We know that toxins and chemicals are the cause of many degenerative health and emotional conditions today. But it’s not just one toxin that causes disease.

It’s the combination and accumulation of the many different toxins found in our air, water, food, and physical environment.

There are simply too many toxins coming into the body and not enough toxins going out.

And, when the body is overwhelmed by too many toxins, its self-healing mechanisms become suppressed, causing negative health conditions to arise.

The level of toxic pollutants around us and their effect on our health are getting progressively worse.

You might say that our environment is, quite literally, making us sick.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. Here’s an excerpt from my interview with Dr. Group. You’ll be surprised to learn what he says about the hidden toxins in our environment, including those we may even be wearing!

So, why are box spring mattresses and underwire bras so dangerous? This is what Dr. Group had to say on the subject:

Anything that has wire in it can act as a receiver. They’ve even looked at the wires in women’s bras and correlated that to breast cancer. That metal wire is actually picking up, as an antenna, the harmful electromagnetic frequencies emitted by cell phone towers and electrical devices around you.

If you have a box spring bed, you have many coils of metal underneath your mattress.

That can amplify a fault line that’s in the ground. Some of them are positive, and some of them emit negative frequencies; and the coils can amplify those. The metal can alter your body’s own healing mechanism and electromagnetic fields.

This is true especially when you sleep.

One of the main things I recommend people do is to get a very non-toxic bedroom.

When you sleep at night, that’s when you heal.

When cleaning up your environment, start with air quality, water quality, and then fix up the bedroom because that’s where you’re spending most of your time. If you make one investment, get rid of the box springs, and use an organic latex mattress.

Three years ago, a good organic latex mattress would cost $4,000 to $5,000. Now there’s more competition.

There were only a couple of companies back then. Now you can find them online at Amazon, and you can find a fairly decent one for about $1,000. It’s something you have to save your money for, but think about how well you’ll sleep and how well your body will heal.

I also recommend using 100% organic bed sheets and pillowcases, as well as hypoallergenic, dander-free pillows.

A pillow over 10 years old can hold 60% of its weight in dander, which is dried skin.

If there’s dander around, most likely there are dust mites around, too. You can have a lot of dust mites inside your pillow, and their droppings can cause allergies and allergens when you sleep.

There are a lot of people these days who are spending a lot of money on products for chronic allergies and sinus problems. They’re having sleep problems.

All of that can usually be cleared up once they get rid of all of the toxins from their bed. Beds “out-gas” too, especially the memory foam mattresses that are completely soaked in fire retardants and toxic chemicals that “out-gas” what are called volatile organic compounds.

Those are chemical gases that you breathe that are constantly being released.

When you lie on something, your body temperature is 98.6 degrees. More gases are released with heat. Then you put your face there and breathe that in for eight hours straight with your head one centimeter away from where the gases are being released.

The box springs act as a giant antenna underneath your bed, which can cause harm to you and cause imbalances in your body’s own electromagnetic frequency.

What an informative discussion with Dr. Group!

Now that we’re better informed about how wire acts as a receiver of harmful electromagnetic frequencies, we can begin making more health-conscious choices about the products we buy and place in our environment.

Do you have some thoughts on this subject? Just leave your comments here. I’d love to hear from you! What have you done to clear and clean your bedroom of toxins?

Dr. Group had a lot more to share with me during the teleclass, so if you’re intrigued by the above excerpt from my interview with him, you might be interested to know what other subjects we covered, such as:

• How safe is the water in your shower?
• “Earthing” or grounding techniques and technology.
• What are the three most toxic substances we’re exposed to daily, and how can we reduce our exposure?  
• The amazing benefits of far-infrared technology.
• Dr. Group’s super water recipe to combat chronic dehydration.

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Rejuvenating the Aging Brain:

Date: Thursday~February 23, 2012

Time: 1:00pm Eastern (NY) time
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• How To Maintain A Youthful Brain
• Nutritional Support For Your Aging Brain

Raymond Francis is an M.I.T.-trained scientist, a registered nutrition consultant, author of Never Be Sick Again and Never Be Fat Again, host of the Beyond Health Show, Chairman of the The Project to End Disease and an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal health maintenance. Visit His Website

Last week, Dr. Edward Group was back for a fifth teleclass together. This amazing interview was part two of the teleclass we did back in December about the toxins in our environment and how they impact our health. Having studied natural healing methods for over 20 years, his passion is to get the word out and educate people about environmental toxicity.  

