What Exactly Is Self-Hypnosis?

A lot of people think there is some sort of mystery or hocus pocus surrounding the state of hypnosis or self-hypnosis. Since I’m a certified practitioner of this wonderful health tool, I’ve written this article to give you the four key facts about hypnosis, demystify the whole process, and hopefully shed some light on how you can use self-hypnosis to achieve any goal you want in your life.

First, did you know that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis? Did you know when you are hypnotized that no one can make you do anything against your morals or beliefs? Why? Because you have the free-will to accept or reject the suggestions your hypnotist gives you. 

Second, did you know that every human being alive goes into a natural state of self-hypnosis 3 or 4 times a day? Let me give you some examples. Do you daydream? Have you ever stared at a burning candle or a fire place flame and got so relaxed and focused on the flame that someone said something to you and you did not hear what they said? What about when you’re watching TV or reading a book? Again, someone said something to you, but you were so focused on the TV show or the words on the page of your book that you did not hear them. These are examples of natural states of self-hypnosis. My favorite way to experience self-hypnosis is called, “Road Hypnosis.” This happens while I am driving down the road and I completely miss my turn or I didn’t even remember passing the street. Ha! Has that ever happened to you? This is also a natural state of self-hypnosis. 

Third, the most important thing you need to understand when you are in self-hypnosis is at that moment in time, you are in the most highly suggestible state for your subconscious mind, which makes up 90% of your mind, to accept suggestions. Yes, both good and bad suggestions. Why is this important? Because all of your good/bad habits and good/bad beliefs are stored in your subconscious mind.

And fourth, research has proven that self-hypnosis is the quickest and easiest way to change your behavior. In essence, what you are really learning to do is dehypnotize yourself from that negative self-talk that I call Radio Station, K-R-A-Z-Y and learn to train your “inner critic” to be your best friend by embracing more positive self-talk. The good news is that when you learn to practice self-hypnosis, you have a lifetime tool that no one can ever take away from you, and any goal you want to achieve is possible!

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6 Alternative Medicines for Type 2 Diabetes

With over 200 million people suffering from diabetes worldwide, and counting, it's fast becoming the #1 epidemic of modern times. A major cause of end-stage renal disease, preventable amputations and blindness, the efficacy of many alternative medicine treatments in managing diabetes has been explored.

While conventional medicine has prescriptions of endocrine disorder drugs for diabetes, alternative therapeutic approaches to its management include herbs, plant extracts and more.

The following are some naturals and alternative therapeutics that seem promising to scientists studying their effect on diabetes.

1. Fenugreek: This herb is commonly used for appetite loss, and to stimulate milk production in breastfeeding women. And a handful of studies have discovered that fenugreek may help in bringing down blood sugar levels in diabetes sufferers, that's according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines (NCCAM).

Some time back, the Diabetes UK referred to several herbs being studied, including momordica cymbalaria, gymnema sylvestre and swertia chirayita.

2. Momordica Cymbalaria Roots:This a cucumber-like vegetable was assessed by scientists for its effect on Type 2 diabetes control and their tests on diabetic rats showed an improved glucose tolerance.

3. Gymnema Sylvestre Herb: Originating from the Indian tropical forests, this herb when tested for its effects on the body's ability to produce insulin, seemed to have a direct impact on the pancreatic insulin producing cells.

4. Swertia Chirayita Bark: Laboratory studies on the bark have found that some compounds separated from it appear to set off insulin production, in addition to enhancing its action.

5. Berberine: Chemically classified as a salt and found in the roots and barks of many plants, it has been documented in Chinese literature for having glucose lowering properties. According to Research Australia, the compound is indeed able to help lower blood sugar levels in animal models of diabetes.

6. Tai Chi Exercises: This isn't quite a herb, nonetheless, according to the April 2008 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Tai Chi exercises can improve the management of type 2 diabetes via improving blood glucose levels.

Despite appearing promising, experts believe that a lot more research is needed to definitively establish some of these alternative medicines' degree of efficacy.

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Acne Skin Care Regimen - Facial Wash

Teenage life is already bad as it is but add some zits to your young teenager's life and it makes it a lot worse. They become subject of jokes and their friends would look at them differently. Some would feel disgusted while some just simply doesn't want to be seen with a zit-boy or a zit-girl so what can a parent do to save their teenagers from all these ? Get rid of acne !


Treating acne can be difficult, depending on your skin type and the stage of your acne. Teenagers usually have acne because of their hormones. It can go pretty wild during this stage of their life so it is next to impossible to prevent the formation of pimples. Teenagers experienced having at least 1 pimple during their teens while some get dozens of them at a time! So, in order to get rid of acne, they must know how to keep their skin clean and dry.


Teenagers should have a regimen for washing their face. They should not over-wash it as that would cause dryness. When the skin starts to feel dry, the body automatically think it needs to produce more sebum thus you end up getting an oilier face. The oilier your face is, the more chance that you'd get pimples and acne so make sure to keep your face dry but not too dry. 


Wash your face only twice a day, once in the morning and once before bedtime. Use lukewarm water and a facial wash for your every wash. Lukewarm water opens up the pores so you could really clean your face. Make sure you have cool water too as that would be your final rinse. Cool water close up the pores. During the day, just make sure your face stays clean. Don't touch it with dirty hands and use oil-absorbing paper to remove excess oil. You may get rid of acne in no time if you do this.


However, acne is a condition that is different for everyone. Many people gets acne in their life, especially as a teen, but they don't have all the same factors causing acne. This is why it is recommended to use an acne treatment kit, where washing and cleansing is part of the process, but not the only thing you can rely on. Because everyone's skin is different and acne causes are different, an acne products kit should include cleansing, treating and protecting lotions or creams. 


Also, some natural supplements are welcome. Indeed, these can be the difference with a successful treatment and a failing one. Remember a teen gets acne because of hormaonal changes inside their body, thus it is important to address this cause too, by fighting acne at its roots. Balancing the system and killing the bacteria from the inside could make the skin improve tremendously.

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The Physical and Emotional Effects of Alcoholism

Alcohol addiction, or alcoholism, wreaks havocs in an individual’s life as well as loved ones. Alcoholism can lead to relationship problems, health problems, school or work problems, money problems, and more. Those effects are all indirect results of alcoholism, and direct results of alcoholism can be just as destructive.

