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		<title>First sign of heart disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky to hear Rip Esselstyn (author: The Engine 2 Diet) speak at the Natural Products Expo. He said the first sign of heart disease is erectile dysfunction.  The smallest artery is that which leads to the penis.  When a guys manhood isn&#8217;t up to par, simply eat vegetables and leafy greens to help [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="color: #0f4c50; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I was lucky to hear Rip<strong> </strong>Esselstyn (author: The En<strong>gine</strong> 2 Diet) speak at the Natural Products Expo. </span></h3>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">He said the first sign of heart disease is erectile dysfunction.  <span style="font-size: 12px;">The smallest artery is that which leads to the penis.  When a guys manhood isn&#8217;t up to par, simply eat vegetables and leafy greens to help clear the arteries.  In about three weeks you will notice a difference.   </span></span></strong><strong>Once your parts are up and working, Dr. Oz recommends having sex 4 times a week.  </strong></p>
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		<title>Jane Galli Loves My Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we eat veggies, fruits and raw nuts, we leave little trash behind.  At the same time these are all really good for us. Super exciting to be called into the Sunset Gowers film set on Monday. Jeff Daniels make up artist Jane Galli rang me up and wanted to see more of my line. [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Super exciting to be called into the Sunset Gowers film set on Monday.</h3>
<h1>Jeff Daniels make up artist Jane Galli rang me up and wanted to see more of my line. One of my long time celebrity clients, Wynn, had dropped off a sample of my <a href="http://shoplhermann.com/body-boost-2/natures-face-wash-kelp/" target="_self">Pacific Face Wash</a>  on Jane’s station.  Jane wasn’t even sure who had done it when she called me.  She said after she tried it, “I knew whoever formulated this had to have other amazing products.  I’ve tried lots of face washes and yours is just the perfect amount of exfoliation without leaving a residue.  It got my face nice and clean.  I love it”.    She placed her first order with me and got samples to share with her make up artist friends.  This is what is nice about my skincare line.  You only need to try something a couple of times to know it really works.   xo, Laurie</h1>
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		<title>Coming Soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Flu like symptoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My girlfriend Jennifer was under the weather this week.  She said she may have had food poisoning.  I asked her if she was taking her coconut oil.  She ran out!  I reminded her that it helps boost the immune system and energy and helps with nausea and digestion (her symptoms). It is recommended that upon [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My girlfriend Jennifer was under the weather this week.  She said she may have had food poisoning.  I asked her if she was taking her coconut oil.  She ran out!  I reminded her that it helps boost the immune system and energy and helps with nausea and digestion (her symptoms).</p>
<p>It is recommended that upon not feeling well you take 3 to 4 tablespoons of coconut oil for adults 3 times per day until you feel better.  Adjust for children.</p>
<p>I know with weather changes and up coming holidays is when most people get sick.  I hope you try coconut oil the next time you feel an achy stomach or scratchy throat.  For optimum health Bruce Fife recommends 3-4 tablespoons of coconut oil a day in our diets.  I get this much on average and feel great.  Laurie</p>
<p><strong>LIST OF 125+ USES, </strong>By Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D.</p>
<ul>
<li>Kills viruses that cause influenza</li>
<li>Helps abscesses</li>
<li>Helps asthma</li>
<li>Used to help baldness</li>
<li>Helps bronchitis</li>
<li>Heals bruises</li>
<li>Heals burns</li>
<li>Helps colds</li>
<li>Helps constipation</li>
<li>Helps cough</li>
<li>Dropsy</li>
<li>Dysentery</li>
<li>Helps earaches</li>
<li>Lowers fevers</li>
<li>Helps flu</li>
<li>Works on gingivitis</li>
<li>Helps gonorrhea</li>
<li>Used to help irregular or painful menstruation</li>
<li>Helps jaundice</li>
<li>Helps kidney stones</li>
<li>Helps lice</li>
<li>Helps malnutrition</li>
<li>Helps nausea</li>
<li>Helps rashes</li>
<li>Helps scabies</li>
<li>Used to treat scurvy</li>
<li>Used to treat skin infections</li>
<li>Helps sore throats</li>
<li>Helps with swelling</li>
<li>Helps syphilis</li>
<li>Helps toothaches</li>
<li>Helps tuberculosis</li>
<li>Helps tumors</li>
<li>Helps typhoid</li>
<li>Helps ulcers</li>
<li>Helps upset stomachs</li>
<li>Helps heal wounds</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause herpes</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause measles</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause hepatitis C</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause SARS</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause AIDS</li>
<li>Kills viruses that cause other illnesses</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause ulcers</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause throat infections</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause urinary tract infections</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause gum disease</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause cavities</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause pneumonia</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause gonorrhea</li>
