional Childhood Environment

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

This is an area that’s very difficult for some people to talk about or even think about. Some of us were raised in a relatively healthy home by loving parents and don’t understand the struggle that other children had to endure. If you identify as one who experienced what some call a dysfunctional childhood, it’s better to talk to someone about it than to keep it locked up inside you which will ultimately lead to anger, resentment and depression. Our behavior is often very automated based on our upbringing. We don’t always understand why we do what we do. We simply react almost automatically. This is not to say that we cannot change. I believe that most of the time, we have the ability to choose to change.

Identifying The Problem

We first have to recognize that there’s a problem either in our behavior or in our response to people or situations that elicits some disproportional stress. The possibility that some dysfunctional behavior may be rooted in a dysfunctional childhood environment is something that each individual must ask him or her self by conducting a self-evaluation. Because this is an area that can involve physical or sexual abuse, yelling, drugs, abusive language and many other hurtful experiences, I’m not going to pretend to give trite or cavalier answers to these experiences. I can only advise one to

seek good counseling and to acknowledge the problem because only if we acknowledge that there’s a problem can we begin to employ a solution.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the single most important thing to release resentment and begin to heal. We sometimes say to ourselves, “I will forgive, but I’ll never forget.” This is why it’s often necessary to consciously forgive others who have done us harm and to remind ourselves from time to time that we forgave them and continue to forgive. When you hold in resentment toward another person, the one it hurts the most is you.

Guilt—Anger—Fear

Guilt, anger and fear are grouped together simply because they are all strong emotions that evoke a stress response. Guilt is also referred to as shame. Anger is associated with resentment. Fear can sometimes be accompanied by paranoia.

Guilt

Guilt leads to shame and can eat away at our body and our personality. The opposite of guilt is a clear conscience or what may be summed up as peace.There are different perspectives on how to deal with guilt. I will discuss guilt from a Judeo-Christian worldview. The ultimate underlying cause of guilt and shame is sin. Sin is simply missing the mark of perfection which is what we all—as humans—do. We sin against God and we sin against others so naturally we experience guilt that either we acknowledge or deny. If we are honest with ourselves, we must ask our self if we have wronged another person and then go to that person and ask for forgiveness. If the opposite is true and someone has wronged you, then you should communicate to him or her that you don’t hold it against him.

Anger

Anger is not always evil. Some anger is justified and some clearly is not. Anger is usually a matter of someone crossing our will in some way or hurting us either physically, emotionally, financially or spiritually. The opposite of anger is love so the time that we spend in our lives being angry is time spent not loving others. Since we know how good it feels to be loved by others, our desire should be to love others and to do unto

others as you would want them to do unto you.The emotion of anger is associated with the liver and gallbladder so the health or lack of health of these important organs can lead to anger and anger expressed as an emotion can negatively affect our liver among many other organs. Anger requires a great deal of energy to exert and is really taxing on our body. I believe that we should consider the reason for a specific anger and do everything in our power to diffuse this toxic emotion. Make no mistake: anger serves an important purpose and is even a tool of survival at times. What I’m discussing is harboring unnecessary anger that may be inducing, promoting or triggering a physical disease process in your body. This brings us back to the concept of forgiveness and the importance of doing what we know we should both for ourselves and for others who may have wronged us.

Fear

Uncontrolled fear is devastating to our health and can dramatically affect the immune and endocrine systems of your body. Fear is the opposite of confidence but our confidence should not be rooted in ourselves but rather it should be rooted in who we are as individuals in Christ. Being overly confident is pride and arrogance but healthy confidence is all about who we are and what we can do with our master/teacher empowering us. If you think that the power is merely within you and you listen to Tony Robbins: Unleash The Power Within, you will end up extremely disappointed. Our power in ourselves is extremely limited but God’s power that He freely gives to us is unlimited.