Emotional Effects of Alcoholism
A common contributing factor to alcohol addiction is depression. Unfortunately, alcoholism only worsens depression. Somebody who is addicted to alcohol will lose control of his or her emotions. An angry person will become angrier and more violent, for example.
Also, alcohol abuse has a negative impact on motivation. An alcoholic will show low performance in school or at work, and will eventually stop participating in life altogether.
Studies have also shown alcohol abuse to cause anxiety disorders, depression, and even hallucinations.

Physical Effects of Alcoholism
Alcohol abuse may lead to gastrointestinal problems including: ulcers, pancreatic cancer, and gastritis.
Alcohol addiction also causes cardio vascular complication such as cardiomyopathy and hypertension.
Alcoholism severely weakens the immunity system. Those struggling with alcohol abuse may easily suffer serious infections, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and different type of cancers.
Alcohol abuse may also damage the peripheral and central nervous system, resulting in serious cognitive impairment.
Alcoholic males have reported impotency, testicular atrophy and gynecomastia.
Consuming alcohol during pregnancy can cause mental retardation, facial deformity and/or other neurological problems (fetal alcohol syndrome).

If you, or somebody you care about, may be abusing alcohol… don’t wait for these effects to occur! The sooner you seek help for alcohol abuse, the better. Contact Axis at (866)900-2947 for more information.

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Drug Abuse & Mental Health

There is a correlation between drug abuse and mental health. When an individual consumes a drug for the first time, they may experience pleasure. The addictive chemicals in a drug create a physical sense of happiness, and this is a wonderful feeling for those who are incapable of feeling happy due to depression, anxiety, or another mental disorder.

However, that wonderful feeling does not last. An individual who has a mental disorder may quickly become dependent on this drug, or the feeling the drug creates, and will not be able to function properly without abusing drugs. The problem worsens when the mental immunity to those chemicals strengthens.

An individual will then need to use a drug more frequently, and in larger doses, to achieve the same level of pleasure. Aside from the risk of overdose, there are more problems that arise. 
Rather than feeling a genuine sense of happiness, an individual is feeling false pleasure. The difference is that when that “high” is gone, one will feel lower than before. For this reason, an individual is dependent on the drug both physically, and mentally. Once drug addiction begins, it only snowballs into something worse.

Luckily, drug abuse treatment centers understand the relationship between drug abuse and mental health. This is why the only way to fully recover from an alcohol addiction is to seek treatment at a rehab center where personalized attention is given to treat each of the individual contributing factors.

Many rehabilitation centers have psychiatrists who first analyze the patient and find reasons behind their addiction. They also see that whether the patient is mentally prepared to quit drug addiction. Accordingly, they suggest a program and treatment for the patient. 
For more information on the correlation between drug abuse and mental health, consult a health or a drug treatment center near you.

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Qualities to Look for in a Drug Rehab Center

The main objective of a drug rehabilitation center is to treat drug addiction and to help each patient rebuild a healthy, happy lifestyle. The fundamental of a quality drug rehabilitation center is personalized attention and individual care.

While drug rehabilitation centers use programs that have proven effective for treating addiction… quality drug rehab centers do not take a cookie cutter approach towards each patient. No two individuals are identical, no two addictions are the same, and therefore each patient must be given a customized treatment that is tailored specifically to his or her unique needs.

In a drug rehab center, a patient will most likely begin treatment with detox… the process of eliminating all harmful toxins and chemicals from the body. This treats the physical dependency on drugs (or alcohol) and may involve many painful withdrawal symptoms. During detox, each patient will be given access to medical attention… available 24/7… and medication can be given when appropriate to lessen the discomfort.

Drug rehabilitation requires continued care through a variety of counseling programs. Each of these programs work together to treat the psychological, mental, and emotional dependency on drugs (or alcohol) and will provide each patient with the tools he or she needs to face addiction after he or she has successfully completed their care in the drug rehab center.

If you, or somebody you know, may be suffering drug or alcohol addiction, please contact your local drug rehab center today to learn more about the help that is available. For more informations about drug rehab please visit us today for effective drug treatment.

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Easy Technique to Clean the Tar From Smoker's Lungs

If you smoke just 1 or 2 cigarettes a day, you lungs can easily clean themselves and work normally. But if you are a heavy smoker, your body cannot clear your lungs completely and this results in smoker’s lungs. 

The problem stems from the fact that all cigarettes contain tar. Tar is the brown, tacky substance that is left behind on the end of the cigarette filter. If you are a smoker, it turns your teeth yellow, stains your fingers brown, and coats everything it comes into contact with a brownish yellow film. It is the same chemical that is used in the manufacture of tires and the building of roads. Every time you inhale, some of the tar in your cigarette is drawn into your lungs. If you smoke long enough, the tar begins to build up and coat the inside of your lungs. When your lungs get to the point where they can no longer clean the gunk out, you may have problems breathing or develop smoker’s lungs.

Normally, your lungs have a very efficient method to keep the air passages clean. Inside your lungs, there are thousands of tiny hair-like filaments that are called cilia. The cilia are like huge beds of seaweed growing on the ocean floor that oscillate back and forth with the tides. The cilia in your lungs work in the same way. They continually sweep impurities out of the lungs to maintain them and keep them clean. 

But if you are a heavy smoker, the tar begins to build up and coat the tiny cilia inside of your lungs. When your lungs get to the point where they can no longer clean the tar out, you may have problems breathing and develop a chronic cough. These are the first signs of smoker’s lungs.

So, what is the treatment for smoker’s lungs? There is a simple procedure you can use to help your lungs go from black and clogged, to pink and healthy in a relatively short time. This process will eliminate your chronic cough and make it easier to breathe. In fact, this process can clean your lungs fifteen or twenty times faster than your body can do it on its own, even if you continue to smoke.

It involves a secret combination of food supplements and vitamins that rinse the tar out of your lungs. If you've been smoking for more than a year, your lungs probably look like the chimney of a factory, charred and black with tar. Help your lungs go from black and clogged to pink and healthy in the shortest time possible.

And this system has other benefits as well...

It will get rid of that smoker’s cough.

