This is a special episode of the Life Enthusiast Co-op, although it didn’t start out that way. What started out as an everyday podcast episode quickly turned into a discussion of the forces at work in our society designed to keep you from living a healthy lifestyle.

This is hard-hitting Martin like you may not have heard before. Check it out right here:

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The episode starts off with a discussion of a new syndrome known as “Metabolic Syndrome X”. Martin explains how the word “syndrome” itself delineates diseases which our current medical establishment can not easily classify. Most normal diseases that one would go to a doctor for are easily classifiable in that they have one cause which when removed cures the disease.

This is not the case with Metabolic Syndrome X, which is used as a starting point for a discussion of the drawbacks of our western medical system. The problem with this system is that it tends to treat trauma and emergencies really well, but is less successful at looking at causes of these illnesses and treating these causes.

As Martin goes on to articulate very well, there is a great distance between simply wanting to live after a life-changing accident and achieving the type of health we all strive for and hope to one day achieve. It is these area that Martin feels could benefit greatly from a more holistic approach.

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Weight loss is a common goal of many people. They want to get healthier and feel better about themselves. This generally leads to a wide variety of dieting methods which, though helpful, never seem to really make the results you want stick. You may be able to shed those extra pounds, but will you keep them off in the coming months?

Co-host of the Life Enthusiast Co-op Podcast, Scott Paton, laments just this problem in this podcast episode below:

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Scott and host Martin Pytela go on to talk about a very exciting line of products offered by the Life Enthusiast Co-op. They are the sole distributor of this brand known as Twilight America.

These products are designed to restore youthful exuberance while promoting general health, strength and vitality.

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The idea behind Twilight America is that the body is an ever-healing, self-restoring fountain of youth. It is a well of love which never ends and we believe healthy living is simply about giving and receiving as much love as humanly possible.

Twilight America products recognize and highlight the importance of magnesium, an overlooked mineral that is absolutely essential for the electrical stability of each individual cell in the body. Magnesium supplementation is difficult and in fact magnesium is best taken through the skin in baths, as orally ingesting the mineral tends to lead to rejection from the body.

Fortunately, Twilight America offers magnesium bath crystals which can serve just this function. These types of baths are extremely relaxing and highly recommended from the attainment of eternal youth.

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One the most popular topics that come up from my clients involve weight loss and controlling one’s diet in order to feel better about your body and your life. It is startling how many of these people that I talk who are unsatisfied with their diet and eating habits cite so-called “food cravings” that they feel at the mercy of. These are people who are all too aware of the dangers of over-eating and specifically eating foods that are high in fat content, yet they simply can’t seem to break the vicious cycle they are in.

This is really a fascinating topic and I’m so glad to be talking about it with my co-host Scott Paton in the podcast below:

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In the end, what we discover in this podcast is that these people are often craving these types of foods for chemical reasons. Leptin is a newly discovered compound which acts as a communicator between the brain and the belly (your fat cells). Leptin’s key message to the brain is: Stop eating, burn fat.

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However, scientists who once thought that giving Leptin to individuals who are overweight would cure the problem were shocked to find the opposite. If there is an overabundance of Leptin in the system, the brain no longer hears the proper messages. Instead, it tells you to keep eating and store more fat.

The Life Enthusiast Co-op offers a fantastic, new and exciting product called MaxWLX. This product is designed to gradually reduce the Leptin levels in the body so that accurate communication between the brain and fat cells is restored. The messages, or food cravings, disappear and the brain has a more accurate idea of how much food is needed.

I can not recommend this product enough. In fact, I guarantee that it will change the way you think about you, your body and your diet.

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Biodynamic farming is a new farming method is trying to counteract the lack of enzymes and minerals in the average person’s diet. This is a great farming method because not only do you not poison your field with toxic herbicide and pesticide, but you also resupply the soil with the minerals you used up. That’s what being biodynamic is all about. You can actually use a salt or some other paramagnetic rock dust that you will bring to the field and replenish the soil, along with using manure and all the other traditional methods that replenish the nutrients that the plants require.

Martin Pytela and his co-host Scott Paton touch upon this issue in this podcast below:

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I have this friend who lives on the coast near Victoria, BC and she would go out to the sea and harvest kelp. She would get the basic seaweed and throw it in the back of her pickup truck. She would grow these phenomenal vegetables using the kelp as manure, thereby getting all the minerals of the sea into her vegetables.

This makes sense because health is strong in the sea. This is where they believe life originated, that we all came from the sea. It is the primary soup from which all life arose, the amniotic fluid of the planets, or the womb of the planet.

