This week’s podcast episode starts with Martin Pytela, founder of the Life Enthusiast Co-op, describing his wife’s back pain which Martin has been working on with a good old fashion back rub plus some help from the Scalar Wand with Muscle attachments and sure enough he was able to relieve some of his wife’s pain without resorting to back surgery!

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This type of back pain is very commonly treated through over-the-counter prescription drugs. These are designed to relieve symptoms for pain, inflammation and sleep. Unfortunately, there are many complications from taking these drugs over a long period of time. There have even been recorded cases of stomach bleeding caused by these medications, which is terribly serious.

Alternative health products can’t always completely solve the problem; they can provide much relief from symptoms and reduce inflammation, pain and swelling. These treatments tend to work more over the long term, while also providing vitality.

Making changes to Mother Nature is seldom a good idea. Companies commonly change molecules to make profitable patents, while causing unnatural problems for patients. A healthy exercise is to try to go through your medicine cabinet and find healthy alternatives for each of the products starting back at you. Trust me: there are plenty out there!

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Wouldn’t you life to live to a ripe old age? Feel like you don’t want to pass away just as you are starting to figure out this crazy world? It’s becoming more and more possible to live longer than you ever dreamed, but of course it requires the right approach to taking care of your body.

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If you are at familiar with the principles of the Life Enthusiast Co-op, you know by now how strong we believe that proper enzymes are essential to healthy living. Formulated with enzymes to enable the proper functioning of the body’s natural inflammatory response will go a long way in preventing disease and illness. Research is showing us more and more that things like arthritis and various other joint pain diseases associated with old age are nothing more than everyday inflammation gone unchecked.

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I’d like to recommend a line of products for just this purpose called Generation Plus. These products are designed to provide the body with a wide range of enzymes to address these important aspects of health and wellness. Digestion, intestinal health, excess fat and cholesterol, brittle bones, systemic inflammation and pain: all these problems can be eliminated using Generation Plus products.

Complementary health solutions are available. It is my hope to bring attention to some of the fine products being manufactured that your family doctor simply won’t tell you about. All it takes is a trial run to discover the power of these unstoppable enzymes!

Many of my clients and I discuss various health problems they are experiencing. I meet these people in my travels or they call Life Enthusiast looking for information. One of the most consistent problems that come up is the problem of back pain. This problem occurs in varying degrees depending on age and various other factors. Back pain itself ranges from mild persistent aching to more serious pain that is easily set off with the slightest movement.

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There are many reasons that we seeking remedies for back pain. The most common type of pain, however, is a type of inflammation of the soft tissues near the spine.

Inflammation is an important topic in health and wellness. It is the body’s all-natural response to being injured. It comes in redness, swelling, heat and pain. These symptoms let you know your body in inflamed.

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Conventional treatment of back pain involves specific exercises designed to strengthen back muscles, or changes in lifestyle which reduce the stress causing the inflammation in the first place. If the pain is in the more extreme end of the spectrum, traditional painkillers may be prescribed as well as muscle relaxants.

As an alternative to these methods, I would like to present Topically Every Pain, a product designed to help you deal with wide ranging acute conditions. These include, but are not limited to, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, yeast infections and immune system disorders. The product is also great for treating headache, depression and sore muscles.

Inflammation Pathophysiology

Inflammation is a very common problem for many people of all ages, shapes and sizes. In fact, sooner or later you can be quite certain we will all experience it in some form or another. When you go to see a doctor about this type of problem you can also be sure the doctor will diagnose something with an “itis” at the end. There are four main signs of inflammation. The Roman medical writer Aulus Cornelius Celsus wrote about them all nearly 2000 years ago. They are:

• Redness
• Heat
• Swelling
• Pain

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The most common forms of inflammation include ear infections, sore throat and aches and pains in the form of arthritis or myositis (muscle aches). Neuritis (brain inflammation, Alzheimer’s) and carditis (heart disease) are manifestations of the same problem much later in life.

Acid-Base or pH balance of your fluids is still the bottom line in all the following determinations. It is not known why yet, in physiological terms, but some people just don’t do well on alkalinizing diets. Metabolic typing provides a good answer to this question and many others.

Typical encounters with inflammation will include otitis, or ear infection, pharyngitis, or sore throat, and common aches and pains of latter years such as arthritis and myositis (muscle aches), and finally in old age we deal with neuritis (brain inflammation or Alzheimer’s) or carditis (heart disease).

Biomedica-Purica: Number One for Pain & Inflammation

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This podcast episode is truly important for proper intestinal health. Join Martin Pytela and Scott Paton as they explore the wide range of bacteria found in the intestines and explain what you can do to stay digestively healthy. Why is this important? Only for the simple reason that the intestinal tract is where a good deal of the nutrients found in the foods you eat gets absorbed into the bloodstream. If it isn’t functioning properly, it’s not going to matter how healthy you eat!

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Most bacterium in the intestine functions best when present in certain ratios. Many bacteria balance each other out in a delicate equilibrium. The flora in our intestines manages the extraction of nutrients from all the food coming in. This beneficial flora can be damaged, as is often the case, by other bacteria that are there in excess. This occurs the same way acid rain or a drought damages a rainforest.

When the equilibrium gets off balance, the flora get dysfunctional and start to do damage. The name for this is dysbiosis. One of the most common symptoms is irregular bowel movements. It can happen in the form of either diarrhea or constipation, depending on the damage done.

