Conquering Fibromyalgia

If you have fibromyalgia, you are suffering from pain and a number of other symptoms that come with any major debilitating autoimmune disease. If it hasn't done so already, fibromyalgia has the capacity to ruin your life. In this report you are going to learn about some of those autoimmune symptoms you may not realize are part of having fibromyalgia.

All autoimmune diseases are similar. Learning about what goes on in your body when you have an autoimmune disease will also help you understand fibromyalgia (FMS). In this report you will learn what causes fibromyalgia and many other autoimmune diseases, and about natural and effective products that will help you fight fibromyalgia and reduce the pain.

One of the frustrations with fibromyalgia is it has many symptoms that make you feel lousy that aren't easily diagnosed. So friends, family and doctors don’t easily believe that you are truly ill. Of course, the one symptom common in fibromyalgia is pain in the muscles, ligaments, and tendons – the soft fibrous tissues in the body.

So that you and your family can better understand the magnitude of the ill health conditions that buffet you when you have fibromyalgia, so that you will be able to recognize symptoms that have been bothering you that you didn't know were related to fibromyalgia, here is a list of symptoms that are common to fibromyalgia and many other autoimmune diseases. If you have fibromyalgia, you may not experience all of these symptoms, but you probably experience most of them.

Pain and Fibromyalgia: The pain of FMS has no boundaries. People describe the pain as deep muscular aching, throbbing, shooting, and stabbing. Intense burning may also be present. Often diagnosed as a separate illness, fibromyalgia is basically a symptom that can occur with any autoimmune disease. If you have it, you’ve got pain. Often in the neck and in shoulder muscles extending down the back. Can be in the joints and muscles also.

Fatigue: It’s not a good fatigue, from working hard, but an anxious, uncomfortable fatigue related to lack of sleep. The fatigue has been described as "brain fatigue" in which patients feel totally drained of energy. Or a disruption of the energy production mechanism in cells, either from lack of oxygen, increased toxicity, infections or a malfunction of the mitochondria.

Sleep Disturbance: About 80% may wake up three or four times a night, or in some cases you don’t wake up, but in the morning you still feel like a truck ran over you. The reason for this is that subliminal seizures kick you out of stage 4, Delta sleep, to stage 1 sleep so you can’t sleep deeply and wake up not rested.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Constipation, diarrhea, frequent abdominal pain, abdominal gas, and nausea represent symptoms frequently found in roughly 40 to 70% of FMS patients.

Chronic headaches - Recurrent migraine or tension-type headaches are seen in about 50% of FMS patients and can pose a major problem in coping for this patient group.

Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome - This syndrome, sometimes referred to as TMJ or TMD, causes tremendous jaw-related face and head pain in one quarter of FMS patients. However, a 1997 published report indicated that close to 75% of FMS patients have a varying degree of jaw discomfort. Typically, the problems are related to the muscles and ligaments surrounding the jaw joint and not necessarily the joint itself.

Short Term Memory Loss: Because of the low thyroid and heart complications typical in autoimmune diseases, there is a decrease in blood flow to the left lobe of the brain causing an oxygen deficiency in the brain. This can lead to the memory loss and forgetfulness that is common in autoimmune diseases.

Emotional Liability: Someone may cry more easily, be more anxious and fearful. This is caused by the illness, and is not a psychological reaction!

Depression: As with the emotional symptoms, the hypothalamus is involved. This is not clinical depression, but literally has a physical cause that is sometimes experienced as a deep depression right in the heart.

Low Thyroid Function. About 85% have this symptom, but only about 10% of the time does it show up on a typical thyroid test. If you get tested, have both a T3 and T4 done. About 10% have excessive hair loss. For most everyone, a poorly performing thyroid will show up as subnormal temperatures.

Gastrointestinal Problems: About 75% have this symptom. Can be anything from gas, bloating, cramps, diarrhea or constipation to hiatal hernia, irritable bowel syndrome or Crohn’s Disease. Sometimes taking a simple homeopathic remedy like arsenicum album, 6x or 6c and make a difference with this.

Swollen Glands, Chemical Sensitivity: Allergies often develop, usually after 3 to 5 years. Eyes can be light sensitive for 6 months or longer. Dry eyes can develop. About 20% experience a very uncomfortable disequilibrium of vertigo, almost an out of body feeling that can be most disconcerting.

Low Blood Sugar: Most people with autoimmune diseases have low blood sugar.

Candida Yeast Infections: These are very common. Check your tongue. If it has a white coating, you have it. Or take the spit test you will read about later. Women may get vaginal yeast infections caused by Candida overgrowth. A Candida infection on its own can cause a number of autoimmune type symptoms. Sinus infections often are caused by Candida.

Tingling hands. Ringing ears. Cold toes. Cold fingers. Metallic taste in mouth. Caused by poor circulation and who knows what.

Overdoing: You over exercise or overwork when your are feeling good, and then feel worse for days afterward. This can cause serious problems. In healthy people the body shuts down when the anaerobic threshold is reached as a lot of pain is experienced. This warning does not occur if you have an autoimmune disease. Instead, the body continues to exercise and experiences no pain as the lactic acid builds up, and the body ends up recirculating carbon dioxide. This is not a healthy thing to have happen to you. It is important not to push too hard when you start recovering, or this will set you back and wipe you out.

Fluttering Heart. Panic Attacks. Rapid Heartbeat. Mitral Valve Prolapse. Usually blood pressure is low, though it can get high later on. The heart under-pumps blood because it is getting incorrect messages from the autonomous nervous system. The body’s feedback loop picks this up and over-reacts. And you get these symptoms.

This information is for educational purposes only. I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice on how to treat autoimmune conditions, but information to help you understand them

Understanding why people get fibromyalgia is difficult. There doesn’t seem to be only one reason or trigger that defines FMS. The main symptom is pain in the muscles. This may be due to the destruction of the myelin sheath, the sack that protects the nerves. This exposes the nerves and causes pain. Another theory is that Candida overgrowth causes a leaky gut. If you develop this you may also have developed an allergy to protein, especially if you eat meat like chicken. With this allergy your own body begins to attack the muscles, which are similar to protein. Either of these reasons has to do with poor cellular communication.

Lack of Cellular Communication

There are two general immune system issues in an autoimmune disease.

Poor cellular communication because there is a lack of cell markers on the cell walls.

An over-activated, out of balance immune system that attacks those cells.

So why does the immune system attack the body? After all, the immune system is supposed to attack pathogens or cancers that are “non-self”. Not the bodies’ own cells. Even when mycoplasma and viral infections deliberately confuse and over activate the immune system, which may happen quite often, the question remains as to why the immune cells attack cells they are supposed to be protecting.

When I learned about the role of long-chain carbohydrates in cellular communication I began to understand one reason why this may happen. Here is the story.