For readers who want the same results, but don’t live near an ocean or have a pickup truck, the Life Enthusiasts liquefied barley is as good a substitute as there is.

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You can go to the Life Enthusiast Co-op website to read about this product, under the brand MMP solutions, which stands for Miracle Mineral Power. MMP solutions make several things such as green ionic minerals and also the liquefied barley. They are selling so fast that they have told us that they will only ship six packs. They will not even ship individual bottles and it can only be shipped directly to consumer. We would stock it at the Life Enthusiast Co-op, but it needs to be stocked and refrigerated only for a few days, so it’s actually being shipped directly and they ship it in freezer packs. It arrives still cold and the only way you can get it is if you buy the six packs. It’s available in either six portions of four ounces or six of eight ounces.

This product is easy to take and it doesn’t taste nearly as bad as the cod-liver oil my mom used to give me when I was a kid.

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Most people think that diabetes has no cure, doctors included. The disease is progressive, meaning it gets worse and worse as time goes on, but also fatal. Even while the patient is still alive, diabetes creates a web of complications set off by each attack. In this manner, diabetes can attack every major organ very quickly.

Martin Pytela and his co-host Scott Paton continue their discussion of the illness in this week’s podcast episode. Check it out right here:

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Most public health officials will grant that they can not slow the disease very efficiently. Many doctors fear for waves of new cases of diabetes which will overwhelm the general public’s health. There was even an article about this very issue in the New York Times recently. The article questioned the medical establishments’ treatment of communicable diseases over chronic illnesses such as diabetes, which kill many more people comparatively.

Indeed, most New York hospitals will be filled with patients seeking treatment for diabetes on any given day. It is estimated that half the patients there are seeking help due to some complication that is at least related to the disease.

One of the important topics that Martin and Scott bring up in this podcast episode is magnesium. In all the talk about diabetes, magnesium seems to get lost in the clamour, despite the fact that scientists suspect a deficiency could greatly affect insulin secretion throughout the pancreas and insulin resistance in the body’s tissues. There are also many other reasons that magnesium should be supplemented. It helps out a great deal with many of the body’s processes, so much so that it is quite a surprise that is not more well known as the pillar of health and vitality that it is.

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We have all had experiences of people coming up to us and saying, “Man, you look great”. I visited one of my best friends once in Houston, Texas and we hadn’t seen each other for about three or four years. He and his wife both said “Wow, like you just look awesome”. I didn’t know what to say. We tend to just shrug these things off as people.

In this podcast episode, my co-host Scott Paton talks about having a similar experience after upgrading to our Liquid Barley Grass. Listen to Scott’s story right here:

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There are two reasons why people will tell you something like this and it all has to do with what is going on inside your body. Firstly, you are not aging. The cells in your body are immortal and they have the potential to continue indefinitely. They will keep dividing and multiplying as long as you want.

This is precisely what the Liquid Barley Grass does. The product is chock full of trace minerals that the body normally doesn’t have access to. This gives the immune system incredible support. You’ll be amazed at what your body can do!

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What gets in the way of the cells is self intoxication, meaning toxins not being disposed of properly. The cells will begin to start poisoning themselves when this happens. But, if we detoxify and nourish our cells, things work out for the best and you start getting these comments about how great you look.

Be sure to go to our website and learn more about the Volixer Water Charger and Liquid Barley Grass. Pretty soon you’ll be having the same experience as Scott!

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Diabetes is more common of a disease than you may first imagine. Despite this, you need never develop it. It’s time to take back control of your own blood sugar levels. This will help reverse your body’s resistance to insulin so you never develop type 2 diabetes.

In this podcast episode, my co-host Scott Paton and I discuss the seemingly contradictory facts that the body is naturally healthy yet we are always sick. Here’s the episode in full:

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The body is naturally self-cleansing. It knows how to heal and maintain itself far better than the conscious mind or our mass media for that matter. The internal systems of the body are indeed complex, yet all it takes is adequate nutrients for all the body’s system to function in perfect harmony. The problem today is that not a lot of these nutrients that our body needs are readily available in the foods we eat. This is where supplementation might come in handy for filling in the gaps.

One of the goals of the Life Enthusiast Co-op is to offer you natural solutions for problems that impede vibrant, total health. We try to do better than that by offering these solutions both conveniently and economically.

More and more, medical research is suggesting that those who supplement their bodies with the proper nutritional supplements are the ones who are going to live longer, happier, lives.

