As children we cut out and made valentines for each other and our parents. As adults we buy cards, candy, dinner, entertainment etc. Yet what many yearn to hear is “I love You!” spoken in their own love language. Gary Chapman reveals this art of loving each other in their own love language in his book The Five Love Languages. A wonderful read with over 5 million copies in print. Is your love tank on empty? Is your spouses? Reignite the love you once shared, set ablaze the love you have for one another. Check out Gary Chapman’s own site here. Highly recommended.
There are three major components in the consideration of excellence in athletics: talent, training and potential. Of the three, potential is the foremost, for on the foundation of potential will depend the capacities for and qualities of expression of the other two categories: talent and training.
Talent can be God-given. It can also be learned, a skill honed by time and experience. It can remain in a raw, undeveloped state, or it can be matured to maximum perfection. But, without availability of potential, talent is restricted — like a sailor on a boat without a sail, or a saxophone player without wind.
Training and conditioning are certainly vital to the development of peak performance. No one can dispute that. But, without the availability of full potential, the fruits of training and conditioning are wasted. Of what benefit are training and conditioning to a long distance runner who develops the flu the day before the race?
TAPPING FULL POTENTIAL
So, just what is meant by potential? Potential refers to genetic capacity, design limit, inherited abilities: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Everyone has a different design limit; some are like a race car, others are like a Mack truck. Some are gifted with speed, others with strength and endurance. Some are creative and intuitive, while others are more logical, rational thinkers, etc. But, whatever the unique combination of genetically inherited capacities one may possess in one’s potential, the ability to manifest, express and utilize one’s full potential is highly dependent upon the presence of one essential, imperative ingredient: ENERGY.
If one does not have the energy needed to express his full potential, whatever talent is possessed will be limited; whatever training and conditioning has been accomplished will be wasted. Whatever aspect of life is considered, energy will be found to be the basic consideration for the quality of that aspect of life.
What else is emotion if not energy? The ability to feel and to have emotion, whether it be love or hate; anger or laughter; is dependent upon the availability of energy. Fatigue or the absence of energy can reduce the tidal wave of emotion to a mere ripple. Aggression, competitiveness, drive, motivation, high emotion and the sustained will to win are all dependent upon the body’s energy production and its sustained availability.
What else is thought if not energy? When one is “too tired to think,” the ability to think clearly and quickly is diminished. Mental reaction time slows; mental lapses and “space-outs” occur. Quick reaction time, intelligence, concentration, the ability to focus and yet see the big picture at the same time, awareness itself, all are dependent upon energy availability.
And naturally, all physical activity is dependent as well upon sufficient energy production by the body. The activity of the senses (sight, touch, hearing); speed; agility; coordination; strength; endurance; quickness; all the bodily processes (cellular, organ, glandular, etc.) — each depends upon energy availability.
If ever there can be said to be a bottom line ingredient necessary for the manifestation of peak performance in athletics, it would have to be energy. The ability to manifest one’s genetic potential, to reap the rewards of training and conditioning, and to express the fullness of one’s talent, all require peak and sustained production of energy by the body — the realization of optimum health.
WHERE DOES ENERGY COME FROM?
So, where does energy come from? How is it produced and maintained in the body? There are three major areas in the body which are involved in the production and maintenance of energy: the autonomic nervous system; the endocrine system; and the oxidative system (the intracellular combustion of nutrients with resultant energy production). Through the numerous processes of metabolism, an interaction — or energy exchange — occurs between the body and the environment. Air, water, light and food are used by the body for the maintenance of life. All of the nutrients found in food — vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc. — comprise the fuel for the cells, the body’s “engines of metabolism”.
Then, all one needs to do is to eat a well-balanced meal and everything will be fine, right? . . . Wrong, or at best, only half right. Enter metabolic individuality and the need for Metabolic Typing.
ENERGY INDIVIDUALITY
Every human being is unique. We are as different from one another in all the facets of our beings as we are in our fingerprints. Genetically inherited differences in size, shape, strength and efficiency extend from the outward physical structure to the internal makeup of organs, glands and systems, right down to intracellular processes of metabolism in the cells. These differences translate into variances in energy output on the part of the cells, organs, glands and systems, which in turn give rise to individuality and infinite variation in physical characteristics; psychological, behavioral and emotional traits; and conditions one becomes prone to.
Just as each human being has inherited unique characteristics and capacities, so too has each inherited specific genetic requirements for the raw materials (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc.) necessary to maintain life in a state of optimum health. Any variation from this genetic requirement causes a loss of homeostasis, a metabolic imbalance, which automatically results in deficient energy production.
The symphonic interplay of the numerous vitamins and minerals is highly complex. Each influences numerous others; phosphorus alone, for example, is known to affect (either raise or lower) at least nine other nutrients. Each nutrient not only influences many other nutrients, but also directly affects the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine glands and intracellular oxidative mechanisms. For example, potassium tends to stimulate the parasympathetic system, while calcium excites the sympathetic system. Too much potassium in relation to calcium can cause “parasympathetic dominance,” causing a systemic shift into alkalinity, resulting in tendencies toward lethargy, apathy, depression, loss of muscle tone, drive, concentration and emotion. On the other hand, excess calcium can cause “sympathetic dominance,” resulting in hyperactivity, explosive temper, irritability, anxiety, high blood pressure, and a general systemic shift toward acidity.