Different types of long chain carbohydrates reside on the surface of cells. Communicating information about that cell, and allowing it to interact and exchange information with other cells. One thing they communicate is that they are a part of the body. When cells have these markers, they won’t be attacked. Any cell that doesn’t have these cell markers is treated as “non-self” by the immune system. And can be attacked.

The essential heavy molecular weight carbohydrates that make cell markers aren’t commonly in our diet. With healthy individuals, this is not a problem because they can be made from ordinary carbohydrates. However, the process required to do this is enzyme intensive. And as an autoimmune disease develops, enzymes are destroyed throughout the body. (You’ll read more about this in a few minutes.) So you become enzyme deficient and unable to produce adequate amounts of long chain cell markers.

This may be why some cells can’t communicate that they are part of the body. If the immune system is over activated, it may attack those cells. Causing inflammatory damage, and ultimately organ and joint damage.

There has been much positive research into the value of these long chain carbohydrate molecules.

Acta Anatomica, a European journal, states that long chain carbohydrate molecules have a coding capacity surpassing that of amino acids.

In March, 2001, Science Magazine dedicated virtually the entire magazine to the essential saccharides that make up these cellular communication keys.

The University of California, San Diego, announced the establishment of a Center for the further research and development of the Science of Glycobiology. And the President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in London, Dr. John Asford, said that "Sugars are going to be the molecules of the next decade.”

Clearly, increasing levels of these long chain carbohydrate molecules may have a beneficial effect on the immune system.

An Out Of Balance Immune System

Your immune system has two different modes or sides. Th-1 or T helper-1 cells fight pathogens like viruses, mycoplasma and bacteria that are inside the cells. Th-2 or T helper-2 cells fight pathogens outside the cells.

When the immune system is healthy, these two modes function together, supporting each other in keeping the body healthy. But if they get out of balance, if the Th-1 side becomes weak and the Th-2 side over-activated, or the reverse, serious problems develop.

If you suffer from an autoimmune condition, in some way or another part of your immune system is worn out. The Wall Street Journal, August 2nd, 2000, reported that a team of researchers lead by Dr. Weyand studied patients with an autoimmune disease and compared them with people of similar age without the condition. They found that patients 20 to 30 years old had a collection of immune cells that looked as though they belonged to 50 to 60 year olds.

The immune system must be in balance to operate efficiently. If it is not, it needs to be modulated back into balance. Worn out Th-1 cells can result in an elevated, overactive Th-2 immune response because they help control Th-2 cell activity. Or the opposite can happen.

Besides this, several things may also cause Th-2 cell over-activation.

Stress for one. Stress produces cortisol. Cortisol stimulates the production of Interleukin 6 and other Th-2 cells. For this reason autoimmune diseases may manifest after a stressful event such as divorce, an accident, a death in the family.

Exposure to toxins wears out the immune system, and thus may cause Th-2 cell over-activation. In addition to the vast number of toxins in our food, water and environment, toxins come from poor digestion, leaky gut syndrome (usually caused by Candida), toxins in drugs and medicine like mercury in vaccines, and mycoplasma bacteria, fungi that produce mycotoxins, and other infectious pathogens that excrete toxins as a byproduct of their metabolism. This can get pretty insidious.

One study by Dr. Dunstan concluded that a pesticide-mutated bacteria in the guts was producing a potent pesticide-like toxin which literally was poisoning the body. It’s like having a miniature Raids factory in your guts. He found in a study done in Australia in the early 90’s that everyone with chronic fatigue had this toxin in them to some degree.

The worse the symptoms, the higher the level of toxins. There was a direct connection between the quantity of this toxin and the severity of the disease. Even in the healthy control group, Dr. Dunstan found that 40% had this toxic chemical present in very small amounts. Obviously not enough to cause an illness, but setting those people up for the possibility of developing an autoimmune illness in the future.

This is one reason why it makes sense to take top quality probiotics (friendly intestinal bacteria) that help keep bad bacteria under control.

Ritchie Shoemaker, M.D. reports on his investigations which leads to a similar conclusion.

“The invisible link was "bio-toxins" - poisonous chemical compounds that travel with impunity through the human body. These tiny molecules shuttle from nerve to muscle to brain to sinus to G.I. tract and other organs in a continual circuit, while triggering the symptoms we define as ‘bio-toxin-related illness.’

“As recent research clearly demonstrates, the compounds are manufactured by a growing number of microorganisms that have begun thriving in our ecosystem. ....They tell us, quite simply, that toxin-forming microorganisms have brought a new kind of disease into our world - a pathology in which bacteria, fungi, algae and other tiny organisms have "learned" how to manufacture toxins that linger on in the human body, long after the organisms themselves are dead. ...

“The pathogens may differ, but the bio-toxins they produce all do their damage by setting off an "exaggerated inflammatory response" in humans. While hiding out in fatty tissues where blood-borne disease-fighters can't get at them, they ‘trick’ the body's immune system into launching attacks of inflammation in many organ systems, including joints, muscles, nerves and brain.”

To make it worse, some of these organisms apparently are manmade, as part of germ warfare, and their form has been altered to make them more difficult for the body to defend against.

According to Dr. Paul Cheney, one of the top autoimmune doctors in the world, viruses, especially the herpes viruses, and some bacteria and mycoplasma, make proteins that mimic IL-10. This tricks the immune system into activating Th-2 cells instead of the Th-1 cells that are supposed to activate and kill these viruses. They trick the immune system into thinking that the threat is coming from the Th-2 side. So the immune system shifts from the Th-1 mode that would attack the viruses or mycoplasma, to the Th-2 mode that does not. They increase their chances of survival by diverting the immune system. And literally initiate an autoimmune condition.

Infections are found in a very high percentage of people with autoimmune diseases. Often more than one type. The infections are bacterial, viral and/or from various types of mycoplasma. In some cases these infections are opportunistic. In other words they occur because the immune system has been wiped out and can’t fight these infections off. (The Th-1 side is worn out.) Or they may be the underlying cause of the malfunctioning immune system.

Donald Scott, based on historical research of government records, reports that a biological weapon, a mycoplasma disease agent, was tested years ago on unknowing US and Canadian populations. Including the Lake Tahoe area where Dr. Cheney first reported cases of CFS. Donald says ex-servicemen who were working with this biological weapon during the Korean War have told him that they were told it caused multiple sclerosis in a percentage of people. And he says that records show it was given to Iraq during the 80s to support their war against Iran, and was most likely used against US troops at the end of the Gulf War, perhaps causing the Gulf War Syndrome. Because it spreads through the air, he says everyone has been exposed to it.

Noted microbiologist, Garth Nicolson, who is said to be among the 100 most cited researchers in the world, found mycoplasma in approximately 50% of the people he tested who had Gulf War Syndrome. Including his daughter. She came back with Gulf War Syndrome and both he and his wife also got it from her. Quick use of antibiotics got them over it. He found that some of the mycoplasma contained an unusual gene sequence probably inserted by a laboratory. Which would imply a biological weapon so perhaps Donald Scott is right.

