FREE TELE SEMINAR: Healthy Hormones with Brigitte Mars

Interview with Brigitte Mars

REPLAY WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE MEMBERS AREA (MARCH 2009)

Healthy Hormones:

Would you like to know what it would be like to suddenly understand how you can take control over your own body – and mind – and relieve those troublesome early – before – during and Post-Menopause symptoms that are driving you crazy?

Learn How you Can Head off :

• Depression
• Mood Swings
• Weight Shifts
• Erratic Sleep
• Memory Loss
• And other changes Leading to Menopause
• Will provide powerful tips and recipes for foods that prevent and alleviate symptoms.

So, Take the Frustration out of being 40 or older – learn how to be fit, healthy, fantastic and sexy…

Brigitte Mars is an herbalist and nutritional consultant in Boulder, Colorado. She has been working with Natural Medicine for over 40 years. She teaches through private workshops and seminars, and also at Naropa University, Boulder College of Massage and Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition. She also have a weekly Boulder radio show called “Naturally,” teach raw food classes, lead herb walks, and a professional member of The American Herbalist Guild.

A common complaint: Feel Lethargic,Mood Swings,Uncontrolled blood sugar levels

Gain a bit of weight, feel lethargic and have trouble sleeping.

Another name that you are probably familiar with after reading my blogs is Brigitte Mars. She is the author of Love, Sex & Health and in an interview that I had with her last year she shares some of her thoughts on how we should use food, our minds and our hearts to ensure our sexual vitality. Many of us have experienced the changes in our sexual desire and function as we age.

Some of the changes can be great and some of them can be a little less than great. I loved this interview that I had with Brigitte. I learned so much and couldn’t wait to share some important points that came out of it. Brigitte is also one of my favorite herbalist authors to date!

Nancy: A common complaint I hear from women is that they gain a bit of weight, feel lethargic and have trouble
sleeping. They suffer mood swings because of uncontrolled blood sugar levels and if that’s not bad enough, their sexual vitality flies out the window. Since most of our problems can be traced to the foods we eat, what Super Foods would you recommend to change all that? READ MORE

Magic Power of Nettle Tea

A cup of warm water followed by a cup of nettle tea first thing in the morning will get you going in the bowel department.

Nettle is detoxifying and improves the ability of the liver and kidneys to cleanse the blood. It also curbs the appetite and cleanses toxins from the body.

The Nettle plant is used to treat gout and arthritis and has antihistamines and asthma-relieving properties. It is also used as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, blood cleaner, diuretic and digestive stimulant. Nettle infusion is a safe, gentle diuretic which is considered restorative for the kidneys and bladder. It’s also recommended for weight loss, but you may shed more pounds of water than fat.

Here's a great alternative to the traditional hot or Ice Tea without the caffeine! It's a super pick me-up in the middle of the day.

Hot or Ice Nettle Tea. Bring a quart of water to a boil. Put 2 tablespoons of dry nettle leaves into a teapot and cover with the boiling water. Let the tea brew for 3-5 minutes. Strain before cooling. Add more water, lemon, and your stevia.

Menopausal Weight Gain

Fat stores estrogen. The more weight you gain, the more estrogen you will retain.

Understanding the Role of Estrogen in the Body:

Estrogen
dominance is a term coined by Dr. Lee in his first book on natural
progesterone. It describes a condition in which a woman can have
deficient, normal or excessive amounts of estrogen, but little or no
progesterone to balance its effects in the body. Even a woman with low
estrogen levels can have estrogen dominance symptoms if she doesn’t
have any progesterone.

Here are a few things to remember about estrogen dominance:

• Fat stores estrogen. The more weight you gain, the more estrogen you will retain.
• Stress – that word we’re all too familiar with – produces cortisol, boosting estrogen levels and contributing to weight gain.
• A toxic liver won’t filter estrogen from the body
• So many of the foods we eat are fed estrogen to make them grow and
  produce more food. Eating meat and dairy products that have been fed
  estrogen will increase your own estrogen levels.
• Plastic containers, pesticides and cleaning chemicals produce
  “xeno-estrogens”, which are chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body.

