Well, here we are with Part 2 of the 14 Secrets to a Healthy Brain series. This section focuses a lot on the fats that we are eating and how important they are to the brain. It also focuses on a really easy to use Cellular cleansing and Replenishing system that we have been recommending with great success for years. Enjoy!

5) Get rid of Trans fat - In 1925 a Frenchman invented trans fat.  It’s a way of turning vegetable oil from a polyunsaturated fat to a saturated fat.  This is what makes a pie crust harden.  Look for terms such as hydrogenated, or partially hydrogenated.  The first trans fat was Crisco, which is basically plastic.  What is interesting is that the Frenchman never sold it in France, because it was banned, he instead sold it to the Americans and Canadians. What happened over the next several decades was heart disease, brain problems, type 2 diabetes all started to rise in North America, but not France.  Make sure to look at the labels!  They only have to list trans fats once it reaches a certain threshold.  So…look for partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated in the ingredients list.

Your brain is mostly fat.  If you don’t have omega-3 fat in your diet, your brain will take in trans fat, turning it into plastic.  Your body takes 6 months to flush trans fat out of it’s tissues.  However, the brain can take anywhere from 1 to 10 years to get rid of the trans fats, severely limiting its function!  This is a major risk factor for “bad brains”.

6) Omega-3 fats - You take a conventional cow in North America, and it never gets to eat anything green.  In fact it gets grain supplemented with the carcasses of dead animals.  Not a good diet for the cow.  You essentially change the fat in the cow, chicken, pig, etc., which ends up having a diet loaded in omega-6.  Really, all you need to know is that you need equal amounts of omega-3 and omega-6 in your diet.  If you look at all the healthy tribes around the world, their consumption of omega-3 to omega-6 is almost 1:1.  In North America, the consumption ratio is 1:25.  The higher the amount of omega-6, the higher amounts of inflammation you have in your body.  Which leads to degenerative diseases.  Cows should be out in the field eating grass.  As long as an animal is on its natural diet, it’s fat ratio will be right for you.

If you are not eating organic, pasture fed animals (cows, chickens, pigs, etc.) you need to be supplementing with about 10-14 grams of omega-3 per day.  An enormous amount.  If you switch to organic, pasture fed you can cut down on the amount of supplementation you need to a few grams per day.

7) Herbal Adaptogens - As a human species we have more stress than ever before. Herbal adaptogens are critical for life-long health. First discovered by the Russians, these herbs help balance the stress response in the body thereby supporting the endocrine system, immune system, and nervous system. If you want the most bang for your buck, Isagenix’s Ionix Supreme is the only way to go.

Isagenix - The shakes, the greens, the fruits powders, fiber, vitamins all give the body good healthy baseline nutrition that we can’t get by just eating food.  To give you an idea of how much nutrient content has been lost in the soil, UCLA did a study in 1997 and found that it would take 43 bowls of spinach to equal the nutrient content of just 1 bowl from 1953!  Scary.  Going organic is much healthier, but we need to do more than that. Isagenix is our preferred choice because it is powerful, tasty, and easy to fit into our lives.

9) Cleansing - We live in a toxic world with the air we breathe, the buildings we are in, the water we drink, and the chemicals in our food.  If you have these impurities in your body, they don’t just get picked up by your body fat, but your brain is also fat.  If they cross the blood-brain barrier, they get lodged in your brain.  So cleansing to remove these impurities is essential.  Also, with cleansing you help to balance the hormones in your brain as well.  We’re not just talking about once in a while cleansing, but regularly!  You’re exposed everyday. Our preferred program is Isagenix.

Stay tuned for Part 3…

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Live Your Dreams

This has to be one of my favorite quotes of all time. I have no idea who wrote it or where I got it from, but it has stayed with me. 2012 can be a pivotal year for you if you make it count…

“Be gutsy and GO BIG or don’t go at all! There is no time in life to think small. If you’re thinking, why not think big? Anything less is a waste of time.

Don’t self-sabotage yourself, believe in what you do and what you’re about. Most people fear success so they always stop right before the finish line.

In the end, it does you no favors to lay in bed at night and think ‘What if?’”

Wow.

Think about those words. Read them over and over again until you can repeat without looking. Let it sink in. You’ve got one shot. Most people are scared of making it big and living the life of their dreams. Don’t let that be you.