Garth found that the mycoplasma do activate an immune response. They then hide from the immune system inside the immune system itself, in white blood cells. Making them very hard to get rid of. They can cause infections deep within any organ.

The immune system ends up attacking cells that have mycoplasma in them, and can get “turned on” to attacking the host cells.

In further testing on other autoimmune diseases, Garth found similar levels of viral, bacterial and mycoplasma infections. These (and perhaps the fungi and other organisms Dr. Shoemaker speaks of) likely initiate the autoimmune response in many cases of CFS.

Mycoplasma can cause fatigue, pain and over-toxicity as they poison and disrupt the cells they have invaded. They produce potent toxins inside the cells they reside in. These toxins disrupt the energy production pathways so that infected cells cannot produce energy.

Mycoplasma also damages the immune system when they invade Natural Killer cells. This destruction renders the body susceptible to viruses.

High doses of antibiotics used for long periods of time, commonly a year or more, have had some success against mycoplasma, and some of the other bacteria and organisms that produce these toxins. But they have to be rotated to be successful and the longer you have had an illness, the less likely they will be successful. Antibiotics aren’t perfect for killing mycoplasma because they can’t get into cells, which is where the mycoplasma resides. They can only kill mycoplasma after the cell bursts open, and the mycoplasma must find another cell. Antibiotics are unable to fight the numerous viral infections found in autoimmune conditions.

Let’s continue on with what happens in your body when you have an autoimmune situation.

What happens when Th-2 cells are activated and Th-1 cells are worn out, is this...

Dr. Cheney explains that your bodies only defense against pathogens (like viruses and mycoplasma) ends up being Th-2 side RNase L activity.

He explains that RNase L cannot kill pathogens. It can only stop them from reproducing. According to Cheney, "It's a line in the sand saying 'No more replication', and it waits for Th-1 to come and kill them. But Th-1 never comes. RNase L sits there and grinds away, possibly going up and down as the pathogens activate and reactivate. But they never get wiped out. RNase L holds the line, waiting for the cavalry that never arrives."

This RNase L activity causes big problems because...

While it is trying to hold the line, it is, according to Cheney, inhibiting all the enzymes in the body, disrupting protein synthesis, and generally making you miserable.

Even worse, as RNase L grinds away, it eventually shifts into "afterburner" desperation mode - a more powerful and deadly low molecular weight form. Research indicates that this form of RNase L is up to six times more destructive to enzymes and protein synthesis than the typical form.

What is supposed to happen when a healthy person encounters a virus or mycoplasma? The regular form of RNase L inhibits replication, then the immune system revs up and wipes them out. After that everything down-regulates, and they recover.

In an autoimmune situation, the RNase L activity shifts to a more destructive lower weight form, and does not shut off. It stays activated much longer, resulting in pronounced cellular metabolic dysfunction. This overactivation of RNase L also effects the liver. Liver function declines because the enzymes used by the liver to detoxify toxins are being creamed by the activity of the aberrant RNase L.

When this happens, a person become susceptible to toxins. This happens because RNase L has wiped out the enzymes the liver needs to detoxify the body. This leads to high levels of toxicity. Wreaking havoc in the body.

Liver dysfunction may also cause a Th-2 flare-up...

Antibodies are produced by the Th-2 side to attack pathogens in the blood. Normally, excess antibodies are removed by the liver. However, when liver enzymes have been destroyed by RNase L activity, the liver may not be able to remove the excess antibodies. They then might attack cells in an autoimmune response.

Steroids and the immune response...

As you can see, balancing the immune system so that it works the way it is supposed to is a fundamental need when you have an autoimmune condition. When a doctor gives a person suffering from an autoimmune disease prednisone or another steroid, which most do, they are trying to turn off the immune system. Unfortunately, the success rate is low because they are using a poor tool. Because steroids don’t just turn down the Th-2 side, but they also wipe out the Th-1 side. This side needs to be boosted, not depressed. For unless it can be brought up to normal, it will allow the Th-2 side to over-activate. Both sides are always in a balance. If one is too low, the other will naturally be too high. Like a teeter-totter.

Clearly, putting the immune system back in balance, turning off the Th-2 activity and strengthening the Th-1 side is of primary importance. To do this you have to deal with the mycoplasma or viral or fungal or bacterial infections which may cause it. You have to deal with the depleted enzyme levels caused by excess RNase L activity. And with the toxicity that builds up in cells when the liver and the cells themselves can no longer get rid of toxins.

The body is a remarkable machine. If you can support and balance your immune system adequately, your body may be able to start healing itself and start taking care of the other problems. Generally, however, you have to deal with all the issues in order to get healthy again. So with that in mind, let’s learn a little more about enzymes and their role in your health.

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Digestive and Metabolic Enzymes

Digestive enzymes break down food, and metabolic enzymes are involved in virtually every interaction in the body. When RNase L destroys enzymes and reduces protein digestion, the consequent lack of enzymes affects digestion and just about everything else too.

When you eat cooked and processed foods, the enzymes in the food are destroyed. The digestive process needs those now dead enzymes to break down food in the upper stomach. It naturally produces only enough enzymes to finish breaking down the food in the lower stomach. So when you eat foods which no longer have live enzymes, the food doesn’t break down in the upper stomach. And the body has to produce extra enzymes to try and break down the food in the lower stomach. And if you have an autoimmune disease and don’t have many enzymes, how are you going to produce extra enzymes? You can’t easily do so and digestion may suffer.

Something else happens. Enzymes are proteins. When you aren’t able to digest the proteins in your food because you don’t have enough enzymes, your body won’t be able to make as many enzymes as it should. So will have an even harder time digesting proteins.

By the way, most people, especially those with acid reflux, do not produce enough acid in the stomach to digest protein. As a consequence, the stomach churns up the food, working hard to try and break it down. And splashes this mixture up the throat, causing acid reflux. Taking additional Betaine HCL and digestive enzymes, not anti-acids, are the combination which can take care of this problem.

This is why it makes sense to use good digestive enzymes with meals, with betaine for more acidity, and take an amino acid blend that can help the body can make more enzymes.

Hyper-coagulation, Enzymes and Autoimmune Conditions

Dr. Cheney says that Immune System Activation of Coagulation, called hyper-coagulation, needs to be dealt with early on or other treatments may not be effective. In hyper-coagulation, pathogens and/or toxins activate the immune system to lay down fibrin in blood vessels. The fibrin coats the walls, blocking oxygen and nutrients from getting to nearby tissues. Researchers found that 80% of patients with an autoimmune illness had this coagulation.

Pathogens that activate this include viruses, bacteria (mycoplasma, chlamydia, etc.) and fungi (such as Candida). These pathogens are anaerobes; they live in an oxygen-deprived environment. Fibrination helps them survive because it causes decreased oxygen. The less oxygen the better for them. Unfortunately, this can cause a great deal of damage. Everything from decreased energy to a buildup of toxins and lactic acid in cells.