It will increase your vitality and feeling of well-being.

It cleans out your lungs through simple techniques that can be done from home without the aid of a doctor.

It allows you breathe in more life giving and health enhancing oxygen than ever before.

It helps you lose weight.

If you are a heavy smoker, try this system and rinse years of tar out of your lungs. After cleaning your lungs, you will feel better than you have in years! Go to Repair Smoker’s Lungs and try this amazing new procedure to clean your lungs painlessly and effortlessly in the comfort of your home. Do it now!

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Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 3)

Nutrition For Our Cells (Part 3) 

(Continued from Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 2) - Getting Toxins Out Of Our Bodies and Nutrition In.)

By Warren Tattersall and Susan Smith


GETTING NUTRITION TO YOUR CELLS: Absorption


How do we absorb nutrition into our bodies?


What I mean is that we have a plate of food sitting on the table in front of us and somehow we get the nutrition from that food into our bodies and delivered to our cells so that we can keep strong and healthy.


How does all that work? 


When you eat food it goes through a definite process.


You start by breaking it or cutting it into manageable size pieces.


Next, you chew the food to break it down and at the same time, the saliva in your mouth introduces enzymes into the food that begin to break it down also.


The food goes to your stomach where the stomach acids and the action of the stomach break it down further to a soup like consistency.


It then enters the small intestine where there are further enzymes breaking it down to even finer elements.


This reduces the food to small enough particles for your body to absorb them.


Most of the nutrition that absorbs into your body does so through the small intestine.


The intestine itself is very long, about 6.5 m (22 ft) long.


The walls of the intestine are not flat but corrugated.


Upon them are the villi and on them tiny micro-villi.


These are small finger like protrusions that wave in the food "soup" and absorb nutrition.


One Indian doctor I met described the effect as being like having a seaweed forest on the inside of your intestine that the food passes through.


Just as the seaweed draws nutrition out of the ocean, so the villi and micro villi draw nutrition out of the food we have eaten.


The villi draws the nutrients through the walls of the small intestine and deposits them into the blood steam or the lymph system, which then takes them through out the body and delivers them where needed to support new cells being created and cellular regeneration.


Also, just like the seaweed that becomes torn up and thrown on the beach during a storm, our villi is delicate and can be easily damaged. Just like the seaweed our villi is intended to regenerate quickly.


If we stress the villi too much they become brittle and break off and under continued stress, they do not regenerate but become broken and stumpy.


They then can be covered with fats from the food we eat and a build up of mucus creates an effective barrier that prevents much of the nutrition from the food we eat, to be absorbed.


When this happens the villi are said to be "Energetically Impaired".


The things that stress the villi are: 

? Poor food choices, high fats, high sugar, low fibre. 

? Irregular eating patterns. 

? Irregular sleep patterns, (very common for shift workers). 

? Environmental toxins as we discussed earlier. 

? The Two Worst Factors for Damaging villi are: Antibiotics and Stress.


Do you know anyone who has been under stress lately? Not getting regular, nutritious meals? Having broken sleep times? Using antibiotics?


These lifestyle issues just seem to be part of everyday living in modern society.


If you are noticing that you are often weary, not handling stress as well as you would expect, losing concentration in the afternoon, waking up without feeling rested, then it is very likely that you have 'Energetically Impaired' villi.


A study by the Cambridge University many years ago concluded that the surface area of the inside of the small intestine of an average adult male would be somewhere in the region of Two Soccer Ovals!


If the same person had fully Energetically Impaired villi that surface area could be as little as One Tennis Court!


Imagine lawn fertilizer being poured over two soccer ovals and then imagine the same fertilizer being poured over a single tennis court. Of course, much would run off the tennis court, and the same principle applies to our villi.


If they are 'Energetically Impaired' then we are starved of nutrition, no matter what we eat.


In this case the body is not able to produce new healthy cells at the level it should and our system suffers.


This has been like making a photocopy of a photo. The copy is okay but maybe not quite as good as the original.


If we then photocopy the copy, the image is a little worse.


When we get eight or ten copies from the original we may not even be able to tell what the original photo was!


In our body this equates to things starting to go wrong and them being run down.


with a modern, scientifically constructed, nutrition program with the right mix of mixture of herbs and botanical factors along with the vitamins and minerals we need, promotes the regeneration of the villi.


In a normal, healthy person we expect to see this process of rebuilding the villi, accompanied by a measurable change in personal energy, within about three days of starting on the products.


Once this happens it is like copying the original photograph with each photo getting better and better.


In our bodies this shows as the cells becoming healthier and healthier and we find ourselves feeling better and better.

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Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 2) - Getting Toxins Out Of Our Bodies and Nutrition In

Nutrition For your Cells Part 2

(Continued from Nutrition For the Cells - How can we eat right to keep healthy?} 

By Warren Tattersall & Susan Smith



Getting Nutrition To Your Cells Involves Three Functions: 


1. Cleansing 

2. Absorption 

3. Cellular Regeneration 


1. GETTING NUTRITION TO YOUR CELLS: Cleansing 


OUR MODERN DIET AND LIFESTYLES ALLOW A BUILD UP OF TOXINS AND POISONS IN OUR SYSTEM, THAT STRESS OUR WHOLE BODY, PARTICULARLY OUR VITAL ORGANS AND OUR GLANDULAR SYSTEMS. 


Many of us live on diets of highly processed foods and we eat at irregular times or at least have our heaviest meals at the wrong time of the day. We have foods that are low in fibre and high in sugars and fats. 


This means that the food we do eat takes much longer than it should to pass through our bowel and it putrefies and creates toxic stress on our organs. 


The stress on our livers of breaking down high levels of animal products, meats and fats, as well as the drugs and poisons often associated with animal meats, causes problems. 


Often people's livers are swollen and strained from the load we put them under. 


The constant demand for digestive enzymes, due to the lack of enzymes contained within the food we eat, can cause the pancreas to swell to an abnormal size. 


The villi and micro-villi in the small intestine draw nutrients from the foods we eat and pass them through the walls of the small intestine, into our blood stream and lymph system for delivery to our cells. They become compromised by being brittle and break off. 


