Why Don't Doctors do Heavy Metal Detoxing? . . . and other related questions.

The insurance and pharmaceutical industries have a cost analysis on every product and procedure. The best scenario is minimum time with a patient with maximum refills. The worst scenario is maximum time with patient with no refills. Heavy metal detoxing comes under that second scenario, along with several other treatments offered by alternative medicine. The only way to police this business practice is to take your money elsewhere. So, as long as there is MANDATORY PARTICIPATION in HMO, Medicare and Medicaid, there will not be heavy metal detoxing.

I learned how to reverse my son Michael's Asperger's syndrome and tourette's syndrome and I want to share it. The incredible thing about this treatment is that most doctors don't know about it. The same treatment can be used for any neurological disorder plus a long list of other physical disorders. I'll tell you about some personal experience (suggested reading).

Michael is 95% recovered after only 1-1/2 months of treatment - he hardly shows any symptoms of Asperger's and tourette's any more. There are many books on Amazon that will teach you how to treat disease naturally, just look through my suggested reading. His treatment involved three things:

1. candida yeast cleansing; 2. leaky gut healing; 3. iodine fulfillment therapy (for heavy metal detoxing). Since then I've added Reiki healing to the list.

Michael is 11 and was diagnosed with mild Asperger's syndrome and tourette's syndrome at age 8. He also had anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. When he was at school, he was very shy and usually didn't speak to anyone all day. He didn't have any angry outbursts at school, but at home he would act out his anger or irritation any time he was anxious about going somewhere or having to put up with other children, especially if his sister had a friend over.

If you have ever seen the movie "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson, you can understand what Asperger's syndrome is. That character had Asperger's, obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders. My son's anxiety was much worse and he was more like the Rain Man in that he wouldn't make eye contact with anyone and he walked around with his arms dangling at his sides.

These were some of his symptoms before treatment. All of these symptoms/behaviors have now either disappeared or have been greatly reduced:

-- anxiety at taking a shower, it took him a long time to get used to the water temp before getting in. Plus the clothing textures made him anxious. He had to have his parakeets in the room with him before he would take a shower.

--anxiety in going to school. He was very irritable while getting ready and took 10 minutes to get out of the car once at the school. Once inside and classroom routine started, he was ok.

--obsession with computer and parakeets.

--sensory issues with showering or wearing anything with a collar, plus other little things.

--used big words to make conversation as literal as possible.

--separation anxiety from me.

--anxiety and angry outbursts (scratching, pulling hair, kicking) especially when other kids were in our house visiting his sister.

--anxiety and outbursts any time we made him leave the house with us and go somewhere, or when coming home at the end of the day.

--wouldn't swallow pills whole.

--arms don't swing when walking, feet flop when walking, poor motor skill coordination.

--hand flopping when excited.

--messy clean up after using the bathroom, body odor.

When he was diagnosed, the doctor prescribed zoloft for anxiety and tenex for aggressive behavior. They helped a lot and I thought we had found the solution to his problems. He calmed down and quit having so many angry outbursts.

After a few months, I found some information on the internet about using vitamins to control anxiety which I had tried on myself with success, so I tried them out on him. They were vitamin B6 and B3. After three weeks of sprinkling just a little bit on his food, he quit taking the zoloft and got better results from the vitamins! His anxiety was still under control, his allergies cleared up almost completely, his asthma attacks became months apart instead of weeks, he was more sociable after school, and his grades improved because he could focus better. Since then I've used a product called Liquid Behavioral Balance which has the B vitamins, minerals and DMG.

This prompted me to keep searching to see what else I could do. I still didn't think there was a cure and assumed that some sort of brain damage or chromosomal abnormality was the problem. His father's mother suffers from bi-polar and his brother has hyperactivity, plus my husband grew up with learning disabilities. I was just trying to find something healthier than medicine. He had gained 30 pounds on the zoloft and I was afraid there might be other side affects in the future. From there I discovered the information that I am sharing now.

