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* 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??

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 Candid 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.
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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.

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!

all the best,
Jini

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 »

I’ve written about wild oregano oil in my book, Listen To Your Gut and for those of you who are interested, I also offer a free Wild Oregano Oil Report on this site.

But there’s nothing like seeing something on video to make it really clear. So here I have my five-year-old daughter Zara demonstrating the quickest, easiest (no burning!) way to take wild oregano oil for children or adults:

Easy, Pain-Free Way to Ingest Wild Oregano Oil

Also, check out this video of Ellen Degeneres on her show talking about the first time she tried wild oregano oil – it’s so funny!

Jini

Raw Almonds – In Their Shells

Restoring Raw Almonds from California — Farmer Lawsuit Moving Forward

With Your Help We Can Win This Fight!

A lawsuit filed in the Washington, D.C. federal district court late last year, which would throw out the USDA’s raw almond pasteurization mandate, is moving ahead. Enacted in the name of food safety, the USDA rule requires treatment with a toxic gas (propylene oxide) or steam heat for all raw almonds produced by American growers and sold commercially to domestic consumers. Read the rest of this entry »

Change.org is a private website that has a section of their website devoted to voting for the top ten ideas for change, that they will then be presenting to President Obama.

VOTE TO LEGALIZE RAW MILK
I was one of the thousands who voted for “Legalize Raw Milk” during the first round of voting and this issue got the highest number of votes in its category and has moved to the second, final round!

So, we all now have a second chance to vote for legalizing raw milk in individual states and across state lines. If this issue is among the top ten ideas in the competition, it will be presented to the Obama team and also at a press conference at the National Press Club on January 16; further, Change.org will then email information about the Raw Milk campaign to their 200,000 members.

This is a HUGE opportunity for us to really make a difference in the big Pharma/Agribusiness assault on our food freedom.

Even if you are not in the USA (like me) you can still vote. And as the US carries such global influence, this will only help us in other countries when we come up against the same issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Following on from my Utopia post: If we stay year-round in White Rock, then my hubby would like to add an indoor pool to our house. An excellent idea since he and the kids swim every day when we’re near a pool or ocean. We also could combine my solarium idea with the indoor pool space.

Talk about making your pool just part of your house!

However, chlorine is a highly toxic, damaging substance – both for our bodies and the environment. So I’ve begun researching alternatives.

Dr. Joseph Mercola’s site is great for this since he has a feedback section where we can hear from actual pool owners. There’s no substitute for personal experience in my opinion. The following information is gleaned from the community feedback on Mercola’s site and some of the recommended websites themselves. Since most of the information below is quoted, rather than italicizing the quotes, I will italicize my comments instead.

Mercola recommends Ozone as the best system, however in the comments section by pool owners, many say it is not ideal and that they have found better systems:
http://v.mercola.com/qa/chlorine-alternative-for-pool-or-hot-tub-2880.aspx

Here’s what some people say about salt water pools:

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Following on from my last post about The Perfect Place To Live, here’s what else I’ve learned about myself during this exploration:

1. I’ve noticed that no matter where I am, when things get really difficult (kids, health, food – i.e. sourcing healthy food and cooking from scratch, exhaustion, etc.) my knee-jerk reaction is to get out of there and go to the other place. If I’m in White Rock, then I think, “Well if I was in Playa del Carmen, this wouldn’t be happening because x, y, z. So I need to get to Playa and everything will be okay.” And then vice versa. When I get frustrated, exhausted, or angry here in Playa, my automatic assumption is that changing the location (going home) will bring relief, solve the problem.

2. I’m here in the Caribbean Mayan Riviera and there are atill times when I’m cold.

3. The kids are no easier to take care of here in Playa where they are able to go outside all the time. You see, in White Rock, the kids are so much easier to take care of in the summer, than in the winter. Because when they get ratty in the house, I take them outside to the yard and presto, everyone is great.

