My Hope and Prayer This Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday

This Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday we now find ourselves as a nation and as a planet, in quite a bit of political, economic, health and enviornmental disarray. We are all looking for ways to make ends meet and cut down on the stress in our lives. So I will address these issues.

My guess is that many of you feel some sort of concern about financial issues whether it is the daily budget, dwindling savings, credit card bills, money for college bills, mileage and gas prices for the aging family automobiles, and so on. Its the same at the Young homestead here at Rancho Del Sol. Every year I pray for more rain and try to figure out how to save money on the expensive California water we need for thousands of avocado and grapefruit trees. I am always trying to figure out where to save money so I can use that money to reach more people around the world with a pH Miracle message of health and well-being.

If you read my email letters on a regular basis, you will know that I am quite positive that following a healthy, organic, alkaline diet with many raw, green vegetables will save you money over time.

Whether you have 50 more years to live or 25, most medical expenses have traditionally occurred in the later years of life. And those expenses can be a thing of the past. Once your body is alkaline, and once you have rebuilt your blood with my C.O.W.S. program, and once the pH of your urine is around 7.4 on a consistent basis, you are well on your way to permanently increased health and vigor as well as great financial savings.

Remember, the #1 reason for bankruptcy in America for many years has been medical bills. That will not happen to you. I hear from people all the time that pretty much the only reason they visit the doctor anymore is to gloat a bit, to follow-up on some old ailment now in the rear-view mirror, to lecture the poor old besieged doc on the importance of nutrition in health, or to give him a copy of The pH Miracle book. By the way, if you write to me and tell me that you really did get your doctor to read The pH Miracle book that Shelley and I wrote, I'll send you a free copy to replace the one you gave to your physician. I will also be fascinated to hear your story. In fact, I may share it with everybody in one of these emails.

Many people who have been following a balanced pH 80/20 alkaline/acid diet for many years tell us about all the different ways they save money. Some people have replaced their health insurance with a combination of self-insurance, accident insurance, a hospital indemnity policy, and disability programs. Some people on Medicare have not purchased the supplemental insurance because they have not visited the former family physician for several years and are hoping not to for the rest of their lives. Besides, they tell me, they aren't likely to go the drug route anyway now that they know the cucumber and avocado route.

Many have told us that they have saved money because they no longer have doctor visits, co-pays, pharmaceutical drugs, deductibles, tests, clinic and lab fees, medical gadgets, lost time and sick days, and so on. Not to mention the increased energy, creativity, and productivity.

Now lets talk about stress. About two years ago, I emailed you an article about Mother Theresa whose level of consciousness allowed her to function in love, joy, peace and enlightenment. Many of you said that you enjoyed that article. Such states of mind--whether they are linked to experiences that are primarily sensory, emotional, psychological, intellectual or spiritual--can only be accompanied by an absence of stress at the physiological or body level.

If you read my emails with any consistency, then you know that there is a solid scientific link between the mind and the body, the psychosomatic or the "somatopsychic." It goes both ways. We started hearing the world psychosomatic at least 40 or 50 years ago. The mind can cause the body to suffer and the body can cause the mind to suffer. Therefore, it makes good sense to take care of both.

I have discussed from time to time the importance of minimizing stress in our lives. When our minds are filled with thoughts and feelings that include the negative perceptions and experiences of fear, anger and sadness, we are vulnerable to the creation of excessive bodily acid. Toxic acids are actually secreted from various parts of the body directly into the bloodstream when we are in a negative emotional state.

On the other hand, leading a life that includes more experiences in what we might call the love zone can be a challenge. I forget who coined the word love zone, but this state of being includes feelings of affection, joy, compassion, empathy, kindness, happiness and bliss. But living in this zone--you may have noticed--is easier said than done. The world seems so often to pull mightily at the most vulnerable areas of our lives. Our preoccupation with the outer world and things over which we have no control can keep us from entering into those precious moments or hours in the stress-free love zone.

There is one thing in particular that we can do to help us frequent this zone as much as possible. And I will back into this concept with a little story which I enjoy. I call this the 1,000 avocados for God story. It goes like this:

A plantation owner, somewhat foolishly accustomed to bartering with God, prayed for a good harvest. He pleaded thusly: "Dear God, if You would please bring me a great avocado harvest, as a service I will give You 1,000 avocados from the harvest."God granted him a great harvest.

Thus, the plantation owner loaded up a thousand avocados in his wagon and had his foreman deliver them to the temple. Along the way, the foreman was pestered by two little beggar boys who pleaded for an avocado to ward off their hunger. "Shoo, shoo, go away," said the foreman, knowing that the plantation owner had loaded exactly 1,000 avocados.

The hungry little boys ran alongside the wagon and continued to beg. Finally, the hired hand relented and gave each of them an avocado. He thought to himself, who would count all these avocados and know that two are missing from a thousand?

But the plantation owner had warned the chief overseer of the temple to count the avocados to make sure that the foreman had not sold some along the way. He found out that two were missing and had been given to beggars and the plantation owner fired the foreman. That night the plantation owner had a dream. In his dream, God came to him and said, I have granted your prayer for a great harvest, but you have not kept your agreement.

The plantation owner pleaded his case, But God, I took the avocados to you just as I said. God replied, Well, I am sorry that you are in error my friend, because so far, I have received only two. I think you can see why I enjoy this story. And it has many implications far beyond the simple notion that Divine Providence and charity are related. In fact, we might say that Divine Providence resonates to charity.

There is a great deal of emerging evidence and a wonderful new area of study which says that there is a human field of energy which is very subtle, yet powerful, pervasive and immortal.

There is a field of energy which connects every one of us to every one of us. Some refer to this energy as levels of consciousness--and the study of this energy focuses especially on various states of higher consciousness.Regardless of our personal level of consciousness, we are not only connected to this field of energy, but we are influencing it just as it influences us in return. There is emerging evidence, both experiential and research, that says that as our level of consciousness rises, our body has an increasing ability or tendency to heal itself. There are increasing numbers of prayer studies that show that healing is affected by prayer.

In Dr. David Hawkins book, Power Vs. Force, he designates and describes our levels of consciousness from low to high levels. In the pathological area, he lists (low to high) shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and false pride. The ascending corresponding emotions at those lower levels are humiliation, blame, despair, regret, anxiety, craving, hate, and scorn. As we pass from pathological states into higher states of health and well-being, Hawkins designates and defines (low to high) courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace, and enlightenment. The ascending corresponding emotions at these higher levels are affirmation, trust, optimism, forgiveness, understanding, reverence, serenity, bliss and ineffable.

By contemplating upon these two hierarchies of human levels of consciousness and corresponding emotions, you can easily see the beauty that unfolds as we achieve higher and higher levels of consciousness. Higher levels mean less stress, or course, which means less acid in your body. The simple question then becomes, what is it that I can do to help myself achieve an increasing degree of health, happiness and serenity in my own life? As I have written before, a healthy and peaceful lifestyle includes choosing an alkaline and nutritional diet, exercise, rest and relaxation, good company, doing work which we enjoy, body massage, meditation, sincere gratitude, a reverence for all life, and so on.

Some will argue that these conditions are difficult to achieve in a world of economic disarray.

Just viewing the problems of hunger and homelessness in the world is frightening. In America, we are told that more than a million people are now losing or have lost their homes due to mortgage default. And so, how can we ascend to levels of peace in such a world with so much apparent negativity? What else is it that we can do to ascend our own levels of consciousness and somehow feel a greater sense of love, the absence of fear, and more acceptance of so many people with whom we seem to have nothing in common, little understanding, a different set of values, and with whom we perceive ourselves to operate from a completely different belief system about the world?

How do we come to a sense of peace and diminish our reflexive stress--the same stress that causes acidic reactions in our body--to the many seemingly unacceptable political, economic, unhappy human elements that surround us?

I believe that science will soon confirm what some have known over the millennia. Virtually all Holy Scripture from all the major religions are in accordance with the idea that the highest devotion to God--man's greatest gift to the energy field of the world in which we are all encompassed--is SERVICE TO MANKIND. Research into higher consciousness tells us that the energy of loving service is recorded in the universe on into infinity.

Thus, this Thanksgiving Day and as Christmas approaches in the problematic year of 2009, one of the greatest stress-releasing gifts we can give to ourselves is to give the gift of service to others. And nothing fosters charitable feelings like charitable actions. Nothing fosters more the acceptance of other people than lending a helping hand. Nothing will bring forth the peace and wisdom that we need to create within ourselves more than providing service to the poor, the needy, the uneducated, the downtrodden, and the afflicted.

Look for service projects in your area and take your family into the world to help others. And over time, nothing will help you to diminish the stress inside your own body more than helping to diminish the stress in those around us. What goes round comes round, and to whatever degree your load of avocados means abundant energy, creativity, intelligence, leadership, money, or time for everyone in the world, I know that you can figure out how to deliver more than two.

In love and innerlight,


Dr. Robert O. Young

I Ate Too Much

Holiday Season lifestyleand dietary conditions (called diseases by allopathicmedicine) for which I have given new names:

1) "Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is a result of thesum total consumption and behaviors of a travelerduring their more unusual or somewhat differentfrom normal lifestyle than when they were not traveling. A typical traveler's day will upset one's normalmetabolism and digestive habits. They eat anddrink different foods at different times and differentvolumes than usual, which creates an over-acidic stateand a need for more alkaline buffers (bicarbonates likepHour salts) leading to indigestion, nausea, acid reflux,heartburn, belching, flatulence, vomiting, constipation,dehydration and further problems of acidity,depending on the degree of irregularity.

"Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is commonly blamed byallopathic medical science on a particular site onthe traveler's path as if he/she caught something. This current medical ideology is based onPasteur's germ theory and is a scientific myth/illusion.
The true cause of this condition is the result of thetraveler's acidic dietary choices and the lack ofalkaline hydration, nutrition and hygiene that canresult in this over-acidic condition. All the abovesymptoms is the body in preservation mode trying itsbest to reestablish the alkaline pH of the internalenvironment at 7.365 to 7.4.

2) Holiday Season - "I Ate and Drank Too Much "S!!!"Dis-Ease" is a result of the sum total consumptionand behaviors of a person during the Holiday seasoneating and drinking everything in site from "swine towine." This over indulgence may cause belching andflatulence and eventual heart burn, acid reflux,nausea, constipation and even brain, breast, lung,liver and bowel parasites for which medical sciencewill often prescribe the purple pill. This HolidaySeason condition may then lead to the third HolidaySeason consequence -

3) "Holiday Season Food Drunk" is a result of over-eatingand over-drinking acidic foods and liquids and then fallinginto a drunken state on the sofa or bed for several hours oreven days to sleep off all the acidity. Falling asleepafter a heavy Holiday meal is a common occurrence foracid over-eaters and acid drinkers.

4) "Holiday Season Influenza" (The Flu) is a result of thesum total consumption and behaviors of a person duringa so-called Holiday acidic feasting. A person will consumeacidic foods and drinks that they may not know or knowthat are not healthy or alkalizing, i.e., more sugar orsugar substitutes than normal, alcohol, meats (especiallythe tape and flukd worm favorites such as pork, beef,turkey, chicken and fish (especially raw fish) and muchof this at greater volumes than normal. This person becomesdetrimentally influenced physically and emotionallyby Holiday acidic foods and drinks.

According to medical savants, "Holiday Season Influenza"is commonly blamed on a particular virus contracted fromanother person(s) and not from acidic lifestyle anddietary choices of that person. Like the acidic traveler,a person chooses to consume on their own as many acidicfoods and drinks during the Holiday Season and as a resultare suffering from the consequences of their poor dietaryacidic choices -- not from some phantom (does not exist)flu virus! The flu is nothing more than the bodyincreasing body temperature to improve circulation toremove excess acidity through perspiration, respiration, defecation and urination.

Also, please keep in mind it doesn't take eithertraveling or Holidays for someone to express thesymptoms of "Traveler's Acidic Consequence,"and/or "I Ate and Drank Too Much S!!! Disease,"and/or "Holiday Season Food Drunk," and/or "HolidaySeason Influenza." All you need to do is consumeexcessive amounts of acidic meats (especially pork,turkey and chicken), chocolate, ice cream, cake,alcohol or other acidic mind boggling thrillers. Any of these four non-contagious lifestyle anddietary conditions can happen anytime during theyear. But,the Holiday Season seems to be thetime when most people over-indulge in highly acidiclifestyles and diets!

This coming Holiday Season may you resolve not tosuccumb to the acidic choices that lead to "Traveler'sAcidic Consequence," or "I Ate and Drank Too MuchS!!! Dis-ease," "Holiday Season Food Drunk" and/or"Holiday Season Influenza."

In love and healing alkaline light,

Dr. Robert O. Young

PS This year before sitting down to a highlyacidic Holiday Season meal, watch the followingyoutube video. You cannot kill parasites withheat. All you can do is put them to sleep and riskthem waking up inside your body. Also, watchingthis video might change your mind about eating thatleft-over Thanksgiving ham or even urine laced turkey. It is by no coincidence that turkey and chicken arereferred to as "foul." Birds like turkey andchicken have no urinary tract system and aretherefore more likely to adsorb their own urine intotheir tissues. But, that's what makes them so juicy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYvxbhIOuEo

PSS I hope we can all learn to take responsibility forour own lifestyle and dietary choices and theconsequences we may experience rather then blaming it ortransferring personal responsibility to a phantom orharmless virus - like the Swine Flu virus, Ebola virus,HIV virus, HPV virus, West Nile virus, Bird flu virus,and the list goes on and on and on! So-called viruses DONOT cause sickness or disease - our acidic lifestyle and dietchoices do! You do health by making healthy choices oryou can do sickness and disease by making unhealthy lifestyleand dietary choices. Making acidic lifestyle and dietarychoices the last 3 months of the year can take 10 yearsoff your life at age 40 and 20 years off your life atthe age 80. You can live a healthy and fit life to 100 ifyou will make better alkaline lifestyle and dietarychoices NOW!

PSSS To learn how to prevent (without an acidic dis-easecausing vaccine) "Holiday Season Influenza,"may I suggest watching the following DVD's or listeningto the following CD's:
The pH Miracle - Full versionShopping with Shelley 1 & 2Back to the House of Health 2The pH Miracle for Healthy Weight LossThe pH Miracle for Men and WomenThe pH Miracle for CancerThe Harvard Lecture

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx

PSSSS Check out our healthy Holiday Gift Packs at: phmiracleliving.com

Treating Flu Like Symptoms

Here is your next pH question/response by Dr. Robert Young, as promised...

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about alkaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to a question about about treating flu symptoms.

See for yourself here (2:13 mins)

http://www.vidmails.com/playback.php?t=MzIwMzAxOTMxMDE4MDE1NDg1NzM0Nzc%3D

The First Alkalizing Young pHorever pHace Make-Up Line Released Today - Check It Out!

I am happy to announce the release of the first alkalizing cosmetic/make-up line in the world. Check it out! There is nothing out there like these products. The best news is this make-up line is good for the skin.

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Do you know what acidic chemicals you may be putting on your skin or hair?

Chances are, you don't. If you wear make-up, moisturizing creams, or use store bought shampoo or conditions there is a high probability that you are putting things on your skin or hair that are not only acidic to your skin and/or hair, but may be harmful.

The following ingredients are commonly found in many cosmetics, moisturizers, shampoos, conditioners, and toners - even the ones
that claim to be natural, or mineral based:

Lanolin

This is often advertised as a good thing. It technically is natural, but highly undesirable. Lanolin is a yellow, greasy substance derived from the sebaceous glands, generally from sheep. Not something you want on my skin.

Formaldehyde

A common ingredient used as a preservative in cosmetics.

Whale Wax

Obtained from what digestive juices, or essentially vomit is often found in fragrances in cosmetics, shampoos, and conditioners.

Parabens

In a recent Canadian study, 19 out of 20 breast tumors examined had high amounts of parabens in them. If breast cancer doesn't turn you off parabens, what if you knew that parabens affect your hypothalamus, your ovaries, your thyroid, and virtually every single organ system in your body. Parabens also influence
development of malignant melanoma, and can also affect the male reproductive system when newborns are exposed to butylparaben. Remember those science labs where we were told to dissect animals? Think about the putrid formaldehyde used to preserve their bodies. Parabens are just as irritating as this acidic harmful chemical. Would you want to put something with an equivalence to formaldehyde on your face or hair, twice a day, 365 days in a year? Skin and hair absorbs everything, and
everything your skin and hair absorbs goes directly to your blood stream.

Urea

Urea is excreted from aquatic organisms, reptiles, mammals, and now often synthetically made in large chemical reactors. Urea is also used as a common anti-bacterial in cosmetics.

Mineral Oil and Paraffin

Not only are these petroleum by-products, they clog the pores of the skin.

Last year Americans spent 17 billion dollars on makeup, shampoos, conditioners, cleaners, and creams, and other cosmetic products. Unfortunately, parabens come into the picture with the gross majority of these products. Read the label on the back of all your products, and take every precaution you can.

For more information on YoungpHorever skin and hair products that are all natural and free of acidic harmful chemicals go to:

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You may also be interested in our new acid free, chemical free, alkalizing cosmetic line. It is just in time for the Holidays. Check it out here:

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Remember, all of our skin and hair products are good for the body both inside and out.

Shelley's pHavorite Pasta

Eating healthy doesn't mean bad taste, not when you're cooking with Chef Shelley. Try this flavor infused alkalizing alternative to traditional Italian dishes. Here Chef Shelley guides you through the creation of her own "pHavorite pasta." Great taste and good for you. . .what more could you ask? This video segment is only one of many other on the pH Miracle Cooking with Chef Shelley DVD available at www.phmiracleliving.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0rrqnErrJc

The pH Miracle of Vitamin D3

A clinical observation published in April 2000 in the Archives of Internal Medicine caught my attention. Dr. Anu Prabhala and his colleagues reported on the treatment of five patients confined to wheelchairs with severe weakness and fatigue. Blood tests revealed that all suffered from severe vitamin D deficiency. The patients received 50,000 IU vitamin D per week and all became mobile within six weeks.1

Dr. Prabhala's research sparked my interest and led to a search for current information on vitamin D, how it works, how much we really need and how we get it. The following is a small part of the important information that I found.

Any discussion of vitamin D must begin with the discoveries of the Canadian-born dentist Weston A. Price. In his masterpiece Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Price noted that the diet of isolated, so-called "primitive" peoples contained "at least ten times" the amount of "fat-soluble vitamins" as the standard American diet of his day.2 Dr. Price determined that it was the presence of plentiful amounts of fat-soluble vitamins A and D in the diet, along with calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, that conferred such high immunity to tooth decay and resistance to disease in nonindustrialized population groups.

Today another Canadian researcher, Dr. Reinhold Vieth, argues convincingly that current vitamin D recommendations are woefully inadequate. The recommended dose of 200-400 international units (IU) will prevent rickets in children but does not come close to the optimum amount necessary for vibrant health.3 According to Dr. Vieth, the minimal daily requirement of vitamin D should be in the range of 4,000 IU from all sources, rather than the 200-400 currently suggested, or ten times the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). Dr. Vieth's research perfectly matches Dr. Price's observations of sixty years ago!

Vitamin D From Sunlight

Pick up any popular book on vitamins and you will read that ten minutes of daily exposure of the arms and legs to sunlight will supply us with all the vitamin D that we need. Humans do indeed manufacture vitamin D from cholesterol by the action of sunlight on the skin but it is actually very difficult to obtain even a minimal amount of vitamin D with a brief foray into the sunlight.4,5

Ultraviolet (UV) light is divided into 3 bands or wavelength ranges, which are referred to as UV-C, UV-B and UV-A.6 UV-C is the most energetic and shortest of the UV bands. It will burn human skin rapidly in extremely small doses. Fortunately, it is completely absorbed by the ozone layer. However, UV-C is present in some lights. For this reason, fluorescent and halogen and other specialty lights may contribute to skin cancer.

UV-A, known as the "tanning ray," is primarily responsible for darkening the pigment in our skin. Most tanning bulbs have a high UV-A output, with a small percentage of UV-B. UV-A is less energetic than UV-B, so exposure to UV-A will not result in a burn, unless the skin is photosensitive or excessive doses are used. UV-A penetrates more deeply into the skin than UV-B, due to its longer wavelength. Until recently, UV-A was not blocked by sunscreens. It is now considered to be a major contributor to the high incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers.7 Seventy-eight percent of UV-A penetrates glass so windows do not offer protection.

The ultraviolet wavelength that stimulates our bodies to produce vitamin D is UV-B. It is sometimes called the "burning ray" because it is the primary cause of sunburn (erythema).

