Patience--a New Year's Resolution!

“It is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has.” Sir William Osler

This is completely true in my experience as well. I am never concerned about the physical condition you are in as far as my ability to help you reverse this and heal your body; this is not limiting, except in the most imminent, life-threatening cases. The limitations in healing your bowel and body are almost entirely due to your emotional state of mind.

Healing requires patience, faith, forgiveness, hard work, support, and gratitude. Finding the purpose in your current situation is also very helpful.

I often see clients who have spent a lot of time, money and energy trying to figure out how to heal their physical body. Personally, it took me thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to accomplish this. My book is the result of this experience. It contains all of the information that you will ever need to completely and permanently heal your bowel and body and eliminate health, weight, and other problems. Therefore, if you have extra time and money on your hand, instead of reading more books on health, I encourage you to devote it to your emotional health. This can take the form of therapy, reading books on this topic, joining support groups, and/or connecting to a religious organization that supports you. The following information is just a small sample of ideas and advice to you to help you succeed in this process.

Patience

The hardest part of this program for many of you will be having the patience to heal, but you will need this to be successful. With this information, you can live a very long time; you will have the time to attain your health and weight goals. Unlike the “treat the symptoms with crutches” approaches, with this program, daily you are making progress to a healthier, thinner, longer living you.

One step at a time

If your body is particularly unhealthy, and/or you have a lot of weight to lose, take it one step at a time. Focus on your month-to-month progress, not the end result. I had to do this when writing my book. When I thought about all that I had to do, I easily became overwhelmed and paralyzed, and I avoided writing. When I took it one section at a time, and made small, attainable goals, before I knew it, I had written 700 pages.

Don’t analyze on a daily basis

I am very much against the idea of weighing yourself every day, or focusing on your health and weight on a daily basis, either. This creates stress and unrealistic expectations. It also directly leads to a greater tendency to engage in harmful, quick fix approaches.

Rather than dwelling on your goals, absorb yourself in the process of healing and eating more healthfully. The important thing is the here and now. Every day, imagine yourself becoming healthier and stronger; imagine your body eliminating old, acidic/toxic, and unhealthy cells and replacing them with stronger, healthier ones. Eventually, all of this will get you to your goals, but you will possibly miss these goals if anxiety over the process sets in. It may seem like a large feat to replace billions of cells with healthier ones, and therefore imagining the end-result of this process may become too overwhelming and distract you from success in achieving it. Keep the focus on today, and this process becomes much more possible, and much less intimidating.

Don't strive for perfection

Put your ego aside and focus instead on just becoming healthy. To become healthy, you do not have to eat or live perfectly. The process should be as enjoyable and stress-free as possible. My experience has been that clients who try to follow this program perfectly all the time often take longer to get to their destination than those who let go and have faith in the journey. Perfection- seeking is a form of control, and trying to have complete control over this, or any other aspect of your life, is impossible. Relax, and know that you will attain your goals and reach your destination, health and weight-wise, in due time.

Quick fixes create really big long-term problems. Do you really think it’s worth it?!

It is extremely hard to resist the temptation of a quick fix. Thousands of health and weight loss books have been sold because they promise this, and millions of you have fallen for it over and over again.

Ironically, the more often you go down the quick fix road, the longer you will struggle with your health and weight. You may lose ten pounds in one month, only to find that two years later you are ten pounds heavier than you were when you started the quick fix diet (as well as hundreds or thousands of dollars poorer.) If you then follow another quick fix program, in another two years you will be no better off, even if you “immediately” see an improvement again. So, four years later, you are still unhealthy and overweight.

If you decide, “enough is enough” and heal your bowel and body, you may not see an immediate improvement. But in four years, you will look and feel better than you ever have, and you will be able to maintain this effortlessly for the rest of your very long life (unless, of course, you get hit by a bus, for example, although if you are healthy, your chance of surviving that bus accident is much higher than if you are not!)

