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Dr. Saunders’ Easy DETOX Program – For Life!

September 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

Strolling through a vitamin aisle or searching on the internet will bring a very wide array of products and services for detoxification.

  • Some are potions of multiple herbs and foods.
  • Some are simple such as vinegar.
  • Diets of all kinds are advocated.
  • Other detox modalities include enemas, saunas, foot pads and so much more!

How do we make sense of all this?

Chemicals are everywhere.  Our air and water are filled with thousands of toxins, even prescription drugs have been found in the water supply.  In some cases, these toxins can build up in our bodies and cause us to feel bad, sick, or just plain yuck. It turns out we don’t always have control over what’s in our air, food and water.

Product Of Our Environment

At age 69, Larry’s neurologist told him he had Alzheimer’s disease.  He was given a drug that was supposed to help him think more clearly, but it didn’t help at all and was told there was nothing else that could be done.  His wife then brought him into my office to see if there was something better than the drugs.  After evaluation, we found the lead in his body was more than 50 times the acceptable level.  We have him a series of chelation therapy treatments to remove the lead and he became normal again, able to think clearly.

The truth is those things that are part of our environment become part of us. We need to be able to use the normal mechanisms of our body to excrete those things that are harmful back into the environment. The process of detoxification has two components: 1) avoiding toxins and 2) getting rid of toxins, which we cannot avoid.

Avoiding Toxins

Larry was a welder, but never wore a mask to filter the metals.  The torch he used vaporized the metals and, as a result, he was breathing them over many years.  Since lead isn’t easily excreted from the body, it built up and became toxic to his brain.

When we are aware of a potential toxin that could be absorbed by our body one way or another, it is important for us to consider the many ways to avoid exposure to that toxin.  Safety officers on every job should try to make the workplace free of toxins.

Anne was a very active interior decorator in her early 50s.  She started getting illnesses frequently. “I catch everything that goes around,” she complained.  Moreover, she was getting more and more fatigued.  She felt achy all over.  The usual tests failed to find a cause of her problems, so she was referred to an environmental medicine specialist.  The doctor found she was reacting to a toxin made by a mold, which was apparently growing in the older house she was renovating.

Avoiding mold is very difficult because it is so prevalent in our environment.  You can’t avoid all toxins, but you can significantly diminish them in your own body.

Those who eat organically-grown foods, for example, have much lower levels of heavy metals, pesticides and chemical fertilizers detectable in their bodies.

There are many chemicals that can be part of our everyday diet.  Avoiding these is essential to maintaining a healthy metabolism.

  • Both artificial and natural flavorings often contain ketones and aldehydes.
  • Artificial colorings can poison cellular systems.
  • Even common additives such as MSG can be dangerous to some people.  MSG is an excitotoxin on the nervous system.  Those who have adequate supplies of inhibitory neurotransmitters may be spared, but the rest will lose brain cells.
  • One toxin to avoid at all times is artificial sweeteners.  These have multiple toxic effects on the body from neurotoxicity to causing dysbiosis (killing the normal bacteria in the bowels).

Detox Program

Because we are constantly exposed to toxins, both internally and externally, it is important that we maintain a lifetime detox program.  Most detox programs only deal with the liver because it is the primary organ in our body which neutralizes and excretes toxins.  However, just as important in detoxification are the minor players: the intestines, kidneys, lungs, and skin.  We will discuss how to maximize the benefits from each of these systems. ...


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Detox: Quieting the Cluttered Life

September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Silent Fast

As I write this article, the youth and young adults in our church are doing a media fast. Some of their leaders noticed how distracted teenagers are today and so they felt led to call a seven-day fast from all forms of electronic and social media. Having teenagers myself I have overheard comments that fasting from food would be easier than fasting from Facebook.

If you are still wondering, a media fast is a period of voluntary abstinence from media for the purpose of hearing God’s voice more clearly by silencing all the others. Media includes television, radio, cell phones (except emergency calls or calls from parents), texting, movies, video and computer games (Angry Birds, too!!), internet and all music except worship music.

When I was in seminary we would spend time exercising the “Spiritual Discipline of Silence.” This was back in the days of typewriters, long before texting. But even back then, at first, silence can be deafening. We are so used to so much commotion that when it is silenced, it is a bit disconcerting. However, getting quiet is a pre-requisite to getting to God know more personally and intimately.

Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.”

It takes a few days in quietness for my mind and heart to settle down. Few realize just how much goes on in our mind and spirit and, as a result, what that commotion and noise does to us physically and emotionally. Unprecedented numbers of people are popping pills to quell the panic and anxiety. Many more crank down the caffeine to better cope and keep up.

Ironically, all of the above merely add when what is needed is subtraction.

Quiet is the key to recharging the batteries that run and power things like our creativity and ingenuity.

Toxic Fast

One of the hats I wear, besides being a pastor, is that I’m a state legislator. Many have written me to decry the distracted driving so prevalent today as youth and young adults text while driving. When you get behind the wheel of a car your focus should be on one thing: the road before you. What is true with regard to driving is true for any who seek to navigate life successfully. The less distraction the better.

This issue of Home Cures That Work is focused on detox has other contributors addressing natural ways and the health benefits to detoxifying our bodies. Somewhere in all this, is my hope that you will come away with the understanding that so much is toxic to our bodies. Even more, so much is toxic to us physically and emotionally. Toxic means poisonous. Graphically, it is symbolized by the skull and crossbones.

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“Pornography is inherently violent, inherently unloving. It is a perversion of sexuality, not a true form of it, and one that teaches violence and degradation at the expense of mutual pleasure and intimacy. It is about conquests, about conquering. It is the very opposite of God’s intention for sex. It tears love from sex, leaving sex as the immediate gratification of one’s most base desires. It lives beyond rules and ethics and morality. It exists far beyond love.” ~ Tim Challies


Seeing the skull and crossbones on things like rat poison and drain cleaner is common and necessary. What if we put the skull and crossbones on things like pornography or internet chat rooms? No study is needed to know that far more lives have been devastated by pornography than by people eating rat poison.

Natural health experts have made great strides in recent years bringing forth data showing how the build up of a variety of toxins in food preparation and pharmaceuticals results in a slow poisoning. Those of us who deal daily with people’s emotional and spiritual lives can make a case that there is a slow poisoning of sorts that happens when people are living lives inundated by internet and media, advertisements, endless activities and entertainment addictions. We weren’t made for any of that, we were made to interact with God.

If entertainment is a diversion of the mind, then what are you being diverted from? Or rather, what are you being diverted toward? The problem with being entertained by too many things of earthly origin is...


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You Can’t Avoid It – But You Can Purge It

September 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

They’re in the air we breathe…the water we drink…and the food we eat.

They are toxins. Sadly, there’s really no way to avoid exposure to these silent, deadly health threats.

Even the Clean Air Act is just an act…

On a clear, sunny day with beautiful puffy white clouds, the mild breeze out of the northeast gently brushing against your skin carries dangerous inhalants from vehicle exhaust (particularly diesel), factories, and plenty of other toxic gases – which can kill if enough is inhaled for extended periods of time.

This silent health threat serves to damage us two-fold:

  • For one, we’re breathing in airborne toxins that were never meant to inhale.
  • Secondly, they deplete the oxygen in the air that we need to breathe.

Ironically, our bodies use oxygen to get rid of toxins by…you guessed it…oxygenating them.

These airborne poisons bring on restlessness, dizziness, lethargy and nausea. They shred our skin, shed our hair and affect our ability to focus, which is no surprise considering they suck the oxygen out of our blood.

Is staying inside better?

Home Sweet Work

Most of us spend the majority of our time at home, work, school or some other in-door facility.

Whew! So, we’re safe from the deceptive “Fresh Air Scare” outside, right?

You guessed it! Wrong!

Here is what you may find inside…

  • Molds
  • Mildew (scrubbing it from your shower wall is like freeing a violent prisoner, which becomes airborne and assaults you)
  • Lead paint fumes (this admittedly archaic threat has been sponged from most of our dwellings, but it is, unfortunately, still a gross reality in some places)
  • Pet dander (eww)
  • Smoke

So what?

This possibly means billions of microorganisms are flowing in and out of your body at any given time, in any given place. Many of them stick around because they like you and would like nothing better than to see you die so that they may live and move on to the next sucker. As your body decomposes, they mercilessly head back into the air. Ah…the cruel circle of life!

