While, as you follow the plan outlined below, you should begin seeing some fairly immediate improvements, you should commit to following this plan closely for at least 6 months in order give your system an opportunity to significantly begin to heal.

First, here are a few DON’Ts:

** Immediately eliminate all fried foods, period. Absolutely none during this healing time.

** For the time being, avoid dairy products, including milk, ice cream, and soft cheese. You MAY eat real high quality butter and hard cheeses.

** Immediately eliminate all high gluten foods – wheat, barley, rye, and oats. No bagels! No cookies. No boxed cereals. No breads. No oatmeal. You
MAY eat rice and millet. At the end of 6 months, it may be possible for
you to occasionally eat gluten foods. But only try them out gradually and
occasionally until your digestive system is completely healed.

** Eliminate all processed simple carbohydrates and sugars. No cookies, cakes, pies, or the like for the time being. No soft drinks or
processed/packaged fruit juices. You MAY eat limited amounts of raw
honey and fructose.

[You can buy granulated fructose in many grocery stores these days and most health food stores.] No “high fructose corn syrup” which is mostly sucrose.

DOs:

** Do eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, cooked or raw. [Hold off on very much raw initially until you digestive system gets calmed down enough to
handle the fiber. Increase raw fruits and vegetables gradually.]

** Do eat good soups, especially good home made vegetable soups. Home made soups with real chicken or beef broth made from boiling down the
meat and bones, plus fresh vegetables cooked down in the broth, are rich
in good fats, essential fatty acids, and fat soluble vitamins that are
restorative to the digestive track.

** Do eat good Biblically-clean fish – salmon, perch, cod, etc. These are rich in omega-3 fatty acids that are essential to the healing of the intestines
and colon. No scavengers (like catfish) or shellfish.

** Do rest and get adequate (or extra) sleep during this healing period.

** Do laugh as much as possible. This release endorphins into the blood
stream that are natural relaxers and pain relievers. [Endorphins are
complex hormones that are 10 times more powerful than morphine.]
Endorphins are also involved in the regulation of contractions of the
intestinal wall.

** Do get unstressed exercise several times per week, like walking, swimming, bike riding.

** Do listen to lots of uplifting worship music and meditate on faith-building scriptures. This has a natural relaxing effect on the digestive track.

** Do drink plenty of pure water.

We’re going to start off very gently and build up over the course of
several days.

This is your basic regimen:

• 1 Herb-Lax
• 1 Optiflora capsule
• 1 EZ-Gest
• 1 OmegaGuard
• 1 Stomach Soothing Complex
• 1 teaspoon of Liqui-Lea
• 5 Alfalfa

Go to http://healthyoates.myshaklee.com/us/en/ to see these products.

On the first two days, take this basic regimen one time each day – such as at supper time.

On the third and fourth days, take the basic regimen two times – such as in the morning and at supper.

Beginning on the fifth day, start taking the basic regimen three times per day – morning, noon, and night – and continue at this level for at least 60 days.

If you are not seeing significant improvement by the end of the first 2 weeks, you may need to add a fourth round of the basic regimen each
day for a while – morning, noon, supper, and bedtime.

At the end of 60 days, if you have made significant improvement, try cutting back by one round per day – that is, try cutting back from 3 rounds to 2, or 4 rounds to 3, depending on what you are doing.

Also, at the end of 60 days, now that your digestive system is healing and getting stronger, I’d like to see you start using the basic health
building program – Energizing Soy Protein and Shaklee Vitalizer along
with your digestive regimen – if you are not already doing so.

What the supplements do:

Herb-Lax

– Gently stimulates the natural muscular activity of the intestine and
colon which moves food and waste along its course. It simply
increases the natural action of the system and is not a laxative in
the normal sense.

– Draws toxins out of the liver, the lymphatic system, and blood stream and helps eliminate them.

Optiflora Probiotic

– Delivers live culture of the “good” bacteria directly to the colon.
The unique triple coating insures live delivery to the colon.

– Helps eliminate the “bad” bacteria and viruses from the body, like candida, e-coli, etc.

– Boosts overall immunity.

EZ-Gest

– Provides natural plant-derived enzymes necessary for proper
digestion.

– Helps eliminate digestive stresses like lactose intolerance and legume sensitivity.

– Improves overall digestion.

OmegaGuard

– Provides essential fatty acids that are calming and healing to the
digestive track.

– Reduces inflammation through the digestive track.

Stomach Soothing Complex

– Naturally relaxes the bowels.

– Calms nausea, heartburn, indigestion, morning sickness, and motion sickness.

– Soothes and calms irritation in the stomach, intestine, and colon.

– Helps eliminate gas and move it out of the system.

Liqui-Lea

– Provides nutrients important to the healing and restoration of the
digestive system, especially vitamins A and D and the entire
complex of B vitamins, in a very easily assimilated form.

