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

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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

5 minutes can bring you calm and peace to solve all of your problems.  The Ocean began to speak and I listened.

All I Learned From The Ocean.

I recently spent some time staring at the ocean.  I have done that many times over my life and the ocean never ceases to hypnotize me.  It has the power to support life and destroy life, to create fun and pleasure and heart ache and sorrow.  Thus goes the roller coaster of life, like the waves of the ocean.  Sometimes the bumps are small and other times they are tsunami’s.  Even the richest person didn’t get there without some trouble.  Even the most peaceful person had turbulence in their life otherwise how would you know what peace was?  You can’t avoid stress, but what you can do is let it roll through you like the ocean.

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me.” -Ann Landers

If you ever go body surfing and spend anytime in a wave you realize a few things quickly.
#1 Don’t fight the ocean

After the wave dumps you and you remain stiff and struggle for the surface you are going to get hurt.  If you let your body be loose and flow with the water the energy of the wave will pass through you and your body will wiggle and shake but you won’t get hurt.  Once the wave passes you can easily swim to the surface.

#2 Don’t fight the ocean

Let’s say you want to swim towards the beach and you are Michael Phelps.  He is a pretty good swimmer.  If you get caught in a rip tide and the ocean decides you don’t need to go to the beach it will pull you farther away no matter how strong you are.  If you swim straight against a rip tide, you lose.  Think of it as swimming straight into trouble.  You can’t deny that there is a problem, because you are in it.  You probably swam into it without even realizing it.  You need to swim sideways until the current is small enough to overcome.

Some problems can be tackled head on, but large problems often require a more subtle approach.  If a large problem develops and your mind is racing and you are panicking you can’t see clearly and you are wasting precious energy.  Stress and busyness are distractions for the mind.  After a week of sitting by the ocean I noticed one thing.  People are in a real hurry to get somewhere.

Project to fix stress and busyness
Go get some sand / dirt and put it a jar and add water.  Screw the top on and give it a shake.  Cloudy right!  Keep shaking it until it settles.  Come on shake it harder.  Just shake it in one direction so the sand will settle.
Not happening, right!  Put the jar down and let it sit for a few hours.  It will settle all by itself.  Your mind works the same way.  You can’t ask your mind to do a million tasks and expect it to perform flawlessly in a stressful situation.  The calm mind can be focused and solve problems very well.  I always knew I had rocks in my head.  The easiest way I have found to be at peace with the world around me is to sit and do nothing.  I know it sounds obvious, but try it.  Let the sand in your mind settle.  Sit and listen to your breathing for 5 minutes.

Bruce West has done it again!

This issue has a lot to think about.  The topics inside:

1. Anti-aging medicine

2. Anxiety (chronic)

3. Cancer, Women, Estrogen, Vegetable Powder

4. Gas (chronic)

5. Sciatica

6. Stress (chronic)

Bruce West October 2008 PDF Full Newsletter

In case you don’t have time to read all 8 pages here is my summary of what I’d like you to learn.

Chronic Stress can break anyone down.  It eats away at your nervous system, your adrenal glands and your pancreas.  you will never solve the problem until the stressor is addressed, job, marriage,family, social problems, or health.  This constant seesaw between the adrenals and the pancreas wreaks havoc on your blood sugar.   Try Min-Tran, Cataplex G, and high-vitamin cod liver oil.

Just don’t do nothing.  Have someone else help with your nutrition.  Force yourself to exercise.  Learn to deep breathe or practice meditation.

There are more people that have heart attacks with cholesterol below 200 than over 300.  There is not one study that shows a benefit of statin drugs for women whether they have heart disease or not.

Most patients who have heart attacks don’t smoke, drink, have high blood pressure or diabetes.  Bypasses and angiograms are bandaid treatments at best.  Cholesterol has little to nothing to do with heart disease.  Inflammation is where research is looking for a cause.  Some of the greatest protection is offered by HDL’s and vitamin K2.  K2 is primarily found in animal foods, raw butter, High vitamin butter oil, high vitamin cod liver oil and Cataplex F by Standard Process.

Sciatica: Surgery or NOT.  Conservative treatment, including chiropractic and deep tissue therapy, is the best course of action.  If you throw in some nutrition for bones and joints you will do even better.

Most women know that high levels of estrogen are related to higher risks of uterine and breast cancers.  That’s why for the first time in history the rates of breast cancer fell when medical doctors stopped prescribing estrogen.

What if you make too much or get it from the environment?

Your liver has to detoxify it.  That takes  very special foods.  mainly Brussels sprouts and Kale.  Cruciferous Complete was independently tested by  a lab and was shown to increase rates of estrogen excretion.  If the estrogen levels were very high the rate of excretion was 5x greater than normal.

Anti-aging is a big medical business.

There is a fundamental fact to understand, older people are sick because they are sick, not because they are old!

The truth is that good nutrition, a diet of whole foods, pure water,  and some exercise can provide real anti-aging treatments.

Chronic Gas:

This is mainly a digestive problem, so before you subject yourself to a battery of medical tests, try some digestive enzymes.  Try 2-4 Zypan first.  If you happen to get intense burning, you most likely have an ulcer.  Stop Zypan and you have now figured out a like cause of your problems.  If Zypan doesn’t solve it move on to the Gall bladder.

If your gall bladder is slow and sluggish your can’t digest fat well and it rots in your guts.  Take 2-4 A-F Betafood for a few weeks.  If symptoms improve continue for 6 months.

If those don’t work then look at dairy and gluten.  Just eliminate those from your diet and see what happens.