Brian, Vertically Ill

Case Study

Brian (32) Single Male

Names of subjects and places changed for ethical and privacy reasons.

Analysis by Christo Lues

Some time ago a man came for a first time blood analysis complaining about his general health, immune system, stress, depression and tiredness. He seemed healthy on first observations but as the consultation progressed I found that when I wanted to take a finger tip blood sample he could hardly move his left arm.

When I questioned Brian about his shoulder it became apparent that this had been a long standing issue and that it would come and go, with short intervals of the shoulder being better. 

This is so typical to see; people complain about one small issue like tiredness, but in actual fact they have grown accustomed to being vertically ill.

As I looked at his blood under the microscope, I found that his cells were clogged together and that he had an acidic pH. These observations were serious, since in time, it may lead to more than 150 degenerative diseases.

With further investigation I found that he had about 3 glasses of water, one or two beers, three cups of rooibos tea, canned soda, and juice per day. In his mind these were quite a lot of fluid, and hence his disbelief when I told him that he was completely dehydrated.

After all, 3 glasses of water is hardly enough water to hydrate the body.  Tea, cool drinks etc are not the “fluid” you would do your laundry in, is it? Well, its the same for your body, you need pure water to cleanse, not tea, coffee and soft drinks!

I suggested a 5 day detox program and some supplements - the Pack-O-Life to cleanse and alkalinize his body, Mindset for the immense stress he was under as a young business owner, and for the sore shoulder I gave him CMO and Omega SLO to take daily to reduce the inflammation and help heal the shoulder.

Five days later I saw him for a follow up to see how he was doing. He admitted that doing a detox, excluding all his favourites like beer, tea, and soft drinks was hard for him. He experienced headaches and mild nausea during two of the detox days. He persevered and after 5 days he was feeling much better; he had more energy, no longer had a feeling of being down and depressed BUT best of all his shoulder was beginning to heal up - so much so that he was able to do everything he had to as a motor mechanic. He was ecstatic!

Summary:

Brian thought that he was taking in a lot of ‘fluid’ and that it was hydrating him adequately and that it was OK that his shoulder was always sore. He was unaware that he was basically vertically ill. He also never gave it any thought that the way he was feeling had anything to do with what he ate or drank.

The main problem that Brian had was that he was completely dehydrated and very Acidic. This lead to most of the problems he experienced. We should make sure that we are always well hydrated with alkaline water. As a guideline use 70% of your body’s goal weight over 14 days in pure KDF water with Coral Calcium sachets in the water. (Body weight X 0.7 / 14 days = amount of water needed per day)

The fact that he was complaining about a few minor issues shows what can happen when you grow accustomed to more serious and debilitating health issues.

After Brian cleansed, nourished and balanced his body by taking the supplements as we suggested, his blood looked much better and was no longer clotted together. This made it easy for his blood to carry oxygen to the individual cells and bring healing to his entire body.

What does your body look like, are you taking in enough pure, alkaline water? Are your blood cells well separated and nourished so that you have well fed and oxygenated tissue cells?

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No Wheat Dairy and Sugar

By Christo Lues

In today’s life many people suffer from allergies, digestive problems like bloatedness and IBS, constipation, weight gain, sinus related problems, eczema, asthma, ADD etc. In the many years I have spent in clinical practice, the single thing that have stood out more than any other is the little or no attention medical professionals give to the role diet plays in a patients health. The medical view is that diet is not important as all foods gets broken down into glucose anyway. They see allergies and digestive problems as disorders, syndromes or illnesses for which the only remedy is a chronic drug or surgical procedure. When a patient asks a doctor whether changing his/her diet will make any difference in their health condition, the answer is a stern NO!

I have never heard of any Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist or Gastroenterologist (specialist in bowl disorders) ask a patient about their diet or recommend a diet change to alleviate their symptoms.

According to these specialist the problem usually lies somewhere inside the body and it needs to be treated, but in actual fact, the problem lies outside the body.

Consider the following analogy;

It is common sense not to eat wood. But if some clever marketing is done to improve the taste, texture, and appearance and if people in authority on nutrition starts proclaiming the health benefits of it, people will eat it. Over time it will become part of their daily diet.

When people start developing digestive issues, allergies and other ailments from eating wood and end up in the doctor’s consulting room, they will leave with a drug to suppress the symptoms of eating wood. No doctor will tell them to simply stop eating wood! Dietitians will tell them they need wood as part of a balanced diet. Fellow humans will tell them that God created wood, so it must be ok - how can we live without eating wood.

