Total Living Naturals

First of all, remember there are eight genetically modified food crops:

1. Soy
2. Corn
3. Cottonseed (used in vegetable cooking oils)
4. Canola (canola oil)
5. Sugar from sugar beets
6. Hawaiian papaya
7. Some varieties of zucchini
8. Crookneck squash

So why should we avoid these foods? None of the main stream media is sounding a big alarm. What it comes down to is that we have been fed a bunch of misinformation about the safety of these foods that have been engineered with un-natural DNA. Big money is involved so what does that tell you? If you want a quick education on this subject listen to the leading U.S. expert on what recent testing on hamsters for 2 years has revealed.

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I've read about this in different places and it's FDA approved. Makes you wonder why you
don't hear about it from your cardiologist?? Could be they get stuck in ruts just like the rest
of us. So….. do your own research if your interested in staying away from invasive procedures.

By the way Vitamin C helps strengthen your arteries and reduces inflammation, key to good
cardiovascular health.

Lynn

From: Matt Goldstein
Date: 05/20/10 04:50:53
Subject: Non Surgical ways to avoid bypass surgery and stents

Doctors Ignore Proven Alternative to Coronary Stents and Bypass Surgery

A unique opportunity to save countless lives and billions of dollars is being overlooked by the medical community. This technique increases blood flow to the heart, strengthens the circulation, and offers a proven way to treat heart disease in lieu of stents or bypass surgery.

Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a safe, non-invasive procedure that can overcome heart disease in two ways–by passively exercising the heart to strengthen the vascular system and by targeting inflammation, the underlying culprit in damaged blood vessels that inhibits blood flow.

More than 100 studies have demonstrated its overwhelming effectiveness and unquestioned safety in improving blood flow in patients with heart disease. Some experts are calling for the EECP procedure to become first-line therapy for heart disease, long before surgery or other invasive procedures are used. Approved by the FDA for chronic stable angina, cardiogenic shock, congestive heart failure, as well as during a heart attack, EECP not only saves lives but is also considerably cheaper and safer than traditional invasive procedures such as angioplasty and coronary stents, which continue to be the mainstay of therapy. Medicare even pays for it!

By improving circulation, this simple procedure prevents arteries from becoming blocked, allowing the heart to do its job more effectively. As is often the case, health care in the United States is often driven by lucrative revenues making many in the medical community reluctant to embrace alternative therapies.

Life Extension first enlightened members to the benefits of EECP therapy in May 2003, yet most Foundation members still don't realize this life-saving technology is available. In this article, we'll review why your cardiologist can no longer afford to ignore the benefits of this inexpensive, life-saving procedure.

Patient being treated on Vasomedical LumenairTM EECP® Therapy System

For patients with some forms of heart disease, enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a non-invasive, high-tech, low-risk procedure, performed on an outpatient basis, which offers a remarkable reprieve from some of the potentially disabling symptoms of stable angina and coronary heart disease. Patients lucky enough to be offered this underused therapy may experience changes in their conditions that range from significant pain relief to renewed mobility and energy, to a rekindled libido. They may also literally gain a new lease on life, simultaneously avoiding the dangers of coronary bypass surgery while buying enough time to reverse the heart disease that brought them to this crossroads in the first place. But chances are, unless you inquire about it, you'll never even be told this option exists.

Imagine this scenario. You've developed troubling symptoms recently–shortness of breath, difficulty climbing stairs without resting frequently, and maybe even some pressure or pain in your chest. If you're a man, you may have noticed a decrease in libido, or an occasional inability to sustain erection during sex. You may even break out into a sweat inexplicably from time to time.

You see a physician, and after listening to your heart and lungs he may send you to see a cardiologist, who takes your history, listens to your heart again, and sends you for a battery of tests. You may be given an electrocardiogram and a chest X-ray, have some blood work drawn, and be sent for further testing, such as a stress test or an echocardiogram (EKG). Eventually, the doctor delivers the grim news, "You have coronary heart disease and you need coronary bypass surgery now." Frightened into a near-myocardial infarction right then and there, you're ready to agree to anything.

What You Need to Know: Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP)

Stable coronary artery disease and angina can cause disabling symptoms including shortness of breath, pressure or discomfort in the chest, exercise intolerance, and fatigue.