Health care practitioners have learned that many of the emotional distress and physical symptoms that we live with comes from malfunctions in our brain activities and body chemistry due to critical nutritional deficiencies. This is caused by an unhealthy imbalance in the intestines which interferes with absorption and assimilation of nutrients. This means there is no brain damage, no chromosomal or DNA abnormalities that are causing the problem.

Therefore, the problem was REVERSIBLE!!!

With this treatment using natural products, a person can recover from autism (you could also ask the doctor for prescription anti-fungal medicine). You don't have to take medication, put up with side affects, or spend a lot of money on doctor visits. And you won't hear that from a doctor!

There are two ways to handle a symptom:

1. Stifle the symptom (lucrative, results in residual sales);

2. Find out what is causing the symptom and treat the cause (not lucrative, no residual sales).

Whichever philosophy is used, a practitioner can use synthetic pharmaceutical products, or natural supplements. Allopathic (western) medical doctors are only allowed to use synthetic pharmaceutical products. If they get caught using a natural supplement (this includes vitamins, minerals, herbs) in therapeutic dosages to treat a specific problem they could be fired from the insurance company and have a hard time getting a job in the future.

Synthetic medicines are a copy of a natural molecule which has a medicinal affect on the body. The synthetic process can be patented and sold at a premium price, the natural substance cannot be patented (it's against the law) and has to compete for business which keeps the price low. This patent and profit margin is the only reason for creating synthetic medicines. They aren't any better than the natural original.

The American Medical Association endorses the products and procedures that doctors are now allowed to use. They approve only synthetic products that are approved by the FDA (the AMA doesn't do any testing) for a fee to the pharmaceutical company. The AMA was organized in the early 1800s and it was a for-profit group from day one. It was never a watch dog organization as they present themselves to be. The AMA also runs allopathic medical schools and publishes 85% of pre-med text books. All they did was jump on the pharmaceutical gravy train and start driving. And they have been very successful at organizing their trade and eliminating their competition, especially with the help of congress.

Doctors learn only the very basics about nutrients in their college curriculum. Most of their curriculum is composed of anatomy, and pharmaceuticals. Medical doctors are doing the best they can with the knowledge they have and most have the best of intentions, but they don't know everything. For the most part, doctors don't know very much at all about yeast overgrowth or leaky gut healing. And even if they do learn about it, they are not allowed to do these healing procedures.

The pharmaceutical industry has a definite monopoly on our health care beliefs and the beliefs of doctors and the general public through aggressive advertising and endorsement of their products from the AMA. Strong lobbying to the FDA and congress maintains their monopoly and eliminates fair competition from natural supplement companies and funding for studies of natural substances. Basically we are being kept in the dark about this plague of the 21st century.

Also, be aware that our control-happy government could take these natural supplements away from us any time or force the dosages to be reduced to an ineffective level as they have done in Europe, and tried to do in Canada and Australia last year. Our politicians are at the mercy of pharmaceutical corporation lobbyists who are, for the most part, ignorant about natural therapies and the root cause of diseases and symptoms. It is important to watch congress and voice your opinion any time a bill that concerns nutritional supplements is being considered.

Fact: Most neurological problems and many, many physical symptoms and diseases are linked to yeast, parasites and/or bacteria overgrowth and the corresponding leaky gut syndrome.

Quote from digestive health book: "All symptoms and all diseases are caused by pathogens."

Intestinal yeast is our biggest problem and the cause of our health epidemic which started in the mid 1970s. We are supposed to have a little fungus (yeast) in our intestines. They live in the far recesses of our intestinal walls where they can escape from the deadly acids of beneficial bacteria.

A healthy adult should have about 3 to 4 pounds of beneficial bacteria, around 1 pound of non-beneficial bacteria, and less yeast than that. However, excessive amounts of yeast in the digestive track give off a toxic acid which causes constant inflammation in the intestines. The inflammation forces your intestines to secrete more mucus to protect itself. This excess mucus kills some degree of the beneficial bacteria and allows the yeast to maintain its over-population. This seriously interferes with your body's ability to build an adequate amount of proteins.

