Leaky Gut Syndrome; When You’re Sick of Being Sick, Look Here-Dr. Mark Hyman
Weight gain, bloating, fatigue, pain, headache, allergies, mood swings, hormone troubles, and eventually every possible symptom can result from this single reversible condition.
Your regular doctor may not catch it as they focus on individual symptoms as if they are all separate conditions. However, you have only one sick body and as it gets sicker you will experience more symptoms and be on more drugs unless we find the root cause. Leaky gut syndrome is a common root cause condition. It typically begins with digestive trouble which may go unnoticed. Typical digestive problems include bloating, acid reflux, or changes in stool from loose to constipation. If you were put on antacids or proton pump inhibitors (Prilosec, etc.) for any extended length of time then the likelihood of leak guy syndrome is even higher. These harmful drugs decrease an immediate symptom (such as acid reflux) while shutting down digestion. This increases the irritation that is probably already happening to your gut.
The small intestines (your gut) have the function of separating nutrients from waste. The nutrients enter the blood stream directly while the waste continues to the colon and is eventually evacuated. When digestion is not working then the small intestinal lining becomes damaged over time. The function of separating waste becomes weaker and weaker until waste is actually entering the blood stream. The next stop is the liver to filter the debris which also eventually becomes burdened leading to allergies, skin irritations, cravings for sugar, and randomly waking up between 3-4am (the time the liver goes into phase II detox). With the extra toxicity floating around, the body begins to hold on to weight.
Fat cells act as a secondary detox mechanism by storing difficult to eliminate toxins. Your fat cells become full of toxic waste that your body will not let go of until you heal up your liver and your gut! The liver directly affects the function of your thyroid so now your entire hormone system gets put out of balance. As you slump in energy with fatigue and malnutrition (you’re eating but at the same time starving because the small intestine also isn’t taking in nutrients very well) you’re adrenal glands try to pick you up to get through the day. The adrenals go into fatigue which, if you’re premenopausal, will drop your libido as your adrenals begin to play a more important role in sex hormones closer to menopause (this is also a set up for a rough transition into menopause; ladies listen up). You can see how leaky gut will have the average doctor chasing symptoms and band-aiding with drugs that will not address the root cause (pain relievers and Prozac are often where they start).
In treatment, I have to assess where to start and what parts of the system are in most need of support. There aren’t any one-size-fits all approaches to leaky gut. Some of my worst patients (came in most sick on the most amount of drugs) ended up being leaky gut cases in which every symptom improved once the root cause was addressed. What you need is a doctor that specializes in functional medicine which focuses on restoring function to organ systems instead of just medicating. I am certainly not anti-drug, but drugs do absolutely nothing for leaky gut syndrome (drugs aren’t bad, just not the right tool). I hope this was useful and don’t hesitate to comment if you have questions.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The politics and science of cancer: The B17 coverup.
During 1950 after many years of research, a dedicated biochemist by the name of Dr. Ernest T. Krebs, Jr., isolated a new vitamin that he numbered B-17 and called 'Laetrile'. As the years rolled by, thousands became convinced that Krebs had finally found the complete control for all cancers, a conviction that even more people share today. Back in 1950 Ernest Krebs could have had little idea of the hornet's nest he was about to stir up. The pharmaceutical multinationals, unable to patent or claim exclusive rights to the vitamin, launched a propaganda attack of unprecedented viciousness against B-17, despite the fact that hard proof of its efficiency in controlling all forms of cancer surrounds us in overwhelming abundance. Why has orthodox medicine waged war against this non-drug approach? G. Edward Griffin, author of the book World Without Cancer contends that the answer is to be found not in science, but in politics, and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment.
Each year, thousands of Americans travel to Mexico to receive vitamin B-17 (Laetrile) therapy. They do this because it has been suppressed in the United States. Most of these patients have been told that their cancer is terminal and that they have but a few months to live. Yet, an incredible percentage of them have recovered and they are living normal lives. However, the FDA, the AMA, the American Cancer Society, and the cancer research centres continue to pronounce that Laetrile is fraud and quackery. The recovered patients, they say, either had "spontaneous remissions" or never had cancer in the first place. If any of these people ultimately die after seeking Laetrile, spokesmen of orthodox medicine are quick to proclaim: "You see? Laetrile doesn't work!" Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of patients die each year after undergoing surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, but those treatments continue to be touted as "safe and effective".
In the U.S. the FDA has tried to use strict regulations, not law, to ban vitamin B-17 for over 18 years. Vitamin B-17, or Laetrile Therapy is only used by some hospitals in Mexico, which treat cancer with nutrition. These hospitals achieve nearly a 100% recovery rate with virgin cases (localised tumours/cancers that have not yet been burned up with radiation, poisoned with chemotherapy, or cut into with surgery). A majority of Laetrile-treated patients report positive responses, ranging from increase in the feeling of well-being and even brighter outlook of life, to such noticeable reactions as an increase in appetite, weight gain and, frequently, restoration of natural colour, reduction or elimination of cancer-connected pain and cancer-caused fetor. In thousands of cases, total regression of all cancer symptoms has been confirmed.
The proof Krebs has presented over the years to support his claim is impressive. Centuries ago we used to eat millet bread, rich in B17, but now we chew our way through wheat which has none at all. For generations our grandmothers used to carefully crush the seeds of plums, greengages, cherries, apples, apricots and other members of the botanical family Rosaceae, and diligently mix them with their home made jams and preserves. Grandma probably didn't know why she was doing it, but the seeds of all these fruits are the most potent source of B17 in the world. In the tropics, large quantities of B17 are found in cassava, also known as tapioca. When did you last eat some?
Independent research has also proved that a Himalayan tribe known as the 'Hunza' never contract cancer of any kind so long as they stick to their native diet which is exceptionally high in both apricots and millet. However, once exposed to western diets they become as vulnerable as the rest of us.
The implications of these findings are staggering of course. If we managed to control Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) centuries ago, how is it we cannot do the same for cancer today? The fact of the matter is that we could if our respective governments would allow it. Unfortunately most governments have buckled under the pressure exerted by the pharmaceutical multinationals, the American Food & Drug Administration, and the American Medical Association. All three have mounted highly successful 'scare' campaigns based on the fact that vitamin B17 contains quantities of 'deadly' cyanide; conveniently forgetting that vitamin B12 also contains significant quantities of cyanide, and has long been available in health food shops world-wide.
Dr. Kreb's B17 Laetrile was derived from apricot seeds and then synthesized into crystalline form using his own unique process. Suddenly, the American FDA bombarded the media with a story about an unfortunate couple who had poisoned themselves by eating raw apricot seeds in San Francisco. The story made headline news across the U.S.A. although several suspicious journalists never managed to establish the identity of the unfortunate couple, despite many determined attempts. But the multinational pharmaceutical/FDA boot had been put in with a vengeance. From that point onwards eating apricot seeds or B17 Laetrile became synonymous with committing suicide...
Back in the fifties Dr. Ernst Krebs proved beyond doubt that B17 was completely harmless to humans in the most convincing way possible. After testing the vitamin on animals, he filled a large hypodermic with a mega-dose which he then injected into his own arm! Drastic perhaps, but the adventurous Dr. Krebs is still alive and well today.
The vitamin is harmless to healthy tissue for a very simple reason: Each molecule of B17 contains one unit of cyanide, one unit of benzaldehyde and two of glucose (sugar) tightly locked together. In order for the cyanide to become dangerous it is first necessary to 'unlock' the molecule to release it, a trick that can only be performed by an enzyme called beta-glucosidase. This enzyme is present all over the body in minute quantities, but in huge quantities (up to 100 times as high) at cancerous tumor sites.
Thus the cyanide is released only at the cancer site with drastic results, which become utterly devastating to the cancer cells because the benzaldehyde unit also unlocks at the same time. Benzaldehyde is a deadly poison in its own right, which then acts synergistically with the cyanide to produce a poison 100 times more deadly than either in isolation. The combined effect on the cancer cells is best left to the imagination.
But what about danger to the rest of the body's cells? Another enzyme, Rhodanese, always present in larger quantities than the unlocking enzyme beta-glucosidase in healthy tissues has the easy ability to completely break down both cyanide and benzaldehyde into beneficial body products. Predictably perhaps, malignant cancer cells contain no Rhodanese at all, leaving them completely at the mercy of the cyanide and benzaldehyde.
Any physician reading this article will probably be shaking with self-righteous indignation at this stage, muttering to himself: 'Yes, but where is the PROOF???'.
Right here! Most people have heard of 'spontaneous remission', where the cancer simply goes away, hopefully never to reappear. Spontaneous remissions are exceedingly rare and vary from one form of cancer to another. One virulent variety known as testicular chorionepithelioma has never been known to produce a single spontaneous remission. Perhaps for that precise reason, Dr. Krebs singled it out for special attention when proving the effectiveness of B17 Laetrile in providing total control for cancers. As Edward Griffin recounts:
In a banquet speech in San Francisco on November 19, 1967, Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., briefly reviewed six such cases. Then he added:
Now there is an advantage in not having had prior radiation, because if you have not received prior radiation that has failed, then you cannot enjoy the imagined benefits of the delayed effects of prior radiation. So this boy falls into the category of the "spontaneous regression..."
And when we look at this scientifically, we know that spontaneous regression occurs in fewer than one in 150,000 cases of cancer. The statistical possibility of spontaneous regression accounting for the complete resolution of successive cases of testicular chorionepithelioma is far greater than the statistical improbability of the sun not rising tomorrow morning."
Wisely perhaps, Griffin notes that because of the adverse publicity against B17 Laetrile, and because of the difficulties in obtaining the 'banned' substance, most cancer sufferers turn to the vitamin as a last resort, long after they have been burned by radiation therapy, and/or poisoned by chemotherapy. He points out that once the body organs have been savagely damaged in this way, there is little if any chance of B17 Laetrile being able to effect a cure. The body is simply too far gone.
Each year, thousands of Americans travel to Mexico to receive vitamin B-17 (Laetrile) therapy. They do this because it has been suppressed in the United States. Most of these patients have been told that their cancer is terminal and that they have but a few months to live. Yet, an incredible percentage of them have recovered and they are living normal lives. However, the FDA, the AMA, the American Cancer Society, and the cancer research centres continue to pronounce that Laetrile is fraud and quackery. The recovered patients, they say, either had "spontaneous remissions" or never had cancer in the first place. If any of these people ultimately die after seeking Laetrile, spokesmen of orthodox medicine are quick to proclaim: "You see? Laetrile doesn't work!" Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of patients die each year after undergoing surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, but those treatments continue to be touted as "safe and effective".
In the U.S. the FDA has tried to use strict regulations, not law, to ban vitamin B-17 for over 18 years. Vitamin B-17, or Laetrile Therapy is only used by some hospitals in Mexico, which treat cancer with nutrition. These hospitals achieve nearly a 100% recovery rate with virgin cases (localised tumours/cancers that have not yet been burned up with radiation, poisoned with chemotherapy, or cut into with surgery). A majority of Laetrile-treated patients report positive responses, ranging from increase in the feeling of well-being and even brighter outlook of life, to such noticeable reactions as an increase in appetite, weight gain and, frequently, restoration of natural colour, reduction or elimination of cancer-connected pain and cancer-caused fetor. In thousands of cases, total regression of all cancer symptoms has been confirmed.
The proof Krebs has presented over the years to support his claim is impressive. Centuries ago we used to eat millet bread, rich in B17, but now we chew our way through wheat which has none at all. For generations our grandmothers used to carefully crush the seeds of plums, greengages, cherries, apples, apricots and other members of the botanical family Rosaceae, and diligently mix them with their home made jams and preserves. Grandma probably didn't know why she was doing it, but the seeds of all these fruits are the most potent source of B17 in the world. In the tropics, large quantities of B17 are found in cassava, also known as tapioca. When did you last eat some?
