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Dear LEC Reader,
I just can’t hold myself back from fuming whenever I read headlines like
these:
* Vitamin B1 may reduce risk of kidney disease
* Selenium may protect against bladder cancer
* Eating nuts may combat metabolic syndrome
* Brain cell transplant may reverse hearing loss
* Hot drinks ease cold symptoms
* Vitamin D essential for optimal health says AAD
I subscribe to a lot of newsletters because being there for you, demands
that I keep in touch with the alternative health scene so I can provide
the insights and answers to your questions when you call for help.
The headlines I quote came from the hallmark of modern alternative medicine,
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So what do you think got me bent about these headlines?
It’s this crazy reductionist thinking that our mainstream society has
bought into. They’re chasing after symptoms, or just aspects of individual
problems, and researching minute details of how, for example, selenium
will or won’t have a statistically significant influence on preventing
one of thousands of possible conditions, like bladder cancer.
Nobody’s even marginally capable of managing all the details or possible
combinations of deficiencies of the thousands of nutrients that we should
be eating, and then balancing that in our daily diet to prevent every one
of the hundreds of debilitating conditions that have been catalogued.
Life just doesn’t work that way, and when these “scientists” try to pull
me in with their dramatic headlines I just feel like throwing my hands
up in disgust and say something like: "#$%^ it, I’m going out for dinner
and a movie ..."!
I’ve been at this issue for years and I’ve discovered one sure-fire solution:
It is in whole, natural products. Nature’s intelligent design contains
the balance we need to follow. We’re supposed to eat the whole apple, not
its constituent parts (water, fiber, minerals, enzymes, vitamins, alkaloids,
etc.). There is not a single pharmaceutical lab on this planet that can
make an apple out of the ingredients we know it contains, and understanding
this point is the fulcrum of my formula for living a healthy life.
Let me tell you about a couple of these whole, natural products that
I believe fit perfectly in my definition of the "whole food"
concept.
To your health,
Martin Pytela
P.S. Here is a quote from an e-mail I received last night:
"I really enjoy getting the Life Enthusiast newsletters, and they
remind me to order things. Couldn't get along without my magnesium bath
salts or Himalayan salt ... I just love your website. I surf through the
whole thing every now and again just to check for new products and to learn
more. Keep up the great work."
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