As an emotion, fear is associated with the kidneys and the adrenal glands but it can manifest deleterious effects in many other organs as well. Fear weakens the body by leaching many vital nutrients out of the blood stream that are desperately needed for other biochemical processes. Fear is usually expressed as constant worrying about things that we may or may not have any control over. Worrying is basically meditating on the negative over and over. Though fear is a very real emotion and all of us as humans experience it to varying degrees, we do not have to be a slave to fear or worry—there’s always a solution. Don’t make decisions in life based on fear of what may or may not happen. Make your decisions prayerfully and intelligently using wisdom from Gods word and being well informed realizing that God is ultimately in control.

Turn your worrying into meditation of Gods word and talk with God about your worries. Worrying is negative meditation–dwelling on something that needs to be changed but not knowing how to change it. God does know how to change it and solve your problem so talk to Him about it as you would talk to a friend. If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. Meditation is dwelling on what you and God can do together to solve your current problem with the confidence that everything will be Ok. Ask God to take over the steering wheel of your life to guide your path and to open doors of opportunity for you.

From a nutritional/biochemical perspective, you can improve the function of your kidneys by consuming more purified water and limiting your intake of coffee and alcohol. Also, limit your consumption of fried/deep fried foods as the highly heated oils stress the kidneys. These are important measures that can be taken to lower the level of fear that one experiences and can work in concert with my other recommendations.

Self-Destructive/Self Defeating Behavior (Addictions & Bad Habits)

This third category is really about becoming consciously aware of those things that we’re doing automatically that are clearly not in our best interest. This topic can be applied to all the others above because it’s an over-arching influence upon our relative success or failure in every area of our lives. Generally speaking, thoughts give rise to feelings and feelings give rise to actions. So the battle begins in the mind and this is where most of us struggle is in our private thoughts. It’s been wisely said that when you change your thoughts, you change your feelings, when change your feelings, you change your actions/behavior, when you change your actions/behavior, you change your character. And when you change your character, you change your destiny. Many people have been programmed throughout their lives including their childhood with negative messages that continue to play over and over in their minds—almost as if an inner voice were audibly speaking into their ears on a regular basis saying, “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not that attractive.” “People don’t respect me.” “I’m not that smart.” “I’m probably going to fail….” And on and on. This lack of confidence and feelings of inadequacy are rooted in self-defeating, negative tapes that play over and over in our heads but are lies that we can and must reject. The reality is that we don’t have to be at the mercy of negative thoughts and feelings—with God as our master teacher, we have power over them. The scriptures tell us, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Also, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and don’t lean on your own understanding; in every way acknowledge Him and He will make your path successful.” We simply need to learn how to conquer negative thoughts and feelings which requires a proactive approach.

Addiction can generally be categorized as either physical/physiological or psychological/emotional but its not always either/or; it can be both. We always attempt to identify the primary vs. the secondary underlying cause in each individual. We are not only referring to drug addiction/substance abuse but also to food addiction which in many ways is even more insidious because it’s considered to be relatively innocuous and not really a big deal but in reality, it leads to very serious consequences. Since we as humans are mostly guided each day by our habits, those habits either lead to a positive result or to a negative one.

The issue becomes, are you engaging in more positive habits that lead to a healthy outcome or are you engaging in enough bad habits that promote subtle changes in your body that ultimately manifest as symptoms of chronic disease? Addiction is sometimes referred to as out-of-control-behavior but I’m of the firm belief that with the right help, all behavior is modifiable given the opportunity.

This is not to say that everyone finds the right help in time but given each ones level of commitment to search for the right information and their willingness to try different therapies and remedies, the right solution can usually be apprehended. I do think that some people’s behavior can legitimately be defined as out-of-control-behavior but I also firmly believe that with God’s wisdom and direct intervention we can ultimately have control over our out-of-control-behavior. God always provides a rescue– there’s always a solution.

I’m going to provide a short list of books that I highly recommend you read to fully grasp the concepts that I’m about to share.

