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What are the benefits of balancing pH

• All systems of the body work better
• Beter Health
• More Energy
• Weight loss
• Clear thinking

Garden Example

What is pH

• pH scale
• Proper range for the body
• Talking about general body fluids vs blood, stomach etc

Testing pH

• Urine
• Saliva
• Interperting results

Alkaline diet

• Alkaline and Acid forming foods
• Lemons alkaline
• It’s about balance,
• Everyone is diferent
• A health promoting diet, weight loss is a side effect
• Not a calorie counting, fat gram etc
• Judge portions by eye
• Keep cut up veggies, almonds, a big salad on hand

Alkaline Supplements

• Alkaline water, one of the best ways to get alkaline quickly and easily
• Magnesium
• Enzymes, how they help to balance pH and improve health.

Exercise

• Mild is best
• Over exercise can produce more acid.
• Sweating helps to eliminate acids, saunas, hot tubs with epsom salts
• Exercise should be enjoyable

Stress produces acids in the body

• Try to be more lighthearted
• Practice a relaxation technique

How to monitor results

• People often ask, how much of the alkaline supps to take, how dedicated to I need to be on the diet, how long does it take to get alkaline?
• EVERYONE is different. 
• pH average should reach 7.0 to 7.5

Intro

Disclaimer

Define Vibrant Health

Alkaline pH Balance

• Why is it important, what does it do for me?
• What is a pH scale?
• How to get pH chart
• How to follow alkaline diet
• X2O Alkaline Water
• Magnesium alkaline mineral

Good digestion

• Eating right
• Chew your food
• Limit Liquids with meals
• Enzymes
• Probiotics
• Relax and enjoy your food

Detox

• Exposure to toxins
• Grand parents
• Umbilical cord
• Colon cleanse
• Liver cleanse
• Heavy metal detox

De-Stress

• Stress is damaging to mind, body and Spirit
• Modern society is chronically stressful with little outlet for stress
• We can take steps to minimize and undo the damage stress has on our bodies
• Meditation, yoga, tai chi, chi gong
• Supplements for stress

Movement

• Walking
• Human body was designed for movement
• Have fun, play ball, ride your bike, go swimming, throw a Frisbee
• Join a class such as aerobics, yoga, etc. Social interaction makes it more enjoyable and improves ability to stick with it.

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Careers in Natural Health

• The average person can earn money working with supplements, herbs etc.
• Increase your education
• Helping others is extremely satisfying and fulfilling
• Personal experience.

 

 Colon Health [2:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tuesday night we had an awesome teleseminar on the topic of Colon Health. John Houser, Herb Specialist, really did his homework on this topic and shares a wealth of information about how colon function affects just about every area of the body. 

1. We have all heard the experts saying, “Drink more water”, How important is hydration to brain function?
2. How important is good nutrition to mental performance?
3. Are there any scientific studies that indicate IQ can be improved thru nutritional means?
4. What nutrients are good for the brain?
5. What role do omega fatty acids play in brain function?
6. Is it possible for people to improve their  job performance, especially mental tasks, by improving nutrition and how might this benfit a person?
7. If we can’t always eat right, what are some things we can do to improve our mental function?

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

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 –

see our site wwww.asktheherbalist.net

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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