This article was sent in by one of my readers (Amy Spiegel) to share their experience in hopes that it may help others with a similar problem. Keep in mind that WE are the cutting-edge of innovative treatments for IBD-related problems, so we need to share our experiments and results with each other. So if you try this therapy and it works, please let us know in the COMMENTS section below. Likewise, if you try it and it doesn’t work, it would also be really helpful if you let us know.

IMPORTANT: Amy’s story prompted me to do some research into laser therapy for infection and wound healing and so be sure to read my corresponding article on How Does Infrared Light Therapy Work? before testing this protocol – as it will ensure you use an infrared laser of sufficient strength.

But let’s get started with Amy’s article:

By Amy Spiegel

My son is now in remission and has been ever since I started naturopathic remedies and the Absorb Plus shakes. His main problem that lasted two years was a peri-anal abscess that WOULD NOT HEAL.

My son’s Crohn’s first presented itself with a peri-anal abscess, which was drained in the ER. While we thought that healed it, it really didn’t and it would fill up and ooze about every 10-12 days for almost two years. Now I know this was because the internal infection was still there. It would get very red and painful so I would put hot compresses on it until I could release the infection. Once we did this it would take about another 10-12 days to “fill” back up.

In the meantime I applied the oil of oregano topically, tried the FissureHeal and other suppositories the naturopath gave me, hot baths, mud packs, etc. Nothing seemed to work. His naturopath suggested trying the infrared laser pen light, as she had used it for other wound healing with success.

Her theory was that the laser penetrates deeper into the tissue. If you add a treatment to the skin first, then the laser carries that deep into the wound for healing. So we used ITIRES homeopathic ointment for lymphatic drainage and SanPharma Notatum Drops (for bacterial infections) topically prior to the laser treatment. I also would sometimes add the oil of oregano topically. I did infrared laser pen light treatments of 1-2 minutes every night for about 6 months.

I started noticing immediately that the duration between the abscess “flares” began to lengthen. It went from 10 days, to 14 days, then 18 days, then three weeks, then 45 days – sometimes backsliding to 14 days – but it kept a pattern in general of lengthening. I also noticed that the flares were less painful, less red and less pus, sometimes only a drop. This encouraged us to continue. It was very slow healing.

All the while I kept him on the oil of oregano orally and the Healthy Trinity probiotics. We then got to the point that the infection was completely gone and we stopped the infrared pen light treatments. It has now been nine months with absolutely no recurrence.

However, I felt that he needed to continue maintenance treatment, so our other naturopathic/MD doctor suggested the Lumen Photon 90 Infrared therapy product. I thought this would be better, since he is in his teen years and this is something he can do on his own. It is a pad with several laser lights and can be placed anywhere on the body (except the eyes). He does this a couple times per week (just to make Mom feel better).

He also has started placing it on his stomach. My acupuncturist states “the bad guys do not like the light.” Sounds spiritual to me. So if the light kills off the bad bacteria in the abscess why not the stomach? I hope that this can help someone else and would love to hear another success story. I don’t know how it worked but something did as it started to change and then disappeared.

Amy Spiegel (B.A. in Community Health Education) is the married mother of two boys aged 14 and 10 in North Atlanta. Before going on sabbatical to care for her children, she was a medical assistant for two surgical physicians and then the director of exercise physiology for the Texas Back Institute.  She’s dedicated the past two years to researching natural remedies and dietary wellness practices for the treatment of Crohn’s disease in response to her son’s diagnosis – who was unable to tolerate the toxic medication protocols recommended by physicians.

Now that you’ve read this article, head over to my article where I explain how infrared lasers work and what strength and intensity of laser is necessary to get good results from this treatment.

Coherent photons, which are particles of electromagnetic energy, are emitted from an infrared cold laser (also referred to as low level laser, soft laser or therapeutic laser). These particles enter the tissues and are absorbed in the mitochondria – which are tiny structures within the substance of each individual cell. The energy is converted to chemical energy within the cell.

The permeability of the cell membrane then changes, which in turn produces various physiological effects. These physiological changes affect a variety of cell types including macrophages, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and mast cells, resulting in wound healing, pain relief, reduced inflammation, drainage, etc.

When comparing lasers, two measurements are key. The first is the wavelength, which determines the color of the light and is measured in nanometers (nm). The second classification is the power of the laser, which is measured in milliwatts (mW). A laser of 500 mW or less is classified as a Category 3, cold laser. This means there is no danger of burning the skin or tissues, or causing damage from overheating. Lasers that are stronger than 500 mW are classified as Category 4 lasers and these should only be used by professionals, or in conjunction with a device that monitors the temperature of the tissue during exposure.

Another defining characteristic of laser light is that it is coherent light. This means that if you shine the light against the wall and then you back up farther and farther away, the laser point will stay the same size. If you happen to have a laser pen that is just an LED, then as you back away the light will fan out – this is the quick way to tell the difference between the two.

Simple colored laser lights have an affinity for the same color. For example, if you set up a green balloon that has a red balloon inflated inside it, and then you shine a red laser light on the balloons, the red balloon inside will pop, but the green one will stay intact. This is because the red laser has an affinity for the red balloon only.

However, infrared lasers are “colorblind” so they will penetrate deeply into tissue. An infrared laser light needs to be a minimum of 650 nm and 5 mW – at this strength it will penetrate almost half an inch into the skin. So if you have a shallow wound or an abscess, this strength is probably sufficient and infrared laser pen lights of this strength can be purchased fairly inexpensively.

After 6 Weeks of Vetrolaser Use

If you have a deeper wound or a fistula, then you may want to invest in an infrared laser that can penetrate deeper into the tissue. Unfortunately, these infrared lasers can be very expensive. The ones I found ranged from $1,200 – $13,000. How many people suffering from fistulas are likely to be able to afford that? So I went “outside the box” and I found an infrared laser – called the Vetrolaser II – that is sold for animal-use, for only $525. This is exactly the same quality, technology and strength of the expensive human-use lasers. It has three 808 nm diodes (lasers) in one unit, at a strength of 200 mW. Thus it can penetrate two inches when used on Caucasian skin (darker skin results in less penetration).

To sell or advertise a laser for human use, you have to submit it to the FDA and get approval – this is possibly the cause of the high price tag on human-use lasers. But if you specify that it is for animal use only, then you can avoid the FDA process.

I spoke with Dr. Daniel Kamen D.C, who sells this “veterinary laser” and he said that the ideal way to use the laser (to get the fastest results) is to put the laser directly in contact with dry skin. However, if the skin is wet, or the wound is open, then you need to hold it off the skin to avoid wetting the laser, but hold it as close as you can.

It’s worthwhile to note Amy Spiegel’s article about healing her son’s peri-anal abscess: She used an infrared laser pen light and the healing took six months when used for 1-2 minutes per day. We couldn’t get any information about the wavelength and power of the laser she used. But I did find a photo that looked just like it and the seller said that whilst the laser was 635 nm, it was less than 5 mW in power. So this is perhaps why her son’s abscess took so long to heal.

Interestingly the infrared laser pad Amy’s son is using now (for maintenance) contains 50 diodes (infrared lights) of 880 nm and 100mW for each diode – which a lot stronger than the pen light used to heal the fistula (and, at $844, is a lot more expensive).

Below are some places to purchase therapeutic-quality lasers at the cheapest prices I could find. And, as per usual, if you try this therapy, please let me know how it worked in the COMMENTS section below.

Infrared Laser Sources

Beurer Softlaser (635 nm, 5 mW, 1/2″ penetration) – has on/off switch

If you order this from the UK it’s cheaper than any supplier I could find in the U.S.  The price was 50 pounds ~ $82 but check what the shipping would be as the shipping (and customs duties) may be so expensive it cancels out the savings if you live in North America. If you live in Europe, then this may be a good supplier for you.

The cheapest place in the US I found, was retailing this laser at $149

Vetrolaser II – Triple Diode Infrared Laser (3 x 808 nm, 200 mW, 2″ penetration)

This is the “veterinary-use” laser I wrote about above and it currently retails for $525.
Tel: 1-800-742-8433 and Dr. Kamen can answer any questions you might have.

Okay, I need your help again! Some of you may already know about Dr. Silvio Najt, MD. He’s been quite active over at JPT Wellness Circle and I’ve also been posting some podcasts with him and articles he’s shared on this blog.

But for those of you who don’t know of Silvio, or haven’t heard his full story: Dr. Najt is a board-certified cardiologist, with an additional specialty in emergency medicine. When his daughter was first diagnosed with colitis, of course he went full-speed into medical treatment protocols.

However, like many of us, when he discovered the medical protocols didn’t work, he began researching. Although his research focused on the medical sources of information, clinical trials, etc., it was actually another MD in New York who told him to get my book, Listen To Your Gut.

In Silvio’s own words (this quote is from Ch. 1 of our new book):

“I bought Listen To Your Gut just as a possible source to help my daughter with the “minor elements” of her illness. I have to admit that from the beginning I had to fight against my “medical prejudice”. Jini Patel Thompson was not a physician, but still she was showing a radical way of treating this ailment. It made sense, a lot of sense. But I still had to fight against my medical mindset. As I got deeper and deeper into the book, it completely blew my mind and I decided to finish my “toxic” relationship with the medical world and embrace the “patient world.”

So here’s where you come in: We need help deciding on the best title for this new book!

It is co-authored by Dr. Najt and myself and we are hoping it will make these healing protocols available to a much larger audience – people who aren’t comfortable, or don’t feel safe unless a medical doctor endorses it.

But it is not just a re-hash of the protocols in Listen To Your Gut. This book tells the story of Dr. Najt and his daughter’s healing journey. It also has an entire chapter on the pharmaceutical drugs used for these diseases – absolutely fascinating info on WHY they are used and what the true effect of these drugs is, on the gut and the body as a whole.

Likewise, Silvio goes into detail, in another entire chapter, about surgical procedures, what’s really involved, what the risks really are (as evidenced by the med literature) and when surgery is indicated, but also when it can likely be avoided.

So this book will also be a valuable tool for people who:

• Want to really understand what their doctor is telling them (and the important info they’re NOT being told!).
• Want to combine medical and holistic treatments.
• Want to use natural protocols, but are unsure if what they’re doing is safe or proven.
• Need to have solid data they can take to their GI (and unsupportive family members!) to garner support and provide justification for their treatment choices.
• Want to have a more simplified treatment protocol than is contained in LTYG. Listen To Your Gut accounts for every variation or complication and that’s why it’s nearly 500 pages. But, some people find this too daunting and they want to just have a simple step-by-step protocol to follow. So the refined 5-step protocol in this new book is one I have gleaned from JPT Members and my private consult clients as being successful for the majority of people, about 90% of the time.

Okay, so now you have an overview of what the book is about and who would benefit from it, what should we call it so that the title reflects these elements?

It can have both a main title and a subtitle.

And the author credit will read:

By Dr. Silvio Najt MD

with Jini Patel Thompson

You guys gave me such great suggestions for my book on constipation, that I wanted to get your advice/ideas again. But this time, I don’t have a working title already in mind – I’m wide open to any and all suggestions.

And just to make it more fun – let’s get some prizes going….

If we use your title, as is, you’ll win an ebook and printed copy of the book (when it’s published) plus a $100 gift certificate for the Holistic Health Shoppe.

If you have the best suggestion, you’ll win both an ebook and a printed copy of the book, when it’s ready.

The 3 runner-ups will win an ebook copy of the book, when it’s ready.

Sound fun? Silvio and I are ready, so let ‘er rip!

Leave your title ideas in the COMMENTS section right underneath…

p.s. when you go to leave your comment you will be asked for your email address (which is not made public) and that’s where we’ll contact you if you win.

muchas gracias,

Jini

Before you take any medication for high blood pressure, you have to listen to this podcast! We will also explain how blood pressure works and therefore how the parameters for “high” and “low” blood pressure are determined.

And if you are currently on medication, Dr. Silvio Najt (board certified cardiologist, with a specialization in emergency medicine) gives you easily-implemented advice for how to stop taking it and lower your blood pressure naturally.

* Please keep in mind that English is Dr. Najt’s second language – although he did live and practice medicine for several years in the U.S.

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In Chapter 4 of Listen To Your Gut, I write about the dangers of Teflon-coated (and other non-stick coated) pots and pans and give you all the data on why we shouldn’t use them.

Well, following is an interesting article from the New York Times, written by someone else who heard about the dangers of Teflon and set out to test a number of different pans to see which one worked best and was the easiest to cook with and clean up afterwards.

It doesn’t look like she knew about how to choose stainless steel to ensure a low nickel content (which I also tell you how to do in Listen To Your Gut), – basically take along a magnet and if sticks to the metal, then the steel content is high enough), but I was amused by the fact that she rated the enamel-coated Le Creuset pan as the best out of them all.

I have one Le Creuset frying pan (bought while my hubby had a contract in Singapore and was making loads of moola – they’re very expensive) and I have to say I like it the best as well!

Dr. Joseph Mercola recently launched a new line of nano-glaze ceramic pots and pans. However, when I looked up the patent for this new nano-glaze technology, there seemed to me to be a lot of glue involved in getting the nano-sized ceramic particles to adhere to the surface of the pans. 

I emailed Mercola asking about the glue and if they had done testing to see if any chemicals from the glue were leaching during the cooking process, but received no response.

My other hesitation with this new nano-glaze cookware is that having spent several months now researching nanotechnology – specifically nanoparticle minerals – I am also concerned about whether the nanoparticle-sized ceramic glaze components leach into food or the air.

You know how we now have washing machines with nanosilver sterilization cycles and socks with nanosilver antibacterial protection? Well, now we’ve also found that the nanoparticle silver in the wash water is entering our ground water and in turn altering the algae and bacterial balance in waterways and ponds, etc.

Joe Mercola states that they tested for any leaching of common metals (like you can get from other pans), but you would have to test specifically for leaching of nanoparticle-sized compounds – which is a very different process.

So whilst those pots (and their light weight) are very appealing, I wish someone would carry out the testing necessary to answer these questions – until we have more data I won’t be trying them.

Anyway, onto the article….

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In Search of a Pan That Lets Cooks Forget About Teflon

By: Marian Burros, New York Times
 – June 7, 2006

LIKE many home cooks, I have sent my nonstick skillets to the moldy recesses of my basement, where they have joined the 1950’s aluminum pots and the Dru casseroles (Dutch enamel coated cast iron, now eBay collectibles).

What led to this step were unsettling reports that an overheated Teflon-coated pan may release toxic gases. DuPont, the manufacturer of Teflon, says that its pans are safe and that their surfaces won’t decompose, possibly releasing the gas, until the pan’s temperature reaches 680 degrees. Some scientists say that an empty pan left on a burner set on high reaches 700 degrees in as little as three minutes. All pans with nonstick coatings are subject to the same problems, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit environmental research and advocacy organization. I banished the skillets last year and spent months dithering over what to buy while making do with the pans I had left: a large Revere Ware skillet with a concave bottom; a small, warped hand-me-down from my mother; and a medium All-Clad in fine shape.

A few passes at online pot sellers made matters worse: there are too many choices. Finally, after consulting the ratings from Consumer Reports and Cook’s Illustrated and calling several experts, I decided to do a test of my own, using the most highly recommended pans, along with a few of my own choices.

While Teflon lets manufacturers make inexpensive pans usable, uncoated cheap pans have hot spots, so cheaper pans – other than cast iron – were never considered. The most important characteristic was how close the pans came to having the nonstick qualities people love about Teflon. Can they sauté and brown, even without oil? Almost as important, how easy are they to clean?

There were eight pans in the test, most of them 12 inches in diameter: All-Clad with an aluminum core, All-Clad with a copper core, Bourgeat copper; De Buyer carbon steel; Calphalon anodized aluminum; seasoned and unseasoned Lodge cast iron and Le Creuset enameled cast iron.

All-Clad was one of the top choices of most experts, but did not do well in my tests because sometimes food stuck to the pans and cleaning them was difficult. Top chefs with whom I spoke agreed. “All of my All-Clad sauté pans have brown spots on the sides and outside, too,” said Scott Conant of L’Impero and Alto. “And eggs always stick.”

