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[Kathe]

4. Create a healthy GI tract.

Most everyone I know has trouble with their stomach - when I say "stomach" here, I am including everything from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract is called the second brain. It is vital for our overall good health to keep this beautiful, ingenious organ intact and working well.

Sadly, most of us rush through our meals, hardly tasting and rarely chewing properly We fill ourselves with chemical-laden foods; we overeat, abuse sugar, abuse alcohol, and expect to be well. Couple this with hormone imbalances, throw in cigarette smoking and pollution, and it's no wonder we are always holding our stomachs in agony.

When you follow the pathway of the GI tract, you will understand why chewing your food is the first change you can make toward wellness; then by also eliminating toxins, you will understand how you can turn your food into superfood, build up your body, build healthy cells, and keep malfunctioning cells at a minimum.

One you understand the function, importance and workings of your GI tract, you will have a new and profound respect for this ingenious body part. You cannot be healthy without a good working gut, yet it is the most abused part of our bodies.

[Brandy]

She said anus.

Rushing through meals and eating chemical laden foods is a HUGE problem. That is one of the things i'm trying to do better with my family right now. It's just so hard when you get NO time off. We were at soccer, football and a parent meeting last night until almost 9:30pm. I wish there where more hours in the day before I fall over with exhaustion.

[Kathe]

5. Avoid pharmaceuticals unless absolutely necessary.

Antiaging medicine, longevity medicine, alternative medicine, energy medicine, cutting-edge medicine, or what I refer to as breakthrough medicine, are all saying the samething - we are taking too many pharmaceutical drugs!

Please know that these doctors are not anti-pharmaceutical, nor am I. As I will state over and over in this book, when you need a pharmaceutical, it is a godsend - particularly for pain, infection, mental illness, and other conditions outside my scope of knowledge - but whenever you can treat a problem or a condition without pharmaceuticals, it is always the better and safer way.

This new shift in medicine is exciting; thse doctors are making patients well. They are healing; they are thinking outside the box and practicing the "art of medicine." Imagine cleaning out the arteries without statins. Imagine being able to restore hearing and to prevent the continued deterioration of macular degeneration, in many cases actually reversing the condition. Imagine healing the GI tract and eliminating the stomach problems that have plagued you all of your life. Imagine taking away pain without drugs, imagine sleeping nine hours a night without drugs, and imagine not having acid reflux. It goes on and on. Today's new medicine heals rather than manages, and eliminates this Band-Aid approach to which we have been accustomed.

Imagine the possibilities if you are willing to embrace change. Imagine not ending up in the sorry state so many people are now experiencing: drugged out of their existence, sick, crippled, and in nursing homes with dementia or Alzheimer's. This does not have to be your fate if you embrace the new breakthrough medicine that is available now and being practiced by Western-trained, highly credentialed doctors, all of whom collectively realized that the way they were approaching medicine (allopathically) was, in fact, not only no longer working but working against us. Today's new medicine is life changing and lifesaving.

[Kathe]

Originally Posted by Brandy

She said anus.

Rushing through meals and eating chemical laden foods is a HUGE problem. That is one of the things i'm trying to do better with my family right now. It's just so hard when you get NO time off. We were at soccer, football and a parent meeting last night until almost 9:30pm. I wish there where more hours in the day before I fall over with exhaustion.

Even worse, what are we teaching our children? I feel the same way as you Brandy. We must find a way to slow down and pass that along to our children.

PS. OH and I didn't say it, I'm just writing what Suzanne Somers wrote in her book.

[Kathe]

6. Supplement your diet.

Our food supply is horribly depleted and supplementation is more important than ever before. To get all the proper nutrients we need to build healthy cells, it is vital we supplement our already good diets. There are several new breakthrough supplements that have surfaced and are spoken about by the doctors in this book. Resveratrol is certainly discussed with extreme enthusiasm. There are other new and exciting supplements available such as turmeric, vitamin D3, zinc, niacin, rhodiola, cinnamon, and omega-3 fatty acids. The more antioxidants we can load up on the better. Supplementation is necessary to be truly well, even if you are eating only the best of foods.

(Arbonne has awesome nutritional supplements and omega-3 fatty acid supplements as well!)

[Brandy]

I just took an energy pill.

[Kathe]

7. Exercise regularly.

We have all heard it over and over, and yet it mostly falls on deaf ears. I always take the example of a brand-new car left in the garage for weeks, just sitting there. Of course, when you finally go to start it up, the car will sputter and choke from lack of use. Our bodies are the same in that they require usage to operate correctly. Walking forty minutes a day is miraculous for the frame, and free weights stimulate bone growth and give beautiful definition to our muscles.

Choose something that you know you will stick with and make it an enjoyable activity, like taking a beautiful walk each day and deep breathing.

[Brandy]

i was so busy yesterday I didn't have time to workout. crap!

[Brandy]

I'm failing this test!

[Kathe]

8. Get proper sleep.

You cannot be healthy if you cannot sleep, and here is where hormones kick in. With imbalanced hormones sleep is impossible. I will explain in chapter 30 the medical value of sleeping and why chronic sleeplessness may lead to heart attack and weight gain. In order to be thin, you must sleep. In order to be happy, you must sleep; to be healthy, you must sleep; to be hormonally balanced, you must sleep.

Sleep is nature's way to restore health, yet most American adults get no more than five hours of sleep a night (if that). Inadequate sleep is a recipe for disaster. The good news is that you can retrain yourself to sleep again, but it won't happen until you replace missing hormones lost through the aging process, or if you have hormonal imbalance due to great stress (this pretty much includes everyone), or if you are consuming toxic chemicals.