  1. Success God’s Way (Charles Stanley)
  2. Divine Conspiracy (Dallas Willard)
  3. Lord, Change My Attitude (James MacDonald)
  4. The Holiness of God (RC Sproul)
    The combined wisdom in these 4 books is equivalent–in my opinion–to reading 1000 books.

Actions: Apply the 4 principles of action:

Thoughts: Dwell on that which is lovely. Refuse to dwell on the negatives of your past but rather think with hopeful anticipation about the possibilities of the future. It’s been wisely said that when driving your car, we look through the windshield at least 90% of the time and occasionally glance in the rear view mirror. If we drive and stare in the rear view mirror 80-90% of the time, we will crash and burn. Begin to journal your thoughts–write them down and talk them over with God as you would a best friend. Remember: God doesn’t merely love you–He really likes you and wants your attention and your love in return. Seek wisdom in every area of your life from God’s word. Do not rely on the wisdom of this world which is foolishness to God. Use the ultimate standard of truth which is the 66 books that make up the Bible.

Feelings: Maintain your feelings within the context of God’s desires for your life using discipline and obedience. Do not allow your decision making to be dictated merely by feelings. Our feelings ebb and flow like the tide of the ocean–in a state of constant flux. The eternal truths of God’s great universe remain constant–unchanging. The scripture says that if you build your house on sand, one day the wind and rain will come and blow your house away but if you build your house on a rock, it will withstand any storm. We all experience “Storms” throughout our lives but if our mind and our heart is rooted in solid bedrock which is the name given to Jesus of Nazareth, we cannot go wrong.

Laziness: refuse to give in to laziness. At every twist and turn, ask yourself if you’re not doing the right thing simply because you’re being lazy.

Laziness causes us to procrastinate–to put off things we know we should do now. If you give in to laziness and procrastination, you will become their slave. If you identify yourself as being a little lazy, begin asking what the cause may be. It might be rooted in a lack of energy since physical energy and enthusiasm go together, you may be lacking energy. The most important modifier of your energy is quality sleep. The next most important modifier of energy is what we put in our mouth from meal to meal. PLEASE SEE ARTICLE ENTITLED: From Degeneration To Regeneration.

Discipline: make discipline your best friend. Discipline allows you to do what you know needs to be done regardless of how you feel at any given moment. Discipline is basically obedience to God’s Word and/or to your own personal commitments regardless of how you feel at the moment.

Time is valuable–we can never get it back so use it wisely–use it efficiently. And don’t waste it. Discipline always looks ahead at the end result of benefit realizing that the consequence of not exerting discipline will result in hardship, pain and regret.

By: David Serio

Ten Secrets to Make You Fit Fast

Ten Secrets to Make You Fit Fast

Body Fat

Feb 21, 2019 | Body Fat

Are you willing to do what it takes to look and feel your very best?

If so, then we would love to help you achieve that goal as quickly and efficiently as possible while assuring you lasting success.

In order for you to be committed and exercise consistent discipline in our program, it is essential that you understand why you’re doing the things we’ve asked you to do. This will require that you understand a little about how this machine we call “the body” actually works before the magic can take place.

SECRET # 1

Water: Your Body Cries Out for More and It’s Absolutely Critical to Increase Your Metabolic Furnace.

One of the most important secrets to getting fit fast is to drink plenty   of water! It’s been estimated that over 75% of the population consume less than half of the water that they should for optimum health.

Some of  the  symptoms  associated   with   sub-clinical   dehydration   are dry, damaged and prematurely aged skin, thinning hair, constipation, acne, idiopathic dermatitis, impaired digestive function, hemorrhoids and systemic toxicity. Even slight dehydration can zap your energy and cause fatigue.