So I had assumed that if we lived somewhere the weather was nice, the kids would be so much easier to take care of and my life would get a lot easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver

I live in a place that is absolutely fantastic, except for one big problem: the weather. Here in Vancouver, Canada it is rainy, dark and depressing for about eight months of the year. For me, that is a long time without sun and no, I’m not one of those hardy Canadians who gets on all the rain gear and goes hiking and mountain biking in the midst of it anyway.

So, for the last eleven years, I have been trying to find a way to escape Vancouver during the dark, wet winter months.

I started by selling my telecommunications company and setting up a new company that was completely Internet-based. My husband later joined me in this company and then he also started another Internet-based company. So we are both fully mobile. All we need to live and work anywhere in the world is a phone and high-speed Internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »

First off, in case you missed it, you can purchase the MP3 Audio recording or pdf written transcript of the Candida, Detox & More! teleseminar with Dr. Dean MD, ND here:

http://www.holistichealthshoppe.com/index.php#52

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This is an absolute must-have resource for anyone with IBS or IBD. Dr. Carolyn Dean MD, ND specializes in Candida albicans overgrowth (yeast) treatment. She has written a whole book on it, actually!

And in this teleseminar she shares with us her super-effective treatment protocol, along with tips and special insider info for those really stubborn, or hard-to-define cases of yeast infection.

She outlines her special yeast-scrubber-sponge formula of bentonite clay, psyllium seed (or aloe vera if you prefer) and caprylic acid. This protocol is so effective because it absorbs and removes the 178 toxins given off by yeast, as well as the yeast itself. This prevents that awful die-off effect – that can make you sicker than the original infection!

This is then followed by high dose probiotic supplementation. Read the rest of this entry »

Those of you who have read Listen To Your Gut, know that I don’t think too highly of Peter D’Adamo’s book, Eat Right 4 Your Type. Well, I recently came across this brilliant review of the book that fully outlines why the science in his book is a just a tad “hinky”.

But the real bonus contained in this book review by Sally Euclaire Osborne MS, is the excellent information she imparts on:

• How to resolve hydrochloric acid (HCL) deficiency
• Allergies and Leaky Gut Syndrome
• Gelatin’s amazing ability to heal the intestinal lining

Those of you who have my book, The IBD Remission Diet, know that bone broths (which contain very high levels of gelatin) are a crucial component of the Diet. When I write the 2nd edition of The IBD Remission Diet I will include an entire section on exactly why and how bone broths (and gelatin) contribute to healing the gut and the whole body.

But for now, here are the really pertinent excerpts from Osborne’s book review article on gelatin, HCL deficiency and Leaky Gut Syndrome: Read the rest of this entry »

Those of you who have been struggling with Candida albicans overgrowth know that it usually takes a multi-pronged approach to heal this condition.

If you have IBS, you most likely have a Candida (yeast) overgrowth in your gut.

I’ve got a great teleseminar booked with Dr. Carolyn Dean – who is both a medical doctor and a naturopathic doctor. She is also the author of about 15 books – and two of her specialities are Candida and Safe Detox Procedures.

Tuesday, November 25th
6:00 pm Pacific Time

Dr. Carolyn Dean has written a book about Yeast treatment and she is also an advisor to yeastconnection.com. She has worked with hundreds of patients personally, getting Candida overgrowth under control.

Another area that Dr. Dean specializes in is safe detoxification procedures. Again, anyone with a chronic illness, or who has taken prescription drugs (or who lives on this polluted planet!) needs to detox their body. However, if you detox too rapidly, too harshly, or at the wrong time, you can trigger a flare and rapidly become ill. You have to pursue detoxification in a way and at a pace that your body can handle. Dr. Dean has worked extensively with hyper-sensitive people with chronic illness and autism, so she is the ideal person to guide us through this necessary, but delicate procedure.

Imagine that: Being able to detox without it triggering unpleasant reactions or making you feel sick for a while! Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who’s healed themselves of a gut disorder knows that the food you eat is vitally connected to your health. This is why healing usually involves dietary modification and restriction for a period of time.

Some health experts advocate staying on a particular or restricted diet for the rest of your life (for example, The Specific Carbohydrate Diet by Elaine Gottschall) because this diet worked to heal symptoms and alleviate the original condition.

