Is There A Natural Cure For Fibromyalgia?

There does not seem to be a good understanding of Fibromyalgia in the mainstream medicine. The best they have to offer is a drug originally used to suppress seizures – perhaps by numbing your brain you will stop feeling the pain, but you cannot expect to ever get better. If you are experiencing the symptoms of fibromyalgia, you are dealing with a complex mix of reactions to multiple inputs that create a perfect storm that givesrise to inflammation. Your immune, digestive and other systems are conspiring to create for you a life of pain. The list of symptoms that people call the fibromyalgia syndrome include some combination of chronic fatigue, muscle pain, depression, anxiety, bursitis, headaches, allergies, twitches, brain fog, rashes, tendonitis, and general muscle or joint aches.

True fibromyalgia is caused by a specific metabolic problem that creates striated fibrous tissue in your muscles that is readily identified – see the video for a demonstration. This type of fibromyalgia can be dramatically reduced with a herbal tincture that corrects the abnormal reaction in the digestive system.

You may have related inflammation that would respond to our general anti-inflammatory protocol: eliminate industrial toxins, reverse intestinal dysbiosis, cleanse the liver, correct nutritional deficiencies.

One simple tincture – Fibro-Ease – addresses the specific nutritional abnormality that causes fibromyalgia, and helps restore your natural metabolism that brings back normal, pain-free function.

Fibro-Ease provides pain relief in as little as two to four weeks as fascia and muscles begin to soften and the tissues of your body are returned to their natural healthy state. Extraneous, hardened fibrinous tissue are gradually reabsorbed and tissues return to normal consistency – flexible, free-flowing, and pain-free.

What Is Zeolite Used For?

Zeolite is a name given to a group of volcanic silicates. They are formed in under-water volcanic eruptions. Zeolites are great at absorbing toxins.

Because of its structure zeolite can bind electro-positive harmful substances. It is used to clean up industrial spills – oil, chemical, and even radioactive. Truckloads of zeolite were used to clean up rivers after the Chernobyl disaster.

Pure Zeolite can be used as a powerful internal detox or cleansing agent that can bind and remove toxins we absorb from the environment. Zeolite traps electro-positive pollutants, including heavy metals, herbicides, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds and helps eliminate them without side effects. This process helps support your immune system to defend against bacterial and viral infections, as well as complications related to toxic load – a broad range of conditions.

Zeolite can help balance your pH and support your immune system. Pure zeolite without additives or chemical reagents has no taste or smell. It can be mixed with other ingredients that support its function, especially fulvic acid.

You can find safe, clean, food-grade zeolite in the right packaging to fit your situation: liquid drops for fast action, capsules for convenience, bulk powder for cost savings.

What Are the Benefits of Magnesium Supplements?

Magnesium is one of the two minerals that control your nerves – it allows you to sleep well and stay calm, avoiding anxiety, restless leg, muscle cramps, and twitches. Magnesium works by activating the parasympathetic, the rest, repair and digest side of your autonomic nervous system. It relaxes and lengthens your muscles, helping to prevent sports injuries.

Because our soils have been seriously depleted of magnesium, and industrial agriculture practices are making things worse, you need to use magnesium supplements. Multiple studies have shown that many diseases may be related to magnesium deficiency.

Our transdermal magnesium supplements offer you several ways to add this vital mineral to your health program. Bathing in Magnesium Crystals will relax your nerves, remove everyday stress and relieve tension. Magnesium Gel leaves your skin soft, supple & hydrated, and your hair smooth and silky. Magnesium Drops are the filtered and concentrated form of Magnesium Oil from ancient mineral sources, pure and tested to comply with USP purity standards.

Magnesium Chloride is more compatible with your physiology than the more common magnesium sulfate – it helps not only with all your nerve functions, but also with your digestion. Because of the fast delivery and absorption into your  cells, the topical magnesium supplement bypasses the critical problem of oral magnesium supplementation – the dreaded bowel flush. When you take a therapeutic dose of magnesium orally, you cause a fast emptying of your entire digestive system. That may be welcome in case of constipation, but it can be quite inconvenient when you are trying to rebuild your bones.

Magnesium chloride is very inexpensive, compared to chelated magnesium, such as the orotate or malate, and its energetically treated liquid form is readily absorbed. You can find several types of magnesium supplements right on this website.