The Benefits of Water:

  • Regulates your body
  • Removes cellular
  • Carries nutrients and oxygen to your
  • Cushions your joints.
  • Helps prevent
  • Reduces the burden on your liver and kidneys by removing the
  • Dissolves vitamins, minerals and other essential

 

Since our entire body mass is 70%  water,  it  only  makes  sense  to replenish what is lost from urination, sweating and metabolic functions. Drinking plenty of water is one of the smartest things one can do to help reduce excess stored body fat and improve the metabolism. Inadequate water intake can seriously damage your kidneys and make the job of balancing fluids much more difficult for your body.

If you’re wondering how much you  need  to  drink  each  day,  take  your body weight and divide it in half and that gives you the number of ounces you need to consume per day. So if you weigh 140 pounds, then you need 70 ounces of water per day, which equates to almost 2 liters.

Remind  yourself…  Drink plenty of water throughout the day.  Carry a bottle  of water with you as you drive to work, run errands or enjoy the day at the pool; and no, this is not just a California thing. When you exercise, always bring a bottle of water with you and drink small amounts frequently. Don’t underestimate the amount of fluids lost from sweating.

If you need to, set an alarm twice a day to remind yourself to drink more water. If you’re one of those people who I’ve heard say, “I just don’t like water,” find a water that tastes better to you and begin telling yourself and others that you changed your mind and you really do like good tasting water. One thing is certain, your body will love you for it!

Never drink tap water, which contains over 2,000 known contaminants! Either purchase a reverse osmosis purification system for your home or buy Arrowhead Springs or Sparkletts bottled water in the store.

A great health  hint  is to go straight to your kitchen first thing in the morning when you wake up and drink a large glass of water since you’re dehydrated after hibernating for 6-8 hours. After your shower and getting ready for work, you may want to drink one more before you leave the house. In this way, you’ve already drank one-fourth of your daily intake, which will make the rest of the day simpler!

SECRET #2

Become A Fat Burning Machine by Fueling Your Body with Protein & A Limited Amount of Complex Carbohydrates

The second secret to permanent body fat loss is  eating  starches throughout the day. Starches you say — isn’t that fattening? Not only are starches not fattening, they are the fat burners! They are also an excellent source of slow burning fuel for the body. However, you must know the right kind of starches to eat.

The best way to kill the cravings is to eat a complex carbohydrate every 4-6 hours throughout the day, especially the slow-burning, fat-burning starches — whole grains, beans and potatoes.

Your  brain  and  central  nervous  system  are  fueled  by  one  thing  only— sugar (that’s been broken down from a complex carbohydrate) The first symptoms to appear from a lack of complex carbohydrates, (the technical term for starches) is altered or impaired psychological and emotional function. The most common are impaired short-term memory and cognitive dysfunction. Many people never stop to ask themselves why they always seem to be so forgetful — probably because they forget a few minutes later that they forgot something a couple minutes earlier!

SECRET #3

Exercise To Change Your Size! 

Exercise is  absolutely  essential  to looking and feeling your very best. If  you consider your fitness training a privileged activity that you “treat yourself to,” then you can once again take pride in your physical appearance and feel really good about yourself.

High intensity weight training combined with cardiovascular exercise has been demonstrated to be the most effective way to increase lean muscle and decrease stored body fat.

Exercise  tells  your   body   that   muscle   is   more   valuable   than   fat.   After all, why should your body keep its muscle if it’s not being used? When you apply our Ten Secrets To Getting Fit Fast, you’ll no longer be a slave to your body; you’ll be in control of it! You  will never have to fear regaining  the body fat that you burned off because you have programmed your body to keep muscle and use fat for energy through aerobic exercise and good individualized eating habits.

During every workout, you flush and  drain  the  sewage  system  of  your  body, otherwise known as the lymphatic system, which carries waste products away from the muscles, glands and organs of your body. The only pump that this system has to activate this lymphatic drainage is your muscle contraction. This health benefit is a magnificent side effect of weight and cardiovascular training.

SECRET #4

Fat: The good, the bad and the ugly

The bad fat clogs your liver and sticks to your hips and waist!

The Good Fat, Believe It Or Not, Actually Helps You Lose Body Fat!