<li>Kills bacteria that cause other diseases</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause candidiasis</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause ringworm</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause athlete’s foot</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause thrush</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause diaper rash</li>
<li>Kills fungi and yeasts that cause other infections</li>
<li>Expels or kills tapeworms</li>
<li>Expels or kills lice</li>
<li>Expels or kills giardia</li>
<li>Expels or kills other parasites</li>
<li>Provides a nutritional source of quick energy</li>
<li>Boosts energy</li>
<li>Boosts endurance</li>
<li>Enhances physical performance</li>
<li>Enhances athletic performance</li>
<li>Improves digestion and absorption of other nutrients including vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.</li>
<li>Improves insulin secretion and utilization of blood glucose.</li>
<li>Relieves stress on pancreas and enzyme systems of the body.</li>
<li>Reduces symptoms associated with pancreatitis.</li>
<li>Helps relieve symptoms and reduce health risks associated with diabetes.</li>
<li>Reduces problems associated with malabsorption syndrome and cystic fibrosis.</li>
<li>Improves calcium and magnesium absorption and supports the development of strong bones and teeth.</li>
<li>Helps protect against osteoporosis</li>
<li>Helps relieve symptoms associated with gallbladder disease</li>
<li>Relieves symptoms associated with Crohn’s disease</li>
<li>Relieves symptoms associated with ulcerative colitis</li>
<li>Relieves symptoms associated with stomach ulcers</li>
<li>Improves digestion</li>
<li>Improves bowel function</li>
<li>Relieves pain and irritation caused by hemorrhoids</li>
<li>Reduces inflammation</li>
<li>Supports tissue healing and repair</li>
<li>Supports and aids immune system function</li>
<li>Helps protect the body from breast cancer</li>
<li>Helps protect the body from colon cancer</li>
<li>Helps protect the body from other cancers</li>
<li>Is heart healthy</li>
<li>Improves cholesterol ratio reducing risk of heart disease</li>
<li>Protects arteries from injury that causes atherosclerosis and thus protects against heart disease</li>
<li>Helps prevent periodontal disease</li>
<li>Helps prevent tooth decay</li>
<li>Functions as a protective antioxidant</li>
<li>Helps to protect the body from harmful free radicals that promote premature aging and degenerative disease</li>
<li>Does not deplete the body’s antioxidant reserves like other oils do</li>
<li>Improves utilization of essential fatty acids and protects them from oxidation</li>
<li>Helps relieve symptoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome</li>
<li>Relieves symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (prostate enlargement)</li>
<li>Reduces epileptic seizures</li>
<li>Helps protect against kidney disease</li>
<li>Helps protect against bladder infections</li>
<li>Dissolves kidney stones</li>
<li>Helps prevent liver disease</li>
<li>Is lower in calories than all other fats</li>
<li>Supports thyroid function</li>
<li>Promotes loss of excess weight by increasing metabolic rate</li>
<li>Is utilized by the body to produce energy in preference to being stored as body fat like other dietary fats</li>
<li>Helps prevent obesity</li>
<li>Helps prevent overweight problems</li>
<li>Applied topically helps to form a chemical barrier on the skin to ward of infection</li>
<li>Reduces symptoms associated with psoriasis</li>
<li>Reduces symptoms associated with eczema</li>
<li>Reduces symptoms with dermatitis</li>
<li>Supports the natural chemical balance of the skin</li>
<li>Softens skin</li>
<li>Helps relieve dryness and flaking of skin</li>
<li>Prevents wrinkles</li>
<li>Prevents sagging skin</li>
<li>Prevents age spots</li>
<li>Promotes healthy looking hair and complexion</li>
<li>Provides protection from damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation from the sun</li>
<li>Helps control dandruff</li>
<li>Does not form harmful by-products when heated to normal cooking temperature like other vegetable oils do.</li>
<li>Has no harmful or discomforting side effects</li>
<li>Is completely non-toxic to humans</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Coconut Oil</strong></p>
<p>While coconut possesses many health benefits due to its fiber and nutritional content, it’s the oil that makes it a truly remarkable food and medicine.</p>
<p>A  must read is “<a title="Coconut Oil Miracle" href="http://www.amazon.com/Coconut-Miracle-Previously-published-Healing/dp/1583332049">The Coconut Oil Miracle</a>” by Bruce Fife C.N.. N.D.</p>
<p>These statements have not been evaluated by the Federal Drug Administration.  This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.</p>
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		<title>Beautiful Skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until a year or so ago I had been using face cream that was approximately $150 per oz.  I was just doing my make up and getting ready to go to the California Women&#8217;s Conference this morning and realized I wasn&#8217;t needing as much liquid foundation make up as I had previously used.  I [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Up until a year or so ago I had been using face cream that was approximately $150 per oz.  I was just doing my make up and getting ready to go to the California Women&#8217;s Conference this morning and realized I wasn&#8217;t needing as much liquid foundation make up as I had previously used.  I kept putting too much in my hand and I wasn&#8217;t using it all.  I am a single mom and only wear make up a few times a week so it just dawned on me why.  I loved my natural Face Serum ($24, face moisturizer) before and now even more as it keeps my face moisturized to perfection!</p>