However, UV-B initiates beneficial responses, stimulating the production of vitamin D that the body uses in many important processes. Although UV-B causes sunburn, it also causes special skin cells called melanocytes to produce melanin, which is protective. UV-B also stimulates the production of Melanocyte

Stimulating Hormone (MSH), an important hormone in weight loss and energy production.8

The reason it is difficult to get adequate vitamin D from sunlight is that while UV-A is present throughout the day, the amount of UV-B present has to do with the angle of the sun's rays. Thus, UV-B is present only during midday hours at higher latitudes, and only with significant intensity in temperate or tropical latitudes. Only 5 percent of the UV-B light range goes through glass and it does not penetrate clouds, smog or fog.
Sun exposure at higher latitudes before 10 am or after 2 pm will cause burning from UV-A before it will supply adequate vitamin D from UV-B. This finding may surprise you, as it did the researchers. It means that sunning must occur between the hours we have been told to avoid. Only sunning between 10 am and 2 pm during summer months (or winter months in southern latitudes) for 20-120 minutes, depending on skin type and color, will form adequate vitamin D before burning occurs.9

It takes about 24 hours for UV-B-stimulated vitamin D to show up as maximum levels of vitamin D in the blood. Cholesterol-containing body oils are critical to this absorption process.10

Because the body needs 30-60 minutes to absorb these vitamin-D-containing oils, it is best to delay showering or bathing for one hour after exposure. The skin oils in which vitamin D is produced can also be removed by chlorine in swimming pools.
The current suggested exposure of hands, face and arms for 10-20 minutes, three times a week, provides only 200-400 IU of vitamin D each time or an average of 100-200 IU per day during the summer months. In order to achieve optimal levels of vitamin D, 85 percent of body surface needs exposure to prime midday sun. (About 100-200 IU of vitamin D is produced for each 5 percent of body surface exposed, we want 4,000 iu.) Light skinned people need 10-20 minutes of exposure while dark skinned people need 90-120 minutes.11

Latitude and altitude determine the intensity of UV light. UV-B is stronger at higher altitudes. Latitudes higher than 30° (both north and south) have insufficient UV-B sunlight two to six months of the year, even at midday.12 Latitudes higher than 40° have insufficient sunlight to achieve optimum levels of D during six to eight months of the year. In much of the US, which is between 30° and 45° latitude, six months or more during each year have insufficient UV-B sunlight to produce optimal D levels. In far northern or southern locations, latitudes 45° and higher, even summer sun is too weak to provide optimum levels of vitamin D.13-15 A simple meter is available to determine UV-B levels where you live.

Vitamin D From Food

What the research on vitamin D tells us is that unless you are a fisherman, farmer, or otherwise outdoors and exposed regularly to sunlight, living in your ancestral latitude (more on this later), you are unlikely to obtain adequate amounts of vitamin D from the sun. Historically the balance of one's daily need was provided by food. Primitive peoples instinctively chose vitamin-D-rich foods including the intestines, organ meats, skin and fat from certain land animals, as well as shellfish, oily fish and insects. Many of these foods are unacceptable to the modern palate and are highly acidic.

For food sources to provide us with D the source must be sunlight exposed. With exposure to UV-B sunlight, vitamin D is produced from fat in the fur, feathers, and skin of animals, birds and reptiles. Carnivores get additional D from the tissues and organs of their prey. Lichen contains vitamin D and may provide a source of vitamin D in the UV-B sunlight-poor northern latitudes.16 Vitamin D content will vary in the organs and tissues of animals, pigs, cows, and sheep, depending on the amount of time spent in UV-B containing sunlight and/or how much D is given as a supplement. Poultry and eggs contain varying amounts of vitamin D obtained from insects, fishmeal, and sunlight containing UV-B or supplements. Fish, unlike mammals, birds and reptiles, do not respond to sunlight and rely on vitamin D found in phytoplankton and other fish. Salmon must feed on phytoplankton and fish in order to obtain and store significant vitamin D in their fat, flesh, skin, and organs. Thus, modern farm-raised salmon, unless artificially supplemented, may be a poor source of this essential nutrient.
Modern diets usually do not provide adequate amounts of vitamin D;17 partly because of the trend to low fat foods and partly because we no longer eat vitamin-D-rich foods like naturally reared poultry and fatty fish such as kippers, and herring.

Often we are advised to consume the egg white while the D is in the yolk or we eat the flesh of the fish avoiding the D containing skin, organs and fat.

Sun avoidance combined with reduction in food sources contribute to escalating D deficiencies. Vegetarian and vegan diets are exceptionally poor or completely lacking in vitamin D predisposing to an absolute need for UV-B sunlight. Using food as one's primary source of D is difficult to impossible.

Vitamin D pH Miracles

Sunlight and vitamin D are critical to all life forms. Standard textbooks state that the principal function of vitamin D is to promote calcium absorption in the gut and calcium transfer across cell membranes, thus contributing to strong bones and a calm, contented nervous system. It is also well recognized that vitamin D aids in the absorption of magnesium, iron and zinc, as well as calcium.

Actually, vitamin D does not in itself promote healthy bone. Vitamin D controls the levels of calcium in the blood. If there is not enough calcium in the diet, then it will be drawn from the bone to help maintain the alkalinity of the blood.

Receptors for vitamin D are found in most of the cells in the body and research during the 1980s suggested that vitamin D contributed to a healthy immune system, promoted muscle strength, regulated the maturation process and contributed to hormone production.

During the last ten years, researchers have made a number of exciting discoveries about vitamin D. They have ascertained, for example, that vitamin D is an antioxidant that is a more effective antioxidant than vitamin E in reducing lipid peroxidation and increasing enzymes that protect against oxidation.19;20

Vitamin D deficiency decreases biosynthesis and release of insulin.21 Glucose intolerance has been inversely associated with the concentration of vitamin D in the blood. Thus, vitamin D may protect against both Type I and Type II diabetes.22

The risk of senile cataract is reduced in persons with optimal levels of D and carotenoids.23

PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) has been corrected by supplementation of D and calcium.24

Vitamin D plays a role in regulation of both the "infectious" immune system and the "inflammatory" immune system.25

Low vitamin D is associated with several autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, Sjogren's Syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroiditis and Crohn's disease.26;27

Osteoporosis is strongly associated with low vitamin D. Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis respond favorably (and rapidly) to higher levels of D plus calcium and magnesium.28

D deficiency has been mistaken for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue or peripheral neuropathy.1;28-30

Infertility is associated with low vitamin D.31 Vitamin D supports production of estrogen in men and women.32 PMS has been completely reversed by addition of calcium, magnesium and vitamin D.33 Menstrual migraine is associated with low levels of vitamin D and calcium.81

Breast, prostate, skin and colon cancer have a strong association with low levels of D and lack of sunlight.34-38

Activated vitamin D in the adrenal gland regulates tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate limiting enzyme necessary for the production of dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine. Low D may contribute to chronic fatigue and depression.39

Seasonal Affective Disorder has been treated successfully with vitamin D. In a recent study covering 30 days of treatment comparing vitamin D supplementation with two-hour daily use of light boxes, depression completely resolved in the D group but not in the light box group.40

High stress may increase the need for vitamin D or UV-B sunlight and calcium.41

People with Parkinsons and Alzheimers have been found to have lower levels of vitamin D.42;43

Low levels of D, and perhaps calcium, in a pregnant mother and later in the child may be the contributing cause of "crooked teeth" and myopia. When these conditions are found in succeeding generations it means the genetics require higher levels of one or both nutrients to optimize health.44-47

Behavior and learning disorders respond well to D and/or calcium combined with an adequate diet and trace minerals.48;49

Vitamin D and Heart Disease

Research suggests that low levels of vitamin D may contribute to or be a cause of syndrome X with associated hypertension, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.50 Vitamin D regulates vitamin-D-binding proteins and some calcium-binding proteins, which are responsible for carrying calcium to the "right location" and protecting cells from damage by free calcium.51

Thus, high dietary levels of calcium, when D is insufficient, may contribute to calcification of the arteries, joints, kidney and perhaps even the brain.52-54

Many researchers have postulated that vitamin D deficiency leads to the deposition of calcium in the arteries and hence atherosclerosis, noting that northern countries have higher levels of cardiovascular disease and that more heart attacks occur in winter months.55-56

Scottish researchers found that calcium levels in the hair inversely correlated with arterial calcium-the more calcium or plaque in the arteries, the less calcium in the hair. Ninety percent of men experiencing myocardial infarction had low hair calcium. When vitamin D was administered, the amount of calcium in the beard went up and this rise continued as long as vitamin D was consumed. Almost immediately after stopping supplementation, however, beard calcium fell to pre-supplement levels.27

Administration of dietary vitamin D or UV-B treatment has been shown to lower blood pressure, restore insulin sensitivity and lower cholesterol.58-60

The Battle of the Bulge

Did you ever wonder why some people can eat all they want and not get fat, while others are constantly battling extra pounds? The answer may have to do with vitamin D and calcium status. Sunlight, UV-B, and vitamin D normalize food intake and normalize blood sugar. Weight normalization is associated with higher levels of vitamin D and adequate calcium.61 Obesity is associated with vitamin-D deficiency.62-64 In fact, obese persons have impaired production of UV-B-stimulated D and impaired absorption of food source and supplemental D.65

When the diet lacks calcium, whether from D or calcium deficiency, there is an increase in fatty acid synthase, an enzyme that converts calories into fat. Higher levels of calcium with adequate vitamin D inhibit fatty acid synthase while diets low in calcium increase fatty acid synthase by as much as five-fold.

In one study, genetically obese rats lost 60 percent of their body fat in six weeks on a diet that had moderate calorie reduction but was high in calcium. All rats supplemented with calcium showed increased body temperature indicating a shift from calorie storage to calorie burning (thermogenesis).61

The Right Fats

The assimilation and utilization of vitamin D is influenced by the kinds of fats we consume. Increasing levels of both polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids in the diet decrease the binding of vitamin D to D-binding proteins.

Saturated fats, the kind found in butter, tallow and coconut oil, do not have this effect. Nor do the omega-3 fats.66

D-binding proteins are key to local and peripheral actions of vitamin D. This is an important consideration as Americans have dramatically increased their intake of polyunsaturated oils (from commercial vegetable oils) and monounsaturated oils (from olive oil and canola oil) and decreased their intake of saturated fats over the past 100 years.

In traditional diets, saturated fats supplied varying amounts of vitamin D. Thus, both reduction of saturated fats and increase of polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats may contribute to the current widespread D deficiency.

Trans fatty acids, found in margarine and shortenings used in most commercial baked goods, should always be avoided. There is evidence that these fats can interfere with the alkaline buffering systems the body uses to convert vitamin D in the liver.80

Vitamin D Therapy

In my clinical practice, I test for vitamin-D status first. If D is needed, I try to combine sunlight exposure with vitamin D and Vitamin D3 supplementation.

Single, infrequent, intense, skin exposure to UV-B light not only causes sunburn but also suppresses the immune system. On the other hand, frequent low-level exposure normalizes immune function, enhancing NK-cell and T-cell production, reducing abnormal inflammatory responses typical of autoimmune disorders, and reducing occurrences of infectious disease.26;67;68-71

Thus it is important to sunbathe frequently for short periods of time, when UV-B is present, rather than spend long hours in the sun at infrequent intervals. Adequate UV-B exposure and vitamin-D production can be achieved in less time than it takes to cause any redness in the skin. It is never necessary to burn or tan to obtain sufficient vitamin D.

If sunlight is not available in your area because of latitude or season, sunlamps made by Sperti can be used to provide a natural balance of UV-B and UV-A. Used according to instructions, these lamps provide a safe equivalent of sunlight and will not cause burning or even heavy tanning. Tanning beds, on the other hand, are not acceptable as a means of getting your daily dose of vitamin D because they provide high levels of UV-A and very little UV-B.

If you have symptoms of vitamin-D insufficiency or are unable to spend time in the sun, due to season or lifestyle or prior skin cancer, consider adding a supplement of 50,000 IU daily.

Higher levels may be needed but should be recommended and monitored by your health care practitioner after testing serum 25(OH)D.

Supplementation of Vitamin D3 is safe as long as you diet is alkalizing and contains adequate alkalizing minerals such a sodium, calcium, magnesium and potassium.

Adequate calcium and magnesium, as well as other minerals, are critical parts of vitamin D therapy. Without calcium and magnesium in sufficient quantities, vitamin-D supplementation will withdraw calcium from the bone and will allow the uptake of toxic minerals. Do not supplement vitamin D and do not sunbathe unless you are sure you have sufficient calcium and magnesium to meet your daily needs. I suggest a minimum of 1,200-2,400 mg of calcium daily. Research suggests that 1,200-1,500 mg is adequate as a supplement for most adults, both men and women. (Magnesium intake should be half that of calcium.)

Higher amounts of calcium are important for anyone diagnosed with bone loss. Total daily calcium as a supplement may range from 1,500 mg to 2,000 mg depending on current bone status and your body size. Make the effort to split up your daily dose. Do not take all your calcium and magnesium once a day. A higher percentage of the calcium dose is absorbed if delivered in smaller, more frequent amounts.82

Patients on vitamin-D therapy report a wide range of beneficial results including increased energy and strength, resolution of hormonal problems, weight loss, an end to sugar cravings, blood sugar normalization and improvement of nervous system disorders.

A paradoxical transient and non-complicating hypercalciuria (more calcium in the urine) may occur when the program is first initiated. This resolves quickly when adequate calcium and other minerals are consumed. Two other temporary side effects may occur during the first several months of treatment. One is daytime sleepiness after calcium is taken. This usually resolves itself after about one week. The other condition is the reappearance of pain and discomfort at the site of old injuries, a sign of injury remodeling or proper healing, which may take some time to clear up.

Toxicity Issues

Doses used in clinical studies range from as little as 400 IU daily to 10,000-500,000 IU, given either as a single onetime dose or daily, weekly or monthly. Such large doses are given either as a prophylactic or because compliance is considered a problem. There seems to be some evidence that vitamin D works better, without toxicity, when given in lower, more physiologic doses of 2,000-4,000 IU daily rather than as 100,000 IU once a month. However, a single monthly dose of 100,000 IU did replete low levels of vitamin D in adolescents during winter.77

The Many Forms of Vitamin D

There are two types of vitamin D found in nature. Vitamin D2 is formed by the action of UV-B on the plant precursor ergosterol. It is found in plants and in was formerly added to irradiated cows milk. Most milk today contains D3. Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol is found in animal foods. Both forms of vitamin D have been used successfully to treat rickets and other diseases related to vitamin D insufficiency.

Many consider D3 the preferred vitamin, having more biologic activity. Vitamin D3 as found in food or in human skin always comes with various metabolites or isomers that may have biological benefit.

When humans take in vitamin D from food or sunlight, it is converted first in the liver to the form 25(OH)D and then in the kidney to 1,25(OH)D. These active forms of vitamin D are available by prescription and are given to patients with liver or kidney failure or those with an hereditary metabolic defect in vitamin-D conversion.

Assessing Vitamin D Status

Blood Testing: Currently there are two tests available for physicians to assess vitamin-D status. One is for the somewhat biologically active precursor 25(OH)D and another for 1,25(OH)D, the most active form, which is converted in the kidney and other organs. The latter is often normal in the blood even when the precursor 25(OH)D is low or deficient. The precursor is a better marker of vitamin-D status (or reserves) than the most active 1,25(OH)D form. It is the optimum level of 25(OH)D that is most strongly associated with general good health. (The test values given in this article are for 25(OH)D.) For many years the acceptable level of 25(OH)D has been at least 9 ng/ml (23 nmol/l). Some researchers believe that 20 ng/ml (50 nmol/l) should be the lower acceptable limit72 but Dr. Vieth presents a large amount of data to support his claim that this is far from optimal.3 Optimal levels are certainly at least 32 ng/ml (80 nmol/l) and preferably closer to 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/l).

Salivary pH Testing for calcium sufficiency: A method of assessing ionized calcium levels has been used by Weston Price, DDS and Carl Reich, MD and has confirmation in current research.73 After determining your serum-D status (testing) and undertaking a program of supplementation with vitamin D3, calcium and magnesium, morning salivary pH should read 6.8-7.2. Lower values may indicate insufficient vitamin D (retest), or low levels of calcium in the diet. Look for pH paper with a range of 5.5-8.0 and increments of 0.2 on our website at www.phmiracleliving.com. pH papers with 0.5-degree increments are not sensitive enough to monitor progress.

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11.11.09 Organic Avenue's The Space of LOVE Alkaline Elixir Bar & Live Food Lounge GRAND OPENING PARTY WHO: You! we're excited to see you! WHERE: 116 Suffolk St, between Rivington and Delancey WHEN: 6 pm - 2 am WHY: For a Live*Organic*Vegan*Experience to remember BONUS: Drawing at 9 pm for a free LOVE cleanse of your choice COVER: $10 RSVP: www.organicavenue.com or 212.334.4593 Our Gift to YOU for ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! Starting 11.11.09 and throughout November we want to celebrate with you! Food and juice will be 11% off and all of our LOVE cleanses & detox programs will be 22% off. That's a whole lot of love. *Discount is exclusive of bottle deposits, delivery or other discounts Special guest Dr. Robert O. Young presents the Blood Art Show from 7 - 8 pm, a gallery of blood, blood, and more blood! Get a new perspective as Dr. Young walks us through and explains the phenomenon of Acid/Alkaline and the effects on the blood. Live Blood Analysis Course Dates: November 30, 2009 - December 4, 2009 (Monday - Friday) Time: 9am - 9pm Location: The Space of LOVE 116 Suffolk Street, NY, NY 10002 (between Rivington and Delancey) THE NEW BIOLOGY™ MICROSCOPY COURSE features "hands-on" course training in medical microscopy by Robert O. Young, D.Sc., Ph.D. Throughout his career, Dr. Young has focused his research at the cellular level-with a specialty in nutrition. In the hands-on intensive course, Dr. Young will discuss and illustrate the natural developmental cycle of microforms-teaching practitioners how to use the microscope as a powerful evaluation tool. This course features high quality light microscopes equipped with video cameras to view live and dried blood. Each participant will need a microscope to ensure that they become proficient. In addition, the participant will be trained in the following: A new biology called Pleomorphism. The etiology of atherosclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and AIDS-to name a few. A new paradigm of human disease and protocols for recovery. The class training will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day with a practicum from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The cost for the seminar and the extensive course material is $10,000. The necessary microscope package for the course is $8,649 and will be assembled and calibrated-waiting for your arrival. To learn more about the microscope, click here. To register, click here. (You may need to scroll down.) Also available via Organic Avenue Nutritional Microscopy and Holistic Lifestyle Consultation with Denise Mari contact: denise@organicavenue.com for details The New Biology™ A Lecture by Dr. Robert O Young Date: December 5, 2009, Saturday Time: 7pm - 9pm Fee: $50.00 Location: The Space of LOVE 116 Suffolk Street, NY, NY 10002 (between Rivington and Delancey) Dr. Robert Young BIO Robert O. Young has been widely recognized as one of the top research scientists in the world. Throughout his career, his research has been focused at the cellular level. Having a specialty in cellular nutrition, Dr. Young has devoted his life to researching the true causes of "disease," subsequently developing "The New Biology™" to help people balance their life. Over the past two and a half decades Dr. Young has performed live and dry blood analysis on over 40,000 people repeatedly, while simultaneously adjusting nutrition to create a pH balanced Alkaline lifestyle. This practice clearly makes Dr. Young the preeminent nutritional microbiologist in history. He's spent the last twenty-seven years investigating the impact of foods and liquids on the delicate pH balance of the blood plasma and the blood cells. To reserve a place clickhere. It's Your Choice . . . Choose from our Juice Detox and Raw Food Cleanse programs: LOVEeasy (includes food), LOVEfast (includes liquid plus one salad), LOVEdeep (all liquid), LOVEmore (juice, soup, salad), or LOVEyoung (alkaline focus). All food and fresh juice items can be delivered to your home or workplace, fresh every day, in our new cooler box, designed especially to keep your experience the freshest yet! And we've recently moved our kitchen enterprise to a larger facility (from 300 sqft to 3,000 sqft) so we can bring you the most consciously prepared raw-living-organic foods straight from our production kitchen. Yes! We now prepare all food and juice in a refrigerated environment AND package AND deliver chilled as well. The juice and food production is supervised with the purest quality control processes, and of course, we infuse *LOVE into everything we do.

Dr. Young Speaks at the Grand Opening of the Space of Love

11.11.09 Organic Avenue's The Space of LOVE Alkaline Elixir Bar & Live Food Lounge GRAND OPENING PARTY WHO: You! We're excited to see you! WHERE: 116 Suffolk St, between Rivington and Delancey WHEN: 6 pm - 2 am WHY: For a Live*Organic*Vegan*Experience to remember BONUS: Drawing at 9 pm for a free LOVE cleanse of your choice COVER: $10 RSVP www.organicavenue.com 212.334.4593 Our gift to YOU for ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! Starting 11.11.09 and throughout November we want to celebrate with you! Organic Avenue prepared food and juice will be 11% off and all of our LOVE cleanses & detox programs will be 22% off. That's a whole lot of love. *Discount is exclusive of bottle deposits, delivery, or other discounts. Sneak peak at the schedule of events: 7-8 pm Blood Art Show: a gallery of blood, blood, and more blood! Get a new perspective as Dr. Robert O. Young walks us through and explains the phenomenon of Acid/Alkaline and the effects on the blood. 8-9 pm Get moving with a Samba Yoga Intro with Agustin Aguerreberry. 9:45pm Blessing Ceremony for The Space of *LOVE with Parashakti & Native American Elder, Wakia Un Manee. 10 pm Special Guest presentation by Gerard Senehi "The Experimentalist" OMG!! "He is internationally recognized as a 'superstar' in psychic entertainment. A master of telekinesis, thought reading, and telepathy, Gerard often has members of the audience - to their total astonishment - mysteriously and successfully perform impossible feats." I have had first hand mind bending and have not been the same since. See for your Self that which "only seeing is believing!" Gerard will be mingling among the guests throughout the night, and at 10 pm sharp you will be invited to take a seat and witness his mind blowing feats. NOT TO BE MISSED!! 12 am - MIDNIGHT David Avocado Wolfe presents "The Chocolate Revolution 2012" plus follow up with question and answers later in the morning. Yoga demonstrations throughout the night. Forget "go-go" dancers, and enjoy witnessing (and participating) in movement and flow that entertains and inspires. Special guest Djay's Mix from DJ Soul Messiah will keep things live as we test The Space of *LOVE's new sound system as all of our special guests help us celebrate our new space. Looking forward to playing this 11/11 and creating a night to remember! Join us! Truly, Denise Mari Founder & Truth-Finder Holistic Lifestyle Consultant & Nutritional Microscopist www.OrganicAvenue.com 101 Stanton St., NYC 10002 43 Eighth Ave., NYC 10014 W: 212.334.4593

Congress Passed A Worthless Expensive So-Called "Health Bill"

Yesterday Congress passed a worthless, expensive, so-called "health bill" that will only guarantee that more people are covered by insurance at a cost of over a trillion dollars and also guarantee more people getting sick, tired, fat and dead.