That’s the nature of stainless steel, said Harold McGee, author of “On Food and Cooking” (Scribner, 2004) and the scientist who can explain everything that happens in the kitchen. “Things stick to stainless,” he said, “and polymerized oil is one of them.”

For the two sets of tests, I cooked 6 dozen eggs; 24 pounds of chicken breasts with and without skin; 10 pounds of onions; and 10 pounds of potatoes. In one set of tests, pans were coated with one tablespoon of oil; in the other just a thin film of oil was applied with waxed paper. All the pans were preheated, the oil added and allowed to get hot enough to ripple; the food had lost its refrigerator chill.

With a tablespoon of oil, all of the pans cooked well and evenly. The chicken was nicely browned, the potatoes were crisp, the onions were meltingly sweet and the eggs were nicely done. The difference between cooking in All-Clad with copper and with aluminum is not significant enough for most cooks to make the more expensive copper pan worth the higher price. The Bourgeat copper pan, of course, cooked quickly and evenly, too, but the differences are too subtle in most situations to be worth the extra money.

But with just a film of oil, neither the All-Clad nor the Bourgeat pans cooked chicken or onions without sticking badly. But then, they don’t claim to be nonstick. The remaining pans cooked well with just a film of oil.

The Le Creuset pan and the two cast-iron pans produced amazing results. Nothing stuck, including the eggs, and it was quite easy to roll up omelets. There were almost no eggs to scrape up. I don’t recommend browning potatoes or onions with a film of oil because they won’t have much flavor, but these pans could do it.

 The chicken, on the other hand, was moist and browned beautifully, a result you wouldn’t get with Teflon-coated pans.

Calphalon did not do as well with just a film of oil: the chicken was nicely browned, but an awful lot of scrambled eggs stayed in the pan.

The carbon steel, an old workhorse that wins the prize for ugly duckling, cooked all the foods, with the exception of the eggs, quite well. Like the Calphalon, this pan had a lot of scrambled egg left in it, and one of the sunny-side-up eggs broke when it was being lifted out of the pan.

The only other difference was that the cast-iron pans, with or without enamel, took longer to heat up and cool down.
But bigger differences became clear when it was time for cleaning, the kitchen job I like least. The All-Clad, even more so than Bourgeat, required serious scrubbing to remove those pesky little brown spots that form when oil leaps up the sides of the pan and sticks. And food does stick to All-Clad sometimes, requiring removal by cleanser and elbow grease.

Cleaning the cast iron, Le Creuset and carbon steel was very easy. Food that clings to them can be easily scrubbed away with a stiff brush or, in the case of Le Creuset, soaked off. (Soap is not recommended for cast iron and carbon steel, but it can be used on the Le Creuset and the Calphalon.) Unlike the Calphalon and carbon steel, the cast-iron and enameled pans are heavy. The handles get hot, so pot holders must be used.

The carbon steel and the untreated cast iron must be seasoned, though the process is simple. They must be dried thoroughly and lightly oiled or they will rust.

 Cooking certain acidic foods like tomatoes in cast iron changes the taste and color, but it does add iron to the diet.

After all the tests, there was one pan I fell for: Le Creuset. It is easy to clean, and because of its enamel finish, acidic foods can be cooked without changes to color or taste. The cast iron pans were a very close second.

I recommend Le Creuset pans with a matte black enamel interior, not treated with any Teflon-like substance. (The company makes its black and white interior enamel from the same material, and says the black is fired at a higher temperature and withstands higher cooking temperatures.) David Bouley of Bouley and Danube said he uses Le Creuset in his country house because “it is the most reliable.”

For cooking fish, one of the most delicate of foods, Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin uses cast iron, as does Michel Richard of Citronelle in Washington. “We stopped using Teflon a long time ago,” he said. “The skin started coming off, and I didn’t want to give you a steak with a skin coating.

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Happy Cooking!

Jini

Those of you who have read Listen To Your Gut know that I recommend women avoid the birth control pill – since not only does it mess with your hormone balance (which is key to foundational health), it creates a gut environment that makes it difficult to establish a healthy bacterial flora.

Increased estrogen during pregnancy leads to higher sugar levels, the preferred food of ‘bad’ bacteria and Candida albicans yeast. Likewise, the surge in estrogen from the birth control pill causes this same candida overgrowth and proliferation of unhealthy bacteria in the gut.

If that’s not nasty enough, continual, high levels of estrogen will also increase your risk of breast cancer, blood clots and thin your bones. Just like menopausal women have come to realize that one of the reasons medical Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is damaging is due to the estrogen – well, guess what? If its not healthy for you at 40, why would it be healthy for you at 30, or 20?

Okay, so if you don’t want to use the birth control pill (BCP), then what can you use that is safe and reliable?

There are a number of family planning methods that – when used correctly – have similar efficacy rates to the BCP. The Creighton Model Fertility Care System (CrM) is one recommended by Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND (who has contributed many articles and teleseminars for our JPT Wellness Circle) and it is based on the well-known Billings Method.

For those of you who can’t face the multi-pronged approach of a thorough natural family planning method, I found you can also use a saliva test to track your ovulation. These tests are primarily marketed as “fertility kits” for women trying to get pregnant since they help you pinpoint your ovulation very accurately. Well hello? If you know when you’re approaching ovulation and when ovulation is occurring, then you can just avoid intercourse during this period (and for 4 days following ovulation) and prevent pregnancy too. The accuracy rate of saliva testing is 98%

Obviously, the drawback to this method is that you can’t have intercourse every day, all month long, month after month and it also won’t work if you’re taking hormonal supplements – as that can skew the readings.

For those of you considering a vasectomy, be sure and check out my protocol for natural, holistic post-vasectomy care – so you can skip the painkillers (not needed!), swelling and antibiotics after the procedure.

This is a great teleseminar with me (Jini Patel Thompson) and my assistant, Nicole Paull, called All About Elemental Diets. This is from our JPT Wellness Circle, but we decided to make it available to everyone since we get these questions all the time.

We discuss the most common questions, difficulties, tips and tricks for people wanting to go on an elemental diet.

We also discuss viable alternatives to an elemental diet – for people who don’t have the money, or the time, or the willpower to do an exclusively elemental diet. We even tell you who should not go on an elemental diet!

Nicole and I have been answering questions on the forum and doing private consults with people on The IBD Remission Diet for years (in addition to having both personally been on the Diet) – so we pull from a huge pool of experience with hundreds of different people.

This is definitely information and insight you won’t find anywhere else – by the end you’ll likely know more about bowel rest diets than your GI! Just click below to download both the mp3 audio recording of the teleseminar and the written transcript.

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Soar higher,

Jini

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, where do you start? What are the alternative therapies with the highest success rates?

In this podcast, Jim Ehmke – who has trained directly with Dr. William Donald Kelley and is fluent in Dr. Simoncini’s protocols, among many others – gives us the benefit of his 30+ years of using alternative treatment protocols with cancer clients.

Learn the multi-pronged approach necessary when treating any form of cancer and if you don’t have cancer, then begin using these tools now as a preventative.

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Too funny – A new study from Boston University has found a correlation between people who use non-stick (T-Fal, Teflon, etc.) cookware and higher levels of “bad” HDL cholesterol. So, ironically, a major promotion tactic of non-stick cookware has been that if you use them, you can use less butter, oil, etc. and thereby reduce your calorie intake and “eat healthier”. NOT!!

Okay, so it’s a preliminary study and not conclusive, but still, it’s something to keep an eye on.

In Listen To Your Gut, I take you through your kitchen and (for other proven reasons) one of the items on your checklist is getting rid of non-stick cookware, bakeware, etc. and replacing them with healthy alternatives (like cast iron and low nickel-content stainless steel).

Other sources of this non-stick coating you may not be aware of include glossy paper plates, microwave popcorn bags (not that you should be using a microwave anyway) and any other processed food that comes in a lined package to prevent leakage.

At any rate, as long as you’re cooking and baking with good, healthy oils and fats, you can and should use plenty of them to lubricate your pans. See my video about this:

A friend of mine sent me this email the other day, so I thought I’d share this info with you as well:

Tomorrow, I’m off to have a mammogram. Apparently, I have mastitis. yes, only I could get that and yet not be breast feeding! Doc G is concerned, however, because of the swelling, so I’ve been recommended to go for a mammogram.

Here’s what I wrote back:

YIKES!! do NOT have a mammogram – TONS of research show they CAUSE cancer – where there was no hint of it before. Here are some articles on this topic:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/06/27/Stop-Read-This-BEFORE-You-Get-that-Mammogram.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/03/Avoid-Routine-Mammograms-if-You-are-Under-50.aspx

http://www.naturalnews.com/027641_mammograms_brst_cancer.html

Instead, I would do the wild oregano anti-viral protocol to treat the mastitis and also apply topically to the nipples and aureola. Dilute the wild oregano oil 6:1 if you need to: 6 drops olive oil to 1 drop wild oregano oil, if nipples are sensitive to full-strength wild oregano.

http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/wild-oregano-oil-antiviral-protocol-for-swine-flu/

When you get back, get thermal imaging (thermography screening) done if you are still concerned – many naturopathic clinics offer these now.

And be sure to read this for ongoing maintenance and preventative measures:

http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/burn-your-bra-before-it-kills-you/

*my mum used to get cysts and swelling until she stopped wearing a bra (except for evenings out).

hugs,
Jini

Dr. Silvio Najt is board certified in Cardiology (with a specialization in Emergency Medicine) and he shares with Jini Patel Thompson his views on “high cholesterol” and the mis-use of statin drugs. Prepare to be informed, amazed and maybe a little bit shocked…..

Find out what you can do and what you can eat to naturally bring your cholesterol into a healthy range. And as a side note, if you have high cholesterol, then make doubly sure you are not using teflon-coated pans or bakeware – due to the link between PFCs and high HDL cholesterol.

Please Note: English is not Dr. Najt’s first language (although he did live and practice medicine in the U.S. for numerous years) – so please be patient with his pronunciation.

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Wow! This is great news for those of you who have been on my IBD Remission Diet – or are considering it – or for those of you who use Absorb Plus (the elemental shake product I formulated) on an ongoing basis.

Dr. Silvio Najt, MD (who used my IBD Remission Diet to heal his daughter’s colitis) just sent me this clinical trial where they assessed 26 patients with Crohn’s Disease, who used a combination of an elemental diet for half of their food intake (900 – 1200 calories per day) and then whatever they wished for the other half (”free diet”).

The control group consisted of 25 patients with Crohn’s Disease who just consumed an unrestricted diet, whatever they wanted to eat (100% free diet).

Then, they measured the recurrence of relapse (symptom flare-up) over a two year period. The relapse rate in the half elemental diet group was significantly lower – only 34.6% – versus a relapse rate of 64% in the free diet group.

Although this is good news because it means using an elemental shake product long-term (2 years) is beneficial, it should not be directly equated with outcomes of people using Absorb Plus or following my IBD Remission Diet. I’ll explain why…

The elemental diet product used in this study is Elental – I couldn’t get an ingredient list for this product (in English), but it is manufactured by Ajinomoto – the principal manufacturer of MSG in Asia, so I wouldn’t think the ingredient quality would be anywhere near the high standards of Absorb Plus. I suspect it would be more equitable with the typical pharmaceutical elemental products like Peptamen, Subdue, Modulen, etc. Click here to see a comparison of Absorb Plus and these common elemental products (scroll down the page).

Just comparing the ingredients, one would expect Absorb Plus to produce even better outcomes.

Next, there is an entire world of difference between a medical elemental diet and The IBD Remission Diet.

An “elemental diet” typically means the person just drinks pharmaceutical elemental products. But the IBD Remission Diet combines the highest quality elemental shake (Absorb Plus) with a complete healing regimen designed to:

• eradicate pathogens using wild oregano oil
• repopulate the GI tract with good bacteria
• provide extensive healing to many organs and systems of the body via targetted supplements like L-glutamine, CoQ10, Pycnogenol, Bioflavonoids, Vitamin C, George’s aloe vera juice, MucosaHeal, etc.
• It also provides key rebuilding and strengthening via homemade bone and medicinal mushroom broths and 10 specific therapeutic amino acids.

This is why the IBD Remission Diet is effective whether you have Crohn’s, colitis or even IBS – it is not just a diet, it is a complete targeted healing program.

But getting back to this half-elemental diet clinical trial – I’m thrilled to have it as it provides solid data on the different ways you can use an elemental diet. Many people cannot adhere to a 100% elemental diet, so this is good alternative for them to have. Not as effective as an exclusive elemental diet, but still a significant improvement in outcomes.

Here are two common questions I get asked about elemental diets:

What is the longest amount of time I can stay on an elemental diet?

I had one reader who used The IBD Remission Diet exclusively for three months (the usual duration is 6 weeks). I had another reader who used it for the entire duration of her pregnancy, but she combined it with juicing raw vegetables to provide vital phytonutrients. Her baby was born normal weight, scored high on the Apgar test and 3 years later was still healthy.

Is it okay if I use Absorb Plus long-term, once or twice a day?

Well, that’s the great thing about this study, because it shows that not only is it okay, it’s beneficial. However, I do need to say that if you can obtain and tolerate raw milk, I do feel it is better to use that than any whey protein or elemental shake – simply because it is an unprocessed food. I have other readers who use Absorb Plus ongoing to replace either breakfast (because they don’t have time) or supper (because their system is more sensitive in the evening and they find they sleep better).

I have other readers who travel a lot for work, so they always take Absorb Plus with them – one of my readers is a film producer and he often goes to locations where finding healthy food is a hassle, so with his suitcase filled with Absorb Plus and Udo’s oil, he doesn’t have to worry about it.

Other readers just go repeatedly on and off the IBD Remission Diet, according to how their symptoms are doing. If they’ve eaten unhealthy food, drank too much alcohol , partied too much, work is stressful, their baby is keeping them up at night, etc. then they will just go on the IBD Remission Diet until things (and their gut) calm down.

As Dr. Najt, MD says: These diseases are so linked to the emotional and stressors, that there’s no point in talking about a “cure”. It’s more about the Healing Journey and dealing with things as they arise.

I agree, the point is to continually spiral upward, strengthening the body, healing and balancing it so that its ability to handle stressors increases. Whilst simultaneously healing our emotional patterns, beliefs and blocks that predispose us to illness in the first place.

Soar higher,

Jini

p.s.  just a heads-up – many of you asked for a simpler version of Listen To Your Gut (in the last survey we did), so Dr. Najt and I are in the midst of co-writing one. As a physician, he says that in his experience, patients can’t deal with too much and prefer just clear-cut directions: do this, then that, then this. So, I’m listening… and it’s coming…

p.p.s.  One important thing to keep in mind with any elemental product or whey protein shake, these substances are very sticky on the teeth. So you need to brush your teeth really well, paying particular attention to the gum line, where they tend to adhere the most. Personally, I would use an electric toothbrush as regular brushing just doesn’t clean the teeth well enough.

Raw milk diets have been used since the 1900’s by medical doctors at the Mayo Clinic to cure a wide variety of illnesses from diabetes to colitis.

In this podcast, I talk to Jim Ehmke CN, in the middle of my experiment with a Raw Milk Diet. Jim Ehmke has extensive experience using raw (unpasteurized) milk as a healing tool, so he has some great advice for me and a few interesting stories to tell too.

If you want to reach Jim for a consultation, you can call him at: 360-734-9777

Just click the play button below to get all the details…

Or, if you have an iPod or mp3 player, you can subscribe to my podcast show on iTunes. Then you will automatically get new episodes downloaded straight to your iPod.

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This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn more about the details of achieving and maintaining an alkaline body pH.

Digestive disease expert, Jini Patel Thompson interviews pH body balance expert, Maraline Krey, for things we can easily and simply add to our daily lives to improve our pH body balance.

Maraline Says: “If you can shift your perspective of food and water from simply being fuel and hydration, and develop your understanding of “you are what you eat” meaning “maintenance and healing comes from what we ingest”, you will begin to understand why we, as a world, have become too acidic.

