Heavy Metals and YOU
By · CommentsHeavy metal toxicity, an excessive build-up of metals in the body, is virtually unavoidable. With no known function in the body, heavy metals can be a major cause of illness, aging and even genetic defects. Because of their industrial use, the unrestricted burning of coal, natural gas and petroleum, and incineration of waste materials worldwide, mankind is exposed to the highest levels of these metals in recorded history. These harmful heavy metals include: antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum, silver, tellurium, thallium, tin, uranium, vanadium, and zinc. Certain heavy metals are nutritionally essential for a healthy life, however, not in excessive amounts.
Heavy metals are toxic when they are not properly metabolized, and then accumulate in our body’s soft tissues. Many of these metals enter the body through food, water, air, or absorption through the skin. Some sources of heavy metals include chemical products, fertilizers, industrial paint, building materials, fish that is high in mercury, silver dental fillings, and mercury preservatives in vaccines, nasal sprays, and many more.
Dangerous heavy metals are competing with the vital minerals in our bodies, which can gravely affect important enzymes and other tissue structures. When the body is low in essential minerals it will absorb and make use of more toxic metals. Arteries, joints, bones, and muscles are weakened by this replacement process. For example, lead that replaces calcium in the bones can contribute to weakened bones and osteoporosis. Additionally, heavy metals promote development of fungal, bacterial, and viral infections.
Heavy metal toxicity can also lead to significant developmental and neurological damage, including autistic symptoms, depression, increased irritability, anxiety, insomnia, hallucinations, memory loss, aggression, lower energy levels, damage to blood composition and vital organs, increased allergies, and many other disorders. Most symptoms entail cramping, nausea, and vomiting; pain; sweating; headaches; difficulty breathing; impaired cognitive, motor, and language skills; mania; and convulsions.
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Constipation Crisis
By · CommentsPainfully constipated? Spending a fortune on doctors and laxatives? Are you considering surgery?
Massage combined with colonics can help SAVE YOU hundreds, even thousands, of dollars!
Constipation can be a costly problem for your mind and body. Abdominal massage is extremely effective in increasing blood circulation and stimulating the organs to help things move along. If you are suffering from constipation you should try regularly receiving abdominal massage before your colonic from one of Atlanta Colonic’s Massage Therapists. As little as fifteen minutes of massage has been proven to be beneficial through scientific research done at the National Institute of Health. Remember, it is extremely important that you drink about half your body weight in ounces of water every day to help facilitate the hydration of the colon.
Environmental Toxins
By · CommentsEnvironmental Toxins
Excerpt from Soak Your Nuts: Cleansing with Karyn by Karyn Calabrese
Of course, we all know that our planet has become increasingly polluted. Our systematic destruction of the rainforest and earth’s other natural defenses has certainly been well documented. In this increasingly toxic world, we are exposed to damaging chemicals day and night, and often we don’t even know it.
For example, we jog on city streets, never considering that the air we’re pulling into our lungs might counteract the benefits of exercise and even threaten our heart health. Then we quench our thirst with chemically treated water without giving a second thought to what it might be doing to our cells, our organs, or our bodies’ miraculous physical systems.More chemicals are making their way into the environment and into our bodies than ever before. According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, about 300 billion pounds of synthetic chemicals were produced, used, and disposed of in the United States in the early 1990s alone. Seventy years ago, that figure was closer to ten million pounds. All told, roughly eighty-four thousand chemicals are registered for commercial use in the United States.
So where are these chemicals right now? They are being pumped into our neighbor’s lawns, where they pollute the aquifer as runoff. They are in the clothes we bring home from the dry cleaners. They are incorporated into our shampoos, face creams, and other personal care items. They are in our household cleaners. They are even in our prescription drugs. And most worrisome, they are being absorbed through our skin and making their way through our digestive tracts.
Take a look around you right now. Think about your own surroundings and situation. Are you exposed to environmental pollutants like smog or secondhand smoke? Do you ingest alcohol, artificial sweeteners, caffeine, or food coloring? Are you aware that the foods you eat probably contain genetically modified organisms or growth hormones? Could these dangerous substances be setting you up for degenerative illness, obesity, premature aging, or worse? Are they the reason you’re feeling so worn, so tired, so bloated, or just so lousy?