Independent research has also proved that a Himalayan tribe known as the 'Hunza' never contract cancer of any kind so long as they stick to their native diet which is exceptionally high in both apricots and millet. However, once exposed to western diets they become as vulnerable as the rest of us.
The implications of these findings are staggering of course. If we managed to control Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) centuries ago, how is it we cannot do the same for cancer today? The fact of the matter is that we could if our respective governments would allow it. Unfortunately most governments have buckled under the pressure exerted by the pharmaceutical multinationals, the American Food & Drug Administration, and the American Medical Association. All three have mounted highly successful 'scare' campaigns based on the fact that vitamin B17 contains quantities of 'deadly' cyanide; conveniently forgetting that vitamin B12 also contains significant quantities of cyanide, and has long been available in health food shops world-wide.
Dr. Kreb's B17 Laetrile was derived from apricot seeds and then synthesized into crystalline form using his own unique process. Suddenly, the American FDA bombarded the media with a story about an unfortunate couple who had poisoned themselves by eating raw apricot seeds in San Francisco. The story made headline news across the U.S.A. although several suspicious journalists never managed to establish the identity of the unfortunate couple, despite many determined attempts. But the multinational pharmaceutical/FDA boot had been put in with a vengeance. From that point onwards eating apricot seeds or B17 Laetrile became synonymous with committing suicide...
Back in the fifties Dr. Ernst Krebs proved beyond doubt that B17 was completely harmless to humans in the most convincing way possible. After testing the vitamin on animals, he filled a large hypodermic with a mega-dose which he then injected into his own arm! Drastic perhaps, but the adventurous Dr. Krebs is still alive and well today.
The vitamin is harmless to healthy tissue for a very simple reason: Each molecule of B17 contains one unit of cyanide, one unit of benzaldehyde and two of glucose (sugar) tightly locked together. In order for the cyanide to become dangerous it is first necessary to 'unlock' the molecule to release it, a trick that can only be performed by an enzyme called beta-glucosidase. This enzyme is present all over the body in minute quantities, but in huge quantities (up to 100 times as high) at cancerous tumor sites.
Thus the cyanide is released only at the cancer site with drastic results, which become utterly devastating to the cancer cells because the benzaldehyde unit also unlocks at the same time. Benzaldehyde is a deadly poison in its own right, which then acts synergistically with the cyanide to produce a poison 100 times more deadly than either in isolation. The combined effect on the cancer cells is best left to the imagination.
But what about danger to the rest of the body's cells? Another enzyme, Rhodanese, always present in larger quantities than the unlocking enzyme beta-glucosidase in healthy tissues has the easy ability to completely break down both cyanide and benzaldehyde into beneficial body products. Predictably perhaps, malignant cancer cells contain no Rhodanese at all, leaving them completely at the mercy of the cyanide and benzaldehyde.
Any physician reading this article will probably be shaking with self-righteous indignation at this stage, muttering to himself: 'Yes, but where is the PROOF???'.
Right here! Most people have heard of 'spontaneous remission', where the cancer simply goes away, hopefully never to reappear. Spontaneous remissions are exceedingly rare and vary from one form of cancer to another. One virulent variety known as testicular chorionepithelioma has never been known to produce a single spontaneous remission. Perhaps for that precise reason, Dr. Krebs singled it out for special attention when proving the effectiveness of B17 Laetrile in providing total control for cancers. As Edward Griffin recounts:
In a banquet speech in San Francisco on November 19, 1967, Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., briefly reviewed six such cases. Then he added:
Now there is an advantage in not having had prior radiation, because if you have not received prior radiation that has failed, then you cannot enjoy the imagined benefits of the delayed effects of prior radiation. So this boy falls into the category of the "spontaneous regression..."
And when we look at this scientifically, we know that spontaneous regression occurs in fewer than one in 150,000 cases of cancer. The statistical possibility of spontaneous regression accounting for the complete resolution of successive cases of testicular chorionepithelioma is far greater than the statistical improbability of the sun not rising tomorrow morning."
Wisely perhaps, Griffin notes that because of the adverse publicity against B17 Laetrile, and because of the difficulties in obtaining the 'banned' substance, most cancer sufferers turn to the vitamin as a last resort, long after they have been burned by radiation therapy, and/or poisoned by chemotherapy. He points out that once the body organs have been savagely damaged in this way, there is little if any chance of B17 Laetrile being able to effect a cure. The body is simply too far gone.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
5 REASONS MEN GET A GUT
YOU HATE IT, AND SEE IT WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR, BUT DON'T WANT TO BE TOLD YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
That's fine. So take this to heart so you don't have to visit your doctor and have HIM tell you!
1. Men like meat! You feel like a manly man when you make it, right? But you're not matching the portion size with your vegetables. You need twice as many vegetables on your plate as meat. And here's the rub about red meat. (pun intended) Nutritionists hardly need more evidence about the potentially negative health effects of eating red meat. For starters, the saturated animal fat in red meat contributes to heart disease and atherosclerosis. Recent research also shows that frequent red meat eaters face twice the risk of colon cancer as those who indulge less often. Red meat is also thought to increase the risks of rheumatoid arthritis and endometriosis. Not to mention it is VERY hard for the body to digest and gets caught in the little pockets of our digestive system.
REMEDY: Either eliminate it, or limit it to once a week. You'll be around long enough to thank me for that advice.
2. Men drink things from a container. Gatorade, soda, beer, red bull, monster, flavored water. All these have in common is SUGAR!!
REMEDY: Drink 2 LITERS/ day of good old fashioned water. Think of your loved ones every time you do!
3. QUIZ:
50 years ago, what produced 2,000lbs a year
Today produces over 50,000lbs a year?
A cow. How does a cow suddenly start producing over 25x more milk than it did 50 years ago? Do we have bionic cows? Could you become 25x more productive at your job in 50 years? Not without a bionic arm and never sleeping, right? So why are we drinking milk from an animal that we weren't born from? Milk that has drugs, antibiotics, hormones, that comes from cows that are on force feeding plans and specialized breeding. It's not natural and it's not good for us. It takes them 3 stomachs to digest their own milk and we think we can do it with ONE? It also has 24 more proteins designed for their own young that humans don't need and can't use. But we tax our bodies by ingesting it. There's nothing good about drinking cows milk. TV ads lie because they have jobs and a whole industry depending on your buying it. Ever seen a spinach commercial?
REMEDY: Drink more good old fashioned water. Think more of your loved ones every time you do!
4. 8 not 3. Hours that is. Deep sleep. It's difficult, we know. It's stressful being a man. Lots of people depending on you. A successful appearance to maintain. But that's no excuse. We will always have stress-it's not going away. We need to get better at managing it.
REMEDY: Put some headphones on a listen to THIS every night.
5. Is the gym the only place to stay in shape? NO! Of coarse not! If you have trouble getting yourself there, then be realistic!
REMEDY: Make a list of all the sports you enjoy and then pick one that you can start this week and then put it as an appointment in your calendar. Then keep the appointment! You know exercise is important, and not having time to do it is just an excuse! So, on behalf of all those that love you....get going!
AND THEN SIGN UP FOR ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS TO KEEP YOU GOING!
WWW.EVOBODYLUTION.COM
That's fine. So take this to heart so you don't have to visit your doctor and have HIM tell you!
1. Men like meat! You feel like a manly man when you make it, right? But you're not matching the portion size with your vegetables. You need twice as many vegetables on your plate as meat. And here's the rub about red meat. (pun intended) Nutritionists hardly need more evidence about the potentially negative health effects of eating red meat. For starters, the saturated animal fat in red meat contributes to heart disease and atherosclerosis. Recent research also shows that frequent red meat eaters face twice the risk of colon cancer as those who indulge less often. Red meat is also thought to increase the risks of rheumatoid arthritis and endometriosis. Not to mention it is VERY hard for the body to digest and gets caught in the little pockets of our digestive system.
REMEDY: Either eliminate it, or limit it to once a week. You'll be around long enough to thank me for that advice.
2. Men drink things from a container. Gatorade, soda, beer, red bull, monster, flavored water. All these have in common is SUGAR!!
REMEDY: Drink 2 LITERS/ day of good old fashioned water. Think of your loved ones every time you do!
3. QUIZ:
50 years ago, what produced 2,000lbs a year
Today produces over 50,000lbs a year?
A cow. How does a cow suddenly start producing over 25x more milk than it did 50 years ago? Do we have bionic cows? Could you become 25x more productive at your job in 50 years? Not without a bionic arm and never sleeping, right? So why are we drinking milk from an animal that we weren't born from? Milk that has drugs, antibiotics, hormones, that comes from cows that are on force feeding plans and specialized breeding. It's not natural and it's not good for us. It takes them 3 stomachs to digest their own milk and we think we can do it with ONE? It also has 24 more proteins designed for their own young that humans don't need and can't use. But we tax our bodies by ingesting it. There's nothing good about drinking cows milk. TV ads lie because they have jobs and a whole industry depending on your buying it. Ever seen a spinach commercial?
REMEDY: Drink more good old fashioned water. Think more of your loved ones every time you do!
4. 8 not 3. Hours that is. Deep sleep. It's difficult, we know. It's stressful being a man. Lots of people depending on you. A successful appearance to maintain. But that's no excuse. We will always have stress-it's not going away. We need to get better at managing it.
REMEDY: Put some headphones on a listen to THIS every night.
5. Is the gym the only place to stay in shape? NO! Of coarse not! If you have trouble getting yourself there, then be realistic!
REMEDY: Make a list of all the sports you enjoy and then pick one that you can start this week and then put it as an appointment in your calendar. Then keep the appointment! You know exercise is important, and not having time to do it is just an excuse! So, on behalf of all those that love you....get going!
AND THEN SIGN UP FOR ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS TO KEEP YOU GOING!
WWW.EVOBODYLUTION.COM
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Stress Tips: Calm Your Mind, Heal Your Body
by Dr Mark Hyman
WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR HEALTH, there is one factor that is more important than almost any other…
If it is missing from your life, it causes or worsens 95 percent of all illness. It has been associated with dramatic reductions in disease and increased longevity.
And it is more important than cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, or any other risk factor in determining whether you will live a long and healthy life. But it doesn’t come in a pill, and it can’t be found in a hospital or in your doctor’s office.
What is this critical factor that determines so much about how healthy or how sick you are?
Your attitude, your social networks, your community, and your spiritual beliefs.
Put another way, the health of your mind and spirit and your sense of connection to your community has an immense impact on the health of your body. In fact, aside from eating breakfast, the biggest predictor of longevity is psychological resiliency — being able to roll with the punches that life throws at us.
We’ve known about this in medicine for a long time. I was recently browsing through my library and found an old book that I read in college called Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, written by a friend and leader in the field of mind/body medicine, Kenneth Pelletier. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the medical schools of the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Arizona.
His book was published in 1977. I wish I could say that a lot has changed since that book was published. Sure, we have filled in the gaps and learned more about the mechanisms through which the body affects the mind and the mind affects the body, but the basic truths remain the same.
There is a dramatic and powerful connection between your mind and body, and between your body and your mind. In fact, it really should not be called a connection because it is just ONE bidirectional system.
Unfortunately, few doctors accept or understand this fundamental reality about biology. So, in most doctors’ offices, you aren’t going to learn about the connection between your body and brain or how to use that connection to help you heal.
However, in this blog I am going to give you the tools to do that. I am going to explain how the body and mind are intimately connected and give you 10 tips you can use to calm your mind and heal your body.
Calming your mind is the last of the 7 Keys to UltraWellness; today you are going to learn how you can relax your way to vibrant health and optimal weight.