<p>Clients say they notice wrinkles smoothing and I love hearing this&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Deadly toxins to avoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check your skin and hair care products for the following toxins and remove from your home today! Reminder when you put anything on your skin, it absorbs into your system! Stearalkonium Chloride Is a toxic fabric softener chemical that can cause skin irritation when taken used.  It&#8217;s deadly. Aphanizomenon flos-aqua (Blue Green Algae) tincture blue [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check your skin and hair care products for the following toxins and remove from your home today!</p>
<p>Reminder when you put anything on your skin, it absorbs into your system!</p>
<p><strong>Stearalkonium Chloride</strong> Is a toxic fabric softener chemical that can cause skin irritation when taken used.  It&#8217;s deadly.</p>
<p><strong>Aphanizomenon flos-aqua (Blue Green Algae) tincture</strong> blue green algae has put a lot of people into the hospital great article 8 years ago in Vegetarian Times exposed the scam of using it, fish can&#8217;t live it and animals avoid it..</p>
<p><strong>Phenoxyethanol</strong> Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. May cause reproductive defects. Severe eye and skin irritant.</p>
<p><strong>Cetearyl Alcohol</strong> is a mixture of cetyl and stearyl alcohols that can come from vegetable or synthetic sources, can be a skin irritant.</p>
<p><strong>Cocamidopropyl Betaine</strong> May contain harmful impurities or form toxic breakdown products, itching, burning and blistering of skin. Synthesized from coconuts (no longer organic), this chemical is found in body products and may be labeled natural or organic when in fact it is not.</p>
<p><strong>Tetrasodium EDTA</strong> horrible carcinogen don&#8217;t use it ever!!</p>
<p><strong>Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate</strong> THE BAD GUY STUFF.  ABSOLUTE NO NO’S</p>
<p>Check out my 100% Natural Skincare line for the healthiest choice or take this list with you when making purchases!</p>
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		<title>A Man&#8217;s World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why the man in your life comes home from a long work day and goes into his man cave?  A man&#8217;s testosterone rebuilds when he sits for 30-40 minutes.  Often one takes this personally and wants to converse as soon as someone comes home. Give him a few minutes and see if you [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wonder why the man in your life comes home from a long work day and goes into his man cave?  A man&#8217;s testosterone rebuilds when he sits for 30-40 minutes.  Often one takes this personally and wants to converse as soon as someone comes home.</p>
<p>Give him a few minutes and see if you notice a difference in your over all world!</p>
<p>Health will deteriorate if he lacks testosterone and kicking back for a few is the healthier choice to prescriptions or supplements.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m guessing his health and yours will improve.</p>
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		<title>Sea Salt and Our Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salt I’ve learned so much about nutrition, water and salt especially through Don Tolman.  I personally wake everymorning and drink 1 quart of water with 2 teaspoons of sea salt (in addition I have approximately 1-2 teaspoons sea salt throughout they day in my food).  I drink 1 gallon of water each day.  Rule of [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salt</p>
<p>I’ve learned so much about nutrition, water and salt especially through Don Tolman.  I personally wake everymorning and drink 1 quart of water with 2 teaspoons of sea salt (in addition I have approximately 1-2 teaspoons sea salt throughout they day in my food).  I drink 1 gallon of water each day.  Rule of thumb is 48oz of water per 42lbs of body weight.</p>
<p>I wanted to pass along this from Don&#8217;s Farmacist Desk Reference book.</p>
<p>by Don Tolman, Whole Food Practitioner</p>
<p>Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans.  Water and salt regulate the water content of the body.  Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way into all of the cells it reaches.  It has to get there to cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolism.</p>
<p>Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells.  It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells.  There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body and the other ocean is held outside the cells.  Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans and this balance is achieved by unrefined salt.</p>
<p>When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage.  This is the reason why in severe dehydration we develop an edema and retain water.</p>
<p>The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean water outside the cells is expanded to have the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells.  The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys.</p>
<p>The reason that we get an edema is when we don’t drink enough water.  Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal.  The collected water, which mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get onto the blood circulation.</p>
<p>If reliance of this process of emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get waterlogged at night and breathing becomes difficult.  The person needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep.  The condition is the consequence of dehydration.  However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water at the beginning.  Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase at the same rate that you drink water.</p>
