Are You Toxic?

As you know chronic diseases are on the rise in America. How many of you know someone who has had that wake up call from the doctor telling them that their test results were not what they had hoped for? Did toxicity play a part in that outcome?

Are You Toxic? Absolutely.
Everyone has a toxic body burden and should begin to understand how to address it.

Can you avoid toxins? Absolutely not.

What are some of the most common toxins?

Mercury: the air we breathe, water, fish, dental amalgams, some vaccinations.
Limit eating large fish - 2 times/week. FYI: it only takes 4 days for toxic air pollution to reach the US from China via the jet stream!

Lead: paint, plumbing, auto exhaust. Paint containing lead was sold to 3rd world countries and is now coming back to us via imports…what goes around comes around. When water sits in pipes for long periods of time it can have lead in it - run the water a bit before drinking it.

Cadmium: 2nd hand smoke & just being exposed to burning tobacco, marijuana, contaminated water, food & dust. Nickel/Cadmium batteries and now you can add jewelry to the list!

Arsenic: well water, treated lumber (a 12ft. 2x6 contains 27 grams of Arsenic…enough to kill more than 200 adults.) Playground equipment, wood decks…etc. Reduce exposure by putting table cloths on picnic tables and wash children’s hands after being exposed.

How are we exposed?
Air borne ultra fine microbes are transported into the blood stream, water, food, personal care products, household cleaners, pumping gas, diesel exhaust fumes, 2nd hand smoke, immunizations…the list is long.

What does your body do with toxins?
If it’s water soluble it will flush it in the urine.
If it’s not water soluble or you have too much it needs to be attached to something to get into your kidneys to excrete.
If the first 2 ways don’t work you will store it in fat & tissue.

How do they affect us?
Heavy metals tend to bind to enzymes and disrupt normal cell metabolism.
Lead, Mercy, Aluminum & Arsenic end up in the brain…we now know that they are implicated in Alzheimer’s, ADD, and ADHD & Autism.
Cadmium & Nickel go to the lungs and damage lung tissue…can cause sinus disease and cancer.

Most of these toxins are colorless & odorless, which makes sensory detection impossible. Common symptoms of Toxic Overload include: fatigue, depression, nervousness, headaches, allergies, joint pain, frequent colds, chronic infections, sudden anger & memory loss.

How do we get rid of them?
Infrared saunas, diet therapy, nutritional therapy, cleansing, lymphatic drainage, Natural Cellular Defense (natural chelating agent that has shown amazing results!) I personally use NCD as my biggest weapon along with the above therapies.


Consider these statistics:
Babies today are born with a toxic load…there have been 7 studies in the USA, Canada & Netherlands that show over 200 industrial chemicals in the umbilical core blood of newborns…70 or those are known carcinogens…cancer causing.

The elderly and children are most at risk from toxic exposure because they have less activity in the kidneys.

DDT was last used 38 years ago…it was dumped into
the Pacific ocean…samples done on fish in 1982 still showed high levels…studies done in 2007 showed that they were the same…our bodies can’t get rid of persistent organic compounds on their own.

I choose Natural Cellular Defense as my toxin trapping device...I see it as having a heavy duty magnetic pac man going thru every part of my body gobbling up the garbage!

There are some great audio's regarding toxicity on my website: http://www.enjoygreathealthtoday.com/

or click here:

http://my.waiora.com/videos/products.php?v=natural_cellular_defense

Cheers to Great Health!

Liquid Zeolite Study on Autism - Home

Greetings!

I was doing the never ending task of cleaning out my email inbox and found this article in my google alerts and felt compelled to share it with you.

It's about a product called Natural Cellular Defense...which in my humble opinion is one of the most amazing products out there at this time. To say that it has changed my life is an understatement and can be verified by my family memebers!

This is just one of many stories that I can share with you. It's not just people with Autism that will benefit from adding this product to their daily regimine. We all have heavy metals in our system that are not getting flushed out, and as a result are being stored in our bodies. The problem with that is toxic body burden...which means at some point you reach a tipping point that leads to illness and disease.

You don't have to take my word for it...there is plenty of evidence regarding the relationship between heavy metals and diseases of every kind so it won't be hard to verify.

Liquid Zeolite Study on Autism - Home


There is an audio on my website by Dr. Stuart Lonkey regarding the relationship between toxic body burden and illness/disease. Dr. Loneky is a Dr. of Toxicology and one of the Authors of Invisible Killers - The Truth About Environmental Genocide.

http://www.enjoygreathealthtoday.com/

Visualization - 4 parts

As I confessed in my previous post I didn't get off to a great start regarding my resolutions in January...slowly getting back on track!

Here is part of an article from Brian Tracy that may help put things in perspective.

There are four parts of visualization that you can learn and practice to assure that you use this incredible power to its best advantage all the days of your life.