The largest part of the immune system in our body is in the mucosal lining in the gut. The most conservative estimates are that yeast overgrowth afflicts at least 30 percent of the population, and some estimates are as high as 90 percent.

Here are a few causes or contributors to yeast overgrowth:

* broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy for more than 1 to 4 weeks (most common cause)

* anti-inflammatory drugs for more than 3 months

* steroid medication for more than 3 months

* virus or infection for more than 3 weeks, less time for infants (including childhood innoculations)

* too much sugar and white flour foods

* a constant food allergy (such as colic in babies)

* drinking insufficient quantities of water daily

* overuse of alcohol, drugs, prescription drugs

* mercury toxicity from dental fillings (including in vitro)

* hormone shifts during adolescence, pregnancy or menopause

* prolonged stress, insufficient love and nurturing

* Improper prenatal and infant nutrition

* allergenic food additives

* meat with antibiotics and/or hormones

* overeating, undereating, skipping meals

* hydrogenated fats and trans-fatty acids fats

* not enough fiber in diet

* insufficient production of stomach acid (people over 40)

* lack of fresh fruits and vegetables with beneficial enzymes and probiotics

* chronic constipation (less than three bowel movements daily)

* birth control pills

* insufficient or excessive exercise

* insufficient sleep

* chemical contamination

* damp environments

* insufficient exposure to sunlight

* exposure to pesticides

* exposure to ionizing radiation

* transmission through sex

Most of these influences cause inflammation and over production of mucus (the same thing the toxic acid from yeast do) which kills some percentage of your beneficial bacteria. The broad spectrum antibiotics simply kill the beneficial bacteria directly. With the beneficial bacteria out of the way, the yeast can proliferate. Basically, yeast overgrowth is caused by modern living.

Yeast overgrowth can also be influenced by a mercury toxicity that a child receives from childhood shots or in vitro from the mother's mercury fillings in her teeth. I had my six fillings removed and each one had decay under them. The mercury can compromise the beneficial bacteria in the intestines so that fungus (yeast) is able to overpopulate the gut.

The best way to detox heavy metal from the body is iodine therapy and infrared sauna (more below). If any of the problems listed above kill your beneficial bacteria and the yeast populate up to 15 percent or more of the beneficial bacteria that you should have, the imbalance can remain for years and years. Yeast overgrowth can lead to many problems due to the deficiencies in protein building caused by the intestinal inflammation and excessive mucus. Neurotransmitters are proteins.

Below are some problems that result from yeast overgowth:

* aggression

* anxiety, depression

* asthma

* atypical sensory reactions

* bladder infections, bed-wetting

* bloating or gas

* joint, muscle or abdominal pain

* confusion, memory problems

* diarrhea or constipation

* fatigue, poor exercise tolerance

* fevers of unknown origin

* fuzzy thinking or brain fog

* indigestion

* migraines

* mood swings

* poor immunity

* skin rashes, acne

* many more symptoms, over 600!

Excessive yeast overgrowth leads to intestinal hyper permeability, or leaky gut syndrome, which can cause many more symptoms and diseases, over 5,000 symptoms and 80 serious diseases! The mucosal lining of the intestines is the first line of defense in the immune system. Leaks in your intestinal walls allow microscopic particles to escape. Outside of the intestines, these particles are foreign bodies to which the body will have an inflammatory reaction.

The worst of these is undigested food particles which are just as hard to handle outside the intestines as inside: casein (protein from milk) and gluten (protein from bread), plus peptides. Most other food particles can be neutralized quickly by the liver's enzymes, which overworks your liver and can cause liver problems over time. However, peptides, casein and gluten, cannot be broken down by liver enzymes, so they become unstoppable when they escape from your intestines and will accumulate and cause inflammation almost anywhere in your body as they impact themselves in your weakest organ(s).

In a child under the age of 6, the brain is the weakest organ in the body since it is in the rapid growth stage. In an older person or adult, any genetically weak or injured area can be targeted, including the brain. Depression, anxiety, Bi-polar, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and many many other diseases or symptoms can result. Inflammation is the cause of most medical problems, leakage from your gut is the greatest source of inflammatory substances.

