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Today’s tip is a quote from the book “Optimum Wellness” by Ralph Golan M.D.

“Chelated Minerals Mineral are best absorbed from the digestive tract into your circulation in their chelated form (in which they are “bound” to amino acids or other substances). There are many chelation vehicles on the market with a wide variation in absorption. How do you know whether to buy calcim carbonate or calcium malate; magnesium oxide or magnesium fumarate? The answer is to buy the ones with the highest absorption efficiencies: malate, ethanolamine, phosphate, ascorbate, citrate, fumarate, peptonate, succinate, lysinate, glycinate, picolinate and acetate. Moderately high efficiency absorption efficiency vehicles are: amino acid chelates, asparate, chloride, sulfate, gluconate and phosphate. The lowest absorption efficiency vehicles (and the least-expensive) are carbonate and oxide.”

• The Liver is the Oil Filter of the body
• We are exposed to more toxins than ever before in histroy

Every bit of blood in our bodies passes thru our liver to be cleaned.

Toxins and your Liver

The liver is an extremely important organ in the body performing over 500 functions. One of the main functions is to detoxify your body. The liver is the Oil Filter of the body. all of the blood in your body passes thru your liver, constantly being filtered.

Signs that your liver may be overworked

How can the little old liver affect so many things in the body, remember the liver performs over 500 fucntions. It is involved in some degree with the following.

• Cholesterol levels
• Proccessing hormones
• Balancing blood sugar
• Converting vitamins and minerals into more usable forms
• Production of enzymes

So you can see, if the liver is overburdened with toxins, it may have a tough job performing some of it’s other functions.

Things the liver has to deal with here in 21st century

Food
Pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, artificial colors and flavors, preservatives

Water
Over 40,000 conatminates have been found in drinking water. Run off from farmers fields.

Sick building
Off gassing from carpets, paint, particle board and other building materials

Drugs
Over the counter, presription, recreational

Things the liver has never before in history had to deal with.

Ways to help the liver

Chinese herbs

Pure water

Organic food

Enzymes

Educate yourself about natural remedies,

Good News, the liver can regenerate.

Chinese Liver Balance Formula

The health and vitality of your liver has an effect on many of your body systems. Just a few of these include:

• Cholesterol Levels
• Hormone production
• Blood sugar balance
• Processing vitamins, minerals and other nutrients from food or supplements
• Enzymes for a multitude of functions

Last Tuesday night we had a conference call with Herb Specialist, John Houser. John talked in detail about how toxins affect the liver and gave some tips to detox this vital organ. The call has been recorded and is available at no charge for the next week only at http://www.asktheherbalist.net/audio.php Look in the right hand column under downloads.

Tip for digestive health and a clean colon.

Increase fiber in your diet. The recommended amount of fiber for the digestive system to function properly is 30 grams per day. This means eating healthy portions of fresh fruits, vegetables along with whole grains like whole wheat and brown rice.

Most Americans fall far short of this recommended level of dietary fiber. Fiber supplements can be a useful addition to a healthy diet.

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Tomorrow night we will be having an informative conference call on the topic of colon health. This is a major issue in America today.

Q: What are some of the benefits  one might expect from a colon cleanse?

• Raise energy
• Improve mental clarity
• Build immune system
• Lose weight
• Improve digestion
• Increase assimilation of nutrients

I like to think of this topic as Waste management - managing how your body processes waste - will direct effect your waist !!

Colon function Beginning of all health good or poor Health

Q: What is State of the American Colon ?

– it is estimated that more than 50% of the population is suffering from some type of intestinal disorder - Constipation, Ibs, Chrons

** large part of the population under the age of 10 now suffering with IBS and constipation -

The U S is leading the world in Colon cancer .

Cancer and Chronic disease will continue to increase over the next 5 to 10 years , that are young people are in serious danger.

Q: What is the cause of such problems in the colon? 

Causes - food and Habits - training’s - toxic build up in body

Food difficult to digest, assimilate and eliminate.

Q: How does lifestyle affect health?

 Your habits will determine your future

Years of making bad choices - leads to poor health and chronic disease

making right choices in food, life style and environment

Healthy people have healthy habits - Unhealthy people do not have healthy habits -

• Good digestion -
• good elimination -
• pH balancing -
• Proper use of supplements

Your Habits will determine - Your Future

Habits - a behaviour you keep repeating

commit to improving and preserving your health every day

Your habits will determine your quality of life

The results of bad habits show up later than sooner

nourish your body - spirit soul –

By practising natural health you reduce greatly your chance of getting a chronic disease –

Q: What are some tips to good health ?

1) stop putting poisons into the body.

2) it takes five to seven times the normal amount of nutrition to build and repair than does to maintain .

3) nothing heals in less than 3 months - must be diligent

4) moderation

5) take full responsibility for healing yourself

6) Live closer to God

7) alka line diet

Herrings law - All cures starts from within out and from the head down in reverse order as symptoms have appeared.

 Do a good colon cleanse - then take steps to get regular

Consider our Clean Start Program –

Then follow with our Get Regular System –

Q: How often should a person do a colon cleanse ?

Full cleanse two to three times per year

Establish regular bowel habits to keep colon clean daily

Q: How often should a person have a bowel movement ?

