The holiday season is in full effect which means that decorating, holiday parties, football, and Thanksgiving dinner all await. But that’s not the only season that’s in full swing, the cold and flu are spreading about, as they usually do this time of year. No one ever wants to be sick, especially this time of year, but when the immune system doesn’t have the strength it needs to fight, we can end up feeling a bit under the weather.

Defend ( from New Earth) delivers intelligent nutrition specifically designed for your immune system. Composed of medicinal mushrooms and a vast array of micronutrients, Defend is specifically designed to strengthen your immune system.

Let’s have a look at exactly how it works…

It starts with medicinal mushrooms. Medicinal mushrooms have been utilized for centuries to enhance and support the immune system.* You will find a blend of six of the most extensively researched and revered mushrooms in Defend including reishi, cordyceps, maitake, shiitake, turkey tail, and Agaricus blazei. This medicinal combination is paired with powerful botanicals to modulate and enhance your immune system.

• Reishi: High in polysaccharides, beta-glucan, and more than 130 triterpenoid compounds, Reishi is the most extensively researched mushroom on the market.
• Cordyceps: Rich in proteins, plant sterols, polysaccharides, antioxidants, and nucleoside derivatives as its critical components, cordyceps have been utilized in extracts and formulas for health benefits throughout history.
• Maitake: Long valued as a gourmet culinary mushroom, maitake also has excellent nutritional value, containing a variety of beneficial phospholipids, unsaturated fatty acids, polysaccharides, antioxidants, beta-glucans, and plant sterols, such as the potent ergosterol.
• Shiitake: Rich in beta-glucans, polysaccharides, glycoproteins, B vitamins, and ergosterol (the biological precursor to vitamin D2), shiitake mushrooms also contain the polysaccharide lentinan, which has been the subject of intensive study in Japan and elsewhere since the 1960s.
• Turkey Tail: Contains two widely studied compounds known as PSK and PSP, which have shown clinical promise as extracts in a variety of research studies.
• Agaricus Blazei: Rapidly becoming one of the worldwide market’s most popular mushrooms, Agaricus blazei is also the subject of intense interest among scientists for its purported beneficial antioxidant properties.

But that’s just the beginning. When you dive a little deeper you will find something called Beta Glucan. The Beta Glucan found in Defend is the only ingredient supported by over a dozen published, peer-reviewed clinical studies. This research validates this beta glucan’s unique ability to help strengthen general immune health across all ages.**

So we know the ingredient lineup is on point but, there’s one small key to ensuring these ingredients are effective. Micronutrients.

Micronutrients are crucial nutrients that are required throughout life, in small quantities—sometimes even minuscule quantities. You may know micronutrients by other names such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and immune-supporting substances called phytochemicals (complex compounds found in plants). These substances play many vital roles in our lives including supporting our metabolism and fighting off free radicals in the body.

In fact, even though the requirement is small, micronutrients are vital to maintaining good health and protecting your body from potential ailments. And, often deficiencies in these vital nutrients can more often than not result in illness. With that, your body is constantly making use of these essential micronutrients making it crucial to keep up your supply.

Defend was formulated to support your immune system with a combination of superfoods including medicinal mushrooms, organic Wild Microalgae®, and other botanicals, all filled with these invaluable micronutrients.

The bottom line? Three capsules of Defend a day will ensure a stronger immune system*.

Go ahead, try it risk-free with our 60-day empty bottle guarantee.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not meant to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

**Miami Research Associates USC School of Pharmacy Feldman S, Schwartz HI, Kalman DS, Mayers A, Kohrman HM, Clemens R, Krieger DR. (2009)

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Seriously, there are so many uses for this little bottle of magic that the list just goes on and on—from eliminating odors and infusing your whole home with a clean fresh smell to using it for skin and hair!

It is cold-pressed from the rinds of lemons, which gives it the aroma and all the brightness of a fresh lemon. But it benefits your skin and hair as much as your environment.

