Did You Know?

• The body's immune system possesses powers far greater than the most potent of pharmaceuticals (drugs)?

• You get a brand new liver once a month?

• Your red blood cells are totally wiped out every four months and you get a new set?

• Your body is designed to repair and heal itself, and it is a self-healing organism?

• Medicine is essentially "crisis control" and works in "opposites." For example, if you have high blood pressure, doctors will give you a drug to lower it. If your blood pressure is too low, they will raise it. If your heart is beating too quickly, they'll slow it down with drugs, and on it goes. Meanwhile the bodies own healing mechanisms are being severely suppressed.

Facts about Probiotics

Probiotics is the umbrella term used to describe the "friendly" bacteria that live in a healthy digestive tract and it means "for life," while antibiotics means "against life."

Of the 400 different bacteria in the human GI tract, Lactobacillus Acidophilus (L. acidophilus) is one of the major components of the probiotic fighters. In fact L. acidophilus produces natural antibiotics such as acidophilin, lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide which boost the immune system.

L. acidophilus:

• digests foods and alleviates digestive disorders

• enhances the breakdown and use of B vitamins

• improves calcium absorption

• promotes anti-tumour and anti-cancer activity

• reduces candida overgrowth (candidiasis)

Candidiasis is considered the most Modern Medicine Disease

Over the last 30 or 40 years the wide-spread use of prescription drugs, including antibiotics and birth control pills, and the increase of environmental toxins, have caused candida overgrowth of epidemic proportions. Though many conventional doctors still refuse to recognize the seriousness of the candida epidemic, there are more and more professionals taking note of the widespread problem. This is due in part to the realization that candida makes up a significant portion of hospital-acquired infectious disease. Our advanced, life-sustaining technology, such as artificial joints, organ transplants and chemotherapy, allow this normally harmless fungus to invade deep into body cavities and organs. An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that "a disturbingly large number of patients die with undiagnosed invasive candida infections."

The best way to ward off candida is to eat a healthy diet that provides the body what it needs to "do its job," which will keep your body healthy and fit. All of the components of a "healthy diet" are in the article

Food Cravings

One problem candida sufferers have is intense cravings for the very things they should not have – sugar, fruit, sweetened foods or drinks, alcohol, yeasty foods, and high carbohydrate foods such as grains, starches, pasta, etc.

This craving is itself a symptom of the disease and is not a personal weakness or a sign of poor self-control. In fact it is so strong it is like an addiction.

How to control your cravings?

1. Vitamin C - As soon as you experience intense cravings take extra Vitamin C starting with 1,000 mgs every hour until you reach bowel tolerance (loose stools), and then cut back 250 mgs per hour until you reach bowel tolerance again. Continue in this manner, i.e. cutting back the amount when you reach bowel tolerance.

2. Protein and "Good" Fats – Ensure you are eating the recommended amount of protein from animal meats, fish or eggs, and enough "good" saturated fats daily, i.e. butter, coconut oil, lard, etc. The amounts are based on the Optimal Diet ratios –Not only are meats, eggs and "good" fats easier for the body to digest than carbs, but they also help curb your cravings. "Good" fats are also the best, most efficient source of energy for the body since they do not tax the body's resources in order to digest them like carbs do.

3. Electrolyte Drink – Minerals are the building blocks of the body and a lack of them will cause cravings as well. A good ocean sea salt like Celtic provides over 84 minerals, as well as "good" salt (sodium plus chloride) which is required by every cell in the body. Whenever you get cravings sip on the best Electrolyte Drink in the world, which is 1/4 teaspoon of a good ocean sea salt like Celtic, and the juice of 1/2 of a lemon mixed into 6 ounces of water.

4. Increase Digestion – A lack of important nutrients will also cause cravings, so it is important that you increase your digestive capabilities. The wonderful electrolyte drink above is excellent for increasing saliva in the mouth and hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Drink one 6 ounce glasses with each meal. Protein also increases hydrochloric acid in the stomach, and "good" saturated fats help the body pull nutrients out of the foods you eat. Protein and saturated fats also stimulate the gall bladder into dumping its contents into the digestive tract. In fact bile acids are made in the liver from cholesterol. Saturated fats also contribute to a healthy lining in the intestines.

The following nutrient-rich traditional fats have nourished healthy population groups for thousands of years:

• Butter

• Beef and lamb tallow

• Lard

• Chicken, goose and duck fat

• Coconut, palm and sesame oils

• Cold pressed olive oil

• Cold pressed flax oil

• Marine oils

The following new-fangled fats can cause cancer, heart disease, immune system dysfunction, sterility, learning disabilities, growth problems and osteoporosis:

• All hydrogenated oils

• Soy, corn and safflower oils

• Cottonseed oil

• Canola oil

• All fats heated to very high temperatures in processing and frying

Source: Alive Magazine, January 2002, Chiropractic: Hand-Made Health Care, by Ogi Ressel, DC