If stressed they don't regenerate, as they are naturally supposed to. If we then eat high fat foods they can layer our digestive system from our stomach to our colon, with mucus like rubbish that prevents us absorbing the nutrition from the food we eat, and compromises our entire health system. 


Our bodies are hugely resilient and can deal with incredible abuse but if we eat low fibre food and don't exercise we can look forward to a high risk of bowel or colon cancer. 


If we allow ourselves to become overweight and don't pay attention to the amount of sugars we are eating, we are likely to join the growing ranks of people who suffer diabetes. 


If we allow our arteries to clog up with plaque, we can look forward to heart attack and stroke. 


In earlier years the result from poor nutrition is low energy and not living life to the full. 


As people reach middle age, 50, 60 years, these unwise food and nutrition choices are manifesting in chronic illness and even death. 


Medical authorities are happy to admit that up to 80% of all sickness and death can be directly linked to nutritional causes. We need to pay attention and do something about it, or we are likely to deal with sickness, diseases, and shorter lives as a result. 


What Steps Can We Take To Aid Our Bodies In Keeping Us Well? 


First let's go back to an earlier statement. The body will always replace old cells with newer, healthier cells, provided it has a clean base to work on. 


Modern life feeds chemicals into our bodies: petrol fumes, tobacco smoke (either self administered or from being around smokers), the growth hormones and other chemicals that are pumped into most meats we buy from the shops, preservatives and colourings in food, cleaning chemicals, etc, etc, etc. We are surrounded by chemicals in every part of our lives. 


If we live in modern society we are absorbing chemicals every day. 

We need to clean these out of our system on a regular basis. 


If we do not then the chemical builds up and the toxic overload shows initially as: 


- Bowel issues: diarrhoea or constipation. 

- Skin issues: acne, pimples, boils and liver spots. 

- Bad perspiration & body odour. 

- Bad breath. And so on, as our bodies try to aid our overtaxed kidneys and push the poisons out in any way they can. 


When the overload becomes too great we are at risk of chronic disease and even fatal conditions, stemming from this problem. 


When you find the right nutrition programs they are packed with herbs that gently, but firmly, detoxify your body. They draw the toxins and poisons out of the muscles and vital organs and dump them into the blood stream where they can be passed out of your body with your waste products. 


This is one reason why you are always recommended to drink at least 8 large glasses of clean water a day (i.e. 2 litres - 1 Quart). 


While you should be drinking this anyway it is extremely important at the beginning of a good nutrition program as it is required if you are going to flush the poisons out of your body and start on the road to better health. 


(Article continues in Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 3) 

By Warren Tattersall and Susan Smith

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Nutrition For the Cells - How can we eat right to keep healthy?

Nutrition For Your Cells. (Part 1)

by Warren Tattersall & Susan Smith


Your Body's Health - From The Inside Out. 


We all remember hearing as children that "an apple a day will keep the doctor away". 


Apples are great for nutrition, fibre, even water, but we need more than that. Modern research has clearly shown that a truly health diet needs to contain: 

? protein, 

? carbohydrates, 

? fats, 

? vitamins, 

? minerals, 

? oils, 

? dietary fibre, 

? and sufficient clean water, 

- If it is to support long term, sustainable, good health. 


If this is backed up by some regular exercise then you have the possibility of having a good metabolism and a highly active immune system. 


Basically, the stronger your immune system the healthier you are and, as a consequence, the more protected you are from environmental factors that lead to infection and sickness. If you eat foods that are rich in the nutrients your body needs it is able to keep you strong at a cellular level. 


You are giving the body the tools it needs to keep your immune system strong. A strong immune system supports individuals having fewer colds and viruses and they are better equipped to fight off illnesses at all levels, be that colds or chronic diseases. 


Our problem as a community is that an average modern diet of coffee, fast food, snacks and sugars, does not give us enough of the essential micronutrients, and the botanical factors, that our body needs. 


When we are lacking the essential nutrition ingredients, the basic building blocks that our body needs to maintain the various systems of our body, we are at risk of our whole system of health becoming compromised. 


We are not able to handle the stresses of daily life anywhere near as effectively as we should expect to, and many people have such low energy levels that they struggle with just normal activity. 


They have no idea what it feels like to have dynamic health and having energy to spare for doing things above and beyond their normal daily routine. 


This may be a big part in the explanation of why nerve, anxiety and digestive medications are among the highest prescribed medications in the world. 


Poor overall nutrition leads to poor health and manifests in a younger person as low energy, low immune system, and difficulty handling stress. 


As an individual matures, these initial indicators of poor health often move into more significant problems, and other diet related illnesses, including heart attack, cancers and stroke. 


There are some situations where ignorance is bliss and many people seem to think that what they do not know will not hurt them. In this case, not knowing what is going on in your body could well Kill You! 


Many of us realize there is a problem and so attempt to eat a healthy and well balanced diet but, even then, we are still disadvantaged. 


The nutritional value of most foods is not what it was in our parents' time as it has been compromised. 


Techniques such as growing foods in soils that are deficient in nutrients, forcing production with fertilizers and chemical additives, and then picking the produce before it is fully ripened, is the modern way to farm. 


This might make good economic sense, and give us cheaper produce, but it is extremely damaging to the nutritional value of the food. 


Without the basic nutrients derived from the soil, without allowing fruits to ripen on the vines, storing produce for weeks or months or, or as is sometimes the case with apples stored for years at a time, all decrease the nutritional value of the foods we are offered. 


Repeatedly, studies are showing that a diet that was once considered healthy is nowadays not giving us the minimum nutrition we need on a daily basis to keep our bodies strong. 


More and more medical authorities are advocating the use of vitamin and mineral supplements. The majority of people in western countries now take some form of supplement product. 


The problem is finding them in the right combination. There is a lot of anecdotal and even promotional advice being given to people that is, at best, contradictory. 


This can be both confusing and costly and the frustration of trying to sort through the advertising and hype to make an informed decision is often beyond most people. 


Nowadays there are nutrition products that have been developed that combine western science with vitamin and mineral technology and the old knowledge of herbal and botanical factors used in China, India and South America for thousands of years to maintain good health. 


The vitamins and minerals are essential to maintaining good health while the herbs and botanical factors help cleanse and purify our bodies and support specific bodily functions. 