How Often?
The first part of visualization is frequency, the number of times that you visualize a particular goal as achieved. The more frequently you repeat a clear mental picture of your very best performance or result, the more rapidly it will appear as part of your reality.

How Long?
The second element of visualization is the duration of the mental image, the length of time that you can hold the picture in your mind each time you replay it. The longer you can hold your mental picture, the more deeply it will become impressed into your subconscious mind and the more rapidly it will express itself in your subsequent performance.

How Clearly?
The third element of visualization is vividness. There is a direct relationship between how clearly you can see your desired goal or result in your mind and how quickly it comes into your reality. The vividness of your desire directly determines how quickly it materializes in the world around you.

How Intensely?
The fourth element of visualization is intensity, the amount of emotion that you attach to your visual image. In reality, this is the most important and powerful part of the visualization process. Sometimes, if your emotion is intense enough and your visual image is clear enough, your goal will immediately come true.

Of course, the elements of frequency, duration, vividness, and intensity can help or hurt you. Like nature, the power of visualization is neutral. Like a two-edged sword, it can cut in either direction. It can either make you a success or make you a failure. Visualization brings you whatever you vividly and intensely imagine, whether good or bad.

Action Exercise
Continually feed your mind with clear, exciting, emotional pictures. Remember, your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Wishing you a fantastic weekend!
Wendy

Resolution #1

January will be gone in a few short hours...wow...it sure went fast!

So, how are you doing with your New Year's Resolutions?

According to the experts the #1 Resolution made each year is to "Lose Weight" and it's the one that most people can't seem to keep. In fact by February 1st most people have thrown in the towel. Are you ever going to be fit again as long as you live? The answer is unless you make a resolution to get fit-you're never going to be fit-ever. The choice is yours.

I'd love to say that I'm off to a great start with my Resolutions for 2010...not so...but NOT giving up!

Even though I've managed to keep my weight level, I have not managed to work out consistently so the FIT part of the equation is missing...which I am choosing to deal with starting tomorrow! I realized over the weekend that it boils down to; how important of a goal is it? Am I going to keep making excuses about how busy I am or am I going to schedule time to do it and make it a priority.

I'm blessed to be part of a group who will meet monthly starting tomorrow, 2/1, called "Fit Happens." Our goal is to keep each other accountable, encouraged, and take the steps necessary to eat right, stay healthy, and fit for life. The more the merrier so feel free to contact me if you know of someone who would like to join us!

Need some motivation? Check this out...it's a 3 minute video clip showing the results of the Burn product that we use to jump start our metabolism and start our fat burning furnace!
http://www.waifit.com/

Cheers to an awesome 2010!

Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine

I found this link online today and thought I would pass it along. Probably my shortest blog entry to date!

Off to listen to a webinar titled:
Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition, with Marc David

Why did Hippocrates, the founding father of modern medicine say "Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." ?

Check out this short video clip - http://ow.ly/ZNDo

Wishing you a great night!

Why Genes Aren't Your Destiny

Ahh, it's finally Saturday…the one day of the week to sleep a little longer, linger over my coffee, and spend a little extra time reading the stacks of things on my to read list.

Sure wish I knew the fine art of condensing information down into bite size pieces...I'm working on it...guess its a process just like everything else!

I’ve had the January 18, 2010 issue of Time Magazine sitting near the top of my pile for over a week and finally got to it this morning. I highly recommend finding a copy if you are at all interested in more information on how the choices we make today will have an impact on future generations. I’m continually amazed at how complex our mind, body & spirits are…fascinating information.

The article Titled “Why Genes Aren’t Destiny” by John Cloud, tells how the new field of epigenetics is showing how your environment and your choices can influence your genetic code-and that of your kids.

In the late 1980’s Dr. Lars Olov Bygren, a preventive-health specialist who is now at the prestigious Karolinska Insttitute in Stockholm, began to wonder what long term effects that feast and famine years might have had on children growing up in Norrbotten in the 19th century…they lived in a environment of literal feast or famine.

Around the time he started collecting the data, Bygren had become fascinated with research showing that conditions in the womb could affect your health not only when you are a fetus but well into adulthood. In 1986, for example, the Lancet published the first of two groundbreaking papers showing that if a pregnant woman ate poorly, her child would be at significantly higher than average risk for cardiovascular disease as an adult. Bygren wondered whether that effect could start even before pregnancy: Could parents’ experiences early in their lives somehow change the traits they passed to their offspring?

It was a heretical idea. After all, we have had a long standing deal with biology: whatever choices we make during our lives might ruin our short-term memory or make us fat or hasten death, but they won’t change our genes-our actual DNA.

What’s more, any such effects of nurture (environment) on a species’ nature (genes) were not supposed to happen so quickly...according to Charles Darwin. But Bygren and other scientists have now amassed historical evidence suggesting that powerful environmental conditions (near death from starvation, for instance) can somehow leave an imprint on the genetic material in eggs and sperm. These genetic imprints can short-circuit evolution and pass along new traits in a single generation.

