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Good Things In, Bad Things Out!

Putting good things INTO our bodies – the first step we need to do.  This means eating nutritious foods as much as possible and taking our Ultimate Foundation multi-vitamin, mineral and herb formula.

Taking bad things OUT of our bodies  – the second step we need to do.  Today’s environment causes our bodies to absorb many toxic heavy metals and chemical toxins.  These toxins cause many of the physical problems people experience.  Our Body Detox helps remove these toxins.

What Does Detoxing Do?

The nutrients in our Body Detox help the body get rid of harmful substances through a process called chelation in which they bond to the harmful toxins making it easier for the body to filter them out.

Scientific Studies have shown that detoxing helps:

• Get rid of heavy metals and toxins
• Purify blood
• Relieve Herxheimer reactions
• Even reduce incidence of cancer.

3 Step Detoxing Protocol

1. Body Detox: 1-week on, then 3-weeks off for the first year. If you have been exposed to more than normal amounts of heavy elements, you can extend this an extra week.  The break is needed to help restore a few helpful minerals

*The best time to take it?  – Just before bedtime.  You can take the capsules or open them and add the mix to some yogurt or a drink before bedtime.  Don’t spread the capsules out during the course of the day.  It may interfere with normal nutritional and supplement intake.

2. Ultimate Foundation: When you detox, some essential nutrients and minerals can be lost and it is important to restore these to normal levels.  A good Multi-vitamin, mineral like our Ultimate Foundation will do that.
3. Maintenance: After this first-time cleansing procedure, repeat 4 months a year.

 

It is amazing how Lyme disease can cause incredibly deep-seated controversies. This often pits you against your doctor and insurance company. Even members of the medical establishment disagree with each other. One of the key points of their contention can be whether or not chronic Lyme is even a real condition at all.

Recent research at Johns Hopkins of 61 people, who had been treated for Lyme disease, showed people were still experiencing nasty symptoms.  They call it “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome” (PTLDS).  They admit, “It is a real disorder that causes severe symptoms in the absence of clinically detectable infection”.  The condition if often mixed in with the wording, “Chronic Lyme disease”.

The study is helping some doctors recognize that Chronic Lyme disease is a legitimate condition – not just invented by people!

Of course, we have seen and been solving this problem for people for years. Chronic symptoms can be caused by the Lyme spirochetes burrowing into cells and causing re-occurring symptoms as the cells die – releasing the bacteria into the body again.

Protective biofilms can also keep antibiotics from killing all the bacteria, allowing it to increase again, even after treatment.

We have solved these problems naturally and are approaching 56,000 people who have used our Lyme protocol. Reports back are showing our Monolaurin and Bio-Fibrin to be over 90% effective in bringing a person back to wellness.  Our ongoing prevention, with our Maintenance Protocol, has done even better.

(Link to: 3 Step Lyme Disease Protocol)

No need to worry, there is a natural answer for treating your furry friend – and its simple. Monolaurin!

1. Adjust Monolaurin dosage for the weight of the animal (180#=3 scoops, 80 pellets per scoop)
2. Add the Monolaurin to your pet’s food 2-3 times a day.
3. Slowly build up to a full dose over 2-3 weeks.

(Look out for signs of a Herxheimer reaction. If this happens simply stop for a day or two then resume at a lower dosage.)

You can find more information here: Natural Answer for Dog and Pet Lyme Disease

Tick season is HERE!! If you, your kids or a pet are bitten -don’t panic, just follow these simple steps to remove it safely!

1. Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.
2. Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don’t twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers.
3. After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with Skin Defense, rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water.

Dispose of a tick by flushing it down the toilet. Never crush a tick with your fingers.

 (Excerpts from Allison Aubrey)

A new study suggests wrangling your kids to bed at the same time each night could help set them up for a healthier future.

Nagging your kids to stick to a set bedtime each night may feel like a thankless task. But here’s some justification that your efforts are setting your kids up for a healthier life: A new study finds that preschool-aged children who didn’t have a set sleep routine were more likely to be overweight by the time they became tweens.

“We found children who had inconsistent bedtimes were almost twice as likely to be obese by age 11 compared to kids who had regular bedtimes,” says study author Sarah Anderson, an epidemiologist at The Ohio State University.

The new study, which is based on findings from a cohort of children in the U.K., builds on a body of research that finds household routines early in life can influence body weight and the risk of obesity in adolescence and beyond. It’s published in the International Journal of Obesity.

When children were 3, parents were surveyed about a range of habits, including sleep and meal times. Researchers have continued to follow the children, who are now about 16 years old and the findings echo other research that links the two.

Sleep Munchies: Why It’s Harder To Resist Snacks When We’re Tired

Back in 2010, Anderson and her colleague Robert Whitaker published a similar study based on research that included about 8,550 children in the U.S. That study, which was published in Pediatrics, found that in addition to regular bedtimes, two additional habits were also tied to a lower risk of obesity: regular evening meals and limited screen-viewing time. The three habits combined were linked to a 40% lower prevalence of obesity.

The habit of sitting down to an evening meal as a family has been tied to healthy eating habits — and emotional benefits — in other studies.

And researchers are learning more about how the timing of meals and sleep influences our biology. For instance, as we’ve reported, researchers have found that eating early in the day, not late, can help maximize weight loss. In addition, it’s been shown that sleep deprivation can set the stage for weight gain and metabolic disease.

Circadian Surprise: How Our Body Clocks Help Shape Our Waistlines

So, what explains the link between sleep and weight? Would you believe it goes all the way back to circadian rhythms?.