To understand how to get nutrition in a form that our body can use easily, and deliver quickly to our cells, we need to understand our bodies are constantly replacing old cells with newer, healthier cells, at a rate of Billions of cells a day. 


To replace the old cells with healthier cells there are a couple of conditions. The body needs a clean base to work on and if we are loading our systems with chemicals and pollutants then we impede the process of the body in building strong and healthy cells. 


Also, when the nutritional intake is adequate, the new cells are always healthier. If the nutrition is deficient then our bodies do not have the tools to replace the old cells with optimum quality new cells and adequate nutrition is essential for this. 


For healthy cell regeneration to occur most effectively, we need balanced amounts of basic food groups every day........ 

? Proteins; our organs deteriorate if they don't get an adequate supply. 

? Carbohydrates; are the body's preferred energy source to fuel cellular metabolism. 

? Fats; provide the most concentrated possible energy source within the diet. 

? Vitamins and Minerals; absorbed within five hours, they must be replaced daily. 

? Oils; preserve the structural and functional integrity of the cells. 

? Dietary Fibre; work our bowel and digestive system and keep it healthy. 

? Water; to flush away toxins and keep our systems clean and functioning at optimum levels. 


Article continued - Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 2) by Warren Tattersall & Susan Smith

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Marijuana Stops Spread of Breast Cancer Tumor

A non-psychoactive chemical that occurs naturally in the marijuana plant may prevent breast cancer from spreading, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

Researchers found that a chemical called cannabidiol (CBD) affects the activity of a gene known as Id-1 in patients with hormone-independent breast cancer. In embryos, Id-1 is responsible for helping cells grow and spread, but is supposed to remain inactive in adults. In human adults, it is found only in metastatic cancer cells, or cancer cells that are spreading throughout the body. "When [the Id-1 genes] wake up, they are very bad," said senior researcher Pierre Yves-Desprez. "They push the cells to behave like embryonic cells and grow. They go crazy, they proliferate, they migrate."

According to Desprez, shutting off the activity of Id-1 can make cancer far less lethal. Tumors, Desprez says, can be "removed easily by surgery," but if the cancer is spreading then the disease becomes much more difficult to contain. "[Id-1 is like] an [orchestra] conductor," Desprez said. "If you shoot the violinist, the orchestra just continues to play."
"In this case, you shoot the conductor, and the whole orchestra is going to stop," he said.

Because CBD occurs in only very small quantities in the cannabis plant, the researchers do not recommend smoking marijuana as a cancer treatment. To be effective, CBD will either have to be artificially synthesized or extracted and concentrated. The chemical's major advantage, according to the researchers, is its apparent non-toxicity.

"Right now we have a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer," co-author Sean D. McAllister said. "Those treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective but they can also be extremely toxic and difficult for patients. This compound offers the hope of a non-toxic therapy that could achieve the same results without any of the painful side effects."

The researchers also expressed hope that CBD will also prove effective against other cancers that rely on Id-1, including brain, colon and prostate cancer.

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Fast Weight Loss Diet Program

Your weight loss diet is a huge part of your weight loss program. If you get your diet wrong, it may jeopardize your efforts, and your weight loss program may fail. To prevent failure, detailed planning for your diet may be required. Here is an approach that you can adopt.


Having clear goals will help you get there faster. Put your goals down on paper, and boil everything down to numbers. The more ambitious your goals, the more effort that you will have to put in.


Once you know what your goals are, you can easily work out how you are going to achieve those goals. It's the numbers that matter now. Lose weight naturally by burning more calories. Continue to work hard and keep the pounds at bay. Always remember that.


Now is the time to get to know yourself better. Take note of all your favorite foods. Do whatever you can to find out the calories for each type of food on your list. Sum up the calories - that's the amount of calories you consume each day. Smaller meals tend to help the body to learn how to burn more fat naturally. For example, taking 5 smaller meals is better than taking 3 big meals each day.


Avoid red meat, and eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.


Your greatest challenge will be your weight loss diet plan. Most people just don't know how to plan for a weight loss diet properly. Will a low carbohydrate diet work? Having no answers to such questions, they adopt a second grade weight loss diet.


There are different pieces of the puzzle that you must put together to get a weight loss diet that will work for you. Calories isn't everything in your diet. Consider other elements of the diet. Diet plans tend to look different for different people. Want to know why?


We all live different lifestyles, and we need different levels of energy to cope with the activities. As an example, some people do not exercise on a regular basis. Some exercise moderately. There are those who consistently exercise almost everyday. Obviously, the diets for these different groups of people will be different.


Your goal, will always be to eat healthily while at the same time, lose weight. Without experience energy loss, a diet with about 2000 calories will work well for most people. Monitor your consumption and try not to take in less than that amount. Otherwise, your body will start feeling deprived and will soon break down. That's not a healthy diet plan.


Always plan based on your own personal needs. Try adopting a more gradual approach and drop your calorie consumption gradually. However, it would still be better to work off those calories by exercising. In other words, you burn off more calories.


Made any interesting observation here?


However hard you try, your body still needs to consume a certain amount of calories for it to function normally. Therefore, the only logical approach to adopt is to increase your metabolic rate.

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Healthy Hair Tips

and scalp and find your hair thinning or falling out or you're plagued by dandruff, you may be looking for a better way to go. Many people are discovering the benefits of coconut oil. It's natural, healthy and inexpensive too. And I'll explain in this article how to use coconut oil on your hair.

If you're looking for healthy ways to get soft, silky hair and inexpensively too, then you may want to think about using coconut oil on your hair. If you've ever seen pictures of the women from the Polynesian Islands, they have long silky hair. They eat a lot of coconuts too but also apply coconut oil to their hair.

Once you start using coconut oil or coconut butter as some people call it, you'll no doubt want to get rid of all the expensive conditioners and creams and mousses you're using for your hair. Coconut oil will give your hair a lot of body, protect it and lessen breakage of your hair, so you should have less thinning. Of course, many hair stylists who know about it want to keep this secret for themselves. But the word is slowly getting out.

You'll stop buying expensive creams and conditioners and going for salon hair treatments once you realize you can get a gallon for the cost of one small jar of salon hair conditioner.