Many diet promoters mislead the  public  by scaring them regarding the fats and oils they consume. Some promote an almost “fat-free” concept. Still others go so far as to say, “Eat any kind of fat you want, as long as it’s only 30% of your caloric intake.” All of these are fads and are not great advice.

Balance is the secret to the  right  fats  and  oils  you  consume  and  you need to understand that fats and oils contain essential fatty acids or EFA’s. This term indicates that certain compounds within certain fats and oils are absolutely essential for physiological function and without them we will have disease associated with EFA deficiency/insufficiency.

Interestingly, with as many overweight people as we have in America, EFA deficiency/insufficiency is epidemic in this culture. Not only are people eating the wrong fats and oils such as too much red meat, pork, deep fried foods, mayonnaise, margarine etc., they’re also not consuming the good fats and oils such as olive oil, flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, fish, raw nuts and avocado.

You can be confident that the good eating habits and nutritional program we give you will be a healthy balance of fats and oils!

Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how this machine we call  the body actually works. When you deprive the body of the good fats and oils, your body tends to hold on to its reserves and not let go of it. This is a built-in survival mechanism. Many people have been told that eating any kind of fat will feed your fat cells but this is simply not true.

All fat is not dealt with in the same way by your body.

Certain fats like those from land animals, which are saturated, tend to be stored more easily by the body and also give rise to pro-inflammatory hormones. Other fats like fish oil, flax oil and olive oil have a cleansing effect throughout your entire body similar to giving your car engine an oil change. These “good oils” also give rise to the anti-inflammatory  hormones in your body. So you can see why the wrong balance of fats and oils in your body can make you feel so bad and look old while the right balance will make you feel great, increase your metabolic rate and make you look young again!

SECRET #5

The Power Of pH: Achieving Your Peak Performance Zone! 

Bringing Your Body Back To Balance 

 

  • The way that your body feels and performs is directly related to the quality of nutrients that you provide for
  • The human body has tremendous, God-given healing power when it is properly nourished.
  • If the body’s pH becomes acidic, it becomes harder and harder to efficiently absorb nutrients such as vitamins, minerals or herbs. An acidic pH creates a hostile internal environment making the body struggle to get the nutrients it needs for optimal health and performance. The solution is to re-establish the proper acid/alkaline balance of your body, which is the most important first step you can take to optimize your athletic performance. The more acidic you become, the worse you will feel, but as your bodies pH moves into better balance (pH 6.4-7.0) your body easily assimilates minerals that were very difficult to absorb at a lower more acid Keeping your body in the proper pH balance is the most important thing you can do for your health, metabolic rate and for optimum performance.

 

How to Measure Your pH

  1. To gauge the body’s pH, collect a small sample of your urine in a clean cup first thing in the morning (do not eat or drink anything before you take the urine )
  2. Check the pH of your urine by dipping a small strip of pH tape into your urine; then match the color of the tape to the pH color chart
    1. If your urine pH is below 6.0, your body’s cells are enveloped in an acidic bath, paving the way for future health problems — or reinforcing current ones.

The Ideal Urine pH Range

  • An ideal urine pH range measured first thing in the morning upon arising is between 6.4-7.0. Most frequently, urine pH levels have dipped down into the acidic range (below 4).
  • Also harmful are high urine pH levels. A urine pH over 7.0 may be a warning sign that the pH balance has become abnormally
  • A pH over 8.0 is a serious danger signal indicating the body has desperately recruited emergency supplies of ammonia to use as an alkaline buffer. This response is most often due to a long-standing, highly acidic state which has depleted the body’s mineral reserves — especially calcium.

 

High Tissue Oxygen

  • Increases and intensifies metabolic rate
  • High vitality
  • High energy
  • Bacteria, virus and fungus cannot survive
  • Good mental clarity
  • Exceptional absorption

Low Tissue Oxygen

  • Decreases and inhibits metabolic rate
  • Poor energy, easily tired
  • Breeding ground for bacteria, virus and fungus
  • Poor mental focus, poor memory
  • Poor absorption

 

Calcium is the gatekeeper of the cell and key buffer that helps maintain the acid/alkaline balance and helps neutralize the many acids and toxins we are exposed to.