 We know that toxins and chemicals are the cause of so many degenerative health and emotional conditions today. But it’s not just one toxin that causes disease. It’s the combination and accumulation of many different toxins we’re exposed to in our air, water, food, and physical environment. There are simply too many toxins coming into the body and not enough toxins going out.

The body’s self-healing mechanism becomes suppressed. When that happens, negative health conditions start to arise. And it’s getting progressively worse. Our environment is, quite literally, making us sick.

To give us an idea of how serious this issue is, Dr. Group walked us through a typical North American’s day to illustrate the amount and number of toxins we’re exposed to, beginning before we even get out of bed.

The products we use on our body, the water in our house, and what we eat all result in a toxic environment inside our body as well as externally in our living and working conditions.

But it’s not all bad news! Through education we can identify the harmful substances we’re exposed to and begin to gradually but steadily reduce our exposure by replacing those substances with affordable natural, organic alternatives. There are solutions for almost every situation.

What are some easy ways to start eliminating those toxins, or at least open up the body’s own elimination routes so we’re able to get these toxins out as fast as they’re coming in?

Everybody is different and has a different environment, but we all need to cleanse the inside and outside of the body daily to excrete the toxins, chemicals, and heavy metals that have accumulated.

Dr. Group shared that our skin is our biggest organ, and it’s responsible for pushing toxins out. When we layer toxic creams and compounds on our skin, it can’t breathe. Our skin should be our cleanest organ.

Inside of the body, cleansing needs to start with the liver, which is our most important detoxification organ. A congested liver will make it hard to detoxify the body and excrete toxins, chemicals, and heavy metals properly.

Here are some of the other things we talked about:   

• How safe is the water in your shower?
• Earthing or grounding techniques and technology.
• What are the three most toxic substances we’re exposed to daily, and how can we reduce our exposure?   
• The amazing benefits of far-infrared technology.
• Dr. Group’s Super Water recipe to combat chronic dehydration.
• Why are box spring mattresses and underwire bras so dangerous?

 If people were really aware of all of the chemicals they’re exposed to from the time they wake up in the morning to the time they go to bed at night it would, hopefully, be shocking enough for them to take steps to turn things around. So here’s the wake-up call!

It’s not getting any better, and in general our environment will continue to deteriorate. But we have choices. We can change things. The ultimate goal is to reduce your daily exposure.

So take responsibility for your health now. Get educated about toxicity in your body and environment, identify toxic sources, and then replace them with natural and organic alternatives. You’ll rediscover good health, positive thinking, and vitality!   

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Low-Glycemic Carbohydrates: The carbohydrate content of quinoa is low on the GI scale, meaning they are the “good”slow burning carbohydrates“. This makes it a great alternative for both diabetics and those who are trying to watch their diet. ( Wheat & Gluten Free)

•       1 cup (250 mL) quinoa
•       2 cups ( 500 mL) water
•       1 tsp (5 mL) cinnamon
•       1 tsp (5 mL) ground ginger
•       2 Tbsp (30 mL) maple syrup
•       2 cup almond milk
•       1/2 cup Hempseeds
•       1 cup blueberries

Bring quinoa, water, cinnamon, and ginger to a boil in medium saucepan. Simmer covered, until the water has been absorbed, about 15 minutess. Stir in maple syrup and let stand 5 minutes.

Fluff with a fork, divide among serving bowls, and top with hemp seeds, almond milk and blueberries.

Enjoy!

About Quinoa:

• It is an excellent source of magnesium. 1 serving of quinoa can meet 48% of the daily value that we need.
• It is rich in magnesium, iron, tryptophan, copper and phosphorous, which makes it
• It is rich in protein, calcium and iron, which makes it a meat substitute for vegans.
• It contains all nine essential amino acids including lysine, which is necessary for cellular renewal.
• It is an excellent source of fiber and starch.
• It is low in calories despite being packed with so much minerals and nutrients, which makes it ideal for dieters
• It is gluten free, which makes it a great alternative to grains for people with gluten sensitivity.