I know that thinking about toxins that assault us in the course of normal, modern life is sobering and even frightening, but fear is not what I want to instill. Rather, I want you to become aware and recognize that there is a solution to the problem. This solution is inherent in the natural instincts we are born with, even though we may have long forgotten.
You DO Need Colonics
By · CommentsExcerpt from Soak Your Nuts: Cleansing with Karyn by Karyn Calabrese
Internal Cleansing
You may be thinking, “Hey, I evacuate regularly, I don’t need colon therapy!” But as we know, the human colon is very long, and waste moves through it very slowly. If you have consumed a lifetime supply of dairy, meat, and other mucus-producing foods, you may have built up many layers of gluelike toxins on your colon walls. Although some wastes can pass through your intestines daily, leading you to believe that your body is adequately digesting the food you eat, the lining of your intestines will continue to toughen and narrow. Unless you remove this toxic accumulation, your intestines will become a place where poisons are harbored-deep inside your body and a source of autointoxication. You will become a source of poison to yourself.
Of course, in a world where even our own doctors don’t touch us if they can possible diagnose us with a test, it can be difficult to convince people, even those who are already engaged in a detox, that they could benefit from going “there.” If you are still skeptical, just look down. That abdominal bulge you dismiss as just another aspect of aging is a sure sign that wastes have built up in your transverse or ascending colon. Your body simply cannot use nutrients the way it should until yhese wastes have been removed.
The logic could not be clearer: If you eat three or four times a day, you should eliminate three or four times a day. If you do not, where have the wastes gone and what are they doing? It isn’t difficult to find out. During one autopsy, a colon was discovered that was nine inches in diameter with an open passage no thicker than a pencil. Other autopsies have revealed intestines so impacted with waste that they weighed 40 pounds!
Enemas and colonic irrigation have been used for thousands of years. The Ebers Papyrus, a document dating 1500 BC, chronicles how the ancient Egyptians used reeds to irrigate the intestines. Hippocrates used enemas to heal fevers. Ancient Romans, who made baths an obsession, considered enemas a part of good hygiene. The Essenes, who believed the body was a temple of the spirit, described an internal cleansing system using reeds and gourds to prepare their bodies to house the developing soul. Read more about the history of colon therapy.
I have found internal irrigation to be almost magically curative. My clients credit this therapy for relieving their rashes and other skin disorders, and even improving their eyesight. Whatever other benefits of colon therapy you experience, it will speed the removal of toxins from your body and elevate your cleansing efforts to a new level.
Colonics
I’m happy to say that colonic irrigation done with a machine and the assistance of a trained hydrotherapist is now available in virtually every city from coast to coast. A state-of-the-art application of an age-old technique, colon hydrotherapy is effective in alleviating many medical conditions, including arthritis, back pain, cancer, dermatological problems, flatulence, headaches, heart disease, high blood pressure, sluggishness, thyroid deficiency, and many others.
While self-administered enemas will certainly enhance your cleansing efforts, there are benefits to colon hydrotherapy you should consider. In hydrotherapy, 20 to 30 gallons of temperature- and pressure-controlled water is gently moved in and out of the colon. Consequently, this approach works much more deeply than an enema and flushes considerably more mucus and toxins from the body. Moreover, a trained therapist can maximize the cleanse through massage or pressure-point stimulation, encouraging the body to expel layers of accumulation. You can expect a session to last approximately one hour. The procedure is usually painless.
What is the ionic foot spa?
By · CommentsWhat is this? How does it work? Does it actually work?
Using the feet as a conduit to improve one’s overall health by unblocking vital energy pathways is an age old practice but today’s technology has enhanced its ability to pull toxins from the body.
The system can aid the body to balance its bio-energetic fields, which stimulates detoxification. When the electro-magnetic fields are balanced, the body’s organs will naturally function more efficiently.
Although there are countless testimonials for the beneficial effects of ionic foot baths, there is no reputable source which demonstrates, proves, or even suggests benefits from the detox. However, as Dr. Sairwaa Prevost, a board-certified internist who is on staff at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., explains, “The science sounds reasonable to me. It’s taking advantage of the same principles of reflexology, that everything is connected through the feet.”