A client came to me many years ago and after only three months, she got frustrated and gave up. She was only willing to devote three months to healing her fifty-year-old body, or 600 months worth of an unhealthy bowel and the accumulation of acids. She ran off to a quick-fix alternative doctor in town who put her on a high protein diet. She lost some weight (temporarily!), but had also developed diabetes, a condition she did not have when I saw her. She called me at this point, wanting to work with me again, and conveying the same need for a quick fix. She had still not learned her lesson. I turned her down as a client, because I knew she wasn’t ready to get better, and that I wasn’t going to be able to help her. After all that she did, she still didn’t get it.

I do not judge all of you who have fallen for these “too good to be true” scenarios. I did too. The good news is that many of my most successful clients are the ones who have failed with these programs, who now get that there isn’t an easy miracle cure. They are committed to healing their body, and they have a high rate of success in achieving this. In fact, if someone comes to my office that has not failed at the quick fix programs, I am leery. The temptations are far too great and very prevalent. Everywhere you look, someone is promising you a miracle cure or weight loss program. It is like being on a strict diet and having people approach you every day with a smorgasbord of rich, decadent desserts. You may have the strength to turn them down for a while, but let’s face it; eventually, most of you will cave into the temptation and buy one.

As hard as it is, every time you see or hear of a quick fix, immediately move away from it. Get out of its space. Do not listen or read anymore about it. If it is on television, turn it off. Surround yourself with others who support, respect, and admire your efforts to heal your body, and the time it will take to do this.

And don’t worry, as hard as it is initially to watch others look and feel better much faster than you, give it some time, and you will find out that they have failed. When your friend gets rid of her headaches in two days on a high protein diet, and you haven’t, you will, sadly, find out that in the near future, her headaches are worse than ever, or she has developed a new, more serious problem in its place.

If you do not give this program at least one “it will fly by faster than you can imagine” little year to show you that it works, (nothing, compared to the decades that most of you have had unhealthy bowels and bodies!, and nothing compared to the decades you will spend with short term success but inevitable failure if you follow the crutch approaches), you will never succeed in attaining a symptom-free, addiction-free, disease-free body, free of weight struggles and obsessions. Of this I am certain.

In fact, I would not blame calories, stress, genetics, laziness, carbs, or even an unhealthy bowel and body as the number one cause of obesity and death in this country—I would definitely say it is due to impatience.

So this New Years, resolve to be more patient, and the coming year will likely be better than you could have ever imagined!

Reduced protein consumption and program failure

As stated on pages 210-211 of my book,"This Works, Crutches Don't," as well as numerous times throughout, if you eat less chicken, beef, turkey, fish, or any other animal protein when you are healing your bowel and body, you are going to feel worse, gain weight, or at the very least, fail to immediately feel better or lose weight.

When you start this process, you have weight problems, symptoms, and addictions, caused in large by un-eliminated acids. You come into this process with too much trash in the middle of your kitchen, making a mess; you come into this with excess acids in your blood, triggering symptoms, weight problems, and addictions. You also come into this process with a lot of stored trash in your kitchen cabinets; stored acids in your organs. When you eat less protein, more of this trash gets dumped into your dirty kitchen, making a mess; more of these acids dump into your blood triggering health and weight problems. These acids (or trash) are supposed to go into your bowel and be eliminated, but when your bowel is unhealthy, they do not, and they sit around in your blood, causing symptoms, weight problems, and addictions.

When you start taking bentonite, you are eliminating this trash/acidity. But if you start off with 10 pounds in the middle pf your kitchen and take enough bentonite to eliminate all of this, you will not notice this improvement if, at the same time, you throw another 10 pounds of trash out of the cabinets into the middle of your kitchen; if you move stored acids from your organs into your bloodstream--as happens when you reduce your protein intake.

I am sorry if this is confusing; I am sorry that NO ONE else is describing this real situation, resulting in millions of people heading down the wrong road.