Fortunately we can control our own environments, the key is to know what is most important, how to convert acid into acid busters, and simply make “Small Changes That Make The Biggest Differences” – that you like better, taste better, and are better for you. You can balance using shortcut products, shortcut tips, knowing about alkaline/acid foods and drink. How quickly you become balanced depends on either your discipline or your budget – or a combination of both. This process can be the most fun you’ve ever had, nothing tastes as good as good health feels, and we have ways you can trick your brain into thinking one thing, but getting something healthy instead – honest!”

Just click the play button below to get all the details…

Or, if you have an iPod or mp3 player, you can subscribe to my podcast show on iTunes. Then you will automatically get new episodes downloaded straight to your iPod.

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A while back I posted about Jay “CrohnsBoy” Baluk’s success using my Probiotic Retention Enema.

Well, since then, both Jay and I have had a LOT of requests from people who don’t want to get my comprehensive Listen To Your Gut book, they just want Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol instructions.

Many of them are currently on the SC Diet and don’t really want to change anything other than their gut flora. So whilst I feel that healing digestive disorders needs to be wholistic, I also feel that each of us needs to be in charge of our Healing Journey.

So, In that spirit, I am making these two key protocols available for FREE for a period of time.

Enter your details below and I’ll send you both Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol, free of charge:

For those of you who haven’t heard about these protocols before, here’s what each of them does:

Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol

This protocol is based on Inflammatory Bowel Disease being an infectious disease (or having an infectious component). Think of how often gastroenterologists prescribe antibiotics like Cipro and Flagyl/Metronidazole – sound familiar?

There are two ways to eliminate infectious microorganisms: Antimicrobial drugs or substances, or high doses of probiotics. Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol is unique in that it combines the two methods, using 100% natural substances, for maximum effectiveness in both eradicating infectious microorganisms, maintaining a healthy bacterial flora during antimicrobial supplementation, and maintaining a healthy gut environment ongoing, for continued long-term health.

This 3-Phase protocol is designed to eliminate infectious microorganisms (like mycobacterium, fungi, bacteria, yeast, viruses, parasites, etc.), provide a moderate level of detoxification, and restore beneficial gut flora. By healing the infection we also heal inflammation. Other supplements referred to in my Listen To Your Gut book (such as MucosaHeal, George’s ‘Always Active’ Aloe Vera Juice, L-Glutamine, etc.) are then used to heal ulceration, bleeding, and repair the intestinal wall and mucosal lining.

Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema

This retention enema, which delivers very high dose probiotics directly to your colon (and lower part of your ileum) can provide dramatic healing results. As the name suggests, this is not a cleansing or flushing enema, but rather it is an implant or retention enema – where the goal is to hold the mixture in your colon until the liquid is completely absorbed.

Many people use Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema during severe inflammation and bleeding for quick healing, whilst others prefer to wait until things have calmed down a bit and they’re tolerating the probiotics well orally first. You really have to just follow your own body wisdom (intuition) on when would be best for you. Even people who have not seen great results from oral probiotic supplementation (it takes longer and can be more difficult to colonize via oral supplementation) see significant symptom clearing following this retention enema.

Enjoy!
Jini

Just a reminder that now that it’s wintertime, you really do want to make sure you and your family are taking daily vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) and Cod Liver Oil.

As Adrian Gombart PhD, Oregon State University, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics writes:

“Vitamin D prevents the “adaptive” immune response from over-reacting and reduces inflammation, and appears to suppress the immune response. However, the function of the new genetic element this research explored allows vitamin D to boost the innate immune response by turning on an antimicrobial protein. The overall effect may help to prevent the immune system from overreacting.”

Cod Liver Oil contains the elongated omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. EPA is the precursor of important prostaglandins – localized tissue hormones that help the body deal with inflammation; and DHA is extremely important for the development and function of the brain and nervous system. Cod liver oil is also a good source of vitamin K – which is important in maintaining blood and bone health.

Since cod liver oil naturally contains vitamin D, it is my belief that it is best to take vitamin D TOGETHER with cod liver oil to improve absorption and utilization in the body – and of course, both must be in the proper form, with healthy extraction and filtration methods used.

Here’s the brand of natural-source vitamin D3 I recommend, in an oil base (vitamin D needs to be taken with oil to be absorbed and the natural D3 form – also known as cholecalciferol – is the only one you want to use for maximum effectiveness).

And here’s the cod liver oil I recommend – from pristine waters off Norway, all contaminants filtered out using natural filtration (no heat or chemicals), and with measures in place to prevent overfishing. These gelcaps are a delicious lemon flavor, so the kids and I just put them in our mouth along with the vitamin D gelcaps, chew it all together (it actually tastes nice!) and then spit out the empty gel casings – except for my youngest, who thinks they’re like gummy bears and just swallows them. We take them first thing in the morning, with breakfast, and then we’re good for the day.

There are varying recommendations for how much vitamin D you should take and some suggest getting your vitamin D levels tested using the 25 (OH)D test – since dosage varies according to weight, age and skin color – the darker your skin, the more vitamin D you need, children need less than adults, overweight people need more, and people in disease states (especially IBD) need more.

To give you a rough guideline, here’s what my family takes:

Medium-Brown Skin Adult Female (me):  6,000 IU vitamin D per day and 4-6 capsules cod liver oil

White Adult Male: 4,000 IU vitamin D per day and 4 capsules cod liver oil

My kids (1/4 Indian, 3/4 white, aged 3 – 6): 2,000 IU per day, and 2 capsules cod liver oil

For my friends (mostly white females) with no serious health issues, I usually suggest they take at least 3,000 IU per day for maintenance.

For people with IBD/IBS with white skin I would recommend 4,000 – 6,000 IU vitamin D per day and 6 capsules cod liver oil.

And please note that we live in the Pacific Northwest – a very rainy climate with very little sun during the winter. If you are in a warmer place and can get out with your skin exposed to the sun for even 20 minutes per day, you will need less vitamin D in supplement form, since you can get it from the sun.

If you want to find out exactly how much vitamin D you need, this article by David Rostollan BSc is very clear and simple, yet addresses every point you need to consider.

I’ll be putting up a video soon about my complete Winter Immune System Protocol, so will post here when it’s available. But in the meantime, you can get going on these two most crucial components.

Soar Higher,
Jini

After a very lengthy process of weighing up the pros and cons of getting a vasectomy – which principally boiled down to potential immune consequences vs. strength of desire not to have another baby – my husband Ian decided to go ahead and have a vasectomy.

I said “Ian decided” because whilst I helped with research and discussion, there’s no way I would ever tell anyone to have surgery. I made it clear that I would be 100% supportive of whatever he decided.

His main deciding factors were that our last two children had been conceived whilst using birth control. When I got pregnant with Hugo (our last) both the doctor and the midwife said, “I don’t know how you got pregnant!” I said, “We don’t know either, we’re calling it the Immaculate Conception.”

So, Ian weighed up our incredibly high fertility against his extremely strong, robust body and immune system – he’s never had anything more than an occasional flu bug his entire adult life – and decided that for him the mental/emotional benefits of a vasectomy outweighed the physical risk. And he went ahead and had a vasectomy

Needless to say, I took one look at the traditional medical post-vasectomy care procedure (drug painkillers and antibiotics) and devised him a holistic one. When he went in for his first post-vasectomy checkup, the doctor (who has two clinics and ALL they do is vasectomies) was astounded. Ian had no pain at any time and the doc said he didn’t even look like he’d had a vasectomy. He asked Ian what he did and when Ian told him, the doctor requested a copy of my protocol to hand out to his patients, to give them the option of medical vs. holistic post-vasectomy care.

So, in case you are considering a vasectomy, here is that exact same protocol:

1.  Rest & Ice

Immediately following vasectomy, lie down on the couch or bed for the entire rest of the day with an ice pack (or ziplock bag filled with ice cubes) on top of the incision site. You can have your penis up or down, whichever is more comfortable.

Before placing the ice pack, remove about half of the gauze and place it in a clean plastic, ziplock bag, for later use. Otherwise the gauze pad is too thick and the cold cannot penetrate the tissues adequately.

Your body and psyche have undergone a significant event. So you need to just lie back on the sofa (read, watch tv, nap) and just rest like a king for the remainder of the day. Even eat your meals reclining on the sofa so there is no compression or downward pull of gravity on your genitals.

2.  Arnica

Take a homeopathic remedy called:  Arnica Montana 30CH

Take 5 pellets under the tongue, every three hours for the first day.

Then take 5 pellets, 3 times per day for the next two days.

Do not touch the pellets with your fingers, just tip them from the cap directly into your mouth.

Do not eat/drink anything really aromatic like coffee, mint, eucalyptus, wild oregano oil, etc. for 20 minutes before or after the dose, as this interferes with the remedy.

Also apply Arnica cream or gel (the cream is recommended, as the gel tends to make the pubic hairs sticky) directly to the scrotum. Don’t rub in, just apply with light strokes twice per day for 4 days. Don’t skip this step as the effect is really remarkable.

Arnica is used for any bruising, sprains, strains, post-childbirth, sports injuries, etc.

3.  Wild Oregano Oil

If you’re concerned about infection, or just want to take something as a preventative, then wild oregano oil is the strongest herb you can take. It is also an anti-inflammatory. I offer a free report on wild oregano oil on my HERBS page (scroll down) if you want more information.

Get either Joy Of The Mountains brand, or, North American Herb & Spice brand in the 1 ounce liquid dropper bottle.

Shake well and take 5 drops orally (shoot to back of mouth and then follow with lots of water), 3x/day for one week. Best if taken on an empty stomach, but not necessary. If you use for longer than two weeks, then you must follow with probiotics. See my video on YouTube for the easiest way to take wild oregano oil.

If it looks like infection is developing, then also apply diluted wild oregano directly to the scrotum. Dilute 8:1 with organic olive oil (8 drops olive oil to 1 drop wild oregano oil) shake well and apply topically 4 times per day.

Wild Oregano Oil is antiviral, antibiotic, antiyeast and antifungal. It is also anti-inflammatory. However, it has a very “hot” sensation when touching any mucous membrane (that lasts about 2.5 minutes), hence the video provides a way to ingest it with no discomfort. Diluting it with olive oil makes it comfortable for applying directly to genitalia.

Note: My husband followed steps one and two, but as his immune system is very strong, he only took 5 drops of wild oregano, 3x/day on the first day only. He experienced no swelling whatsoever and no pain.

4.  White Willow Bark

It is likely that just from following steps one and two above, you will not experience any pain. But if you do, then use white willow bark instead of drug painkillers.

Aspirin was actually derived from white willow bark, which has traditionally been used by First Nations people (brewed into a tea) as an effective analgesic. Take two capsules for any pain. Up to 4 times per day. Best if taken with some food.

NOTE: The herbs listed in this protocol should be available at any good quality, natural health store.

This is something I’ve been working on for a long time and it is finally ready!

JPT Wellness Circle is a place for people to come together who want to go beyond just being disease-free – who want to move into optimal, vibrant, full-body health.

I’m running a special promotion with a number of bonuses included if you try it out in the next week or so (extra bonuses to the first to sign up), you can get all the details here and registration opens at 9:00 am, Tuesday, October 13th.

Wouldn’t it be better for you to use natural, holistic methods to treat any and ALL health issues you might have? You already know from your Healing Journey with IBD or IBS that drugs are never the optimal solution. So that knowledge should extend to ALL the parts and systems of your body.

With this new platform, I’m able to provide you with a variety of specific content in a variety of ways – a teleseminar about Acid/Alkaline pH Balance, a podcast on High Cholesterol, or Natural Cancer Treatments, videos demonstrating the Colonic Massage procedure, or the easiest way to take wild oregano oil. Specific articles on ear infections, mineral supplementation and spiritual healing, etc.

Here’s a video showing you exactly how it works and everything you get when you become a JPT Member:

JPT Wellness Circle also offers one-on-one support for you in our private forum, where you can ask me, Nicole Paull, or Dr. Silvio Najt, MD any questions you might have as you travel on your pathway to vibrant health and wholeness.

And lastly, the plain truth is that a LOT happens and is discovered between book publications. Now, obviously with a printed book, I can’t be updating it and making changes every six months. But I CAN write an article, or record a podcast, or shoot a video for you with the new, vital information and put it up on JPT Wellness Circle.

This way you can hear about my experiments with DMSO and my new healing remedy for internal and external hemorrhoids (for example) long before they make it into a published book.

So don’t miss out on this valuable support center for not just your own health, but the health of your whole family!

Soar higher!
Jini

Okay, I was all prepared to write about how it was REALLY hard to choose a winner from all of the excellent stories posted in this contest… But for some reason we didn’t get a whole lot of people posting their stories! Go figure.

However, I am very pleased to say that the winner wrote an excellent, inspiring story that illustrates 2 key points:

1. It’s never too late to heal yourself

2. Root-level healing can take some time – it’s not usually a quick-fix.

So, Congratulations to contest winner, Barabara Bononno!

Barbara gets one year’s free Gold Membership in JPT Wellness Circle, plus a free ebook copy of my new book on constipation: Listen To Your Colon, plus a free set of 3 Murray The Shark Sleeptime Stories (for kids aged 2-6). Congratulations!

Here is the winning Health Challenge story from Barbara B.:

In 1989 I fell down a flight of marble stairs and landed on my lower spine, and cracked my sacrum. Within a day or so I was unable to sit or walk very well. Pain was actually the least of my problems. I spent the next 10 months at various doctors, specialists and physical therapists – all to very limited avail. I started to spiral into a very strange array of symptoms including arm and wrist and severe hand pain and could not write or hold a pen! Life was bleak to say the least.

In January 1990 I landed in the office of a Chiropractor (a recommendation of a chiropractor recommended by my cousin, but who was too far away…). I had never been to a Chiropractor and was very frightened. I walked into my visit in tears and said I could not withstand any more pain. After evaluating my case, he assured me that he could, in fact, help me! He had a plan and I was put at ease for the first time in a long time.

It was a journey – and initial visits had me going home lying down in the back of a taxi.  I’ll never forget the day I was able to squat properly for the first time in a year! I eventually resumed knitting, cooking, life… After 2 years of solid treatment, life intervened and I stopped going (not clever). After another 2 years of of family illnesses and deaths, I was tired and weak. It was then I was diagnosed with MS – which may have been responsible for my early strange symptoms.

Doctors suggested NO Chiropractic and I listened for a while. But then had enough of that. I have been back – to this same gifted doctor of chiropractic – for the past 4 years now. AND I AM STILL WALKING ! (I have progressive MS and was told early on I’d be in a wheelchair within a year)… that was 15 years ago.

This Chiropractor practices a technique called GONSTEAD – which unfortunately is hardly used any longer. If you are dealing with a neurological disorder, chiropractic care can be extremely helpful. You need an experienced doctor who isn’t afraid. I also do YOGA- and of course you have to eat right. That’s why I’m also glad I found Jini’s site and info – a huge help for me lately! Thanks for reading! Hope we can all be well together!! – Barbara

p.s. Barbara – I have sent you an email with details on how to claim/access your prizes, if you do not receive it, please email me at: service (at) HolisticHealthShoppe.com

Soar higher,

Jini

I just read a really inspiring story about an alumni from my old university (University of Alberta): Alfred Orono Orono was conscripted as a child soldier twice – different countries, different armies because after fleeing one, he was conscripted by another. He was imprisoned repeatedly for trying to escape. Then he worked in refugee camps with the raped, assualted, downtrodden refugees from those worlds. And now he is a criminal lawyer who is part of the tribunal meting out justice in Rwanda.

Alfred relates something really profound, that each of us can take and apply to the difficulties we face in our lives:

“People often ask him how he was able to overcome the horrendous experiences of his early life, and he has always maintained that it is because he channels his energy into combating the types of injustice he experienced as a child, a lesson he credits to his grandfather. “He once told me that there are three kinds of people on earth: the foolish, the clever and the wise. When a fool meets an obstacle, he falls into it and is crushed. When the clever person meets one, he walks around it. However, when the wise person meets one, he gets into it, finds a solution, and makes sure it is no longer an obstacle.”

