• Find out why the government never acted on its own Human Nutritional Research.  Page 1
• Massive Kindney Stone, arthritis, osteoporosis info. Page 2
• How contaminated is your shower? Page 5
• Back Pain MRI’s useles?  Page 5
• Clogged arteries, cholesterol drugs Page 7
• Stress in America Page 8

It isn’t that hard to combat chronic stress but you need to take active measures before it kills you.  The number one thing is exercise.  My favorite way to simplify life, is to workout at home, when I have an extra 15 minutes.   Try www.area365.com for free for a month during the nasty cold of winter.

Here it is.  More amazing news from the world of natural health.  I am often so surprised at how common sense and good judgment are thrown to the wind when people talk about health care.

Categories from  this months issue.

Page 1: Medical News

Page 3: Protect yourself from stress

Page 5: Cardiac Invalidism

Page 6: Radiation for cancer

Page 7: “Feel good” foods

Page 8: Alzheimer’s and coconut oil

For the full article click here.

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I have the next edition of Bruce West’s Newsletter  out for download.  It has been a while since I put one out and I’m a little back logged, but since so many of you asked about them, here is more great health info.

If you are chronically tense or anxious then there is a nervous system imbalance.   If you have lots of spasms or muscle cramps that’s a good indication that your parasympathetic nervous system is not running well enough to slow your body or mind down.  The primary alkaline minerals that help are potassium and magnesium mostly found in vegetables.

The flip side are the stimulators, grains, cakes, pies, cookies, crackers, pasta contain acidic minerals that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and keep you going, and going.  The common American diet often contains too much of these and not enough veggies.

Organically bound minerals from Standard Process is our best alkaline mineral supplement.  Most supplement makers get potassium from salt.  Standard Process gets it from Spanish Moss, and Alfalfa.   Also, a chronic dry mouth may be a call for more minerals.

Have you had your rocks today?
Most calcium on the market is Calcium Carbonate (limestone) or oyster shell.  This is very difficult for your body to use, as a result it soaks up lots  of stomach acid leaving you with indigestion.  If you are having reflux issues, check your calcium.

Medical magazine contradictions are too numerous to list here just download and read page 3.  They say one thing to help then give the opposite advice for medical treatment in the same magazine.  The truth about cholesterol and heart disease and diabetes on page 4.

Cancer Fighters

More good news for sulforaphane from things like our old friends kale and broccoli, etc.  They  found good research using these for breast cancer prevention.  If sulforaphane is isolated from it’s food source it loses 95% of its activity.  They may claim anti-cancer activity but forget to tell you that it doesn’t work because it is not in its whole-food form.  This is why  we recommend Standard Process for supplements.

Cruciferous Complete from Standard Process has been proven to detoxify excess estrogen.
as a nice bonus it also may help age-related macular degeneration

Crop Nutrition Declining over 50 years

43 common crops showed declines.  They compared standard soil to organic soil with organic mulch.  The organic soil and mulch plants had 300-500% more calcium, magnesium, potassium.  That was 50 years ago.  Since then there has been even more depletion.

After having dogs most of my life, there is some wonderful info on pets and having healthy pets.

Download Bruce West’s newsletter May 2009

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**Important office info **
Due to the ever increasing media frenzy outside the office at the Brown county courthouse, parking has been a little more difficult.  If the driveway is open, please use it.

**Additional Note**
Due to memorial day, we will only be open til 2:00 on Friday.  For those of you picking up Standard Process orders, please try and be here close to 2:00.  UPS generally arrives by 2:00

***One more***
I am switching the article notifications to Feedburner.  I will sign you up in the next few days.  The sign up is on our website if you want to do it yourself.  All you need to do is confirm it, that’s it.   As a bonus, I will give you my shopping list.  I will post it exclusively for the Feedburner subscribers next week.    The emails from here will be for office notifications only, like hours changes, holidays, and sales for internet subscribers only.

BACK TO THE GOODIES

Full March issue of Bruce West Here .

This months Bruce West has some pretty juicy stuff on the heart and those lovely medical studies.

Highlights in this month’s Bruce West Newsletter

Here we go again with a new study showing remarkable results from the statin drug CRESTOR^®.  This expensive statin drug was having trouble finding a market because of a lukewarm acceptance from doctors, so the drug company underwrites a study claiming the drug could save millions of lives if millions of people were using it.  The “medical experts” are calling it “paradigm shifting”.

Where are the double-blind studies comparing Crestor to cheaper drugs, or even non-drug therapies.   Why is the price so high?  What are the long term effects of these drugs.  Past 3-5 years people start to suffer.