In my opinion, this health bill will not improve the health of a single person in America. If fact, it is my prediction that more people will be diagnosed and treated with acute and chronic conditions and become sick, tired and potentially dead from the traditional toxic acidic medical treatments.

I believe we will see a significant increase in cancer, diabetes and heart disease from this so-called "health bill." Bottom-line more people covered by insurance means more diagnosed so-called diseases.

This so-called health bill does not provide the single most important thing that people need - an understanding on how to prevent and/or reverse disease. The education of how to stay healthy and fit.

Health care prevention and alkaline treatments should be available to everyone on the planet so they can learn to take responsibility for their own health. A healthy body is a choice just as a sick body is a choice. You don't get sick, you do sick with poor acidic lifestyle and dietary choices. A healthy body requires alkaline food, drink and exercise. It is simple and it is affordable to all and it DOES NOT need to be managed by a government that is literally constipated.

Despite my dire predictions about this bill and the direction of the nation....there is one small factor in this bill and in President Obama's first year in office, including how the President did or did not participate in this health bill, that might make me change my mind about this sad legislation. I know it's a long shot, and I'll tell you what it is, and then I'd like to share with you an incredible testimonial letter.

Part of me tends to think that despite his support for this bill, President Obama has an excellent educational background, shows good intellectual abilities, fine moral values, a good father model and family leadership to millions of young men regardless of color, and so I hope there is more depth to our president than is apparent in this faulty and wrong-headed bill. He did not take strong leadership in this bill, but he did support it.

And so here is my hope. I am hoping that the Obama's gave a silent and symbolic "shot across the bow" when they planted a large and prominent vegetable garden on the White House grounds soon after his taking office. They have clearly expressed their belief in the importance of a plant enriched diet. I am hoping that we have not heard the last about gardens, greens, vegetables, and healthy nutrition.

Now, just in case Obama is smarter than he is letting on about health, and just in case he really understands the importance of vegetables and nutrition, and understands the dangers of our present medical system and how and when it is controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, Obama would not yet have been able to go out very far on a limb and criticize four major industries when the unemployment rate is at 10%.

It is possible that President Obama understands the serious flaws presented in the medical, pharmaceutical, insurance, and agribusiness industries. And if this might be the case, then he could not have criticized all of them during his first year in office. If President Obama's values are such that he is willing to take on the problems of health, nutrition, and our present medical system, it would have been political suicide to do this in the first months of office with all the other problems facing him.

I know it's a long shot, but I am hoping that President Obama is being "dumb like a fox" and is waiting for the right time to talk about nutrition, prevention, green food, and the change in our infrastructure that we must face in the coming decade or so. After all, these four industries represent tens of millions of workers, and this change can not and will not take place over night. It would make sense that he plans to do this if he can be elected to a second term, because once he does this, he would likely not win re-election to office....not ever again.

President Obama has talked about prevention several times, and so, that garden may have been a silent and subtle message to 30 million Americans who are interested in alternative health and more enlightened medical leadership. We can always hope.

Meanwhile, although it's a terrible health bill, there is always a small chance that our First Family's White House vegetable garden will be the first in many statements, increasingly stronger, that they will make to America and the world. Only time will tell.

The following is an unsolicited testimony of a client who was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus, a pre-acidic or cancerous condition of the esophagus and how she reversed this condition without surgery, chemotherapy or toxic medications and without costing you or me a penny. She did it herself without government intervention or support. She learned the secret to a healthy body, mind and spirit - maintain its alkaline design through an alkaline lifestyle and diet.

This is what a real health plan should teach and cover. Not just the same old, same old medical care or treatments that were founded and built on a false premise - the germ theory or germs cause disease.

It is my hope that the good people of America will stand up and say NO to Big Government, Big Pharma and more toxic medicines that do NOT work. The people in America and around the world need the pH Miracle Diet and Lifestyle and need to understand that there is only one sickness, one disease and one treatment. The one sickness and the one disease is the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking. The one treatment is to maintain and/or restore the alkaline design of the body with alkaline food, water and exercise.

And now for the pH Miracle testimony - Reversing Barrett's Esophagus:

Good Morning Dr. Young!

My mother died with leukemia and severe osteoporosis and yet I still was NOT eating or drinking greens or watching my acid/alkaline levels at all.

One year ago I was told I had unexplained anemia so I went in for a colonoscopy. They found nothing in the colon area so I did an upper endoscopy. The doctor says, "You have a pre-cancerous condition and evidence of Barrett's in your esophagus and I recommend...blah..blah.." I stopped listening because he started naming off chemicals and medicines. I told him thanks but no thanks and I'd take care of it with diet. He looked quizzical and sent me on my way wishing me good luck.

This woke me up! It was happening to me! I was being SUCKED into the medical system with symptoms, diagnoses, etc! I started immediately drinking green shakes and 2-3 liters of green/alkaline water with the pHour salts, etc., per your program as outlined in The pH Miracle for Weight Loss Book.

This October my doctor recommended a follow up endoscopy and here's the resulting letter:

"Dear Ms. Warner,

The esophageal biopsies did not reveal any evidence of Barrett's esophagus at this time. But as there was evidence of Barrett's in the past, you will benefit from endoscopic follow up again in 3 years.

Sincerely,

Sadha T. MD.

Dr. Young, thank you so much for giving me the information and guidance to have power over disease and the ability to manage my own health. It gave me great joy to realize I did it.

PS: And of course I have no more anemia!

Sincerely,

Ms. Val Warner
A 55 yr old, healthy, alkaline, fit woman thanks to you Dr. Young.
www.ValWarner.com

WHAT IS BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS?

Barrett's esophagus is an acidic pre-cancerous condition where dietary and/or metabolic acids affect the lining of the esophagus, the swallowing tube that carries foods and liquids from the mouth to the stomach.

Facts:

• In a study published in 2005, Barrett's esophagus prevalence was estimated to affect approximately 3.3 million adults over 50 years of age in the United States^2,3,14
• Patients with Barrett's Esophagus are 30-125 times more likely to develop adenocarcinoma (esophageal cancer) than the general population⁷
• The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has risen approximately six-fold in the U.S. It is rising faster than breast cancer, prostate cancer, or melanoma^4,15
• ^{According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "esophageal adenoccarcinoma has increased in direct relationship to the acidic levels of the diet and lifestyle."}
  

Stomach acid backs up into the esophagus from acid reflux or GERD, causing injury to the esophageal lining.

HOW DOES BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS DEVELOP?

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a disorder in which stomach acid and acidic enzymes causing injury to the esophageal lining, producing symptoms such as heartburn, regurgitation, and chest pain. In some patients with GERD, the normal esophagus cells are damaged directly by dietary acid. Over time, this damage can result in inflammation and genetic changes that cause the cells to become altered or cancerous. The tissue takes on a different appearance and microscopically is no longer esophagus tissue, but rather becomes intestinal tissue. This is called “intestinal metaplasia” or Barrett’s esophagus. If a patient has GERD symptoms more than 3 times per week, they should immediately eliminate ALL acidic foods and drinks and start drinking alkaline water with sodium bicarbonate.

Facts:

• Approximately 13% of Caucasian men over the age of 50, who have chronic reflux, will develop Barrett's esophagus⁵
• In a study conducted by the Veteran Affairs Healthcare System and Stanford University, 25% of patients over 50 years old without GERD symptoms were found to have Barrett's esophagus¹⁴
• GERD is common in the U.S. adult population. Symptoms of GERD, including heartburn, occur monthly in almost 44% of U.S. adults and weekly in almost 18%¹⁶

References:

1. Cameron AJ, Zinsmeister AR, Ballard DJ, et al. Prevalence of columnar-lined (Barrett’s) esophagus. Comparison of population-based clinical and autopsy findings. Gastroenterology 1990; 99:918-22.

2. “Study provides first estimate of U.S. population affected by Barrett’s esophagus.” Gastro.org. 2006. American Gastroenterological Association.
   www.gastro.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1834
   Accessed August 2007.

3. Ronkainen J, Aro P, Storskrubb T, et al. Prevalence of Barrett’s esophagus in the general population: an endoscopic study. Gastroenterology 2005; 129:1825-1831.

4. Heiko Pohl and H.G. Welch. The role of over diagnosis and reclassification in the Marked Increase of esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005: 97: 142-146.

5. Westhoff B, Brotze S, Weston A, et al. The frequency of Barrett’s esophagus in high-risk patients with chronic gerd. Gastrointestinal Endosc. 2005; 61:226-231.

6. Reid B.J and Weinstein W. M. Barrett's esophagus and adenocarcinoma. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America 1987; 38: 477-492.

7. G.M. Eisen. Ablation therapy for Barrett's esophagus. Gastrointestinal Endosc. 2003; 58: 760-769. 5

8. "What Are the Key Statistics about Cancer of the Esophagus?" Cancer.org. 2006. American Cancer Society.
   www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_
   statistics_for_esophagus_cancer_12.asp?sitearea=
   Accessed October 2007.

9. Ganz RA, Utley DS, Stern RA, et al. Complete ablation of esophageal epithelium with a balloon-based bipolar electrode: a phased evaluation in the porcine and in the human esophagus. Gastrointest Endosc 2004; 60:1002-10.

10. Dunkin BJ, Martinez J, Bejarano PA, et al; Thin-layer ablation of human esophageal epithelium using a bipolar radiofrequency balloon device. Surgical Endoscopy 2006; 20: 125-130.

11. Sharma VK, Wang KK, Overholt BF, et al. Balloon-based, circumferential, endoscopic radiofrequency ablation of Barrett’s esophagus: 1-year follow-up of 100 patients. Gastrointest Endosc 2007; 65:185-194.

12. Fleischer DE, Overholt BF, Sharma VK, et al. Long-term (2.5 year) follow-up of the AIM-II trial for ablation of Barrett's esophagus: results after primary circumferential ablation followed by secondary focal ablation. Gastrointest Endosc 2007; 65: AB 135.

13. Smith CD, Bejarano PA, Melvin WS, et al. Endoscopic ablation of intestinal metaplasia containing high-grade dysplasia in esophagectomy patients using a balloon-based ablation system. Surg Endosc 2007; 21:560-569.

14. Gerson LB, Shetler K, and Triadafilopoulos G. Prevalence of Barrett’s esophagus in asymptomatic individuals. Gastroenterology 2002;123:461-467

15. “Fastest Rising Form of Cancer in the U.S.” Webmd.com. 2005. WebMD.
    www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050118/esophageal-cancer-on-rise
    Accessed October 2007.

16. Shaheen N, Ransohoff DF. Gastroesophageal reflux, Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2002; 287: 1972-1981.

17. Sampliner RE. Updated guidelines for the diagnosis, surveillance and therapy of Barrett’s esophagus. Am J Gastroenterol 2002; 97:1888–1895.

18. Possible complications may include: mucosal laceration, perforation of the esophagus requiring surgery, infection, bleeding, and stricture formation requiring dilation. The overall complication rate reported for this procedure is approximately < .19%.

19. Spechler SJ. Barrett’s esophagus. N Engl J Med 2002; 346: 836-842.

20. Gondrie JJ, Rygie AM, Sondermeijer C, et al. Balloon-based circumferential ablation followed by focal ablation of Barrett's esophagus containing high-grade dysplasia effectively removes all genetic alterations. Gastroenterology. 2007; Supplement S1: 132: A-64.

21. Inadomi JM, Madanick RD, Somsouk M, Shaheen NJ. Radiofrequency ablation is more cost-effective than endoscopic surveillance or esophagectomy among patients with Barrett's esophagus and low-grade dysplasia. Gastroenterology. 2007; Supplement S1: 132: A-53.

22. Ganz RA, Overholt BJ, Sharma VK, et al. HALO³⁶⁰⁺ circumferential ablation is safe and effective for the treatment of Barrett's esophagus and high-grade dysplasia: A U.S. multi-center registry. Gastrointest Endosc 2007; 65: AB 147.

23. Sharma VK, Kim HJ, Musil D, Crowell MD, et al. Circumferential ablation of Barrett's esophagus with low-grade dysplasia: One and two year follow-up of the AIM-LGD Trial. Gastrointest Endosc. 2007; 65: AB155.

24. Pouw RE, Gondrie JJ, Sondermeijer C, et al. Novel combined modality therapy for Barrett's esophagus containing high-grade dysplasia: Endoscopic mucosal resection followed by circumferential and focal ablation using the HALO system. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;65: AB111.

25. Gondrie JJ, Pouw RE, Sondermeijer C, et al. Optimizing the technique for circumferential ablation of Barrett's esophagus containing high-grade dysplasia using the HALO³⁶⁰ system. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;65:AB 151.

26. Rothstein RI, Chang K, Overholt BJ, et al. Focal ablation for treatment of dysplastic and non-dysplastic Barrett's esophagus: safety profile and initial experience with the HALO⁹⁰ device in 508 cases. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;65: AB 147.

27. Gondrie JJ, Peters F, Curvers WL, et al. Radiofrequency ablation of Barrett’s esophagus containing high-grade dysplasia. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;65: AB 135.

28. Beaumont H, Bergman JJ, Pouw RE, et al. Preservation of the functional integrity of the distal esophagus after circumferential ablation of Barrett’s esophagus. Gastroenterology. 2007; Supplement S1: 132: A-255.

29. Sharma P, Falk GW, Weston AP, et al. Dysplasia and cancer in a large multicenter cohort of patients with Barrett’s esophagus. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006; 4:566-572

Building Health and Muscles With The pH Miracle Diet

The following is a testimony from a pH Miracle alkaline vegan bodybuilder.

Dear Dr Young,

At first I would like to wish you all the best and thank you for your pH Miracle diet and the excellent work you do for people.

I wrote to you some months ago advising that I was a vegetarian bodybuilder and was preparing for a competition. Last August I competed in the competition as a VEGAN alkaline bodybuilder. My preparation diet was 100% alkaline vegan, because I wanted to discover for myself whether it really works. To my amazement - it really does! Because I won my category for the third time as a natural bodybuilder in the South Pacific Natural Bodybuilding Champs - this time in 50 years plus category. My victory gives hope to all those alkalarian vegans and vegetarian sports people who want to achieve something in their chosen sport via a pure alkaline pH Miracle Diet.

Prior to previous competitions, I used to have problems with my joints - and cramps and was always tired the last month before the competition. But this time I was very surprised and very happy as I not only gained strength but there was no sign of any pain in my joints or tendons and no cramps at all. For past competitions, I used to have fat deposits that were hard to shift, but this time, I didn't have to go on any strict diet because thanks to the Young's pH Miracle alkaline diet, I was leaner than ever before.

On the day of the competition I was full of energy, I could pump myself up and wasn't out of breath. I wasn't nervous or anxious and I felt great. Even after the competition, I wasn't tired at all and slept very well and recuperated quickly.

Now I'm 100% sure that to build good muscular, healthy bodies, we don't have to eat animal protein, because mother nature provides all the protein we need, and better quality - in a totally natural, unprocessed form.

My thanks again and God Bless.

Dusan Dudas

duvaeu@gmail.com

The Seven Stages of Acidosis

Listen and learn from Dr. Young about the one sickness, one disease and one treatment and the seven stages of acidosis at:

http://www.nolimitshealth.com/phmiracleionizer/order/step1/

Eating Alkaline Green Vegetables and Fruit Can Prevent Type I Diabetes in Children

Children born to mothers who ate plenty of alkaline green vegetables and fruit during pregnancy are less likely to have type 1 diabetes, Swedish researchers say.

"This is the first study to show a link between vegetable intake during pregnancy and the risk of the child subsequently developing Type 1 diabetes, but more studies of various kinds will be needed before we can say anything definitive," study author Hilde Brekke, a clinical nutritionist at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, said in a news release from the university.

Brekke and colleagues studied 6,000 5-year-olds and found that 3 percent either had fully developed Type 1 diabetes or had elevated levels of antibodies that indicate a risk of developing the disease. The risk was twice as high in children whose mothers rarely ate vegetables during pregnancy, and lowest among children whose mothers ate vegetables every day of their pregnancy.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "Type 1 diabetes begins in the small bowel where new stem cells and blood are made. Eating animal protein and dairy products damages the intestinal villi of the small intestine which sets the stage for Type I diabetes. Children eating chicken and beef are more likely to be constipated and then diabetic because of the constipation from undigested animal protein."

The study was recently published online in the journal Pediatric Diabetes.

"We cannot say with certainty on the basis of this study that it's the vegetables themselves that have this protective effect, but other factors related to vegetable intake, such as the mother's standard of education, do not seem to explain the link," Brekke said. "Nor can this protection be explained by other measured dietary factors or other known risk factors."

Dr. Young suggests, "eating more green vegetables and fruit provides for increased alkalinity which helps to buffer dietary and metabolic acids that can cause diabetes."

"Type 1 diabetes factors believed to play a role in its cause include immunological mechanisms, dietary acids from animal proteins and dairy, environmental acidic toxins and genetic variations which all compromise the delicate alkaline pH of the small bowel. Type 1 diabetes occurs throughout the world but is most common in Finland and Sweden where they ingest liberal amounts of acidic dairy and animal proteins," states Dr. Young.

pH Miracle Cooking With Chef Shelley

This is one of several new recipes to be featured on the upcoming "pH Miracle Cooking with Chef Shelley" DVD, as well as in the re-release of the much anticipated updated version of "The pH Miracle" book, published by Time Warner Books---July 2010. In this video Shelley Redford Young demonstrates a refreshing take on the Green Shake, though it has been shortened for YouTube. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB0-ss3-BPU

Does The Swine Flu Virus Cause The Flu?

Does The Swine Flu Virus Cause The Flu?

The following is an email exchange between Matt Schweder and Dr. Robert O. Young concerning the so-called Swine Flu Virus and whether or not it is the cause of the so-called Swine Flu.

I am hopeful that this will clear up several questions that:

1) The Swine Flu virus does not exist.
2) The Swine Flu is NOT contagious, and
3) The Swine Flu virus does not cause flu symptoms.

Kindest regards,

Dr. Robert O. Young

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 3:27 am
Subject: RE: Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

I believe and love these emails and the pH information....but if flu has nothing to do with germs, how come it can be passed from person to person? I have been trying to ask this question for months and no one will ever answer me. Please.

I'm doing battle with my local newspaper and our county schools superintendent and trying to share information with other people and this is the one question that I get that I can't answer.

Thanks.

Matt Schweder
Lexington, KY

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Dear Matt:

Most people on this planet are living an acidic lifestyle and eating the same acidic foods and are therefore subject to the same acidic detox symptoms. The flu is the body's way of eliminating excess acid from the blood and tissues through the orfaces of the body caused by acidic lifestyle and dietary choice - not from germs! Germs are the effect of cellular transformation or degeneration not the cause!... Read More

If you go to a party and everyone is drinking alcohol excessively the majority of those drinking this acidic beverage will get drunk , will get sick to their stomach, have flu-like symptoms and will have a hang-over the next morning. Same symptoms from the same cause! The contagion was the acidic choice of drinking alcohol - a dietary choice - not a germ.... Read More

The same thing applies to flu symptoms. The flu symptom is the body removing excess metabolic and/or dietary acidity from the blood and tissues from over-ingesting too much meat, alcohol, sugar, bread, grains, high sugar fruit, acidic condiments, etc. during a season of time called the "Holiday Season" or "I eat and drink too much acidic crap dis-ease Season."

People across the world are eating and drinking the same acidic food and living a similar acidic lifestyle and experiencing the same acidic detox symptoms, medical science calls the flu. This then gives people the illusion that there is a pandemic or that there is some so-called germ that is contagious causing this so-called flu. The theory that germs cause dis-ease or so-called disease is a scientific fraud! There is NO SWINE FLU VIRUS that is causing people to get sick. It is fear that is contagious! It is anger! It is regret! It is pride! It is acidic food! It is acidic drink! It is acidic drugs including antidepressants to birth control pills, to antibiotics, and now to toxic poisonous flu shot vaccines. It is the lack of pure clean alkaline water. It is the lack of exercise! It is the lack of oxygen. It is the lack of non-processed salt. It is the lack of healthy oils. It is the lack of chlorophyll from green foods and drinks. It is the lack of an alkaline lifestyle and diet. These are the viruses that are contagious that are the TRUE cause of excess acidity in the body that make us sick, tired, under-weight and over-weight that caused the body to purify itself with a flu. NOT SOME Phantom Flu Virus created by Big Pharma and Big Government for BIG Money!

Once again viruses or germs DO NOT KILL but acidic lifestyle and dietary choice will KILL! The flu is the body's natural defense remove excess acidity to save your life from acidic choice!

Keep in mind Matt that healthy alkaline body's Do Not have flu symptoms because they DO NOT need to detox their body's from excess acid from ingesting alcohol, bread, beef, chicken, fish, sugar, grains, vinegar, high sugar fruit, stress, etc. or from doing acidic emotions like fear and anger.

There is a saying that All roads lead to Rome, Italy. Eat and live an acidic lifestyle and diet and you will find yourself on the road to Rome with detox flu symptoms trying to save your sorry acidic ass. No GERM here Matt - just people who make poor ass lifestyle and dietary choices choking on their own acidic waste!

If I sound passionate here - I am. I am trying to wake people up from their acidic stupor or mind blindness. The majority of people living on this planet are intoxicated or drunk from their acidic lifestyles and diets. WAKE UP PEOPLE! WAKE UP WORLD! YOU ARE ASLEEP AND DO NOT KNOW IT!

Save your life and say NO to the Swine Flu vaccine SHOT. Say NO TO TOXIC ACIDIC DRUGS and BIG Pharma and BIG Government! SAY NO TO A TOXIC ACIDIC LIFE! WAKE UP! It only takes one shot to kill and it already has!

