http://lavielabs.com

A few months ago a friend introduced me to a new skin care company who utilizes some “revolutionary break through” to obtain a superior product.  I asked, “what makes them so different then the others?”  They said, “it is all about stem cells and they have figured out a way to incorporate their research into a skin care serum or concentrate.”  Naturally I was interested in anything that was a “break through” or “revolutionary” so I started doing my homework. Personally, I have steered away from anything with stem cells because it has been a very emotionally charged issue and debate.  To find out that not all stem cells are harvested from embryos, fetal tissue, etc was new to me.  I did know there were ways of harvesting and then reintroducing the stem cells back into your own body, but I must admit I was very unaware and naive to the many different methods of research going on.

So to my pleasant surprise I found that a French company had been doing research with the post birth umbilical cord and placenta.  The Placenta is the tissue that attaches the fetus to the wall of the uterus while it is developing.  The placenta and the umbilical cord both have a very high density of nutrient dense cells and tissues.  It makes sense that the life line to the baby is the most densely nourished tissue available. The researchers I discovered preferred this type of tissue because of this fact.  It has been said that the US is very far behind on research because there has not been a differentiation of the embryonic and the placental or umbilical research.  Ultimately the ethical research is based only on materials that are going to be discarded after the birth.

Being the consumer advocate that I have become, I applied the facial serum over a week’s time to see if I could tell the difference.  I was stunned that I noticed my skin was smoother and actually silky feeling after just the first day.  In a cosmetic industry that is so full of chemicals and deception it is so pleasant to find a product and a company that excel above what they even start to claim. After a couple weeks of using the Clairte serum on her face I think my wife is glowing.  She has fabulous skin to start, yet now the skin tones are rich and literally glowing!

So do I like this product?  Absolutely! I can assure you that you have not seen this product yet.  It is just now being introduced to the States and I anticipate a huge reception from many happy customers just like me.  You can thank me later!  This is breaking news on a cutting edge anti aging product that works.

Currently the website is offering their travel kit size for a free trial.  I don’t know how long that will last you might want to check it out right away.  http://www.lavielabs.com

We have much more to learn about the technologies that are emerging while remembering the wisdom of the past.

Everyone has Candida albicans naturally in their body at balanced levels.  This helps to digest food in the intestine so you can have energy.  The problem comes with Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and anti-biotics!  Each of these and other culprits like excito-toxins, MSG, and food additives can cause your Candida to become like a “weed” something you definitely don’t want too much of!

Imagine “weeds” on Steroids! Now you can get the feel of what Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup and their buddies do to Candida.  Your poor intestines have no other choice but to bloat as the Candida yeast grows.  Can you say Beer Belly?  When it overgrows it immediately begins to rob nutrients from your body and create toxins that are stored in your tissues.  This can make you look heavier than you really are and cause all sorts of cravings.  Thus it becomes a continual cycle of wanting sweets to feed your Candida and it can become a driving force in your life with mood swings, depression, even anger.  This is because your body is starving for nutrients that the “weeds” are using and the blood sugar swings will affect your mood and your hormones.

Anti-biotics are a different story; when you take a round you kill most everything good and bad in your intestines.  This creates an imbalance because weeds and Candida tend to always grow back faster then you desire.  There is a way to be proactive if you have the need to take anti-biotics and that is to take pro-biotics like acidophilus and bifidus during and then immediately after the rounds.

Candida Cleanse ComboPack. In it are 4 products that are made in perfect combinations using 15 different healing herbs and probiotics to ensure quality and effectiveness.

Don’t wait if this article is about you or your loved ones.  Pick up the pack today.  Click the link to buy

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Each of the products can also be purchased individually please read the descriptions online.  You can also go to your local health food store and search for Oil of Oregano, Grapefruit Seed Extract and a probiotic. Unfortunately this is always a bit of a gamble due to a large variety and because some products have low standards.

The next step is to make the switch from using sugars (white sugar, raw cane sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup and the like) to Candida fighting Xylitol or Stevia.  Xylitol is a sugar replacement that comes from the fiber of fruits and vegetables.  It is low glycemic and low calorie, making it safe for Diabetics and for those watching their calories.  I think I just heard a Diabetic jumping up and down with excitement!  Yes you can now have sweet tasting snacks that will Not affect your insulin levels!  Diabetes is on a rapid rise be sure your friends find out about this fantastic tasting sugar replacement.