If they meet someone with some remaining common sense, they are amazed (if they follow the advice) that they got well by simply changing their diet - avoiding wood.

Most problems of people I consult with on a daily basis, is the diet. We live in a society where people will eat just about anything, as long as it tastes great, has the CANSA or Heart Foundation stamp on it and is fat free. Although people are very particular about what kind of oil or fuel they put in their expensive vehicles, they seem oblivious to the fact that the body, a far more delicate machine is affected by what they consume. This is affirmed by specialist doctors and dietitians that keep hammering it into people’s heads that you can eat everything and that diet plays no role in your health - just eat a balanced diet and you don’t need any supplements. 

In a World filled with lies, the Truth is often more bizarre than the Lie

There are THREE main culprits in the daily diet, and the first is wheat. Read on...

Four cups of coffee a day could help keep womb cancer at bay

Research has linked regular consumption with lower odds of endometrial cancer, the most common form of the disease. 

Women who drank four or more cups a day over many years were 25 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who limited themselves to less than a cup daily.

Both caffeinated and decaffeinated varieties seemed to help ward off the disease, although tea had no effect, the 26-year study of almost 70,000 women found.

Drunk regularly, coffee may help lower levels of hormones believed to fuel the cancer, the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention reports. Endometrial cancer affects 6,400 British women a year in the UK and kills an estimated 1,000 annually. 

Risk goes up with age, weight and with having a mother who had the disease.

The researchers, from Harvard School of  Public Health in the U.S., said: ‘Increasing exercise and maintaining normal body weight are probably the most important ways to prevent endometrial cancer.

‘However, additional strategies are needed and dietary habits such as coffee drinking could provide one option.’ They cautioned that  adding cream and sugar to the beverage may cancel out the effects, as may smoking.

A total of 672 cases of the cancer, which affects the lining of the uterus, were reported over  the 26-year span of the study.

Senior researcher Edward Giovannucci said coffee could help against cancers associated with obesity, insulin and oestrogen, and that it had been shown to improve insulin resistance.

He said: ‘Coffee has already been shown to be protective against diabetes due to its effect on insulin, so we hypothesised that we’d see a reduction in some cancers as well.’

Professor Giovannucci added: ‘Laboratory testing has found that coffee has much more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits.’

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Women with high cholesterol live longer, have fewer heart attacks and strokes!

by Mike Adams

If the diagnosis of high cholesterol sounds like a death sentence to your ears, you may be the victim of cholesterol propaganda. It's not uncommon to believe that lower is better when it comes to cholesterol, but new research shows otherwise. In fact, a recent study in Norway says women with high cholesterol live longer and suffer from fewer heart attacks and strokes than those with lower cholesterol.

Can high cholesterol save your life?

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at 52,087 individuals between the ages of 20 and 74. After adjusting for factors like age, smoking and blood pressure, researchers found women with high cholesterol (more than 270 mg/dl) had a 28 percent lower mortality risk than women with low cholesterol (under 193 mg/dl). Risk for heart disease, cardiac arrest and stroke also declined as cholesterol levels rose.

The researchers involved in the study admit this contradicts commonly accepted beliefs about cholesterol. They say current guideline information is misleading because the role of cholesterol in heart disease is overestimated.

These results fly in the face of what most of us have been told about cholesterol. Our misconceptions about cholesterol may in fact be endangering countless lives. For instance, millions of people are prescribed statin drugs to lower their cholesterol levels, believing that this will save their lives. Not only do statin drugs come with a plethora of dangerous side effects, but now the very premise of their existence is also brought into question.

Our focus on lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease and mortality is misplaced. It also fails to serve in the best interest of our health and wellness. In fact, the dogmatic belief that cholesterol must be lowered appears to best serve pharmaceutical companies, which profit from cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Better results will be achieved when we develop a more well-rounded focus on other risks for heart disease, which include stress, toxins, a sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet. As an added bonus, these factors aren't treated with dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, but with simple, healthful lifestyle changes.

Learn more here...

Truth

The truth may upset you at first, but it will ultimately set you free. 
A.R. Bernard.

Help, I have Hay fever!!

OK, so you are sneezing, can't see where you go and your eyes look like you had a few very late nights!

The only thing you want to do is get a shot or a pill to chill untill it passes. Only problem is that you would sleep through your day, as life goes on for other people. This is when that luring cortisone shot seems awefully attractive (barr the  terrible side effects)

Do not dispair, there are natural ways around this! Read more...