Dear LEC Reader,

If you have not heard from the official news media (the ones controlled by the pharmaceutical advertisers) that you will either die or be terribly inconvenienced by getting the swine flu in the next few months, you must be living a very sheltered life... As I am hearing it, they definitely want us to think that the end of the world as we know it is near. The H1N1 strain has been hyped up to "highest level". The danger rating only means that it spreads fast. It does NOT mean that it is fatal. The known fatalities were all people with underlying medical conditions, and I would assume that they could have died of any infectious disease. Still, who would like to get the flu, anyway?

Do you know that 36,000 Americans die of the ordinary flu every year anyway? So why would a few hundred more cases be a cause for alarm? Are "they" just looking for an excuse to sell a lot of vaccines? Or to create a compulsory vaccination program?

There is a chance that the virus could mutate and become something quite dangerous to some people. Who do you think would be vulnerable? Not everybody.

The acid-alkali balance in your lymphatic system has a direct relationship with its oxygen carrying capacity. With lower oxygen level the infection frequency rises. The more you eat the acidifying foods, the lower your ability to resist germ based infections. Have you never wondered why only a few kids in the class, or a few people in the office get sick with it when it arrives? Why not everybody? Because only people with a ready to go cellular terrain will be the ones chosen. Not randomly, but by their own actions.

I have a few solutions for you. There are two ways you can approach it: prevention, and mitigation. Today I will cover both. Don't waste this chance, read this letter, and be ready. If you have not maintained a good cellular terrain, you or your loved ones might need it. Get prepared.

To your health,

Martin Pytela

P.S. I thought it would be good for you to see something about the not so long ago government mass attempt to deal with the flu.

This time it will be worse, because they are not even testing the vaccine, they are just going to unload it onto the population, starting with children.

Watch the 60 Minutes report on the propaganda disaster back in 1976. There is something here we all need to learn, or re-learn.

Flu from the holistic health perspective: when your body becomes overwhelmed by a viral infection, it attempts to burn it off by raising its own temperature. The body survives, but the viruses do not. There could be other symptoms associated with your body's immune system trying to overwhelm the invaders with all kinds of unpleasant weapons. Excess fluids, mucus, phlegm, etc.

If you'd like to read a well researched paper on the topic, Dr William Wong has done a fine job when he wrote about enzymes and virus infection.

The trouble with the new strains of viruses is that our immune systems are not prepared to cope with them. They usually develop in places where human and animal excrement mix - such as the ducks and humans in Southeast Asia, or the recent hogs and humans in Mexico. The small town where the latest flu epidemic started is near a huge hog farm. You can't see it on the television shots, but the air there just reeks of pig excrement.

The daily news will try and convince you that the flu vaccination is a no-brainer, but you would have to be brainless to not consider the downside:

First you might like to find out what the ingredients of flu vaccines are before you decide to go for it. It is not a pretty list. I would not want to put it into my body, let alone my children's.

Here is a recent press release describing a situation quite typical for the kind of reaction I want to warn you about:

B.C. man paralyzed after flu shot warns of risks

A New Westminster man is raising a warning flag after he contracted a rare and debilitating condition linked to the flu shot that left him paralyzed for almost five months.

Every fall, health care workers across Canada distribute 10 million influenza vaccinations, and for the vast majority of people, the flu shot causes no major problems.

Within two weeks of getting his annual flu shot in 2007, however, Richard Ryan, 44, went from being happy and healthy to being in excruciating pain. At first, Ryan thought he had injured his back, and he checked into the local hospital emergency room, he told CBC News on Wednesday. But Ryan was also suffering some numbness, and when a neurologist tested his reflexes, he found Ryan had none, he said. "The doctor asked me what was going on in my life. And as soon as I said I was feeling ill after getting a flu shot, he said, 'Stop right there, I know what you have,'" Ryan said.

Guillain-Barré syndrome linked to vaccine
The neurologist diagnosed Ryan with Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disease that attacks the nervous system. According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, the chance of developing that particular disease from a flu shot is one in a million. But as Ryan learned the consequences can be severe. By the time the emergency room exam was over, he was unable to get up. He spent the next 10 weeks recovering in hospital, including three weeks in intensive care, barely able to breathe or eat for himself.

"My face was paralyzed. I had no feeling inside my mouth. I couldn't feel my tongue. My left eye wouldn't close so it had to be taped shut to sleep," he said. The illness progressed into a lifelong condition known as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and a year later he remains heavily medicated, unable to work, and has memory problems. Although the disease is in remission, he is not expected to make a full recovery, and the chronic condition could return at any point in the future.

Worth the risk?
Now Ryan is concerned that public health officials are promoting the flu vaccine while most people are not fully aware of the risks.

However, Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an epidemiologist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, says the benefits of the flu vaccine still outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people. "Nothing is completely risk-free," she told CBC News. "It is always a matter of weighing the benefits and the risks."

Medical information provided with flu shots does mention the one-in-a-million chance of getting Guillain-Barré syndrome. But it is especially important for people with heart and lung problems, the elderly and the chronically ill, to get the influenza vaccine because it could save their lives, Skowronski said. "Influenza itself can be life threatening, and it's those groups that we want to make sure are not put off from receiving influenza vaccine unnecessarily," said Skowronski.

There are more than 2,000 flu-related deaths in Canada every year. Seniors, people with weak immune systems and some children are at highest risk. More common possible side-effects of vaccinations can include fever, muscle pain and weakness.

For his part, Ryan maintains that he's a good example of the fact that the benefits of the vaccination don't always outweigh the risks. "I think if people knew how serious the illness is, they would think twice about the flu shot," he said.