We have all suffered – because suffering is a relative state. When you are sick and in despair from a divorce, or the loss of loved one, or a punishing illness, it doesn’t help to tell yourself, “Well, at least my children aren’t being raped at gunpoint, in front of me, like they are in Rwanda.” Whilst it may be true, it’s not going to reduce your suffering, or make you feel better for longer than a second.

But what can help you and can ease the burden of pain or suffering (whatever its source) is the advice of Alfred Orono’s grandfather:

“When a fool meets an obstacle, he falls into it and is crushed. When the clever person meets one, he walks around it. However, when the wise person meets one, he gets into it, finds a solution, and makes sure it is no longer an obstacle.”

Take that wisdom, apply it to your life. And then share what you learn with others.

Soar higher,

Jini

Okay, got a really fun contest for you:

In the COMMENTS section below this post, write your story about a health challenge you encountered and how you overcame it. It doesn’t have to be related to digestive issues, it can be about anything. And it can also be about how you overcame a health problem for one of your children or loved ones.

Tell us all the details and if you used a particular product, then be sure and tell us what it was (so others can find it if they wish).

The person who posts the best story will win:  ONE YEAR FREE GOLD MEMBERSHIP IN JPT WELLNESS CIRCLE (plus a number of free bonuses, yet to be determined).

So go ahead, share your wisdom with the rest of us and I’m looking forward to reading your story!

Soar higher,

Jini

p.s. the COMMENTS section is right underneath this blog post you’re reading… just scroll down… And be sure to enter your main email address as that’s where I’ll be emailing you if you win.

p.p.s. I’ll be posting the winner on this blog, so either subscribe (upper right) and you’ll automatically be notified of my new blog posts, or keep checking back here.

I see this everyday… with my private consult clients, emails from readers, people who post on my forum, I see one person after the other miss this same crucial point, over and over.

I suppose it isn’t surprising… after all, most of us are just regular people – not doctors or healers or professional therapists. We can’t be an expert on everything. Nevertheless… this crucial mistake can really slow down your healing.

So, I’ve written a special article on this topic. It’s about what happens between the healing efforts, protocols, treatments, etc. What is so valuable about this “space in between” and why you want to make sure you’re not missing out on it. You can download it here (just right-click on this link):

http://www.jptwellnesscircle.com/launch/LettingGo.pdf

Soar higher,

Jini

Why are you not healing?

Or, why are you not healing faster?

Find out the common mistakes people make in their Healing Journey, and how you can avoid or fix them!

Although I received dozens of emails outlining numerous health concerns, many people’s chief complaint was lack of energy. My report below goes into numerous factors that can be underlying this problem, but there are also some things you can do directly to increase your energy levels:

• Make sure you don’t consume caffeine
• Take an astragalus, siberian ginseng and mixed mushroom blend supplement (reishi, shiitake and maitake mushroom). If you can’t find these in one product, then buy tinctures from Herb Pharm and just drop them into one cup of herbal tea (no milk).
• Meditate for half an hour per day – don’t just gloss over this one, you’ll be amazed how rejuvenating it is.
• Take a power nap for 20 minutes whenever you are most tired. Again, sounds simple, but the results are truly staggering.

Anyway, I asked for your feedback on your top health concerns and so for everyone who took the time to write in, I wanted to really be able to address this topic, and those concerns, properly. So instead of a very long written report, I have prepared an Audio Report for you.

Just me, talking to you, addressing your top questions and concerns.

click here to get a copy of this powerful report about Why People Don’t Heal & How To Remove The Blocks To Healing

After listening to the report, if you have any questions or comments, please post them below…(p.s. please don’t email me, I can only answer those posted here on the blog, right below this post…)

Soar higher,

Jini

The next time your doctor suggests you have another colonoscopy done, first take the time to really weigh up the risks versus the possible benefits.  Did you know it is impossible to sterilize a colonoscope? Don’t be surprised if even your doctor doesn’t know this. I’ve provided a download link for this full report (below) that you can print out and take in to your doctor – with all the research (from peer-reviewed medical publications) outlined.

So, let’s get started. First of all, this report is going to outline only the most prevalent risks that are present with every colonoscopy. I’m not going to get into rare risks here, like intestinal perforation, just those that may occur through routine procedures.

Regarding possible benefits, the first question you should ask yourself and your doctor is: Will the results of this colonoscopy change the course of treatment? Certainly, there are serious occasions where the best course of action is to have the colonoscopy. But, if your doctor is primarily recommending a colonoscopy as an information-gathering procedure, or as liability protection, then it’s not going to benefit you too much. It may, however, cause a lot of damage and that’s what this report is going to help you assess.

Here’s how a colonoscopy procedure works: First, you have to self-administer a ‘bowel preparation’ procedure. This consists of substances that cause you to completely clear out your bowel and leave the walls of your colon squeaky clean so the fiber optic camera can get a good picture of what’s happening with your mucosal lining and intestinal wall. Understandably, causing a complete clear out of everything from your bowels (usually over a one to three day period) is not pleasant, usually toxic and sometimes painful and traumatic.

Colonoscopies Destroy Bacterial Flora

But the really damaging thing about this kind of a colon cleansing is that it pretty much destroys your bacterial flora and balance of microorganisms in your colon. The average colon contains 3 – 4 pounds of bacteria. If you’re healthy, most of that consists of good, healthy bacteria. So the colonoscopy prep procedure has just stripped your colon of its good, protective bacteria. And guess what? Your colon is now wide open to secondary, or opportunistic infection by pathogenic bacteria, yeast, viruses, parasites, etc.

Into this now highly vulnerable colon, the doctor then inserts a colonoscope. This is a long tube that closely resembles a garden hose with a fiber optic camera on the end of it. But here’s what most people (including your own doctor) don’t know about colonoscopes: It’s impossible to properly or completely sterilize them.

Colonoscopes & Endoscopes Cannot Be Sterilized

It was actually Natasha Trenev (the founder of Natren probiotics) who first alerted me to this whole issue. We were on a TV show together when she told a story of how the Mayo Clinic had sent out letters to all its patients who’d had a colonoscopy – warning them that due to the inability to sterilize the apparatus, the patient might have been exposed to Hepatitis, AIDS, etc. I was aghast. Could this really be true? I began researching mainstream medical and scientific journals for evidence and I’m sure you’ll be as horrified as I was at the results.

But before we get into the technical medical jargon, let’s take a look at this newspaper article from the LA Times, where the reporter covered this exact issue:

UNSTERILE DEVICES PROMPT WARNINGS; Use of dirty endoscopes in colon and throat exams can pass along infections, activists say

- By John M. Glionna. The Los Angeles Times. Feb 13, 2003. pg. B.1

The nation’s leading manufacturer of endoscopes has known for a decade that some scopes contain cavities inaccessible to cleaning by hand but has failed to fix the oversight, said David Lewis, a University of Georgia research microbiologist who has conducted research for the federal Environmental Protection Agency on the issue of dirty endoscopes.

There is wide consensus that it is difficult to sterilize the devices, which can cost $28,000 each, without using temperatures so high that the scopes themselves become damaged. The scopes have numerous cavities that are difficult to clean, even by hand, critics say.

Acknowledged Timothy Ulatowski, an FDA official who oversees endoscope compliance: “When these things were designed, cleaning and sterilization was obviously an afterthought.”

Even the government can’t agree on how long is needed to clean the devices. The FDA says endoscopes should be disinfected for 45 minutes to kill tuberculosis bacteria, but the Centers for Disease Control believes the job can be done in 20 minutes, Lewis says.

He and other microbiologists advocate sterile disposable parts for endoscopes as well as the use of a condom-like sheath for each new patient. But they say manufacturers and health-care providers have resisted such solutions because of added costs.

Lewis says Olympus, which provides 70% of endoscopes on the U.S. market, has long been aware of cleaning problems associated with its product. In a patent filed in 1993, he says, the company wrote that at times “satisfactory cleaning cannot be achieved.”

You can read this newspaper article in full at:
http://www.sheller.com/NewsDetails.asp?NewsID=22

So now you have a colon that’s been stripped of its natural protective microflora, and directly exposed to a colonoscope that may be infected with any number of harmful viruses, bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms.

I know, this is such a fantastical claim to make, that more evidence is certainly needed. So let’s get a little deeper into this issue and make sure it’s grounded in hard science. Each of the following problems (from evidence gleaned from mainstream medical journals), highlights a different facet of the sterilization problem:

* Endoscopes and colonoscopes are damaged by high temperature sterilization, so technicians have to use other methods to attempt sterilization. I say “attempt” because to date, they have not found an alternate method that can kill every type of pathogen.(1,7)

* A common sterilant for colonoscopes (gluteraldehyde) has actually been proven to cause colitis. If you develop any of the following symptoms within 48 hours of having a colonoscopy, it’s likely the gluteraldehyde residues on the colonoscope are responsible: Cramps and abdominal pain, tenesmus (painful, urgent straining to defecate), rectal bleeding and in some cases, hemorrhaging.(2)

* Gluteraldehyde (the most commonly used disinfectant for colonoscopes) also cannot kill mycobacteria. Mycobacterium (MAP) is the fungal/bacterial hybrid microorganism that has been identified in up to 98% of patients with Crohn’s Disease.(3)

* Ethylene oxide gas sterilization has also been shown to be ineffective for sterilizing flexible endoscopes, like colonoscopes.(4)

* Of all the endoscopes (gastroscopes, bronchoscopes, sigmoidoscopes), colonoscopes are the most difficult to sterilize.(5)

* Human error also plays a big role in colonoscope contamination. One study observed staff responsible for cleaning colonoscopy apparatus for two years running – and their conclusion was: If the staff do not clean the colonoscope properly prior to disinfection, then no matter what sterilization procedure is in place, the colonoscope remains highly contaminated; and after two years of observation, they discovered a lot of evidence of human error.(6,7)

In the last section of this report, I have listed the specific medical publications and quoted the texts these assertions come from, so you have the hard science backing up these claims. Your doctor will also need to see this section when you take this report in to him/her.

However, before we get to that, here’s what to do if you’re faced with a colonoscopy, to minimize the potential damage.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU DECIDE TO HAVE A COLONOSCOPY

Those of you who have read my books know my personal opinion on colonoscopies and that I haven’t had another one done since my first, over 20 years ago. However, in the event that you really do need to have one done, what can you do to protect yourself?

A medical supply company called Stryker was working on a colonoscopy apparatus with a disposable sheath – called ColonoSleeve – and this would have been ideal. Unfortunately, in 2008 they abandoned the project for unknown reasons. I don’t currently know of any other disposable colonoscopy product, but check with your doctor as one may be developed at any time. If you’re just having a sigmoidoscopy done, make sure your doctor uses a disposable sigmoidoscope. These are commonly available, so should be easily obtained.

However, while using a disposable scope will greatly protect against infection, it still doesn’t make up for the disruption and destruction of your healthy bowel flora. So following your colonoscopy, you will also need to go on high dose, therapeutic-quality probiotic supplementation.

Ideally, you want to first follow the colonoscopy with Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and then at least 3 months of high dose oral probiotic supplementation. You may also want to follow Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol as well to get rid of any new pathogens transmitted via the colonoscope…

Click here if you’d like to read the rest of this 20-page report.

p.s. At 20 pages, this Colonoscopy Dangers report was too long to put in this blog post in its entirety, so just click the link above (you may need to right-click on it) and you can read the whole report and even save a copy to your computer, print it out, share it with friends.

soar higher,
Jini

A couple of months ago, I read Jeanette Walls’ amazing memoir of her childhood – The Glass Castle. Of course, the book provoked many thoughts and questions for me – as I’m sure it did for anyone who read it. And if you haven’t read it, I strongly recommend it – and don’t worry, it’s not like an Oprah selection book that leaves you despairing and depressed at the end.

But without going into the myriad of thoughts and questions this book provoked (we discussed it at a book club meeting and after two hours still weren’t done!), one overriding question remained for me:

Were her mother’s paintings good enough to “somewhat excuse” her pursuit of her art above her children’s welfare?

By that I mean: would anyone berate Picasso, or Rembrandt or Michelangelo for not devoting enough time to their kids (if they had any)? Would anyone want to tear a strip out of these artists and say that they should have been able to give up their all-consuming art for their kids? Or does the evidence of their art provide justification for the extreme selfishness of their lives?

Of course, I’m not saying it’s okay to neglect or abuse your children for the sake of your art. But for me, as an artist (singer, painter, writer), it would provide some other kind of a piece of an explanation for Rosemary’s (her mother) behaviour – which is otherwise so unfathomable.

People who do not have a strong creative drive, don’t understand that you need to create or die. They can’t possibly understand how the life of a housewife would be just like a living death to an artist. Hence, we have so many housewives who have incorporated creativity into their role – through their cooking, baking, sewing clothes, crafts, directing children’s plays and concerts, field trips, etc.

As someone who was so dysfunctional and so wounded herself, Rosemary Walls’ didn’t seem able to achieve any kind of balance or rhythm between her artist self and her mother self. And at the end of the book, it was killing me: Was her art good enough to warrant her extreme dedication to it?

Well, after much searching, I found this video – that not only shows Rosemary, but SOME OF HER PAINTINGS as well. Thank god, I can now put that question in my brain to rest. I know my opinion of her art – I’ll let you watch the video and form your own:

And just in case you’re curious, here are some of my paintings – and yes, my three children are very well taken care of, in spite of all my artistic pursuits!

KENYA ELDER – Watercolor & Acrylic (22″x30″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

WATER MAELSTROM – Acrylic (16″x20″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

LUNCH – Acrylic (22″x30″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

YOGA NUDE – Conte & Charcoal (18″x22″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

A’GHRA – Watercolor (16″x20″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

EAGLE TOTEM – Watercolor & Ink (9″x10″) – by Jini Patel Thompson

Here’s to finding the healthy balance and expression of the creativity within each of us!

Jini

Dr. Joseph Mercola, who has one of the largest natural health sites on the Internet, recently addressed the question: “Why Do I Sell Products On My Website?”

I have had numerous people ask me a variation of this same question from time to time. And recently, a doctor who is becoming involved with my work and doing some research on natural healing methods, sent me an email requesting that he not be associated with the commercial aspect of my work – in order to maintain the integrity of his research and recommendations. Oh boy, did I ever relate to his request! So I’m going to share with you what I wrote back to him:

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I totally understand what you are saying about the Holistic Health Shoppe (HHS) - this is why in the beginning I did not sell any products, but just referred people to the manufacturers of each product (in the Appendix at the back of the book – which I still do). Then I kept getting emails from international readers begging me: “I’m having to order from 10 different places and the shipping charges alone are killing me. Isn’t there just ONE place I can go to get all this stuff?”

So then I arranged with a health store in Arizona to stock product and ship out to people. But they kept messing up about every 3rd order, so people were getting really pissed off. I did NOT want to start a health shop – yuck! Not my thing at all. Warehouse, inventory, shipping, returns = HASSLE. Not interested!

But at the same time, I really felt for all these people – so sick they can barely get out of bed – having to spend hours contacting and ordering from each manufacturer, and then paying separate full-whack shipping charges for EACH product order.

That’s why I eventually set up HHS and convinced my husband Ian to handle the day-to-day running of everything – because I was not interested in doing that! But yes, I wrestled for a long time with the “commercial implications” of that. I felt it would lessen my credibility and dilute my message of healing and I really felt uncomfortable with the whole thing. But at the end of the day, the pleas from all the overseas readers took precedence.

So when we set up HHS, we figured only overseas readers would use it – since all of the products were available in North America and if people got their local health store to order them in (which is what I recommend in the book and give them all the info to be able to do so) then they would not have to pay shipping charges. Hence, we went into it with the attitude that, “Well, let’s just hope to break even and help these people out.”