Yes, “regular bedtime … imposes a consistent exposure to light and darkness, which sustains a robust circadian rhythm, ” explains researcher Satchidananda Panda (no relation to the bears) at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

If this rhythm is disrupted, the body can be thrown off. He points to studies that have found that shift workers — who work overnight and sleep during the day — are more prone to weight gain.

It seems we humans are time-keeping machines, and regular sleeping and eating schedules help keep all our clocks in sync.

“The increase in obesity among these children [in the new study] might be due to a similar mechanism that predisposes shift workers to weight gain,” Panda says.

Panda says this new study adds to the body of scientific literature that finds the timing of daily habits can be a predictor of chronic diseases. “What is important is this correlation begins at an early age.”

Reference:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/25/525394739/eat-sleep-repeat-how-kids-daily-routines-can-help-prevent-obesity

 

The holidays are full of delicious and tempting snacks and treats, but you don’t have to feel guilty about this one anymore – Nuts!  But don’t nuts have a lot of fat calories? Yes, nuts contain about 170 calories per ounce! So, why aren’t these snacks making us fat? Let’s take a look at why a handful of these tasty treats could be the best thing you can do for your health this season!

What Harvard Studies Found

A huge study (from Harvard, no less) is telling us that throwing down a handful, or more, of nuts may be one of the healthiest things you can do.

Dr. Ying Bao, of Harvard, said “There’s a general perception that if you eat more nuts you’re going to get fat. Our results show the opposite.” So what’s the deal?

Lower Heart Disease Risk

The study, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, involved more than 119,000 healthy volunteers. It found that those who regularly consumed at least a one-ounce daily serving of walnuts, almonds, cashews and other tree nuts were 25% less likely to die from heart disease!

Although they took into account factors such as participant’s dietary habits, smoking status, and physical activity level – the study couldn’t entirely rule out all other factors. This study’s findings are also backed by a long line of previous, smaller, studies that also suggest eating nuts confers health benefits. In fact, the FDA had already determined that there was enough evidence to say that eating 1.5 ounces of nuts each day “may reduce the risk of heart disease.”

Lower Mortality Rate

In fact, they had a 20% lower risk of dying from any cause (including cancer, heart disease, respiratory and even type 2 diabetes) during the three-decade-long study compared to those who did not eat nuts. (Results improved as more nuts were consumed, up to 7+ times a week.) The study found that nut eaters enjoyed longer lifespans – even if they did not exercise, avoided fruits and vegetables, and were overweight.¹

Senior study author, Dr. Charles S. Fuchs, said, “The reduction in mortality was substantial. I think eating nuts is comparable to other potentially beneficial lifestyle measures like exercise and avoiding obesity and trans fats.”

Satisfaction

It appears that nuts, which contain a lot of fiber – have an appetite-suppressing effect. And when your appetite is suppressed, that obviously makes it easier to stick to a diet. Therefore, snacking on nuts usually results in eating less at meal times.²  Adding nuts to the diet also reduces the feelings of deprivation that can accompany long-term dieting.  Thanks to their high fiber, fat and protein content, nuts make you feel full and provide you with sustained energy levels.

Increased metabolism

Evidence links regular nut consumption with greater resting energy expenditure, which is a fancy way of saying, “nuts increase your metabolism”.

Nuts have been found to be quite thermogenic (anything that increases the calories the Basal Metabolic Rate uses), owing at least in part to their high levels of protein and unsaturated fats.

One study analyzed by Mattes and his researchers showed that daily consumption of a moderate amount of nuts over a 19-week period increased BMR by a whopping 11%.³ Eating nuts would burn an extra 166 calories each day – and you would get to enjoy eating a daily dose of nuts.

Inefficient energy absorption

Although nuts are energy-dense (high in calories), they have poor bioaccessibility, meaning that not all of their calories are absorbed. This is especially the case when eating whole nuts as compared to nut butters, implying that some of it has to do with how thoroughly the nuts are chewed. When whole nuts are consumed, much of their caloric value is not absorbed.

In fact, new research shows that 55-75% of the calories in nuts are not fully absorbed by the digestive tract. Nut calories are mostly excreted by your body and this is one of the reasons why nuts have been proven to help with weight loss and maintenance.⁴

This also applies, specifically, to the lipid fat content in nuts. Research reveals that up to 15% of the lipid content of whole nuts may be lost in your stool.^5,6

Dr. Ying Bao, of Harvard, who led the study, said, “I’m fairly confident in our results. We have long known that nuts are nutritious foods filled with folate, potassium, fiber, good monounsaturated fats, and antioxidants.” (And most of us are aware that nut’s unsaturated fatty acids, minerals, and other nutrients lower cholesterol and inflammation. This, alone, will help reduce many potential irritants to the body.)

This is HUGE in Nutritional News!

Nuts have long been known to be healthy but until recently, there were not any studies of this size and quality to provide hard-core evidence to prove it. Research on food (and diets in particular) is especially hard because it is difficult to single out the effectiveness of any one food.

In addition to the Harvard study we just looked at, researchers at Purdue University conducted a review, published in the 2010 Journal of Clinical Nutrition, examining 43 studies, trials and surveys, covering over two hundred thousand human test subjects. They also concluded that nuts are not fattening and have an array of health benefits.

So, in a nutshell… nuts can be added to your diet without the fear of additional weight gain. A small handful eaten as a snack or sprinkled on a salad will boost your resting metabolism, lower your BMI and help you adhere to your diet. Roasted nuts are deep-fried in fattening, unhealthy oils, so instead choose raw, unsalted nuts for the healthiest option (or dry roasted nuts as the next best option). When eaten in moderation, nuts can be an important component of a successful weight loss program.