Alfalfa

– Contains live digestive enzymes.

– A rich source of trace minerals important to health.

– Helps neutralize excess acidity in the body.

– Soothes and helps heal the digestive system.

– Reduces inflammation.

– Detoxifies.

– Helps deodorize the body and bowels.

– Contains vitamin U and other nutrients that are healing to the
stomach and intestinal lining.

What to expect:

Expect your body to begin a general house cleaning. As the body is
pulling toxins out of the liver and fatty tissue of the body, those toxins
can cause temporary effects like headaches, low energy, minor aches,
etc. Keep in mind that the body is trying to eliminate the garbage.
When the “bad” bacteria begin to die off, they release methane gas.
Also, the ginger in the Stomach Soothing Complex helps the bowel to
release built up pockets of gas. So if you experience increased gas and
flatulence, this is a sign that good things are happening. Expect gas and
bloating. It will eventually decrease and disappear.

Expect foul-smelling bowel movements.

If you are not already using the following, at the end of the first 60 days,
you should add (if you are already using them, continue):

** Shaklee Energizing Soy Protein

** Shaklee Vitalizer strips

** Shaklee Liver DTX

The protein and Basics strips will help you build up your overall health and immunity.

The Liver DTX will help restore normal liver functioning and bile flow.

It will further detoxify the liver and remove excess bile, which will help
the gallbladder.

Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bones and makes them susceptible to fracture. Literally translated, osteoporosis means “bone that is porous” (osteo= bone and porosis= porous). This disease affects both men and women; however, 80% of those affected are women. This may be because women generally have smaller bones than men, and because at menopause women lose their estrogen protection, which is a major contributor to bone strength.

Osteoporosis is a serious health problem. About 28 million people in the United States have the condition. It is responsible for about 1.5 million fractures (broken bones) each year. The most common locations where breaks occur are the hip, spine, and wrist. Fractures due to osteoporosis of the spine usually affect women after the age of 50, while fractures of the hip start later, usually in the 70′s.

Osteoporosis itself is painless. However, the resulting fractures of osteoporosis are painful. Not only can these fractures be associated with pain, but also with limitation in movement. The decrease in mobility that can occur leads to further deconditioning, which in turn further weakens muscles and bones. In addition, the constant pain and reduced mobility caused by these fractures can lead to clinical depression.

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Natural Osteoporosis Plan

When you hear “osteoprosis” the first thing you may think of to combat this disease is calcium. However, on the contrary one of the essential nutrients to reverse or prevent this disease is protein.

Healthy bone tissue is composed primarily of protein, not calcium.  Without the protein, all the calcium in the world will not build healthy bones. Therefore, we all need to intake a complete protein (containing all 23 amino acids) each day.

Bone density has more to do with hormone balance than calcium intake.

Bones are living organs, just like your liver or brain, made up of living, breathing, eating, eliminating, bone cells.  They are not just sticks of calcium that hold your body together.  These living cells simply build an encrustation of calcium around themselves which give the bone its solid-like structure.

But these cells live only for a while and die.  The body normally carries the dead bone cell away and eliminates it.  In the mean time, new bone cells have been produced — mainly at night while you sleep — to take the place of the dead, dying, or damaged ones that have been removed.

Human growth hormone stimulates this process of generating new bone cells.  But in women especially, the steroidal hormones estrogen and progesterone play a vital role in generating the human growth hormone and the new bone cell tissue.

The intake of an adequate amount of good bioavailable calcium — as in the Shaklee OsteoMatrix – is essential to the development of healthy bone tissue, but just taking calcium won’t do it if the hormones are not at sufficient levels or out of balance.  And megadosing calcium won’t help.

First, you need adequate complete protein – which is what healthy bone cells are primarily made of.  Also, the hormones necessary to make the process happen are made of protein.   So drinking your protein DAILY is vitally important.

But then, bringing your hormones into balance is absolutely vital.  You can help this by following my hormone balancing program — described below.

NOTE: If you are taking Cummadin or similar blood-thinning drugs, these drugs block the action of vitamin K and thus will CAUSE dramatic bone density loss.  You can and should wean yourself off of these kinds of drugs.  You don’t need them if you are taking adequate amounts of vitamin E and vitamin C.  And they are far more deadly than they are beneficial.  I have had people tell me that their “doctor” told them Cummadin didn’t promote bone density loss — which just shows you how little some doctors know about the drugs that they are prescribing.

So this is what I would suggest you take daily:

1. Shaklee protein — either Energizing Soy Protein or Cinch Shake

3. OsteoMatrix – 4 daily

4. Your foundational vitamins and minerals — some form of Vita-Lea (multi), or better yet Shaklee Vitalizer strips

by Stan Pulliam, nutritionist and Shaklee consultant for 32 years