Ref:

http://www.quinoa-nutritionfacts.com/

http://nutritiondata.self.com

Now, I feel as if I’m back on track. I’ve finally gotten my work and personal schedules back under control. 

What I discovered along the way was that I needed to honor myself and organize my work schedule around my personal lifestyle more than ever before!

Have you ever felt that way . . . as if your life is out of balance? Well, this is exactly what I experienced over the last few months! I know it’s a bit personal, but it’s a life lesson that’s worth sharing with you.

It’s the reason I didn’t start my teleclass at the beginning of January (as I normally do). I needed that time to look at my life in whole! So, I started to take a daily inventory of how I respond to, invite, accommodate and tolerate things in my life.

And, what I discovered was that I’ve been responding to, inviting, accommodating and tolerating things that haven’t really been supporting me. That’s not good!

Here I am, coaching clients on their life issues all the time! But, I got caught up with the hectic demands of my own environment. By the way, your environment not only includes daily events and occurrences but also your thoughts and emotions.

In fact, your thoughts are the most important part of your environment because they’re what lead to everything else.

What an incredible wake-up call!

I’m not sure about you, but this doing, doing and more doing is a bit exhausting! I’d rather focus on nourishing what I already have.

This is what I learned from my personal experience.

When you don’t take care of your own personal journey—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—you don’t have time to take care of anything else in your life. And, that’s what happened to me.

Through this life event, I discovered that taking care of my personal needs is on my priority list, big time!

So, I started to simplify all aspects of my life and let go of things that don’t bring joy to me anymore.

My clients often share their frustrations around getting back in control of their lives and creating more self-discipline, or just getting their lives back in balance.

It may be that you’re an emotional eater and are replacing what you’re missing in life with comfort food. If that sounds like you, just ask yourself what’s really missing in your life. Really, take a good look at your environment.

Start by taking a daily inventory of how you respond to, invite, accommodate and tolerate things in your life.

You’ll be amazed what you discover about yourself and your life.

The other day I was reading the Marc and Angel Hack Life blog. I go there sometimes when I need inspiration.

I discovered a post called, “30 Things You Can Start Doing For Yourself.”

The first thing on the list was to start spending time with the right people.

They’re the people you enjoy and who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve yourself in healthy and exciting ways. They’re the ones who make you feel more alive and who, unconditionally, embrace not only the person you are now, but also the person you want to be.

Try to be around those people.

You can’t be everything to everyone, but you can be everything to a few people.

Decide who those people are in your life and treat them like royalty. Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of.

So, what are you planning to do to change your environment today?

Let me know your thoughts and feelings. I’d love to hear from you. If you need help getting your life back in balance, take advantage of my special, personalized, custom-made health plan designed especially for you!

With her training, experience, and broad understanding of human nature, Maxine has devoted herself to sharing her wisdom and experience with others to assist them in leading more successful, fulfilling lives.

 We all have hidden messages from our family that have been programmed since birth. They are very powerful and form the commitments we unknowingly made to our mother and father when we were just children in response to the message that there is something wrong with us.

These messages are still alive and well, running through us, forming our life story. When she does a horoscope on someone, Maxine can see these messages and the illness and emotional distress they often create as we try to overcome them.  

We have a choice to change our story. To heal, we have to change our thinking, which then changes our cellular structure.

Using her own energy healing technique, called Star Matrix, Maxine assists her clients to move beyond their perceived limitations to rewrite the story of their lives and express their greatest selves.

In this interview we also talked about:

• February 2012’s astrological forecast for each of the 12 zodiac signs
• Two questions to ask yourself to discover your passion and mission in life
• Why acceptance is so important, and how it’s different than condoning unacceptable behavior
• The seven commitments, and how to uncover and let go of the messages that have created your current life’s story.

There are no mistakes in the divine plan. You are an infinite, immortal, majestic, powerful, awesome, gloriously beautiful, radiantly healthy, and abundantly wealthy spirit in physical form.

But we can’t begin to live our passion and mission in life if we are living our life’s story with these old commitments and messages in place. The good news is that if you don’t like the way life is working for you, you can change it.

