Cilantro Power

Cilantro Power

Cilantro is the perfect medicine in today’s heavy metal world. We are all exposed to varying levels of toxic metals, including aluminum, mercury, lead, and cadmium. This flavorful herb binds toxic metals stored in our tissues so we can more easily excrete them. It is the perfect cooling compliment to spicy dishes across the globe.

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Pain Killer?

Pain Killers

Acetaminophen overwhelms liver detoxification, depleting glutathione, a critical antioxidant. Without this protection cells no longer produce energy and die off. Liver damage can turn into liver and kidney failure and increase risk of death. Alternatives provide better pain relief with health benefits.

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Why People Fail

The body produces a host of hormones and neurochemicals that drive feelings, motivation and appetite. Hormones and brain chemicals are influenced by thoughts, sleep and by what we eat. It is easier than you think to make your own satiety chemicals while cutting those that stimulate cravings and appetite. It’s not willpower you need.

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Building a Butter Body

Saturated fats are not associated with coronary artery disease. We need them. Saturates give our cell walls integrity. They enable us to produce hormones. The brain is primarily saturated fat and cholesterol and requires a steady diet of these nutrients to thrive.

Fats slow absorption of food so we aren’t hungry soon after meals. We can’t build strong bones without fat.

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Lardy, Lardy

In 1910 lard enjoyed 70 percent of the market share for fats. Heart disease was unheard of, obesity was rare and risk of diabetes was 1 in 30. But then marketing spin, spearheaded by the soybean oil industry, made lard out to be as frightening as today’s swine flue. We were to switch to margarine and vegetable oils.

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Eggs and Arteries

What do we know about the commercial eggs of today? Hens kept in cages and deprived of weeds, bugs and sunlight produce eggs with more inflammatory omega-6 fats, less artery protective omega-3’s, less vitamins A, E and D, and, if it matters, more cholesterol than hens roaming on pastures. Pastured hens produce visibly darker egg yolks, a sign of more health-protective antioxidants.

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Do Calories Count?

Is weight-gain a simple matter of calories in vs. calories out? Many nutritionists think so. I don’t.
I have had clients reduce intake to just 800 calories per day, while hitting the gym daily, and they can’t burn off a pound. One female client of mine worked out at her gym 3 hours a day, and hard. Her over-exercising actually produced so much cortisol from the stress, it was impossible for her to lose her belly weight.

I’ve had clients add just one mineral supplement and weight falls off with no other changes.

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