The ionic foot detox system process is basically osmosis. The array, or ionizer, placed in the basin periodically reverses polarity of the water’s ions to create positive and negative ions. These ions then move throughout your body system by way of the pores in your feet. Your cells are now energized and begin to release oil, acid, fat, heavy metals, and other waste.
One of ACM’s client’s foot baths:
Before/After
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The lifeblood of our planet is in great peril. Covering over seventy percent of the Earth, water is the source of life, and our health depends upon its protection. Shockingly, scientists claim that the world’s biggest garbage dump does not exist on land, but the Pacific Ocean. Given many names, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Sea of Trash, the Eastern Garbage Patch, the Asian Trash Trail, and the Trash Vortex, a maelstrom of debris twice the size of Texas pollutes the Pacific Ocean. An estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of natural plankton, along with other slow degrading garbage, swirls slowly around like a clock, choked with dead fish, marine mammals, and birds who get snared.
This spiraling swirl of rushing refuse was predicted in 1988 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States when scientists found high concentrations of marine debris accumulating in regions governed by ocean currents. It was then discovered in 1997 by Charles Moore, who ran into this plastic minefield when taking a different route through the Pacific. There is more than one gyre which accumulates large amounts of trash in our oceans, but the North Pacific Garbage Patch is the biggest. This big pile of trash floating in the middle of or ocean contains over 100 million tons in floating garbage and growing, and stretches from the coast of California to Japan.
This “patch” was created by the Pacific currents carrying garbage from North America, Asia, and the islands (the whole Pacific rim), and then concentrating it into a continent swirl of garbage; a vortex. As material is captured in the currents, wind-driven surface currents gradually move floating debris toward the center, trapping it in the region. The majority of the source of this trash comes from land – dropped into the streets, into drains, into sewers, and leading out to the ocean. About 80% is from land, and 20% from ships at sea.
Roughly 80% of the trash consists mostly of the plastic variety, and as we all know, plastic is 100% non-biodegradable. The very reason we choose plastic, its durability and stability, is the reason why it is a problem in marine environments. In water, with sunlight beating down on these materials, plastic is broken down into bits, and solids become chips and those chips become dust, eventually. The patch is actually more of a plastic soup, so despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography, since it consists primarily of suspended particulates in the upper water column, and in some places, the floating debris goes 90 feet deep!
The more the plastic breaks down, the more of a threat it becomes, because it starts to affect even the smallest organisms on a molecular level, thus invading the entire food web in the ocean. This harms the ocean’s food chain and can thus affect us as well, causing disease, infertility, etc., because this pollution inevitably makes its way to our dinner table. Some places in the patch have six times more pieces of plastic than plankton, the main food source for many sea animals.
Experts say plastic trash has already killed millions of sea birds and marine mammals by ingestion or entanglement. Animals mistake all this waste as food and die from either plastic poisoning or blockage of their digestive system. In one case, pieces of plastic and a cigarette lighter were found in the stomach of a dead albatross.
Also, not all plastic floats. In fact around 70% of discarded plastic sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Scientists suggest that these plastics can smother the sea bottom and kill the marine life which is found there.
Even though every nation in this world is a contributor to ocean pollution, no country with a seat on the United Nations has claimed any responsibility for the patch, and therefore have not taken action to clean it up. Charles Moore claims, “a cleanup effort would bankrupt any country and kill wildlife in the nets as it went.” This clean-up project will require more money than any nation is probably willing to spend.
The only solution, or best thing we can do, is to prevent additional debris from getting into the ocean by reducing our plastic waste, reusing, recycling, refraining from littering, and participating in beach clean ups, riverbed/runoff clean ups, drainage clean ups, and other environmental clean up projects. Ultimately, more plastic recycling and wider use of biodegradable materials is the best hope for controlling these garbage patches.
We can also do our part to educate others about this environmental problem and what we can to do help. We are all connected to this planet in very fundamental ways and we must protect our very life source!