From an endocrine standpoint, a high calcium to potassium ratio can cause insufficient hydrochloric acid production, poor digestion and a weakened thyroid gland, leading to weight gain, energy loss and lethargy. Excessive potassium can result in hyperthyroid activity, nervousness, excessive hydrochloric acid production and acid indigestion.
METABOLIC ENERGY PRODUCTION
The process of the combustion of nutrients within each cell for the purpose of energy production is known as oxidation. The oxidative process is quite complex and requires the successful completion of activity in a step by step process involving some 18-20 steps. At each step is a specific requirement for vitamins and minerals. Should those requirements not be met, the process of energy production on the cellular level gets “uncoupled,” resulting in deficient energy production. On the other hand, when the nutrients are available according to the individual’s genetically program-med requirements, the result is optimal and sustained energy production. Following the example from above, an excess of potassium causes the utilization of carbohydrates to be too rapid, whereas an excess of calcium can result in the combustion of carbohydrates being too slow, each resulting in faulty energy production, but for literally opposite biochemical reasons.
But, when all the nutrients are available in the proper amounts, in the correct balance, at the right place and at the right time, maximum energy output is possible, and one’s full genetic potential is available. Then, the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine system and the oxidative system work harmoniously, efficiently and in balance with one another. Only then — with the maximum energy production available — can one’s maximum potential be realized.
These general concepts can be more clearly understood when applied to a more concrete situation. Below are listed many characteristics that would be specifically desirable for a football or basketball player, but which are also considerations for any athlete of any age. Those in the sympathetic column are known to arise from the strength of the sympathetic nervous system and its associated organs and endocrine glands. Those in the parasympathetic column stem from parasympathetic strength. Note that what one has, the other lacks!
SYMPATHETIC
TRAITS
PARASYMPATHETIC
yes
Speed
no
yes
Agility
no
yes
Good Muscle Tone
no
yes
Fast Reflexes
no
yes
Fast Reaction Time
no
yes
Good Physical Coordination
no
yes
Good Hand/Eye Coordination
no
yes
Physical Quickness
no
yes
Mental Quickness
no
yes
Aggressiveness
no
yes
Good Concentration
no
yes
Strong Drive
no
yes
Over-achiever
no
yes
Motivation
no
yes
Competitiveness
no
yes
Discipline
no
yes
Strong Will to Win
no
yes
High Emotion
no
no
Large Muscle Bulk
yes
no
Strength, Power
yes
no
High Weight
yes
no
Good Immunity, Good Health
yes
no
Stamina/Endurance
yes
no
Fast Repairing, Rebuilding, Healing, Rejuvenating
yes
no
Strong Intuition
yes
no
Creative
yes
no
Instinctive
yes
no
Team Player
yes
no
“Big Heart”
yes
Most players have some, if not most, of the characteristics listed. Hardly anyone, however, would have all of them, and very few would be likely to sustain them at a maximum level through four quarters. Some may have speed, but they lack endurance. Others may have good muscle bulk, but they lack tone. Some may lose their concentration or emotional will to win by the third quarter. Others may have a tendency toward illness or take a long time to recover from injuries or to rejuvenate in time for the next game.
MAXIMIZING STRENGTHS — MINIMIZING WEAKNESSES
Whatever the situation, The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing provides the capacity to maximize and maintain the strengths and minimize or eliminate totally the weaknesses. By understanding (1) how to determine the individual biochemical (nutritional) requirements and (2) how to influence the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine system and the oxidation rate, The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing can provide the proper fuel for the individual metabolic type. This will influence the potential capacities of the athlete before the game, during the game and after the game.
Those who have speed can build endurance. Those who have bulk can develop tone and flexibility. Whatever the weakness, it can be turned into strength. During the game, instead of one’s talent diminishing with fatigue, peak performance can be sustained until the end through the insurance of the optimum fuel supply for the energy systems of the individual’s metabolic type being provided.
The name of the game is ENERGY. If the body does not receive the proper fuel, then it will be unable to produce sustained levels of peak energy throughout a game OR throughout a season. If adequate energy can’t be produced, then the chances of winning are undermined before the game even starts. When the body fails in energy production, speed decreases; agility lessens; coordination is disrupted; thought processes slow; concentration is lost; mental lapses and “space-outs” occur; hand/eye coordination is disrupted; drive, motivation and the will to win are undermined; high emotion is deflated; strength is weakened; endurance is lessened.
Whatever the strong points of the individual athlete that have given him the competitive edge, they are now lost. Fatigue and loss of energy are the great equalizers. With them, greatness drifts into mediocrity; the high tide of victory easily turns into the low tide of defeat.
And after the game is over, win or lose, injuries need to heal, the potential of peak performance needs to be restored. But, if all the raw materials are not acquired by the body in the proper balance for which there is a genetic need, then healing will be slow and restoration of potential will be relegated to wishful thinking.
To acquire peak performance and athletic excellence, one must develop the optimal physical potential within the individual metabolic design limits. A lineman has a different design limit than a safety or a quarterback. But each has his own optimal potential that needs to be addressed. If one accepts that his design potential is indeed different, it should make sense that what each person needs to develop that potential should also be different.
WHICH DIET IS RIGHT?
This concept of Metabolic Individuality demonstrates the fallacy of the “well-balanced diet for everyone” approach to nutrition, or the allopathic approach of giving so-called “energy foods” or utilizing specific nutrients for energy, strength, endurance, etc. The question should be: “What is a well-balanced diet for a lineman, a safety or a quarterback?” The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing provides an answer to these questions.