Physicians commonly treat coronary artery disease and angina using invasive procedures such as angioplasty/stents and coronary artery bypass grafting. While such treatment temporarily restores blood flow to the heart, reclosing of the arteries is common.

A safe, effective, non-invasive therapy for the symptoms of coronary artery disease and angina is now available. Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) alleviates cardiac symptoms by enhancing coronary collateral circulation–alternate pathways by which blood can reach the heart muscle.

The procedure is performed in a series of outpatient treatments, in which inflatable cuffs wrapped around the legs inflate and deflate in rhythm with the patient's heartbeat.

More than 100 published studies show that EECP can effectively relieve symptoms of heart failure, increase exercise tolerance, reduce reliance on medication, and improve quality of life. Benefits of treatment can last up to five years.

This novel therapy simulates the circulatory benefits of exercise, allowing patients to overcome symptoms and resume a healthy, active lifestyle.

An All-Too-Common Scenario

Or perhaps the doctor recommends balloon angioplasty, followed by insertion of a stent–a tiny metallic mesh tube that will be threaded into one (or more) of the arteries supplying blood to your heart. Once in place it will squish the sludge blocking that artery up against the artery walls, allowing blood to flow more freely again. The stent will maintain this opening–at least temporarily. Even with additional drugs, restenosis (reclosing) of the artery, is common. Like any educated American, you know that our medical system is the most technologically advanced that has ever existed. We don't just bury people with heart disease, we fix them. If your drain pipes are clogged, after all, a plumber reams them out until they flow freely again. If it works for my plumbing, you reason, surely it will work for me, too.

An All-Too-Common Scenario

In this all-too-common scenario, the doctor schedules time in the cardiac catheterization lab immediately. You steel yourself for an invasive procedure that has numerous risks, and costs more than your last car, but may save your life. You've been presented with all the options and agree with your cardiologist that balloon angioplasty followed by stent placement is the best choice of treatment. You accept that you need this procedure immediately. And so you submit to an invasive procedure that you're convinced will improve your long-term chances of recovery. This is the best option for treatment, bar none, and thank goodness you're living in a country where such procedures are performed so routinely.

But is it really the best option? What if there were another treatment option that could achieve some of the potential benefits of angioplasty, and maybe more, without invasive surgery?

Too Good to be True?

Debra Braverman, MD, is one of the country's leading experts on enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP). She is also one of its most enthusiastic proponents. She runs the largest EECP facility in the nation, the Braverman EECP Heart Centers, affiliated with Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "The first time I heard about it, I thought it sounds too good to be true," says Dr. Braverman. But that was years ago. Now, she's a firm believer in this deceptively simple therapy for a deadly disease. "I was amazed by the science behind it and the simplicity of the technique. In our culture, we tend to think the higher-tech, the better, but the results with this technique are phenomenal."
Too Good to be True?

This simple procedure is done as an outpatient therapy that patients ordinarily receive in a series of sessions, lasting roughly one hour per day, for up to seven weeks, for a total of 35 sessions. While the patient lies on a special bed, inflatable cuffs, much like blood pressure-monitoring cuffs, are wrapped around the lower and upper legs. An electrocardiogram monitors the patient's heartbeat, and a computer coordinates a cycle of rapid inflations and deflations of the cuffs in rhythm with the patient's heartbeat. Cuff contractions occur during the resting phase of the patient's pulse. Forcing blood back into the heart, they effectively take some of the workload off the heart. Patients ordinarily report finding the experience relaxing, akin to deep-tissue massage; within weeks, or even days, they usually report feeling more energetic and having a greater tolerance for exercise, in addition to relief from angina pain, according to Dr. Braverman.

She notes that more than 100 articles about EECP have been published in the medical literature. Numerous clinical trials have shown time and again that EECP is effective at relieving pain and other symptoms of angina in patients with stable angina. It has also proven effective at improving symptoms of heart failure, reducing patient reliance on medications, and improving exercise tolerance, erectile function, and quality of life. In other countries, it has been used to successfully treat peripheral vascular disease, restless leg syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, and to improve wound care. Cardiovascular benefits have been shown to last for up to five years. What's more, in comparison with riskier, more expensive, and far more common interventional procedures such as angioplasty and coronary bypass, studies have shown that EECP is as good or better at alleviating symptoms, reducing morbidity, and improving quality of life.