What you believe is what you create, so get busy on your belief system and transform your life!

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Listen to the replay here “Stop Your Sugar and Food Cravings”

For 18 years I’ve been focused on nutrition, and my business has always revolved around education with big goals and little steps.

I’m increasingly disturbed by research that shows the average North American consumes approximately 150 pounds of food additives per year, including sugar, sweeteners, salt, vitamins, flavorings and colorings, flavor enhancers, shelf-life extending chemicals, and preservatives.

These substances not only create havoc in our bodies, they lower IQ as well.

To combat this, I designed an action plan for myself and my family using simple principles and commonsense strategies.

Within one week of following this plan and these principles, I felt calmer and slept much better; my cravings diminished; I had fewer PMS symptoms; there was less bloating; and I had no more acne.

My skin was glowing, my digestion improved, and I lost weight. That’s how “Stop Sugar and Food Cravings” was born.

Then I started using this program with clients with tremendous results. I now offer it to you!

My program offers simple, doable, and effective things you can do starting tomorrow to eliminate the junk food and sugar cravings that are running your life and ruining your health.

And I share seven concrete steps you can take to jumpstart your new healthy lifestyle.

In this teleclass we also discussed:

• A simple step to transform any bad habit into a healthy, supportive one
• The vital role of real food in our diets
• Improving your mood, energy, and emotions
• Gaining control and creating more self-discipline
• The emotional component to losing weight, and why willpower alone isn’t enough

Listen to the replay and Join My 2-Hour Course On How To…Stop Your Sugar And Food Cravings Once and For All…

A simple, commonsense, and completely holistic approach to health.

The choices we make in life create who we are. We are the sum total of all of the decisions we make daily, no matter how small they are.

For this reason, I encourage everyone to pay attention to your daily habits, every single day.

“Stop Your Sugar and Food Cravings” is a transformative program that begins with a positive lifestyle change and the development of habits that will allow us to maintain healthy eating patterns eating real food for life.

It’s really that simple!

6 carrots ~peeled and thinly sliced

1 granny smith apple~ thinly sliced

1/4 cup sesame seeds black or white or both

1 tbsp. grated fresh ginger

1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar

3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

Handful of pecan nuts for garnish

Julienne slice the cabbage, carrots and apple. Add sesame seeds ( raw or toated).

Toss together. For the dressing, combine the ginger, vinegar and oil. Add this to the cabbage, carrots and apple. Top with more sesame seeds.

Add salt and pepper to taste. Add Pecans for a delicious, nutty taste.

Enjoy!

If we’re overweight, fat cells produce inflammatory chemicals, adding to the overload, and the result is massive amounts of inflammation occurring in our bodies. These pro-inflammatory chemicals, when released, damage our tissues, glands, and everything else.

Raymond Francis is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal-health maintenance who has proposed a remarkable concept of health along with a simple program for achieving it that begins by teaching the basics of good health.

He believes health is an individual responsibility, our duty to ourselves. But we’re simply not living up to it. Why? First of all, because nobody ever told us it is a duty; and secondly, nobody ever told us how to do it. But health is a choice, and Raymond’s passion is to help people choose it.

One of the questions I asked him was:

What were the results of his latest research since our last interview? Here’s what he said:

Inflammation is the foundation stone of virtually every chronic disease.

It certainly is a foundation stone of cancer. Inflammation drives cancer. Without inflammation cancer would not exist. Here’s what I’ve been finding. You say inflammation is important. Then you ask the question, “How do you get inflammation? Where does inflammation come from?”

You start looking at the sugar, white flour, and processed oils that we eat. These are all sources of inflammation.

Then we’re overweight, and that’s a source of inflammation. Fat cells produce inflammatory chemicals. Still, we have massive amounts of inflammation going on. You keep asking yourself, “Where is this coming from?” I’m starting to find out where it’s coming from.

I’ll share this with your audience. I haven’t completed all my research on this yet, but I’ll share the conclusions I’ve reached so far.

Our consumption of wheat is a major source of inflammation. I have simply stopped eating wheat. I eat no wheat whatsoever. In fact, I eat very few grains now. I strongly recommend that people stop eating wheat, and here’s why.