Most of the water we drink now is chlorinated and this contributes to the problem as chlorine kills many of these bacteria. The good bacteria in our intestine are always more fragile than the bad bacteria, so they are the first to die. Antibiotics do the exact same thing. They are designed to kill intestinal flora. Doctors commonly tell you to eat plenty of yogurt or other milk products to combat this, but it is not sufficient to undone to damage.

This is why I recommend one of the many of the wonderful products on the market to rebalance the intestine. Most people’s large intestine is simply loaded with unnecessary stuff. Health food stores carry lactobacillus, and the LEC offers a great product which I highly recommend called Strata Flora. After consuming a bottle over the course of a month, I guarantee you will notice a huge difference. After this, you just need to keep maintenance up with a reduced dose.

How To Tidy-Up Your Internal Environment

In this podcast episode, Martin Pytela and his co-host Scott Paton discuss the problem of our obsession with “low fat” diets and how this hasn’t helped as become the models of health we hoped to be. They then continue with a discussion of new, coconut oil products that are making a sensation in the health food world by taking the place of less healthy fats.

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Those who are trying coconut oil are reporting increased energy levels, fewer cravings for carbohydrates and sweet foods and that they are actually feeling full after meals.

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Modern nutrition counselling has made huge concessions in teaching us that low fat diets are the way to go. They are simply not healthy and don’t lead to weight loss. It has been decades now that nutritionists have been telling us to cut back on fatty foods, yet obesity is at an all time high. Coincidence? Unlikely.

Little do people know that fats have always played a role in a healthy diet. Before the 1940s, young mothers with infections were prescribed bed rest and a diet high in fatty foods. This is at a time before antibiotics were available and the results were more than satisfactory.

I encourage trying out this new nutritional revelation and seeing if you can’t get the results you’ve always wanted but have been unable to achieve until now. Our website has plenty of information on virgin coconut oil and healthy living in general. Here’s to your health!

The Coconut Diet and Weight Loss

Martin Pytela, founder of the Life Enthusiast Co-op, and his co-host Scott Paton discuss a very interesting and beneficial product, the Star Chamber, in this week’s alternative health podcast.

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The Star Chamber is indeed a chamber containing three different devices. It is designed with the idea of youth in mind. That is, the restoration of youth and youthful vitality in all aspects of one’s lifestyle. It has been the Star Chamber not because of its shape, but rather because of the incredibly uplifting feeling it gives its users. The feeling has been escribed as floating through a starry night, or floating through space.

This type of system has been used for over ten years now and usually the process follows a pattern to this: The patient lies on a bed of a certain “black crystal”. Kinetic responses are then measured to determine the subsequent time lengths. The second part involves a sensual bath in a uniquely super-charged water. Thus begins the sensation of “floating in space”. The final step is another repose on the bed, except this time the bed is made of laminar crystal. This crystal is found in melting snow at high altitudes.

Results vary, but generally a remarkable feeling of elation is achieved, and it is just this feeling that the Star Chamber attempts to emulate. Be sure to check out the podcast for more information.

Twilight America, Star Chamber Receiver

In this podcast episode, Martin Pytela and his co-host Scott Paton discuss the general obesity problem that abounds in the United States and the western world in general. America is the most obese country in the world, with every two out of three people being overweight and over half of that officially obese.

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The episode focuses on the causes that have led us to the dire situation we are in. The industrial production methods which have gradually become more and more commonplace over the years have reduced our food to merely processed fabrications that only resemble the real thing in appearance. Governmental subsidization of large scale farming of grains on under-mineralized soils means that our food doesn’t have the nutrients it once did. Packaged foods are so full of addictive ingredients such as sugar that there is no chance to resist eating them.

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As a result, the body’s metabolism is out of control and won’t respond to common treatments tried by doctors. This is known as Metabolic Syndrome X. Its symptoms include obesity, high blood pressure, thyroid dysfunction, immunological disorders, low energy, inflammation, and reliance on pharmaceuticals.

The good news is this syndrome is reversible with proper hydration, nutrition, exercise, fresh air, sunlight, and grounding, though it not easy. However, with perseverance you will soon be free of flus and colds, the inflammatory illness, and the excess weight.

Weight Loss and Metabolic Syndrome X

In this intriguing podcast episode, Martin Pytela and his co-host Scott Paton attempt to take the idea of alternative health back to the basics. What exactly is alternative health, and why is it preferable to our accepted medical establishment?

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What they come up with is very interesting. The number one reason that alternative health practices should be considered important is that they pull up the slack and solve problems or deficiencies that our common medical practice may not. Magnesium is a great example of this. Martin has been a pioneer for some time in his singular championing of this essential mineral. Magnesium is required by the body for proper cellular health (along with calcium, sodium & potassium).

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How many times have you heard about the importance of calcium? Many, but it is rare that you will ever hear any public service announcements about magnesium. This is puzzling because magnesium supports healing, regeneration and maintenance of all living cells. It allows for deeper rest through the soothing of the nervous system and is very important to the production of amino acids needed for virtually every chemical reaction happening in the body.

Martin’s magnesium supplementation products are fantastic and provide an easy way for the body to receive the magnesium it needs. This is achieved not through supplements to be taken orally, but rather in the form of magnesium bath crystals with allow magnesium through the permeable membrane of the skin. These baths are extremely relaxing and guaranteed to show you just what alternative health can do for you and your life.

Going Back To Basics