The reality is: foods which build energy in one kind of metabolism will suppress energy in another. What causes one metabolic type to put on fat, will cause another type to lose fat. What will increase speed and reaction time in one person will diminish it in another. What enhances and speeds healing in one metabolic type will slow it in another metabolic type. Nutrients that stimulate aggression and high emotion in a lineman may cause lethargy, poor concentration and a loss of competitiveness in a quarterback.
Every athlete, professional or amateur, of any age and from any sport can benefit from an understanding of his or her own Metabolic Type. Every aspect of athletic performance is influenced by diet and nutrition. Proper nutrition for each individual’s metabolic type assures peak performance. Just as important, it also assures tissue integrity and will thereby maximize protection against injury as well as maximize healing and rebuilding processes when necessary.
Not only are the kinds of foods important, i.e., those that contain the proper balance of nutrients for the individual’s requirements, but also the quality of foods is critical for performance and should not be overlooked. Junk foods, being devoid of natural nutrients, provide “empty calories.” Although often pleasing to the palate, they are poor sources of energy and actually disrupt the natural balance and efficiency of the body’s energy-producing systems. Just as any intelligent person would only “feed” the proper kind of fuel to his automobile’s engine, so too should the intelligent athlete understand his or her own unique nutritional requirements and feed his or her body’s engines of metabolism accordingly.
Metabolic Typing is the systematic, testable, repeatable and verifiable scientific means whereby each individual athlete’s optimal nutritional requirements can be determined. Only by supplying each individual athlete’s body with its own specific and unique “fuel supply” can training and conditioning come to maximum fruition, can talent be fully utilized, and full potential be maximized. Only then can one achieve excellence in athletics and sustain peak performance.
The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey. William Wolcott, co-founder of Healthexcel, gives a wonderfully complete review of metabolic typing, including a Basic self-test, fine-tuning, food lists and more.
The Metabolic Typing Diet – a metabolically correct holistic diet, is one of the keys to performing at our best physically and mentally. To have clarity and endurance in the fourth quarter, we need to optimize our fuel. Our health, the health of those we love, and the health of the community are all affected by the quality of the foods we choose to consume. Its time to take a fresh look at it, and we will below.
Metabolic Typing Diet!
Part 1 Metabolic Typing Diet – Nutritional Excellence…
Part 2 The History of Metabolic Typing
Part 3 Metabolic Typing Expanded
Part 4 Neurogistics – The Brain Wellness Program
Part 1 Metabolic Typing Diet – Nutritional Excellence…
The Metabolic Typing Diet optimizes the foods and the percentages of the macro-nutrient (protein, fat, and carbohydrate) consumed in the meal to the individual. The Metabolic Typing Diet is not unlike an owner’s manual for the human body. The right ratios provide optimum fuel not fat. Nutritious metabolically correct foods in the proper macro ratios satiates, leaving you free of cravings, hunger pains, ending mood-swings, improving your sense of well being while enhancing energy, endurance and health.
Weight Loss – metabolic typing will assist you in achieving your ideal weight. Your ideal weight can be affected by a number of issues, body chemistry imbalances, underlying health issues, problems with the metabolism of protein, carbohydrates and/or fats, food allergies, highly processed foods and more. The correct Metabolic Typing Diet balances your body chemistry. Consuming the proper macro nutrient ratios (protein / fat / carbohydrate) creates optimum energy not fat. And, you should find yourself not only losing excess weight but also building a stronger healthier body at the same time. If you’re tired of the diet merry-go-round and want real lifetime solutions without starving or counting calories this diet is for you.
Nutrition and Healthy Skin and Healthy Hair – We see a lot of commercials on skin and hair products and we could spend a small fortune on them during our lifetime. Unless there is an environmental, allergy or other medical condition we should enjoy healthy skin. That said unhealthy skin and/or hair could be a symptom of poor nutrition. More specifically poor intestinal flora the beneficial bacteria that help us break down our food. An abundance of bad or low-grade bacteria leads to poor nutritional absorption, lower health and unhealthy skin and hair. Thus, healthy skin and hair begins with quality nutrition! Quality nutrition feeds the good bacteria that then multiply and repopulate the intestines. Junk food and a high sugar diet feed the bad and low-grade bacteria. Two excellent Probiotic supplement product brands are Natren’s and Ultra Life.
An hour after a meal do you feel…
Physically full but still hungry?
Like something was missing?
A craving for sugar?
Hyper but exhausted underneath?
Drowsiness, sleepiness or exhaustion?
Mentally slow or spacey?
Have an inability to think quickly or with clarity?
Like you can’t focus or concentrate?
Apathy, depression, withdrawal or sadness?
Anxious, obsessive, fearful, angry or irritable?
Do you run out of energy and endurance easily?
Have a hard time maintaining your ideal weight?
Catch everything that comes along?
When you catch a cold or the flu does it seem to drag on and on for weeks?
Baring medical conditions, perhaps your diet is just not the correct diet for you. A metabolically correct diet, one that is correct for your type, of healthy foods properly prepared, should address these issues.
One form of metabolic diet is the Metabolic Typing Diet.
Healthexcel’s System of Metabolic Typing is composed of Ten Fundamental Homeostatic Controls:
Oxidative system.
Autonomic nervous system.
Neurotransmitter balance.
Postaglandin balance.