To use coconut oil as a hair conditioner, you can warm it a little and massage it into your hair at bedtime. You can hold some in your hands for a few moments if you don't have time to heat it. It should melt fast. Use about two teaspoons or so. You won't need a lot. The first time you do it, just use a little to experiment and do it on a night when you'll be home in the morning. Colored or bleached hair may be more porous so keep this in mind.

In the morning wash it out. I like to use organic virgin coconut oil which is the best quality. When you buy coconut oil online or in a whole foods store, make sure it hasn't been refined, bleached and deodorized. You want the unrefined kind. One way to tell is it smells like coconut.

For a salon-type treatment you can apply coconut oil, put on a shower cap, and then wash it out after an hour so. If you have a dandruff problem apply one to two teaspoons to your scalp and gently massage it in. Your shampoo may be causing your dandruff so you may want to find a shampoo with fewer chemicals.

You can also use coconut oil for a shampoo but only use a little bit and mix with your regular shampoo in the palm of your hand. You can also put a tiny bit on your hair using your fingertips after you style it.

This should give you a good idea how to use coconut oil on your hair as a hair conditioner or a shampoo. You'll save a lot of money and have the healthiest, silkiest shiniest hair you can imagine. It will look thicker too because you will be losing less hair. Of course there are other ways you can use it too, and this is just one way.

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The Do’s and Don’t of Acupuncture

There are things that patients have to be aware of before, during and after surgery. The same goes for those who undergo acupuncture because in order to enhance the value of the treatment, there are some do’s and don’ts that patients have to follow. First, you should not eat a large meal before or after treatment. You should also avoid over exercising, engaging in a sexual activity or consume alcoholic beverages 6 hours before and after treatment. Since the acupuncture session will last from 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on how often you have to go to the clinic, you better fix your schedule so you have time to rest. Chances are, you were consulting with a doctor prior to your visit to the acupuncturist. If there are any prescription medicines given, don’t forget to take them. You will not feel any improvement after just one or two visits with the acupuncturist. Just the same, you should write this down so you can go back to the acupuncturist on your next visit and tell him or her how you felt during the previous session. Such feedback will let the specialist know what needs to be modified in the future to help you with your problem. The acupuncturist might give you some herbs to take as part of your treatment. Since you don’t know if taking them will have any side effects with the medication you are taking, you should first consult with your doctor if it is safe to consume both. Women who are pregnant are also advised not to undergo acupuncture treatment. However, they can engage in that once the baby is born. How well the acupuncture treatment will go depends also on specialist who will be performing it. You have to take into account their years of experience and skill so they are able to make the correct diagnosis, finding the acupoints in the body, the angle at which the needles will be inserted and the techniques they know as there are different types of acupuncture. This brings us to asking ourselves how to find a skill acupuncturist. For this to work, we have to do ask our doctor if they can refer anyone. It wouldn’t hurt to also do some research online. After all, there are about 3,000 acupuncturists all across the country so it won’t be that hard to find one. Before you decide to have a session with them, talk to the acupuncturist to know their credentials. This will also give you the opportunity to find out how much do they charge as this can be from $45 to more than $100 per session. You can probably ask for the name and contact number of a previous client so you can ask this person how everything went. Remember, if it doesn’t work out for you, don’t be afraid to find someone else who can do a better job. The most important thing to do during the session is to relax. If you feel an itch or something, tell the acupuncturist. The same goes if you are nervous or experience a burning sensation so the specialist will take out the needles. Now that you know the do’s and don’ts of acupuncture, you should ask yourself if this form of treatment is right for you. If conventional medication doesn’t work, it wouldn’t hurt to see how things turn out.

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How to Manage Lifestyle for Healthy Sex

A great sex life is invariably the most important thing in the lives of man and woman. It keeps the family bonded. Although there are several different factors to the success of a marriage or a family, sex is one of the most important one. There are certain lifestyle measures that you can take to guarantee healthy and pleasurable sex night after night.

Keep an Active Life

Keeping a physically active lifestyle is important. If your job involves staying mostly before the computers, you should at least include walking, jogging or running in your daily schedule. Go for a walk everyday – probably early in the morning. Run or jog for at least 20 minutes a day, three times a week.

If possible, go for other activities like sports, swimming, mountaineering, rock climbing, cycling, or whatever activities that make you sweat. Activities like this can promote production of certain hormones in your body, which is conductive to good health. These activities also keep your mind fresh. Do you want to go to bedroom with as a dull, couch potato? No man would.

Women too should include all activities possible in their daily schedule. If there isn't much time for exercise, steal some time by walking to shopping centres, office, churches or temples, or whatever places that are less than half a kilometre away. Our forefathers were used to walking several miles a day, every day.

Exercise

Exercising is also important. Yoga is the best form of exercise. You should practice yoga everyday – if that is not possible, at least four times a week. It balances your body, tones your body and keeps that sexy figure of yours. Learn yoga from a master and practice it everyday, wherever you are. The several benefits include good metabolism, mind control, physical balance, good physique, stamina, and more.

Exercise also goes well with an active lifestyle.

Watch Your Food

You are what you eat. If you eat junk food, your body is a junkyard. That is a cruel statement, but a true one. Can you expect good health from bad food? If you eat too much of stuffed food, oily food, fatty food, etc, kick the habit today. Learn to cook and stop eating from bakeries, fast food centres and restaurants. It not only saves your health, but also saves you money.

Include fresh fruits, wholegrain bread, etc in its variety. The less processed they are, the better they will get. Also avoid eating red meat. You can also live without eating any meat at all.

Aphrodisiacs

If you keep the above three tips, you don't generally need any kind of aphrodisiacs. Good lifestyle habits are an aphrodisiac in itself. There are a variety of aphrodisiacs listed in Ayurveda – Aswagandha, Shilajit, Horny Goat Weed, etc are common aphrodisiacs. They are aimed at strengthening reproductive organs and to provide pleasure.

Managing your lifestyle according to Ayurvedic principles can work wonders in your life. You will enjoy a far better and healthier life, which also involves good sex.