What is an antioxidant and how do they work?

Antioxidant is a molecule that will extinguish a free radical causing aging effects or inflammation in your cells. Free Radicals are the result of poor or inadequate nutrition, and exposure to environmental pollutants. When your stressful lifestyle produces more free radicals than your antioxidants can extinguish, you age faster and the anti-Oxidants are the “Antidote” to free radicals. Unfortunately, the average American diet consists of processed foods low in antioxidants, and the best sources of antioxidants are from nature, not from chemical factories.

Antioxidants work by sacrificing themselves, by donating their excess electron to the oxidating agent. One of the best ways of replenishing missing electrons in your body is by taking a bare-foot walk in grass, or on a beach – as long as you are direct contact of bare skin with the ground. Acidity is associated with missing electrons, and alkalinity with excess electrons.

Now that you know what an antioxidant is, and how they work, click here to select the perfect antioxidant for you.

GMO fed rats on YouTube

How smart do we think we are? I mean collectively. We have allowed ourselves to be seduced by the promise of technology and science to solve our problems, no matter how complex. But we have been forgetting a very important aspect of our existence, one of ethics and morals, one of getting along. Not just with one another, as individuals and groups, but also as a species.

We are a part of a web, an environment, a matrix. In the same way as each of my liver cells is important in its job of doing what my liver is supposed to do, I am a part of a community, a society, a nation, and the whole planet. It is possible for my body to die because of a cancer growing in my liver, and it is important for each of my cells to do what it is supposed to do. Or else …

The Genetically Modified Organisms are presenting such a dilemma: are they like the toxins that we are introducing into the environment only to find out that they result in liver cancer?

I am becoming increasingly alarmed by the effects of the GMO organisms being released into our food chain, and in the whole environment, where they can cause unpredictable changes.

The US government, despite evidence suggesting caution, is somehow thinking that biotechnology, and especially GMOs are giving us a technological edge, an advantage that other nations are unable to match. But maybe they need a change of perspective, if not a full brain transplant.

I am referring to the approval process for just labeling of the GMOs as it is winding its way through the Senate:

“71 U.S. senators voted against an amendment to the Senate version of the 2013 Farm Bill  that would have guaranteed states the right to enact mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling laws. Seventy-one Senators voted against you, the 90 percent of consumers who have said  that you want labels on foods containing genetically engineered (GE) ingredients.”

You can see their names listed on the above page. I hope you will do everything in your power to let them know how you feel about them selling you out to the corporate interests, and find a way to vote in people who see things differently.

There’s more: it looks like Russians are becoming very agitated over the threat the biotech industry is posing. One could be cynical, and think that they are simply trying to deny the US their advantage, but I think it is more about saving our planet as we know it.

“The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.”

After Russia suspended the import and use of an Monsanto genetically modified corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage this past September, the Russia Today News Service reported on the Obama regimes response:

“The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week – including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks. The rider, which is officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision, has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the “Monsanto Protection Act,” as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically modified (GMO) seed crop regardless of any consumer health concerns.

The provision, also decried as a “biotech rider,” should have gone through the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees for review. Instead, no hearings were held, and the piece was evidently unknown to most Democrats (who hold the majority in the Senate) prior to its approval as part of HR 993, the short-term funding bill that was approved to avoid a federal government shutdown.”

On 26 March, Obama quietly signed this “Monsanto Protection Act” into law thus ensuring the American people have no recourse against this bio-tech giant as they fall ill by the tens of millions, and many millions will surely end up dying in what this MRNE report calls the greatest agricultural apocalypse in human history as over 90% of feral (wild) bee population in the US has already died out, and up to 80% of domestic bees have died out too.

Protect the earth, requiem for defenders

I am starting to think that Obama will go down in history as much worse a president than George W Bush, and that’s almost hard to believe to be possible.

Please start talking about GMOs, we need to wake up the nation and stop this madness. If we lose the pollinators (and it looks like the bee colonies are collapsing at an alarming rate), we will see a collapse of our food production. I would hate to be seeing food famines in America. I doubt we would find a quick technological fix for that.

cress seeds sprouting under wi-fi influence

Photo courtesy of Kim Horsevad, teacher at Hjallerup Skole in Denmark.