The Vitamin D Connection: Is the Calcium Getting In?

  • Vitamin D is an absolute requirement for the intestinal absorption of Without sufficient vitamin D, you cannot adequately absorb calcium.
  • Many people do not consume an adequate amount of vitamin D in their diets.
  • New research has shown that almost every organ, gland and immune cell in the body has vitamin D receptor
  • Studies have shown that activation of these receptor sites facilitates calcium utilization for re-alkalization and rapid destruction of invading organisms.

SECRET #6

Your Bigger Meal Should Be Lunch, Not Dinner!

 Tradition and habit is sometimes our  greatest  enemy,  since  most  of  us  grew up in a home where dinner was the main meal and certainly the largest of the three. Eating a large meal, especially containing meat at night and then going to sleep with a full stomach, is one of the best ways to gain excess body fat and extend your waistline!

This is one of the biggest reasons why there are so many over-weight Americans today. In other cultures where they make their lunch their main meal they do not suffer from excess fat storage to nearly the same extent as we do in America.

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In the morning and early afternoon, your digestive enzymes are secreted more efficiently and therefore maximal absorption and utilization of your dietary fats, carbohydrates and proteins takes place earlier in the day.

Your breakfast and lunch should ideally be your larger meals and your dinner on the smaller side. This plan will help you to accumulate less body fat and will begin to mobilize the excess body fat that’s already there.

Eat more great tasting food and lose your excess body fat! The worst thing you can do is to eat all your food for the day in 1-2 meals. It’s disastrous to your metabolism! Eating several times throughout the day — but smaller meals — rather than one or two meals has been shown to block the increase of body fat. Do not underestimate the importance of secret #6 to getting fit fast! 

SECRET #7

No Food Two Hours Before Bedtime! 

This could prove to be one of the most important secrets for reaching your goal quickly  since eating a large meal right before you go to bed causes  the food to putrefy in your intestine and not be absorbed and utilized by your body efficiently. We don’t digest food as efficiently late at night— especially if it’s cooked food. Also, your metabolic rate is decreased in the evening since your energy demands are diminished; so that big meal you eat at 10:00 PM will stay in your intestine much longer causing very restless sleep and making you feel groggy and unrested when you have to wake up in the morning. This is one reason many people feel more tired when they wake up than when they go to bed at night. That meal sitting in your gut creates a state of acidosis in your body all night long, lowering your tissue oxygen and making you feel totally lethargic in the morning. Doyourself a huge favor and make an effort to eat a smaller dinner 1-2 hours earlier than you normally do if you’re one of those who tend to eat late at night. An added secret is to eat a good meal at 6:00 PM so you won’t be so hungry at 9:00-10:00 in the evening. Secret #7 carries enormous health benefits that will make you feel great while also helping you to get fit fast! 

 

SECRET #8

Your Body Needs Good Salt! 

But you’re thinking, “Isn’t salt bad for you?” The answer  is  NO!  Salt  is  essential for normal physiological function. But we are talking about “good salt.” Good salt is unheated, sun-dried only — not kiln dried in at 800-1000 degrees F.  Studies indicate that this highly heated salt does not break down in the body and is associated with high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, kidney disease and many other ailments. Natural, unheated salt is not associated with these disorders and is actually healing and regenerating to your body. Many people erroneously think they get more than enough sodium in their food, however the salt that is in all fast food and restaurant food is unabsorbable and dangerous to the body.

Once you begin to avoid fast foods and highly processed foods, you will want to add the good salt to your food.

If you deprive your body of the “good salt”, you shut down your digestion and then cannot absorb and utilize your food.