Catabolic / Anabolic balance.
Acid / Alkaline balance.
Endocrine type.
Constitutional type.
Electrolyte balance.
Blood type.
All ten Fundamental Homeostatic Controls (FHC’s) work together to bring about homeostasis. But, each works somewhat independently. The same symptom can be due to an imbalance in different FHC’s. One must address the specific FHC to alleviate the symptom. This is why one diet or remedy works for one person and not another. Why one person benefits from a particular food, the next person finds it neutral and yet another person best avoid it.
The Metabolic Typing Diet addresses each person’s bio-chemical and physiological individuality. This is accomplished through a metabolic typing test and fine-tuning. Thus each persons diet is his or hers alone.
One more thought, once you have experienced a diet designed to your metabolic type, fine-tuned and of quality foodstuffs, when you eat a meal opposite your metabolic type you will feel and sense the difference. After a period of time you will begin to notice the subtle differences with shifts in your diet. Such as switching to commercial after eating organic for awhile or going from metabolically correct supplements to off the shelf one-size-fits-all supplements. This is why it’s OK to let your hair down or backslide on the diet from time to time. It is on these occasions that you get to fully experience the subtle and not so subtle differences on your thinking, emotions and well-being.
We eat right according to our metabloic type, for our family, elderly and invalid parents, friends, careers and ourselves.We eat right because the cost of not thinking clearly or not being there for those who depend upon us is too great!
Part 2 The History of Metabolic Typing
Metabolic Typing has Existed in One form or Another Throughout History!
Ayurvedic medicine over 5,000 years old has three constitutional types or Doshas Vattic, Pittic and Kephaic.
Chinese medicine – 23 centuries old, has 5 Types, Wood, Fire, Earth, Water and Metal.
The Egyptians, Greeks and the Romans had some form of metabolic typing in their medical systems.
Dr. Francis Pottenger, M.D., authored Symptoms of Visceral Disease, 1919. Autonomic Nervous System.
Dr. Royal Lee, DDS, Autonomic Nervous System, 1930-1940.
Dr. Francis M Pottenger, Jr. M.D., Autonomic Nervous System, 1930-1940.
Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS, travels the world in the 1930’s and proves there is no correct universal diet. Authors Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1939.
Dr. W. H. Sheldon, authored The Varieties of Human Physique, C. V. Mosby, 1944. Dr. Sheldon had 3 types Endomorphic, Mesorphic and Ectomorphic.
Dr. Melvin Page, DDS, Endocrine type research, 1950’s.
Dr. Henry G. Bieler, M.D., Endocrine type research, 1950’s. Authored Food is Your Best Medicine, Random House, 1966.
Roger Williams authors Biochemical Individuality, Wiley and Sons, 1956.
Dr Emanuel Revici, M.D., Catabolic / Anabolic research, 1960’s.
Dr. William Donald Kelly, DDS, Autonomic Nervous System, 1960’s. Widely regarded as the father of Metabolic Typing.
Dr. George Watson, Ph.D., Pioneered the Oxidative System. Authors Nutrition and Your Mind, Harper and Row, 1972.
William Wolcott authors Core Premises: The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing, Healthexcel Publications, 1986.
Dr. Laura Power, Ph.D. authors Dietary Lectins: Food Allergies and Blood-Type Specificity, The Townsend Letter for Doctors, 6/1991.
Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, N.D., Blood Type. Authors Eat Right For Your Type, J.P. Putman’s Sons, 1996.
William Wolcott and Trish Fahey author The Metabolic Typing Diet, Broadway Books, 2000.
Note: This is only a partial list of those responsible for the research and the current capacity of Metabolic Typing.
While nothing new, science has brought metabolic typing a long way in the last 100 years.
Like an owner’s manual to the human body. Metabolic typing teaches you to understand your bodies needs and how to address them. And, only you can do this as each and every one of us is different and has different nutritional needs.
Part 3 Metabolic Typing Expanded
Metabolic Typing determines our bodies needs as they exist right now! When we feed our body what it needs determined by a metabolic typing test, our body, always seeking homeostasis, a state of ecological balance, normalcy, has a much easier job of it.
Each and every one of us is different. We have different hereditary backgrounds; different internal strengths and weaknesses, different life stresses, environmental pollutant exposures, life styles and we have come to prefer different foods. We may need to lose weight or gain weight. What this means is that our bodies are at different levels of health, have different nutritional requirements, and we even react to foods, supplements and herbs differently. We need a nutrition and supplement program designed for us that addresses our needs as they exist today.
The Metabolic Typing Diet addresses these needs depending on the thoroughness of the testing process. Metabolic typing tests vary from basic to comprehensive. From less than ten questions to one hundred and forty five with some home self-tests. Healthexcel is a leader in Metabolic Typing Tests with a full range of tests from the Basic provided in the book The metabolic Typing Diet, Intermediate, Advanced and a Comprehensive with home self-tests, HTMA, and neurotransmitter balancing. Analyzing ten different Fundamental Homeostatic Control systems (FHC’s).
The autonomic and oxidative systems are of particular importance because they along with the “Dominance” of one over the other determines the foods we should be focusing on and those we need to avoid. Metabolic typing targets our protein/carbohydrate/fat ratios we require as our best fuel mix for optimum performance. And, metabolic typing helps us select the metabolically correct supplement formulations our bodies require. With your metabolic program you will learn how to fine-tune your diet, how to read your bodies signals and a lot more.