What we’ve done over the years is we have hybridized wheat to continually get higher and higher amounts of protein in the wheat.

We now have wheat with very high amounts of protein, much higher than 2,000 years ago. There’s a component of this protein, which is actually one of the proteins; it’s a glycoprotein, which is a protein and a sugar molecule together.

This is a class of compounds called lectins. Lectins are in the wheat to protect the wheat from attack by bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

It does a marvelous job of protecting the wheat from infection. It does this by damaging the cell walls of the bacteria and the fungi and destroying them. Here’s something that is in there to protect the wheat from attack.

Unfortunately, human beings have the same receptor sites on the cells as the fungi and bacteria have. That means that because we have the same receptor sites, the lectins are also going to damage our cells.

Historically, when we were eating wheat 2,000 years ago, it had lectins in it but we had adapted to the amount of lectins.

Now what we’ve done, especially over the last couple hundred years, is we’ve hybridized the wheat to where it has very large amounts of lectins in it now. We have high-protein wheat with large amounts of lectins.

We’re now getting exposed to a tremendous amount of lectins.

Guess what? Lectins, even in very small quantities, are capable of producing pro-inflammatory chemicals in the body. I really think that this is where a lot of our inflammation is coming from. Even at exceedingly low concentrations, lectins will stimulate this production of pro-inflammatory chemicals.

Once you do this, the pro-inflammatory chemicals go out and damage all your tissues, glands, and everything else.

The problem is that we’re producing a lot of inflammation here. Geographically, when you look at the wheat-consuming nations, the countries that consume the most wheat have the most problems with inflammatory diseases.

I’m looking at this thing and asking, “Where’s the inflammation coming from?” I’m looking at the fact that the lectins produce information, and I’m then looking at the fact that wheat-consuming nations have the most inflammatory disease.

It’s starting to form a picture for me. You asked the question of what I’m doing and what my new research is. This is one of the things I’ve come up with recently.

I’m beginning to believe that this is really very profound stuff here. I have gotten off of all wheat totally and completely, and I’m now advising everybody not to eat any wheat.

It may in fact be a very bad choice. Again, it doesn’t take much. What we’re finding in the research is that exceedingly small concentrations of lectins can stimulate the production of inflammatory chemicals in the body.

That muffin for breakfast may be enough to stimulate a lot of inflammation. Then there’s another problem here. Lectins are highly stable molecules, so they’re very resistant to the degradation through a wide variety of pH ranges and a wide variety of temperatures.

They survive cooking, sprouting, fermenting, and digesting. They’re very stable molecules, and they’re also highly resistant to breaking down in the body. They actually bio-accumulate in the body and become incorporated into the tissues where they begin to interfere with your normal biological processes.

I tell you, the more I look at the lectins the scarier they become.

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Sue Rasmussen has always been fascinated by the connection between clutter/disorganization in our exterior world and what is going on inside of us. Despite the abundance of information about getting organized and clearing out clutter, our issue with stuff continues to grow. Why are our lives still so stressed and full of stuff and activities? Because those traditional approaches just don’t work. So Sue, a Master Certified Coach, writer and speaker, created a business to help people clear out clutter.

Here’s a recap of what we discussed in the teleclass:

• Practical benefits of clearing clutter
• The most common misconceptions people have about clutter
• Cultural and biological reasons we tend to accumulate and keep things
• The one big question that will help you unclutter, organize, and transform any space
• How to look with fresh eyes at your clutter blind spots
• The seven layers of clutter, called the Clutter Pyramid
• Five areas of physical clutter

Your outer environment is a reflection of what’s going on inside of you, so when things are cluttered, messy, stressful and overwhelming in your physical space, you’ll have a corresponding level of overwhelm and stress inside, which keeps you from living and being your best. Most people have no idea of the far-reaching, negative effects clutter has in every area of their lives.

Do You Know?

• The significant hidden costs of having clutter in your life
• Clutter commonly stems from scarcity beliefs
• If you have clutter in one area, it’s likely you’ll have clutter in other areas
• Most people don’t recognize their own clutter

The good news is that clearing out clutter is a fast, effective way to transform your life! Listen to the replay of the interview with Sue Rasmussen to learn where clutter starts and how to take the first step to clear it away.

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