Yeast, bacteria and parasite overgrowth are intricately connected and any one of these can lead to the other. All pathogens must be addressed during treatment because any that are left intact will continue the inflammation and excess mucus which will keep your beneficial bacteria numbers down. This will enable the newly-killed to repopulate the gut. These problems in your gut can have a profound, lifelong impact on the nerves, brain and behavior, plus a host of pervasive physical problems.

The nervous system in your digestive track is more sophisticated than the nervous system in the brain and spine and is often referred to as your "second brain". In addition, it hasn't been explored nearly as much as the brain and spine nervous system. You may have a leaky gut and not be aware of it. You could have vague symptoms such as brain fog or hyperactivity, or you may just feel run down, out of energy, or have a lot of food or chemical intolerances. You could have one of the illnesses listed below without knowing that it stems from leaky gut syndrome. When many harmful food particles leak through the intestines, the consequences become more severe.

Some of the conditions that may be connected to or aggravated by leaky gut syndrome are classified as autoimmune conditions:

* autism / Asperger's Syndrome / Pervasive Development Disorder

* schizophrenia

* bi-polar disorder

* hyperactivity in general and ADHD, tourettes syndrome

* autoimmune conditions

* celiac disease

* chemical sensitivities

* chronic fatigue syndrome

* Crohn's disease

* cystic fibrosis

* digestive disorders

* environmental sensitivities, allergies

* food sensitivities, allergies, intolerances

* inflammatory joint disease / arthritis

* intestinal infections

* irritable bowel syndrome

* liver problems

* Multiple sclerosis

* Parkinson's disease

* malnutrition

* pancreatic insufficiency

* skin conditions

* ulcerative colitis And the list goes on to include over 5,000 symptoms or diseases.

Vitamin therapies can help some of your bodily systems that are starving for nutrients. Your beneficial bacteria secrete 50+ acids, some of which are classified as B vitamins. Two of these acids, Biotin and Caprillic Acid, kill yeast. If you can lower the amount of yeast in your intestines and raise the amount of beneficial bacteria (probiotics), you can correct your intestinal flora to a healthy balance and get enough B vitamins and other beneficial oils to enable your intestines to build a sufficient amount of proteins after every meal. This yeast cleansing treatment alone is what cured my son of autism, he didn't seem to have any leaky gut symptoms. But I also detoxed heavy metals so that he wouldn't get the Asperger's or Tourette's back if he got yeast overgrowth again in the future (mainly from eating too much sugar). You could just do the iodine therapy and detox heavy metals and get good results, but the yeast overgrowth isn't healthy to have and will cause other problems sooner or later.

So, now that you've had a crash course in the root cause of many, many physical and neurological problems, where do you go from here? A whole body approach is necessary for best results in getting your health under control.

Yeast Overgrowth

How do you find out if you have yeast overgrowth and parasites, leaky gut, or a vitamin deficiency? There are many tests that your doctor or natural health care practitioner can do. These tests are very helpful in gauging your progress and helping you to know for certain that you do have this problem.

It is easiest to work with a natural health care practitioner as doctors are regulated by insurance companies in the tests they can do. If you can't afford to go to a natural health care practitioner or pay for tests, another option is to assume that you have overgrowth and treat yourself since the tests can be more expensive than the treatment.

One test that is free is to spit into a glass of water first thing in the morning before drinking anything. Check the glass every 15 minutes to see if any strings start hanging from the spit floating at the top of the water (you may have to adjust the lighting). Yeast have long thin roots that will hang down from the floating bodies at the top of the water.

The basic plan for killing yeast overgrowth is to:

* take at least two of several broad-spectrum anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-parasitic herbs for 2-6 weeks with each meal, also take a beneficial bacteria supplement daily,

* during yeast killing and for the next two weeks take a high level (at least 12 billion live organisms) of probiotic supplements (some are listed below),

* then a daily maintenance dosage of probiotics (1-2 billion) for two months.