Take inventory. Find out where you are stopping yourself. Where do you sell yourself short?

Then, once you have found them, step up to the plate and conquer every one of them. You can do it.

The life of your dreams will be attained when you break out of the safe cage you have been living in. It’s waiting and calling, but we’re usually too scared.

You can have or be anything you choose and you are more powerful than you think you are.

To Your Greatest Dreams,

Dr. Brant

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By now you are no doubt understanding that your entire human experience is lived through your nervous system. You take in a beautiful sunset, sip a fine wine, hear children laughing, and then your brain processes it, and makes sense of it all. You laugh, you cry, feel pain, or feel joy.

This nervous system is vitally important to your existence on this planet.

The human brain is the most amazing structure known in the entire universe.  Nothing else compares to its complexity and power.  In fact, the connections in the brain are like telephone wire connections that allow communication to be transferred to other locations.  If we were to compare the number of connections in all of the telecommunications systems in the entire world (including telephone wires, satellite communications systems, and wireless communications) to the number of connections in the neurological network of the brain, they would appear the size of a pea in relation to the size of the human brain.

Unfortunately, with our modern society and poor habits we are destroying this delicate structure.  In fact research suggests that: * 1 in 4 people by the age of 60 will have a “bad brain”.  These are disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc.

The good news is that the “bad brain” syndrome doesn’t have to happen!  The whole secret is combination.  Follow these 14 Secrets and you will be well on your way to keeping a healthy brain.

1) Exercise - Hmmm…Seems like exercise comes up a lot when health is being talked about.  Exercise actually increases blood flow by 20-30% to the brain.  With increased blood flow comes increased nutrition and oxygen, the primary fuel of the brain.  A good walk outdoors will do wonders.  My all time favorite exercise is bodyweight calisthenics. 10 minutes per day of focused exercise will do wonders.

2) Work the left brain - For many of us after high school or college, we don’t stimulate our brains very much.  Maybe a little bit of reading, but not much else.  Sudoku, crossword puzzles, bridge, chess, etc. are great ways to exercise your brain.  If you enjoy them, your brain will get a shot of dopamine, which is a natural feel good chemical.

3) Work the right brain - Anything you enjoyed as a kid such as painting, drawing, music,etc.  This stimulates the creative part of your brain.

4) Stop the news! - The news irritates the brain.  It’s designed to grab your attention so you keep watching it.  A clinician studied individuals who stopped the negative news and found a 25% increase in feel good brain chemicals within 2 weeks.  If you don’t stop the news altogether, at least don’t watch it right before you go to bed at night.  Read a personal growth book or listen to some calming music, or better yet focus on your goals and what you want to achieve in your life. If you want to keep up with the world, read the headlines in a newspaper or online news site. Then, pick and choose what articles you want to read. This allows you to be in control of what you see and read.

So there are steps 1-4. Stay tuned for the other 10!

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It’s that time of year again. November is the month to be grateful and think of others.

So, Larsen Wellness Center has become a host site for the Forest Lake Food Pantry from now until November 18th.

In 2010, the Forest Lake Food Pantry served 2,404 households, 296 being new families

2,681 were children

536 were age 65 and up

247,230 pounds of food was distributed

5,385 hours were worked by volunteers

So, bring in any non-perishable item with you to your next visit. Our goal is to collect 200 pounds of food, and according to the the food shelf, every 1.28 pounds is equal to one meal.

Let’s make a difference in some people’s lives this year.

Also, attached you will find our Food Drive Gift Card. By bringing in only 5 non-perishable food items your friend, co-worker, neighbor, or family member is entitled to our Wellness Boost Package. What does it include? Read the Gift Card to find out! We know they are going to love it.

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This morning I opened up my email and had some really great testimonials from another doctor in our Bioveda Bax Aura group.

He had a mother and son whose lives have completely changed since going through a series of the Aura treatments and I thought it would be fitting to post the mothers testimonial here for everyone to read.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Testimonial from one of Dr. Riemers patients:

8-21-2011

Dr. Riemer,

I wanted to let you and everybody know the amazing results we have had with the BioVeda BAX Aura treatments that we have received.  I myself was diagnosed with Celiac disease along with a suppressed immune system.  I had suffered several years and was on a strict diet.  Even after following the strict diet I was still having increased reactions after eating.  I would have “crashes” where I would start feeling extremely drained of all energy and would end up in a passed out state where I could not bring myself back to an awakened state.  All of these problems where gone after just on treatment!