So if it is still confusing, I will make it simple. If you are not losing weight, or feeling better, or craving less coffee, sugar, and/or alcohol, then take a look at your diet. Are you eating the EXACT same amount of animal protein as you were when you started this? It is 99.9% likely that you are NOT. So add it back and be patient. First, eliminate the trash/acids that were making a mess and THEN you can dump more out of your organs/cabinets and not risk having this make you look and feel worse, or not any better.

If you are not losing weight or feeling better, you can also double your dosage of bentonite. This is the fastest way to heal your body and lose weight, but it requires the consumption of more bentonite--not all of you will want to do this. Which is ok.

Bottom line, in the short term, take more bentonite if possible, but at the very least, keep your protein intake up to the levels you consumed when you started this. By doing so, you will look and feel better faster. If you incorporate these changes and still do not look and feel better in a couple of weeks, call me so I can help you figure out the adjustments you need to make to achieve this!

As stated on pages 210-211 of my book,"This Works, Crutches Don't", as well as numerous times throughout, if you eat less chicken, beef, turkey, fish, or any other animal protein when you are healing your

bowel and body, you are going to feel worse, gain weight, or at the very least, fail to immediately feel better or lose weight.

When you start this process, you have weight problems, symptoms, and addictions, caused in large by un-eliminated acids.You come into this process with too much trash in the middle of your kitchen, making a mess!; you come into this with excess acids in your blood, triggering symptoms, weight problems, and addictions. You also come into this process with a lot of stored trash in your kitchen cabinets; stored acids in your organs. When you eat less protein, more of this trash gets dumped into your dirty kitchen, making a mess; more of these acids dump into your blood triggering health and weight problems. These acids (or trash) are supposed to go into your bowel and be eliminated, but when your bowel is unhealthy, they do not, and they sit around in your blood, causing symptoms, weight problems, and addictions.

When you start taking bentonite, you are eliminating this trash/acidity. But if you start off with 10 pounds in the middle pf the kitchen and take enough bentonite to eliminate all of this, you will not notice this improvement if, at the same time, you throw another 10 pounds of trash out of the cabinets into the middle of your kitchen; if you move stored acids from your organs into your bloodstream--as happens when you reduce your protein intake.

I am sorry if this is confusing; I am sorry that NO ONE else is describing this real situation, resulting in millions of people heading down the wrong road.

So if it is still confusing, I will make it simple. If you are not losing weight, or feeling better, or craving less coffee, sugar, and/or alcohol, then take a look at your diet. Are you eating the EXACT same amount of animal protein as you were when you started this? It is 99.9% likely that you are NOT. So add it back and be patient. First, eliminate the trash/acids that were making a mess and THEN you can dump more out of your organs/cabinets and not risk having this make you look and feel worse, or not any better.

If you are not losing weight or feeling better, you can also double your dosage of bentonite. This is the fastest way to heal your body and lose weight, but it requires the consumption of more bentonite--not all of you will want to do this. Which is ok.

Bottom line, in the short term, take more bentonite if possible, but at the very least, keep your protein intake up to the levels you consumed when you started this. By doing so, you will look and feel better faster. If you incorporate these changes and still do not look and feel better in a couple of weeks, call me so I can help you figure out the adjustments you need to make to achieve this!

How to Prevent and Reduce the Symptoms of Bacterial Infections

Infections are either viral or bacterial. To generalize, viral infections are prevented by your lymphatic, or immune system, and preventing bacterial infections is the responsibility of the bacteria in your bowel. (Learn more about viral infections by reading my previous post.)

Sinus infections, some cases of the flu, staph, pneumonia, bronchitis, strep throat, fungal infections, most cases of diarrhea that last more than three days, and e-coli are examples of bacterial infections.

A healthy bowel eliminates bacterial infections. The good bacteria in your bowel are your “army” that kills off these invaders.