However, the process that facilitates healing is not necessarily a good regime for ongoing health. In fact, since healing involves often intensive measures to correct an imbalance, isn’t it just common sense that if you continue with the intensive treatment past the midline, you will negatively throw your body out of balance the other way?

The problem however, is psychological. Read the rest of this entry »

I just posted this video about why it is so necessary to use the CD-Rom that comes with the Listen To Your Gut program.

Trust me, you will get MUCH better results if you use the tools on the CD-Rom together with the book. Here’s the video that tells you why and how to use it: Read the rest of this entry »

We all know pollution and toxins are bad for you. But the Environmental Working Group has conducted perhaps the deepest analysis of this issue on the most vulnerable demographic on the planet – at a cost of $10,000 per person.

Watch the first 5 minutes of Ken Cook’s presentation and see if you aren’t as surprised as I was. If you are, take action, and please send this video to a friend. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who can’t get those darn YouTube or Viddler videos to show up in your blog, here’s how you do it:

NOTE: I have changed the < > brackets to [ ] brackets so they will show up. When you go to use this code, change them back to < > brackets.

1. You have to preface the YouTube embed link with this code:

[strong]Title of The Video[/strong]

[table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="425"]
[tr]
[td]

[object height="355" width="425">

2. And you have put this code at the END of the embed link:

[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

3. As for the video embed link itself, you have to change the code from what YouTube gives you.

For example, this is the embed link of a video as copied and pasted from YouTube: Read the rest of this entry »

I am so delighted to be able to share this “hot off the presses” information with you.

Dr. Tullio Simoncini, an oncologist in Rome, has discovered a CURE for cancer that works 90% of the time and it is so simple, it’s beautiful. It essentially involves treating the tumor or cancerous area with… baking soda!

Why does this treatment work? Because Dr. Simoncini maintains that cancer is a fungus. Therefore, just as millions of women who treat their Candida infections with baking soda have discovered, fungus is unable to live in an alkaline environment.

The 10% failure rate is due to bone cancers – they have been unable to come up with a way to get the baking soda inside the bone.

Dr. Simoncini explains this in person, on Doug Kaufmann’s TV show (p.s. I’ve been on Doug’s show twice and he has been educating people about fungus for a decade or longer):

Cancer Is A Fungus – Part 1

Cancer Is A Fungus – Part 2

You can also visit this site below and listen to a radio interview where Dr. John Apsley explains the baking soda treatment in detail and gives you the exact formula and delivery methods for different cancers. You can then take these formulations and instructions to your integrative medicine doctor and begin treatment if needed.

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/rsbell-dr-apsley.html

Not surprisingly, Dr. Simoncini has since lost his medical license (he is currently in litigation to get it back), but regardless, there are dozens of clinics and hospitals in Rome and North of Rome who are continuing to implement his protocols. Keep an eye out as it won’t be long before Cancer Institutes, the FDA, Big Pharma and numerous others who make billions out of cancer treatment, or the “search for the cure” for cancer release “studies” discrediting his protocols. Unfortunately, a quick look at the past shows this happens with every natural remedy or protocol that is very effective. We just need to stay savvy and not be swayed by the propaganda when it comes down the pipe.

As those of you who have done any research on this topic know, there are actually numerous natural treatment protocols that are highly effective at curing cancer. However, this one wins the prize in my book, because not only is it so simple, it is very quick too.

Here’s some more information on this treatment, plus a discussion of why chemotherapy is not effective and 75% of doctors said they would not undergo chemo if diagnosed with cancer.

Of course, as with healing any disease, you must then make the lifestyle, environmental and dietary changes necessary to prevent future fungal infection, if you want to remain cancer-free for the rest of your life. But then, this applies to all of us anyway.

Jini

Many of you may have already heard about the problems associated with salmon farms located in the ocean itself.

First of all, a really disgusting fact is that salmon raised in these conditions are not pink or red – their flesh is grey. But who would eat grey salmon right? So they feed them food pellets containing artificial orange dye, which makes their flesh a pale orangey-pink color. However, these synthetic colored pellets are then pooped out on the ocean floor in mass numbers, polluting the ocean.