There’s nothing you can do to stop it, though you may have been fooled into thinking there is.

“Health products” – Keep Your Armpits Dry and Hydrate Your Thirsty Skin

Toxic Chemicals in deodorant by Flickr In A Gorilla Custome

The toxic chemicals in health and beauty products have been known to contain engine degreasers. So, you have to watch the labels carefully.

What’s that, you say? You use antioxidant scrubs, lotions, even eye and face creams. So you are okay?

Sorry.

Many of the products we use everyday ring the dinner bell for toxin carrying free radicals – and you find them in the darndest places.

See, the FDA doesn’t have the high standards you do regarding you or your family. So, a product can claim antioxidant goodness no matter what other garbage they pack into it. It boils down to whatever the manufacturers can get away with to satisfy the government and turn a big profit in the process.

You really should thank the FDA. If not for them, these companies would produce even more toxic junk because it is cheap to use and they can charge a lot at the market. Why do you think organic products are so much more expensive? Because the ingredients they use are not so easy to cultivate. That’s why.

So, if you use typical, store-bought anti-aging face cream, body/hand lotions, shampoos and conditioners, then you are hosting a classic toxin party. Hors d’oeuvre?

Even deodorant is a culprit. Some of the chemicals in that stuff have been linked to early onset Alzheimer’s.

You already have to worry about sickness and disease from herbicides, pesticides and antibiotic residue, which is just a fancy-shmancy phrase for antibodies found in the meat, eggs and the milk we consume. Antibiotic residue has been called a “global health hazard” and a “threat to direct toxicity in humans.” Why exacerbate the threat by using toxic chemical sweeteners and slathering yourself with a list of chemicals that takes up half the label of your lotion?

Nasty, huh?

Need A Drink?

A nice bottle of cool refreshing Evian® will flush the toxic creepiness away.

Maybe not.

See, the bottled water that’s supposed to be purified, filtered and osmosis-ized sits on shelves for who knows how long. That water can turn bad yet remain sparkling clear. Drinking tap water would be better for you, perish the thought…

Most of the plastic bottles the water comes in are made with BPA (Bisphenol A). If you know all about BPA, then you might want to skip ahead.

This stuff is an endocrine disrupter, which is another fancy term that basically means BPA can mimic your hormones and cause cancerous tumors, deformities, learning disabilities (for developing fetuses), birth defects, abnormal cell growth, abnormal brain development, sexual develop-what? Sounds like a science fiction horror flick. Had enough? Well, just know there’s a few more.

Don’t drink bottled water? Good for you! However, BPA is also used to line cans to protect us from botchullism and rears its ugly head in the many plastic containers we use to store leftovers to transport food from place to place.

Author’s note: never heat food in the microwave without removing it from the plastic container. It stirs that stuff up like gangbusters. It’s like taking a vial of toxic chemicals and mixing it with your lunch. Bad, BAD!

Where Else Is It Found?

“Just one word: plastics.” (2 points if you got the movie reference there!) Here’s a short list of other everyday-products where BPA lives (2.8 million tons of this garbage is produced annually around the globe):

    BPA Free Baby Bottles by Flickr tiffanywashko

  • Food processor bowls
  • Baby bottles – yes, baby bottles
  • Plastic food ware
  • Dental sealants (resins) and appliances
  • Teflon coating – yes, some manufacturers are still carelessly using it
  • Small kitchen appliances

Save yourself and your family! Store food and fresh water in glass containers or check for BPA-free plastics.

Now, in just a moment, you’ll discover how to purge this stuff and get healthy pronto!

Just Eat It

Sadly, even our foods can trick us. Pesticides on fruits and veggies, mercury in fishes, toxic chemicals and foreign hormones in our meats plus a laundry list of additives and preservatives are in our meals.

Please don’t say you never eat processed foods. Always check for pesticide-free, organically grown produce and only buy meat from cage-free, grass fed, day-spa treated and pampered animals.

Really?

You know you’re fibbing!

But, the good news is there are certain foods and combinations of foods that provide fast, safe, and best of all natural opportunities to flush these toxins out of your body. When they creep back in, you just flush ‘em out again. This is your chance (and the only real way) to fight back and reclaim your body and your good health.