From time to time we hear the saying “I just don’t have a green thumb,” what were really saying is we do not know the nutritional and environmental requirements of the plants. Perhaps that is also true for our own bodies! Yes we are quite resilient but look at us, were obese, diabetic and suffer from countless medical issues. Is this proof of knowledge or the proof of the lack of it? Metabolic typing targets your personal needs right now. Lifestyle coaching updates our knowledge on our bodies environmental or physical needs for today’s world. It makes perfect sense. It’s not unlike an owner’s manual for the human body.
Part 4 Neurogistics – The Brain Wellness Program
It is estimated that 86% of the population would benefit from Neurotransmitter Balancing. Neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, and norepinephrine, when properly balanced, can have a positive effect on every aspect of your life and relationships. Neurotransmitters have an effect on our sleep cycles, self-esteem, job performance, how we respond to stress and more.
The Brain Wellness Program measures neurotransmitter levels of Serotonin, Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Epinehrine, Norepi/epi ratio, PEA and GABA.
The Brain Wellness Program works hand in hand with the Metabolic Typing Diet Program. You will be surprised with the wonderful difference metabolically correct nutrition and quality natural foods can make. In fact, Pam Machemehl-Helmly, Co-Founder of Neurogistics, has stated that Healthexcel advisors have much better test results than they have found in the general public. And, she attributes the better test results to Healthexcel’s nutrition program.
Neurotransmitter Balance is one of 10 important Fundamental Homeostatic Control mechanisms that Healthexcel’s “Comprehensive” metabolic typing program is concerned with. William Wolcott, Co-Founder of Healthexcel, highly recommends the Brain Wellness Program by Neurogistics.
The Metabolic Typing Diet is one of the keys to performing at our best physically and mentally. To have clarity and endurance. Our health, the health of those we love, and the health of the community are all affected by the quality of the foods we choose to consume. The Metabolic Typing Diet is nutrition the way nature intended it! And, you can take a Metabolic Typing Diet test online right now at Metabolic Typing Online by Healthexcel. You will be pleasantly surprised with the results you get with the Metabolic Typing Diet.
By James Brent Beach, CMTA
About the author: James Brent Beach is a certified Metabolic Typing Advisor, certified through Healthexcel. Editor of Its Nutrition, and author of Three Steps To Health, Happiness, Love And Joy!
Note: The Comprehensive Metabolic Typing Diet Program is Recommended for those with chronic or degenerative diseases. See Referral.
The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey. William Wolcott, co-founder of Healthexcel, gives a wonderfully complete review of metabolic typing, including a Basic self-test, fine-tuning, food lists and more. For a more indepth Intermediate Level test see Metabolic Typing Online.
Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price. This is an incredible book.
Empty Harvest – Understanding The Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity, and Our Planet by Dr. Bernard Jensen & Mark Anderson
By Gary Craig, EFT Founder, Donna Bach, ND, Gary Groesbeck, BCIAC Fellow, and Daniel J. Benor, MD
Excerpt:
“This article describes the resolution in one session of several residual symptoms following severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) six years earlier in a 51 year-old woman. The intervention was Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), …”
“Over a year has passed and I don’t get overcome with vertigo symptoms like I did and don’t need the walking stick. I haven’t used it once in seventeen months since the EFT sessions that eliminated the problem. I’m doing more and going more places with this issue lifted. I no longer have to strategize where I’m going or how long I will be there like I did before. My children loved going shopping with me before the accident but after the injury, shopping was out of the question. Any shopping during that time was for really short store visits (like minutes) and I absolutely needed the walking stick. Now, since learning EFT, I go just about anywhere with limited impact. At times I get overwhelmed, resulting in a pressure in my head, yet no more vertigo, and no more walking stick. I’m stable and feel reasonably balanced; not a 100% but more than adequate. I feel so blessed …” End Excerpt. – The International Journal of Healing and Caring – On Line story here eftevents.com.
Excerpt – In 2006 scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that the prevalence of obesity in infants under 6 months had risen 73 percent since 1980. “This epidemic of obese 6-month-olds,” as endocrinologist Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, calls it, poses a problem for conventional explanations of the fattening of America. “Since they’re eating only formula or breast milk, and never exactly got a lot of exercise, the obvious explanations for obesity don’t work for babies,” he points out. “You have to look beyond the obvious.”
The search for the non-obvious has led to a familiar villain: early-life exposure to traces of chemicals in the environment. Evidence has been steadily accumulating that certain hormone-mimicking pollutants, ubiquitous in the food chain, have two previously unsuspected effects. They act on genes in the developing fetus and newborn to turn more precursor cells into fat cells,… End excerpt – NEWSWEEK story here
[It looks like we have done it to ourselves again. Also see food and Metabolic Typing Diet. Its Nutrition]
Many years ago a man graduating from Stanford University in California knew he would never put his engineering degree to work. Gary Craig had come to realize that peoples happiness was more important and set out on a journey that led to the creation of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). I wonder if at that time he could have imagined the the impact of his decision, the impact of his life’s path. The happiness his decision would bring to countless lives.
He not only created EFT he gave it away to everyone who would care to download it from his website, over 1 million times not counting the 20+ translations. According to the notice posted at his website he has put in over 30,000 hrs and spent over 2 million dollars developing the educational stream. Emotional Freedom Techniques has spread around the world and helped countless people in need. His website emofree.com goes offline tonight.
