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There's a belief, 'You are what you eat'.
Not quite. It is not what you eat but what is delivered and absorbed by your cells that counts. With so many today suffering inflammation, 'leaky gut' and malabsorption we are absorbing less nutrients from our food. With this in mind, herbal tinctures and formulas would do better to include 'bio-enhancers' to increase their bio-availability. "Huh. What's that?" you may say. Before I explain, some background... There are countless herbal supplements available both online and off-line. But do they actually work? I would say very few. Why? THE LAND OF LITIGATION Lawyers love to litigate. In the United States, health supplement manufacturers were sued for millions of dollars after their products purportedly 'Made people sick'. Except they didn't, really. Speculators were taking advantage of a little-known phenomenon called a Herxheimer Reaction (or 'healing crisis'). A short-term (from days to a few weeks) detoxification reaction in the body. As the body detoxifies, it is not uncommon to experience flu-like symptoms including headache, joint and muscle pain, body aches, sore throat, general malaise, sweating, chills, nausea or other symptoms. This is a normal — and even healthy — reaction that indicates parasites, fungi, viruses, bacteria or other pathogens are being effectively killed off. The biggest problem with a healing crisis is people stop taking the supplement or medication causing the reaction and thus discontinue the very treatment helping make them better. During retreats I am pleased when I see a 'healing crisis'. It tells me the program is working and clients' vitality is strengthening to the point they start throwing off disease. DILUTION AND DOSES Supplement manufacturers avoid the healing crisis by diluting their products until they are virtually useless. Recommended doses do the same. 1 capsule 2x per day will do little. 5 capsules 4x per day and now you are talking. How many people are aware of this? ABSORPTION Many herbal drugs and extracts produce impressive lab findings yet demonstrate less real-life activity. This is due to poor solubility or improper molecular size, resulting in poor absorption and hence poor bio-availability. The Ancients have the answer. 'Bio-enhancers'. Herbs that increase the potency of other herbs. Ayurvedic formulas have used bio-enhancers for centuries, such as black pepper and ginger. Moringa (The Miracle Tree) has its own bio-enhancer within the seed pods. To give extra bang for your buck, I add piperine to my Moringa powder. Piperine (black pepper) increases the potency of herbs by 10-200x. e.g. Absorption of Turmeric is increased by 10x by adding black pepper. Looking at the supplements industry I see few suppliers doing this. On the contrary the unscrupulous, dilute their herbs with cheap fillers, ground-up house plants, twigs and who knows what else. If you aren't seeing any results from the supplements you are taking it is most likely you have a poor quality product or problems absorbing nutrients. 'Bio-enhanced' supplements will help. Be well Paul  "THE DOCTOR KNOWS BEST"
From birth to death, the "The Doctor knows best" message is, continuously, driven into our consciousness. But is it true? For accident and emergencies, Doctors can be brilliant. Yet, for most of what ails us... cancer, heart disease, diabetes and anxiety, auto-immune disease, arthritis, allergies, asthma and countless other chronic 'incurable' disorders, they are clueless. In their efforts to bring relief, they mutilate, poison and murder human beings, by the million. 'Death by Doctor' is the third leading cause of death in America and, if there wasn't so much under-reporting, mis-reporting and downright skullduggery, it would be number ONE. Buy don't listen to me. I'm a 'conspiracy theorist'. Doctors are indeed cleaver and knowledgeable but when was the last time you heard of a cure, for anything? Ever? If Doctors only treat symptoms for life... because that's where the money lies... and don't address the underlying cause of disease, are they even Doctors? Aren't they just drug dealers? Punch in your symptoms and out pops a drug. When was the last time you visited a GP and didn't leave with a basket-full of side effects or a sore arm? Doctors know only what they have been taught, and treat as they are forced, or rewarded, to treat. They know nothing about alternatives ('quackery' is their word for 'competition'), ignore patient individuality and pay lip-service to prevention. Their grandmothers know more about nutrition than they do. They are so wedded to corporate-bought 'science' and trusting in their bought-and-paid-for, 'thought leaders' they don't question. Just suck up the indoctrination of nonsense, via medical journals, and $400,000 educations they have to re-pay. All heavily influenced by 'Pharma'. Sorry, fellas. From outside looking in, it's junk. Impressive-sounding but still junk. It's no longer a secret. Pharma corporations are 'organized crime'. Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, etc. Their primary goal is to make money, for their owners, and they make staggering amounts. Healthy people don't generate a dime. Sick people do. $2.6 TRILLION a year. Do you really know what's in those vaccines being injected into your infant? Think about it. The 'elites' happily blow up and poison babies all over the world. They have been doing it for centuries. Yet somehow they have benevolent intentions to us and our children? 50% of U.S. children and 54% of adults today have at least one chronic disorder. How is that possible? That should tell you we have a SICKNESS system and not a health system. 'By their fruits you will know them.' A Doctor's job is to MANAGE disease. Not cure it. Doctors who cure get into serious trouble. Do some research and stop being duped. The mavericks the media go after are the very people you need to know more about. For two decades I was sick. Allopathic Doctors could do nothing. Only make me worse with their poisons. For 200 years, they have deceived mankind by labelling them 'medicine'. Eventually, I realized they were never going to heal me and I would have to heal myself. You can too. Your body is always trying to heal. It just needs someone who knows how to identify and remove the various obstacles preventing healing. Someone who can teach you how to build health and stop building disease. A 'disease manager' has no time or interest in that. I still use them, for what they are good at, but Doctors do NOT know best. Once you understand this, you are on your way back to health. Unless, of course, you are satisfied with relief, mutilation and disease progression. 'Drug companies are not here to bring health to the population but to scam them on one level for vast amounts of money, by treating the symptoms and not addressing the cause.' -Sir William Ossler, MD To learn more, feel free to message me or read 'Fire Your Doctor Cure Yourself'.  I see it all the time. You have a chronic disorder like diabetes, cancer, arthritis, cardiovascular or auto-immune disease. Doctors only manage disease, so you decide to investigate alternatives and fix it yourself. You might have a session or two of acupuncture, Reiki, or aromatherapy. Fix yourself a colourful salad, purchase the latest fad supplement, invest in a juicer and start bouncing in the garden, trying not to land, head-first, into the ornamental fish pond. Nothing works.
Why? It’s easy to blame a therapy or therapist but the most common reason for failure is because you are practicing ‘Water Pistol Medicine’. What do I mean? Imagine your house is on fire. You call the Fire Department in a panic. Minutes later, you are relieved to hear the sound of the siren, only to look on in disbelief as the fireman leaps out of the truck holding only a water pistol. Your house burns down. Now, apply the same approach to your health. Your body is sick. You buy an over-the-counter supplement and follow the directions. You don’t improve. Deflated, you conclude supplements are ‘useless’ and purveyors ‘quacks’. They aren’t really. You've just been squirting a water pistol on a house fire. Let’s change the scenario. You call the Fire Department and the fire truck arrives. This time they attack the fire from all sides, with 10 hoses, aggressively and continuously, so there is no chance of the fire re-igniting. They save the house. What do you think will happen to your disorder if you do the same? Attack your disease ‘fire’ with multiple alternative ‘hoses’... cellular and regenerative detox, massage, sauna, herbs, hydrotherapy, emotional and psychological healing, exercise, acupuncture (or other ‘energy’ medicine) and flood the body with nutrients. What if you also resolved toxic relationships, found the money to pay your bills, escaped back to nature, learned to relax, and de-stressed? Wouldn't all that have a better chance of extinguishing your disease ‘fire’? You bet. Now you may not be able to afford all those different therapies, have the time, or know exactly which therapies to have in your healing toolbox. But at least you now know why you haven’t been getting anywhere. You've been trying to extinguish a raging inferno with a water pistol. Be well. Paul |
AUTHORPaul Keenan, Health & Wellness Consultant 
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November 2018
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