Since we can only afford to sell at regular retail prices and the shipping is expensive because it is courier shipping (we tried USPS in the beginning, but they kept losing packages which made people really angry and cost a lot of money to replace) – why would someone is the US buy from the Holistic Health Shoppe??

Surprise! – they preferred to buy from HHS because of CONVENIENCE. One-stop shopping, and they didn’t want to have to wait (anywhere from 1 -4 weeks) for their local store to get the product in. So there you go, now 90% of HHS customers are from the US. Go figure.

Oh yes, and the other motivator was that people would go to their local health store to get a specific product, but they didn’t have it in stock and the health store worker would talk them into buying another brand – which they assured them was identical. However, it was NOT the same and would contain secondary ingredients, fillers, etc. that directly aggravated their IBD symptoms resulting in a bad experience.

So that’s the whole story. Would I prefer to have someone else own and profit from HHS and I just refer readers to them? Hell yes. From a logistical point of view, but primarily from an integrity point of view. If someone is profiting from their advice, it dilutes the power of their message. I get that. I feel it myself. That’s why I first tried to get the health store in Arizona to do it (they are the largest in the State, in business for over a decade, excellent reputation, etc.) – but their accuracy and customer service just wasn’t good enough. My motto in life is: Do it right, or don’t do it at all.

So, here we are. And I’m sure to many people, at first glance, I may look pretty “selly” and they may well wonder about my integrity and validity. That’s the sad part for me – I’ve done all this and set up the Holistic Health Shoppe at THEIR request, because I honestly felt so bad for the extra burden on my overseas readers. And now that I’ve set it up, yes, it’s a business, with a warehouse, staff, etc. so it has to generate money to pay everyone. It’s a rock and a hard place.

Aside from which, supplements are not a profitable business anyway – unless you have your own line, then the profit margins get a bit better, but your up-front cost also increases drastically. But in terms of a business model and a time/profit/hassle ratio – not a business I would ever choose to be in!

But that’s the thing in life, sometimes the universe has other ideas for us. And many times, the meaning and heart-value makes up for what’s lacking in the business model. I made much easier money in my telecommunications business, but it had nowhere near the meaning and love that this business contains.

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Note: I called it a business. Yes. Because if something is taking up all of my working time, then it has to generate me money. I’ll get the odd email from time to time from someone who feels I should be doing this for free, not “profiting from the sickness of others”. Hello? Do you work for free? Does your rent, food, car payments etc. just magically appear or do you have to pay for them?

If helping people heal themselves takes up all my time, then I have to charge for that. If I didn’t, then I would put my time into another business which would generate income. Here is a key point that many “righteously indignant” people just don’t seem to get:

I don’t need to be doing this – I’m already healed!

This whole business started as the result of people continually asking me “How did you heal yourself?” People asked me for help, not the other way around.

I’ve owned my own businesses since I was 19 – and my first business was a candy store at the age of 9. As a previously successful business person, would I sit down and say to myself: “Hmmm, I think I’ll start a new business, selling to people who are so weak and sick that many of them can’t work, so they won’t have any money to buy my books. And they also won’t have any money to pay for their own supplements, so they won’t be interested in natural healing methods in the first place.”

Gee, do you think it’s safe to conclude that I did not start this business for the money?

And let’s be real clear about this: I do not have a poverty-consciousness. I do not believe that “money is the root of all evil”. I think money is great; it is tool that can be used to do great things in the world, increase your freedom of movement and experience, eat better, live better, and have more fun.

Part of the reason I love to see people healed is so that they can have the energy and stamina to earn good money for themselves. I’m a big fan of automating systems and working smart vs. working hard. And I do not believe that healers and health professionals need to be low income in order to be sincere. Integrity does not equal poverty. Integrity stands on its own. You can be a fabulously wealthy person with integrity. You can be a poor person with integrity. Hopefully people who read my stuff will see who I really am and the results they achieve will speak for themselves.

‘Nuff said. As per usual, feel free to add your comments or questions below – I love being able to explore these issues freely and together! – Jini

Oh this is my most frustrating topic to date – I’ve done two teleseminars with leaders in holistic dentistry: one with Dr. Hal Huggins and one with Dr. Ara Elmajian, in an attempt to figure out WHAT those of us with poor teeth can do to heal ourselves. I have read Dr. Weston Price’s flagship book and also Dr. Gerard Judd’s book (and spoke with him before he died), along with derivatives stemming from these works (for example “Cure Tooth Decay” by Rami Nagel).

I had a very poor diet from in utero throughout my childhood and yes, I have really bad teeth. What’s really heartbreaking though, is my children’s teeth. I have 3 who were all breastfed for 13 – 20 months. During my pregnancies. breastfeeding and ongoing I ate unprocessed organic food, lots of omega 3s, animal fats, probiotics, sweetened with stevia whenever possible, no white anything, etc. My kids eat this same type of diet and my youngest actually begs for “green juice” (we have a premium juicer and we juice fennel, celery, spinach, parsley, apples, carrots, etc. daily). You would think their teeth would be great wouldn’t you??

NOT. They have multiple cavities and my eldest are only 6 and 9. My youngest will be going to the dentist the end of the month for his first check up, and he is the only one who received raw milk from weaning, so it will be interesting to see if his teeth are doing better (there is no visible decay on his). However, my other two received raw cheese from a young age and have both had raw milk for the last 2 years – since which they have developed new decay.

So, after extensive research and experiential evidence, I’m afraid I must conclude that there is some other really KEY FACTOR in dental health other than diet, environmental toxins, dental hygiene, and emotional health – all of which we have addressed. Any ideas??

Having exhausted all the possible contributing physical factors, Oscar, Zara (my two eldest children) and I are now trying EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and are tapping every night after our brushing and flossing.

Here are all the things we have implemented to stave off tooth decay that have had no effect:

- organic unprocessed food, probiotics, vit. D, raw vegetable juices, yoghurt, raw milk and cheese, animal fats, omega-3, raw salmon, salmon roe, olive oil, coconut oil, organic meat, cod liver oil, multi-vitamins, whole grains, etc. Use honey, maple syrup and stevia wherever possible. My kids eat about 1/80 of the sugar of all their peers – we have even sent home “No sugar or chemicals please” letters to all their playdates and teachers.

- brushing with toothpaste that does not contain SLS, flouride, glycerin or anything artificial. But does contain beneficial herbs, tea tree oil and other essential healing oils.

- no synthetic clothing, no T-fal pans, all natural mattresses, bedding, etc. natural cleaning products only, no microwave, no cell phones, no wifi, etc.

- lots of exercise and sports – all 3 of my kids look like they bodybuild in the gym their muscles are so defined. They have had craniosacral and osteopathic treatment from birth and their spines, legs, alignment are all excellent.

- the health of the rest of their bodies are superb – they hardly ever get sick, normal bowel movements, clear skin, they have excellent energy all day and only need about 10 hours sleep at night, they are all at the top of their class academically (brains healthy and functioning optimally).

It is only their teeth that are doing poorly – Zara has decay on 4 teeth (all baby teeth as she has no permanent teeth yet) and Oscar has decay on 6 baby teeth and 2 permanent teeth. I tell you, this is driving me NUTS!! I honestly cannot think of anything else to do/try.

All I can conclude is that there has to be some other really decisive factor involved here. And to say “it’s genetic” does not really tell me anything meaningful. Also, as we now know, you can change your genetics and alter your DNA, which gives the phrase “Oh, they’ve inherited my bad teeth” even less meaning.

Further proof that there’s another mechanism at work is evidenced by my children’s friends. We do not live in a health-conscious city. The kids around here eat the standard junk diet of North America and guess what? Most of them have LESS tooth decay than my kids! Some kids who eat almost all processed food and massive amounts of candy have only 1 or 2 cavities.

Like I said, there’s something else going on and I sure wish someone would figure it out……post your thoughts below…..

Oh, one more thing I just have to share, for those of you who can’t afford modern dentistry, here’s how to give yourself a filling at home!

Jini

I talk a lot about the health benefits of drinking raw cow’s milk or raw goat’s milk on this blog. But for those of you that cannot tolerate it, or who cannot obtain pasture-fed raw milk where you live, an excellent alternative is Raw Almond Milk.

With raw almond milk, you can still enjoy cereals, porridge, milky tea, smoothies and all the other nice things you really miss out on when you can’t use raw dairy. Unfortunately, most commercial brands contain thickeners, like carrageenan, or oils (which may not be cold-pressed and completely free of rancidity). The solution (especially for those with sensitive digestive systems) is to make your own.

Dr. Ben Kim (and his wife Margaret) have posted this excellent pictorial instruction on how to make yummy, fresh, raw almond milk. You won’t believe how easy and quick it is!

Just remember to use raw, unpeeled almonds (preferably organic). If you don’t want to use dates as a sweetener, you can always use stevia, or raw honey.

Enjoy!

Things are really heating up in the vaccine arena.

Pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutically-funded organizations (like FDA, CDC, WHO) are really racheting up the pressure on citizens to get vaccinated against flu bugs.

They have leveraged all the fear and hype (created by THEIR advertising, PR, control of media, etc.) around the swine flu to actually try to push through LAWS forcing everyone to be vaccinated if they declare there is a pandemic, or threat of a pandemic.

How reassuring! When they declared the swine flu a pandemic after LESS people died of it than the regular flu.

Oh, yes, please let me put my trust and the health of my body into your hands…NOT.

The Health Freedom Alliance in the US.. reports:

“The new Health Care Bill presented by the Obama administration will put the government’s health-reform agents literally on our doorsteps with a bag full of needles for our children. Under this new bill, states will receive funding to support a “Vaccine Team” that will see to it that virtually every American citizen is up to date on immunizations. They will be using immunization records of every citizen, and if you are not quite up to date, the health storm troopers will be deployed to knock down your door with needles blazing in what is considered to be “Private Home Interventions.”

The bill includes a series of details and methods to keep everybody current on their vaccinations, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) will be providing the grant money to carry this out.”

The Alliance for Natural Health in the U.K. is supporting a WORLDWIDE petition that we can sign to stop this insanity before BigPharma pays the politicians in our countries to make this lawful.

I have just read and signed this petition: “A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS”.

Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. Their goal is 1,000,000,000 signatures – please sign here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-universal-declaration-of-resistance-to-mandatory-vaccinations

Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends and family to sign as well.

I wish my brother Ricken’s organization www.avaaz.org would get on this issue. They’re really crafty about using smart, media-friendly techniques to increase pressure and create change. They’re heavily involved with the climate change issue right now, but I’m emailing him to try to get him to devote a team to this issue. If they take it up, I’ll let you know!

In the meantime, let’s each do what we can to prevent this Orwellian nightmare from happening.

If you currently live in the United States and you have children in school, then Dr. Carolyn Dean (who writes for our Infoletter) has a great idea for how to resist school vaccinations. Many people are choosing to homeschool their kids because of this issue. But if that’s not something you’d like to do, then here’s what she recommends:

“If your doctor were to try to corner you into a shot I suggest you tell him or her: “If I were to accept your proposed treatment I would require you to sign a letter detailing that you will take full financial responsibility for any injuries that I experience from the vaccine you want to administer.”

As a doctor I can tell you we really don’t like being threatened with a lawsuit. But the doctor is threatening you with a toxic injection – so don’t buckle. The mention of such a reasonable condition should get them to put away their needle.

Have both your child’s teacher and the school’s principle sign that they will ensure you child does not receive the swine flu vaccination (or any other vaccinations!). They will also take full financial responsibility for any injury resulting if they neglect said responsibility.”

And if you still don’t understand why avoiding vaccines is of UTMOST importance, then read this interview with a former vaccine researcher, who worked for one of the big pharmaceutical companies for over a decade. He was part of the team developing vaccines, however, when his friend’s son died after receiving the DPT shot, he decided he could no longer keep silent.

As he says in this article: “If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the state if I had to. I would change the family name. I would disappear. With my family. I’m not saying it would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the system with grace, if you know how to act. There are exemptions you can declare, in every State, based on religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came to shove, I would go on the move.”

Well, it looks like people in the U.S. are not far from that point and since the rest of the world still follows America, we all need to get serious about protesting. You can start right now by signing this petition.

Remember, history has proven that all the money in the world cannot prevail against the will of the masses. BUT we need to get vocal and get active, otherwise our will and our voice will not be heard and the money-rich pharmaceuticals will win out. So don’t despair, just get going and do your little bit in your little corner of the world. And if everyone else (or at least 5%) do the same….that’s enough to create change.

stay strong,

Jini

Author and activist, Jock Doubleday recently sent out this press release about his Vaccine Challenge – where he challenges any US medical doctor or BigPharma CEO to drink the exact same chemicals they’re currently injecting into infants and he’ll pay them $200,000.00!

Why will no doctor or pharmaceutical exec in the USA do it??

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June 15, 2009

Ojai, CA — On January 29, 2001, Jock Doubleday offered $20,000 to the first U.S.-licensed medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO to publicly drink a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients:
http://www.mercola.com/2001/feb/10/vaccine_offer.htm

The $20,000 offer had no takers.

On August 1, 2006, Doubleday increased the offer to $75,000:
http://www.vaclib.org/links/jockslinks.htm#press

The $75,000 offer had no takers.

THEREFORE . . .

On June 1, 2007, Doubleday added a monthly increase of $5,000.  As of June 1, 2009, the offer stands at $200,000:

http://www.spontaneouscreation.org/SC/$75,000VaccineOffer.htm

The offer will continue to increase $5,000 per month until an M.D. or pharmaceutical company CEO, or any of the relevant members of the ACIP (now including liaison representatives, ex officio members, chairman, and executive secretary — please see http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/ACIP/members.htm for a full list of eligible ACIP candidates), agrees to drink a body-weight calibrated dose of the poisonous vaccine additives that M.D.s routinely inject into children in the name of health.

This offer has no expiration date unless superseded by a similar offer of higher remuneration.

QUESTION: Why won’t MDs drink the poisons they inject into babies on a daily basis?

QUESTION: Why won’t members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices drink additive ingredients in the vaccines they say are safe?

* * * NOTE:  I have just added Lawrence Kaplow to the list of eligible participants. Lawrence Kaplow is writer and executive story editor of the “House M.D.” episode “Paternity,” in which the main character states that avoiding childhood vaccines is akin to starting a baby-coffin business. * * *

In health,

Jock Doubleday
Director
Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.
A California 501(c)3 Nonprofit Corporation
www.SpontaneousCreation.org
director@spontaneouscreation.org

Jock Doubleday is the author of
“Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital, Vol 1: A Book about Natural Childbirth and the Birth of Wisdom and Power in Childbearing Women”

Two years ago, when the challenge was at $75,000.00 I had sent his email out to my database. One of my readers, a pediatrician, said getting them to “drink” it made no sense, since vaccines are injected. And she also pointed out that thimerosal had been removed from vaccines.

So, I emailed Jock and asked him these questions and here’s what he said:

Drinking is better in my opinion because 1) it’s more “photo opp” and 2) it’s more “real.” People watching would feel the poisons going down the MD’s throat, while injection is covert and difficult to access vicariously. 3) Drinking is safer. And if drinking is safer, why wouldn’t an MD do it? I also don’t particularly want to kill some well-meaning MD whose medical school education has left him in the dark.

And the doctor is wrong about thimerosal being gone from childhood vaccines. A percentage of thimerosal has been taken out of some vaccines, but there is still at least trace thimerosal in the vaccines that have had thimerosal in the past. And of course the flu vaccine still has the same amount of thimerosal. And further, the old full-dose thimerosal vaccines have been stockpiled by hospitals and doctors, so there’s no way for you to know what your child is getting short of reading the package insert of each particular vaccine.

FYI, injection of these ingredients into an adult — even when the dose is body weight calibrated — is much different from injecting them into a baby or a young child. Before the age or 2 or 3, the “blood-brain barrier” has not formed, which means that toxic metals can enter the still-forming brain. An adult’s blood-brain barrier has long since formed, so the metals do less harm. Western culture’s skyrocketing rates of autism are due in part to neurological interference from heavy metals from ever-increasing numbers of early childhood vaccinations.