Americans live on caffeine and Prozac. We use substances to manage our moods. In fact, the four top-selling items in grocery stores are all drugs that we use to manage our mood and energy: caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and nicotine.
An Epidemic of Stress-Related Disorders
According to Hans Selye, MD, the man who coined the word “stress” and first mapped out its biological effects, “The modern physician should know as much about emotions and thoughts as about disease symptoms and drugs. This approach would appear to hold more promise of cure than anything medicine has given us to date.”
Selye’s words are as true today as they were on the day he wrote them.
We are seeing an epidemic of stress-related disorders in our society, including depression, anxiety, autism, attention deficit disorder, memory disorders, and dementia, and these disorders are making the pharmaceutical industry highly profitable.
You see, Americans live on caffeine and Prozac. We use substances to manage our moods. In fact, the four top-selling items in grocery stores are all drugs that we use to manage our mood and energy: caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and nicotine.
But how do we really deal with the root of this problem? You use the MOST powerful pharmacy in the world — which is right between your ears!
A little later, I will tell you how to use your brain to fix your health problems. First, I want to share a story that illustrates the power the mind has to harm or to heal.
The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
Tom, a long-term patient of mine, came to see me after his wife died. He suddenly developed heart failure. His heart just wouldn’t pump. It was flooded with grief molecules, hormones like adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
His case is far from being the only documented case in which grief caused cardiovascular problems. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study about how grief or emotional trauma can cause heart failure — literally a broken heart.
Rather than giving Tom drugs for “heart failure” as I was taught in medical school, I suggested he get healing touch, a form of energy and emotional healing. Sounds a bit out there, huh? Well, he followed my advice and dramatically recovered. Touch, not medication, healed his heart.
I think we can all learn a lesson from Tom and other cases like his.
95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress.
In school, we all learned how to read and write, but we never learned how to use our minds to help us with the most important survival skills of all: staying happy and healthy!
Other cultures differ in their training. Herbert Benson, MD, of Harvard Medical School, has demonstrated the amazing power that trained Tibetan meditators use to control their physiology by slowing their metabolism, changing their heart rates and brain waves, and raising or lowering their body temperature.
He even documented on film an ancient practice called tumo, the generating of internal heat, performed by initiated Tibetan monks. The monks are wrapped in icy cold sheets and must use their internal heat to dry them, possibly by actively burning something called brown fat. As a result, they can sit naked on a snowy mountaintop all night and not freeze, keeping warm with their internal heat.
That’s something most of us don’t have any consciousness of, or control over. Imagine if you could turn on fat burning and lose weight with your mind!
That is how powerful our mind and our beliefs can be.
But in the West we aren’t even taught how to cope with the day-to-day frustrations of life. We live under constant chronic stress and we are not trained to address this stressful psychic load that is the burden of the 21st century.
This is unfortunate, because stress is killing us.
Just consider these facts:
95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress. Low socioeconomic status is associated with poorer health outcomes and higher risk of death from all causes. This is not because of poor health habits, but because of feelings of powerlessness and loss of control. Internalized racism and stress are associated with high amounts of belly fat.
Stress hormones damage the hippocampus — the memory center in the brain — causing memory loss and dementia.
In a study of people who volunteered to have cold viruses injected into their noses, only people with a high level of perceived stress got colds. Women with metastatic breast cancer survived twice as long if they were part of a support group.
Belonging to a group — a religious group, a bowling club, a quilting group — reduces risk of death from all causes and increases longevity, despite health habits.
In a study of doctors, those who scored high on hostility questionnaires had a higher risk of heart attacks than those who smoked, were overweight, had high blood pressure, or didn’t exercise.
So, if you don’t think the mind has the power to influence your body, think again.
The good news is that you can change your beliefs and attitudes and their effects on your mind and your body. You may need to learn a few new skills, like stress reduction techniques, but it can be done.
However, our beliefs and attitudes aren’t the only things that matter. Our mind and brain function is also influenced by what happens in our bodies. By addressing the 7 Keys to UltraWellness, “mental” problems can often be cured — without changing our beliefs.
The effects of beliefs and attitudes are important. There can be no question of that. But the effects of imbalances in our core body systems on our mental state and brain function are just as important and are mostly IGNORED by traditional medicine.
The systems in your body that affect mood and brain function include hormones, immune system, gut, detox system, energy system, nutritional status, and other environmental inputs.
For example, I saw a man who was completely stressed out and anxious. He had palpitations and drank four martinis a night just to calm down. He also had severe muscle cramps and eye twitches.
These are obvious signs of magnesium deficiency. But stress, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar all deplete magnesium. He was trapped in a vicious cycle.
What he needed wasn’t Valium or Prozac, but rather to address why he was magnesium-deficient and then fix it through detoxification, treating his yeast overgrowth, cutting out alcohol and caffeine, and supplementing with the relaxation mineral, magnesium, to calm his nervous system.
That, in combination with other tools for calming the mind and the body, will help him reset his nervous system. By using these tools together, he’ll be taking advantage of both the body-mind effect and the mind-body effect, thereby optimizing his treatment.
You can do the same thing. By employing the following techniques, you can leverage the power of your brain and body to calm your mind and bring healing.
10 Tips for Calming Your Mind
Here is what we know about how to influence the mind-body and the body-mind system. Consider these essential survival skills. You cannot thrive without them!
Address the Underlying Causes of Stress — Find the biological causes of problems with the mind by working on the 7 Keys to UltraWellness. Mercury toxicity or a magnesium or vitamin B12 deficiency or a toxic gut chemical or a gluten allergy could be changing your brain. So, by changing your body, you can change your mind!
Relax — Learn how to ACTIVELY relax. To engage the powerful forces of the mind on the body, you must DO something — you can’t just sit there watching television or drinking beer.
Learn New Skills — Try learning new skills such as meditation, deep breathing, yoga, biofeedback, and progressive muscle relaxation or take a hot bath, make love, get a massage, watch a sunset, or walk in the woods or on the beach.
Move Your Body — Exercise is a powerful, well-studied way to burn off stress chemicals and heal the mind, so just do it! It has been proven to be better than or equal to Prozac for treating depression.
Optimize Your Nutrition — Clean up your diet from mind-robbing molecules like caffeine, alcohol, and refined sugars and eat regularly to avoid the short-term stress of starvation on your body.
Supplement — Take a multivitamin and nutrients to help balance the stress response, such as vitamin C; the B-complex vitamins, including B6 and B5 or pantothenic acid; zinc; and most important, magnesium, the relaxation mineral.
Try Herbs — Use adaptogenic herbs (herbs that help you adapt and balance your response to stress) such as ginseng, Rhodiola rosea, Siberian ginseng, cordyceps, and ashwagandha.
Use Heat Therapy — Take a hot bath or a sauna to help your body deeply relax and turn on the relaxation response.
Change Your Beliefs — Examine your beliefs, attitudes, and responses to common situations and consider reframing your point of view to reduce stress.
Find a Community — Consciously build your network of friends, family, and community. They are your most powerful allies in achieving long-term health.
In the 7 Keys to Ultrawellness, which this post was originally part of, I introduced you to a set of new ideas and concepts that have the power to transform your health personally and to transform health care as a whole. It is no small job in either case, but it is essential to stem the impending tsunami of ill health and economic burden facing us, our children, and our children’s children.
The solution is a fundamental change in our worldview about health — a view that helps us get to the core of illness, learn self-care, take control, and empower ourselves to transform our own health and turn our “sick care” system into a health care system.
Each of us can contribute and make small changes that will have a big effect as we move toward vibrant health and vitality as individuals, and as a society.
Take control of your health today using the techniques I have outlined in this series of blogs, and you will become part of a growing movement that is working toward fundamentally changing the way we understand the body and practice medicine in this country.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, MD
WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR HEALTH, there is one factor that is more important than almost any other…
If it is missing from your life, it causes or worsens 95 percent of all illness. It has been associated with dramatic reductions in disease and increased longevity.
And it is more important than cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, or any other risk factor in determining whether you will live a long and healthy life. But it doesn’t come in a pill, and it can’t be found in a hospital or in your doctor’s office.
What is this critical factor that determines so much about how healthy or how sick you are?
Your attitude, your social networks, your community, and your spiritual beliefs.
Put another way, the health of your mind and spirit and your sense of connection to your community has an immense impact on the health of your body. In fact, aside from eating breakfast, the biggest predictor of longevity is psychological resiliency — being able to roll with the punches that life throws at us.
We’ve known about this in medicine for a long time. I was recently browsing through my library and found an old book that I read in college called Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, written by a friend and leader in the field of mind/body medicine, Kenneth Pelletier. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the medical schools of the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Arizona.
His book was published in 1977. I wish I could say that a lot has changed since that book was published. Sure, we have filled in the gaps and learned more about the mechanisms through which the body affects the mind and the mind affects the body, but the basic truths remain the same.
There is a dramatic and powerful connection between your mind and body, and between your body and your mind. In fact, it really should not be called a connection because it is just ONE bidirectional system.
Unfortunately, few doctors accept or understand this fundamental reality about biology. So, in most doctors’ offices, you aren’t going to learn about the connection between your body and brain or how to use that connection to help you heal.
However, in this blog I am going to give you the tools to do that. I am going to explain how the body and mind are intimately connected and give you 10 tips you can use to calm your mind and heal your body.
Calming your mind is the last of the 7 Keys to UltraWellness; today you are going to learn how you can relax your way to vibrant health and optimal weight.
Americans live on caffeine and Prozac. We use substances to manage our moods. In fact, the four top-selling items in grocery stores are all drugs that we use to manage our mood and energy: caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and nicotine.
An Epidemic of Stress-Related Disorders
According to Hans Selye, MD, the man who coined the word “stress” and first mapped out its biological effects, “The modern physician should know as much about emotions and thoughts as about disease symptoms and drugs. This approach would appear to hold more promise of cure than anything medicine has given us to date.”
Selye’s words are as true today as they were on the day he wrote them.
We are seeing an epidemic of stress-related disorders in our society, including depression, anxiety, autism, attention deficit disorder, memory disorders, and dementia, and these disorders are making the pharmaceutical industry highly profitable.
You see, Americans live on caffeine and Prozac. We use substances to manage our moods. In fact, the four top-selling items in grocery stores are all drugs that we use to manage our mood and energy: caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and nicotine.
But how do we really deal with the root of this problem? You use the MOST powerful pharmacy in the world — which is right between your ears!
A little later, I will tell you how to use your brain to fix your health problems. First, I want to share a story that illustrates the power the mind has to harm or to heal.
The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
Tom, a long-term patient of mine, came to see me after his wife died. He suddenly developed heart failure. His heart just wouldn’t pump. It was flooded with grief molecules, hormones like adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
His case is far from being the only documented case in which grief caused cardiovascular problems. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study about how grief or emotional trauma can cause heart failure — literally a broken heart.
Rather than giving Tom drugs for “heart failure” as I was taught in medical school, I suggested he get healing touch, a form of energy and emotional healing. Sounds a bit out there, huh? Well, he followed my advice and dramatically recovered. Touch, not medication, healed his heart.
I think we can all learn a lesson from Tom and other cases like his.
95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress.
In school, we all learned how to read and write, but we never learned how to use our minds to help us with the most important survival skills of all: staying happy and healthy!
Other cultures differ in their training. Herbert Benson, MD, of Harvard Medical School, has demonstrated the amazing power that trained Tibetan meditators use to control their physiology by slowing their metabolism, changing their heart rates and brain waves, and raising or lowering their body temperature.
He even documented on film an ancient practice called tumo, the generating of internal heat, performed by initiated Tibetan monks. The monks are wrapped in icy cold sheets and must use their internal heat to dry them, possibly by actively burning something called brown fat. As a result, they can sit naked on a snowy mountaintop all night and not freeze, keeping warm with their internal heat.
