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 Every biochemical process in your body requires minerals to proceed. You cannot use energy, oxygen, DNA, RNA, chromosomes, enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, carbohydrates, antioxidants, fatty acids or hormones without the metallic cofactors made from minerals. The trace minerals that our soil was originally created with are required for every living thing on the face of the earth. Some minerals, like calcium and magnesium are required in large amounts and others, like selenium and copper, are required in minute amounts. Regardless of the amount required, the reason they are called essential minerals is because any length of time without them in the body will result in one or more diseases.

The earth was created with a coating of topsoil that contained all the necessary minerals. These minerals were not evenly distributed in the soil like the sugar that you cream into your cookie batter, but were in veins like the fudge in fudge ripple ice cream. A field of wheat or corn or barley could have a plant growing rich in minerals and another plant right next to it that had virtually none. One part of the world could be rich in one mineral and deficient in another and it would be vice versa in another part of the world. There are 90 essential nutrients; 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino acids, 4 essential fatty acids and fats and 60 essential elements or minerals. Plants can produce vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids through photosynthesis, but they cannot produce minerals. If the minerals are not in the soil that the plant is growing in, they will not be in the plant. Farming practices over hundreds of years have resulted in depleted soils. This, in turn, causes depleted minerals in the foods that we eat. You can suffer from malnutrition and have the resulting diseases, no matter how much food you eat! In 1992, the UN Environmental Summit Report documented the decline in mineral values of farm and range lands throughout the earth. Over the past 100 years, the soil in Africa has been degraded by 74%, in Asia by 76%, in Australia by 55%, in Europe by 72%, in South America by 76% and in North America by a whopping 85%. The bowl of spinach that your grandmother ate contained considerably more nutrition that the one you feed to your children.

A deficiency in any one of the 90 essential nutrients will lead to or cause disease or premature death. It is theoretically possible, with a great deal of discipline and effort, to obtain all the amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins you need in your diet. It is impossible to get all the minerals you need regardless of what kind or how much food you eat. Since our food is grown in soils that are greatly depleted of minerals, it is necessary to supplement with minerals and beneficial to supplement with vitamins, fatty acids and amino acids.

Not all minerals are the same. There are three different kinds of minerals available on the market today. They vary greatly in their absorbability and their potential to become toxic.

1. Metallic minerals are found in rocks and soils and are about 10% absorbable. They can build to dangerous levels, accumulating in fat, liver and brain tissue. Most tablets available in the grocery store are of this type.

2. Chelated minerals are metallic minerals that have been bound to an enzyme or an amino acid. This process of binding the metallic molecule with another, more absorbable molecule, increases the absorbability of the mineral to about 35 to 45%. They are usually much more expensive than metallic minerals.

3. Organic colloidal minerals are minerals that have been processed through a plant - ie. drawn up through the roots of the plant, out of the soil and into the plant body itself. They have undergone biochemical changes and been made extremely absorbable - about 90 to 98%. Since we were created to obtain minerals through our food, these minerals are the type that we are able to assimilate and use. “Colloidal” refers to the size of the particle and is not the same as “organic colloidal” which means processed through a plant as well as very small in size. Metallic colloidal minerals are no more absorbable than regular metallic minerals.

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Bulk herbs and capsule herbs are frequently more effective and almost always safer than pharmaceuticals. If you are concerned about interactions between your medicines and herbal products you would like to use, contact us. We can assist you with information about the uses of herbs, methods of preparing bulk herbal products and any potential interactions between herbal products and between herbs and pharmaceuticals.

If you have health challenges they can almost always be improved with nutritional and herbal treatments. These products can work in concert with your traditional medical treatments or instead of them. If you are unsure about what products would be helpful for you or are just looking for general information about your condition, email us. We would be happy to assist you.

Nutrition is the single most important thing in preventing chronic, degenerative, debilitating disease. We are happy to assist you with nutritional questions as well. Simple dietary changes can be the best way to prevent the development of or the worsening of already existing conditions. Conditions like diabetes, metabolic syndrome, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and many, many others are greatly affected by what you choose to put in your body. We can assist you in finding the best dietary choices and supplement products for your particular health challenges.