So, what can we do about it? Read More

Interview with Raymond Francis Never Be Fat Again

Interview with Raymond Francis

REPLAY WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE MEMBERS AREA (MARCH 2009)

Fight Fat at Its True Source… Your Cells. An M.I.T.-Trained Scientist explains the ONE Secret You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Keep It Off.

Your will learn:
Which low-fat and no-fat products actually make you fatter.
How one missing nutrient can signal your body to store fat.
Which food additives are most toxic–and how to spot them on a label.
The ‘Big 4′ worst foods to eat–with delicious and nutritious alternatives
How to sneak more fiber- and nutrient-rich foods into your day.

Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don’t work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it really is–a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the ‘health’ and ‘diet’ ones we dutifully buy to lose weight, have the opposite effect. Full of hidden toxins and lacking nutrients, they actually poison your cells and alter your weight-control genes, causing your body to put on the pounds.

Never Be Fat Again

Never Be Fat Again has been called the “first diet book worth reading.” What makes it so different?

What makes Never Be Fat Again fundamentally different is that, unlike most weight-loss books, it actually promotes permanent weight loss. It is an established fact that weight-loss diets don’t work. This is because most weight-loss books are scientifically and nutritionally unsound, and many are so unsound, they are dangerous.

This book provides a revolutionary understanding of overweight. Never Be Fat Again identifies overweight as a serious chronic disease-a disease caused by massive cellular malfunction-resulting from nutrient deficiency and exposure to environmental toxins.

By addressing the true causes of this disease, permanent weight loss can be achieved-without counting calories or feeling hungry or deprived. Best of all, overall health dramatically improves while the pounds are being lost. We must also apply our minds and our bodies to effectively achieve permanent weight-loss and it’s all in the book. Other important factors include genetics and medicine and what role they play in being overweight. You can get your copy right here:

Deadly toxin in the Body

Here’s a small insert of the part about toxicity that Raymond Francis talked about last month: Teleclass

Identifying toxicity as a major cause of overweight is in itself a breakthrough
We’re all in toxic overload. That’s the bad news. Here is the good news – 80% of that toxic load that you’re exposed to is under your personal control. So anybody can learn how to take personal control and reduce their toxic load by 80%. That’s exactly what I’ve done in my life and that’s why I’m getting younger, and that’s why I’m so healthy, because I’ve reduced my toxic load. Anybody can learn how to do this.

So that’s number one – learn where the toxins are and stop exposing yourself to them. It’s simple things like toothpaste and shampoo that will poison you. So use healthy toothpaste, use healthy shampoo, and make simple choices.
Get the toxins out of your life. In Never Be Sick Again, there’s a whole chapter on toxins as to where they are and how to avoid them. So stop putting them in your body. I mean, that makes sense, right? Stop exposing yourself to them.

The next thing you need to do is detoxify. The body is able to detoxify things. It has a very good detoxification system, but for every molecule you present to the body’s detoxification system, it requires many molecules to detoxify that one. So where do the many molecules come from? From your diet. READ MORE

Setting Goals

It’s February. How are you doing with the goals you set at the start of this year? Or more importantly, what have you learned?

Here’s what I got in my inbox this week from: seeds@success.com

“The real value in setting goals is not in their achievement. The acquisition of the things you want is strictly secondary. The major reason for setting goals is to compel you to become the person it takes to achieve them,” says renowned personal-development expert Jim Rohn.

Here’s what Rohn says you should do. Answer this question:

• What kind of person will you have to become to get all you want?
• Write down the kinds of skills you’ll need to develop and the knowledge you’ll need to gain. Your answers might give you some new goals for your personal development.
• Work on your goals. Your ability will grow to match your dreams. “This is the magic of goal-setting. The more you work on your goals, the more new opportunities will present themselves to you,” Rohn says.
• You can make big changes in your life. “You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.”

Deadly toxin in the Body

From: Raymond Francis: Never be sick again

Here’s a small insert of the part about toxicity that Raymond talked about last month:

Identifying toxicity as a major cause of overweight is in itself a breakthrough
We’re all in toxic overload. That’s the bad news. Here is the good news – 80% of that toxic load that you’re exposed to is under your personal control. So anybody can learn how to take personal control and reduce their toxic load by 80%.  That’s exactly what I’ve done in my life and that’s why I’m getting younger, and that’s why I’m so healthy, because I’ve reduced my toxic load. Anybody can learn how to do this.

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