For instance, Bygren’s research showed that in Overkalix, boys who enjoyed those rare overabundant winters-kids who went from normal eating to gluttony in a single season-produced sons and grandsons who lived shorter lives. To put it simply, the data suggested that a single winter of overeating as a youngster could initiate a biological chain of events that would lead one’s grandchildren to die decades earlier than their peers did. How could this be possible?

Meet the Epigenome
At its most basic, epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation. These patterns of gene expression are governed by the cellular material-the epigenome-that sits on top of the genome, just outside it. It is these epigenetic “marks” that tell your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper. It is through epigenetic marks that environmental factors like diet, stress, and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes that are passed from one generation to the next.

There is evidence that lifestyle choices like smoking and eating too much can change the epigenetic marks atop your DNA in ways that cause the genes for obesity to express themselves too strongly and the genes for longevity to express themselves too weakly. We all know that you can shorten your own life if you smoke or overeat, but it’s becoming clear that those same bad behaviors can also predispose your kids-before they are even conceived-to disease and early death. WOW!

Pembrey, Bygren, and Golding-now all working together-used data to produce a more groundbreaking paper, the most compelling epigenetic study yet written. Published in 2006 in the European Journal of Human Genetics, it noted that of the 14,024 fathers in the study, 166 said they had started smoking before age 11-just as their bodies were preparing to enter puberty. Boys are genetically isolated before puberty because they cannot form sperm. (Girls by contrast, have their eggs from birth) That makes the period around puberty fertile ground for epigenetic changes: If the environment is going to imprint epigenetic marks on the genes in the Y chromosome, what better time to do it than when sperm is first starting for form?

When Pembry, Bygren and Golding looked at the sons of those 166 early smokers, it turned out that the boys had significantly higher body mass indexes than other boys by age 9. That means the sons of men who smoke in prepuberty will be at higher risk for obesity and other health problems well into adulthood. In other words, you can change your epigenetics even when you make a dumb decision at 10 years old. If you start smoking then, you may have made not only a medical mistake but a catastrophic genetic mistake.

All this explains why the scientific community is so nervously excited about epigenetics. In his forthcoming book isThe Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, science writer David Shenk says epigenetics is helping user in a “new paradigm” that “reveals how bankrupt the phrase ‘nature versus nurture really is.” He calls epigenetics “perhaps the most important discovery in the science of heredity since the gene.”
Looking forward to reading his book!

90% or 10% - Which are you?

American's don’t have vitamin deficiencies – they have a whole food deficiencies.

It’s estimated that only 10% of adults and 5% of children consume the recommended 7 -13 daily servings of fruits and vegetables. I must confess, I was one of the 90% who didn’t even come close to that amount until I learned how important it is in the big scheme of preventing disease and aging well…both issues are very important to me.:)

Why not just take a multiple vitamin?
The research is complete and compelling that isolated vitamins and multiple vitamins have NOT been shown to prevent disease and in many situations have been shown to increase disease and cause harm.

Whole foods are really the answer to disease prevention. Why is that?
Because the nutrients in fruits and vegetables work synergistically together in perfect combination. Foods in their natural source are packed with 1000’s of vitamins and nutrients, not that 10 or 20 vitamins in a mega dose – its about small amounts of 1000’s of nutrients working together synergistically.

Take an apple for example; there are some 400 ingredients that are phyto-nutrients. There is a mere 5.7 milligrams of vitamin C in an apple…guess what…that 5.7 milligrams in synergy with all the other nutrients in that apple are as effective at fighting free radical damage as 1500 milligrams of vitamin C. That’s the POWER of synergy!

The minerals in fruit and vegetables are colloidal; i.e. they are in a state of such extremely fine suspension that they can be assimilated by the human system.

Good nutrition is a matter of pay now or pay later! I'm paying now because you don't have to look very far to see that prevention in the long run is more ecconomical than a cure...and a lot less painful.

Here are some things that you can do to educate yourself:

www.wendy-dejong-juiceplus.com - there is a video on the home page and 2 more under the button Related Info at the top of the home page. The research on whole food in the prevention of disease is quite amazing.

http:/healthenlightenment.com/document264.shtml - amazing information regarding the mineral deficiency of our soil and how its impacting our health...starving us in general. The sadest part is it appears to be an easy, inexpensive fix.

Rent - Food Inc. - this was a real eye opener for me and has changed my outlook on food...I now look at my purchases as casting a vote for good food or bad!

In closing the notes from the end of document 264 {We choose chemotherapy, amputations, pacemakers, surgery, and wheelchairs. One fourth of our Gross National Product(1.4 trillion dollars) is now spent on medical care, affectionately referred to (by doctors and drug reps) as "health care"}

The public can help; it can hasten change. How? By demanding quality food. You vote with your dollars every time you go to the store and purchase junk!