In love and light,

Dr. Robert O. Young

Will Eating and/or Drinking Soy Prevent or Reverse Dis-ease or So-called Disease?

Cancer is a group of dis-eases characterized by the uncontrolled fermentation and degeneration of body cells. Over 10 million Americans today are cancer survivors, and about 1.4 million Americans are expected to be diagnosed each year.¹

"Diet plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of ALL cancerous conditions, and soy protein is one of the leading anti-acid or alkalizing and therefore anti-carcinogenic foods being studied," stated Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center.

Soy Foods & Cancer

There has been much focus during the past 15 years on the anticancer effects of soy foods.² There are several presumed chemopreventive agents in the soy bean,⁶ but the isoflavones have received the most attention.³ A particular interest lies in the role of soy foods and isoflavones in reducing the risk of breast and prostate cancer.²

Soy & Breast Cancer

Data modestly supports the hypothesis that soy food intake may reduce the incidence of breast cancer. A recently published analysis found the relative risk for breast cancer was 95 percent when comparing high- vs. low-soy consumers.⁵ However, many of the case-control and prospective studies included in this analysis were of poor quality.⁶

Rodent studies have generally shown that isoflavones, or soy protein, inhibit chemically induced mammary tumors when given prior to tumor initiation^7-9, although there are a number of exceptions.^10-12 Interestingly, the chemopreventive effects of isoflavones appear to be affected by the background dietary choices.

When the isoflavone genistein was added to the semi-purified diet, chemically induced rodent mammary tumors were not inhibited, but when added to the regular chow diet, tumor development was suppressed by approximately 50 percent.¹³ This suggests that animal research, which most commonly uses semi-purified diets, may actually underestimate the potential anticarcinogenic effects of soy and other foods.

Soy & Markers of Breast Cancer

In contrast to the animal and epidemiologic data, there is little clinical evidence that soy or isoflavones favorably affect markers of breast cancer risk including breast tissue density,^{14, 15} serum estrogen levels,^{16, 17} and breast cell proliferation.¹⁸ There is limited evidence that estrogen metabolism is favorably affected¹⁹ and that menstrual cycle length is increased (which decreases cancer risk).¹⁶

Nevertheless, there remains considerable enthusiasm for the possibility that soy food intake contributes to the low breast cancer rate in Japan.

Early Intake of Soy May Reduce Breast Risk

There is both epidemiologic ^20-22 and animal ^{23, 24} data in support of the hypothesis that early soy intake reduces later risk of developing breast cancer. This hypothesis is consistent with mounting evidence that early life influences — parity, lactation, age at menses, birth weight, etc. — impact risk of developing breast cancer.^25-36 Studies of migrants suggest that the first 20 years of life have an especially profound impact on risk.^36-38 The epidemiologic data suggest just one to two servings of soy foods is protective.

Breaking News - Soy Breast Cancer Study

Soy Breast Cancer Study Holds Promise, But Calls for Further Research

For more than 15 years, soy foods have been actively investigated for their possible role in reducing breast cancer risk. Initial enthusiasm about this hypothesis was based on several observations. These include the low breast cancer rates in Japan, early animal research indicating that soy beans in rodent diets reduced mammary tumor development and evidence suggesting that the isoflavones (phytoestrogens) in soy foods may exert anti-estrogenic effects.

However, establishing a relationship between cancer risk and diet – especially specific foods – is much more difficult than establishing such links in the case of other chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease. This is because there are few well-established non-invasive indicators of cancer risk, and studies are very rarely conducted for long enough to measure actual differences in tumor incidence. Consequently, it is difficult to claim with confidence whether a particular intervention increases or decreases the chances of developing cancer.

Epidemiologic research is a useful mode of investigation for exploring a relationship between diet and cancer. Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and control of disease in groups of people. There are two primary types of epidemiologic studies, case-control and prospective studies. In case-control studies, scientists compare people with cancer to those without in hopes of identifying characteristics such as lifestyle or diet that are more common to one group than the other. In prospective studies, scientists first evaluate the characteristics of a large group of healthy people, then follow those subjects for many years in hopes of identifying whether certain factors are more common to those who develop cancer than to those who don't. Generally, prospective studies are considered more credible than case-control studies. It is important to recognize, however, that epidemiologic studies cannot establish cause and effect relationships. Only clinical trials can do that. But epidemiologic studies are often used as a basis for clinical research.

To evaluate the relationship between soy intake and breast cancer risk, Bruce Trock and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Georgetown University conducted a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies. A meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings. This particular analysis included 12 case-control studies and 6 prospective studies. The major finding of this analysis was that when all women (Asian and non-Asian, pre- and postmenopausal) were considered, soy intake was associated with a 14% reduction in breast cancer risk. That is, women consuming higher quantities of soy were 14% less likely to develop breast cancer than women who consumed relatively little soy. However, subgroup analysis revealed that soy was more protective against pre- compared to postmenopausal breast cancer, and was protective in studies involving non-Asian women but not Asian women.

The analysis by Trock and colleagues provides modest support for the notion that soy may protect against breast cancer. A 14% reduction is certainly noteworthy, but for several reasons the study results should be interpreted with caution.

First, in many studies, soy intake was not actually quantified. Rather, it was estimated based on the urinary excretion of isoflavones. Because urinary isoflavone excretion varies so much from person to person, it provides only a rough approximation of soy intake. Furthermore, although soy was found to be protective in studies involving non-Asian women, the intake of soy by the women in these studies was quite low. There is some doubt as to whether such low intakes are sufficient to exert biological effects. Since soy foods are still consumed by only a minority of people in non-Asian countries – and are often favored by especially health-conscious individuals – we must consider the possibility that the perceived cancer-protective effects of soy may result from an overall healthy lifestyle, rather than soy consumption per se. Although the researchers employed statistical techniques to try to separate the effects of soy from other factors common to people who eat soy, this is very difficult to do.

While some evidence, including the new analysis by Trock and colleagues, suggests soy foods may reduce breast cancer risk, no conclusions can be made at this time. Nevertheless, because soy foods provide excellent nutrition, they can play an important role in an overall healthy diet, regardless of their possible relationship to breast cancer protection.

Soy & Prostate Cancer

The soy bean isoflavone genistein inhibits the growth of both androgen-dependent^39-42 and androgen-independent^{39, 42-45} prostate cancerous cells, depending on the level of soy doses administered. In addition, genistein inhibits the invasive capacity of prostate cancerous cells ⁴² and enhances the ability of radiation to kill these cells.⁴⁶ However, the concentration of genistein required to exert these effects is higher than the serum isoflavone levels of people who eat soy foods.^47-49 Nevertheless, several observations suggest these effects are biologically relevant.^{39, 44-49}

Regional Diets Can Impact Prostate Cancer

In Japan, although many men have prostate cancer, few die of this dis-ease. This is because the small tumors often referred to as latent prostate cancer, not uncommon to Japanese men, rarely progress to the more advanced form of this disease.^{51, 52} Isoflavones in combination with tea extracts were shown to reduce tumor growth in mice more effectively than either agent alone.⁹

In Asia, and especially in Japan, where prostate cancer mortality rates are low, both soy foods and tea are important components of their diet. There are likely several factors that contribute to this clinical situation in Japanese men and according to the International Prostate Health Council, and isoflavone intake from soy foods may be one.⁵³

There has been limited epidemiologic investigation of the relationship between soy intake and prostate cancer. These studies have produced mixed results but can be said to be consistent with the hypothesis that soy intake reduces prostate cancer risk.

A recent analysis of 10 epidemiologic studies found that soy intake was associated with a one-third reduction in prostate cancer risk.⁵ However, many of the epidemiologic studies involved a small number of cases^{54, 55} and/or did not comprehensively evaluate soy food intake. However, a recent comprehensive Japanese case-control study found that when comparing the highest with the lowest soy food intake cases, risk was reduced by nearly 50 percent.⁵⁶

Soy May Help Treat Existing Prostate Cancer

Data suggests that soy foods may be useful in the treatment of existing prostate cancer, but this remains speculative. A study of 11 trials, three involving healthy subjects^57-59 and eight involving prostate cancer patients,^60-67 examined the effects of isoflavones on PSA levels. No benefits were noted in healthy subjects, but among the cancer patients one-half noted favorable effects.⁶⁸ Recent intervention data demonstrate that reducing prostate cancer risk is not dependent upon reductions in PSA levels.⁶⁹

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VeganNik: The pH Miracle Living Retreat

VEGANIK: THE pH MIRACLE RETREAT

Vol. 2: It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No wait, it’s “ALKALINE BOY”!

by featured contributor Nik Tyler

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Tired of not getting enough sleep? Or feeling foggy? Sluggish in the morning? Crashing in the middle of the day? Dealing with problematic skin? Damaged, crazy hair? Poor digestion? Sore muscles? Aching back? Feeling stressed? Feeling stressed about feeling stressed? No, this isn’t a late-night infomercial – this is literally how I felt for years. I finally found the true cause of these all-too-common health afflictions, and I want to share the truth with you. Get ready; the

cause of illness as I have come to know it is (drum roll, please)… SUGAR & ACIDIC FOOD! Though simple may it seem, I learned this during a transformative health retreat where I had the fortune of spending 12 days cleansing at Dr. Robert Young’s Rancho De Sol in Valley Center, near San Diego. Dr. Young, a world renowned scientist and lecturer, is the author of several books, including “The pH Miracle” and because of him, I am soaring! So here’s my story:

The basis of Dr. Young’s scientific philosophy is that of adopting an “Alkalarian” lifestyle and diet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkalarian), a way of eating and thinking where essentially your meals consists of 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic. Choosing to consume primarily alkaline foods and limiting the intake of meat, dairy, high sugar fruits & certain carbohydrates, we can maintain an internal alkaline level of 7.2 (striving for 8), which, strengthens the immune system. Who knew?

When I first met Dr. Young, he held a Microscopy session with me, consisting of viewing samples of one drop of my blood, dry and living, under a microscope and on a monitor. What he found under the microscope was shocking; my blood was totally riddled with yeast and I had cancerous markers on some of my internal organs, which scared the hell out of me. After talking to me about my past dietary history, Dr. Young explained to me that this was all a result of years of consuming sugar and other acidic foods – and not just an abundance of those decadent raw/vegan desserts, but from years of heaping bowls of pasta, dairy, rice, caffeine and fruit overload. As surprised as I was to hear this, it was no surprise at all to Dr. Young that I had been feeling lethargic with sore muscles and having difficulty for years maintaining clear skin and a clear state of mind – my body needed help, and pronto! So his plan for me was to completely drench my system in alkalizing foods and activities, and in doing so, rid my body of the yeast, restoring it’s alkaline balance and obliterating all of my current health issues.

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Now I’ll be completely honest here - I was scared shitless by my diagnosis, and entirely consumed with doubts. I knew the basics of Dr. Young’s scientific beliefs and they made sense to me, but I also was uber-bummed at the concept of cutting out all the acidic food I was so used to consuming and loved… it sounded hardcore to a dude who loved his desserts and nutritional yeast 6-layer pasta-extravaganza’s! But after much consideration of what the blood test had revealed, I weighed the pros and cons, and I decided to ditch the sugar and acidic foods (for at least the 12 days I was staying at the ranch), be brave and give “Alkalinity” a deserving try! After all, in 12 days I would know first-hand if this “pH Miracle” really lived up to its name.

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The first day at the ranch I was in mourning the death of all the foods I wouldn’t be eating, but then after the first two meals were prepared for me (a delicious avocado-spinach-tomato-cucumber-hemp oil smoothie, followed by a sumptuous leek-onion-garlic-ginger-almond milk-soup), I began to let go of my desire for a giant bowl of soy-alfredo fettuccini and chocolate chip cookies. I was just beginning to break the vicious cycle of my sugar addiction, and not only was the new alkaline food delicious, I was feeling really terrific after I ate it – gone was that constant feeling of being tired and grossly-full after a meal. Now I felt light and energized!

The following 11 days at Dr. Young’s Ranch were entirely transformative. I followed a surprisingly delicious, gourmet alkaline diet of especially-green vegetables like kale, spinach, collard, zucchini, broccoli, tomato, cauliflower, peppers, cucumbers, leeks, onions, lots of healthy oils like olive, flax, sunflower, hemp, sesame, home made almond milk, and my favorite, lots of avocado and guacamole! In addition to the foods I was putting into my body, I also adopted a daily exercise regimen consisting of yoga, stretching and hiking. This emphasis on physical activity and deep breathing was as essential as the food I was eating. The act of working out and sweating does wonders for detoxifying the body of any acidity, and by practicing yoga, a state of tranquility rids the body of stressful thoughts that are scientifically proven to produce acidity.

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I definitely went through a major sugar detox, but around Day 6 I started to pick up and feel clear and healthy. All the alkalining foods partnered with workouts gave me so much unexpected joy and clarity that by day 12 I was an entirely revamped version of myself. My final blood microscopy session with Dr. Young was miraculous. The majority of the acidic spots had disappeared and all the cancer markings were completely gone from my internal organs- the yeast had been abolished and my blood was healthy, strong & vibrant. This turn around in my health was truly remarkable to me, but equally as cool was the fact that I didn’t crave the old acidic foods I once loved o.d.ing on . I learned a huge lesson in the ways our taste buds can change and shift if we just allow ourselves to explore the vast dietary options that are out there. In just 12 short days, I developed an entirely new, more health-conscience palette, and now I am craving alkaline foods!

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Being a constant work in progress, I am continuing this “Alkaline” journey back in LA. Being simple and strict for the rest of ‘09 is my current adventure – creating and experimenting with delectable variations on the alkaline menu, as well as joining yoga classes around town and making sure that I drink loads of “alkaline” water, pH miracle green drinks, devouring kale and avocado by the fistful, using my shot glasses for chlorophyll and hemp oil, and staying active by rollerblading, lifting weights and playing with happy dogs! All these physical, spiritual and nutritional endeavors will be the topics of future blog entries, so stay tuned for alkaline recipes, pictures and activities.

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And remember, not everyone needs to prescribe to my specific routine, cause not everybody or every body is the same – we all react differently and can handle acids in different ways… but if this story resonates with you and you’ve been experiencing some similar ailments, give the alkaline diet a try. When you wake up tomorrow morning, instead of reaching for that acidic bowl of corn flakes & sugary soy milk, try whipping up an “awesome-avocado-spinach shake”, or a “cool-crunchy-cabbage-cucumber-guacamole wrap”, or for an even easier quick-fix, an “avocado-salsa-scooper” (recipes + pictures to follow)! Just like those hypnotizing late-night infomercials, I’m guaranteeing you that if you make the switch and allow your taste buds the time to transition (which they will, I promise – it only took me 4 days to stop craving those sickening, sneaky sugars) you will undoubtedly start feeling like a power-house alkaline version of ‘Tony the Tiger’, and start feeling GRRRRRREAT!

-Nik

Sean Stephenson - A pH Miracle Marvel

Sean Stephenson came to my research center over 8 years ago to help him with his rare genetic condition - Osteogenesis Imperfecta or the glass bone disease.

When I first met Sean he was sick, tired and had broken over 270 bones. He would break a bone if he sneezed.

Now he is a pH Miracle, living his life to the fullest as the "3 Foot Giant."

Sean attributes his good health and the fact he has not broken a bone in 8 years to the work and research of Dr. Robert and Shelley Young.

Check out his new TV show. Sean is very entertaining and yes he drinks his greens. He will challenge you to get off your "BUTT!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4YpAHxAwA


Please watch the following YouTube testimonial of a three foot giant, Sean Stephenson. You will be amazed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZwWgiuI8uc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l6NuUUjutE

Sean shares his life changing and life saving pH Miracle story that is one of the most motivating testimonials on the web encouraging everyone to make the necessary alkalizing lifestyle and dietary changes to improve health and energy and prevent or reverse ALL sickness and dis-ease. Sean attributes his reversal of Osteogenesis imperfecta and no more broken bones to Dr. Robert and Shelley Young and following their pH Miracle Living Lifestyle and Diet.

The Truth About Water

Someone once said that life is a race between education and catastrophe. That statement could not be more true when it comes to educating ourselves about water and its relationship to our health.

A vast array of pharmaceuticals­-including antibiotics, anti-convultants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones­-have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation reported recently after a five month-long study.

And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Despite the small concentrations of pharmaceuticals, and despite water utilities insistence that their water is safe, there is much evidence to the contrary.

The presence of so many prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen that have been flushed down toilets are easily found in much of our drinking water and is heightening worries of long-term health consequences.

Unfortunately, water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed. They claim that the public does not know how to interpret the results and might be unduly alarmed.

Because of information like this, and because of many other abuses of our water system-­sewage waste, poisons used in agribusiness, acid rain, industrial and household chemicals just to name a few­-I have for many years now gone on record as stating that a good, dependable water ionizer has already become a necessity for every family in America.

Even users of bottled water and many of the home filtration systems don't necessarily avoid exposure. Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do not typically treat or test for all toxins, especially pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's main trade group.

I have been researching water for over two decades. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the contamination of our water supply in the US is a clear and present danger. I have personally tested the water supplies of nearly every major city in the U.S. and there is NO safe water to drink that is clean, pure and alkaline. Even the majority of the bottled waters being sold in the U.S. and around the world are questionable at best.

A National Assessment of Tap Water Quality found 260 contaminants in our nation's tap water; 141of these contaminants have no enforceable safety limits. Of the 141 unregulated contaminants utilities detected in water supplies between 1998 and 2003, 52 are linked to cancer, 41 to reproductive toxicity, 36 to developmental toxicity, and 16 to immune system damage, according to chemical listings in seven standard government and industry toxicity references. Despite the potential health risks, any concentration of these chemicals in tap water is legal, no matter how high.

For more detailed information, I often refer people to a chapter in our book entitled "The pH Miracle For Weight Loss." In Chapter 5 entitled "You Are What You Drink," I present the truth about the present dangers of the world's potable water supply.

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Clean drinking water is something that the public has pretty much taken for granted for the past hundred years. The public has little idea-­perhaps understandably­-just how contaminated our drinking water has become.

Our environment has changed, new biological transformations are emerging, drinking-water systems are aging, and governments often seem more interested in ensuring business in the global marketplace than in ensuring the safety and health of the world citizens.

Health scientists throughout the world are now echoing what I have been saying for two decades. When it comes to your health, whether you are trying to reverse an illness, prevent an illness, or simply create the healthiest body possible, the #1 thing you must do is to change your water.

A good water ionizer must alkalize, ionize, purify and structure the molecules of the water. In order to neutralize and reverse the over-acidity of the body, the pH of our water supply is critical.

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What most people do not realize is that underlying all disease or most dis-ease is an acidic condition. More and more medical researchers are beginning to focus on the relationship of acidity in cells, tissues, organs, and blood as highly correlated with many bodily symptoms and complicated disease syndromes.

Having studied water for decades, I have become convinced that the pH Miracle organization has created the best water ionization products on the market from several standpoints: water quality, price, system durability, and customer relations. At the pH Miracle Center (www.phmiracleliving.com), one can find the pH Miracle Mark I water ionizer in every kitchen and guest house. We provide healthy water for family, guests, employees, farm hands, and visitors.

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The average healthy person should drink at least 1 quart of water for ever 50 pounds of body weight each day. A person with a serious health challenge should drink a liter for every 30 pounds. People often laugh when I say "we must pee our way to health," but I don't know how much simpler I can make it.

High pH water such as the water that comes from a good ionIzer neutralizes acids throughout the entire body. Since acids underlie all disease entities, nothing makes more sense than neutralizing these acids.

One of my most often quoted statements goes like this: "When the fish is sick, change the water." We don't feed the fish medicine. We give them clean water. When the cells of our body our sick, we must change the water and fluids in which all cells and tissues are bathed.

When we purchase a good ionizer, we actually save money over time when compared with purchasing water from vendors and stores and treating the water to try and improve its quality. I can't think of any investment that is better for a person or a family than a good water ionizer and especially the best ionizer on the market today has to be The pH Miracle Mark I seven plate ionizer.

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The pH Miracle Healing Retreat on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii

The pH Miracle Healing Retreat, is located on 26 acres
on the North Shore of the Island of Kauai, and is
situated on the former site of the historic Bertleman
residence which stood from 1850-1890.

The home site was part of the was Bertleman
Estate which totaled roughly 17,000 acres
and stretched from Kilauea to Waipake.

It stands as a testimony to the quality of the
home site, that of all the spots to choose from
within those 17,000, this spot along side
the Pila'a stream, was the site chosen for
the family home. It was during their years
residing on the property, about 150 years
ago, that the distinctive and now massive
Norfolk Pine and Mango trees were planted.

The new pH Miracle Healing Retreat house was
completed in 2009, took over 4 years to build.
It is the result of over 15 years of research,
collecting, and the refining of a singular vision.

Architecturally, the pH Miracle Healing Retreat is a
remarkable creative feat. The graceful,
estate style of the retreat takes design
inspiration from the grand coastal houses of
southern India and has perfectly translated that
regional style to the Hawaiian landscape and
climate with it’s open, flowing design,
and covered lanai, high ceilings and stone
floors which tame the tropical sun and heat.

The retreat gets it’s distinctive character
from the rare, one-of-a-kind, antique
Indian architectural elements.

These architectural features were
reclaimed, collected, and have been masterfully
integrated into the core functional and
decorative architectural features of the home.

The result is a place of healing grace
and indelible beauty with the soul of
Ancient India and the heart of Hawaii.

Come join us at our first pH Miracle Healing
Retreat on the Historic Bertleman Estate,
January 11th through the 17th or the 18th through
the 24th.

For more information go to:

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Meat Causes Diabetes and Cancer

High intake of processed meat may increase the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by 40 per cent, according to a new meta-analysis from Norway and the US.