So then I emailed my brother – who is an MD and a Geneticist – and asked him whether he thought injecting these substances was more dangerous than drinking them. And he said:

Drinking is probably safer, but without studies, who knows?

So, yet again, we’re left wondering: If MDs throughout the country regularly inject babies with these vaccines AND they usually inject their own children with these vaccines…WHY won’t anyone take up this challenge and get $200,000 for about 15 minutes of their time?

If someone offered ME $200,000 to drink something I felt was perfectly safe, I’d do it in a heartbeat!

If you can shed some light on this, let me know in the Comments box below….cause I am seriously mystified…

Oh yes, one more thing: I recently came across this absolutely fantastic interview with a former vaccine research scientist. He is not releasing his name, because he has retired and wants to keep his ‘retirement package’, and he has also seen what the pharmaceuticals have done to colleagues who have spoken out – and he doesn’t want to go there. However, when his friend’s child died from a DPT shot, he could no longer keep silent and live with his conscience, so he is making his “insider info” known to trusted sources. Download this article and give it out to whoever you can!

Note: If you ever consider getting a flu vaccine, then you need to read this article too.

Soar higher,

Jini

* Wearing a bra over 12 hours daily dramatically increases breast cancer incidence.

* Bra-free women have about the same incidence of breast cancer as men.

* Those who wear a bra 18-24 hours daily have over 100 times greater incidence of breast cancer than do bra-free women. This link is 3-4 times greater than that between cigarettes and lung cancer!

(Source: Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer, Medical Anthropologists)

How exactly is it that bras can cause breast cancer?

Dr. Singer and Grismaijer explain:

“Our theory explaining these findings is that the bra, an elastic garment designed to alter breast shape, applies constant pressure to the soft breast tissue, compressing and constricting lymphatic vessels. Evidence of this constriction are the red marks and indentations in the skin left behind by the bra. Since the role of the lymphatics is to flush out toxins and debris from the tissues, impairment of lymphatic flow can lead to the toxification of the breast tissue. These toxins include endogenous toxins resulting from the consequent tissue hypoxia, as well as the exogenous toxins that contaminate our food, water and air in our petrochemically polluted world. Many of these toxins are carcinogenic. The bra concentrates these in the breast by preventing the lymphatics from flushing them away.

Of course, this means that the cause of breast cancer is not the bra, per se, but the toxins that the bra concentrates in the breast tissue due to lymphatic impairment.

Interestingly, when you look at the worldwide statistics on breast cancer, it is clear that it is only a problem in cultures where bras are worn. No bras, and men and women have about the same low incidence of breast cancer. And the bra link also explains various breast cancer risk factors, as we discuss in Dressed To Kill.

While more research is clearly needed to further study this link, we believe it is prudent medicine to recommend women abstain from bra wearing as a precaution. There is no reason for wearing a bra, apart from fashion. The human body was not designed with a flaw that requires modern lingerie for correction. Like the absurd and destructive fashion of foot binding in China, women in the West bind their breasts. “

When this research first came out back in 1995, I immediately stopped wearing a bra. To be honest, I hated the things anyway and by that point was only wearing the light, stretchy cotton bras by Evita. After this research, I wore undershirts and camisoles instead.

Then as the years wore on, I started to wonder: Why am I ashamed of my nipples? Who decreed that even the outline of a nipple should never be shown?? So then I began eschewing the undershirts and just wearing a normal shirt – ahhh, the comfort and freedom of it.

I must admit, it’s easy for me to go bra-free because I have small breasts. If I had large, heavy breasts, that hung to my belly button when bra-free, I imagine it would be much more difficult. But, I would still do it, except on special occasions. Because there’s another benefit to going bra-free, as Dr. Singer and Grismaijer relate:

“Then something happened that we had not foreseen. Some courageous women who had heard our message tried going bra-free and reported their experiences to us. Within weeks, if not days, most of these women experienced a profound change in their breast health. Breast pain and tenderness virtually ended. Cysts that had needed regular aspirations disappeared. We began to realize that fibrocystic breast disease, common in bra-wearing cultures, should be called “tight bra syndrome.

It all made perfect sense, of course. The bra was causing secondary lymphedema of the breasts due to constriction of the lymphatics. The accumulated fluid caused increased tissue pressure with associated pain and tenderness, and eventually developed into cysts. While the fibrous tissue that develops in long standing cysts takes more time to resolve, relieving the pressure by eliminating the bra allowed the cysts to drain, alleviating the pressure and discomfort. (This also explained why many women have breast myalgia near the time of their menstrual period. Estrogen levels are elevated at this time, increasing overall body fluid retention and increasing breast size. However, women typically wear the same size bra all month long, making it particularly tight at these times, increasing breat pain. Once bra-free, this syndrome usually stops.)

The results are fast, impressive and transformative. It was this link with fibrocystic breast disease that helped keep our bra-cancer theory alive. While it didn’t prove the cancer connection, it did show that the bra was damaging the breasts, adding support to our claims.

We then did a follow-up study to our first US study. This time we went to Fiji, where half the population is bra-free. We approached the Health Ministry and asked for their assistance. Once we told them our theory, they exclaimed, “That explains why our working women are now getting breast cancer! They are the ones who wear bras!” Over the next few months we went from village to village and obtained over 20 case histories of breast cancer. All were in women who wore bras. We found that, given women from the same village (genetically related), with the same diet, the ones who developed breast cancer were the ones who wore bras.”

Bra-Free Woman In Fiji

Since doctors Singer and Grismaijer published their research, there have been three Japanese studies confirming their findings. Why has the Japanese medical establishment picked up on Singer/Grismaijer’s research and furthered it, while the U.S. has ignored it? Follow the money, honey.

Until recently, Japan has been largely a non-bra wearing culture. However in the U.S., the bra industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. And how many billions of dollars a year are spent on breast cancer research and treatment? it seems like every other month there’s some pink-ribbon run to raise funds for breast cancer in my town.

Is it hard to go bra-free? Heck yes! You don’t realize how screwed-up our culture is about breasts until you step outside the box. Take breastfeeding as one example: On the one hand you have every fashion magazine and most women walking around with their breasts pushed up, plumped out and on display as much as possible. Then you have a woman who tries to feed her child and she is barred from airplane flights, kicked out of restaurants and asked to leave stores (yes, these incidences have really happened).

So what can you do to make the transition to bra-free easier?

• Start doing push-ups (do them against the wall to start with, then move to on the ground when you’re able) to build your pectoral muscles which support your breasts. These are “nature’s bra”. Even after breastfeeding 3 children, my breasts don’t sag very much because the musculature underneath and above the breast tissue is strong (okay, and because they’re not heavy).
• Wear silk or cotton camisoles, or tank tops (undershirts) instead of a bra. Make sure they’re natural fabrics as you don’t want the xenoestrogens from synthetic fabrics leaching into your skin either.
• If you just can’t get your head round going bra-free in public, then go bra-free the second you walk in the door to your home, and only wear a bra when you go out. If this means you have to change in and out of your bra several times a day, do it.
• Switch to cotton bras (natural fabrics breathe better) for when you must wear a bra and buy them loose enough that you can easily fit two fingers between the torso strap and your ribs.
• If you think going bra-free looks slutty, then switch to thicker, looser fabrics for your shirts and dresses that drape, rather than cling. A thicker fabric will also hide your nipples (as will an undershirt/camisole). Or layer your clothes, wear a shirt with a sweater hanging loosely over top.
• Show the research to your husband, boyfriend and enlist his help and support in your endeavour.

Embrace the idea that if a woman packed into a bra who looks like this is acceptably sexy in our culture:

Then a bra-free woman who looks like this can also be sexy:

And what’s wrong with a bra-free woman who looks like this?:

We’ve all felt horror at the pictures of Chinese women who bound their feet and crippled themselves. So why are you following the same type of cultural dictum – binding your breasts, risking disease and possibly death? What’s more important?

p.s. Here’s a picture of me (bra-free as always) and can you even tell??

Update – VITAMIN D – ANOTHER MAJOR FACTOR IN BREAST CANCER:

TORONTO, Nov. 4/09 /CNW/ – Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman’s risk of contracting the disease can be ‘virtually eradicated’ by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.

That’s the message vitamin D pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto Tuesday as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine’s “Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency” conference – the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the UT Faculty club for the landmark event.

See my blog post about vitamin D to find out what amount of vitamin D you should be supplementing each day and which preparation I recommend.

soar higher,

Jini

We had SO many great comments when I asked for your help in finalizing the title for my new book on constipation. I gotta say, you guys REALLY made me think hard, reassess and generally threw me into a real right tizzy of indecision.

In the end, I decided to stick with the branding of “Listen To Your…” so I’m keeping the title the same. However, I’ve made “Constipation” in the sub-title red – to make it jump out more – which several of you suggested.

Just to make the draw for the winner of the free softcover book a little more fun, I had 2 of my little monkeys help me. For those of you who remember the pictures of Hugo when he was born, he is now three! And my daughter Zara is six. So, watch this video to find out who won the book….

As you can see, we also drew for 2 winners of the ebook version of Listen To Your Colon.

So big thank you again to everyone who left their feedback. And remember, you can still pre-order the book at a big discount. Here’s what some readers have said about the book (I sent it out to a few already for feedback and testing):

****I did the recommended treatment for the constipation as given in the ebook and I have been going everyday since. I am very happy with the recommendations from the book and plan to do another probiotic retention enema when I get the rectum healed.
- Laurinda K.

Hey Jini, Wow, great job! I did not read through the entire work tonight, but skimmed it all and focused on the constipation, remedies for children (the adaptations) and the dietary suggestions.
Thank you, thank you. For everything. What a gift that you have made beauty out of your own journey of healing. Your transparency and desire to see others experience freedom in their health is awesome. Thanks again.
- Favian K.

Your book is very enlightening so far- I never looked at constipation that way- Actually I never really thought I was constipated- just terribly irregular!!
- Nadine P.

I had a look at your book and I really enjoyed it! No seriously, I am someone who has this problem (hope that is not too much information) and I found your suggestions helpful – really liked the holistic approach to solving these types of problems. It is obvious that you have looked at the research from all angles comprehensively – especially with identifying the different types of constipation – which I did not know there was so many – and explaining how to treat them. I agree with you completely that most ailments can be healed naturally and use of the pharmacutical is ridiculous. Medical doctors do not always have the best treatment options. In fact, I beginning to wonder if some of them know anything at all! I am looking forward to trying some your suggestions – will keep you posted! I am sure there are many other people out there who will be grateful for this information.
- Jane S.

P.S. If you are one of the contest winners and you haven’t received an email from me – check your junk/spam folder. If you still can’t find it, then email me at: service @ HolisticHealthShoppe.com

I’ve written about the safety of raw milk before in my Infoletter – Good Health Is Real Wealth, however, this issue came up again when I received an email from reader who read a blog post about Organic Pastures Dairy being sued over an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak in 2006. The blog post was written by William D. Marler, the lawyer who brought the litigation against Organic Pastures.

Since I had never heard of this particular lawsuit, I started doing some research. I got in contact with Bill Marler himself, Sally Fallon (head of the Weston A. Price Organization and realmilk.com) and the CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy – Mark McAfee. What emerged was probably a representational picture of the raw milk issue in North America.

On the one side of debate, we have raw milk supporters (of which I’m one) saying that raw milk is a healthy superfood and the risk of infection, although present, is much lower than that of pasteurized milk. Indeed, there have been far more E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks from pasteurized dairy products, than raw dairy.

On the other side of the issue, we have some powerful players who are resolutely opposed to the legalization of raw milk and who use the FDA and other regulatory bodies to harass and raid small raw milk farmers – sometimes with FBI officers with machine guns (believe it or not!) storming their farms. Why?

I suspect it has to do with money. If the mass public started demanding raw milk, the current large factory-farm dairy suppliers would be in a real fix. How could they possibly get their diseased, antibiotic-laced, hormone-enhanced cows to produce healthy milk? They would lose a LOT of money and many would simply go bankrupt. These are pretty strong motivators to maintain the status quo.

In addition, as raw milk gains acceptance and usage increases, who is losing customers? Who is making less money? Again, it’s the large agribusiness dairy corporation.

Then we have Bill Marler (officially, William D. Marler) – a lawyer who specializes in foodborne illness litigation, who is blogging and publishing rather avidly against raw milk. What are his motivators? Is he an FDA-pawn (as some have accused), or is he primarily motivated by the desire to make money from a contentious issue? Or, has he been very negatively affected by his raw milk litigation cases, feeling that someone has to trumpet the dangers?

I had a lot of emails back and forth with Bill, with him sending me documents from the local State and CDC investigations of the Organic Pastures incident in 2006. But I don’t want to get into debating all that here – for one side of the argument, you can go to Bill Marler’s site and download the documents yourself. For the other side of the argument, go to www.realmilk.com (Sally Fallon’s site) and scroll down the homepage – there you can download their rebuttal for each of Marler’s assertions.

For those of you that want the short-version summary of the case: Bill Marler says he built a really strong case against Organic Pastures (OP) and the grocery stores that sold the milk, using data from the State of California investigation and the CDC. He says they sat down with OP, the grocery stores and all the insurance companies and a settlement was reached, so the case never went to court. He is legally prohibited from giving details of the settlement.

Mark McAfee (Organic Pasture’s founder and CEO) says that yes, they all sat down together, however OP refused to settle and their evidence was strong enough that they were happy to go to court. But, the insurance companies didn’t want to go to court and insisted on a settlement instead. The upside was that OP’s insurance company renewed their policy for the next year at a lower rate. Also the State of California presented OP with a letter of retraction and a cheque to cover their expenses. As I said, you can look at the original documents from both sides and draw your own conclusions – I think it’s pretty clear.

But, I’m interested in going beyond all that and telling you what transpired in my phone conversation with Bill Marler. First of all, he is a surprising man to talk to, because I expected to get a lot of lawyerly “I can’t comment on that” statements. Instead, I found a fairly laid-back, open person who was genuinely interested in discussion.

For someone so publicly anti-raw milk, Marler told me that he’s actually quite conflicted about raw milk, since he grew up drinking raw milk on his family’s farm (where his father still lives and now farms bees).

He said there’s no point in banning raw milk – Prohibition didn’t work, and neither would prohibiting raw milk. What he says he’s after is a balanced portrayal of the risks involved with raw milk consumption and other foods he considers risky: like factory farmed meat and agribusiness produce.

His fear is that as raw milk becomes a profitable commodity (i.e. large-scale farming), the likelihood of an outbreak increases. So then I asked him, “Okay, in light of what you’ve seen and experienced, what would you do regarding raw milk – what measures would you put in place?”

Marler said he would like to see raw milk throughout the country follow the Washington state model – with small farmers selling directly to consumers. He would also like to see pathogen-testing at various points along the line, not just of the packaged milk.

He said this is important because it tells you about your milking process and you would be able to pinpoint how and where exactly something is going wrong. For example, it may not be the cow that is the problem, it might be your collection tank, or a certain part of a certain machine, for example.

Marler maintains that he is a big supporter of Michael Pollan – recently footing the bill personally for Pollan to speak at an upcoming symposium at Washington State University. Marler emphasized repeatedly that he is in favour of sustainable farming and eating locally.

So, either Bill Marler is hosing me, presenting himself entirely as someone he’s not. Or, the raw milk-advocate camp and the raw milk-litigation camp are closer on this issue than we imagine.

I mean really, don’t we all want the same things?

• None of us want pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms) in the milk
• We all want to drink milk only from cows that are really healthy
• We all agree that factory farming, big agribusiness and flying food around the world are not healthy, sustainable practices
• We all want to do everything we can to prevent outbreaks of foodborne illnesses
• None of us are claiming that raw milk is never infected with pathogens, we are saying that the risk is minimal; compared to the health benefits, and compared to pasteurized milk

I guess the big questions remaining are:

1. Why just focus on raw milk? In spite of pasteurization, pasteurized milk has caused far more foodborne illness than raw milk. In addition, about 2% of pasteurized milk is infected with Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis (MAP) – a bacterial/fungal hybrid thought to be one of the causes of Crohn’s Disease, since it’s DNA has been found in 92-100% of people with Crohn’s (incidence varies across studies). Pasteurization does not kill MAP, not even ultra-high temperature (UHT) pasteurization can kill it.

