The world of natural health is alive and well, with millions of people taking care of their health in very different ways from mainstream practices... Alternative Medicine.

Don't buy into the belief that says "there is no cure for ...", because there is. The solutions offered at Life Enthusiast Co-op are built on over 25 years of study, health consultations and market research in the field of Holistic and Alternative Medicine.

We specialize in helping people gain exceptional performance or regain lost health - the tools to attain either are identical.

Our customers have successfully dealt with conditions such as asthma, back pain, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, celiac disease, high cholesterol levels, colon cancer, Crohn's disease, depression, diabetes, fibromyalgia, gall stones, hepatitis c, herniated disc, herpes, high blood pressure, kidney stones, Lyme disease, lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke and more. The list of degenerative conditions is very long, and they all respond to holistic treatments.

I want to share with you my "health care" story, but more importantly, I want to give you some clues about what is really wrong with the whole health care system as we know it.

I was 25 when I stepped into a dentist's office with my freshly earned full dental plan from my unionized job at a sawmill. I needed a checkup and a small filling. I ended up with a full exam with x-rays, and a sell job: according to the x-rays my molars were getting weak, and needed improvement. They needed to be "improved" with mercury amalgams, a total of 12 sizeable fillings. It is very strange that the teeth that were not filled with mercury are still intact 30 years later. I should have clued in, but I was a fresh immigrant from Eastern Europe, and trusted the kind dentist implicitely. I should have known that he was serving his (economic) interest, not mine.

The fillings were installed in 4 sessions, two weeks apart. After the second session I came down with a massive herpes breakout blister on my lip, the first one I ever had. I should have clued in then.

Within a year I started having back problems. I was a strong young lad before, but now I was on workers' compensation. The injuries were not really caused by my job, but by my poisoned body falling apart. But we did not know that.

In year two I was so debilitated that I was having to crawl on all fours to go to the bathroom, several times a year, for a week or two at a time. After my back went I was also having problems with my feet and wrists. I started having carpal tunnel syndrome, and the arches of my feet were collapsing. I had to change jobs to something less physically demanding.

I was seeing a chiropractor twice a week regularly. Out of curiosity I had my hair analyzed (to check for toxins), and it came back with mercury toxicity. I should have clued in then, but did not. I was just puzzling over where I might have gotten mercury poisoning, not at all connecting it to the dental upgrade I received.

In year three I started having serious dental problems - peridontal disease, gum recession, and loose teeth.

I was successful in my career and was earning well. I was spending lavishly on dental care to save my teeth and gums. I had a number of tissue graft operations done, some worked, and some did not. I still have all my teeth, but what an ordeal that was!

True to the indoctrination I received as a regular member of this society and culture, instead of looking for the cause I was trying to fix the immediate problem - my ailing body parts, not the whole system. It is curious how conditioned we are by our society in which we interact with others, and learn from them how to handle "problems". I was seeing medical doctors, orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors, naturopaths, physiotherapists, and a good range of more esoteric therapists, including Rolfing, Bowen, Feldenkreis, cranio-sacral, McKenzie, Alexander, and more. Each of them worked on me and produced some relief, although I was still suffering a relapse several times a year, during which I would be unable to sit in a chair, sleep in a bed, drive a car, or do many other activities we take for granted. Oh, I also had to crawl on all fours to go to the bathroom, because I could not stand up straight.

The decline continued. I was still eating the Standard American Diet, and I was beginning to put on some weight. In year ten I came down with severe allergies, debilitating me for several weeks each spring. I went to my doctor for help. He offered me Sudafed. I asked if that was going to cure me, and he said no, I would have to take it for the rest of my life. There was no cure for allergies, he told me. I was not willing to accept that.

Not one of these well trained people suggested mercury poisoning, and yet, that's what I was suffering from. Not one of them tried to find the cause, they were all just treating the symptoms.

I finally hit the proverbial wall. I realized that I would have to help myself, because the professionals were not going to do it for me. I started studying books about health and healing. I read books by Bernard Jensen, Herbert Shelton, John Tilden, and also Harvey Diamond.

I started the Fit For Life regimen - mostly raw food, lots of detoxification with algae and proper food combining. After five years of that my back problems subsided, and after ten years my allergies went away. By that time I was at least as well read as any naturopathic doctor or nutritionist, and I decided to start a health and wellness company to help others who were afflicted much the same way as I was.

I still had the amalgam fillings in my teeth. By the time I finally read the reports written by Dr. Vickery that clearly linked mercury poisoning to all the symptoms I was experiencing I no longer had the extra funds I would need to get the mercury out of my teeth, having started a new business, and having started helping my daughters with their university education. I finally had the teeth repaired by a competent holistic dentist who treated the process as a hazardous materials situation, as it should have been.

There is a solution to the chronic disease epidemic:
The biggest enemy of your health is your behavior. We dig our graves with our teeth, and with our daily habits. Nutrition, exercise, clothing, makeup, air, water. We fill and cover our bodies with dead food and toxic chemicals. We eat food that is devoid of nutrients our bodies need: enzymes, minerals, trace elements and a long list of necessary nutrients.

When you eat food bought in your grocery store or cooked in your fast food restaurant, you are eating food stripped of nutrients, yet filled with toxins. You can never eat enough to feel nourished. No sooner you finish a meal your body screams for more nutrients. So you eat again. You consume lots of calories, but not enough nutrients. No wonder you are gaining weight and can't keep it off!

When you get sick, the health insurance is your worst enemy. People with insurance go for procedures not because they are needed, but because they are covered. And doctors compound the problem. Their entire belief system about health, illness, its causes and cures, is based on the wrong premise that healing comes from without, rather than from within. As if lack of health could be caused by lack of some concentrated pharmaceutical poison. A headache is NOT caused by a deficiency of a pain killer. That would mean that we are made to live in a chemical factory, not in the tropical forest.

The only insurance solution that has a chance of working is when we establish universal coverage for catastrophic illness and couple it with high deductible on annual claims that allow us to claim all health and fitness related expenses as tax deductions. These would include drugs, supplements, therapies, fitness, and possibly even organic food and clean energized water - all expenses related to care of our body. Consumers would soon enough figure out what works, and do the right thing. They are not stupid, they have only been taught to do stupid things.

Imagine what it would do for the employers when they would no longer have to pay health insurance coverage. They could just hand the same money to the employees. The insurance companies would have a fraction of the claims to process that they do now, thanks to the high deductible.

Do the right thing - empower yourself. Learned helplessness feeds the corporations. Feel free to call. We can coach you through the process

Martin Pytela
Founder, Life Enthusiast

So there you have it! In my quest for health I have learned to use kinesiology (much the same way as David Hawkins describes it) and dowsing. I have grown emotionally and spiritually through the adversity. I can honestly say that if I were not made so sick by the mercury poisoning, I would not be in the wellness business today.

If you are concerned about the health insurance industry, consider that it is not nearly as important that we are insured, but what procedures are insured. It would be nice if we had universal high quality affordable coverage, but it will do very little for our health if we do not start changing the health care model from emergency room medicine to functional medicine, instead of chasing symptoms to focusing on cellular terrain management.