Research shows that regular commercial salt from you local supermarket  is harmful to the human body, but not so with natural, unheated seasalt. Salt is chemically known as sodium chloride. The sodium fraction is necessary for proper nerve transmission throughout the body and is  critical for normal fluid balance in your body. The chloride fraction is necessary for your stomach to build hydrochloric acid, which initiates protein breakdown. Eating plenty of vegetables helps provide an excellent source of organic sodium to your body but unfortunately most of us do not consume enough of these mineral rich vegetables. Adding some unheated natural salt to your food will actually activate your digestion and help you to lose your excess body fat!

 SECRET #9

The Three Roadblocks That Prevent the Burning of Body Fat! 

The three most specific factors of impaired metabolic function — otherwise known as too much body fat — are deficiency, toxicity and infection. These three areas of your health directly affect your metabolism, and we will help you to address them by tailoring your program for you as an individual.

  • Deficiency/insufficiency: Worldwide research has now been conducted demonstrating that this is one of the foundational factors leading to metabolic disorders and chronic.
  • Toxicity refers to chemicals and heavy metals that bio-accumulate in your tissues and organs and lead to impaired organ function. These include mercury, lead, aluminum, cadmium and nickel as well as chemicals such as DDT, PCB’s, dioxin, MTBE
  • The heavy metals dramatically interfere with your metabolism by blocking normal enzyme synthesis. All of the essential minerals act as co- factors in thousands of enzyme systems in your Not only do most people unknowingly have some heavy metal toxicity, most of those same people also don’t consume adequate amounts of the essential minerals necessary for normal metabolism. You can begin to see the problem this causes in these extremely complex metabolic machines.
  • The chemicals are hormone impostors and they disrupt the delicate hormonal balance throughout your entire Many of these chemicals have been shown to be carcinogenic — that is, cancer causing — in the human body. Your liver has two primary jobs and those are to detoxify dangerous chemicals to render them more harmless in the body and the second is to metabolize or breakdown your dietary fats and oils. You can see why a population of people who have been exposed to a lot of chemicals might also have impaired fat metabolism since your liver is overworked trying to deal with all the chemicals.

Another interesting fact is that  chemicals  are  stored  in  your  liver  and your body fat! Therefore the more chemicals the more difficult it is for your liver to metabolize dietary fats and oils. You then accumulate more body fat, which in turn has the ability to attract more chemicals. So you can see this is a terrible “catch 22.” But don’t worry. We’ve got the solution!

  • Infection is more elusive as one of the factors leading to excess body fat. Most people might think, “I don’t have any infection in my body!” Well, maybe you don’t…but you probably do. Current research indicates that almost everyone you see walking around has at least some low-grade infection in their These can be bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic or other pathogenic organisms such as mycoplasmas and prions. Even in the absence of obvious symptoms, these infections can reside in the teeth and gums, the respiratory tract, very commonly in the gastrointestinal tract and often in the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and urinary tract. There are new and novel ways to successfully identify the location of these   infections and to pinpoint target anti-infective remedies right into those organs. These infections can often be the underlying root cause of the loss of organ function leading to impaired metabolism. We will explain the various options you have in helping to identify these chronic infections.

SECRET#10

Vitamin Supplements: Are They Really Necessary for Long Term Success?

The answer is absolutely yes! Many researchers consider nutritional deficiencies to be the most under-diagnosed and ignored factors at the root of most health problems. Well-designed nutritional supplement programs using products that really work carry the greatest potential for restoring health in the growing number of overweight and chronically ill people.

My doctor told me that you get all of the vitamins you need in your food and if you take vitamin supplements you’ll just urinate them away. 

Over the years, whenever the subject of vitamins comes up, most of us have heard people make two common statements that we believe can be demonstrated to be completely false and erroneous.

The first statement you often hear is, “My doctor told me that you get all the vitamins you need in your food.” The second statement that usually follows it is, “Besides, if you take vitamin supplements, you’ll just urinate them away.”