That’s something most of us don’t have any consciousness of, or control over. Imagine if you could turn on fat burning and lose weight with your mind!
That is how powerful our mind and our beliefs can be.
But in the West we aren’t even taught how to cope with the day-to-day frustrations of life. We live under constant chronic stress and we are not trained to address this stressful psychic load that is the burden of the 21st century.
This is unfortunate, because stress is killing us.
Just consider these facts:
95 percent of all illness is caused or worsened by stress. Low socioeconomic status is associated with poorer health outcomes and higher risk of death from all causes. This is not because of poor health habits, but because of feelings of powerlessness and loss of control. Internalized racism and stress are associated with high amounts of belly fat.
Stress hormones damage the hippocampus — the memory center in the brain — causing memory loss and dementia.
In a study of people who volunteered to have cold viruses injected into their noses, only people with a high level of perceived stress got colds. Women with metastatic breast cancer survived twice as long if they were part of a support group.
Belonging to a group — a religious group, a bowling club, a quilting group — reduces risk of death from all causes and increases longevity, despite health habits.
In a study of doctors, those who scored high on hostility questionnaires had a higher risk of heart attacks than those who smoked, were overweight, had high blood pressure, or didn’t exercise.
So, if you don’t think the mind has the power to influence your body, think again.
The good news is that you can change your beliefs and attitudes and their effects on your mind and your body. You may need to learn a few new skills, like stress reduction techniques, but it can be done.
However, our beliefs and attitudes aren’t the only things that matter. Our mind and brain function is also influenced by what happens in our bodies. By addressing the 7 Keys to UltraWellness, “mental” problems can often be cured — without changing our beliefs.
The effects of beliefs and attitudes are important. There can be no question of that. But the effects of imbalances in our core body systems on our mental state and brain function are just as important and are mostly IGNORED by traditional medicine.
The systems in your body that affect mood and brain function include hormones, immune system, gut, detox system, energy system, nutritional status, and other environmental inputs.
For example, I saw a man who was completely stressed out and anxious. He had palpitations and drank four martinis a night just to calm down. He also had severe muscle cramps and eye twitches.
These are obvious signs of magnesium deficiency. But stress, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar all deplete magnesium. He was trapped in a vicious cycle.
What he needed wasn’t Valium or Prozac, but rather to address why he was magnesium-deficient and then fix it through detoxification, treating his yeast overgrowth, cutting out alcohol and caffeine, and supplementing with the relaxation mineral, magnesium, to calm his nervous system.
That, in combination with other tools for calming the mind and the body, will help him reset his nervous system. By using these tools together, he’ll be taking advantage of both the body-mind effect and the mind-body effect, thereby optimizing his treatment.
You can do the same thing. By employing the following techniques, you can leverage the power of your brain and body to calm your mind and bring healing.
10 Tips for Calming Your Mind
Here is what we know about how to influence the mind-body and the body-mind system. Consider these essential survival skills. You cannot thrive without them!
Address the Underlying Causes of Stress — Find the biological causes of problems with the mind by working on the 7 Keys to UltraWellness. Mercury toxicity or a magnesium or vitamin B12 deficiency or a toxic gut chemical or a gluten allergy could be changing your brain. So, by changing your body, you can change your mind!
Relax — Learn how to ACTIVELY relax. To engage the powerful forces of the mind on the body, you must DO something — you can’t just sit there watching television or drinking beer.
Learn New Skills — Try learning new skills such as meditation, deep breathing, yoga, biofeedback, and progressive muscle relaxation or take a hot bath, make love, get a massage, watch a sunset, or walk in the woods or on the beach.
Move Your Body — Exercise is a powerful, well-studied way to burn off stress chemicals and heal the mind, so just do it! It has been proven to be better than or equal to Prozac for treating depression.
Optimize Your Nutrition — Clean up your diet from mind-robbing molecules like caffeine, alcohol, and refined sugars and eat regularly to avoid the short-term stress of starvation on your body.
Supplement — Take a multivitamin and nutrients to help balance the stress response, such as vitamin C; the B-complex vitamins, including B6 and B5 or pantothenic acid; zinc; and most important, magnesium, the relaxation mineral.
Try Herbs — Use adaptogenic herbs (herbs that help you adapt and balance your response to stress) such as ginseng, Rhodiola rosea, Siberian ginseng, cordyceps, and ashwagandha.
Use Heat Therapy — Take a hot bath or a sauna to help your body deeply relax and turn on the relaxation response.
Change Your Beliefs — Examine your beliefs, attitudes, and responses to common situations and consider reframing your point of view to reduce stress.
Find a Community — Consciously build your network of friends, family, and community. They are your most powerful allies in achieving long-term health.
In the 7 Keys to Ultrawellness, which this post was originally part of, I introduced you to a set of new ideas and concepts that have the power to transform your health personally and to transform health care as a whole. It is no small job in either case, but it is essential to stem the impending tsunami of ill health and economic burden facing us, our children, and our children’s children.
The solution is a fundamental change in our worldview about health — a view that helps us get to the core of illness, learn self-care, take control, and empower ourselves to transform our own health and turn our “sick care” system into a health care system.
Each of us can contribute and make small changes that will have a big effect as we move toward vibrant health and vitality as individuals, and as a society.
Take control of your health today using the techniques I have outlined in this series of blogs, and you will become part of a growing movement that is working toward fundamentally changing the way we understand the body and practice medicine in this country.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, MD
Monday, May 28, 2012
7 Most alkaline foods
1. SPINACH -All leafy greens should be eaten in abundance but spinach is easy to buy, easy to use in recipes and salads and is delicious. Baby spinach or fully grown spinach are Nutritional powerhouses and are incredibly alkaline. As with all green foods, spinach is rich in chlorophyll (see more about the health benefits of chlorophyll here), a potent alkaliser and blood builder. It is also super high in vitamin K, vitamin A, manganese, folate, magnesium, iron, vitamin c, vitamin b2, calcium, potassium, vitamin e, dietary fiber…I doubt there is a more all round healthy food on earth and I highly encourage you to eat spinach throughout the day, every day.
2. KALE -Kale is another leafy green beauty that is widely known for its Cancer-Fighting, Cholesterol-Lowering, Antioxidant-rich, and Detoxifying goodness. Less popular than spinach, but only because it has a history of being cooked poorly – when done right it is absolutely delicious. If you eat kale 2-3 times per week you’ll know it. Like spinach it is massively high in vitamin K, vitamin A and vitamin C and being Leafy Green it also has a huge Chlorophyll content. The reason it is so powerful against the Cancer Fight is that kale contains at least four Glucosinolates. Glucosinolates are really easily converted by the body into cancer fighting compounds. Also quite amazing for Lowering Cholesterol.
3. CUCUMBER The beauty of cucumber is it’s water content – 95%. That is phenomenal and you won’t find that anywhere else. It’s the daddy of water-content. This of course makes it an incredibly hydrating food to consume, that ALSO contains superb amounts of antioxidants, including the super-important lignans. These highly beneficial polyphenols have more commonly been associated with the cruciferous vegetables, but their content in other veggies such as cucumbers is gaining more and more attention. Cucumbers contain a right load of lariciresinol, pinoresinol, and secoisolariciresinol , three lignans that have a huge and very strong history of research in connection with Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular disease as well as several cancer types, including Breast, Uterine, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancers. The best thing about cucumber is that they provide the base for practically every alkaline soup, smoothie and juice – giving you a very alkaline, very nutritious base that also tastes great. In terms of the actual nutrient RDA per serve, cucumbers contain fair amounts of vitamins K and C, and slightly less of vitamin A and the B vitamins. Cucumbers also contain the following alkaline minerals: calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, selenium, copper, manganese, iron and zinc.
4. BROCCOLI - Broccoli is just a must. If you are serious about living with health, energy and vitality you simply have to eat broccoli, if not on a daily basis, then at least 4 times per week. Broccoli has been proven over and over and over again to be incredibly powerful in inhibiting Cancers, supporting the Digestive System, the Cardiovascular System, the Detoxification processes in the body and also supporting the Skin, metabolism, İmmune system, being an Anti-Inflammatory and providing ample Antioxidants. Eaten raw its a Hugely Alkaline, Hugely Nutritious food. Please eat lots and lots of it. Put it in salads, juices, smoothies, etc.
5. AVOCADO -I eat a LOT of avocado. Not a salad, smoothie or soup goes by without me adding at least 1/2 an avocado per person. I probably eat at least five-seven per week, myself. Now, I know a lot of people give avocado a bad rep because it is a high-fat food (85% of it’s calories come from fats) – but this is totally insane. These are good fats that will not make you gain weight. If anything, due to the high content of oleic acid (making it an Omega 9 fat and very similar to olive oil), it can lower total cholesterol level and raise levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) while lowering low-density lipoproteins (LDLs), also known as the “bad” cholesterol. Oleic Acid also slows the development of heart disease, and promotes the production of Antioxidants. These beneficial omega oils also help speed the metabolism, actually leading to weight loss rather than gain. So now we’re over the fat issue, avocado also contains a wide range of other nutrients that have serious Anti-İnflammatory, Heart Health, Cardiovascular Health, Anti-Cancer, and Blood Sugar Benefits. Containing key Antioxidants such as alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, lutein, selenium and more – it is a powerful, alkaline, nutrient-dense superfood.
6. CELERY - Celery, like cucumber is a favourite because it’s alkaline AND really high water content, so is used very frequently as a base in juices and soups (not so much smoothies as you have to juice it first…and then you have double the washing up). One of celery’s big benefits is it’s vitamin C level, which has the well known benefits – but two of it’s lesser known nutrients are phthalides which have been shown to Lower Cholesterol and coumarins which have been shown to inhibit Several Cancers. The beauty of vitamin C rich foods are that they help with the most common and most challenging health concerns – they support the İmmune system, inflammation (so helps with Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Asthma etc), and vitamin C also helps significantly with Cardiovascular Health. If you are on a weight loss journey, you’ll also be happy to hear that this alkaline staple contains plenty of potassium and sodium and so is a diuretic – meaning it helps rid the body of excess fluids.
7. CAPSICUM / BELL PEPPER / PEPPER - The antioxidant superpower, bell pepper is sweet, crunchy and refreshingly delicious when eaten raw. Impressively beneficial to our health cartenoids are highly researched and get a lot of attention in the health field and bell peppers contain over 30 different members of the carotenoid nutrient family. The only other food that is close to this is Tomato and all other foods are also-rans. Bell peppers have shown up in research relating to decreasing the risk of Cardiovascular Disease, type II Diabetes, Macular Degeneration, Cancer, inflammation and more. Alongside these lesser known or more complex-named antioxidants, bell pepper is one of, if not the best food source of the more common antioxidants: vitamin C, vitamin A and vitamin E. In fact, bell peppers contain twice as much vitamin C as oranges. Here are just SOME of the antioxidants bell pepper contains: - Flavonoids – luteolin – quercetin – hesperidin - Carotenoids – alpha-carotene – beta-carotene – cryptoxanthin – lutein – zeaxanthin - Hydroxycinnamic Acids - ferulic acid – cinnamic acid.
So, here's your challenge! Go to the store, buy 2 each and eat all of them in a week! Let me know how it goes!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Root Cause of Anxiety and Depression That Few Suspect
By Dr. Mercola
When you think about strategies to achieve optimal brain performance, you may think about doing crossword puzzles or learning a new language... adding more sleep or even eating more omega-3 fats may also come to mind.
Most people would not automatically think about their gut when they think about brain health... but this is actually a perfect place to look, one that may very well hold the secret to improving your mood, mental health and preventing other brain-related diseases, like Parkinson's.