Next, there is the problem of sea lice infestation in these salmon farms due to them being held in such unhealthy and unnatural conditions. But the real tragedy is that these sea lice are infecting the wild salmon population – which has disastrous consequences not only to the wild salmon, but to the entire ecosystem and food web connected to these wild salmon.

To understand exactly what happens and the detrimental cascade effect on the ecosystem, watch this excellent little film (very educational for kids too!):

http://www.watershed-watch.org/sealice.html

Jini

Those of you who have been trying to purchase MucosaHeal have seen that there’s an Out of Stock notice on the website:

This is not actually true as the product is not ‘out of stock’, it is actually being held up by the FDA. After thoroughly investigating the product, they have decided that the product is okay, the label is okay, but they don’t like the “claims” being made on the website. Hence, they have refused the product entry into the US. MucosaHeal is currently manufactured in Canada and shipped down to our warehouse in the States – thus the FDA has stopped it at the border and now refuses it entry.

Elasticman Guidelines

When we asked them for guidelines about what we needed to change on our website, they would not give us any specifics. When we said, “Okay, so if we completely change the website so it says nothing about the product, will you let it through the border?” and they said, “We can’t comment.”

And this is one of the major problems with the FDA – after talking to a few manufacturers who have already been through this “harassment” process, I’m convinced that the FDA itself doesn’t even know what it’s guidelines are. In fact, it seems to be a case of whichever agent you get and whatever mood he’s in that day combined with whatever machinations are going on behind the scenes.

It seems to me the only reliable FDA regulation is: Whoever’s paying us the most money gets their way.

Which leads me to wonder: Did someone tip the FDA off about my products, because why MucosaHeal? Honestly, we sell such miniscule amounts compared to other natural health products – it’s not even retail for pete’s sake. We must sell .0001% of what any other product would sell.

No Longer Under The Radar

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Those of you who have Listen To Your Gut know that I strongly advise against using the contraceptive pill, or patch, or implant. Because not only do these drugs mess up your hormones and increase your cancer risk, but they also alter the pH in your GI tract and make it very difficult (if not impossible) to maintain a healthy gut flora.

Even if you’re taking probiotics daily, if you’re simultaneously using some version of “The Pill” then you’re directly sabotaging your gut health and you will not see the desired results (and probably a lot of undesirable results).

Now, if that’s not bad enough, there’s new research on negative effects caused by The Pill that, amazingly enough, alter your sense of smell and cause you to choose sexual partners (or boyfriends, husbands) who are NOT genetically compatible with you!

Does that blow your mind, or what?!

You can read all about it here:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/how-contraceptive-pill-influences-partner-choice.aspx?source=nl

The good news is there is a great all-natural alternative to The Pill available at: www.lunafertility.com

Jini

Andrew Locke – the host/creator of this web tv show, “Help, My Business Sucks!” is just the cutest little Englishman and the shows are really enjoyable.

In this episode he talks about shipping problems and why they never use USPS International Insured – something our customers are always asking us to use since the courier charges (UPS & FedEx) are so expensive. So, if you watch this show, you’ll know why we ONLY ship international orders FedEx…

Which, by the way, we do get a 50% discount on and we pass that entire savings on to our customers. So although the courier charge seems very expensive, it’s actually only half of what it would cost you to ship it yourself.

Anyway, enough said about shipping! This show is about much more than that and like I said, it’s really enjoyable. Click below to watch it:

Episode #17 – Why Dell Sucks, Donny Deutsch ‘The Big Idea’ TV Show, Ideas for Using Online Videos to Promote Your Business, a Cool Nifty Click, and a BAD Lesson From UPS.

If you subscribe to this show, you’ll be sent it every week.

Enjoy!

Jini

The Toronto Dept of Public Health is finally acting on reams of research and has issued a warning to children not to use cell phones.

However, what most people don’t know is that CORDLESS phones (in your house) carry the same radiation load as a cell phone.