The most amazing results have been with my 13yr old son.  He was diagnosed with Asperger Autism, extreme allergies to the following; milk, gluten, preservatives, food dye, and due to his ADD/ADHD was strictly limited to very little sugar intake.  He was on several prescription medications to help with his ADD/ADHD with some improvement.

We were told of the BAX Aura treatments and had to jump at the chance that we could give our son the chance of being able to be a could go on school functions without the worry of having to take all of his own food with him.  His autism would make social interaction with his classmates and friends a stressful experience, which in turn put him as an outcast.  After just one treatment we could see a huge difference in his behavior.   His self-confidence skyrocketed after a few treatments.  He was able to get off all his medications within a few weeks of treatments.

He has become more involved with his friends and classmates.  He is able to focus and finish a task before starting a new one, before he would bounce from one task to another.  With his Asperger’s he would also not want me to touch him.  Giving my son a hug or holding his hand was out of the question.  Now he comes and climbs in my lap, lets me hug and love on him.  I finally got to hold my baby after 13 years that to me was the most life changing event.

I cannot stress enough the total change in our lives Dr. Riemer and the BAX Aura system has made.  We are now able to go on vacation and have a stress free trip without taking our own food, and making sure we stay in a place where I am able to prepare all of our own food.

The opportunities that we now have to do as a family, is endless.  Taking a cruise was absolutely not an option before due to food
preparation, but now we can!  His hyperactivity also limited us on our activities too and now that is not a hindrance either.  Small things like ordering pizza or taking the kids to get ice cream is all now part of our lives.  The first time our son was able to have ice
cream cone, I asked him how it tasted and his words were, “tastes like being a kid”!!

If you ever had a doubt if the BioVeda treatments were for you, all I can say is it is a true life changing experience!!

Thank you Dr. Riemer and BioVeda BAX Aura with your help we can be a family and most or all I have my son that will allow me to give him the physical love that I longed for, for so long.

Jo Lynn W.

Fantastic story isn’t it! We are truly changing people’s lives with the technology that we have. If you or somebody you know has these conditions or symptoms, send them in! We would love to help.

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It’s that time of year again!

Fall is in the air (well maybe not yesterday) and the schools will soon be busy with kids again.

I wanted to give 2 special discounts that I have never done before.

#1 - From now until next Thursday, September 1st, all 20 visit chiropractic adjusting visit packages will be 30% off the regular visit price if paid in full.

Think about it this way…

This brings a regular visit from $50 to $35!

These can be used by one person, or be combined and used as a family (must reside in the same household).

Having regular adjustments is important for adults as well as kids, so I wanted to make it a little easier for proactive families.

And for the second part of the deal!

All of our specialty programs using the laser will also be 30% off if paid in full.

Many of you have experienced our awesome laser allergy system, and most of you have heard of some of the great testimonials.

I originally purchased this system to get myself better, and it worked so well that I started using it with patients.

The results have been fantastic.

Here are some of the protocols:

Sensitivity – the main program involving allergies of all kinds. Pets, environmental, foods, etc.

Boost – Immune system enhancement (school and winter are coming up)

Detox and Cleanse – This program is geared toward helping the body get rid of poisons more efficiently. We have the Isagenix program that we use for most detox programs, but adding the laser visits can make a tremendous difference.

Healthy Skin - This has been one of the big successes. Eczema, psoriasis, rashes, acne, etc. If you know anybody who suffers from one of these please help them out. This program is phenomenal.

Sleep & Rest – For those of you challenged with sleep problems such as insomnia, trouble falling asleep, waking up at night, etc.

These are all 12-18 visit protocols.

If paid in full, take 30% off the regular price.

Now is the time to make some changes.

Remember, this only lasts until Thursday, Sept. 1st.

And not to worry. For those of  you who can’t make it to the office by next Thursday give me a call. I can run your credit card over the phone.

But, it MUST be by next Thursday….

(offer may not apply for medicare patients)

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Very cool story this morning of a person with chronic shoulder pain that was being caused by his tungsten wedding ring.