Crutches for infections

Until your bowel and body are healthier, the following crutches can help prevent infections, and they can help you feel better faster if you become ill. Take these as directed on the label, doubling the recommended dose for a few days for best results. These cannot make you feel worse. They also have zero possibility of weakening your immune system, interfering with “immune-suppressant” drugs if you are taking them, or of making you “addicted” to them.

Crutches for bacterial infections include colloidal silver and goldenseal. Bowel Strength contains goldenseal and can be helpful in preventing these infections, but it is possible that you will need something more powerful at times. (Acidophilus does not contain goldenseal, so if you are using this to heal your bowel, you will need to use these crutches too.) Goldenseal can be purchased at any health food store, but not all stores carry colloidal silver. It can be ordered online. High quality silver can be purchased from “Purest Colloidals” at 609.267.2112, www.purestcollidals.com.

Colloidal silver has natural antibiotic properties and is generally stronger than goldenseal, and is preferable to use as a crutch for bacterial infections. Recently, a magazine article appeared, as well as coverage on Oprah and the Today show, about a man who turned blue using colloidal silver. This created some unfortunate, unnecessary concern about using this product. The man who turned blue has been taking colloidal silver daily for many years, and has even applied it directly to his skin. If this man healed his bowel, he would not need to use a natural antibiotic for many years. He needs to do this program! Even still, it is impressive that he wasn’t harmed by this extremely large dosage of silver that he has taken. If anything, his story confirms the safety of this product.

You will not turn blue, because you are healing your bowel, and therefore you won’t need to use very much of this product. Unlike him, you won't need a crutch, like silver, forever!

Take 2 teaspoons of silver a day, or 4 teaspoons if you do not feel better and/or your stools do not firm up by the next day. If you have a bacterial infection, this product should help you within the first two days of taking it. If not, consider that you either do not have a bacterial infection, or that it is bad enough to necessitate the use of a medical antibiotic. Bacterial infections can be much more serious than viral ones and much more difficult to treat naturally. If these crutches do not work for you soon, or you are very ill, go to your doctor and get antibiotics. Don’t take chances with bacterial infections, especially if you have frequently vomiting or frequent diarrhea. This is very dehydrating, and very dangerous. Keep in mind; it is not one round of antibiotics that made your bowel unhealthy. One round of antibiotics is not going to prevent you from healing it, either! Re-read pages 195-196 in “This Works, Crutches Don’t” for a greater explanation of this.

When you are sick, use the right crutch. Taking zinc, which was recommended for viral infections in my last post, for a bacterial infection, or goldenseal for a viral one, is not going to help you. If you are uncertain as to whether your infection is a viral or bacterial one, use crutches for both. It will not hurt you to take one that you don’t need. More commonly, I see clients who are taking a crutch for a viral infection when they have a bacterial infection, and not getting better because of it.

If you are getting bacterial infections often, or are very bothered by them, consider healing your bowel faster. I can assist you with this process, if desired.

Flu Season--Vaccines and Symptom Reduction

Should I get a flu, or swine flu, vaccine?

It’s the time of year when this question is a frequent one from my clients, and you may be surprised to read that my response is not an overwhelming “no.” Here is some food for thought, and an exploration of the pros and cons of these vaccines:

Pros: They might prevent you from getting the flu, and therefore you might avoid some days of discomfort. It may help ease your anxiety and fears of getting sick, or of dying from the flu, and the elimination of fear is the #1 ingredient needed for success with this program. In this case, go for it.

Cons: An unhealthy body kills you, not the flu (I suspect that the relatively few who die from it would have died from something else—cancer, heart attack, etc., soon anyway. Note: this is my educated guess.). Vaccines give you false sense of security that your immune system is healthier than it really is. They are a crutch and like all crutches, they do not heal you. Or make you healthier. There are dangers to vaccines as there are to all drugs, as they are all toxic and acidic (but the dangers of vaccines are also over-rated. Damage from mercury, etc. can only occur if you are already very vulnerable/unhealthy to begin with. See page 95 in “This Works, Crutches Don’t” for this discussion.) Finally, if you get the vaccine, you may still get the flu.