Medical studies are just that—Medical studies.  They never compare them to anything alternative nor do they EVER study alternatives.

Dr. Altman here–If you want a true “paradigm shift” read my book coming out later this week.  Some of the most remarkable things about the heart are in there that I haven’t even seen Bruce West writing about.

Back to Bruce…

Add points of interest about CRESTOR^®
¤ For every 2 years of Crestor Therapy 991 out of 1000 will recieve no benefit

¤ 60% of statin drug trials failed to report side effects

¤ 25% of people in the trial stopped on their own.  Side effects are suspected

¤ Crestor is still patented for $105/month.  Generics are $10

¤ The disclaimer list at the end of the trial takes 1/2 page of tiny print.

Cholesterol functions you may not want to interfere with.

¤ It patches damaged blood vessels.
¤ Necessary for all hormone production.
¤ Vitamin D production.  (This is why statin users have a higher rate of osteoporosis)
¤ Brain cell function
¤ Proper health of every cell you have.

For some amazing heart attack prevention that has nothing to do with drugs check out page 2 of the full newsletter.

Prostate health on page 3

This is one of my new favorite subjects.  The great antioxidant hoax.

I had a banana this morning.  Many of you probably have had a banana this week.  The first thing you do is peel it, right.  The peel can be very deceptive.  Mine was brown and spotty, yet the banana on the inside was perfect.  Now, eat the peel.

The peel is the antioxidant protector of the good fruit on the inside.  Antioxidants are not for you.  They protect the valuable vitamins on the inside.  Supplement makers would like you to eat 10,000 chemical copies of that peel.

Stick to REAL whole food supplements and you won’t have to worry about any monkey business.

Read the full March issue of Bruce West Here .

This is a very personal letter talking about the death of his dad.  All kinds of things contribute to pain, suffering, and an early death—smoking, drinking, drugs, doctors, poor diet and more.  He says the most insidious of all is loss of strength, mind and body.  A loss of strength brings about years in nursing homes and an early death.  Dr. West uses Fred Hahn’s “The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution” to maintain his strength.  If you have a hard time remembering to workout or being motivated you may like our online program www.area365.com

Check out Bruce’s “End My Joint Pain “

The Greatest Cause of Death in the U.S.

#1 heart disease

The Greatest Cause of Pain and Disability
#1 A crumbling skeleton (osteoporosis, arthritis, and joint diseases)

The Greatest way to fix both
#1 Vitamin K2
The main source is butter oil (butter from from cows eating fresh sprouting, growing green grass.

The best combination if you are ill is butter oil and cod liver oil.  Given time magic can happen.  We do special order butter oil if needed. -Dr. Altman

Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency

Since sunshine is the primary source of vitamin D it is quickly becoming the secondary source for three reasons.
#1 People are using more sunblock
#2 People are covering up more in summer
#3 Cholesterol-lowering drugs (Sunshine uses cholesterol to convert to vitamin D)

Cod Liver Oil is needed by just about everyone.  Not only for the vitamins A and D but the omega  3 fatty acids.  It is for strong bones, joints, and muscles.

B4 for you and me
It seems in general discussion that no one has every heard of B4 besides Standard Process.  The only doctor that talks about it is Bruce West.  It is one of the most critical heart supplements we have.  For your reference, the Merck Manual 10th edition, every medical professional has used this book.  The Merck lists 14 separate fractions of B complexes and 12 divisions of B12.  The manual states adenine is “widespread throughout animal and plant tissues…it is often isolated from bovine pancreas, and itis also referredto as vitamin B4.”

-Dr. Altman, Standard Process never ceases to amaze me.  The single best way to get this in todays eating environment is Cataplex B by Standard Process.  Also, a note to all people suffering from any heart problems.  You need to listen to Bruce West.  We have used his protocols very successfully.

Macular Degeneration and Cancer

Cruciferous vegetables, such as Brussels sprouts and kale have large amounts of flavinoids and lutein with greatly nourish the eyes.  These two powerful foods are naturally anti-cancer by detoxifying and removing excess estrogens.  Read the full newsletter for the amounts of cancer reductions for women with breast cancer and high levels of estrogen.
You have 2 choices.  You can either eat Brussels sprouts and/or kale everyday or take Cruciferous Complete from Standard Process.
Dr. Altman- I think this is one of the single most important supplements ALL women should take.  My wife is taking it.  I rarely lay down a blanket recommendation for all people, because it isn’t really possible very often.  Bruce West says it better.   Get the full PDF below.

Bruce West February 2009