“I consider EFT to be the perfect means now available to everyone for regaining physical and mental health” – Tania de Winne, MD..
“Some day the medical profession will wake up and realize that unresolved emotional issues are the main cause of 85% of all illnesses. When they do, EFT will be one of their primary healing tools …. as it is for me.” – Eric Robins, MD
I met Gary Craig in Dallas and then only long enough to thank him for EFT and everything he has done for all of us. Gary, enjoy life and may happiness always be with you.
The fresh flavor of fresh-made juice is truly wonderful. Something everyone should enjoy. The health benefits are well documented. Each of us has different nutritional needs; if we meet them we can perform at our best physically and mentally, if we don’t we can’t. (See The Metabolic Typing Diet – Nutrition The Way Nature Intended It!, Do You Know The Right Diet For Your Metabolism? & The Metabolic Typing Diet from Healthexcel.) The enzymes – the workhorses of the body are alive and help us assimilate the juice and then go to work for us. Enzymes are destroyed above 117 degrees thus pasteurization destroys the enzymes in commercial juice products. The vitamins and minerals are naturally complex and complete, and easily assimilated. Synthetic vitamins are simple, only a part of the natural vitamin complex that makes up a vitamin is present. Fresh organic produce contains a higher nutritional content than commercially grown produce and we lose the chemical traces of pesticide, herbicides, fungicides, etc. If we use commercial produce we can eliminate up to ninety percent of the aforementioned traces by purchasing the top twelve sprayed fruits and vegetables as organic produce, go-to www.ewg.com for the list. Fresh made juice is an integral part of many healing therapies such as the Gerson Therapy. Thus if we are ill we can hasten our recovery by consuming fresh juices, Heinerman’s Encyclopedia of Healing Juices by John Heinerman is an excellent book. If we are well we can strengthen our immunity, our health and enhance our physical and mental performance by consuming fresh made juice. Note that fruit juices should be diluted 50% with filtered water as the sugar content is to high in 100% fruit juice. It is also important to note that too much sugar will impede the immune system, absorption of certain vitamins and minerals and recovery. Too much sugar also stresses the system – think of a child’s reaction to too much candy and acting out. Green juices are excellent nutritional sources but they do oxidize quickly and should be consumed immediately after juicing.
The materials used in the manufacture of the juicer are important where they come in contact with the juice. Stainless steel components are preferred, aluminum is completely unacceptable and plastic will leach minute traces of toxins into the juice. That said where price is an issue, plastic is acceptable and the benefits of juice should out weigh the issues of minute traces of toxins except perhaps in cases where toxins are the issue.
Let’s look briefly at four mixer types and pressing, the centrifugal, blender, masticator, and grinder or triturator type juicers.
The centrifugal juicer shreds and then spins the pulp at high speed throwing off the juice through a strainer/basket. A lot of the juice is discarded with the pulp and with it enzymes, vitamins and minerals. If this pulp is reused, in a sauce for instance, it is a net nutritional loss for that dish because it is no longer a complete food as we have already taken away a lot of its nutrition. At best we would break even with little if any net gain and we might as well have eaten the produce whole. (Please Note: If you have a centrifugal juicer, make sure the centrifugal basket has a angle to it. Straight-sided centrifugal baskets have been found in the past to create a small +/- electrical exchange between the basket and the wall of the juicer that was strong enough to destroy the enzymes. Ref. The Gerson Therapy by Charlotte Gerson and Morton Walker, D.P.M. copyright 2001, page 120 and also A Cancer Therapy – Results of Fifty Cases & The Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy by Max Gerson M.D., page 217, GersonInstitute.org.
Blender juicer, this juicer slices or grinds the produce into a fine puree. Once again we are consuming the whole fruit or vegetable and would have been better off to have eaten the produce whole.
Champion Juicer, $229.00 – $259.00 – As an alternative to the K & K Grinder, one can use a Champion juicer – no other juicers are recommended. Keep the solid insert in place on the Champion juicer to keep the pulp cool. Frequently you can find barely used Champion juicers at half price on the bulletin boards at co-op stores, and in the papers. ChampionJuicer.com.
Norwalk Juicer, $2295.00 for the Stainless Steel models. The Norwalk Juicer is an automatic (2-step) triturator/press combination. Watch the video online. The Norwalk Juicer has been made in America since Dr. Walker first produced it in 1934 and it comes with a 12-year warranty. NorwalkJuicers.com/ 1-800-405-8423. (Safety Note: Always keep your hands and fingers out of and away from automatic presses – use tongs to place and remove tray and or pulp sack.)
Research Paper:
de Vendômois JS, Roullier F, Cellier D, Séralini GE. A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health. Int J Biol Sci 2009; 5:706-726. Available from http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
Abstract (excerpt)
We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to be tolerant to the broad spectrum herbicide Roundup and thus contains residues of this formulation. …Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex- and often dose-dependent. Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs. Other effects were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system. – International Journal of Biological Science Research Paper here
[Yes, a little knowledge about what you are eating pays nice dividends. see Organic vs. Commercial foods and food. ItsNutrition ]
Fruit and vegetables 12 most & 12 least sprayed list- reduce pesticide residues up to 90% …. .(Based on USDA tests)Foodnews.org/.