Grab yourself a piece of paper because I’m pretty sure you will want to take a note or two…

• Try diffusing lemon. Not only does it infuse your whole home with a clean, lemon-drop scent, but it will eliminate other odors at the same time.
• Add a drop to evening moisturizer to reduce the appearances of blemishes. This is a great use for teenagers!
• Add a few drops to your conditioner for an aromatic treat that smooths and shines the look of your hair.
• Just a few drops of lemon oil will remove the sticky residue left behind from bottle labels and almost any sticky residue.
• Diffuse a few drops each morning for an energizing start to the day.
• Use a few drops for a DIY lemon-sugar scrub for a yummy-smelling at-home spa treatment.
• Rub on your heels to get your feet ready for sandal season.
• Crayon wall artist in your family? A few drops of lemon oil on a paper towel works magic to remove crayon from walls.
• Forgot a load of laundry overnight? Just add a few drops to the wash cycle and your clothes will smell fresh and clean without using more detergent.
• Degrease your pots, pans, and sink by adding a few drops to your dish water.
• Add to your dishwasher rinse cycle for a spotless shine on your dishes.
• Stinky dish rags? Try soaking them in vinegar and lemon oil overnight then wash them as normal.
• Freshen up your garbage disposal by running a few drops mixed with baking soda through it.
• Add a few drops on a cotton ball and put in your vacuum cleaner, trash can or diaper pail to help eliminate odors.
• Add a few drops to the baking soda in your refrigerator to soak up the stink.
• Add a few drops to a cotton ball and store inside stinky shoes to eat odors.
• Remove hardened candle wax from hard surfaces and glass with a few drops of lemon oil.

• A DIY clean hair rinse = 1 cup water + 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar + 3 drops lemon oil.
• For an energizing bath, mix a few drops lemon oil with a cup of Epsom salts.
• Rub on your dry elbows to get ready for summertime.
• Add a few drops to a clothespin and pin it to your car air vent for an instant (and super cheap!) mini-diffuser.
• Bathroom tip: A spray bottle of water with a few drops lemon oil (and Purification) will eliminate odors discreetly.
• Lemon oil + vinegar in the shower removes hard water stains and unsightly mildew. Soak shower heads for a sparkling shine.
• A few drops of lemon oil easily releases gum from carpet, hair and more. No scissors required.
• Garden aphids hate lemon and peppermint oil. A few drops in a spray bottle of water and bye-bye garden pests.
• Combine 2-3 drops with water in a spray bottle to help clean surfaces.
• Know a mechanic who has dirty hands? Try using lemon oil to clean those hands and nails.
• If you get a bit of sap on your fingers from your Christmas tree (or any tree), just try lemon oil on your fingers to remove it.
• If you have any real silver lying around, try buffing away a slight tarnish with a bit of lemon oil and a dry cloth.
• Try substituting a few drops Lemon Vitality oil in any recipe calling for lemon juice or lemon extract.
• Soak cut fruit in a bowl full of water mixed with a few drops Lemon Vitality oil to help maintain freshness.
• What a fun hot drink? Try putting a drop of Lemon Vitality oil in a cup of hot water with a drizzle of honey for a soothing tea.

Spring Diffuser Blends

While you’re hustling through your cleaning or kicking up your feet in your tidy new space, these springtime diffuser blends are a refreshing way to fill the air, any time of year!

Spring Showers

• 3 drops Vetiver
• 3 drops Lemon

Fresh & Clean:

• 2 drops Lemon
• 2 drops Lime
• 1 drop Rosemary
• 1 drop Lavender

Yes, 100% Pure Therapeutic-Grade Lemon Essential Oil is in the starter kit! This is a must-have oil for all households! Take a look what a fantastic pricing deal you can get with a Starter Kit.

If you’d like to learn more, check out all the starter kits and see all the great oils that are included in them. If you appreciate huge discounts, these are for you!

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New Earth “Essentials” Packets

A month’s supply of convenient daily nutrition packets.   Each Essentials Packet contains 1 Body Microalgae for energy and immune support, 1 Mind Microalgae for focus and brain support, and 1 Acidophilus Probiotic, 1 Bifidus Probiotic, and 1 Digestive Enzyme for digestive support.

Air

Vollara FreshAir Personal

The FreshAir Personal removes airborne contaminants and allergens from the air immediately around your body – reducing asthma and allergy symptoms for a healthier body and freshens air and removes odors within your breathing zone.  Great for airplanes or places where you may be allergic to pets, perfumes, or chemical odors.

Vollara Pet ReFresh

For use in small spaces (bathrooms, laundry, office, kitty litter areas) where stale air or odors accumulate.

Anywhere you have odor problems or where pets congregate, or you have bathrooms or laundry rooms that have less than optimal drainage or where mildew collects.