Data from 12 cohort studies showed that high intakes of all types of meat were associated with a 17 per cent increase in the risk of type-2 diabetes, while similar risk increases were also noted for high intakes of red meat.

The study, published in the journal Diabetologia, adds to an ever increasing list of bad news for red and processed meat, following previous studies from the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) that reported high intakes of red and processed meats may raise the risk of lung and colorectal cancer by up to 20 per cent.

Why does red meat and processed meat cause diabetes and cancer?

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center in San Diego, California, "meat never completely breaks down and thus ferments and rots in your gut releasing acids, such as uric and nitric acid that destroys the root system (intestinal villi) in the small intestine that causes diabetes and then cancer. Eating meat also causes a double loss of alkaline minerals that leads to an over-acidification of the blood and tissues and eventually sickness and/or dis-ease."

The World Cancer Research Fund published a report in 2007 that directly linked diet to cancer, with alcohol and red and processed meats posing particular risks.

Earlier this year, the same authors published similar findings from a study with half a million people, noting that that increased consumption of red and processed meat may have a modestly increased risk of death from all causes and also from cancer or heart disease (Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol 169, pp. 562-571).

The Archives study was described by Barry Popkin from the University of North Carolina as “excellent” in an accompanying editorial. Popkin added that the results “reiterate the concerns echoed in other major reviews and studies on the adverse effects of excessive meat intake”.

The new meta-analysis, led by Dagfinn Aune from the University of Oslo, sought to iron out the inconsistencies from previous studies which found both positive and negative associations between meat consumption and the risk of type-2 diabetes.

Of the 12 cohort studies pooled, the overall data suggested the high intake of total meat increased the risk of diabetes by 17 per cent, while red meat and processed meat were associated with 21 and 41 per cent increases in diabetes risk.

“These results suggest that meat consumption increases the risk of type 2 diabetes,” said the researcher. “However, the possibility that residual confounding could explain this association cannot be excluded,” they concluded.

A direct mechanistic study of how meat may affect diabetes risk has not been performed. However, an earlier study from Harvard University suggested several “possible biologically adverse effects of components in red and processed meats”, including saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. However, their study (Diabetologia, 2006, Vol. 49, pp. 2604-13) failed to find an association between these components.

Another possibility is the effect of nitrites, frequently used as preservatives in processed meats. “Nitrosamines can be formed by the interaction of amino compounds with nitrites present either in the stomach or within the food product,” they explained. “They have been linked to beta cell toxicity. In addition, low doses of the nitrosamine streptozotocin were found to induce type 2 diabetes in animal models,” they added.

"I have found in my own research that both Type I and Type II diabetes are caused from the congestion and damage to the small bowel due to the ingestion of animal protein. All children and adults that are diagnosed with Type I diabetes are constipated, have irregular bowel movements and are challenged with digestive disorders," states Dr. Young.

Dr. Young further states, "the ingestion of red meat and processed meat is linked to colon cancer and now diabetes which both begin in the bowels. If you do not want lung cancer then don't smoke. It you do not want diabetes and colon cancer then don't eat meat. It is that simple."

Source: Diabetologia
November 2009, Volume 52, Issue 11, Pages 2277-2287
"Meat consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies"
Authors: D. Aune, G. Ursin, M.B. Veierod
The pH Miracle Revisited, Dr. Robert and Shelley Young, July, 2010.

Dr. Young addresses question about Supplements with Ionized Water

Here is your next pH question/response by Dr. Robert Young, as promised...

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about alkaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to a question about Supplements with Ionized Water and the impact it has on your health...

See for yourself here: (0:56 min)

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Acidic Processed Food Causes Depression

Eating a diet high in processed acidic food increases the risk of depression, research suggests.

What is more, people who ate plenty of alkaline vegetables, fruit and fatty fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found.

Data on diet among 3,500 middle-aged civil servants was compared with depression five years later, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported.

The team said the study was the first to look at the UK diet and depression.

The UK population is consuming less nutritious, fresh or raw alkaline produce and more saturated fats and acidic sugars.

They split the participants into two types of diet - those who ate a diet largely based on whole foods, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products.

After accounting for factors such as gender, age, education, physical activity, smoking habits and chronic diseases, they found a significant difference in future depression risk with the different alkaline vs. acidic diets.

Those who ate the most whole raw alkaline foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who at the least whole raw alkaline foods.

By contrast people with a diet high in processed acidic food had a 58% higher risk of depression than those who ate very few processed acidic foods.

Although the researchers cannot totally rule out the possibility that people with depression may eat a less healthy diet they believe it is unlikely to be the reason for the findings because there was no association with diet and previous diagnosis of depression.

Study author Dr Archana Singh-Manoux pointed out there is a chance the finding could be explained by a lifestyle factor they had not accounted for.

"There was a paper showing a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of depression but the problem with that is if you live in Britain the likelihood of you eating a Mediterranean diet is not very high.

"So we wanted to look at bit differently at the link between diet and mental health."

It is not yet clear why some foods may protect against or increase the risk of depression but scientists think there may be a link with inflammation as with conditions such as heart disease.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "depression is not something you get it is something you do with your lifestyle and dietary choices. When you choose a raw alkaline diet with daily exercise you remove the dietary and metabolic wastes from your body that can make you sick, tired and depressed."

Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: "This study adds to an existing body of solid research that shows the strong links between what we eat and our mental health.

"Major studies like this are crucial because they hold the key to us better understanding mental illness."

He added people's diets were becoming increasingly unhealthy.

Dr. Young states, "the American and UK population are consuming acidic processed foods that creates an acidic burden on the organs that sustain life. The biggest problem is an acidic diet and lifestyle constipates the bowel which constipates the brain. And when you don't feel good you don't think good. It all starts in the bowel where you have more brain cells than in your head! Clear the bowel of acidic constipating beef, chicken, turkey, pork, bread and dairy products and you will clear the mind."

"The UK population is consuming less nutritious, fresh produce and more saturated fats and sugars.

"We are particularly concerned about those who cannot access fresh produce easily or live in areas where there are a high number of fast food restaurants and takeaways."

Margaret Edwards, head of strategy at the mental health charity SANE, said: "Physical and mental health are closely related, so we should not be too surprised by these results, but we hope there will be further research which may help us to understand more fully the relationship between diet and mental health."

The Beginning of the End to the Human Male Species or Girls Will Be Girls And Boys Will Be Girls

Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark.

Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending hormonal chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, acidic food, acidic drink, nappies/diapers, sunscreen lotion, moisturizing cream, hormones, birth and control pills.

The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminizing male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.

Sperm counts are falling so fast that young men are less fertile than their fathers and produce only a third as much, proportionately, as hamsters. And gender-bending hormonal acidic chemicals are increasingly being blamed for the mystery of the "lost boys": babies who should normally be male who have been born as girls instead.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "boys are created in an alkaline environment. When acidic hormonal chemicals are introduced into the fetus via the blood of the mother the sex of the fetus will be altered from a boy to a girl. This change in sex or sexual preference is also shifted as acidic hormonal chemicals are introduced via the water and/or food."

The Danish government set out to find out how much contamination from gender-bending acidic chemicals a two-year-old child was exposed to every day. It concluded that a child could be "at critical risk" from just a few exposures to high levels of the substances, such as from rubber clogs, and imperilled by the amount it absorbed from sources ranging from acidic laced hormonal food to sunscreens.

The results build on earlier studies showing that British children have higher levels of gender-bending acidic chemicals in their blood than their parents or grandparents. Indeed WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund), which commissioned the older research, warned that the chemicals were so widespread that "there is very little, if anything, individuals can do to prevent contamination of themselves and their families." Prominent among them are dioxins, PVC, flame retardants, phthalates (extensively used to soften plastics) and the now largely banned PCBs, one and a half million tons of which were used in countless products from paints to electrical equipment and estrogen.

"Young boys, like those in the Danish study, could end up producing less sperm and developing feminised behaviour," states Dr. Young.

Research at Rotterdam's Erasmus University found that boys whose mothers were exposed to PCBs and dioxins were more likely to play with dolls and tea sets and dress up in female clothes.

And it is in the womb that babies are most vulnerable; a study of umbilical cords from British mothers found that every one contained hazardous chemicals. Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York discovered that boys born to women exposed to phthalates had smaller penises and other feminization of the genitals.

The contamination may also offer a clue to a mysterious shift in the sex of babies. Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls: it is thought to be nature's way of making up for the fact that men were more likely to be killed hunting or in conflict. But the proportion of females is rising, so much so that some 250,000 babies who statistically should have been boys have ended up as girls in Japan and the United States alone. In Britain, the discrepancy amounts to thousands of babies a year.

A Canadian Indian community living on ancestral lands at the eastern tip of Lake Huron, hemmed in by one of the biggest agglomerations of chemical factories on earth, gives birth to twice as many girls as boys. It's the same around Seveso in Italy, contaminated with dioxins from a notorious accident in the 1970s, and among Russian pesticide workers. And there's more evidence from places as far apart as Israel and Taiwan, Brazil and the Arctic.

Yet gender-benders are largely exempt from new EU regulations controlling hazardous chemicals. Britain, then under Tony Blair's premiership, was largely responsible for this – restricting their inclusion in the first draft of the legislation, and then causing even what was included to be watered down. Confidential documents show that it did so after pressure from George W Bush's administration, which protested that US exports "could be impacted".

Now the Danish government is planning to lobby to have the rules toughened up. It is particularly concerned by other studies which show that gender-bending acidic chemicals acting together have far worse effects than the expected sum of their individual impacts. It wants this to be reflected in the regulations, citing its discovery of the many sources to which the two-year-olds are exposed – modern slings and arrows, as it were, of outrageous fortune.

Yoga or Younga Yoga Is A Great Cancer Prevention and/or Complimentary Treatment

At major cancer centers across the country, patients are putting themselves in a better "position" to cope with their cancerous conditions.

Some of the biggest names in so-called cancer care -- M.D. Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Dana Farber among them -- now offer their patients classes in yoga.

In the past, physicians may have written off the complementary therapy as merely a trendy yuppie pastime. But today, researchers -- mainly psychologists -- are asking questions about the benefits of yoga in a variety of conditions, including cancer, asthma, sleep disorders, depression, and attention disorders.

Generally, the studies have shown that yoga improves quality of life and relieves stress and anxiety associated with these acidic conditions. Some researchers say the Ayurvedic therapy may have physiological mechanisms, like reducing cortisol levels, but those theories are still under evaluation.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "yoga, especially Young Yoga helps to move dietary and/or metabolic acids out of the acid catchers or connective tissue, including the muscles, and then through the pores of the skin. Since dietary and/or metabolic acids are causes of a cancerous tissue condition, when you move acid out of the tissues no more risk for cancer."

There is no denying that yoga is becoming a presence even in the ivory towers of academic medicine.

Alyson Moadel, PhD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., has been tracking the effects of yoga on breast cancer patients at Montefiore Medical Center for the past eight years.

In 2007, Moadel reported early findings from the study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology -- patients who did yoga saw improvements in social and emotional well-being, compared with those who didn't.

When data on patients undergoing chemotherapy were excluded, yoga also significantly improved overall quality of life.

"I think it's going to be an important complementary modality," Moadel said. "I don't think it's the only one, but I think it is an important one for dealing with stress and anxiety."

Yoga classes are offered three times a week at Montefiore. Patients gather in a conference room for the seated yoga sessions, which include stretching in a mix of seated and standing poses for the first hour of the class. Then the instructor dims the lights for meditation, breathing, and relaxation.

Moadel said the study has been expanded to include patients with lung cancer and colorectal cancer as well. Most previous studies have focused on breast cancer patients, but other cancers have also been evaluated.

A small study of cancer patients in Japan published this year in the Journal of Palliative Medicine found yoga may be effective against anxiety. A recent study in Cancer found the complementary therapy improved sleep outcomes in lymphoma patients.

And at least one organization -- the Society for Integrative Oncology -- has issued guidelines recommending that the treatment "should be incorporated as part of a multidisciplinary approach for reducing anxiety, mood disturbance, and chronic pain, and for improving quality of life in cancer patients."

Investigators aren't limiting their questions about yoga to cancerous acidic conditions, though.

A German study found that yoga was superior to conventional motor training in a small population of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

An Australian study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders, concluded that yoga "may have merit as a complementary therapy for boys with ADHD already stabilized on medication."

Heather Peck, PhD, a school psychologist at the Bethany Community School in Bethany, Conn., and her colleagues at the University of Connecticut, performed a study last year on children with attention problems -- although not clinically diagnosed with ADHD.

After taking a yoga class in school, the children had improved attention that was comparable to that of their peers who didn't have attention disorders.

"We found significant effect sizes," Peck said. "Their levels of attention came up close to those of the rest of the kids in the class."

Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, a neuroscientist at Harvard who researches the effects of yoga on sleep disorders, said the therapy promotes focus, which could help explain why it appears to be so effective in children with attention problems.

"What could be better for someone with ADHD than improving their awareness and attention skills?" he said.

Some researchers have looked into more physical effects of yoga. Peck's colleague at the University of Connecticut, Melissa Bray, PhD, assessed the therapy in asthma patients.

Bray found that it did improve lung function "to some degree," but it had a bigger effect on quality of life.

She said that improvements in posture may have played a role in promoting better breathing and airway function, but the relief of anxiety shook off a tremendous burden of the disease.

"You're surmising that you've changed a mental state," she said, emphasizing this idea is strictly an interpretation.

"No one really knows" what the potential mechanisms of yoga in improving asthma may be, she said. "We need studies to replicate our work."

Harvard's Khalsa agrees with Bray's interpretation.

"Many disorders have a strong stress component, and I think yoga acts on that," he said. It also "increases resilience and stress-coping capabilities" if practiced long enough.

Or it may work -- as in the case of ADHD patients -- by making them more aware of their condition.

"If you're depressed, how can you treat it if you're not aware of it?" he asked. "Yoga ... creates education between your mind and your body that wasn't there before. And education is the first step in any kind of intervention."

He said yoga bears some semblance to cognitive behavioral therapy.

"A lot of stress is due to dysfunctional thinking," he said. "Cognitive behavioral therapy trains you to be aware of those negative thoughts ... and to replace them with more neutral, rational thoughts. Yoga does something similar, but on a deeper level."

Some researchers say yoga may, indeed, have physiological effects.

Ted Gansler, MD, director of medical content for the American Cancer Society, said some studies have shown evidence of beneficial effects on the immune system. Others still in the works have noted effects on biomarkers including cortisol levels, which play a role in stress, and cytokine production, which plays a role in inflammation.

Dr. Young suggest, "yoga and Younga Yoga helps to reduce the acid markers of cortisol and cytokine. You cannot have inflammation or pain in the body without acid. I have noted this in the blood chemistry. When you are moving and stretching your connective tissues you are moving acid and when you are moving acid out of the body the result is you feel and think better."

Khalsa said the associations with decreased cortisol levels make sense, since yoga seems to work primarily by reducing stress.

Emotional responses are generated in the limbic system, he said, and many people with a troubling disease often become conditioned into being "hyper-responsive" to their environment -- which often involves high levels of cortisol.

"They interpret everything as a stressor," he said. "Yoga, on the other hand, engenders the relaxation response, and has the opposite effect on the limbic system."

But some researchers question whether yoga's benefits come from the fact that it is also exercise -- something that is "clearly beneficial" in most diseases, particularly cancer, Gansler said.

A 2008 study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention found that women who exercised after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis had both reduced overall mortality and mortality from breast cancer, compared with those who didn't exercise.

Another study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that exercise reduced the risk of cancer recurrence and mortality among survivors of late-stage colon cancer.

Few medical organizations have developed any kind of policy statement or guidelines as to whether physicians should recommend yoga to their patients. Most of their members seem neither to condone nor condemn the practice.

Sarita Dubey, MD, an American Society of Clinical Oncology official and oncologist at the University of California San Francisco, said she believes yoga "does support patients mentally and physically while they endure the challenges from their cancer and cancer treatments."

But Moadel said she doesn't see much support for yoga in the medical community just yet.

"I think there's a lack of understanding about it," she said. "They may worry that patients think it's an alternative medicine versus a complimentary modality."

Few of her patients are referred to Montefiore's program by physicians. Most find it through word of mouth or advertising.

"I would like to educate them more about how it's helping patients," she added.

Khalsa said negative perceptions among medical professionals may change as the "next generation" of researchers appear to embrace yoga. The fact that yoga research has been published in top journals such as Cancer and the Journal of Clinical Oncology may be proof of that.

Gansler said most physicians realize that a treatment with no harmful effects and a decent cost-benefit ratio "just makes sense."

"The cost is minimal, if anything," he said. "And there's minimal danger, unless you really overexert yourself."

"Yes, the evidence is imperfect," he added. "But it's still very promising that it has a good impact on quality of life and control of some symptoms."

Although the call for more research has been sounded, Khalsa said it may be a challenge because there isn't much funding for yoga studies.

In order for yoga to gain more credibility in the medical community, the literature needs to grow, he said.

"Research on yoga for therapeutic benefits really is in its infancy, and to look at how many studies are ongoing and being published, the temptation is to think that's a reflection of how good yoga is," he said. "And it may not be. We certainly need more research."

Dr. Young suggests, "exercise, including yoga or Younga Yoga is an important compliment to any cancer treatment. Why? Because it moves dietary and metabolic acids out of the tissues and thus helps to prevent or even reverse a cancerous condition."

The Benefits of Eating Colorful Fruit and Vegetables

Although it is a well-known fact that most Americans do not eat enough alkaline fruit and vegetables, a new report shows that the color of fruit and veggies can be as important as the quantity.

Eight in 10 Americans are missing out on the health benefits of a diet rich in colorful alkaline fruit and vegetables, resulting in a phytonutrient or alkalizing buffering gap with potential health consequences, according to America’s Phytonutrient Report released today.

“Many phytonutrients are powerful antioxidants that can help fight the damage caused to our bodies’ cells over time that can lead to premature aging and disease,” said Dr. Stephen Fortmann, director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University. “The fact that Americans are falling short in phytonutrient-rich fruits and vegetables measured in the report is concerning.”

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "eating alkaline fruit and vegetables is the best way to build healthy blood, a healthy and a strong body."

America’s Phytonutrient Report looked at fruit and vegetable consumption in five color categories: green, red, white, blue/purple, and yellow/orange. The health benefits of phytonutrients are believed to come from the compounds that give these foods their vibrant reds, yellows, greens, and other rich colors.

Americans have a phytonutrient gap in every color category. Findings showed:

• The biggest phytonutrient gap was in the blue/purple fruit and vegetable category, where 88 percent of Americans fall short.

• Americans are doing a little better on getting phytonutrients found in green fruit and vegetables: 69 percent fall short.

• Seventy-eight percent of Americans are falling short in the red, 86 percent in white, and 79 percent in orange/yellow.

The report "illustrates that we need to think about more than just quantity when it comes to our fruit and vegetables,” said Amy Hendel, a registered physician assistant and health/wellness expert. “A daily dose of color could result in positive health benefits.”

The select phytonutrients analyzed within each color category included EGCG, isothiocyanate, lutein/zeaxanthin, and isoflavones for green; lycopene and ellagic acid for red; allicin and quercetin for white; anthocyanidins and resveratrol for purple/blue; and alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, hesperitin, and beta-cryptoxanthin for yellow/orange.

According to Dr. Young. "all phytocutrients are buffers of metabolic and dietary acid and thus protectors of the alkaline design of the body where true immunity against all sickness and dis-ease is found."

Although many people find it difficult to eat the recommended five to 13 servings of fruit and vegetables, Hendel suggests aiming for two fruits and/or vegetables from each of the five color categories on the phytonutrient spectrum a day. Thousands of phytonutrients are gaining attention in the nutrition world, Hendel said.

“Phytonutrients offer a wide range of potential health benefits from promoting eye, bone, and heart health to supporting immune and brain function,” she said.

"Some phytonutrients, such as lycopene from red tomatoes or cartenoids found in oranges and carrots, may sound familiar. Others, such as lutein found in greens such as avocado, spinach and broccoli or allicin found in garlic are just being recognized as the alkalizers and protectors of the body fluids and cells," states Dr. Young.

Eating Animal Protein Shrinks Your Brain and Your Balls

Many recent studies have shown that diets rich in vegetables, fruit, nuts, and oily omega 3 rich fish are good for the brain and may delay the onset or slow the advance of Alzheimer’s dis-ease and shrink the organs the sustain life, including the reproductive organs causing infertility and impotence.

But a new study found that a diet high in animal protein will shrink your brain.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "animal proteins when ingested release strong acids in their digestion of uric, nitric, sulfuric and phosphoric that will not only shrink your brain but will also shrink your ovaries and your testes."

"One of the major contributing factors to dementia and infertility is the ingestion of animal proteins, such as chicken, turkey, duck, eggs, venison, beef and pork," states Dr. Young.

A research team from the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom studied four different types of diets on mice that were bred to express an acidic mutant from of human amyloid precursor protein (APP).

The body will buffer APP, an acidic protein producing amyloid plaque associated with Alzheimer’s and reproductive organ dis-ease. Mice were fed a regular acidic diet, a high-fat/low-carbohydrate or acid diet, a high-protein or high acid/low-carb diet, or a high-carb or high acid/low-fat diet.

The researchers then studied the mice's brains and bodies, evaluating the plaque buildup and differences in specific regions of the brain associated with memory deficit and Alzheimer’s.

Surprisingly, the mice fed the high-protein or high acid/low-carb diet had brains 5 percent smaller than mice in the other three groups, and areas of their hippocampus were less developed. The researchers speculated that the high-protein or acid diet may make the brain’s neurons, which transmit nerve impulses, more susceptible to the Alzheimer’s-associated plaques.