Hypercoagulation is not an accurate name for this condition as it is not that the blood is too thick. It is that the capillaries become coated with fibrin and the blood cannot flow freely. Fortunately, fibrin can be cleaned off artery walls. Using, of all things, digestive enzymes.

Here’s why they may help. If you take a digestive enzyme on an empty stomach, so that it has nothing to digest in the stomach, the enzymes get into the bloodstream. (Many studies prove enzyme supplements do this.) Once there, they do several things, break down partially digested food, kill pathogens, and clean up the blood in general. Including toxins produced by mycoplasma or any of the other toxin producing microorganisms.

More important for hypercoagulation, enzymes clean the walls of the blood vessels. Digesting and breaking down fats, and in the case of hypercoagulation, the fibrin (a protein) that coat the walls.

There is another aspect to this. Mycoplasma and viral infections may cause blood cells to stick together. Called cold algination. Sticky clumps of red blood cells cause problems. Oxygen and nutrients can’t get to cells efficiently when red blood cells are clumped up. The cells get stuck in small capillaries and clog them up. Seriously reducing oxygenation to cells. Taking a good quality enzyme high in protease and lipase on an empty stomach will work to un-stick those red blood cells within a short period of time.

So take digestive enzymes between meals and with meals. They help take a strain off the immune system because fewer partially digested food particles will enter the bloodstream. When you can’t digest food completely, partially digested food can make its way into the bloodstream. Once there, it acts as a toxin and literally causes the immune system to devote energy and resources to getting rid of it. In addition this can cause food allergies to develop. This is especially true if you have a Candida infection that is eating holes in your intestinal walls, thereby allowing even more partially digested food to enter the bloodstream. Enzymes between meals may help clean up this mess.

Lack Of Oxygen Common in Autoimmune Conditions

Oxygen, or rather the lack of it at the cellular level, may cause many problems in autoimmune diseases. Decreased oxygen to the left side of the brain can result in the short-term memory loss. And may be a factor in the long term malfunctioning of glandular and hormonal systems in the brain.

In addition, buildup of fibrin on the walls of the blood vessels creates low oxygen areas where cells cannot produce an adequate amount of energy. And may be the reason a common symptom in autoimmune diseases is cold fingers or feet, tingly legs and that type of thing. Oxygen is also needed to oxidize and detoxify toxins. When cells don’t have enough oxygen, they are not able to detoxify themselves adequately. And they won’t be able to produce adequate amounts of energy, which may be a major cause of fatigue.

Oxygen kills anaerobic bacteria, mycoplasma and viruses. It works so well it is used to purify water in many cities. (Ozonation.) Why isn’t it used more often with autoimmune diseases?

First breathing it in, you are limited by the amount of oxygen that can be picked up by the hemoglobin in the blood. So it may be difficult to increase oxygen levels dramatically that way. And the drawback to oxygen supplements, the reason they have proven not to be very effective, is that your typical liquid oxygen supplements such as hydrogen peroxide or Vitamin O or whatever, have no way to get oxygen into the cells. The delivery system is lacking. And as the mycoplasma and viruses reside primarily inside cells, and as it is cells that need the extra oxygen the most, these products are limited in their capacity to help.

If you want to fight mycoplasmas and viruses with oxygen, you need to produce oxygen inside the cells. Get enough oxygen into the cells, and it may help with the whole range of oxygen deficiencies.

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Candida Yeast Infections Major Issue In Autoimmune Diseases

Many people suffer from Candida yeast overgrowth. Estimates are that 80% of the population does. If you have an autoimmune disease, your likelihood of having yeast infections is even higher as your immune system is damaged and probably your intestinal flora too. A major Candida yeast infection can produce similar symptoms to those produced by autoimmune diseases. Extreme fatigue, food sensitivities, allergies, etc.

The intestinal tract in general has problems when you have an autoimmune disease. Anything from the common intestinal disorders to the pesticide mutated bacteria and other organisms that could be spewing toxic chemicals in your guts. If you want to get healthy, your gastrointestinal disorders have to be dealt with. Naturally. Creating an intestinal environment with the right pH, eliminating the Candida overgrowth and bad bacteria poisoning your body. And repopulating the intestines with the friendly healthy aerobic bacteria your body needs. That can help keep the “bad” bacteria under control and help to digest food and eliminate waste.

The reason Candida causes so many problems is this. If your body loses its proper immune protection and antibiotics or whatever has destroyed its friendly intestinal bacteria, Candida can overgrow, as it is not killed by antibiotics and “morph” from being beneficial yeast into a harmful fungus. In its fungal form it develops rhizoids (long root-like structures that are invasive and penetrate the mucosa. Once this happens, the boundary between the intestinal tract and the rest of the circulatory system breaks down, and this allows partially digested proteins to travel into the bloodstream where they become toxins.

There are many theories why this happens. Most naturopaths concur that the conversion happens due to some sort of attack on our immune systems – either prolonged antibiotic use, taking steroids or oral contraceptives on a regular basis, or a high sugar diet. Or it could be any combination of these. It is also conjectured that Candida increases its numbers during periods of stress and lowered immune states.

Candida thrives on the foods that are a large part of the typical American diet, which in addition, alters intestinal pH unfavorably. Stress contributes to its proliferation. And, because of its adaptability, it is easily transmitted from person to person in a family.

Simple Home Candida Test:

Try this simple test to see if you have Candida. First thing in the morning, before you put ANYTHING in your mouth, get a clear glass. Fill with water and work up a bit of saliva, then spit it into the glass of water. Check the water every 15 minutes or so for up to one hour. If you have a Candida yeast infection, you will see strings (like legs) traveling down into the water from the saliva floating on the top, or “cloudy” saliva will sink to the bottom of the glass, or cloudy specks will seem to be suspended in the water. If there are no strings and the saliva is still floating after at least one hour, you are probably Candida yeast free.

If you have a bunch of threads or cloudiness, and especially if it develops quickly, you can be pretty darn sure you have a serious case of Candida. A few threads or light cloudiness indicate not as serious an infestation.

Detoxification and Free Radical Damage in Autoimmune Diseases

The problems in autoimmune conditions run much deeper than a messed up immune system, wiped out enzymes, oxygen depleted cells and pathogens making a comfortable home in your guts.

When your liver can’t effectively detoxify your body because its enzymes have been wiped out, toxins build up in your cells. Especially so if mycoplasma are also producing toxins in them. So toxins build up in them. This toxic buildup causes much damage. Damage that can persist even if the autoimmune response is turned off.

Dr. Cheney explains that once the toxicity begins, the toxins themselves inhibit and injure the very enzymes needed to detoxify them. Plus, the cells’ principle detoxification agent and a major viral inhibitor, glutathione, get used up early on. Making it difficult for cells to detoxify, and inhibiting their ability to kill the pathogens infecting them.