2. If we want to keep raw milk pathogen-free, is the solution really more testing and sterilization, or would we be better served by looking at the overall microbial environment? After all, bacteria follow the rule of “competitive exclusion”, i.e. if there are enough good bacteria present, the bad bacteria go away. Perhaps we could all work together to educate each other and ascertain which really are the best procedures for keeping raw milk (and pasteurized milk) pathogen-free.

3. Perhaps we could also collaborate on healthy farming practices and milk-to-consumer channels. None of us wants to see raw milk being factory farmed.

I wonder if Mark McAfee and Sally Fallon are surprised at what came out of my conversation with Bill Marler? Perhaps they feel that actions speak louder than words and his actions to date are adversarial. Perhaps they are wondering if Bill is shifting a little in his stance, and is ready to explore a more collaborative position…

Personally, I buy my raw milk from a small dairy farm in Washington State (the milk is available in a few local stores), where the cows are out on the pasture, in fresh air, and the farmer tests for pathogens in excess of State regulations. So I agree with Marler, it’s a good system.

I’d like to know what Sally Fallon and Mark McAfee think of all this…..

soar higher,
Jini

In preparation for my teleseminar with raw milk therapy expert, Jim Ehmke, CN, I went on a one week raw milk diet myself!

Watch the videos below – shot on Day 1, Day 4 and at the conclusion of the Diet, to find out how it went, what I learned and whether I would ever do this again!

If you’d like a copy of the fantastic Raw Milk Diet Therapy teleseminar with Jim Ehmke, CN, then you can get both the written transcript and audio recording (MP3) in the next 2 weeks, for only $1 by trying out Gold membership in my new JPT Wellness Circle – which entitles you to this and every other teleseminar I’ve ever done, plus podcasts, videos, case studies, free ebooks, etc. (you can cancel at anytime).

Jini’s Raw Milk Diet – Day 1

Jini’s Raw Milk Diet – Day 4

Jini’s Raw Milk Diet – Finished!

Recently, I received yet another sample of a probiotic to try. According to the label, it contained “Lactobacillus sporogenes- a shelf-stable, vegan probiotic that does not require refrigeration.” But here’s the problem: There is actually no such species as Lactobacillus sporogenes. Which then leads us to question of what exactly is in all these probiotic products?

It’s important to keep in mind that Lactobacillus refers to bacteria that are capable of producing lactic acid. Hence, these bacteria are traditionally cultured in milk. Supplements containing Bacillus bacteria are NOT cultured in milk and they are derived from the soil.

Lactobacilllus bacteria do not form spores and they do not remain permanently in your gut – this is why you have to keep consuming yoghurt, kefir, etc. daily. But soil bacteria ALL form spores and these spores remain in your gut and cannot be eradicated by any means identified to date. For a full outline of the possible dangers of consuming bacterial soil organisms, see my blog post about soil organisms.

Following is an excellent summation of this issue from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) that explains exactly what is happening and why probiotics claiming to contain Lactobacillus sporogenes may actually contain a bacterial soil organism called Bacillus coagulans, or possibly Bacillus subtilis – but really, who knows?

Personally, I strongly suspect that the companies putting out these products are operating out of ignorance. And based on my personal experience with probiotic manufacturers – most of whom are just middle-man wholesalers – I suspect that they too are ignorant of the facts. As I talked about in my Probiotics 1 Teleseminar, misinformation in the field of probiotics is vast.

Here is the article from ASM so you can be properly informed on this issue:

“Lactobacillus sporogenes” Is Not a Lactobacillus Probiotic

Microbes have proven their value in a plethora of industrial settings, including their use as probiotics, or healthpromoting microbes. Within the probiotic industry, there are those who disregard the conventions of bacterial nomenclature. Perhaps the best example of this is the use of the name “Lactobacillus sporogenes” on probiotic labels, instead of the proper nomenclature, which assigns this bacterium to the genus Bacillus (Bergey’s Manual, 1974). List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature.

The name “Lactobacillus sporogenes” appeared in the scientific literature in 1932 (L. M. HorowitzWlassowa and N. W. Nowotelnow, Cent. F. Bak., II Abt., 87:331, 1932). However, this name was never recognized by the scientific community, and was described as a misclassification in Bergey’s Manual in 1939. The bacterium described by HorowitzWlassowa and Nowotelnow was a sporeforming bacterium, and as such could not be included as a species of Lactobacillus, which are nonsporeforming rods. This assertion was confirmed in the 5th, 6th, and 8th editions of Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. The 4th and 7th editions do not mention the name “Lactobacillus sporogenes,” nor does the Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (1986). The name is not listed on the official bacterial nomenclature list, the List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature.

Clearly, the name “Lactobacillus sporogenes” has no scientific validity. Although there is no official classification of bacteria, the names given to bacteria are regulated through the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (Bacteriological Code). However, this name still appears on the labels of probiotic supplements worldwide and in a few publications of Asian journals. The implications of the persistence of this mislabeling should be considered. The most important of these is safety. Since “Lactobacillus sporogenes” is not recognized as a species, a product labeled with this name confirms nothing about its contents. It may be a Bacillus coagulans, as marketing literature from at least one company claims (Sabinsa Corp., Piscataway, N.J.), but is it prudent to make this presumption, especially with products making no assertion of correct nomenclature? If the identity of the bacterium is in question, no conclusions about its safety can be made.

Although B. coagulans is not considered pathogenic, neither is it an organism normally associated with food production (although Bacillus subtilis is used in the production of “natto,” a Japanese food), a status enjoyed by many members of the genus Lactobacillus. Presumably the products on the market are consumed without undue risk. However, no independent panel of experts has evaluated the safety of B. coagulans for human consumption as has been done for the lactobacilli. Erroneously calling this organism a lactobacillus incorrectly associates it with the same safety record as lactobacilli.

Another implication of mislabeling is related to probiotic product efficacy. Unlike probiotic species of lactobacilli, members of the genus Bacillus are not considered normal members of the intestinal flora and do persist in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. Published literature supporting the role of Bacillus coagulans in enhancing human health is sparse, especially as compared to literature published on Lactobacillus use as probiotics. To continue to persist using this taxonomically incorrect name leads to speculation about the advantages of willingly mislabeling a product. It is likely that companies hope to benefit from association with the large aggregate of published literature and history of use on the safety and health benefits of the genus Lactobacillus. This “halo effect” would disappear if products were labeled as containing Bacillus instead of Lactobacillus.

Furthermore, a marketing advantage can be achieved by using shelfstable Bacillus spores instead of more labile Lactobacillus. The perpetuation of intentional mislabeling in the long run will serve to erode consumer confidence and undermine the credibility of the probiotic industry. Furthermore, the implications of mislabeling may have negative regulatory implications for the entire probiotic category. The FDA convened an information-gathering meeting in September 2000 on probiotics, suggesting we can expect closer regulatory scrutiny of this product category in the future (Clemens, R., Food Technol. 55:27, 2001). The industry should act to correct the issue of mislabeling before the FDA or consumer watchdog groups do it first.

- Mary Ellen Sanders Dairy and Food Culture Technologies Littleton, Colo. mesanders@msn.com
- Lorenzo Morelli Instituto di Microbiologia UCSC Piacenza, Italy
- Scott Bush Rhodia Inc. Madison, Wis.

I once tried sending this information to one of the largest retailers selling a probiotic product labelled “Lactobacillus sporogenes”. Surprise, surprise, I never heard back from them, and they didn’t change their labelling or marketing materials. So once again, the burden of knowledge falls on the consumer. Until we have a sincere, functional regulatory body for supplements (i.e. not the FDA et al) these kinds of potentially-dangerous situations will continue to occur.

POSSIBLE NEW BOOK COVER

Well, I’m just finishing up the layout and design of my new book on natural healing for CONSTIPATION.

Originally, this was supposed to be a short, 40-50 page guide. However, in order to do a GOOD job with the topic and provide enough information and protocols so that the highest number of people would achieve success…. well, it’s now a 140 page book.

The ironic thing is that after 20 years of loose stools (I purposely kept them loose as my rectal sphincter would not open wider than a pencil), I experienced constipation for the first time about 2 years ago. My gut was basically so healthy that nothing I could do would produce loose stools!

You try getting a rectum that has passed nothing but watery mush for 20 years to try and pass large, formed stool… not nice. Those of you who were on the teleseminar with me and Dr. Gabor Mate know all about this problem!

But anyway, the bottom line is that, once again, having to actually heal constipation in my own body has produced in-depth, practical, highly effective tools for dealing with and healing this condition.

Just like in Listen To Your Gut, I present both short-term remedies (cause when ya gotta go, ya really need to go soon!) and long-term solutions that heal the underlying, root causes of constipation.

From my own experience and working with numerous readers, I have also ascertained that there are actually TWO different kinds of constipation. I have called these Peristaltic Constipation and Stenosis Constipation. And the treatments and protocols are different depending on which one you suffer from.

So now that you know what the book is about – I need your help in selecting a title for the book!

The one I’m thinking of is:

LISTEN TO YOUR COLON: The Complete Natural Healing Guide For Constipation

Please let me know what you think of this title, or if you have a title you think would be better – write your thoughts in the COMMENTS section just below.

If you want more information on what exactly is in the book, click here for details on the book content. You can see I’m using Listen To Your Colon as the working title, but we haven’t gone to print yet, so I’m open to suggestions…

You can also pre-purchase the book at a large discount – the pre-pub special – if you like.

But, everyone who leaves a comment below will be entered in a draw to win a free copy of this book once it’s printed. I will announce the winner in one week’s time.

p.s. If you pre-purchase the book and then win the free copy, of course I’ll refund your money : )
Just type your thoughts about the title in the LEAVE A REPLY box below.

thanks for your help,
Jini

p.s. also, let me know what you think of the book cover design…..

It is very important not to do anything else during a bowel movement, other than breathe deeply and connect with your body. When you are doing nothing but breathing deeply during a bowel movement, you are automatically relaxing your bowel and anal sphincter muscles with your breath. The expansion and contraction of your diaphragm, as you inhale and exhale, is massaging your intestines and stimulating peristalsis (rhythmic contractions of the intestinal wall). When you are focused on and connected to your body, you can follow your colon’s cues for changing positions; leaning forward or back, doing colonic massage, raising your legs up or extending them out, etc.

As you sit there, relaxed, breathing, massaging your colon, you will just get a “feeling” to do something. This is your body communicating with you, so even if you’re not sure, or you feel stupid, do it! The more you listen to your body and act on your hunches, or feelings, the stronger your intuitive ability will grow and the more your body will “talk” to you.

It’s okay if you take a hot drink into the bathroom with you. But don’t read or look at anything (magazines, tv, phone, photos, blackberry, etc.) – you must not engage your brain in any way other than tuning into and listening to your body.

If you suffer from peristaltic constipation, you may find it easier to defecate if you place your feet on a child’s stepping stool (or a couple of phone books). This raises your knees higher than your hips and more closely approximates a squatting position – the ideal position for opening the rectal canal and facilitating the quick passage of stool. Also, be sure and use the Colonic Massage method before and during a bowel movement.

However, with stenosis constipation (narrowed, tight or obstructed rectum), the key point to keep in mind is not to put any pressure on the rectum to open. So the above position probably will not work for you. Instead, try the other positions in the video (which should also work well for peristaltic constipation).

Post your comments below and let me know if this video helped you – did it teach you anything you hadn’t already discovered?

best,
Jini

I’ve been receiving more emails from people – both readers and family/friends who are worried about the possible swine flu pandemic.

In my previous post, where I tell you what I think about where the swine flu virus came from, I also gave you four very effective natural, antiviral substances you can use if you’re concerned about contracting this flu, or, if you’ve already got it (or any other virulent flu). Of those four (hydrogen peroxide, wild oregano oil, chlorine dioxide and potassium iodide), wild oregano oil is the one I have the most personal experience with.

I have used wild oregano oil numerous times to prevent myself from contracting the extremely virulent vomiting flu bugs that sweep through our city about twice per winter. With three children under age nine, they are always bringing these viruses home from school.

As I then get vomited on repeatedly by any or all of the children and am up all night, until the onslaught passes, it’s safe to say my exposure is pretty intense and my resistance is low. However, even though the other adults in my household have come down with the bugs, I have avoided every one by using an intensive wild oregano oil antiviral protocol – because I REALLY, really hate to vomit.

So, I’m going to share with you what I do, that has repeatedly worked so well for me.

Jini’s 7-Day Antiviral Wild Oregano Oil Protocol

• Take 5 drops every hour for 24 hours – begin this at the first exposure to the virus or first symptom. If you are sleeping, don’t wake yourself up to take it, but let yourself sleep (which greatly assists your immune system). However, if you get up to go to the bathroom, etc. then take a double dose of 10 drops.
• Then take 10 drops every 3 hours, for 48 hours – again, if you are sleeping, don’t wake yourself up to take it, but let yourself sleep (which greatly assists your immune system). However, if you get up to go to the bathroom, etc. then take a dose of 10 drops.
• Then take 10 drops, 3x/day for the next 2 days – just take the dose during waking hours.
• Take 5 drops, 3x/day for the next 2 days – just take the dose during waking hours.
• Take high dose probiotics for the next 2 weeks to repopulate your gut with good bacteria. Remember that wild oregano oil is antibiotic, as well as antiviral, so after a heavy dosage like this, you MUST balance the bacterial flora in your GI tract by flooding it with good bacteria. If you’re taking the Natren probiotics that I recommend, this means you take 1 tsp of each powder, 3x/day OR 1 Healthy Trinity Capsule, 2x/day. Remember to use the powders if you are having more than 3 bowel movements per day – otherwise the transit time through your GI tract is too fast for the capsules to dissolve properly.

NOTE: Take on an empty stomach for maximum potency, then drink a full glass of water immediately after to dilute in the stomach. This protocol is only suitable for adults. Wild oregano oil is also anti-inflammatory, so should be fine for most people. But, as with any substance, some people will not tolerate it. In that case, use one of the other recommended antivirals.

Here’s The Easiest Way to Ingest Wild Oregano Oil

Okay, so first we have this mainstream newspaper article from Associated Press (AP – one of the major news feed services to all large newspapers across North America and worldwide) that raises alarm about a new bird/pig/human hybrid virus that’s sweeping through Mexico killing healthy, strong people.

Oh and by the way, Big Pharma just happens to have some flu drugs they have just tested against this virus and presto – they work! BUT you have to take the drugs (Tamiflu and Relenza) right away after you contract the virus for them to be effective. So…. basically if you get any kind of a cold, headache, fever, etc. you should immediately go on these drugs… because if you wait to see whether you actually have the flu, or, which flu you have, it will be too late. Can you hear the CHA-CHINGs!! echoing throughout North America?

Well, I have to admit, after reading this news release, my first thought was, “Hmmmm, a bird/pig/human hybrid virus… that sounds like something put together in a lab. Now who would benefit from creating a new virus that required thousands, if not millions of people, to take specific drugs, or risk death?”

Sure, I admit, I’m biased against pharmaceutical companies and I will probably believe a conspiracy involving a pharmaceutical pretty quickly – just from knowing their track record. But honestly, couldn’t the mainstream get just a little more savvy about this ever-increasing problem in our midst?

Thanks goodness there are a number of organizations who are also pretty savvy when it comes to the fiscal war being waged over healthcare – or should I say “disease management”. And I’m sure we’ll be seeing some reporting from them in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, conspiracy-theorists (or, skeptical people) are focusing on the military angle. This article gets more into detail about the ‘new virus that escaped from the lab‘. The author wonders if terrorist groups experimenting with bio-warfare are behind it.