In her book, Heal Your Heart with EECP–The First Comprehensive Guide to Enhanced External Counterpulsation, Dr. Braverman describes clinical trials that showed coronary heart disease patients who received EECP, rather than angioplasty, were less likely to undergo repeat treatment at one- and five-year follow-up than patients treated with angioplasty. Other data analysis found that within five years of initial treatment, patients treated with coronary bypass, angioplasty, or EECP all experienced similar subsequent mortality and heart attack rates, although the rate of deaths within five years was slightly lower for both EECP and bypass surgery than for angioplasty.

Contraindications for EECP

While EECP may benefit many individuals suffering from the effects of coronary heart disease, it is not for every patient. Contraindications for the therapy include:

Severe peripheral vascular disease

Decompensated congestive heart failure

Uncontrolled hypertension

Phlebitis

Deep vein thrombosis

Pregnant or potentially pregnant women

Significant aortic insufficiency

Markedly irregular heart rhythm

Consult with your physician to determine if EECP is an appropriate choice for you.

Forging New Pathways–Repairing the Heart's Blood Supply
Pre-EECP®

This phenomenon, known as coronary collateral angiogenesis, is well documented. In recent years, scientists have devoted increasing time and resources to the quest for therapies designed to encourage this process. Miami-based preventive cardiologist, Michael D. Ozner, MD, FACC, FAHA, characterizes the development of these remarkable new vessels as "natural heart bypass." He advocates medical over surgical therapies, noting that it is possible to live with blockages, while reversing the underlying atherosclerosis, through dramatic lifestyle changes, such as adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet and exercise.

This inherent ability of the body to recruit existing small vessels and transform them into alternate routes for coronary circulation–natural bypasses around arterial blockages–may be attributed to increased production of stem cells from which endothelial cells are formed called endothelial "progenitor" cells. And research shows that these progenitor cells increase significantly in response to exercise. This increase is also tied to improved endothelial function. The endothelium (the tissue lining blood vessel walls) plays a central role in the development of atherosclerosis; it is here in the endothelium that the process begins. Unless reversed with diet, exercise, and/or drug therapy, atherosclerosis ordinarily culminates in cardiovascular disease. The ability to improve endothelial function by exercise, mediated by increased production of endothelial progenitor cells, is partly responsible for the cardiovascular health benefits of exercise. Not coincidentally, EECP simul
ates intensive exercise.

A Bridge to Self-Sustaining Therapy Post-EECP®

"EECP absolutely mimics exercise," says Dr. Braverman. "The machine is exercising for them in a sense. It truly recreates the circulatory benefits of exercise." This exercise-like benefit is believed to derive from hemodynamic shear stress effects created by EECP. This refers to the phenomenon in which fast-moving blood particles interact with the blood vessel walls. This mechanical phenomenon, specifically as experienced during EECP, has recently been linked to suppression of inflammation in patients with angina and coronary artery disease. By forcing blood through relaxed blood vessels, shear stresses on the vascular walls may also stimulate the production of endothelial progenitor cells, just as exercise does. In any event, this mechanical effect, which is induced by exercise or EECP, has been shown to stimulate collateral vessels in the coronary circulation.

In addition, some other studies have shown that EECP is associated with increased levels of the crucial vasodilator nitric oxide. Dr. Braverman says, "There is considerable evidence that numerous conditions–including hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart failure, atherosclerosis, aging, and vascular injury–are associated with endothelial dysfunction and reduced nitric oxide levels. Anything that increases nitric oxide will have a long-term beneficial effect on heart disease and angina, and will improve the circulation in your entire body." In addition, EECP reduces plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide (a marker associated with heart failure).