When recipes call for Sugar you can substitute it with the same amount of Xylitol. Xylitol is more expensive and you are worth it!  Below is a link to our anti-candida Pumpkin Pie Recipe that tastes amazing!  While you are there Check out the “Revamped” Food Beautiful website and some of the new recipes we are adding weekly! http://www.foodbeautiful.com/recipes-detail.php?rec_id=17

You can learn more about fighting candida through ordering Sarah’s book Food Beautiful Your Manual for Abundant Life through Healing Foods.

Pure Water

You know the type that carry around the “yuppie” cups!?

I am a huge advocate for drinking pure “structured” great tasting water, and am often spotted with my own “yuppie” cup or my Wellness filter bottle.

Here’s the Bad News: A Study found 6 to 100 times more toxins can be absorbed by the skin and by breathing the steam and air around unfiltered showers! [1] 600% or more toxins are absorbed into your open pours in one hot shower than compared to drinking that same amount of water all day long. Just when you thought you were doing everything right it seems another action is required to protect yourself from the toxic planet we live in. Here we will discuss a few things that no one wants to drink or absorb through their skin and what to do about it.

First, all municipal treatment plants use chlorine to eradicate organic matter that pollutes the water. Guess what? You are organic matter. Have you ever noticed dry, itchy, or even crackling skin? It may be from the chlorine. Chlorine along with other chemical contaminants increases the risk of certain types of cancers, disease, and definitely accelerates the aging process of your skin. Did you know Chlorine gas is a banned bio-warfare agent? Why would you want this to even touch your body let alone be absorbed into it? When you take a hot shower some of the chlorine in the water turns into a gas and becomes inhaled into your lungs. Many people complain of being tired even after taking a “refreshing” shower that should invigorate them. Do you think it’s likely that these toxins in the water lower your energy levels?

Drugs in the water! For years we have used the saying, “it must be in the water” to describe individual behaviors. This may now be a legitimate claim! “A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, as shown by an Associated Press investigation.” “The EPA says there are no sewage treatment systems specifically engineered to remove pharmaceuticals.” “In the United States, the problem isn’t confined to surface waters. Pharmaceuticals also permeate aquifers deep underground, the source of 40 percent of the nation’s water supply.” [2] My question would be how long does it take to filter water from the surface to the aquifers? If it takes 10 or even 20 years we are in for big trouble since drug use has increased exponentially in the last decade!

Another concern would be anti-biotic resistance of bacteria since they would regularly be exposed to these drugs in non-lethal doses. Are we ready for yet another round of “super bugs” as Time magazine wrote about in 1992, “Using marvelous powers of mutation, some strains of bacteria are transforming themselves into new breeds of super bugs that are invulnerable to some or all antibiotics?” [3] Anti-biotics are supposed to be reserved for major illness not common use. How about hormonal affects from drugs, detergents, etc. “These so-called “feminized” fish, first found in the late 1990s, are thought to be victims of human hormones and hormone-mimicking chemicals – flushed into the water from sewage-treatment plants, factories, storm-water drains and runoff from roads – that had made their reproductive systems go haywire.” [4] How is this affecting our human populations? Hormones are powerful and they can certainly increase the growth of cancers in certain regions of the body. So far the water treatment facilities are downplaying the latest findings and are even saying the results should not be made public because the public would not understand. I am aware that we have been lied to for many years from many different sources and believe we have a vested interest in knowing what products we are paying for!

Here’s a quick list of pollutants in typical tap water that need to be filtered out:

Fecal Matter (up to 5 quarts a year!)

Viruses

Parasites

Bacteria

Fungus

Pesticides

Heavy Metals

Chlorine/chloramines

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Hormone Blockers

Cancer causing Nitrates

Estrogens

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s)

Trihalomethanes (THM’s)

Bad Taste and Odors and a few other things we are not allowed to say!

On a positive note there is hope!