MSG Resource, foods to avoid (an eye-opener), information, links… msgtruth.org/avoid.htm
True Foods GMO Free & GMO food Guide This is a great service to those who eat proccessed foods and most of us do from time to time. If you can afford it buy only organic (locally raised when possible) and prepare from scratch. TrueFoods.org/
In the movie “Cheaper by the Dozen” staring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, who made a wonderful couple, there is a breakfast scene involving a frog. In the scene the frog hops into the scrambled eggs and the whole family (12 kids) jump in to help catch the elusive frog. During the ensuing chaos, breakfast and the kitchen is pretty much reduced to a shambles along with school and work clothes. Once caught dad (Steve Martin) calmly tells the young boy to put the frog back in his home. Mom (Bonnie Hunt) asks if a special cup was broken, upon hearing that it was she sighs and shrugs it off while the rest of the family, still laughing sits down to what is left of breakfast and continues as if nothing had happened.
Yes it is a scene in a movie, but what a wonderful example of love and peace of mind. There was no baggage created and carried forward. Mom sighs and then shrugs off the loss of a special cup. Dad covered in food calmly asks his son to put the frog back into his home and the son, fully realizing what just transpired, complies. There was no guilt piled on, no yelling, and no stress carried forward. But there was one great frog story to tell over and over again. I must say that director Shawn Levy and 2oth Century Fox created a great family movie in ” Cheaper by the Dozen,” one I recommend.
Can a lesson be taken from the frog scene? I believe one can. If a person chooses to live a life of love. In the breakfast frog scene the young boy had no idea about what was about to happen and neither could the frog. Love is kind, patient and forgiving.
Weight Loss management – Low carb diet, high protiein diet, what is the right program for you? Metabolic typing will assist you in achieving your ideal weight. Your ideal or natural weight can be affected by a number of isses, body chemistry imbalances, underlying health issues, problems with the metabolism of protein, carbohydrates and/or fats, food allergies, highly processed foods and more. Consuming the proper metabolic type diet, macro nutrient ratios (protein/carbohydrate/fat) and micro nutrients, you balance your body chemistry. And, should find yourself not only building a stronger healthier body but losing excess weight at the same time. For more information see Metabolic Typing.
Know your Metabolic Type and follow your diet plan. Find articles on the Metabolic Typing Diet here and here.
Stock-up on the health supplies, natural health remedies and supplements. Natural health remedies and supplements may be scarce, extremely low dose thus ineffective or no longer exist when World Trade Organizations (WTO) Codex Alimentarius becomes WTO Law (U.S. law - It is sure to happen but when?)
Stock up on food and dry goods so you can eliminate shopping trips and be prepared for any emergency.
New! 01/29/2010 Laffer: Obama's 'Train Wreck' Ahead "Arthur Laffer, creator of the Laffer Curve that showed how low tax rates boost economic growth, is warning anyone who will listen that the economy is headed for a “train wreck” in 2011 that will make the current recession look tame by comparison." by Donald Lambro - HumanEvents.com
"Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated neurological outcomes using monkeys."
"The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule. The results, which you can read for yourself here, were disturbing. Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival."
"The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to our children in the 1980s to 36 today,"
"Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating."
November 28, 09. United States, China, Norway, France, Ukraine... H1N1 deaths increase as mutations combine - vaccine & antiviral resistant, lung hemorrhaging virus - Examiner.com
"Lung hemorrhaging is being caused by a swine flu mutation that has been reported in China, Norway, France, and the Ukraine as having a receptor binding domain of D225G. In the United States, there has been a report of fatalities in patients with hemorrhaged lungs, but the mutation has not been confirmed." - Examiner.com
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison
Do You Know The Right Diet For Your Metabolism?
"If you (or anyone else for that matter) do not
already know the answer to that question, finding out can prove
an overwhelming if not impossible undertaking. Where can one go
to find a satisfactory explanation? Little help of any real value
can be gained from traditional medicine whose focus is on
treating disease rather than on building health. A typical
response from the average physician when asked, is merely to eat
a well-balanced diet. But, when the next logical query, "What is
a well-balanced diet for me?" ...
Organic vs. Commercial Foods
"Historically all food was organic. Then about 1800 a German
scientist created the first chemical fertilizer and a global
industry was born. In both 2001 and 2002, more than 5 billion
pounds of pesticides were used worldwide. The United States of
America used over 1.2 billion pounds in both 2001 and 2002."
The Metabolic Typing Diet - Nutrition The Way Nature
Intended It!
"A metabolically correct holistic diet, is one of the keys to performing at our best physically and mentally. To have clarity and endurance in the fourth quarter, we need to optimize our fuel. Our health, the health of those we love, and the health of the community are all affected by the quality of the foods we choose to consume. Its time to take a fresh look..."
Juicing Primer
"The fresh flavor of fresh-made juice is truly wonderful. Something everyone should enjoy. The health benefits are well documented. Each of us has different nutritional needs; if we meet them we can perform at our best physically and mentally, if we don't we can't. The enzymes - the workhorses of the body are alive and help us assimilate the juice and then go to work for us. Enzymes are destroyed above 117 degrees thus pasteurization destroys the enzymes in commercial juice products. The vitamins and minerals are naturally complex and complete..."
Important Study
Results - Wireless Radiation in
the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations and
Mechanisms.
This is relevant to everyone! " Commentary: As important as this
study is to families with a child diagnosed with autism, it is
just as relevant to everyone else. This
unseen EMR and RF pollution effects everyone not just the users
of cell phones and wireless internet."
(Health continued below.)