Both of these are erroneous assumptions. Do we really get all the vitamins we need from the food we eat? Evidently a majority of the American public don’t think so since vitamin supplements have been steadily and dramatically on the rise for the past 20 years. Vitamins are not the only nutrients necessary to prevent disease much less promote optimal  function in the human body. Other nutrients that are absolutely essential are minerals, fatty acids and trace elements.

Nutrient levels in our soil have significantly declined over the past 30-40 years due to agrichemical use such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and synthetic fertilizers leading to severely depleted soil incapable of sustaining healthy plants. Composition analysis of plant foods have been conducted at several trace element testing laboratories and have shown many nutrients to be depleted from the plants and the soil they are grown in by as much as 50-75%.

In our increasingly polluted and toxic environment, it’s been shown that our needs for specific nutrients is dramatically increased which is the opposite that we see in our food supply which begs the question, where are you going to get the nutrients if they’re not in the food?

To make matters worse, the average person eats the Standard American Diet, abbreviated S.A.D. which in itself describes the sad state of our food supply. So as far as getting all the vitamins and other nutrients you need in your food, I think the evidence easily destroys that myth.

What we have in our country is an over-consumptive under-nutrition dietary intake. Calorie dense but nutrient poor—too much of too little. The solution is to consume more nutrient dense foods at each and every meal and then supplement what we know is missing in the food supply no  matter how healthy we eat.

So the take away is this: Studies reveal that the soil is severely depleted and our toxic environment requires an increased need for most nutrients — not less of them. Lastly, Just because vitamins like the water you drink both end up in the urine doesn’t mean they did not do something positive and essential on their way through—in fact, they absolutely do!

The Three Things You Do First if You’re Always Fatigued

The Three Things You Do First if You’re Always Fatigued

Body Fat

Feb 19, 2019 | Body Fat

1) Drink more water.

2) Go to bed one to two hours earlier than you usually do for a few days in a row and then
begin to do so on a regular basis.

3) East a complex carbohydrate at breakfast and lunch each day.

Your body is the most complex machine on the planet; exponentially exceeding the complexity of the
most sophisticated super computer ever built.

Even though your body is very “forgiving” and possesses a great degree of redundancy and
resiliency, there are certain absolute requirements that must be met or your body will go into a
state of decreased metabolic function.

It’s been said that you can survive about 40-60 days without food — these days you’d have to be
quite healthy to do that. You can only survive 3-4 days without water and only a minute or two
without oxygen. This gives us some idea of the priority system of the body and how important it is
to provide these primary nutrients to our bodies.

• The Water: Most people don’t know that sub-optimal water intake will cause general muscle
weakness, lethargy and fatigue. Water is the electrolytic media of your body and just like the
battery in your car, it won’t start the engine without water. Similarly, your body won’t run with
peak performance without adequate water. Drinking more water to help eliminate fatigue is a really
simple solution.

• The Sleep: Nothing will replace the sleep your body needs! If you deprive your body of
sleep, it will deprive you of that energy and vitality that you once enjoyed. If you don’t believe
us, do a little experiment and go to bed 1-2 hours earlier 3 nights in a row and see for yourself.
If you have trouble falling to sleep, read a book for a few minutes. Without a doubt you will see
and feel the difference.

• The Starch: Many people don’t realize that human beings are bioelectrical machines. We are
also certainly biochemical machines but the electrical aspect is often not discussed. The nervous
system permeates every tissue of our body. As we said earlier, the two primary nutrients for
electrical potential and proper nerve conduction are water and sugar (broken down from complex
carbohydrates.)

Sodium and potassium are of course essential, but are not usually the rate-limiting nutrients
involved in fatigue although sometimes potassium is severely insufficient and impairs energy and optimal function. So think of starch (carbohydrates) — in the form of baked potatoes, yams, brown rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat etc. — as your solid
rocket fuel.

If you want to be a highly functioning machine, start to fuel your body at least as well as you
fuel your car.