There are quality filtration systems for your shower and your drinking water. I personally have been using the Wellness Shower Filter for about 4 years; the results are amazing! My skin always feels refreshed, smooth, and hydrated. One of my favorite things to do is jump or roll out of bed in the morning and take a nice hot refreshing shower! The Wellness shower filter is unique because it has enhancing components and minerals gathered from all around the world. For over 10 years the Wellness Filter® has been under formal study in Japan with positive results. A good rule of thumb with filters is you get what you pay for and make sure you change the filters often enough. An excellent filter will do the following, which will lead to high quality water and better health!

· Allow better hydration by increasing solubility and stability

· Trace minerals added that enhance cellular and biological function

· Stabilize the pH of H2O while adding alkaline minerals

· Bacteria and fungus are inhibited

· 99% of contaminants safely removed

· Easy installation

· Increased absorbability by humans, animals and plants

· Green Friendly (wastes zero water)

Only a few people on earth get to enjoy this quality of water naturally. Is it any surprise that those communities youthfully live past 80-100 years on their own strength, free from disease and dis-ease. For the rest of us we must rely on filtration and purification; my choice, the Wellness Filter®.

Your body is over 70% water, your blood is up to 90% water, and your “noodle” or brain is approximately 80% water! If you are drinking polluted and chaotic tap water your body will take on those characteristics. It is time to make a change. As Warren Miller says, “If you don’t do it this year, you will be one year older when you do!”

Common Questions I get asked are:

“How about Reverse Osmosis?”

Reverse Osmosis or RO strips the water of all its minerals in the process of trying to purify the water. This means that the water is void of the essential trace minerals you should be absorbing. It has been said that up to 90% of your trace minerals come from the water you drink. RO also removes the alkaline mineral constituents of water, thus producing acidic water. Acidic water is dangerous to the body system, causing calcium and other essential minerals to be stripped from bones and teeth in order to neutralize its acidity. It makes sense if you remember back to science class when the teacher taught about osmosis; how water is moved to a balanced state in plants. Then showing how salt water and pure water with a semi-permeable membrane in between will balance out to the same state. If dead and void water is put in your body it will steal from your body to become balanced.

RO wastes up to 3 gallons of water to make just 1 gallon of “purified” water. This also increases the costs of filter replacement and maintenance due to the encrustation or scaling of minerals on the membrane. Not Green Friendly, Not Cost Effective, Not Safe for Regular Consumption.

“What about Distillation?”

Distillation also produces acidic mineral-free water. Distillation does not remove chlorine, chlorine byproducts, or VOC’s. 80% of the water is discarded with the contaminants; wasting up to FIVE gallons of water for every one-gallon of purified water produced! Definitely Not Green Friendly, Not Cost Effective, Not Safe for Regular Consumption!

“What is your favorite commercially available bottled water?”

My favorite is Fiji, it has a high silica content which is considered an essential in the body and a building block of nature. It helps give Fiji it’s smooth feel when you drink it. Silica is said to enhance skin, connective tissue, and hair while it also helps in the manufacturing process of antibodies/antigens in the body.

[1] NEW SCIENTIST September 1986

[2] CNN March 10, 2008

[3] TIME August 31,1992 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976349,00.html

[4] THE SEATTLE TIMES April 1, 2007 localnews/2003645892_hormone01m.html

Dr Will Feldman has owned and consulted Wellness Clinics and businesses for over a decade he is a speaker, author, and humanitarian that has traveled the world. Visit www.doctorbeautiful.com and www.FoodBeautiful.com for tips, recipes, and health secrets that you do not want to miss!

So today a patient emailed the following on onions and the flu.  Is it true?  Snopes has a good write up on the matter and say’s it’s false and it is a folk remedy; http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/onion.asp.

I have used a few folk remedies in the past so Let’s find out.  This is our first group project together so give it a try and we will compile our own data.  Regardless if you are using your onions as deodorant or to ward off coworkers with your breath, onions do have some great attributes we can benefit from.

Alright so here is the story;

“In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was a Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu.  Many of the farmers and their family had contracted the flu and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy.  When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).  The doctor couldn’t believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and placed it under the microscope.  She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion.  It obviously absorbed the virus, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ.  She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers.  The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop.  To her surprise, none of her staff got sick.  It must work..  (And no, she is not in the onion business.)