Does Your Gut Hold the Key to Better Brain Health?
You may not be aware that you actually have two nervous systems:
1. Central nervous system, composed of your brain and spinal cord
2. Enteric nervous system, which is the intrinsic nervous system of your gastrointestinal tract
Both are actually created out of the same type of tissue.
During fetal development, one part turns into your central nervous system while the other develops into your enteric nervous system.
These two systems are connected via the vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve that runs from your brain stem down to your abdomen.
It is now well established that the vagus nerve is the primary route your gut bacteria use to transmit information to your brain. That's right... while many think of their brain as the organ in charge, your gut actually sends far more information to your brain than your brain sends to your gut.
To put this into more concrete terms, you've probably experienced the visceral sensation of butterflies in your stomach when you're nervous, or had an upset stomach when you were very angry or stressed. The flip side is also true, in that problems in your gut can directly impact your mental health, leading to issues like anxiety, depression, and autism.
For instance, in December 2011 the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility reported the novel finding that the probiotic (good bacteria) known as Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 has been shown to help normalize anxiety-like behavior in mice with infectious colitis.i
Reportedly, the bacteria's effect on anxiety involves modulating the vagal pathways within your gut-brain connection:
"As B. longum decreases excitability of enteric neurons, it may signal to the central nervous system by activating vagal pathways at the level of the enteric nervous system."
Separate research also found the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA [an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes] levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress-induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety- and depression-related behavior.ii
When researchers severed the vagus nerve, GABA receptor levels and the animals' behavior remained unchanged after treatment with L. rhamnosus, confirming that the vagus nerve is most likely the primary pathway of communication between the bacteria in your gut and your brain.
Interestingly, just as you have neurons in your brain, you also have neurons in your gut -- including neurons that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, which is also found in your brain. In fact, the greatest concentration of serotonin, which is involved in mood control, depression and aggression, is found in your intestines, not your brain! (Perhaps this is one reason why antidepressants, which raise serotonin levels in your brain, are often ineffective in treating depression, whereas proper dietary changes often help.)
Abnormal Gut Flora Fosters Abnormal Brain Development
There is a close connection between abnormal gut flora and abnormal brain development—a condition Dr. Campbell-McBride calls Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS). GAPS is the result of poorly developed or imbalanced gut flora and may manifest as a conglomerate of symptoms that can fit the diagnosis of autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, just to name a few possibilities.
Dr. Campbell believes autistic children are born with perfectly normal brains and sensory organs, but once their digestive system becomes a major source of toxicity instead of being a source of nourishment, they start to develop autistic symptoms. This theory fits in well with new research published by the American Society for Microbiology, which identified a bacteria (Sutterella) that is unique to the intestines of children with autism.
The researchers reported:
Your gut bacteria are an active and integrated part of your body, and as such are heavily dependent on your diet and vulnerable to your lifestyle. If you consume a lot of processed foods and sweetened drinks, for instance, your gut bacteria are likely going to be severely compromised because processed foods in general will destroy healthy microflora and sugars of all kinds feed bad bacteria and yeast.
Your gut bacteria are also very sensitive to:
When you consider that your gut is your "second brain," it becomes easy to see how your gut health can impact your brain function, psyche, and behavior, as they are interconnected and interdependent in a number of different ways. Fortunately, optimizing your gut health is remarkably easy.
Here are my recommendations for optimizing your gut bacteria:
When you think about strategies to achieve optimal brain performance, you may think about doing crossword puzzles or learning a new language... adding more sleep or even eating more omega-3 fats may also come to mind.
Most people would not automatically think about their gut when they think about brain health... but this is actually a perfect place to look, one that may very well hold the secret to improving your mood, mental health and preventing other brain-related diseases, like Parkinson's.
Does Your Gut Hold the Key to Better Brain Health?
You may not be aware that you actually have two nervous systems:
1. Central nervous system, composed of your brain and spinal cord
2. Enteric nervous system, which is the intrinsic nervous system of your gastrointestinal tract
Both are actually created out of the same type of tissue.
During fetal development, one part turns into your central nervous system while the other develops into your enteric nervous system.
These two systems are connected via the vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve that runs from your brain stem down to your abdomen.
It is now well established that the vagus nerve is the primary route your gut bacteria use to transmit information to your brain. That's right... while many think of their brain as the organ in charge, your gut actually sends far more information to your brain than your brain sends to your gut.
To put this into more concrete terms, you've probably experienced the visceral sensation of butterflies in your stomach when you're nervous, or had an upset stomach when you were very angry or stressed. The flip side is also true, in that problems in your gut can directly impact your mental health, leading to issues like anxiety, depression, and autism.
For instance, in December 2011 the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility reported the novel finding that the probiotic (good bacteria) known as Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 has been shown to help normalize anxiety-like behavior in mice with infectious colitis.i
Reportedly, the bacteria's effect on anxiety involves modulating the vagal pathways within your gut-brain connection:
"As B. longum decreases excitability of enteric neurons, it may signal to the central nervous system by activating vagal pathways at the level of the enteric nervous system."
Separate research also found the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA [an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes] levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress-induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety- and depression-related behavior.ii
When researchers severed the vagus nerve, GABA receptor levels and the animals' behavior remained unchanged after treatment with L. rhamnosus, confirming that the vagus nerve is most likely the primary pathway of communication between the bacteria in your gut and your brain.
Interestingly, just as you have neurons in your brain, you also have neurons in your gut -- including neurons that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, which is also found in your brain. In fact, the greatest concentration of serotonin, which is involved in mood control, depression and aggression, is found in your intestines, not your brain! (Perhaps this is one reason why antidepressants, which raise serotonin levels in your brain, are often ineffective in treating depression, whereas proper dietary changes often help.)
Abnormal Gut Flora Fosters Abnormal Brain Development
There is a close connection between abnormal gut flora and abnormal brain development—a condition Dr. Campbell-McBride calls Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS). GAPS is the result of poorly developed or imbalanced gut flora and may manifest as a conglomerate of symptoms that can fit the diagnosis of autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, just to name a few possibilities.
Dr. Campbell believes autistic children are born with perfectly normal brains and sensory organs, but once their digestive system becomes a major source of toxicity instead of being a source of nourishment, they start to develop autistic symptoms. This theory fits in well with new research published by the American Society for Microbiology, which identified a bacteria (Sutterella) that is unique to the intestines of children with autism.
The researchers reported:
"Many children with autism have gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances that can complicate clinical management and contribute to behavioral problems. Understanding the molecular and microbial underpinnings of these GI issues is of paramount importance for elucidating pathogenesis, rendering diagnosis, and administering informed treatment.Here we describe an association between high levels of intestinal, mucoepithelial-associated Sutterella species and GI disturbances in children with autism. These findings elevate this little-recognized bacterium to the forefront by demonstrating that Sutterella is a major component of the microbiota in over half of children with autism and gastrointestinal dysfunction (AUT-GI) and is absent in children with only gastrointestinal dysfunction (Control-GI) evaluated in this study."
What Factors Lead to Compromised Gut Bacteria?Other links between your gut and your brain health have also been established, including:
- A study published in Neurogastroenterology & Motility found mice that lack gut bacteria were found to behave differently from normal mice, engaging in what would be referred to as "high-risk behavior." This altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain.iv
- Research in PNAS found that gut bacteria may influence mammalian early brain development and behavior, and that the absence or presence of gut microorganisms during infancy permanently alters gene expression.v(In a similar way, probiotics have also been found to influence the activity of hundreds of your genes, helping them to express in a positive, disease-fighting manner.)
Through gene profiling, they were able to discern that absence of gut bacteria altered genes and signaling pathways involved in learning, memory, and motor control. This suggests that gut bacteria are closely tied to early brain development and subsequent behavior.
Your gut bacteria are an active and integrated part of your body, and as such are heavily dependent on your diet and vulnerable to your lifestyle. If you consume a lot of processed foods and sweetened drinks, for instance, your gut bacteria are likely going to be severely compromised because processed foods in general will destroy healthy microflora and sugars of all kinds feed bad bacteria and yeast.
Your gut bacteria are also very sensitive to:
- Antibiotics
- Chlorinated and fluoridated water
- Antibacterial soap
- Agricultural chemicals
- Pollution
Because of these latter items, to which virtually all of us are exposed at least occasionally, it's generally a good idea to "reseed" the good bacteria in your gut by taking a high-quality probiotic supplement or eating fermented foods. This is important for everyone, but imperative if you are a woman who is pregnant, as your newborn depends on you for its initial gut flora. Many women of reproductive age are deficient in a wide range of vitally important probiotic strains—a deficiency that transfers to their offspring, and may set the stage for any number of problems.
Optimizing Your Gut Flora, and Thereby Your Brain Function, is EasyAdding injury to insult is the significant decrease in breastfeeding. We now know that breastfed babies develop entirely different gut flora compared to bottle-fed babies. Infant formula never was, and never will be a healthy replacement to breast milk, for a number of reasons -- altered gut flora being one of them.
When you consider that your gut is your "second brain," it becomes easy to see how your gut health can impact your brain function, psyche, and behavior, as they are interconnected and interdependent in a number of different ways. Fortunately, optimizing your gut health is remarkably easy.
Here are my recommendations for optimizing your gut bacteria:
- Eat fermented foods, as these are the best route to optimal digestive health as long as you eat the traditionally made, unpasteurized versions. Healthy choices include various pickled fermentations of cabbage, eggplant, cucumbers and onions. We will be posting loads of information on how to do this shortly. If you regularly eat fermented foods such as these that, again, have not been pasteurized (pasteurization kills the naturally occurring probiotics), your healthy gut bacteria will thrive.
- Probiotic supplement. Although I'm not a major proponent of taking many supplements (as I believe the majority of your nutrients need to come from food), probiotics are definitely an exception. I have used many different brands over the past 15 years and there are many good ones out there. I also spent a long time researching and developing my own, called Complete Probiotics, in which I incorporated everything I have learned about this important tool over the years. If you do not eat fermented foods, taking a high-quality probiotic supplement is definitely recommended.
- If you're a new mom, breastfeed your baby. It's not just a matter of vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats that makes breast milk far superior to formula. Research shows that breast milk also contains substances that may significantly enhance your baby's gut and brain developmentvi -- a gift that will literally last a lifetime.
Monday, April 23, 2012
No Sugar?
Day 2 now: No sugar. Do you have any idea how hard that is? Do you realize how much sugar you consume? You may not think it's alot. BUT, try to eliminate it for ONE day. That means no sugar in your coffee, no sugary cereal, pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, or jelly on your toast. Nothing for your iced tea, no soda, no candy bar, or dessert after dinner.
And I have successfully gone 2 days now without ANY kind of sugar. None from fruit, white sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, sweetener, creamer, nothing. It's been very difficult. But, it's worth it. Listen to this interview with John Douillard. It's an hour and has many valuable concepts in it. And the last question he was asked "What is the one thing you would recommend to be eliminated from the diet." Without hesitation he answered "Sugar". Wow, that's really interesting. I can think of 10 things that you would think were worse than sugar.
But, here's why:
1. Fructose elevates uric acid, which decreases nitric oxide, raises angiotensin, and causes your smooth muscle cells to contract, thereby raising your blood pressure and potentially damaging your kidneys.
Increased uric acid also leads to chronic, low-level inflammation, which has far-reaching consequences for your health. For example, chronically inflamed blood vessels lead to heart attacks and strokes; also, a good deal of evidence exists that some cancers are caused by chronic inflammation.
2. Fructose tricks your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism—it turns off your body's appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the "hunger hormone") and doesn't stimulate leptin (the "satiety hormone"), which together result in your eating more and developing insulin resistance.