Vollara FreshAir Mobile

The FreshAir Mobile is a pocket-sized unit and is ideal for providing the cleanest, healthiest air for your car, truck, R.V., camper, or hotel/motel room.  It significantly reduces unpleasant odors, contaminants, and pollutants.

Water

Vollara H2Fuel Hydration Water Bottle

Water naturally charged by the earth is rich in molecular hydrogen and has anti-oxidant properties. The H2 Fuel Water Bottle charges your water to produce anti-aging, electron rich, hydrogen infused charged water that you can enjoy everywhere you go.

 Essential Oils

Young Living

Thieves Essential Oil Blend

This oil blend was inspired by the legend of four 15^th-century French thieves who formulated a special aromatic combination composed of clove, rosemary, and other botanicals they used while robbing the dead and dying.

Thieves Waterless Hand Purifier

1 oz. bottle for cleaning hands

Thieves Spray 

1 oz. bottle to purify small surfaces

Thieves Wipes

For cleaning surfaces as needed.  Great for using in restrooms, restaurants, hotel rooms, airplanes, cars, etc.

Cleaning

Norwex Microfiber Variety Pack

This variety pack includes compact versions of the EnviroCloth and Window Cloth for cleaning with just water and a Body Cloth for washing your face or body with just water.

 Norwex EnviroCloth Travel Pack of 5

This compact version of the EnviroCloth is perfect for sharing or keeping in your car, purse, or suitcase.  Removes up to 99% of bacteria without using chemicals.  Can be used wet with just water or dry to clean everything.  Each microfiber cloth is 6.3” x 6.3” and comes in a variety pack of colors.  Great for wiping up dirty, sticky hands or cleaning up accidental spills.

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Vitamins are organic compounds, which means that they are carbon-containing.  They cannot be duplicated in labs.  Vitamins sold to the public today are either synthetic vitamins or crystalline-pure fractions of vitamin complexes.  A fraction of a vitamin, whether natural or synthetic at best, is a drug and can only have a drug-like effect in the body, which is a stimulatory effect – not a physiological or curative benefit.  Taking vitamins as supplements can seriously impair the most important of bodily functions by contributing to biochemical imbalance.

Vitamins can be effective in the body’s cells only through their combined effects as a “complex functioning mechanism” rather than a single chemical effect.  For example, ascorbic acid sold today as vitamin C is not the true complex vitamin C as it is found in foods and yet it is labeled in its supplement form as vitamin C.  Ascorbic acid is only one part of several parts that make up the complex vitamin C.  Ascorbic acid can be made cheaply in labs by combining corn syrup and sulfuric acid.  It is ridiculous to remove the ascorbic acid from the vitamin C complex and call this single component the “real vitamin.”

A vitamin supplement is simply not the whole product.  It is only a fragment.  A vitamin supplement leaves out many other parts which may be tiny, percentage-wise, but significant just the same.  When we take supplements, it is rather like taking statements out of context; you might get the full benefit, but more than likely what you get is distorted and not the full picture.

Picking and choosing the elements you think your body needs is chancy at best.  We are designed to operate as a whole entity, and this is why we should be getting our nutrients as whole entities as well.

You can actually take enough supplements, in an individual nutrient form, to cause symptoms of a deficiency of that or other nutrients.  For example, if you take a vitamin E supplement, you need to also take the mineral zinc to maintain normal blood concentrations of vitamin E.  However, if you take too much zinc, you can block absorption of copper and selenium.  This is the same with taking too much vitamin C, you can also block selenium absorption in your body.  Vitamins are dependent on minerals to function in the body.  If you start the game of picking and choosing single vitamins and single minerals to take, you are playing a dangerous game that can cause a terrible chemical imbalance in your body.  Isolated vitamins and minerals sold in supplement form do not have the same suitability for human metabolism as those found in whole foods.  Our bodies were not designed to break down these inorganic supplements.

The best source of supplementation today is food-derived supplements like bee pollen, wheat grass, blue-green microalgae, wheat sprouts, etc.  These supplements offer us all the ingredients necessary for our bodies to function properly. Nutrients cannot work well in the body when taken in an isolated form.  All nutrients work as a team to build and support health.  Nature has always been the best manufacturer (provider) of our foods and the best teacher if we care to learn her lessons.  The body understands “natural law.”  Just give it the full range of good foods and whole food supplements and it knows what to do to create optimum health and vitality.

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