Of the two parts of the treatment, taking high doses of beneficial bacteria in the two weeks following the yeast killing is the most important.

You can also do a search for candida and check out all their products. Individual pathogen killing ingredients from www.iherb.com.

Some candida yeast cleanse products will have a little of everything in a capsule form (yeast killers, beneficial bacteria, digestive enzymes). These can save you the trouble of finding individual herbs, but the capsules may be too big for a small child to swallow. If that is the case, simply purchase individual herbs or look over the candida products for a liquid tincture such as Wormwood. You can also use homeopathic spray or liquid for yeast killing or go to a professional homeopath. Another pathogen killer is colodial silver, which should not be used for more than 10 days. I have tried MMS, 24 drops daily, for deeper yeast killing. I'm not finished yet but so far I'm impressed.

I gave my son a garlic oil pill, grapefruit seed extract tablet, and biotin tablet once a day for 6 weeks. He should have taken them three times daily, but he wouldn't cooperate. After 6 weeks I discontinued the yeast killers and gave him two or three probiotics daily, only 2 billion live organisms (this was the most I could get him to take).

It was at this point that his behavior changed significantly. Basically I gave him less than he should have been given and still got great results!

Digestive Enzymes An optional part of the plan is to take a digestive enzyme that is specially formulated to break down peptides, casein and gluten food particles. This will break down the most inflammatory food particles that leak out of the intestines.

The leaks take up to 18 months to heal on their own, so you can give the digestive enzymes in order to see behavioral improvement immediately throughout the yeast killing and gut healing. These holes don't heal when the yeast are overgrown because the excess mucus inhibits the production of prostaglandin enzymes that repair you inner organs.

You don't have to use the digestive enzymes, but you will see significant behavioral changes in 2 to 5 days after starting the enzymes. In fact, if you are skeptical about this treatment, spending $20 on the digestive enzymes may be all you need to convince you and inspire you to stick with it for as long as it takes to completely heal.

Some background and more convincing

I accidentally stumbled across information about candida yeast overgrowth in a diet book and realized that was the source of my four years of constant yeast infections. The three doctors I had been to over those four years didn't seem to know anything about intestinal yeast overgrowth and advised me to continue using monostat-7 which I needed every other week.

I started following the yeast killing treatment plan in the diet book and my yeast infection disappeared at about 6 weeks. However, after reading the book Enzymes for Autism, I then realized that I also had leaky gut syndrome which was the source of my chronic, burning joint inflammation and increasingly anxious mood.

I have always been anxious, shy throughout my childhood, but my anxiety had been gradually increasing for the past 10 years, along with arthritis in my hip and knee. I believe my anxiety started as a result of colic as a baby, then worsened after taking broad spectrum antibiotics in my 20s for over a year for acne, and then worsened even more from two pregnancies. Pregnancy hormones, food allergies and of course broad-spectrum antibiotics can cause yeast overgrowth.

Then, after a few years of mild arthritis, it got bad enough to start taking anti-inflammatory meds every day which made the yeast overgrowth worse, made the arthritis chronic, and brought on the symptoms of anxiety, allergies, and yeast infection. After purchasing chewable digestive enzymes from www.autismcoach.com, I tried for a couple of weeks to get Michael to take them. He took one and didn't like the taste. After that he absolutely refused to take any more. So, I decided to take them myself to verify that leaky gut was the cause of my inflammation.

I was still very skeptical, but I had spent the money on the enzymes so I had to satisfy my curiosity. I got complete relief of my arthritis after only two days of taking the enzymes with every meal and snack, and complete relief of the anxiety after 5 days! After 2-5 days on the enzymes, most people see significant behavioral improvement in their autistic children.

I know it is hard to believe that doctors don't know this kind of treatment, but this imbalance isn't explicitly stated in the pre-med freshman level fungus text books and no comprehensive treatment plans are given to pre-med students. This, of course, is due to the fact that there is alot of money in maintaining symptoms rather than treating the cause so that the symptoms go away. However, many doctors are starting to come around to the realization that many pharmaceutical products and procedures cause problems, or are unnecessary.