I could have been working on him for months with little to no results if I didn’t have knowledge of this amazing technology called applied kinesiology. If you don’t have a doctor on your team who has knowledge of muscle testing, you are definitely missing out.

This is some of the most powerful technology that has ever hit this planet.

Watch the video and hear the story.

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It always amazes me some of the things that are allowed to be on the shelves of “nutrition” or “health food” stores.

Recently, I have been running across people touting the benefits of pre-workout products such as NO-Xplode and Hemo Rage Black, just to name a few. They are designed to be used as fuel for the workout giving the person energy and stamina to workout harder.

Products like this are popular among bodybuilders, and other younger exercise junkies, but are they beneficial, and more importantly healthy?

Let’s take a look deeper into these products, or do we even have to….?

If we just take one quick look at the ingredients section we find such ingredients as artificial flavors, sucralose, aspartame, FD&C red 40, FD&C blue 2, caffeine, etc..

HOLY SMOKES!!

Game Over!

Talk about a major red flag. Just pick out aspartame. It’s a potent neurotoxin that some sources say can actually lead to brain cells that burst.

Aspartame has ties to many daily, nagging, and common symptoms such as headaches, low energy, sleep problems, and PMS in women. It’s also linked to degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Hmmm, sounds like something to steer clear of don’t you think?

I mean the goal of exercise is to stimulate the body to become healthier, fitter, and more energetic, but then we start putting products in our bodies that are known to cause health challenges. It’s ridiculous.

How about sucralose?

It has been shown to cause swelling of the liver and kidneys!

One study from the Duke University Medical Center has found that ingestion of the artificial sweetener sucralose will kill off 50% of beneficial microflora in the gut.

Splenda alters gut microflora and increases intestinal p-glycoprotein and cytochrome p-450 in male rats.

Abou-Donia MB, El-Masry EM, Abdel-Rahman AA, McLendon RE, Schiffman SS.

Department of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. donia@duke.edu

Sucralose, which is commonly known under the commercial name Splenda, has previously come under fire for causing gastrointestinal problems, migraines, seizures, dizziness, blurred vision, allergic reactions, blood sugar increases and weight gain. Says James Turner, the chairman of the national consumer education group Citizens for Health, “The report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product.” Other artificial sweeteners, particularly Nutrasweet (aspartame), have received similar criticism for adverse effects.

I could go on and on with this. We haven’t even talked about the artificial colors and their effects and I’m really not going to spend any time on them.

Here is the deal…

If a company is willing to put these kinds of ingredients in their products, you know for absolute sure they are cutting corners on all their other ingredients. The amino acids, the vitamins and minerals, the creatine, etc. will be of the utmost cheapest source they can find. You can bet your bottom dollar on it. They are going to try to squeeze out the maximum profit from their products.

The sad thing is that people are duped into thinking that these types of products are healthy. Everybody knows that Mountain Dew, Coca-Cola, and any other kind of pop are not good for the body, but you would probably be better off drinking one of these for your pre-workout drink. Just don’t opt for the diet versions.

Now I’m not saying to go and drink pop before a workout, but at the very least don’t waste your money on these sham products.

Here is the bottom line…

Fuel your body with the highest quality nutrients you can find. If you are going to be spending the time and putting out the effort to have a good workout, don’t handicap your body.

If you read a label and it has any of the ingredients listed above, don’t buy the product! And, if you have already purchased it, no matter how much it cost, dump it out! Your body will thank you for it. Then, begin to question the integrity of the company and what their motivation is. Look for a new company.

Respect yourself.

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I often get asked the question, what is the best exercise for (fill in the blank).

And, my answer is always, the one you will consistently do! I mean you could have the best workout on the planet, the most efficient, will build the most muscle, burn the most fat and transform you into a super model overnight, but if you don’t do it, it really doesn’t matter!

With that being said, I wanted to introduce you to a cool exercise app for the iPhone called the Nike Training Club.

My wife started using it and she loved it, so I gave it a try and I was blown away!

Here is a FREE workout that you can take anywhere you go. The only equipment usually required,  or at least recommended, is a few small dumbbells and a medicine ball. And, if you don’t have these, you can still do the workout!

It’s an easy way to get motivated and have a trainer right there with you taking you from exercise to exercise. The workouts are anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes and you can choose your target, such as to get lean, get strong, get toned, or even work on a specific body part such as your abs.