The Only Way To Remain Poison-Free In A Toxic World

We have seen that toxins are all around us and they love to infest your body, carrying health-threatening free radicals with them.

But, don’t fret just yet!

Here are a few things you can do to immediately begin flushing toxins from your precious body....


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Life After Detox

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So, you have just been through detoxification program. The first few days were tough. Maybe you even had headaches and stomach pangs, but you stuck it out. Then your body began to adjust and you found yourself feeling more alert, more energetic and you probably lost some weight.

You felt really good about your ability to stay the course.  As you moved toward the end of the program, you not only recommended a detox to your friends and family, but you also grew confident that you could change what you eat, how you eat and how much you eat.

Then, life’s daily pressures and responsibilities began to interfere and you found yourself returning to the same old ways. You started consuming lots of the foods that harm – the processed simple carbohydrates and added sugars, the bad fats and excessive amounts of protein – without enjoying enough of the vegetables, fruits and whole grains that deliver the thousands of micronutrients that support human health.

Why Detox?

Detoxification proponents assert that a short-term, very restricted, very low calorie diet eliminates the toxins that build up in your system over time. Clear out the toxins, so the theory goes, and you will find that all your biologic systems function better. Unfortunately, the science supporting any long terms benefits of a detoxification is mixed, at best.

Other programs, however, view the detoxification as the bridge to a healthier lifestyle. People moving through a detoxification program may break their cravings for sugar and fats. Others find their taste for salt is altered and use significantly less salt for the same taste satisfaction.  A detox may also build a liking for high nutrient vegetables and fruits — raw, juiced or cooked.

Here is where the science is absolutely clear....


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Crazy Cabbage: Cures to Cuisine

September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment

I forget how wonderful cabbage is, but when I use it: WOW!  Here are just a few of the many uses for cabbage known for its healing properties:

  • Bloating
  • Constipation
  • Weight loss
  • Detox
  • GERD
  • Joint pain
  • Hematoma
  • Engorged breasts
  • Headache and hangovers

Personally, I’ve just recently used it for congestion by placing cabbage leaves on my chest overnight, wrapped in ace bandages.  I also had painful lumps behind my knees after working in the garden and did the same thing with incredible results!

As a child, cabbage was the last vegetable on earth I would even consider eating.  But, as an adult, cabbage is one of my go-to cures. Who knew that such a cheap, humble looking and so widely used cabbage could work miracles?

Some apply it warm, some cold, some crush it, and some don’t.  Some wrap it ace bandages, others in plastic.  Some apply it externally; some ingest it – a food, juice or whatever.  Either which way, it works wonders!

Cabbage Fun Facts

  • Cabbage has more vitamin c than oranges, great for strengthening the immune system and being one of the best anti oxidant, reducing free radicals in your body which are the basic causes of ageing.
  • Cabbage is very rich in fiber. This helps retain water and forms the bulk of the food and the bowels. Thus, it is a good cure for constipation and related problems.
  • Cabbage is rich is sulphur, which helps to fight infections in wounds and ulcers.
  • Cabbage, being rich in iodine, helps in proper functioning of the brain and the nervous system.

Cabbage Medicinal Qualities

Uncooked cabbage is high in glutamine, an amino acid that is useful for the excellent functioning of our digestive system and immune system.  Cabbage has also been known to have therapeutic and antibacterial properties, destroying a wide variety of bacteria in the intestines.

Liberal intake of the fresh juice of this vegetable has thus been found very valuable for treating ulcers, bladder infections and other infectious disease.  Try...


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DETOX – FACT, FICTION OR FAD?

September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment

IT’S NOT A FAD

“Detoxification” has become a nice buzzword lately. It sounds good, rolls off the tongue easily. But do you know what detoxification really is and why is it so important?

I get asked this question a lot. Many people think, “I eat healthy. I don’t smoke or drink much. Why should I worry?”  Why? Because our bodies aren’t made to handle the amount of toxins we’re constantly exposed to. Toxin overload can lead to a whole host of illnesses and side-effects.

Detoxification is critical to health. In fact, a compromise in the ability of the body to detox is one of the roots of illness. The gut is one of the core systems in the body that must be working well for you to be healthy. If you feel lousy, then it’s likely you’re toxic.