Can you tell a difference between these two trays of seeds? After 12 days of germination, one with and the other without exposure to wi-fi from a router. May I ask you to please help us replicate the experiment? Please sprout something close to and away from a source of electromagnetic radiation, and take pictures. Share it with the world.

It took the curiosity and the intelligence of ninth graders to come up with such a wild idea. You would expect the scientists working for the Cell Phone companies on proving that there is absolutely no biological effect from Wi-Fi radiation to run studies like this one.

Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community.

It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone’s radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant instead.

The students placed six trays filled with Lepidium sativum, a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls calculations, emitted similar amount of radiation to an ordinary cellphone.

“This has sparked quite a lively debate in Denmark regarding the potential adverse health-effects from mobile phones and WiFi-equipment,” Kim Horsevad, biology teacher at Hjallerup Skole told ABC News.

Horsevad said that some of the local debate over the experiment has been over whether the negative effects were due to the cress seeds drying from the heat emitted by the computer/WiFi routers used in the experiment. But she explained that the students kept the cress seeds in both groups sufficiently moist during the whole experiment, and the temperatures were controlled thermostatically.Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. By the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious – while the cress seeds planted in the room away from the routers sprouted, the EMF radiation exposed seeds did not.

The experiment earned the girls (pictured below) top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.

Danish student win a science competition

I did a related experiment with my daughter, showing the effect of EMF protection devices (either a sticker or a stone ring) on body balance, and recorded it on a video. You can read more about the EMF protection products on our website.

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Last night I watched the news channel light up with pictures of Angelina Jolie, and her decision to remove her breast tissue, triggered by her fear of dying from cancer, as her mother did. I am not too surprised at her fear-based emotional reaction, but I am deeply saddened by the medical advice she followed. We (in the functional medicine field) do know what causes cancer, and how to prevent it. Even the statistics do not favor her decision: she is facing a very small chance of getting the cancer in the first place, and natural cancer treatments are having an excellent success rate.

I was going to write my own piece, by my friend and our member Donna Tennant beat me to it. I don’t think I would put it better, except I would not be nearly as tolerant and conciliatory.

I read with great interest and respect Angelina Jolie’s op-ed in the New York Post yesterday on her radical decision to have a pre-emptive double-mastectomy (and reconstructive surgery) to reduce her risks of acquiring, and potentially dying from breast cancer. She made this choice because she has the BRCA1 gene that puts her at high risk and that contributed to her mother’s own death from breast cancer at the age of 56. I applaud her taking charge or her own health and support any woman’s right to determine her own health journey.I am now begging the governments who ultimately control access to much of our medical and social support systems to do the same – take a radical approach to address breast cancer. Here are my suggestions (based on my own breast cancer journey and extensive research) for systemic changes required to reduce cancer occurrences and increase positive outcomes for those with a diagnosis:

• Mandate a reduction in pesticide, hormone and chemical use in our food supply (Israel banned hormones in their milk supply and the countries’ breast cancer rates were cut in half over a 10 year period);
• Invest in increased preventive, non-invasive dental care for people (in a study in Australia 96 out of 100 women who had a breast cancer diagnosis had a root canal within 1-2 years of diagnosis). Healthy gums and teeth are imperative to health in general;
• Invest in affordable counseling and mental health support for people (trauma, particularly sexual trauma, has been linked to breast cancer);
• Stop promoting the medical paradigm currently used for cancer (chemo, radiation and hormone treatment) as evidence clearly indicates it does not work, or does not work to the level that it is promoted. Or at the very least invest in advanced diagnostic measures similar to what Germany has done, where each breast cancer tissue is analyzed to determine its reaction to chemotherapy before mandating the treatment;
• Require all oncologists to provide statistics for comparing treatment to non-treatment to patients not in scientific terminology but by expected life benefit to ensure women understand this before making any treatment decision. (I had to beg for this information);
• Stop the use of mammograms and look for alternatives such as ultrasounds as mammograms have been proven to increase women’s risk of acquiring breast cancer over a 10 year period;
• Address the situational poverty many women face when entering into breast cancer treatments (and for women who began in poverty this is particularly devastating);
• Make alternative options covered by insurance programs;
• Acknowledge that cancer treatments positively impact the GDP while not generating the same positive impact for the patient and that there is a financial benefit to the greater community to have women undertake expensive treatments which may not be effective or have more devastating long term impacts than led to believe;
• Acknowledge that for many of these early-stage breast cancers, no treatment is necessary and many go away on their own.