A Bridge to Self-Sustaining Therapy

According to Dr. Braverman, "EECP truly recreates the circulatory benefits of exercise…It's a bridge for many of our patients. It enables these people to overcome their symptoms and then pursue their own exercise program." This is crucial, she points out, since "some can barely walk at first." She recognizes that the gains made through EECP must be leveraged by the patient once the treatment cycle is complete. The ultimate solution for heart disease, she notes "has got to be a lifestyle solution." The procedure is not some sort of glorified crutch for her patients. "No patient is doing EECP and then going home to sit on the couch. It enables them to pursue an active lifestyle. These patients want to enjoy an active lifestyle," she says, and EECP provides that second chance to make permanent changes for the better. "What we're trying to do is slow, if not halt, heart disease. EECP allows the body to heal itself; it's efficacious in turning around the progression of heart dis
ease," she says.

A Bridge to Self-Sustaining Therapy

Ariel Soffer, MD, FACC, is a prominent Hollywood, Florida-based cardiologist who notes that EECP was approved by the FDA for the treatment of coronary artery disease and angina in 1995. In 2002, EECP was also approved for the treatment of congestive heart failure. Over the years he has treated "hundreds, maybe thousands" of patients with EECP. "They come to us in droves," he notes. "We have [an EECP treatment] room running every day." His patients who receive EECP therapy "are some of our happiest patients," he says. "They're also some of the most vocal advocates for EECP."

Dr. Soffer, who is the official preventive cardiologist for the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers, was among the first doctors in the area to utilize EECP, which is often viewed as physical therapy, or rehabilitation. Not all patients are candidates for EECP therapy. Some patients with aortic aneurysm, for instance, or certain patients on high-dose Coumadin® therapy may be excluded.

Dr. Braverman notes that presence of aortic aneurysm is not necessarily cause for exclusion from EECP therapy in her practice. She says she accepts patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm, as long as it is less than 5 cm in diameter. Similarly, patients on Coumadin® therapy may not necessarily be excluded. "[It] really depends on how stable they are on the medication," she says, "I have treated many patients with fairly high levels without any bleeding or bruising complications."

Dr. Soffer notes, "It's applicable for most patients. It's amazing that we don't do it more often in this country." Rather, American doctors, "tend to use more invasive treatments. We have a 'cut it out' mentality," he says. But EECP achieves some remarkable outcomes, without invasive treatment. "It's really opened our eyes to the ability of the heart to revascularize itself," he says. "We've catheterized patients [in the cardiac catheterization lab] and found better circulation after EECP. After a course of EECP treatment, patients experience elevated exercise capacity, elevated mood, and increased sexual capacity. "There are significant improvements," he says, noting that most results are obtained within the first six weeks of therapy.

"EECP should be discussed with the patient as an alternative, versus bypass or stent," says Dr. Soffer. "I really, truly believe the patient needs to be the captain of their own ship…In the US we are more invasive in our treatments, but I think EECP is being underused." While the cardiology community has been somewhat slow to embrace this safe, effective, non-invasive treatment, Dr. Soffer believes that it will gradually gain acceptance as an alternative or adjuvant treatment. "As people begin to look more and more at integrative and alternative therapies, this will begin to become more popular, particularly as the cost of the machines comes down." The bottom line is difficult to argue with…"It's proven to increase blood flow" he notes.

Dr. Braverman is also hopeful that EECP use will increase, but she is somewhat skeptical. She is frustrated by physicians' unwillingness to share information with their patients regarding this safe alternative to invasive procedures, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty. And she seems unconvinced that the cost of EECP machinery is a prohibitive factor. "The equipment is really not that expensive versus other cardiology equipment," she says. "It's not as lucrative as more invasive procedures, reimbursement is low…It's a tragedy that doctors don't even mention or offer it," she says. "Billions of dollars are being spent on heart disease. A lot of medicine is driven by money and not by science, and that's got to change."

The onus is on physicians to practice full disclosure. "The physician is bound to tell the patient all options, to have an open dialogue with patients. Those who don't include EECP are withholding information. There's no justification for it." Ruefully, she notes that only a fraction of the patients who could benefit from this treatment are sent to her by cardiologists. But those same cardiologists are quick to send their own family members, when they have heart disease. "There's nothing negative to say about this treatment," she concludes. "There are amazing clinical benefits with this technique."