3. Fructose rapidly leads to weight gain and abdominal obesity ("beer belly"), decreased HDL, increased LDL, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure—i.e., classic metabolic syndrome.
Fructose metabolism is very similar to ethanol metabolism, which has a multitude of toxic effects, including NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). It's alcohol without the buzz.
And to make it worse...
sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:
In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
In 2009, 50% of us now consume 180 pounds of sugar per year!
Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.
No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in this country.
And I have successfully gone 2 days now without ANY kind of sugar. None from fruit, white sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, sweetener, creamer, nothing. It's been very difficult. But, it's worth it. Listen to this interview with John Douillard. It's an hour and has many valuable concepts in it. And the last question he was asked "What is the one thing you would recommend to be eliminated from the diet." Without hesitation he answered "Sugar". Wow, that's really interesting. I can think of 10 things that you would think were worse than sugar.
But, here's why:
1. Fructose elevates uric acid, which decreases nitric oxide, raises angiotensin, and causes your smooth muscle cells to contract, thereby raising your blood pressure and potentially damaging your kidneys.
Increased uric acid also leads to chronic, low-level inflammation, which has far-reaching consequences for your health. For example, chronically inflamed blood vessels lead to heart attacks and strokes; also, a good deal of evidence exists that some cancers are caused by chronic inflammation.
2. Fructose tricks your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism—it turns off your body's appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the "hunger hormone") and doesn't stimulate leptin (the "satiety hormone"), which together result in your eating more and developing insulin resistance.
3. Fructose rapidly leads to weight gain and abdominal obesity ("beer belly"), decreased HDL, increased LDL, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure—i.e., classic metabolic syndrome.
Fructose metabolism is very similar to ethanol metabolism, which has a multitude of toxic effects, including NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). It's alcohol without the buzz.
And to make it worse...
sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:
In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
In 2009, 50% of us now consume 180 pounds of sugar per year!
Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.
No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in this country.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
WATER or COKE?
WATER or COKE - Can you believe this....? Not even about the sugar!
WATER
#1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (also applies to half the world population)
#2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
#3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as 3%.
#4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
#5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
#6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
#7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
#8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79% and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?
COKE
#1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
#2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.
#3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
#4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
#5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
#7. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
#1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches
calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.
#2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
#3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!
So the question is, would you like a glass of water? or Coke?
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Partnership with Jewels
I was approached by a wonderful woman named Jewels Johnson a few weeks ago. She has a network call Law of Attraction on which she and other hosts do weekly podcast shows. She's built a listener base of over 2 million over the last 5 years. I don't know about you, but to me that's astonishing. And she is one of the most loving, sweetest, most caring, interesting people you can meet. She has interviewed some spectacular people over the years.
She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist and has a steady clientele. Some of them come to her for weight loss. In her experience these clients would complete their 3 sessions with her and then plateau. She wanted to continue helping them, but had done all she could for them.
That's when she had the idea to partner up with me, allowing for that 1-on-1 support for each client during and after their sessions with her. As a bonus she is adding a homeopathic form of HCG and some fantastic support supplements to the program. I was thrilled she asked me and even more thrilled to do the program with her. She will be announcing it on her radio show at the end of the month. But anyone can get started now, if they are ready to go.
The program will look like this:
Phase 1: Start HCG, decrease calories to 800/day, have food consultation with me, have hypnotherapy session with Jewels
Phase 2: Continue HCG, increase calories to 1500/day, have daily support with me, 2nd hypnotherapy session with Jewels
Phase 3: Continue HCG, increase calories to 2000/day, continue daily support, 3rd and final session with Jewels.
Phase 4: Discontinue HCG, continue daily support, listen to 4 CD's provided by Jewels, begin exercise program with me.
Phase 5: Finish with a stress management class and future plans class with me.
This is a 6 week program. And it is normal to lose 30 pounds in that time. However, it should be followed exactly to get the results that others have gotten. Jewels has done it herself with great success. So... who's ready?
She is also a Certified Hypnotherapist and has a steady clientele. Some of them come to her for weight loss. In her experience these clients would complete their 3 sessions with her and then plateau. She wanted to continue helping them, but had done all she could for them.
That's when she had the idea to partner up with me, allowing for that 1-on-1 support for each client during and after their sessions with her. As a bonus she is adding a homeopathic form of HCG and some fantastic support supplements to the program. I was thrilled she asked me and even more thrilled to do the program with her. She will be announcing it on her radio show at the end of the month. But anyone can get started now, if they are ready to go.
The program will look like this:
Phase 1: Start HCG, decrease calories to 800/day, have food consultation with me, have hypnotherapy session with Jewels
Phase 2: Continue HCG, increase calories to 1500/day, have daily support with me, 2nd hypnotherapy session with Jewels
Phase 3: Continue HCG, increase calories to 2000/day, continue daily support, 3rd and final session with Jewels.
Phase 4: Discontinue HCG, continue daily support, listen to 4 CD's provided by Jewels, begin exercise program with me.
Phase 5: Finish with a stress management class and future plans class with me.
This is a 6 week program. And it is normal to lose 30 pounds in that time. However, it should be followed exactly to get the results that others have gotten. Jewels has done it herself with great success. So... who's ready?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Update on my friend
It's been over 6 weeks since I first started helping my friend. And 6 weeks ago she was:
1. On prescription meds for high blood pressure
2. On prescription meds for diabetes
3. Bleeding, almost hemorrhaging
4. Weighed 310 pounds
4. Was tired all the time and slept on her lunch breaks
I am happy to report that now she is:
1. Prescription med free
2. Not bleeding since the 3rd day we started
3. Weighs 280 pounds
4. Wakes up ready to go, actually eats lunch during lunch time, goes on walks with her husband
5. Refers me to her friends and family.
Here it is in her words:
I have learned soooo much from this program. I want to first state that if I had not found this program, I don’t know how long my body could have gone on with all of the stress it had been going through. I had been to Urgent Care once and the ER 3 times. My doctor actually told me that there was nothing they could do about the symptoms I was having and that I would have to learn to live with it. I was not okay with that.
Tami found me, for which I will be forever grateful. She taught me what the foods I was eating was doing to my body and explained that it was making my body worse. She taught me what certain good foods can do to my body and explained that it can all get better. She advised me, early on, to try to go to a chiropractor who does Applied Kinesiology stating that they might be able to find out what was really wrong with my body and be able to give me answers. I was very skeptical, but said I would give it a try.
Late February, I finally went to this chiropractor. After the first visit… The symptoms stopped!!!! And the pain stopped!!! It was all due to my hips being so far out of alignment that my vertebrae’s were squishing my nerves that go to my reproductive organs. I finally had answers. He said that if I were to rate my body 1 being the worst and 100 being the best, he gave me 30. I wasn’t dead yet, but it was significant harm. I was scared.
With Tami’s help I was able to learn to eat right. Eat all raw veggies and fruits, which actually turned out to be good and yummy. You see, before I met Tami, I NEVER ate veggies. I hated them. They are now some of my favorite foods. I think learning what good these do for my body and learning how to mix foods to get the best nutrients helped me the most. I still think about 87, 89 & 92 when I think about food!! Haha. It’s awesome.
Tami also taught me how to expand my thinking about experimenting with food. Try new things. Because of this, I found new combo’s of food that taste awesome. I will continue to do this because experimenting with food is fun. I will also continue to keep protein and starches separate, or in other words, I don’t mix 89 with 92!
Life has been so much better for me since I started this program. I am happier. I am healthier. My clothes fit better. My husband and I have bonded over walking and talking, and getting out and doing fun things that don’t feel like working out. All in all, I have never felt this good in my life. Because of this I will definitely continue with my learning and working out. I feel that this program saved my life! And I am totally serious about that. I have also become closer to my husband through this process of getting healthier. I am really loving life right now. And I feel I have been given a second chance at life and I will not squander it :)
I am so proud of my husband sticking by me while I am going through this lifestyle change to eat better and feel better. With Evobodylution's help, I was able to lose 30lb in 6 weeks. Thanks Tami. It's a habit-forming learning process. The biggest obstacle was changing how I was eating. It's difficult to change 30+ yrs of bad eating habits, but it CAN be done! I am proof of that. Check out Evobodylution.com... you learn sooo much about food and what it does to your body. And Tami does 1on1 sessions (and she has an online class as well for those who live long distance) to help you through the learning process. It's amazing how much more energy I have now that I eat what I am supposed to eat. AND I am still losing weight. What more can you ask for? It's awesome!!
1. On prescription meds for high blood pressure
2. On prescription meds for diabetes
3. Bleeding, almost hemorrhaging
4. Weighed 310 pounds
4. Was tired all the time and slept on her lunch breaks
I am happy to report that now she is:
1. Prescription med free
2. Not bleeding since the 3rd day we started
3. Weighs 280 pounds
4. Wakes up ready to go, actually eats lunch during lunch time, goes on walks with her husband
5. Refers me to her friends and family.
Here it is in her words:
I have learned soooo much from this program. I want to first state that if I had not found this program, I don’t know how long my body could have gone on with all of the stress it had been going through. I had been to Urgent Care once and the ER 3 times. My doctor actually told me that there was nothing they could do about the symptoms I was having and that I would have to learn to live with it. I was not okay with that.
Tami found me, for which I will be forever grateful. She taught me what the foods I was eating was doing to my body and explained that it was making my body worse. She taught me what certain good foods can do to my body and explained that it can all get better. She advised me, early on, to try to go to a chiropractor who does Applied Kinesiology stating that they might be able to find out what was really wrong with my body and be able to give me answers. I was very skeptical, but said I would give it a try.
Late February, I finally went to this chiropractor. After the first visit… The symptoms stopped!!!! And the pain stopped!!! It was all due to my hips being so far out of alignment that my vertebrae’s were squishing my nerves that go to my reproductive organs. I finally had answers. He said that if I were to rate my body 1 being the worst and 100 being the best, he gave me 30. I wasn’t dead yet, but it was significant harm. I was scared.
With Tami’s help I was able to learn to eat right. Eat all raw veggies and fruits, which actually turned out to be good and yummy. You see, before I met Tami, I NEVER ate veggies. I hated them. They are now some of my favorite foods. I think learning what good these do for my body and learning how to mix foods to get the best nutrients helped me the most. I still think about 87, 89 & 92 when I think about food!! Haha. It’s awesome.
Tami also taught me how to expand my thinking about experimenting with food. Try new things. Because of this, I found new combo’s of food that taste awesome. I will continue to do this because experimenting with food is fun. I will also continue to keep protein and starches separate, or in other words, I don’t mix 89 with 92!
Life has been so much better for me since I started this program. I am happier. I am healthier. My clothes fit better. My husband and I have bonded over walking and talking, and getting out and doing fun things that don’t feel like working out. All in all, I have never felt this good in my life. Because of this I will definitely continue with my learning and working out. I feel that this program saved my life! And I am totally serious about that. I have also become closer to my husband through this process of getting healthier. I am really loving life right now. And I feel I have been given a second chance at life and I will not squander it :)
I am so proud of my husband sticking by me while I am going through this lifestyle change to eat better and feel better. With Evobodylution's help, I was able to lose 30lb in 6 weeks. Thanks Tami. It's a habit-forming learning process. The biggest obstacle was changing how I was eating. It's difficult to change 30+ yrs of bad eating habits, but it CAN be done! I am proof of that. Check out Evobodylution.com... you learn sooo much about food and what it does to your body. And Tami does 1on1 sessions (and she has an online class as well for those who live long distance) to help you through the learning process. It's amazing how much more energy I have now that I eat what I am supposed to eat. AND I am still losing weight. What more can you ask for? It's awesome!!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
What drinking milk does to your body.