I realize this is a lot of information and if anyone is interested in the research that backs up each and every one of these claims, please Facebook message me and I would be happy to provide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&

The Cure for Malaria 

The dreadful disease malaria, a disease that has killed more humans than all the wars combined, can finally be defeated. We have an irrefutable proof of this defeat through a test carried out by the Red Cross on the 16th of December 2012 that proves that they have the cure for malaria. The location was Africa, in the country of Uganda, Luuka District.

The test was conducted by the International Red Cross, the Uganda Red Cross, the local health authorities, and other Ugandan scientists and laboratories. Scientific protocol was maintained throughout the 4-day operation. There were doctors to sign off on the blood tests, malaria test strips to show malaria, and official microscope technicians to even verify the number of malaria parasites present in each malaria victim. The microscope technicians have officially identified malaria parasites on a daily basis. Other personnel present were nurses to help the doctors, video technicians, people to serve as observers and various other personnel.

Klaas Proesmans, a prominent Red Cross figure and CEO of the Water Reference Center of the International Red Cross, told us that he had wondered if there might be some truth in the claim by Jim Humble and the Genesis 2 Church that MMS (chlorine dioxide) actually killed malaria and returned health to malaria victims. He finally decided to personally finance a full scale malaria clinical trial in the jungle on actual malaria victims rather than laboratory rats in order to determine whether this was the cure for malaria once and for all.

Klaas Proesmans came to a Genesis seminar in Mexico that teaches the use of chlorine dioxide to cure diseases. He arrived here in Mexico about 2 months before the actual clinical trial of the 4 days that was from the 11th to the 16th of December, 2012, in Uganda. He said to Jim Humble at that time that he really didn’t think chlorine dioxide worked to cure diseases but he felt it was his job to prove it one way or the other. At the time of this clinical trial many diseases were treated, but the disease of interest was malaria.

154 malaria infected people were given doses of MMS – chlorine dioxide or oxychlor. All 154 cases were free of malaria within 24 hours of taking the dose, with only 11 cases requiring a second dose. This was all recorded on video and on paper with signatures of doctors and technicians. There was no chance of a mistake. One hundred and fifty-four cases of malaria were made well again; the cure for malaria has been confirmed. We have the original DVDs, plus copies of the DVDs, copies of the signatures and original signatures, as well as copies of all papers and signatures of those who were cured. All of this will be published on YouTube with the exception of the signatures of the malaria victims, as that takes individual permission, but the signatures are available for use in court if needed.

There was some worry about possible side effects to people taking MMS, but since chlorine dioxide is used to purify water in thousands of municipal water purification systems and used for treating vegetables around the world, and there are numerous tests showing the safety of ingesting chlorine dioxide, this concern was set aside. Millions of people have been ingesting chlorine dioxide for nearly a hundred years. At this time as many as 10 million people have used chlorine dioxide to overcome diseases. For the 15 years since Jim Humble first began to treat people for diseases there have been no recorded deaths or permanent damage to a single human being.

Jim Humble says:

I can’t praise Klaas Proesmans enough for his forward-looking, personal responsibility towards the human race. That he would personally arrange this malaria clinical trial by first insisting and then financing the clinical trial itself is monumental. If the information gets used, Klaas will have saved thousands of lives, many thousands, even millions of lives. These malaria victims, children and adults, who are at this moment dying, are no less valuable than all the other people of the world. Who knows, one of them might grow up to save the human race. We can save them so why don’t we?

The greatest cause of poverty in Africa is malaria.  The millions of sick people are needed to work in the fields.  Without malaria poverty will be almost non-existent.  Imagine if there were 80 million people sick with malaria in the US.  We could easily soon have the same level of poverty in America.  We need to save those lives with the cure for malaria.

To save these lives we need your help: We must get the cure for malaria out to the world. This is the time humanity needs your help. The whole world must learn about this development. This is the time when your action can have a direct effect on saving lives, not theoretically, but actually. It is so important that we get this information to everyone, to magazines, newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, blogs, and government officials such as Mayors and Governors – because thousands of innocent lives depend upon it.