If you have any questions on the scientific content of this article, please call a Life Extension Health Advisor at 1-800-226-2370.
More Information Regarding EECP

In the Northeast, contact:
Debra Braverman, MD, Director of EECP Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center
700 Cottman Ave, Building B, Lower Level, Philadelphia, PA 19111
Phone: 215-342-2100
Website: www.bravermancenters.com

In Florida, contact:
Ariel Soffer, MD, FACC
HealthwoRx Corporate Office
3702 Washington Street Suite 305, Hollywood, Florida, 33021
Phone: 954-967-6550.
Website: www.mitral.com

We here at Heart 2 Heart of America are proud to be able to bring you this information as presented in the Life extension Foundation's monthly magazine.

Be blessed,

Matt Goldstein

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We all should know by now that low fat, low carb, low calorie, low anything diet is hard to maintain and generally is not healthy in the long term. Common sense tells us that if we eat a healthy diet and exercise we should be able to maintain a healthy weight.

Problem is, not many people maintain a healthy diet. They may think it's healthy, but if it's out of the can or processed through a factory somewhere, it's lost most of it's nutrition.

The trend is coming back for slow food instead of fast food. You know food that is whole and you take and actually cook it vs. grabbing something on the way home from where ever is convenient.

Ok, so what does this have to do with the HCG diet. Well, it's sort of like a new trend in diets. You loose the weight in a healthy way that's totally natural to your body. It's not a drug, it will not give you the jitters, no caffeine is involved. What it is is a natural hormone that everyone has small amounts of. Actually HCG has been used for weight loss in other countries for many years, with great results.

So, what does it do when you use it? When taking HCG while on a low calorie diet for a short time you will loose 1 pound or more per day without being hungry. The HCG somehow helps reduce hunger. It also causes the body to only burn fat and not muscle as most other low calorie diets do. This means you will not look drawn and haggered in the face, as only the fat is burned and the muscle tissue is preserved.

You don't have to take my word on it. You can look at all the people on YouTube that have gotten fantastic results.

All I want to do is direct you to the cheapest and most reliable source for HCG. The pic on your left will take you to the product for 5,000 i.u. which contains 3 ampules. You might think this is for injection but you can mix the dry hcg so you can take it sublingual under the tongue.

You can also get hcg in 10,000 i.u. How much you get depends on how long you want to take hcg. For a 15 day dose all you need is the 5,000 iu. If you have more weight to loose than say around 15 pounds you would want to get the 10,000 i.u. which would last you 30 days.

I'm not going into the details on how to mix the hcg with nano silver (not vodka like some say to do) so you can take it sublingualy. You can find that information on youtube. But I will probably post that in another blog post just so you have all the information here. By the way get nano silver not colloidial silver. The best place I've found to get it is vitacost.com. Get the Silver Biotics brand.

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Well, we finally did it. Mom (Grandma) and me created an online video course all about raising chickens in your backyard. It took a ton of time, but it's totally unique and there's nothing like it on the internet anywhere. Now tell me, would you rather buy books and search online for chicken advise, or just take our fun video course that covers every topic you could ever ask about raising chickens?

Our information covers how to raise chickens naturally like they did in the old days. You can't just raise the standard hybrids of today and expect good results. We take you into the heritage breeds of yesteryear and tell you which breed is best for your area and for your purpose for raising them. We hope to see you in our course joining us on our chicken adventures!
Click on the picture to take you to the page about the course.

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I called the city on this and found out the following. Unless you are grandfathered in before 2005, you cannot have chickens on less than 5 acres within the city limits of chattanooga.

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The following interview is one of the best I've seen discussing the dangers of the swine flu vaccine or any vaccine for that matter.

This is Dr. Russell Blaylock who has studied all the research and science on vaccines and what the results of vaccines are on the population.

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The following is a re-print of a brochure given at a seminar with Dr. Mark R. Geier, M.D. , Ph.D. I re-printed it here in hopes of helping those that might be affected with the flu vaccines.

The government is aggressively recommending that all pregnant women be vaccinated with as many as three flu shots this fall! Unfortunately, most seasonal and swine flu shots are preserved with highly toxic, birth-defect-causing Thimerosal (mercury).