 BELLS PALSY Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien

A sudden drooping on one side of the face is Bell's Palsy. It is caused by an inflammation, swelling or squeezing of the facial nerve (the 7th cranial nerve as it passes through the skull). Bell's Palsy is often mistaken for a stroke because of the sudden onset. Numbness and partial or total loss of muscular control on the affected side are typical signs and symptoms. Treated properly, there can be as much as an 80% chance of significant recovery.

Treatment is vitamin B-12 at 1000 mcg per day for a total of 20,000 mch; calcium at 2000 mg per day; magnesium at 800 mg per day; essental fatty acids at 5 gm three times per day; betaine HCL and pancreatic enzymes at 75-200 mg three times per day before meals and American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). Accupuncture can get excellent results. Colloidal minerals are useful.

 FLU PREVENTION

This time of year flu and cold prevention is on everyone's mind, or should be. This single most important thing you can do to prevent flu or colds is the keep your hands away from your face. The more often you put your hands near your eyes, nose and mouth, the more likely it is that you will catch a virus. The second most important thing that you can do is to WASH YOUR HANDS. As you move through the world, you pick up innumberable germs on your hands. Door knobs, toilet flush handles, grocery store carts, elevator buttons, money, restaurant tables, telephones, computer keyboards; every day you touch hundreds of things that have been previously touched by countless other people. As your mother used to say, "You don't know where their hands have been."

To prevent the flu, try to get 2 cloves of raw garlic into your diet daily. You can mince them and sprinkle them on a salad or into a bowl of soup or spread them on bread and butter. Garlic has wonderful antiviral properties. Thyme is a potent antiviral and antibiotic. It can be drunk as a tea or used in cooking. Rose hips are a tremendous source of vitamin C and can be a great immune system booster. Yogurt also helps the immune system get ready to produce antibodies to fight infections.

If, despite your best efforts, you come down with a cold or the flu, thyme tea will lessen the severity and the duration of the illness. Burdock root tea will encourage sweating and help reduce fevers. Peppermint tea taken in small sips every five minutes will also lower a fever. A foot bath with mustard seed powder, peppermint and ginger will reduce all symptoms of a viral illness.

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Cadmium is widely distributed as a result of its use in the metal and rubber fabricating industries. Cadmium plating is used on many metals to prevent rust. It is added to the rubber in automobile tires to enhance the quality of the rubber. As a result of this widespread industrial use, cadmium toxicity is becoming a major health challenge in the industrialized world. Tobacco contains 23 micrograms of cadmium per pack of cigarettes. The major portion of the cadmium in tobacco is volatilized when the tobacco is burned and is inhaled and the residue not absorbed is passed out in the exhaled smoke as a major feature of "second hand" smoke. Cadmium interferes with the biological function of several metalloenzymes, especially those containing zinc, copper, calcium and selenium.

There are no less than 70 metalloenzymes that require zinc to function. Zinc helps to bind enzymes to substrates by maintaining spatial and configurational relationships. It participates in the metabolism of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) and the synthesis of proteins. It is an integral part of the RNA molecule itself and participates in cell division and synthesis of DNA. Zinc deficiency in pregnant women causes a wide variety of birth defects, including Down's syndrome, cleft lip, cleft palate, brain defects (dorsal herniation and hydroencephaloceol), micro- or anopthalmia (small or absent eyes), micro- or agnathia, spina bifida, clubbed limbs, syndactyly (webbed fingers and toes), diaphragmatic hernias (hiatal hernia), umbilical hernias, heart defects, lung defects and urogenital defects. Overt signs of a zinc deficiency include pica (earth/dirt eating, wool eating, hair eating, etc.), loss of sense of smell, loss of sense of taste, infertility, failure of wounds to heal, immune status failure, poor growth (short stature), high infant mortality, hypogonadism (small, poorly functioning ovaries or testes), remaining in a prepubescent state (failure to mature), anemia, alopecia (hair loss), frizzy hair, brittle hair, diarrhea, depression, paranoia, oral and perioral dermatitis (rashes in and around the mouth), weight loss, prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hypertrophy), severe body odor (smelly tennis shoe syndrome), anorexia and bullemia.

