5 Steps to Wellness - Step 4 (Cleansing)

                           Did you know that your exterior is a mirror of your interior? 
    The cleaner you are on the inside, the outside will reflect it in beauty and radiance.

Everything in life requires cleaning. Your vehicle, your house, your desk and the outside of your body. Most people shower every day to avoid appearing and smelling unattractive or unclean, but how many have ever considered cleaning the inside of the body? A person with an office job might not get visibly "dirty" during a days work, but they still tend to shower every day because skin cells die every day. 

If you have read any of the information on this blog you know that animal products, refined products and nutritionally void products are at best of little use, at worst harmful. If you had useless or harmful things in your car, your house or your desk, would you dispose of them? Sure you would. Most of this junk food comes in pretty packages filled with chemicals that make them taste the way we want them to, but that doesn't make them good for the body. The fact is, the body considers them waste, or junk and it needs to get rid of it. If the body cannot eliminate the accumulated waste, the waste slowly moves into organs of the body and create dysfunction and finally disease. In addition, this waste creates a perfect host for the toxins discussed in Step #5.

One of the ways our recommended weight loss supplement, Skinny Fiber, helps you is by absorbing the poisons and toxins that have accumulated in the body (especially the intestines) and eliminate them through bowel movements This doesn't mean diarrhea. When you have normal bowel movement, the toxins get eliminated). Enemas and colonic are good but they cleanse the lower end of the intestine, not the entire part. 

It is impossible to achieve health of any kind if the body is full of old waste material. Don't settle for bathing the exterior of the body alone, cleanse the inside as well. You will feel cleaner, happier, healthier and people will begin to notice that you generally look better (not to mention the amount of weight that is lost by moving pounds of old sludge out of the intestines).

The different kinds of cleansing that can be done at home include:

• Liver/Gallstone Cleanse
• Kidney Cleanse
• The Lemonade Master Cleanse
• Oil Pulling Therapy
• Enemas
• Colon Clease w/ Water Flush
• Colemas (home colonics)
• Fasting
• Additional Cleansing Therapies

Culled: HCMI

If you have read the 5 Steps to Wellness Series up to this point, that means you are concerned and interested in improving your overall state of health. Watch out for Step #5 to, the concluding part of this series. My next post after this series will be on Colon Cleanse - home-based tips you can do to improve colon health. Enjoy the read.

5 Steps to Wellness - Step 3 (Elimination)

If the body cannot eliminate waste normally, that waste will eventually accumulate into all areas of the body and be used as host material for the toxins listed in step #5. Elimination of waste is very important to health. Waste is created during the digestive process and the metabolic process, not to mention waste formed from all the foods we eat. Waste is also created when toxins accumulate and interfere with normal cellular functions. In today's society, with today's habits, normal waste is produced faster than the body can eliminate it.

When I talk about elimination, I am referring to bowel health. I don't want to say bowel movements because everyone thinks they are normal. That cannot be the case since colon cancer is the number one killer disease.

It has been stated that if the bowels eliminated all the waste material it received, the body would never have any pain, sickness or disease (Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, by Bernard Jensen). In this light, how many people have a healthy bowel? Keep in mind that healthy does not mean a bowel movement every morning, it doesn't even mean several bowel movements. The word "regular" means at least one bowel movement for each meal eaten, but even this rate of movement does not indicate "healthy" elimination. Just because the bowels are moving does not mean the bowels are releasing or dumping all the toxins accumulated in there.

According to Bernard Jensen's research, if the bowels eliminated properly and the environment of the intestine remained healthy (sufficient fiber, water and exercise), there would be little or no disease. The main cause of ageing is actually an excessive amount of toxins that accumulate and begin to stifle cellular regeneration. Many people believe acidophilus (also known as flora or good bacteria) to be of main importance to colon health and while it is extremely important (and included in step #4) flora will naturally replicate and be healthy if the environment of the intestine is good. 