These FDA-approved flu shots are NOT approved for administration to pregnant women and carry warnings such as these on the package insert:

1. Pregnancy Category C: ..It is also not known whether Fluzone vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity.."
2. Nursing Mothers: … Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when Fluzone vaccine is administered to a nursing woman"…

Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility: Fluzone vaccine has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility"..

Here's How You Can Protect Yourself

CoMed, a 501c3, is continuing to seek a preliminary injunction in Federal Court to stop pregnant women from being given these mercury-preserved flu shots.

Within weeks, SoMeD will appear at a special hearing in Washington, DC to provide documentation that women of childbearing age/who are pregnant are being denied informed consent regarding the dangers of these mercury-containing shots.

This is what you can do:

1. Politely visit a pharmacy, retail store, clinic or medical office, askin for a flu shot.
2. Ask "As a women who might be pregnant, I am curious, does this flu shot contain Thimerosal (mercury)?" Express a desire to avoid the nasal flu mist vaccine.
3. After previous question is answered, check packaging to see if the healthcare provider is correct:   does the package list Thirmerosal (mercury) as an ingredient?
4. After your visit, immediately record your experience by writing down what you remember.
5. Go to www.mercury-freedrugs.org/ and click on the link "Sample Declaration for Women of Childbearing Age Trying to Obtain Mercury-free Flu Shots." DOWNLOAD this "Declaration" and personalize it based on your notes.
6. Print Out the completed for and sign it. Then..
7. FAX to Clifford Shoemaker, Esq. at  703-281-5807, and or
8. SCAN in your Signed Declaration and E-mail as an attachment to paulgkinphd@gmail.com OR
9. MAIL to: Clifford Shoemaker, Esq. 9711 Meadowlark Road, Vienna, VA 22182

Your statement could make the difference in protecting unborn children from unnecessary exposure to mercury from flu shots this year! Please help to safeguard these women and unborn children!

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We've all had an ocassional feeling like our stomach is bloated for whatever reason. Of course if you just finished a huge Thanksgiving dinner or similar holiday indulgence, your going to feel bloated.

What I'm talking about is a chronic feeling of a bloated stomach and you just don't know why it's happening. Well, I always think our bodies are trying to get a message across to us when we get any type of symptom and the message here is screaming "listen".  Don't you dare just try to cover up the problem by popping an an-acid or something silly like that, start  researching and find out what your problem really is. A great little site to start is the stomach bloating site. It talks about causes and cures for this disturbing problem.

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Bill (my husband) and I were out doing some sprints recently. We were inspired by a video we watched talking about how high intensity spurts of excercise, cause the body to burn lots more calories that the usual 2 mile jogs we do.

So, we had been doing this for a couple of weeks and were getting in better wind shape. We also, made sure we warmed up before we started. (A lot of good that did.) Anyway, on sprint number 10 Bill let out a yell and hit the ground. Luckily we were sprinting on grass. I ran up to him as he was grabing his leg in pain. I was hoping it was just a cramp like he's had before, but it wasn't. He lay there knowing it was something worse.

We headed to sports medicine clinic the next day to find out he had a sprain tendon on his upper hamstring. So technically, his injury isn't a hamstring pull, which I would call more of a muscle pull. The doc saw him all of 5 minutes and we were out of there with $200 less in our bank account.

I make a point about cost because we don't have any insurance and do a lot of our own research for ways to heal ourselves. That might sound like living on the edge to a lot of people, but I would just counter and say if you are eating the standard american diet, you are living more on the edge than we are

Back to the injury. So we go online and find out the best methods for healing a hamstring pull or hamstring tendon pull. We had already decided that physical thearpy sessions would be crazy expensive. Although we did go to one evaluation session, another $127 to tell us a few excercises to do. Wow, we couldn't figure that out ourselves. (Sorry, I'm being a little sarcastic.)

Online we had found this unique hand held ultrasound machine with rav reviews from people that have used it on muscle and tendon pulls. We also asked the physical therapist if this would be a good thearpy to use and they concurred it would be. So, we ordered it for $249 total, knowing it would also be good to have on hand and knowing it would be a lot cheaper than having ultrasound done at rehab.

Upcoming post will cover our results using this great little magic machine. In the meantime you can read some reviews on Amazon.