Videos:
Annabelle Gurwitch as seen on the Oprah Show
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Web Sources:
Deja Loops: The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
Wikipedia’s take on The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
Oprah.com: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Blog: Bring Your Own
Green Fudge.org: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Parabolic Toilet of the Environment
Greenpeace.org:The Trash Vortex
Blog: The Moral Skeptic
Mother Nature Network: What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
Colonic hydrotherapy wellness alternatives
By · CommentsColonic hydrotherapy, or colon cleansing, has been an alternative therapy for many years. Colon cleansing dates back to ancient times of the Greeks and Egyptians, and gained popularity in the United States beginning in the 1930s. The large intestine is one of the main organs for elimination. Solid and semisolid waste travels through the intestines by way of muscle contractions, known as peristalsis. Fecal matter may begin to collect on the intestinal walls over time. This fecal collection can lead to constipation, gas, bloating, as well as other intestinal conditions such as a spastic colon.
Colon cleansing is similar to an enema, which is a common treatment for significant constipation. Unlike an enema which uses a small volume of water to flush the colon, colon hydrotherapy typically uses a few gallons of water and is able to more effectively flush a larger part of the colon. The greater volume of water breaks up the collected fecal matter on the intestinal walls. This procedure typically lasts for 45 to 60 minutes and is performed by a trained Colon Hydro-therapist.
The removal of collected, toxic, fecal matter from the lining of the colon promotes normal colonic function and health. Abdominal distension is reduced and normal intestinal peristalsis can return from the removal of these deposits. Patients have reported a sense of better well being and good health, either as a result of the removal of toxins, or from restoring the colon to a better state of health from its previous distended and irritated state. Optimal benefit from colon cleansing may be achieved through multiple sessions. Patients have reported improved health and greater relief from their symptoms when they include periodic colon cleansing in their preventive health regimen.
The practice of colon cleansing is frequently grouped under complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream medical practices under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
Go with your gut…
By · CommentsOur society is seeing an alarming increase in the amount of environmental toxins present in our daily lives. Pesticides, preservatives, chemicals, are everywhere in the world, from the air we breathe to the foods and drinks we ingest. The convenience and inexpensive nature of the use of plastics in virtually every aspect of life poses a potential risk to our health. Plastics are being categorized as ones that are safe to consume food from versus ones that contain harmful bisphenol-A, or BPA, a chemical linked to reproductive health issues.
How are we to protect ourselves from all of these unseen toxins? A commitment to a total cleansing lifestyle is a major step in the right direction. There are many methods to begin cleansing the body of toxins. The elimination of highly processed, non-organic foods from the diet is the first step in the process of cleansing. Other useful cleansing methods include practices that target the major organs responsible for metabolism and elimination, such as the liver and colon.
While Western medicine discount and try to debunk many alternative therapies, patients who have used these cleansing methods have enumerated their benefits and continue to promote the use of alternative therapies. Such practices include some of the best use of colon hydrotherapy, also known as colonics or colon cleansing, and the use of digestible cleansing tonics. These practices have a long-standing history within the realm of alternative therapies. The underlying concept of colon hydrotherapy is that it assists in removing the accumulation of toxic waste that collect on the walls of the intestinal lining. Unlike a home enema which uses only small amounts of water & only reaches into the rectum, colon hydrotherapy involves a larger volume of water that irrigates a greater distance into the colon. Another belief among alternative medicine providers is that colon hydrotherapy stimulates the liver and gallbladder into releasing the toxins they harbor.
People who suffer from conditions, such as constipation, irritable bowel, parasitic infection, slow moving colon, abdominal bloating/distention/gas, or irritable bowel, may be candidates for colon hydrotherapy. A colonic procedure may also be prescribed in people needing to clear the colon prior to a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, which typically uses a flexible endoscope. Several studies have shown the benefits of this in early detection of colorectal cancer. A 2010 British study showed that the use of sigmoidoscopy reduced “overall colorectal cancer incidence and mortality by 31 percent,” and the incidence of cancer in the lower colon (or distal colon) was reduced by approximately 50 percent for those who underwent screening compared with those in the control group. Overall colon-cancer mortality was reduced 43% (preventing one cancer per 200 screenings and one cancer death per 500 screenings.) The study also showed the effect was persistent—meaning a single sigmoidoscopy tended to reduce cancer rates for the length of the 11 year study.
A physician may also prescribe colon hydrotherapy prior to intestinal surgery, or other diagnostic intestinal studies.