Love
A loving environment and personal character built upon authentic love is just as important to our health and the quality of our lives as a metabolically correct diet. Consider reading a passage, perhaps randomly selected, from one of these books morning and night.
Gardening the Soul- A spiritual daybook through the
seasons Sister Stanislaus Kennedy.
"Hope - looking beyond allopathic medicine...
As wonderful as allopathic medicine is, allopathy has not solved all the ills that modern man falls prey too. However, we do have alternatives should we allow ourselves the flexiblity to look at the other medicines of the world, other treatment protocols and metabolically correct holistic nutrition. For a short list..."
Incurable... Options - A case in Point!
"Options... A number of years ago when I searched for a cure for a rare allopathically incurable disease, I found 4 possible solutions. I visited two, understood the third and found the fourth unique."
The Metabolic Typing Diet by
William Wolcott and Trish Fahey. William Wolcott, co-founder of
Healthexcel, gives a wonderfully complete review of metabolic
typing, including a Basic self-test, fine-tuning, food lists and
more.
The Universal Laws Of Healing by Dr. C. C. Wilcher, D.C., N.D., L. Ac, Practices
acupuncture, chiropractic and naturopathy in Boise, ID. He has
studied in Europe, Latin America, the Orient, and with Indian,
Native American and Western healers. A lecturer, teacher and
author.
Hyperhealth "Our commitment is to help people learn about nutrition and the role foods, herbs and supplements play in supporting the structure and function of the human body. Because of this commitment, Hyperhealth has emerged as the gold standard of reference tools." "With in Hyperhealth's 5195 topics and 47,000 references you will find thorough answers and the knowledge you need to take a proactive role in managing your health."
Our
Toxic World by Dr. Doris J. Rapp, M.D.: Chemical effects on the brain, body, and sexual organs.
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock M.D., Dr. Blaylock. a board-certified and practicing
neurosurgeon, demonstrates how monosodium glutamate and
artificial sweetners are damaging and killing brain cells.
Affecting a childs development and everyones health.
Emotional Freedom Techniques - EFT
"Rapid emotional relief from anxiety, guilt, fear and ending self-sabotage - for the freedom to live life, to excel at our careers and passions, and to preserve the family."
Our Treasured Inflexible Ego Thought
System...
"I am as guilty of this as anyone. We build our treasured mental boxes we live in and our ego holds us there like a beached whale. We see, but we do not see! We hear, but we do not hear! We know, but we do not act, thus we really do not know! Due to our treasured ego thought system, we, like the whale stay beached with the water lapping at our side."
S.I.D.S. Solved! - Crib death solution... It makes perfect
sense!
"Two scientists, Dr Jim Sprott and Mr. Barry Richardson have solved sudden infant death syndrome. The cause and their solution makes perfect sense. 100,000 baby study over 4 1/2 years and not one baby lost..."
Love has always proven to be more powerful than hate and in the end love always wins. Live a life of "Authentic Love."
Everyday we see the the results of a lack of love around us. As we adopt a life of "Authentic Love," the power of love is magnified. And, ourlives, our world becomes a more peaceful and loving place. Highly recommended.
Behavior Issues
Editors Note: Most of us have seen children get hyper after eating a lot of high sugar foods, snacks and candy. The behavior change in an individual who has consumed too much alcohol. And of course we know drugs both legal and illegal can affect our thinking. One might not beaware that depending on ones Metabolic Dominance, Autonomic or Oxidative System, foods such as meat and fatty foods or fruits, vegitables and grains can improve or worsen emotions such as anger, impatients, deperession and apathy. Energy levels too are effected hyperactive or hypoactive. Certain foods do to mineral content should be avoided also as they can imbalance ones body chemistry. For more information read Do You Know The Right Diet For Your Metabolism?, The Metabolic Typing Diet - Nutrition The Way Nature
Intended It!, and the highly recommended The Metabolic Typing Diet by
William Wolcott and Trish Fahey.
Is This your Child? by Dr. Doris J. Rapp, M.D., F.A.A.A., F.A.A.P.: Allergic reactions, hyperactive, learning problems, and sickness.
Is This Your
Childs World? by Dr. Doris J. Rapp, M.D.: Hyperactive, asthmatic, disruptive, learning problems, chronic colds, food, sick buildings, etc.
Diet, Crime and Delinquency by Alexander
Schauss. More proof of the link between diet and our ability to make quality decisions.
Nutrition and Your Mind, the Psychochemical Response by George Watson, Ph.D.. The pioneer of the Oxidative System and developed a method of classifying cellular oxidation and its relationship to an individuals psychological and emotional response. The Oxidative system is incorporated in the Metabolic Typing Diet. And, is another link between diet and the mind. Note: Out of print search page 3 for title.
Another area we have to consider is the side effects of Antidepressant drugs - SELF-MUTILATION, SUICIDE, VIOLENCE, HOMICIDE, MURDER-SUICIDE, SPONTANEUS ABORTION, STILL BIRTH OR PRETERM BIRTH, BIRTH DEFECTS... Always get the complete list of side effects from your doctor and pharmacist for any drug and ask if anything should be avoided while using the drug. A side note here is quite mortifying, how often have you heard that a possible suicide or a suspect in a murder or multple murder was on psychiatric drugs or under psychiatric care? Did a properly or improperly prescribed drug push the person over the edge? If so is the person responsible for his or her actions?
Prescription for Disaster by Gary Null, Ph.D., an in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists...
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