The cellular terrain will sustain viruses only if it is acidic enough for them to survive. So how does it become acidic? The list is almost comical - the description of our modern lifestyle: stress, lack of sleep, coffee, cigarettes, fried food, refined food (sugar, flour, salt, fat), cooked proteins (roasted and fried meat, and surprisingly also baked grains). Oh, and one more: lack of exercise. What does that leave you to live on? Salads, smoothies, stir fries. Plenty of variety, really.

The most alkalizing things you can do: drink the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon every morning, make your salad dressing with apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, take alkalizing baths, add alkalizing minerals to your drinking water.

If you are already in trouble, you may need a water ionizer, or an ionic foot spa, or perhaps both.

We write about these lifestyle choices in our Health Education pages. When you are pH balanced and your immune system is strong, you will not catch anything, because it will not stick to you.

There are two ways you can help your immune system cope with viral infections: supplement with systemic enzymes and with lecithin. Both of these supplements will help unmask and expose the virus to your immune system. Virus puts on protective coating that protects it from detection by the immune system much like the sheep's clothing on a wolf.

It is important that you think ahead. There is no way we can ship to you the tools that will help you if you are already becoming sick. I know we are supposed to focus on the positive, but in this case you should prepare for "Plan B" - stock some emergency supplies. See the next box for a few tested ideas.

Here are several common sense ideas you could implement. It is simple, but not necessarily easy. My wife and I make it a sport of watching servers in fast food restaurants. We catch them all the time doing things that will definitely transmit any infection:

1. Wash Your Hands

It is common knowledge that people think they are clean, but they are not. Sterile technique is taught to doctors and nurses who work in surgery. Most everybody else does not really understand. How many times have you seen the person handling your food handle the money with the same hands?

2. Keep Your Hands Off Your Face

Even if you wash, you will pick up stuff. So keep it out of your eyes, nose, mouth.

3. Move Fast If Symptoms Occur

Even if you are careful, you still run the risk of exposure from ventilation systems in airplanes, airports, malls, etc. All handles or other places where we touch either directly or indirectly we are exposed. Some viruses are airborne, some are transmitted by hand to hand contact.

At the first sign of a sore throat or achiness, take action!

There are several things you need to do if you are already feeling the symptoms: Realize it is too late for Prevention, it is time for Action.

We stock several products we know that work, and you need to have them within reach when you need them: viral block with FluStop, viral disruption with Ionic Silver Spray, viral suppression with Topically Every Pain with Goldenseal, and the ultimate viral decloaking with Lecithin.

FluStop works great on influenza type A, which includes the latest swine flu. The product should be renamed to Viral Terminator. It probably will have to be, because one is not supposed to use the name of a medical condition in the product name. But who can blame the formulator's enthusiasm? He found the cure for the flu, after all!

It is really simple. You spray this water based herbal mist into your nose or throat as directed, and the flu just does not develop. Why?

Apparently there is a way to inhibit the reproductive mechanism of the flu virus using fairly common herbs. This is a big deal - it stops the flu viri (see I can speak Latin) from hitting the exponential multiplication phase that puts you in bed for a week.

The product is safer than the flu shot (if you would even consider such a thing - I won't), and it does not care which viral strain is going to reproduce the fastest this year. Flu-Stop shuts down all influenza A and B viruses, including the ever-hyped bird and swine flu. So if you are worried about a world pandemic conflagration, you better stock a few of these for yourself and your loved ones.

If you are at all susceptible to the flu, or if you are planning an air plane trip or any kind of travel, you ought to have a bottle with you. You would not want to wreck your holiday with a flu ...

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• Can you afford to be sneezing at the important presentation?
• Do you want to spend a miserable week on a beach somewhere?
• Do you enjoy working with a headache and a drippy nose?

I did not think so. The other thing that works really well is Ionic Silver. You have no doubt heard about colloidal silver and its ability to disrupt viral, bacterial and even protozoan infections. I could go into the long explanation here, but instead will say this: it works like a charm. You can go to our website to read the details.

Know this: you need to have one on hand when the flu hits, not three days later. You can't order it and and hope to get it in time to make a difference. By the time you'd receive it, the flu would be in full bloom.

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If you are at all susceptible to the flu, or if you are planning any kind of mingling in close proximity with other humans who could be infected with the flu ... get one of these natural products and keep it in your travel kit.

There are some natural (means inexpensive, unpatentable, largely ignored despite their effectiveness) herbal remedies that strengthen your immune system and disrupt infectious invaders. One of the best is Goldenseal, a simple and very bitter herb. We have it in a blend with magnesium (relax), alfalfa (alkalize), kelp (energize), valerian (keep calm) and St John's Wort (uplift your mood) that can be applied topically to not only calm you down, but to also disable the invading infectious micro-organisms.

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And finally the multi-nutrient life-created complex found in every living plant and animal cell that is made of essential fatty acids (EFAs), vitamins and minerals: Lecithin is nature's universal emulsifier, reducing surface tension so biological systems are able to manipulate fats in water based terrain. Without enough Lecithin, fats will stagnate, clog cells, and go rancid, overwhelming your antioxidant stores with life-destroying free radicals.

Lecithin dissolves away the cholesterol shield that cloaks viruses from your immune system, allowing recognition, targeting and destruction of the invader. Lecithin is essential for cell membrane fluidization that allows the cell membrane to stay flexible and youthful helping each cell resist viral invaders. The more flexible the membrane, the tougher it is for viruses to invade the cell. An ion transporter integral for immune system communication and intercellular communication in all organs, lecithin helps coordinate cellular teamwork within your organs. It won't help you just knowing this. You need to be using a bottle of lecithin every two months. That way you will be ready to strip the sheep's clothing off of the backs of the little viral wolves.

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