Glutathione deficiency has been found to be virtually universal in autoimmune diseases. This deficiency has two major implications: detox failure and viral/microbial activation. Glutathione plays a major role in detoxification. This deficiency impairs the body’s ability to get rid of toxins.

Consequently, people slowly become toxic, storing away poisons in fatty tissue, muscles, organs and the brain. This cellular detox failure can make people canaries to their environment.

To detoxify successfully, this glutathione deficiency must be addressed.

Because glutathione is a potent antiviral and anti-microbial weapon, glutathione deficiency compromises antiviral and anti-microbial defenses, and actually stimulates viral replication. Raising glutathione levels inside the cells can stop the replication of almost any pathogen.

A glutathione deficiency compromises our ability to keep old viruses dormant and fight off bacteria. This is why so many people test positive for EBV, CMV, HHV6, Mycoplasma, and Chlamydia Pneumoniae, etc.

Indications are that glutathione can stop the replication of any intracellular microbe, including HHV6, Chlamydia Pneumoniae, and mycoplasma. Dr. Cheney found that some of his patients were becoming virus free after using a glutathione-creating undenatured whey protein for approximately 6 months. Showing that the increased levels of glutathione were indeed able to handle the viral infections.

There has been a good deal of research that show how important glutathione is.

Immune depressed individuals have lower glutathione levels when fighting disease. Lymphocytes, cells vital for your immune response, depend on glutathione for their proper function and replication. Immunology 61: 503-508 1987.

Cellular depletion of Glutathione has been implicated as a causative, or contributory factor in many pathologies including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cataracts, arteriosclerosis, cystic fibrosis, malnutrition, aging, AIDS and cancer (Bounous et al., 1991).

In addition, Glutathione is essential in supporting the immune system, including natural killer cells (Droege et al., 1997) and in the maintenance of T-lymphocytes (Gutman, 1998).

It is known that as we age, there is a precipitous drop in glutathione levels. Lower Glutathione levels are implicated in many diseases associated with aging, including Cataracts, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, atherosclerosis and others. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 47: 1021-28 1994

Antioxidants are well documented to play vital roles in health maintenance and disease prevention. Glutathione is our cell's own major antioxidant. Why not use what is natural? Biochemical Pharmacology 47:2113-2123 1994

Low glutathione has been demonstrated in neurodegenerative diseases such as MS (Multiple Sclerosis), ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's, among others. The Lancet 344: 796-798 1994

Glutathione detoxifies many pollutants, carcinogens and poisons, including many in fuel exhaust and cigarette smoke. It retards damage from radiation such as seen with loss of the ozone. Annual Review of Biochemistry 52: 711-780 1983.

The liver is the main detoxification organ of the body. In the liver we find very high concentrations of glutathione, as it is a major factor in numerous biochemical detoxification pathways. Numerous studies have demonstrated that patients with compromised liver function due to alcohol abuse have significant reduction of glutathione in the liver. (Lamestro, 1995)

Glutathione is essential for the maintenance of Vitamin C and vitamin E levels according to Martensson. He found that as glutathione levels decreased, a corresponding decrease in ascorbic acid and vitamin E followed, which led to systematic mitochondrial death, which in turn leads to a cessation of cellular metabolism.

(It is this mitochondrial death, at first just a dysfunction, that may cause the fatigue found in autoimmune illnesses.)

The over-toxicity causes extensive free radical damage. Inhibits cellular function. Disrupts energy production by the mitochondria. Consequently the primary energy the cells produce is anaerobic which leads to extensive lactic acid buildup in the cells. And more toxicity.

Cheney explains that fatigue becomes worse. Pain increases. You feel sicker. Memory suffers as toxins and free radicals damage the brain, and not enough oxygen gets into the brain. Deep brain structures like the hypothalamus eventually are injured and cause problems with virtually every hormone in your body. They lose their ability to rise and fall according to signals or demands from the body making it harder to respond to changing situations. Actual damage to the DNA of the energy producing mitochondria can occur. Further limiting energy.

As toxins cause free radical damage, you end up with low levels of all the free radical scavengers. They get used up dealing with excessive free radicals produced by the excessive toxins.

Heavy Metal Toxicity

Excessive levels of heavy metals may also be common in autoimmune diseases. One doctor who tested all his patients found that over 80% of them with an autoimmune disease had excessive mercury levels. They are difficult to get rid of, and are especially harmful as they disrupt cell metabolism. Heavy metals slowly collect in your body, irritate cells and literally can wipe out the immune system. For some people, this could be a major cause of their fatigue.

Most of us have somewhat elevated levels of heavy metals in our system. And it looks like this will get worse. I don’t know if this is true, but read that in the spring of '98, Canadians found that their rainfall, "contained concentrations of aluminum particles seven times higher than permitted by Canadian health safety laws.......residents began complaining about severe headaches, chronic joint pain, dizziness, sudden extreme fatigue, acute asthma attacks and feverless 'flu-like symptoms." [Earth Island Journal, Summer 2002, pages 34-35]

Don’t those symptoms sound a lot like common autoimmune symptoms?

The article talks about how western governments have been seeding the upper atmosphere with superfine heavy metals like aluminum. Called chemtrails, these are an attempt to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming. Unfortunately, they gradually fall to earth.

A Harvard School of Public Health study found that particulates with a diameter less than 10 microns pose a serious threat to public health. On April 21, 2001, the New York Times warned: 'These microscopic molecules are able to infiltrate the tiniest compartments in the lungs and pass readily into the bloodstream, and have been most strongly tied to illness and early death, particularly in people who are already susceptible to respiratory problems."

Michael Biamonte, at his health clinic, tested the mercury levels in his patients with various illnesses. He found that 84% of his clients with Candida had elevated mercury levels, and that they were 60% higher than normal. The exact same numbers held for clients with parasites. 86% of clients with Epstein Barr Virus had mercury levels elevated by 68%. For those with chemical sensitivities 85% were 70% elevated and found similar numbers for autoimmune diseases. Most other conditions were much lower.

This really opened my eyes to the damage high mercury levels can cause. And to the fact that if you have a chronic fatigue, you have a very good chance of having elevated levels of mercury in your body.

Getting rid of mercury is confounded by the bile loop. The liver picks up mercury from the bloodstream where cells have put it to be detoxified. However, rather than getting eliminated something else happens. The liver puts it into the bile in the intestines. Unfortunately, this mercury is rapidly absorbed once again into the blood stream with other fluids. So instead of the liver being able to get rid of the mercury it detoxifies, the mercury gets routed back into the body. This is also what happens with the biotoxins produced by microorganisms in the body. They continually get routed back into the blood from the bile.

Methyl mercury binds anywhere and everywhere, in genetic dependent proportions. Females retain methyl mercury 2:1 over males. It accumulates in the central nervous system, the endocrine system, and every major organ, as well as the body at large. (They may well do the same for these other biotoxins.)