You can even set a playlist of music.

Overall, I give it 2 thumbs up. Every time I do one of the workouts, I KNOW I got a great workout!

The one downfall?

The app won’t drag you out of bed in the morning and make you do it!

So, as long as you have some motivation to change your health and fitness, but just don’t know what to do for a workout, this might be the workout for you.

Enjoy! And leave a comment if you try out the workouts.

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For those wishing to drop fat off their body quickly, the hcg diet is on the radar. The diet uses injections or diluted homeopathic drops of hcg (human chorionic gonadotrophin, a hormone produced during pregnancy) to essentially fool the body that it is not starving.

Along with the supplements/injections, the program requires the dieter to only eat 500 calories per day.

I have been asked many times over the past year what I thought about the hcg diet, and every time without hesitation I respond by saying I am definitely NOT in favor of it. While many chiropractors are jumping on the hcg bandwagon I feel the diet does not lead to a healthy lifestyle, and it certainly doesn’t include a major factor in weight gain…

Toxicity

A diet that attempts to alter your hormones and only provide you with 500 calories per day or less is nothing more than a fad.

In fact in January, the FDA warned that homeopathic hcg is fraudulent and illegal when sold for weight loss purposes. It may not necessarily be dangerous in the short term, but in the long run the body is not designed to live off a 500 calorie per day diet.

So why are so many people flocking to it?

Because it’s a quick fix of course! It’s just in our DNA. We want it, and we want it NOW. There isn’t anything wrong with this mindset, but if we are to really do ourselves good, not only with weight loss, but also with actually being healthy, we need to think about some of the factors of why we get heavy in the first place.

Now, I am not going to go into detail about exercise and food choices in this post. There are plenty of posts on those subjects for you to browse. What we are going to talk about are the…

Four Pillars of Health.

1. Cleansing - The President’s Council on Cancer in May of 2010 announced there are over 80,000 harmful chemicals and toxins in our environment and only 300 of them have been tested for safety. We live in a VERY polluted world and these pollutants are affecting our health in many ways. One of them being the body wants to hold on to extra fat and excess water to dilute the poisons. Remember, the solution to pollution is dilution. Without addressing the mounting toxicity issue, a weight loss program doesn’t stand a chance. You might be able to lose some weight, but it will be very difficult to keep it off.
2. Stress – Surprised? Modern medical research reveals that 85-95% of all disease is directly related to stress. And, when the body becomes stressed excess weight will be stored, due to how hormones such as cortisol and insulin react in the body. If the body is left to be in a state of stress excess weight will be very difficult to lose not to mention a whole host of other health related problems. The nervous system needs to be balanced and stress free in order to operate efficiently.
3. Nutrient Depletion/Muscle Mass - Not only is the food the average american eating not healthy, but even the food that is supposed to be healthy is badly nutrient depleted. In the 1950′s pesticides were introduced that started to destroy the eco-system, sterilizing our soils, and depleting the soil of minerals. These minerals are badly needed by our bodies to run the proper enzymes and other functions of the body. UCLA did a study in 1997 and found that it would take 43 bowls of spinach to equal the iron content of one bowl from 1953. I don’t know anybody who is going to eat 43 bowls of spinach in one sitting. Bottom line…we are not getting near the nutrient content we need and if we are going to only eat 500 calories worth of food per day, we are going to be severely depleting our body.
4. Anti-Aging/Antioxidants – What is the point of losing weight if you are aging fast? We want to look good and feel good for as long as possible. The key is antioxidants. In the last 25 years alone there has been a 50% loss in antioxidants in the foods we eat. These antioxidants are essential to quench the free radicals that are produced by our body machinery. Free radicals damage and destroy healthy cells and tissues. A superior weight loss and anti-aging program includes antioxidants as a foundation of the program.

So there you have it. A FAR superior program is a Nutritional Cleansing and Replenishing program. If you focus on the four pillars above a natural side benefit will be weight loss. This weight loss can even be extremely rapid, as much as 30 pounds in 30 days.

The difference is this is HEALTHY weight loss with the focus to improve overall wellness throughout your entire body. People on this type of program not only look good, but they feel fantastic.

If you are looking for help, contact us by clicking here. We do all of our nutritional coaching free of charge.

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