The standard all-American diet is probably not going to just do this on its own. Indeed, we are reaching the point where even with a strong diet and mainstream supplements we are not maximizing our body’s full potential.

The two supplements I recommend most to my clients seeking increased vitality are our Vitamin C and Magnesium supplements. Both these components are so very important to the way the body functions and I encourage to read more about them in the Health Education section of our website.

The most important thing to remember is that you already have all the tools needed to get healthy and stay that way. All it takes is eliminating the factors that get in the way of the body doing what it does best.

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So often I feel that the food the public eats is essentially, for lack of a better word, dead. That is to say, it has not been alive for a good long while and since it has been dead it has been preserved, frozen, processed, you name it. While this is good for business, it allows manufacturers to cut down on production costs and maximize on profit, it is not so good for our bodies.In this podcast episode Martin Pytela, founder of the Life Enthusiast Co-op, and his co-host Scott Paton talk about just this very issue and touch upon some alternatives offered by the Co-op that can counteract this problem.

Take a sneak peak of the episode right here:

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One of the key products that keeps coming up throughout the episode is the liquid barley grass, which Martin loves preparing in his Volixer blender, allowing the structure of the water to be maximized. The Liquid Barley Grass was created by the inventor of the Volixer who decided one day he would create a new and improved superfood. So he took a great deal of sea minerals, which are rich in trace minerals that we supermarket consumers lose out on, and uses this to charge his water in the Volixer.

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This super charged water is then his secret to growing barley sprouts that are six or seven inches in height! These seeds are hydroponically grown and are then put back through the blender once again to create a rich green smoothie that is tough to beat. I find myself returning to it whenever I am lacking that certain vitality that is just so important. With a bit of lemon added (my personal preference) I just can’t get enough.

I know that many people in this day and age are suffering from a great lack of energy and I want to suggest that our liquid barley might be just the solution you are looking for.

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I walked into my living room today to the sounds of the news of TV. The host of the news show was questioning Dr. Andrew Wakefield about the possible link between autism and vaccinations. I was really taken aback by the guy they had who was practically shouting at the top of his lungs that Wakefield should not continue to make claims of this sort when all the evidence points to zero connection.

Listen to the epsiode right here:

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As I sat listening to this, I asked myself about the 1 in 150 children who now have autism, one hundred times more than only twenty years ago. You’ve probably noticing this rising tide of autism in our society as I have. Recently one of my nieces declared that her child was officially autistic, so I have been confronted with it up close and personal.

Being autistic for a child could be seen as a positive thing (allegedly?) because of the government funded programs to help these children. At the same time, it is not news that any parent would want to hear. Then of course there is the issue of health insurance which I won’t get into here.

The point is that for some reason or another more and more people are becoming autistic and we don’t know why. Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning that there are varying degrees of the syndrome, ranging from mild to severe.

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One thing is for sure, whether the cohort is vaccines or not more research needs to be done to help combat this terrible trend in our society.

One way I propose that we do this is through a product offered by the Life Enthusiast Co-op called Lecithin. Lecithin is a Superfood offered by Exsula that will strengthen the immune system to an unbelievable degree. It has been very effective in dealing with the after-effects of chemotherapy and purges the body of all toxins. I feel this product is a much better alternative to dealing with illness than vaccination, which seems to come with risks we shouldn’t have to take.

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This podcast starts with something all men love to do: complain about women. However, Martin and Scott use this only as a starting off point to observe how hormonal imbalances due can do a great deal to harm our quality of life. Whether it manifests itself as road rage or menstrual pain chances are it is the same thing.

Listen to the full episode here:

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The most important controller of hormones in the body is unquestionably the thyroid gland. Martin informs us that though the gland is supported by magnesium, it is really iodine which is the primary controlling element. In fact, most people are magnesium deficient without even realizing it. The thyroid uses up a great deal of iodine and will even go as far as to steal it from our organs if it needs to.

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All it takes is a couple of milligrams of iodine a day to cure deficiency. These few milligrams can make all the difference too. If we are deficient over a long period of time, the thyroid will continue to take iodine from other organs and tissues. For example: the breast tissue in women. Certain studies have suggested that this could lead to breast cancer later in life.

At the Life Enthusiast Co-op, we offer a good number of Super Nutrients which can be very beneficial in combating this. I also always recommend kelp to my customers, which is found in every Superfood product we offer. However, you deal with it, it is an important factor to be aware of. I can’t tell you how people I talk to who tell me they simply haven’t been feeling right, and more often than not this is a big factor.

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