Feeling sluggish or out of sync? Having skin problems, aches and pains or digestive problems? Straying from your healthier habits lately? Having trouble kicking off your weight loss? It might be time for a body detox.

Detoxification is the body’s natural process of eliminating toxins or neutralizing toxins. This happens via the liver, kidneys and lungs, as well as in urine, feces and through sweat. Yet, your body can become so overloaded that its natural detoxification system can’t keep up. When this happens, the toxins build up and can affect virtually all of the systems of the body.

The Body Burden

Scientists refer to the level of a person’s chemical and toxin exposure as an individual’s “body burden” – the consequence of lifelong exposure to industrial chemicals that are used in thousands of consumer products and found the air we breath, the food we eat, the soil we walk upon and the water drink.

Unfortunately, people today carry within their bodies a veritable chemical cocktail of modern-day industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, anesthetics and not to mention the residues of modern pharmaceuticals.

What’s more, they accumulate in fat, blood and organs, or are passed through the body in breast milk, urine, feces, sweat, semen, hair and nails.

Carrying a high body burden translates into all sorts of maladies: headaches, insomnia, constipation, fatigue, weakness, blurred vision, greater susceptibility to infection, allergic reactions, joint pain, recurrent respiratory problems, back pain, mood changes, stomach pain, digestive problems… the list goes on and on.

The sad but undeniable truth is that we have created a living environment that is toxic to our bodies.

The Detox Bad News

In today’s world, the body’s natural detoxification system becomes quickly overburdened and is unable to function like it is meant to and like it has in past generations. Since we are unable to process or eliminate these “modern” toxins, they become stored in our glands, tissues and cells, slowly breaking down all body systems on a cellular level, altering our body’s metabolism causing enzyme dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies and hormonal imbalances. This process takes place gradually and undetectably, until the onset of obesity and disease finally signals their presence.

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I liken a toxin-overloaded organ to a stagnant pool of water that soon begin to breed bacteria and mosquitoes, causing other live organisms like fish and frogs to die. Stench and toxic fumes begin to be emitted, causing the surrounding area to stink and affecting people living in the neighborhood. This is how it is with our toxin-overloaded organs: blood cannot flow properly, cells start to die, bacteria starts to breed, and soon there is a toxicity of blood, inflammation and pain. All kinds of diseases start to set in and if neglected further … cancer. A good detox program flushes out these toxins and makes the environment good again.

 

The Detox Good News

Fortunately, the human body is quite resilient. When we take the steps necessary to alleviate our body burden, we assist it with its natural process of detoxification. We literally give our body the extra nutrients, natural substances and energy it needs in order to set the balance straight and get the process of detoxification back in high gear.

Now – more than ever before – it is imperative that we assist our body’s detoxification processes. Detoxification is a natural, health-preserving therapy, which helps remove harmful toxins from the cells and tissues, restoring their immune-protecting functions.

So What Is Detox?

Practiced for centuries by many cultures around the world, detoxification is about resting, cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside out. By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health.

Start With A Colon Cleanse

Clearing out the colon first just makes good sense because dumping liver toxins, blood toxins, heavy metals and other toxins into a congested colon just makes the detoxing process harder on the body than it has to be.

The best colon cleanse programs...


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Beyonce and the Master Cleanse

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Beyonce by Flickr TinyGlimpses

What Is Your Body Telling You?

Hollywood stars use detox programs to prepare themselves for the red carpet. In anticipation for tight dresses, cameras that add on the pounds and fashion icons, who wouldn’t want to reduce bloating and fatigue?   After all, celebrity or not, everyone is exposed to a variety of toxins, from air pollution to alcohol.

Some of us experience the effects of toxic poisoning sooner than others; but it is abundantly clear that toxins in the food, air, water and the environment trigger most illness and disease in people. Detox practices claim to remove these toxins, promise health benefits and weight loss, which make them so popular among the rich and famous.

While there might be risk of diarrhea, deprivation and laxatives, detox programs have a star-power following, particularly for the detox program called the Master Cleanse.

Caution: this detox is not for the weak!

A Grade

The Master Cleanse has practically become a household name.  Singer Beyonce was one of the first popular stars to admit she used the “Maple Syrup Diet.”  Also known as the “Lemonade Diet,” the Master Cleanse consists of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.