So don’t let your kids (or yourself) use either of them!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/09/why-children-and-teens-should-stay-away-from-cell-phones.aspx?source=nl

Also, this director of a Cancer Center in Pittsburgh has warned his entire staff not to use cell phones (or cordless phones):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_he_me/cell_phone_warning

Help spread the word, as most people are not aware of this……

Jini

I recently came across a post on a Quackwatch-type of blog where the author had posted my warning letter about ingesting bacterial soil organisms – also known as HSO’s, SO’s, SBO’s, or probiotics:

http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/05/primal-defense-hso-probiotics-warning.html

“Along with a book I ordered called “The IBD Remission Diet” by Jini Patel Thompson, came a page inserted later by the author that essentially withdrew her prior recommendation of Primal Defense. Horrified, I searched the Internet and could only find glowing testimonials (most of which eventually stemmed from the Garden of Life company’s own marketing.) I could find nothing from a scientific or unbiased source. The inserted warning is frightening. Here it is:

“On Page 108 of the IBD remission diet, I suggest that readers may want to try a product called Primal Defense after they’ve been completely healed for 3-5 months. I learned of this product from numerous readers who wrote in to let me know how well it’s worked for them. Since I couldn’t try the product myself (I’ve been pregnant or breastfeeding for four years and counting,) I questioned numerous respected naturopaths, microbiology professors and gastroenterologists for their opinion on the product and all said it looked fine.

However, since meeting the founder and president of Natren Inc. (top quality pro-biotic manufacturer,) Natasha Trenev, I must change my opinion of bacterial soil organisms. Natasha is a world renowned expert on microorganisms and maintains one of the largest research libraries on that topic in the world. She has sent me an entire CD ROM of articles, research and clinical data and other scientific studies, (most done outside of North America,) outlining why it is not safe to consume bacterial soil organisms (like those contained in Primal Defense and numerous other products.)

To summarize the research briefly, soil organisms (SO) are spore formers, so they make make good competitors for yeast, fungus and other pathogens. This is why so many people taking soil organisms will initially experience very favorable results. However these spores are are extremely difficult to kill, surviving sterilants, disinfectants, acceleration forces, heat, pressure, radiation and many antibiotics. Strong antibiotics — like Vancomycin — can suppress certain spores. Spores are so persistent in the intestines that another round of germination may occur after the the drug is stopped. Soil organisms can also adapt loose genetic material and incorporate it into their cellular structure – the ramifications of which are yet unknown. Various soil organisms can also produce harmful peptides, affecting hemoglobin in the blood. It’s important to keep in mind that virtually all antibiotic drugs were were initially developed from soil organisms and as antibiotics become more potent, they cause more damage to the host, not just in the immediate gut environment, but systematically as well.

In the EU (European Union) the use of soil organisms in animal feed is being stringently controlled and questioned at this time. There are simply too many questions and unknowns to sanction the use of soil organisms for human consumption and one can certainly cannot qualify them as safe at this time.

I’m very sorry for any confusion this may have caused you. To be honest, this is the very first time I’ve recommended a product that I’ve not tried and tested exclusively myself — I admit I was swayed by so many good recommendations from readers. Rest assured that I will not do so again!

My sincerest apologies,
Jini Patel Thompson
July 2003″

There were many comments in response to this blog post, some of them claimed that the information from Natasha Trenev was not valid, as Natren is a competitor to Primal Defense. However, when I tried to post my comment with the research references, it would not accept it as there are too many web links in it and it’s too long. So, I’m posting it here instead!

I hear the argument about Natren being a competitor to Primal Defense. But that’s also forgetting a simple point: Wouldn’t it be simpler for Natasha to produce her own soil organism product, rather than spend her time and energy speaking out against soil organisms? When you own your own manufacturing plant, diversifying your product line is a breeze and costs very little.

Hmmm…could it be she’s actually concerned about people’s health? Likewise, her insistence that viable probiotics need to be refrigerated at all stages (like yoghurt). Wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier for her to just offer a “shelf-stable” line of probiotics? When you already have millions of customers worldwide, surely this would make more financial sense?

Sure it would! But that’s my point. Natasha Trenev is one of the pioneers of the alternative health field and one of the minority who have not sold out their integrity for money.