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Chakra Tuning Methods

Yoga and meditation are the mantra of today’s fast paced world. Thanks to the undue tension that every one of us is taking on our heads at our work place and on the domestic front, yoga and meditation are the only sources of peace and tranquility and better living today. So, how do we ensure that we fine tune our frequencies and make the most of the benefits that we can receive through yoga and meditation? How can we do this without spending extra time from our already tight schedules? These are questions that need to be answered and the answer lies below.

The chakra concept is an age old concept that talks about the chakras or the power centers in our body. These power centers are placed in seven different places all across our body right from our head to our toe. These chakras if motivated and kindled produce energy – that proves to be vital for our well being. If these are stimulated properly, we can have a positive outlook to life devoid of any illness or negativities that could arise in life. So how do we motivate these power centers or these so called chakras?

Increase Chakra Tuning For Immediate Relaxation

Each of these chakras are stimulated by different frequencies and hence what works for one of them will not work for the others. So, we will need to stimulate each of these chakras at different frequencies if we are to see the desired results. Though this is a complication as we cannot just apply one frequency to all these chakras, we need to realize that nothing is that easy in life. So we need to look at best ways to stimulate all these seven chakras and ensure that we get a good positive bout of energy as a result of such planned and schemed stimulation.

If you set out to get these chakras stimulated on your own, then you might even take a whole life time. So the beauty lies in not just stimulating these chakras, you also need to ensure that you do it pretty fast and regularly if you want to experience the sense of well being as soon as possible. So, is there help at hand? Of course, there is our very own chakra stimulating binaural beats and these will help you achieve what you want to – in a very short span of time.

These chakra stimulating binaural beats act in such a way that they target all the seven chakras by stimulating them by inducing various frequency levels. So these binaural beats provide these variations in the frequency levels that will make all your energy centers work at a stupendous speed. The result is a n absolute flow of energy making you feel ecstatic and energetic and leaving you with a lot more energy than usual. These have absolutely no side effects and once you start using them, you are sure to love them. They have proven results and there are a lot of people out there using these chakra stimulating binaural beats.

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Anabolic Steroids Alternative

In an era where sportspersons and celebrities swear by the golden results of steroids, it may sound unbelievable that anabolic steroids alternative is known to produce similar results.

The obvious and added advantage of using anabolic steroid alternatives is that it comes with an acceptable legal status. So, you don’t have to worry about being caught at the wrong side of law. Also, these are easily accessible.

Anabolic Steroids Alternative: What are the Other Options?

An anabolic steroids alternative is preferred over steroids. This is mainly because it does not cause side effects, mostly due to its anabolic and androgenic properties. Here are some of the other alternatives:

* Protein supplements: These are the dietary supplements which have the least side effects. Protein synthesis leads to increase in muscle size. Intake of protein supplements is the main factor that promotes this process.

* Zinc Supplements: These are essential for muscle growth as it plays a major role in protein synthesis. Naturally, zinc occurs in beans, nuts, oysters, milk products and in different types of seafood. Zinc supplements are available in the form of tablets. These are known to greatly boost the testosterone levels in the body.

* DHEA pre-cursor hormone supplements: Being a pre-cursor hormone, these lead to the production of various other hormones. DHEA occurs naturally in the body, but its production decreases just as one starts aging.

* Mono-saturated fats: These help to boost the testosterone levels in men. Mono-saturated fats tend to fall in the category of fats, which are beneficial to the body. These also occur in various seeds and nuts. You can find them present to a great extent in vegetable oils.

* Androstenedione was the first legal steroid to be ever used by athletes. Biologically, it is a prohormone. This prohormone causes anabolic effects through an enzyme reaction that takes place in the liver. The use of such an anabolic steroid alternative leads to muscle growth and performance enhancement.

Anabolic Steroids Alternative: Are They Really Safe?

While anabolic steroids alternative seems safe, many questions surround the effectiveness of anabolic steroids. After all, something with the capability to add 20lbs of muscle outside a person’s natural genetic capability cannot do so without incurring some side effects.

Various researches and experiments continue to be conducted. To find out information that is accurate and up-to-date about steroids and anabolic steroid alternatives, visit www.Steroids.ro.

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The Health Benefits of Green Tea

Green tea, like black tea is made from the leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis. The difference between the three main types of tea is the way that they are produced. 

Green tea is unfermented tea meaning that the leaves used for green tea are steamed soon after been plucked in order to prevent the oxidation of the leaves. In this way the leaves remain green and the active substances within the leaves retain their qualities.

Green tea has been proven to shrink tumors and extend the lifespan of those with dire physical ailments. It has been scientifically proven to kill cancer cells.

Lowers "bad" cholesterol (known as LDL) and improves the ratio of "good" cholesterol (known as HDL). It explains why tea-drinkers can eat almost twice the foods containing cholesterol as those who don't drink green tea, but still have an equal cholesterol count.

The death rate from cancer is known to be significantly lower for both women & men in Japan. Why is this you may ask? As much as 5-6 cups daily are consumed in areas that produce green tea, making it the main beverage to drink. This suggests that the main ingredients of green tea (tannin, catechin); in sufficient amounts lower the standard mortality rates for stomach cancer.

Green Tea is the #1 source of polyphenols, chemical compounds found in fruits and vegetables. These extremely high levels of polyphenols deliver green tea's unique results in several ways. Just one example is a subgroup of polyphenols, exclusive to green tea, called catechins. EGCG, the most abundant and powerful of green tea's 5 main catechins, is dubbed the 'super antioxidant' because it is 200 times more powerful than the popular antioxidant vitamin E. 

This super antioxidant eliminates free radicals, the unstable molecules in the body that are the major cause of both aging and disease, which are continually attacking the body. Unfortunately, polyphenols have a quick life span (short half life) of about 3 hours, thus the scientific reason behind researchers' recommendation to drink green tea a minimum of 8 times a day.

Green tea, and more recently green tea extracts, have been used for centuries as not only a beverage, but as a medicine as well. Practitioners of natural healing and medicines have long expressed a belief in several health benefits of green tea. Green Tea Extract [Immune System, Circulatory System] contains catechins, a type of polyphenol with powerful antioxidants that neutralize free radicals.

Green tea has been proven to reduce cholesterol levels, as well as triglycerides. It can even prove beneficial for those who wish to increase their HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. A boost in the immune system, as well as weight loss, has been seen in those who drink green tea on a regular basis. Green tea also provides anti-cancer agents that can also be found in black tea.