The lemon juice must be fresh and is used for its alkalizing properties, as well benefit from its natural cleansing ability to break down calcification.  The maple syrup in the Master Cleanse serves to provide energy with its first-grade (Grade A) natural source of “tree blood.”  Furthermore, flavor has to be satisfied somehow!  Lastly, cayenne pepper serves to boost metabolism, assist circulation, blood thinner and purifier, as well as break up mucous in the body.  It is the most crucial element and ingredient in the Master Cleanse.

Beyonce lost around 20 pound in 10 days, sipping on an easy to prepare diet drink made mostly of maple syrup. Devotees of the diet eat no solid food but drink up to 10 daily glasses of the lemon juice cocktail and round it off with saltwater in the morning and laxative tea at night. They are supposed to stay on the cleanse for at least 10 days, then ease back into normal eating with orange juice and vegetable soup. When all the toxins are removed, the added benefits include renewed energy and quick weight loss.

The main drawback: you never want to be too far from a toilet. The cleanse produces very liquid and plentiful bowel movements. As for other side effects: hunger!

Popularity Cleanse

According to one website that promotes the cleanse, the purpose is “to dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion; to cleanse the kidneys and digestive system; to purify glands; to eliminate waste and hardened materials in the joints and muscles; to build a healthy bloodstream; to maintain optimal blood pressure; and to what you all are waiting to hear … to lose weight.”

It’s no secret that practically all celebrities watch their weight. They are in the type of business that requires them to look a certain way and they are constantly watched by the entire world. Many of them diet or detox throughout their acting careers. It’s no secret that anything popular in Hollywood, becomes extremely mainstream throughout the world, including the Master Cleanse detox program.

 

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Product Recommendation: Detox Drops

September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Detoxification for any time of the year: swimsuit weather, after Christmas, healthy eating impulse or urge to cleanse.  Get that overall feeling of inner cleanness!

Native Remedies presents Detox Drops™ to naturally eliminate toxins and to restore your body’s healthy metabolism.  You will experience:

  • Increased energy levels and stamina
  • Restored liver functions
  • Purified skin complexion
  • Mobilized healthy joints
  • A boost in your overall immune system
  • Healthy weight loss, including breakdown of dietary fats

Detox Drops™ will renew your health by safely eliminating environmental toxins that have built up in your body and blood stream through food and water – without harmful side effects.  The carefully blended selection of herbs in Detox Drops™ help support liver health function and well-being to gently flush out toxins, keeping all systems healthy and working at their best.

By cleansing and refreshing all body systems, Detox Drops™ can also present a naturally wonderful start to any new program to stop smoking or begin a healthy weight loss program.

Read this hopeful testimonial and realize you can stop the harmful effects of toxins and pharmaceutical poisoning you are exposed to every day.

“I have been struggling with general listlessness for many years. Every day I woke up feeling like I couldn’t face the demands of the day – you know that feeling of ‘Oh no!’ you get when you wake up? After taking Detox Drops™ for only three days, I started to feel more alive and my energy levels increased every day. Detox Drops™ are great!” ~ Carla

Detox Drops™ is your natural remedy for gently and safely assisting the detoxification process and cleansing the body of toxins.

Order your bottle of energy today!

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Product Review: Acai Berry

September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment

Acai berries are believed to be one of the elite superfoods with anti-aging and weight loss properties. Traditionally grown and harvested in Brazil, the “cabbage palm” – otherwise known as the acai berry – is eaten raw or the acai berry juiced for its antioxidant properties, whose insoluble fiber is greater than craberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries.

Acai Berry Benefits

The pulp of the acai berries contains about 4% protein and 12% lipids, as well as minerals and vitamins found in other fruits: calcium, vitamin A, phosphorus, iron and thiamine.

Products with acai berries are used to enhance skin appearance, prevent cancer and enhance the immune-digestive system. Developers, and some experts, also suggest that the antioxidants found in the acai berry can also assist the body with expelling toxins, in a similar fashion as they assist the body with repelling and combating free radicals.   If you are thinking of using any acai berry laxative or “cleansing” product for weight loss, it is important to know that laxatives are not effective for sustained weight loss.  Laxatives lead to dehydration, kidney failure and possibly even death.