She maintains one of the largest libraries on microorganism research in the world, with a full-time librarian. She also has a PhD Microbiologist on full-time staff – who often works with California hospitals to set up and implement clinical trials of probiotics.

Neither of these activities are cheap, but they are vital to understanding and staying at the forefront of this field that is absolutely rife with misinformation.

Anyway, getting back to the soil organisms – here is an extensive list of references (from hard science sources) that illustrate WHY ingesting soil organisms is experimental at the very least, and potentially dangerous. This list was compiled back in 2004, so while most of the web links are still active – if any of them no longer link properly, then you can still find the article by searching on the title/author.

Regarding the “alternative vs. allopathic sources” debate. Both have their pros and cons and my solution is to research and talk to both; with the ultimate trump over any research or study being my own body wisdom and experience. My best to all of you in your Healing Journey.

Soil organisms: Web links for further research information

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Agerholm JS, Jensen NE, Giese SB, Jensen HE. A preliminary study on the pathogenicity of Bacillus licheniformis bacteria in immunodepressed mice. APMIS. 1997 Jan;105(1):48-54.
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Agerholm JS, Jensen NE, Dantzer V, Jensen HE, Aarestrup FM. Experimental infection of pregnant cows with Bacillus licheniformis bacteria. Vet Pathol 1999 36: 191-201.

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Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Organization. Evaluation of veterans involved in the Project SHAD tests – Autumn Gold, Copper Head, Shady Grove and others for possible occupatioanl health exposures. Dec 31, 2001. IL 10-2001-015. http://www.va.gov/shad/docs/IL_2001-015.pdf

European Commission, Health & Consumer Protection Dorectorate-General. Opinion on the use of certain micro-organisms as additives in feedingstuffs. Expressed 26 September 1997, updated 25 April 2003.
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Hoa NT, Baccigalupi L, et al, Characteriazation of Bacillus Species Used for Oral Bacteriotherapy and Bacterioprophylaxis of Gastrointestinal Disorders. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000;66(12):5241-5247
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Kniehl E, Becker A, Forster DH. Pseudo-outbreak of toxigenic Bacillus cereus isolated from stools of three patients with diarrhoea after oral administration of a probiotic medication. Journal of Hospital infection. 2003;55(1):33-8.
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Logan NA. Bacillus species of medical and veterinary importance. J Med Microbiol. 1988 Mar;25(3):157-65.
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An important point to keep in mind, is that as pharmaceutical company revenues continue to fall and public buying practices continue to reflect a growing interest in natural or alternative healthcare, we are going to see a LOT more publicity/propoganda attacking natural herbs and substances.

It reminds me of Comfrey. Comfrey is the most amazing wound healer I have ever come across. But the FDA (funded and driven by big Pharma) actually banned it – based on ONE death by a woman who was in very bad health, taking dozens of drugs, and oh yes, she also drank an excessive amount of comfrey tea every day. Compare this with 7,000 deaths in the same year from Aspirin (which surprise, surprise is still on the shelves) and you get the message.

So basically, don’t believe anything you read/hear in the mainstream media – it is completely unreliable. You can get questions from there, but then do your own research before forming an opinion or actioning anything.

Here’s the latest in a no-doubt Pharma-funded “study”, along with an full explanation of the bigger picture:

By: Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D.

“Can a vitamin kill you?” asks the Montreal Gazette. Read the rest of this entry »

I often get emails from my readers who are vegetarian or vegan and struggling to heal. Much as I respect the ideological and environmental motivators for veggie diets, in physical terms, they are simply not good for the human body.

Dr. Weston A. Price was a dentist in the 1920’s who spent 10 years of his retirement travelling the globe – looking for tribes or villages of people who were extremely healthy. He defined ‘healthy’ as having no degenerative disease and a cavity rate of less than 1%. Pretty good standards if you ask me!

Whenever he found a group of people who met these requirements (from Swiss villages, to Inuit, to African tribes) he studied them, paying particular attention to what they ate. If you would like to read his flagship book on this, it’s called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (available at Amazon.com) and it’s fantastic. Read the rest of this entry »

Anthropomorphism is defined as:

The attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects, or deities. It appears in the mythologies of many cultures and as a literary device in fables and allegories.