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home.  If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere.  Try it and see what happens.  We did it last year and we never got the flu.”

So we have our assignment!  Can’t hurt and onions are pretty cheap.

So a few natural thoughts on onions:

Onions are rich in thiosulfinates, sulfides, sulfoxides and other odoriferous sulfur compounds.  Cysteine sulfoxides primarily give onions their distinct flavor and eye-irritating properties, research has shown, “thiosulfinates have powerful antimicrobial properties that are effective against numerous bacteria including bacillus subtilis, salmonella and even E. coli.”

Some are saying these sulfur compounds are also proving to be a significant factor in both cancer and cardiovascular prevention.

Onions are also an effective and natural way to raise good (HDL) cholesterol according to the American Heart Association.

A 2006 study published in the British Journal of Nutrition, showed that people who consumed the most quercetin-containing foods (onion soup in this study) have a reduced risk of thrombosis and cardiovascular disease.

My grandma ate a whole onion almost every day of her life, somehow her breath didn’t stink and she didn’t use a pharmaceutical drug until around 80 years old.

Alright now let’s get this study rolling!

What can help with that?

When we look at the current news and data we see that cancer is soon going to prey on 1 out of 2 people sometime within their lifetime.  Heart disease is 3 out of 5; diabetes is skyrocketing like a missile and heading into a plague of some sort!  Ultimately there are 120 or more autoimmune diseases that have come on to the scene in the last 15-20 years!  It doesn’t take much thought to realize we are doing something wrong.  What is it?

We look around and say, “something has to be changed,” we need to take responsibility of our own life.  That includes the area of influence we each have and move forward towards a solution.   If that’s done we have a chance.  There is a growing consciousness worldwide; we are looking at ourselves and seeing what We can change about us.  Not focusing on the problems of others.  It’s about You and me moving towards a better lifestyle with the choices we make each day.  We can move forward living principled lives and making an impact both individually and collectively.

The first question to be asked of ourselves is; are we taking care of our body and environment in a manner that is respectful to it?

Or is it acceptable to satisfy our hunger by eating a cow that has been knee deep in crap it’s whole life?  Hopefully we all responded, “Wow I don’t think that’s a good idea.”  And then we start to honor and respect where our food is coming from.

One of the keys and one of the easiest things to do when we are changing our lifestyle is to look at the sources of where our food is coming from, and say, “I want to have things as close as possible to the way they are grown or made or form they come in.”  Now this will spur you on to get rid of the white refined sugar, the white refined flour, the processed foods, the MSG and other excitotoxins that inhibit brain function.  Start eliminating the chemical cocktails and colors that are in every type of food.  You can imagine the food on the shelf is made to sell and to be appealing to your eye.  Start buying foods with the end result in mind.  Start today by making a conscious choice of, “I am eating this food for the results it’s going to give me.”  This differs from, “this is going to taste good,” because the taste buds deceive.

Experts in the field of food chemistry create many foods and flavors in the laboratory.  They can make things taste like anything you could ever imagine and they can put it into anything you want.  It’s not the actual natural food you were wanting; it is a “TLC” Tasty Laboratory Creation.  If you want a pudding that will last for more then three days on the shelf you better add some chemically modified starch.  If you want a juicy thanksgiving turkey flavor like grandma used to make you can get it in a glass of water, with the right chemicals added to it.  So if you think about that you start saying, “boy I better start looking at my sources.”  We start to realize that if we are putting chemicals in our body the body needs to be able to recognize them or we are going to start having more problems.

Our kidney and our liver are not made to filter out synthetic chemicals.  They can be damaged by the size of the molecules or the chemical reactions they may make.  This could create some serious long-term problems as well.  The body is made to utilize and work with natural organic molecules!

With that thought start making some wiser choices and the rest will start falling in line.  It can be tough to make radical changes all at once so just start with something, take some steps in the right direction every day!

Be Blessed!

Hopefully we can help to liberate you from some of those old ideas and habits.  Then encourage and nurture some of the power you have within you to create you into something you can’t even imagine.

You really are beautiful.  You just have to believe it.  That is the first step of action to being beautiful.  Confidence in who you are is so beautiful to others.  Let’s work on it together and bring that belief to a reality in all ways.  You are worth it!