More than 3000 children die from malaria every day. Science has proven again and again that it can solve any problem presented to it. The idea that we need to allow our children to suffer to their death because there are too many people on Earth is totally repugnant, but there are people who suggest it. I know that there are medical people who would spend years testing MMS while children and adults die from malaria, but if you ask any one of those who are dying whether they would rather die than experience some minor side effect that has not shown up yet in thousands of uses… you will find that no one prefers to suffer from malaria.

Since it has been already used for 15 years without trouble, are we going to spend yet another year testing while more than 1 million die from malaria, or shall we go ahead and save the 3000 who die each day?

You know the answer to that.  We have the cure for malaria, and we have to save the lives that we can save right now.

But the deeper question is, WHAT IS THE RED CROSS GOING TO DO? Let’s give them some time to do the “right thing.”

For now, let me ask you again: Please, please, share this message with as many people as you can. This is one of the times that your action will make a difference. No matter who you are or where you are, the chances are 99% that you will affect at least one life in Africa. At least one person will no longer need suffer from malaria. And chances are the letter will reach the right person and cause a million lives to be saved.

This message is dealing in lives. What you do now will determine how many will live and how many die. We are not begging for a few dollars, or a couple of dimes. THE RED CROSS HAS HAD THE ANSWER TO SAVING THOSE LIVES FOR 5 MONTHS NOW AND NOT A SINGLE LIFE SAVED SINCE THE TESTING.

If enough people learn about this, a voice will go up loud enough to get something done. People who want to help will step forward. Now is the time to step up and be counted. Share this letter with as many people as you can.

Help us get the “Malaria Finally Defeated” video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jY2yab0uLc to reach a million views!

Archbishop Jim Humble
Founder of the Genesis 2 Church of Health and Healing – Serving Mankind

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Body Type Diet

You would think that with weight management being the top health concern of most Americans, and with billions of dollars changing hands in this market segment every year, that there would be more research and less confusion. But under the hood, so to speak, is a nasty secret. The people that should really care about the health of the nation (the government) is in the pocket of special interest groups. Instead of looking after the long term interest of its citizens, it instead sells out to the interests of the money that will help re-elect them. This is the consequence of switching our system from “one man, one vote” to “one dollar, one vote”. We do have a representative democracy, and it is financial interests that are represented.

The food manufacturers want you to eat more of their stuff, regardless of how sick it may make you and regardless of the necessity of a body type diet. The drug manufacturers don’t want to heal you, they only want to treat you. They don’t want you to get well, they only want you to feel a little bit better, and then they want you to come back for more of their “solution” to your problem. To say it differently, they help you manage your problem, not solve it.

It is for that reason that even though the solution to obesity is well known, it is hiding from you in the plain sight, behind the veil of ignorance. The research has been done, the necessity of a body type diet results are clear, the solutions are identified, and the reports have been published. But it is not in the financial interest of the advertisers in mass media to promote it.

It would be in the interest of the single payer health insurance plan, but we have been convinced by powerful special interest groups that it would somehow bankrupt the nation. It would not do any such thing, it would instead lead to the abandonment of costly and ineffective practices. But I digress:

It is your Glandular Dominance that decides if your diet will make you slim of fat. Yes, that is right: choosing the wrong diet will make you gain weight. The evidence is all around you. The NIH website about obesity says: Overweight and obesity are risk factors for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and other health problems.

How do we define the “wrong diet”? It is one that goes against your genetic predisposition and body type diet, the one that is mismatched with what made your ancestors survive the stone age selection process. Five hundred years ago, if you were born with the “wrong” genes to live on the food available in the micro-climate of your ancestors’ home, you would not live long enough to have children. You would be weakened by the “wrong” foods, and you would succumb to infections or other trouble of the harsh pre-industrial life.

Up until the recent rise in mobility, you could predict your proper body type diet by looking back at your ancestors’ diet. But the last 300 years of migrations have made a complete mess of it. Should you be eating the food of the Vikings? That would be cold water fish like cod, herring and salmon, birds and their eggs, sea weed, and some vegetables. Or should you be eating the food of the Swiss farmers? Rye bread and aged cheese? Or dates, figs and pomegranates of someone living in a desert oasis? And what about the African slaves – they lived on fish, birds and coconuts, not grits and fried chicken!