Personally, my kids and myself have never, and never will, get a flu vaccine. But if you do, it will not prevent you from healing your bowel and body.

How can I protect myself from the flu, and what can I do if I get sick to recover faster?

First and foremost, it is important that you use the right crutch. Crutches treat symptoms and can help you feel better faster. (Remember, Bowel Strength and acidophilus are not crutches. Taking more of them when you are sick, on the other hand, will not help you recover faster.)

The flu (and a cold) is a viral infection, and these are defended by your lymphatic system (which is located at the “bottom of your pipe.”) Great crutches for this system are Echinacea and zinc. Do not use vitamin C (as discussed on pages 278-279 of “This Works, Crutches Don’t.”) Take 100-150 mg of zinc per day or 30 drops of Echinacea extract, 5-6 times a day. These nutrients and herbs will stimulate your immune system to fight the virus. There is zero possibility of harm or discomfort from taking either of these. Bentonite is another fabulous crutch (and healing agent!) to use when you are sick, as it will “soak up” the acids in your blood and lymph that “feed” the virus. Flies (“germs”) are not attracted to a clean trashcan, only to a dirty, or acidic, one. So if your stools are looser or smaller than they should be, increase your bentonite by ¼ to ½ cup for a couple of days, too.

(Note: if you do not get better in a few days or have frequent diarrhea, you may have a bacterial infection, in which case these crutches are useless. Check back in a week or two for a discussion on bacterial infections and how best to treat, and prevent, these.)

And finally, if you are sick and this is discouraging to you, go back to “This Works, Crutches Don’t” and re-read the section titled “The problems with using symptoms to assess your health” on pages 40-41.

Probiotic/Acidophilus Misunderstandings

How does Bowel Strength strengthen the bacteria in my bowel if it contains no probiotics?

One of the most frequent questions I hear is, “How does the Bowel Strength work if it does not contain probiotics/acidophilus?” Perhaps a single day does not go by that I am not asked this question.

The reason for the confusion is that most of you have been led to believe that probiotics are live bacteria that march into your gut and set up camp. But this is not true:

Probiotics like acidophilius are not live bacteria.

Probiotics produce an acid by-product in your bowel that helps the good bacteria that are there grow and multiply. The berberine and grapefruit seed extract in the Bowel Strength DO THE SAME THING. I have explained this in my book—see pages 167-169 in "This Works, Crutches Don't"—yet I still get tons of questions about this, implying that these misunderstandings are strongly rooted (and that I should have spent more time explaining this in my book!)

So I will provide another analogy for you, in my never-ending attempt to set you on the right road. (I suspect that I will STILL get many questions about how the Bowel Strength can work if it has no probiotics in it, and all I can do is keep trying to “undo” your current way of thinking…)

If you had no money, you would die (of starvation etc). Likewise, if you had no healthy bacteria in your bowel, you would die, too. If you had $4000 in the bank, you would want it to grow and multiply. To do so, you could invest this money in real estate, gold, a money market fund, a CD, etc. These are all different investment vehicles, but they all help your money grow and multiply (well, in the good ole days, but you get the point!). Likewise, there are many “investment vehicles” for your good bacteria, as well. One of them is probiotics. Another is grapefruit seed extract. Another is berberine (these last two are in Bowel Strength). There is not one way to help your money grow, and there is not just one way to help your good bacteria grow and multiply, either. The majority of the clients that I have seen who have rebuilt the bacterial environment in their bowels have never taken acidophilus; they have done this exclusively with Bowel Strength.

Probiotics—No refrigeration required?