Because food and calories are absorbed by the small intestines, laxatives acting on the large intestines cause loss of water, minerals and electrolytes.

Acai Berry Dangers

While acai berries offer many nutritional benefits, there are also dangers associated with acai berry supplements. Acai berry detox products are marketed as being able to induce and support weight loss through a variety of methods, ranging from reducing water weight gain and removing unwanted toxins to increasing metabolic function and boosting energy levels.

If you choose to embark on the acai berry journey of weight loss or detox, it is important to keep in mind that many acai-containing products are offered for free or with a small shipping charge, but are often found to be fraudulent – and now with your credit card number.  Please exercise caution when purchasing acai berry products and be sure to read the fine print.

The greatest risk associated with acai-berry based supplements does not come from the acai berry’s juice ingredients, but rather other added ingredients. One of the most common ingredients added to acai supplements is caffeine, which can cause headaches, stomach aches and other side effects.

The following acai berry products were found to contain significant amounts of caffeine by an independent testing lab:...


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Take the Rest of the Month Off

September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How many times have you been advised to bear down, work harder and focus more when things get tough?

You might consider another option. Quit!

That’s right. Fold the tent. Hang it up. Not for good, but long enough to recharge, rest and to reassess.

If you’re like me, you’re guilty of not recharging long enough and often enough. You might fool yourself into thinking you are going the extra mile and making sacrifices that will pay off in the long run, but you may in fact be doing two bad things. You are being counter productive, and you are shortening your life.

Knowing the latter, I sometimes joke about killing myself in the name of longevity. The ultimate irony, huh?

Let’s look at what happens to you when you work too hard and too long.

Re-create Before The Grave

Your battery runs down, and you deplete reserves to keep yourself going. That stresses your entire system, which in turn can cause every disease from Alzheimer’s to cancer and heart disease.

If that’s not bad enough, you get stale. That leads to counter productivity, which means you are digging an early grave in order to be less efficient.

Time off and vacations are not luxuries. They are an integral part of your wellness and longevity program, and they enable you to get more done in the long run.

Recreation simply means to re-create. Resting let’s you grow, makes you stronger, energizes you, frees your mind for generating breakthrough ideas and lengthens your life. It also improves your love life and strengthens your relationships.

Dan Sullivan, founder of “Strategic Coach” and arguably the most innovative and successful personal coach anywhere, made an interesting observation by studying thousands of entrepreneurs over decades.

He discovered that for every ten days a person takes off, completely disconnected from anything work related, he or she will come up with one game-changing insight on average that will turbo charge their business. Their minds become uncluttered, and ideas manifest themselves. Those who did that five times a year, got an average of five breakthrough ideas, many of which completely changed their lives for the better.

Divorce – Yourself

The secret is “disconnection.” When you take time off, whether it’s a day, a week or a month, completely divorce yourself from your business or your job. That means no business calls, emails or meetings. That means no trade journals, business-related writing or problem solving. It also means not thinking about business. That’s the tough one. But you’ll find the longer and more often you take time off to rest from work, the more natural it becomes.

While you are gone, make sure someone covers for you. Otherwise, you won’t be able to clear your mind, and you’ll be swamped with catching up when you return.

Do it right, and you will feel like a new person. You’ll dive into your work with renewed enthusiasm and energy, and at the end of the year, you will find you have accomplished twice or more as much as you used to. You will also duck a lot of chronic suffering and disease that eventually seem to plague almost everyone else.

This all largely assumes you do what you love and love what you do. If not, take some of your time off to reassess what vocation would make you happier than anything else. It’s never too late to change careers. If you love what you do, that’s another life extender towards longevity.

What other changes or benefits have you experienced from taking time of work!  Be bold and be the first to share!

 

 

David Kekich (Living Healthy to 120: Anti-Aging Breakthroughs) is President/CEO of Maximum Life Foundation that focuses on aging research, a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging-related diseases. For more information, visit: www.MaxLife.org. David contributes to our column Living Healthy to 120: Anti-Aging Breakthroughs. MaxLife is helping to make the anti-aging dream a reality with cutting edge Bio-Engineering research and products.

 

 

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