Copper is essential to all living organisms and is an important cofactor for many hundreds of metalloenzymes. Copper is required in many physiological functions including, but not limited to, RNA function, DNA function, lysyl oxidase cofactor, melanin production (hair and skin pigment), electron transfer of oxygen in subcellular respiration and tensile strength of elastic fibers in blood vessels, skin and vertebral discs. Copper functions as a cofactor and activator of numerous cuproenzymes that are involved in the development and maintenance of the cardiovascular system and in skeletal integrity. Deficiency in copper results in reduced lysyl oxidase activity causing a reduction in conversion of proelastin to elastin causing a decrease in tensile strength of arterial walls and ruptured aneurysms. It results in a particular form of arthritis of young people in the form of bone spurs in the bone's growth plate. It can result in myelin defectss, anemia, poor hair keritinization and loss of hair color. Overt signs of a copper deficiency include white or gray hair, dry/brittle hair, ptosis (sagging skin - eye lids, breasts, stomachs, etc.), hernias, varicose veins, aneurysms, thyroid disfunction, anemia, arthritis, ruptured discs, liver cirrhosis, violent behavior, blind rages, explosive outbursts, learning disabilities, cerebral palsy and elevated blood cholesterol levels.

There are no less than 147 deficiency diseases that can be attributed to a calcium deficiency or imbalance. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body; 99% is found in the bones and teeth and the other 1% is found in the blood, extracellular fluids and within cells where it is a cofactor and activator for numerous enzymes. In addition to being a major structural mineral, calcium is also required for the release of energy from ATP for muscular contraction, blood clotting, the transport of nutrients and other substances into and out of cells, the release of neurotranmitters for nerve cell function, the synthesis, secretion and metabolic effects of hormones and enzymes, the regulation of the heart beat and maintenance of muscle tone. Diseases that are a result of a calcium deficiency and it's cofactors include osteoporosis, receding gums, osteomalacia, arthritis, hypertension, insomnia, kidney stones, bone spurs, calcium deposits, cramps and twitches, PMS, low back pain and sciatica, Bell's palsy, nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism, osteofibrosis, tetany and panic attacks.

Selenium is the most efficient anti-oxidant and is found at the subcellular level in the glutathione peroxidase enzyme system and metallo amino acids (selenomethionine). Selenium prevents cellular and subcellular lipids and fats from being peroxidized which literally means it prevents body fats from going rancid (seen externally as age or liver spots). It also functions to protect cellular and organelle bi-lipid layer membranes from oxidative damage. High intakes of vegetable oils including salad dressing, margarine and cooking oils concurrent with a selenium deficiency is the quickest route to a heart attack and cancer. The polyunsaturated configuration of the oils when heated or treated with hydrogen (trans fatty acids) literally causes the racidity (free radical damage) of cellular fat. Selenium deficiency in adults appears as reduced immune capacity, anemia, infertility, age spots, myalgia (muscle pains), muscle weakness, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, palpitations or irregular heart rhythms, cardiomyopathy, hpyertrophy or thickening of the cardiac muscle, liver cirrhosis, cataracts and cancer. It is a versitile anticancer agent and a defieincy of selenium is related to the onset of full blown AIDS in chronically infected HIV patients.

Contrary to what is frequently proposed by anti-smoking literature and proponents, smoking does not directly cause cancer and heart disease. The cadmium in tobacco interferes with the action of necessary minerals that are required by the body and the resultant deficiencies of those minerals is responsible for the diseases that are frequently associated with smoking. While the best choice would be to stop smoking, it is prudent, therefore, for the person who wishes to continue smoking to supplement with extra of those minerals as they are already in limited supply in the food available due to the minerally deficient soils that our food is grown in. This would also go a long way to explain why so many people who don't smoke, have never smoked and are not exposed to second hand smoke also get those diseases that are supposedly caused by smoking.

(This information comes from the book Rare Earths, Forbidden Cures by doctors Joel D. Wallach and Ma Lan.)

The Youngevity Majestic Earth (R) Plant Derived Minerals contains 100% plant derived, organic, colloidal minerals that are the most absorbable and bio-available minerals available. The Youngevity Ultimate Selenium contains amino acid chelated selenium, zinc, copper and vanadium to further ensure an adequate supply of those essential minerals that are specifically required by smokers. The Youngevity Osteo-fx contains organic, plant derived, colloidal calcium which is actually recognized and absorbed by the human gut unlike the metallic mineral calcium salts that you will typically find in most calcium supplements. It also contains the cofactors that calcium requires to be absorbed and utilized, like boron and vitamin D. We highly recommend those supplements for everyone due to the depletion of minerals available in food today, but they are especially required in higher amounts by smokers. Do your body a favor and order them today!

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