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I've been working on a project for the last few months, and finally I'm ready to launch my new website dedicated to Tamron Camera Lens. I wanted to create a website for those that love photography, to have a place to learn through video tips, on how to improve your photography skills. So if you want to see some great videos visit my Tamron Lens site and go to the video tips category. I hope to be constantly adding more videos as time goes on.

Taking great photos and selling them to online stock photo sites is a great way to make some extra cash. Who doesn't need that these days? I will be posting more information on how you can do that in the near future. Also, if any of you have any great photos you want to showcase on my site, let me know. I'll post them up there with a link to you. Who knows what you might be able to sell?

Since this is a new website it's going to take me a little work to get my search engine rankings up, but from my research, I should be able to get to the first page of google with a little link juice work. Anybody that frequents the photograpy forums on a regular basis let me know. I just might be willing to pay you on a per link building basis. Contact me if your interested through a comment on this post.

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See my previous post on Miracle Mineral Solution.

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I've always loved growing things. My Mother instilled a love of gardening in me when I was growing up. I can still remember going out in the backyard garden, walking through skyscraper corn stalks (at least it seem the stalks were that high to me then), and picking each ear that Mom said was ready to be picked. We would have corn on the cob for supper that night and I was the one that always ate most of them. I would always polish off at least 3 or 4 ears, hey at least I helped pick them. My brothers never were much good in the garden. Sorry bros, but I guess you had other interest.

As I left out on my own, everywhere I lived, I always had some sort of garden. Even in an apartment, I gathered big boxes of dirt and grew a little of everything out on the balcony. Come to think about it, it's a wonder that balcony held up all that weight. Well, I guess we were lucky, because I was too young and dumb to even think about that back then.

Over the years I intuitively knew chemical fertilizers and pesticides were not the way I wanted to garden. Nature had gotten by for millions of years without them and I certainly was not going to argue with the balance of nature. So, I began to do what nature would do, compost and plant for diversity that in turn brought everything into more balance. The diverse plants would attract all the diverse insects and kept a natural balance. Planting green cover crops in spring and fall provided even more material to break down and nourish the soil.

I will always love to garden, it's in my blood I guess and as the soil nouishes the plants, the garden nourishes my soul. I think it's that connectedness feeling I have when I'm out there. I become part of it all, the earth, the sky, mother nature, life, all merge into oneness.

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Common herbs used to control and regulate blood pressure levels include Crataegus oxyacantha (Hawthorn), Passiflora incarnate, Viburnum opulus and Ginkgo biloba. All of these herbs have become well-known for their ability to lower blood pressure. In addition, they offer a tonic effect on overall heart health. Note: It is important to consult your doctor before making any changes or additions to your prescription medication and to monitor your blood pressure regularly – even if you are using natural medicines. In addition, always remember to source your natural medicines from a reputable company to ensure maximum safety and efficacy.

While Western medicine has become the norm in many cultures, it is not the only treatment option. Conventional western medicine, often called allopathic medicine, is the system of medicine taught at most medical schools and most pharmaceutical and synthetic medicines are manufactured and marketed according to the principles of allopathic medicine. Allopathic medicine is also sometimes called orthodox medicine.

Because most of us in the Western world have grown up in a society in which allopathic medicine is the prevailing norm, we forget that, only a few decades ago, homeopathic, herbal and other natural medicines were commonly available – and freely used even by conventional doctors. While there are often heated debates about which system of medicine is ‘better’ than the other, many responsible doctors (whether they are allopathic or not) recognize that both have a role to play in the treatment program. Natural medicine has often been frowned on by conventional doctors, especially by those who did not have sufficient knowledge of these medicines. However, it is encouraging to note that some medical schools are now beginning to re-introduce it into their course work, thereby providing doctors with a wider range of treatment options from which to choose. In many countries, especially in Europe, India and China, natural and homeopathic medicines are commonly prescribed by conventional doctors and represent a significant part of the total annual drug sales.Naturopathy is a branch of medicine (just as allopathy is a branch of medicine) which operates according to the underlying philosophy that the body has an innate capacity to heal itself. While natural medicines are often called ‘alternative’ or ‘complimentary’ medicines, they are, in fact, a unique and independent form of medicine in their own right, well able to treat a variety of conditions.