Two to Three time per day depending on how many meals are consumed dailey

Bowel movemnet should be fairly quick - give a feeling of being empty- consistency of soft serve ice cream -

1 to 3 hours after eating — should not have to starin- THIS helps prevent Hemroids - polyps, IBS –

Q: How much fiber should a person consume daily

30 grams

Q: What are some good sources of fiber ?

veggies - fiber food such as beans legumes lettuce cabbage –

supplemental fiber with phsyliullm or slippery elm .

Q: What if a person already has diverticulitis, colitis , or IBS .

My suggestion would be — Food enzymes - Probiotics , slowly introduce fiber, pH balancing, possibly whole Aloe to heal the colon walls .

***Plus we do counselling by phone - to provide individual suggestions -

Our listeners can simply go to asktheherbalist.net submit a specific question , and we will have an answer in 24 hours or less -

Q: Tell us about probiotics, SBO’s - what are they , what do they do,?

• Line the walls of the intestine with benficial bacteria
• Keep out bad bacteria
• Help to digest food, manufacture and assimilate nutrients 
• Promote regularity fights both constipation and diahrea

Q: Are OTC laxatives harmful? 

 – chemicals - iiratate intestinal walls - harsh - unnatural

Q: What about colonics ?

Only in extreme cases- should enemas and colonics be used - The body needs to be trained to clean itself naturally

Q: Can you give some specific recommendations?

– first if any of our listeners would like specific recommendations - simply go to asktheherbalsit.net and sign up for a phone consultation .

Second on our site askthehetrbalist.net we have an excellent colon cleanse system - see the page that says constipation

Third use herbs to get regular — such as Cascara sagrada - everybody’s fiber - or LBS 2 — Probiotics –

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In the last tip we talked about how increasing fiber in your diet can lead to improved colon function.

It’s important to increase your water intake along with your fiber intake. Sometimes just increasing your water intake alone can improve colon function, leading to a possible decrease in constipation and increase in vitality.

If you do increase your fiber intake, it’s very important to increase water intake along with it. Fiber absorbs water, extra fiber requires extra water.

Last Tuesday night we had an information packed call about the squeamish topic of Colon Health. Herb specialist, John Houser shared some important tips to keep our digestive tracts in tip top shape. The call is available as a download for the next week only at http://www.asktheherbalist.net/audio.php

Your health tip - Fiber in the diet.

In most tribal societies, people consume much larger quantities of fresh fruits, vegetables and grains. By tribal societies, I am referring to pockets of people around the world who have yet to be ‘modernized’.  They are still eating natural foods.

These folks typically have a much higher fiber content in their diet than the average American or person living in the ‘modern’ world.

As a result, constipation and all the related problems that go along with it are rare.

Tomorrow night, Tuesday Jan 19th, we will be having an informative conference call. Our topic will be:

Optimum Diet for Vibrant Health

All are welcome to dial in and listen.

Tuesday 9:30 PM Eastern, 8:30 PM Central
Dial: 641-985-1000 Access code 928668#

Focus on food choices which promote vibrant health.

We are giving a direction to move in. No-one is 100% perfect all the time.

Quote from metabolic typing diet. William Wollcot

• Primitive Cultures- Largely strong and vigorous,
• Cancer, diabetes, tooth decay, stroke, depression extremely rare.
• Disease follows modern living - processed foods

The main point is NATURAL food.

They ate fresh locally grown food.

No one size fits all diet.

Key Points

• Fresh
• Raw
• Organic

Fresh- No frig, tin cans, cardboard boxes, plastic wrap. Food was eaten largely as is, right off the bush, tree plant etc.

Food begins to break down soon after being picked. Processing, packaging, long travel and storage all degrade the quality of food.

Locally grown is best. Food that occurs naturally in your environment.

Consider planting a small garden and a couple fruit trees. Organic garden.

Raw- Not recommending eating raw meat, but as far as fruit and veggies.

No microwave ovens, stove etc.

Heat destroys enzymes

Over 3000 types of enzymes in the body, life itself depends on enzymes. Enzymes are the spark plugs of the body.

Modern diet extremely deficient in enzymes. Causes stress on the bodies stores, depletes energy.

Organic- Not sprayed with chemical insecticides, weed killers, artificial fertilizers.

Would you suck down a can of insect spray?

SBO’s lacking in today’s food supply.

Over 10,000 types of microorganisms in one teaspoon of dirt.

AKA friendly flora, probiotics. Digestive tract is lined with multiple billions of microorganisms. Yogurt is most well known.

Friendly should be 85%. Unfriendly 15%

• Keep bad bacteria at bay
• Help with digestion and assimilation
• Promote the immune system
• Protect the lining of digestive tract 

Antibiotics kill organisms in digestive tract, but not yeast. Modern cows and chickens are routinely given antibiotics

Primitive diets contained much higher amounts of Omega 3 Fatty Acids.

These are called Essential Fatty Acids

You are what you eat- but what about what you eat eats? Take another step down the food chain.

Alarming fact: cows fed a natural diet of grass, have higher amounts of Omega 3. Look for grass-fed beef.

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Increase fresh, raw, organic vegetables and fruits as much as possible.

Eat pure clean animal protein. Look for hormone and anti-biotic free.

Eat nuts and seeds

Focus on whole grains

Olive oil is the best oil, stay away from heated oils and trans fats.

Don’t stress out about not being perfect. Today’s society is based on convenience and shelf life.

What are some of the things we can do to supplement our diets.

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