Likewise, for at least two decades, most probiotics have been stored in the refrigerator, and the accepted thinking was that these “live organisms” would die if not kept cold. “Travel acidophilus,” which did not require refrigeration, was always considered far inferior. Likely, a number of bottles of acidophilus, and hard-earned money, has been “thrown down the drain” by those who accidentally left their acidophilus out of the fridge for too long. And how many of you have neglected to take your acidophilus because of the need for refrigeration? You either forget it, or find it is too inconvenient to travel with it that way.

So I was a bit shocked, and even upset, to receive a recent report from the manufacturer of the line of probiotics I carry (from a very large lab that specializes in these products) that found that after many months at 75 degrees—or a tad above room temperature—the strength of these probiotics was still in tact. Wow. Why hasn’t this been done before? I have been ordering these products for 16 years and have never seen a similar experiment. Why are I, and you, paying to have these packed in ice, if this is not needed?

Most of all, the greatest relevance of this information is the fact that it changes your perspective on these products. Maybe the companies who sell these like your accepted perspective—that this is a live bacteria marching into your gut and setting up camp? That wrong idea probably sells a lot of these. It is profitable for the makers of them.

So if you are taking probiotics like acidophilus, do not store them in the sunlight or in a room that is above 75 degrees, and if you still feel insecure about this test, keep them refrigerated. But do not throw them out if they get left out and you MUST stop thinking of this product as live bacteria. It does nothing by hurt your chance of success in healing your bowel! (Gee, if I am taking 400 billion LIVE organisms a day, it should take only a few months to rebuild my bowel…could be your dangerous assumption as a result.)

Do I take these on an empty stomach or not?

If you read many different bottles of acidophilus you will find that some recommend that they be taken with meals, but most advise they be taken without. So what is the real deal? Like many things in this field, most practitioners “go with the flow.” I too am guilty of this at times (and even made the recommendation in my book to take them on an empty stomach), but largely because I am already “fighting” so many misunderstandings and fears, I simply didn’t want to add more. Having said that, in my extensive experience with these products, it does not matter when you take them. They work no matter what. More accurately, they work if you take the right amount and use them as healing agents, not crutches. Chapter 7 of "This Works, Crutches Don't" tells you all you need to get results with these products. Do not let the inconsistencies in advice for their use—empty stomach or not—confuse or frustrate you. Just take them!

Good Frequency is Easy, Good Form is Not

Frequent Elimination is Easy. Good Form (the thing that matters!) is Not!

For many years, books that comment on the importance of proper elimination, and products that claim to help with it, have focused entirely on the frequency of your bowels.

Millions of dollars worth of colon cleansing, colon health, and bowel health products have been sold with the false assurance to you that they are helping make your bowel healthier, and helping you eliminate more toxins (acids).

Because no on ever told you that the form of your stools determines how many acids are being eliminated, not frequency, you have bought into these products –that immediately improve your frequency but NOT your form—and you have bought into the idea that good form should be just as easy to attain as good frequency.

It is 1,000x more difficult and complicated to have good form to your stools than it is to have good frequency of elimination. Yet good frequency without good form is not healing, or helpful, to your health!

So, if you have had experience with these other colon products—that always contain some type of irritant to the bowel like senna, cascara, aloe, prunes, or psyllium—and noticed an immediate increase in your frequency of elimination, be careful you do not expect the same result as you heal your bowel with Bowel Strength, or as you improve the form with bentonite. And while in the short run it takes longer to heal your bowel and improve the form, in the long run, your health and weight will be 1,000 times better if you do. In other words, while you may like the” quick fix” of immediate increased frequency of elimination with these other products, you will not like the fact that decades after using these, your health and weight will be the same, or worse, while using them!!!!

Please review Chapter 6 of my book, This Works, Crutches Don’t (available through www.ThisWorksCrutchesDont.com and your local bookstore), for a more complete explanation of the ideal form of your stools and a for a greater understanding of why form, not frequency, heals and leads you to permanent weight stabilization.

The Quick and Easy Answer...