Perhaps the term ‘holistic’ medicine is more apt, given the broad range of treatment options and approaches which are to be found within the practice of natural medicine, which encompasses many different disciplines, including herbalism, homeopathy, iridology, osteopathy, chiropractic, therapeutic massage techniques, aromatherapy, acupuncture and many, many more.

Related Natural Remedies:

High Rite

Helps maintain healthy blood pressure, artery clarity and functioning and heart health

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Hot flashes, night sweats, and other chronic symptoms of menopause can drain us both mentally and physically. In time, stress levels will increase to the point that we become impatient and irritable nearly every day. Relationships with our spouse, friends, and family can be strained, leaving us in a state of unhappiness we can’t find a way out of. We may not understand why our hormone levels are decreasing or why they are causing the hot flashes and other bothersome symptoms. We just know that we want to feel normal again.

The best way to beat a hot flash is naturally. Hot flashes have a lot to do with the low levels of estrogen and the balance of other hormones in your body, but other factors can cause your temperature control to go out of whack. Recent studies show that medication is not always the best choice. Instead of estrogen therapy, look at less drastic measures first, partly because estrogen therapy is not known to be safe for women with a history of breast cancer—but also because you should always begin with the least aggressive approach to treating your menopausal symptoms.

Basic improvements in diet and lifestyle changes (including getting more exercise) helps to relieve many symtoms of menopause.  Increasing your level of activity (for example, taking the stairs instead of the elevator) has a positive impact on just about every other symptom attributed to menopause and growing older. Making these simple lifestyle changes are a lot safer than following some of the common treatment protocols practiced in the field of traditional medicine such as estrogen therapy.

The more you know about menopause, the better prepared you will be to make the transition smoothly. Dealing with menopause is best accomplished through a combination of diet, healthy lifestyle and natural support.

Hot flashes can have very serious health complications and should not be lightly dismissed. If they interfere with a woman's sleep they can devastate a woman's health. There are not many absolute requirements for optimal health, but a good night sleep is one of them.

Menopause symptoms always arise from an imbalance in hormones. This fact led to the development of a synergistic and adaptogenic combination of herbs that have been shown — scientifically and empirically — to relieve menopause symptoms by supporting your body’s ability to restore its own natural hormonal balance.

One such product is MellowPause which helps regulate all three of the hormones — estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, whose fluctuations are at the root of your menopause symptoms.

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MMS stands for Miracle Mineral Solution or Miracle Mineral Supplement. The product name was coined by Jim Humble, who was the one that developed it.

Jim did not set out to create MMS. As in many great discoveries, it was unique a set of circumstances plus a driven curiosity that leads the way to that “ah ha” moment. Jim had just such a moment when on a trip in the steaming jungles of Africa. Several of his friends contracted Malaria and he desperately wanted to help them. As he had done on other trips, he had his bottles of stabilized oxygen that he carried to purify water. He decided to give the men with Malaria doses of the stabilized oxygen to see if it would help them. To his surprise the men recovered from Malaria in a short time.This catalyzed a desire within Jim to see if he could help other people with Malaria in Africa. Knowing that millions die of this disease every year, Jim's first thought was that stabilized oxygen could be the answer for every person looking to overcome their Malaria infection. Up to this point there was no know cure for Malaria, only drugs or vaccines to treat the infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites.

Jim set out to give his stabilized oxygen to other people in Africa with Malaria. He quickly found out that in some cases it worked but in other cases it did not. This only served to make Jim more curious than ever and to find out why it worked on some and not others.

When Jim returned to the States, he set about analyzing the properties of stabilized oxygen to see what the components were that killed off the Malaria parasites.

I won't go into all the details of Jim's story, you can read them for yourself in his fascinating book. But to summarize, the end product MMS, is a very powerful all natural cure for any viral or bacterial infection known to man. Yes, it does cure Malaria! That fact alone should have made the news, but if you know anything about natural cures(you can't patent them), you know big business can not make tons of money on them, so you will never hear this advertised by the big drug companies.

Here's the link for Miracle Mineral Solution that will take you to a page where you can find out more.

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