Perhaps the most devastating are the pituitary, thyroid, hypo campus and adrenal gland methyl mercury accumulations. These disruptions help bring on fatigue, mind fog, short term memory loss, concentration problems, and headaches. People can lose their sense of balance. Women can develop early menopause and endodemitriosis from loss of proper hormone regulation.

If the mercury accumulation is in the immune system, the immune system can suffer severe damage. If the brain is the focus, all sorts of mental disorders can occur. If it happens in the liver or kidneys, acute diseases can attack those organs. In muscles, pain. In joints, arthritis.

A natural approach to dealing with this would be using something that contains high levels of alginates. Alginates absorb heavy metals like mercury and other toxins in the intestines where they have been secreted by the bile. As these alginates cannot be absorbed, they are excreted from the body, taking the mercury and other toxins they have absorbed with them.

Organ, Brain and Glandular Damage in Autoimmune Diseases

Long term over toxicity, free radical damage, lack of oxygen and nutrients eventually may harm organs, including the brain, and disrupt the hormonal system. Unless this damage can be repaired, a person might forever be physically limited. No matter how complete the detoxification.

The keys to body initiated repair are Growth Hormones (GH) and bovine Growth Factors (GF). Growth hormone acts as the "construction workers" who implement the "blueprints" provided by the bovine growth factors. Together they may be able to repair the damage done to the brain and organ systems.

People with autoimmune illnesses are very deficient in growth hormones. Greta Moorken’s Ph.D. thesis, published in May 2000, showed that people with chronic fatigue for 18 months had a 50% reduction in growth hormones. When Dr. Cheney tests patients himself, he finds patients who have no growth hormones. He feels that the longer you are ill, the greater the reduction.

He also noted that 9 out of 10 patients who were under 20 got well. While only 1 out of 10 patients over 20 did. And attributed this difference to the fact that people under 20 have a lot more growth hormones so even if they lose some, they have enough to recover.

Lack of growth hormones means serious trouble. GH and stage 4 sleep are interdependent. No growth hormone - no stage 4 sleep; no stage 4 sleep - no growth hormone. And no stage 4 sleep and you wake up in the morning tired and worn out.

Cheney stated that, "At 3 AM the liver comes up and maximally detoxifies. Isn't it interesting that the body spikes growth hormone production not long before the liver needs it? It primes the liver. If you don't get the priming with growth hormones at midnight, then your liver doesn't work and you become more toxic."

Growth hormone deficiency may be related to the symptom of over exercising and not being able to recover for days. It the body is unable to produce growth hormone in response to exercise, serious problems result when you exercise hard.

Growth hormone deficiency is related to a host of other hormone deficiencies as your hormonal system starts to fall apart. The hypothalamus goes, the thyroid too.

Autoimmune Disease Wrap-up

I am not a doctor, nor am I a health care practitioner. I am a compiler. Taking information on Autoimmune Diseases and putting it in a form that makes sense to me, and that, I hope, has made them a little more understandable to you. I am sure there are aspects I have not covered. Hopefully this report has given you enough information about autoimmune diseases so you can make more informed decisions about the best way of dealing with one, and take charge of your health.

I know a bit about supplements, diet and health, or ill health for that matter. And can give you some good pointers on what types of foods and supplements are especially good for dealing with an autoimmune condition. A number of the supplements I find most powerful and health giving are not the usual ones you commonly hear touted. This next report is an important extension of this information on autoimmune diseases.

Here are our recommended supplements for Fibromyalgia that help with Energy, Pain, Detoxification, and Building your Immune System.

ENERGY

Non-transdermal Energy Patches

Five Ways The Patches Increase Strength and Energy

First, resonant specific frequencies enter the body from these non-transdermal patches. They make use of nanotechnology to naturally balance your meridians (electrical system). The body works to balance meridian energy flows, however, without help such as acupuncture, there is hardly ever a real balance in the body that keeps our energy, concentration, stamina, strength and minus/plus (Yin/Yang) systems at the optimum level.

Secondly, the patches influence each cell of the body to produce more energy. This is through at least two mechanisms.

1. The patches through their tiny micro current effect cause the production of more ATP, the cells' fuel source.

2. The patches influence more conversion of stored fats to energy.

The result: Each cell in your body now has more energy, and consequently, each organ and tissue has more energy within itself. This frees up more energy for your muscles and brain to work, play and live at a new level. And as you may imagine, freeing more vital energy for the ongoing process of recovery, repair and healing that most every body needs.

Third, the patches influence the absorption of more calcium. This may be why pH levels rise within hours of putting on the patches.

Fourth, the patches, are a cellular tonic. As each cell has more energy,

1. It absorbs more of the vital nutrients, and builds more of the chemical messengers, that are foundational to full health. This in effect optimizes your use of all the other supplements you take.

2. It tackles the waste material of cellular metabolism, and the toxins of our modern world that enter the body. Your cells now have more energy to break these down and move them out.

Fifth, as a direct consequence of the above effects, each system of your body - for example, the digestive system (including absorption and elimination), the endocrine, the nervous system, etc., all function at a higher level.

PAIN

Health First Grape Seed Extract

You may have heard about grape seed extract, or its sister product, Pycnogenol. Stories abound of the amazing health benefits of using them. Research has validated over something like 40 types of conditions they provide benefit for. It is a popular product, and for this reason there are many grape seed extracts on the market. And as with many things, quality varies greatly. It is virtually impossible to find the highest quality grape seed extract because it is expensive and your health food stores don't carry it. However, when you need to be real serious about health and wellness, nothing else works as well.

This is because most grape seed extracts are not processed correctly, and the antioxidants in them are used up in the processing. They are cheaper to manufacture, but don't work nearly as well. This Grape Seed Extract is processed by the third and final process patented by the discoverer of pycnogenol and grape seed extract, Jacques Masquelier. The process uses vacuum processing at low temperatures which protects the antioxidants in it from oxidation and loss through heating. Even better, it includes Resveratrol, which is a grape skin extract, to increase its effectiveness. There has been a lot of research and publicity about the benefits of grape skin extract for everything from fighting cancer and heart disease to helping recovery from sugar. I have included it in this section because when taking 10 to 12 capsules a day, significant pain relief is often noticed within a few weeks.

Max Pain Specialist

This Powerful, yet Gentle, Formula of Pain Specialist has a Dual Action:

First: it provides extraordinary pain relief activities from a special group of six concentrated Chinese Medicine Extracts scientifically evaluated and selected from 4605 natural plants to be the very best for pain relief.

In addition, it has a team of proprietary Anti-Inflammatory herbs consisting of very powerful and unusual ingredients with strong scientific research published in medical Journals all over the world.

Getting Good Sleep

Grounding Mattress Pad

Grounding the body is a revolutionary new technology that proved in scientific testing to be remarkably helpful in improving sleep and reducing pain while you sleep. There are a number of reasons why sleep, pain, and health improve when you ground your body.

