DIET & SUPPLEMENTS FOR BODY & SOUL

The topic of Nutritional Health is one we hear about in the media on a regular basis. Having a healthy diet is essential to having a balanced, spiritual lifestyle. Students on the spiritual path are encouraged to implement at least a minor level of a healthy regimen, and the results are nearly always astounding. Since there are so many differing opinions on the topic of health and nutrition, we have chosen to offer the distilled secrets to better health, as agreed upon by Edgar Cayce (the “Father of Holistic Health.”) and most natural health care practitioners. Of course you should still be responsible and choose what you and your health professional feel comfortable with. What we are talking about in this article is mostly related to Holistic Health and not allopathic medicine. In Voltaire’s words, “Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing.”

Holistic (or natural) Health is generally divided into a few groups: Prevention, Maintenance, and Curative. Whatever category you may be addressing, to be truly referred to as “Holistic” (or Wholistic), it generally must fit the following criteria: 1) The modality utilizes things that are as natural (and non-invasive) as possible. 2) Instead of masking symptoms, the modality attempts to treat as closely to the true cause of the symptoms as possible. 3) The practitioner attempts to treat the client as one, whole, being—thus embracing the body, mind, and soul of the client.

Within the field of Holistic Health, one of the primary modalities that crosses the borders of all forms of treatment (i.e. Prevention, Maintenance, and Cure) is the use of supplements (as part of nutrition). But before we dive into our suggestions for the best health supplements, let’s first make it clear that more important than what foods and supplements you ingest are the thoughts in your head and the words that come out of your mouth. In other words, Love is the best source of both the prevention and cure of disease. Let’s also remember that our body needs plenty of fresh air (which can be enhanced through advanced breathing exercises like chi kung), exercise (yoga to stretch and open up the body and some form of cardio workout for 20 minutes minimum), and clean water (6-8 glasses of spring or filtered water but never within 15 minutes of a meal).

Next, when we approach the topic of better health through nutrition, the single most important goal to achieve is that of an alkalized body. The body needs to be mostly alkaline (in its pH level) and not acidic. “Keep the body alkaline” is a recurrent theme in the Edgar Cayce readings. One of the ways we can achieve this is by centering the diet around alkaline-forming vegetables and fruits. This can improve metabolic function, maintain a high state of health, promote weight loss, and prevent colds, infections, and other illnesses. The body also maintains a higher level of alkalinity through attitudes of love, peace, and happiness OR is made acidic through attitudes of stress, anger, and judgment. Or, as Edgar Cayce once put it, “What you think plus what you eat make who you are.”

Alkalizing foods are those which supply predominantly alkaline-forming minerals such as calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and manganese. Again, most vegetables, fruits, herbal teas, and green-food concentrates are in this category. Acidifying foods supply predominantly acid-forming minerals like copper, iodine, phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon. Meats, grains, fried foods, sugars, processed foods, and most fats and dairy products belong in this group. In fact, most of these are so destructive to the body that they actually rob the body of nutrients as they are metabolized.

Lifestyle factors also influence the body’s pH balance. Prayer and meditation, restful sleep, deep breathing, and aerobic exercise, pump alkaline-forming oxygen into the body. Stress, noise, environmental pollution, and lack of sleep and exercise all create acid conditions and ultimately disease.

Lastly, since our diet and lifestyle rarely provide all the essentials to creating an alkaline system in the body, there are a few great supplements that will assist in this process. The following are a few of the best supplements available. Please note that supplements should not be taken every day. Instead it’s best to find a routine that works for you wherein you take them for a few weeks and then take a break for a week. Or perhaps take them on weekdays but not on weekends. Otherwise, the body may weaken its ability to synthesize nutrients from foods. Also note that before and possibly during any regimen that involves taking supplements, it’s important to also engage in a program that involves cleansing the digestive system. Therefore, you might consider the Isagenix shakes, the ASH products, plenty of water, fiber-rich foods, some colon treatments, and/or whatever your health professional might recommend. Otherwise, if the body is not cleansed, your supplements will not be digested and/or assimilated into your system.

As you know, there are many books, articles, teachers, and doctors who differ in their opinion of which supplements are the most important. We have, however, narrowed down the list to only the most essential and effective supplements for optimal health and the prevention and cure of disease.