A publication in the February 29, 2012 issue of the British Journal of Cancer contains a previously unexplored etiology for Pancreatic Cancer's growth. (Br J Cancer. 2012 Feb 28;106(5):1004-10)
The study measured levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP) in 844 subjects; 422 patients with pancreatic cancer, and 422 subjects without cancer which made up the control group.
The researchers did not find a relationship with IGF-I levels and pancreatic cancer, or with IGFBP levels and pancreatic cancer, but they did find a fascinating relationship between possible dairy consumption and pancreatic cancer.
IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in the growth of every human cancer. We naturally produce IGF-I in many of our tissues and organs. We also manufacture the binding site receptors for these growth hormones to attach.
IGF-I is identical in humans and cows.
Bovine growth hormone (bGH) human growth hormone (hGH) both have exactly 191 amino acids making up their structure, but the sequence of those amino acids differs between the two species by a factor of 35 percent.
Human IGF-I and bovine IGF-1 both have 70 amino acids in their structure, and miraculously, the sequence of amino acids on their protein chains is identical!
When we humans consume IGF-I in cow's milk, we do so without also consuming the binding proteins which are located within a cow's body.
So, our bodies become flooded with additional IGF-1 which we manufacture, and there becomes a dramatic proportional increase of IGF-I to IGFBP in our own systems.
Here is the remarkable finding from the British Journal of Cancer study.
Scientists found that pancreatic cancer patients had extremely low levels of IGF binding protein in relation to circulating IGF-1. These patients did indeed have a statistically significant risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer because of that proportion of IGF-1 to IGFBP.
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk
The study measured levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP) in 844 subjects; 422 patients with pancreatic cancer, and 422 subjects without cancer which made up the control group.
The researchers did not find a relationship with IGF-I levels and pancreatic cancer, or with IGFBP levels and pancreatic cancer, but they did find a fascinating relationship between possible dairy consumption and pancreatic cancer.
IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in the growth of every human cancer. We naturally produce IGF-I in many of our tissues and organs. We also manufacture the binding site receptors for these growth hormones to attach.
IGF-I is identical in humans and cows.
Bovine growth hormone (bGH) human growth hormone (hGH) both have exactly 191 amino acids making up their structure, but the sequence of those amino acids differs between the two species by a factor of 35 percent.
Human IGF-I and bovine IGF-1 both have 70 amino acids in their structure, and miraculously, the sequence of amino acids on their protein chains is identical!
When we humans consume IGF-I in cow's milk, we do so without also consuming the binding proteins which are located within a cow's body.
So, our bodies become flooded with additional IGF-1 which we manufacture, and there becomes a dramatic proportional increase of IGF-I to IGFBP in our own systems.
Here is the remarkable finding from the British Journal of Cancer study.
Scientists found that pancreatic cancer patients had extremely low levels of IGF binding protein in relation to circulating IGF-1. These patients did indeed have a statistically significant risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer because of that proportion of IGF-1 to IGFBP.
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.Twitter.com/TheRealNotmilk
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Cooking the UN-American diet.
Breakfast: Scrambled egg, cherry tomato and sliced cucumber sprinkled with garlic salt. Lunch: Rice, onions and mushrooms, sauteed in Mandarin sauce, bowled in a cabbage leaf, sprinkled with chopped red bell pepper.
Dinner: Teriyaki chicken over a bed or sliced red cabbage and slivered yellow zucchini
1. All vegetables eaten raw, with the exception of onions
2. Protein is never eaten with carbohydrate.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Access Consiousness
20 years ago in California a man, named Gary Douglas, founded something called Access Consciousness™, which includes Access Bars™. Today, a dynamic set of tools, techniques and philosophies that can change any area of life, are available. They are designed to help you with the question, "What would you really like to change?"
The purpose of Access is to create a world of "consciousness". Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing. It is our target to get you to the point where you receive from Access the awareness of everything, with no judgment of anything. If you have no judgment of anything, then you get to look at everything for what it is, not for what you want it to be, not for what it ought to be, but just for what it is.
Consciousness is defined here as: "the ability to be present in your life in every moment, without judgment of you or anyone else. It is the ability to receive everything, reject nothing, and create everything you desire in life - greater than what you currently have, and more than what you can imagine."
The place to start is to ask yourself questions:
What if you were willing to nurture and care for you?
What if you would open the doors to being everything you have decided it is not possible to be?
What would it take for you to realize how crucial you are to the possibilities of the world?
The next thing to do is have you Bars 'run'. What are the Bars? They are a series of 32 points on the head that, when gently touched, activate major clearing of limitations you haven’t been able to extract yourself from any other way. The 32 Bars of energy that run through and around your head store the electromagnetic component of all the thoughts, ideas, attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you have ever had about anything. There are Bars for healing, body, control, awareness, creativity, power, aging, sex and money; just to name a few. Each thought, idea, attitude, decision or belief that you have fixed in place solidifies the energy and limits your capacity to be generative in that area and to have something different show up in your life with ease.
Each point is associated with a particular issue that we use to create our own personal ditches—such as money, control, body, sexuality, healing, and many more. When that point is touched, it works like a circuit breaker or trip switch in your house. Flip the switch and the lights come on. Touch your Bars and your lights come on!
These tools can be accessed via a variety of classes, telecalls, products or with a Certified or Bars Facilitator.
I am hosting one on March 19th 11:30a.m-12:30p.m And I invite you to join in person or by webcam. It could change your life forever. The facilitator will be:
Annette Borsack is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist who has been a Licensed Vocational Nurse for 17 years. Annette literally transforms the lives of corporate professionals and her own patients through nutritional support. Annette specializes in education, prevention and wellness with whole foods. A Certified Teacher (post-secondary, vocational education), she lectures on wellness strategies for corporations, schools, and professional organizations. She has been a featured speaker at the San Diego Runners Club, National Youth Charity League, and World Renegade Fitness Company. Her workshops and lectures are high energy, eye opening, and fun. She also teaches nutritionists and is theDirector of the Certified Clinical Nutrition and Herbal Consultant Program at Vitality College of Healing Artsin San Diego.
This class is normally $200/person, but because she is a personal friend of mine, she is doing it for the price of her fuel to get here. See you there!
The purpose of Access is to create a world of "consciousness". Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing. It is our target to get you to the point where you receive from Access the awareness of everything, with no judgment of anything. If you have no judgment of anything, then you get to look at everything for what it is, not for what you want it to be, not for what it ought to be, but just for what it is.
Consciousness is defined here as: "the ability to be present in your life in every moment, without judgment of you or anyone else. It is the ability to receive everything, reject nothing, and create everything you desire in life - greater than what you currently have, and more than what you can imagine."
The place to start is to ask yourself questions:
What if you were willing to nurture and care for you?
What if you would open the doors to being everything you have decided it is not possible to be?
What would it take for you to realize how crucial you are to the possibilities of the world?
The next thing to do is have you Bars 'run'. What are the Bars? They are a series of 32 points on the head that, when gently touched, activate major clearing of limitations you haven’t been able to extract yourself from any other way. The 32 Bars of energy that run through and around your head store the electromagnetic component of all the thoughts, ideas, attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you have ever had about anything. There are Bars for healing, body, control, awareness, creativity, power, aging, sex and money; just to name a few. Each thought, idea, attitude, decision or belief that you have fixed in place solidifies the energy and limits your capacity to be generative in that area and to have something different show up in your life with ease.
Each point is associated with a particular issue that we use to create our own personal ditches—such as money, control, body, sexuality, healing, and many more. When that point is touched, it works like a circuit breaker or trip switch in your house. Flip the switch and the lights come on. Touch your Bars and your lights come on!
These tools can be accessed via a variety of classes, telecalls, products or with a Certified or Bars Facilitator.
I am hosting one on March 19th 11:30a.m-12:30p.m And I invite you to join in person or by webcam. It could change your life forever. The facilitator will be:
Annette Borsack is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist who has been a Licensed Vocational Nurse for 17 years. Annette literally transforms the lives of corporate professionals and her own patients through nutritional support. Annette specializes in education, prevention and wellness with whole foods. A Certified Teacher (post-secondary, vocational education), she lectures on wellness strategies for corporations, schools, and professional organizations. She has been a featured speaker at the San Diego Runners Club, National Youth Charity League, and World Renegade Fitness Company. Her workshops and lectures are high energy, eye opening, and fun. She also teaches nutritionists and is theDirector of the Certified Clinical Nutrition and Herbal Consultant Program at Vitality College of Healing Artsin San Diego.
This class is normally $200/person, but because she is a personal friend of mine, she is doing it for the price of her fuel to get here. See you there!
Monday, February 20, 2012
I help my poor friend get some answers
I have a grade school friend that joined my school program. She just got married and is in her late 30's. She went to the doctor to have a wellness check up to have kids. She was given a big NO with some bad news. Diabetes, risk of stroke, and uterine fibroid tumors was the diagnosis.
She began taking meds for the diabetes, and trying to eat healthier, but began bleeding pretty bad from the fibroids. It got so bad she went to the ER one day. She sat there bleeding for 8 hours before they called her name. After finally taking her in and doing their 'tests' they concluded that they didn't know what was wrong, she was just going to have to deal with it, and hopefully would grow out of it. Then gave her pain meds for the pain she was experiencing.
I was in shock at how inept, once again, our medical system is. So, I immediately told her to use her insurance to find a chiropractor that practices kinesiology in her area. She did, and went the very next day. She called me afterward almost in tears of gratitude. He was able to tell her what was going on. For one, her hips were crooked, causing one leg to be shorter than the other and causing the problems she's been having with her neck and jaw. Worse is that the lower back spine bones were pinching the nerves that went to her female organs. This was the cause of her female trouble. He also informed her that she has an allergy to artificial sweetener, which she was getting from her gum. The good news is that it's fixable. And the solution is 30 visits with him.
She thanked me profusely and was so grateful that I knew what to do for her. She was shocked that there was such a great alternative that she did not even know about and is very excited for her 30 visits and continuing to work with me.
She began taking meds for the diabetes, and trying to eat healthier, but began bleeding pretty bad from the fibroids. It got so bad she went to the ER one day. She sat there bleeding for 8 hours before they called her name. After finally taking her in and doing their 'tests' they concluded that they didn't know what was wrong, she was just going to have to deal with it, and hopefully would grow out of it. Then gave her pain meds for the pain she was experiencing.
I was in shock at how inept, once again, our medical system is. So, I immediately told her to use her insurance to find a chiropractor that practices kinesiology in her area. She did, and went the very next day. She called me afterward almost in tears of gratitude. He was able to tell her what was going on. For one, her hips were crooked, causing one leg to be shorter than the other and causing the problems she's been having with her neck and jaw. Worse is that the lower back spine bones were pinching the nerves that went to her female organs. This was the cause of her female trouble. He also informed her that she has an allergy to artificial sweetener, which she was getting from her gum. The good news is that it's fixable. And the solution is 30 visits with him.
She thanked me profusely and was so grateful that I knew what to do for her. She was shocked that there was such a great alternative that she did not even know about and is very excited for her 30 visits and continuing to work with me.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Who is Evobodylution CEO?
Tamra Ault, H.H.P. grew roots from Southern Arizona in a little tiny Mormon town of 2,000 people. At age 8 came the fist life changing moment. Going to the doctor with mom because it 'hurt to pee' became a traumatic experience. It's scary sitting in a doctors examination room not knowing what to expect but the doctor is talking to your mom quietly with their backs turned to you. Suddenly you fear the worst...he's going to have to look 'down there'. Well, as luck and medicine would have it, she walked out with nothing but a piece of paper and a I with a huge sense of relief.
I left there feeling that there needs to be a better way to heal the body.