Your development will be directed by the dominant gland that will leave a very clear imprint on your physique. There are 4 dominant glands – Thyroid, Adrenal, Pituitary or Gonads – and each will give you a certain physical appearance, and will cause you to have strong dietary preferences.

To illustrate, if you are slender person, with slim arms and slim legs, and you tend to put on weight on your belly, and you have cravings for bread and sweets, especially in the evening, it is very likely that your dominant gland is the Thyroid.

You would be the person least well served by the Weight Loss Industry of today, promoting low fat food bars and orange juice. Your body type diet should include light proteins and fats! Fruits and low fat dressings help you put weight on, and not to take it off.

Consider watching the lecture on the topic at Life Enthusiast podcast. and leave us a comment – what type are you?

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Hypothyroid Diagnosis

It turns out that hypothyroidism is one of the most common health problems in America, and it is frequently not recognized, and just as frequently a hypothyroid diagnosis is performed incorrectly. The most common situation we see is a client who has just been checked by their doctor and was told that their thyroid tests all came back normal.

So why is it that they are presenting with the symptoms of hypothyroidism? Could it be that the hypothyroid diagnosis results are not interpreted correctly?

What you may consider to be signs of stress or aging could actually be symptoms of an underactive thyroid. Low thyroid symptoms include chronic fatigue, lack of energy or motivation, low tolerance to cold, muscle and joint aches, lack of appetite in the morning, and sweet cravings in the evening, constipation and irregular menstruation.

Low thyroid function has especially awful effects in pregnancy: it leads to miscarriage, low birth weight and low intelligence in babies. Some people will gain weight, despite their lack of appetite – it is as if just walking past a pastry shop would have them gain weight. Another common sign of low thyroid function is dryness of both skin and hair, and hair loss. And then there is the brain fog: loss of concentration, memory problems and depression.

If the thyroid problems are allowed to escalate, you can find puffiness first in just the eye lids, and later in the whole face, swelling at the front of the neck, hoarseness, sleepiness, and significant hair loss.

Many patients who persistently present with signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism are constantly told by their health practitioners that there is “nothing wrong,” based solely on the normal TSH and T4 blood results. That T3, T3 conversion and T3 uptake levels are rarely checked is bordering on negligence, and certainly involves both ignorance and arrogance on the practitioners’ part. Likewise, adrenal hormone levels should be checked as a matter of course in such patients.

Doctors don’t have a ready access to a T3 drug, so they continue to prescribe T4 – Synthroid/ Levoxyl/ Levothroid – despite the fact that the hypothyroid diagnosis results they get are unsatisfactory. They could do much better by turning to nature: whole seaweed or detoxified iodine tincture modulates the thyroid function, helping it return to normal levels without side effects. You may wonder why the medical profession has turned away from using natural sources – it probably has to do with financial interests: there is no patentable seaweed …

Life Extension Foundation calls this situation a “silent epidemic” of iodine deficiency:

Iodine therapy shows promise in safely and effectively modulating these health concerns. Thyroid dysfunction creates unfavorable disturbances in lipid profiles, elevating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and total cholesterol levels and raising the risk of atherosclerosis.  Hypothyroidism also weakens the heart muscle, causing it to “squeeze” less firmly with each contraction; it can cause cardiac arrhythmias as well. These effects may not be evident at rest, but become important during moderate exercise. Low thyroid function is also associated with higher waist-to-hip ratios, an obesity-related risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

It turns out that the thyroid hormones affect the functioning of every cell in the body. They affect energy, function, replication – and low thyroid function is associated with a broad range of health problems. The solution is quite simple:

Eating sufficient amounts of iodine, the main nutrient that thyroid requires for its function. Unless you are eating lots of seaweed every day, supplementation is your only viable option. This does make logical sense: most humans have lived on sea shores and have adapted to having access to abundant supply of iodine. We ignore this at our own peril, as a hypothyroid diagnosis is a serious concern.

So what are the five ways to be sure? Check your morning body temperature. If it is consistently below normal of 97 degrees, you are almost sure. If you get cold hands and feet, you are more sure. If your eyes are puffy, and your hair and skin are lack-luster, and your PMS is acting up, you can safely bet your iodine levels are too low for your thyroid to function correctly.