<p>When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of the salt that was held back.  This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body; by drinking more water.  Not diuretics, but more water!!</p>
<p>In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have irregular or very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the body.  Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body is still in an overdrive mode to retain it.  Once the edema has cleared up, salt should not be withheld from the body.</p>
<p>Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the body.</p>
<p><strong>Here are some of the more vital functions of sea salt (raw – unrefined) in the body:</strong></p>
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<li>Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure in conjunction with water.  Naturally the proportions are critical.</li>
<li>Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body.  It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy needed by the cells.</li>
<li>Salt is vital to the nerve cells’ communication and information processing all the time that the brain cells work, from the moment of conception to death.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic fibrosis.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for cleaning up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses.</li>
<li>Salt is a strong natural histamine neutralizer.</li>
<li>Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.</li>
<li>Salt is vital to prevent excess saliva production to the point that it flows out of the mouth during sleep.  Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva indicates salt shortage.</li>
<li>Salt is absolutely vital to making the structure of bones firm.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for sleep regulation.  It is a natural hypnotic.</li>
<li>Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics.</li>
<li>Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty arthritis.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the legs and thighs.</li>
<li>Salt is vital to the communication and information processing nerve cells the entire time that the brain cells work from the moment of conception to death.</li>
<li>Salt is vital for reducing a double chin.  When the body is short of salt, it means the body really is short of water.  The salivary glands sense the salt shortage and are obliged to produce more saliva to lubricate the act of chewing and swallowing and also to supply the stomach with water that it needs for breaking down food.  Circulation to the salivary glands increases and the blood vessels become “leaky” in order to supply the glands with water to manufacture saliva.  The “leakiness” spills beyond the area of the glands themselves, causing increased bulk under the skin of the chin, the cheeks and into the neck.</li>
<li>Sea salt contains about 80 mineral elements that the body needs.  Some of these elements that the body needs.  Some of these elements are needed in trace amounts.  Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than other types of salt on the market.  <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ordinary table salt that is bought in the super markets has been stripped of its companion elements and contains additive elements such as aluminum silicate to keep it powdery and porous.  Aluminum is a very toxic element in our nervous system.  It is implicated as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer’s disease.</span></em></li>
<li>Twenty-seven percent of the body’s salt is in the bones.  Osteoporosis results when the body needs more salt and takes it from the body.  Bones are 22 percent water.  It is not obvious what happens to the bones when we’re deficient in salt or water or both?  But time tells all.</li>
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<p><strong>Top Essentials of Life</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Oxygen</li>
<li>Water</li>
<li>Salt</li>
<li>Potassium</li>
<li>Exercise</li>
</ol>
<p>Fact – No one can live without these.  Mainstream medicine too often ignores two and three in favor of selling drugs and procedures to treat the symptoms of dehydration.</p>
<p>Fact – Nothing kills life quicker than a lack of water.</p>
<p>Fact – The people with the worst health drink the least water and use the most deadly diuretic drought causing drugs and processed caffeine and/or hard alcohol.</p>
<p>Fact – The salinity of the water outside the cells in our bodies is the same as the ocean.</p>
<p>Fact  &#8211;  In the middle Ages, people were put to horrible death by salt deprivation.</p>
<p>Fact  &#8211; Health-care makes big bucks by selling a quart of water with salt in it (Saline 4) for up to $350 installed (I.V. gags) but won’t tell the patients they do indeed need more water and salt in their diets.</p>
<p>Fact – How can you expect drug companies to do research on the importance of water in our daily lives when they can’t make money on it?  Who does research to put themselves out of business?</p>
<p>Fact  &#8211; No two substances in the Bible are mentioned more than water and salt.</p>
<p>Fact – The environment of an unborn baby is water and salt.</p>
<p><strong>HISTORY</strong></p>