At age 12, I did some soul searching. I decided when I grew up I wanted to do something about the body. But I wasn't sure what. I went on to play college volleyball at a Jr. College in Tucson, AZ. Then moved to beautiful San Diego, CA. I met a wonderful chiropractor who incorporated Kinesiology into his practice. It fascinated me. He could tell exactly what was going on in the body using various different muscle tests. And then could release the symptom with any number of techniques from an adjustment, to massage, acupressure, laser therapy, color therapy, energy work, finding a food allergy and/or supplements. Around that time, I had 2 daughters. And when they were infant and 2 years old they got Pneumonia at the same time. I had an aunt, who I never met, die at age 8 from this. So I was petrified! I took them to our HMO Doctor like any good mother would. He did the prescription, I administered it, symptoms went away. Not 4 weeks later did they come back! Sick again! Well, I'm not insane and wasn't going to try the same thing twice. So, I took them to my chiropractor. He adjusted the little necks, gave me a bottle of herb capsules, told me some food allergies they had and we go on our way. I do everything like he said, and they recover quickly. For a follow up visit I take them back to the HMO Doctor for a check up. After checking their vitals, he takes off his stethoscope, puts it around his neck and says it all looks good. What was I doing? I hand him the bottle of herbs. He looks and reads the ingredients list. "Marshmallow" he says. "You can't cure anything with marshmallow". It was at that moment that I realized how closed minded HMO Doctors are, and that I had found that 'better way' to cure the body like I had decided at 8 years old.
My direction was set. I started that journey by going to an Holistic Health Practitioner program in San Diego. Part of the program was an understudy for 2 months. My wonderful Chiropractor agreed to hire me as his assistant and observe his practice. In those 2 months I gained more respect for that man than I had any man in my whole life up to that point. I saw him do things not too short of miracles. It has stayed with me to this day.
13 months later I emerged with a certificate as an H.H.P. from study in Herbology, Nutrition, Massage, Stress Management, Acupressure, Anatomy, Physiology, passive Martial Arts, Hydrotherapy, Aromatherapy & Homeopathy. I learned things about the American diet that were shocking! And I soon realized that there is no one "Right" therapy. But the only way to know what the body needs is through muscle testing. And that is what Kinesiology did! From then on, me and my girls have only been to him with health issues.
One of those issues was about 2 years ago, I almost passed out in my car. I felt like I was being poisoned. Hot flashes, weak, nauseous, stomach in revolt, sweats, dizziness. Previous to this I had bouts of stomach aches, but didn't think much of it. Then gradually it was getting worse. It was definitely time for a visit to my good friend Chiropractor. He finds I have 'Leaky Gut'. You might say, 'what?'. That's what I said. It is a situation where you eat too many inflammatory foods; milk, red meat, wheat and alcohol and the intestines stop absorbing anything. Instead it starts leaking out into your body. I literally WAS poisoning myself! All I could think was "What would an HMO Doctor have said? Drink more water and exercise?"
After a few months of keeping my love for cheese at bay, I started feeling much better. My pain was gone, food was digesting properly and the bathroom wasn't my enemy. Then something miraculous started happening. My clothes started to fit looser and looser. I realized I was loosing weight. I wasn't trying to! But, here it was just melting off me. And before long they were full on baggy! I had to get something to wear. My shock was fitting into a size 15! That's what teenagers wear!
I have since maintained a healthy womens' size 12, people comment on how youthful I look, my skin is better, and I by staying away from milk. Red meat about once a month, and wheat sparingly. It allowed me to think outside the box. I have found many goat cheeses that are delicious, Almond Milk makes a great substitute from milk and tastes alot better. Discovered grains that are just as good as meat but not as hard on the intestines. And eat seafood a lot more often.
Unfortunately, many Americans suffer the same symptoms, yet don't get the answers to help them. And this is what inspired me to start a company teaching America these very concepts! I launched on September 2011 with the moto: "We're not your mothers weight-loss diet"! And here is my challenge you: Replace cows milk with Almond, Soy, Goat or Coconut Milks permanently. Red meat temporarily. Add more seafood. Replace processed wheat products with unprocessed grains like rice, millet, and amaranth. And then send me an email! I'd love to know what changes you feel after a couple of months!
To your health!
Tamra Ault, H.H.P.
I left there feeling that there needs to be a better way to heal the body.
At age 12, I did some soul searching. I decided when I grew up I wanted to do something about the body. But I wasn't sure what. I went on to play college volleyball at a Jr. College in Tucson, AZ. Then moved to beautiful San Diego, CA. I met a wonderful chiropractor who incorporated Kinesiology into his practice. It fascinated me. He could tell exactly what was going on in the body using various different muscle tests. And then could release the symptom with any number of techniques from an adjustment, to massage, acupressure, laser therapy, color therapy, energy work, finding a food allergy and/or supplements. Around that time, I had 2 daughters. And when they were infant and 2 years old they got Pneumonia at the same time. I had an aunt, who I never met, die at age 8 from this. So I was petrified! I took them to our HMO Doctor like any good mother would. He did the prescription, I administered it, symptoms went away. Not 4 weeks later did they come back! Sick again! Well, I'm not insane and wasn't going to try the same thing twice. So, I took them to my chiropractor. He adjusted the little necks, gave me a bottle of herb capsules, told me some food allergies they had and we go on our way. I do everything like he said, and they recover quickly. For a follow up visit I take them back to the HMO Doctor for a check up. After checking their vitals, he takes off his stethoscope, puts it around his neck and says it all looks good. What was I doing? I hand him the bottle of herbs. He looks and reads the ingredients list. "Marshmallow" he says. "You can't cure anything with marshmallow". It was at that moment that I realized how closed minded HMO Doctors are, and that I had found that 'better way' to cure the body like I had decided at 8 years old.
My direction was set. I started that journey by going to an Holistic Health Practitioner program in San Diego. Part of the program was an understudy for 2 months. My wonderful Chiropractor agreed to hire me as his assistant and observe his practice. In those 2 months I gained more respect for that man than I had any man in my whole life up to that point. I saw him do things not too short of miracles. It has stayed with me to this day.
13 months later I emerged with a certificate as an H.H.P. from study in Herbology, Nutrition, Massage, Stress Management, Acupressure, Anatomy, Physiology, passive Martial Arts, Hydrotherapy, Aromatherapy & Homeopathy. I learned things about the American diet that were shocking! And I soon realized that there is no one "Right" therapy. But the only way to know what the body needs is through muscle testing. And that is what Kinesiology did! From then on, me and my girls have only been to him with health issues.
One of those issues was about 2 years ago, I almost passed out in my car. I felt like I was being poisoned. Hot flashes, weak, nauseous, stomach in revolt, sweats, dizziness. Previous to this I had bouts of stomach aches, but didn't think much of it. Then gradually it was getting worse. It was definitely time for a visit to my good friend Chiropractor. He finds I have 'Leaky Gut'. You might say, 'what?'. That's what I said. It is a situation where you eat too many inflammatory foods; milk, red meat, wheat and alcohol and the intestines stop absorbing anything. Instead it starts leaking out into your body. I literally WAS poisoning myself! All I could think was "What would an HMO Doctor have said? Drink more water and exercise?"
After a few months of keeping my love for cheese at bay, I started feeling much better. My pain was gone, food was digesting properly and the bathroom wasn't my enemy. Then something miraculous started happening. My clothes started to fit looser and looser. I realized I was loosing weight. I wasn't trying to! But, here it was just melting off me. And before long they were full on baggy! I had to get something to wear. My shock was fitting into a size 15! That's what teenagers wear!
I have since maintained a healthy womens' size 12, people comment on how youthful I look, my skin is better, and I by staying away from milk. Red meat about once a month, and wheat sparingly. It allowed me to think outside the box. I have found many goat cheeses that are delicious, Almond Milk makes a great substitute from milk and tastes alot better. Discovered grains that are just as good as meat but not as hard on the intestines. And eat seafood a lot more often.
Unfortunately, many Americans suffer the same symptoms, yet don't get the answers to help them. And this is what inspired me to start a company teaching America these very concepts! I launched on September 2011 with the moto: "We're not your mothers weight-loss diet"! And here is my challenge you: Replace cows milk with Almond, Soy, Goat or Coconut Milks permanently. Red meat temporarily. Add more seafood. Replace processed wheat products with unprocessed grains like rice, millet, and amaranth. And then send me an email! I'd love to know what changes you feel after a couple of months!
To your health!
Tamra Ault, H.H.P.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
7 ways to have a healthier 2012
You’ve tried it all: the pills, the programs, the hormone replacement, the shakes
and surgery. To no avail there’s still more “love” on your body than you are
comfortable with. What gives? Doesn’t anyone know how to help me? The sad
truth is that doctors are trained on how the body works, but not how to fix it. You
are your best doctor. And here’s what you can do in the comfort of your own
home.
#1 Eat more raw fruits and vegetables: Enzymes are found in raw fruits and
vegetables and repair our aging body.
#2 Don’t eat meat with bread! They both provide energy. And the body will use
the bread first and store the meat away till “later”. But if later never comes, it will
sit on your thigh forever!
#3 Salad a day keeps internal plumbing working properly.
#4 Take antioxidants. Think about all the toxins you come in contact with. They
invade the body and cause cancer among other things. Even if you ate a perfect
diet, your body would still need help.
#5 Good energy. Comes from slow burning protein. NUTS: trail mix, a protein
bar with at least 12 grams of protein, carrot sticks, fresh green beans, soy
beans. It takes the body longer to burn through these and you are getting lots of
nutrition in the process!
#6 Move the body. Make 2 lists. One is the exercise you love. The other is what
you hate. Pick 3 things you love and will do 3 times a week for 20 minutes. Find
a buddy. Give yourself a reward each time you go out.
#7 Anxiety Management: When we are stressed our body goes into “Fight or
Flight”. With that comes elevated heart rate, tense muscles, digestion stops,
blood flows to extremities and brain to prepare itself. Instead, find 10 minutes at
the end of each day to sit in peace and quiet in a comfortable place, close your
eyes, take deep breaths, feel calm and imagine your body slowing down.
This is just a start!
Very truly yours, Tamra
and surgery. To no avail there’s still more “love” on your body than you are
comfortable with. What gives? Doesn’t anyone know how to help me? The sad
truth is that doctors are trained on how the body works, but not how to fix it. You
are your best doctor. And here’s what you can do in the comfort of your own
home.
#1 Eat more raw fruits and vegetables: Enzymes are found in raw fruits and
vegetables and repair our aging body.
#2 Don’t eat meat with bread! They both provide energy. And the body will use
the bread first and store the meat away till “later”. But if later never comes, it will
sit on your thigh forever!
#3 Salad a day keeps internal plumbing working properly.
#4 Take antioxidants. Think about all the toxins you come in contact with. They
invade the body and cause cancer among other things. Even if you ate a perfect
diet, your body would still need help.
#5 Good energy. Comes from slow burning protein. NUTS: trail mix, a protein
bar with at least 12 grams of protein, carrot sticks, fresh green beans, soy
beans. It takes the body longer to burn through these and you are getting lots of
nutrition in the process!
#6 Move the body. Make 2 lists. One is the exercise you love. The other is what
you hate. Pick 3 things you love and will do 3 times a week for 20 minutes. Find
a buddy. Give yourself a reward each time you go out.
#7 Anxiety Management: When we are stressed our body goes into “Fight or
Flight”. With that comes elevated heart rate, tense muscles, digestion stops,
blood flows to extremities and brain to prepare itself. Instead, find 10 minutes at
the end of each day to sit in peace and quiet in a comfortable place, close your
eyes, take deep breaths, feel calm and imagine your body slowing down.
This is just a start!
Very truly yours, Tamra
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