Cosmetics and the HCG Diet
By · CommentsWhen following the HCG diet, there are certain lifestyle changes that are important for the diet to work effectively. According to Dr. Simeons HCG diet manuscript, titled “Pounds and Inches”, it is necessary to eliminate the use of most cosmetics, moisturizers, creams and lotions.
Many of these personal care products contain fats and oils that are absorbed through the skin and used as energy, just as if they were eaten. While on the HCG diet, personal hygiene products that contain fats and oils, such as lanolin, will prevent weight loss. Products that contain mineral oil are allowed to be used, since it has no nutritional value. However, mineral should not be ingested as it will cause a significant laxative effect.
The HCG diet also advises against the use of products that contain sodium laureth sulfate and propylene glycol. Sodium laureth sulfate is a skin and eye irritant to many people, particularly with prolonged use. It is also linked to another chemical, 1,4-dioxane, which has been shown to have carcinogenic effects. Meanwhile, propylene glycol is found in many skin care products and over the counter medications. Propylene glycol is converted in the body into useable energy which can interfere with the weight loss effects of HCG.
Products that contain hormones, except for birth control pills, are also to be eliminated during the HcG diet. While most people would think soy based products are safe and natural, soy contains phyto-estrogens, which can have effects in the body similar to the hormone estrogen.
Options for personal care products do exist for people starting the HCG diet. Lipsticks, eyebrow pencils and powder are permitted as long as these products are free of fats (lanolin) and oils. The examples shown below are simplistic products that will do the job without the fluff offered by mainstream products. However, always read the labels before you buy any product.
* Lotions: Coconut oil, plain mineral oil, baby oils (most are mineral oils), or mineral oil based lotions or moisturizers
* Deodorants: crystal deodorant (wet crystal and apply), baking sod
* Toothpaste: Tom’s toothpaste, baking soda
* Soaps: Ivory
* Shampoo and Conditioner: Aubrey Organics (read ingredients, as some may contain non-gmo soy protein)
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HCG Weight Loss
By · CommentsOne of the natural hormones produced by the body during pregnancy, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) helps to provide nutrition required by a developing fetus. This hormone directs the brain to use the stored fat in the bloodstream for food. HCG hormone has also been proven to safeguard the body’s good fat by altering the metabolism and keeping muscle tissue from breaking down.
The HCG Diet: What it does
British endocrinologist Dr. Albert T. W. Simeons developed the HCG Diet concept in the 1950’s. Today many have discovered the HCG diet as a way to lose weight safely without side effects. The HCG diet weight release protocol helps the body use stored fats optimally and thus, helps with weight loss.
During the first and second stages of the diet protocol, a person begins taking regular doses of the HCG hormone. The HCG diet may help the user to shed around 1-2 pounds everyday by making use of the energy stored in the fat cells and not the muscle cells.
There are some precautions for those using the HCG diet weight release protocol. Those taking HCG must eat only organic foods, and must take care to avoid all types of processed or junk foods for the diet to yield maximum results. This is because the body’s metabolism can be restored to normal only when HCG doses are coupled with the intake of organic food. A person is also required to restrict his or her calorie intake to 500 calories during the second stage of the HCG diet program. This is because the body begins to use approximately 2,500 calories from fat as energy at this stage. If users consume more than 500 calories at this stage, then stored fat will not be used for energy. During phase three of this diet protocol, users can eat a larger number of calories provided the food consumed conforms to the HCG diet guidelines.
Body contouring benefits of HCG
The HCG diet weight release protocol is also noted for its body sculpting and contouring benefits. The diet helps the user not only to shed excess weight but also to decrease the circumference of his/her body through its body sculpting effects. The HCG diet controls the amount of fat deposits in the body. For instance, with the help of the HCG diet treatment, weight in problem areas such as the tummy or chin can be removed easily. It also helps to impart a more youthful refreshed look and feel to areas such as the hands, neck and the face by rejuvenating the structural fat.
The HCG diet plan can help users shed a good amount of cellulite in just 6-12 months provided they adhere to the previously mentioned diet plan. The HCG diet is not just another diet; it works by assisting one’s body to work as nature intended. The HCG diet helps users to stay fit and active by assisting them to keep the excess weight off.
With some patience and perseverance, users emerge a winner in their weight loss efforts through HCG for weight loss.
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