And in a comment logged after this article, which details that the last pandemic virus was the “Hong Kong Flu” in 1968 which killed one million people, the writer raises the issue of U.S. germ warfare:

I had the privilege of hearing John Stockwell, a former CIA station chief speak publicly many years ago. Among other stunning disclosures, he revealed that he was part of a team that sat in San Francisco harbour and pumped a flu virus into the population . and then sat back and did research. It was known as the Hong Kong Flu.

But again, do these people not realize that Big Pharma and the government are so deep in each other’s pockets that it is perfectly plausible for a pharmaceutical company to fund biological warfare experiments in a win-win situation for both parties? The military gets to conduct their experiments and refine their methods, whilst the pharmaceutical gets to sell billions of dollars worth of drugs and vaccines.

Also note how all of these “plagues” are engineered so they begin in foreign lands and are labeled accordingly – just look at the Hong Kong flu, ebola virus in Africa, HIV virus in Africa, now the next possible pandemic virus in Mexico. All of these engineered in American labs, by American scientists, but we couldn’t possibly call them American Flu could we? Just doesn’t have the same ring of dirty, foreign and dangerous, does it?

And while we’re on the topic, here’s some information you’re just not going to see in any mainstream media article: Yes, there are extremely effective, natural anti-viral substances that you can take as a preventative and/or for treatment if you do contract a serious virus. Here’s my list of the most powerful, natural anti-virals that I’ve experimented with personally:

• Wild oregano oil
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Potassium Iodide

There’s also a newer substance – chlorine dioxide – dubbed MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement) that also looks promising. But I haven’t tried it on anything myself.

A little research will give you a lot more useful information (aside from the links I’ve provided) about anti-viral protocols using any of the above and a good naturopath or integrative medical physician could assist you personally. Here’s my own personal antiviral protocol that I use to protect myself from virulent flu bugs using wild oregano oil.

stay strong,
Jini

I recently came across an article by Jonathan V. Wright MD about male circumcision. It surprised me in that it pointed out things I hadn’t known (having birthed two boys, I had researched this).

So in case you’re at all considering circumcision, or know someone who is, just pass along this short, succinct summary of the key points by Dr. Wright: Read the rest of this entry »

Colonic massage is a valuable tool to have if:

a) you’re suffering gas, bloating or diarrhea

b) you’re constipated

c) you have a blockage, obstruction or stricture in your colon

d) you have a colicky baby

I describe exactly how to do colonic massage in Listen To Your Gut – however, video shows you this marvelous, yet simple technique far better than words can.

Happy massaging!

Jini

This is a delicious, nutritious shake to use if:

a) you need a fast, easy breakfast

b) you’re trying to gain weight or resolve low protein/malnutrition

c) you want an unprocessed alternative to a whey protein shake

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Read my blog on vegetarianism vs. animal fats to see why your body needs good fats.

We also talked about good fats in my teleseminar with renowned holistic dentist, Dr. Hal Huggins.

And since this is SUCH a maligned topic, I’m gonna keep talking about it!

Remember, the cell membrane is 40% fat – what does that say to you about your body’s need for fat? And of course, it has to be bioavailable fat, in the right forms, that your body can use. Here’s my video where I show you which fats to eat and how to work them into your diet:

Here are the forms of fat that your body CANNOT use: Read the rest of this entry »

Below is an email I received from one of my readers named Abby (not her real name). I am so thankful to her for writing in and sharing truthfully about her healing journey. I wanted to share it with you, because I think her letter highlights difficulties that we all face, or will face as we strive to heal ourselves:

After six years of struggling with horrific migraines and GI issues I am finally getting some relief thanks to a nurse practitioner who specializes in hormonal issues.  In fact, I haven’t had a migraine in months (and I was losing up to 15 days/month due to them!).   Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve actually received this question – in various forms – a lot over the past few years. So here’s a good representative of the concerns and my answer.

Question:

I’m very concerned though about the issue of Absorb Plus feeding Candida. I decided to use Absorb Plus to do The IBD Remission Diet because your book says that it would starve the good and bad bacteria in the gut, almost creating a clean slate for the gut, to be then populated with probiotics. (Incidentally I have been taking probiotics twice daily anyway, whilst on the diet.)

Now I’m feeling this description of Absorb Plus wasn’t accurate:  it seems it may starve off some bacteria but actually feeds, and can contribute to one of the most harmful, the Candida, increasing rapidly! This seems like a huge problem! –  and I’m now concerned about the ultimate success of the Remission Diet for me. Perhaps I’ll be able to kill it with oregano oil, which I’ve used before. But If I’m still ingesting a product with so much fructose all the while, it seems it will be a difficult battle to fight with the Candida getting fed well all the while – and the body likely to go out of balance again when I stop the oregano. Added to that, I always get more diarrhea when taking oregano oil – and I could certainly do without that.

How will my gut be able to heal with this imbalance going on, and Candida colonising the gut more than before? And having to spend more money on Oregano oil to fight the problem, whilst the Absorb Plus feeds it, makes no sense to me.

Answer:

Please don’t panic – thousands of people have successfully used Absorb Plus to date (and all people with IBD have some degree of Candida overgrowth) and nothing has happened to change that.

So, first of all, Candida albicans is NOT a bacteria. It is a yeast organism. And it is a natural and beneficial resident throughout our entire bodies – as long as it is in a healthy balance with other microorganisms.

The problem occurs when there is a Candida overgrowth. This happens for numerous reasons but it is usually triggered by drug antibiotic or steroid use. These drugs kill off the good bacteria in the gut, which normally keep Candida in balance.

Like many microorganisms, simple carbohydrates (sugars) are also the preferred food of yeast organisms like Candida albicans.

Now, when it comes to healing gut disorders, the healing often has to occur in layers, because you just can’t treat everything at once – the body can’t handle it. So, compared to intestinal bleeding, malnutrition and malabsorption, continual pain, etc. Candida is definitely a ‘lesser stage’ problem and can be dealt with after the more serious symptoms are resolved.

This is because there is NO elemental product in existence that will not feed Candida – because ALL carbohydrates are broken down into sugars. So even if you ingest a fructose-free elemental product, the maltodextrin (or whatever else the carbohydrate source might be) will still feed the Candida.

If you get more diarrhea when taking wild oregano, that too is normal and is actually a positive thing. It shows that the body is flushing all the dead pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic by-products from your gut. Candida overgrowth alone produces more than 178 toxins. By taking the high dose of probiotics before bed every night (as advised in Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol), you are also helping to stabilize and support the healing of the gut flora. Simultaneously, the Absorb Plus during the day is helping to heal and restore the mucosal lining of the intestine and resolve malnutrition.

The wild oregano oil and probiotics combined should be sufficient to keep Candida in check whilst on the elemental diet – for some it is even enough to resolve the Candida issue.

If it doesn’t resolve the Candida issue, then this issue can be fully addressed after completing the elemental diet. Our recent teleseminar with Dr. Carolyn Dean (Candida, Detox & More!) gives you exact instructions for how to accomplish this.

Getting back to the “healing in layers” concept: What heals inflammation, ulceration, malabsorption in the gut is not what heals Candida overgrowth. They require different therapies and protocols. That’s just the way the body works. If you go really hard on an anti-Candida protocol before strengthening the gut and gaining enough weight to withstand a detox reaction, you will trigger a full-blown IBD flare. Which is worse?

I had one reader who had severe Crohn’s symptoms and she knew she needed to go on the IBD Remission Diet, but she wouldn’t use Absorb Plus because of the fructose. She insisted she would wait for the fructose-free Absorb Plus. Except that without healing the ulceration and malnutrition, her Crohn’s escalated and she died. Now who knows what other factors were involved here, but the bottom line is: heal the most serious symptoms first and then work your way down the list, gradually clearing the rest.

Now, regarding the information in The IBD Remission Diet book, in the book I write that the elemental diet starves out the bad bacteria in the colon and at the time of writing, that was what the medical literature proclaimed. It has since been theorized that no, some of the maltodextrin does actually pass undigested into the colon, so it does not completely clear the bad bacteria. This update is included in the series of emails you should have received after purchasing the book. If you didn’t receive these emails, or have lost them, you can view them online at the Book Updates page at: www.JiniPatelThompson.com

Regardless, this is another reason why I recommend (in that same series of emails) that you simultaneously either go on Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol, or. start the high dose probiotics at the beginning of the Diet, rather than waiting until the end. These will help to keep Candida in check whilst on the Diet (and afterwards).

So, in your case, if you didn’t have a severe Candida problem to begin with, you may be fine with just taking the high dose probiotics (1 tsp of each, 3x/day) and that may be sufficient to hold the Candida in check without too much diarrhea. However, if you feel the Candida increasing, then start Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol and follow that.

I hope that has relieved some of your fears and given you a better picture of what’s going on.

take care,
Jini

There is a big difference between natural source Vitamin E and synthetic Vitamin E. Also, the way you take your Vitamin E has a big effect on absorption and utilization by the body.

We just got in the new E-Gems Elite Vitamin E from Carlson Labs and as it contains all eight forms of natural source tocopherols and tocotrienols so it is truly the creme de la creme vitamin E product – providing the antioxidant benefits of the entire family of vitamin E.

Research supports that all natural forms of vitamin E, as found in foods, have beneficial properties in protecting body cells from free radical damage. And natural-source Vitamin E is twice as active as synthetic vitamin E inside our bodies.

Here’s some quick guidelines to improve your body’s absorption and utilization of your Vitamin E supplement: Read the rest of this entry »

Jay Baluk (CROHNSBOY) In Hawaii

OKay, I just had to post this account from Jay Baluk (a.k.a. CROHNSBOY) who recently tried Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema.

I love Jay because he’s SO candid and honest and blunt. And the photo on his post alone is so funny I just had to point you to it.

But, WARNING: If you’re a very proper, straight-laced, kind of person, then it’s probably best if you give CrohnsBoy a miss. For me, I love Jay’s irreverent style and hope he never changes!

And if you haven’t tried Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema yet, maybe Jay’s story will inspire you. A probiotic retention enema is the fastest way to implant a mega-dose of beneficial bacteria straight into the colon – and lower part of the small intestine. In Jay’s own words:
I wrote a BLOG about your enema stuff etc. It really is nothing short of amazing! I think that alone could pull most people out of their flares.

In the next few weeks I am going to start taking the healthy trinity if all goes well. As I think these will benefit me a lot as they get a lot of good bacteria into your gut.

I feel like 90% today tenderness is slightly present but will go away within next few days. I’m glad I was able to learn first hand how that enema can heal you wow!

However, as Jay experienced, either ramp-up the dosage slowly, or watch out for the die-off (Herxheimer Reaction) effect.

I’m sorry I can’t give you quick instructions here for how to implement Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema – the probiotic sections in my two books; Listen To Your Gut and Listen To Your IBS are over 30 pages long. This is because people with IBD (and severe IBS) need a good understanding of probiotics before they start dosing. If they don’t have all the detailed information on what to look for, how to proceed, etc. they risk triggering a flare. I do offer a complimentary Probiotic Report to get you started in this area of treatment. But for full and complete instructions, you really do need to get one of the books – remember, they both come with a 1 year guarantee (including return postage) so the risk is pretty minimal to try it out.

STOP PRESS!!!!

Okay SO MANY people have requested the Probiotic Retention Enema instructions (and my Wild Oregano Oil Protocol) I have now made both of these available as an E-BOOK. So if you enter your details below, I’ll send you both Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema and Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol, free of charge:

For those of you who haven’t heard about these protocols before, here’s what each of them does:

Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol

This protocol is based on Inflammatory Bowel Disease being an infectious disease (or having an infectious component). Think of how often gastroenterologists prescribe antibiotics like Cipro and Flagyl/Metronidazole – sound familiar?

There are two ways to eliminate infectious microorganisms: Antimicrobial drugs or substances, or high doses of probiotics. Jini’s Wild Oregano Oil Protocol is unique in that it combines the two methods, using 100% natural substances, for maximum effectiveness in both eradicating infectious microorganisms, maintaining a healthy bacterial flora during antimicrobial supplementation, and maintaining a healthy gut environment ongoing, for continued long-term health.

This 3-Phase protocol is designed to eliminate infectious microorganisms (like mycobacterium, fungi, bacteria, yeast, viruses, parasites, etc.), provide a moderate level of detoxification, and restore beneficial gut flora. By healing the infection we also heal inflammation. Other supplements referred to in my Listen To Your Gut book (such as MucosaHeal, George’s ‘Always Active’ Aloe Vera Juice, L-Glutamine, etc.) are then used to heal ulceration, bleeding, and repair the intestinal wall and mucosal lining.

Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema

This retention enema, which delivers very high dose probiotics directly to your colon (and lower part of your ileum) can provide dramatic healing results. As the name suggests, this is not a cleansing or flushing enema, but rather it is an implant or retention enema – where the goal is to hold the mixture in your colon until the liquid is completely absorbed.

Many people use Jini’s Probiotic Retention Enema during severe inflammation and bleeding for quick healing, whilst others prefer to wait until things have calmed down a bit and they’re tolerating the probiotics well orally first. You really have to just follow your own body wisdom (intuition) on when would be best for you. Even people who have not seen great results from oral probiotic supplementation (it takes longer and can be more difficult to colonize via oral supplementation) see significant symptom clearing following this retention enema.

Enjoy!
Jini

P.S. One more thing: Jay is also compiling a list on his site of people who are MED-FREE. Here’s what he’s doing – in his own words – and how you can help:

I have decided that I am going to start compiling a list of people who have overcome their IBD meaning people that are MED FREE and living good lives. I think it’s about time that we show people how many people really have beat these diseases on their own terms.

If you are reading this I encourage you to send me an email with your name, email address, what IBD you had?-how long you had it, what protocol etc you did to overcome it. This is crucial that we show everyone that we are indeed beating our IBD’s. I believe in my heart this will encourage people or maybe help open their eyes to what is really happening.

So please do not be shy and drop me a line. Lets start a domino effect. This thing will grow. I will start updating it once a month starting 02/06/2009

Please respond by emailing me at: Info (at) crohnsboy.com with **MED FREE** in your subject box

Thanks so much for your time. I believe that together we really can make a difference and prove that we really are making huge strides in overcoming IBD’s

Jay
www.Crohnsboy.com

I’m already on Jay’s list. As he said, let’s start a domino effect!

The following question is one I hear a lot and indeed have asked myself for many years. It deals with the whole mind/body issue: If the mind, emotions, belief systems, mental thought and behaviour patterns can really have such a profound effect on the physical body, then why isn’t person “X” ill, when they are obviously emotionally unhealthy?

Here’s what a friend of mine asked me recently:

I’m about halfway through the book, When The Body Says No. Am totally convinced in one aspect from various life experiences, but totally skeptical on the other hand – because if it were 100% true, my mother would have been riddled with cancer or some other chronic, fatal disease long ago. But other than having some kidney issues the last couple of years, she is totally fine.

Here’s my reply:

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Those of you who have read my book, Listen To Your Gut or my article, Should I Vaccinate My Child? know that I extensively researched this issue when my first child was born and based on the evidence, decided not to vaccinate any of my three children.

This 90 minute video also provides a great exploration of the issue and for those of you who are visual-learners, you will find this easier to get through than my article and also more comprehensive.

In this groundbreaking film, you will:
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I have an entire chapter (Ch.4) in Listen To Your Gut devoted to guiding you through your whole house, clothes, eating, etc. showing you how to remove all those “hidden” toxins that are sabotaging your health and making it harder to heal.

This latest news report is just more confirmation of the importance of removing all these toxic chemicals from your environment. Researchers at the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA’s School of Public Health determined that:

“Women in the study with high levels of perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) took longer to get pregnant.

Recent animal studies have found these chemicals may have a variety of toxic effects on the liver, immune system and developmental and reproductive organs.

In addition, previous studies by the same researchers found that PFOA may affect the growth of fetuses. In addition, two other studies linked PFOA and PFOS to impaired fetal growth, Olsen said.”

These chemicals are pervasive in food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery, carpets and personal care products.

As I say in Chapter Four of Listen To Your Gut, page 259: Read the rest of this entry »