The research shows that when the body is electrically grounded to the earth while sleeping on a grounding mattress pad, the direct current (DC) voltage of the earth creates a natural protective electron shield (Faraday cage) on the surface of the body. This natural shield prevents environmental 50-60 Hz electric fields from creating electron disturbances in the body that can elevate free radical levels and promote chronic inflammation and pain.

Test subjects who were sleeping on the grounded bed pad reported the following:

> 85% reported falling asleep faster

> 93% slept better throughout the night

> 100% reported waking feeling more rested in the morning

> 82% reported experiencing less muscle pain and stiffness

> 74% experienced less chronic back and joint pain

>78% reported improved general health

The Grounding Mattress Pad is literally a lifechanging technology that could make a tremendous improvement in your quality of life.

To place an order for these, or to get more information on the grounding mattress pads: www.earthingpad.com

IMMUNE SUPPLEMENTS

Get Healthy Aloe MPS

It took a bit of investigating to decide which of the various products on the market seemed to be the best. They all work to some degree or the other. I first had heard about one be marketed by a network marketing company. They use fillers, and it seemed to be expensive.

Manapol is another major brand that contains 35% to 50% of the active long chain molecules, the rest being inactive fibers. And their molecular size only goes up to one million daltons, which misses out on much of immune active weights. By the time I got done looking around, I knew that Aloe MPS offered the most value for the money.

Its manufacturer uses the right kind of processing, including freeze-drying, to preserve the active ingredients. It contains higher levels of active ingredients. 60%. Less fiber. It contains the complete MPS molecule intact. Its Dalton weight goes up to over two million. Double the others. These higher Dalton weights are necessary for effective immune system healing, bolstering and balancing the immune system cells. Also, on the lower Dalton range of the MPS molecule, the weights go to a lower range in heavier concentrations, as low as 10,000 Dalton, where they may help reduce inflammation.

Remember, MPS, as a long chain carbohydrate, does not digest like a food carbohydrate that becomes reduced to simple sugars. MPS is absorbed whole into the blood stream after ingesting. Those with blood sugar imbalances often ask about the carbohydrate effect of MPS from Aloe Vera, but there is no negative effect from MPS on blood sugar. The body has special receptors to utilize those molecules intact.

Aloe MPS is taken as a loose powder mixed with water once a day. For health maintenance, a quarter to half a measuring teaspoon a day is used, with an ounce lasting 4 to 8 months. For serious health improvement, two and a half measuring teaspoons a day or more are used, with an ounce lasting a month. It takes 7 to 8 gallons of pure aloe vera juice to make one ounce of this product.

The best way to take Aloe MPS is to start out with a quarter of a teaspoon mixed with about four ounces of water. Stir thoroughly. Increase a quarter of a teaspoon a day.

The Aloe MPS works better if mixed with lecithin granules or powder, about one to one in terms of volume. If a person has a soy allergy, then use an essential fatty acid oil such as flax seed oil. If lecithin or oils cause digestive upset, then take it by itself mixed with water.

Drink first thing in the morning before eating anything else. Wait half an hour before eating or drinking anything else except for more water.

There can be detoxification responses or other healing responses because of the immune modulating effects of the Aloe MPS, The dosage can be lowered or kept at the same level for the period of time that is most comfortable. Aloe MPS is totally non-toxic and not a drug, but a natural supplement.

A one ounce bottle of Aloe MPS supplies 2 and 1/2 teaspoons a day for a month.

Natur-Leaf Sterols and Sterolins

Natur-Leaf is a whole food (freeze dried sprouts) sterol and sterolin supplement that has the highest ratio of sterolins to sterols of any product on the market. 4 to 1. In an interview with the world's foremost authority on sterols and sterolins, Dr. Karl Pegel, the question was asked whether the sterols/sterolin ratio has any effect on the efficiency of the treatment. His response was, "In Harzol we had a ratio of 100 parts of sterols to 1 part of sterolin. There was a very good reason why this was done at the beginning as we wanted to hide the sterolins (for experimental purposes)... But if one looks at the ratios in nature in the plants, this is more like one molecule of the glucoside to 5 to 10 molecules of sitosterols. This, in my opinion, is a much better ratio."

So even though I could carry the most heavily marketed and researched sterol and sterolin supplement, Moducare, I do not because the nutrients are isolated in it, not a more usable whole food. Morton Walker wrote in the Townsend Letter that it was only 5% bioavailable while Natur-Leaf was 47%. A huge difference. And Moducare's ratio is a paltry 100 to one. They say that their research proves this is the best ratio. Yet the only ratio they compared it to in the only study they did, had an even worse ratio, 150 to one. No wonder Moducare worked better in that study. The lower the ratio, the more effective the results.

In each capsule of Natur-Leaf you get twice as many sterols and sterolins, 40 mgs. With a tested 8 mgs. of sterolins. Forty times more than the .2 mgs of sterolins in Moducare.

DETOXIFICATION

Zeolite Enhanced

Zeolite Enhanced is the single most powerful zeolite product available. This is because it has been frequency enhanced which dramatically increases its effectiveness, as much as 90% stronger than other liquid zeolites. The special vibratory frequencies in Zeolite Enhanced makes the zeolite better able to get to where it needs to go. In addition, it improves the health of normal cells while harming unwanted cells and is an excellent heavy metal detoxifiers.A one ounce bottle supplying 600 drops.

Zeolite

Take 1/2 to 1 heaping teaspoon of this high qualilty micronized powdered zeolite morning and night. This does not detoxify as much per milligram as the Cellular Zeolite does, but you get a lot more milligrams per serving. Will also serve to buffer pH, scavange free radicals, and more. This 420 gram container supplies 2 heaping teaspoons a day for a month.

Zeo3

Zeo3: Hydrate, energize, cleanse, tonify, alkalize, repair, recover.

The atomizer spray delivers a highly absorbable Zeolite-Humic-Fulvic complex in an oxygenated structured water base. It gives you instant oxygen, electrons, micronutrients, enzymes and cofactors.

The energy in a water molecule can be measured by the hydrogen bond angle. In general this varies from 101 degrees (dead water) to 109 degrees (high). In steam the angle increases to 120 degrees because of itshigh energy.

How it's made:

Our Zeo3 water goes a proprietary process involving thousands of heating and cooling cycles in an ozonated chamber to produce a highly functional, purified water with an increased hydrogen bond angle.

In essence this is exactly the process water goes through in nature, heating (evaporation), cooling (rain) and ozonation as the water vapor high in the atmosphere is exposed to sunlight. To create Zeo3 water we do decades of nature's cleaning in one day, which is how long it takes our proprietary equipment to produce 5 gallons of this energized water.

Zeo3 is also a fully charged water with oxygen levels back at around 38%. Tap water comes in at 8 to 10% oxygen.

Vitamins need electrons to bring them to life. Pathogens and viruses are killed by electrons.