At this point in time, Michael is almost completely normal, just a little shy and lacking in social skills. He is in 6th grade this year and has to change classrooms on his own between each class. Before this treatment, I don't know if he would have been able to keep up in junior high without loosing his bearings in school. Even with the meds he would have been a nervous wreck by the time he got home. Now, he is in band learning to play the saxophone, and his grades are mostly As with occasional Bs.

I didn't tell my parents about this treatment so that I could gauge their response. Now I catch them studying him in amazement sometimes. They are eager to reward him for his new good behavior, rather than spending a lot of time disciplining him.

My symptoms have all disappeared: mild low thyroid symptoms of insomnia, cold hands and feet, anxiety, forgetfulness, low energy, constipation, chronic arthritis, yeast infection, allergies, chronic anxiety. Two years ago I was spending $120 in co-payments for medicines, now I'm not spending anything on medicines. I only wish I could opt out of my employer's HMO health care plan (participation is required).

It took a combination of yeast cleansing, leaky gut healing and iodine therapy to get rid of all of my symptoms. Now I am detoxing my liver for weight gain caused by fatty liver syndrome. Next I'll start detoxing xeno-estrogens which can be the source of low thyroid and stubborn weight gain caused by the anxiety medicine.

My son has a little asthma, mainly when the cold season hits. I am currently giving him a homeopathic remedy sulpher and belladonna for very slight tourettes. They are working. I'm also starting Calc Carbonica for my constitutional remedy to clear up very minor symptoms that I have had for years associated with low thyroid. Homeopathy is an amazing field of medicine.

Leaky Gut

A leaky gut can take up to 18 months to heal on its own, but a leaky gut diet can reduce that healing time to less than 6 months depending on how bad the leaks are. A leaky gut diet eliminates foods that cause mucus production in the intestines. This is necessary in order for enzymes to flourish and repair your intestinal walls without interference from mucus. Taking L-Glutamine amino acid daily will help build the enzymes. This amino is taste free and can be purchased in powder form and added to a drink.

For 3 to 6 months: --no milk products; --no grains; --no legumes; --no sugars (except fruit sugar - FOS or Inulin). You can eat all fruits except bananas, dried fruit or fruit juices, and you can eat all vegetables except the most starchy which are potatoes, peas, parsnips, corn, carrots, beats, winter squashes, plantains. You can occasionally eat eggs, fish, and poultry, but no red meat.

It is a challenging diet, but you will be repairing your gut and starving yeast. If you can't stick to a strict diet, at least eliminate the worst mucus-forming foods: milk products and wheat. In addition, if you are eliminating meat from your diet, take a protein/fiber shake.

More detailed information about healing the leaky gut can also be found at: http://www.ei-resource.org/treatment-options/treatment-information/leaky-gut-syndrome-treatment/ and http://www.betterbodycare.com/Solutions/Causes/LeakyGut.htm

Heavy Metal Detoxing

I learned from a nutritionist that iodine will detox mercury very well. One protocol that I read about is to give a high dosage of iodine daily in divided doses (30-50 mg for an adult) for three months, then a regular daily dosage according to instructions on the label. Iodine is easily replaced in our bodies by substances in the same mineral group which have a heavier molecular weight: bromide, fluoride, and chloride. We get way too many of these in our food and water through ingestion and through the skin when bathing or swimming, so they are a constant threat which makes iodine supplementing necessary.

Look over these websites for details about iodine therapy: http://www.oasisadvancedwellness.com/learning/iodine-fulfillment-therapy.html, http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james37.htm
http://www.eidon.com

You can purchase high-potency Lugol's Iodine tincture for $20 on Amazon or the web. One site is: http://www.jcrows.com/. You can also purchase Lugol's iodine on ebay. Lugol's 5% is 6mg per drop and is binded with potassium which binds with water for better assimilation. Iherb sells the pill version called iodoral.