Cholesterol, triglycerides, the protein apoB in LDLs, are words dreaded by humans of the modern age. This new century is expected to become the century of medical miracles, the green tea, lowly as it may sound looks very promising as several researches have shown. This could be the decade of green tea and cholesterol.

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Massage Therapy: More than Just Relaxation

Left and right massage therapy clinics are setting up shop in the Metro. Perhaps more and more people are getting into the healthy living trend that has taken over Hollywood. More than just being a stress and pain reliever, massage therapy has a lot more benefits to offer that actually contribute to a healthy lifestyle. Though not known to many, massage therapy lowers blood pressure, strengthens the immune system, facilitates faster recovery from injury and healing and even improves posture. Not only that, it also enhances attentiveness and flexibility in an individual. Certainly, these are things that lie beyond the relaxation it is known for. This is perhaps why massage therapy as an industry has become so big nowadays. Through constant application of pressure, massage therapy relaxes blood vessels and decreases systolic and diastolic blood pressure, decreases the level of cortisol or stress hormones and prevents anxiety and depression. These reduce the threat of heart attack and create a clear mind and body making the individual more dynamic and active. Massage also helps relax the muscles itself, allowing people to become more energized. This is the reason why people are so much into massage therapy. It rejuvenates the body from all the stress that we encounter everyday. Since massage decreases one’s stress levels, it also lessens the possibility of an individual’s vulnerability to pathogens by increasing the body’s cytotoxic capacity. When the number of active natural killer cells increases, our body’s line of defense becomes stronger and more stable and becomes more effective in shielding us from illnesses. Faster recovery from injury is another benefit of massage therapy because it relaxes the muscles and improves circulation of important body fluids making it easier for the body to deliver nutrients to vital organs and other parts of the body. It also initiates pain management when the injured part is undergoing treatment since it activates the parasympathetic nervous system causing the production of endorphins which are natural pain killers thus speeding up the healing process. Other than these good effects, massage therapy can correct bad posture which causes pain and stress in muscles that can lead to the body’s breakdown. It eases the tension in worn out muscles, soothes pressure points and increases the flexibility in joints by stimulating the production of body fluids and lubricants, so as to allow the body to position itself in a painless way. Thus, the individual can move freely and carry out daily tasks without hassle. As shown in electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns, regular massage can also improve a person’s mathematical ability due to increased attentiveness because of the elimination of stress. The absence of stress imposes less pressure on an individual resulting to a more concentrated and focused mind, free of worries and distracting thoughts. Massage therapy may be considered as a simple recreational activity however it does more than just restoring one’s vitality because it lessens or even eliminates the dangers imposed on a person’s health. It also helps an individual loosen up because it releases unwanted energy and leaves the person with a renewed outlook and refreshed senses. Study even shows that HIV patients who have regular massage therapy sessions notice an improvement in their condition. This proves that massage therapy is not a waste of time rather it is an individual’s key to having a sound mind and body. http://massage-therapy-detail.blogspot.com

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5 Simple Ways to Help Beat Seasonal Allergies...Naturally!

As winter changes into spring, around the world many of us are suffering from the sneezing, wheezing, runny nose and itching eyes that accompanies seasonal allergies. Relief doesn't necessarily have to come in the form of a drugstore counter remedy, there are many natural ways to help your body deal with the effects of seasonal allergens.
1. Nasal Passage and Sinus Washing: The Neti Pot 
The Neti pot naturally cleanses and refreshes the nasal passages to help relieve allergy symptoms. A simple saline solution works well to wash out allergens and thin nasal mucous, but you can boost the effectiveness of the wash by adding a tonic of goldenseal and freeze-dried nettles. The goldenseal acts as an astringent and has some anti-microbial properties. I usually recommend a Neti Pot cleanse once or twice daily. 

2. Quercetin: The Anti-Allergy Bioflavanoid 
Quercetin, a naturally occurring bioflavanoid, has properties that reduce the inflammation associated with allergies and control the release of histamine. Quercetin is non-toxic, but barely soluble in water and therefore is not absorbed very well. I usually recommend combining it with bromelin, an enzyme from pineapple, to increase its absorption. Quercetin dosed 1,000 -2,000mg per day in 4-6 divided is optimal for reducing allergies. Vitamin C also helps to reduce histamine. 

3. Acupuncture 
Based on the idea that stimulating points outside the body can change or initiate reactions inside, in this case treatment is thought to affect the immune system, where allergic reactions begin. In a small but significant study of 26 hay fever patients published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, acupuncture reduced symptoms in all 26 -- without side effects. A second study of some 72 people totally eliminated symptoms in more than half, with just two treatments. 

4. HEPA 
A simple HEPA filter placed in your bedroom, where you spend significant hours daily, is beneficial for reducing airborne allergens brought in from outside and well as those that reside indoors. If you are particularly sensitive, washing your outdoor clothes and even your hair after spending significant time outside can help reduce the allergens brought into the house. 

5. Eat Well! 
A diet rich in anti-oxidants from fresh fruits and vegetables and Omega-3 fatty acids from fish or flaxseed are important in controlling the inflammatory response associated with allergies. 

BONUS: Locally produced honey can possible be beneficial in helping those who suffer from allergies. Theorized to work similarly to the "vaccine" the honey made from the flowers and plants in your local area may help ward off your reaction to allergies. I would consider dosing 1-3 spoonfuls per day for 1-2 months prior to allergy season. 

Posted by Lakeshore Wellness Center 
http://www.lakeshorewellnesscenter.com/ 


Susan J. Wojcik is a Naturopathic physician and board certified acupuncturist in private practice at Lakeshore Wellness Center in Chicago, Illinois. She has been practicing Naturopathic and Integrative medicine at Foothills Neurology in Phoenix, Arizona since 2002 and has only recently settled down in Chicago to begin her own private practice. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture. She is also affiliated with such organizations as the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians (ILANP), the Naturopathic Academy of Therapeutic Injections (NATI), the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and the Homéopathe International (HI). The modalities employed in her Naturopathic practice include: clinical nutrition, homeopathy, functional medicine, botanical medicine and traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

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