Old age creeps in as you lose electrons. Because of how it's made, Zeo3 Water is a natural storehouse of electrons that your body uses in countless ways.

Detox Clay Bath Kits

Use either in a bath, as a foot bath or even as a pack. The best and most cost effective way to pull toxins and heavy metals out of the body. The Environmental Detox Clay is the main bath used for cancers as it deals with pesticides and other environmental toxins. Other options include Tox-Away for heavy metal detoxification, Clear Out for general detoxification, Smoker’s/Drug for toxins accumulated from smoking, and the new Zeo-Rad for dealing with any type of radiation exposure. From computers to radiation treatments for cancer. Helps you feel great. When toxins cannot be pulled from the body through the skin, if they are in the organs, then these other products are available for detoxifying your body.

Bio-Chelat

From Germany, Bio-Chelat is a gentle oral chelation product that can be used on an ongoing basis to eliminate heavy metal toxicity and keep it gone. One bottle lasts a month.

Heavy Metal Test

Inexpensive but accurate home test that will tell you if you have elevated levels of heavy metals.

More Products For The Immune System

Oat Beta Glucan

The most common type of beta glucan is brewer's yeast beta glucan. I decided that the oat beta glucan was better after reading the following about some of the differences between them and about some of the research done on it.

Oat beta glucan is, I understand, the active ingredient in oats that lowers blood cholesterol and balances blood lipids. This has been validated with many different medical studies. Pharmaceutical grade oat beta glucan is being used during surgical procedures to lower the possibility of infection.

This type of split yeast beta glucan, not whole, which is a different story, can cause inflammatory reactions, which doesn't happen with oat beta glucan. In addition, recent research has demonstrated that through oral consumption and assimilation, oat beta glucan will cause a three times greater production of interleukin from a macrophage cell as compared to the typical yeast beta glucan.

All that was enough to convince me that oat beta glucan was the one to use.

AFA Blue Green Algae Crystals

I know one person who works extensively with fibromyalgia and autoimmune diseases using AFA blue green algae. The 500 capsule bottle supplies a high therapeutic amount for a month. The 130 capsule bottle supplies a supplemental amount for a month. To super-activate the algae, put it in a liquid and let it sit several hours or longer before drinking. This rehydrates the algae and makes it even more potent.

AFA Blue Manna Crystals

This blue green algae is processed to concentrate on the blue pigments which contain more nutrients too support brain function and overall wellbeing. Comes in 60 400mg capsules or 50 grams of powder.

Immune Pro - The Best Undenatured Whey Protein

There are a few whey protein products claiming to be undenatured. Independent testing shows that Immuno Pro contains two to six times more bioactive ingredients. These are lactoferrin, immunoglobulins, Cysteine, amino peptide factors and growth factors. Better still, it is more economical.

Traditionally, even the most expensive dietary whey products are by-products of cheese production, which harms the whey. The milk goes through a heating process (approx. 163¡ F), chemical modification and pH regulation to produce cheese. Each of these steps denatures (damages) the whey proteins. The denatured proteins are then filtered out and what remains are proteins that have survived the processing. From this point on, there is little heat added, and some of these whey products are then referred to as cold processed or undenatured.

The Importance of Cysteine vs. Cystine

Biologically active whey protein that contains naturally occurring Cysteine is optimal for the intracellular production of Glutathione. If Cysteine undergoes any heating or processing, as all conventional dairy and dairy by-products do, it is denatured and converted to Cystine.

Cystine is the form that is found in all of the medical food whey proteins, as they are all by-products. Immune Pro is the exception as it contains only naturally occurring Cysteine.

One bottle of Immune Pro will last a month, more at first. Start taking small amounts and work up to two 5-gram scoops a day on an empty stomach.

CLA

This is the essential fatty acid that has a great deal of research behind it showing its benefits for fighting cancer and heart disease. Each 210 soft-gel bottle gives a month’s supply.

Free Radical Scavenging Products

Amazing C!

Amazing C is an effective new source of vitamin C. It is blended with a special combination of the right type of calcium and magnesium to make it bio-available to all cells. Amazing C is more easily assimilated by the body than other forms of vitamin C such as plain ascorbic acid Vitamin C, buffered ascorbic acid, and other types of buffered Vitamin C.

Vitamin C, one of the most important free radical scavengers, is now available in a form that makes taking massive doses unnecessary. Amazing C makes the vitamin C bio-available to all cells, thus making the need for taking large amounts unnecessary. People who need more vitamin C and must take big doses for more serious illnesses, to boost the immune system, or reduce signs of aging can do so with Amazing C. It is easy on people who are sensitive to taking vitamin C.

Healthy Coffee

Substitute a healthy coffee packed full of immune enhancing polysaccharides for the unhealthy stuff you may now be using. Gano Excel makes a tasteless reishi mushroom (Ganoderma Lucidum) extract and puts it in an instant coffee made with the best Brazilian beans you can get. It makes for a healthy beverage that delivers a host of health benefits.

Reported benefits from drinking this coffee indicate that it may actually improve your sleep, balance your PH, increase oxygen to your brain, help balance your weight, and boost your overall health so efficiently that you can feel the benefits almost immediately. It actually helps to remove toxins from your body, and with every cup you drink, you can feel better and realize increasing health benefits. And, it tastes good, really good.

You will need to order the healthy coffee directly from Gano Excel. To sign up as a distributor and order, or to order as a preferred customer online, go to: http://www.myganoexcel.biz/gha.

To  order by phone, call 626-338-8081 and give them ID# 8050169 as your sponsor or referrer.

Oxygen and Anti-Pathogenic Products

Oxy E - Cellular Oxygen Enhancer

My research has shown that this is the premier oxygenation product. Oxy E is our oxygenator of choice.

In today's environment we receive only about half of the oxygen that our bodies are designed to run on. From living in an oxygen-deficient environment, and not feeding our cells the proper oxygen and nutrients needed for cleaning out toxins and wastes, our body fluids and blood can become dirty and toxic.

Oxy E supplies the body with a steady diet of free oxygen, hydrogen, full spectrum minerals, amino acids, and enzymes all the while cleansing your body's cells, including the colon.

Suggested Use

Shake well. Add drops to eight ounces of purified water or juice and take with or after meals. Initially, test your level of toxicity by using 3-5 drops of Oxygen Elements Plus once a day for 2-5 days. Gradually increase your usage over a two to three week period until you are using a maintenance amount of 7 drops three times a day. For a therapeutic dosage, increase slowly to 21 drops three times a day and maintain this amount for one or two months before dropping to the maintenance amount.

Expected Results

> Renewed sense of good health and energy.

> Helps to generate ore oxygen.

> More energized body.

> Inhibits infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.

> Helps to eliminate arthritic deposits in the joints.

> Helps to eliminate toxic residue.

> Cleanses the body's tissue.

Oxy E Plus Silica