Go on, call me naive, accuse me of anthropomorphism, but don’t tell me it’s not obvious what these animals are feeling!

Glutathione reduces oxidative stress, decreases inflammation, and modulates T cell responses in lungs. Hence it is an excellent natural substance for treating conditions of lung inflammation, pneumonia, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, etc. and it can also work well with asthma.

I used it myself following a bout of severe pneumonia, where it hurt to take a deep breath or inflate my left lung fully. I felt a marked difference after the first session, but after a while, it wore off. However, as the treatments continued, the expansion in my lungs remained for longer and longer periods. You will also get the overall boost to your immune system by inhaling it through your lungs as well.

Here are some good articles giving some solid scientific research behind this effective natural therapy:

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An article in the British newspaper this week, The Observer, highlights some sobering reasons why we need to eat locally and support our local farmers as much as we can.

Buying food from small, family-owned farms (hopefully organic, or, no spray) tends to be better for the animals, the soil, the environment and our health. Ayurvedic medicine holds that if you eat local foods, in season, this is most compatible with your body.

Here’s what’s wrong with eating commercial food from your local supermarket: Read the rest of this entry »

We had a fantastic teleseminar with Dr. Hal Huggins and MANY crucial questions were answered. We went WAY beyond the classic “mercury is poisonous, root canals promote infection” tenets of holistic dentistry. If you missed it, I strongly urge you to get a handle on this aspect of your health by listening to the teleseminar (or reading the transcript). I’ve made it available to everyone for free on this blog (and please share it with all your friends and family!):

http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/?p=27

We had some questions come in after the teleseminar, so I sent these to Dr. Huggins and here are his approved responses: Read the rest of this entry »

This is really fun, it’s from my friend Aileen Nobles (psychic and EFT therapist) – ENJOY!

YOUR JULY NUMEROLOGY FORECAST

To find your personal forecast add the day and month of your birth date. Continue adding until you get a single digit. Read the rest of this entry »

Many of you are already familiar with certain concepts of holistic dentistry, such as: mercury is poisonous, root canals promote ongoing infection, flouride is toxic, etc. Since that information is widely available and there is LOTS of documentation on it, I wanted this teleseminar to be more advanced and specific.

Left-click on the link to listen or read, right-click to download

Click Here to LISTEN to the Holistic Dental Health Teleseminar with Dr. Hal Huggins, DDS, MSc

Click Here to READ the Transcript of the Teleseminar

So here is just a sampling of some of the topics covered and questions answered in this FANTASTIC teleseminar: Read the rest of this entry »

The current medical treatment for perianal abscess (which often results in a fistula) involves oral drug antibiotics and manual drainage of infection from the abscess. However, many doctors wish there was an alternative treatment, since it is so hard to get antibiotics to the actual infection site. Oral antibiotics are processed via the GI system, so very dilute amounts end up reaching the rectal area. The good news is: We DO have an alternative treatment that delivers a very powerful natural antibiotic directly to the abscess site.

Perianal Abscess / Fistula Treatment Protocol

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Geez, sure wish I’d known/thought about this before birthing mine!

Here’s one of the many birth stories shared on this natural birthing site.

Go have a look at the short video on the site too, they’ve even got the famous Dr. Christiane Northrup on it:

www.orgasmicbirth.com

Orgasm a Tool for Birth – By Shiraz Ariel Drori

I am a mother of three great kids, birth coach and doula and want to share with you a special story.

The idea that there is a connection between the womb and orgasm had emerged in my head when I was 8 months pregnant with my first baby. I had experienced a sensual pregnancy and enjoyed a very good sex life with my husband. I decided to try to use this powerful tool at my birth. The first labor was difficult due to the fact that I had a placental abruption and hadn’t realized it. At the end I gave birth naturally with no epidural and a small tear that required 4 stitches. At the time I didn’t think that the orgasm helped me but then I realized that maybe it did, maybe it saved me from a c-section. Read the rest of this entry »