According to Dr. Young, "the strong acids from proteins cause a double loss of alkaline compounds in the body. If the body cannot eliminate these strong acids from urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration they will be buffered in the fatty tissues of the body, i.e., the brain. This will then lead to congestion and potential acidic organ and gland damage."

But what does this study mean for humans? "One wonders whether particular diets, if ingested at particular ages, might increase susceptibility to incidence or progression" of Alzheimer's, said lead author Sam Gandy, a professor at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The only way to know for sure would be double-blind clinical tests.

Dr. Young suggests, "a diet high in animal protein will result in the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues leading to ALL sickness and dis-ease."

"Ingesting any animal protein and their associated acids will congest the bowel, damage the intestinal villi, cause imperfections in the formation of blood and will eventually lead to loss of bone, liver congestion and ulceration, infertility, and brain damage," states Dr. Young.

According to Dr. Young, "the body needs little or no protein. The body needs chlorophyll to build blood, poly-unsaturated oil to create cell membranes and buffer metabolic and/or dietary acid, alkaline water to maintain its alkaline design and mineral salts for electrical conductivity and energy."

Dr. Young addresses Questions about Circulation Issues Related to Diabetic Neuropathy, Arthritis & other Inflammatory Conditions

Here is your next pH question/response by Dr. Robert Young, as promised...

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about alkaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to 2 questions about Circulation Issues related to Diabetic Neuropathy, Arthritis & other Inflamatory conditions:

How the acidic water promotes circulation - see for yourself here (1:24 mins)

http://www.vidmails.com/playback.php?t=MzA2ODM1ODMxMDEyOTE1NTk2NDc3Nzg%3D

Why the positively charged water creates circulatory energy to the extremities - See for yourself here (0:52 mins)

http://www.vidmails.com/playback.php?t=MzA2ODM1OTMxMDE2MjEwNTYyMzkxMTE%3D

The Acid Fructose Is A Killer

A diet high in the dietary acid fructose increases the risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension), according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, California. The findings suggest that cutting back on processed acidic foods and beverages that contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) may help prevent hypertension.

Over the last 200 years, the rate of the acid fructose intake has directly paralleled the increasing rate of obesity, which has increased sharply in the last 20 years since the introduction of HFCS. Today, Americans consume 30% more fructose than 20 years ago and up to four times more than 100 years ago, when obesity rates were less than 5%. While this increase mirrors the dramatic rise in the prevalence of hypertension, studies have been inconsistent in linking excess acidic fructose in the diet to hypertension.

Diana Jalal, MD (University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center), and her colleagues studied the issue in a large representative population of US adults. They examined 4,528 adults 18 years of age or older with no prior history of hypertension. Fructose intake was calculated based on a dietary questionnaire, and foods such as fruit juices, soft drinks, bakery products, and candy were included.

Bottom-line according to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "there are NO safe dietary levels of the acid fructose. Fructose is a toxic acid from the fermentation of corn and other high sugar fruits that will compromise the delicate pH balance of the body and set the stage for sickness and dis-ease. If you want to be healthy stay away from ALL sugars including the fruit sugar fructose. You will live longer and healthier."

Vitamin D May Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke

Low vitamin D levels in the body may be deadly, according to a new study hinting that adults with lower, versus higher, blood levels of vitamin D may be more likely to die from heart disease or stroke.

Vitamin D is an essential vitamin mostly obtained from direct sunlight exposure, but also found in foods and multivitamins.

Dr. Annamari Kilkkinen, at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues compared blood levels of vitamin D and deaths from heart disease or stroke over time in 2,817 men and 3,402 women in Finland.

At enrollment, participants were just over 49 years old on average, and had no indicators of cardiovascular disease, the researchers note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

During follow-up of about 27 years on average, 640 of the participants (358 men) died from heart disease and another 293 (122 men) died from stroke.

Compared with participants' with the highest vitamin D, those with the lowest had 25 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease or stroke, Kilkkinen noted in an email to Reuters Health.

There was a "particularly striking association" between vitamin D levels and stroke deaths, the researcher noted, in that having the lowest vitamin D seemed to confer "twice the risk," compared with having the highest vitamin D.

Allowing for age, gender, and other demographic factors, plus alcohol intake, smoking, physical activity, and season in which vitamin D levels were obtained did not significantly alter these associations.

In this study, vitamin D levels were "substantially lower" than levels thought to be sufficient, and "somewhat lower" than those reported in previous studies in other European and American populations.

However, there is no "absolute consensus" as to what the optimal range of vitamin D should be, the investigators note. Also, it's not known whether low vitamin D actually causes increased risk for heart disease or stroke. Clearly, further study is needed, they conclude.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "Vitamin D plays a significant role in maintaining the alkaline design of the body and preventing heart attack and stroke. I have found that taking at least 250 to 500 IU's of Vitamin D3 per 1 pound of body weight is recommended for prevention. If you are dealing with any acute or chronic condition then taking 1000 IU's of Vitamin D3 per 1 pound of body weight is recommended."

SOURCE: American Journal of Epidemiology, October 15, 2009
The pH Miracle Revisited, by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young to be released July 1, 2010.
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-404-ph-d3.aspx

Cell Phones Can and Do Cause Brain Cancer

The bombshell results of a major decade-long study carried out in 13 countries will support longtime speculation that long-term cell phone use increases the risk of developing cancerous condition.

The $30 million report, which is to be released before the end of the year, follows a warning from the International EMF Collaborative that regular cell phone use could increase the risk of brain tumors significantly and that regular use is especially dangerous in children whose brains are still developing.

The cell phone industry assured us for years that cell phones are safe and don’t cause cancer and other problems. Major organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute, also have stated there is no evidence cell phones are dangerous.

But the official line may have to change because the WHO oversaw the new study.

According to the Daily Telegraph in London, the study will show “a significantly increased risk” of some brain tumors “related to use of mobile phones for a period of 10 years or more.”

Cell phone safety has been a concern for some experts ever since the death of Lee Atwater in 1991 from a brain tumor that developed under the exact spot where he held his cell phone. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis and death from a malignant brain tumor also spurred safety fears. Kennedy’s brain tumor, called a glioma, was the type some experts have associated with the use of cell phones.

CTIA — the Wireless Association — and the Food and Drug Administration also have stated that cell phones aren’t a health risk.

But other experts, including my own research points to research that indicates a link between the electro-magnetic fields (EMF) of cell phones and three types of tumors:

* Glioma
* Cancer of a salivary gland near the ear called the parotid
* Acoustic neuroma, which is a tumor found near the ear

An Israeli study published two years ago found a 58 percent increase in risk for parotid tumors among people who relied heavily on their cell phones. And a Swedish study found that he risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma doubled after 10 years of heavy use.

Prominent neurosurgeons have stated they do hold cell phones next to their ears.

“I use it on the speaker-phone mode,” said Dr. Vini Khurana, a prominent researcher and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Australian National University.

Other prominent experts agree. “I do not hold it to my ear,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon who also is CNN’s chief medical correspondent. Gupta says he uses an earpiece.

Some experts haven’t waited for the WHO or FDA to issue warnings. Last year, Dr. Ronald Heberman, director of the University of Pittsburg Cancer Center, sent a memo to all faculty and staff, warning them of possible danger and advising them to cut cell phone use.

I have also published warnings that ALL cell phones or cell phone services emit radiation that is harmful to health and can cause a cancerous brain condition. You have to be at least 2 to 3 feet away from your cell phone to avoid being exposed to radiation in excess of the Environmental Protection Agency minimum of 3 mG.

Cell phone use has also been linked to other problems, including infertility, insomnia, hearing, and, of course, driving hazards.

To learn how to prevent exposure to harmful cell phone radiation go to:

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-373-rf3-air-tube-headset-hook.aspx

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-233-q-link-classic-pendant.aspx

REGARDING DETRACTORS & DISINFORMATION TACTICS TOWARD DR. YOUNG

REGARDING DETRACTORS & DISINFORMATION TACTICS TOWARD DR. YOUNG

From time to time, a person will contact The pH Miracle Center to ask us or warn us about misinformation and criticisms concerning Dr. Robert O. Young. This notice will serve to address such questions or comments.

For those doctors, scientists, educators and various professional educators who have looked dispassionately over Dr. Young's shoulders for more than two decades, Dr. Young is clearly recognized as the #1 nutritional microbiologist in the world. As a generous humanitarian educator and prolific co-author, and based on the clinical foundation of live and dried blood microscopy of 40,000 individuals, Dr. Young's documented track record of healing and disease reversal stand as an increasingly bright beacon of hope throughout a world beseiged by costly and frustrating westen medicine.

As his detractors so energetically and accurately point out, what Dr. Young does NOT have under his long list of achievements, awards, and recognition from around the world, are scores of research studies ordinarily funded by government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and mainstream medicine. It now requires millions of dollars to fund large scale, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled studies that have been peer-reviewed and published by traditional and tightly controlled scientific health and medical journals. Neither academia nor the medical industry have shown an interest in highlighting a powerful science such as clinical live and dried blood microscopy and its sister-science of pH balancing that would portend the possibility of discrediting their own.

For sure, the multi-trillion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry have not been willing to travel outside their well-controlled research designs and methodolgies that do not perpetuate and protect their vested interests. In fact, other scientific methodologies are blocked from consideration by publications that turn away from case studies, n-of-1 designs, interviews, group and individual surveys, repeated measures, and similar scientific methodologies designed for data of a different scale and concept.

Western medical science disingenuously claims that information derived from other than traditional research methodologies poses a threat to the best interests of science. In fact, that to which new information and emerging technology poses a threat is the continuation of monopolistic domination of health services which will also highlight the emerging and critical role of digestive process, modern food, blood health, and nutritional prevention models.

There are an estimated 6.4 billion people on this planet and there exist almost as many opinions on any given subject that one might think of. This phenomenon is increasingly prevalent as the Internet has provided large and incessant "microphones" to millions of people who have virtually little or nothing to say. Some choose the ideologue extremes. If one says, "puppies are cute".. .there will be someone on the Internet who will disagree. This contrarian phenomenon is a fact of modern life, and especially of life in the "connected world" and the Internet.

The Internet is an especially "lawless frontier" where people can say anything they like about anything they choose, and there is not much anyone can do about it. Peaceful and patient minds must simply "steel" themselves against the slings and arrows, especially those of fear and ignorance.

If there was anything that could be done to control what is said and perpetrated on the Internet, the United States Military, without doubt, would control the statements and postings of Terrorist Organizations and various disturbed minds; yet these web sites continue to proliferate. Not even the worlds' sovereign governments or their military might can control what is said and done on the Internet, no matter how ignorant and inhuman----no matter how violent.

Our attornies once told us, "When the law is on your side, you pound on the law. When the law is against you, you pound on the table." This is exactly what Dr. Young's detractors are doing. The Science and the results are on Dr. Young's side, and so his detractors sling mud, attempt to slur his reputation, and take unwarranted shots at his character… the equivalent of "pounding on the table".

Institutions and organizations like Dr. Young and his modestly small company must simply take the high road; they must "ride through" the libel and slander, and "live by their record".

The trouble with trying to defend against any libel or slander is that you "have to repeat the libel or slander". Dr. Young has been the leading light in the field of "Alkaline Living for Health" ™ for more than 30 years. He is published in dozens of languages. He has lectured at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. He is a serious scientist, at the top of his field, and so he is a most visible target for the detractors of accomplishment and progress.

Recognizing that there is not much that Dr. Young can do to control what his detractors say and do, especially on the Internet, Dr. Young has chosen to let his work, the thousands of followers and testimonials, the many national and international awards and recognition, and his years of accomplishment speak for themselves. He does not comment on rancorous information about himself, or his science, posted on the Internet, choosing instead to spend his time in furthering his work in health and healing for those who demonstrate the fair-mindedness to listen and the integrity to weigh the record in good conscience.

Obama Announces a H1N1 Swine Flu National Emergency Declaration - Where's The National Emergency?

Obama's H1N1 national emergency declaration could invoke FEMA response to pandemic (opinion)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) President Obama's declaration of a national pandemic emergency is "no cause for alarm," reported the mainstream media throughout the weekend. The declaration is nothing more than a "precaution," they say. "It's really more a continuation of our preparedness steps," said Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a USA Today story.

In other words, there's not really any emergency at all. So why declare a national emergency in the first place? The media reports this was done to allow hospitals to bypass federal regulations concerning the setting up of large-scale triage sites -- emergency medical camps quickly constructed to deal with large numbers of sick people.

But at the same time, H1N1 isn't causing large-scale sickness. As USA Today reported, an expert on infectious disease, P.J. Brennan (the chief medical officer for the Penn Health System at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) said, "The public ought to take some solace, some relief in this. It's not a suggestion that things have deteriorated in any way. In no way is the virus more severe or more difficult to manage."

So let me get this straight. The H1N1 virus remains mild. The CDC reports that swine flu infections already peaked out in mid-October. There have been no new developments in swine flu that would be cause for alarm and no reason to suspect huge numbers of sick people flooding into the hospitals. And yet, for some reason, the Obama administration has declared a national pandemic emergency specifically for the purpose of speeding the ability of hospitals to process large masses of sick people through emergency medical triage tents?

What are these people not telling us?

Something doesn't add up here. Why would the U.S. government need to declare a national emergency to enable hospitals to handle a flood of sick people when there is no flood of sick people (and the pandemic seems to be fizzling out)?

This is more like the kind of preparation you might expect in advance of a biological terrorism attack, not for a flu that appears no more dangerous than the seasonal sniffles.

The National Emergencies Act and FEMA
Meanwhile, the media ignores the rest of the story about what dangerous powers a declaration of a national emergency puts into play. As reported here on NaturalNews, this declaration effectively ends many civil liberties in America and, at least on paper, puts the U.S. government in the position of having the legal authority to force vaccinations on the entire population at gunpoint (if they wanted to).

The National Emergencies Act passed in 1976 has some peculiar realities attached to it. In particular, as Wikipedia reports:

A federal emergency declaration allows the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to exercise its power to deal with emergency situations ... Typically, a state of emergency empowers the executive to name coordinating officials to deal with the emergency and to override normal administrative processes regarding the passage of administrative rules.

Got that yet? By declaring a national emergency, Obama invokes a set of laws that not only override important sections of the U.S. Constitution, but that also activate FEMA to take charge of "responding" to the emergency.

Now we know why they need all those emergency medical tent camps near the hospitals. FEMA's in charge! And if FEMA handles the swine flu pandemic in the same way the agency handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we may indeed need all those emergency triage tents after all.

Those of you who have been following the ongoing march to destroy the freedoms of the American People already know about FEMA camps. These aren't Boy Scout field trip camps; they're detention centers designed to hold large numbers of people for "emergency" purposes. Many theories abound on what these FEMA camps might be used for (www.campFEMA.com) (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....).

They could conceivably be used to quarantine people who are infected with a dangerous pandemic virus. On the other hand, they might also be used to isolated and detain people who refuse to be vaccinated against any declared pandemic. Under the National Emergencies Act and related U.S. law, FEMA would have two years of near-total control over the civilian population, during which people could be subjected to forced vaccinations, mandatory searches of their homes, gunpoint detainment and "involuntary transportation" to a FEMA detainment facility, and so on.

I'm not saying they're going to do all this, but they could if they wanted to!

And that's not freedom. Real freedom means you have the guaranteed right to be safe from being detained, or arrested without cause, or injected with a government-mandated chemical. Under a declaration of a national emergency, your "freedom" is at the whim of those who maintain police state powers over you. You're only "free" if they decide to refrain from exercising the power they have over you. It's the same kind of freedom you might get as a peasant in some Medieval kingdom where the king says, "You're free to go."

Now, some of these freedom-restricting actions might conceivably be justifiable if a truly dangerous pandemic virus were sweeping through the population killing millions, causing huge disruptions in the national infrastructure and threatening the nation with a partial or total shutdown of essential services. But that is not happening here. H1N1 is a mild virus that rates astonishingly low on the severity scale. If H1N1 were a hurricane, it would be little more than a "tropical depression." It is not a category five hurricane, nor a phase six pandemic. Virtually everyone who is exposed to H1N1 generates their own antibodies and cures themselves naturally. According to hospital reports, those who have died from the H1N1 virus are almost exclusively people who were already suffering from preexisting conditions that compromised their health such as asthma or extreme obesity.

By any measure, H1N1 as currently configured appears to present no extraordinary threat to the health of the population. So once again, we must ask: Why declare a national emergency and initiate a FEMA response to something that's not really an emergency?

Why I'm concerned
For the first time in this whole pandemic situation, I'm concerned. Not due to the virus itself, because that's a mild virus that presents no real threat to the population at large. I'm concerned about what we don't know might be going on behind the scenes here.

These preparations for large-scale medical triage tents and the emergency activation of FEMA have me worried that the American people aren't being told the whole story. Perhaps a terrorist organization is planning on releasing a wildly dangerous mutation of H1N1 in some major U.S. city. Or perhaps some vaccine maker is, in fact, that terrorist organization. (The best way to sell more vaccines would be to release a mutated form of H1N1 into the population and scare up some more sales...)

Or maybe, as some creative thinkers have suggested, the vaccine itself IS a bioweapon, and the U.S. government is preparation for large-scale fatalities it expects to see soon.

Or maybe these are just fleeting, dark visions from crazy people, and the U.S. government is a benevolent organization with all our best interests in mind, and they're jumping through these bureaucratic hoops to make sure there are plenty of hospital beds to go 'round just in case more people get really sick.

But even that explanation doesn't hold water. A "national emergency declaration" isn't necessary to waive hospital tent rules. Obama could have easily accomplished the same thing with an Executive Order, without having to invoke the National Emergencies Act or put FEMA in charge at all.

He chose the emergency declaration for a specific reason. I guess we'll all have to wait and see what that real reason turns out to be.


Sources for this story include:

USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health...

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...