Primary Supplements:

1. Multi-Vitamin/Mineral: Everyone should find a good source for a multi-vitamin/mineral that includes the proper ratio for their particular needs (e.g. extra B vitamins or Iron, etc…)
2. Ascorbates (which includes vitamin C, calcium, and other essential minerals): These alkalize our body, as well as combating and preventing many diseases. Ascorbates replenish valuable electrolytes, muscle minerals, and acts as an anti-oxidant to fight free radical damage. Available from ASH, a product in our Online Store. www.ASHnow.com/989767
3. Protein (which includes essential amino acids): This nourishes and tones our muscles. Protein is also required for proper metabolic function and endocrine balance. The best source we know of is in the Isagenix shake. www.grailproductions.isagenix.com
4. Enzymes (usually only available in fresh, raw foods): These are important to assist with digestion and assimilation of food and therefore allows for the best absorption of nutrients. These are available from ASH (see details below). www.ASHnow.com/989767
5. Omega Oil Complex (should include Omega oils 3, 6, and 9): These are essential for boosting metabolism and burning stored fat. Also improves memory and is important for normal functioning of all the body’s tissues—especially in the brain. Available in most good health stores.
6. Other supplements that many people find essential to their health include: Dhea—for the body’s rejuvenation, B-Complex—especially to combat the effects of stress, Probiotics—particularly for people who have had digestive problems or who have taken antibiotics.

ASH PRODUCTS
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MASTER FORMULA II: Primarily designed to raise the body’s alkalinity level, increase oxygen at the cellular level, kill existing cancer cells, and prevent new cancer cells from forming. Also, in an alkaline body there is no need for new fat cells to form. That means the fat in our body is no longer needed, and literally melts away. When we achieve pH balance, our body naturally drops to its healthy weight, our food cravings will diminish, and our energy levels will increase immensely. This is a full-spectrum calcium that will search out and scavenge free radicals. Scientists instruct that for calcium to be bio-available, the formulation must have the correct ratios of Calcium, and its elemental partner, Magnesium. It also must have its trigger, Vitamin D, which requires vitamin A, and then must be ionized. They must be in a liquid form when ingested.

MoRE: (Molecular Repair Essentials): MoRE provides the body with the ascorbate it no longer produces naturally. Without ascorbate, the body cannot produce enough collagen to repair all of the tissues in the body. Therefore, MoRE helps the body to rebuild itself. Also daily dosages of ascorbates can prevent and/or reverse symptoms of high blood sugar, commonly referred to as diabetes. In addition this product provides antioxidants to absorb the free radicals in the body and two specific digestive enzymes which help to eliminate leftover waste that builds up after each meal in the intestinal tract and colon. When we don’t have enough of these, the body gives us signs such as, poor nails, bad hair, wrinkled skin, allergies, overweight, and eventually arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. A lack of collagen is what causes skin wrinkles, backaches, stiff ligaments, and cracked blood vessels. The ascorbates, together with the aminos L-lysine and L-proline, form defense against heart disease by cleansing of debris from artery walls and sealing cells against the spread of all pathogens, from the HIV virus, to colds and flu viruses, to herpes, cold sores, and shingles. It is becoming commonly accepted that human beings should add supplemental enzymes to every cooked meal. Enzymes should be taken between meals when they can clear out infecting organisms such as viruses, scar tissue, and products of inflammation—even multiple sclerosis and cancer.

NO FOOL: Primarily for the same issues treated with MoRE but without the digestive enzymes found in MoRE. Therefore, NO FOOL can be taken without meals and is a great way to add necessary ascorbates throughout the day. NO FOOL gives the body what it needs to maintain the strength of the collagen walls and provide antioxidants to destroy invaders so the body takes care of itself. Through the years, people taking these 3 protocols simply didn’t get sick. They didn’t have colds or flu or hay fever or asthma or breast cancer among others. Many definable functions of the body require ascorbates, a lack of which causes many disorders—the main disorder being heart disease. NO FOOL heals arterial cracks and prevents their recurrence. NO FOOL also prevents arterioclerotic build-up and even reverses it.

ELE: Primarily for providing the body with the necessary enzymes it needs to eliminate the excess waste that collects in the body which creates inflammation and an abundance of plague in the body’s tissues, organs, and arteries. Also, once you give back to the body the essential metabolic enzymes, they can eliminate wrinkles in young women and cause wrinkles to fade in older women. Nothing happens in the human body without enzymes. They are the catalysts. We are born with only a finite amount of enzymes and when that “bank” of enzymes is exhausted, the body dies within seventy two hours.