Many people suffer with yeast or candida infections and most of that is what we call Opportunistic yeast. That means that it is fungus that is supposed to be in the large intestine as acidophilus. When the environment of the colon gets bad, these little guys leave the area. When they do this, they cause infection known as candida. So the greatest fix for most candida is actually bowel health.

Modern medicine has found that by the age of 50, the average person has accumulated 50 pounds of sludge in the large intestine. This is due to a lack of stimulation in the intestine. We have seen countless people increase energy and stamina and loose much of their belly weight and fat simply because they got rid of the extra sludge in the intestine. If you think about it, most people gain their weight around the waist and while people tend to think it is fat, much of it is nothing more than backed up waste that never found its way out of the intestine. The body knows that too many toxins will damage tissues, so it will begin to store extra toxins as fat and even tumors. If the environment of the intestine becomes healthy, much of that fat and misc growths just disappear into the toilet. All the extra toxins in the blood put extra stress on the liver, kidney and spleen, and keep the lymphatic system from draining. The lungs also suffer as they are the paired organ to the colon (five element theory).

It is important, no, it is vital, that your intestines are moving on a regular basis, which means at least once for every meal eaten, and that all the waste is exiting the body. Technically speaking, 95% of the food you eat should be coming out of the body. The 5% that is left is supposed to be the nutrition the body extracts from the food as it passes through the intestine. Of course, in today’s world, it is doubtful that 5% of what we eat is nutritious. Maybe fillers, colors, dyes and pesticides, but I doubt 5% of it is actually nutrition unless your diet is made primarily of fruits, vegetables and grains, so maybe we should expect more than the 95%. If any part of elimination is not functioning well, the body cannot detoxify and detoxification (step #5) is probably the single most important precursor to achieving true health.

Culled from HCMI

Watch out for Step #4. Healthy living is a process. Read on

5 Steps to Wellness - Step 2 (Digestion)

The best diet complimented by the most perfect supplement program

won’t do you much good if the body cannot access the nutrition being supplied.

Healthy foods and supplements are of no use to the body if it cannot convert the nutrients into energy and other elements needed to support the actions and functions of the body. So what is the difference in digestion, assimilation and metabolism and how does one assure they are occurring normally? Those who have studied natural medicine have learned that enzymes need to be supplemented regularly and as much as 80% of our diet needs to be in the form of raw fruits and vegetables if the required amount of enzymes are to become available to the body. Supplementing enzymes can be done, but it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to eat a diet that is 80% raw. Even those who do are finding disappointment because they aren’t getting all the enzymes they think they are.

The fact is, most fruits and vegetables are genetically altered with enzyme inhibitors. In addition, the ground the vegetables grow in do not contain a balanced ratio of nutrients. If that's not enough, chemical pesticides and fertilizers are used and they deactivate many of the enzymes! If the nutrition is not in the soil to begin with, it cannot become part of the plant. People try to use organic to solve these problems, but organic does not prove the plant was nutritionally balanced to begin with, only that it was not willfully sprayed with harmful chemicals during the growing process. Organic does not prove that the seeds used to grow the plants were healthy either. No matter how you look at it, enzymes are required in supplement if the previous and following steps are to be assured in the Get Well, Stay Well process. Diet cannot provide all the enzymes your body needs, even if you are eating 80% of your food raw. Our Essential Weight Loss Program promotes the use of Skinny Fiber, a natural weight loss supplement that contains the proper blend of digestive enzyme to assist the body's natural digestive functions.

Most enzyme supplements provide food enzymes alone, but the Enzyme Complex in Skinny Fiber promotes stimulation of the body’s natural enzymes on the digestive, assimilative and metabolic levels. All the food enzymes in the world won’t help digestion on a metabolic level. You cannot supplement metabolic enzymes, but you can supplement food and digestive enzymes and increase the potential of the metabolic enzymes.

Culled from HCMI

Watch out for Step 3 of the process. Enjoy the read.