Sixteen Ways To Help You or Your Child With the Flu Symptoms

How I Helped My 9 Year Old Daughter Safely Move Through the Flu Symptoms in 3 Days in August 2009 by Corrine Brandi My daughter, Caroline was very sick for 3 days this August – headache, sore throat, high fever, dizziness, chills, sweats and throwing up. She certainly had the flu. The specific label is unimportant as I never take kids to a doctor to be labeled. Instead I help them get well. These are the things that we did – exactly. Three days later she was perfectly fine and 100% back to her routine and lifestyle. You can do it too…. Before getting into the specifics I’d like to talk about a broader paradigm. The body eliminates dietary, envirnomental, microbial toxins (from bacteria, yeast,and mold) and metabolic wastes (the byproducts of energy production) in four basic ways: respiration, perspiration, defecation and urination. Also known as breathing, sweating, moving the bowels and urinating. Throwing up also works but is less pleasant… Notice that acidic or sick people run a fever and sweat, have rapid and shallow breath, urinate frequently as long as they are hydrated and sometimes develop diarrhea. Please do not try and suppress these natural elimination processes with acidic drugs! All of these things are ways of getting better. DO NOT administer Tamiflu, aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, or Alieve, etc. as these drugs stop the natural elimination process and are being investigated as causing more severe illness and even death in the case of the flu. Why? Because they all acidify the blood and tissues which the body is trying to reverse. Taking these acidic prescription and/or nonprescription drugs prevent the body's natural process to return it back to an alkaline natural alkaline state. In my case, neither of my daughters, now 9 and almost 12 have ever had the need for any toxic acidic drug, over the counter or prescription; nor have they ever received an acidic poisonous vaccination. Here are sixteen things I did with Caroline when she was sick or over-acid to help alkalize and detoxify her body from excess acidity, thereby allowing her body to heal and return to an alkaline balance: 1. Most important of all is super hydration with high pH alkaline water - 9.5 or better. You can buy water in a bottle, the best is pH Miracle Water, Essentia or Evamore. You can add alkalizers found at a healthfood store or from The pH Miracle Center. You can also simply add aluminum free baking soda, Redmills Bob’s Baking Soda found at any health food store or section or Dr. Young's pHour Salts which is even better because it contains in addition to sodium bicarbonate, potassium, magnesium and calcium bicarbonate. Best of all, invest in an alkaline water machine that does it for you, and again check the pH Miracle Center for the best water machines, such as the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer. Drink as much as possible as often as possible. Dr. Young recommends to drink at least 1 ounce of alkaline water per 1 pound of weight. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-463-ph-miracle-mark-i-ionizer.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-221-phour-salts-tm-454-grams.aspx 2. Move the diet to liquid and/or pureed alkaline foods. Do not use the body’s energy to digest low water content dry acidic foods. Use it instead to heal. Be stingy with the energy. Saute some anti-microbial onion, ginger and garlic in coconut oil. Get a box of organic veggie broth and add any mostly green veggies you like (NOT corn or mushrooms). We love broccoli, kale, chard, and celery. Heat until the veggies just give to preserve their energy. Preferably puree with sea salt or pH Miracle pHlavor salt and olive oil or pH Miracle Avocado oil for super nutrition. Or just eat whole. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-240-rancho-del-sol-all-natural-cold-pressed-virgin-avocado-oil-with-garlic-250-ml.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-212-phlavor-8-oz-bottle.aspx 3. As a matter of fact add sea salt or Dr. Young's pH Miracle pHlavor salt and avocado oils to everything you eat. Sea salt sets up the electrical charge in the body so cells can communicate properly and provides much needed minerals. Oils and fats like avocado, olive, hemp, flax, blends like Udos and coconut oil both buffer acids, provide materials to build cell walls and in the case of saturated coconut oil, energy to burn. Coconut oil is also wonderful for the liver as it struggles to clean the blood. My favorite is Wilderness Family Naturals but you can purchase any cold-pressed organic oil. Adding fresh sliced raw avocado or pH Miracle Avocado oil to the top of the soup is a bonus and again adds energy! Olive oil and avocado oil are amazing medicine. Use it first thing in the AM to detoxify the head. Upon waking take a tablespoon of extra virgin organic olive or pH Miracle avocado oil and squish vigorously in the mouth for 3 minutes. Set a timer. Really squish it! This will pull toxins and microforms (bacteria and yeast) out of the head while you spit them down the drain. Rinse mouth with the pH Miracle pHour salts when done. Amazing gross stuff comes out, sometimes white and foamy with yeast. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-239-rancho-del-sol-all-natural-cold-pressed-virgin-avocado-oil-250-ml.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-212-phlavor-8-oz-bottle.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-221-phour-salts-tm-454-grams.aspx 4. Add super-foods to your water like Doc Broc Power Plant greens and moringa powder. In addition juice green veggies and grasses and drink up! http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-378-doc-brocs-power-plants.aspx 5. Eliminate – just for now at least – all acidic and stressful foods. At the top of the list is anything you might drink except water, veggie broth, herbal tea and juiced greens. This includes all fruit juices, sodas, sports drinks, milk, coffee and alcohol. Next most important is all dairy, including the fermented kind called yogurt. Following this is sugar, meat, peanuts, vinegar, and of course any and all processed foods. 6. Start taking Vitamin D3 – all over the press as the single most important thing to do to help with the flu symptoms. Dr. Robert O. Young also has a super potent form of D3 at 50,000 IU's per capsule. This high potent D3 can be purchased on line at: www.phmiracleliving.com. Due in part to the overuse of chemical sunscreens, acidic diets and lifestyles most of us are deficient in vitamin D3. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-404-ph-d3.aspx 7. Open blood flow and deliver nutrition to the cells. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-405-young-phorever-blood-philter.aspx 8. Take super antioxidants like glutathione, N-acetyl-cystein, and R-pHactor. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-347-glutathione-4-oz.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-307-nac-4oz.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-399-young-phorever-r-phactor.aspx 9. Use colloidal silver to improve circulation to acidic areas of the body. It can be used anywhere in the body including up the nose and in the eyes, and even on cuts to disinfect them. You can also gargle with it. We always keep colloidal silver in the house. Other tried and true excellent supplements are Echinacea and Zinc, all available at any healthfood store or at the pH Miracle Living Center. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-8-health-supplements.aspx 10. Use a blend of salt and bicarbonates to mix in alkaline water to irrigate the sinus passages. You can use a neti pot or Dr. Hana's Nasal Wash System. http://www.natlallergy.com/prod/1604/dr-hanas-nasopure-organic-hypertonic-saline-nasal-rinse-system.html?sid=GOOGLE&eid=GOOGLE&tid=g_nasopure&gclid=CKrTt-i2250CFdVL5Qod-DTKrQ 11. Move the lymphatic system, the body’s sewer system of excess acidic waste. Jump on a mini-tramp, get in a far-infrared sauna (I have one in my cellar) or just gently move, even if it’s walking around the house. vibrate on a whole body vibrational machine. In addition detox foot pads while sleeping, such as are excellent for pulling toxins out of the lymph through the bottom of the feet. You’ll be amazed at the black, gooey, stinky junk that gets pulled out! Another favorite for lymphatic release I use all the time is a warm bath with 1 or 2 cups baking soda or pHour salts and 1 or 2 cups Epsom Salts. Have the child sit in the bath for 20 minutes drinking one of the alkaline fluids I’ve talked about. In that short time your child can dump up to a quart of toxins into that bath water. You can also use more expensive bath salts that include essential oils and are found at any healthfood store. Again, this is excellent to promote healing sleep. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-357-rebounder-with-bar.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-304-vibraphirm.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-107-acuped-foot-pad-pkg-of-30.aspx http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-189-ph-miracle-dry-heat-sauna-model-1000.aspx 12. Detoxify the bowel from acidic proteins and sugars. Many kids are constipated because we feed them ‘kid food’. Ever look at the crap on a ‘kid’s menu?’ Many households are also child-centered and the children train the parents to feed them only junk by refusing to eat anything healthy. When sick I will move to baking soda or pHour salts in water to clear the bowel. If your child refuses to drink it, or can’t because of vomiting, then I would suggest you head for an enema. Fleet Enemas are safe and effective. It’s amazing how much better they feel after eliminating the garbage. I’ll only do this with permission on an older child and would never force or put fear into a sick child unless it is absolutely the last resort. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-221-phour-salts-tm-454-grams.aspx 13. Do not fear fever. My Naturopathic Doctor always told me “watch the child, not the fever”. Fever is a natural defense and should not be suppressed. A medical emergency is only if the child is lethargic and uncommunicative and cannot be revived. This generally can be resolved very quickly by spraying the pH Miracle pHlavor salts into the childs mouth every 5 minutes. Other than that here are some strategies to help your child feel more comfortable:- cold cloths to the head, nape of the neck and wrists - light blankets or just a sheet - tepid baths being careful not to chill the child - and my favorite, wet socks. Take a pair of white cotton socks and wet under cool water. Put them on the child’s feet and then immediately put pure wool socks over the wet socks. The body will pull the heat out of the head and use it to dry the socks. The child will usually sleep. If socks don’t provide enough relief then the ultimate strategy is sheets. This is usually best for younger children but will work with anyone. Strip the child naked. Wet a white cotton sheet with cool water. Place the child on the sheet and roll the child up in it. Immediately roll the child up in a wool blanket. Hold your child and reassure him or her until the child falls asleep. The child won’t like it at the beginning but it has always cut the fever enough to allow the child to sleep, which is the goal, when everything else has failed and your child is miserable. In 11 years this strategy has never failed me. 14. Homeopathic remedies are often extremely useful. They work on the theory of like cures like and are merely the vibration of the ingredient, not the ingredient itself so there is zero chance of toxicity. Caroline tends to respond to Aconite often but there are others for fever including Belladonna and Bryronia. Consult a homeopath or just Google it and get one at the health food store that matches the child’s symptoms. Make sure that the homeopathic remedies are free from alcohol. Simple strategies, many of which our grandmothers have told us – clean water, soup, move the bowels – because they work. 15. Lead by example. If you are fearful your child will be fearful. Be the rock. Stay close; leave only when the child is comfortable or asleep and even then only for short trips to the kitchen or bathroom. Reassure your child that the body is SO SMART that it knows exactly what to do. That he or she will be fine and that you are there for him or her. 16. Turn off the acidic TV and read or tell a story. Touch your child if he or she will allow. Let him or her sleep in your bed, turn down the lights and play a favorite music if he or she is up to it. Create a safe space of healing with perhaps essential oils that are calming like lavender, etc. Go with whatever the child wants as long as it fits within the healing guidelines. Extremely acidic sick kids change their minds quickly. First they want the covers off, then on. They might be angry or fearful one minute and clingy the next. It’s all ok because the emotions are part of the healing process, they are also being released. I am not a doctor; I’m just a Mom who loves her kids so much, just like all Moms. These are the strategies I’ve learned from people much smarter than I am that have lightened my load and lifted my heart because I no longer fear sickness. It breaks my heart to see other kids suffer because their parents lack the knowledge to help them and are driven to fear by the media and Big Pharma. In reality, our bodies are always trying to be well! So rather than fight it we have learned to help the body do what it is trying to do anyway… Life Wants to Live, it is Universal Law...

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What Doctors Will Do For Money?

The American Academy of Family Physicians has come under fire from nutrition and alternative health advocates for a new partnership with the Coca-Cola company.

Two weeks ago, the organization announced that it would accept a grant from Coke to "develop consumer education content on beverages and sweeteners for FamilyDoctor.org," a consumer health Web site.

Lori Heim, MD, president-elect of AAFP, said in a statement that the organization was looking forward to working with the soda maker "and other companies in the future on the development of educational materials to teach consumers how to make the right choices and incorporate the products they love into a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle."

Yesterday, the Centers for Science in the Public Interest said the AAFP should urge patients to avoid sweetened soft drinks, which "promote obesity, diabetes, tooth decay, and other health problems."

Marion Nestle, PhD, a food policy researcher at New York University, called the partnership an "embarrassing conflict of interest."

"I hope AAFP members decide that no matter what Coke paid for this partnership, their loss of credibility is not worth the price," she wrote on her blog, Foodpolitics.com.
Kelly Brownell, PhD, of Yale, called the AAFP's acceptance of the grant money "disheartening."

"There is no question that products made by the soft drink companies contribute to diseases that family physicians then have to treat, often without much success," Brownell said. "Taking the money to develop guidelines for healthy eating is beyond imagination."
Other nutrition experts said criticizing the initiative may be premature.

"If [AAFP] started to go soft on things like sugar-sweetened beverages, that would be a concern," said Keith Ayoob, EdD, RD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

"On the other hand, they may say 'we don't want people drinking soda in inappropriate amounts.' If Coke wants to fund that, I'm fine with that."

Ayoob said the overall message needs to define a specific quantity of acceptable soda and sugary beverage consumption in order for it to be a useful message.

"When you say things like 'moderation' and you don't define what that moderation is, it leaves it all open to interpretation," he said.

Advocates of the partnership say sugar-sweetened beverages are not the only culprit in the obesity epidemic. In an Oct. 7 editorial in The Wall Street Journal, Coke CEO Muhtar Kent said "it's not just about calories in. It's also about calories out."

Kent also argued that sugar-sweetened beverages "have been singled out in spite of the fact that soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, and sweetened bottled water combined contribute 5.5% of the calories in the average American diet, according to the National Cancer Institute.
"It's difficult to understand why the beverages we and others provide are being targeted as the primary cause of weight gain when 94.5% of caloric intake comes from other foods and beverages."

Douglas E. Henley, MD, executive vice president of the AAFP, said physicians should urge their patients to "lead a balanced lifestyle," and noted that sodas can still be a part of that.

"We will move forward with this commitment by providing educational materials on sweeteners and how to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle while still enjoying many of the foods and beverages consumers prefer," he said.

The alliance comes as Coca-Cola will be releasing mini-cans that contain only 7.5 ounces of soda and 90 calories in New York and Washington in December.

Bottom-line according to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, "all soft drinks are hard on the body! Why? The answer is simple. They are ACIDIC. The pH of these so-called soft drinks runs around 2.5 which is more toxic then beer, more toxic then coffee and more toxic then your own urine. Soft drinks contain not only sugar which is a toxic acid but they also contain carbonic acid, phosphoric acid and artifical flavors and coloring. So what is the bottom-line on soft drinks? They are hard drinks and any amount is toxic to the human body!"

In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY' ®
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE LIVING'™ for Health.

Removing Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Drugs From Your Drinking Water

Here is your next pH question/response by Dr. Robert Young, as promised...

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about akaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to a question about Removing Heavy Metals and the impact they have on health...

see for yourself here (0:43)

http://www.vidmails.com/playback.php?t=MzA2MTcyOTMwOTE4MTY5OTgxNzg5Mg%3D%3D

Energy, No Energy and More Energy

The following is a pH Miracle question/response by Dr. Robert Young.

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about alkaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page of the taped program.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to a question about Energy, No Energy & More Energy:

A great way to start the day and take a shower from within - see for yourself here (0:40 mins)

Energy throughout the day - See for yourself here (0:52 mins)

pH Miracle pHour Salts make me sleepy - see for yourself here (0:57 mins)

Dr. Young's pH Miracle Mark I Water Ionization System Has Arrived!

pH Miracle® Ionizer Mark I

New Biology® Compatible and Dr. Young Approved

The Ionizer you have been looking forward to has arrived. The pH Miracle Mark I seven plate water ionizer is manufactured by Dr. Robert O. Young to meet his specifications and includes many of the latest features and technology. You will not find a better ionizer at this price. When the Mark I water ionizer includes the pre-pHilter(R) and water conditioning TranspHormer(R), you can produce what we believe to be the purest, best tasting, monomolecular, alkalized and ionized water on the planet!

What sets this Ionizer apart from others:

Seven platinum coated titanium plates using nano-particle technology for the best possible surface contact.

Advanced programming and control options.

ORP measurement display while discharging ionized water.

Advanced self-cleaning function, safety sensors and alarms to protect and prolong the life of the ionizer.

Highest quality internal filter that lasts for approximately 5,000 gallons (20,000 liters), and is easy to change.

Option to add coral calcium in areas where the tap water contains low levels of total dissolved solids.

Compact size

Stylish reflective scratch resistance finish

Easily programmable front buttons to allow you to set various desired pH outputs

Items included with the pH Miracle Ionizer Mark I purchase:

Installation kit which includes adapters to fit most faucet types.

Installation manual.

Test kit with instructions on how to test the pH output of the ionizer.

Handy wall-mount bracket system.

Exclusive 5 year warranty.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Dimensions Main Unit: 4.72 inches deep x 8.86 inches wide x 13 inches tall

Flow Rate 2 - 2.5 liters per minute at 45 PSI water pressure

pH Levels 2.5 to 11.5 (values vary depending on inlet source)

ORP Levels Possible +1,180 to -865

Power Consumption 5w - 150w

Filter Life 20000 L (approx.: 6 - 9 month of use)

Temperature Range: 40 - 104 F (5 - 40 C)

Water Pressure Range: 5 - 95 PSI

Input 110V / 60Hz or 220V / 50Hz (Configured at Factory)

Weight 11 lb

To order your Dr. Young pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer go to:
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-463-ph-miracle-mark-i-ionizer.aspx

A Question Concering IBS, Fibromyalgia and Thyroid Conditions

Dr. Young's responds to a question about Irritable Bowel Fibromyalgia and Thyroid Conditions and the impact they have on health...

see for yourself here (2:07)

Dr. Young addresses question about Weight Gain, Congestion and Swelling

Here is your first pH question/response from Dr. Robert Young, as promised...

There are many more questions to follow. However, if you have a particular question about akaline living that you would like answered now, go ahead and submit it on the next page.

Some folks have asked about how they can help others become informed about their health too, so we've added an area for affiliates.

Dr. Young's responds to a question about Weight Gain, Congestion and Swelling and the impact they have on health...

See for yourself here (2:19)

To your health,

Gwen Richardson

No Limits Health Interview with Dr. Robert O. Young

No Limits Health Interview with Dr. Robert O. Young

Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called

Flu Pandemic

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Gwen: Dr. Young, with a worldwide flu pandemic well underway, many people are anxious and confused about what they should be doing to stay healthy. Would you share your thoughts about proactively managing health during this crisis instead of knee jerk reacting to the media or other untested recommendations?

Dr. Young:

First and foremost, do not wait until you are in an over-acidic state and becoming tired and sick. There are steps you can start to take right now to provide protection for yourself by building up your alkaline defences.

Here’s what people need to understand: Flu and flu-like symptoms are the body’s natural way of flushing and moving dietary, metabolic and environmental acidic toxins from an acidic body.

The body is naturally programmed to induce a fever in order to force dietary, metabolic and/or metabolic acidic toxins out of it. That’s what the flu is. Flu is nothing more than a body increasing its own body temperature, to open up the pores of the skin to eliminate acidic gases and liquid waste products out of the connective tissue, muscles and fatty tissues.

The flu has nothing to DO with germs. It’s ALL about acid. As your body pushes out its own metabolic acids and increases alkalinity, it gets healthier and stronger.

You never have to have the flu again when you’re constantly in that alkaline state within your body.

If you want to stay healthy, purify, cleanse and alkalize your body.

· You can start by simply getting out and exercising your body vigorously for an hour each day to induce sweating through the pores of the skin. Infrared saunas work well, too induce a body fever and move acids out of the tissues.

· By far, the most effective, consistent solution to remove tissue acidity is to increase hydration with alkaline fluids so your body continues to stay in its natural alkaline state.

Gwen: If someone were to ask you, what was the one thing they can do to stay healthy, what would your answer be?

Dr. Young: The answer would be simple...

Start drinking alkalized, electron rich, ionized water. The most important thing is to start putting in the electron-rich, alkaline fluids so you can neutralize and flush out acidic toxins in the tissues, and help to maintain the body’s alkaline design.

As you know, this summer we launched the world premiere for our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer—this is the simplest solution on the planet to put your alkaline hydration decision on auto-pilot freeing up your electron energy to concentrate on other healthy lifestyle decisions.

Gwen: Is there anything we can do about infection control so that we’re not unintentionally picking up and spreading the disease?

Dr.Young:

It is important to understand that dis-ease and so-called disease is born in us and from us. We do not spread disease we do disease. What is spreading is HINI dogma that is not based upon truthful scientific investigation. There is no scientific evidence that the flu is caused by ANY germ, let alone the H1N1. My research indicates that germs are effects and not causes. Germs are the biological transformation of matter or cells due to changes within their environment. When the internal environment of the body becomes too acidic cells begin to spoil and then and only then are germs created! Therefore the cause of ALL dis-ease and so-called disease is the result of personal acidic lifestyle and dietary choice. . I have suggested for years that the over-indulgence of acidic food, drink and toxic drugs including pharmaceutical drugs, such as the Flu vaccine during the “Holiday Season” or “Flu Season” causes the body to induce a fever to remove the increased accumulation of acids in the tissues. People who are living an alkaline lifestyle and diet DO NOT GET SICK! Keeping the body alkaline is where TRUE immunity resides. I have recommended that both the low acidic (1.5 to 2.5) and the alkaline (10.5 to 11.5) water from our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer has powerful disinfectant or anti-acidic properties that can be used externally or internally to limit infection or outfection from within and prevent ALL the symptoms of the Flu and other dis-ease. Several years ago we did a study on milking cows. We replaced antibiotics and vaccines that were given to the cows to prevent so-called infection with the proton rich acidic water in small doses. We also gave the milking cow’s electron rich alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 to 10 and an oxidative reduction potential of over -250 mV. The results were remarkable! The cows not only did not get sick but they increased their milk production by over 30%. Healthy alkaline cows just like healthy alkaline people do not get sick! Bottom-line Gwen, it all comes down to maintaining the alkaline design of the body.

By the way, just this week, a private Lab in California, certified by the Environment Protection Agency began testing the our water from our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizers, and found that the combination of our pre-filter and ionizer biologically transforms or so-called kills e-coli, strep and staph bacteria (making them harmless and their associated acids or exotoxins) instantly on contact. Very shortly we will be making this report public.

Gwen: So the pH miracle MarkI Ionizer produces waters that protect us both on inside and the outside?

Dr. Young: That’s right. You know, Gwen, everybody should know about ionized water. Doctors, hospital staff, clinics, care homes, schools and day care centers—they all need to set up precautions and effective defences against serious and true acidic threats to community health.

Gwen: Ok, what about vaccines? What do you think about using vaccines for protection?

Dr. Young:

Having or not having a vaccination is a personal lifestyle choice. All vaccines are acidic and have NOT been shown scientifically to reduce the mortality rate and especially during the so-called flu season

Vaccines are highly acidic or toxic and cannot protect you against the very cause of dis-ease and the flu symptoms. Why? Because the flu is not a disease it is the body’s natural response to excess dietary and/or metabolic acidity in the connective, muscle and fatty tissues. When you vaccinate you increase the acidic load on the body tissues and create the very flu-like symptoms you are trying to prevent. Physiologically when the blood is injected with a vaccine it pushes the acidic vaccine out into the connective tissue in order to preserve its iso-structure or delicate alkaline pH at 7.365. If the body cannot remove this acidic vaccine out of the blood and tissues you will get sick and can even die from toxaemia. Once again, vaccines, including the seasonal flu vaccine will not prevent over-acidity but will increase over-acidity, which is the only TRUE cause of dis-ease and flu-like symptoms.

Gwen: You’ve been working for over 20 years to get the word out to people about the importance of keeping their bodies alkaline to prevent disease, but in many cases—there are still so many people who just don’t know what they don’t know.

Dr. Young: There are only a limited number of effective solutions. Recommendation: During an acidic crisis with more people out of fear being vaccinated with acidic vaccines, what people need to do is take a common sense approach -- spread the word and share what they know about water ionization and the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer with family, friends and neighbours.

Look, we want people to have access to what we know works and I know that you have been running special promotions for the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer, why don’t we do this. As a special incentive for people who are serious and ready to take action now to prepare themselves, their families, friends and the people they care about during this critical time...and while our supplies last... we will include a free pre-filter with their purchase of the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer.

Gwen: That is a great idea. I know we have just received a shipment and can certainly handle that. Ok, so for anyone that wants to order call us at 760-751-8321 or order online at www.phmiracleliving.com and mention the free Pre-Filter offer.

Thank you for your time today Dr. Young, as always it is such a pleasure speaking with you.

Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

No Limits Health Interview with Dr. Robert O. Young

Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

Here is a timely interview with Dr. Robert Young where he discusses how to Keep Yourself Healthy During a Flu Pandemic. In it, he addresses questions about:

• Proactively managing your health during this crisis instead of knee jerk reacting to the media and other untested recommendations.

• If there was one thing you can do to stay healthy, what would it be?

• Is there anything we can do about infection control so that we're not unintentionally picking up and spreading the disease?

• How alkaline water can protect us both on the inside and the outside.

• Using vaccines for protection.

• How to get the word out to people about the importance of keeping their bodies alkaline to prevent disease, and

• An alkaline prescription that will keep you healthy and well.

You'll want to hear this because what he says makes common sense...

see for yourself here (10 minutes)

To your health,


Gwen Richardson

No Limits Health

Does The Swine Flu Virus Cause The Flu?

The following is an email exchange between Matt Schweder and Dr. Robert O. Young concerning the so-called Swine Flu Virus and whether or not it is the cause of the so-called Swine Flu.

I am hopeful that this will clear up several questions that:

1) The Swine Flu virus does not exist.
2) The Swine Flu is NOT contagious, and
3) The Swine Flu virus does not cause flu symptoms.

Kindest regards,

Dr. Robert O. Young

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 3:27 am
Subject: RE: Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

I believe and love these emails and the pH information....but if flu has nothing to do with germs, how come it can be passed from person to person? I have been trying to ask this question for months and no one will ever answer me. Please.