The Quick and Easy Answer…

When you are feeling bad, all you want is for that feeling to go away—quickly, and easily. I understand. Remember, I’ve been in these shoes.

Hence, many of you like to blame the Bowel Strength for causing your discomfort, because you really want to believe that you can stop it and all of your problems will quickly and magically disappear! Sometimes you forget that you were feeling bad for a long time prior to using this product (so what did you blame then???).

Ironically, if you live in fear of this product, your life will be more fearful as a result! If you do not heal your bowel with this product, you will spend your shortened life living in fear--over what you eat, stress, old age, disease, etc….

So let me help make this simple, and less scary, for you. In 99% of the clients I work with, the Bowel Strength is not too strong, and therefore does not cause any symptoms, for at least the first year of use. If you have not used it for at least this long and you feel bad, the odds are extremely low that you will feel better if you stop it (so don’t!)

On the contrary, if you are feeling bad, the chances are very high (99% likely) that the cause of this discomfort is that “rain is hitting your roof that has holes in it and your house is getting wet as a result.” In other words your blood has become too acidic and because your bowel is not healthy enough to eliminate these acids, you are feeling bad. Now, if you keep healing your unhealthy bowel, then, and only then will you be able to eliminate your “feeling bad” days!

I know you don’t want to believe that stress, too much fruit, too much alcohol, too much eating out, not enough sleep, your massages, your trip to the dentist, your travelling, your over-consumption of Girl Scout cookies, your lack of water, the fumes from your new paint job, or your new 2 hour a day exercise program are causing you to feel bad. I know you want to blame the Bowel Strength instead, but you can’t do this if you are going to fulfill your maximum health and weight potential. You are looking for the quick and easy answer to your problems, and while there is one (your unhealthy bowel), it cannot be quickly and easily fixed! It can be fixed, however, and you need to focus on that….

If you have been taking Bowel Strength for longer than one year and you are feeling bad and want to blame this product, call or email me so we can schedule a visit so I can help you determine if you are blaming the right thing. The difference between success and failure with this program surely lies in one’s blaming the right thing when one has problems. I have a lot of experience with this program and can make sure you are on the right track. It will be well worth your time and expense to do so. We are talking about the quantity and quality of your life, by the way! What is more important than that? (Of course, this information applies to acidophilus and probiotics as well…)

For more information on using this product correctly so that one day you can look and feel great without the need for crutches, please read Chapter 7 of This Works Crutches Don’t. If you have not already purchased this book, it can be ordered from my website at www.ThisWorksCrutchesDont.com (or from Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc).

We are very lucky to have found this road…..

The Latest Miracle Nutrient--Vitamin D

The Latest Miracle Nutrient—Vitamin D

I review nutritional studies that are published in medical and scientific journals every week. For the last 4-6 months, the majority of these have focused on the “wonders” of vitamin D (and many of you have been led to believe that the addition of it to your diet will markedly improve your life and protect you from disease.)

Vitamins do not prevent disease—scientific studies have proven they don’t—rather, they are crutches that treat symptoms, and you have all been wrongly and dangerously led to believe that if you have few symptoms, it means you are healthy and will live a long time.

It may concern some of you at times that I do not follow in the footsteps of all of the “miracle vitamin D” recommendations and make the same to you, but you should not be concerned. On the contrary…

The concerns I have about the vitamin D mania are as follows. One, while vitamin D is a crutch like all others; this crutch is not necessarily a safe one! Vitamins A, D, and E are fat-soluble, which means that you can retain excess amounts in your fat cells, and they can accumulate to toxic levels. None of the crutches that I recommend can do this! (By the way, of the many studies I have read about the wonders of this vitamin, none have been long-term, which means the long-term consequences of these recommendations have not been observed, either.)