More fascinating information about iodine:

1. it is the main ingredient in thyroid hormone (note: I believe everyone with bi-polar and schizophrenia has low thyroid);

2. it binds with heavy metals and neutralizes them so that the body expels them;

3. it binds with synthetic molecules and neutralizes them so that the body expels them rather than mistake them for estrogens or store them in fat cells; and

4. it binds with pathogens and kills them so that the body expels them. And remember, all diseases and symptoms are caused by pathogens.

5. it kills free-radical activity (cancer).

Iodine deficiency is one of the root causes of our health epidemic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone should do iodine fulfillment therapy for optimum health. The other cause is high fructose corn syrup which is super-food for yeast.

Total Body Cleansing To cure yourself of anything, cleaning up pathogens is only one part of the big picture. To live a long life and rid yourself of built up toxins that can cause cancer and many other illnesses, you need to keep every internal organ in your body in optimum condition. Cleansing should be done annually after 15 years of age. Cleansing is done with herbs that loosen impacted fecal matter, kill pathogens, and slough them out. After colon cleansing is completed, you can dissolve and cleanse your liver of kidney stones.

The liver does most of the detoxing in the body and can become overburdened with toxins over time. Detoxing with oil may be the best way to eliminate fatty cell build up in the liver. Fat cells are used by our bodies to warehouse synthetic molecules and they cause weight gain. There are many ways to detox the liver using oil or foods. Just search the net and find the cleanse that appeals to you the most.

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1. They have over 12,000 top quality products,

2. The prices are wholesale (or close to it),

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7. They don't bug you with e-mails,

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The best approach to maintaining total health is to eat a very healthy diet with only a minimum of nutritional supplements daily. This is a real challenge in our society and many people aren't interested in disciplining themselves until they are faced with a chronic ailment. I'll admit that it took chronic ailments to light a fire under me. And if it weren't for the information superhighway, I don't know if I would have succeeded. I am also convinced that I could have saved alot of time and perhaps money by going to a holistic or natural health care practitioner instead of looking everything up myself. I probably could still learn some new tricks.

There are many books out there on this subject. It is very helpful to educate yourself. A person's involvement in their own health care is vitally important to their success. A person who is not willing to read and educate themselves won't have the information they need to see the entire picture and be motivated to stick to it and pay attention to the details.

There are good, moderate and poor western medical doctors, herbalists, homeopaths, eastern medical practitioners, natural medicine practitioners and others out there. It is your responsibility to interview them before using their services in order to find someone who is experienced and knowledgeable.

The biggest danger to treating yourself with natural products, in my opinion, is not taking enough of the nutritional supplements (too low dosage) or not sticking with the treatment long enough. People are used to getting instant gratification with pharmaceutical products. This may not be the case with natural treatments, but the long term results are much better. Also, if you are pursuing treatment on your own with natural products, you won't have the "support system" that traditional medicine offers.

Beware of your preconceived notions that natural substances can't be effective if doctors aren't recommending them. Remember, they can't recommend them. I would advise you to purchase some books about things that I have suggested in this website, or search for books that are more suitable for your particular problem. Amazon is a great source with an unbeatable selection to choose from.

Different practitioners have different treatments for yeast killing. One author I have read made a good point that many leave out. Killing the yeast is only the first step, building up your beneficial bacteria after the yeast kill is more important as the yeast will repopulate very quickly if you don't have enough beneficial bacteria to keep them under control. This author says two weeks of yeast killing is plenty of time if you follow that up with a probiotic of 12 billion live organisms for the two weeks following, as I mentioned earlier.

Within a few weeks, you can be rid of lifelong neurological problems or medical problems without having to maintain your health with supplements or medicines. I am now exploring homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine.

Make a habit out of browsing through www.iherb.com. They have a huge supply of top quality products. I've only touched the tip of the iceberg with the items that I listed in this blog. I'm sure you can find many more that suit your personal preferences.

Good luck with restoring your health. Feel free to post a comment about what kind of treatment you decide to do and what kind of results you get.