I'm doing battle with my local newspaper and our county schools superintendent and trying to share information with other people and this is the one question that I get that I can't answer.

Thanks.

Matt Schweder
Lexington, KY

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Dear Matt:

Most people on this planet are living an acidic lifestyle and eating the same acidic foods and are therefore subject to the same acidic detox symptoms. The flu is the body's way of eliminating excess acid from the blood and tissues through the orfaces of the body caused by acidic lifestyle and dietary choice - not from germs! Germs are the effect of cellular transformation or degeneration not the cause!... Read More

If you go to a party and everyone is drinking alcohol excessively the majority of those drinking this acidic beverage will get drunk , will get sick to their stomach, have flu-like symptoms and will have a hang-over the next morning. Same symptoms from the same cause! The contagion was the acidic choice of drinking alcohol - a dietary choice - not a germ.... Read More

The same thing applies to flu symptoms. The flu symptom is the body removing excess metabolic and/or dietary acidity from the blood and tissues from over-ingesting too much meat, alcohol, sugar, bread, grains, high sugar fruit, acidic condiments, etc. during a season of time called the "Holiday Season" or "I eat and drink too much acidic crap dis-ease Season."

People across the world are eating and drinking the same acidic food and living a similar acidic lifestyle and experiencing the same acidic detox symptoms, medical science calls the flu. This then gives people the illusion that there is a pandemic or that there is some so-called germ that is contagious causing this so-called flu. The theory that germs cause dis-ease or so-called disease is a scientific fraud! There is NO SWINE FLU VIRUS that is causing people to get sick. It is fear that is contagious! It is anger! It is regret! It is pride! It is acidic food! It is acidic drink! It is acidic drugs including antidepressants to birth control pills, to antibiotics, and now to toxic poisonous flu shot vaccines. It is the lack of pure clean alkaline water. It is the lack of exercise! It is the lack of oxygen. It is the lack of non-processed salt. It is the lack of healthy oils. It is the lack of chlorophyll from green foods and drinks. It is the lack of an alkaline lifestyle and diet. These are the viruses that are contagious that are the TRUE cause of excess acidity in the body that make us sick, tired, under-weight and over-weight that caused the body to purify itself with a flu. NOT SOME Phantom Flu Virus created by Big Pharma and Big Government for BIG Money!

Once again viruses or germs DO NOT KILL but acidic lifestyle and dietary choice will KILL! The flu is the body's natural defense remove excess acidity to save your life from acidic choice!

Keep in mind Matt that healthy alkaline body's Do Not have flu symptoms because they DO NOT need to detox their body's from excess acid from ingesting alcohol, bread, beef, chicken, fish, sugar, grains, vinegar, high sugar fruit, stress, etc. or from doing acidic emotions like fear and anger.

There is a saying that All roads lead to Rome, Italy. Eat and live an acidic lifestyle and diet and you will find yourself on the road to Rome with detox flu symptoms trying to save your sorry acidic ass. No GERM here Matt - just people who make poor ass lifestyle and dietary choices choking on their own acidic waste!

If I sound passionate here - I am. I am trying to wake people up from their acidic stupor or mind blindness. The majority of people living on this planet are intoxicated or drunk from their acidic lifestyles and diets. WAKE UP PEOPLE! WAKE UP WORLD! YOU ARE ASLEEP AND DO NOT KNOW IT!

Save your life and say NO to the Swing Flu vaccine SHOT. Say NO TO TOXIC ACIDIC DRUGS and BIG Pharma and BIG Government! SAY NO TO A TOXIC ACIDIC LIFE! WAKE UP! It only takes one shot to kill and it already has!

In love and light,

Dr. Robert O. Young

Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

No Limits Health Interview with Dr. Robert O. Young
Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called
Flu Pandemic

Gwen: Dr. Young, with a worldwide flu pandemic well underway, many people are anxious and confused about what they should be doing to stay healthy. Would you share your thoughts about proactively managing health during this crisis instead of knee jerk reacting to the media or other untested recommendations?

Dr. Young: First and foremost, do not wait until you are in an over-acidic state and becoming tired and sick. There are steps you can start to take right now to provide protection for yourself by building up your alkaline defences.

Here’s what people need to understand: Flu and flu-like symptoms are the body’s natural way of flushing and moving dietary, metabolic and environmental acidic toxins from an acidic body.

The body is naturally programmed to induce a fever in order to force dietary, metabolic and/or metabolic acidic toxins out of it. That’s what the flu is. Flu is nothing more than a body increasing its own body temperature, to open up the pores of the skin to eliminate acidic gases and liquid waste products out of the connective tissue, muscles and fatty tissues.

The flu has nothing to DO with germs. It’s ALL about acid. As your body pushes out its own metabolic acids and increases alkalinity, it gets healthier and stronger.

You never have to have the flu again when you’re constantly in that alkaline state within your body.

If you want to stay healthy, purify, cleanse and alkalize your body.

• You can start by simply getting out and exercising your body vigorously for an hour each day to induce sweating through the pores of the skin. Infrared saunas work well, too induce a body fever and move acids out of the tissues.

• By far, the most effective, consistent solution to remove tissue acidity is to increase hydration with alkaline fluids so your body continues to stay in its natural alkaline state.

Gwen: If someone were to ask you, what was the one thing they can do to stay healthy, what would your answer be?

Dr. Young: The answer would be simple ... Start drinking alkalized, electron rich, ionized water. The most important thing is to start putting in the electron-rich, alkaline fluids so you can neutralize and flush out acidic toxins in the tissues, and help to maintain the body’s alkaline design.

As you know, this summer we launched the world premiere for our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer—this is the simplest solution on the planet to put your alkaline hydration decision on auto-pilot freeing up your electron energy to concentrate on other healthy lifestyle decisions.

Gwen: Is there anything we can do about infection control so that we’re not unintentionally picking up and spreading the disease?

Dr.Young: It is important to understand that dis-ease and so-called disease is born in us and from us. We do not spread disease we do disease. What is spreading is HINI dogma that is not based upon truthful scientific investigation. There is no scientific evidence that the flu is caused by ANY germ, let alone the H1N1. My research indicates that germs are effects and not causes. Germs are the biological transformation of matter or cells due to changes within their environment. When the internal environment of the body becomes too acidic cells begin to spoil and then and only then are germs created!

Therefore the cause of ALL dis-ease and so-called disease is the result of personal acidic lifestyle and dietary choice.

Having or not having a vaccination is a personal lifestyle choice. All vaccines are acidic and have NOT been shown scientifically to reduce the mortality rate and especially during the so-called flu season. I have suggested for years that the over-indulgence of acidic food, drink and toxic drugs including pharmaceutical drugs, such as the Flu vaccine during the “Holiday Season” or “Flu Season” causes the body to induce a fever to remove the increased accumulation of acids in the tissues. People who are living an alkaline lifestyle and diet DO NOT GET SICK! Keeping the body alkaline is where TRUE immunity resides. I have recommended that both the low acidic (1.5 to 2.5) and the alkaline (10.5 to 11.5) water from our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer has powerful disinfectant or anti-acidic properties that can be used externally or internally to limit infection or outfection from within and prevent ALL the symptoms of the Flu and other dis-ease. Several years ago we did a study on milking cows. We replaced antibiotics and vaccines that were given to the cows to prevent so-called infection with the proton rich acidic water in small doses. We also gave the milking cow’s electron rich alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 to 10 and an oxidative reduction potential of over -250 mV. The results were remarkable! The cows not only did not get sick but they increased their milk production by over 30%. Healthy alkaline cows just like healthy alkaline people do not get sick! Bottom-line Gwen, it all comes down to maintaining the alkaline design of the body.

By the way, just this week, a private Lab in California, certified by the Environment Protection Agency began testing the our water from our pH Miracle Mark I Ionizers, and found that the combination of our pre-filter and ionizer biologically transforms or so-called kills e-coli, strep and staph bacteria (making them harmless and their associated acids or exotoxins) instantly on contact. Very shortly we will be making this report public.

Gwen: So the pH miracle MarkI Ionizer produces waters that protect us both on inside and the outside?

Dr. Young: That’s right. You know, Gwen, everybody should know about ionized water. Doctors, hospital staff, clinics, care homes, schools and day care centers—they all need to set up precautions and effective defences against serious and true acidic threats to community health.

Gwen: Ok, what about vaccines? What do you think about using vaccines for protection?

Dr. Young: Vaccines are highly acidic or toxic and cannot protect you against the very cause of dis-ease and the flu symptoms. Why? Because the flu is not a disease it is the body’s natural response to excess dietary and/or metabolic acidity in the connective, muscle and fatty tissues. When you vaccinate you increase the acidic load on the body tissues and create the very flu-like symptoms you are trying to prevent.

Physiologically when the blood is injected with a vaccine it pushes the acidic vaccine out into the connective tissue in order to preserve its iso-structure or delicate alkaline pH at 7.365. If the body cannot remove this acidic vaccine out of the blood and tissues you will get sick and can even die from toxemia. Once again, vaccines, including the seasonal flu vaccine will not prevent over-acidity but will increase over-acidity, which is the only TRUE cause of dis-ease and flu-like symptoms.

Gwen: You’ve been working for over 20 years to get the word out to people about the importance of keeping their bodies alkaline to prevent disease, but in many cases—there are still so many people who just don’t know what they don’t know.

Dr. Young: There are only a limited number of effective solutions. Recommendation: During an acidic crisis with more people out of fear being vaccinated with acidic vaccines, what people need to do is take a common sense approach -- spread the word and share what they know about water ionization and the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer with family, friends and neighbours.

Look, we want people to have access to what we know works and I know that you have been running special promotions for the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer, why don’t we do this. As a special incentive for people who are serious and ready to take action now to prepare themselves, their families, friends and the people they care about during this critical time...and while our supplies last... we will include a free pre-filter with their purchase of the pH Miracle Mark I Ionizer.

Gwen: That is a great idea. I know we have just received a shipment and can certainly handle that. Ok, so for anyone that wants to order call us at 760-751-8321 or order online at www.phmiracleliving.com and mention the free Pre-Filter offer.

Thank you for your time today Dr. Young, as always it is such a pleasure speaking with you.

CLA or Omega 5 Can Help You Lose Weight and Prevent Cancer

Eating certain kinds of healthy fats actually may help obese women, even with diabetes trim some body fat, a small study suggests. The study, of 35 older women with Type 2 diabetes, found that supplements containing two types of fats — conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) or safflower oil — led to healthy changes in body composition over four months. http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-281-young-phorever-pomega-phive-cla-tm-90-1000mg-gel-capsules.aspx With CLA, the women saw a dip in body mass index (BMI) — a measure of weight in relation to height — and in their total level of body fat. With safflower oil, the women's BMI did not change, but they typically shed a couple pounds of fat from the trunk area; they also showed improvements in their blood sugar levels, which signals better diabetes control. CLA is an unsaturated fatty acid found in pomegrantes. Animal research has found that CLA can help melt away body fat, and some studies have suggested the same may hold true in humans. Safflower oil is rich in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats, but exactly how it might affect body fat and blood sugar is unknown, said Dr. Martha Belury, an author of the study and a nutrition professor at Ohio State University in Columbus. She explained that she and her colleagues were simply using safflower oil as a comparison substance to gauge the effects of CLA. The former, it turned out, had its own unique benefits. It is too soon to recommend that overweight women with diabetes buy CLA or safflower oil supplements. But they can try to fit more polyunsaturated fats into their diet, Belury told Reuters Health. "Don't get rid of the healthy fats in your diet when you get rid of the bad ones," she advised. According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center in San Diego, California, "the best natural organic non-animal source for CLA or Omega 5 oil is from pomegranates." To learn more go to: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-281-young-phorever-pomega-phive-cla-tm-90-1000mg-gel-capsules.aspx SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, September 2009.

Hormones Cause Breast Tenderness That Increases Risk For Breast Cancer

Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy are at significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer than women on the combination therapy who didn't experience such tenderness, according to a new UCLA study. According to Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego, California, "new-onset breast tenderness is cause by the blood moving metabolic, dietary and acidic hormone acids into the fatty tissues of the breast to maintain the iso-structure of the blood and the delicate pH balance at 7.365." "Hormones are acidic and if not properly eliminated by the body through the four channels of elimination they can be stored in the fatty tissues such as the breast tissue. This will lead to stage two acidosis or irritation of the breast tissue. If the hormone and/or metabolic acids are not removed by the lymphatic system this can lead to stage 4 acidosis or inflammation of the breast tissue and then stage 7 acidosis or degeneration or a cancerous condition of the breast tissue." The research, published in the Oct. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, is based on data from more than 16,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative estrogen-plus-progestin clinical trial. This trial was halted abruptly in July 2002 when researchers found that healthy menopausal women on the combination therapy had an elevated risk for invasive breast cancerous or acidic breast tissue. Researchers do not understand why breast tenderness indicates increased cancer risk among women on the combination therapy, said the study's lead researcher, Dr. Carolyn J. Crandall, a clinical professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Is it because the hormone therapy is causing breast-tissue cells to multiply more rapidly, which causes breast tenderness and at the same time indicates increased cancer risk? We need to figure out what makes certain women more susceptible to developing breast tenderness during hormone therapy than other women," Crandall said. Dr. Young states, "the cause of breast tenderness that increases the risk for breast cancer is simple - hormones are acids and acids cause cancer." Just over 8,500 of the participants in the trial took estrogen plus progestin, and 8,102 were given placebos. Participants underwent mammography and clinical breast exams at the start of the trial and annually thereafter. Self-reported breast tenderness was assessed at the beginning of the trial and one year later, and invasive breast cancer over the next 5.6 years was confirmed through medical record reviews. Women on the combination therapy who did not have breast tenderness at the trial's inception were found to have a threefold greater risk of developing tenderness at the one-year mark, compared with participants who were assigned placebos (36.1 percent vs. 11.8 percent). Of the women who reported new-onset breast tenderness, 76.3 percent had been on the combination hormone therapy. Women in the combination therapy group who did not have breast tenderness at the outset but experienced new-onset tenderness at the first annual follow-up had a 48 percent higher risk of invasive breast cancer than their counterparts on combination therapy who did not have breast tenderness at the first-year follow-up. Bottom-line according to Dr. Young, "acids whether from diet, metabolism or hormones cause cancer. If you want to reduce your risk for a cancerous condition then stop taking acidic hormones, eating acidic foods, and living an acidic life and start alkalizing your blood and tissues with alkaline food, fluids, deep breathing, sunshine, adequate rest, alkaline supplements, and especially daily exercise. It is the only way to prevent ANY and ALL cancerous conditions."

Restricting and/or Eliminating Dietary Protein

The following is an email letter from John Baird, Sr. VP, Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and Director of Corporate Affairs for the pH Miracle Center and Young pHorever, Inc. concerning my theory on restricting dietary protein. =============================================================== In the appended article, once again, we see research validating one of your primary theses... that is - protein dietary restriction. Coming from a performance athletic background, your low protein diet admonition was a hard sell for me. I used to take protein supplements by the hand full, and I consumed protein bars constantly in addition to taking Creatine and other protein building supplements. You have conclusively shown that muscle mass can be just as easily be built and maintained on a low protein vegetarian diet as on a high animal protein diet. It's all in the quality of the blood. The attached article points out how high-energy protein synthesis at the cellular mitochondrial level works. Our bodies produce more of a "high energy" protein (d4EBP) in the mitochondria when the ingestion of protein is restricted. The article is silent on whether the beneficial effects of a low protein diet, still hold up IF all ingested protein is vegetarian in origin. You certainly seem to be correct again, when you say that we should avoid ALL animal protein. BUT....I wonder if it is also necessary to avoid vegetarian protein as well? The population of Loma Linda, CA is statistically one of the longest-lived in the world. It is thought that the reason for this statistical variance is that most inhabitants of Loma Linda are Seventh Day Adventists, who are largely vegetarian. Yet Adventists don't intentionally restrict vegetarian protein... and still the added longevity shows up in the statistical evidence. This Loma Linda statistical variance may indicate that it is not necessary to restrict vegetarian protein to get the the enhanced d4EBP mitochondrial activity to which the appended article refers. Regards, John Baird Sr. VP, Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Director of Corporate Affairs pH Miracle Center Young pHorever, Inc. --------------------------Referenced Article-------------------- 'Anti-Atkins' Diet Extends Life in Flies October 5, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Flies fed an "anti-Atkins" low protein diet live longer because their mitochondria function better, according to a new study from the Buck Institute for Age Research in California. The research shows that the molecular mechanisms responsible for the lifespan extension in the flies have important implications for human aging and diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cancer. Mitochondria act as the "powerhouse" of the cells. It is well known that mitochondrial function worsens with age in many species, and especially in humans with Type II diabetes and obesity. "Our study shows that dietary restriction can enhance mitochondrial function, hence offsetting the age-related decline in its performance," Buck faculty member Pankaj Kapahi, PhD, lead author of the study, is quoted as saying. The research calls into question the health benefits of the high-protein diets often used to lose weight. Kapahi said that while the long-term impacts of such diets have not been examined in humans, he believes they are likely to be harmful. "In flies, we see that the long-lived diet is a low protein diet and what we have found here is a mechanism for how that may be working," he said. The researchers reported that while there is a reduction in protein synthesis with the low protein diet, the activity of specific genes involved in generating energy in the mitochondria are increased. That activity -- conversion of RNA to protein -- is important for the protective effects of dietary restriction, said Kapahi. "There have been correlative studies that show mitochondria change with dietary restriction, [and] this research provides a causal relationship between diet and mitochondrial function." The study describes the mechanism by which mitochondrial genes are converted from RNA to protein by a particular protein (d4EBP). Flies fed a low protein diet showed an uptick in activity of d4EBP, which mediates cell growth in response to nutrient availability. The research showed that d4EBP is necessary for lifespan extension. When the activity of the protein was genetically "knocked out" the flies did not live longer, even when fed the low protein diet. When the activity of d4EBP was enhanced, lifespan was extended, even when the flies ate a rich diet. The Buck Institute study provides a significant advance in understanding the role of 4EBP, said Kapahi, and implies an important role for 4EBP and mitochondrial function as excellent targets to explore their role in lifespan extension in mammals. SOURCE: Cell, October 2, 2009 Reference: http://ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=22560

A Cure for Celiac and Osteoporosis Dis-Ease!

"People with celiac dis-ease or acidic damage to the root system or intestinal villi of the small intestine are more susceptible to osteoporosis, the bone wasting dis-ease because calcium ions from bones are being used to maintain the iso-structure or alkaline pH of the blood at 7.365," states Dr. Robert O. Young,Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center in San Diego, California. Dr. Young states, "Osteoporosis is a known risk of celiac disease and has been explained by a failure to absorb calcium or vitamin D and more importantly the inability to manufacture stem cells in the crypts of the small intestine due to congestion from animal proteins and damage to the intestinal villi from dietary acids - especially from protein." A study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests celiac patients produce antibodies which attack a key protein that maintains bone health. According to Dr. Young, "these antibodies are created to buffer dietary acids, especially from animal protein to protect the alkaline design of the small intestine." Damage to the intestinal villi due to dietary acidosis explains why osteoporosis in those with the digestive disorder may not respond to calcium and vitamin D supplementation. Celiac disease is caused by a an over-acidic lifestyle and diet and from gluten, a congestive acidic protein found in wheat, barley, rye and oats which damage the small finger-like villi that line the small intestine and play a key role in the production of stem cells and red blood cells. When damaged and inflamed, the villi are unable to created needed stem cells for red blood cell production. The damage to the intestinal villi also leads to the acidic symptoms of diarrhoea iron deficiency and then malnutrition. It affects one in 100 people, and of these a significant proportion may go on to develop osteoporosis - a symptom of the bones in helping to maintain the alkaline design of the blood that leads to an increased risk of painful and disabling fractures. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh say it may be a protein called osteoprotegerin which holds the key to the link between celiac disease and osteoporosis. According to Dr. Young, "the protein osteoprotegerin is a by-product of bone degeneration and the release of calcium ions into the blood to maintains its iso-structure." Traditional understanding of its cause has left some people with the condition with little hope that their symptoms and quality of life will improve. But with Dr. Young's discovery of what causes celiac dis-ease there is finally hope. In the UK 20% of the celiac patients tested, antibodies were produced which stopped this protein - crucial for maintaining bone strength - from working effectively. Lead researcher Professor Stuart Ralston from the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, said: "This is a very exciting step forward. Not only have we discovered a new reason to explain why osteoporosis occurs in coeliac disease, but we have also found that it responds very well to drugs that prevent bone tissue removal. "Testing for these antibodies could make a real and important difference to the lives of people with coeliac disease by alerting us to the risk of osteoporosis and helping us find the correct treatment for them." Sarah Sleet, head of Coeliac UK said: "Osteoporosis is a damaging complication of coeliac disease and our traditional understanding of its cause has left some people with the condition with little hope that their symptoms and quality of life will improve. "This new breakthrough in understanding and treatment will give renewed hope to our members struggling with their condition." Dr Claire Bowring, medical policy officer with the National Osteoporosis Society said: "We already know that coeliac disease is a risk factor for osteoporosis and that early diagnosis and treatment of coeliac disease gives the best chance of improving bone density. "A better understanding of the relationship between coeliac disease and osteoporosis will enable clinicians to manage both conditions more effectively. "Although this research is at an early stage it is certainly interesting and we look forward to more extensive work to identify how prevalent this antibody is in people with coeliac disease." In conclusion Dr. Young states, "there is only one cause of celiac dis-ease and one cause of osteoporosis - can you say "ACID." The acids that cause celiac come from animal proteins, high sugar fruits, starchy carbohydrates, grains with gluten and dairy products. Eliminate these acidic foods and start an alkaline diet and not only will you begin to heal the small intestine but you will stop the degeneration of the bones."