Two, your kidneys produce calcitriol—the active form of vitamin D—when they are healthy. So, rather than take a lot of this fat-soluble vitamin, you would be much healthier, and safer, healing your kidneys. And by the way, “most people don’t learn about kidney problems until it’s too late, because most kidney disease don’t produce symptoms, says Leslie Spry, M.D., of the National Kidney Foundation. “Symptoms don’t appear until 60 to 70 percent of kidney function is lost.” (Chronic kidney disease has become more prevalent in the last 10 years, which is largely the result of our higher consumption of protein during this time.) Of course, when you heal your bowel, you heal your kidneys too…

You also get vitamin D from sunshine. Sun does not cause skin cancer—it is merely a trigger. Your skin is an organ and like all others, the more acidic it is, the more likely you are to damage this organ and get skin cancer! Of course, when you heal your bowel, you heal your skin, too…

When your kidneys and skin are healthy, your vitamin D levels will be healthy, too. If you take vitamin D and do not heal these organs with this program, you can dangerously think you are healthier than you really are. If your vitamin D levels are low due to unhealthy kidneys and skin, you are vulnerable to an earlier disease (like cancer and heart disease), as these organs “at the bottom of your pipe” protect your organs at the “top of your pipe”—like your heart and cells (so you don’t have a heart attack or die from cancer…) So, when you do this program you not only get healthy kidneys and skin and therefore ideal levels of vitamin D without supplements, but you create organs that protect your heart and cells. Supplementation with vitamin D alone does not and cannot offer you the same protection.

Ultimately, the harm of using this vitamin D crutch is consistent with the harm of using any crutch, as discussed in Chapter 4 of This Works, Crutches Don’t. Still, if you choose to take this vitamin while you are healing your bowel and body that is fine. Just remember, when your bowel and body are healthy, you will have sufficient levels of vitamin D in your body without the need of ingesting extra in supplement form.

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Chill out on the peaches and cherries!

Chill out on the cherries and peaches!!!

Every summer, I threaten to take 6 weeks off from work and move to the Bahamas, returning when the “summer fruit season” is over! Why?

Because in order to succeed in healing your bowel and body, and to look and feel good while doing so, it is imperative that you “blame the right thing!” Your greatest chance for failure in this program occurs if you blame the wrong thing (for your weight, symptoms, and bowel problems, like gas, loose stools, etc)

This is never truer than when summer rolls around!

In fact, I forget about this and soon am reminded of it, and begin starting every consultation with the question, “how many peaches and cherries are you eating?”

More times than I can count, a client has blamed the Bowel Strength, this program, the bentonite, their calcium, or some other product that they NEED to find long lasting, effortless health and weight maintenance for their poor bowels, increased symptoms or weight—when the real blames lies in all the summer fruit they are consuming (and not jut cherries and peaches, but plums, apricots, pineapples, etc.)

Summer fruit is healthy for you, and I think it is this knowledge that lead’s one to neglect to blame it for their problems. How can something that is good for me make me look and feel worse, you may ask.

The answer is that summer fruit is very cleansing. It moves acids from your cells into your blood and bowel, and when your bowel is unhealthy—as yours is until you have healed it!—this causes worse elimination, and the re-absorption of these acids back into your blood and lymph, causing every symptom under the sun!

If you have clogged arteries or cancer this reaction might be something you would need to put up with—move acids in your blood and fewer in your organs and cells does help prevent death, but the majority of you are not focusing on your heart and cells, rather your weight and symptoms. And more acids in your blood than you can eliminate makes your weight and symptoms worse, not better!

Bottom line: I know these fruit are sweet, in season for a limited time, and hard to resist—but try not to overdo it with them. They are not hurting you, but hurting you if you wrongly blame the things you need—your Bowel Strength, bentonite, calcium, etc—when you should really blame the fruit for causing problems. So if you can’t resist these fruit, fine, just keep taking your other products and remember, one day, when your bowel and body are healthier, the consumption of summer fruit won’t aggravate your symptoms or weight…

Diagram for Chapter 3 of "This Works, Crutches Don't"