<p>Heru Pirene, the Belgian historian, observed that during the high Middle Ages, the entire coast of the Atlantic was deserted and the entire continent was thrown into a Dark Age of human under-development.  Historians tell us that it was caused to great extent by the lack of salt in the human diet, the flooding of all salt flats having disabled every salt farm along the coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.  All of Europe suffered from a salt famine that was to last almost 500 years.  The daily average ration fell to less than two grams per person and caused many to die from dehydration and madness.  The extent of the salt famine reported by Henry Pirene caused human flesh to be sold on the open-air markets and created a epidemic of crazed people who, to replenish their salt, drank blood from the neck artery of the person they had just slain.  Quick to exploit the desperate situation for their own gain, the rulers of Europe grabbed the remnants of the salt stock and exacted exorbitant salt taxes.  Heavily burdened by tariffs and gables, common salt became a luxury but also caused mass population shifts and exodus, lured invaders and caused wars.  Mined salt from the depths of the earth was substituted, but the lack of live and balanced trace elements in rock salt lowered the mental equilibrium and intellect level almost as much as sheer absence of salt.</p>
<p>The late French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel kept a chicken heart alive for over 27 years by having the pulsating heart in a solution of sea salt, i.e. isotonic seawater.  Dr. Carrel (actually an assistant forgot to refresh the water) voluntarily ended the experiment after a third of a century, having proving that living cells can have physical immortality.</p>
<p>In the theory of acid and alkaline balance, chronic disease such as cancer is caused by the acidification of the bood, lymph and all cellular tissues.  Real sea salt is one of the basic elements necessary to correct this problem.</p>
<p>Natural sea salt (reconstituted seawater) allows liquids to freely cross body membranes, the kidney’s glomeruli and blood vessels walls.  Whenever the sodium chloride concentration rises in the blood, the water in the neighboring tissues is attracted to that salt-rich blood, and the cells then re-absorb the enriched intra-cellular fluid.  If they are functioning properly, the kidneys remove the saline fluids easily.  Refined salt does not  allow this free crossing of liquids and minerals and causes accumulated fluids to stagnate in joint, producing edema and chronic kidney problems.</p>
<p>Salt is the single element required for the proper breakdown of plant carbohydrates into usable and assailable human food.  ONLY WHEN SALT IS added to fruits and vegetables can saliva and gastric secretions readily break down the fibrous store of carbohydrates, etc.  Once salt is dissolved and ionized, the salt possesses a definite reactivity, has bull electromagnetic capabilities, and passes more easily into the large colon where it will have a sanitizing effect.</p>
<p>People who eat refined salt develop a craving for salt, because the salt that they eat is not satisfying their needs.  They then use more and more salt, in the desperate effort to get what they need; taking big amounts of refined salt (chemical) burdens the kidneys and adrenal glands that they are very important for calcium utilization.  Modern physiology has demonstrated that an excess of refined salt interferers with the absorption of nutrients and depletes calcium.  Sea salt enhances calcium absorption and nutrient utilization in general.</p>
<p>A small amount of salt can be added to a glass of water to dissolve and to activate its powers.  By adding salt to your drinking water adds alkaline properties and mineral content.  The minerals it contains are too valuable to ignore.</p>
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<p>I am shocked when I hear people say they only go to the bathroom every three or four days.  What?   This means when you eat three meals a day for four days your body is holding on to TWELVE (12) meals, all the added chemicals, hormones, and additives in your stomach and system for 96 hours.   YUCK!   No wonder people are cranky and sick.</p>
<p>People have traveled to the Dead Sea for thousands of years for its&#8217; remarkable healing properties.</p>
<p>My teacher has taught that we need to shower our bodies inside and out.  For over two years now, I personally wake up and drink 1 quart of water with 2 teaspoons of my dead sea salt before I have anything else.  Within an hour it flushes out my system.  Some days I go several times within a short period of time and others just once.   When trying for the first time keep close to home for the first couple of hours.</p>
<p>Several of my clients have had such benefits of regulating their sleep and reducing inflammation from drink the Dead Sea Salt and water.  Others notice their blood pressure stabilizes!</p>
<p>Keep updating me on how your health has improved over time.</p>
<p>You Make  A Difference,</p>
<p>Laurie Hermann</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Andrew Weil has a fairly easy food pyramid to read.  He states cooked asian mushrooms on his pyramid, I&#8217;ve been taught any and all mushrooms raw and cooked are beneficial.  I prefer coconut oil vs. his noted canola oil.  I need to increase my grains, beans, legumes this year it can be challenging getting all [...]]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Andrew Weil has a fairly easy food pyramid to read.  He states cooked asian<br />
mushrooms on his pyramid, I&#8217;ve been taught any and all mushrooms raw and cooked<br />
are beneficial.  I prefer coconut oil vs. his noted canola oil.  I need to increase my grains, beans, legumes this year it can be challenging getting all these in as recommended.</p>
<p>However, if you follow this food pyramid you should have a full tummy, good weight and on your way to optimum health.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a win win!</p>
<p>Laurie</p>
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